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It is better to fix the issue early. It is no fun breaking the knob during a trip or a job.
Units sold in late January 2012 should have the new knob. This can be recognized by the black captive screw. Old units have the silver screw.
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1972 Chevy 4x4 - Never Say NeverWritten by on August 1, 2005 Mary Jane & Tommie Glynn's '72 Chevy 4x4
We get excited when we see a well-constructed custom vintage truck. Our first thought is, "Would CCT's customers enjoy reading, seeing, and learning more about this pickup?" If the answer to that question is yes, it's time for us to start asking the current caretaker some questions.
Sometimes we see a pickup that may not jive with CCT's core readership, but we can't resist photographing it. Such was the case with Mary Jane and Tommie Glynn's '72 Chevy 4x4. The Glynn's Chevy is an exceptional 4x4, and therefore the exception to the rule of not featuring 4x4 custom classic trucks.
Tommie purchased the pickup in 1997. He drove it for a few years before cutting out all the cancerous sheetmetal panels and cab corners and welding in new metal, all before painting the truck.
Last year, Tommie set out to build a one-of-a-kind truck. He took the C10 apart and modified the front of the frame to accept front shock mounts for a Dana 60 frontend transfer case. With Superlift front shocks and springs, Tommie installed the '82 Dodge Dana 60 and added a dual steering stabilizer. An '80 GM 14-bolt Posi with a 4.10:1 final drive ratio replaced the original differential. Superlift shocks were also used for the rear.
When the time came to provide prodigious power for the 4x4, Tommie was the perfect person for the job. He's a mobile mechanic. Tommie bored the '80 Chevy 454ci cylinders 0.030-over, before stuffing the holes with flat-top 10:1 compression pistons. A COMP Cams solid lifter camshaft and double-roller-timing chain were two more components to the performance-oriented engine build. Tommie backed the big-block with a heavy-duty clutch and a '72 GM four-speed manual trans.
This time around for the 1/2-ton's exterior, the talented crew of C&N Auto Body in Nipomo, California, performed extensive metal surgery. C&N's owner, Nacho Cepeda, removed the panels, bed, and cab; sandblasted the lot; cut out some more rust; and brought the metal back to better than new. Colleague Ramon Garcia painted the exterior a stunning DuPont Blazing Copper. Once the paint had cured, Nacho put the panels and cab back on the frame and installed the Bruce Horkey oak and polished stainless stringer bed floor kit. He also replaced the greenhouse with all-new tinted glass.
Before Tommie could bring the bigger-than-life Bow Tie to the upholstery shop, he utilized the stock wiring harness to wire it. Pete's Upholstery in Santa Maria, California, trimmed the '95 Ford F-250 seat in maroon crushed velvet and black Naugahyde. Considering the 4x4 may see some off-road action, the original seat belts were replaced with three-point retractable shoulder belts for safety sake.
Thanks to the owner's diligence and the craftsmen's professionalism, the Blazing Copper truck took one short year to build. If you craft a vintage pickup that's one of a kind, you're apt to catch the attention of the CCT staff, even if it towers over all the other sweet haulers that are featured in the magazine. In other words, never say never.
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To keep melodic pace with the engine's symphonic eight-cylinder sounds, the owner installed a JVC CD-stereo system in the cab.A 750-cfm Demon four-barrel carb, bolted atop a Holley aluminum intake, keeps the fuel and air flowing freely for the 454ci Chevy mill. Hooker headers and mufflers assist in adroitly expelling the spent gases.The Grant Signature Series mahogany-rimmed steering wheel with polished aluminum spokes matches the maroon crushed velvet seating surfaces just fine. An Auto Meter monster 5-inch- diameter tachometer with shift light lets the driver know exactly when to shift.The owner designed, fabricated, and welded the tubular steps-otherwise he and his wife would need to have a 44-inch vertical leap to get inside the cab.Since one can't very easily climb up on the front bumper and peer under the hood, the front fender badge proclaims that the Glynn's pickup has a GM 454ci V-8 for power.Nacho Cepeda, the owner of C&N Auto Body, installed the Bruce Horkey oak wood planks and stainless steel stringer bed kit.Brand-new stock front and rear bumpers protect the Chevy's body panels from minuscule boulders or sagebrush. Rick at Classic Parts Depot supplied the Glynns with the bumpers, as well as many other classic Chevy truck items.


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I am looking into implementing Pohlig-Hellman exponentation cipher and I would like to know how secure that algorithm is? I am guessing it's security relates greatly to the prime number used in it. Does anyone have some reference that might be helpful in determining the minimal prime number one should use in order to ensure the algorithm is safe enough for various applications?
You need a large random prime modulus where the discrete log is hard. Read about how to choose a prime so the discrete log is hard. Also, you want $p-1$ to have as few small factors as possible. Therefore, the short version is, I suggest you choose a large random 2048-bit prime $p$ such that $(p-1)/2$ is prime.
However, Pohlig-Hellman has some serious issues. It has very poor performance, compared to other symmetric-key ciphers. Also, it has no randomization, so it is not semantically-secure (it is not IND-CPA secure) in its standard form. I don't know of anyone who uses the Pohlig-Hellman cipher in practice, in its standard form; it is more of theoretical interest than practical interest.
What exactly do you want to do with the Pohlig-Hellman cipher? What exactly is your application? Why do you want to use the Pohlig-Hellman cipher? There might be better solutions.


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|The Marjorie and Herbert Chase '30 Head Coach of Women's Track and Field
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The 2015-16 year is the 24th as head coach of the Dartmouth women's track team for Sandra Ford-Centonze. Ford-Centonze's position was endowed thanks to the generosity of Herbert and Marge Chase. Herb, a member of the Class of 1930, was manager of the team and then a track and field official at Dartmouth meets for many years. The Chase endowment is the first for any athletic program at Dartmouth. This very special support will add to the prestige of a program that has been in existence at the College for over a century.
In 2014, Ford-Centonze led the Dartmouth women to all new heights. The Big Green finished tied for seventh at the NCAA Indoor National Championship, a new program best for Dartmouth and the highest finish ever by an Ivy League team on either the men's or women's side.
It was also in 2014 that Ford-Centonze was elected by her peers as secretary at the annuall USTFCCCA Convention. No stranger to a leadership role, she had also served as Heptagonal Coaches Group President from 2004-06.
During the course of three seasons of competition in 2013-14, Ford-Centonze guided five inidividuals to All-America status, earning 11 seperate honors in that time (2 in XC, 7 indoor, 2 outdoor). During indoor season, the women's DMR finished eighth, while Megan Krumpoch claimed sixth in the 800m. At the outdoor meet, Krumpoch moved on one spot, taking fifth in a program-record 2:03.42 at Oregon's Hayward Field.
In addition, Abbey D'Agostino became the first Ivy Leaguer male or female to win the NCAA Cross Country individual Championship in 2013 at Indiana State's home course in Terre Haute. She would go on to win two more national titles during indoor season to finish her career with seven, the most by any Ivy League student-athlete in the history of the conference.
Capping off the successful stretch of 2013-14, the Big Green under Ford-Centonze's guidance finished fourth in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) final standings for the Terry Crawford Division I Women's Program of the Year Award, the best placement ever by an Ivy League school.
In 2012, the Dartmouth women's DMR team earned All-American honors after taking third at the NCAA Championships in Boise. Also during that year, Ford-Centonze was a part of of coaching Abbey D'Agostino to three track All-American honors, including the program's first ever individual national championship as D'Agostino claimed the top prize in the 5,000 meters.
In the year that followed, D'Agostino won three more titles and the Dartmouth women set numerous sprints, hurdles and relay program records during the 2013 track seasons. Some of the records that were broken had stood for more than two decades, including the 100m, 200m, 4x100m, 4x400m.
She has led the Big Green to unprecedented heights in the ECAC and Heptagonal championships in the past sixteen years. During the 2002 outdoor season Ford-Centonze saw her first All-American Heptathlete when Shaina Damm placed eighth at the NCAA championships. The 2003 outdoor season was the start of the the NCAA Regional competition, and the Big Green women have had qualifiers for the meet each year. Since 2003, the Big Green women have been named as one of the nation's top All-Academic Team by the US Track & Field Coaches Association. The 2006 season was a record breaking year for Coach Sandy's sprint/hurdle crew. In all they saw five records fall, with Fatih Stanley '06 making history at the outdoor Heptagonal Championships by being the first athlete to win both the 100m and 200m, and the first Dartmouth athlete to take home the 200m crown. The women's team brought home the third place 2007 New England trophy with a total of 18 women.
The women's records continued to fall during the 2007-09 campaigns. In 2008 the 4 x 400m relay broke a six year old record with a time of 3:49.78, and again in 2010 with a time of 3:48.41. Natalie Todd-Zebell '09 continued to rewrite the pole vault records each of her four years. Emily Daly ''09, broke both the 20lb wt. and hammer records during the 2009 season.The twenty-two year old 400im record fell as Alexandra Tanner '11 posted a time of 59.04 on her way to qualifying for the NCAA regional meet.
In 2008, Ford-Centonze led a group of Dartmouth track athletes on a two-week trip to Ireland and England, where they competed against the Limerick University team and in an open meet in London.
Coach Sandy has seen her women's team be named All-Academic Team by the United States Track and Field Coaches Association since 2003. During the 2008 season, they were ranked ninth out of 117 honored teams in the country.
Ford-Centonze came to Hanover from the University of Vermont, where she spent six years as head coach for track. Under her guidance, the Catamounts captured three straight New England outdoor championships, from 1987-89. Vermont also finished second in 1988 and third in 1989 at the New England indoor championships. She was named New England Coach of the Year for outdoor track in 1988 and 1989 and the North Atlantic Conference Coach of the Year in 1992.
Within the coaching profession, Ford-Centonze has served on the ECAC technical committee, the ECAC running jury and the New England Women's Intercollegiate Cross Country and Track and Field Association standards committee, as well as the NCAA protest committee. She is a past president for the ECAC Track and Field Association. At the beginning of the 2000 track and field season, Sandra was chosen by her peers to be the District I NCAA Representative for Women's Track and Field. Ford-Centonze has been an instructor at the Stowe (Vt.) Summer Sports Festival since 1991 and during the summer of 1996 she directed a speed development camp for a group of 30 Japanese football players who came to the United States for training. In 2000 she added Dry Land Ski training to her camp duties. She has been a member of the Bates Track and Field Camp since 1997, coaching both sprints and hurdles. During the summer of 2003, Sandy started a track and field day camp for the town of Lebanon. The summer of 2005 saw Coach Ford-Centonze make a move to the Dick Fosbury Track Camp at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
Coach Ford-Centonze stays active with Girls and Youth in sport, having been a past clinician for the NCAA Youth Education Through Sport(YES), as well as a panelist at the Patrina Foundation Leadership Conference at The Ethel Walker School. During the summer of 1999, Coach Ford-Centonze was an instructor and panelist at the Girls Scouts of the USA National Sports Event.
Ford-Centonze started her coaching career at her alma mater, Appalachian State University, where she was assistant track coach from 1984-86. She also holds a master's degree in Athletic Administration from Appalachian State. As an undergraduate, she captained the 1981-82 and 1982-83 Mountaineer track squads and was chosen Appalachian State's Most Valuable Performer as a junior when she went undefeated in the 400 in just her second year of track competition.
She and her family live in Lebanon, NH. She is the proud mother of Christian and Antonio.
Ford-Centonze's Career Heptagonal Champions
|Indoor Champions
|Outdoor Champions
|2015 - Mile - Dana Giordano '16
|2015 - 1500M - Dana Giordano '16
|1999 - 3000m - Anne Devlin '99
|2015 - 3000M - Dana Giordano '16
|2015 - High Jump - Kaitlin Whitehorn '16
|1999 - 5000m - Anne Devlin '99
|2015 - High Jump - Kaitlin Whitehorn '16
|2014 - 100M - Kaitlin Whitehorn '16
|1998 - 3000m - Erin Dromgoole '01
|2014 - 200M - Jennifer Meech '16
|2014 - 1500M - Dana Giordano '16
|1998 - 5000m - Jenna Rogers '98
|2014 - 800M - Megan Krumpoch '14
|2014 - 3000M - Abbey D'Agostino '14
|1998 - 10,000m - Deirdre Millegan '98
|2014 - Mile - Abbey D'Agostino '14
|2014 - 5000M - Abbey D'Agostino '14
|1997 - 5000m - Jenna Rogers '98
|2014 - 3000M - Dana Giordano '16
|2014 - 10,000M - Abbey D'Agostino '14
|1996 - 1500m - Kristin Manwaring '96*
|2014 - 5000M - Abbey D'Agostino '14
|2014 - 4x800M Relay Team
|1996 - 3000m - Kristin Manwaring '96
|2014 - Pentathlon - Janae Duchack '14
|2014 - High Jump - Kaitlin Whitehorn '16
|1996 - 5000m - Maribel Sanchez '96
|2014 - 4x800M Relay Team
|2014 - Heptathlon - Janae Dunchack '14
|1996 - 10,000m - Kristin Pierce '96
|2013 - Mile - Abbey D'Agostino '14
|2013 - 1500M - Abbey D'Agostino '14*
|1995 - 1500m - Kristin Manwaring '96
|2013 - 1500M - Abbey D'Agostino '14
|2013 - 3000M - Abbey D'Agostino '14*
|1995 - 3000m - Maribel Sanchez '96
|2013 - High Jump - Kaitlin Whitehorn '16
|2013 - 400mH - Megan Krumpoch
|1995 - 5000m - Maribel Sanchez '96
|2013 - Pentathlon - Janae Dunchak '14
|2012 - 3000m Steeplechase - Alexi Pappas '12*
|1995 - 10,000m - Deirdre Milligan '98
|2012 - Pentathlon - Janae Dunchak '14
|2012 - Heptathlon - Janae Dunchak '14
|2012 - Mile - Abbey D'Agostino '14
|2012 - 1500m - Abbey D'Agostino '14*
|2011 - Pentathlon - Janae Dunchak '14
|2012 - 3000m - Abbey D'Agostino '14*
|2010 - Pentathlon - Priscilla Trojano '12
|2011 - Heptathlon - Priscilla Trojano '12
|2003 - 800m - Cecily Garber '03
|2011 - 400IH - Alexandra Tanner '11
|2001 - 3000m - Erin Dromgoole '01
|2011 - 5000m - Abbey D'Agostino '14
|2000 - 3000m - Susan Ashlock '00
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I have been writing about not just one, but two females; sisters. I've toyed with different methods/persons in this, but it seems I've come to an obvious roadblock. I wouldn't call it "writer's block" because I haven't stopped writing. But I've been writing with the irking notion that something is very, very wrong. Its ok for me to explore my feminine side, but obviously I can't know how a woman thinks. I can't validly write in first person within the head of a female, at least not correctly. So, how do I proceed? I might need to go back and make drastic changes.
The best advice I received when I started writing male characters was to stop thinking of them as males and start thinking about them as people. It's not so much what's in the pants as how they've grown up: a male character whose father pushed him to be a tough guy and give up unmasculine persuits is going to be totally different than one whose parents supported his love of art or music. Ultimately, everything about a character is going to be shaped by either their innate personality or their life experiences - and that's going to provide far more variation between people than gender alone.
I don't think this is really a problem with the story being in first person. Regardless of the POV you use, you need to be able to really understand your characters, and you need to present that understanding in a way that feels genuine.
I think you need to decide whether there is something wrong, or if you just think there's something wrong. So, as John said, I'd get someone to read it for you. Preferably several someones, because, guess what? Women aren't monolithic. Every woman thinks differently.
So find out if there's a problem. If there isn't - if your betas tell you that they believed in the characters - excellent! Get back to work.
If there is a problem, try to get details on what it is, but also try to think of your characters as whole people. Yeah, okay, they're women, but what else are they? What has made them who they are? Their sex will have had more or less influence on their character depending on what society they grew up in, what their family was like, etc., but I don't think there's ever been a time or place where being female was all they would have been. Look at all of it, try to understand how it all fits together and influences everything else, and then try again.
Good luck with it!
It's good that you're thinking about it, because men and women generally do have different voices, different concerns, and different ways of approaching the world and its problems.
The key is whether you're paying attention to the characters you've created. Is one sister the peacemaker and the other one aggressive and ambitious? Then the ambitious one is not going to speak in the stereotypically soft, non-confrontational, consensus-building language which most women use. Unless, of course, you've set her up so that she's fighting that teaching, and that she wants to be blunt and forcible but is finding herself handicapped by her socialization.
Don't worry quite so much about the gender of your characters as their personality and capabilities. A nurturing man may tend towards chopping wood to make sure there's fuel for the fire, and a nurturing woman may bake bread. Conversely, a male psychologist who loves his family but who's not physically active may bake bread, and a farmer's wife who loves her family but doesn't know how to express her feelings may be the one out chopping wood.
Get beta readers, make sure they're of both genders, and ask them to pay attention to that aspect of the characters as they're reading.
ETA two books which may be useful to you to help you understand the difference between male and female thinking and communication: Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand and John Gray's Men Are from Mars, Women are from Venus. Gray's book is relationship advice, but it's structured to explain one gender to the other.
Get a woman! Yeah, for proofreading, what did you think?
This irking notion is not so much different from all the other irking notions which assail your mind during writing.
If you write about a male politician, do you know how he feels and acts? Have you ever been a politician? How does it feel when the oppositions wants your head because of a wrong decision? Do you want to murder that journalist for asking this painful question again and again? Do politicians want to murder journalist at all?
What goes through the mind of a dragon, when this dingy two-legged mammal stands in front of him, waving a tooth-pick which with he wants to slaughter the fire-breather?
You make things up when you write. That's your job. And if you can write that passage about the dragon, then getting into a woman's head shouldn't be that different ;)
In your case you have the advantage, that you can ask other persons (test readers), male and female, if your characters work. That's more complicated with dragons. So embrace your easy challenge, keep writing, ask your test-readers, and slaughter dragons, that's so much fun. (Yeah, slaughtering politicians is even more fun. That's what the journalist is good for.)
I think that, as in relationships, if you focus too much on trying to figure out how their actions are defined by their gender, you won't be spending enough time on just getting to know the person as a person.
So does it help to get a woman to read it? Maybe. Or maybe it's better to get a married man to read it! Hard to say. No matter who you get, they need to be aware of the fact that not everyone thinks like them so they need to be careful with their feedback.
If you have a notion that something is wrong then your "block" is that the method you have chosen is frustrating you. Stop! You have found a way that you are not comfortable writing even if as you say you are still writing. You will do nothing more than get more frustrated.
If anyone suggested a definitive voice or approach to your issue you still might not be comfortable with that answer. Suppose I suggested third person for both characters and one printed in blue italics? Everyone said, "Yeah. That's the only way to do it!" YOU still have to be comfortable writing that way. It is subjective.
There are famous writers who've written first person as a person of another sex- Molly Bloom in Joyce's Ulysses comes to mind. He wrote it that way because he was comfortable writing it that way.


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Why not just join the Big 12
Or the Pac 12?
- 12:55 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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Honest assessment here:
You guys won't go to a BCS(or "significant" bowl once the official BCS goes away) game as a member of the WAC, MWC, or independent.
So why not stay independent and at least get more money from ESPN?
- 12:56 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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Confererence will continue to shift, but regardless of what happens, 2 things
will be constants from here on out:
1)Utah will be "IN"
2) byu will be "OUT"
- 12:57 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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We have our choice of conferences because evryone wants us but will remain independant.
- 1:10 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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Honest assessment here:
Chris B has no life
Independence is a tough schedule and I miss most (not all) traditional rivalries - but unless the entire national college football structure is rewritten to go back to traditional regional rivalries - there is no reason for BYU to go back to the MWC. It would be better to do what they did previously, when creating the MWC, band with others to start their own new conference.
- 1:11 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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Chrissy B
U should worry more about that bunch of misfits on the hill,
especially when
1) BYU 2012 bowl - IN
2) Utah 2012 bowl - OUT
btw, your predictions of BYU never playing in a "significant" bowl (or never playing in a playoff game) are about as meaningless as your constant "mark it down" predictions; in fact, your prediction of "never" is practically a guarantee that it will be soon.
- 1:13 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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I would rather continue as an indepedent with a "scheduling arrangement"
with a few MWC institutions.
@ Chris- Utah is what Rutgers will be in the Big 10 family. The akward, slightly ugly relative with poor hygeine everyone avoids speaking with at family reunions.
- 1:18 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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If realignment really does mean that four 16-team superconferences are inevitable, than the B12 needs 6 teams and the PAC needs 4. There simply aren't that many viable candidates within their current geographic footprints. The B12 will try for Florida State and Clemson, maybe Louisville and Cincinatti...then what? They would still need to find 2 more teams. Besides, the SEC can pick up FSU and Clemson any time they want. My point is, if it comes to that, BYU will find a home. They might not be full members, maybe just football-only additions. If it doesn't come to that, then there's really no reason to go away from independence.
- 1:19 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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@ Chris B
Nice to know BYU is still relevant with you.
And what exactly is utah in? They are in a rough rivalry with fellow basement dweller Colorado. They are in for a longer Christmas break. They are in with fellow non-bowlers like Wyoming, New Mexico, Idaho, etc., etc. They are in the pac10.2 like the Washington Generals are in games with the Harlem Globetrotters or how Angola was in the game with the '92 Dream Team. Oh, and utah was in two BCS games coming from the MWC, so basically you're biting the very hand that fed you.
BYU is better served by maintaining independence unless provided an opportunity to join a stable situation like the BIG 12, which isn't a guarantee.
Oh, and Chris B, the utes are in one more thing: last place in the nation for basketball!!
- 1:20 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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Chris I'm being honest here. Why the hate? I really do just want to understand. I can be completely honest in saying I wish Utah the best. You guys are down this year and that's too bad. I don't care that you're "in" and we're ''out'' as you say. The PAC-12 is great for you guys! Really! I'm enjoying independence and have faith it will work out. So why can't we both just wish the other the best and let the other work towards their own personal goals?
- 1:25 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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So . . . How's that 'In-ness' working out for you, Chris B?
Remind me again - where is your team going 'bowling' this year?
Never mind.
- 1:29 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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BYU won't return to the MWC. They can't win that conference with USU,
SDSU and Boise State in it.
They'll stay independant where they have to compete with ........no one.
- 1:34 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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Ah, Brad, why play New Mexico at all? They are as bad as Wyoming in the
win-loss column. True, they are in a warmer area than UW in Laramie, but my
gosh---New Mexico? If you were really into some good competition in the old MWC
you'd want BYU to play Air Force occasionally. They have a better record
than Utah in the MWC over the course of all the years everyone belonged. And if
you've ever attend a game in Colorado Springs, they are a class
act----unlike Fort Collins where they are just another state school, only
wearing green instead of red. AFA needs some good competition, too, so I think
they'd go for it. (There has to be a reason Whittingham said he was glad
they would never play Air Force again...the cadets were just too good too often
for the Utes.) And UNLV? You must want to frequent Vegas. While warmer there,
too, their stadium isn't up to much----although it is covered with red
paint so maybe that's why you want to go there.
Interesting points of view that you expressed.
- 1:38 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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re;Chris B.
I feel sorry for you. You have the first three posts on BYU and you are a...Utah fan. And somehow your digs always make it past the d-news board regulators...I don't know which is more confusing.
- 1:39 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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Apparently Utah may sneak into a bowl after all.
- 1:45 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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C'mon Rock, this is old news now. I didn't even read your story
because you're just trying to stamp your brand on it. Stick with Chris B
and the losing Utes.
BYU will not join any conference. They like independence.
- 1:47 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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@ Chris B
Honest assessment here:
Your beloved Utes won't ever:
1) Go to the Rose Bowl
2) Win a National Championship
3) Produce a Heisman Trophy winner
4) Get over bashing BYU
Utah will:
1) Finish at the bottom third of the PAC 12 almost every year, or lower
2) Follow Arizona and compete (?) for decades before going to your first Rose Bowl (they haven't gone yet)
3) Go years before ever getting into another BCS Bowl---if there is such a thing then
You will:
1) Keep bashing BYU every chance you get
2) Continually harp on belonging to the PAC 12 as being better than sliced bread
3) Get older without ever growing up
4) Always try and post first on BYU articles (see #3)
- 1:47 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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If BYU wanted to win games as badly as Chris B wants to blog on BYU articles, we would be number 1. Undefeated.
- 1:55 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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Reasons for BYU re-joining the MWC:
(I can't think of any)
- 1:57 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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I see no reason that BYU shouldn't be getting into the BIG 12 soon. But if that weren't an option then there would be one more reason to join the MWC, conference championships, conference rivalries, and full season motivation.
- 1:59 p.m. Nov. 20, 2012
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Should You Copy a Famous Site's Design?
Summary: Although successful websites typically have high usability, average sites can hurt their business by copying design elements that don't work well in other contexts.
When faced with a design quandary, bosses are often inclined to say, "why don't we just copy X?" where X is some high-profile, successful website. There's something to be said for this strategy; presumably, Site X is doing something right, since they're so big and famous.
Furthermore, users prefer well-established designs that follow conventions and work as expected. For example, having a search box in the upper right corner increases the usability of your search simply because this is what users are accustomed to using in the location where they expect to find it. (See our eyetracking research for more examples of where people tend to look for various design elements.)
But copying successful designs is not a foolproof way to improve your own site's business value. Indeed, this strategy has many pitfalls.
(Note: When I say "copy," I don't mean that in a literal sense — that is, I'm not advocating copyright violations or design theft. Rather, I'm assuming that once you've considered the pitfalls and decided to go with a feature or design that's similar to a big site's, you'll create a new site that's inspired by that site's example. If you fear that your copy is too close to the original, consult a lawyer, but if you feel the need to do that you're probably already going too far.)
Why Copies Can Fail
There are two main reasons why copying another site can go wrong, even if that site is highly successful:
- The specific UI element you're copying is not that good.
- The design works fine in the original site's context, but it's no good in the different context offered by your site.
We recently ran a usability study of 17 big and famous websites: Amazon, Apple, BBC, Chase, Cisco, CNN, Facebook, Flickr, Google, Johnson & Johnson, Kayak, Netflix, TigerDirect, WebMD, The White House, Yahoo, and YouTube. Indeed, our research confirmed that these sites do many things right and have substantially better usability than the more average sites tested in many of our other projects. In fact, the big sites' success rate was 3 percentage points higher than the average for other sites.
Still, the study identified boatloads of usability problems in the big sites' user experience.
Good Site, Bad Design
Even if a site has high overall usability, specific design elements can still be bad. And if you're copying one of the bad ones — oops. A good website might contain poor features for many reasons:
- Nobody's perfect. A good design team still makes mistakes. Maybe team members didn't have time to test some minor design element, so it went up despite being bad. Or maybe they thought it was good and were wrong.
- Lack of resources. Even a big company doesn't have infinite resources; sometimes designers know very well that their site includes a bad design element, but they haven't had the time to fix it.
- Waiting for the update. Maybe they did fix it, but haven't launched the revised design yet. You could be copying something that the site owner is about to replace.
In our study, a person who was already a registered user on Kayak had great trouble logging into the site on this screen:
How can that be? The distinction between "sign up" and "sign in" is clearly marked! Sure, if you read the blah-blah. But users don't. Their eyes and mouse go straight to the field where they can type.
That's what people want to do: they want to get things done . They don't want to read.
In this case, the user didn't notice the difference between signing "up" vs. "in." The most prominent input fields were those for registering, so she typed in those fields, then clicked the "Sign In" button. This went on for 20 minutes as she got more and more frustrated. (Outside the lab, most users would probably give up and leave the site; in this case, we got some great video clips for our seminar that show a user making various mistakes over and over again.)
And how can anybody type in the left part of the form and then click the button on the right ? Well, users frequently do such things (and even weirder behaviors). If you don't think so, it's because you have never observed normal people use computers. That's why we do usability studies: because we are not the audience.
After our testing, Kayak redesigned the sign-in workflow to remove this usability problem. Kayak still doesn't have the perfect design for this problem (Amazon.com's is better), but they've definitely improved. So, if you copied Kayak a few months ago, you'd have a serious usability problem on your site. That is, depending on when you copied it relative to a random date outside your control, your conversion rate would be drastically different. Do you feel lucky?
Following is another before/after example from Kayak, which shows how a simple change to the sliders on the right made this design easier to understand.
Different Context = Different Optimal Design
Even if you're lucky enough to copy a big site on the day they happen to have a good design for the feature you want, their design might not be the best for your site.
Many years ago, I pointed out that Amazon.com was no longer the role model for e-commerce design. This is even truer today.
Smaller sites and lesser-known companies have to work that much harder to establish credibility. Customers placing an order on Amazon.com already know that they'll receive the product two days later and that they'll easily get a replacement in the rare case that the shipment was damaged. Not so when they're doing business with you for the first time.
On Apple's site, users had to hunt around to find the button to purchase an iPhone. Not only was the button in an unconventional location relative to most e-commerce sites, apple.com used internally inconsistent colors and labels for its Buy buttons.
Interestingly, having a (deserved) reputation for good design came to Apple's rescue. Users were forgiving because they knew that the iPhone had high usability, and they were sufficiently committed to spending the extra time to find out how to purchase one.
On sites with a weaker brand reputation for usability, prospective customers would give up more easily in the face of difficulties. Even worse, a poor user experience on the website would reflect poorly on the company as a whole: If they can't even design a Buy button, how hard will it be to use their actual products?
There are many other reasons why a big-site design might not work for you:
- Scale: Sorting through millions of products or articles requires more UI horsepower than needed for a simpler site with a handful of offerings.
- Maintenance: Some design approaches — as simple as a company blog — require frequent updates to avoid going stale. Better not do it if you can't commit the resources to keep it working.
- Integration: I've often discussed the importance of total user experience. Design elements can't be examined in isolation; they should work together. So, if you take one element out and plug it into a different context, it might not play well with your site's other design elements.
- Domain: Government agencies often say they look to The White House as a role model for their websites. In addition to whitehouse.gov's occasional usability weaknesses, most government agencies offer a completely different set of services to their users. How to present nuclear safety regulations? Definitely differently than posting the president's latest speeches.
- Audience: Usability is always relative to two things: the users and their tasks. Maybe your users are more technically savvy than the general audience that typically dominates on the big sites. Often your users will have more specialized knowledge about your issues than general users — then again, the opposite might be true if you're offering basic education.
- This last issue is particularly important for intranet design, where it's rarely appropriate to copy mainstream consumer-focused sites from the open Web. (That's why there are so many separate usability guidelines for intranets.) For example, even though there are many good uses of social features in the enterprise, don't copy Twitter, Facebook, and the like.
- Web users = customers. Intranet users = employees.
- Web tasks = shopping/having fun/etc. Intranet tasks = doing your job/cranking out deliverables.
- This last issue is particularly important for intranet design, where it's rarely appropriate to copy mainstream consumer-focused sites from the open Web. (That's why there are so many separate usability guidelines for intranets.) For example, even though there are many good uses of social features in the enterprise, don't copy Twitter, Facebook, and the like.
Most of all, you're probably not as prominent as the famous site you're thinking of emulating. Even if you're a big company or government agency, you're rarely big on the Net, as measured by the number of hours an average user would spend on your site each month. Users thus won't be as motivated to learn new interaction techniques on your site as they are on a big site that they use more frequently.
For example, YouTube's "Inbox" and "Personal Messages" screens don't explain that this is an internal messaging system rather than a normal email account, and the error messages users see when entering an email address don't explain it either. Even after repeated attempts, one of our test users never figured this out. YouTube is clearly successful and can probably afford to place this hurdle in front of its highly motivated users who return to the site again and again for their daily fix of funny videos. You, however, should probably stay with a design that people already understand.
Good vs. Bad: How to Tell?
Often, a big and famous site can be worth emulating. But sometimes it'll decimate your business metrics if you copy the big boys. How can you tell whether you're in one situation or the other?
If you've read my column for some time, you no doubt know that the answer is simple: user testing. Remember, user testing doesn't have to take very long. You can mock up the proposed design as a wireframe or paper prototype in less than a day and test it immediately.
Even faster: because the design element is already implemented on an existing website, you can run a user test of that site without any prep (other than writing some test tasks). Of course, testing another site won't give you full insights into how well something will work on your site, but you can get an early idea, which will often put you on the right track with a minimal investment.
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I have the following Wireless adaptor Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 35) Ever since I installed Ubuntu 11.10, I am unable to connect to an ad-hoc network. I assume it is not getting the ip address. Anybody with the same Wireless adaptor facing this issue on Ubuntu 11.10 (Shell) ? This used to work perfectly in Ubuntu 11.04.
Try this: Go to network connections -> Wireless choose the network you want to connect select edit->ipv6-settings->ignore
A technical note: We can use our wifi adapter (NIC) in four modes: managed, monitor, ad-hoc and Access Point(master).
Managed: It is the default mode. It helps us to connect to access points only. So if you are connected to AP it means your card is in managed mode.
Monitor: In this mode you don't connect to any of the networks but simply catch the packets in air. Usually used for hacking wifi passwords.
Ad-hoc: It is like a P2P connection. If two machines are connected via an ad-hoc connection both the machines should be in ad-hoc mode , using managed mode you can't connect to an ad-hoc but only access point.
Access Point: In this your card behaves like a router/access point. You need HostAP daemon to create an AP.
Now, if you can't create an ad-hoc connection this means your driver does not support ad-hoc mode and hence you can't connect to an ad-hoc network. But you should always be able to connect to an AP.


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1963 Sprint Car - Those Were The DaysWritten by on February 24, 2011 Contributors: Phil Kunz The First Pictorial Essay In A Series Examining Oval Track Technology From Decades Past And How Innovations Fit Into Modern Day Racing
There was a time in racing when almost everything that hit the track was home built or sourced from a junkyard. It was a time before turnkey race cars could be bought from a company that built them exclusively. Race cars began life as pieces of tubing scattered on the shop floor. Parts and pieces were fabricated by hand. Creativity in the name of speed was king.
In the '60s, as Sprint Cars were being hand-assembled in the middle of the country, NASCAR race cars where nothing more than gutted production cars with rollcages. For both types of racing machines, production engines were many times modified with the likes of multiple carbs, hotter cams, and headers. Often, race cars were one-of-kind-creations. Many of the ideas born then have given way to innovation and progress, but some remain today.
As we enter a time of change for the oval track racing industry, Circle Track is taking a look back at innovations from the past, this article will be the first in a series of stories on technology from days gone by.
The first race car to be examined is this beautiful home-built 1963 Sprint Car owned by Kenneth Keiholz and crewed by Joshua Shaw. It carries the typical rounded body lines of the period, lines that old-timers will tell you are, "The shape an Open Wheel race car should have." The sheetmetal is held in place by about five-dozen Dzus fittings. It weighs about 300-400 pounds more than its modern brethren. History of the car and parts is a little vague because it was found completely in pieces.
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This head-on shot provides a look of the trim body and the multitude of bars and rods that comprise the suspension, as well as the low-slung windshield, made out of plexiglass for the restoration.The shape of a Sprint Car body has changed a lot from the '60s. Today, the cars are much more angular in shape with much of the cockpit shielded by sheetmetal. Also note that the exhaust stretches to the rear of the car, much longer than on the modern machines.One of the neat characteristics of these cars was the custom-designed grilles. This example carries a nifty black horizontal bar design. Also, there was usually a letter or two up front identifying either the chassis builder or owner.The details of the right front suspension are clearly shown here. Note the two solid steel torsion arms and stops, and the canted, liquid-filled shock and front axle.This view of the right front shows the steering rod passing through from the left side and attaching to the steering arm, which in turn is attached to the right wheel. This steering design is basically the same today.That small scoop on the car's left side might appear to have some type of an aerodynamic purpose, but it's actually there to cool the driver's feet! It was definitely needed.
Today's Sprint Cars have lengthy nerf bars reaching between the wheels. But this small triangular design was the trend of the period.The cockpit carries a fairly-modern look with the period Stewart Warner gauges in place. The dash was painted with a flat black to prevent sun glare during day races which were common at that time.This CAE in-out box enables the engine to be engaged and disengaged from the remainder of the powertrain. It was also adapted for a clutch on the larger Championship Cars. The driveshaft comes directly off the crank on the rear of the engine block.Obviously, it took brave men to drive these stylish machines. The tail carries a 30-gallon aluminum fuel tank, although it doesn't carry the rubber bladder of today. In front of the tank, you can see the rounded rollbar located directly behind the driver. The low slung bar was welded to the frame and despite its placement, it was still imperative in a rollover for the driver to duck down low in the cockpit and hang on for dear life. Driver safety with complete rollcages is one of the biggest improvements over the years.As was the tradition back in the day, a nickel was implanted on the top of the rear bumper. Part good luck, part superstition? We're not sure, but many a Sprinter carried the five-cent piece.A period Chevy 327 small-block sits comfortably in the engine compartment. It carries 2-inch Hillborn Injectors and is capable of about 500 hp. That's a far cry from the 800-plus-hp machines of today.Shown here is a top view of the engine. The valve covers were period aluminum Corvette units with small breathers, the bell crank is similar to today, but these injector tubes are about half of those of today, making fuel flow but a fraction of today's flow.Here is the engine front drive assembly-front to rear, the original brass radiator, fuel pump, water pump, and timing chain cover. This varies from modern Sprint Cars which carry the power steering (not found on this car) and the oil pump on the driver side of the firewall.
With the hood installed, those injection stacks emerge through holes in the hood giving a clean design. Air cleaners were normally not used.An example of a homemade tool is this pattern which was fabricated for the making of the grille. Those were the days!On the silver outer edge of the wheels, there are a number of small holes. It appears to be an early bead-lock system, but that would be a wrong guess. Get this-they are holes for screws to be inserted. Then, nuts would be inserted in various numbers to balance the wheel. Really!


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Recent and archived news articles by Juan Forero of The New York Times.
Colombia's Coca Survives U.S. Plan to Uproot It
A $4.7 billion effort to slash Colombia's coca crop has left the availability of cocaine on U.S. streets unchanged.
August 19, 2006, Saturday
Cuba Perks Up as Venezuelan Foils Embargo
Cuba's economy is strong because Venezuela has been using its oil reserves to prop up the Castro government.
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Castro 'Stable,' But His Illness Presents Puzzle
A statement read on state television after a long day of speculation and rumor gave few details about Fidel Castro's condition.
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Ex-President Wins in Peru in Stunning Comeback
Alan García was elected again, 16 years after his first presidency ended in economic collapse and violence.
June 5, 2006, Monday
Peru's Voters May Turn to a Tested, and Failed, Leader
Alan García, the front-runner going into the runoff election on Sunday, is running against his own record as president in the 1980's.
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For Venezuela, a Treasure in Oil Sludge
As oil prices soar, Venezuela's Orinoco Belt, which may contain up to 235 billion barrels of recoverable oil, is becoming an economic battleground.
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I have a hybrid bike which has dropped handlebars with Shimano Tiagra dual brake/gear levers. The front mech is a Tiagra triple ring and the back mech is Shimano Deore XT (9 sprockets) I have developed back problems and now need a more upright position when riding and am hoping to convert my bike to a flatbar. Can anyone help in identifying the options for compatible Gear Shifters. Thanks in advance
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As long as your choosing a 9 speed Shimano shifter for the rear and triple shifter for the front you'll be fine. That's basically everything in the Deore lineup, as long as it's 9 speed. Obviously you'll want to stay away from 10 speed shifters and dont try to mix and match Shimano derailleurs and SRAM shifters or vice versa.
Before you rush to spend money on different bars and different shifters, have you ever considered a shorter stem? Perhaps a photo of your current bars/stem, and/or an actual measurement of your stem would help me to be more specific. You should measure it center-to-center, as shown in the illustration (3).
What I've found is that I get back pain when I'm too stretched out. That is, when the reach is too much for me, I get back pain. You can see the measurement I'm referring to in the picture below.
It doesn't take much of a change in the stem length to make a difference. Long story short, I changed my saddle and my bars, and started getting horrible back pain after 40 miles or so. I shortened my stem by 30 mm, and all is well. I can ride 70 miles or more before I start feeling any pains, but back pain is not one of them, typically.
If you can't post pics of your bike, measurements would be helpful for you to know. In addition, check your bike vs. a fit calculator like this one. Make sure you're in the range of numbers before you start throwing money at this problem.
Nine speed Shimano mountain bike shifters are usually (maybe always) compatible with Shimano derailleurs. I've definitely mismatched them in a variety of configurations and never had a problem. Stick with Shimano and you should be fine.


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Today marks the 71th anniversary of one of the most significant dates in American history.
" Dec. 7, 1941, a date that will live in infamy," President Franklin D. Roosevelt described it in his famous speech delivered moments before Congress passed a formal declaration of war against the Empire of Japan, officially catapulting the United States into World War II.
It was on that date Japanese forces launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Navy's Pacific fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. The unannounced attack - while the United States and Japan were still engaged in peaceful negotiations of policies as war raged in Europe and began spreading to the Pacific - has become synonymous with a "sucker punch."
Not unlike the cowardly terrorist attacks that surprised the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, the "sucker punch" approach against America has proven to bring two sure results. It provokes a full U.S. military response and ignites widespread patriotic solidarity among American citizens.
U.S. involvement in World War II waged on for nearly four years after the Pearl Harbor attack. The Allies rose to victory over the Axis powers in 1945. The victory over Japan came by way of a controversial measure - the dropping of atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A total of more than 70 million people from nations across the globe perished as a result of fighting in World War II, and most of them were civilians. It was the most deadly conflict in human history.
The lessons of war - especially those learned as a result of the events of World War II - teach us that modern technology has given people the capability to not only defeat their enemies, but destroy human existence completely.
While sometimes it is necessary to use military force in order to maintain peace, diplomacy should always be favored over bloodshed.
With the passage of time, we're losing those from the "Greatest Generation." As we remember Pearl Harbor and Dec. 7, 1941, we salute not only our brave veterans of WWII, but the civilians on the home front who also became swept into the throes of a war that called on everyone's support. It is their fight, heroism, resolve and unifying determination that set the bar for American patriotism. The price for their role in history hopefully paid for a lasting lesson about mankind's limits when it comes to warfare, and that we never want to see a war of that magnitude again.


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Distinguished Alumni Recall Inspiring Professors, Gifted Classmates
Graduates and friends of Rutgers School of Law–Newark came together for the 2012 Alumni Association Annual Recognition Dinner to recognize the achievements of three who have been exemplary in their contributions to the legal profession and society.
|Dean John J. Farmer, Jr. with (l-r): Vincent Warren '93, Judge Rosemary Gambardella '79 and Sumeeta A. Gawande '95, president of the Alumni Association.
The occasion was also an opportunity for attendees to reconnect with old friends and classmates, meet the recipients of Alumni Association scholarships, and hear from Dean John J. Farmer, Jr. and the campus's Interim Chancellor, Philip Yeagle, about the latest developments at the law school and Rutgers–Newark.
Hon. Rosemary Gambardella '79, Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of New Jersey, and Hon. Hazel R. O'Leary '66, president of Fisk University, received a Distinguished Alumna Award. The Fannie Bear Besser Award for Public Service was given to Vincent Warren '93, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. The awards were presented to Judge Gambardella by Karen Giannelli '79 and to Vincent Warren by his wife, Ann Marie Scalia '93. Professor Frank Askin was asked to present the award for classmate Hazel O'Leary and say a few words in her absence.
In her acceptance remarks Judge Rosemary Gambardella noted her "long and deep ties" to Rutgers University (she was a member of the first class of women undergraduates at Rutgers College) and her great pride in being a Rutgers Law School alumna. In addition to her twin sister, Frances Gambardella, and Karen Giannelli, she pointed out that the Class of 1979 had numerous outstanding graduates, including New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Jaynee LaVecchia, U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson, David Harris, Neal Mullin, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, and Roxanne Jones Gregory. "The list goes on and on," she added.
Judge Gambardella was at Rutgers Law when the popular concept of law school was shaped by The Paper Chase, the 1970s' film and TV series about an imperious Harvard contracts professor and his students. "While our faculty shared the same brilliance," she said, "our students and faculty did not appear to share the values portrayed in that story of competition for competition's sake." The gifted faculty included Arthur Kinoy and Allan Axelrod, with whom she took two courses on the Uniform Commercial Code.
The class also benefitted from "a robust Minority Student Program," a student body "diverse as to gender, race and ethnicity," clinics that are "a model for the rest of the country," and strong journals such as the pioneering Women's Rights Law Reporter.
Upon receiving her law degree, Judge Gambardella served as law clerk to the late Chief Bankruptcy Judge Vincent J. Commisa and then senior staff counsel to Hugh M. Leonard, the first U.S. Trustee for the Districts of New Jersey and Delaware. Judge Gambardella was sworn in as a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge in May 1985, becoming the first woman on the Bankruptcy Court in the District of New Jersey. She first served in the Camden vicinage, where she oversaw the Chapter 11 reorganization of Elsinore Shore Associates, the former Atlantis Casino Hotel, Trump Taj Mahal Casino & Hotel, and Resorts International, Inc. In 1992 she transferred to the Newark vicinage where she oversees commercial and consumer bankruptcy cases.
|Alumni Association officers and board members include (l-r): immediate past president Scott Walker '00, dinner co-chair Lorraine Abraham '74, treasurer Randall Brett '07, dinner co-chair Robyn Valle '95, president Sumeeta Gawande '95, president-elect Barbara Schweiger '98, and vice president Keith Miller '93.
To those considering entering the legal profession, Judge Gambardella said: "Today, when people lament that there are too many lawyers and that prospective law students should consider alternatives, my answer remains the same – if you want to go to law school then please go. The rewards of a law school education, particularly the education we received at Rutgers, made us the people we are today — people dedicated to the concepts of fairness and justice in our great state of New Jersey, our country and the world."
Judge Gambardella, who counts herself lucky to have grown up in Newark, observed that while the city has gone through challenges over the years, "the law school has remained a constant — reaching out to the greater Newark community through its clinical programs and its outreach to young people, among other projects. The so-called 'Renaissance' of Newark," she said, "owes its success, in part, to institutions like Rutgers Law School."
In videotaped remarks, Hazel O'Leary noted that she was the third member of what she described as a "phenomenal" class to be honored by the Alumni Association. The others are New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Virginia Long and Professor Frank Askin. She looked back with fondness on her time at Rutgers Law School, stating "I'm extremely grateful to a number of my professors, principally Arthur Kinoy, who taught me that if you believe in the rights of other people, you not only need to fight for them, but you need to hone the intellectual skills to do so with a great deal of success."
O'Leary was a 2L when she took a class with Professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who began her teaching career at Rutgers Law School. Justice Ginsburg, O'Leary said, "gave full face to the fact that the most brilliant women in the United States that graduated from law school could not find placement in major law firms on the East Coast, and sharpened my awareness of the need to work on issues of entry into the workplace – not only for women, but all people who were denied."
O'Leary was president and chief executive officer of Fisk University from 2004 until her retirement at the end of 2012. Before that she was the president and chief operating officer of Blaylock & Partners, an investment banking firm. She served as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy from 1993 to 1997 and in the late 1970s was administrator and deputy administrator of the department's Economic Regulatory Administration. Her career also included positions in the private sector throughout the 1980s and stints as an Assistant Attorney General and Assistant Prosecutor in New Jersey.
Vincent Warren has spent his career in public service advocating on behalf of the disenfranchised. As executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), he uses international and domestic law to hold corporations and government officials accountable for human rights abuses; challenging racial, gender and LGBT injustice; and combating the illegal expansion of U.S. presidential power and policies such as illegal detention at Guantanamo Bay, rendition, and torture.
Previously, he was a national senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, where his civil rights litigation focused on affirmative action, racial profiling, and criminal justice reform cases. Before that, Warren monitored South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings and worked as a criminal defense attorney for the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn.
|David Baumwoll '13
Warren was the first student at Rutgers School of Law–Newark to receive a public interest fellowship named after Arthur Kinoy. The fellowship, now known as the Kinoy-Stavis Fellowship, honors two of the founders of CCR. In addition to Kinoy, Warren found career inspiration in classes and clinic with other several other faculty, including Chuck Jones, Nadine Taub, Frank Askin, Eric Neisser, Al Slocum, and Paul Tractenberg.
Attributing his longstanding commitment to justice to his experience at the law school, Warren said: "Rutgers has always been a center of justice in which students grapple with some of the most pressing legal problems of the day. My time in the Constitutional Litigation Clinic, Women's Rights Clinic, and my stint as articles editor at the Women's Rights Law Reporter were key to my development as a civil rights lawyer."
|Silvia Medina '13
The Alumni Association also awarded scholarships to two exceptional students. David Baumwoll '13 accepted the Fannie Bear Besser Scholarship for Public Service from Robyn Ann Valle '95, dinner co-chair. Baumwoll holds a B.A. in political science and psychology from Tufts University and a master's in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is an associate editor of the Rutgers Race & the Law Review and a member of the National Mock Trial Team, and past co-chair of the Public Interest Law Foundation and a 2011-2012 Eagleton Fellow. Baumwoll has spent the last three summers interning for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.
Silvia Medina '13 accepted the Alumni Recognition Dinner Scholarship, given to a student who best embodies the commitment to excellence, opportunity and impact that are hallmarks of Rutgers alumni, from dinner co-chair Lorraine A. Abraham '74. After receiving a B.A. in psychology from Douglass College, Medina joined the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts as an information technology analyst. Among many projects, she worked on the development and implementation of the Principles of Municipal Court Administration Training program. While working full-time, she came to the law school as a part-time student. She is the editor-in-chief of the Rutgers Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Board and the Association of American Law Students. She previously served as Student Bar Association vice president for the evening program and as a Minority Student Program facilitator.


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The 7 Most Terrifying Archaeological Discoveries
#3. The Sewer of Babies
A group of archaeologists excavating a sewer underneath a Roman/Byzantine bathhouse in Ashkelon, Israel, thought they'd drawn the short end of the science stick, what with having to dig through ancient poo and all. Until they started turning up hundreds of thousands of tiny little bones, and realized just how screwed they really were. Any hope that they'd just stumbled upon the remains of an old-timey Roman KFC and were not, in fact, about to be torn apart by itty bitty ghosts was shot when they then started finding skulls and realized, to their horror, that they were all standing waist-deep in a sewer specially designated for disposing of the corpses of newborn babies.
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In all, the researchers found nearly 100 bodies, which, if you're keeping track, is roughly 100 more bodies than you want trapped inside an ancient, crumbling, pitch-black sewer with you. We wish we could tell you this was something slightly less disturbing than the implied charnel baby processing center of the ancient world that it seems to be, but the truth is: No one knows for sure why the bones are down there. Or why this scientist is measuring it without screaming, like it ain't no thang.
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At first, it was thought that the sewer was used just to dispose of female infants, which is awful but at least makes some kind of sense, as parents of the time period treated the lives of women with roughly the same respect and sanctity as toilet paper (i.e., they both wound up in the sewer when you were done with 'em). However, analysis of the bones showed that many of them were males -- sweet, precious boys! The Roman's most suspiciously valued demographic -- which implied that the bathhouse above might have been more of a quotation-marks-style "bathhouse," and that the whores were only disposing of male babies so that the females could be groomed for an auspicious life of whorin' and baby dumpin' themselves.
Listen: We know this was a pretty downer entry, but hey, if God gives you lemons, you make lemonade; if God gives you a shit-ton of dead babies impossibly placed in an ancient sewer, you write some terrible, desperate jokes about it and then start looking for a new God at the bottom of a bottle.
A really big bottle.
#2. The Bog People
Peat farmers in Northern Europe deserve your pity. In addition to generally having one of the most depressing jobs ever -- peat not being nearly as fun to farm as, say, gold or ponies -- in the course of their labors, they regularly stumble across soul-scarring shit like this:
OK, sure, that looks terrifying at first glance. But with some good counseling, you could get over that; those are just the remains of a normal burial, accidentally unearthed by the bog (the high acidity, low temperature and lack of oxygen preserve the bodies unusually, disturbingly well). These, on the other hand, spit right in the face of therapy:
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Those images will only stop haunting your dreams when you fulfill your destiny and kill your family with a harvest scythe, like the whispering bog voices have just started politely asking you to do. The pictures are, unfortunately, exactly what they look like: murdered bodies offered up as part of some freaky bogpeople ritual. One corpse in particular, the "Grauballe Man," tells the story pretty clearly: He was put to death the winter after a bad harvest, there's evidence of stubble on his jaw (indicating he had been detained and not allowed to shave in the days before he was put to death) and his burial pit was right in the middle of a consecrated area.
That's right: He was sacrificed to the bog in return for a good harvest ...
And fabulous hair.
So it turns out The Wicker Man was less of a ridiculously implausible B-horror flick and more of a tastefully understated docu-drama about the religious rites of rural farmers.
#1. Ancient Chemical Warfare
In 1933, archaeologist Robert du Mesnil du Buisson was conducting a dig in the area of Dura-Europos, where ancient Persians laid siege to their longtime enemies, the Romans. During the excavation, du Mesnil found several tunnels, which is pretty much par for the course in a siege situation. A little out of the ordinary, however, was the haphazard pile of 19 Roman soldiers he found in one of those tunnels, all looking as though they died while fleeing something. So what was at other end of the tunnel that could terrify and ultimately murder 19 Roman soldiers so quickly?
A single Persian soldier, found clutching desperately at his armor, forever preserved in that panicked moment.
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At least when you're a skeleton people can't tell that you shat yourself.
Add to the strangeness the fact that there were traces of sulfur and bitumen all along the walls, and the implication is clear: one terrified Persian who died clawing frantically at his own body, 19 Romans who died fleeing from his direction, sulfurous emanations in the walls?
That's demon possession, man. Those are some classic, Supernatural-style demon shenanigans right there.
All right, so maybe there are other, slightly more plausible theories. A reinvestigation of the records of the original dig, conducted by archaeologist Simon James, indicates that the deaths were actually due to one of the earliest attempts at chemical warfare.
"Yeah, you probably wouldn't have heard about it. It's kind of new."
The story, as James has reconstructed it so far, goes like this:
"The Romans heard the Persians working beneath the ground and steered their tunnel to intercept their enemies. The Roman tunnel was shallower than the Persian one, so the Romans planned to break in on the Persians from above. But there was no element of surprise for either side: The Persians could also hear the Romans coming.
"So the Persians set a trap. Just as the Romans broke, through, James said, they lit a fire in their own tunnel. Perhaps they had a bellows to direct the smoke, or perhaps they relied on the natural chimney effect of the shaft between the two tunnels. Either way, they threw sulfur and bitumen on the flames. One of the Persian soldiers was overcome and died, a victim of his own side's weapon. The Romans met with the choking gas, which turned to sulfuric acid in their lungs."
Work on the Persian tunnel dig has been renewed in light of this intriguing development, including a reopening of the original site where 20 ancient warriors died in fear and agony. It looks like this:
Balls, archeologists. Pure balls. However much we pay you to taunt furious ghosts just so we can have fun stuff to look at in museums, you totally deserve a raise.
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The Grayville volleyball team matched up with Odin on Tuesday, and won in convincing fashion. Grayville won the two-set match, 25-6, 25-15.
Scoring for Grayville were Jordan Bosecker with five points, four aces, a kill and two digs, Justinn Sexton with four points and four kills, Kerri Mitchell with six points, three aces, three kills, 10 assists and two digs, Kodi Knight with six points, an ace, five kills, nine assists and four digs, Mia Buchova with two points, two kills, two assists and a dig, Shaylee Hart with a point, an ace and a dig, Shelby McGarvey with eight points, two aces, six kills and four digs, Talon Garman with two points and two kills and Taylor Knight with a point, an ace and four digs.
The junior varsity team also picked up a 2-0 win, scoring 25-16, 25-18.
Scoring for the junior varsity team were Allie Armstrong with three points and three kills, Ali Howard with six points, an ace and five kills, Gloria Heldt with two points, an ace and a kill, Haley Cason with two points, an ace, a kill and three assists, Jade Bunting with two points and two kills, Kyla Harms with three points and three kills, Madison Martin with a point and an ace and Buchova with seven points, four aces, two kills, a block, 12 assists and a dig.
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Crews from the City of Carmi are working on street repair on the bridge at the opening to Sunnybrook Meadows west of Carmi on Route 14. As a result, motorists coming in and out of the neighborhood may be limited to one-lane traffic.
Also, motorists in that area are urged to drive with caution as repairs are made.
The City of Carmi is working quickly to amend the issues. The work will be ongoing for about five days.
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