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I am trying to show that taking data as an input and writing directly to a file without parsing, checking or sanitizing it is a security risk.
Can anyone show an example of how this can be exploited. I was thinking that there may be a way to start writing to a new file instead of the one it should. if this is possible I may be able to write to a file named ls or less etc.
Sorry I forgot to mention the OS. It is Solaris.
The files are just data files possibly to be read into a database later but I don't want to count on the database as the only exploit.
A program on this servers is listening on a port and I can connect and send it data and I know that it will write this data to a file called output.dat later.


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Fact Sheet
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Employee Benefits Security Administration
March 2013
Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements (MEWAs) provide health and welfare benefits to employees of two or more unrelated employers who are not parties to bona fide collective bargaining agreements. In concept, MEWAs are designed to give small employers access to low cost health coverage on terms similar to those available to large employers. For certain employers they represent the only available option for providing employees with health care because insurance companies often will not insure small employers that do not fall within their desirable risk category.
MEWAs generally operate in one of two ways. Employers forward money to the MEWA (often including employee contributions) which is used either to pay premiums for a health insurance policy or to pay for benefits directly from the MEWA. It is the latter arrangement that more often causes problems. The MEWA organizers may not have conducted a prudent analysis to determine the amount of contributions needed in order to fully pay claims.
Although MEWAs can be provided through legitimate organizations, they are sometimes marketed using attractive but actuarially unsound premium structures that generate large administrative fees for the promoters. These high fees are often paid before any claims are paid, leaving insufficient funds available to pay for the benefits promised by the promoters. In addition, certain promoters will set up arrangements that they claim are established pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement and, therefore, are not MEWAs but legitimate benefit plans free from state insurance regulations. Often, however, these collective bargaining agreements are nothing more than shams designed to avoid state insurance regulation.
States and the federal government coordinate the regulation of MEWAs pursuant to a 1982 amendment to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). This dual jurisdiction gives states primary responsibility for overseeing the financial soundness of MEWAs and the licensing of MEWA operators. The Department of Labor enforces the fiduciary provisions of ERISA against MEWA operators to the extent a MEWA is an ERISA plan or is holding plan assets. State insurance laws that set standards requiring specified levels of reserves or contributions are applicable to MEWAs even if they also are covered by ERISA.
Recent Final Regulations and Criminal Statutes
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act) added section 521 to ERISA to authorize the Secretary of Labor to issue a cease and desist order, ex parte, when it appears that the alleged conduct of a MEWA is fraudulent, creates an immediate danger to the public safety or welfare, or is causing or can be reasonably expected to cause significant, imminent, and irreparable public injury. The Secretary may also seek a summary seizure order when it appears that a MEWA is in a financially hazardous condition. Systematic failures to pay benefit claims or the diversion of premiums for personal use are common examples of these types of conduct. Before this change, stopping the activities of an abusive arrangement immediately and freezing its assets required a court-issued temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction. With this new authority, the Secretary may take steps to protect plan participants and small employers much earlier in the process, before all of the assets have been exhausted. On March 1, 2013, final rules were published in the Federal Register to facilitate implementation of this new enforcement authority provided to the Secretary.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 added section 101(g) to ERISA to provide the Secretary with the authority to require, by regulation, annual reporting by MEWAs that are not ERISA-covered plans. The Affordable Care Act amended section 101(g) to require that such MEWAs register with the Department of Labor prior to operating in a state. On March 1, 2013, the Department published final rules in the Federal Register implementing the changes made by the Affordable Care Act.
While reporting requirements for MEWAs have been in place since 1999, the Department often did not find out about insolvent or fraudulent MEWAs until significant harm had occurred to employers and participants. This new registration enhances the existing reporting rules to require all MEWAs as well as certain other entities that offer or provide health benefits to the employees of two or more employers to register with the Department via the Form M-1. These changes also require MEWAs that are ERISA plans which are subject to the Form M-1 filing requirements to file a Form 5500 Annual Report, regardless of plan size. By requiring MEWAs to register with the Department before operating in a State, this rule enhances the State and Federal governments' joint mission to prevent and take enforcement action against fraudulent and abusive MEWAs and limit the losses suffered by American workers, their families, and businesses in instances when abusive MEWAs become insolvent and fail to reimburse medical claims.
The Affordable Care Act also added a new criminal provision, section 519, to ERISA, which imposes criminal penalties for knowing false statements or representations made to abet the marketing or sale of a health plan arrangement to any employee organization, beneficiary, or employer. Section 519 provides EBSA with a powerful tool to combat fraudulent promotions of MEWAs in the private health care market.
EBSA Enforcement Efforts
The Department has devoted significant resources to investigating and litigating issues connected with abusive MEWAs created by unscrupulous promoters who sell the promise of inexpensive health benefit insurance, but default on their obligations. Particular emphasis has been put on identifying ongoing abusive and fraudulent MEWAs, and working to shut down such operations.
Recent Civil Litigation Cases
W.I.N. Association (WIN) - The Department filed a complaint on February 22, 2011 against the W.I.N. Association, Michael Ray Bianchi, President, and the W.I.N. Association Health Plan for the failure to make payments on health care claims, excessive fees, and the non-disclosure of fees to the employers. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, Houston Division. The Department's suit alleged that Michael Bianchi withdrew funds from the Plan with no justification that such expenditures were associated with reasonable and necessary expenses for the Plan's administration and management. The suit also alleged that Bianchi and W.I.N. mismanaged Plan assets causing the Plan to incur unpaid health claims, failed to prudently operate the Plan, and failed to properly segregate Plan assets and corporate funds. The Department's investigation found at least $198,000 in unpaid claims to be outstanding.
On March 31, 2011, the Department obtained a Consent Judgment and Order against W.I.N. Association, LLC, Bianchi, and the W.I.N. Association Health Plan. The Consent Judgment and Order confirmed that the defendants violated ERISA from April 2006 through April 2008, when they failed to pay approximately $341,215 in health care claims and withdrew approximately $238,383 without authorization from the Plan. Additionally, the Consent Judgment and Order permanently enjoined the defendants from violating ERISA or from acting as fiduciaries, and authorized the Secretary to bring a collection action for the Plan losses of $579,597 if defendants are found to have assets to effect restitution.
Castleton Group Health Plan - On January 4, 2010 the Department filed a District Court action against the Castleton Group, as well as Suzanne Clifton, the Castleton Group's owner and President, for failure to fund accounts maintained for the purpose of paying promised benefits. The Department filed a corresponding Bankruptcy Adversary Proceeding against Suzanne Clifton on January 5, 2010. The Department filed its action in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina.
The Castleton Group ceased operations and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in December 2007. Suzanne Clifton subsequently filed for personal bankruptcy. The Department's suit alleged that the Castleton Group had failed to forward employee and employer contributions to the third party administrator, thereby underfunding benefits owed to participants. The amount not remitted to the Plan was estimated to be at least $247,000.
The Department filed a Consent Judgment that was approved by the District Court on January 19, 2011, and the remaining settlement actions were taken, including: payment of insurance proceeds, distribution of $45,000 to the 401(k) Plan in the Castleton Group bankruptcy and subsequent reduction of the Plan's Proof of Claim; payment of $84,000 to the 401(k) Plan Special Counsel and subsequent withdrawal of application for fees; withdrawal of the 401(k) Plan Successor Trustee's Proof of Claim in the Clifton bankruptcy; recognition of a priority claim of $66,705 on behalf of the Health Plan in the Castleton Group bankruptcy; and forwarding of the insurance proceeds to an independent fiduciary, in the amount of $265,000 for deposit and distribution.
Mutual Employees Benefit Trust - The U.S. Department of Labor obtained a final consent order in 2010 that permanently bars Leonard Slutsky and Sharlene Slutsky from control over or serving in positions of responsibility to employee benefit plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, except as outlined in the court order.
The defendants were sued by the department in 2001 for allegedly engaging in numerous violations of ERISA with regard to the Huntington, N.Y-based Mutual Employees Benefit Trust. MEBT was a multiple employer welfare arrangement that provided health and other welfare benefits to 1,912 participants in the Long Island and New York City areas.
Leonard Slutsky allegedly acted as a fiduciary to the MEBT plan. His wife, Sharlene Slutsky, was the owner and president of MEBT's third party administrator. The Department's lawsuit alleged that they and other MEBT trustees diverted MEBT's assets to sham labor unions and corporations. The trustees were ordered to make restitution under a separate consent judgment.
The final consent order, entered in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, also prohibits the Slutskys from providing or rendering to any employee benefit plan services of any kind, except in very limited circumstances, and from selling, leasing or otherwise transferring for a fee any interest in any property to any employee benefit plan.
Contractors and Merchants Association (CMA) and Small and Independent Business Associates, Inc. (SIBA) � The Department sued a purported employer association, a health fund trustee, and the fund's consultant over alleged imprudent management of the Manufacturing and Industrial Workers Benefit Fund (MIWU) of Bryan, Texas. The defendants' actions allegedly resulted in more than $3.4 million in unpaid health claims affecting participants in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Texas and other states.
According to the lawsuit, Raymond Palombo, Mitchel Coneley, Leonard Steinberg, Contractors and Merchants Association, and the Small and Independent Business Associates Inc. (SIBA) violated ERISA by causing the insolvency of the MIWU health fund and by their failure to hold the fund assets in trust. The defendants permitted Palombo to transfer the health claim liabilities of members of his alleged sham employer association, CMA, to the MIWU fund. Palombo allegedly diverted plan assets to benefit him, the defendants and others, improperly set contribution rates for 880 participants of CMA, enrolled ineligible individuals in the health fund, and failed to properly fund the plan.
The MIWU health fund became financially insolvent in 2005 due to the transfer of CMA members to the fund. At the time of the improper actions, Palombo was the president and sole shareholder of CMA, and Steinberg was the president of SIBA and provided consulting services to the MIWU health fund through SIBA. Coneley was the fund's trustee.
The amended complaint, filed July 2, 2008 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in Atlanta, sought to have the defendants restore to the fund all losses with interest, undo all prohibited transactions, offset any claims for benefits against the MIWU fund, and permanently bar the defendants from serving in a fiduciary capacity to any ERISA-covered plan in the future. In related Department litigation, the court appointed an independent fiduciary to pay health claims of affected participants and beneficiaries and to manage the more than $1.9 million in fund assets recovered by the Department and collected by the independent fiduciary as of May 2008.
The Department's Motion for Default Judgment was granted by the Court against four of five defendants. The June 9, 2009 Judgment enjoined the defendants from serving as fiduciaries or service providers, or having control over the assets of any ERISA covered employee welfare benefit plan. The Court concluded that defendants CMA, Coneley, Steinberg, and SIBA had breached their fiduciary duties under ERISA when the defendants failed to establish a reserve or a funding policy to ensure that the MIWU Fund could meet its financial obligations, neglected to perform any underwriting activities and failed to discharge their duties under the terms and requirements of the documents and instruments establishing the MIWU Fund. The defendants were further found to have engaged in self-dealing for their part in assisting Palombo in diverting MIWU Fund assets to CMA and others, and for assisting in schemes to allow the enrollment of ineligible participants, all of which personally benefited Palombo. The Court also found that Steinberg, as the consultant to the MIWU Fund, was a knowing participant who enabled Coneley to breach his fiduciary duties by assisting Coneley with transferring 880 participants into the MIWU Fund with unpaid health claims that could not be financially supported by the Fund. The motion against Palombo was initially dismissed without prejudice due to his Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing. The Department's motion that the ERISA claims be exempt from the Palombo bankruptcy stay was granted, however, on July 15, 2009, allowing the civil prosecution of Palombo to proceed.
On October 8, 2009, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia permanently enjoined Palombo from serving directly or indirectly as a fiduciary or service provider to ERISA covered plans. The District Court found that Palombo was liable for multiple violations of ERISA for his part in the MIWU fund's insolvency. Palombo must post a copy of the District Court Order on his website. The Order binds anyone who has notice of it and works in concert with Palombo. On October 26, 2009, the District Court granted the Secretary's Motion for Entry of Judgment Awarding Monetary Relief in the amount of $2.9 million.
On December 8, 2008, the Department filed an adversary complaint against Palombo's filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, to determine the non-dischargeability of any monetary judgment that the District Court might award against Palombo. On December 29, 2010, the Bankruptcy Court ruled in favor of both of the Department's two motions: 1) that Palombo was a functional fiduciary with respect to the assets of the Manufacturing and Industrial Workers Benefit Fund (MIWU Fund); and had breached his fiduciary duties committing an act of defalcation, and 2) the issues decided in an earlier District Court action (default judgment) were precluded from being re-litigated in the Bankruptcy Court. As a result of the ruling on the first motion, Palombo's request in bankruptcy to discharge his debt of $2,958,681 for unpaid health claims to the MIWU Fund was denied.
On March 23, 2011, the Bankruptcy Court issued an order approving the Department's Motion for Summary Judgment. The Bankruptcy Court held that issues decided in the second Default Judgment were precluded from being re-litigated in the Bankruptcy Court action, that the District Court's findings supported a finding of defalcation against Palombo, and that Palombo was barred from re-litigating facts and issues already adjudicated. As a result, the Bankruptcy Court refused to discharge Palombo's $2,958,681 debt to the MIWU Fund.
Recent Criminal Prosecutions of Corrupt MEWA Operators
United States v. Dwayne Samuels � On January 25, 2013, Dwayne Samuels was sentenced in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York to three years in prison, to be followed by three years' probation, and was ordered to make restitution of $250,000. In May 2012, Samuels had entered a guilty plea to one count of embezzlement in connection with a health care benefit program (18 U.S.C. � 669) and one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud (18 U.S.C. � 1347).
Dwayne Samuels had been the president of Vanguard Asset Group, Inc., a health care benefit program that provided medical benefits to individuals and employee health plans. Beginning in 2001, Samuels embezzled premium payments that client plans paid to Vanguard. He also falsely represented to several client plans that Vanguard had availed itself of stop-loss insurance to cover large medical claims. Samuels was indicted in 2005 on the health fraud issues and was rearrested in 2011 on mortgage fraud charges.
The case was investigated by the EBSA New York Regional Office and the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Labor. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York.
United States v. Gerald Rising, Jr. � On March 30, 2012, Gerald Rising, Jr. of Centennial, Colorado was sentenced in the United States District Court of Colorado to 66 months in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution totaling $3,500,000 to the victims of his crimes. The sentence followed Rising's guilty plea entered in October 2011 to several counts of mail fraud, embezzling plan funds, and money laundering.
The owner and operator of Rural Health Plans Initiative Administration Company (RHPI), Rising defrauded individuals, companies, and entities throughout the country of medical benefits purchased by self-funded health benefit plans. Rising promoted, sold, and administered the packaged medical plans to various private clients, including ERISA-covered health plans. As part of his scheme, Rising told his clients that he kept the majority of their plan contributions in a trust account to pay claims and to purchase stop-loss insurance. The stop-loss coverage, purportedly provided by large insurers such as Lloyd's of London and AIG, was said to cover any claims that exceeded $25,000. In fact, the stop-loss policies, while they existed, did not activate until claims reached approximately $125,000.
Rising also owned RHPI Captive Insurance Company, LTD (RHPIC), an off-shore corporation incorporated in Anguilla, British West Indies, that held custody over the residual fund contributions after the deduction of administrative fees from the premiums paid by employers. In 2008 and 2009, Rising increased his salary in order to siphon monies held by RHPIC. Starting in 2009, he kited checks between different bank accounts to create a false impression about financial health of his businesses. In 2010, Rising directed RHPI and RHPIC employees falsely to represent to plan beneficiaries and employers that health care claims were paid when they knew that was not the case. In addition, Rising directed his employees to send out falsified plan account balance sheets. Finally, in late 2010, Rising had them submit falsified invoices to clients indicating debts owed to RHPIC for health care claims.
EBSA's investigation was conducted by the Kansas City Regional Office and the IRS Criminal Investigation Division. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney's Office, District of Colorado.
United States v. William Madison Worthy � On March 22, 2012 William Madison Worthy was sentenced to 87 months imprisonment and 3 years' supervised release. Worthy had pleaded guilty in the United States District Court, District of South Carolina, Spartanburg Division to one count of a crime affecting the business of insurance in interstate commerce. Worthy diverted approximately $972,000 in insurance premiums, which caused the insurance plan to fail. His embezzlement, and the plan's consequent failure, left behind approximately $1.7 million in unpaid medical claims. As part of his plea agreement, Worthy agreed to make restitution for the insurance claims.
Worthy has been involved in various aspects of the insurance industry for years. Among his activities, he owned a third party administrator serving self-insured health insurance plans. Among his firm's clients was an entity named the "Church Plan," so-called because a majority of its members were employed by local churches. Some private employers that were not religiously-affiliated also participated in the Church Plan, making it subject to ERISA and therefore to oversight by EBSA.
The investigation was conducted by EBSA's Atlanta Regional Office and the FBI. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney's Office, District of South Carolina.
United States v. Sean Alfortish and Mona Romero � On February 2, 2012 Sean Alfortish, former president of the Louisiana Horsemen's Benevolent & Protective Association (LHBPA), was sentenced to 46 months imprisonment and 3 years probation and Mona Romero, the LHBPA's former executive director was sentenced to thirteen months imprisonment and 3 years' probation after earlier pleading guilty separately to charges arising from their conspiracy to falsify the 2008 executive elections of the LHBPA. Romero and Alfortish had filed guilty pleas in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, on July 11 and August 31, 2011, respectively. Romero pleaded guilty to several counts of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, and fraud involving personal identification documents. In his plea agreement, Alfortish similarly acknowledged charges of conspiracy to perpetrate mail, wire, and identification fraud. In addition, he admitted to conspiring to carry out fraud against the LHBPA's health care plan.
The HBPA is the official representative of horsemen of Louisiana. Under Louisiana law, commercial horse racing interests must make payments to the HBPA for the express purpose of providing medical and hospital benefits of jockeys and other personnel active in the industry. The state law dictated that no more than 30% of the funds paid for medical coverage could be used for administrative costs. Alfortish and Romero worked to keep administrative expenses below the 30% cap, but continued to charge the full percentage, applying the secret surplus to pay personal expenses and general expenses of the HBPA. Examples of such impermissible expenses included spa treatments, personal attire such as evening gowns, shoes, and diamond cufflinks, foreign travel, political consultants, travel to attend a fundraiser and the inauguration ceremony of a public official in California. In addition, the defendants paid to rig the 2008 election of HBPA officers out of the administrative account. Their theft of plan assets left the HBPA owing the Medical Benefit Trust over $800,000 in unpaid medical claims.
EBSA's Dallas Regional Office and the U.S. Postal Service Postal Inspector's Office together conducted the criminal investigation. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana.
United States v. Michael L. Millman � On March 24, 2011, Michael L. Millman was sentenced by the U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut in New Haven to 63 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution of over $975,000 for stealing from a multiple employer welfare arrangement. Millman had pleaded guilty in April 2010 to embezzlement from an employee benefit plan of more than $1 million, wire fraud, and bank fraud.
Millman had owned and managed the Nutmeg Benefit Group, LLC and the Nutmeg Welfare Benefit Plan and Trust. The Trust was a vehicle through which companies could provide their employees with life insurance and disability benefits. Millman stole from the Trust by failing to send insurance premiums to the appropriate insurance carrier, by taking loans from the value of participants' insurance policies and by diverting proceeds from policies that a plan participant had directed Millman to surrender and transfer to another insurance company. He also defrauded Essex Savings Bank, the former trustee of the Trust.
The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut. It was investigated jointly by the Boston Regional Office and DOL Office of Inspector General.
United States v. Jonathan Hogge � On March 29, 2011, Jonathan Hogge, former owner of My Smart Benefits (MSB), was sentenced in Federal District Court in the Northern District of Indiana to 84 months in prison and two years of supervised release. The court ordered restitution of $254,425 to be paid to the victims with substantiated unpaid dental claims. Hogge had previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit theft or embezzlement from an employee benefit plan; nine counts of mail fraud, and one count of wire fraud.
Jonathan Hogge and Amy Wadas Hogge had co-owned MSB, a third party administrator serving self-funded direct reimbursement dental plans throughout the United States since February 2000. Jack Lait was the Vice President of Operation for MSB. Hogge closed MSB's doors in October 2003 after the company ran out of funds to pay claims and its employees' salaries. Hogge and Lait, along with other principals of MSB not charged, misrepresented to various insurance agents and employers that the direct reimbursement dental plan had a stop-loss component.
The case was a joint investigation of EBSA's Chicago Regional Office and the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Labor. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney's Office, Northern District of Indiana.
This fact sheet has been developed by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration, Washington, DC 20210. It will be made available in alternate formats upon request: Voice phone: 202-693-8664; TTY: 202-501-3911. In addition, the information in this fact sheet constitutes a small entity compliance guide for purposes of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996.

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I am working an algorithm which is supposed to align a pair of images. The motion model, which describes the pose $p$ of an image (with respect to the second) in 3D space, is purely rotational.
Theory to my question:
According to the Rodrigues' formula for rotation matrices, the matrix exponential $R(p)=e^{\hat{p}}$ for a vector $p=(p_x,p_y,p_z)^T\in\mathbb{R}^3$ is given by $$ \begin{align} R(p)&=e^{\hat{p}}=I + \frac{\hat{p}}{||p||} \sin(||p||) + \frac{\hat{p}^2}{||p||^2} (1-\cos{\theta}) \end{align} $$ where $||p||=\sqrt{p_x^2+p_y^2+p_z^2}$ and $$ \begin{align} \hat{p} &= \begin{bmatrix} 0 & -p_z & p_y \\ p_z & 0 & -p_x \\ -p_y & p_x & 0 \end{bmatrix} \end{align}. $$
Summing up the elements of $R(p)$ yields $$ \begin{align} R(p) = \begin{bmatrix} 1-(p_y^2+p_z^2)s & -p_z r+p_xp_y s & p_y r+p_xp_z s \\ p_z r+p_xp_y s & 1-(p_x^2+p_z^2)s & -p_x r+p_yp_z s \\ -p_z r+p_xp_z s & p_x r+p_yp_z s & 1-(p_x^2+p_y^2)s \end{bmatrix} \end{align} $$ where $r=\frac{\sin(||p||)}{||p||}$ and $s=\frac{(1-\cos(||p||))}{||p||^2}$ were introduced for clarity.
Now, let $R^s(p)\in\mathbb{R}^{9\times 1}$ be the stacked version of $R(p)$, i.e. all columns are stacked into one column and let $R^s_i(p)$ denote the $i$-th element of $R^s(p)$ where $1\leq i \leq 9$.
The Jacobian matrix $J_{R}\in\mathbb{R}^{9\times 3}$ with respect to vector $p$ is then given by $$ \begin{align} J_{R}&=\frac{\partial R^s}{\partial p} \\\\ &= \begin{bmatrix} \frac{\partial R^s_1}{\partial p_x} & \frac{\partial R^s_1}{\partial p_y} & \frac{\partial R^s_1}{\partial p_z} \\\\ \vdots & \vdots & \vdots \\\\ \frac{\partial R^s_9}{\partial p_x} & \frac{\partial R^s_9}{\partial p_y} & \frac{\partial R^s_9}{\partial p_z} \end{bmatrix} \end{align} $$
The first element of $J_R$ can then be expressed as $$ \begin{align} \frac{\partial R^s_1}{\partial p_x} &=\frac{\partial}{\partial p_x} \Bigl(1-(p_y^2+p_z^2)\frac{(1-\cos(||p||))}{||p||^2}\Bigr) \\\\ &=-\Bigl[(p_y^2+p_z^2)\frac{\sin(||p||) p_x ||p|| - (1-\cos(||p||) 2 p_x)}{||p||^4}\Bigr] \end{align} $$ the second one as $$ \begin{align} \frac{\partial R^s_1}{\partial p_y} &=\frac{\partial}{\partial p_y} \Bigl(1-(p_y^2+p_z^2)\frac{(1-\cos(||p||))}{||p||^2}\Bigr) \\\\ &=-\Bigl[2p_y\frac{1-\cos(||p||)}{||p||^2}+(p_y^2p_z^2)\frac{\sin(||p||) p_y ||p|| - (1-\cos(||p||) 2 p_y)}{||p||^4}\Bigr] \end{align} $$ and the third element of the first rowas $$ \begin{align} \frac{\partial R^s_1}{\partial p_z} &=\frac{\partial}{\partial p_z} \Bigl(1-(p_y^2+p_z^2)\frac{(1-\cos(||p||))}{||p||^2}\Bigr) \\\\ &=-\Bigl[2p_z\frac{1-\cos(||p||)}{||p||^2}+(p_y^2p_z^2)\frac{\sin(||p||) p_z ||p|| - (1-\cos(||p||) 2 p_z)}{||p||^4}\Bigr] \end{align} $$
Already a big thanks for reading this far ;-)
My question: Is the derivation of these first 3 elements of $J_R$ mathematically correct? If I did something wrong, can you spot the error(s) and possibly help me correct it(/them)?
Once I have got everything straight, I will post the complete Jacobian matrix as the answer to this question. So anyone confronted with the same problem can double-check his own results ...
The reason I need this Jacobian:
The pose $p$ of an image in the application mentioned above can be described by an unit rotation axis and an angle (in radian). Alternatively, the unit axis can be scaled according to the rotation angle, which is what I am using. To do the exponential mapping from $\mathbb{R}^3$ to SO(3) I use the Rodrigues' formula (which is the standard method, I think).
The algorithm "slides" down the gradient of an error function, which is governed by the pose $p$, i.e. $$E(p)=\sum_i(I_1(x'(x_i;p))-I_0(x_i))^2$$ where $x'(\cdot)$ is the function that maps pixels from one image space to the other image space with respect to the current pose $p$.
In order to compute the gradient of $E(p)$ I will have to compute the gradient of the rotation matrices, which leads to my actual problem.


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Formal choreography (George Balanchine) can have a greater impact than any literal work. Form has its own value. Any modernist can tell you that.
While I agree that form has (or can have) its own value, I reject the notion that "formal choreography can have a greater impact than any literal work." I think this is as off the mark as its opposite, that any work without content was a divertissement and unworthy of notice.
It's a popular, perhaps even dominant notion in critic/aesthetic circles, though, and has been for several decades now. At the Ashton conference a few years ago, I was told (I didn't go) that one of the younger panelists asked one of the oldsters, who'd been watching the Royal since the late 1930s, "Tell me, when was it that you realized abstract ballet was superior to narrative ballet?" She was still sputtering in protest a month later.
What do you think about this? Is abstract superior to narrative? Is narrative superior to abstract? Or is something superior to something else? Or not superior at all? Or whatever.


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The Saddleback College ESL faculty is made up of 4 full-time faculty members, 2 emeritus faculty, and many part-time faculty members. All our instructors are here to help our students learn English, so please feel free to contact us!
Full-Time Faculty
Janet Bagwell received her BS from Duquesne University, a teaching credential from University of Pittsburgh, and her MS in Education with a concentration in Reading and Language Arts as well as a Reading Specialist Credential from California State University, Fullerton. She continued her education at UCI where she received a certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language. In addition to teaching at Saddleback, Janet has been a lecturer at California State University, Fullerton where she taught undergraduate and graduate reading classes.
Janet has had the opportunity to work with ESL students as an instructor in the Saddleback Reading Lab and is excited to join the ESL Department and have the opportunity to work with ESL students in the classroom. She thoroughly enjoys meeting students from many cultures and helping them to learn English in order to reach their goals. When she's not in the classroom or Reading Lab, Janet spends her time reading, engaging in outdoor activities, and playing with her five grandchildren.
Carol Bander has been teaching German and ESL at Saddleback College since 1977. As her parents were refugees and she grew up bilingually, she brings an extra layer of understanding to her students' situation. She graduated with a B.A. in German from Queens College, City University of New York (Phi Beta Kappa) and with an M.A. and Ph.D. in German from the University of Southern California. She also received her ESL Certificate and secondary credential from the University of California at Irvine. She has been very involved with CATESOL, having served as President, Past President, President-elect, Secretary and the inaugural Chapter Council Chair at the state level. She continues to serve on conference committees and at the local chapter level. She has over 50 publications in the CATESOL News on ESL related issues. She loves teaching grammar and pronunciation and has served on and off as Department Coordinator and Chair. Her interests include reading, movies, theater, cooking (with a Cordon Bleu degree), but most of all, she is a passionate traveler having visited 100 countries.
Stevie has been teaching in the California community college system for eighteen years and has an MA in Linguistics with an ESL option and a BS degree in Criminology with a Law Enforcement option both from Fresno State University. For seventeen years, she served at Fresno City College as an ESL/Linguistics professor and as Coordinator of Academic Computing. She has taught a wide array of ESL, VESL, and Linguistics courses in both the face-to-face and online venues. Her specialty is developing vocational and academic ESL courses that co-articulate with other disciplines across campus. Stevie has presented numerous sessions on integrating technology into the college curriculum at conferences such as CATESOL, TechEd, the Monterey Summer Technology Institute, @One, and the Universal Design for Learning. She loves to incorporate the use of technology in her teaching to create a lively, interesting, and interactive learning environment for her students. She is a firm believer in adult learning principles where students help create their own learning opportunities and share them with other classmates. She believes humor and fun are necessary parts of these learning opportunities.
Stevie has traveled to foreign countries such as Korea, Japan, Mexico, and Canada. She is bilingual in English and American Sign Language and appreciates when her students try to teach her new words from their first language. Besides traveling, Stevie likes to go boogie boarding, hiking, and biking with her family. She is an avid animal lover and vegetarian, and when time allows, she likes to work with animal rescue agencies.
Chin Lam has a M.A. in Applied Linguistics and TESL and a B.A. in Linguistics and Anthropology, both from UCLA. She has been an ESL instructor since 2001, and began teaching at Saddleback College in 2009. Before coming to Saddleback, she was an ESL instructor at UCI Extension, UCLA Extension, and various community colleges. Chin remains active in the field of ESL by attending and presenting at conferences. She has been a member of TESOL and CATESOL for many years. Chin understands how important ESL classes are to her students, especially since her family were first generation immigrants to this country. Chin enjoys learning languages and speaks a few dialects of Chinese and some Vietnamese and Spanish. In her free time, Chin enjoys seeing the world, eating food from different cultures, and trying to exercise.
Roni Lebauer has an M.A. in TESL from the University of Hawaii and a B.A. in Applied Linguistics from Queens College of the City University of New York. Her 30+ years in the profession have given her a range of experiences. This has included teaching ESL in the U.S., teaching EFL abroad, training teachers in the U.S. and abroad, presenting at conferences, and writing textbooks. She has been at Saddleback College since 1990. She also spent 8 years developing and teaching ESL at UC Irvine. Way back when, she spent almost 2 years teaching at the University of Kabul in Afghanistan. She has trained teachers in a number of places: at UC Irvine, in American Samoa, in Micronesia, in Brazil, in Poland, and in Japan. She is also the author of 6 different ESL textbooks.
Roni Lebauer thoroughly enjoys teaching. It was her curiosity about travel and other cultures that initially got her interested in teaching ESL, and she feels lucky to have an opportunity to learn from her students as well as teach them. She feels that one of the most important tasks of an ESL teacher is to create an environment in the classroom where everyone feels respected and motivated and comfortable. She wants each student to feel that time in her class is time well-spent, personally and academically. During her free time, Roni explores a number of interests, such as, hiking, painting, and going to art, music, and theatre events. And, of course, as would be expected of an ESL teacher, she loves to travel and read…. and eat great food from different traditions!
Emeritus Faculty
Emeritus faculty are professors who were full-time faculty at Saddleback College but have retired from full-time work. Many emeritus faculty still teach part-time here at Saddleback.
Cheryl Altman joined Saddleback College in August of 1989. As a faculty member her responsibilities have included teaching Reading and English as a Second Language; Chair of the Reading Department; Coordinator of the Reading Lab; Coordinator of Title III Grant, Activity I; Coordinator of Saddleback's Basic Skills Initiative; Facilitator for SLOs (Student Learning Outcomes); Academic Senator; former member of the State Academic Senate's Committee on Basic Skills. Professor Altman retired from full-time teaching but continues to teach part-time at Saddleback College. Prior to teaching full-time at Saddleback College, Professor Altman was an Associate Professor at Saddleback College, Santa Ana College and Harper Rainey College in Illinois. In her leisure time she enjoys traveling, gardening, hiking, watching old movies, and reading, reading, reading.
Kathleen Smith has been teaching at Saddleback College since 1979 and has served the ESL Department in a variety of different capacities including Department Chair. She has an M.A. in TESL from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous experience includes teaching ESL to Indo-Chinese Refugees, EFL to Italian students in Italy, and teaching for Santa Ana Unified School District, Laguna Hills and UCI Extension. She is a member of CATESOL and TESOL and has given presentations on various aspects of teaching ESL at CATESOL, TESOL and MEXTESL in Puebla and Ensenada, Mexico. She has lived abroad and has a basic ability in Spanish, French and some Italian.
Professor Smith retired from full-time teaching, but continues to teach part-time at Saddleback College. She loves teaching and especially enjoys the opportunity to learn from her students about their different cultures while helping them to develop the language skills they need. She regards teaching ESL students as a great privilege and wants her students to feel respected and comfortable in her classroom. During her free time, she enjoys traveling the world, exploring new cultures and languages, taking photographs, writing and discovering new literature.
Part-Time Faculty
Helen Alexander loves learning, and has B.A.s in English Language and Literature and French, her Master's of Education with a concentration in TESOL from Cal State Fullerton, and a Postsecondary Reading and Learning Certificate, which makes her a specialist in the reading and study skills needs of adults and college students.
Helen has taught a variety of classes to both native and non-native speakers at the post-secondary level. She has also worked as an academic coach to graduate students, helping them build and refine reading, writing, and study skills through workshops and one-to-one appointments.
Helen specializes in teaching critical thinking to both native and non-native speakers, and she is very active in professional organizations, having presented on her ESL work at the statewide CATESOL conference held in Long Beach, California, as well as on her developmental skills work at the College Reading and Learning Association's national conference in San Diego.
My name is Robert Betts, and I have been teaching ESL here at Saddleback College since 1997. I am originally from Los Angeles, but I moved to Orange County in 1990. I have been an ESL teacher since 1989. I studied English Literature at UC Santa Barbara (BA) and then Teaching ESL at CSU Fullerton (MS). Spanish is my second language, and I lived in Mexico for one year to study the language and culture. I love my job because teaching is such a rewarding occupation! See you in class!
Anhvy Do completed her B.A. at U.C. Riverside and her M.A. at Cal State University, Fullerton. She has taught English and ESL since 1996, teaching various levels. In her free time, she loves traveling and has visited Italy, Scotland, England, Spain, France, Germany, Hawaii, and Thailand. Although going abroad is wonderful, she makes sure to take yearly trips up California's coast, stopping in Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur, and San Francisco.
Ricia grew up in New York City, loving the diversity and excitement of a great multicultural society. She received degrees in history, education, and TESOL at SUNY, Hunter College, and U.C.I., and studied French in Paris, Chinese language and history at the University of Washington, and Spanish at various educational institutions around the country. After getting her master's degree, she worked as a teacher and educational consultant in New York City, and later as a research assistant and editor at Stanford University. On moving to Orange County in 1984, she experienced the 'culture shock' of living in a much less culturally diverse setting, and shortly afterward embarked on a now long career teaching wonderful students from around the world. She considers herself blessed to be teaching and learning from her students. Ricia continues her interests in art, yoga and constant learning and lives in Laguna Beach with her charming cat Bodhi.
Teri received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, and her Master of Science degree in Education, with a specialization in Reading from California State University, Fullerton. After twelve years of teaching elementary school, she began working at Saddleback College in the Reading Lab (1999). She especially enjoyed helping second language learners improve their literacy skills in English, so she went back to school, and earned a certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) from the University of California, Irvine.
Teri enjoys teaching ESL students because she learns so much from their stories and experiences. She admires their determination and desire to study the English language. Teri is passionate about the creative arts, especially the written word, and loves sharing this passion with her students. Outside of the classroom, she enjoys hiking, gardening, cooking, and yoga. Teri is very happy and proud to be part of the Reading and ESL departments at Saddleback College.
Annie Gilbert has a M.A. in Second Language Education from McGill University in Canada, a B.A. in French Teaching and a TESL Certificate. Since the beginning of her career in 1996, she has taught ESL, TEFL or French in Canada, Argentina, Thailand, Vietnam and Laos. She currently teaches ESL at the School of Continuing Education at Cypress College and at UCI Extension in the summer. As a naturalized U.S. citizen, she understands the challenges that immigrants face and she strives to create lessons based on the goals and needs of her students. She received the School of Continuing Education Teacher of the Year Award in 2008 and was nominated Orange County College Teacher of the Year in 2009. When she is not teaching, she spends her time with her husband and young daughter. Her hobbies are yoga, learning new technologies, traveling and improving her Spanish.
Eva Hodjera was born in Munich, Germany, of Western European parents. She got her MA in German Language and Literature from the University of Southern California and her Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from the University of California at Irvine. Her love of travel and curiosity about other cultures have taken her to many parts of the globe including China, Southeast Asia, South America, Europe, and India. She lived and taught English in Switzerland for many years before returning to the States and teaching at Saddleback College, where she has been since 1992. She finds her work in this field extremely rewarding especially because she likes connecting students with their environment and community, and also because it connects her with the world of her students. In her free time, she hikes, travels, reads, and meditates.
After receiving her M.A. in English from California State University, Fullerton, (Dianne) Janice Jensen began teaching freshman English and vocational reading. At that time, there was a significant influx of immigrant students to California and she began teaching ESL in the Refugee Project at Santa Ana College and ESL at Saddleback College. She has taught at all levels but she especially enjoys the Advanced Academic Reading and Writing classes. She has also been the editor of the International Voice, an ESL student publication, for seven issues. She is excited about the next phase of the International Voice which will be on line. Writers - stay tuned.
Diane Lavigne-Barlow has an MS in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from CSUF. She has taught ESL at UCI and Concordia University, as well as Saddleback College. She also studied literature and linguistics, and completed the master's degree coursework in linguistics at Laval University, where she taught several classes. She has always been fascinated by other cultures and languages. She initially started teaching French at Saddleback College, but decided to get an additional degree to teach ESL because she felt that her personal experience learning the English language could serve as an inspiration for her students. She loves teaching language and is grateful to have the opportunity to get to know the many wonderful students she meets in her classes. She loves humor, reading, cooking and eating, and she spends most weekends sailing and enjoying nature.
With degrees in English and History, Certificates in Creative Writing and a partial psych, I began teaching in 1973-4 at the 6th grade level, but weak in New math, science, music, I quickly realized I could not do the students justice and moved on to Adult Ed. teaching Creative Writing. The Adult Ed supervisor asked me to develop a course on something new to the U.S.: Hospice, so I did. Golden West College invited me to lecture medical personnel on Death and Dying. In 1978, Saddleback hired me to help develop under Mike Merrifield an innovative tutorial program - Learning Assistance Program. Mike did the fancy footwork; I did the tutoring and the grunt work. Mike wanted summer classes for kids - I developed College for Kids; Mike wanted a SAT tutorial, so I did that. A few years later, the angels smiled, again, and Carol Bander brought me into the English as a Second Language Department.
Katherine Sleep got her MA in ESL from the University of Hawaii and her BA in Linguistics and Italian from the University of New Hampshire. As a university student, she studied several languages and also spent time working in Europe and completing a translation degree in Florence, Italy. Now she enjoys showing ESL students how the English language works so that they can gain the language skills they need to reach their goals. In her free time, she has fun experimenting in her garden or enjoying the beauty of Orange County beaches and trails.


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I saw him in a magazine advertisement.
I don't know what happened to corps boy Ricardo Torres (I didn't care much for him) who looked like he was being given a shot at solo parts. He disappeared fast and no longer dances I think. I have seen pictures of him on Facebook where he looks very pumped up like a bodybuilder - not a ballet dancer physique.Eric Underwood to the Royal Ballet in 2006 -- now a soloist
Some like Jesus Pastor (who was only good in modern choreography) didn't turn out the way ABT wanted and weren't reengaged.
Any others?
Bo Busby to Boston Ballet in 2006 -- corps
Alejandro Piris-Nino to Hubbard Street Dance in Chicago -- no longer on their roster
Retaining Underwood and/or Piris-Nino wouldn't have helped ABT in the long run. Underwood is a proto-Ed Watson who specializes in modern pieces at the Royal, and Piris-Nino went off to dance in an explicitly modern company.Hammoudi, for sure, is on the fast track to soloist. I thought Hoven was as well but his rise appears to have stalled. Matthews appears to have plateaued since he became a soloist.
Alexandre Hammoudi is being given major opportunities this season. Neither Blaine Hoven nor Jared Matthews have quite developed excitingly though Hoven looks better this season - Matthews has a tendency to be bland.
As for internal promotions - Hammoudi, Philips for sure.
Would like to see McKenzie utilize G. Davis, Delong and Forster more.
Matt Golding - to Corella Ballet (first soloist) 2008, then Het National Ballet (I think principal now?)2010


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The road to Grand Junction, Colo., and the NJCAA Division I World Series begins today for the Crowder Roughriders as they begin postseason play in the NJCAA Region 16 Tournament at Wilson-Rozier Field in Farmington, Mo.
The No. 1 seed and ranked No. 6 nationally at 43-11 overall, the Roughriders, who went 25-3 in the region this season, begin play against the eight seed in St. Charles Community College today at 4 p.m. A win will move the Roughriders on to face the winner of Mineral Area (4) and St. Louis Community College (5) at 4 p.m. Thursday.
If they make it through their side of the bracket unscathed, the Roughriders will be watching the other side where Jefferson College (2) and Maple Woods (3) could square off against one-another in the second-round with wins.
Assuming the Roughriders make it to the title game, things could shake out nicely for them in the double-elimination tournament.
The winner of the tournament will advance to the South Central District to face the Region 2 winner. The Region 2 winner will host the South Central District title game with the winner advancing to the World Series in Grand Junction.
The Roughriders are vying for their first return trip since last making it there in 2010.
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Area kids are in the midst of a campout at Emmanuel United Methodist Church this week. Members of the church are providing "God's Backyard Bible Camp" for area kids ages preschool to fifth grade to learn about Jesus and enjoy outdoor themed activities.
The camp began Monday, June 17 with the evening's theme set as "serving family." The kids start off with supper followed by 15-minute stations throughout the church, enjoying arts and crafts, music, recreation and a lesson before coming back together for a closing program. The camp has been well attended thus far and will continue through Friday, June 21.
"We've had a steady flow of kids each night," said Tracy Orr, who is the director of this year's summer camp. "We have crafts coordinated each night with a story and the whole service Sunday morning will be dedicated to the kids from the camp."
One of the most popular spots during the camp was the arts and crafts station. The first evening, kids made fireflies out of water bottles with the second evening providing materials for kids to make owl bags with popcorn to share with friends. The bags went along with Tuesday evening's theme, "serving friends."
The lanterns were Wednesday night's project and coincided with the "serving neighbors" theme. Thursday evening, the camp will "serve the community" and the craft will be a birdfeeder. The final night of activities will be centered on "serving Jesus" and kids will make I Spy water bottles.
Campers also learn coordinated music that ties in with "Gods Backyard Bible Camp." In addition to the songs, they learn dance moves to complement the words and will perform the numbers at the closing program in front of the church congregation at 10 a.m. Sunday, June 23.
Outdoor activities get the kids moving and numerous displays, including pop-up tents fill the halls at Emmanuel United Methodist to signify the theme of the week. Each night, the kids return to the sanctuary for a closing song and a reminder of their time at the camp.
More than 30 volunteers from the church have stepped up to assist with everything from preparing the meal to leading the songs to conducting the outdoor recreation activities. Emmanuel United Methodist Church, located at the corner of Third and Sycamore Streets in Carmi.
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Governor of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA) Amr Al-Dabbagh stressed the strength of the Kingdom's economy and its resilience in the face of the global financial crisis during an address in Washington today.
Speaking at a luncheon hosted in his honor by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Al-Dabbagh noted that the establishment of highly advanced industrial cities in the Kingdom has laid the foundation for unprecedented investment opportunities in the energy, transport, industry, information, facilities and services sectors.
Al-Dabbagh observed that Saudi Arabia now ranks 18th in terms of its volume of foreign investment – an amount that has doubled 19 times since 2000 and now exceeds $80 billion. He called on U.S. businessmen and companies to take advantage of the strong investment climate enjoyed by Saudi Arabia, which has had one of the strongest economies in the world.


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From Our 2013 Archives
U.S. Schools Show Progress in Healthy Behaviors, CDC Says
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MONDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Schools across America are showing progress in key areas related to health, including nutrition, physical education and smoking, federal health officials reported Monday.
The results of a 2012 comprehensive survey of school health policies showed some encouraging trends, according to the report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Schools play a critical role in the health and well-being of our youth," CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden said in an agency news release. "Good news for students and parents -- more students have access to healthy food, better physical fitness activities through initiatives such as 'Let's Move,' and campuses that are completely tobacco-free," he said.
The report focused on those three areas. The highlights were:
Physical education:
The 2012 School Health Policies and Practices Study is a national survey to assess health policies in schools, districts and classrooms.
According to the CDC, the survey assesses eight components of school health: health education; physical education and activity; health services; mental health and social services; nutrition services; healthy and safe school environment; faculty and staff health promotion; and family and community involvement.
SOURCE: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, news release, Aug. 26, 2013


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I started playing RPGs last year with the Pathfinder Beginner Box. I have been GMing and writing a campaign, but have also encouraged members of the party that are interested to run a one-off Beginner Box Bash adventure to get an experience of running a game, more familiarity of the rules and the structure of an adventure with individual encounters.
When I was playing in one of these, I was conscious of trying to figure out the seams between encounters, whether encounters were RP or puzzle or combat and the DC of checks.
I now wonder if my experience of GMing before ever playing detracted from my playing, or whether I'm just being a munchkin and metagaming too much.
Does any aspect of GMing and building adventures detract from future experiences as a player?


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A defiant chain-gang prisoner suffers a "failure to communicate" in this searing drama. Paul Newman Shines in the title role, George Kennedy as his sidekick won an Oscar(R). Year: 1967 Director: Stuart Rosenberg Starring: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon
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Eggs. I have a strange craving for eggs right now. I don't know wny. Odd.
@bigshtank: You want eggs, I'd prefer a car wash.
I guess, what we have here, is a failure to communicate.
@havocsback: That's my favorite movie quote. It applies to the morons I have to train at work. "Some people you just can't reach."


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When you come here, you'll find
• Plenty to do. In addition to more than 80 clubs and organizations, you'll find a lot to do in our Falcon Center, our beautiful student activity center. Work out, play Intramural sports, grab some coffee with friends or relax between classes.
• Gorgeous scenery and intriguing historical sites. The rest of the country has no idea how beautiful and interesting West Virginia is.
• Friendly folk. Faculty, staff, students and Fairmont residents will go out of their way to make you feel at home.
• An impressive array of majors and programs taught by faculty hired for their teaching abilities. We are all about helping you find a meaningful career path and then succeed at it.
We offer many ways to visit
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- Personal visit for one to five students
- Monday through Friday
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- Receive Campus and Residence Hall tours
- Speak with faculty if available
- Register for an Individual Campus Visit
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- Select Days throughout the semester
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First I want to tell that I've read this answer. Main menu has gone now... Well perfect would be to have a list of all applications and select among them.
I think the idea is that new apps should ask to be added to the list of startup applications if that is deemed useful. Evolution alarm notification, for instance, seems to do that. Alacarte is a desktop-file manager. It isn't really related to the menus at all. If you add an entry to it, it'll appear in Unity dash as well. Anyway, adding startup applications is easier than it was in the old days:
Main Menu is actually not directly related here, but you can still install it via:
For adding applications to autostart you can use Startup Applications. Of course there is not a ready list for that, you should know the name of the application, more accurate "the starting command" of the application.
If you don't want to use Main Menu try TAB on command line.
You can learn the command like that.
Another way learning the command is this one:
and look for the /usr/bin entry.
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To the editor:
On Nov. 11, Steubenville presented a wreath-laying ceremony at the Berkman Amphitheater in Fort Steuben Park to recognize Veterans Day.
The program began with a selection of patriotic music by the Thermes Family Singers, and what a great job they did. Following was a really good presentation by Chief Master Sgt. Wes Hudson. He pointed out the sacrifices and complete dedication made by our Founding Fathers to establish the way of life we enjoy today.
Cudos to AMVETS Post 275, VFW Post 80 and American Legion Posts 33 and 274 for their stirring laying of the wreaths and the 21-gun salute they offered. Closing the program was a solemn rendition of taps by Linda Lancia and Rick Hicks.
Included in the audience were at least six members of America's greatest generation, two who participated in the Normandy invasion on D-Day, two who participated in the Battle of the Bulge and one who participated in Patton's 3rd Army's sweep into Germany, bringing World War II in Europe basically to an end. It's hard to imagine the horror they witnessed. At the same time, they set a standard of bravery and selflessness for those of us who followed attempted to equal.
The sad part of the day was the pathetic turnout for the program. Including the speakers and those who had participated, fewer than 60 people were there.
The citizens of this community need to step up and do the right thing at every opportunity to honor these great Americans.
It did not go unnoticed that Mayor Domenick Mucci spoke, and Police Chief Bill McCafferty was in attendance.
The ranks of men and women who proudly served (myself included) grows smaller every year. Those who served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan are all who remain. if not by your actions, at least in your mind and your heart give them a minute of your time.
They ask for nothing but offered everything. Let's do better on Veterans Day and Memorial Day in the future. Remember, all gave some, some gave all.
A proud veteran thanks you.
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April 1, 2013
The work of 24 graduating seniors from the Department of Photography & Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and one senior from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study will be featured in an exhibition of BFA thesis work and other current projects at the Calumet Gallery in New York City. The exhibition, entitled DPI 13, will open with a public reception on April 11 and will remain on view through April 30.
Calumet Gallery is located at 22 West 22nd Street in Manhattan. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays, and noon to 5pm Saturdays. The exhibition is open to the public and admission is free. Photo identification is required for access to the building. For further information, visit photo.tisch.nyu.edu or calumetphoto.com.
The exhibition, comprising dozens of works selected from the students' thesis projects, represents the visual and conceptual diversity of the department's class of 2013. The students featured in the exhibition are: Samantha Adler, Alex Q. Arbuckle, Brittney Bell, Naomi Chasse, Erica Dye, Torrie Fox, Shalea Harris, Ruoyi Jiang, Elena Kendall, Jai Yoon Lee, Aileen Mitchell, Benjamin Park, Michelle Peralta, Felicia Powell, Jonno Rattman, Jacqueline Russo, Cole Saladino, Dylan Sites, Robert Sobotnik, Laura Stephenson, Rosemary Vega, Mallika Vora, Daniel Wang, and Andrew White.
About the NYU Tisch DPI
The Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts is a four-year B.F.A. program centered on the making and understanding of images. Students explore photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression. Situated within New York University, the program offers students both the intensive focus of an arts curriculum and a serious and broad grounding in the liberal arts.
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|Welcome to the world of Pokémon, Specialbeamkamehameha!
|Welcome to Pokémon Wiki, and thank you for your contributions! There's a lot to do around here, so I hope you'll stay with us and make many more improvements.
I'm really happy to have you here, and look forward to contributing with you!
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Hey what's the Dragonball Multiverse? Anyway we can discuss DBZ stuff if you want & it's incredible how much you have accomplished on here. WaterKirby1994 03:03, December 29, 2011 (UTC)
That sounds interesting. Do you want discuss powerlevels? WaterKirby1994 23:50, December 30, 2011 (UTC)
Happy New Year, although i'm sorry to hear you were banned from chat. Anyway i think that the Restored Perfect Cell's power level was over 1.7 Billion! WaterKirby1994 06:13, December 31, 2011 (UTC)
hya inviting you to a wiki
put that in your bar at the top of your browser i am giving you a second chance
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Re: Chat Ban
Since Wattz is the one who kicked you, it is up to him whether you can come back on chat, not me.
I guess
I guess i can accept you back. but im not going to help you get back into chat. You will have to leave a message here to get back in.Best Regards 23:26, February 3, 2012 (UTC)
Chat banKeep up the good work and I will talk to Wattz about getting you ubanned. I think its been a while. 23:43, February 17, 2012 (UTC)
- Your welcome. 23:58, February 17, 2012 (UTC)
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Well everything is going fine. the name change was an important one. I needed something that meant something not just five random words that should be a sentance fragment. Im glad to see you back editing again, Just keep editin' and I'll talk to the rest of the crew about your ban. just don't bother anyone about it. Slayingthehalcyon (Talk) 13:50,3/5/2012 4,243
wow sbk never thought id see you here lol its good to know people still like pokemon {{SUBST:User talk:The Might of my Power is what lets me stand upon this Tower!/sig3}}TheLastSuperSaiyanX
yea well ive actually been here before allot, just not on this account, and not for awhile now, and i kinda dont know how to make a sig yet lol TheLastSuperSaiyanX
It's nice to see you helping out here. Thanks for contributing! – 04:47, March 17, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Moveset template
I personally would leave the category section blank, and about the template, I'm not really involved in the management of learnset articles on this wiki, so I suggest you to create a forum thread about that so more people know what templates to use and reach the best solution. Kind regards, --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 17:00, March 17, 2012 (UTC)
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Yeah it has man, welcome back, I think you're unbanned, and now how way more than enough edits to get on chat. Slayingthehalcyon (Talk) 20:56,12/6/2012 4,243
Its back up, sorry bout that man. Slayingthehalcyon (Talk) 22:25,12/15/2012 4,243
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In columns, letters and blog comments, Newton residents have asked how allegations of plagiarism against Superintendent David Fleishman will affect students in the Newton Public Schools.
The TAB asked some teens how they were reacting — and their responses ranged from shock to understanding to indifference.
Outgoing Denebola editor Astha Agarwal had this to say:
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Wilson: Mills rolls in BL showdown
Not a buzzer basket to be found. No instant classic. Not an ounce of drama in the gym or anywhere in the area code. But what you didn't have to look too hard to find was this simple idea: They are all chasing Lewis Mills now.
It was not quite what was expected when the Berkshire's League top two girls basketball teams, Nonnewaug and Mills, squared off Friday night. The rugged foes entered the game with a combined two league losses and had played a one-point, wire job the first time around (won by Nonnewaug).
Not this time, not this night. It was Lewis Mills early, Lewis Mills in the middle and Lewis Mills late in a ho-hum 46-34 victory. The result carried huge consequences. Mills raised its BL record to 11-1 (12-1 overall) while Nonnewaug slipped to 11-2 (12-3 overall). However, the Spartans are all done with the Chiefs now and also swept two-time defending champion Thomaston. What's left?
Northwestern and Housatonic down the stretch are teams to be respected, for sure, but the Spartans have already beaten both. Meanwhile, the Chiefs also have Housatonic and must play at Thomaston, which beat them early in the season.
"It's nice to be in this position and have that privilege," said Mills coach Joe Capitani. "The kids have worked hard for it."
"We're not looking too far ahead," cautioned the Spartans' Teagan Dunn, who contributed 15 points and 11 rebounds. "We don't want to jinx our season. But if we play like we can play, we'll go far."
If the numbers speak volumes, so did the sharp eye on this night. Not only are the Spartans in the driver's seat, but opponents had better hope the engine misfires or this one is going to be in the books.
The Spartans have been playing short-handed since guard Natalie Ruel went down against Housatonic two weeks ago with a cracked kneecap. There has been a silver lining in what is a gray cloud.
"Natalie not playing has helped some players develop," said Capitani. "They have had to do more."
Nonnewaug saw a little taste of it. Dunn is the All-Star, a constant in the middle. But Lesleigh Carter (12 points, 10 rebounds) has stepped up and provided a formidable presence near the basket. Freshman Corrine Morrow contributed six points and Ailene Berry had five points.
Mills is throwing a pretty fair arsenal at people these days.
"As the year goes along, the freshmen have stepped up. Corrine is doing very well," said Capitani. "(Carter) is a very underrated basketball player. She's known as a soccer player around here, but she can play with the best in the BL."
It didn't help Nonnewaug that Jess Fengler could not play due to stomach problems, but how much it would have mattered is debatable. The Chiefs, also hurt by foul trouble to Courtney Carlson (nine points), made three baskets in the first half, shot 3-of-18 and trailed 21-7 at halftime.
It got better in the second half, but was never close to enough to put the outcome in any kind of doubt. A 10-4 run in the first five minutes of the third quarter put Mills ahead, 29-11.
"(Nonnewaug's) defensive pressure early made it difficult for us to run our offense," said Nonnewaug coach Adam Brutting. "We did have seven points at half? It was tough to get open looks."
Brutting also wasn't looking at the absence of Fengler or Carlson's foul trouble as the explanation for a long night.
"Somebody else has got to step up, right?" Brutting noted. "We're not just one or two players. Once we got going in the second half, we were consistent and found some rhythm.
Opponents had better hope the Spartans lose their rhythm in the next two weeks, or this race is done.
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Marc wrote on Feb 1, 2014 11:14 AM:
" Debatable if Fengler would have made a difference?? Why is it that players have to score 20 points to get any recognition? What a slap in the face to a kid who does so much for this basketball team!!! "
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" For the record,
Natalie Ruel does not have a cracked kneecap. "
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I have made a lot of scrambled tofu in my day but the kids have never been overly crazy about it. It either has too many chunks of veggies, or has too many bits of spices. Enter Vegan Mom's solution: straight up scrambled tofu. It looks an awful lot like the scrambled eggs they sell in hospital cafeterias, but for kids that is a good thing. It is uniform, has no weird chunks of unidentifiable vegetables, and tastes great. The kids asked for it two days in a row, so that's a winner in my book.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Vegan Mom's Scrambled Tofu
I have made a lot of scrambled tofu in my day but the kids have never been overly crazy about it. It either has too many chunks of veggies, or has too many bits of spices. Enter Vegan Mom's solution: straight up scrambled tofu. It looks an awful lot like the scrambled eggs they sell in hospital cafeterias, but for kids that is a good thing. It is uniform, has no weird chunks of unidentifiable vegetables, and tastes great. The kids asked for it two days in a row, so that's a winner in my book.
Posted by Vegan Dad at 10:53 PM
Labels: brunch, tofu, Vegan Mofo
33 comments:
- Jen said...
I totally get this. The chunks of veggies also create more prep and work. Fantastic Foods makes a tofu scrambler spice mix that the boyfriend really digs, better than my homemade version, and I think its because its simpler. And I can't believe I didn't think of using soy creamer! DUH! Totally doing this next time I make scramble. Stay awesome.
- October 6, 2008 at 11:19 PM
- k j said...
That does look pretty good!
I need my scrambled tofu with kale - best breakfast ever! But for my bf, I think this could be pretty good!
Been a fan of your blog for awhile! I'm making a similar roast for my student thanksgiving...though I think i'm the only veggie at it!
Keep it up...you're always inspiring new ideas!
- October 6, 2008 at 11:24 PM
- miss v said...
this is fairly similar to the first tofu scrambles i used to make... and the only kind my husband really enjoys. :)
- October 6, 2008 at 11:41 PM
- Eesh said...
Looks and sounds delicious to me! I'll have to try this version the next time I make some!
- October 7, 2008 at 12:30 AM
- Veg-a-Nut said...
I just taught my daughter how to make scrambled tofu, but mine too has chunks of veggies in it. This looks really good and the seasoning is a bit different then mine. I will have to give it a try, maybe it will convert DH. He does not care too much for the abundance of veggies in mine. :o) Good job, Vegan mom!
- October 7, 2008 at 1:36 AM
- Level 20 Bard said...
Ah the fail safe, completely tasty, wonderful morning start; tofu scramble.
Compliments to the chef on this great breakfast!
- October 7, 2008 at 6:25 AM
- Joanna said...
i never thought of adding dijon mustard. that will definitely be in my next tofu scramble.
- October 7, 2008 at 8:10 AM
- Kati said...
Whoa, that really does look like scrambled eggs - freaky! Kids eating tofu is always a good thing, though. :-)
- October 7, 2008 at 10:15 AM
- shelby said...
I've never tried a plain tofu scramble...mine always ends up having more veggie than tofu, this recipe looks great though!
- October 7, 2008 at 10:16 AM
- erin32mc said...
I'm going to give this a try. My son complains about my tofu scramble so maybe he'll like this one.
- October 7, 2008 at 12:43 PM
- Teresa said...
Yum. This is also easy and basic. I'm not a big fan of a lot of spice myself. I'm certainly going to give this one a try. Thank you!
- October 7, 2008 at 1:08 PM
- Janet said...
Yeahhhh! Scrambled tofu rocks!
- October 7, 2008 at 3:05 PM
- Bethany said...
It looks good. I love my veggies, but I also love each scramble on it's own merit. I think the vegan cream must make it nice and creamy smooth.
- October 7, 2008 at 3:22 PM
- Alexis said...
Maybe I'm a kid at heart. This actually looks great to me. I love the veggieful versions too, but this sounds like pure comfort food.
- October 7, 2008 at 3:29 PM
- theveganfoodie said...
This so looks like real scrambles eggs. It looks really good!
- October 7, 2008 at 8:41 PM
- Bianca said...
Sometimes you just gotta ditch the veggies and go with straight-up tofu. It looks better and, um, even tastes better, I think. Although, being the nutrition nut that I am, I always throw veggies in anyway because I can't help it.
- October 8, 2008 at 12:40 AM
- carrie said...
I'm going to have to give this a try, my oldest daughter doesn't care for scrambled tofu because of the veggie chunks. I'll make this one for her next time I make a scramble and see what she thinks. I love the addition of the soy creamer, I've never seen anyone else do that.
- October 8, 2008 at 7:56 AM
- veganmum said...
Yum. My kids prefer their scrambled tofu without extra "bits," too. I do almost exactly what Vegan Mom does, except I usually add some vegenaise at the end instead of soy creamer. Thanks for the reminder; it's been a long time since I've made scrambled tofu, so I'm making some right now!
- October 8, 2008 at 8:05 AM
- Brandon The Unqualified Critic said...
Apparently black salt tastes like egg yolks. Check it out.
- October 8, 2008 at 4:27 PM
- Happy Herbivore! said...
so i made this... and aside from it coming out neon yellow (I think I used too much tumeric) it was awesome!
- October 10, 2008 at 3:26 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
happy herbivore,
I told you it looked like cafeteria scrambled eggs!
- October 10, 2008 at 6:26 PM
- Anonymous said...
The pancakes in the background look perfect. Care to share the recipe?
- October 12, 2008 at 8:34 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
They are the pancakes from Vegan With a Vengeance. The recipe works every time. I am not sure if it is floating around in cyberspace somewhere. Of course, you could buy the book if you don't alreadt have it--it is one of my favourites.
- October 12, 2008 at 10:24 PM
- nicolebaker said...
Wow that looks delicious!
- October 15, 2008 at 3:13 AM
- heini said...
Thanks for the recipe!
I tried scrambled tofu for the first time and used this recipe. I really liked it, and I'm sure I will make it again. Next time I will try it with vegetables.
- November 3, 2008 at 11:33 AM
- kimmykokonut said...
I made this this morning to go over bagels mc muffin style with mashed avocado and it was delicious! Simple but tasty. I think it would be awesome in a breakfast burrito. I wonder how it would freeze...any experience? I've frozen raw tofu, but not scrambled.
- March 25, 2009 at 12:44 PM
- Bobby said...
Saw a previous comment about Black Salt. Yes, it does taste like eggs. I use it when I make tofu "egg" salad. It contains sulfer, so add to anything you want to have an "eggy" taste. Funny thing...it's not salt and it's not black.
- June 10, 2009 at 10:48 AM
- Veganista said...
If I can't find soy creamer would veganaise work just as well or would it make it taste weird?
Would plain soy milk work better? Or is there anything else that would?
The supermarkets near me are severely lacking.
- July 9, 2009 at 1:13 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
Just use plain soy milk.
- July 9, 2009 at 6:29 AM
- Kelley said...
I just made this! Mine was waaaaay to yellow and waaaaay too oily. Not sure what I did wrong, I was making it to reheat for breakfast at work the following day - I guess that's what you get for cooking at 9pm after 2 glasses of wine! :)
- September 23, 2009 at 1:25 PM
- glastonburytv said...
How many would this serve? And how much tofu would you recommend using for this amount of spice mix?
- March 14, 2010 at 12:34 PM
- Michelle said...
I tried this last night and it really worked! I love recipes that just work. I've been doing another version that requires a lot more spices, but with this recipe I realize that they aren't even needed. I only added a little extra seasoning salt. I'm going to try to feed it to an ominvore and see what they say :)
- June 3, 2010 at 3:24 PM
- QweySpiral said...
hmmm this is so yummy! If I find very many more recipes like this, I'm going to turn vegan! DH also really liked it! Amazingly, my bff siberian husky also begs for a tiny taste, actually she wants it all but only gets a nibble!
- June 16, 2010 at 12:01 PM


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Is method overloading a type of polymorphism? To me it seems like simply the differentiation of methods with the same name and different parameters. So
stuff(Thing t) and
stuff(Thing t, int n) are entirely different methods as far as the compiler and runtime are concerned.
It creates the illusion, on the caller's side, that it's the same method that acts differently on different kinds of objects - polymorphism. But that's only an illusion, because actually
stuff(Thing t) and
stuff(Thing t, int n) are completely different methods.
Is method overloading anything more than syntactic sugar? Am I missing something?
A common definition for syntactic sugar, is that it is purely local. Meaning changing a piece of code to its 'sweetened' equivalent, or vice versa, involves local changes that don't affect the overall structure of the program. And I think method overloading precisely fits this criterion. Let's look at an example to demonstrate:
Consider a class:
class Reader {
public String read(Book b){
// .. translate the book to text
public String read(File b){
// .. translate the file to text
Now consider another class that uses this class:
/* might not be the best example */
class FileProcessor {
Reader reader = new Reader();
public void process(File file){
String text = reader.read(file);
// .. do stuff with the text
Okay. Now let's see what needs to change if we replace the method overloading with regular methods:
read methods in
Reader change to
readBook(Book) and
readFile(file). Only a matter of changing their names.
The calling code in
FileProcessor changes slightly:
reader.read(file) changes to
And that's it.
As you can see, the difference between using method overloading and not using it, are purely local. And that's why I think it qualifies as pure syntactic sugar.
I'd like to hear your objections if you have some, maybe I'm missing something.


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The Carmi-White County Lady Bulldogs fell to Eldorado at home Thursday night, 51-40.
The game is the second loss to Eldorado this season.
Eldorado Marched out to a 20-15 lead at the half and pulled away from there to put the Lady Bulldogs away.
Alexa Combs led the Lady Bulldogs in scoring with 15 points.
Other scorers for CWCHS were Jerrica Money with eight points, Emma Bachman with six points, Sydney Clark with six points, Briley Tolley with four points and Kelsey Rogers with two points.
The Lady Bulldogs are now 3-4 on the season, but 0-2 in the Black Diamond Conference.
The junior varsity team also lost their game, 26-23.
Next up for the girls is a road game at Fairfield on Monday. Game time is 6 p.m.
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STEPHEN, Betty Ruth, went home to be with her lord on Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, at the Calcutta Health Care Center, a caring and loving nursing home community that she grew to love. She was surrounded by her three loving children and her family.
She was born on July 23, 1927, to Vernon and Irene Mikes, in Sistersville, West Virginia. She was the first-born of 16 children, 14 sisters, and two brothers. Most of her siblings preceded her in death. Her surviving siblings are Erma (Ed) Beagle, Donna Kemp, and Phyllis Barnhart of West Virginia.
On May 24, 1947, she married the love of her life, Viril D. Stephen, who preceded her in death on Dec. 13, 1995, after almost 50 years of marriage. From this union they had three children, Ronald Stephen of Toronto, OH, Barbara (Riley) Looper of Jackson, MI, and Debra (Roger) Miller of Toronto, OH.
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In her earlier years, she worked at the Toronto Lanes bowling alley as a waitress, and also the Pottery Center in Wellsville. She was a lifetime member of Epsilon Sigma Alpha social and educational sorority since 1955.
Outside of her family, her most loved interest was her church community at Port Homer Community Church in Toronto, OH, where she served on the church board and led the home missions. She would raise money for the less fortunate in the community. She also enjoyed putting together baskets of food for those in need for holiday dinners. This was her passion in life and she continued doing this until she couldn't physically perform her duties any longer.
Betty will be fondly remembered and sadly missed by her six grand children. Todd Looper of Jackson, MI, Shelley (Eric) Gafkjen of Jackson, MI, Eric (Dawn) Miller of Toronto, OH, Alan (Kristen) Miller of Hilliard, OH, and Darla Dawn Stephen of Lisbon, OH.
She was preceded in death by grandson, Shawn Stephen in 2004.
She also had 12 great-grandchildren whom she adored, Dustin Looper, Joshua Miller, Zachary Stephen, Kayla Looper, Tyler and Ashlee Miller, Ryan Cline, Paige Durbin, Drake Looper, Devin Looper, Angeline Luckino, Destiny Gray, Erika Miller, and Jordyn Miller.
The family will greet visitors on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the Clarke Funeral Home, 302 Main St., Toronto, OH, 43964 (740) 537-1234/ (855) 847-1240).
A celebration service of Betty's life will be held on Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, at 11 a.m. at the funeral home with Pastor Dirk Hall officiating. Burial will follow at Sugar Grove Union Cemetery.
The family would also like to thank the staff at the Calcutta Health Care Community Center for making her feel at home the past couple of years.
The family would also like to send a special thanks to Betty's two special friends, Betty and Della.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Betty's name may be made to the Port Homer Community Church, 2452 County Rd 68, Toronto, OH, 43964
She would request that we all have peace in knowing that she lives today in paradise with her lord.


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I was going through my blog roll this morning when I saw that someone had asked this elsewhere. I figured it would be a good question to ask.
In general, how long do evaporator coils last in a home AC system? How can I make them last longer? If I want to replace them, what should I keep in mind?


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What is the largest possible volume of the convex hull of an open/closed curve of unit length in $\mathbb{R}^3$?
I believe this problem has been mentioned a few times in the literature, and has been solved for certain restrictions on the curve. For example if the curve has no four coplanar points then the maximal volume is achieved by one turn of a circular helix of height $\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}$ and base radius $\frac{1}{\pi\sqrt{6}}$, this is due to Egervary. For more references see section A28 of "Unsolved problems in geometry" by H.T. Croft, K.J. Falconer, R.K. Guy. Melzak and Schoenberg have treated the corresponding problem for closed loops (Schoenberg has treated even dimensions), and have given answers under similar restrictions. In no case is a complete answer known.
Here is an image of the optimal open convex curve. Taken from Open Problems from CCCG 2012, based on this paper, which cites Nudel'man (1975):
In the case of a closed curve my first wild (but educated :-) guess would be: connect the following $\ 8\ $points (vertices of a cube but also belonging to a sphere) in the given cyclic order (of a maximal shift register):
$$(-a\ -\!a\ -\!a)\quad(-a\ -\!a\ +\!a)\quad(-a\ +\!a\ +\!a)\quad(-a\ +\!a\ -\!a)$$ $$(+a\ +\!a\ -\!a)\quad(+a\ +\!a\ +a)\quad(+a\ -\!a\ +\!a)\quad(+a\ -\!a\ -\!a) $$
where $\ a\ $ is such that the length of the large arc which connects the consecutive points on the sphere which contains these $\ 8\ $ points is $\ \frac18$.
EDIT Shooting from the hip cannot be that precise. Thus two related questions may help some: