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Thinking of one of the two R1 adjustable packages for use with Nikon D800e and Sigma 8mm. If that's the only combo i will be using, (i want to be able to shoot nadir) is there a compelling reason to chose one of the packages over the other?
Thinking of one of the two R1 adjustable packages for use with Nikon D800e and Sigma 8mm. If that's the only combo i will be using, (i want to be able to shoot nadir) is there a compelling reason to chose one of the packages over the other?
Hi and welcome to the forum.
To set things clear: there are two versions of this series: R1 with adjustable tilt head and second R10 series with static tilt head.
R1: adjustable tilt between -15° and +12,5° http://shop.nodalninja.com/ultimate-...ly-no-rotator/ Just open the fixing knob to change to another tilt.
Nadir shot by tilting down to >90°, move tripod aside and use full viewpoint correction version in stitching. Nadir shot is out of NPP using the built in nadir position. To be close to NPP it has to be shot handheld. Zenith can be covered by using for example +5° tilt depending on your combination. Best zenith shot is one shot at +90° using the center of the lens.
There is a built in zenith position in R1 as well, but it let's the camera "fall down and move aside", so no NPP position. No problem outside with objects further away, well inside shooting real estate for example.
R10: static tilt to the chosen tilt version of the head for example + -5° and 0° position. You have to unscrew the top clamp to change your tilt set up. Nadir must be shot handheld.
Handheld nadir shots are easy for special situations: you should be trained to do it, you use shorter exposures, you do not shoot extended bracketing, 3 shots for example.
Basics so far.
Next question: what do you like to shoot. Shooting on a tripod is different from pole shots.
Shooting on a pole most of us use the top tilted down to -7.5° and the lens ring footplate moved forward inside the clamp to get a smaller Nadir hole. Using R1 easy to be adjusted. Using R10 you have to unscrew and re fix your top clamp.
R1/R10 can be used with different rotators, Mini Rotator or RD5 for example, and this a small and light weight solution. Think of carrying it up to the mountain.
Another option: If your "Pre" is shooting Nadir with Nadir Adapter for example and Zenith in NPP position, size and weight is not so important, I should go for R1-S.
Small new panohead that let's you shoot Zenith and Nadir in NPP position by fixing the lens ring in the rotator clamp on top of the vertical rail. For easy nadir shooting you can add the Nadir Adapter to lower rail and off you go. No handheld Nadir, so you can use long exposures, Zenith shot taken in center of the lens - best quality - or for example in 2 shots +60° pitch 180° visa versa to get connection from blue sky to corners of roofs or other ground info.
Hope this helps a bit, but to make a good choice, "what is the difference" is not the only input to take your decision.
Feel free to ask,
Last edited by hindenhaag; 01-26-2013 at 11:50 PM.
R10 5 deg will be good. You can clone the nadir shot or patch with a handheld nadir shot.
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So long,
Thanks for your quick and detailed replies. My original question was concerning the two R1 packages available in the store, so I guess the proper question would have been "is there an advantage to the larger rotator with the setup I mentioned?"
Now the detail I should have given at the outset:
My initial project will be interior real estate (probably HDR) with a mix of indoor and outdoor from then on. I would like to be able to shoot the nadir from the tripod if possible. I will most likely want to get into pole shooting at some point in the future. My impression is that one of the R1 packages will provide the most flexibility moving forward.
In terms of background, I currently shoot gigapixel panoramas using a gigapan robot and stitch with Autopano Giga. Iknow that I will have a lot to learn about this related but very different process.
Thanks for your time and advice!
The mini rotator is the smallest rotator with a fixed number of shots around depending on the top ring. To change number of shots around you have to buy another ring with a different set up. The mini rotator has a stop screw in the bottom, so it can not be locked being mounted. It can be mounted on top of tripod or on top of pole. It can not be used at the bottom of pole or on pole tripod adapter.
RD5 has a lock knob and number of shots around which can be changed on the fly by changing the position of detend knob. Can be used on top of tripod or pole, plus below pole and on pole tripod adapter or on footplate. In all: more flexibility to panos needs shooting different locations and with different camera-lens combinations.
Sorry to say, real estate, probably HDR, Nadir from tripod with R1/R10 is not the best way to shoot a pano. As you can see in the set of pics I uploaded, R1 Nadir and Zenith position are out of NPP. Specially real estate pics often have a problem in zenith area because of lack of control points in ceiling area. Objects are closer to the lens, shots outside NPP will ask a lot of time during stitching to correct stitching errors. Of course +5° pitch will cover the zenith, fine for outdoors, but not for all situations indoor. I've seen a lot of examples with stitching problems in the zenith, which needed zenith shots at +60° 180° visa versa to get connection from shots at 0° to ceiling area. You will probably have to step over to HDR bracketing for example with +2 / -2EV as set of three to be able to deal with different light from the windows and inside areas. Shoot in "mirror up"and "CL"mode to get good pics with D800. Shooting Nadir with R1 will ask you to set control points manually during stitching.
To cut it short, I have experience with R1, R1-S, Mini Rotator, RD5, used with tripod or poles. Plus D3/D700 and Sigma 8mm. If I would be you, I'd go for R1-S with Nadir Adapter. But you have to take your own decision for your future plans.
May be you can ask your reseller to test both set ups and send one back in case it is not damaged.
Btw: FX, sigma 3.5, 0°, +5°, +7.5°, Zenith +60° visa versa, zenith 90°, Nadir1, Nadir2, for stitching play around to see Zenit and Nadir holes etc D700 Sigma 8mm/f3.5
In this set up you have a lot more zenith infos than in normal real estate with a plain ceiling.
Last edited by hindenhaag; 01-27-2013 at 03:16 PM.
After additional thought and research, I've opted for the Nikon 16mm instead of the sigma (more shots aroiund, yes but I think the added resolution will be worth it. Also I think the lens will be more useful outside of pano-ing). My R1 kit lands Friday. Now let's see if I can find the proper settings hereabouts. . .
Guess how many shots (including a hand held Nadir patch shot) were used to create this panorama? If I remember correctly the camera was a 12mp camera. No far coaching if you know the answer.
If you feel the "resolution" is good enough, I will share with you the equpiment I used. (hint: it was done with an R1 head)
yes, lots of uncorrected stitching errors. . .
If you are going to use a 16mm lens, the R1 is NOT the pano head for you. You would be much happier with a NN5 style pano head (including the Nadir adapter). The R1 series is best used as a single row pano head. I own both and am speaking from experience. The R1 and your Sigma 8mm lens is great for pole panos. The NN5 (M1, NN4 etc...) is best for the 16mm lens.
My example is 4 around tilted up 5 degrees plus a hand held Nadir patch. It shows just how much detail you can retain with a single row pano.
Mosleyh, If you are wanting to shoot full 360x180 panoramas indoors and out with the 16mm lens, then Dennis is right to suggest that a NN5 style of head would be the better choice. This would give simpler shooting and stitching. The spherical head is designed to rotate the camera about the no parallax point (entrance pupil) both horizontally and vertically. The R1 is only able to do this for horizontal rotation. You might try stitching a sample set of images taken with a D3 camera that can be downloaded from http://www.360precision.com/360/inde...amlensinfolist .
I use both a full frame (D800, D3s) and a cropped sensor (D300, NEX 5,7).
When shooting 4 around tilted up 5 degrees I use a combination that gives me a cropped circular image. With the full frame sensor I use a shaved Tokina 10-17mm lens set to 12.5. With the cropped sensor I use a Sigma 8mm. The circular image touches the top and bottom of the screen (180 degrees straight up and down) but has the two sides chopped off. The R1 or R10 is best for this method of shooting.
When shooting 6 around +Zenith + Nadir I use a Nikon 15mm lens on my D800 or a Nikon 10mm lens on my D300. The image is 180 degrees diagonally across the screen. The NN5 style pano head is best for this type of shooting.
If I understand correctly the 16mm lens on a full frame sensor creates a diagonal 180 degree image. Using an R1 makes absolutely no sense if you want to shoot full spherical. If all you want to shoot is single row, the R1 will work just fine. If you ever want to tilt up or down as a normal way of shooting, the NN5 type rotates the lens around the proper point in space making it much easier to stitch your images.
You can get the R1 to work for spherical panoramas, it is just a whole lot of effort when compared to a NN5.
Last edited by DennisS; 02-01-2013 at 09:07 AM.
After having tried the R1 for a few days, I've concluded that Hindenhaag was right - the RS-1 is what I should have purchased. I think I might have figured that out sooner if the RS-1 was more prominently displayed on the store website. Oh well - live and learn. When all's said and done it looks like the cost will be roughly the same as the R-1 package too.
Now all I have to do is wait for customer service to contact me about the return. They seem to have been MIA today.


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Dude, it's a post for an "E-mentor." I mean, come on. Some of you sound like you're working off the understanding that the OP was about discrimination in the workplace, or bias. I don't recall those things being mentioned. I've read threads like that. They're usually pretty specific.
What gets me here isn't that they're talking about women, or that you guys are talking about how it could be right or wrong, it's that we all need a lot more mentoring available as adults, especially in careers like game development. For that matter, ALL office jobs need more managers who understand more about leadership and mentoring and less about appeasement (that's just how we generally roll in white collar land). Imagine how many people would be less disgruntled after a work day were this so. Mentoring someone means being their friend and advisor. It's all about the person seeking advice or growth, not about their coworkers, or whether they want money or a free ride. It is, or should be, about helping a person bring out their best qualities. Any boss would love it if their employees all understood their strengths and best values to the company, no matter who they were.
Having worked in jobs with a 50/50 ratio, a high-female ratio, and a high-male ratio, I can get this. The reason a person might feel like a female needed an out of work female business mentor as opposed to a male when in a male oriented job/office is that males and females, even if they do the same job and like the same stuff, still sometimes express themselves differently.
I once heard a female coworker say she was concerned about asking her manager too many things in private, in case all the other guys misinterpreted her time spent alone in the boss's office, or in case he got directly fed up with her always asking questions. I think that's pretty reasonable. It sounds more reasonable to me to let a person have a business mentor instead of asking the entire office to tread on eggshells for them because they might not like all the office jokes, or not want their immediate superior to always be the one having to listen to their every thought. I don't see anything wrong with a girl wanting to talk to another girl about their job, anymore than I see a Swede wanting to talk to another Swede sometimes being wrong, or a 10 yr old wanting to go to camp with the other 10 yr olds. Maybe I'm being too generous, but, sometimes, that's all it is. Guys don't always understand girls. Girls don't always understand guys. It's no different in the office than in high school, we just like to pretend that it is.
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I've looked for some other articles on this problem and even tried some of the ideas in this thread; however, nothing has solved the issue yet. So, on to the issue.
Something happens when working in Visual Studio (usually C#) that causes the IDE to become a bit wonky when saving a file. I will be working along just fine for a while then at some point I notice that every time I save a file (Ctrl+S) it becomes very slow.
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SE lets you edit pretty much everything else at any time because there's edit accountability: At any given moment, we know who changed what, when, and why. This isn't the case with comments — this is why comments can no longer be edited after the standard grace period.
If you're allowed to edit a comment for much longer than 5 minutes, it becomes possible to perform an edit on the comment that makes it out of context (no longer makes sense) with the rest of the comments.
This isn't an answer so much as a nag -- I have a little issue with this 5 minute rules. I accidentally hit save on my comment right after I started one. No big deal, edit. Typing, typing, typing, no warning from the site. Save, and wham, edit not allowed. Aw, come on!
If you're really going to enforce this, either
As others have noted, comments are ephemeral second class citizens with no revision history. That's a really complicated way to say that they are meant to be temporary aids to posts rather than primary content. If the content of a comment is so important that it needs editing for improvement over a long period of time, perhaps it needs to be written up to be a full post. If the context has changed and a comment needs to be tweaked to reflect the new situation, remove the old comment and write a new one. (You can even copy/paste the old one before deleting if you want to start with that.)


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What It Takes to Be Georgia May Jagger
London's It girl spills on what makes her style so effortless and cool
At just 21 years old, Georgia May Jagger has already walked the runway of some of the biggest names in fashion (think Alexander Wang and Marc Jacobs), graced the cover of mags like British Vogue and Harper's Bazaar UK, and booked campaigns with major labels like Hudson Jeans and Chanel. And there's also that whole Mick-Jagger-and-Jerry-Hall-are-my-parents thing. Despite the fact that Jagger was pretty much born cooler than the rest of us, the Rimmel London Global Ambassador couldn't be more down-to-earth and polite.
Jagger shows up to Rimmel London's spring preview wearing a cream sweater dress that complements her peachy complexion, and a pair of black patent Mary Janes that she's super excited about. "This is my first time wearing these, and I'm really loving them," says Jagger in her oh-so-charming British accent, as she shifts from one foot to another to properly show them off.
With The Rolling Stones trickling from the speakers (of course), we sat down with Georgia at the NYC restaurant, The Lion, to find out how she always manages to look so completely put together.
1) TB: Describe your personal style in 10 words or less.
GMJ: Relaxed in the day and glam at night.
2) TB: Who are your style icons?
GMJ: My mum and my sisters.
3) TB: What is the oldest piece of clothing you own that you won't throw out?
GMJ: I have some of my mum's Thierry Mugler clothes that I really love.
4) TB: What is the best style advice you've gotten and from whom?
GMJ: Probably, again, from my mum, is just to have fun with it because fashion can sometimes be serious. So I really just try to have fun and enjoy it.
5) TB: What is currently in your makeup bag?
GMJ: The Rimmel foundation and BB cream --I use them together. I sort of use the BB cream as a concealer around certain spots on my face, like on my cheeks and under my eyes. I love the liquid cheek tint -- that's the product I'm most excited about! Then, makeup wipes, mascara and I've got to have an eyelash curler.
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Tea Party in Ohio Bemoans Results
KENT, Ohio—Tea-party Republicans gathered to watch election returns here on Tuesday cringed when televisions flashed that the Republican Senate candidate had fallen to the incumbent Democrat.
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Sen. Sherrod Brown beat back a challenge by state treasurer Josh Mandel, a candidate with near-celebrity status among tea partiers here.
The outcome "feels like people who work hard are really outnumbered here," said JoAnn Schlue, a Republican voter who lives south of Kent, in northeast Ohio. A batch of early results showed Democrats retained control of the Senate.
Shortly after, an "Oh, no," and groans went through the room as Fox News called Ohio for President Barack Obama. "Why? Why?" several women at a table strewn with confetti moaned.
For the tea party, Tuesday's results tested the potency of a movement that helped reshape Washington two years ago. The party's surge helped Republicans retake the House in 2010 and jump-started an anti-spending movement in Washington.
Casting Ballots in 2012
Decision Day in America
Voters headed to the polls Tuesday in a presidential contest defined by its intensity and razor-thin margins.
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- Eating Like a Candidate: Food on the trail
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- Car, Car, Car, Car, Car, Candidate: The role of the motorcade
According to exit polls Tuesday, 21% of respondents said they supported the tea-party movement, with 30% opposing it and 41% remaining neutral.
Here in this largely Democratic enclave near Kent State University, the Portage County Tea Party spent Tuesday sniping over electioneering rules and trading dirty looks with supporters of President Barack Obama.
The sprawling banquet room in the Fairways at Twin Lakes restaurant was festooned in foil flags and red, white and blue balloons, but by 11 p.m. only about 35 people remained, and many tables sat empty. Volunteers put their coats on, then watched the last returns trickle in.
"I will reconsider where we're going and what we're doing," said Tom Zawistowski, executive director of the Portage County Tea Party and president of the Ohio Liberty Coalition, the umbrella for Ohio tea-party groups. "We thought when we won in 2010 that the people were speaking, but this tells us differently."
As Mr. Zawistowski spoke, the room drained of volunteers. In five minutes, it was empty, except for two women collecting black, white and blue centerpieces from the tables.
"Is there a country I can move to?" asked Paul Freck of Twinsburg, cringing at returns from nationwide Senate races.
Portage County, population 150,000, boasts 110,000 registered voters; the Portage County Tea Party has nearly 2,300 members. This semirural region, home to factory workers, farmers, academics and government workers, favored Mr. Obama, who won 51.6% of the vote, with nearly all ballots counted. But it wasn't for lack of trying by the tea-party movement, which has taken up local issues important to both Democrats and Republicans and deployed high-tech get-out-the-vote innovations to draw independents off the fence.
The president and Mr. Romney had for weeks been neck-and-neck in the battle for Ohio's 18 electoral votes. The state is a blend of demographic groups that approximates the makeup of the country, including rural residents, blue-collar workers, coal miners and urban professionals in the state's three major cities, Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland.
Tuesday in Portage County, at two side-by-side school-based polling places in Brimfield Township, tea-party volunteers in Day-Glo green vests patrolled the parking lot with fliers listing the group's preferred choices, from the presidential race to the state school board.
But more notable was its advocacy for Issue 38, a $5 million tax levy for the Field School District in Portage County that, contrary to the tea party's anti-tax philosophy, the Portage County group supports. The tea-party activists are calling the initiative a "Levy for Children," saying that if the money is used for teacher salary increases instead of school and curriculum improvements, they will mobilize to defeat it in two years, when it comes up for renewal.
"We're not all about 'no new taxes.' We just want to get value for our money," said Mr. Zawistowski, a communications-technology entrepreneur. He set up a robo-calling effort to rally conservatives, including older voters without Internet access, to the polls.
In the Field School parking lot, a young Obama election observer from Connecticut, Brie Mitchell, mixed it up with Portage County Tea Party volunteer Nancy Capps of Brimfield Township, saying the group's parking-lot flier distribution slowed down the line of voters waiting to park. "She tried to act like she was from the Board of Elections," Ms. Capps groused.
"It's OK, we've seen it all before," Mr. Zawistowski said.
Ms. Mitchell said she was trying to respond to the concerns of other Obama volunteers inside, who fielded complaints from voters.
In the same parking lot, Obama voters Nashay Kendrick and Dwayne Sheriff said they had noticed a lack of enthusiasm among their friends, who also support the president. "Some people are depressed that it's so close" between Messrs. Obama and Romney in the state, Ms. Kendrick said. "I think too many people don't care this time."
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Anthony Joseph Lutz, 62, of Nebraska City died Jan. 30, 2013 at his home. He was born on March 21, 1950 in Nebraska City to Henry and Mary Catherine (Baker) Lutz. He graduated from Lourdes Central Catholic in Nebraska City in 1968. He served in the Navy from March 13, 1969 until his honorable discharge on Feb. 1, 1973.
When Anthony returned from his naval service he attended Peru State College, receiving his bachelors degree in business in 1978. He worked several years at Tri-Pac in Auburn and later selling Snowcats in McCook, Neb.
He is survived by his siblings: Mary Ann Lyons of Hamburg, Pat Lutz of Springfield, Mo., Carol Parkison and husband Ken of Eu Clair, Wis., Jackie McAlexander and husband Darrel of Sidney, Iowa, David Lutz of Sidney, and Charlene Stehlik and husband Fritz of Omaha; many nieces and nephews; other family and friends.
He was preceded by his parents and brother Ralph Lutz.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 9, at the Rash-Gude Funeral Home in Hamburg with Pastor Tom Beutler officiating. Military services will be conducted by the Hamburg American Legion Post immediately following the services.
Inurnment will be held at a later date in the Wyuka Cemetery at Nebraska City.
Memorials may be given to the Nebraska City Volunteer Fire Department.
Condolences may be left at www.gudefuneralhomes.com.
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It seems like every system I've tried is missing something.
Remember the Milk
Requires paid for android application and requires a lot of tinkering because of it's flexibility.
Doesn't support SSL on free workspaces and if you use multiple workspaces this is an expensive feature.
Requires a lot of customization, found the whole idea confusing.
Poor UI
Google Tasks Lacks many features
No SSL, requires some customization to get up and running
So what out there can I use that includes the features I need?


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Welcome to the ENT Student Interest Group
About ENTIG:
This site is dedicated to Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Established in 2008, the goals of the ENT Interest Group are to link medical students with ENT faculty and residents, help students find research projects and funding, and to highlight the various careers of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
Student Officers for 2015-2016
Lukas Dumberger , MS2
Lukas has shadowed in the ENT Department with various faculty members and will be working on Laryngology research with Dr. Rupali Shah this summer. Contact him for questions!
Eunice Yim, MS2
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Colville girls have a shot
Led by the Luu sisters—Tasha and Malia—Colville qualified a strong contingent of athletes to Friday and Saturday's WIAA/ Dairy Farmers of Washington/Les Schwab Tires State 1A Track & Field Championships at Eastern Washington University's Roos Field. Head coach Ty Brown and his staff will take seven girls to a meet they have the opportunity to score significantly in.Colville is coming off a second place regional finish last Saturday afternoon to fellow Northeast A League power Riverside. The Rams won the meet with 106 points. Colville finished second with 91. Third place Lakeside made the girl's regional race a 1-2-3 NEA sweep over their rivals from the Caribou-Trail League.Chelan led CTL girl's teams with 80 points. Newport was fifth with 71 points. Cashmere was sixth with 68.5 points. Freeman was seventh, 58 points, and Okanogan and Omak finished tied for eighth with 36 points. Cascade (Leavenworth) was 10th (31 points) and Chewelah was 11th (28 points). Tonasket was 12th with 10 points.On the boy's side, Colville High was fourth in the team race at the regional with 81.5 points.Lakeside won with 114 points. Freeman was second with 97 points and Cashmere was third with 84. Riverside was fifth with 57 points and Newport was one point behind in sixth place. Tonasket was seventh with 45 points and Cascade was eighth with 37 points. Chewelah finished ninth with 28.5 points and Okanogan was 10th with 22 points. Chelan finished 11th with 21 points. Omak was last with 20 points.Hastings wins twoThe CHS boys qualified four in seven events: Ethan Cabbage in the long jump and triple jump; Colton Hastings in the 1600 and 3200; Alex Pond in the javelin and Logan Carpenter in the 100 (met qualifying standard) and 200. For the Colville girls, Tasha Luu will go in the long jump, high jump, triple jump and 4x100 relay. Malia Luu qualified in the 100, 200, 4x100 relay and 4x200 relay.Senior Chelsee Sager qualified in the javelin and Mackayla McLaughlin qualified as a member of the 4x200 relay team and as an alternate on the 4x100 relay team.Chelsea Phillips qualified in the 100-meter hurdles and as a member of the 4x100 and 4x200 relay teams.Senior Alaina Kowitz qualified in the 1600 and Jenny Andres qualified as a member of the 4x100 and 4x200 relay teams.Amber Powell will go as a 4x200 relay alternate.Brown said that his girls, who won the NEA and district championships over Riverside, came into last Saturday's meet with another of a long laundry list of goals—a regional championship."We knew it would be tough against the powerful Riverside team," Brown said of his girl's team's ongoing spring battle with the Rams. "The main goal was to get as many people through the meet to State as possible."But it sure would have been extra nice to come away with a regional crown. Our goals have been to win the league (check), district (check), the regional (second) and State. We suffered a bit of a hiccup in the regional meet, but the girls are excited to have people in 10 events at the State meet."With athletes in 10 events Friday and Saturday at Eastern, the Indians are at least a legitimate dark-horse candidate for a team championship. "Going into the State meet, I would think that King's, last year's boy's winner, would be a favorite," Brown figured. I think the team to watch will be Lakeside."On the girl's side, I would consider Bellevue Christian and La Center to be favorites. But you can't rule out Riverside, and, of course, I feel that our girls from Colville will be well represented with 10 events covered. I have a good feeling going into this meet."HIGHLIGHTSJunior Tasha Luu had another outstanding meet. In a meet hampered for a time by heavy rain, Luu won the high jump (5-4). The leap was one inch under her season and career best. She finished second in the long jump (15-05) and the triple jump (35-02). She leads off the qualifying CHS 4x100 relay team that placed second to Chelan with a time of 51.74. Her teammates on that relay team are Jenny Andres, Chelsea Phillips and sister Malia.Malia Luu, like her sister, will be busy at State with four events.She won the 200 meters at regionals with a PR of 26.68. Luu finished a close second in the 100 meters to fellow Riverside freshman, Maddi Dykeman. Luu also anchors the 4x100 and 4x200 relay teams. Also on the CHS 4x200 relay team are Jenny Andres, Mackayla McLaughlin, and Chelsea Phillips. The Colville 4x200 relay team came in ranked no. 3 in the regional and ran a blistering PR of 1:47.24 to shave four seconds off their previous best.Phillips qualified in three events with the relays and 100- meter hurdles (third). Her 16.34 set a new PR for Phillips.Kowitz ran one of the grittiest races of the day in finishing third in the rain-soaked 1600. "Alaina has been improving so much this season," Brown said. "The last two weeks for her have been great."A strong run in a heavy downpourThe senior was able to get some distance between herself and fourth place Megan Ahrendt of Lakeside on the final lap.Kowitz finished third in a time of 5:28.09 (PR). She was seventh in the 800 (2:38.21).Fellow senior Chelsee Sager came up big in the javelin, qualifying for State with a throw of 122-01 and a new PR."Chelsee was up against some tough competition and was up to the challenge," Brown said. Savannah Smith, Jacy Vining, Ashley Knight and Alison Price all competed well, but didn't finish in the top three in their respective events."That was a bittersweet ending to a long season," Brown said. "These girls all competed well and came away with good performances and a taste for tough competition, and hopefully, a drive to improve and compete next year."On the boy's side, Colton Hastings came up big in the clutch. The senior, a standout on the CHS cross-country team, "came in healthy and strong," according to his coach.Hastings came away with PRs in both the 1600 and 3200. In the 1600 (4:33.82), he ran a smart race by going out easily, according to Brown."He saw what the other runners had in mind and kept with the pack until the last lap when he took the lead and gained some room down the stretch to outpace Lakeside's Ryan Coffman and Ryan Rojeski," Brown said. In the 3200, Hastings used his patented kick to out-run three competitors in the final 300 meters."I have to admit that I was a little concerned until he blew by the two Lakeside runners in the last 80 meters," Brown said, adding that "Colton has a great kick and it was nice to see such an aggressive finish to a great race."Logan Carpenter qualified in both the 100 and 200-meter races. His fifth place finish in the 100 was still good enough for a visit to Eastern this weekend because he had met the qualifying time of 11.42.Carpenter ran a PR of 11:28 at Riverside on Saturday. He finished third in the 200 (23.33).Carpenter also competed with his teammates, Alex Pond, Garth Vaagen and Zach Hull, in the 4x100 relay. Colville ran a 45.42, good for sixth place.Pond came through with a breakthrough throw in the javelin. The junior went 161-04 to get a third place finish on the podium and a trip to State. He finished behind two Okanogan throwers."Alex has been stuck in the 150-foot range all season and it was nice to see him improve and peak at the right time," Brown acknowledged. "We hope he can carry this over to State and pop a good one."Ethan Cabbage, despite being under the weather and something less than 100 percent, had a very good meet. The junior qualified for State in the long and triple jumps and came up just short in the high jump.He set a new PR in the long jump (20-11) and won the event. In the triple jump, he went 42-10 to finish second. Cabbage couldn't get to six-feet in the high jump and settled for a fourth place tie with Chewelah's Adam Collins."Like the girls, the guys who did not qualify came away from the meet disappointed, but they should be proud of their year and for their teammates that are moving on," Brown said. "They are a big part of the success of this program and should be proud to say that they were a part of the 2011 Colville track and field program. Colby Teibel, Cal Maddox, Kevin Edler, Kevin Carpenter, Billy Rogers, Cainan Holte, Zach Hull, Biagio Pietroburgo and Garth Vaagen should all feel good about their seasons."REGIONAL RESULTSMen's—100 meters—5. Logan Carpenter, 11.28.200 meters—3. Carpenter, 23.33.1600 meters—1. Colton Hastings, 4:33.82. 4. Cal Maddox, 4:46.96.3200—1. Hastings, 10:05.30. 7. Kevin Carpenter, Colville, 10:27.90.110 meter hurdles—3. Zack Schnieder, Chewelah, 40.91.Shot put—3. Will Peters, Chewelah, 52-02.25.Discus—3. Peters, 156-04. 4. Colby Teibel, Colville, 140-11.Javelin—3. Alex Pond, Colville, 161-04.High jump—4. Ethan Cabbage, Colville, 5-10. 4. Adam Collins, Chewelah, 5-10.Long jump—1. Cabbage, 20-11.Triple jump—2. Cabbage, 42-10.Girls—100 meters—2. Malia Luu, Colville, 12.84. 4. Samantha Beamer, Chewelah, 12.99.200 meters—1. Malia Luu, 26.68. 6. Beamer, 27.94.400 meters—5. Beamer, 1:04.44.1600 meters—3. Alaina Kowitz, Colville, 5:28.09.3200 meters—6. Alison Price, Colville, 12:42.70. 7. Christina Hall, Chewelah, 12:44.80.100 meter hurdles—3. Chelsea Phillips, Colville, 16.34.300 meter hurdles—6. Savannah Smith, Colville, 54.33.4x100 relay (Jenny Andres, Tash and Malia Luu, Chelsea Phillips), 2nd, 51.74.4x200 relay (Andres, Mackayla McLaughlin, Phillips, Malia Luu), 2nd, 1:47.24.Shot put—5. Makayla Earl, Chewelah, 35-08. 7. Chelsee Sager, Colville, 33-00.25.Discus—5. Earl, 103-03.Javelin—3. Sager, 122-01. 7. Jacy Vining, Colville, 101-05. 10. Ashley Knight, Colville, 93-11.High jump—1. Tasha Luu, Colville, 5-4.Long jump—2. Tasha Luu, 15-10.50.Triple jump—2. Tasha Luu, 35-02. 3. Beamer, 34-00.50.


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- "There's only you. You know that."
- ―Victoria to Riley[src]
This relationship was a one-way relationship in which Riley Biers loved Victoria, but Victoria was still in love with her former mate, James and was merely using Riley to avenge him.
In the movies, Victoria is portrayed by Rachelle Lefevre in the first two movies and Bryce Dallas Howard in the third, while Riley is portrayed by Xavier Samuel.
- "I'm doing this for us. So that we can feed, without their… retaliation. I-I can't live in fear anymore waiting for them to attack."
- ―Victoria's lie to Riley.[src]
Victoria and her older sister, Anne, were scullery maids to an abusive master. They escaped when Victoria was 12, but the two landed the same jobs with an equally abusive master. These experiences made Victoria learn to avoid her masters and eventually survive on her own when her sister went missing one night and never came back.
Anne came back five years later as a vampire, and changed Victoria. She was introduced to a coven of female vampires and they lived happily before the Volturi accused them of "attracting" too much notice from humans and destroyed most of them: Victoria and Heidi were the only ones who lived. She later met and fell in love with James, and together formed a coven.
When James died at the hands of the Cullens, she fled for her life and created a guard for protection.
Riley BiersEdit
- "She only created you and this army to avenge her true mate, James. That's all she cares about. Not you."
- ―Edward, to Riley.[src]
Riley Biers was a freshman student of Oregon State University, originated from Santa Fe and lived in several places with his family.
Victoria chose him to be her protector from the Cullens if they came looking for her, and changed him near the end of his freshman year; in the film, Riley originated from Forks, which is the reason Victoria picked him—he knew the area well enough to lead the other newborns.
After Twilight, Victoria became paranoid and panic-stricken. When she saw Riley as a human, she found him strong enough to protect her in case the Cullens came looking and transformed him into a vampire. After the transformation was complete, she made him believe that she had romantic feelings for him. In reality, Victoria was only using him to protect her. As they created more vampires, she hid behind them and allowed only Riley to select the members and to keep them in the dark about her appearance.
When Victoria ran to escape Edward's pursuit, she encountered an army of newborn vampires in Texas and got inspired to use her newborns as an army to get past the Cullens and then exact vengeance on Edward by killing Bella, given he killed her mate, James. She wanted to force him through the same pain of loss that she had experienced.
In the next coming months of 2006, she began making more newborns, but only allowed Riley to select her members and keep her identity secret in order to avoid Edward and Alice's detections.
The Short Second Life of Bree TannerEdit
Riley and Victoria were confronted by agents of the Volturi, who gave them five days to fulfill whatever purpose they had for their "illegal" creation, i.e. making too many newborns that their slaughter in the city caught the attention of the human population. When Diego, Riley's most trusted companion, told them about his discovery of their immunity to sunlight, Victoria tormented him to death in order to extract as much information of his discovery as possible. Riley was then forced to make a choice, to side with Victoria or against her. Because he loved her deeply, he chose her over his friend. But seeing how she slaughtered his friend, he began to question whether or not she really loved him. However, he was determined to remain by her side and believe her. She then told him that they will send the army after the Cullens while she will make sure they get the right members, and then flee with him until the Volturi got tired of chasing them. However, she only planned to elope by herself - she had grown tired of the charade and wanted to get rid of him.
In Eclipse, Victoria and Riley went to find and kill Bella and Edward while the rest of their army fought the Cullens and the Uley pack. Edward tried to reason with Riley, telling him that Victoria didn't really love him, but he was too naíve to believe him and a fight between them erupted.
The relationship ended when Seth Clearwater joined forces with Edward and killed both Riley and Victoria. While Edward fought Victoria, Seth had Riley cornered. Seconds before Riley died, he cried out to Victoria for help, only to be ignored by her and then killed by Seth. Victoria fought Edward until he overpowered her and then killed her. Their remains were burned seconds later.


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That's right, I said it. It's that easy. Hello everyone, I am Michael Tarallo, Pentaho Pre-Sales Director. It is an absolute pleasure to be blogging in the Swamp with the rest of the Pentaho crew. Originally I started creating a series of Pentaho related tutorial type videos published exclusively on my blog michaeltarallo.blogspot.com. However, I have also been invited to the Swamp to share my BI technical musings and knowledge with y'all. (no really, I am originally from the North East, I don't ever say y'all) – I thought this would be a great way to share this series and create an awareness of how easy it is to get started using and evaluating the Pentaho software.
This is part 1 of an N part series (there is so much to showcase I don't have a definitive number) that will showcase the power, flexibility and extensibility of the Pentaho BI Suite. My goal is to help you evaluate the Pentaho BI Suite easily and quickly as well as show you tips and techniques that make Pentaho the right choice for current and future needs. In this 15 min video (available in my blog or as a download here) you will watch me go through the process, of downloading, installing and testing the Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition on an Ubuntu Linux operating system. From start to finish, you will see it truly is just that easy. The next entry will focus on configuring data sources to be used for content creation. Enjoy and I hope to speak with you in person!
To see all related Tutorials in this series posted by me, click on my pic on the bottom right under Authors.
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Pentaho Corporation
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(At the Museum, in the 3D Theater sponsored by Ernst & Young, LLP)
Discover the T. rex named SUE like you never have before in this 3D film! Learn the amazing story of how the world's greatest predator was found in the dusty badlands of South Dakota and view a real fossil excavation with Field Museum paleontologists.
D3D Cinema and The Field Museum presentWaking the T. rex 3D: The Story of SUE, sponsored by McDonald's Corporation.
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1,000 Bandages - Assorted Sizes for $8.99
Are you accident prone? Well then, we have the deal of a lifetime for you!
Ventilated strips allows seat and moisture to evaporate.
Highly absorbent non-stick pad protects wounds without sticking.
Soft flexible material easily contours to body and long lasting adhesive stays secure.
* 1,000 sterile bandages (10 boxes of 100)
* Assorted sizes include: 200 - 3/4" x 3", 200 - 3/4" x 2-1/4", 500 Junior size - 3/8" x 1-1/2" and 100 spots - 7/8" round
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$8.99 + $3.99 s/h = $12.99. Still a good deal. That is a $1.30 per box of 100.
Ironic that this is being featured on "7deadlydeals".
Still working my way through the 240 band-aids I picked up earlier this year on Kids Woot. Hopefully those will last me a while.
@dcdjason: VERY GOOD POINT. Bandaids are something you need but hope you never have to use it because that means someone got hurt.
Damn! I just bought a box of Angry Birds Space band-aids.
Awesome! Almost picked some up at the store the other night...you know, just to have "in case" or whatever...decided against it -- glad I did now!
idk, I think 1000 might not be enough for me…
A project that was originally going to be just replacing the decking and pool liner is now in month 2 after I found out that a) who ever built the deck was an idiot and knew nothing about structural integrity and b) pool liners suck (plus I decided to run electrical and speaker wire out to it which added more conduit n stuff) I think I've already gone over 1000 from cutting up my hands…
Stupid ass project; all I wanted was a nice place to drink my beer
Quick word of warning: The shelf life of untreated bandages is less than 3 years, significantly less if it includes ointment. It's a good deal nonetheless, but not exactly a lifetime supply unless you plan on dying soon.
Does anyone know anything about this website? Googling it didn't provide much help. Those paracord bracelets are pretty cheap as well, and I'm thinking about getting them.
The perfect remedy for those threatened by death from a thousand cuts.


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Lamborghini's 50th Anniversary: "100 Years of Innovation in Half the Time"Automobili Lamborghini at the 2013 Techno Classica in Essen
In 2013, the 50th year since it was founded, Automobili Lamborghini is participating in the annual Techno Classica fair at Essen, where Lamborghini will be showing two of its supercars that have made automotive history, at pavilion 7.
Introduced in 1964, the 350 GT was the first mass-produced Lamborghini, while the 1972 P 400 Miura SV was the final evolution of the legendary Miura - the first super sports car with a modern design. Both vehicles on display were taken from the extensive collection of historic cars in the Lamborghini Museum at the company's headquarters in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy. An expert on replacement parts for classic cars will also be at the stand to provide information on original spare parts for early Lamborghini models.


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An adorable couple in love. England, 1875
Thursday, June 10, 2010
100+ Years of Gay Couples: Part One 1875-1955
An adorable couple in love. England, 1875
18 comments:
- WildRice said...
These pictures are wonderful. Thank you.
Last week, a friend of my son's gave him a hug as my son was leaving daycare for the day. His mother exclaimed, "Don't do that! That's just weird!" I felt sorry for the other boy because I expect that his natural instinct to be close and kind with other people will likely be turned into homophobia one day. (I'm making an inference based on the incident and the bumper stickers on the mom's car.)
I compare that to an old 1930's movie I saw recently where two boys, maybe 10 years old or so, walked home after fishing with their arms around each others' waists. I don't think the director was doing anything other than indicating that they were close, boyhood friends.
So I would have to guess that not *all* of your pictures are of gay couples. Our society (meaning the USA - please forgive me for generalizing) has made it unacceptable for unrelated males to touch each other, but that was not always true.
These pictures show caring and closeness and love. How wonderful!
- August 4, 2010 at 6:59 AM
- couple_o_archies said...
I am curious, too, how all of these great photos of duos became identified as gay couples? Is it through the process of acquiring them that the story behind the pictures is known? Did you come across those of women as well?
I *love* the music accompanying the YouTube clip; could you identify the artist / album?
- August 4, 2010 at 7:30 PM
- ourman said...
Falling by Jamiroquai
- August 31, 2010 at 10:32 AM
- dancollier said...
What a wonderful evocation of the "love that dare not speak its name" -- thanks so very much. Studying the faces of these men, I tried to look into their souls, hoping to glean from their expressions some sense of how they might be feeling, posed at that moment with a loved one.
Though I suspect the romantic in me is coming out, I'd like to believe that I saw some inner sense that they were happy in who they were.
Again, much thanks!
- October 17, 2010 at 4:59 AM
- katkyss said...
These are fantastic, but something is really gnawing at me... in the fourth picture, from the early 1900s...compare the hands. On our right, the gentlemen seated has a very tiny hand and is darker in color than the other man's. On the left of the photo, their hands have been switched! Weird observation, I know; but I was just wondering the source and if it could have been altered.
Great work, by the way.
- October 17, 2010 at 7:41 AM
- bygeorgeallwynn said...
I found this while looking for photo graphs of gay couples in love (for story inspiration) -- oh, man, I think I fell in love with some of the couples you have shown! Wonderful - it brought a tear to my eye and a flutter to my stomach - how anyone could say this love isn't right needs to have their head examined! Thank you for sharing this!
- October 29, 2010 at 2:30 PM
- symphonied said...
These are so heartwarming. I love them all, thank you. ♥
- December 11, 2010 at 9:12 PM
- William said...
I would be interested in how you know some of these "couples" were gay. I know me and my friends take photos like many of the time. Great post ether way.
- January 18, 2011 at 12:35 PM
- Jojo P. said...
Sweet couples and love the moments captured! Definitely loving the mood here. killer smiles!
- March 7, 2012 at 8:19 AM
- Nomad said...
Many people have asked how anybody could claim these couples to be gay. I think it is a fair question because when we look at things like this, we cannot trust what we see with our modern eyes. I would say that in most of the photos,the couples are simply expressing their affection in a way that same sex couples (who are not gay) can no longer do. And such a pity for that, because I think men lose a lot by not being able to express their love for another man- without it being misunderstood.
I think that's a bit depressing but having lived outside of the country and the culture, I can tell you that seeing such expressions of bonding and casual affection between men is, to an outsider, amusing and then misleading and confusing and then liberating.
In the Middle East, I once saw two grown men ( very macho looking sailors as a matter of fact) walking down the street NOT with their arms linked but with their little fingers hooked. Believe me, as sophisticated and worldly as I thought I was, I was still somewhat staggered by that scene.
Was it about sex or was it completely innocent. They certainly didn't seem stigmatized. Not because they were courageously displaying their love for each other but because it was natural to them. (Sex between men is a common thing, of course, but it is NOT openly displayed on the street.)
It is safe to say that sex was not on either one of their minds and perhaps even beyond their imaginations.
- June 4, 2012 at 6:33 AM
- Tom Arild Gulbrandsen said...
true not many of these are real gay couples infact it was far cheaper to take one photoctogheter instead of two seperate ones.. but many of these are documented gay couples except the one that says first gay couple granted legal rights to adopt.. that one is from Australia and has nothing to do with a gay couple.. infact in Australia then if you where gay you could be arrested..
- July 15, 2013 at 2:18 AM
- Jana said...
Your assumption that all these pictures are of homosexual couples is inaccurate. http://www.artofmanliness.com/2012/07/29/bosom-buddies-a-photo-history-of-male-affection/
- September 30, 2014 at 7:50 AM
- Toan Hien said...
This is amazing
- January 25, 2016 at 6:22 AM
- Andrew Thompson said...
The ww1 couple are absolutely gorgeous, I hope they had a happy life together after the war.
- April 18, 2016 at 11:16 AM
- Andrew Thompson said...
The ww1 couple are absolutely gorgeous, I hope they had a happy life together after the war.
- April 18, 2016 at 11:26 AM
- Rusty Alcorta said...
It has to do with the lighting and the curvature of the old lenses used for these portraits. I saw this in my great grandparents picture and asked my teacher about it. Hope it helped
- June 30, 2016 at 11:02 PM
- Rusty Alcorta said...
It has to do with the lighting and the curvature of the old lenses used for these portraits. I saw this in my great grandparents picture and asked my teacher about it. Hope it helped
- June 30, 2016 at 11:17 PM
- Alexander Burchnell said...
Love this. I thankful for these generations pathing the way so my husband and I can be where we are today.
- July 27, 2016 at 2:18 PM


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For most foods that contain fat you'll see Total Fat content and Saturated, Trans Fat, Polyunsaturated, and Monounsaturated fats listed below that. Sometimes the amounts don't always add up. Total Fat could be 12g, Saturated Fat at 7g, and Trans Fat at 0g so there's 5g of fat unaccounted for. Can one assume the remaining fat is some kind of unsaturated fat? Are there "neutral" fats that aren't exactly saturated or unsaturated?
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The other two kinds of fats are polyunsaturated fats and monounsaturated fats. They are widely agreed to be the 'good' fats.
This is a slight misnomer because you definitely need a decent amount of saturated fat (it makes up every nerve ending in your body), but you get the idea!


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Does the period of change of this air filter have an affect on the longevity of the heating and a/c system? What is a good rule of thumb to require replacement?
Dirty filters not only make the HVAC equipment not last as long, but the low air flow makes them less energy efficient. A dirty furnace does not conduct heat into the air as well and the dirt sticks to the fan blades making it not last as long or spin as easily.
There are two main types of air filters:
The 1" thick ones that look like this:
And the 6" thick filters look like this:
Generally the 1" filters are good for a month or two. The 6" thick ones are good for 6 months.
There are also 2", 4", and 5" filters available but generally not at the local hardware store. Some folks who have 6" filters use a 2" + 4" filter and replace the 2" one every other month and the 4" once a year. This seems like a hassle to me, but it might save you $50 a year if you have 6" filters.
The rule of thumb is every 3 months but it does depend on the filter and your air quality. And yes, if you don't keep the filter clean it will shorten the life of your unit and could cause other problems like a frozen coil (where the air handler coil freezes because there isn't enough airflow).
I like to use the cheap air filters as they allow the best airflow. Some units are made for the better filters but those can cause more problems than the solve.
It depends on the filter. Go to Lowes or Home Depot and they will have a chart with the different filter qualities and the recommended length of time they can be in service. In general, the cheapest filters that cost only a couple of bucks have to be replaced once a month. As you go up to more expensive filters, you can replace them every 3 or 6 months.
I currently buy the ones that need to be replaced every 3 months.
1-2 months for a 1" filter, and 6 months for a 6" filter is a good rule of thumb. However, that is for average conditions in an average home. You may want to check yours more frequently if you have any pets since fur will tend to dirty up the filter quicker, and reducing the filter's usable life.
You can also compare a new one (or photo of a new one that you took before putting it in) with the current one to determine how "bad" or "dirty" the current one looks. If it looks bad, change it.
If you install a GeneralAire G99 Air Filter Gage, it will tell you exactly when your air filter needs to be changed. It can be found for < $20 online. I don't have one, but I've thought about it...
After doing a bit of research, I've decided to change mine every 3 months. I don't use the cheapest filters, but I don't get the incredibly expensive ones, either.
i would say that rule of thumb must be different for different places. e.g if you're living in industrial area like where you have alot of pollution in the air , you must go for change before the time mentioned in the manual but if you're living in healthy environment like well planned societies than it could lasts more than specified time. In short you must check the quality of the filter time to time.


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In presenting the Minority Student Program's 2012 Community Service Award at the recent MSP banquet, Jessica Kitson, Associate Director for Career Services, described the recipient as "someone who recognizes that there are people with needs and announces I want to meet those needs." Kitson, who also is co-director of the Eric R. Neisser Public Interest Program, was describing Laura Marchini but could have been talking about dozens of others in the Rutgers School of Law–Newark Class of 2012. They are students who are passionate about using the law to advance social justice, committed to serving the public interest, and proud of the school's support for those focused on a public service career. "With clarity about why they came to law school and a can-do attitude," says Kitson, "these students have invigorated existing programs, started new programs, and planned other initiatives for the next group of public interest leaders at Rutgers Law to realize."
Five notable Class of 2012 members describe their public interest work.
As an enlisted soldier Eric Chen was an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army from 1997 to 2001. In 2007 he received a B.A. in political science from Columbia University where he co-founded Students United for America and Advocates for Columbia ROTC. In law school, Chen's activities have included associate editor of the Rutgers Conflict Resolution Law Journal, Nathan Baker Mock Trial Competition finalist, Federalist Society class representative, and student in the Special Education Clinic. Most significantly, he is co-founder of a new pro bono program to provide legal assistance to veterans.
|Pvt. Eric Chen, at basic training in 1997, is shown with with his mother and Drill Sergeant Stewart.
I am proud that Rutgers School of Law–Newark has fully embraced veterans advocacy with the SBA's recognition of the Rutgers Law Veterans Support Group (RLVSG) and the creation this spring of the Veterans Assistance Pro Bono Project. It makes for a special graduation present.
The simple explanation for my interest in veterans advocacy is that I am a proud Army veteran who is concerned about our society's relationship with her veterans. However, I was only superficially aware of the systemic challenges facing veterans until I wrote a paper on veterans issues for Professor Marilyn Askin's Elder Law Seminar last spring. Professor Askin deserves credit for first planting the idea, when she recommended that I find a way to make veterans issues a part of the Rutgers Law School public interest mission.
The information that jarred me to act is that two large groups of veterans with extraordinary yet distinct needs are placing tremendous pressure on the system right now: Vietnam-era and post-9/11 veterans. A system that was already problem-filled is simply being overwhelmed. Top-down fixes, such as more legislation and changing Veterans Administration directors, have had limited effect. Veterans need help from Rutgers Law to fix the system from the ground up.
I accept part of the credit for our accomplishment, but the credit is rightfully shared. My role was merely as a catalyst. As a 3L, the best I could hope to do was to lay a foundation upon which others could bring the program to life.
Last fall, Marc Armas, a Coast Guard veteran, joined the project as a student leader who (very important) as a 2L would not be graduating this year, while Neisser Public Interest Program co-director Jessica Kitson guided the project's pro bono direction. This spring, William Greenberg '67, a retired Brigadier General and partner at McCarter & English LLP, laid a key piece of the foundation when he agreed on behalf of McCarter & English to be our pro bono partner.
1Ls Robert Hayes and Alex Hernandez, both Army veterans, laid the other key piece of the foundation when they started RLVSG. Dean Farmer's support also was instrumental.
I look forward to Rutgers Law making a difference for New Jersey's and all deserving veterans.
Marsha Wenk Public Interest Fellow Ione Curva received a B.A. in psychology from Dartmouth College. She is research editor of the Rutgers Law Review, a Philip J. Levin Scholar, Charles H. Revson Law Students Public Interest Fellow, Equal Justice America Fellow, and Fannie Bear Besser Public Service Scholar. Her article "Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: How New Jersey Prostitution Reform Can Reduce Sex Trafficking" is forthcoming in the Rutgers Law Review and "Exposing the Invisibility of Teen Dating Violence in New Jersey" is forthcoming in the Women's Rights Law Reporter. Curva has accepted a clerkship with the New Jersey Appellate Division.
I knew coming into law school that I wanted to use my education and prior experiences to help make a difference. Getting to practice law is a privilege, and as such we have a responsibility to give back to those less fortunate and do what we can to help make things better.
As a first-year student, I threw myself into a myriad of different activities that attracted my attention – the Women's Law Forum, Domestic Violence Advocacy Project, Public Interest Law Foundation, Immigrants' Rights Collective, and the Asian-Pacific American Law Students Association. I spent the majority of time when I was not doing schoolwork helping these organizations in whatever way I could because I believed they each did valuable work that helped a variety of communities.
Throughout the rest of my time in law school, I have been involved in different capacities with each of these organizations, but also spent a significant amount of time at Rutgers as a Marsha Wenk Public Interest Fellow, getting to advocate for public interest informally as well as formally by assisting and planning public interest events.
I thank Rutgers for supporting the belief that lawyers have a commitment to serve the public and help enact social change.
Jeffrey Chang, as an undergraduate at Clark University, co-founded the National Student Genderblind Campaign to address the need for affirmative gender identity and LGBT college policies. His B.A. is in government/urban development and social change. He twice was awarded a PILF grant for his summer work at the Urban Justice Center and then at Lambda Legal. He is a managing articles editor of Rutgers Race & the Law Review and a student in the Child Advocacy Clinic. Chang's signature achievement is creating the Neisser Public Interest Student Advising Program.
I came to Rutgers Law School, in large part, for its deep commitment to social justice.
While most of my work has involved working outside the law school, over the past year I focused my advocacy efforts on building a stronger public interest community within Rutgers. Working with a group of like-minded students and the Eric R. Neisser Public Interest Program, we developed one of the first peer-advising programs dedicated to meeting the unique needs of students pursuing public interest and public service careers.
With 25 upperclass advisors and 24 1L advisees, our "Pathways to Public Interest Law" program was a great success and assisted students with everything from adjusting to law school, academic success, and wellness to finding summer jobs and making connections with public interest practitioners and organizations. While many of the advisees have certainly gained much from the program, several upperclass advisors found it enriching to use the counseling skills they learned during law school in a different way.
Recognizing the needs of first-year law students, I also conducted independent research this year with Professor Laura Cohen on ways in which law schools across the country are crafting more affirming curriculums for public interest law students. Interviewing students at several law schools, including ours, I gained an understanding of our shared experiences and the importance of curricular reform. In the upcoming months, I hope to present my findings to law school stakeholders.
Timothy D'Arduini is senior managing editor of Rutgers Law Review, in which position he helped publish a previously unpublished monograph by the 9/11 Commission, and a Marsha Wenk Public Interest Law Fellow. He placed second for his brief and fifth overall in the Nathan Baker Trial Court Competition, is a member of the Moot Court Board, and a Philip J. Levin Scholar. As a 2L he interned for New Jersey Supreme Court Associate Justice Jaynee LaVecchia. After graduation he will serve as a law clerk to Justice LaVecchia and then as a first-year associate at Baker & McKenzie LLP in Washington, DC. D'Arduini graduated from Georgetown University with a B.S. in foreign service, culture and politics.
|Timothy D'Arduini (second from right) with his study mates for the past three years (l-r) Andrew Kuntz, Laura Marchini and Taylor Herman.
After spending six years as a student and then working in Washington, DC, I came home to New Jersey to be closer to my family. Thankfully, three years later, the law school — because of the friends, professors, and administrators I've met —has become my second home in New Jersey. I've been so lucky to meet people who embody so much of what I love about my close-knit, immediate family. The people, their passions, their dreams inspire and embolden me to be a better lawyer, a better advocate, a better friend, a better son, a better brother —every day. For that, I cannot thank them enough.
While I've done well as a law student, the Rutgers accomplishments of which I am most proud have occurred outside of the classroom setting. I attribute my successes in both areas to the strong values that were instilled in me by my family, especially by my late father and my mother.
After my first year, I put my legal experience to work helping others as a legal intern at Catholic Charities Immigration Legal Services in Washington, DC. In my second year, as a co-chair of the Rutgers Public Interest Law Foundation, I worked to raise $88,000 for grants for my colleagues to pursue unpaid, public interest law opportunities over the summer — a historic feat for the organization.
At my core I'm a political activist, so while in Washington, DC where I was a summer associate at Baker & McKenzie, I and two friends organized one of DC's largest young professional political fundraisers, helping to raise more than $20,000 for the first openly LGBT U.S. Senatorial candidate, Tammy Baldwin (D-WI).
Rutgers School of Law–Newark has meant so much to me that I've looked for ways to combine my political interests with institutional advancement opportunities. I've done fundraising for alumna Elizabeth Warren in New Jersey and New York and volunteered to serve on the legal team that supported Dean John Farmer in his role as the 13th, independent member of the New Jersey Congressional Redistricting Committee.
I am truly proud to be graduating from such an awesome institution, one that has constantly challenged me to pursue my lifelong dream of affecting social change.
Laura Marchini '12 received a B.A. in jurisprudence from Montclair State University, where she wrote her senior thesis on "Battered Woman Syndrome and the Defense of Justification." As a 3L, Marchini has been submissions editor of the Women's Rights Law Reporter, DVAP co-coordinator, Courtroom Advocates Project coordinator, a student in the Child Advocacy Clinic, and a research assistant to Associate Professor Reid Weisbord. Next year she will clerk for the Hon Claude Coleman, judge of the Superior Court, Essex County Vicinage–Family Part.
Immediately upon starting my first year of law school, I got involved in community service through student organizations. With a classmate, I became co-chair and revived the Women's Law Forum (WLF), which doubled in size and became one of the most active student organizations on campus. Through WLF, I organized the now annual Ladies Day Panel and substantive International Women's Day events, which served as fundraisers for non-profit organizations.
Also during my first year, I founded the now annual Take Back the Night Rally and March, a joint event with Seton Hall Law School. This event unites the law schools and the greater Newark community in standing against sexual and domestic violence and creates a safe space for victims to share their stories. Take Back the Night has grown so much that it is now co-sponsored by the leading domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy agencies in Essex County, as well as Rutgers–Newark Health Promotion Services.
The most valuable experience of my law school career was serving as the Domestic Violence Advocacy Program (DVAP) co-coordinator. I was responsible for running a pro bono program that provides legal assistance for domestic violence victims in court. I worked with Neisser Program co-director Jessica Kitson and coordinated law students and attorneys to volunteer at Essex County Family Courthouse and provide assistance and support to victims filing for restraining orders. Moreover, for the past two years I have worked on a project where law students volunteer to travel to area schools to educate teens on domestic violence. Finally, through DVAP, I fundraised for victims of domestic violence and got them food, clothing, emergency cell phones, and other resources.
My commitment to public service, especially to victims of domestic violence, is the reason why I came to law school. My work has shaped me as a person and has shown me the type of advocate I want to be. After graduation, I plan to take my experience at Rutgers and continue my work with domestic violence victims in Newark.


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Has anyone had success with Voice Chat in StarCraft 2?
This is for a friend. He has all the latest drivers. The game sound works fine, but he can't hear the rest of the party and we can't hear him. When he runs a voice test in sc2's voice test area, it does detect the input.
TL;DR sound works for everything but voice chat. he can't hear us chat and we can't hear him.
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Even land-lubbers can have fun here... lounge on our white sandy mountain beach, take on the climbing wall, bounce and flip out on the EuroBungee or play a volleyball match. On summer nights, we show family-friendly movies under the stars. Our spring-fed mountain lake is set in the heart of our 1,500 acre resort.
It's more than just our favorite time of year, some of the best memories are made in the summer time: splashing, paddling, exploring, or sitting by the fire waiting for shooting stars. ACE Adventure Resort comes to life in the summer, the whole place is filled with laughing families and adventure stories.
Spend your summer days splashing at Wonderland Waterpark or splashing through the New River Gorge. We have adventures for every level of thrill-seeker. Float down the Upper New with the little ones or hit some big waves on the Lower New River. Float around Summersville Lake on a stand up paddle board or kayak. Zip line on the rim of the New River Gorge or ascend some of the country's best rock climbing sites.
Do your soul some good by hiking the many trails of the New River Gorge, ending at some of the best views in West Virginia. ACE is nestled on 1,500 acres with over 35 miles of private trails that connect to trails within the national park. Many historical towns, like Thurmond, and overgrown-abandoned coal mines, such as the Kaymoor Mine, can be found along the New River throughout the gorge. Guided bike tours or bike rentals are also available to explore trails throughout the resort.
You can spend your summer nights relaxing in the hot tub in any of our deluxe cabins. Or enjoy the endless amount of stars on any clear night from our mountaintop campground. There is no better sleep than after a day of adventures and exploring. Collect some firewood, roast some marshmallows, and star gaze for hours from these wild and wonderful mountains.
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In the following every surface is assumed to be connected. I've read that the commutative monoid of homeomorphism classes of closed surfaces is generated by $P$ (projective plane) and $T$ (torus) subject to the only(!) relation $P^3=PT$. Here the product is given by the connected sum. Now what about the commutative monoid of homeomorphism classes of compact surfaces (with boundary)? Does it also have a nice presentation? I think it is generated by the $P[k]$ and the $T[k]$, where $[k]$ means that $k$ holes have been inserted, and $k$ runs through the natural numbers. What relations do we need? And how do you prove that no others are needed?
Another question, which is rather informal: Do you think that it's worth to read the proofs of these classical classifications? I know the importance of the results, but I suspect that the proofs are just technical.