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I'm reading Barbeau's Polynomials, there's an exercise:
How to prove that $n^{\frac{1}{3}}$ is not a polynomial?
I've made this question and with the first answer as an example, I guess I should assume that:
$$n^{\frac{1}{3}}=a_pn^p+a_{p-1}n^{p-1}+\cdots+ a_0n^0$$
And then I should make some kind of operation in both sides, the resultant difference would be the proof. But I have no idea on what operation I should do in order to prove that.


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Georgia Wildlife Resources Division
2070 U.S. Hwy. 278, SE, Social Circle, GA 30025
The free Migratory Bird Hunting license (HIP) requires all hunters pursuing doves, ducks, geese, rails and other migratory bird species to complete an annual harvest survey. The license is available online, by phone or at retail license agents across the state, and is provided to the hunter after they report previous year harvest rates.
The HIP program, now in its 17th year, details both the number of migratory game bird hunters and their harvests. This information helps wildlife managers monitor migratory bird populations, set hunting seasons and bag limits and ensure healthy, sustainable populations.
"Determining accurate harvest levels for game species, such as doves is critical to the scientific management of game populations," says wildlife biologist Don McGowan. "The HIP program gives biologists the information they need to ensure conservation of migratory bird populations while providing quality hunting opportunities."
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and state wildlife agencies collaborated to conduct harvest surveys for decades, but the methods used varied from state to state, making it difficult to compare results.
HIP provides a consistent method to gather and compare information from all states, and multi-state information is critical for managing migratory populations.
To receive a HIP permit, Georgia hunters must answer a short survey when they purchase their hunting license. This survey provides hunter harvest information from the previous year's hunting season. Once complete, the HIP participation permit is listed on a hunter's license. Some HIP participants will be asked to complete a more detailed national harvest information survey about the species they hunted.
Hunting licenses and the HIP permit are available from more than 800 license agents, online at www.gohuntgeorgia.com [1] or by phone at 1-800-366-2661. For more information on the HIP permit or the federal program, contact a Wildlife Resources Division Game Management office or call 770-918-6416.
[1] http://www.gohuntgeorgia.com/

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Big Red selling tickets
STEUBENVILLE?- Big Red is selling tickets for Saturday's 7 p.m. playoff game against Zanesville Maysville at Harding Stadium from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. through Friday at the high school ticket office.
Tickets are $7 presale and $9 at the gate.
Central playoff tickets on sale
STEUBENVILLE - Tickets to Steubenville Catholic Central's Ohio Division VI playoff game Friday at Mogadore can be purchased in the school cafeteria from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today and from 8 a.m. until noon Thursday and Friday.
Tickets are $7 presale and $9 at the gate.
Redskins selling tickets
WINTERSVILLE?- Indian?Creek is selling tickets for Saturday's 7 p.m. playoff game against at West Holmes at the ticket window in the gym from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. today through Friday.
Tickets are $7 presale and $9 at the gate.
No. 4 Ohio State tops Walsh, 83-71
COLUMBUS - Preseason All-America Deshaun Thomas scored 25 points to lead No. 4 Ohio State past Walsh 83-71 in an exhibition game on Tuesday night.
LaQuinton Ross, a sophomore who started his first collegiate game, added 13 points. Sam Thompson and Evan Ravenel both had 11 points for the Buckeyes, who went 31-8 last season and reached the Final Four.
Reserve Jeff Copeland scored 16 points for Division II Walsh, which was 26-5 last season. Kenny Kornowski added 12 points and Jesse Hardin had 11.
Ohio State trailed much of the first half before scoring 17 of the final 20 points to go up 39-30 at halftime.
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Video: How to navigate construction surrounding the 2014 Wisconsin State Fair
West Allis — The Interstate 94 freeway ramps and streets around the fair are open to handle the surge of traffic starting Thursday with the opening of the 11-day Wisconsin State Fair.
That's a relief to West Allis Mayor Dan Devine who said, "They told us several times that it all would be open."
Freeway ramps at 84th Street have been closed for the massive Zoo Interchange rehabilitation project, as has the crucial Kearney Avenue that takes traffic coming from the west and exiting at 84th Street into the north end of the fair. The fair extends from 84th to 76th streets.
What will not be open is the 76th Street bridge over Interstate 94, a major route from the north to the fair's 76th Street entrance and to the fair entrance on Greenfield Avenue.
Instead, fair officials recommend taking 70th Street south to Greenfield Avenue and entering at 78th Street.» Read Full Article
Top 10 things to see and do at the Wisconsin State Fair
Wisconsin State Fair is the can't miss summer event of the season. With more than 30 free stages of entertainment, 100 different foods on a stick, and a cornucopia of cream puffs, what more could a Wisconsinite want?This year's
The fair runs Tursday, July 31, through Sunday, Aug. 10, at 640 S. 84th Street, West Allis. Hours are 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, 8 a.m. through midnight on Friday and Saturday, and 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on the final Sunday of the fair.
Check out the top 10 things to see and do before you plan your trip to the fair and follow my blog Fair E-tales for the latest and greatest in fair happenings. On Wisconsin!
1. The Wisconsin State Fair History Exhibit
For all the history buffs out there, the Wisconsin State Fair History Exhibit at the south end of the Exposition Center is the place to be. The exhibit includes pieces from iconic fair favorites, such as the original cream puff, Mille's Sausages, the Giant Slide and more. Test your knowledge after checking out the retro displays and take a fair quiz for a chance to win some fairy cool prizes.» Read Full Article
Brookfield Central turns back Homestead for state title, 9-2
When a team has a pitching staff made up of spit and bailing wire like Homestead baseball coach Ernie Millard admits that he had this season, don't be surprised when the spit dries or the wire frays sometimes.
Much like it did Friday night at Kapco Park in the WIAA State Summer Baseball championship game, as Brookfield Central woke its long slumbering bats and beat Homestead for its fourth state title in a 9-2 decision.
"That has been a ghost that has clung to us all season long," said Millard of his pitching, "and tonight it finally caught up with us. We competed like crazy. ....but we knew we would have to play a perfect game to beat them."
The loss denied the Highlanders a fourth state title of their own ( to go along with crowns in 1974, 1978, and 1994) and closed out a compelling season at 26-8.
Meanwhile, the high-expectation Lancers (29-6) resurrected a season that had started out fast at 21-1, and then hit a major skid with a 1-5 run that cost them the Greater Metro Conference title and a lot of their confidence.» Read Full Article
Fast start leads Homestead baseball team into state finals with 7-5 win
After his team's gritty 7-5 WIAA state semifinal victory over Oak Creek Friday afternoon at Kapco Park, Homestead baseball coach Ernie Millard pulled out his cell phone and pointed to a text message he received from senior pitcher Ben Garstecki at 10:22 p.m. the night before.
It read as follows:
"Hey coach, I want you to know that 100 percent, whatever you need me to do (at state) I'm ready for it."
Millard considered it a good omen and a bit of a prophecy, because after Highlander starter Jared Stieve gave up a three-run homer to the Knights' Matt Hargreaves in the third, cutting what had been a safe 6-1 lead down to a nail-biting 6-4, and then put two more runners on base, someone was needed to right the Highlanders' ship.
In walked Garstecki, who promptly gave up an RBI single to Knight outfielder Matt Hamilton, but who then proceeded to toss four-and-two-thirds scoreless innings to make sure the Homestead lead would stand up.» Read Full Article
Brown Deer mother arrested in stabbing of 2 sons
A Brown Deer woman has been taken into custody after stabbing two of her sons during an argument about money early Friday, police say.
When officers responded to the residence in the 8000 block of N. 67th St., they found an 18-year-old with a leg wound and a 16-year-old with cuts to his face and head. Both boys were taken to the hospital with what police say are non-life threatening injuries.
Their mother, who is in her early 40s, fled the scene on foot, police said. She was later found in Milwaukee and taken to the Milwaukee County Jail. Recommended charges of domestic violence, physical abuse of a child and reckless injury while armed have been forwarded to the district attorney's office.
According to Brown Deer Police, the department has responded to domestic dispute calls from the residence before but had not had contact with the suspect prior to Friday's incident. The two sons live in the residence with another family member, Lt. Lisa Kumbier of the Brown Deer Police Department said Friday.
"Clearly, this incident is unique and isolated," she said.
Brown Deer announces selection of a new police chief
Brown Deer announced Thursday the selection of Sparta police chief Michael Kass as the village's new chief.
Kass has more than 25 years of law enforcement experience and served in the U.S. Air Force as an electronic warfare specialist before becoming a police officer.
He was honored with a medal of valor while working as a lieutenant for the Menominee Police Department. He has taught firearm skills courses at Chippewa Valley Technical College and emergency first responder courses throughout the state, and is active in community associations such as the Boys & Girls Clubs and the Safe Communities Coalition.
Kass replaces Steven Rinzel, who retired in June 2014 after serving as Brown Deer police chief for almost 20 years.
Kass will start on Aug. 4.
3 arrested after shootout on northbound I-43
A freeway shootout Tuesday between the occupants of a minivan and a car caused a crash and a huge backup on northbound I-43 near Brown Deer Road, WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) reported.
Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies arrested three people in connection with the incident, which was reported shortly before 12:30 p.m. and slowed traffic for about five hours, according to the station.
No injuries were reported.
Homestead baseball team stuns Bay, 10-4, to earn state berth
"How the heck are we going to state?"
Homestead baseball coach Ernie Millard had his hands on hips and was wearing a smile on his face as broad as the early evening sunshine at Cahill Park in Whitefish Bay on Monday.
His team was patiently going through the awards' line after stunning North Shore Conference champion Bay, 10-4, in the WIAA sectional final and earning the Highlanders (25-7) a surprising state tournament berth, their ninth overall and the first for the team since 2009.
After all, even though Millard was smiling when he asked the rhetorical question, it was very serious in its intent. Homestead had graduated its top five pitchers, including NOW All-Suburban selection Colten Poellinger and only three full-time starters returned from a good team of a year ago.
He came up with a simple but broad-based answer: This team really, really likes each other.» Read Full Article
Grand opening is Friday and Saturday at the Cheel, Thiensville's new Nepalese restaurant
Reminder: The Cheel, a restaurant serving Nepalese fare and other food from the region around the Himalayas as well as American plates, will celebrate its grand opening this weekend in Thiensville.
It will serve free samples of its fare from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the remodeled restaurant, 105 N. Main St.
On Saturday, the restaurant will serve from its menu, including lamb, beef or vegetable momos, the traditional dumplings; khow shew, a Burmese dish of noodles in lentil chicken soup; and pork or vegetable served on crisped rice. Prices range from $7 to $17.
Dinner hours are 4 to 10 p.m. Monday to Thursday and 4 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The bar is open 11 a.m. to 2 a.m., and lunch service will be added later.
For more: (262) 236-9463; the Cheel is on Facebook. The restaurant is owned by Jesse and Barkha Daily, who also operate the farmers market in Thiensville. Its chef is Joe Sandretti.
6-story apartment building wins Shorewood approval
Germantown's Finger blanks North Shore baseball champ Bay, 2-0
In the recent past the Germantown baseball team's pitching staff had been so deep that the Warhawks didn't need the services of Randy Finger.
But time and graduation have taken a toll on the Warhawks' resources and Finger, now in his senior year, was called back to the hill.
And is coach Jeff Wolf and the team ever happy that he did.
Showing command of all his pitches, moving corner to corner and up and down, Finger completely baffled North Shore Conference champion Whitefish Bay on the Blue Dukes' homefield Monday night.
He scattered three hits, worked out of a couple of jams deftly, walked four and struck out an impressive 10, including the last three in a row. He even scored the game's only two runs as the Warhawks stymied the potent Blue Dukes, 2-0.» Read Full Article
Some Shorewood residents opposed to height of new developments
new development that's occurred lately on Oakland Ave., north of Capitol Drive.Jackie Keltner and her husband, Alan, have lived in Shorewood for nearly 40 years, and appreciate much of the
But two of those projects — a six-story apartment and retail building completed last year near their home, and a similarly sized building proposed for just a few blocks away — are simply too tall, according to the Keltners and other residents.
"I feel like four stories would be more appropriate," Jackie Keltner said. "The scale of a two-story house against a six-story building is really out of whack."
The latest project is to undergo final zoning review at a Village Board meeting on Monday. General Capital Group wants to develop the six-story apartment building, with street-level retail space, west of Oakland Ave. and south of Olive St.
The apartment building, with about 90 units, would be part of a larger project that includes a two-story Metro Market, to be built north of Kenmore Place, with a four-level parking structure between that upscale supermarket and the apartments. The existing one-story Pick 'n Save supermarket, and two smaller vacant buildings, would be demolished to make way for the new development.» Read Full Article
Milwaukee man accused of seeking to deliver heroin to Ozaukee County
A Milwaukee man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of conspiracy to deliver heroin in Ozaukee County, officials said Wednesday.
Antonio C. Green, 33, was charged with three counts of conspiracy to deliver heroin after he delivered about 5.5 grams of heroin to an undercover officer on three occasions, according to a news release from the Ozaukee County sheriff's office.
The three incidents occurred between June 17 and 20 on Bayshore Drive in Glendale.
Officials arrested Green in Milwaukee on Tuesday, and he is set to make an initial appearance in Ozaukee County Circuit Court Wednesday afternoon, according to the release.


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There are two approaches to class field theory that I was taught. The first, is the theory of $L$-functions, Dirichlet characters and so forth (which I described succintly in the question What are the pillars of Langlands? that I asked a long time ago), and the other is through Brauer groups.
To be precise, I was taught that the following sketch is class field theory:
Let $K$ be number field. Let $v$ be any non-archimedean place. Then there is some explicit isomorphism $inv_v:Br(K_v)\rightarrow \mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}$. If $v$ is an archimedean place, then there is an explicit isomorphism $inv_v:Br(K_v)\rightarrow \mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$ if $K_v$ is $\mathbb{R}$, and $0$ if $K_v$ is $\mathbb{C}$.
Furthermore, the following sequence is exact:
$1\rightarrow Br(K)\rightarrow \bigoplus_v Br(K_v)\rightarrow \mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}\rightarrow 1$
where the first morphism is obvious, and the last morphism is $\sum_v inv_v$.
I take both of these approaches have a lot of content, but it is not clear how people think of them as equivalent. How does one build a dictionary between the one approach and the other?


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Canon's 50mm prime lenses are all non-IS (Image Stabilization) for some reason. Considering the popularity of these range primes, shouldn't Canon be interested in shipping a new, optically improved IS version?
There are two main reason why there's little chance we're going to see 50mm IS lens in the near future:
That is a question for Canon. Honestly, I would not expect them to answer anything about their reasons or plans for not doing something.
What you may note is that there are very few prime lenses with stabilization. If you look across ALL major brands, there are only 20 of them among 213!
One would assume the base logic is that prime lenses have wider apertures than zooms and so stabilization is less needed. This is actually one reason I primarily shoot with Pentax and I enjoy using a F/1.8 lens with stabilization for extreme low-light shooting.
There may be a technical answer, but I would just be guessing. Perhaps if you start moving lens elements, you may eat away at some of the quality advantage, or perhaps it is harder to stabilize at wider apertures? I'm curious too but don't really know.
One of the oldest rules of thumb in photography is the "Sunny 16" rule. Essentially, it says that you can get a proper exposure using 1/(ISO linear rating) as the shutter speed at an aperture of f/16 in bright daylight conditions.
At an ISO setting of 100, then, a midday exposure would be 1/100 s (or, more practically on a film camera, 1/125 s for slides or 1/60 s for reversal films).
Another rule of thumb for th 35mm format is that you can safely hand-hold a camera and get reasonable sharpness at a shutter speed of 1/(focal length of lens) in seconds. Anything from 1/60 s down is in the hand-held range for a 50mm lens on a full/frame camera, and 1/80 s and faster ought to be okay on a crop-sensor camera.
Now, not all pictures are taken at high noon on a sunny day. But ask yourself how many pictures you tend to take with your 50mm lens stopped down to f/16. Unless you keep your camera pegged at the hyperfocal distance for Cartier-Bresson-style "decisive moment" snaps, I'd be willing to bet that most of your small-aperture shots are either landscapes or architectural, in which case a tripod is hardly an annoyance. You probably use the lens opened up to f/8 or wider most of the time. And you've got a further couple of stops of ISO sensitivity to hand before picture noise begins to be noticeable to anyone besides pixel peepers.
What all of this boils down to is that there would be a vanishingly small market for an IS 50mm once the added bulk and expense are taken into account. The only people who would really benefit from IS on a 50 are people like me (I have a chorea not unlike Huntington's disease) and a handful of photojournalists who want to work in available darkness but can't stand grain. Oh, and a few people who have money to spend and can convince themselves that the IS lens must be "better" because it's more expensive and has the letters "IS".
Purely economic. Both Canon's and Nikon's kit zooms manage to include stabilisation and still cost almost nothing, so it's not the cost of including the mechanism, it's the cost of redesigning the lens. They'd do it if they thought there was a market, but they don't.
Personally I think they're missing a trick. I'd absolutely love a 35mm or 50mm prime with IS, even if it was f/2 as long as it was sharp wide open. I think we'll have to wait for Sony (ie Konica/Minolta) or maybe Sigma to do it. Nikon and especially Canon are pretty unresponsive to user demand. But if Sigma did it and it sold well, then they might be woken from their slumbers.
It's an interesting idea. But I suppose image stabilization pays off the most on lenses that are slow (F/2.8 is slow-ish by prime standards) or long (100mm or longer) or both. A 50mm prime (which is usually F/2.0 or faster) just isn't a top priority for the IS treatment.
While 50mm primes may be popular among photo enthusiasts, they may still be among the slowest-selling, least frequently revised lenses in a big manufacturer's line-up. Cheap kit zooms are certainly the best-selling lenses Canon or Nikon makes, and so are updated pretty often. Canon's current F/1.4 50mm lens design, on the other hand, is nearly 20 years old (circa 1993).
There are economic arguments for sure (prime lenses tend to be older designs and don't sell in as high volumes as consumer zooms) but here's another way to look at it.
The shutter speed required to prevent camera motion blur is heavily dependant on the focal length. The shutter speed required to prevent subject blur is independent of focal length if the subject fills the same amount of the frame.
For shooting people in a non posed situation I've found that 1/50s is about the limit to avoid motion blur in most cases. The speed you need for shooting people and the speed you need to prevent camera shake are about the same.
Now consider a 50mm lens with a three stop stabilizer that works (going on test results three stops is realistic these days). That takes you to a speed of 1/6s which is going to cause motion blur in a lot of subjects. It's true that sometimes you're not shooting moving subject, but in these cases it's not unreasonable to use a tripod, since you're able to take more time over the shot.
I know some people like to use fast wide lenses with cameras featuring sensor-shift IS, and there are cases where it's useful, however these situations are rare compared to shooting with a telephoto lenses where the speed required to freeze action doesn't prevent camera shake.
There is a technical reason for not incorporating image stabilisation in a typical high speed Gauss type lens. Optical IS requires a moving lens component that displaces the image laterally without defocusing. This can be done in most multi-component asymmetric constructions, by moving some component controlled by a stabilising sensor.
However the heavier the moving part is, the more power is needed and more inertia will be fed into the whole system of camera and lens, counter-acting the intention of stabilising. A wide aperture Gauss lens has very heavy components. Moreover, moving any of its component parts will have little effect on where the image falls on the sensor and more effect in defocusing the lens, inducing optical errors in the light path.
It is simply not feasible to stabilise this type of lens optically. Therefore no symmetric construction lens is ever stabilised optically. Only in cameras with sensor stabilisation will you get the very fast Gauss lenses or other symmetric designs stabilised.
So while it is rather easy to stabilise a zoom lens, a prime lens in many cases cannot be stabilised, particularly lenses of symmetric or near symmetric design. Typical wide angle lenses for DSLR cameras as well as tele lenses are however not symmetric designs, and thus in most cases they can be optically stabilised.
It is interesting doing a comparison of fashion shots of models in stidio, with the Canon 24-105mm f4 L and the Canon 50mm 1.4, both at the 50mm focal length, both on a 5D-iii. If the model is still, they are equivalent, with somewhat finer detail in the prime. If the model is moving, the 50mm prime suffers. I can only attribute this to lack of IS in the prime.
As flash sync is limited to 1/200 sec, you sometimes cannot go to higher shutter speeds in the studio to resolve movement in the target.


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In this webinar, we will take a close look at issues that arise in a master calendar hearing. We will discuss how to respond to a Notice to Appear (NTA), how to prepare for the master calendar hearing, and practical considerations so you aren't caught off guard. We will look at a few special considerations, such as filing of the asylum application and voluntary departure.
Erin Quinn, ILRC Staff Attorney
Erin brings to ILRC over 8 years of experience as an immigration defense attorney and holds a joint degree in law and public policy (JD/MPP) from the University of Michigan. Prior to opening her own practice in 2007, Ms. Quinn represented immigrants as an associate at the Law Office of Robert B. Jobe. Her experience in immigration law and policy includes working as a fellow for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, EU headquarters in Belgium; clerking for the Immigration Court of San Francisco; and guest lecturer at CSU Eastbay.
Grisel Ruiz, ILRC Law Fellow
Grisel joined the ILRC in 2012 through a fellowship focused on the intersection between immigration law and criminal law. Prior to joining the ILRC, Grisel was a litigation association at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. Before Pillsbury, Grisel received the Stimson Fellowship to head a project jointly housed at the Immigration Law Clinic at UC Davis School of Law and the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, through which she co-founded "Know Your Rights" programs at two local ICE-contracted facilities. These projects provided individual representation, pro bono referrals, pro se materials, and case consultations to hundreds of detained immigrants in removal proceedings. Grisel also provided community presentations regarding constitutional rights when confronted by law enforcement and supervised law students in removal defense cases before the Executive Office for Immigration Review. Grisel is fluent in Spanish and graduated from the University of Chicago Law School where she received the Tony Patiño Fellowship. Prior to law school she worked as a paralegal and coordinator at the National Immigrant Justice Center. She attended the University of Notre Dame for her B.A.


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I'm preparing for a 3.5e game, and I wanted to be a fighter or a marshal, but I also want to be able to use the maneuvers for martial classes. It does not say that one must be a swordsage, warblade, or crusader to use these actions, but it also does not say that one has to be that either. Please help!
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No, but you have to learn maneuvers to be able to use them.
The classes presented in Tome of Battle learn maneuvers automatically as they gain levels, but no other class does. The crusader, warblade, and swordsage are also the only classes who gain a mechanic for recharging their maneuvers during a fight.
Other classes can learn maneuvers by taking the
Generally speaking, if you want to use the maneuvers from Tome of Battle, you should make a character of one of the maneuver-using classes. A fighter who uses his bonus feats to pick up maneuvers is generally going to be weaker than a warblade (in many ways, the warblade is intended to replace the fighter, which is considerably weaker than the other PHB classes unless built just right).


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THE IONIA COUNTY PEACE COMMUNITY/LA COMUNIDAD de PAZ DEL CONDADO de IONIA welcomes volunteers of all ages who are interested in events and activities that promote a Beloved Community (www.thekingcenter.org/king-philosophy) where we recognize our interdependence and use our diversity and different gifts to enrich the whole.
For more information or to become a member, email email@example.com, call 616-527-7163 or like us on Facebook. Visit our website at ioniacountypeacecommunity.org.
By Caryl M. Stern-LaRosa
When life hands you a lemon, peel it
We often think that teaching our children about diversity is a long and difficult task. However as the following exercise shows, it can be as simple as peeling a lemon:
Gather a group of young children and give them lemons, one lemon for each child. Tell them to `get to know your lemon." The children will examine their lemons-smell them, touch them, throw them in the air, and roll them around. After a few minutes, take the lemons back and collect them in a big basket. Next, ask the children to find their lemons from among the bunch. Remarkably, most recognize their lemons at once. Some will even get protective of them.
Next, ask the children to describe how they recognized their lemons. The responses are always varied. "My lemon was a big lemon," one might say. "My lemon was a perfect lemon," says another. And another, "My lemon had dents and bruises." This launches the discussion about how people are like that-different sizes, different shapes, different shades of color, different "dents and bruises."
After exploring those ideas, collect the lemons again. This time, peel the lemons and return them to the basket without their protective skin. Now tell the children to again find their lemon. Presented with this quandary, the children's reactions are always precious. "But the lemons all look the same!" they'll exclaim. This opens the door to a discussion of how people, much like the lemons, are pretty much the same on the inside.
While it may take only 15 minutes and a bowl of lemons to teach young children about diversity, it takes a conscious effort and a lifetime of attention to ensure that lesson is remembered. As parents, we must provide that commitment.
This post is from the Anti-Defamation League Website, www.adl.org. Check out the League's "Imagine A World Without Hate" Educator's Guide, Bringing Viral Video Into The Classroom, at www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/education/adl-releases-imagine-a-world-without-hate-educators-guide.html.


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STEUBENVILLE - There was more to Steubenville's 52-49 revenge triumph against visiting Martins Ferry on Thursday than free throws.
But make no mistake, Big Red's efforts at the line and the Riders' continuing struggles in that department played a major factor.
Steubenville, led by the Mytia Barker, finished 19 of 28 at the line while the visitors hit only 50 percent (11-for-22), a key contributor in the three-point margin.
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TO THE HOOP — Steubenville's Lysaih Rice puts an second chance opportunity in for two points as teammate Abbey Taylor and Martins Ferry's Megan Rose look on during Big Red's 52-49 win over the Purple Riders Thursday at the Crimson Center.
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It was Barker who proved unshakeable at the stripe.
She had only four points at the half but finished with a game-high 18, bolstered by a 10 of 12 showing at the line. She added eight rebounds.
"Mytia stepped up a lot tonight," Steubenville coach Phil Casinelli said. "She attacked the basket and basically took over the game."
She teamed with Emily Masloski, still not 100 percent in returning from a knee injury in making repeated drives at the hoop. Masloski finished with just six points on 2 of 13 shooting, but her court presence, along with Barker, was able to open up opportunities for their teammates.
On top of that, Big Red owned the paint, repeatedly creating second and third-shot opportunities.
Steubenville owned a 33-26 advantage off the glass, including 15-7 on the offensive end.
Jessica Kinney finished with a game-high 33, including 9 of 14 at the line, but the next highest scoring Purple Riders' player was Kylie Stalder with six.
Ferry coach Lindsay Coyne couldn't fault the effort but noted that, admittedly, the free-throw shooting needs some work.
"Our free throw shooting has to improve," Coyne said. "We practice in the gym but the girls just need to step up and be confident.
"We shot 50 percent and lost by three and that's happened to us a few times this year.
"They play so hard every game. I can't fault our effort."
Freshman Lysaih Rice had a strong showing off the bench for Big Red, pouring in nine points and grabbing seven rebounds. Taylor Young added seven points.
The road doesn't get any easier for the Purple Riders, who've suffered back-to-back road losses in Jefferson County (Indian Creek and Big Red) and sit with a 10-8 record.
Next up is a Saturday meeting with a tough John Marshall team. Coyne's knows the importance of the game with the cutoff for the OVAC tournament right around the corner.
"Our schedule has been brutal. We've played three games a week the last few weeks and we've had to compete at our highest level because there hasn't been a let up," Coyne said. "That should help us out come tourney time."
Big Red (13-4) meanwhile is off until Monday when it hosts New Philadelphia.
Steubenville 52, Martins Ferry 49
Martins Ferry 11 9 10 19 49
Steubenville 12 10 12 18 52
MARTINS FERRY: Kinney 11-19 9-14 33; K.Stalder 3-7 0-2 6; M.Stalder 0-1 1-2 1; Rose 1-7 0-0 2; Oberdick 0-3 0-0 0; King 2-2 0-0 4; Lee 0-1 0-0 0; Suriano 1-2 1-2 3; DeLeonardis 0-0 0-0 0; TOTALS: 18-42 11-22 49. 3-pointers: Kinney (2).
STEUBENVILLE: E.Masloski 2-13 2-3 6; Young 2-8 1-2 7; Barker 4-6 10-12 18; Bodo 1-2 1-2 3; Taylor 2-8 0-0 5; Wilson 0-1 1-2 1; Rice 3-6 3-5 9; H.Masloski 1-5 1-2 3; TOTALS: 15-49 19-28 52. 3-pointers: Young (2), Taylor.


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Behind A Diagnosis of March Madness
For devoted college sports fans, the NCAA tournament isn't just about the game; it's about the story of their lives
From the point of view of a non-sports-fan, March Madness looks like the month when many people actually go mad. Fans parade by in crazy hats and face paint. You go to a nice cafe for lunch and some other diner screams "Go Orange!" for Syracuse University—and instead of getting escorted from the premises is joined by a dozen other fans who look up and chant in unison, "Go Orange!" Strangers on the street ask what you think about something called Florida Gulf Coast University. As the comedian Michael Ian Black wrote last week on Twitter, March Madness "is the time of year when I don't understand anything that's happening in my country."
March Madness is fun even for the casual fan, of course, because of its action and drama and the chance of winning big in the office betting pool. But for the team fanatic, there is more: a very real and emotionally satisfying relationship.
Technically, it is not a "relationship," which would require reciprocity and mutual interest. But sports fandom shares crucial features of an interpersonal relationship, says State University of New York Stony Brook psychologist Arthur Aron. It involves, he says, the "inclusion of the other in the self." In intimate relationships, this means that the other person's triumphs and failures become your triumphs and failures. Psychologists call this blending of minds "self expansion."
In an experiment pioneered by Dr. Aron and repeated in labs around the world, participants are shown a list of personal characteristics and asked to press a button to say which ones are or are not true of themselves. People in relationships are fast to press the button when the trait is true or not true of both themselves and their partner. When the two don't match, however, they tend to stumble, pausing to recall which person has that characteristic.
In sports fans, you see this same sort of mind meld when they use the word "we" to describe a group of players who, in a personal sense, are complete strangers to them. And in sports, as opposed to ordinary life, there are much more visible ways to identify with the beloved "other." A professional team offers a few adoptable traits: a color scheme, a regional affiliation, maybe a mascot that can help to define your personal style.
A savvy team can take on more nuanced identities too. Oakland Raiders former owner Al Davis had repeated clashes with the National Football League, which moved many fans to profess their appreciation for misfits, rebels and the Jolly Roger; Tim Tebow's testimonials of Christian faith have appealed to evangelical fans far beyond Denver and the Meadowlands.
But a college team offers far more: not just the colors, the region and the mascot but educational values, professional ties, group and community associations, old friends and memories. College has become the place where young Americans go to establish who they are for the rest of their lives, so it makes sense that a college team offers a deeper, more fulfilling relationship than a casual flirtation with teal and a skating shark. College teams represent the wealth of a university experience and can create fans from people who will never have an interest in professional sports.
There is even some evidence of a physical dimension to how fans identify with their teams. When men are involved in direct competition, their testosterone levels rise with wins and fall with losses, and this may carry over to strong identification with a team. A study of the 1994 World Cup final, in which Brazil defeated Italy, showed higher levels of testosterone among the victorious Brazilian fans and lower levels among the disappointed Italians (though research on fans watching the 2010 World Cup did not turn up the same results).
Given a national stage every March, this heady mix of hormones, pride, love and self-esteem makes the NCAA tournament a uniquely meaningful occasion in American sports. In 2007, one particularly passionate sports lover in Cleveland started a blog called "My Teams Are Cursed," posting hundreds of entries about his sorry fate as a fan. When his college team, the Kansas Jayhawks, won the NCAA tournament nine months later, he posted a video of fans in Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence reacting to the game-winning shot—and then he never posted to his blog again. He compared the experience of his team's victory to a purifying exorcism.
So the patrons of your local cafe who shout "Go Orange!" to each other are not just cheering on their team. They are reminding each other of shared attachments to Syracuse and their time there: friends, romances, classes, careers and aspirations. Joining that refrain is nothing less than a way to mark out their place in the universe and in the relentless flow of time. As for those outside the charmed circle of college fandom, good luck navigating by the stars of March Madness.
—Mr. Simons is the author of "The Secret Lives of Sports Fans: The Science of Sports Obsession," to be published Thursday by the Overlook Press.


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Forgotten Ellis IslandSunday | 8 p.m.
Visit the abandoned immigrant hospital on Ellis Island. During the great wave of immigration, 22 medical buildings sprawled across two islands adjacent to Ellis Island, the largest port of entry to the United States. Massive and modern, the hospital was America's first line of defense against contagious, often virulent, disease. In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital and healed from illness before becoming citizens. This is a powerful reminder of the best -- and worst -- of America's dealings with its new citizens-to-be. Elliott Gould narrates.
A Chef's LifeTomatoes ... You Say Heirloom, I Say Old Timey | Monday, 7 p.m.
Vivian visits a neighbor's peanut farm; and learns about an old school-break snack of salted peanuts and Pepsi from her father. Later, she makes Pepsi-glazed pork belly with country ham-braised peanuts; and reinvents boiled peanuts for the local farmers' market.
The TunnelEpisode 6 | Monday, 9 p.m.
As youths are burnt alive, police suspect the hand of the Truth Terrorist once more. They finally make a key arrest. Will this be the end of the killings?
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John Ferris - Our Story Bonus Feature
John Ferris recounts memories of the Candy Kitchen in Marshall, including a regular customer who was a famous author.
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Rain Barrels--good or evil?
i have decided this year to get into the intentional plants in the yard situation. (yes, i use to have whatever popped up and survived getting mowed). so now i have to water to get these things going. i live in a city that tends to impose a water restriction late each year, but i don't know if i'll keep doing this that long or just let the plants die off. i have several down spouts that could easily fit barrels. when i looked at pricing for barrels the other day what i found were all very high (to me anyway). plus they seem to need "parts sold seperately". at this rate would i be better off to just keep adding to my water bill? (i'm not big on the "be green" thing if it cost me extra $$$). anyone got any suggestions. (currently have fivegallon buckets for some use)
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You can sometimes get the big blue barrels from restaurants or food supply places. You have to scout around and be proactive and ask for them though. They're usually free and food safe so it's a good deal. Then you drill your own holes and add hardware (spigots and screens) and you're in for 10 to 15 bucks. They're not the pretty green ones but you could always build a nice enclosure or lattice work screen to keep them hidden if that's a problem.
Check with your state and local laws. Some have restrictions on collecting rain water.
Utah, Colorado, and Washington have rainwater collection restrictions that limit the free use of rainwater.
Some places are very strict. Here's a quote from Denver regarding using tap water only once:
"Additionally, any and all water that comes from tap may only be used once. Denver water customers are not permitted to take their bath or laundry water (commonly referred to as gray water) and dump it on their outdoor plants or garden."
We just leave our watering cans out to fill when it rains. Although I have wanted to pick up a rain barrel for some time, I'm with you that the price is a bit high, and I haven't hit the motivation to track downs free one yet.
I like your previous growing strategy :) we had something similar until my wife bought some strawberry plants.
to piggy back off what zinquan posted.
Besides the big blue barrels (food grade only) there are smaller 15-35 gallon barrels too. There are also very large (i call them milk crates) ones that are easily moved by pallet forks. They hold several hundred gallons.
I would go with colored plastic over clear. I would put a strainer on the top (between the gutter and the container). And I would likely run a leak hose from the barrel to my plants (or make my own) if they are in close proximity. If not I would rig up a hose to the barrel and turn the drain plug/drain cock on and off as needed.
Why pay for water if you don't have to. I have used rain barrels at job sites to collect water off of roofs. I have filled up several 55 gallon drums with water in one downpour.
I converted a plastic trash can that we weren't using because our city changed trash collection. I wasn't expecting my conversion to last, but it has for 3 years now. I think I spent around $15 on supplies and used instructions I found on the internet. It's not pretty but it works and I have a use for a trash barrel that would have sat empty.
Thanks to all. You've gotten me thinking as well. Gonna talk to the guy that manages our cafeteria.
Just a thought on the whole appearance thing. You can get plastic primer paint, which encourages paint to stick to plastic - it normally does not. Then you could get something interesting, and spray paint whatever you wind up using. Some apparently don't require primer (things change quickly).
Terra Cotta: http://rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=89
Multi-Color for Plastic: http://rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=31
Hammered: http://rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=121
Sandstone: http://rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=80
Re: Only using water once. This isn't tap water, it's rain water, so regs should not apply. Besides, who the heck makes up these dang laws?!?! Seriously?!?!?! That's like the legislator who tried to pass a law against LoJacking people.
@zuiquan: Here is a project sheet describing exactly what you are talking about. Also includes a video. What this video doesn't describe is how to create an overflow so that once the barrel fills the overflow water will go back into your downspout boot. May not be an issue where you live but depending upon your yearly rainfall rates and size of the roof you are draining, filling a 55 gallon barrel might not be out of the question.
Check your area to see if there are any workshops around -- they have had them around my area for under $50, which includes the barrel itself, along with the rest of the supplies and instruction on how to make it. Just two words of advice on the rain barrel: make sure your mesh is really fine, or you'll risk mosquitoes getting in and laying eggs; and make sure wherever you put it in your yard is completely level (if it's full, it can weigh more than a linebacker, and you don't want that falling on you!)
@jimmyd103: Good stuff. I put a male threaded fitting at the top of mine and hooked it up to a hose for overflow and ran it to my garden. Depending on the square footage of your roof you can easily have an overflow problem in a short amount of time. They fill up fast if you've got a big roof.
Since you asked "EVIL"
@cengland0: Wow, that's bizarre. AFAIK, here in the desert where we have fresh water shortages, everyone is encouraged to make as much use of their water as possible. We are so short of water we had a PSA running for a while asking people not to fill their water glass with more than they plan to drink. Restaurants don't give you water unless you ask. I can't imagine filling a 55 gallon drum in a single rainstorm. I set out a couple of containers last week to catch water for my plants from the series of rainstorms that passed through, and there wasn't even an inch in the buckets after three days of sporadic rain. And that's the first rain we've had in months. We do have my house's single downspout feeding directly into a flower bed and I have other plants that are the recipients of the water draining from the roof slope, but I still have to water everything a couple of times a week as the water they get from the sky is minimal.
Here is a tutorial on how to make your own. If you don't want to use trash cans, you can probably do like a few people have suggested here and find some food grade barrels locally.
If you really wanted to make a project out of it, you could also look into a rain garden. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_garden
@moondrake: The idea is to put it under a gutter downspout, so that a large portion of your roof is acting as the collection surface. Much different than just setting a barrel out in the rain.
I don't use them - We have to do a lot of watering, and it would only barely dent the consumption to use a rain barrel. Plus I like watering from a hose with water under pressure, not from a watering can.
@cengland0: That's one area where Texas has done the right thing. Rainwater harvesting regulation is now forbidden and gray water(bath/shower water) reuse is encouraged.
@havocsback: That's mainly because Utah and Colorado are at the top of the river system while Texas is at the bottom. Due to agreements between the various states (some of them quite old) some areas are not supposed to collect and reuse water because that prevents it from making it down to the lower states.
Funny, just got an email that the local trash/recycling dept. is offering these for a limited time at $60 (half-price). Maybe check with your local municipality to see if anything like that is available or in the works?
@tsfisch: apparently they can be used with a hose.
I was looking for one last week, I kind of have this "prepper" thing going on because I am watching way too much TV.
I found on on Craig List for $35, and noticed that EBay had some good deals also.
Problem with EBay was the shipping although you may be able to find local pick-up.


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ARDMORE, OK-- The Centers for Disease Control said extreme heat like this kills more Americans each year than hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes and floods combined.
Health experts are urging everyone to be careful but one group in particular is more susceptible to heat illnesses.
Experts said that older adults are at higher risk of heat-related illnesses so doctors urge all of us to check on the elderly.
Mark Lewis is an RN for aspire home care. He said there are several reasons older adults are susceptible to heat illness.
"They don't have the thirst mechanism as strong as we have, they don't realize they're getting dehydrated because they don't feel thirsty" said Lewis.
Lewis said they're also not able to regulate their body temperatures as well.
"A common occurrence as we get older we lose that ability to regulate quite so well so they get real hot before they realize they are that hot" said Lewis.
Jessica Pfau is the executive director of Ardmore village, an elderly residential community. She said in this heat staff take extra safety precautions for residents.
Making sure their AC is always working and making sure their homes are cool enough.
"One of the things we noticed is that seniors are concerned about their electricity bills and so they tend to turn up their air conditioners and they don't notice how hot it's getting in their homes" said Pfau.
Pfau said there about 200 elderly residents who live at Ardmore village and it is important that family, friends, and even neighbors check on them frequently in this heat, especially those who live alone.
" We want our neighbors to check on each other. It is so important, if you haven't seen your neighbor in the morning you might want to make sure that she's okay because sometimes they don't understand how the heat can really get to them" said Pfau.
"it's so important that we check on the elderly frequently in theses heat waves like this because it doesn't take long" said Lewis.
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Public Art, Private Expression
Gay artists like John Singer Sargent, as well as very straight artists like Thomas Hart Benton, created large-scale works that make you wonder what's just past the lofty ideals of public art.
Part of the pride of being civilized is art funded by institutions such as museums, banks, and even the government, for the enlightenment of the general public. These works are often mythical, religious and allegorical. Because murals depicted lofty realms of thought and philosophy, they naturally tended to include naked gods, muscled shirtless workers, and androgynous angels. Also a lot of bare ass.
Viewing them now through our 21st century lenses, it is evident how much more prim and prudish the general public is. It would be implausible to think of Paul Cadmus's naked native Americans flashing themselves down on the post office patrons of today. What about the children?
In 1939, during the Depression, the Work Projects Administration created job for thousands of unemployed people that often included works of art for public spaces like courthouses and post offices. Many of these celebrated the average American working man, American history, and industry in the United States.
The corollary public art in Europe was similar in that it promoted the current political ideals of the time often veering to Olympic and physical culture. In Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany there are examples that promote a new human ideal. That didn't turn out so well, but the stylized heroic works of art still exist in some places.
Here's a look at what might grab your attention while running errands.
Born in Italy to American parents, trained in Paris, and a resident of London, Sargent became Boston's favorite painter in the 1880s. Acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic for his brilliant oil portraits, after the turn of the century he applied his talents to other forms and media, including public mural projects. The commissions from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to decorate its new building's most important public spaces—the grand staircase and rotunda— resulted in one of Sargent's last and most ambitious works, the culmination of his career as a creator of great decorative schemes. Sargent regarded the entire space as a giant canvas and brought together all the pictorial, decorative, and architectural elements with a painter's skill and vision.
After a large trove of Sargent's male nudes were published recently, it is generally understood that Sargent was sexually oriented toward other men. To call him "gay" would be misleading, as the modern concept of a gay man did not exist then. His sensual depictions of muscled but weightless forms that verge on campy seem to be a coded message to modern eyes.
Note the ladies intertwined below Sargent's heroic Atlas.
Foro Italico, formerly Foro Mussolini, is a sports complex in Rome, Italy. It was built between 1928 and 1938 as the Foro Mussolini (Mussolini's Forum) under the design of Enrico Del Debbio and, later, Luigi Moretti. Inspired by the Roman forums of the imperial age, its design is lauded as a preeminent example of Italian Fascist architecture instituted by Mussolini. There are possibly the gayest statues ever erected lining the stadium — worth a profile on their own, but we concentrate on the murals in the swimming center here.
German American artist Winold Reiss was commissioned to design and create two 22 foot high by 110 foot long color mosaic murals depicting the history of Cincinnati for the rotunda, two murals for the baggage lobby, two murals for the departing and arriving train boards, 14 smaller murals for the train concourse representing local industries and the large world map mural located at the rear of the concourse. Reiss spent roughly two years in the design and creation of the murals. The murals located in the train concourse were removed when the concourse building was demolished in the 1970s. The murals removed from the train concourse were then placed on display at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport at the cost of $1 million.
Duncan Grant was part of the influential British Bloomsbury Group — an intellectual circle of writers artists and critics, who lived in the Bloomsbury area of London in the early part of the twentieth century. In 1911 Grant painted this work (and another now held in the Tate Collection; Football) for the dining room at Borough Polytechnic in South London (now London South Bank University). Source: Tate.org
Grant was a conscientious objector in the First World War. Though homosexual, he had a daughter, Angelica, by his 40-year largely platonic relationship with Vanessa Bell (sister of Virginia Woolf), and several notable lovers including Bloomsbury set fellows, the economist John Maynard Keynes and writer David Garnett. His later life was spent with another Bloomsbury associate, poet and translator of the classics, Paul Roche.
The mural paintings in The Russell Chantry, St. Blaise Chapel in St. Mary's Cathedral are dedicated to St. Blaise, patron saint of wool workers and depict a fanciful quayside scene in 15th century Lincoln. They were painted in 1958, when Grant was in his early seventies and were embroiled in controversy from the start. His initial designs were amended and his open homosexuality and history as a conscientious objector were frowned upon in the early post-war years. The Chapel was kept locked from around 1964 to 1977 when the first colour Cathedral guidebook made no mention of the murals and it continued to be locked and used as a storeroom with cupboards against the walls covering the murals until 1990. Some people objected to the near nudity of the figure of Christ, modelled on Grant's homosexual lover Paul Roche and athletic young porters loading bales of wool on the quayside. Even today, some Cathedral guides omit the St.Blaise Chapel and Grant's marvellous murals from their tour. Source: Geograph.org.uk/snippet/4525
Union Station, Ogden, Utah
In 1931, Edward Laning's work formed part of the first major show at the newly formed Whitney Museum of American Art. He painted murals for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. In 1980, Laning came to Ogden, Utah, to personally oversee the installation of his two 50-foot by 12-foot murals in the Grand Lobby of the historic Ogden Railway Station. The northern side depicts the Union Pacific company coming from Omaha, Nebraska, and the southern side depicts the Central Pacific coming from Sacramento, California. The National Academy of Design of New York City granted $100,000 to Union Station as his commission.
When The City Club of Cleveland opened its doors to a new facility on May 12, 2000, all eyes were on the auditorium's mural, "Freedom of Speech," the centerpiece of the newly renovated space. Painted for The City Club in 1942 by noted Cleveland artist Elmer Brown, the mural's sweeping panorama represents the ideals that are the essence of The City Club: justice, freedom, honor, and shirtlessness.
Source: University of Virginia Library
Edward Lanning, "The Role of the Immigrant in the Industrial Development of America," 1935
WPA Federal Art Project mural originally hung in the dining room at Ellis Island and now hangs in the Ceremonial Courtroom at the Theodore Roosevelt Courthouse in Brooklyn, New York. The panels hanging in the court represent a portion of the original work — most of which was destroyed in the early '50s when a violent storm ripped the roof off of the building. The painting depicts the construction of the Central and Union Pacific railroads by Chinese and Irish laborers.


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by Melissa Brunner
Sunday night's Grammy awards seemed to be a mix of emotions - and mixed emotions.
Certainly, the timing of the ceremony - 24 hours after the death of Whitney Houston - meant it would include some moving tributes to the pop diva. At some points, it was like witnessing a group therapy session. And who wasn't blown away by Jennifer Hudson's rendition of "I Will Always Love You?", made even more poignant as you felt the lyrics take on new meaning. The timing made the focus on Houston inevitable, but I was glad to see the producers include all the photos of those in the memorial on the screen behind Hudson during the song.
And how could you not love Adele? Just imagine the threat of having the very thing you love to do most in the world being taken from you. Five months after throat surgery, she was back better than ever... and embarrassed by her nose running during her final acceptance speech!
If anyone was a lightning rod, though, it was Chris Brown. Three years after assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna (oh, and there are again rumors they might be back together), Brown had a prominent role in the night's festivities, taking part in two performances and then winning an award. The question is whether the Grammys should have embraced him so wholeheartedly. One person I know expressed disgust over his appearance on Twitter, then received a slew of replies calling her every name in the book. Here's a link to an Associated Press article posted on the Wall Street Journal website, with concerns from the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and even some fellow musicians not quite willing to forgive and forget - http://online.wsj.com/article/AP4cf8a91551a24604adc159a9495efc46.html.
Where do you fall on the debate? And what did you think of the tone of the night? Share your highlights, lowlights and overall opinions!


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Atrial Fibrillation Health Center
Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Disease
In this article
What Causes Atrial Fibrillation?
Atrial fibrillation is associated with many conditions, including:
- High blood pressure
- Coronary artery disease (blockages in the heart's arteries)
- Heart valve disease
- Previous heart surgery
- Chronic lung disease
- Heart failure
- Cardiomyopathy (disease of heart muscle that causes heart failure)
- Congenital heart disease (heart disease present at birth)
- Pulmonary embolism (blood clot in lungs)
Less Common Causes of Atrial Fibrillation
Less common causes of atrial fibrillation include:
- Hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid)
- Pericarditis (inflammation of the outside lining of the heart)
- Viral infection
In at least 10% of people with AF, no underlying heart disease is found. In many of these people, AF may be related to alcohol or excessive caffeine use, stress, certain drugs, electrolyte or metabolic imbalances, or severe infections. In some people, no cause can be found.
The risk of AF increases with age, particularly after age 60. According to the CDC, AF affects roughly one in every 10 people ages 80 and older.
Why Is Atrial Fibrillation Dangerous?
Many people live for years with atrial fibrillation without problems. However, because the atria are beating rapidly and irregularly, blood does not flow through them as quickly. This makes the blood more likely to clot. If a blood clot is pumped out of the heart, it can travel to the brain, resulting in a stroke. The likelihood of a stroke in people with AF is five to seven times higher than in the general population. Although about half of all blood clots related to AF result in stroke, clots can travel to other parts of the body -- such as the kidney, heart, or intestines -- also causing problems.
AF can also decrease the heart's pumping ability by as much as 20%-25%. AF combined with a fast heart rate over a period of days to months can result in heart failure. Control of AF can then improve heart failure.
How Is Atrial Fibrillation Diagnosed?
Four tests are used to diagnose atrial fibrillation, including:
- Electrocardiogram
- Holter monitor
- Portable event monitor (also called a loop recorder)
- Transtelephonic monitor or wireless monitor (via the Internet)
These monitoring devices help your doctor learn if you are having irregular heartbeats, what kind they are, how long they last, and what may be causing them.


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I have a 94 ZJ 5.2 with 240k on it now. The Jeep really wants to rest but i keep it around for the snow. I have major slop in the steering and know that most of it is from the upper track bar bracket. The bolt hole is wollered out and needs to be replaced. this issue causes me to not drive the Jeep any more than i have to and i would like to drive it a little more. i have no plans in lifting it.
A factory bracket, if i can even get one is more than $250.
Aftermarket ones may cost the same but it looks like the design is way better.
Is there an option that is less expensive that can be accomplished with my current hardware just to get some more life out of it.
Will the aftermarket ones work on a ZJ that has not been lifted at all
If i were to go with an aftermarket one, what kind of modifications do i have to do to the lower bracket on the axle?
can the current one be rebuilt


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3 Apr 2012 7:57 PM #1
[Please Vote] Bring back FLASH Charts as a fallback option!
First of all, I would like to say that I am really excited about canvas/svg drawing and the possibility to implement charting libraries using it. I do believe that this technology is absolutely right for the future, it will demonstrate astonishing capabilities once WebGL and web workers are streamlined and widely supported.
However, over the past year, I've used the charting library provided by ExtJS 4.x extensively and realized that this technology at its current state cannot satisfy the needs of a serious charting application, nor do I foresee it improving fast enough to be able to match the functionality/performance required now.
Therefore, I would like to discuss the possibility of bringing back flash charts as a fallback option for this transition period.
The rationale of this request is (and why svg/canvas charts are not enough):
- Charts are drawn by JavaScript, the more charts you have and the more complex they are, the more single-threaded JavaScript cpu cycles you are going to lose while drawing them. As a result, other elements have to wait -> unresponsive and sluggish application. Web workers will probably fix this, but how far away are we?
- Canvas is a part of DOM, the more charts you have and the more complex they are, the larger and slower your DOM becomes -> unresponsive and sluggish application.
- All kinds of compatibility issues with older browsers and even new ones (recent Chrome 18 update). It looks like there is more to follow.
- Limited ability to animate/prettify due to the aforementioned reasons. The result is: my charts don't look better than yours, and we all know how sales are usually made!
Again, these limitations do not apply to some toy charts where you want to show how many bananas someone sold this year and what would next year look like, but rather when you want to display 10 line charts with 10 series consisting of 1000 data points, or couple of stacked bar charts with 150 series each while having some other complex layouts on the same page/other tabs.
Please +1 if you would like to see flash charts as a fallback option.
Also if you have use cases exposing svg/canvas inability to deliver, please add here!
Thank you
4 Apr 2012 6:18 AM #2
Thank you for your input and I will forward this to development. In working with complex financial charts over the years, I understand the need for advanced charting. Flash support is always a cause for debate
4 Apr 2012 9:03 AM #3
Thanks Scott,
I am really not trying to start a debate here as I understand the benefits of canvas/svg drawing and drawbacks of flash. But at this point there is no usable solution for serious charting in ExtJS, so I think flash still has life here as a temporary solution for a next year or two!
6 Nov 2012 7:38 PM #4
Hi Scott,
Any new information regarding my request, anything in a roadmap related to the issues I mentioned?
I am actually thinking to develop a custom extension that will integrate Ext3 flash charts into Ext4.
Any thoughts regarding this?
Maybe someone else will be interested to participate?
7 Nov 2012 6:48 AM #5
I have not heard anything lately. I am flying out to CA next week. I plan talk with the dev team about our plans in regards to charting. Sencha Touch just received a big update to charting, hopefully Ext is not far behind.
7 Nov 2012 7:30 AM #6
Thanks Scott,
Please let me know once you talk to them. Also if you could ask about their thoughts regarding feasibility of writing an extension. I am thinking to do that, but as you are probably aware this is quite an undertaking, and I wanted to hear alternate opinions before doing that.
Also, is collaboration with Sencha possible?
7 Nov 2012 7:44 AM #7
At the end of the day ... to answer you original title, I do not see flash coming back.
I see enhancements to JS versions and/or move to HTML5. Even some of the larger chart vendors have moved to HTML as well.
7 Dec 2012 1:12 PM #8
If I understand correctly, the most recent Sencha Touch Charts have greatly improved performance over ExtJS charts, but there seems to be no timeline for merging those improvements into ExtJS.
Is it possible to use Sencha Touch Charts within an ExtJS application? Could we feasibly improve our (non-mobile web) application's charting performance by just upgrading our license and using the Sencha Touch Charts classes instead?
This is a very big problem for us, and we (like many others I can see) are considering using a different library because of it.
7 Dec 2012 1:21 PM #9
You might want to see my post here : http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...vg-getBBoxText
I had the same issue. Ext JS charts are awesome, but can't handle large datasets.
I've converted my charts to use Google Charts. They are incredibly fast.
I barely had to modify my application at all. For the data, you can use the same store/model you've been using. Then you just feed that data to the Google Charts API.
It works incredibly well and fast. I can now render a chart with 16 series of 1400 to 2000 data points EACH in under 750ms.
Attached is a SMALL sample.
Here is a much smaller data set to demonstrate how nice the charts and tips can look:
Here is a VERY simplistic demo : https://github.com/calendee/ExtJS_And_GoogleCharts
Last edited by Justin Noel; 7 Dec 2012 at 1:55 PM. Reason: Added GitHub link.
7 Dec 2012 2:36 PM #10
Switching to Google Charts
It's great to know that switching to Google Charts can be so easy, runs far faster and still can look pretty good. We selected ExtJS primarily because of the nice-looking charts, but have been extremely disappointed with performance. We even have very small data sets (a few dozen points at most), but we use the charts in a dashboard that updates frequently. Even on an 8-core Mac Pro ExtJS Charts makes the interface sluggish, and it's barely usable at all on most laptops, etc.


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The 6 Most Hilarious Ways People Breached Airport Security
Between the body scanners and the bomb-sniffing dogs, airlines would like you to think that airports are impregnable force fields where bad guys are stymied on the regular by their love of comically oversized shampoo bottles.
But the reality is that while you're enjoying a cavity search for accidentally packing nail clippers in your carry-on, security meltdowns of slapstick proportions nonetheless happen with frightening regularity. Like ...
#6. Partying Jet Skier Defeats $100 Million Security System
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In a post-9/11 world, there are at least three layers of security between you and the plane, at least one of which may involve a stranger looking at a 3D scan of your genitals. So you can only imagine what the security would be like if you were to, say, run onto the tarmac from outside the airport. They probably tase you and feed your body into a jet engine, right? Well ...
In 2012, Daniel Casillo was enjoying a nighttime jet ski outing in New York City's Jamaica Bay when he ran out of fuel. Stranded in the middle of the bay, Casillo had no choice but swim to shore. Unfortunately, the closest shore happened to be the one that bordered John F. Kennedy International Airport.
$9 beers are just a muddy sprint away.
Now, Kennedy Airport had recently installed a $100 million security system courtesy of defense contractor Raytheon. This system was designed to detect any potential terrorists who might attempt an aquatic landing. Little did Raytheon realize that their million-dollar mettle would be tested by one marooned jet skier whose nerves were hardened from an evening of boozing.
ABC News
"Hands? We didn't expect him to have hands!"
JFK's first line of defense was an 8-foot barbed wire fence, which Casillo managed to scale without any problem. He then channeled his inner James Bond and crossed two active runways while unintentionally thwarting a number of motion detectors and surveillance cameras. Next, he walked right up to the damn terminal and probably could have even boarded a flight if he hadn't finally been spotted by an airport staffer. At this point, JFK staff freaked the fuck out and cancelled 100 flights as a result of one confused man toddling around the runaway armed with nothing but a life jacket and poor life choices.
Jupiterimages/Comstock/Getty Images/Photos.com
"I'll be back in like an hour, be cool."
In an attempt to save face, the Port Authority police charged Casillo with criminal trespassing and pointed out that they had several clearly marked no-trespassing signs, which Casillo had the audacity to ignore (but which surely would have deterred any real wild-eyed terrorist).
To be fair to JFK and Raytheon, this is far from the first time the devil's nectar has defeated airport security. In 2004, a Scottish lap dancer named Soraya Wilson, galvanized simultaneously by a bender and a fight with her boyfriend, clambered up a barbed-wire fence at Aberdeen Airport and took a nap in a parked aircraft. It's unclear why news media at the time focused on Wilson's career as a lap dancer, but we're assuming her gyrating talents allowed her to python her way over razor wire without getting filleted.
BBC News
It's a good thing terrorists can't dance for shit.
#5. Airport Guard Impersonates Dead Guy ... for 20 Straight Years
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Sure, the TSA staff who man the baggage scanners at the airport might not be top-of-the-line law enforcement, but everyone in the building has, if nothing else, been background checked going back five generations. For the bad guys, getting somebody on the inside of airport security would be a gold mine, so if you want that job, you'd better have a squeaky-clean record.
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"I killed six terrorists just to get an interview."
Take Jerry Thomas, a 20-year veteran security officer at Newark Liberty International Airport. He was a model employee who had risen in the ranks to become a supervisor in charge of 30 other guards. And he was still a supervisor when he was arrested for identity fraud.
Yes, it turns out that Thomas' real name is (the considerably more spectacular) Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole. The real Jerry Thomas was murdered in 1992, the same year that Oyewole stole his identity and -- like a really boring version of Don Draper -- began working as a security guard in Newark.
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Fewer affairs, but way more accidentally touching someone else's sex toys.
Now, you may be asking yourself why a company that employs security guards at sensitive installations like airports wouldn't perform a background check. Oyewole may have been hired pre-9/11, but surely there were checks in place that at a bare minimum would turn up someone, oh, using the identity of a murdered guy. It's not like the concept of doing bad things to airplanes was invented in 2001.
Al-Qaida just hit it big. These guys have hated airplanes since before it was cool.
Well, a background check was in fact performed by FJC Security Services prior to Oyewole being hired, a check that depended almost entirely on fingerprint identification. Since neither Oyewole nor Thomas had ever been fingerprinted before, it was assumed that everything was copacetic. Oyewole also aced state and federal background checks, all of which gave him gold stars for totally not being a Nigerian guy named Bimbo who sneaked into the U.S. in 1989.
And let's not chalk up Oyewole's arrest to additional security measures put in place after 9/11, seeing as how he wasn't exposed until 2012, and then only because someone phoned in an anonymous tip.
That dude's detective badge looks embarrassed.
#4. Kid Flies to Italy Without Ticket or Passport
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Really, every single uniformed person in the airport is there to do one job: to make sure you don't get on the plane without a ticket. We suppose it's still possible for somebody to pull it off -- with the right knowledge, they could fake a boarding pass, or maybe hack into the system. They'd still need a fake ID and be cool enough to fool the staff at the gate, but surely some kind of highly trained foreign agent could pull it off. Or, you know, an 11-year-old kid.
Because that's what little Liam Corcoran managed to do in 2012. Despite having no ticket, chaperone, or passport, he was able to board a flight at England's Manchester Airport and fly 1,000 miles to Italy.
Liam Corcoran: next appearance will be on the space shuttle.
Just by virtue of being a cherubic li'l guy, Corcoran was able to waltz past five security checkpoints and board a flight bound for Rome. He later bragged, "Getting on the plane was easier than doing my homework. I didn't have anything on me and no one asked me for anything. They smiled at me when I went through." Either this kid is the next incarnation of Harry Potter, or Manchester Airport's holographic security staffers (yes, this is a real thing) have been drinking intoxicating photons on the job.
Man Airport Group
It's a British airport. Sober workers wouldn't be authentic.
Mind you, Corocoran was only detected when he began joking to fellow passengers about how much fun it was to run away from home. If there's a silver lining to this entire scenario, it's that the plot of Home Alone 2 totally came true.


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I have a very soft question:
What exactly is the definition of an enumeration result?
Let say I want to enumerate some combinatorial structure and I came up with an equation for a generating function for this enumeration, but not with a closed form for its coefficients.
Can I call this an enumeration result?


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Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Checkpointing an MPI application with OMPI
From: George Bosilca (bosilca_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-01-28 16:00:48
Based on the paper you linked the answer is quite obvious. The
proposed CRFS mechanism supports all of the checkpoint-enabled MPI
implementation, thus you just have to go with the one providing and
caring about the services you need.
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Maxime Boissonneault
<maxime.boissonneault_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hi George,
> The problem here is not the bandwidth, but the number of IOPs. I wrote to
> the BLCR list, and they confirmed that :
> "While ideally the checkpoint would be written in sizable chunks, the
> current code in BLCR will issue a single write operation for each contiguous
> range of user memory, and many quite small writes for various meta-data and
> non-memory state (registers, signal-handlers,etc). As show in Table 1 of
> the paper cited above, the writes in the 10s of KB range will dominate
> performance."
> (Reference being : X. Ouyang, R. Rajachandrasekhar, X. Besseron, H. Wang, J.
> Huang and D. K. Panda, CRFS: A Lightweight User-Level Filesystem for Generic
> Checkpoint/Restart, Int'l Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP '11),
> Sept. 2011. (PDF))
> We did run parallel IO benchmarks. Our filesystem can reach a speed of
> ~15GB/s, but only with large IO operations (at least bigger than 1MB,
> optimally in the 100MB-1GB range). For small (<1MB) operations, the
> filesystem is considerably slower. I believe this is precisely what is
> killing the performance here.
> Not sure there is anything to be done about it.
> Best regards,
> Maxime
> Le 2013-01-28 15:40, George Bosilca a écrit :
> At the scale you address you should have no trouble with the C/R if
> the file system is correctly configured. We get more bandwidth per
> node out of an NFS over 1Gb/s at 32 nodes. Have you run some parallel
> benchmarks on your cluster ?
> George.
> PS: You can some MPI I/O benchmarks at
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~thakur/pio-benchmarks.html
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Ralph Castain <rhc_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2013, at 10:53 AM, Maxime Boissonneault
> <maxime.boissonneault_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Le 2013-01-28 13:15, Ralph Castain a écrit :
> On Jan 28, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Maxime Boissonneault
> <maxime.boissonneault_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Le 2013-01-28 12:46, Ralph Castain a écrit :
> On Jan 28, 2013, at 8:25 AM, Maxime Boissonneault
> <maxime.boissonneault_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hello Ralph,
> I agree that ideally, someone would implement checkpointing in the
> application itself, but that is not always possible (commercial
> applications, use of complicated libraries, algorithms with no clear
> progression points at which you can interrupt the algorithm and start it
> back from there).
> Hmmm...well, most apps can be adjusted to support it - we have some very
> complex apps that were updated that way. Commercial apps are another story,
> but we frankly don't find much call for checkpointing those as they
> typically just don't run long enough - especially if you are only running
> 256 ranks, so your cluster is small. Failure rates just don't justify it in
> such cases, in our experience.
> Is there some particular reason why you feel you need checkpointing?
> This specific case is that the jobs run for days. The risk of a hardware or
> power failure for that kind of duration goes too high (we allow for no more
> than 48 hours of run time).
> I'm surprised by that - we run with UPS support on the clusters, but for a
> small one like you describe, we find the probability that a job will be
> interrupted even during a multi-week app is vanishingly small.
> FWIW: I do work with the financial industry where we regularly run apps that
> execute non-stop for about a month with no reported failures. Are you
> actually seeing failures, or are you anticipating them?
> While our filesystem and management nodes are on UPS, our compute nodes are
> not. With one average generic (power/cooling mostly) failure every one or
> two months, running for weeks is just asking for trouble.
> Wow, that is high
> If you add to that typical dimm/cpu/networking failures (I estimated about 1
> node goes down per day because of some sort hardware failure, for a cluster
> of 960 nodes).
> That is incredibly high
> With these numbers, a job running on 32 nodes for 7 days has a ~35% chance
> of failing before it is done.
> I've never seen anything like that behavior in practice - a 32 node cluster
> typically runs for quite a few months without a failure. It is a typical
> size for the financial sector, so we have a LOT of experience with such
> clusters.
> I suspect you won't see anything like that behavior...
> Having 24GB of ram per node, even if a 32 nodes job takes close to 100% of
> the ram, that's merely 640 GB of data. Writing that on a lustre filesystem
> capable of reaching ~15GB/s should take no more than a few minutes if
> written correctly. Right now, I am getting a few minutes for a hundredth of
> this amount of data!
> Agreed - but I don't think you'll get that bandwidth for checkpointing. I
> suspect you'll find that checkpointing really has troubles when scaling,
> which is why you don't see it used in production (at least, I haven't).
> Mostly used for research by a handful of organizations, which is why we
> haven't been too concerned about its loss.
> While it is true we can dig through the code of the library to make it
> checkpoint, BLCR checkpointing just seemed easier.
> I see - just be aware that checkpoint support in OMPI will disappear in v1.7
> and there is no clear timetable for restoring it.
> That is very good to know. Thanks for the information. It is too bad though.
> There certainly must be a better way to write the information down on disc
> though. Doing 500 IOPs seems to be completely broken. Why isn't there
> buffering involved ?
> I don't know - that's all done in BLCR, I believe. Either way, it isn't
> something we can address due to the loss of our supporter for c/r.
> I suppose I should contact BLCR instead then.
> For the disk op problem, I think that's the way to go - though like I said,
> I could be wrong and the disk writes could be something we do inside OMPI.
> I'm not familiar enough with the c/r code to state it with certainty.
> Thank you,
> Maxime
> Sorry we can't be of more help :-(
> Ralph
> Thanks,
> Maxime
> Le 2013-01-28 10:58, Ralph Castain a écrit :
> Our c/r person has moved on to a different career path, so we may not have
> anyone who can answer this question.
> What we can say is that checkpointing at any significant scale will always
> be a losing proposition. It just takes too long and hammers the file system.
> People have been working on extending the capability with things like "burst
> buffers" (basically putting an SSD in front of the file system to absorb the
> checkpoint surge), but that hasn't become very common yet.
> Frankly, what people have found to be the "best" solution is for your app to
> periodically write out its intermediate results, and then take a flag that
> indicates "read prior results" when it starts. This minimizes the amount of
> data being written to the disk. If done correctly, you would only lose
> whatever work was done since the last intermediate result was written -
> which is about equivalent to losing whatever works was done since the last
> checkpoint.
> Ralph
> On Jan 28, 2013, at 7:47 AM, Maxime Boissonneault
> <maxime.boissonneault_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am doing checkpointing tests (with BLCR) with an MPI application compiled
> with OpenMPI 1.6.3, and I am seeing behaviors that are quite strange.
> First, some details about the tests :
> - The only filesystem available on the nodes are 1) one tmpfs, 2) one lustre
> shared filesystem (tested to be able to provide ~15GB/s for writing and
> support ~40k IOPs).
> - The job was running with 8 or 16 MPI ranks on nodes with 8 cores (1 or 2
> nodes). Each MPI rank was using approximately 200MB of memory.
> - I was doing checkpoints with ompi-checkpoint and restarting with
> ompi-restart.
> - I was starting with mpirun -am ft-enable-cr
> - The nodes are monitored by ganglia, which allows me to see the number of
> IOPs and the read/write speed on the filesystem.
> I tried a few different mca settings, but I consistently observed that :
> - The checkpoints lasted ~4-5 minutes each time
> - During checkpoint, each node (8 ranks) was doing ~500 IOPs, and writing at
> ~15MB/s.
> I am worried by the number of IOPs and the very slow writing speed. This was
> a very small test. We have jobs running with 128 or 256 MPI ranks, each
> using 1-2 GB of ram per rank. With such jobs, the overall number of IOPs
> would reach tens of thousands and would completely overload our lustre
> filesystem. Moreover, with 15MB/s per node, the checkpointing process would
> take hours.
> How can I improve on that ? Is there an MCA setting that I am missing ?
> Thanks,
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> Ph. D. en physique
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