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PS4 outsells Xbox One for 10th consecutive month in US
Sony has confirmed that PS4 was the best selling console in the US in October.
PS4 did outsell Xbox One in the US in September as PSN enjoys record month
Contrary to previous predictions, PS4 DID outsell Xbox One in the US in September.
PS4 outsells Xbox One for eighth consecutive month in US
There's no sign of Xbox One closing the gap on PS4 in the US next-gen console sales race.
PS4 outsells Xbox One for 7th consecutive month in US
NPD's July 2014 report reveals Sony's console has once again topped the US hardware monthly charts, while The Last of Us (both the original and Remastered versions) drove software sales.
Wii U wasn't the only console to gain US sales last month as Vita sales rocket
Both Nintendo's Wii U and Sony's PlayStation Vita boasted impressive sales gains in the US last month.
Titanfall claims US April victory, although InFamous is best-selling next-gen game
EA's Xbox One, 360 and PC shooter Titanfall was the best selling game in the US in April.
74% of US gamers prefer physical to digital
The disc could yet have some life left in it.
PS4 leads hardware sales again in March as Xbox One ships 5m lifetime
The PlayStation 4 outsold all other consoles in the US for the third month running, NPD's March 2013 report shows.
16% of US gamers have dropped physical games completely
A new report from NPD suggests that only a limited number of US gamers have made the decision to completely abandon physical games.
January PS4 sales nearly double Xbox One in US
Sony has taken an impressive lead over the Xbox One across the pond.
Xbox One outsold PS4 in the US in December
Microsoft has confirmed that Xbox One outsold the PS4 in the US in December.
PS4 'wins' November NPD and takes US sales lead; No Wii U numbers released
Although certain press releases issued last night may make you think the opposite, it is PS4 that has emerged as the early leader in the next-gen US sales race.
NPD October: Overall growth led by Grand Theft Auto V, Pokemon X & Y
The NPD Group's monthly US retail report has been released, showing overall growth for a third consecutive month thanks to the performances of the latest Grand Theft Auto and Pokemon ...
NPD: US digital games spending up, but not enough to offset physical decline
Digital full game downloads and DLC spending grew 27 per cent in the US games market during Q2 2013.
3DS brings Xbox 360's 28-month long run of NPD wins to a halt
The Xbox 360's iron grip on the North American market has finally been released.


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This seems to be a section that is missing currently from the CV details. Any plans to add this? Even though I know it's not really the most important thing to have listed as a part of one's career accomplishments it would be nice to optionally include this.
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We'll do something like this. We need to think a bit more on how exactly it should be presented, but obviously it is very important for certain jobs / industries. In the meantime, adding them under education seems like a good workaround.
Edit: This has been implemented, you'll find it right under Education.
I agree, this would be a good additional information. The Server Fault people will appreciate this even more.
Microsoft certifications
As many people will like to show these on these CVs, it would be good if everyone show then in the same way.
Each exam, has:
Then there are the overall certifications (e.g. MCSD) that each has:
Also we have certifications from other companies (e.g. Java etc), but I don't know what data they have.
Should there be a section on the CV for certifications, or should one of the current sections be used.
It would be nice to have a dedicated section for that, like at LinkedIn profile.
Given that I learned quite a bit to obtain certifications, placing them into Education feels quite natural.
I would like to see it as an autocomplete field.
This was asked almost two years ago. Any word on this? I currently have one certification and am planning on getting another in the next couple of years. Adding this to my Careers CV as something other than a footnote would be really nice.


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Is it possible to train Android's speech recognition? I have read Can I train Google Voice Actions to better recognize my voice? which suggests that there is a setting in the voice search app but I'm running ICS and don't even have a dedicated voice search app.
The setting should still exist, it's just a little bit more awkward to get to. The easiest way is to hit the microphone icon on the search widget (though I think anywhere it appears will work) to bring up the voice action dialog. There's a wrench in the top right of that dialog that opens the settings:
Tap that to open the settings page, which should have the checkbox titled "Personalized recognition" as in previous versions (tested on a Galaxy Nexus running CyanogenMod 9, Android 4.0.4).


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Letterboxing is an outdoor activity where people hide small boxes in the countryside, give away grid references and compass bearings to find those boxes, then others locate them and log their find. It mostly occurs on Dartmoor, UK, where it originated. Letterboxes often contain rubber stamps; ...
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Where can I find information on letterboxing in my area?
Letterboxing is a precursor to geocaching, wherein participants leave notes / stamps in boxes in the wild... It's helpful to have a list or guide to letterbox sites when embarking on a search, as ...
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An alternative to geocaching, but with classic maps instead of GPS?
Geocaching is a great fun, but it is oriented on GPS devices. I'd like to participate in searching caches, which location is given on the map (full, or fragmented, or just a drawing) - like in ...
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What are some good ways to waterproof a geocache / letterbox?
Has anyone got any good tips on how to (cheaply) waterproof a geocache or letterbox? Those pill pots used to work brilliantly - one inside the other - but now they seem to be rather hard to come by ...


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This isn't a free speech issue, since this isn't the government censoring anything, but rather privately-owned news and video sites deciding not to host such videos.
This isn't a free speech issue, since this isn't the government censoring anything, but rather privately-owned news and video sites deciding not to host such videos.
but obeying laws is a PAIN. We're an online company! Waaah
Now that IS very interesting. I wonder how the IRB approved an experiment that clearly didn't have any participants' consent.
I agree, this was my first thought. They screwed up big time, it would be fun to see the federal government investigate them for unlicensed human research.
I don't know anyone who was affected by the Tuskeegee syphilis study, but that doesn't mean it was right or we shouldn't be outraged.
The issue is clear; if a doctor or psychologist tried this, they would have to get IRB approval. You need informed consent; such laws were passed after psychologists had tried a LOT of experiments on the unwitting public; simluating muggings, imminent death scenarios, etc.
I know people say "it's just manipulating feeds, what's the harm?" There can be plenty of harm if you manipulate the feeds. Where is the line? What if facebook had decided to see what happens if you try showing depressing posts and bad news for a year? Or a feed where you were always ignored? No IRB would allow something like that if it risked permanent mental scarring or created a suicide risk.
Bad move, Facebook. Experiments are definitely cool (I'm a researcher), but we go through proper channels and regulation for a darned good reason.
A holographic doctor is not the same as the tired storyline where there's a holodeck malfunction and the artifical characters threaten the ship. At least with The Doctor they had him grow and develop and mature and be like Data with more personality.
Does nobody remember 2005? Yahoo Video and Google Video competed with YouTube, it was not uncommon to see videos cross-posted on more than one.
Oh great, now the government will overcompensate by making the search logic even fuzzier, generating far more false positives. Is your name one letter off from someone on the No-Fly list? You're not going to be allowed to fly either. It was bad enough when the TSA was grounding flights when 8-month-olds matched the name of a terrorist, now you're going to have way more of that.
Don't believe me? After the Underwear Bomber was caught in 2009, Homeland Security decided to prevent it from happening again, by drastically increasing the No-Fly lists and broadening it to encompass flights to Canada and Mexico.
Yes, we live in a world where everyone has access to google. That's not the point, you have to prove your claims with evidence, not ask the other person to do it for you and then disprove it. You need to show proof that it can be done, because you can't disprove a negative.
Bill, we've been over this before. Snowden tried the legal channels, informing his superiors 10x, and got nowhere. If you bothered to closely follow the story, you'd see your suggestions were tried and failed.
Armchair critics are stupid. "Why couldn't Rosa Parks just ask the bus driver for permission, did she really need to get arrested?"
Compare how the US responded to similar actions in Iran; the president held press conferences and pressed the issue at the UN and got Europe to agree to sanctions. With Bahrain, no action was taken; the implication being that protesters' livesans democracy are worth less than navy parking spaces.
US-made tanks sold to Saudi stormed into Bahrain and crushed the protests. The US government decided that was not enough reason to deny further sales.
Current US foreign policy is not "do nothing." The US government backed the Bahraini dictatorship and looked the other way as their police fired on pro-democracy protestors and refused to sanction the government despite its documented use of torture and human rights abuses. Why? Because the Bahraini king allowed the US Navy to park its ships there. The US government approved the sale of weapons to the Saudi dictatorship that human rights groups warned would be used on protestors and for torture (e.g. selling huge shipments of cattle prods to the Saudi government even though they don't have many cows). It's creating a whole generation of people who dislike America, despite the fact that the US was quite popular up until recently.
Citation needed. Sex outside of marriage is referred to as "Zina" in Saudi Arabia, which is not a capital offense. Adultery is a subset of sex crime law, and is punished by flogging if unmarried, only married people qualify for capital punishment for adultery..
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Cpu(s): 1.7%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.0%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
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I have INTEL graphics card. Applications opens really slow but wireless is really fast. Operations inside applications are slow, too. I have Ubuntu for the first time, I totaly moved Windows 7 to history :) Hope Linux is not this slow usually.
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G is a finitely generated group and F is its subgroup.
Q: Under what known sufficient conditions can we guarantee that F is finitely generated? (e.g. G is Abelian)
G is a finitely generated group and F is its subgroup.
Q: Under what known sufficient conditions can we guarantee that F is finitely generated? (e.g. G is Abelian)
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A consequence of the Nielsen-Schreier theorem is the following: If a group generated by $n$ elements, then every subgroup of finite index $k$ is generated by $kn−k+1$ elements. See also this aops discussion; there jmerry gives a direct algebraic proof.
If $G$ is polycyclic, then every subgroup is finitely generated. In fact, one of several ways to define a polycyclic group is to demand that it is a solvable group for which all subgroups are finitely generated. So, this might seem kind of tautological, but polycyclic groups have other definitions and they come up quite a bit in various areas.
This is a special case of the class of Noetherian groups, also known as slender groups, in which are defined by having the property that every subgroup is finitely generated. You can find some more information on this subject in this MO question.
Further to Max's answer, and in an effort to make this very general question more specific, I have a feeling that the following question is open.
The existence of continuum-many Tarski monsters is strong evidence that there is no reasonable classification of finitely generated slender groups.
If you look at the toplogical case, then a profinite group has finite rank if all its closed subgroups are finitely generated (toplogically). Now a pro-$p$ group of finite rank can be characterized in many ways. For instance, a pro-$p$ group has finite rank if and only if it is a Lie group over the $p$-adic integers if and only if it is linear over the $p$-adics if and only if it has polynomial subgroup growth if and only if the associtaed graded Lie algebra (with respect to the Zassenhous-Lazard filtration) is nilpotent.


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WEIRTON - Weirton resident George Romage addressed Weirton City Council Monday, expressing concern regarding the city's emergency response plans in the event of water contamination, citing the massive chemical spill in Charleston as an example.
"In case, God forbid, something like that were to happen here, do we have a backup source in case we have to shut down the river source?" Romage inquired.
"We do have back up water sources," Utilities Director A.D. "Butch" Mastrantoni answered. "We have emergency plans that account for spills. We have an early warning system, spill notifications and sensor devices placed upstream of us at specific mile markers all the way to the inception of the Ohio River and beyond. One thing that we have that they didn't have in Charleston is a secondary source: our well source. We continue to keep the well vibrant. In the event of a spill we would simply shut the water down from the river intake and switch to well water."
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SAFETY TALK — From left, Ward 5 Councilman George Gaughenbaugh, from left, Thomas Maher Jr., city finance director, and Nicole Davis, city clerk, listened as city resident George Romage asked what preparations Weirton has in the event of a chemical spill similar to what affected the Charleston area. -- Shae Dalrymple
Mastrantoni added that while technology does help, people should trust their human senses of sight, smell and taste. Residents of Charleston described a licorice smell coming from the water before the leak was discovered.
In other business, Ward 3 Councilman Fred Marsh brought up community frustrations about this winter's frequent snow.
"We have to take a neighbor-to-neighbor approach here. Our guys are out there plowing, and, yeah, maybe there's some snow at the end of your driveway. Let's just work together instead of fighting with each other over this," Marsh said. "Let's just get through it."
Ward 7 Councilman Terry Weigel took the opportunity to remind residents they are responsible for clearing snow from sidewalks in front of their houses.
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Although Ward 6 Councilman David Dalrymple and Ward 1 Councilman Ronnie D. Jones were absent from the meeting, members otherwise voted unanimously to pass several ordinances.
Council members opted to move forward with the property and liability insurance quote solicited from Travelers Insurance Co., which was discussed at the Finance Committee meeting last Wednesday. The coverage includes property insurance with a $1,000 deductible, general liability with no deductible and employee benefits with a $3 million limit. The city's premium was quoted at $685,407, according to John Frankovitch, chief operating officer of Assure America.
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As St. Clairsville fifth grader Mason Thornton has grown up, birthday parties haven't been a big deal.
Usually, he's had just a small party with his family.
However, that all changed this year. When Shelly Thornton asked her son, who was diagnosed with autism at the age of 3, if he had anything special in mind for his birthday this year, she had assumed his response would be the same.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE fifth grader Mason Thornton celebrated his 12th birthday and standout Red Devils' athlete Dan Monteroso surprised Thornton, who has autism, by coming to his birthday party. Thornton and Monteroso have become "best friends" this year. Monteroso autographed a football for Thornton.
"We thought a family party, maybe at Chuck E. Cheese's or something," Shelly said.
Mason, who will turn 12 early next month, told his mom that he wanted to have a bowling party with all of his best friends.
"He never believed he had friends before," Shelly said. "Now, he says he's got friends, so he wanted to have a party."
His mom and dad, Mark, were on board immediately for Mason to have a party. So, Shelly began forming the guest list and asked Mason who he wanted to invite to the party.
When he said his best friends, he meant it and had one certain friend in mind.
The first name on his guest list was his "best friend" Dan Monteroso, the Red Devils' senior athletic standout.
"Mason said, 'Dan's my best friend, mom,'" Shelly revealed. "I said, 'well, I don't know, buddy, who else do you want to invite?' I tried to change the subject."
Mason, who loves sports, and Monteroso formed their bond in the fall when Mason's teacher, Dawn Daubenmeyer, brought him and a handful of his teammates to her classroom to speak to her students during the season.
"Dawn brought the boys in to have lunch with the students, take pictures and talk about life lessons," Shelly said. "It really hit home for Mason because his dream is to play football at Ohio State and eventually the Chicago Bears."
While Mason roots for those other players as much as anyone, he really formed a bond with Monteroso. The two-time basketball all-Ohioan and Purdue football signee has become Mason's 'best friend.'
"Mason is our biggest fan," Monteroso said. "He has all of our jerseys, both for football and basketball, comes to every game and you look up in the stands you always see Mason screaming and yelling, so it's a honor to be able to help him out in any way possible."
After the Red Devils defeated Harrison Central in the regular season, Monteroso brought the 'Coal Bucket' over to Mason, letting him hold it and posing for pictures with him. He also rode on the team float during a parade leading up to the Union Local game. The two also eat lunch together occasionally and Dan walked Mason back to his class after he became upset during physical education.
"It's the little things that Dan's done for him that are so impressive to us," Shelly said. "It's not so much his on-the-field play, but he really loves it."
Shelly and her husband Mark sincerely believe that their son's bond with Monteroso has been a major factor in causing Mason to become more involved with his friends and more social.
"I was scared to death for him going into the fifth grade at the middle school," Shelly said. "But, Dan has really helped to make him feel more comfortable in school just through their relationship. Dan isn't just a star on the field, but he's great in the classroom, he's humble and he's great with the younger kids, who really look up to him."
Wanting to make sure she invested every effort into trying to get Monteroso to attend the party, Shelly reached out to Daubenmeyer to see if she thought it was possible.
"I asked Dawn if she thought Dan would do it and she thought about me asking him," Shelly said. "She said if it didn't work out they'd do something in the school when they're eating lunch together."
Daubenmeyer did her part and asked Monteroso, who didn't hesitate in saying yes and admitted to being flattered. They decided they wanted to make it a surprise. Shelly was informed that Dan wouldn't be able to make it, but she was appreciative of the effort.
"I told Mason that Dan was probably going to be on vacation out of town since it was spring break," Shelly said. "Mason wasn't upset."
The surprise worked like a charm. Daubenmeyer and Monteroso met outside of the St. C. Lanes Thursday afternoon and headed in for the party, making Mason's day even more special.
"It was a big surprise, but I definitely like that kind of surprise," Mason said. "It's great to have all of my friends here. I am their friend and they're my friends, too."
When Shelly saw Monteroso and Daubenmeyer walk in, she broke down into tears.
"Dawn did this," Shelly said. "Mason really doesn't understand the whole idea of having Dan at the party. To him, he's just another guy ... his best friend."
Mason and Monteroso had their own lane to bowl in and according to Monteroso, Mason dominated on the scoreboard.
"For all of the support Mason has given me and our teams, (coming to this party) is the least I could do," Monteroso said. "I didn't even think about saying no."
The surprises weren't quite finished, though. Just before Monteroso was leaving, he gave Mason his gift.
"Dan is probably going to go down as one of the greatest athletes to ever come out of St. Clairsville, but he's not just that," Mark said. "He's a first-class kid."
Mason's eyes grew bigger and bigger as he pulled out an official, game-used St. C. football that Monteroso had autographed for him.
"This really means a lot to me to be invited to this and means a lot that Mrs. Daubenmeyer would even think about asking me," Monteroso said. "All of the things this community has done for me and our whole football and basketball teams means a lot. I just want to represent the school as best I can."
Mason is well aware that Monteroso leaves for Purdue in a few months, but he's OK with that, according his mom.
"I like it when Dan makes a score for the Red Devils," Mason said. "Since, he's going to Purdue, and I am a fan of the Buckeyes, I came up with a plan. I am going to make Purdue my second favorite team and keep the Buckeyes at the top because I don't like to bandwagon."
As big a Monteroso fan as Mason is, he won't put the Boilmakers over the Buckeyes on his list of favorite teams. He's hoping Monteroso scores several touchdowns, but OSU still prevails when the teams meet in the coming years.
Monteroso, who was razzing Mason about the OSU shirt he was wearing instead of a Purdue shirt, plans on making it a point to keep in touch with him when he's away at school.
"I plan on calling him after games and hopefully, he can get to a couple of games," Monteroso said.
Along with the help of the players, Shelly also lauded the work and help of St. C. Athletic Director Kelly Rine, head football coach Brett McLean and equipment manager Chris Patrone as big influences for Mason.
This birthday will be one that Mason Thornton won't ever forget. And he'll be rooting like crazy for Monteroso the next four years at Purdue, but not even a Heisman Trophy would sway him from his beloved Buckeyes.
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Fat chance The White House credits first lady Michelle Obama's 3-year-old "Let's Move" initiative for improvements in the national childhood obesity rate, which "has leveled off, and even declined in some cities and states." The news release provides no documentation to support this assertion, but its conclusion mirrors the results of a 2012 study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for America's Health. That report said rates were falling thanks to state and local programs begun between 1992 and 2008, but it gave the nation an "F as if Fat" grade for obesity-rate trends going forward. The first lady, then, deserves as much credit for falling obesity rates as Obamacare merits for bending down the health-care cost curve.
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Technical Advisory Board Charter
From The Linux Foundation
1. The primary purpose of The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) is to advise The Linux Foundation Board of Directors (Board) and the management of The Linux Foundation (Management) on matters related to supporting the technical agenda of The Linux Foundation. The following main areas are included in this charter:
a. Oversee specific programmes which are identified by mutual agreement between the Board, the Management and the TAB.
b. Provide a formal, twice yearly report to the Board on the status of and progress made in all areas under the purview of the TAB.
c. Promote and Support the programmes with which the TAB is charged to the wider Linux and Open Source Communities.
2. Meetings and Membership.
a. The TAB consists of ten voting members.
b. All members shall be elected by a vote amongst all invitees of the Linux Kernel Summit.
c. Self nominations for the election shall be accepted from any person, via email to the TAB mailing list <firstname.lastname@example.com>, up until the time of the election.
d. Membership of the TAB shall be for a term of 2 years with staggered 1-year elections.
e. The TAB shall elect a Chair and Vice-Chair of the TAB from amongst their members to serve a renewable 1 year term.
f. The Chair shall be Nominated for a Voting position on the Board with the Vice-Chair serving as his Observer.
g. The Chair or Vice-Chair shall prepare an agenda for and preside over monthly meetings of the TAB.
h. A member of the TAB may be removed by a resolution of the TAB supported by more than two thirds of its voting membership.
i. The TAB may fill any vacancy arising by removal or resignation by a simple majority vote to fill the remainder of the term of the vacating member.
j. The rules of election and membership outlined in this section may be varied by a resolution of the TAB supported by more than two thirds of its voting membership.
3. Operation
a. The TAB is authorized to seek advice and counsel from other interested parties and invited experts as appropriate.
b. Any outside party wishing to bring an issue before the TAB may do so by emailing the TAB mailing list <email@example.com>.
c. The TAB shall provide transparent and timely reporting (through any mechanism it deems appropriate) to the Community at large on all of its activities subject to the right of any individual to designate their comments and the ensuing discussion as "in confidence" in which case the public report shall contain only a note of the request and an agreed summary (if any) of the substance.
d. The TAB is being formed at the discretion of the Board. The Board alone may decide to terminate the TAB in its sole discretion; provided however, that the Board or its authorized officer shall first consult the TAB Chair.
e. As an entity under the auspices of The Linux Foundation, the TAB and its members shall abide by The Linux Foundation's policies applicable to non-member participants, including the OSDL Antitrust Policy, posted on The Linux Foundation's website.


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Routine Tests During Pregnancy
In This Article:
Glucose and Alpha-Fetoprotein screening test
Baby Talk!
Glucose screening is a test given between Weeks 24 and 28 of pregnancy to check for gestational diabetes.
Gestational diabetes is a high blood sugar condition that some women get during pregnancy. It is different from other forms of diabetes because it usually goes away after the baby is born.
Glucose Screening
Most expectant moms are given a glucose-screening test between Weeks 24 and 28 of the pregnancy to check for gestational diabetes.
You are at risk for developing gestational diabetes if you fit into any of these categories:
- You have had gestational diabetes during an earlier pregnancy.
- You have previously delivered a very large baby.
- You are greatly overweight (approximately 20 percent over ideal body weight).
- You are over 35.
- You have high blood pressure.
- You have a parent or sibling who is a diabetic.
The test for gestational diabetes is not painful. It is long, however. To take the glucose screening test you will drink a sugar solution (which tastes like a thick, flat cola—I'm not saying it's delicious, but it's not all that awful either). An hour later, a blood sample will be taken and the blood sugar level will be checked. If the reading is abnormal (which occurs about 20 percent of the time) you'll go home and come back at a later date for a diagnostic exam, called a three-hour glucose tolerance test, to verify the results. If you get a high sugar reading on the first test, don't get too worried. Approximately 85 percent of those with a positive result on this screening test show normal blood sugar levels in the glucose tolerance test.
If you have gestational diabetes, it's good to find out early. Your doctor can then help you create a diet and exercise program that will keep the problem in check and safeguard the health of your baby. He may also prescribe insulin if necessary. Finding out that you have diabetes is certainly upsetting, but it's not cause for great alarm. Most women who develop diabetes during pregnancy go on to have normal, healthy babies. Be aware, however, that although gestational diabetes will probably disappear after the birth of the baby, some women ultimately develop full-fledged diabetes within the next 20 years. This is something you'll have to watch out for at yearly follow—up tests.
Baby Talk!
Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is a screening test given between Weeks 16 and 18 that identifies a potential risk of birth defects.
Hey Mom!
Like all prenatal tests, the AFP test is an optional test—which means you don't have to take it. Your physician may strongly recommend it, but the final decision is yours alone.
Baby Talk!
Down's syndrome is a condition in which a child has an excess number of chromosomes. These babies have a distinct appearance and may have several birth defects--most commonly abnormalities of the heart and some degree of mental retardation that ranges from minimal to severe.
Alpha-Fetoprotein Screening Test
Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is a type of protein produced only by a fetus—you do not produce it on your own. Sometime between Weeks 16 and 18, your doctor will take a blood sample from you to check the level of this protein, which can give an indication of the risk of certain birth defects. A high level of AFP might mean trouble; a low level might mean another kind of trouble.
High levels of AFP indicate the possibility of various things: It could mean twins, or that you have been pregnant longer than you thought. It could also mean that the baby has a neural tube defect, such as spina bifida (a deformity of the spinal column) or anencephaly (the absence of all or part of the brain).
Low levels of AFP mean you might be earlier in your pregnancy than you thought, or it can mean that the baby has a birth defect called Down's syndrome.
The AFP test is just like any other blood test and it is not risky at all—it will not hurt or harm you or your baby. The real risk associated with this test is the same one you'll find with all screening tests—the results are not absolute and can cause a lot of needless worry. If your test results are low, for example, there is a very, very slim (some say minute) chance that your baby may have Down's syndrome. To find out for sure, you will need to have further diagnostic testing done, such as amniocentesis. This test is a bit risky and has been known to cause miscarriages in a percentage of cases. A low or high result on an AFP test can put the fear of birth defects in your heart. The risks involved in taking the diagnostic tests add to the fear of miscarriage, as well. If the results come back either too high or too low, deciding what to do next is the most difficult part of the AFP test. The decision is ultimately what to do with a defective fetus. Do you abort it or do you want to know early on what the challenges are that you'll be facing at birth? There are other choices, such as adoption for Down's syndrome infants. Parents need to think, before they take an AFP, what they'll do with the results. You may be advised to take the screening test again, seek a second opinion, and/or meet with a genetic counselor. Whatever your choice, you must always keep in mind that most women who get abnormal screening test results give birth to normal babies.
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Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth © 2004 by Michele Isaac Gliksman, M.D. and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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A team of researchers led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered something out of place for the region – a prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast - the first ever found in Alaska. According to CU-Boulder researcher John Hoffecker, the artifact is a small, buckle-like object that was found in an ancient Eskimo dwelling estimated to be about 1,000-years-old.
Nov. 11, 2011
A team of researchers led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered something out of place for the region – a prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast - the first ever found in Alaska.
According to CU-Boulder researcher John Hoffecker, the artifact is a small, buckle-like object that was found in an ancient Eskimo dwelling estimated to be about 1,000 years old.
CUT 1 "Certainly the biggest surprise came when we discovered a cast bronze piece buried in the tunnel of one of the oldest houses associated with Eskimo Inupiat settlements at Cape Espenberg. (:13) It's a small piece. It's only a couple of inches in diameter. It sort of looks like a rectangular hook with what looks like some sort of ring attached to it, which has been broken. (:25) This is the first time we have seen a cast bronze piece in these early Inupiat Eskimo settlements." (:35)
Hoffecker is a fellow at CU-Boulder's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. The artifact was discovered by a team excavating a driftwood-constructed house that was built into the side of a sand dune by Inupiat (INUP-e-et) Eskimos at Cape Espenberg, located along the eastern side of the Bering Straight on the Seward Peninsula.
CUT 2 "They dug the houses into the dunes, shored up the walls with driftwood, which is abundant in Cape Espenberg - one of the reasons why it is an attractive place to live. (:08) They're composed of a central sleeping chamber and then there is a tunnel that leads to a kitchen. And the tunnel usually extends for some feet out and away from the main part of the house because it works as a cold trap for cold air in winter." (:30)
The bronze object resembles a belt buckle and may have been used as part of a harness or horse ornament prior to its arrival in Alaska. How the Inupiat Eskimos used it is unknown, says Hoffecker.
At first he thought the artifact was much younger but a small piece of leather attached to it yielded a radiocarbon date of A.D. 600.
CUT 3 "One of our concerns was that the object might actually be much younger. Fortunately there was a small piece of leather attached to this object. And that we can date directly by radiocarbon and it yielded a date of about 1500 years (:14) which suggests it's probably a couple of centuries older than the house which we think is no more than a 1,000, 1,100 years old." (:25)
Although the leather indicates the object is older then he thought, he says the bronze piece needs further testing to find out how old it really is.
What he can speculate at this time is that since pre-historic bronze metallurgy is unknown in Alaska, the artifact likely was produced in East Asia, possibly in the steppe region of southern Siberia, where people began casting bronze several thousand years ago.
CUT 4 "Presumably the cast bronzes, as well as some iron pieces, are coming from southern Siberia –from the steppes zone. There were people there who had been casting both iron and bronze for several thousand years prior to the appearance of Eskimo Inupiat folks in northwest Alaska. (:17) And those objects do show up occasionally in Arctic settings over on the other side of the Bering Straight – over in northeast Asia- in Arctic Siberia. (:27) But it is the first time we have seen something like this in Alaska, in northwest Alaska. (:32)
The discovery of the object in Alaska tells Hoffecker that there probably was trading going between settlements in Asia and Alaska or that it was brought over by an early settler.
CUT 5 "It indicates, perhaps, that there was a trade going on across the Bering Strait at this time. (:07) It's also possible that since these folks were early immigrants to the area, since they had recently come over from northeast Asia, that they actually brought this with them." (:21)
Another question Hoffecker is trying to answer is whether the inhabitants of Cape Espenberg hunted whales. The hunting of bowhead whales was a way of life for Inupiat Eskimos at Barrow and Hope Point in northwestern Alaska 1,000 years ago, but, he says, the Cape's location and extremely shallow water offshore casts doubt as to whether the people living here hunted whales. However, there is evidence of fishing and seal and caribou hunting by the group.
CUT 6 (5347) "It's a place where no one would try doing whaling today. But, since there are these whale bones on the older ridges and since whaling was such a key component, such a central part the native Alaskan economy 1,000 or 500 years ago, we've been investigating this issue and trying to figure out if, perhaps, in the past if Cape Espenberg was a whaling community. Our tentative conclusions is, probably, the whalebones were naturally deposited on the beach." (:35
The Inupiat Eskimos are believed to have occupied Cape Espenberg for about a 1,000 years beginning in A.D. 800. They are a part of the indigenous Eskimo culture that lives in the northern Arctic regions of Alaska, Canada and Siberia.
The excavations are part of a National Science Foundation-funded project to study human response to climate change at Cape Espenberg from A.D. 800 to A.D. 1400, a critical period of cultural and environmental change in the region that may be related to Earth's Medieval Warm Period that lasted from about A.D. 950 to A.D. 1250, says Hoffecker.
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I already know that ARM devices with Windows 8 will not allow to install another OS.
What about ultrabooks and laptops with Windows 8, will the secure boot prevent me from installing Ubuntu?
I thought about buying a Ubuntu laptop but unfortunatelly I still must buy Windows license because of some software applications.


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Could any one tell me for which prime $p$ the polynomial $x^4 +x+6$ has a root of multiplicity $>1$ over a field of characteristic $p$?
Your question in fact is: for which primes does the polynomial $\,x^4+x+6\pmod p\,$ have a zero derivative (why?)
Added a polynomial over a field has a multiple root iff this is also a root of its (formal) derivative.
Further added A polynomial $\,p(x)\,$ over a field has $\,\alpha\,$ as a root iff we can write $\,p(x)=(x-\alpha)^mg(x)\,,\,m\in\mathbb{N}\,,\,g(x)\,$ a polynomial, and $\,m\,$ is called the multiplicity of the root $\,\alpha\,$. When $\,m=1\,$ the root is called a simple one, and when $\,m>1\,$ it is called a multiple root. Derivating the above expression we get $$p'(x)=m(x-\alpha)^{m-1}g(x)+(x-\alpha)^mg'(x)$$and we see $\,\alpha\,$ is a multiple root (i.e., $\,m>1\,$) iff $\,p'(\alpha)=0\,$ , and this means both $\,p(x)\,\text{and}\,p'(x)\,$ have $\,\alpha\,$ a common root.
Now, if $\,p(x)\,$ is an irreducible polynomial with $\,\alpha\,$ a one of tis roots, this means $\,p(x)\,$ divides any polynomial that has $\,\alpha\,$ as one of its roots, and from the above it follows that in this case $\,p(x)\,$ divides its own derivative $\,p'(x)\,$, which is impossible unless $\,p'(x)=0\,$ (the zero polynomial), because $\,\deg p(x) >\deg p'(x)\,$ , and this means we actually have $p(x)=h(x^p)\,$ , for some polynomial $\,h(x)\,$ (we're in the ring $\,\mathbb{F}_q[x]\,\,,\,q=p^k\,,\,p\,$ a prime , as in characteristic zero it is impossible for a non-constant polynomial to have a zero derivative polynomial).
All the above stuff is pretty standard basic ring theory or even more limited: polynomial ring theory.
Root of multiplicity exceeding 1 is equivalent to discriminant zero. The discriminant is (essentially) the resultant of the polynomial and its derivative. So: if you don't know about resultants, look the term up; then calculate the resultant of your polynomial and its derivative; you get a root of multiplicity greater than 1 (possibly in some extension field) if and only the resultant is a multiple of $p$.


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That's a quote from Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.) at the 2009 hearing on the Fair Elections Now Act, a bill that would bring a small-dollar matching system to Congress. Now Rep. Harper is leading an effort to eliminate the presidential public financing system.
Public Campaign Action Fund sent letters to 20 members of Congress yesterday requesting full disclosure of any benefits they've received from Delta Air Lines as Congress considers the long-term Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization legislation. Delta has been the only airline lobbying on the anti-union National Mediation Board Provision and has been pouring campaign contributions into members' campaign coffers.
Right in his own back yard. Jefferson County, Alabama filed for bankruptcy yesterday, making it the largest municipality ever to do so. What does this have to with money and politics? It just so happens to be the home county of Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), who chairs the House Financial Services Committee.
Public Campaign, along with Oil Change international, released a new report yesterday: "Payback Time? The Supercommittee & Fossil Fuel Subsidies." The report shows that the 12 members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or "supercommittee," have received at least $4.2 million in campaign contributions from dirty energy interests lobbying to keep their wasteful taxpayer subsidies.
Yesterday, Congressman Joe Walsh told a constituent, "Don't blame banks, and don't blame the marketplace for the mess we're in right now! I am tired of hearing that crap!"
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House Oversight Committee Chairman, Rep. Darell Issa (R-Calif.), "is pushing for a federal probe of a New York City community organization based on a Fox News report that accused the organization of improperly aiding the Occupy Wall Street movement and linked the group to the now defunct ACORN," according to a story yesterday in the Huffington Post.
The New York Times reports today on a relatively obscure member of Congress, Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.), who pushed the House Oversite Committee to rein in the approval process for new medical devices. Why was he so adamant about streamlining this process? His campaign bank account might just have the answer.
The Occupy movement that's been sweeping the nation continued yesterday in Chicago, where protesters gathered outside a meeting of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).
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6 Hilarious Ways Al-Qaeda Is Going Corporate
#3. Reaching Out to the Kids With the Rap Music
Remember back in the '80s when all you needed to pass as a rapper was a pair of dark sunglasses, some gold chains and untied Adidas? Of course you don't, because even then everyone knew the difference between a real rapper and an idiot wearing his mom's jewelry. But that didn't stop corporations, football players and the Pillsbury Doughboy from hopping on the rap wagon to sell their wares, which was one reason why the '80s were a hilarious yet horrifying time.
Oddly enough, "making terrible music" is nowhere on that poster.
The Corporate Gesture:
Meet Abu Mansoor al-Amriki, the Alabama-born jihadi rapper.
Via ABC News
Settle down, ladies.
Through the power of ill rhymes, dope beats and droning, whispery mumbles that kind of rhyme if you're pretty forgiving in your definition of the word "rhyme," al-Amriki is trying to recruit young Muslims to the cause of jihad. Before you give Alabama Abu a listen, try to picture what would happen if William Hung and Kanye West's non-auto-tuned singing voice had a baby, and then left that baby on a hillside to die of exposure. Don't say we didn't warn you.
Via Blogs.wsj.com
"Are you ready to rock? Wait, tone it down -- I abhor enthusiasm."
Over the years, al-Amriki has rapped about slaughtering crusaders, destroying 'copters and his eventual martyrdom, all in the hopes of luring sympathetic believers to jihad. Here are some lyrics, in case you want to get them tattooed on your forearm:
"Send me a cruise like Maa'lam Adam al Ansari
And send me a couple of tons like Zarqawi
Send me four and send me more, that's what I implore.
An amazing martyrdom is what I strive for and adore."
It's like Rappin' Fats Piscopo all over again.
In "Make Jihad With Me," al-Amriki does his best impression of Barry White, singing about wiping Israel off the globe and how he can't get enough of your love, baby. Whether or not he's actually won anyone over with his mumble-raps is a mystery. All we know is that this '80s-born American should have learned the "Rap Is Not an Effective Marketing Tool" lesson years ago.
#2. Printing Glossy Magazines
If you've noticed a theme by this point, it's that al-Qaeda must be running low on membership. That's why they're making all these weird compromises. But there's one thing missing from al-Qaeda's attempt to reach the modern world with modern tactics: coffee table magazines. Glossy, inspirational publications with tons of loose subscription cards that fall out every time you turn a page.
The Corporate Gesture:
Enter Inspire, Al Qaida's first Web magazine written in English. Links to the archived first edition warn of a possible virus, so we won't provide it here, but if you want to find the magazine yourself, feel free. Just remember: If the FBI asks where you heard about Inspire, the answer is "Not Cracked."
Inspire's first issue includes the articles "What to Expect in Jihad (Part 1)," "The Cartoon Crusade," which we hope is a comic strip about the humor in daily jihadist life, and "The Way to Save the Earth," a message from Osama bin Laden about the threat of global warming. That was not a joke.
"Remember, kids -- recycle. Or I will kill everyone in your entire country."
Another article is "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom," which almost sounds like lyrics to an al-Amriki joint. Follow their instructions and you get some sweet, delicious bombs. After Inspire was published, British intelligence hacked the site and decided the only reasonable thing to do with terrorists is to mess with them. In fact, they replaced the bomb-making recipe with recipes for mojito and rocky road cupcakes endorsed by Ellen DeGeneres. Why? We already told you, the whole point was to screw with them.
What we wouldn't give to see them do that to their entire site, forever.
If the male-centric Inspire is off-putting to you ladies, don't worry. al-Qaeda has you in mind as well. Inspire was followed by Al-Shamikha, a magazine for women all about how to land the perfect mujahideen. For those looking to maintain a perfect complexion, look no further: Stay inside with your face covered, only go outside if necessary and while out, wear a niqab for sun protection. For that extra step, Al-Shamikha explains the good and bad of honey face masks and warns readers not to towel too hard. We all know how hard it is to wage jihad with dry skin.
#1. Responding to Attacks Like a Talk-Show Pundit
Turn on a cable news channel and you'll probably see a pundit bitching about what someone else said. Flip to another channel, and someone is bitching about what the pundit just said. Over the course of several days they'll go back and forth until their argument devolves into stupid bullshit and they both give up and find something new to fight about. If Ann Coulter is involved, the argument starts in the stupid bullshit stage and stays there. What you don't usually see are representatives from terrorist organizations going mano a mano with talking heads because, one, they're terrorists, not talkerists, and two, just showing up at a studio would lead to an arrest, we're guessing.
"We won! Good debate, everyone!"
Which was why everyone was a little surprised when CNN contributors Fareed Zakaria and Peter Bergen wrote articles claiming the Arab revolts were the end of al-Qaeda, and al-Qaeda felt the need to respond. Not with violence or anything; they just wanted everyone to know CNN writers were stupid.
The Corporate Gesture:
Anwar al-Awlaki, a leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, responded in the fifth edition of Inspire with an article titled "The Tsunami of Change." And even though his arguments pretty much amounted to 1,000 words of "IS NOT!" to the CNN writers' "IS TOO!" it was still a better retort than, say, a bombing.
Via Wikimedia Commons
Or a power bombing.
The surprising part is how much al-Awlaki's responses sound like the rhetoric we hear between the left and the right of our own country. When CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria claimed that revolts for democracy are contrary to al-Qaeda's goals, al-Awlaki simply answered that everyone should "know very well that the opposite is the case."
He went on to another writer's article, saying that although Bergen was a "so-called expert," he was totally wrong, and that Islamic regimes will replace the dictators, duuuuh. Why would protesters fighting for democracy install a new despotic regime? Al-Awlaki doesn't say, because much like other pundits on television, he's operating with fifth-grade logic. Especially when he criticized YouTube for removing his videos, because everyone knows those were just about to go viral.
Trust us, it was hilarious.
Still, as much as we like to make fun, we'll once again assert that we'll take a talking head over a suicide bomber any day.
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I have a polynomial $P$, with unknown roots $r_1,r_2, ... ,r_n$.
My goal is to find a polynomial $X$ with roots $s_1,s_2, ... ,s_n$, where each $s_i = 2r_i$
I shall get $X$ with no need to find the roots of $P$.
I tried to find some relation between these polynomials by using Horner's method, but I seem to be completely lost.
Thanks for help.


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Eating less and moving more are the basics of weight loss that lasts. For some people, prescription weight loss drugs may help.
You'll still need to focus on diet and exercise while taking these drugs, and they're not for everyone.
Doctors usually prescribe them only if your BMI is 30 or higher, or if it's at least 27 and you have a condition that may be related to your weight, like type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure.
Here's what you should know about the most common prescription weight loss drugs: orlistat, Belviq, Contrave, Saxenda, phentermine, and Qsymia.
Before you get a weight loss drug prescription, tell your doctor about your medical history. That includes any allergies or other conditions you have; medicines or supplements you take (even if they're herbal or natural); and whether you're pregnant, breastfeeding, or planning to get pregnant soon.
Orlistat (Xenical)
How it works: Blocks your body from absorbing about a third of the fat you eat.
When a doctor prescribes orlistat, it's called Xenical. If you get it without a prescription, it's called Alli, which has half of Xenical's dose.
Approved for long-term use? Yes.
Side effects include abdominal cramping, passing gas, leaking oily stool, having more bowel movements, and not being able to control bowel movements.
These side effects are generally mild and temporary. But they may get worse if you eat high-fat foods.
Rare cases of severe liver injury have been reported in people taking orlistat, but it's not certain that the drug caused those problems.
What else you should know: You should be on a low-fat diet (less than 30% of your daily calories from fat) before taking orlistat.
Also, take a multivitamin at least 2 hours before or after taking orlistat, because the drug temporarily makes it harder for your body to absorb vitamins A, D, E, and K.
Orlistat is the only drug of its kind that's approved in the U.S. All other prescription weight loss drugs curb your appetite, including the following.
How it works: Curbs your appetite.


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5 Shocking Ways You Overestimate Yourself
Have you ever sat next to the smelly guy? Did you ever wonder why nobody tells him that he smells, or why he can't smell himself? Doesn't he notice people getting up and changing seats when he sits down? How can he live his whole life being unaware of a flaw that is readily apparent to a total stranger 10 seconds after they've met?
Well, here's the thing: According to science, we're all the smelly guy. Figuratively, that is.
#5. We Are More Racist Than We Think
Here's something that doesn't make sense: On one hand, we know that racism is still a big deal (you can't argue with it -- studies show it still turns up in everything from jury decisions to hiring practices), but how many outright racists do you actually know? How many people at your office fling the blankets aside each morning and scream, "TODAY I SHALL OPPRESS A BLACK MAN!"?
Only a small one today, though. Maybe one day he'll aspire to insult Kobe Bryant's mother.
Probably not that many. So we have the seemingly impossible situation of a world with a lot of racism and not many racists (and no matter how anonymous you make the poll, you can never find significant numbers of people admitting to being racist). Science suggests it's because all of us are a little more racist than we think.
"I'm not racist; I totally love cosplay girls."
For instance, in one somewhat hilarious experiment, researchers just set up a bunch of conversations -- some between members of the same race, some between different races. Then, to liven things up, they had the conversations take place over a closed-circuit camera system and intentionally inserted awkward pauses into the conversations by adding a one-second delay. No, the participants didn't realize they were doing it.
When a white person was talking to a white person, the pauses were basically unnoticed. But in the interracial conversations, the awkward pauses caused the anxiety levels of the participants to go off the charts -- far more than in control conversations held face-to-face. No matter how nonracist and open-minded the participants thought they were, one second of awkward silence was all it took for a whole bunch of subconscious racial tensions to bubble up. "Goddamn it, I just can't connect with this person! He's different from me!"
"I can't really put my finger on why."
By the way, if you put us in the same room, we'll reflect that tension in our body language, regardless of our relationship to the other person. In another bizarre experiment, researchers showed a group some video clips of two people talking: one white guy and one guy who was obscured so the observers couldn't see what race he was. Test subjects could usually guess the race of the obscured guy just by watching the other one's body language.
Ancient Mongolian?
The clips, by the way, were from TV shows where the characters were supposed to be equals and/or friendly with each other (that is, they weren't from cop shows where the white cop was arresting an obscured face wearing flamboyant pimp clothes). One of the shows that gave the "subconscious racist" response was Scrubs, for Christ's sake. These are real-life friends and colleagues playing the role of fake friends and colleagues. But put black and white together in the room, and on a subconscious level, things change.
Our funny on-screen bromance is just overcompensating for our acute racial tension!
Finally, and maybe strangest of all, is an experiment in which they gathered a random group of people -- not taken from a Klan rally or anything -- and made them watch an excruciating video of a guy's hand having a needle slooowly driven into the skin.
That involuntary wince you just did is happily a universal human response.
As you can imagine, the subjects literally felt the pain in their own hands ... as long as the hand on the screen was of the same race. The result was the same for the white and black participants -- they couldn't feel as much empathy for a member of another race.
And if you're about to say, "That's not racism! That's an involuntary response based on the fact that the hand being injured just didn't look like their own!" Hey, that's what the researchers thought, too, so they also included a purple hand. Subjects felt empathy toward it just fine. That's right -- the subjects couldn't muster empathy for a fellow human of another race but cringed at the thought of somebody hurting a fucking Night Elf.
#4. We Think We're Nicer Than We Are
The whole racism thing, however, just leads into a larger point.
Imagine that tomorrow you run across a person in need -- say a co-worker loses everything he owns in a fire, and everybody is making donations to help him out. In your imagination, how much would you give?
Now cut that amount in half. That's how much you'd give if the situation actually presented itself.
Which is bad if you gave him your child to help clean up.
See, no matter how much we make self-deprecating jokes or talk about how we suck and play the role of the lovable loser, experiments show that deep down, we think we are nicer and more generous than we actually are. Psychologists have long known that people tend to think they are more altruistic than the world in general, but researchers weren't sure if that was because we overestimate how great we are or because we underestimate everyone else. Hint: It's the first one.
People are dicks except for you; you're an adorable little buttercup!
Which brings us to the hypothetical situation above. A study at Cornell found that over the course of two experiments, of the participants who said they would donate to a charity (a staggering 80 percent), only half actually did when given the chance. Those who did donate gave only half as much as they previously said they would.
But, strangely, the amount of money donated in reality was close to what the participants predicted others would contribute. In other words, we have a pretty accurate idea of how selfish the rest of the world is, but in our imaginations, we don't perceive ourselves as being members of "the world." We all picture ourselves as members of an "elite moral minority."
"All right, homeless man, take the money -- just don't touch me!"
It wasn't just with money, either. Another study involved predicting whether subjects would take on a complex task rather than an easy one when they knew somebody else would get stuck with the task they didn't take. Most people thought, "Of course I'll do the harder task! It's only fair," but when actually presented with the task, they were far more likely to pawn it off on the other person ... even if they were told that person was a 10-year-old girl. Buckle your ass down, little Suzy!
You'd better get on and solve that economic problem we're having!
#3. We Have No Idea How Attractive We Are (or Rather, Aren't)
Forget for a moment the flamboyant, egomaniacal Snooki-type people who clearly are seeing a much more awesome version of themselves when they look in the mirror than actually exists. This isn't about them. No, science says that the odds are overwhelming that you think you're more attractive than you actually are. Experiments on this are downright freaky.
Not unlike Snooki.
For instance, some scientists took pictures of a group of experiment subjects. Then they altered them in various ways, creating 11 versions of each photo. Some had been drastically photoshopped to make the person more attractive, and some to make the person less attractive. One was left unchanged. The researchers showed the photos to the participants and said, "Which one is the unaltered one?" Now, these are their own faces we're talking about here. But time and time again, they were bad at finding the unaltered photo. Want to guess which ones they were likely to pick out as unaltered? The ones that had been fixed to make the subjects more attractive.
The camera might add 10 pounds, but apparently it also makes you look like a supermodel.
In other words, the person we see reflected in the mirror is not the reality of what we look like -- it's warped by our brain to make us hotter. This is one of the reasons people claim not to be photogenic or say they hate pictures of themselves. Yeah, right, it's the camera.
Meanwhile, another study found that 1 in 4 overweight people see themselves as being of normal weight. OK, we can kind of see that, since "overweight" is a medical term and maybe they're not even familiar with where the line is. But then you find out that a whopping 70 percent of obese people thought they were just a little bit overweight. Among the morbidly obese, 40 percent thought they needed to lose just a few pounds.
Just like this blazing inferno needs to lose just a few flames before it horribly suffocates everyone.
And then there's this massive 26,000 person study in which people were asked to rate their own attractiveness. Now, since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the researchers didn't just line up a bunch of people and say, "You think you're good-looking? Get the fuck out of my lab, Sasquatch!" No, they simply asked the people to rate themselves on a scale of 1 to 10, with 5 being an average-looking person. Virtually everyone rated themselves at least a 6 or 7 -- meaning everyone thinks they're "above average." Which is not only mathematically impossible but violates basic common sense about what "average" means.
Young people were the most deluded, with about 30 percent of men and women under age 30 claiming they were an 8 to a 10. Again, if that were true, we'd have to adjust the scale so the numbers meant something else -- you'd wind up in a whole Spinal Tap amp discussion.
So just remember this next time you're at Walmart or standing in line at McDonald's -- 3 out of every 10 of the people around you think they are at model levels of hot.


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High Space, Low Space
Go outside with your child and talk together about the space around us. Distinguish between high space up in the sky, low space (down on the ground), and medium space (in the middle). What living things move in these spaces? Ask your child how she would move in a high space (like a bird), in low space (crawling like a bug or snake), and middle space (animals with four legs). Experiment with dance movements exploring the space above and below.
From 365 Days of Creative Play by Sheila Ellison & Judith Gray. Copyright © 2005 by Sheila Ellison & Judith Gray. All rights reserved. Used by arrangement with Sourcebooks, Inc.
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Mid-Atlantic Technical Communication Workshop (PM)
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Willow Grove, Pennsylvania
From : Saturday, 09 March 2013 13:00
Until : Saturday, 09 March 2013 16:30
Until : Saturday, 09 March 2013 16:30
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Conversations to Help You Connect to the Career You Want
Top off your Saturday with several interactive sessions with seasoned STC and STC PMC members who will share their experiences in technical communication. Discussion topics will include:
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- Technical communication management
- Growing your career through continuous learning
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Given three complex values (for example, $2i, 4, i+3$), how would you calculate the equation of the circle that contains those three points? I know it has something to do with the cross ratio of the three points and $z$ and the fact that the cross ratio is a real number, but I don't know what to do with that information.
Might as well flesh out Theo's comments a bit...
If you have four points $z_i,\quad i=1\dots4$, in the following configuration:
the cross ratio of these four points is
If $\Delta$ is real, this means that
Interpreted geometrically, the angles $\angle z_3 z_1 z_4$ and $\angle z_3 z_2 z_4$ are congruent, and must thus be inscribed angles in a circle; i.e. all four points are concyclic.
If we let $z_4$ be a variable point $z$ tracing the circle and $\Delta$ be a varying parameter, we obtain an equation for the circle through $z_1,z_2,z_3$:
Solving for $z=x+iy$ gives
which as Theo says is a Möbius transformation. Taking real and imaginary parts and eliminating $\Delta$ should yield a Cartesian equation. (Obtaining the center and radius of this circle is a bit messy and is left as an exercise in algebraic manipulation.)
"Might as well flesh out" @Dinesh's comment.
This solution uses algebraic manipulations and consideration of the geometry of the figures. [A more concise solution might leverage vector formality.]
The solution is the equation in the form (x-h)^2+(y-k)^2=r^2, where we give the values of the 3 parameters, h, k, and r.
First, we convert to Cartezian coordinates:
1 -- To find the center of the circle (h,k), we need the equations of two lines that are perpendicular bisectors of any two of the sides of the implied triangle above. The intersection of these lines is the center of the circle.
2 -- A perpendicular bisector will have a slope, M, of -1/m, where m is the slope of the corresponding side of the triangle. We get the slope of a side, m, easily from the two given points for that side. We also can easily derive a point, P, on the perpendicular bisector: the midpoint of the side of the triangle. With a point and slope we essentially have the line equations we need.
3 -- To get the length of the radius, r, we compute the distance between the center of the circle and any of the points on the circle.
The perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a triangle intersect in the center of the circumscribing circle of that triangle. The proof is easy, as we note that every point along one of these perpendicular bisectors is equidistance from each of the two points that form the ends of the corresponding triangle side. Thus, the center of this circle (being the intersection of these perpendicular bisectors) has the property that it is equidistant from each of the 3 points, ie, it is a circumscribing circle. Note that given any 3 points, there is a single triangle implied by them (so we can use the perpendicular bisector argument to conclude that a single circle exists).
Now, for key calculations:
Thus, h = 0 and k = -3
We can calculate distance from (h,k) to (0,2)
More specifically, the equation of the circle is:


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We've all done it: we have a "proof" that is so pretty... but we know it's wrong. Either it proves something we know is false, or the proof doesn't use one of the hypotheses you know it needs to, or we assume something we can't assume... and the whole pretty argument goes away. I had a professor who said that he sometimes convinces himself that some proof works right before he goes to bed, only to wake up and find out that it's total nonsense. He says it's probably some coping mechanism his body has so he can get some sleep!
Though the proofs often end up unsalvageable (is that a word?), I think they are an important part of learning mathematics and being creative. I think it was Sir Ken Robinson (not a mathematician, but a good thinker) who said something like "Being wrong isn't always good, but if we don't have the capacity to be wrong we can never be creative." (If anyone knows the precise quote, do fill it in!)
So let's hear them- your pretty proofs that turn out to be nonsense. Like the well-written "How not to prove the Poincare Conjecture," these can be well thought out proofs that have a small hidden assumption that makes everything blow-up, or they can be totally silly like the time I thought I proved Brouwer's fixed point theorem using the Baire Category Theorem during my freshman year...
Bonus points if anyone's "false" methods (or a close adaptation) ended up working for a different problem later on!


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By: Braley Dodson
The Daily Republic
The Mitchell Weekend Snackpack program will relocate to the campus of Dakota Wesleyan University, board members decided Thursday evening.
The meeting, held at the First United Methodist Church and attended by nine people, covered moving the program from the living room of board president Cindy Novachich's house to DWU's old biology lab.
For the past three years, Weekend Snackpack has stored its food in Novachich's living room and donations have been left on her front porch. The first time Snackpacks will be handed out for junior and senior high school students at DWU will be Aug. 30, and services at the elementary school will continue on the same date.
The nonprofit program began in January of 2010, and has since expanded to assist 310 children per week. The food is packed in recycled grocery bags and given to elementary school children on Fridays.
Snackpacks are distributed every week of the school year, except for the first and last Friday.
The packs contain a fruit, grain, an entree and two other food items.
The organization has handed out $58,000 in food over the past two and a half years, with more than $30,000 donated last year.
Novachich, who works two jobs to help support the program, said the room's shelves and cupboards at DWU will allow for more food to be stored, along with more area for volunteers to work on packing food. In her house, there is only room for eight people to pack food. The move to DWU will expand that to 30. The old biology lab is located in Hughes Hall, on the western side of the campus. The building borders West University Avenue.
"My dream was to find a place we would have rent free that would be an appropriate place for youth to go to," Novachich said. "This seems like an answer."
Novachich said the program has previously been run out of her home to avoid paying rent and to direct more funds toward the food. The old biology lab will be provided rent free.
Weekend Snackpack just finished applying for the Mitchell Area Charitable Foundation Grant. It is requesting $15,000 between two grants for a renovation of the lab, signage for the building, signage for vehicles, a cart for transporting food, a vehicle purchase, office supplies and a computer.
The move from Novachich's home to the old biology lab opens the door to the possibility of assisting junior and senior high school students. Novachich said because the new location is near a street, it would provide the opportunity for older youth to receive food without being singled out, a concern she's heard from junior and senior high school educators.
Weekend Snackpack has joined forced with DWU's Enactus team. The two groups began working together earlier this year, and will continue their partnership.
The program is in the process of applying for a grant.
Brent Matter, a junior at DWU and project coordinator for the Enactus team, linked the two groups together. While competing with the Enactus team on a project with Campbell's Soup to gather 5,000 pounds of food, he thought there was a chance to expand the project.
"DWU has a lot of resources, Enactus has resources, Mitchell has resources," Matter said. "Why not pool all those resources?"
Matter attended school in Iroquois and saw firsthand the benefits and need of a backpack food program.
"There's definitely a need for a program across the state," Matter said.
The Enactus team will cover the insurance and maintenance of the new vehicle, and Matter said the group is considering building bins for donations on a concrete slab outside of Hughes.
"It's like a miracle for me," Novachich said. "It's given me new dreams for snackpack, and a new spark."
The board also approved the group's application to be a participant in the United Way Day of Caring on Aug. 7.
Novachich drew inspiration for the program through her childhood and interaction with others.
"I grew up really poor, I walked those streets and I understand," Novachich said. "I want Mitchell kids to know that people in this town care about them."
Board members expressed concern on how junior high students would travel to the campus.
Novachich said she sees kids walking around town often, and Matter wasn't concerned.
"If you're hungry, you'll find a way to get there," Matter said.
The board discussed, but did not vote, on eventually stocking diapers and formula.


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