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Two area families will receive the gift of a home this holiday, and one of them was handed the keys tonight.
Walking into your new home for the first time is a special moment, but even more so when you know you helped build it.
"We helped build our own home, and it was wonderful. I loved it," said Habitat Home Recipients Tony and Sonia Bell.
Tonight, surrounded by those who volunteered their time to build the house, the bell family got the keys to their Habitat for Humanity House.
"I'm glad there's someone out there helping other families in need to be able to get into a home, and provide a better home for the children," said Tony and Sonia Bell.
"I like it because Janie can have her own room with toys, but if she gets scared, she can come into my room," said Habitat Home Recipients Janie and Megan Bell.
Another mom will receive her new house tomorrow, and she says watching the Bells get their home was special for her too.
"I helped build this house, and to know that I helped give something because somebody was giving me something," said Habitat Home Recipient Alicia Brannon.
That's the mission of Habitat. People helping each other build their dreams by building their homes. One volunteer has helped build over 50 homes in the area.
"It really does make a difference in these people's lives," said Volunteer construction coordinator, Charlie Gries.
"It's a new beginning. Me and my kids have waited for this for a long time. We've lived in some of the worst places, and this is a new beginning for us," said Brannon.
A beginning that Brannon says will start with her children spending Christmas in their new home.
Habitat for Humanity organizers say building these homes would not be possible without the support of the community and those who donate their labor and money.
There are many ways to get involved by volunteering your labor, donations, and furniture and supply donations to the local Habitat for Humanity ReStore.
To find out more on how you can help Habitat for Humanity go to their website at http://www.habitat.org/cd/kit/homepage.aspx?page=bgwarrencoky.


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The home of ice hockey, lumberjacks, beavers, Mounties and maple syrup, right? Well, yes – but that's just scratching the surface of Canada. In reality, it's one of the world's most awe-inspiring countries, a mixture of raw beauty and more complex, unexpected places to visit including desert, temperate rainforest and lush orchards. Add the Rockies' glittering lakes and majestic peaks, spectacular fjord-slashed coastlines and the rippling prairie expanse with all the sky for a ceiling and you've got more than enough room to truly lose yourself (and the crowds). As a bonus, Canada's cities – enchanting Québec, trendy Vancouver, cosmopolitan Toronto and stylish Montréal among them – are rich with historical and cultural treasures.
Perhaps the hardest aspect of Canada to appreciate is its vast size – the second largest country in the world (after Russia), it covers an area the United Kingdom could fit into 41 times over. Much of this expanse is sparsely inhabited and the majority of the 35 million Canadians live in its southern half, relatively close to the border with the US. Like its neighbour to the south, Canada is a spectrum of cultures, a hotchpotch of immigrant groups who supplanted the continent's many aboriginal peoples.
For the visitor, the mix that results from this mostly exemplary tolerance is an exhilarating experience, offering such widely differing cultural, artistic and culinary experiences as Vancouver's huge Chinatown, the Inuit heartlands of the far north, the austere religious enclaves of Manitoba or the Celtic-tinged warmth of the Maritimes.
Yet – in stark contrast to their southern neighbours – some Canadians are often troubled by the lack of a clear self-image, tending to emphasize the ways in which their country is different from the US as a means of self-description. The question "What is a Canadian?" continues to linger, with the on-again, off-again and always acrimonious debate over Québec's secession, but ultimately there can be no simple characterization of a people whose country is not so much a single nation as it is a committee on a continental scale. Pierre Berton, one of Canada's finest writers, wisely ducked the issue: A Canadian, he quipped, is "someone who knows how to make love in a canoe".
Despite this balancing act, one thing is clear: Canadians have an overwhelming sense of pride in their history, their culture and the mesmerizing beauty of their land. Indeed, Canada embraces all this – as well as its own clichés – with an energy that's irresistible.

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6 Myths Everyone Believes about Space (Thanks to Movies)
Our knowledge of outer space is a lot like our knowledge of history -- it's really hard to separate what we know from research from what we picked up from movies. In both cases, this means that a lot of our everyday knowledge about space is just laughably wrong.
Yep, it's not enough for space to make us feel small -- it needs to make us feel stupid, too.
(If you're reading this, you must love Star Wars. So why not watch Cracked's Adventures in Jedi School mini-series?)
#6. Asteroid Belts Are Deadly
Remember how in The Empire Strikes Back the temporarily hyperdriveless Han Solo had to navigate through a chaotic asteroid field in an attempt to evade the Empire? The damn things were packed so closely, not even the tiny TIE fighters could sweep between them without getting squished by colliding hunks of stone. And those asteroid fields were everywhere -- in Attack of the Clones, Obi-Wan winds up in the exact same predicament, swerving and dodging as huge space rocks miss his ship by inches.
Also missed: Plot, urgency, the existence of Boba Fett without a stupid back story.
But that's just the way asteroid belts are, right? As C-3PO will tell you, the chances of successfully navigating an asteroid field are slim to none. It's basically a stampede, only instead of pissed-off cows, you're facing millions of huge murderous space boulders.
The Reality:
Here's a pic of the asteroid belt in our solar system. It kind of looks just like the one from Star Wars:
Although it could really use a couple of extra Dewbacks. We'll take care of that in editing.
And there are loads of asteroids in that belt, true enough -- it features about half a million asteroids that we know of. However, there are also lots and lots of miles for them to cross. Lots and lots. To the point that when NASA had to send a probe through it, their scientists said the odds of colliding with an asteroid were one in a billion. So basically Han could have blindfolded himself and steered through our asteroid belt with his dick, secure in the knowledge that the odds of hitting an asteroid in the middle of an asteroid belt aren't a whole lot higher than the odds of you hitting one while driving your car to the grocery store.
That sounds crazy looking at the picture up there, but no picture of space really conveys the distances. For instance, once upon a time, our asteroid belt had way more asteroids in it (about a thousand times more, in fact). Even if Han had to fly through that density of asteroids, he'd find that each asteroid has a mind-boggling 400,000 square miles to itself.
It's empty. That's why it's called space.
You could argue that maybe in the particular galaxy Star Wars takes place in they for some reason have superdense asteroid belts, but that's actually impossible -- the whole problem is that over time, the asteroids will disperse. If they were as close as the Star Wars belt, for instance, each time an asteroid bumped into another, they would go flying off into outer space, with nothing to stop them.
This means that actually getting hit by an asteroid in an asteroid belt is less a matter of not paying attention and more a matter of veering off course by a good couple of million miles. And actively trying to find an asteroid. And then somehow intercepting it at the perfect time, with the perfect velocity and the accurate trajectory. You'd need a hell of a space pilot with a hell of a death wish.
And a tolerance for giant space cocks.
#5. Black Holes Are Cosmic Vacuum Cleaners
Of all the horrible space things out there, black holes are probably the best proof that the universe really hates us. They're invisible, they're ominous, they're huge and they hoover everything within light years into their incomprehensible void.
But enough about your scary demon ghost-mom. She cleans up good.
Because of this tendency to hose up everything in their vicinity, black holes are pretty much contractually obligated to appear in every sci-fi epic worth its salt. From the planet-Vulcan-destroying black hole in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek to the ones in Stargate SG-1 and Doctor Who, the black hole is consistently portrayed as an inescapable vortex of destruction, slurping at our universe through a straw.
It's like a million nerds cried out in horror and were suddenly reminded that this is a Star Wars quote.
The Reality:
Let's imagine you woke up tomorrow and found that somebody had replaced our sun with a black hole. And say the black hole is the same mass as our sun. What would happen?
OK, we'd all freeze to death because the sun is gone. There is that. But we certainly wouldn't get sucked in -- or even slowly fall in, flailing our hands comically.
"My only regret is not capturing this image for my desktop wallpaperrrrrrr!"
While black holes are certainly frightening, they're not nearly as powerful as most people think. We forget that, as big as they are, they still have mass. This means that no matter how big and absurdly strong they might seem, they also have finite strength.
In other words, a black hole is just like every other object in the universe, in that its gravitational pull can only be as powerful as its mass allows it to be. If it's the mass of the sun, its pull is the same as the sun's. No more, no less. Physics is a thing even black holes have to obey. There is no special mechanism that makes it suck things in beyond regular ol' gravity, and gravity has to obey the same rules as everything else.
And that means no loitering, asshole.
Say what you want about the universe, that last sentence makes us feel a bit better about it. It's comforting to know that even something that can drag time itself into the drain has to play by house rules.
#4. The Sun Is Yellow
Quick, grab a crayon and draw the sun. If you grabbed anything other than the yellow one, you're a smartass, or else you're about to fail kindergarten.
"I'm failing at a 10th grade level!"
The sun is yellow; that's one of the first things most kids learn about it, right after the whole "hot" thing but before the "horrific mass of nuclear hellfire" part. The color of the sun is one of the easiest things in the world to verify, if you don't mind your eyeballs catching fire after staring at it too long. Hell, even its classification is yellow dwarf.
Actually, we have a pretty good idea of what color the rest of our immediate space is, too. That's because we have plenty of visual material of our galactic 'hood, from the pictures provided by Hubble to numerous satellite images and the various probes roaming the solar system. That's how Hollywood knows what color the Martian sand under Arnold should be when he does the eye-bulge fandango in Total Recall.
We've always assumed they just killed off his stunt double for this scene.
The Reality:
At the risk of crushing the memory of every painting you had to make in grade school art class, the sun is not really yellow, nor is it engulfed in wavy flames. In fact, it doesn't really look like anything much. An intergalactic cue ball, maybe.
The reason the sun appears like it does to us is Earth's atmosphere, which makes its rays appear yellow-tinted. However, the temperature of the Sun is 6,000 degrees Kelvin, and any star of that particular temperature has only one color it can be: white.
Boring white, too. Here's a picture of the sun viewed from space, courtesy of NASA:
It's like the testicle of an albino man with impeccable skin care.
Yes, the sun looks like the moon, but without the face to make it interesting.
But what about the rest of our solar system? We're not dependent on our eyes when it comes to the colors of, say, Mars. We've got pictures. Hell, we had a Mars rover that was right there on the ground, it took snapshots of the red planet from inches away.
Actually, none of those cameras photograph in color. The color is added later, with filters.
So, yes, you can call Photoshop on space.
It's not NASA's fault -- extraterrestrial photography is tricky, and the pictures that result do not necessarily represent the most accurate version of the subject. Instead, the scientists involved in the process tend to go for the combination of colors that help their work the most. Zolt Levay of the Space Telescope Science Institute says:
"The colors in Hubble images are neither 'true' colors nor 'false' colors, but usually are representative of the physical processes underlying the subjects of the images. They are a way to represent in a single image as much information as possible that's available in the data."
So, yeah. Basically, all those awesome pictures space research has been throwing our way for years are nothing but black and white images colored in to show how much science each part of the picture features. The Mars rover will send back this:
New Mexico.
And NASA will run it through filters to approximate what the full color version would look like if you were actually there sitting on the rover:
New Mexico floating in pee.
But then you have to remember that Mars gets less than half as much sunlight as the Earth, and that said light is shining down through an atmosphere full of dust made of iron oxide (rust) particles. What we're saying is, the question of "What color is ________?" never has a simple answer when you're talking about outer space.


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While pregnant (4 months), is it ok to "be careful"? Is it ok to avoid eating too much and bear hungry feelings some days?
Many women think that being pregnant is an excuse to eat everything is sight, however the average pregnant woman only needs 200-300 calories more per day, and that's at the late stage of pregnancy. However, your need for certain vitamins and minerals goes up dramatically, and sometimes cravings are your body's way of telling you you are short of something. You need more iron, calcium, folic acid, and other things is quantity. So if you have a specific craving it's best to fill it.
Dieting while pregnant is not a good idea, eat a healthy diet and don't go short on anything.
Popular diet programs such as Weight Watchers prohibit participation in their programs while pregnant (see here and here), as their systems are often designed to promote weight loss, which is not healthy during pregnancy.
It is much, much better to identify healthy low-calorie foods and eat as much of those as you like, while limiting foods that will lead to a lot of weight gain. Munch on carrots and celery sticks at least. Going hungry isn't good for anybody, least of all a pregnant woman.
If you want to cut back on anything, cut back on empty calorie items, such as sugar-filled cakes, cookies, etc. Cake and cookies contain no nutritional content while at the same time delivering plenty of calories. You're best off eating healthy and rich foods that have proteins, vitamins and minerals. There is some advice for exactly what to eat here, to sum:
You need your minerals:
In addition, be sure to eat some of everything: do not eat less than the recommended daily allowances of fats: fats contain essential nutrients!
Absolutely, as long as you start at a healthy weight, or are overweight (which applies to the majority of the developed world) - the core element that doctors stress is just "to get a balanced input" so you aren't missing out on essential vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients.
Of course, if you are underweight, then you may not want to go down this route, as a malnourished mother will have an effect not only on the child, but on her own health as her body does its best to provide nutrients for the unborn baby.
If there was ever a time in your life to throw a diet out of the window, it is during pregnancy.
By all means avoid fizzy drinks and confectionery, but other than that - open up and consume!
Of course, eat healthily, restricting your intake to that which is wholesome and nutritious, but do not restrict your intake due to weight-gain fears.
And one thing I must stress: Whatever your cravings - GIVE IN TO THEM.
We should feel the difference between healthy eating and dieting. First is healthy and even necessary while pregnancy and second is as harmful as taking pills.


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I just started playing Minecraft today and was unfortunately eaten alive by a horde of angry looking block spiders. What weapon does the most damage at the beginning game?
Minecraft Wiki has a table of damage done by weapons.
Swords: The best ordinary weapon (by damage numbers) you can readily make is an iron sword, and the second-best is a stone sword, which is very easy to craft since it only requires wood and cobblestone.
Bow and arrows: I strongly recommend keeping a bow and arrows, if you can, because it enables you to kill monsters at a far distance (especially important since spiders jump at you and creepers will explode without actually touching you). A bow requires three string and three sticks, so the hard part is killing enough spiders to get the string. You could:
Arrows for a bow are made from flint, feathers, and sticks, or are dropped by skeletons. Flint is readily obtained by mining gravel (any gravel that doesn't produce flint can be re-placed and mined again for another chance at flint), and feathers may be obtained easily from chickens.
Burning: It is possible to set enemies on fire, but it doesn't kill them very fast. A more practical possibility is to drop a bucket of lava. The safety of this depends strongly on the terrain (you can outrun lava unless you're clumsy, but the real hazard is if the flow blocks you from walking back to pick up the source), but if you can do it then it will bog down the enemies that try to chase you across the lava and kill them reasonably quickly.
Armor: Also, find a herd of cows and start breeding and slaughtering them to make leather armor (24 leather makes a full set). Armor makes you take a lot less damage, if nothing else so you can get in some aiming and timing practice in those beginning fights. Also, killing cows and chickens will help you learn how far your weapons reach and how to aim at a mob.
On the Keeping of Cows and Chickens: Passive (non-hostile) animals spawn rarely, mostly on initial world creation. Therefore, in order to obtain the leather and feathers I recommend above, you will need to breed them. A complete discussion on breeding would be a bit much, so I'll just point you at Minecraft Wiki on the subject. The short version is that you should construct a wheat farm (as wheat is required to initiate breeding) and a pen for the animals. If you do not breed animals but only kill them where you find them, you will be waiting a long time for the population to recover. Also, baby animals do not drop any items, so you must wait for them to mature.
The current answers aren't quite up-to date, so here's the current info, as of Minecraft 1.0.0. While not all of these are obtainable from the beginning of the game, it's all useful information. All data is pulled from Minecraft Wiki or my own personal experience.
Base Stats
Swords: The most easily obtainable weapon also deals the most raw damage. Wooden swords are the baseline, dealing 2 hearts of damage. Stone, iron, and diamond each increase the damage amount by half a heart, capping out at 3.5 hearts with a diamond sword. Swords are easy to make and use, but have the downside of no range.
Bows and arrows: Both bows and arrows are more difficult to craft than swords, and are not obtainable right when the game starts. Also, arrows need to be replenished, so there is a higher amount of maintenance when using a bow. However, they are much safer than swords since they give range, especially when fighting Creepers. Arrows do not, however, do as much damage as swords, with just a half a heart of damage per arrow.
Flint and steel (fire): Fire is a possible method of combat, though not recommended. With flint and steel, you can set blocks on fire, lighting any mobs that walk into it up. The fire itself will deal a heart of damage per second. Even once they leave the flames, they will continue to take damage at a half a heart per second, though the fire will eventually go out if left too long or if the mob runs into water.
Lava: A bucket full of lava is arguably the most powerful weapon in the game. It will deal 5 hearts of damage per second while any mobs are inside. It will also light them on fire, doing the fire rate of half a heart of damage per second. Also, it can be easy to obtain with just three iron and a cave or surface lava pool, and it has infinite durability. Of course, it has its downsides. The most obvious is that it's extremely dangerous since it's deadly to the player as well as mobs. Another downside is that all dropped items from the killed mobs will be obliterated.
Critical Damage
Swords: Criticals with melee weapons are easy to obtain, and will consistently increase your damage with no downsides. Criticals with wooden/gold swords deal 4 hearts of damage, and each tier increases that value by 1.5 hearts. That means a critical with a diamond sword deals a whopping 8.5 hearts of damage, enough to kill nearly all enemies in the game with one or two hits.
Bows and arrows: Though the base half a heart damage value may seem like a tiny amount, charging your bow shot can vastly improve that stat. Holding the fire button will "charge" the bow, and a fully charged bow shot can do up to 4.5 hearts of damage. That's much more effective than standard bow shots, and makes the bow a seriously powerful weapon in combat.
Swords can be enchanted to deal additional damage.
Sharpness: The most basic enchantment, it deals an additional 1.5 hearts of damage per level. Sharpness can go to level V, so you can get a bonus of 7.5 damage on a sword.
Smite: This enchantment, also capping at level V, deals an additional 2 hearts of damage per level. However, it only deals the additional damage on zombies, skeletons, and zombie pigmen.
Bane of Arthropods: Works exactly the same as Smite, but works upon spiders, cave spiders, and silverfish.
Fire Aspect: Does not directly increase damage, but lights all mobs you hit on fire, dealing half a heart of damage per second. While this is extremely helpful, it's useless against Nether mobs, since they are immune to fire.
Knockback: While it technically does not inflict damage, it causes mobs to be flung back, making dealing with them easier. It only goes to leve II, which increases knockback distance.
Looting: This helps with combat, yet also does not directly affect your damage dealt. Extremely Rare enchantment. This enchantment causes all enemies to drop the max amount of all items they drop when they die, rare and common. eg. Cow drops 4 leather and 6 meat.
Potion of Harming: Quite simply does damage to the drinker. Brewing it as a splash potion will allow it to be used as a sort of grenade against enemies. It deals three hearts of damager per level at the splash's center, up to level II. A major downside, though, it that it will heal undead enemies, zombies, skeletons, and zombie pigmen.
Potion of Healing: Works exactly the same as the Harming variety, except it heals three hearts per level. However, it can be used to deal damage against undead mobs.
Potion of Poison: Deals slow damage over time to enemies in the blast radius. Note that it does not effect spiders, cave spiders, or zombies.
Potion of Strength: Increases melee damage by 1.5 hearts per level, up to level II. The base potion lasts 3 minutes, but can be extended with redstone to 8 minutes. The II variety only lasts 1:30, so while it's effective for quick bursts of damage, for the most part, the 8:00 version is more effective.
Potion of Fire Resistance: While essentially a defensive potion, it also protects the player from lava damage, making using a lava bucket as a weapon perfectly viable. The base potion lasts 3 minutes, and the extended potion lasts 8, with no downsides. This makes the lava bucket very powerful, since the player no longer has to worry about killing him/herself.
Preventative Measures
Though I will not go into them here, there are many additional methods of preventing damage rather than simply dealing it. These include armor, enchantments, and potions. These are sometimes more effective than just dealing raw damage, since being able to stay alive is still the priority, and however powerful your weapon is, a direct Creeper to the face can still kill you armorless.
Additionally, stay fed. Keeping your hunger up will keep you healing, allowing you to remain in combat for longer. Potions can also increase the health regeneration rate or heal health instantly.
Most items (and using your bare fists) will inflict 1/2 a heart of damage to a mob. There are a handful of items that will do more, however. (taken from the Minecraft Wiki)
Axes are the next best tool to use in combat, dealing 1/2 a heart less damage than their sword counterparts. Pickaxes do 1/2 a heart less damage than axes, and shovels 1/2 a heart less than pickaxes. In my opinion, in the beginning game, a Stone Sword is the most efficient item. Two Cobblestone and one stick is easy to obtain.
Building on Kevin's answer, it won't be long till you have 8 iron ore to convert to iron ingots with a single coal. That means at least one less swing per kill. That makes it wise to invest two of those first eight iron in a sword.
I just use a drowning trap that surrounds the base, the only way to get around it is through an underground tunnel that can only be accessed when you pull a lever causing many wooden doors to open and create a door-bridge. the hardest thing to get is an iron bucket, which isn't really all that hard. Just use some imagination and know when to hide. That's all you need. Unless you're like me and prefer to live underground.
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When i wrap code in the edit box it looks fine, when i preview the post it just displays the program in one horizontal line!! grrrrr!!! Whats up with this man!????
How do i include java code??!
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I usually prepare my talks using powerpoint/openoffice-impress/keynote, where I explaing programs, pseudocodes, etc. Recently I was thinking about creating text-only, code-only and pseudocode-only slides with beamer and then exporting them somehow to powerpoint where I modify them to add figures or some minor details for polishing the presentation, which are usually hard to do with beamer. I googled a bit around and found that beamer can export to PDF or PS but not to powerpoint. I wonder anyway if you know some possibility of conversion from beamer to on-screen editable powerpoint/openoffice-impress/keynote.
"beamer can export to PDF or PS", beamer doesn't export anything. It is a LaTeX class and LaTeX compiles the document to PDF (
One mornign I was bored, and I wrote a small script named pdf2oo. The obtained presentation is not editable (but it is obviously overlayable) and the worse, it's bitmap. Today, it would be possible to add vector graphics easily using svg, but I never found the motivation to do that. It's open source software so you could consider modifying the script to your needs or improving it.
I have a partial solution for exporting beamer slides to PowerPoint
Purpose: If you want to create your background, header, and footer in (Xe)Latex, like this:
but you still would like to edit the content in PowerPoint (or whatever you have), you could use this solution.
For this you will need a Mac with OS X (Automator and AppleScript needed). I followed the following procedure:
UPDATE 2: Ben Waldie helped me move the picture (beamer slides/individual pdf "images") to the back, such that the beamer slides do not cover an text boxes in Powerpoint.
Practical Usage: Create your presentation in Powerpoint, using text-only slides (titles in your tex code) or title-text slides (titles not included in tex code). You will have to coordinate the orientation of these text fields and your pdf slides, such that it is aesthetically pleasing. In your TeX editor, add the number of frames you have in powerpoint.
My original post (which is most likely obsolete):
I have a possible solution for you:
It is not free, $12.95 at the moment. This should do what you want. I will continue to seek an open-source alternative. I would really like to be able to have latex generated templates for my Keynote presentations. I especially want the ability to have something like the following picture, except I would want to use it as a template background for my slides in Keynote. All bullet points, pictures, and videos would be added from within Keynote. In essence, Xe(LateX) becomes just a template creator. Have a look, paying attention to what I call the "slide guide" in the header:
PDF to Keynote does exactly this. (At least for Keynote)
And it's free!
Here (https://github.com/martinGithub/beamer2pptx) is a small python script that extracts elements of the beamer using regular expressions, creates an image for each equation and generates a powerpoint with the same number of slides with the equations and the images. It does not keep the layout, but it can help as a first step before reediting the exported presentation in powerpoint.


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Does there exists a finite group $G$ and a normal subgroup $H$ of $G$ such that $|\operatorname{Aut}{(H)}|>|\operatorname{Aut}{(G)}|$?
A version of Robin Chapman's answer that might be easier to verify:
The additive group $H$ of a field of order $2^{n}$ has two nice types of automorphism: multiplication by a scalar, and the Frobenius automorphism. The semi-direct product $G$ is called $AΓL(1,2^{n})$. It has order $(2^{n})⋅(2^{n}−1)⋅(n) ≤ 2^{3n}$, and for $n ≥ 2$ it is its own automorphism group.
It has the additive group $H$ of the field as a normal subgroup. However, as just an additive group, $H$ has automorphism group all n×n matrices over the field with 2 elements, which has size $(2^{n}−1)⋅(2^{n}−2)⋅⋅⋅(2^{n}−2^{n−1}) ≥ 2^{(n−1)^{2}}$.
For large $n$, $|Aut(G)| = (2^{n})⋅(2^{n}−1)⋅(n) ≤ 2^{3n} ≤ 2^{(n−1)^{2}} ≤ (2^{n}−1)⋅(2^{n}−2)⋅⋅⋅(2^{n}−2^{n−1}) = |Aut(H)|$
In particular:
For $n = 4$, $G = AΓL(1,16)$, $Aut(G) = G$ has order $960$, and $Aut(H) = GL(4,2)$ has order $20160$.
For $n = 10$, $G = AΓL(1,1024)$, $Aut(G) = G$ has order $10475520$, and $Aut(H) = GL(10,2)$ has order $366440137299948128422802227200$.
In other words, $Aut(H)$ can be enormously bigger than $Aut(G)$.
This is reasonably important in finite group theory:
$G$ is a very rigid group with lots of structure. Because it contains all the "automorphisms" of the field, the group itself determines the field. An automorphism of the group will have to be an automorphism of the field, and we've already listed them all. Sometimes this expressed by saying the group G determines the geometry of the affine line on which it acts.
$H$ is a very floppy group to which you can do nearly anything. Without the maps encoding scalar multiplication, $H$ no longer remembers the field that defined it. It is just a vector space, and so instead of the (very few) field automorphisms, you are now allowed to use any vector space automorphism. $H$ has lost its structure.
I think $H$ is the canonical example of a horribly structureless group. Groups like $GL$ and $AΓL$ are pretty standard examples of groups with very clear structure. The symmetric group is very similar. Except for a few early cases, a symmetric group is its own automorphism group because it already contains within itself the set of points on which it is acting.
The quasidihedral group of order 16, QD16, has automorphism group of order 16, but it has Q8 (the quaternion group) as a normal subgroup, and | Aut(Q8) | = 24.
An elementary Abelian group can have a large automorphism group. Let $H$ be a largish elementary Abelian group, and $G$ be an extension of $H$, say be a semidirect product with a cyclic group acting faithfully on $H$. Then it is possible for Aut$(G)$ to be smaller than Aut$(H)$.
Let $F_4 = Z/2[w]/w^2+w+1$ be the field of order 4.
Let $H = (F_4^+)^n = (Z/2)^{2n}$ for $n \geq 2$.
Then $Aut(H) = GL(2n,F_2)$ which has order $(4^n-1)(4^n-2)(4^n-4)...(4^n-2*4^(n-1))$
Let $G$ be $\langle H,a : a^3 = 1, axa^{-1} = wx \ \text{for} \ x \in H \rangle$. So $G$ is the semi-direct product of $H$ with $Z/3$, where the action is given by multiplication by $H$. An automorphism of $G$ must fix $H$ ($H$ consists of the set of elements of order 2). It must also send a to one of the 2*4^n elements of order 3. Let us consider only the automorphisms of $G$ which fix a (which is a subgroup of $Aut(G)$ of index $2*4^n$). These are automorphisms of H which commute with multiplication by w. Hence these are automorphisms of $F_4^n$ as an $F_4$ vector space, or elements of $GL(n,F_4)$. Hence $|Aut(G)| = 2*4^n* (4^n-1)(4^n-4)...(4^n-4^(n-1))$.
For $n \geq 2$, it is clear that $|Aut(H)| > |Aut(G)|$.
Also, you my find the answer at IMC 2008, Problem 5, day 1 (Already given)
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Gary Daniels and Evan Goldring - Mock whiteboard problem
- Posted: Aug 24, 2004 at 12:44PM
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private bool CheckPalindrome(string myString)
int First;
int Second;
First = 0;
Second = myString.Length - 1;
while (First < Second)
if(myString.Substring(First,1) == myString.Substring(Second,1))
First ++;
Second --;
return false;
return true;
The message that I am getting from this fictional interview question is, "Please solve this ridiculous problem to prove to me that you are intelligent."
This line of command and performance encourages pride in being able to solve the specific problem without placing the problem in context. It sends out a false sense of security in being able to do whatever it takes to get the job done. It encourages "hard coding" instead of developing once for many problems.
And talking about this matter instead of writing code in this post is just me showing many sophomoric folk out there in the "real" world that I am simply stalling because I cannot solve the problem. I am using my slick talk to slide out of getting "real" work done. Right?
Many, many years ago, I failed to answer a job interview question where the interviewer was measuring my experience with VBA by finding out if I knew whether the StrReverse() function existed or not. What the interviewer would never know is that I wrote all of my string handling functions years before the interview and years before the StrReverse() function appeared in VBA. So I was doomed because I was unaware of this new function and I failed to memorize my own code that worked so well I forgot about it!
I will have the same problem now with C# because I fully intend to write my code so well that I won't need to memorize every algorithm just to impress an interviewer. In the same manner that writing in Microsoft Word 2003 does not improve spelling skills, writing good code does not help me remember every algorithm under the sun. "Good" code is meant to be forgotten—and "good" documentation helps us remember in the appropriate context.
To me, the best way to interview a programmer is to put her in a room with a computer, tell her what the problem is and walk out of the room with a promise to return in 15 minutes. Very, very few programmers get the opportunity to stand up in front of a white board and "lecture" to people about solving the problem.
Private Function IsPalindrome(ByVal TestString As String) As Boolean
Dim First As Integer = 0
Dim Last As Integer = TestString.Length - 1
While First < Last
If TestString.Substring(First, 1) = TestString.Substring(Last, 1) Then
First += 1
Last -= 1
Return False
End If
End While
Return True
End Function
public bool IsPalindrome(string palindrome)
if(palindrome == null || palindrome.Length == 0)
return false;
palindrome = palindrome.Replace(" ", "").ToLower();
int start = 0, end = palindrome.Length - 1;
while(end - start >= 1)
if(palindrome[start] == palindrome[end])
return false;
return true;
This will validate palindromes without case sensitivity even if they have spaces, for example: A man a plan a canal Panama
public bool IsPalindrome(string palindrome)
if(palindrome == null || palindrome.Length == 0)
return false;
palindrome = palindrome.Replace(" ", "").ToLower();
char[] reverse = palindrome.ToCharArray();
string s = new string(reverse);
return palindrome == s;
Here's a case/space insensitive and smaller palindrome checker.
Out of my own curiosity, I did a few tests to test performance. I'm no performance test guru, but what I did was use an array of 271 palindromes and an array of 271 non-palidromes, then tested the array for x Iterations. The score on top is using the Array.Reverse
method (the method I posted second) and the bottom score checking character by character (the method I posted first). The score is the average number of ticks per method call. The average non-palindrome was longer than the average palindrome, so that may account
for the slightly slower performance.
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The character by character method beating the Array.Reverse method on non-palindromes is a no brainer, because it returns false after the first check, where as the Array.Reverse has to reverse and test the whole string every time.
I was a bit surprised by it winning on palindromes, though. If anyone has any insight into this, I'd love to hear it. All I can assume is that a character by character check is more efficient than putting a string into an array, reversing it, and putting it back into a string.
bool IsPalindrome(char *text)
if (text)
char *first = text;
char *last = text + strlen(text) - 1;
while (first <= last)
if (*first != *last)
return false;
return true;
return false;
here is my stab at the palindrome problem. its the complete code to the program and all =D and it even works with spaces
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
bool IsPalindrome(string strName)
string strReverse = strName;
if(strName == "")
return false;
reverse(strReverse.begin(), strReverse.end());
for(int i = 0; i < strName.size(); i++)
if( strName[i] == strReverse[i] )
return false;
int main()
string strPalindrome;
cout << "Enter a word: ";
getline(cin, strPalindrome);
if(IsPalindrome(strPalindrome.c_str()) == false )
cout << strPalindrome << " is not a palindrome" << endl;
cout << strPalindrome << " is a palindrome" << endl;
return 0;
// This function will check if there is any alpha-numeric characters and if they orginise a palindrome
// Examples:
// "ABBA" = true
// "Borrow or rob?" = true
// "ABCD" = false
// "?!?" = false
bool IsPalindrome(TCHAR* str) {
// Special case , invalid input can not be palindrome
if (NULL==str) {
return false;
// Pointer to first character in string
TCHAR* first = str; // Initialy point to start of string
// Pointer to second character in string
TCHAR* second = first;
// Pointer to last character in string
TCHAR* last = str + _tsclen(str); // Initialy point to null terminator
// Point to terminator character (not nessesary NULL terminator!)
TCHAR* term = last;
// Flag to indicate if any alpha-numeric characters were found
bool nonEmpty = false;
do {
do {
// Threat second character as start of new string
first = second;
// Get pointer to next character in new string
// Will be used to calculate length of first character
second = CharNext(first);
// If first character point to terminator - this mean that there is no any valid
// characters - so nothing that can be different. Stop comparation
if (first>=term) return nonEmpty;
} while (!IsCharAlphaNumeric(*first));
do {
// Thread previous character as terminator of new string
term = last;
// Extract character previous to new terminator
last = CharPrev(str,term);
// If we terminator crossed start of our string - return information we know already
if (first>=term) return nonEmpty;
} while(!IsCharAlphaNumeric(*last));
// Compare thouse extracted characters if they are equal
if (CompareString(LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, // Use system default because IsCharAlphaNumeric rely on system default
NORM_IGNORECASE | NORM_IGNOREWIDTH | NORM_IGNOREKANATYPE, // Some crazy flags
first, // first alphanumeric chacter in our string
second-first, // length of first character
last, // last alphanumeric character
term-last // length of last character
return false;
// Here we can set flag to indicate if any AlphaNumeric characters were found
nonEmpty = true;
// Loop while there any character beetwean start of string and previnator
} while (first<term);
// Looks like nothing wrong were found
// This is valid palindrome
// But it will be nice to check if any AlphaNumeric were found
return nonEmpty;
P.S> This is C++ source code. To convert to C declare variables early. I'm unsure it will compile and work - I've coded it in WordPad
NOTE: As I've found CharPrev and CharNext does not support Unicode 2.0 surrogates. Also this is unknown if CompareString support them.
But this is definitely an issue with IsCharAlphaNumeric function.
Looks like modification requered to work with Unicode correctly
There's lots of code already here, so I won't add mine, but there are some issues such as desired behavior (and security) that should be addressed prior to coding, and I'm rather surprised they haven't been addressed yet in this thread.
How is the algorithm to handle punctuation and whitespace? My thoughts are to strip them off prior to the forward/reverse iterative checking loop.
When dealing with TCHAR's the issue of internationalization needs addressed; this introduces some other interesting concepts.
Should case be considered? Some languages have single character lower case but that same "character" in upper case is actually two characters (ala the German ß (sharp-s). This makes for interesting buffer manipulation.
Should accented characters be accepted as equivalent to non-accented characters? In Turkish, there are four representations of the letter 'i' that are all equivalent if you are ignoring case.
Should we even consider the culture of the source string, or assume the current culture?
Last, but not least, is the issue of string length. These days, I am surprised that the interviewer/interviewee did not add a string length parameter, stipulate the string is null-terminated, or better yet #include strsafe.h above the function prototype.
I'm also wondering if asking for these types of clarifications is too much - the interviewer may be thinking "get on with it already, I just want to know if you understand pointer arithmetic!"
Hi everyone! Evan Goldring here (the one who got talked into making my whiteboard coding public!).
Having read through many of the posts in reply to the video, I want to say that I see a lot of great thinking around this particular coding question. Many of you are thinking clearly through the whole problem, which is very important. It really underscores the "think first, then code" mentality I talked about in the video.
What I'm even more impressed with is seeing some of you going above and beyond and starting to think about the next logical question that an interviewer might ask: How would you test this code. Thoughts on security, performance, and other issues raised are great to see. It's not all about the code functioning correctly. As I mentioned in the video, I'm an SDE/T manager, so the follow-up test question is one I use often.
Although mentioned almost everywhere you are reading about technical interviewing, I feel it is worth repeating here: As an interviewer, I'm not necessarily looking just at what your answer was, but HOW you answered the question. Although contrary to popular belief, questions like this aren't a "final exam" with a strict Pass/Fail grade based solely on the code you wrote judged against some mythical "right" answer. There are many "right" answers with even more unique paths to get there. These questions are a good look beyond just "coding" into your engineering style, problem solving approach/skills, how you handle a new challenge, how you deal with being put on the spot - the list goes on.
Finally, remember that this is only one of many types of questions you'll see in a technical interview (at Microsoft or otherwise). For a good summary of what to expect in general, take a look at these two posts at the Technical Careers at Microsoft blog: Part I and Part II of Interviewing at Microsoft.
//This does not handle white space but it should efficiently
//look for a forward and reverse character pattern. like so "ab c ba"
bool IsPalendrone(char* ptext)
bool rtnval = true;
//Check for NULL or a zero length string
if((ptext == NULL) || (*ptext == 0))
return false;
int textlen = strlen(ptext);
//Check for the case where ptext is only on char
if(textlen == 1)
return rtnval;
//ptext is more than one car we need to do some
char* lptr = ptext;
char* rptr = ptext + (textlen - 1);
//If we find a case where the character pointed to on
//the left and right are not equal we can say this is
//not a palendrone
if((*lptr) != (*rptr))
rtnval = false;
//Move our pointer towards each other
}while(lptr <= rptr);
return rtnval;
static private bool isPalindrome (string stringToTest)
char[] stringChars = stringToTest.ToCharArray();
foreach (char character in stringChars)
if (char.IsPunctuation(character) || char.IsSeparator(character))
stringToTest = stringToTest.Replace(character.ToString(), "").ToLower();
if (stringToTest.Length % 2 == 0) // even number of characters in the string
int halfwayMark = (stringToTest.Length/2);
char[] firstHalf = stringToTest.Substring(0, halfwayMark).ToCharArray();
char[] secondHalf = stringToTest.Substring(halfwayMark, stringToTest.Length-halfwayMark).ToCharArray();
bool flag = true; // innocent until proven guilty
for (int i=0;i<halfwayMark;i++)
if (firstHalf[i] != secondHalf[i])
flag = false;
break; // break out of the loop
return flag;
else // odd number of chars, middle char needs to be ignored
int halfwayMark = (stringToTest.Length/2) + 1;
char[] firstHalf = stringToTest.Substring(0, halfwayMark).ToCharArray();
char[] secondHalf = stringToTest.Substring(--halfwayMark).ToCharArray();
bool flag = true;
for (int i=0;i<halfwayMark;i++)
if (firstHalf[i] != secondHalf[i])
flag = false;
break; // break out of the loop
return flag;
bool IsPalindrome1(string &s)and go on from there. always liked iterators.
if(s.length() == 0) return false;
string::iterator begin = s.begin();
string::iterator last = s.end() -1;
while(begin < last)
if(*begin++ != *last--) return false;
return true;
public bool IsPalindrome(string inputString)
StringBuilder inputStringBuilder = new StringBuilder(inputString);
for (int i = inputString.Length-1; i > -1; i--)
if (!Char.IsLetterOrDigit(inputString.Substring(i, 1),0))
inputStringBuilder.Remove(i, 1);
return IsPalindromeNormalized( inputStringBuilder.ToString().ToLower());
private bool IsPalindromeNormalized(string inputString)
switch (inputString.Length)
case 0:
return false;
case 1:
return true;
case 2:
return inputString.Substring(0, 1) == inputString.Substring(1, 1);
if (inputString.Substring(0, 1) == inputString.Substring(inputString.Length - 1, 1))
return IsPalindromeNormalized(inputString.Substring(1, inputString.Length - 2));
return false;
Why recurse when someone else has already written the code for you?
Private Function IsPalindrome(ByVal strTest As String) As Boolean
If (strTest.Length > 0) Then
Dim sourceArray As Char() = strTest.ToCharArray()
Dim reversedArray(sourceArray.Length - 1) As Char
System.Array.Copy(sourceArray, reversedArray, sourceArray.Length)
Return (sourceArray = reveredArray)
Return (False)
End If
End Function
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just out of curiosity i also did some timing. the first version was pretty much the version in the video: TCHAR* char by char comparison and incrementing/decrementing pointers.
the second fragment was the std::string::iterator based version (same thing here, comparing the dereferenced iterators and incrementing/decrementing).
these should be very accurate data. i used queryperformancecounter-based timing routines, release build with vs2003.
1000000 runs (in seconds, doesn't matter for this comparison, though):
the iterator-method seemed to be much faster. ripping out the calls to _tcslen() in the tchar-pointer-method improves the situation (note: no length needed in the iterator-based version, of course):
seems that the strlen functions are a real performance problem. I found it very interesting that the iterator version is so close to the _TCHAR* version.. i was a little surprised actually.
i know these measurements don't reveal anything new. just thought it would be interesting to compare a little... "old style" vs. "new style"
Here's my javascript implementation. I couldn't find a way to make javascript equate accented characters of the same character class (a, a w/accent, a w/ring, etc.) so this is katana-sensitive.
Comes with a driver function and a test-driving form.

Javascript: function is_palindrome(s)


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Lately I've been getting interested in "quantified self" metrics. I've been tracking basic health metrics like weight, sleep, caffeine/alcohol consumption, and several other subjective health and mood ratings over time for a while now. The data nerd in me likes trying to tease out the relationships in this data to eke out a little more productivity each day. When the gathering and analysis time are factored in I may not gain much productivity, but I still enjoy measuring my progress and seeing how the numbers plot.
I'm looking for great proxy metrics for productivity.
The problem I'm running into is that abstract notions like "productivity" are more difficult to quantify in a meaningful way. I am seeking proxy metrics that are simple, objective, and unobtrusive.
Both passive timetracking (RescueTime) and active timetracking (Beeminder/TagTime) miss the point as far as I'm concerned. I tried both for a while before realizing that time spent working is not a proxy for intellectual productivity. Measuring time spent working is a sure path to maximizing how much I'm staying busy, which is not a goal of mine.
Another proxy measure I've experimented with is to track "pages of technical material read per day." This data is interesting to know for its own sake, but as a proxy for overall daily productivity it has a few flaws:
Doesn't reflect the whole picture: Technical reading (and associated notetaking) is only one small part of my job. I alot ~1-2 hours per day to this task, but it doesn't measure my effectiveness in other areas.
Distorts my priorities: Using this as my productivity metric causes me to prioritize it over other tasks, even when reading another technical paper is not my Most Important Task for the day and I might be better off working on other things.
Not objective: "Pages" itself is a subjective measure. A page in Science is not the same as a page in Nature or any other journal. All these subjective questions come up that have to be handled each time. How are figures counted? What about math? Do I deserve any kind of bonus if the paper was especially arduous? I've developed rules of thumb that I generally follow for these, but I don't like that my metric is so subjective.
Recording error: It's sometimes inconvenient to record the measurements, since reading dense technical papers is something I prefer to do with hardcopies for easier highlighting. After reading, perhaps later that day, I like to sit down at the computer and write up a summary of what I learned and what I think about a particular paper, but by then my recollection of how much I read is a bit fuzzy. If I were more vigilant this wouldn't be a source of error, but if I'm being honest I must concede that I am probably not 100% accurate in recording pages read after the fact.
Am I being a producer or a consumer?
It occurs to me that perhaps I am asking the wrong question. Maybe I shouldn't be asking "Was I productive today?" Maybe to get quantitative I need to drill down and get a better definition of productivity.
For me, being highly productive means producing information of value. What do I do when I am producing? Well, as a knowledge worker that usually means typing. I could be typing emails, or notes, or papers, or comments, documentation, code... any number of things.
Contrast this with my favorite timewasters, which are mostly passive: reading news, stack exchange, checking facebook, etc etc. All these activities are passive (except for the occasional overlong question or answer on SE).
This dichotomy in my typing intensity suggests a very simple, precise, objective, unobtrusive measure of daily productivity!
Maybe you're all wondering: Is there a question in this question? There is!
Do you have any experience tracking daily keys typed as a proxy for productivity?
I'd really like to hear about your experiences and any potential flaws in this as a measure of productivity for the average knowledge worker. But most of all I want to know....
What tools have you used to track this information?
This is really the heart of what I'm asking since "key tracking" or similar google queries seem fraught with danger. I don't want to install keylogging malware in my quest for efficiency, so if you know of any reputable open source projects that offer typing statistics I'd be very glad to know about them.


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Money Concepts to Convey to Your Child
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The topic of money is a big one. Where do you start? How do you go about teaching it?
For the most part, all money education is focused on certain general topics:
- Earning money. This means putting in personal time and effort to receive payment.
- Saving money. This means setting aside money today so that it will be there in the future.
- Spending money. This means using money that's been earned or saved to pay for things.
- Borrowing money. This means using money that will have to be repaid in the future at more than what was originally received.
According to some child experts, a parent can start explaining about earning money, saving money, and spending money as soon as children can speak. Kids probably can't understand what borrowing is about until they're in elementary school and can appreciate what interest on borrowing really means.
Financial Building Blocks
According to a nationwide survey of high school students sponsored by Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, almost 60 percent of the kids surveyed said that they learned about managing their money "at home from my family." This compares with only 11 percent who said that they learned about money management at school.
Monkey Sees and Hears—and Monkey Does
By now, it's not news to you that your child picks up on just about everything you do and say. You're the main example of how to act. Whether consciously or unconsciously, your child will mimic your behavior.
When it comes to learning about money, how you act with it and what you say about it is perhaps the most influential thing you can do to instruct your child. This means that you should be sensitive to what you say and do about money matters; you're in a unique position to have a positive (or negative) influence on your child's ability to handle money.
Your actions and words about money should be consistent. If you say one thing but do another, your child will see through this hypocrisy very quickly. On the other hand, consistency will reinforce all your efforts; what you say will support what you do, and vice versa.
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Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Money-Smart Kids © 1999 by Barbara Weltman. 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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Golf cart joyride around campus lands two SNHU students in legal trouble
HOOKSETT, NH (CBS) – A couple of students at Southern New Hampshire University are in some legal trouble after allegedly stealing a golf cart and taking it on a joyride around the campus in Hooksett, NH.
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ABLS Wins Chapter of the Year Award for Community Service, Career Development, Political Awareness Programming
The Association of Black Law Students (ABLS) at Rutgers School of Law–Newark has been selected as Small Chapter of the Year by the Northeast Black Law Students Association (NEBLSA). The award was presented at the organization's recent 45th Annual Regional Convention. In addition, third-year evening student Chris Ellis, Jr. was elected vice chair of the NEBLSA regional executive board.
|Shown with the NEBLSA Chapter of the Year award are (l-r): 3L Patrina Ozuruma, 3LE Rossevelt Donat, 2L Yasmine-Imani McMorrin, who is ABLS president, and 3LE Chris Ellis, Jr.
The chapter award selection is based on programming initiatives in several categories, including socio-political awareness, community service, education and career development, and social activities, as well as the number of people who participated in their events.
Rutgers ABLS activities included a voter registration drive, canned food collections, book bag stuffing in partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters, a career symposium co-sponsored with the Garden State Bar Association, and the annual Jazz for Justice fundraiser, to be held this year on February 7.
During the spring 2013 semester, ABLS members will sponsor an "I Have a Dream Soiree" to commemorate the vision of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and highlight the accomplishments of several Rutgers Law alumni, serve as speakers and hosts for the school's Street Law High School Law Day, and partner with Big Brothers Big Sisters to become mentors and tutors at a local high school.
Held in Cambridge, MA, the NEBLSA convention attracted more than 200 registrants. The organization is a part of the National Black Law Students Association (NBLSA), which was established in 1968 to articulate and promote the needs and goals of black law students and to effect change in the legal community. With almost 6,000 members, NBLSA is the largest student-run organization in the country.


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Temple to Fine Wine
"Is De Beers vulgar?" asks Alistair Viner, the man who last June was pried away from his position as wine and spirits buyer for Harrods to assemble the "best wine shop in the world."
"Is a seven-star hotel vulgar?" he adds. "Some would argue it probably is. Others will say it is the pinnacle of luxury. Everyone will have a different view."
We're sitting in Hedonism, London's latest vinous destination and arguably—depending on your view—its greatest. There are two ways to look at Yevgeny Chichvarkin's shrine to fine wine. One is to sneer, taking offense at its audacity and smirking at its over-the-top selection. The other approach is to walk through its doors, open your mind and let your eyes feast on one of the most visibly impressive displays of fine wine on public display.
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Split over two floors in the heart of Mayfair, Hedonism isn't so much a wine shop as a showroom containing the greatest wines in the world. It has taken Mr. Viner, who is now their head wine buyer, a little over a year to assemble the mind-boggling collection of fine wine, spirits and glassware.
This sits uneasily in a neighborhood where, traditionally, collectors would buy their wines, under consultation, from a list written by a merchant who had visited the château or estate he was recommending. Indeed, it wasn't so long ago that one would be hard-pressed to find any wine on display in the offices of Hedonism's neighbors on St James's Street: Berry Bros. & Rudd and Justerini & Brooks. Their rationale was that their clients bought wines to lay down and mature in their own cellars; they wouldn't dream of buying from the shops.
But times have changed. If wine merchants like Berry Bros. & Rudd and Justerini & Brooks can boast 300-year histories and sales receipts from Charles Dickens and Napoleon III, Hedonism can boast a wall of Château d'Yquem, beginning with the 1894 vintage and ending with the 2008. Yes, that's a wall of the most sought-after sweet wine in the marketplace. This is its appeal.
For anyone with a passing interest in collecting fine wine, walking around its immaculate aisles is like being handed the keys to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Only instead of sugary confectionery, there is wine—rows upon rows of the rarest and most precious wines ever produced.
You don't like d'Yquem? That's fine, because on the opposite side of the shop, there is a wall of Australia's most famous wine, Penfolds, which is flanked by a wall of one of Spain's most expensive wines, Pingus. Look, there's an entire collection of Spain's other great wine: Vega Sicilia; another wall of cult Californian winery Screaming Eagle.
Just as art-historian undergraduates may flock to Paris's Musée d'Orsay to walk around its spellbinding Impressionist halls, students of the Masters of Wine qualification may well come and visit Hedonism just to stand and gawk at the collection.
I don't know of any other room in the world that is open to the public that contains 64 back vintages of Bordeaux first-growth Château Mouton Rothschild and a bottle of 1990 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (that's £26,540, by the way). It is, quite simply, breathtaking.
"I don't believe we have any bling products," says Mr. Viner. Really? What about the Penfolds Ampoule 2004, which retails for £120,000? A signed imperial of Petrus 1982? And a whole room dedicated to California wine Sine Qua Non winery? Of course it's over-the-top. It's gloriously over-the-top, but it is also friendly and quirky. I may not be able to afford most of their wines, but I'll certainly be going back for a look.
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But if you believe your eyes more than the press, and conversations with individual South Africans more than misleading statistics, a different picture emerges. Having spent time in South Africa in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s, I was anxious to return and see for myself just how much truth there was to these disturbing and depressing reports.
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By Ol' Drone Our American form of government, crafted by our Constitution, is not perfect. But history has shown that it is far better than any other form. Our Bill of Rights assures our citizens ample opportunity and freedom not found anywhere else. This is why millions of immigrants risk their lives to Read more >


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I need to post this to get it out of my system and to find out what the hell is happening.
I am modding GTAIV, just simple vehicle stuff like speed and weight. I use the magicIV patch and go on, im not setting anything to silly values and my game with randomly break, eg. I set the sultan RS speed to 350 and it works fine, but if i go back and change another car's speed to somthing similar, it will break and not lauch! but the worst thing is backups DONT WORK and its stressing me out so much, if re-installed gta about 11 times in total so far.ASnd if your gonna reply by telling me not to mod the game, tough the only reason i got this game for PC was the modding. please someone help me as its really really really getting to me because its not like a quick install, it takes so long to install and starting everything again, so far iv had it almost perfect twice. the second time wwas about 10 minutes ago. backups just wont work atall I need to know what the hell I am doing wrong!
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I'm using my GTA IV Modding Unlocker. It's given me no problems, and shouldn't give you or anybody else any problems.
I don't know why the MagicIV patch messes up you trying to launch your game. The sole purpose of MagicIV is to allow modding, which fails to live up to its intended use.
Anyway, I find it easy if you just use my program with:
An install of GTA IV with no files modded w/applied v22.214.171.124 patch from Rockstar.
Download here: http://www.gtagaming.com/downloads/download/1854
If all your files are in the original state, this patch will work. I'll upload a small "service pack" with all the original files if you want.
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Thanks I will give that a try when its finished installing, and dont worry about the service pack I dont want you to go right out your way to help me XD GTAIV install is half done installing, i started installing just before making the first post.
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What methods are available for securing SSH?
The other answers focus on securing the server -- which is important, but the client side deserves some protection too:
Disabling password based logins
Replacing password based authentication by key based authentication will prevent:
Another thing, if only few people are allowed on SSH make bashrc mail you a notice whenever somebody log in SSH
For a start you should disallow passwords and only allow authentication using RSA keys. This makes brute force attacks infeasible. People will still try however, so you'll want to limit login attempts and maybe change the port to save your bandwidth. This approach relies on trusting your users to encrypt and secure their private keys.
You should not allow root login remotely. Use su or sudo once logged on.
It may be a good idea to stop people from tunnelling ssh through your gateway server to internal servers. This can stop your internal servers being exposed to the internet.
You should use version 2 of SSH.
It occurs to me that none of the other answers talks about a very important point for securing SSH: educate your users. Whatever you do, if the users do not learn to react sensibly when something fishy happens, then you are doomed. At the very least, users must be aware of the server key handling business (when they first connect to a given server, they must check the key fingerprint with a reliable source; and if SSH warns about a key that has changed, they must not bypass the warning).
Technology can only get you so far; as long as a human is involved in the process, the amount of security awareness of that user is a hard limit on the level of security you may hope to achieve.
There is a new option on the server to require passphrases on the client keys. I think this is a very good idea. However, you still don't know the complexity of the passphrase and users could potentially recompile the client to fake this.
As everyone is saying: always disable root login, change the default port number (though this can make using some sftp clients difficult) and only accept Key Based Authentication.
Also, if you change any key sizes in sshd_config or specify a key bit size when you run ssh-keygen, you should review the key sizes you specify from time to time.
Back when ssh-keygen defaulted to generating 1024 bit RSA keys I used to use the -b option to generate 1536 bit keys. Over time the default changed to generate 2048 bit keys and I was still generating 1536 bit keys.


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After spending the weekend at Memphis in May the very best thing to do is….. well of course to eat more BBQ! Where better to eat than the World Champions – Yazoo's Delta Q and Natural Born Grillers partnered up and opened a restaurant months ago. MEMPHIS BARBECUE CO. They have more World Championships than any other restaurant anywhere.
Yazoo's Delta Q also just won MIM 2012 ! It came down to the wire and was incredible to see both of them took 1st place in their respective categories of Whole Hog and ribs. That says a lot about their skill set. We knew we were about to eat some great BBQ!
My buddy Wayne Brown from Big Wayner's BBQ Blog and I talked about doing this and I am sure glad we were able to make it happen. Both of us had to fly out yesterday so we didn't have any time to spare.
Even better was that a few really awesome BBQ folks were there too – Shane Draper and Mike Owings from Drapers BBQ , Ron Worby, and Tim from Tiger Q concessions. They had all been at the Tucker Cooker site for MIM. I had a wonderful time hanging out with them and I even got to watch their whole hog judging on Saturday. I got to see Melissa again and we talked about the challenges of opening the restaurant. One of their biggest challenges was keeping up with demand. It has been a massive success right from the moment they opened the doors!
Picture Credit – Wayne Brown Big Wayners BBQ Blog
We ordered an array of appetizers –
Cheese fritters, sausage and cheese platter, bbq nachos, fried green tomatoes, bacon wrapped shrimp and they also give complimentary made in house pork rinds to every table. Everything was really quite enjoyable. I would say my favorite had to be the cheese fritters, and the bacon wrapped shrimp. They even cure and smoke their own bacon in house. All of the items in the restaurant are made from scratch daily.
Then everyone ordered more BBQ! Well everyone except Ron. He decided to go with a fun item…. their Donut burger…and a half rack of ribs (this was not a health food day for sure!)
I ordered wet baby back ribs, pulled pork, and sausage. My sides were potato salad and macaroni & cheese. (Still keeping with the not so healthy options)
The pork was fantastic. Great smoky flavor, really great texture. I love the fact that the pork had chunks and pulled. It had a great bark to it. Full of flavor. It was my favorite meat from the day. The ribs had a nice crust to them, the rub was very mild. The sausage has a very fine texture to it. The potato salad was off the charts awesome though. I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a potato salad so much with its creamy goodness and hints of dill.
The place was packed. With seating for 300 they have a ton of crew all serving people good BBQ.
We hurried through our meal sadly and grabbed t-shirts before we left racing back to the airport to catch our flights… I know Ill be back for another visit the next time I am in town.
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Did FDA Teen Suicide Warning Backfire?
Sept. 13, 2007 - Warnings that antidepressants may increase teen suicides appear to have backfired, a new study suggests.
The study shows that a steep drop in antidepressant prescriptions for children and teens followed the FDA and European drug authority warnings. At the same time, there was an unprecedented spike in child and teen suicides.
The study isn't proof that the antidepressant warnings caused the increase in suicides. But the circumstantial evidence -- from both the U.S. and the Netherlands -- is very compelling, says study researcher Hendricks Brown, PhD, director of the prevention science and methodology group at the University of South Florida College of Public Health, Tampa.
"The FDA actions look like they had very serious unintended consequences," Brown tells WebMD. "Our analyses show that the FDA actions, which should have reduced or at least not changed the number of suicides for youth, had just the opposite effect."
On the advice of an expert panel, the FDA in 2004 put a "black-box" warning -- its highest warning level -- on antidepressants for pediatric use. The panel's advice was based not on actual suicides, but on indications that suicidal thoughts and behaviors increased in some children and teens taking newer SSRI-type antidepressants.
It looks as though the FDA effort backfired, says Boris Birmaher, MD, director of the child and adolescent mood and anxiety program at the University of Pittsburgh's Western Psychiatric Institute. Birmaher was not involved in the study.
"Years ago we speculated that suicides -- not suicidal thoughts or suicide attempts but real deaths -- were going down because a lot of doctors, not just psychiatrists, were prescribing SSRI antidepressants," Birmaher tells WebMD. "Then comes the black box, and without any other specific reason there was a huge increase in the number of kids dying from suicide. This is not proof, just a statistical association. But it is suspicious."
Researcher Robert D. Gibbons, PhD, of the University of Illinois, Chicago, was a member of the FDA panel. He voted against the black-box warning.
"The FDA has overestimated the effect of antidepressant medications on suicidality and dramatically underestimated the efficacy of antidepressants in the treatment of childhood depression," Gibbons told WebMD in April 2007.
The study by Gibbons, Brown, and colleagues, appears in the September issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry.
(Have you held off putting your teen on antidepressants because of black box warnings? Talk about it on the Depressed and Bipolar Kids: Family Support message board.)


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Did You Know President Obama Wrote A Children's Book?Nadia Carriere
Already the best-selling author of international best-sellers "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope," President Obama has extended his literary talents to children, while teaching them values and history. Before President Barack Obama took office in 2009, he wrote a this book, but it wasn't published until now. Last Tuesday (November 15), 500,000 copies hit book stores nationwide!
Inspired by First daughters Sasha and Malia, "Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters," is a beautiful and poetic tribute to 13 groundbreaking Americans and how their ideals have shaped our nation. The girls even make an appearance on the cover with their dog Bo! Loren Long, the illustrator for Madonna's 2003 children's book, "Mr. Peabody's Apples," has included her touching illustrations throughout the book.
View full-size spreads from this book, after the jump!
Priced at $8.99 on Amazon.com, proceeds from "Of Thee I Sing," will be donated to the Fisher House Foundation, to provide a scholarship fund for the children of fallen and disabled soldiers.
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I use MathJax to blog my mathematical thoughts. Is it possible to convert my WordPress posts (with plenty of math) into a LaTeX document? The plugin should prompt me to select posts for the paper, and should do the rest automatically.
WPTeX allows you to convert your WordPress blog to a LaTeX document. If it does not already contain support for inline LaTeX, it should be really easy to add it.
WP QuickLaTeX allows native LaTeX syntax to be used directly in Wordpress posts making conversion to offline paper as easy as "copy-paste".
It supports standard inline and displayed math environments (including AMS-LaTeX), displayed equation numbering/referencing by LaTeX rules (\label, \ref). No alien tags ([latex], or else) are required - only pure LaTeX code.
Besides you can use your own LaTeX preamble for equations on your site (define commands and use any LaTeX extension packages from TeXLive 2011 distribution).
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I was wondering if there is a way to use the 'unity-greeter' instead of 'lightdm-gtk-greeter' for LightDM on Xubuntu Oneiric. I tried installing the unity-greeter package and changing the greeter-session entry in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, but when I restart the system I get a blinking screen and the boot process get stuck.
I found a solution for this.. it may work.
In my case, I installed Xubuntu 11.10 - which came with LightDM using the gtk greeter. I edited
In my case, I fixed it by installing gnome-settings-daemon from Synaptic. Seems it might be required by Unity Greeter, but isn't a dependency.
See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/850937
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Saturday, 06/06/2009
Comcast Center, Mansfield, MA
Set 1: STFTFPStealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Nothing, BOTTBack on the Train, GolgiGolgi Apparatus, Sparkle > JibbooGotta Jibboo, Lawn Boy, Let Me Lie[1], Taste, MakisupaMakisupa Policeman[2], CaspianPrince Caspian
Set 2: Seven Below, Fluffhead, SOAMuleScent of a Mule, Heavy Things, HoodHarry Hood > Possum, Bug
[1] Phish debut.
[2] No "keyword."
Noteworthy Jams: Possum
Average Song Gap: 8.26
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Let Me Lie made its Phish debut at this show. The first post-break-up Makisupa Policeman notably did not contain a "keyword."
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Song Distribution:
4 Farmhouse
3 Junta
2 Billy Breathes
2 Hoist
1 Party Time
1 Joy
1 Undermind
1 Round Room
1 Stash
1 Rift
1 Lawn Boy
1 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
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This show was part of the "2009 Early Summer Tour."
On the drive in I mentioned to my friends that I hoped they would play "that new song 'blank space where my mind should be'" because I had just heard the Jones Beach debut so when they opened with it I was rather pleased, obviously the song has come a long way since GW but I think it could/should open more shows. I enjoyed Nothing and GBOTT but felt like the show didn't really get going until Golgi, which really got the place moving.
Mid-first set was fine, Jibboo smoked if I remember correctly and I enjoyed Lawn Boy... and then they dropped Let me Lie. I enjoyed the song when I saw Trey band play it in Boston in fall '08 and like the song, but on 6/6/09 I wished it had stayed in TAB's songbook and never made the jump to Phish. I now regret thinking that, especially after the nice placement in Albany. Taste was killer, as was Caspian, nice end to the set.
Second set was great, enjoyed the hell out of it! The whole place exploded at 'the arrival' in Fluffhead, SoaM was a lot of fun (wish they'd play it more often) and I couldn't have been happier with Harry Hood. Bug (another song I wish they'd play more) rounded out a nice set. Contact> Julius encore was a treat and Julius SMOKED! Sent us all to our cars with smiles.
Compared to the 3 other shows I saw this year this may be the weakest, but that doesn't mean it was any less fun. I also really like this show because I think it is a great example of the band trying to work in their new and newer material into a cohesive show.
Set I
Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan:**
Back On The Train:***
Golgi Apparatus:***
Gotta Jibboo:***
Lawn Boy:***
Let Me Lie:****
Makisupa Policeman:***
Prince Caspian:****
Set II
Seven Below:****
Scent of a Mule:*****
Heavy Things:****
Harry Hood:*****
Batting Average: .750 (75/100)
The two ratings are Batting Average and GHI. Both are defined below.
BA: The total number of stars achieved divided by the total possible stars a concert can achieve. Each song can achieve a total possible 5 stars, 5 being the best, 0 being the worst. Therefore, each show receives anywhere from a 1.0 to a .001.
GHI: This rating is used in The Phish Companion 2nd Ed. Each show is given a score from 0 to 5, five being the best and 0 being the worst.
The two scores are synonymous. I like the BA form better because each show receives a score closer to its worth depending on how you rated it.
Id have to say that I did enjoy it overall... I mean.. It's PHiSH, so even a "bad" show is a good show.
This wasn't the best show I've seen, wasn't the worst and wasn't the last.
what I think is note worthy here is how they had gotten tighter since hampton and fenway the week before, as they continued to do throughout the summer and on into the fall.
>I may be jaded b.c this show features many (9) all-stars from my own personal 'don't-want-to-see-live' list.