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If you go away ... is the girlfriend coming? or are you picking a law school so you can be close?I'm sure you can explain that it's not cheating if it's in a different area code ... let alone time zone! everyone knows that rule!
You dated the same girl all through undergrad? and you didn't live in the same city??I have a feeling we are very different hahaha
Hi Cheeks,I attended a Law Forum last February out at UBCWe all received handouts comparing the stats for all Canadian schools..I have a contact at UVIC admssions - I'll contact her and see if I can get you some more infoWith respect to the 4.33 grading scale.. this is how it works at SFU (we don't work in percentages)4.33 = A+4.00 = A3.67 = A-remember the figures I posted up were medians.. we had a panel of lawyers at the Forum, and one of them mentioned how he was a English Major from UT and while he was at the top of his class, his average was only a B+.. however, he overcompensated for the less competitive gpa with a strong LSAT mark.. albeit he told me he didn't even study for it..
Hey Keris, your a Vancouver girl. I should have known. I love that city. Stick your head out your apartment window and yell, I want to see if I can hear you. I'm in Bellingham, WA.
Hey Aaron, didn't know you were so closehope your studying is faring well
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Recent and archived news articles by Tom Sims of The International Herald Tribune.
Samsung Electronics Hit by Earnings Decline as Smartphone Sales Slow
The world's biggest smartphone maker is rolling out the fifth version of its Galaxy S smartphone, but it has received mixed reviews.
April 9, 2014, Wednesday
MORE ON: Company Reports , Samsung Group
Another Scorcher in Bangkok? Time to Hit the Ice
Bangkok has emerged as the unlikely home to a small yet thriving ice hockey subculture.
February 9, 2013, Saturday
MORE ON: Hockey, Ice , Bangkok (Thailand) , Thailand , Ice Skating
For Weekend Athletes, Groups Can Be More Fun
Rather than run races alone, many weekend warriors are participating in events that require a team of two or four to get through the entire course together. What's your favorite?
February 1, 2013, Friday
3 Keys to a Fit 2013: Moderation, Variety and Goal-Setting
Some fit folks around the globe come up with good advice for those trying to get back into shape.
January 12, 2013, Saturday
Kayaker Aborts Solo Pacific Voyage
For much of last year, kayaking enthusiasts around the world were keeping tabs on Wave Vidmar, who said he was planning to kayak from California to Hawaii, totally alone and unsupported.
January 4, 2013, Friday
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Working Out With the Women of Hong Kong
Each morning in Hong Kong, elderly residents spill into parks, beaches and mountain trails for predawn workouts. The fitness culture here is particularly impressive among women, who by some measures live longer than anywhere else in the world.
August 25, 2012, Saturday
Daily Exercise Is Recipe for Long Life in Hong Kong
The life expectancy of women in Hong Kong may now be the highest in the world, in large part, they say, because of daily exercise.
August 25, 2012, Saturday
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The Perseverance of the Long-Distance Swimmer
Diana Nyad, who turned 63 on Wednesday, has ended her fourth attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. Still, she personifies the global athlete, inspiring people around the world to stay fit - and to continue to achieve new goals - at all stages in...
August 19, 2012, Sunday
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August 11, 2012, Saturday
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August 10, 2012, Friday
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Jose Gonzalez - Greenwich Summer Sessions - winner announced
Congratulations to Ciaran Walsh who is the winner of our competition and wins the pair of tickets to see Jose Gonzalez at The Greenwich Summer Sessions
Jose Gonzalez is Swedish and as such holds a Swedish passport.
Thank you to everyone that entered. Better luck next time.


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Simple question. I have a source file and I have encrypted it with a certain public key. If I take this exact same source file, encrypt it with the exact same key a few hours later would the file hash of the two encrypted files be the same?
The short answer is NO: you will not obtain identical ciphertexts from the same file encrypted using two different runs of a decent public key file-encryption software; their hash will not coincide.
The longer answer (in theory):
If you use a deterministic public key encryption scheme like textbook RSA, i.e., without randomized padding, then yes.
If you use a secure public key encryption scheme such as RSA OAEP (providing at least IND-CPA security), i.e., encrypting the same message twice with the same public key produces different ciphertexts with overwhelming probability, then no.
However, in the latter case your randomness used for encryption may be computed pseudorandomly from some known value (such as the message itself), as for instance used in message-locked encryption, then the answer turns to yes again.
Hybrid encryption:
If you encrypt larger files (larger then the supported message space of the public key encryption scheme) with a public key encryption scheme you should use hybrid encryption. This is also what will be used by a file-encryption software.
Let us denote the public key as $pk$ and the document as $m$.
If you set $k=k'$, i.e., use the same symmetric key, then $c_2=c_2'$ (depending on the mode of operation used for the symmetric cipher you may also require to use the same IV/nonce). Otherwise, if $k\neq k'$ then $c_2\neq c_2'$ with overwhelming probability.
If you use a deterministic public key encryption scheme, then $c_1=c_1'$. If you use a probabilstic (secure) public key encryption scheme, then $c_1\neq c_1'$ with overwhelming probability (as said above, one however can turn probabilistic public key encryption deterministic public key encryption).
Hashing the ciphertext
Now, the first part of the answer only refered to deterministic/probabilistc encryption. It additionally depends on what you see as the hash of the ciphertext, or if you hash the file as it is, and what you want to guarantee in your application and what you want to store.


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Also, where do I store my salt (can I just store it at the beginning of the encrypted file)?
I suppose that what you are trying to do is password-based encryption of some data; you use PBKDF2 to derive the password into an encryption key, and then use the key with AES to encrypt the data. The AES encryption needs an IV, and the PBKDF2 function needs a salt. Both IV and salt should be generated anew for each encryption (even if reusing the same password).
Generically, the salt and the IV can be just encoded in a header for the encrypted file. They are not secret values.
Your question is then: can you use the same value for both the salt and the IV (presumably to save space) ? I do not recommend it. I would be surprised if it really induced a security issue, but who can be sure ? It looks a bit funky, and that's bad enough to avoid it. What you can do, instead, is to store the salt in the file header, and use PBKDF2 to generate both the key and the IV. Thus, the IV needs not be stored anywhere. PBKDF2 is a key derivation function which can produce an output of arbitrary length.
Generating the key and the IV from the same source is what is done in OpenSSL (in its private symmetric encryption format), and also in SSL/TLS (up to TLS 1.0).
I hope that your AES-based encryption mechanism uses a mode with integrated integrity checks, like EAX. Integrity is not an option; it is often overlooked, but it is necessary for security.


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Staff Appreciation Reception honors 69 employees
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January 17, 2014
Sixty-nine Emerson staff members were honored with Service Recognition Awards at the annual Staff Appreciation Reception at the Ritz-Carlton, Boston Common, on January 14.
Staff members Cyle Gage, Will Rogan, and Karla Fribley at the 2014 Staff Appreciation Reception. (Photo by Nancy Howell)
Two staff members were honored for 35 years of service to the College: Ron Ludman, Dean of Students; and Maureen Tripp, Media Resources Coordinator for the Iwasaki Library.
Two staff members were honored for 30 years of service: Robert Fleming, Executive Director of the Iwasaki Library; and Shelley Lipschultz, Clinical Instructor and Undergraduate Coordinator for Communication Sciences and Disorders, who recently retired.
Staff members Tikesha Morgan, April Jones, Johanna Acevedo, and Jesse Mader at the 2014 Staff Appreciation Reception. (Photo by Nancy Howell)
"The success of Emerson College is due in no small part to your talent and toil," President Lee Pelton told staff members. "You play a vital role here, and I truly appreciate all that you do. I salute each and every one of you, especially those who are receiving long-term recognition awards."
"Let's work together to further enhance our community and achieve even greater heights in the years to come," Pelton said.
Staff members who have worked at Emerson for 25 years were also recognized, as well as those who have worked 20, 15, 10, and 5 years.
Stanford Nance, interim director of Athletics; William Gilligan, vice president of Information Technology; and Eric Van Vlandren, coordinator of Campus Sustainability. (Photo by Nancy Howell)


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Unanswered: Stacks charts with negative values
Hi all,
I need to create a chart like this in my project using gxt: http://peltiertech.com/images/2010-0...usstackbar.png
How can I do this?
Thanks in advance.
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Thanks for your interest in GXT 3 charts. Yes it is a planned feature to have the bar series automatically adapt to negative values. However, this is not currently supported in the beta release. Look forward to it in the coming months.


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BELL COUNTY (December 1, 2012)--Bell County is ranked top 20 in the number of HIV infection cases, compared to the 200+ counties in Texas, according to Scott & White's Infectious Disease Division.
"HIV is the virus that cause the immune deficiency in your body, and it makes your immune system more susceptible to infections," said Rhonda Wallace, a Scott & White nurse in the Infectious Disease Division.
"AIDS is what happens when everything takes over and you end up passing away."
Texas is ranked no. 3 for the most reported HIV cases, and in Central Texas, the risk of getting infected with HIV is even greater, with numbers almost doubling.
"In our department alone, we've seen as many as three new HIV-positive diagnoses come in within a week, and that's almost unheard of," Wallace said.
"We used to have one or two a month, and now we're having three a week."
Wallace and others who work with HIV and AIDS patients say not enough people are getting tested.
"People don't see this as a death sentence anymore, but they see this as something they can take meds for and clear up like a cold or the flu," Wallace said.
Today, local social services organizations, Fort Hood and Scott & White teamed up to educate the public and offer free HIV screenings at the Killeen Mall.
It took as little as 20 minutes to know whether someone's infected with HIV.
Those working toward bringing down the high number of HIV and AIDS infections say the community should continue working on spreading awareness, not the virus.


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Im in for a few sets of these. Good deal!
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100 years ago today, Harriet Tubman died, leaving her legacy in helping free the slaves.
The NAACP of Bowling Green and Warren County honored her life by walking around Downtown Bowling Green, as she did on the Underground Railroad in the late 19th century.
Tubman made 19 trips back to the South, guiding more than 300 slaves to freedom.
NAACP Member Tamara Glass says it's not only important to honor her because of her actions, but because March is Women's History Month.
"It was unusual for women during that time to step forward and take a leadership role because during that time women were not leaders," Glass says.
At 4:30 EST today, people all over the nation walked in honor of Harriet Tubman.


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LAMPASAS (January 9, 2013)--A Valero gas station off of S. Key Avenue is on target to open this week.
Though an official opening date has not been set, the gas station is stocked and ready for business.
The 24-hour, more than 4,000-square-foot fueling station will also serve as a store with a restaurant inside.
Constructed at the site of the former Saratoga Motel, the company expects to hire more than a dozen employees.
An official grand opening, which could be held after the store opens, will be announced later this month.


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Stock Car Body Mounting - Body Hanging 101Written by on April 1, 2009 Hanging A Body Can Often Be Seen As Daunting, But These Eight Tips Will Not Only Make This Task Easier, But It Could Also Improve Your Finishes
The teams that are consistently running up front understand that the only way to do this is to ensure that every part bolted on to the car is working together. They know you can't have the best chassis on the market and be lacking 25 horsepower, yet still expect to win on a consistent basis. Not to say you won't get lucky every now and then, but the point is everything has to be working together to ensure that you have the best opportunity to win that A-main.
The body on your car is no different. It can either help you achieve your goals of winning or hinder it. The worst thing you can do is just to assume that a body is a body and not invest any time into ensuring that it is mounted perfectly.
I had a situation this year with our team where we struggled on the larger tracks. It seemed we could run top five at any place that wasn't a half-mile or bigger. But as soon as we unloaded at the larger tracks we struggled. We decided to have the body looked at before we went to Iowa Speedway because of the amazing speeds we were going to be experiencing there. We found that the body was 1 inch high and not fitting the templates perfectly. So we cut the body off and had it rehung. We went out and finished Seventh at Iowa. I attribute a lot of that to the body. Before, we had been punching such a large hole in the air and even though we run mostly short tracks it was still hindering us.
It doesn't matter if you're running dirt or asphalt, or the size of the track. Even if the fastest you're going is only 60 miles per hour, there's still speed to be found in the aero department. Stick your hand out the window next time you're traveling down the highway and put it parallel with the road and feel how little resistance there is with the air. But take your hand and tilt it straight up and feel how much harder it is to travel down the road.
I'm not saying that all your problems lie with the way your body is mounted. But it's another place that you might be able to find a little speed this preseason. We were hanging our body on our project car recently at Leavitt Racing Components in Mooresville, NC, and I discovered eight tips when hanging a body. These tips will go a long way ensuring that your body is not only hung properly, but also that it provides you with the best opportunity to win the race.
It amazes me the amount of teams that will slap a body on the car without any consideration to any of the rules of the body. How can you know how wide the front nose can be without knowing the rules? I suggest getting a rulebook and then writing down all the important numbers in a notebook. Keep that notebook for when you're doing bodywork on the car. The numbers will include minimum roof height, front nose width, tail height, and more.
There are a few tools that are a must-have if you're going to be hanging bodies in your shop. Clecos are a great tool to have because they allow you to hold the body together without having to waste any rivets. You'll also need a ton of clamps. Clamp the body in place before you start welding any pieces to the chassis. And even though we were using a fiberglass body, the tool we used the most was our sheetmetal brake. It's a must-have for any shop.
In no way am I saying to cheat here, but by knowing your limits with the rulebook you can push those limits to the max. For example, let's say your maximum nose width is 75 inches. You better believe that I'll be showing up at the first race with my nose width at 75 1/4. For the pavement racers, you want that to get as much air as you can to push the nose into the track. But understand where to pick your battles, when you roll through the tech line and you've decided to push the limits on every one of the tech numbers, you better be ready to do a lot of changes to the body, which leads me to our next point.
The only way you can push the limits is by building adjustment into the body. We've attached an adjustable arm for the decklid/rear bumper height, both bumper bar lengths, and the front nose width. With a simple turn of a wrench, we can raise or lower our decklid/rear bumper, widen our nose, or push our bumpers out. It lets us push the limits, but still easily remain legal.
I mentioned earlier having a notebook that you can write down all of your body notes, but while you're working on the body always carry a Sharpie with you so you can leave yourself notes on the body. We were constantly reminding ourselves by writing notes on the door, roof, rocker panel, and so on.
Once you have the body pretty well set on the car you'll need to start piecing it to the chassis. Be careful when doing so because once you start to weld and that metal heats up it will pull and flex from the heat. Make certain that you double-check your measurements to ensure that they don't change your heights.
Before you start hanging any pieces of the body on the car, make certain that your car is at ride height. We put the car at our ride height and then measured from the framerail to the ground at each corner. We then cut some square tubing to put under the framerail to ensure that the car remained at ride height.
If you've had trouble in the past of making your left side or right side weight limit, then why not move the bumper bars to where they hugged the left or right to help you out? Our car's bumper is placed so it's hugging the left side to help provide us with just a little more left-side weight.
This preseason, make certain you're getting the most out of your body. A few simple changes could help raise your team to the next level. Maybe even into Victory Lane!
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Here we have laid out all the pieces of the body we'll be putting on our project car. By having a rulebook, we'll know exactly what is deemed illegal with the body and what isn't.Having the right tools is essential for proper body hanging. These boxes are just filled with rivets.Having plenty of Vise-Grips and clamps is a great way to hold the body together while you are double-checking your measurements.You want to get the most out of your body. For our roof, we're trying to get it as low as possible. Notice how Bob Newling of NewFab is checking the roof height. He is taking a sturdy measuring stick and running a level off of the top of the roof. Once his bubble is straight, we have our roof number.While you're piecing the body together, always keep a tape measure with you and double-check all of your heights regularly.By having a Sharpie in your hand, you can draw out exactly what you're trying to accomplish on the piece you are working, to better help you see it. This will also help you keep your measurement number right in front of you so that you don't forget it.
If your car isn't at the proper ride height when you start hanging the body, you'll be setting yourself up for failure.Any bars or pieces of metal you attach to the car is weight that you wont be able to put in the framerails, and with pavement racing, it's extremely important that you get the weight as low as you can in the car. So become extremely selective with just how much bracing you use with the car. We've put a little extra bracing in the nose because of how many short tracks we'll be racing on this year.


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Jennifer Hammock commented on "EOL Curators":
Okay, here's a followup scenario for those of you who both curate and post images via flickr: As a curator, if you had an occasional photo coming in that you weren't sure of, you *could* visit those photos yourself and mark them unreviewed. Anyone want to hazard an opinion, "sure, I'd bother to do that" or "not likely, you're lucky I have time to do one kind of activity"? Thanks!
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Patrick Coin commented on "EOL Curators":
@Jennifer Hammock: Yes, certifying certain Flickr contributors as "pre-trusted" is a great idea. That would save huge amounts of time. Since I became a curator, for instance, I've spent quite a bit of time finding my images on EOL and trusting them. It is very tedious, especially since the delay in harvesting can be long. Certainly there should be some process to approve certain reliable contributors in this fashion. I agree that the benefit would outweigh the occasional error. (And, as others have mentioned, there are some errors anyway in already pre-trusted images from institutions--inevitable in a project of this scope.)
Valter Jacinto commented on "EOL Curators":
@Jason Sharp: I think flickr images should be pre-trusting to EOL. Some errors are normal... Some curators take years to curate a few images!
Jason Sharp commented on "EOL Curators":
@Jennifer Hammock: I know a few photographers that seem to know their stuff and continue to contribute images. I believe the time saved by 'pre-trusting' their images would outweigh the time spent fixing the occasional mistakes. It seems some of the Smithsonian photos are pre-trusted and they have some errors.
Leo Shapiro added the English common name "honey bees" to "Apis".
Jennifer Hammock commented on "EOL Curators":
Hey, all! Michael just raised an interesting Trustedness question and our developers would like your feedback. Those of you who curate lots of our flickr images: are there flickr photographers whose content you always trust? Would it be useful to flag these individuals so their flickr content comes in Trusted by default? If you would use this feature, if you think this would save you 5000 trusting actions on the first day, or if you have concerns about the idea, please let us know. Thanks!
Cyndy Parr commented on "EOL Curators":
@George Sims: Ah, that's a collection created by a user. You can click on the "Managers" tab to see who created it -- might have been a student. You can leave a message for her in the newsfeed of the collection if you want. Maybe suggest she change the title? She didn't put a description of her collection so unclear why she collected them together.
George Sims commented on "EOL Curators":
@Cyndy Parr: Cyndy, http://eol.org/collections/27396 Gervasio, And "bugs" sensu George!!
Cyndy Parr commented on "EOL Curators":
@George Sims: George can you give us a link to the community or page that you are talking about?
Gervasio Carvalho commented on "EOL Curators":
@George Sims: George, "tarantulas" are INSECTA sensu Linné! Joke!
George Sims commented on "EOL Curators":
Although I am not a curator for the "Insect" community, I noticed that it contained the collection Theraphosidae (tarantulas), which are, of course, NOT insects.
Cyndy Parr commented on "EOL Curators":
@Abhay Hule: Many thanks!
Abhay Hule commented on "EOL Curators":
@Cyndy Parr: Hi, Cyndy Parr: I will try to Identify as far as possible!!
Cyndy Parr commented on "EOL Curators":
I would appreciate if we have any crab experts that they take a look at this media gallery -- the best photos are all unreviewed and I'm not able to tell if they are all correctly identified: http://eol.org/pages/343925/media
Eduard Solà added the Catalan common name "Diable de Tasmània" to "Sarcophilus harrisii (Boitard, 1841)".
Jennifer Hammock commented on "EOL Curators":
@Michael Wunderli: Michael, are the collections you're trying to eject contained within another community managed collection?
Michael Wunderli commented on "EOL Curators":
@Jason Sharp: thanks, it worked, but they still show up as featured collections.
Jason Sharp commented on "EOL Curators":
@Michael Wunderli: On the Managers tab for the collection, under 'Communities that can manage this collection' you should see the community that you are seeking. Select 'Remove'.
Michael Wunderli commented on "EOL Curators":
how do I remove collections form communities?


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As far as I understand they are libraries, but what is the difference between the two?
As a follow on, a .a file is an "ar" archive. Not unlike a tar archive, it stores .o or object files, allowing them to be pulled out of the archive, and linked into a program, among other things. You could use ar to store other files if you wanted.
You can get a listing of the members of an ar file with the -t parameter, for instance:
A .so file is a "shared object" file, and has a lot more information available to the linker so that members can be linked in to a loading program as rapidly as possible.
For instance, try:
(or whatever version of libc.so you have in your /lib directory.) Note that a .so file could also just contain a linker script directing it to find the file elsewhere, or use something else.
Interestingly, a .so file can also be a full fledged program. For instance, trying running /lib/libc.so.6. (Sadly, this last part doesn't seem to work on more modern systems. Not that it's a great loss.)


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While I understand Mercy�s obligation to bow to the directives about flu shots issued by big brother Centura (Herald, Nov. 4), my question is this: What about the hundreds of nonemployees entering the facility every day? Mercy is a Four Corners hub for everything from lab work to diagnostic imaging to same-day procedures. And what about patients� visitors? Is the next step a team of �vaccinators� waiting at the front entrance?
It seems to me to be little more than a vainglorious attempt to promote a product that is lining the pockets of the pharmaceutical industry while showing little, if any, efficacy. And, in the meantime, are the employees who are being threatened with termination being educated as to the risks of the vaccine? The average flu shot contains 25 micrograms of mercury, an amount considered unsafe by the EPA for anyone weighing less than 550 pounds. People age 55 or older who receive the flu vaccine each year, for five years in a row, increase their risk of developing Alzheimer�s disease by a whopping 1,000 percent.
Mercy employees should be allowed to make an educated decision as to whether or not they choose to be exposed to these dangers and be offered safe alternatives, such as face masks, if they don�t. The �vaccinate or terminate� philosophy is nothing less than draconian.
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I recently had a chat with a cracker and he told me that he can get past uri regexp checking.
I'm checking if the path_info matches my regexp and after that I match that to my routing table. If there is no routing for that path i redirect to a 404 page.
I have some little code here and I was wondering whehter someone can crack this by providing wrong data or my web app is protected? Is it possible to bypass this? (Please note that this is just some sample code):
// alphabetic characters, numbers, "-" and "/" are allowed
$pathRegex = '/[a-zA-Z0-9\/-]+/';
$pathInfo = $_SERVER["PATH_INFO"];
$routes = array(
"homepage" => "/",
"some_page" => "/param1/param2-something"
$res = preg_match($pathRegex, $pathInfo, $matches);
if ($res && $matches[0] == $pathInfo) {
if (checkRouting($pathInfo, $routes)) {
// keep on running
} else {
// 404, sorry
} else {
// wrong path
function checkRouting($path, $routes) {
$res = false;
foreach($routes as $key => $val) {
if ($val == $path) {
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Consider a surface $S$ smoothly embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Classically, the (Riemannian) curvature of $S$ is described by the second fundamental form, which is constructed from partial derivatives of a local parameterization.
Alternatively, is there a "nice" variational characterization of surface curvature? (E.g., one that does not depend on local parameterizations but only on the metric $g$.) In other words, is there a scalar functional whose minimizer completely describes the Riemannian curvature?
One idea that comes to mind is that Riemannian curvature is the curvature associated with the Levi-Civita connection -- hence, you might try to construct a functional over the set of metric connections on $(S,g)$ that penalizes torsion.
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Is metzitzah b'peh of biblical origin or was it instituted by the rabbis? What is the source for this practice?
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The earliest source would seem to be the Mishna Shabbat 19:2. It is brought in the Rambam (Milah 2:2) and the Shulchan Aruch (YD 264:3) as well.


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I have a shapefile with overlapping polygons - network buffers around people's homes. I am trying to clip features such as tree canopy polygons and street polylines so that I can join the set of clipped features contained within each buffer to each network buffer polygon. Unfortunately I cannot get the Clip tool to clip the input feature polygons at the edge of the clip feature polygons if the latter overlaps with another clip feature polygon. How can I get the Clip tool to treat each of my clip features separately? Or is there another approach? I'm working in ArcGIS 10.
How to clip by inidividual polygon shapes rather than by an aggregated shape consisting of all polygons in the shapefile.
Intersect will give you (a mess of) output polygons (for the tree canopy) and polylines (for the streets), and all the attributes of interest can be used in Dissolve to give you the 'clipped' sets of polygons or polylines.
Make sure that each of your layers has a unique ID field that can be used to group them back together; e.g. HomeBufferID.
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In Dread, the status of the tower is pretty much the entire game. If it falls over accidentally, it really sort of ruins everything. Obviously the GM stays as far away from it as possible to avoid the worst, but accidents happen. In the case of such an accident, what is a good strategy to salvage the rest of the game?
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Why does it ruin everything? If the GM caused the fall then re-stack and pre-pull the same as if a player had.
This implies to me that if the host causes the collapse then nothing much happens, just re-stack and pre-pull the correct number for the number of remaining players.
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The players win! Whatever the dread threat is loses this time, and they don't all die. Woot!
In Dread, pacing is already heavily dependent on chance and other people - they can have 4 collapses in the first hour and game's over. So playing Dread, like any board game, you have to roll with the pacing and be ready to start a new one a lot, so this doesn't necessarily ruin the game by cutting it short. May as well let the players win from time to time!
In practice, I'd choose one of the following two options:
But there's another consideration. In Dread, the tower collapsing feels important. When a player collapses the tower, there's been a death.
Thus, when the GM collapses the tower, it feels as though something should happen. Simply rebuilding the tower would be an anti-climax.
So I'd use the collapse to narrate something into the story. Give the PCs a breakthrough against the horror. Give them a moment of hope. Or make the creatures suddenly become much, much worse.
This is often easy when the game's running. You'll suddenly think: well, OK, if the tower's collapsed, that must mean X happens. I'd use the tower collapse to narrate that thing.
I would re-stack and then make as many pulls (being fair about it) as were made on the previous tower. If I was being especially sheepish, I might even leave an extra block or three in, but that might mess with your pacing.


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I offered a contract to a player out of contract and received this news item which I've never seen before which I thought was pretty cool.
I offered a contract to a player out of contract and received this news item which I've never seen before which I thought was pretty cool.
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This happens with pretty much every player i have offered for
I find it annoying because i spend HOURS scouting around the DB lookingfor the best talent, I find good players in obscure countries who are completely unknown and have ZERO interest from other teams.
Then I offer and some arsewipe in my club goes and blabs to the press and 20 teams come in for the player
try again..? Maybe? (reposting SS)
Offer him a better contact, up the wage maybe include a extra bonus for signing the contract.
No thats after the press finds out and all the teams come in for that player. If you up the offered wages etc then hopefully he will sign with you.
Whilst that may work it doesnt prevent the problem,it seems all the "good finds" instantly trigger this story as I have signed somne poor players it didnt happen with. The issue is that if i spend hours upon hours scouting I dont weant to have to get into a bidding war to secure his services. If other clubs are interested it should SHOW ALWAYS not suddenly become the case if you swoop for them.
What happened to the make transfer public option? Surely we could have a "keep offer shrouded in secrecy" option
Its still a HUGE issue if you are playing Lower leagues as well because NO amountof money will make a young player choose my team over Man Utd. Even if i could do it by offering ridiculous contracts why should I pay 4 times the odds because the game is flawed?
Luckily it didn't have any effect no other went for him and he has signed for me
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Nebraska City police recently distributed flyers to liquor retailers to get the word out about the city's changes to the liquor ordinance last September.
Mayor Jack Hobbie signed an ordinance in September of 2012 changing the hours of sale for liquor.
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Previously, alcohol sales ended at midnight. Sales on Sundays did not start until 1 p.m.
Licenses for non-profit corporations for consumption on premises allows sales beginning at 6 a.m. daily and 9 a.m. on Sundays.
Nebraska City has 35 liquor license holders with an estimated population 18 years and over at 5,361. The density of liquor licenses compared to population is among the highest in the state.
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Bortezomib works by inhibiting the 26S proteasome. A proteasome is an enzyme that is responsible for breaking down proteins in all cells (healthy or cancerous). By blocking the action of proteasome, protein builds up in the cells and causes them to die, therefore preventing tumor growth.
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Bortezomib can be given into a vein (IV, intravenous) or an injection under the skin (subcutaneous). The actual dose is based on your body size and the schedule is dependent on the type of cancer you have.
Certain medications, including ketoconazole, rifampin and St. John's Wort can interfere with blood levels of bortezomib. Make sure your provider is aware of all the medications, vitamins and supplements you are taking.
Special Instructions: While receiving this medication, you should NOT drive, operate heavy machinery or do any dangerous activities because of the risk of fatigue, dizziness, syncope and orthostatic/postural hypotension.
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There are a number of things you can do to manage the side effects of bortezomib. Talk to your doctor or nurse about these recommendations. They can help you decide what will work best for you. These are some of the most common side effects:
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Talk to your doctor or nurse so they can prescribe medications to help you manage nausea and vomiting. In addition, dietary changes may help. Avoid things that may worsen the symptoms, such as heavy or greasy/fatty, spicy or acidic foods (lemons, tomatoes, oranges). Try antacids, (e.g. milk of magnesia, calcium tablets such as Tums), saltines, or ginger ale to lessen symptoms.
Call your doctor or nurse if you are unable to keep fluids down for more than 12 hours or if you feel lightheaded or dizzy at any time.
Contact your oncology team to recommend medications to relieve diarrhea. Also, try eating low-fiber, bland foods, such as white rice and boiled or baked chicken. Avoid raw fruits, vegetables, whole grain breads, cereals and seeds. Soluble fiber is found in some foods and absorbs fluid, which can help relieve diarrhea. Foods high in soluble fiber include: applesauce, bananas (ripe), canned fruit, orange sections, boiled potatoes, white rice, products made with white flour, oatmeal, cream of rice, cream of wheat, and farina. Drink 8-10 glasses on non-alcoholic, un-caffeinated fluid a day to prevent dehydration.
Diarrhea can lead to serious dehydration. Call your doctor or nurse if you experience dizziness, light-headedness, fainting or muscle cramps, as these can be signs of dehydration.
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White blood cells (WBC) are important for fighting infection. While receiving treatment, your WBC count can drop, putting you at a higher risk of getting an infection. You should let your doctor or nurse know right away if you have a fever (temperature greater than 100.4), sore throat or cold, shortness of breath, cough, burning with urination, or a sore that doesn't heal.
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Your red blood cells are responsible for carrying oxygen to the tissues in your body. When the red cell count is low, you may feel tired or weak. You should let your doctor or nurse know if you experience any shortness of breath, difficulty breathing or pain in your chest. If the count gets too low, you may receive a blood transfusion.
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Platelets help your blood clot, so when the count is low you are at a higher risk of bleeding. Let your doctor or nurse know if you have any excess bruising or bleeding, including nose bleeds, bleeding gums or blood in your urine or stool. If the platelet count becomes too low, you may receive a transfusion of platelets.
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Lung Changes
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Heart Problems
This medication can cause the development or worsening of, congestive heart failure, decreased left ventricular ejection fraction, and an abnormal heart rhythm called QT prolongation. Notify your healthcare provider if you develop swelling of the feet or ankles, shortness of breath, feel abnormal heartbeats, or if you feel dizzy or faint.
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES)
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Exposure of an unborn child to this medication could cause birth defects, so you should not become pregnant or father a child while on this medication. Effective birth control is necessary during treatment. Even if your menstrual cycle stops or you believe you are not producing sperm, you could still be fertile and conceive. You should not breastfeed while receiving bortezomib.
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Some Trainers Wouldn't Mind Rain on Derby Day
There is an 80% chance of rain in the forecast for Saturday's Kentucky Derby, but that is only eliciting bravado from trainers and riders at Churchill Downs.
"Oxbow would run on crushed glass," trainer D. Wayne Lukas said Thursday. "Until it starts raining down on me, I'm not going to worry."
An exercise rider for Java's War proclaimed that his mount loves the mud, while Goldencents jockey Kevin Krigger suggested, "No matter what you run this horse on, he'll bring his best effort." Among the Derby horses with previous wins on a muddy track: Revolutionary, Itsmyluckyday and Vyjack.
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Woodson Not Happy With 'Funeral' Attire
One day after his players lost a game they all but guaranteed they would win, Knicks coach Mike Woodson said he was "disappointed" that his veteran team dressed in all-black "funeral" colors to suggest they'd put an end to the Boston Celtics, who now only trail 3-2 in the series.
"I'm a little upset about it, and I've addressed it," said Woodson, adding that he would have told his players not to pull such a stunt had he known about it in advance. He said his unit had no business fueling a fire underneath such a proven team, particularly when the Knicks haven't accomplished anything significant in so long.
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I'd like to be able to output a list of all the dependencies of an installed package, including the version numbers of the dependencies that I have installed.
If you need a customized output, it could be a good option to implement a script to accomplish this task using
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to quit less type q. I piped it to less as the output can be long. You can pipe it to a file if you wish.
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After installing the program you can use it simply by opening a terminal and typing
It will show you all the dependencies any package that is in your
It shows the information in a tree diagram where all the dependencies from one package are compared against all the dependencies of the each package dependency... (and so).
After that if you want to see if the package is installed in your system simply use this command
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To-Yo Automotive Parts (USA) celebrated its' grand opening, bringing dozens of new jobs to the area. The company which manufactures car parts for companies such as Toyota and Nissan, was the first company to commit to Simpson County's new industrial park. The park is located just off of I-65 and will have more than 350 available acres.
Governor Patton was on-hand for an announcement at Franklin Precision Industries, which hopes to add nearly 50 additional jobs at its' operations. State officials credit the county's success to planning and an aggressive marketing campaign.
In addition, two other industries have announced that they'll be expanding their current facilities. Outokumpo will see a $6.5 million expansion, while Cagles-Keystone Foods will add 8,500 square feet to the existing plant.
With the opening and expansion of industry, Franklin residents are seeing a number of other businesses setting up shop.
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Given an integer $n$ and an irrational $r$, $n>r$, $n-r$ is irrational but $r + (n - r)$, the sum of two positive irrationals, is an integer. Is that the only way that two irrationals can sum to an integer?
What if the question is rephrased using rationals instead of integers? Is the only way two irrationals can sum to a rational is by using the form $r + (a/b - r)$?
Can $r_{1} + (a/b - r_{2})$ ever be a rational? An integer?


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You will find something missing if you visit Palembang without taking a Musi River tour. This famous river is the longest in Sumatra at 750 kilometers long. Taking the Musi River tour is a must for visitors who wish to know the Palembang of the past. Long ago, the native population in Palembang lived along this river. Some even built their homes along the river banks. When taking the tour, you can find several tourist sites such as Kemarau Island and temples. Local people rely on this river for their transportation. You can see many motor boats (taxis) taking passengers to the other side of the river.
Since Palembang was chosen as the venue of a National Sports Event, Palembang developed rapidly making it easy to find hotels in the City Center. You can find star-rated or ordinary hotels along Kapten A Rivai, Sudirman, R Sukamto, Veteran, and POM IX Streets.
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HONOLULU (AP) Ś The ex-boyfriend of a Maui woman who was five months pregnant when she disappeared in February has been indicted on charges of killing her and torching her SUV to cover up the crime.
Steven Capobianco of Maui is expected to be served with an arrest warrant Monday at Maui Community Correctional Center, where he has been held since last month in an unrelated case, said a person familiar with the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The person wasnĺt authorized to talk publicly about the case.
A Maui grand jury on Friday indicted Capobianco on a second-degree murder charge in the death of 27-year-old Carly Scott, who has never been found.
Capobianco is the father of Scottĺs unborn child and has adamantly denied hurting her.
Family members last saw Scott in February at her sisterĺs Haiku home. The Makawao womanĺs burned 1997 Toyota 4Runner was later found on the islandĺs north shore.
Capobianco also was indicted on an arson charge.
Before the vehicle was located, police found Scottĺs dog in the nearby community of Nahiku.
Police later began investigating her disappearance as a homicide.
Capobianco has told Hawaii News Now he saw Scott on the night that her family says she vanished, but had nothing to do with her disappearance.
He said Scott picked him up and drove him to his pickup truck, which had broken down in Keanae. He said that after he fixed his truck, Scott was driving behind him, but he lost sight of her and figured she arrived safely at her destination.
Capobianco couldnĺt be reached for comment Monday at the jail, where heĺs being held on $500,000 bail on charges including terroristic threatening and prohibited deadly weapons. His public defender couldnĺt immediately be reached for comment.
Prosecutors are expected to seek $2 million bail for the murder case.


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BlueHat 2006 was this year's second installment of what some consider to be Microsoft's version of BlackHat. Basically, a bunch of security researchers (they don't like to be called hackers, mind you) from around the world come to Redmond for a few days twice a year to share findings with Microsoft developers, architects, security professionals and even execs. It's a security information exchange party and Microsoft really benefits from learning about new vectors of attack and how to prevent them. We strolled around and met some of the folks who run BlueHat as well as some of the attendees who came to share and learn about some of the latest and greatest findings in the world of software security.
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Why would someone use his own time to develop an open-source project for free and without compensation?
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For small projects, reasons might be "hobby", "getting some experience", "fame", "joy" etc. but that's not how the big open source projects like Mozilla, OpenOffice, Linux work.
Why did Sun buy StarDivision and made StarOffice an open source program (called OpenOffice.org)? Why does Mozilla create a top-notch browser and give it away as open source? Why are there people creating Linux, writing drivers and whatnot, and make it available to everyone for free? Why does Microsoft create opensource drivers for Linux so it can run better in MS's virtualisation?
Because it makes some business sense for them. They make money that way, or at least plan to.
In some cases, the dominance of MS's products, i.e. Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, was the reason the create a competing product, so it would be harder for MS to use their desktop dominance to conquer other domains, i.e. servers, internet services, too. This explains, to some extend, OpenOffice.org and Mozilla.
In other cases, open source software is meant to drive sales of hardware, other software or services. Open Source drivers obviously help to sell hardware components to Linux users. RedHat sells support for their Linux distro, and they sell the fact that their Linux is genuine RedHat. Other products, e.g. Oracle, are certified for use on Redhat, but not on CentOS, even though it probably runs just-as-well. Server hardware is certified for Redhat, even though other linux distros probably run just-as-well. Big-money-clients don't care about the price, they want the certificate.
Some companies, e.g. Google, sponsor many open source projects, because it helps their business. They don't do it for altruism. They want a free internet, a pervasive internet, a widespread internet, where people use Google's services so Google generates revenue.
This is a hobby for some people; believe it or not.
Gillette will be happy to give you a free razor and sell you the blades.
Some people make money in other ways and want to give back to the community. I'm sure Linus Torvalds has made plenty of money 'off' of Linux without actually selling the code and probably turns money away.
Not all open source software was intended or designed for any user to just download, install and use, so you may end up spending more of your time depending on skill level and most people value their time.
Why does everything have to be about money? How do you think wikipedia works? Nobody gets paid to put content on the Wikipedia, yet it is arguable the best encyclopaedia around.
Let's talk money.
Open source projects, as any projects, are written out of neccessity. You have a problem X and you write library Y or application Z to solve it, because
So now you spent a few evenings and weekends (and/or paid time) writing the next hot thing until you reach a point, where the baby starts walking. You now have to chose between:
Open source works, because it is a community. Because it is mutual. You do not get money by writing open source code. You get money by consuming open source code. So why do you write open source code? To give something back.
Monetary compensation isn't the only possible compensation. Fame (although mostly to a limited circle) is another. The joys of showing off what you've done is yet another.
Me, I mostly do it because I have an urge to write software and if it happens to help someone else, everyone wins.
There are several reasons to develop open source applications. In general, the more foundational the need is the better suited to open source it is. For example, ASP.NET MVC, Ruby on Rails, Django, PHP, and other web frameworks are all open source. That's right, even Microsoft has a fairly well known open source project. The need for a well organized web framework that lets you focus on building a web application is larger than the specific web application you are building.
Many people (myself included) contribute to open source because we use these frameworks in our day job. It's self preservation in a sense. If I don't have to keep reinventing the wheel just because I am at a new company, why should I?
As to making money with open source, that is a tricky subject. Most open source licenses allow you to sell your software. The specific license governs whether you need to share your modifications (BSD/ASL style licenses do not while GPL style licenses do in most cases), or provide attribution ot the original project.
The cases that I see work most often are:
Bottom line is that the source code may be open, but there are always people who need more than the raw code. I'm sure there are more ways to make money off of open source, you just have to be creative.
This question is not specific to open source, because you can write code, for free, and never release it to the public (although that would be rare because of all the known benefits of sharing code).
The real question is, why do anything for free? The answer is, because it makes you happy.
Personally, I love to learn, and I learn more working on open source than working on my paying job. Because learning improves my skills it also helps me to get better paying jobs.
There's a variety of reasons.
Some people get paid for writing it, because their employer thinks it worthwhile (and there's plenty of potential reasons for that). Some people start companies based on F/OSS because they can make money from it.
Some people use F/OSS and want to give back.
Some people treat it as a reputation game, like academic research or answering questions here.
Some people want a certain piece of software for their own purposes, and just release it because what they want is to use it, and they can sometimes get useful suggestions if other people can use it also.
Besides money, of course there is fame -- and then their is learning how something works by building it and constructing it yourself. Gaining valuable and marketable experience outside your normal work life. I think Ayende is a good example of this.
As an aside -- generally I've found some of the best, most intuitive projects and frameworks I've worked with to be open source -- I think that people who are truly passionate enough to spend their free time building a project up from scratch or simply maintaining it produce a better product then people who are just grouped together from 9-5.
It's not only for making money but more often for saving money. The vast library of good OSS libraries and tools make it a natural choice.
In same cases (GPL and friends) that means you're legally bound to make the resultant code OSS too. In other cases, it's just a personal choice, but you still get to receive other rewards (mostly some recognition, sometimes the chance of selling support, sometimes (happened to me) a good reference to show to potential employers)
You can release it under a restrictive Free licence, such as the GNU AGPL, and then charge for exceptions.
One more than one occasion, I've contributed a patch to an open source project simply because I wanted to make sure that feature/fix would be included in future versions.
It doesn't seem like a stretch that someone would release something as open source simply because it offered the possibility that others would use it and keep it current.
I worked with one person who wrote code that (IIRC) validated CUSIPs. He released it on the net. Years later he downloaded a CUSIP lib for a different system. He was surprised to see a reference to the code he wrote years before.
You can support it to get money. If you have a program that is very well thought of and used by the community, say like jboss, you can offer your services and support. People will pay for it.
The outfit I work for, started with a public domain code (written by the business owner) [Open source was years from being invented]. His original business model was to be a consultant on using it (use is not straightforward, and many hundreds of people make a living consulting). Of course the demands for feature enhancements were so great it became a proprietary commercial code(s)*. But, still most of the salaries earned are in rapidly diminishing numbers up the scale: (1) Users doing their jobs, (2) Consultants to group (1), finally (3) Developers/testers etc.
I use the plural, because several other proprietary codes sprang from the same public domain source code release.
You may find yourself in the following position:
In this situation, participating in an open-source project is a perfectly sensible business decision.
It can be pretty good advertising, too.


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Starting OutEdit
The art of publishing books, magazines and newspapers has never been as streamlined as it is today with the advent of digital publishing methods which have transformed high-overhead processes into reasonably affordable ventures. Modern desktop publishing (DTP) software and computers are available to experienced professionals and to less sophisticated users at corresponding prices. And because of the Internet, it is possible to have an entire editorial/production staff that exists online. Keep in mind that a lot of the information that follows is in need of updating.
Equipment and supplies you'll needEdit
(Assuming you'll be creating a publication with a print run of over 1,000, as opposed to a small photocopied zine)
A good computer with a lot of memory. A good computer, with at least twice the minimum amount of RAM installed, is preferable if you're going to try to do everything on one computer. As one person wrote, "It is worth spending as much as you can on your computer." Another absolute in today's society is having a processor that is fast. In fact, as with any computing needs, the faster the better, but a processor that's at least 1.5Ghz should be considered an essential, dual or quad core is even better!.
Apple (aka Macintosh) computers are what the majority of printing companies and professional freelance designers use. If you are looking to produce a newspaper of any size with a team, you will want more than one machine. Page layout takes time, so the more availability you have the better, but this has to be balanced with cost, as well as warm bodies that will be using the machines.
A Flash drive, or DVD writer, and a External Hard Drive for long term backups. This is one important way, aside from FTP software, that you'll move your digital documents around. They are also good for backing up your data. A DVD writer should be less than $50. Flash drives are even cheaper. As of Sept 2008, for USD$155, you can get a 1 Terabyte internal hard drive, so relatively speaking, that's cheap, especially when you look at prices from even three years ago.
A good printer. Laser is best and can be had for little money, new for less than $100 but look into spending around $400 for good one with network support built in. Laser also eats up a lot less ink than inkjets. It's more pricey up front, but cheaper over the long haul, and they last longer.
A good digital camera. Film is not cheap. We recommend the Canon or Nikon point-and-shoot series. They're fast, reliable and less than $400 new. When shopping around, find a digital camera with at least six megapixels, but eight or ten would be better, if possible. However, megapixel by itself is not a guarantee of quality, because other factors, such as lens quality, focal length and lag time, must be taken into account in comparing cameras.
Desktop Publishing Software. QuarkXpress or Adobe InDesign (successor to Adobe Pagemaker). You may also want to look at Adobe Photoshop for tricking out your pictures. This can cost a lot, sometimes over $1,000 for each program when you buy the latest version. If you're just starting out on a shoestring budget, check up on eBay for older versions, as you can pick those up a lot cheaper. None of the programs are really difficult to use, and there are tutorials available on many Web sites. Also, do a search for email discussion groups and Usenet newsgroups focused on the specific piece of software, as well as your area of interest, such as "launching newspapers" or "launching magazines" -- there are newsgroups and discussion lists for everything! Extremely important: learn conventional typesetting methods and study what good papers are doing to turn out a superior product. Learn and be conversant in all the typesetting terms, and buy a copy of the latest AP Style Manual so you can edit correctly to an industry standard. On the other hand, if your job is putting out a church newsletter, then you don't need to get this fussy.
For many things today, and to be able to find a printer that can accept your files without reformatting everything, you will want to get copies of nothing earlier than QuarkXPress version 3.3 or better or PageMaker 5. Be sure to check with the printer that will be publishing the final product to find out if their software -- likely within one version of being current with the newest release of the software package -- can open or import your files without issue.
As far as photo tools, look for at least Adobe Photoshop CS or newer. Other solid photo manipulation tools are Gimp and SnagIt, although they aren't as fully developed as Adobe Photoshop.
While there are other desktop publishing programs available, they generally aren't supported by actual printing businesses. If you must use a tool other than QuarkXPress or PageMaker, a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) package, Scribus, is good. It isn't a feature-rich as either QuarkXPress or PageMaker, but it can help you come up with an end product. Scribus can natively print to portable document format (PDF), but sometimes the actual PDF doesn't work well for some printing companies. Be sure to run a test to ensure the actual final product will work for you, meaning that it will do everything you need and want, but also that the company printing your publication can open the final file to print your newspaper.
Website Software. If you're going to have a Web site for your newspaper, check out Adobe Dreamweaver (formerly Macromedia Dreamweaver), Adobe Pagemill and KompoZer are good WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors for designing a Web site.
While we're on site creation, make yours a dynamic site that uses PHP or .Net if possible. This software, available for free online, allows you to update your site as easily as sending an email from any computer. Instead of PHP, you could also consider using SSI (server-side includes) if your site is hosted on a Unix server. Using SSI is relatively simple. All you do is create and upload one file with the HTML coding, reference the file name from a static page, and everything changes. Be sure to research server side includes to get a full understanding.
Other options for simple and easy-to-create and easy-to-maintain sites are to use a blog-based tool, such as WordPress for a self-hosted site, or EzyMedia and WordPress.com for hosted sites, meaning the site's files and primary headaches will be handled -- for free -- by your hosts. The disadvantage to using the hosted package with WordPress is that you cannot entirely customize the theme. You can modify the themes offered in the package, but beyond that, you don't have the option of uploading additional files to change the theme. The self-hosted option can serve you better for a personalized site. TypePad is another blog-based tool that many sites use as a mini-CMS (content management system) to maintain the site.
If you're experimental, geeky, and can understand technical stuff fairly quickly, check out fully-fledged CMS tools, such as EzyMedia, Drupal, Joomla, or other CMS packages. Many are FOSS packages for the download. Setting up most CMS packages is relatively painless once the files are uploaded to the server. Maintaining sites through blog-based and CMS-based platforms are easy, as you use a simple WYSIWYG editor interface to enter the stories (use a simple copy-and-paste approach), add a headline, a title (or "slug") -- which then becomes the URL, click SAVE, and you're done.
High-speed Internet. Yeah, it's $40 a month, but it's also indispensable for maintaining your sanity. You can also share WiFi with a neighbor, but be certain to read the Terms of Service for the plan's stipulations about sharing a connection.
A phone number and business cards. Voicemail is only about $10 a month and you can get 1,000 business cards from Staples for about $20. It sure beats writing your name on scrap paper, trust me. If you have a cell phone with unlimited use, or one with cheap rates, you could also consider using NetZero Voice (aka PrivatePhone.com), which offers free voicemail, a free voicemail number, and 10 free 10-minute "return" calls that display "your" phone number and business name (as you entered it when you create the account) per month. You can receive up to 10,000 calls per month for free. If you don't mind using a cell phone or other means to return calls -- even email, which many companies do these days -- this could be a possible alternative.
NOTE: On a check up of the PrivatePhone service on 12/14/07, it has been indicated that PrivatePhone will be discontinuing their service on 12/31/07. They recommend searching the internet for "Free Phone and Voicemail Service" to find other comparable services.
Web Hosting. You can register a .com or .org. for as little as $8. You can get good, reliable hosting for $15 to $35 a month for a basic site. Many Web hosts have packages with 200 gigs or more of space, with 2,000 email accounts, unlimited email aliases, and other features, for $19USD per month. Packages with less space can be had for $4USD to $14USD per month.
If running your project out of your home isn't an option, inexpensive space is available in local artist spaces, from progressive community groups.
A business checking account. Small business checking accounts are free at many local banks. The banks may tell you they require an IRS-issued EIN (Employer ID number, similar to a Social Security Number for businesses), but if you explain you do not expect to receive over $9,000 this year in income and that the IRS doesn't require an EIN until you reach that threshold, they generally use just the principle owner's Social Security Number in the U.S. Other countries may have other requirements, so check.
At the state and local level, you may be required to file documents with the Secretary of State and the county and/or city where you are located. Some cities and counties require business licenses, and if they do, it's generally cheaper to get the license than to get caught doing business and not having one. A call to a local business attorney can get you the general information, as well as a call to your local city hall.
An accountant. Although sometimes expensive, you can find accountants that will charge only $50 to $80 an hour for a consultation. This could help you tremendously in keeping your books, and it doesn't have to be an on-going alliance. Sit down, get the basics, find out what you need to learn, and check back as appropriate. Also ask for an ad! Be sure to at least read a book on the subject before you DIY.
Finding a teamEdit
Depending on the size and frequency of the newspaper you are starting, you will need to staff a number of different positions, from the publisher's chair on down. The smaller the paper, the smaller the number of employees you will need. At the bare minimum your paper will need a publisher, an editor, a sales manager, reporters, photographers, sales staff, copy editors/page designers, a production (graphics) team and someone to handle classified ads. Someone in accounts receivable is probably a necessity.
At smaller operations, such as a weekly or monthly publication, many of these roles may overlap and be filled by a single person. A reporter, for example, may take their own pictures. A sales manager might also be the salesperson; and the publisher may also be the editor.
There are several ways to staff your paper. There are a number of media-specific job websites that cater to both employers and employees. Many prospective employees and journalism school graduates keep a close eye on these sites as they seek out employment opportunities. Placing employment ads online and in other publications is also a good way to let people know you are hiring. It also can't hurt to contact journalism schools directly and let them know you are hiring. Whichever method you choose, be sure to be specific in the qualifications you are looking for in a potential employee. The idea of working in the media is appealing, and many applicants think no specialized training is required.
Who's doing what? You'll need to determine if you're going to function as a democratic collective, a top-down construct or some other organization system. Some papers operate as a democratically driven hierarchy. They ask the entire team to give consent to what we do. The democracy is integral to the mission of the magazine. Editorial decisions, design questions and ethical considerations receive round-table speculation by everyone involved in the project. Complete consensus is not necessarily the goal; in fact; Encourage debate. No matter what the outcome, consider staff input crucial to the operation. It takes a little longer to consult staff members, but you'll find it's worth it.
Communication Communicating with a staff of 12 can be more difficult than reaching 12,000 readers. Use an Internet message board to keep in contact with your team and make sure everyone is on the same page…or Web page. We use topica.com to network our team. It's a free service. This is a listserv, which functions as an email broadcast system. Send a message and it goes out to the whole team. If Joe Smith replies, his reply goes out to everyone, like on a party line. We also have monthly meetings where we meet in person and parties where we hang out.
Developing your prototypeEdit
Start with a statement of purpose. Our first directive was to democratize media by sharing the tools of journalism with the general public. Let your statement become your guiding light, your prime directive. You will never have more time to debug your magazine or newspaper than right now. Take your time and develop a working model with actual stories and photos (stuff that's not time sensitive so you can actually use it in your first issue). Look at magazines you like and determine what stylistic aspects you'd like in your own. Develop a consistent page size (determined by printing press specifications) and margins, font, font size, standard leading and spacing, headline standards, number of columns and logos. Then again, maybe your zine's just too avante garde for that stuff to matter. That's okay too, the rules are yours to rewrite. Figure out how often your publication will come out and what size and format you want.
There are many printing options available. What you can achieve depends largely on your budget. When you see something you like, call the publisher and find out where they print. The cheapest game on the block is web press on newsprint. You can get a 1,000 copies of an 8-page tabloid size in black and white for about $500 per print run. Then again, 5,000 of this same rag might be only $1000. Basically, producing plates to print newspapers represents a significant part of the costs, as does getting the print run ready and doing the admin. The paper and ink is less expensive. The first 1,000 papers will usually be very expensive, but after 10,000 copies you'll be paying very little per 1,000 'run-on'.
Feel free to ask your printer questions on what they need and how they need it. Good printers should provide you with information on how best to produce pages to print well with them. Stick to the deadlines you negotiate with them. They can be among your best allies. Modern page layout software exports to the Adobe Acrobat format (PDF). Sending pages in this format is as close to 'what you see is what you get' printing as you can hope for. The format allows fonts to be embedded and avoids the newspaper coming back barely legible due to a substituted font face. Other methods include sending across EPS pages and our fonts on disk - if a font is missing the story that uses that font will degrade into another font (often Courier). That screws up all the spacing and layout and could cause you to lose the end of a story. Take your first issue in early, be prepared to head back to your office, fix the problems and return. It is very common for printers to accept files by internet (FTP) transfer.
Finding sales people willing to work on commission only can be a very difficult process. You may well have to do this yourself. Only the most dedicated staff can and will do it well.
Determine the cost of the ads by looking at your local competition and peers. Your magazine or paper is published in regular cycles; monthly, weekly, etc. Your operating expenses (paying contractors, paying rent and other regular expenses) come in cycles as well.
The following formula works well: (Total printing cost divided by total number of pages) = Cost per page. Simple. Now you know what that paper real estate costs you.
In the planning stages for each issue, you look at many things in determining the number of pages. Some publications use a ratio of 50 percent advertising to 50 percent content, while others use a 60/40 ad-to-content ratio, and still others use a 70/30 ad-to-content ratio. While each publication determines its own ratio, the closer to a 50/50 balance you maintain, the better your publication will be viewed by your readers. The reason: it will seem like they have actual content to read -- not just ads to pass by in a vain attempt to find your content.
Fundraising and Grant writingEdit
Unless your operation is a non-profit, it's doubtful you'll be able to secure grant money. Look for fundraising opportunities that serve your niche readership.
Distribution and SubscriptionsEdit
The way you choose to get your magazine into people's hands will be an important determining factor of how you'll be spending your time on your publishing project. You can basically create a free distribution model or a pay-at-the-newsstand/subscription/street hawker model. Both have their benefits and drawbacks. There are companies that handle either sort of job, but it's a lot cheaper to do it yourself. Most business owners are glad to have new papers in their shops. Most importantly, maintain a stable fulfillment plan. Do what you say you'll do and deliver the magazine or paper on time.
In delivering on-time, be sure to not over-commit yourself to a specific number of pages for any specific issue.
The bottom lineEdit
In the end, consistency, integrity and respect will get you farther than anything else and dogged persistence will help you go beyond yourself and allow you to realize your vision. Remember one thing, if you are the owner of a newspaper, you have power. Power has its advantages and disadvantages, so it's up to you how you use this power. For example, the media mogul Rupert Murdoch is the owner of News Corp. the biggest newspaper company in the world, and guess what? He has dinner with the President of the United States, oops, I mean the President has dinner with him! Reflect on what was said and good luck.
See alsoEdit
Local and national media networks and eventsEdit
- The Underground Publishing Conference - in Bowling Green, OH. Find info at http://www.clamormagazine.org, see our story at http://www.goxray.com/media
- The Independent Press Association - A good professional networking organization for progressive and alternative press. 385 members including The Nation, Mother Jones, Juxtapoz, San Francisco Bay Guardian and XRay. http://www.indypress.org
Used Newspaper printing Equipment
Web hosting and Web site building sitesEdit
Hundreds of sites on the Web provide the tools and resources for Web development. These are just a few starting points.
- Webmonkey.com is an amazing resource for all levels of Web production and experience. http://www.webmonkey.com/
- Learn the ins and outs of HTML at HTMLGoodies.com. http://www.htmlgoodies.com/
Open source and free softwareEdit
Often times you can obtain quality software for free or nearly so. Be sure to check all your options before purchasing expensive software. On the flip side of the coin, be sure that the software you use can do what you want it to, or you may have to spend time converting your previous issues.
- Scribus is an open-source page layout program that has commercial support available to purchase. It is available for Linux. It exports to PDF.
- The GIMP is a GPL (GNU Public License) photo-editing program (similar to Photoshop) available on Linux, OS X and Windows.
- Inkscape is an open-source vector graphics program for Windows, Linux and OS X.


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I'm wondering if there's any good computer software for tracking the orbits of planets over time. I like to see the orbit's trails against the sky background.
I'd prefer something that's free and of a good quality.
I've already tried Google Earth, but it doesn't seem to be able to do this.