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The labs are only open during UB academic terms when the University is open; there is no provision for work outside of these hours. The lab follows the University schedule for weather-related closings.
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The media lab includes dedicated media production and post-production facilities. Our audio studios house a variety of audio playback and recording devices. Multiple control rooms with digital audio consoles with moveable faders serve as both control surfaces and inputs for the connected Macintosh computer running Logic or Final Cut Pro software. A sound-proof studio is available for individuals or small ensembles to record in isolation, and the control rooms are both connected to a larger classroom studio for larger groups.
The classroom studio is equipped with ceiling-mounted LED studio lights with DMX controller and a cyclorama can be used as a backdrop. Large studio green screen and small portable green screen is also available. Finally, the lab's remote recording equipment (audio, video, lighting, etc.) is available to students working on location projects.


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"Big Tony definitely has the largest tattool collection I have seen. His tattools allow him to meet the requests of all types of ink freaks."
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A person who gets large, colorful tattoos simply because it it is the current fad. A tat tool has no appreciation for the art or history of tattoos.
Hey, look at this badass coy fish surrounded by roses and skulls and dragons and naked bitches I got on my chest!
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Reviewer: Jack Wei, MD
The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: June 14, 2005
Authors: Allen W. Burton, Larry C. Driver, Tito R. Mendoza, and Ghyasuddin Syed.
Source: Clinical Journal of Pain 20(3):195-197, 2004
This article provides some important data on the effectiveness and tolerability of OTFC in opioid-tolerant patients experiencing pain crises. The patients treated in this study achieved a high level of pain relief in a more convenient and cost-effective manner than with parental opioids. In addition, OTFC appeared to be very well tolerated in these patients; however, the evaluation of these toxicities was not formalized. It is important to keep in mind that this was a retrospective analysis, and it is likely that the patients treated in this report are not representative of the general population. Nevertheless, OTFC remains an attractive option in this group of patients. In light of the low number of toxicities seen, it would be reasonable to try OTFC in patients with pain crises, and to reserve parental opioids for patients who do not respond to OTFC.


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Consider a commutative square in a category $\mathcal{C}$ $$\begin{array}{ccc} A&\rightarrow&B\\\ \downarrow&&\downarrow\\\ C&\rightarrow&D \end{array}$$ Suppose $\mathcal{C}$ is abelian. If this square is a pull-back and $B\rightarrow D$ or $C\rightarrow D$ is an epimorphism, then this square is also a push-out square. Dually, if this square is a push-out and $A\rightarrow B$ or $A\rightarrow C$ is a monomorphism, then this square is also a pull-back square. ¿Are there more general kinds of categories were such things happen?
Yes! Pretoposes (and in particular toposes) also have this property. It is a remarkable fact that pretoposes (which you can think of as having the first-order exactness properties of toposes or $Set$-like categories) have "most" of the same exactness properties as abelian categories (see below).
In fact, this is the beginning of a remarkable set of observations due to Peter Freyd, and expounded by him in a discussion at the categories mailing list, which led to a sharp distinction between pretoposes and abelian categories as concentrated particularly in the behavior of the initial object. (In an abelian category, $A \times 0 \cong A$, whereas in a pretopos $A \times 0 \cong 0$. But this is practically the only essential difference.) In fact, Freyd showed that abelian categories and pretoposes are special cases of what he dubbed "AT categories", which contain the core exactness properties which are common to abelian categories and pretoposes. AT categories cut so close to the essence of each of these two special cases that in fact every AT category splits cleanly as a product of an abelian category and a pretopos!
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WACO (February 9, 2013)--The Carver Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative is starting a campaign to install more lights on poorly lit streets.
"One it helps better the infrastructure of the neighborhood, and two its a crime deterrent as well," Britt Duke, NRI Program Manager.
Committee members created the Light Up Carver campaign to bring awareness to the lighting issue in the Carver Neighborhood.
They started a petition and need signatures from residents so the city can install more lights.
Beautification and Infrastructure Committee leader Shirley Langston says there are lights at some intersections but lights are needed at points along long streets and areas with heavy foot traffic.
The NRI was formed when a partnership between Habitat for Humanity and the Carver Neighborhood Association.
They developed an action plan back in November to focus on areas to improve the Carver Community.
"We want to see our neighborhood become a place that is turned inside out," Langston said. "We want it to be a place where all income levels will want to come and live. We want it to be safe, we want businesses and we want it to be beautiful."


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I'm not an expert in plant physiology. I was wondering if, per square centimeter, leaves are converting more or less energy than photovoltaic systems. Can this be estimated? How?
According to wikipedia, plants typically convert around 5% of the energy of the sunlight that hit the leaves into energy usable by the plant. Sugarcane seems to be the best, it converts up to 8% of the energy into actual biomass.
The best solar panels on the market, according to the Independent, convert 21% of energy from sunlight into usable electricity. Experimental prototypes do much better, and there are some that get over 40%. Wikipedia has a nice graph of the most efficient solar cell prototypes.
Photovoltaics made from organic sources, like Graphene, (OPVs) have the potential for efficiencies exceeding 24% in a stacked structure. A theoretical max efficiency has not been proposed, but it is expected to be less than silicon. The main benefit of OPVs is the rock-bottom price and the ability to make very tiny panels.


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Box Score | Game Notes
SAN ANTONIO (March 17, 2013) – Rampage forward Jack Combs tallied two goals in only his second game with the team, but the San Antonio Rampage (27-26-1-6) fell to the Abbotsford Heat (29-27-3-6), 5-4, in a shootout on Sunday afternoon in front of 6,858 fans at the AT&T Center.
Combs recorded his first goals as a member of the Silver & Black on his way to Third Star of the Game Honors, while Zach Hamill tallied his 16th point in 16 games since joining the Rampage. Rookie Jared Gomes also had two assists in the game.
The shootout loss brought San Antonio to within six points of the eighth, and final, playoff spot in the Western Conference.
Goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris made 37 saves off 41 shots but allowed two goals in three attempts during the shootout. The Rampage were shutout by Barry Brust in their four shootout attempts.
Abbotsford rookie Sven Baertschi opened the scoring for the Heat at 8:20 of the first period when he batted a puck out of midair past Grumet-Morris for the 1-0 lead.
Brett Carson gave Abbotsford a 2-0 lead at 16:53 of the first period when he fired a shot from the blueline while on the power play.
The Rampage were outshot, 15-8, in the first period but came out firing in the second. Combs cut the lead in half when he fired a rebound into the net just 40 seconds into the frame, marking his first goal as a member of the Rampage. San Antonio would go on to outshoot the Heat, 17-8, but trailed 2-1 after 40 minutes.
The two teams combined for five goals in the third period. Brendon Nash got things started for the Rampage at 11:48 of the third period. Nash gathered the puck at the bottom of the left circle after turning it over and fired it over the glove of Brust.
Max Reinhart would retake the lead for Abbotsford at 13:49 of the third period.
With a little less than five minutes remaining in regulation, the Rampage rattled off two-straight goals within 14 seconds to reclaim the lead. The goals scored by Combs and John McFarland marked the fastest pair of goals scored this season since James Wright and Jon Rheault combined for two goals in 12 seconds against the Lake Erie Monsters on Jan. 11.
Blair Jones tied the game for Abbotsford with Brust pulled and just nine seconds left in regulation to send the game to overtime tied at 4-4.
After a scoreless extra frame the game went to a shootout. Jones and Ben Walter scored for the Heat in the shootout while Hamill, Evan Barlow, Greg Rallo, and Combs were all stopped by Brust.
The Heat won the shot battle, 42-40, and finished the night 2-for-5 on the power play. San Antonio ended the night 0-for-3 on the man advantage. The game marked the first time in five contests that the Rampage didn't cash-in on the power play.
The Rampage head up I-35 for a Tuesday night matchup against the Texas Stars at the Cedar Park Center. The game will be broadcasted live on Fox Sports Southwest at 7:30 p.m. The Herd will then return to the AT&T Center to face the Oklahoma City Barons on Saturday night at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets for all remaining Rampage home games can be purchased at the AT&T Center Southeast Box Office, by calling a Rampage representative at 210-444-5554 or online at sarampage.com.


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When Granny D Walked Across America
NOTE: Doris "Granny D" Haddock died in Dublin, New Hampshire, March 9, 2010, at the age of 100. This article is from Yankee Magazine November 2000.
The rising sun brings veils of mist out of the damp soil, and the rain-swollen stream tumbles jubilantly behind Doris Haddock's Dublin, New Hampshire, home.
Into this new morning, Doris steps from her front door, her walking shoes on, the long sleeves of her denim shirt buttoned at the wrists to discourage biting insects. "Which way shall we walk?" the five-foot-tall great-grandmother asks. I've come to walk with my neighbor, Granny D, our local hero, the 90-year-old woman who recently returned home from a very long walk.
When she was 88, Doris said she'd walk across the country to call attention to campaign finance reform, the effort to stem contributions that slip through not-quite-illegal channels from corporations and special interest groups into the pockets of political candidates. To Doris, this so-called "soft money" is the root of all that is wrong with our democracy.
Starting in California, she planned to walk ten miles a day for one year and to enter the nation's capital on her 90th birthday, on foot. Like many women her age, she had arthritis and emphysema, but this did not stop her. Her son (and next-door neighbor), Jim, said more than once, "She'll die trying," for he knew better than any of us her stubborn spirit.
With Jim's guidance, she began to train for her journey. On our back roads we'd encounter her, this diminutive lady, a heavy pack on her back. For months she walked the winding, hilly roads of Dublin, logging nearly a thousand miles. She slept on the ground to prepare for what she imagined might lie ahead. All the while, she was trying to get newspapers and magazines interested in her mission.
"No one seemed to believe that I could do it," she says now, as we begin our walk down the gravel road.
The idea had come to her when she was visiting with Jim in Florida one year. "We were driving through the Everglades, and I saw an old man walking along the roadside. He was carrying a bag in one hand and a cane in the other, and it looked as if he had all of his worldly possessions with him. I said to Jim, 'What on earth do you suppose he is doing?' And he said, 'Well, Ma, it looks like he's on the road.' And I said, 'You mean on the road like Willie Nelson?' And he said, 'Yes.' 'Like Jack Kerouac?' 'Yes!' So we discussed this for a while. My husband died in 1993. He had Alzheimer's for a long time, and I took care of him. After that, I just wanted to go, go, go. To get away! And so I said to Jim, 'Haven't you ever wanted to walk across the country?' And he said, 'Well, yes, but I have to earn a living and you're too damn old!' And I said, 'Says who?'
"Jim knows me pretty well. You get to a certain age and your children start to act like they are your parents. So he thought about that for a while and then he said, 'Well, you cannot go across the country without a cause.' And I said, 'Well, what do you think I've been working on for the past two years — campaign finance reform!' And he said, 'Oh my God.' "
Doris was a long-time member of what is known in these parts as the "Tuesday Morning Academy," an informal gathering of older women who come together on Tuesday mornings to focus on literature, art, and politics. For the Tuesday academy, Doris had researched the issue of campaign finance reform and the academy had been following the weak attempts Congress had been making to fix the problem — rather like trying to change a flat tire while the car is still rolling. This was long before the issue had become a common phrase on the nightly news.
When Doris returned from Florida, she announced to her "classmates" that she would be making this walk. She mapped out her trip and members of the academy helped link her with friends in towns where she would be walking. Soon she had an itinerary, with a star next to towns where she could be assured of lodging. For each of the towns where she knew no one, she contacted the local police and hoped to convince them to let her sleep in an empty jail cell. She herself knew nothing about computers, but her grandson Joey designed a Web site for her. They called it grannyD.com and with that she hoped that anyone who was interested could follow her journey.
Her rhetoric poised, Doris Haddock began trekking on her 89th birthday, January 29, 1999, in Pasadena, California, where she had hoped to strike up some attention by walking in the Rose Bowl Parade. To her surprise, they banned her from walking in the parade because she was walking for a cause. That was her first tussle with authorities.
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7 Outrageous Hoaxes That Actually Worked
We all think of ourselves as cynics -- other people fall for scams and fraudulent sales pitches, but not us! And in fact, since society has had several thousand years of practice at recognizing con artists, you'd think we'd get pretty good at spotting them. But you'd be wrong.
For a scam to succeed, it doesn't take any kind of special genius. Or even average genius. Just consider ...
#7. The Hitler Diaries
The Hoax:
In 1983, the West German news magazine Stern announced that it had come into possession of a 62-volume collection of diaries written by none other than Germany's most famous square-mustached dictator. The diaries, written by hand and covering the entire span of Hitler's reign, mixed political diatribes with inane, sometimes amusing personal notes and anecdotes, like "Because of the new pills I have violent flatulence, and -- says Eva -- bad breath." There is literally no book that can't be improved by adding a farting Hitler chapter.
"And there came a mighty wind that swept the cities of Europe from the earth, and lo, creation did smell of cabbage."
But besides giving long-sought-after insight into the nature of Hitler's farts, the diaries threatened to rewrite everything we thought we knew about the infamous Fuhrer. It painted him as a sympathetic figure who yearned for peace with Britain and wasn't even aware that his military was committing genocide, thinking they were just shooing the Jews someplace far away.
"Maybe Cleveland? I hear Wichita is pretty empty these days."
When Stern learned about the diaries, it coughed up $4 million on the spot, without checking to see if they were real. After that, offers started pouring in from media the world over to purchase the rights to publish them, and even Rupert Murdoch joined in the bidding war. Through the hysteria, nobody seemed to notice that there were a few, well, oddities.
Why No One Should Have Bought It:
First, there was the little fact that the initials on the cover read "F.H." instead of "A.H.," due to the forger's inability to distinguish between calligraphic lettering.
Michael Urban / AFP / Getty
Fonzarelli Hitler would have been way more laid back about things.
When someone finally decided to have the diaries analyzed, they found that the books weren't just fake -- they were primary-school-art-project fake. The forgeries were written in modern books with modern ink and dipped in tea in order to pass as antiques. Furthermore, the text didn't match Hitler's handwriting. "Hitler" even got the color of his own uniform wrong.
The Nazis were famously colorblind.
The journalist who had invested in the diaries, Gerd Heidemann, was such a sucker for Nazi memorabilia that he took the diaries at face value without, you know, running them past a historian or something. The guy he was dealing with turned out to be Konrad Kujau, a notorious forger who made his livelihood by creating fake Nazi relics and selling them to collectors for profit. Kujau did four years in prison for the stunt, but after his release, he was so famous that his forgeries sold better if he put his name on them. In fact, other forgers began to make money by forging Kujau's forgeries.
"You always hear about people wanting to be the next Hitler. Well, this is the next best thing."
#6. John Keeley's Mysterious Machine
The Hoax:
In 1872, one John Keeley claimed to have built a machine in Philadelphia that could generate incredible amounts of energy from a comparably infinitesimal amount of water. With only one gallon of water as fuel, Keeley boasted that he could propel a steamship from New York to Liverpool. With this exciting claim, he managed to attract enough investors to set up his own electric company and work on his miraculous device.
"Miraculous" in this context meaning "wildly unimpressive."
It's pretty obvious from the fact that we're still driving gas-guzzling SUVs that Keeley's motor didn't really work. What's amazing is that nobody found out it didn't work until he'd been profiting from it for 24 years.
Why No One Should Have Bought It:
Keeley somehow managed to hide his fraud by keeping everyone confused about what exactly his machine did and how it worked, throwing around terms like "sympathetic equilibrium," "etheric disintegration" and "quadruple negative harmonics." All the while, he was conducting demonstrations of his device, pouring water into it and showing how it could bend iron bars like Superman.
Oh yeah, we see. You just prep the thematic compressor and pow, stuff.
Of course, he never managed to turn his machine into a marketable product, much to the frustration of his investors, and Keeley ultimately died before he could bring his life's work to fruition. Naturally, this was a golden opportunity for scientists to study Keeley's machine and find out how it actually worked.
The answer? It was powered by a generator that Keeley was hiding in his basement, attached to the machine by a system of belts and pulleys that he was hiding behind a false wall. You have to give him credit for gambling on nobody guessing the most obvious explanation for two decades.
"What? I'm not hiding anything. Sitting like this is just comfortable."
Whew, it's a good thing the world has learned its lesson about this sort of thing! And there's no way this next entry is going to prove that statement laughably wrong!
#5. A Company Sells Magic Wands to the Military
The Hoax:
From 2001 to 2010, the British company ATSC Ltd. sold tens of millions of dollars worth of bomb and drug detection equipment to foreign governments, until an investigation by the British government concluded that the devices didn't actually do anything, and the company's CEO, Jim McCormick, was arrested for fraud. Despite an enforced ban on the company exporting its wares, they continue to manufacture the "ADE 651" for any government gullible and rich enough.
U.S. Navy
It's OK though, because they sell them to quiet and peaceful countries. Like Iraq.
But it's an easy mistake to make, right? Such equipment is high-end technology, and even if you're in the position of procuring gadgets for the military, it seems like it'd be easy to get screwed on a highly technical product that doesn't really work as promised.
Then again ...
Why No One Should Have Bought It:
What the website and manual for the machine try to hide under loads of technobabble is that the ADE 651 is a dowsing rod. In other words, it's an enchanted metal stick that can locate substances through the power of magic.
"Yup, your horse is carrying. I'll need to see his license."
Maybe military officials can still be forgiven for not realizing this, since the description for how the device works reads, "The principle for long range detection is based on the substance excitation that needs to be detected, with an electromagnetic field that propagates on a long distance and is not disturbed by the 'electromagnetic noise' from the environment generated by the RF transmitters and other electronic equipments that use electric current or electromagnetic waves."
"Unless the electromagnetic waves are not tautologically sound or if it's a Thursday."
But even considering that load of convincing-sounding nonsense, none of the governments or military officials who fell for the scam ever took a close look at the device before putting it into service protecting soldiers from bombs. If they had, they would have found that the only functional component of the device is a department store anti-theft tag that does nothing except look like something that does something.
Nevertheless, in Iraq and Afghanistan, $85 million was spent on thousands of suspended bent wires with handles. When faced with accusations that he was selling magic wands, McCormick simply replied, "One of the problems we have is that the machine does look primitive. We are working on a new model that has flashing lights."
"It would totally help if the bombs had them, too. Boy, our faces are red."
#4. The Counterfeit Kubrick
The Hoax:
For most of the early 1990s in London, Alan Conway, travel agent and small-time con man, lived a second life as famed director Stanley Kubrick. During this time, he fooled celebrities and regular people alike, getting free dinners and movie tickets, all while promising people roles in his upcoming films.
"Yeah, you can be Darth Vader's nephew or something. I mean, uh, Shaft's nephew. Whoever I invented, his nephew."
Dozens were fooled, including British politicians, journalists and performers, all of whom were thrilled to meet the great director. It's kind of surprising that so many Kubrick fans were sucked in by the ruse, considering ...
Why No One Should Have Bought It:
... Conway looked absolutely nothing whatsoever like Stanley Kubrick.
All old white men look the same.
But we can kind of forgive that, because he evidently used to claim that he had shaved his beard, and who knows what Kubrick looks like under that thing?
More baffling, though, is the fact that Conway was a soft-spoken man with a cultured British accent. Kubrick was from Brooklyn. It shouldn't have helped him that he apparently attempted to do an American accent and it came off conspicuously awful. But hey, maybe he's just really eccentric, right? Well, how about the fact that he didn't seem to know anything about Stanley Kubrick's films?
Well, there's "not knowing anything" and "not understanding a damn thing."
It gets even weirder -- people who had met the real Kubrick were still fooled somehow, such as New York Times writer Frank Rich, who bought the "shaved beard" story and never questioned why Kubrick had changed his accent and forgotten the details of all of his own movies.
"I just thought, 'Eh, it's Stanley Kubrick.'"
In the end, Conway got tired of trolling the Kubrick fan community and fell off the map. Spookily, he died of a heart attack just a few months before Kubrick died of the same thing, so in a way, Kubrick wound up doing an impression of Conway. We can think of at least one more improbable imposter, though ...


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I am a freshman in college and doing a software engineering/ finance double major. I've been learning programming on my own and have a good bit of familiarity with php by now. I was wondering what you guys think the most relevant programming language is for financial/investment banking use?
I have read this thread: Books on developing software for financial markets/investment banks
I want to start learning/reading up on a language (the basics not financial/quant stuff) to set a foundation for the future financial/quant stuff.


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"In a letter Matisse described this picture: "Through the window of the drawing room one sees the green of the garden and a black tree trunk, a basket of forget-me-nots on the table, a garden chair and a rug." Simple? Not really. Matisse flattened the parquet floor and turquoise walls into one unified line. Add the tilted table top and the skeletal chair, and you have a painting that carefully balances Matisse's desire to reproduce the world accurately in a harmonious two-dimensional painting. "
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5 Great Careers Destroyed By The Post-Oscar Curse
Just look at those smug guys up on stage, wearing their tuxedos and hoisting their Oscars. Little do they know that a dark cloud hangs over them. It's the post-oscar curse, and it means that even a nomination can cause their next film to turn into a career-destroying turd.
It's not a "curse" in the Egyptian mummy sense, but rather a combination of Napoleonic egos, studio shenanigans and sheer bad luck. Here are their cautionary tales:
#5. Francis Ford Coppola
From 1972-1982, Francis Ford Coppola was not only at the top of his game, he was at the top of anyone's game. Ever. Between The Godfather, The Godfather, Part II and Apocalypse Now, Coppola's films had won so many Oscars that he could smelt them all down to make the most critically acclaimed suit of armor in all the land.
After the rigors of Apocalypse Now, one would think that Coppola would've taken a break--after all, this was the film that caused him to famously quip, "We had access to too much money, too much equipment and, little by little, we went insane."
Instead, Coppola went to Vegas--or at least a $26 million movie version of it--and bet the farm on "Technicolor weird-ass musical."
Coppola's gamble was called One from the Heart, a surrealist Las Vegas love story fueled by the music of Tom Waits. Instead of filming on location, Coppola built replicas of Vegas on sound stages. The set shot One from the Heart's original $2 million budget into the stratosphere, leaving Coppola to pick up a more than $20 million tab when the film earned only $600,000. And to add insult to injury, the film got terrible reviews.
One from the Heart left Coppola on the verge on bankruptcy from the late 80s to early 90s. To keep ahead of his creditors, Coppola directed films he would've otherwise passed up, including The Godfather, Part III and the "Robin Williams as a giant 10-year old" flick, Jack.
That's right, One from the Heart was responsible for freaking Jack.
Now let's make it extra clear: Even if the man just filmed himself pooping on a glass coffee table every year after 1982, Coppola would still go down as one of the most important filmmakers ever. But still, you have to wonder what crucial part of himself he lost after Apocalypse Now. In the last 27 years, the most memorable thing he's directed was that Michael Jackson ride at Disney World. And, hey, we're not complaining. Captain EO fucking ruled.
If The Godfather, Part III had been three hours of that, he'd have a few more gold statues on his mantle right now.
#4. John Boorman
In 1972, English director John Boorman oversaw the backwoods thriller Deliverance. Audiences delighted in the film's dueling banjos, the handsomely hirsute duo of Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight and perhaps the most celebrated anal rape scene in cinema history.
The above is "aesthetically significant," according to the Library of Congress.
The film's Southern-fried sodomy went over surprisingly well with the stodgy Academy, and Boorman rode Ned Beatty's bare bottom to a Best Picture and a Best Directing nod.
High off his newfound critical clout, Boorman next made his 1974 mind-fuck vanity project Zardoz, which starred Sean Connery traipsing around a post-apocalyptic wasteland in a loincloth and suspenders.
That wasn't a euphemism. This is what the movie is about.
Comparing Deliverance to Zardoz is like comparing apples to oranges that have been hollowed out and turned into bongs. A critic would have to, more or less, invent a new language to describe its plot, so we're just going the film's preview speak for itself:
Yes, that was a huge floating head saying, "The gun is good" and puking rifles to a crowd of diapered men on horseback. Once you bought your ticket, you got to hear the head finish the sentence ("... The penis is evil.")
The product of a grossly negligent studio system (and what must have been an entire roll of Bounty soaked with lysergic acid), Zardoz tells the tale of a sexual dystopia, topless psychics and immortals who can't achieve erections.
Sean Connery's character, the "brutal exterminator" Zed, is the hero of the piece precisely because he can get a boner. Again, 100 percent serious here.
Boorman's later films never received the praise of Deliverance, and while we can't pin all of his troubles on Zardoz, you can't put Sean Connery in a wedding dress and expect much good to come of it.
Or can you?
#3. William Friedkin
After winning Best Director for The French Connection and being nominated for The Exorcist, William Friedkin tried for a hat-trick with 1977's Sorcerer. According to Friedkin, the movie's sorcerer was "an evil wizard [,] and in this case the evil wizard is fate." Evil wizard? Dungeons & Dragons fans everywhere were ready to line up, preferably in costume.
But, in a blatant case of false advertising, Sorcerer contained no sorcerers. The movie followed four criminals hired to deliver nitroglycerin to a South American oil rig, with the assistance of no magic at all.
Karma's backlash against the film was brutal. A hurricane decimated the set. Spooked villagers blamed the filmmakers for causing a historic drought and threatened to detonate a $1 million prop bridge. Friedkin caught malaria and lost 50 pounds. The $15 million budget soon ballooned to $21 million.
If fate truly is an evil wizard, as Friedkin believed, then that wily wizard did everything in his power to fuck up the production of Sorcerer.
A poster for Sorcerer, inadvertently capturing a villager trying to blow up the set.
Friedkin's troubles continued upon the film's US release. Audiences expecting mystical weirdness a la The Exorcist walked out of theaters. This prompted ads warning that Sorcerer was "NOT A FILM ABOUT THE SUPERNATURAL." Audiences confused by subtitles in the opening scenes also walked out. This prompted lobby placards declaring "SORCERER IS AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM."
Oh, and a little film called Star Wars opened a month earlier. This prompted no one to see Sorcerer.
Despite good reviews, the film recouped only $9 million and severely damaged Friedkin's status as an A-List director. None of his later films proved as memorable as his Oscar-nominated work, unless you count Al Pacino's gay S&M thriller Cruising. Which we do.


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Mazda has been quite busy lately because not only have they revealed the Kuro Special Edition for the MX-5 2012, they also debuted the new 2013 MX-5 model in Japan known as the Roadster RS. The story does not stop here because the Mazda 3 (a.k.a. Axela in Japan) received a brand new performance package dubbed the Mazda Axela Sport 20S-Skyactiv. Let's take a look at some of the notable changes it will bring to the 2012 model.


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Severe Weather Training for the Hmong Community
KSTP Meteorologist Jonathan Yuhas and KSTP News Anchor Joy Lim Nakrin are collaborating with the Lao Family Community of Minnesota to hold a severe weather training program targeting the Hmong community. It's part of an outreach initiative by the Asian American Journalists Association's Minnesota Chapter.
The event is 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, at the Lao Family Community's Saint Paul location at 320 University Ave. W. It will be the third of a series of monthly sessions, all of which will have Hmong translators present.
The National Weather Service will also present information about their Skywarn Storm Spotter Program with the hope of recruiting members of the community.
Lao Family Community Board Members facilitate, including President Chupheng Lee and Youth & Education Director Chong Lee. The sessions target newer immigrants transitioning from Southeast Asia's vastly different climate to one of the most extreme and variable climates in the world: Minnesota.
Sessions will cover everything from tornado warnings and sirens, to ice and water safety, to the risks of hypothermia, frostbite and heat exhaustion. If unprepared, Minnesota's extreme weather can be dangerous or potentially even deadly. The hope is that these sessions will help newer immigrants stay safe, despite cultural and language barriers.
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Joy Lim Nakrin is coordinating these events on behalf of the Asian American Journalists Association's Minnesota Chapter. She is Vice President of AAJA Minnesota. Jonathan Yuhas will lead the trainings, having spent more than 20 years forecasting weather, including 13 years at KARE-TV before joining KSTP-TV in 2011. A former reserve police officer, Jonathan provides similar trainings to fire and police personnel across Minnesota.


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Jerry Brito is executive director of Coin Center, a non-profit research and advocacy center focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies such as Bitcoin. He also serves as adjunct professor of law at George Mason University. His research has focused on technology and Internet policy, copyright, and the regulatory process. Jerry is the recipient of the Public Knowledge IP3 Award and was named one of Washington's 100 top tech leaders by Washingtonian magazine. He lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife Kathleen O'Hearn and their dog Jerkface.
Unbelievably, the media sometimes quote Jerry or let him blab on radio or TV. Here are some selected clips.
A lot of what Jerry does is writing. He is the author of more than a few scholarly articles and books and he frequently publishes opinion pieces in newspapers and magazines. He is also a regular contributor to Reason and he blogs at the Technology Liberation Front.
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A very unhappy Chicagoan
Her name is Rachel Shtier and she has fully shared her unhappiness with the readers of Sunday's Times Book Review. On the front page no less. Three books were under review, but never mind them. Contempt for her adopted city was what she wanted to share with readers.I waved the review at my fellow Chicagoan across the breakfast table and we both snorted. "What does she know?" And "she'll be sorry."But first a taste: "...Chicago never ceases to boast about itself. The Magnificent Mile! Fabulous architecture! The MacArthur Foundation! According to The Tribune, Chicago is Americas hottest theater city; the mayors office touts new taxi ordinances as huge improvements. The mayor likes brags that could be read as indictments too, announcing the success of sting operations busting a variety of thugs and grifters. The swagger has bugged me since I moved here from New York 13 years ago."Michael Miner of the Chicago Reader responds and so do many Chicagoans. I am assuming she'll be moving back to New York soon--or maybe Peoria.
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"The swagger has bugged me since I moved here from New York 13 years ago.If she wants to experience real big swagger before she returns to NYC she should join us in San Francisco and see the World Champions of all events. (-:
My dear friend Don is very much put off by the NYC bragging even though he's from Brooklyn. He says that he has actually heard New Yorkers brag that the tails of the lions depicted in the statues in front of the biggest NYC library are longer than the tails of any other lions in statue form. Oh well. I love the Biggest Apple anyway.
Margaret - she sounds more like an unhappy New Yorker stuck in Chicago. The Cubs, the Magnificent Mile, Millenium Park - that's all part of the touristy veneer to Chicago.According to Miner, she teaches theater at DePaul, so it's understandable that she has sort of an arts-centric view of the world. Chicago isn't New York when it comes to the arts - by which I mean, it's not the same. Part of it is money: New York is much bigger and has many more rich people, and its richest people probably are a lot richer than Chicago's. And New York attracts many more tourists. And for theater specifically, there is no equivalent of Broadway in Chicago. (As it happens, "Broadway in Chicago" happens to be the name of the organization of downtown theaters that stage big-budget musicals. That name probably says it all. Its productions consist of touring companies of shows that originated on Broadway, or on occasion an original production that is trying out in Chicago before - hopefully - moving to Broadway.)Chicago has a tradition of smaller, more experimental theaters of which it can be proud (and which we support). Those theater companies undoubtedly provide employment opportunities for some of Shtier's students, but I'd think that if they were surveyed, most of them see their Chicago jobs as stepping stones to New York, or, more likely, to television or film in LA.Shtier is right that Chicago has the same problems that afflict pretty much every urban area in the upper Midwest. Jobs for people with high school educations that pay a living wage would make a huge difference.
She's from New York and is complaining about Chicago being boastful!Really?
New York is so boastful it counts for nothing; no one would pay attention. That's why she moved to Chicago!
The poor authors of those three books (including Neil Steinburg, whose Never a City So Real should be read by anyone seeking a reply to Shteir's bellyaching). The reviewer is the story, and that's a travesty. Andrew Patner really gets it right here: http://blogs.wfmt.com/andrewpatner/2013/04/24/versus-chicago/.
Peggy: Is this what you're saying with your last three words above: Peoria:Chicago::Chicago:New York ?Then there's the New York priest who, after a year in Chicago, was dunned by a Chicagoan to say how he thought Chicago compared to New York City. After all evasion failed, he replied, "Oh, Chicago reminds me a lot of New York--New York, that is, without Manhattan."
As one married into an NYC family, I marvel at the insecurity of New Yorkers.
Having lived in both New York and Chicago I was always astounded by the parochialism of both places.
Mr. Logan....so true; perfect sentiment. Such *tribalism* After all is said and done, who really cares? This is a much better statement: "Wasn't born in Texas but moved here as soon as I could"
JK: Peoria! Dubuque! One of those places thought to represent American rectitude in literary matters. Chicago:New York::Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island:Manhattan. If you think so!
Steven Millies: Thanks for the link to Andrew Patner's commentary. Loved his characterization of San Franciscans!! Even better, it's on WFMT, one of the crown jewels of Chicago. The greatest radio station in America!
Bill deHaas, Re: Texas... Would be okay if they had sidewalks and sewers.
"Peoria! Dubuque! One of those places thought to represent American rectitude in literary matters."Or the sticks. Although the Tin Pan Alley lyricists seemed to like Sheboygan and Kalamazoo.
Both cities appear on Forbes' Most Miserable Cities list.http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/11/americas-most-miserable-cities-business...
I really hadn't thought much about the Shteir controversy until this morning. But now I've been thinking about my first visit to New York. In 1995, I drove up from DC to visit some Marist Brothers I knew at their community in Pelham. Over dinner, our conversation devolved into a now-all-too-familiar discussion about why NYC is better than Chicago. Apparently exasperated at my disinterest in the greatness of New York, their provincial (a very nice man) finally exploded at me: "But, in New York you can find a glass of papaya juice at 3AM if you want it!" I gave an honest reply: "Nobody in Chicago _wants_ a glass of papaya juice at 3AM."The conversation really has not advanced since then.
This puts me in mind of an observation that the Rev. Phillip Murnion (RIP) used to make about Chicago Catholics and New York Catholics, to wit: Chicago Catholics think they can teach everybody everything about Catholicism while New York Catholics think they have nothing to learn about Catholicism from anybody. He was from the Bronx.
Here's an astonishing survey from Science Daily (2009) about the happiest states. I wouldn't be so impressed if a million people hadn't been asked their feelings. "Dec. 21, 2009 New research by the UK's University of Warwick and Hamilton College in the US into the happiness levels of a million individual US citizens have revealed their personal happiness levels closely correlate with earlier research that ranked the quality of life available in the US's 50 states plus the District of Columbia. This research provides a unique external validation of people's self reported levels of happiness and will be of great value to future economic and clinical research in this field."http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091217141314.htmTalk about stereotypes!
Texas Would be okay if they had sidewalks Once in a Texas suburbs I went for a walk with my husband and a baby in a stroller. There were no sidewalks. A police car driving by stopped and asked us: "- Is everything all right?- Yes, why?- We saw you walking and wondered if anything was amiss.- No. We just like walking, thank you."Stopped by the police because we were walking instead of driving!


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Is there any known compact expression for the sum $$S_{k} = \sum_{i=1}^{k} A^{i-1} P Q^{k-i}$$ where $A$, $P$ and $Q$ are respectively $m \times m$, $m \times n$ and $n \times n$ matrices?.
You can assume, if needed, that $A$ and $Q$ are invertible.
The trivial relation $$ AS_{k}-S_{k}Q = A^{k}P - P Q^{k}$$ perhaps provides some clues (fo example it is known that if $A$ and $-Q$ have no common eigenvalues then the last equation has unique solution).


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I am working on a project which involves documenting test logs. I want to know the structure of test logs (what should be included).
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A test log is simply a log used for testing. ISO 9000 compliant timber companies typically have detailed guidelines for the structure of test logs. For example, they must still include bark, must be between five and ten meters long, and between 50 and 100 centimeters in diameter. Like production logs, test logs must have visibly apparent concentric rings when viewed in cross-section. There may also be certain density requirements that vary from species to species.
Some insect damage is inevitable, but typically a test log must have no more than 3 bore holes per linear meter.
On a more serious note, if I were keeping a test log solely for my own use, I would fill it with details that I would otherwise forget, and I would organize it in a way that would be useful in my own circumstances. I do not know myself well enough to know exactly which details or organization would be most useful to me, and even if I did, it is likely that they would change over time. Rather than try to design the perfect test log structure, I would think about it for about five minutes, start using it, and then re-evaluate as necessary.
I think structuring a test log is kind of like commenting your code: you will not know whether you "got it right" until later. Luckily, you are free to change your mind and do something different going forward.
You can use that approach with other things, too.
I hope I did not misunderstand your question, but for me it seems to be very abstract. In general, the answer depends on
If you answer this question to yourself, then you will know what information the viewer would want to see in the log files.
However, I can also suggest you to take a look into standard logging frameworks like Log4j logs which might also give you some insight. This is something I found on google. Hope this helps.
At least you must include all verifications you perform and their status (pass/fail) and an overall conclusion (if test passed or failed). Other interesting points would be test execution time, timestamp on test start and environment info (os/browser version) if it does matter in your case.
IMHO the log should be in some parsable format like XML (or well formed HTML or plain text with some unique tags), when you've got lots of them you do not want to open each one by hand. Better if you can organize a file hierarchy or store them in a database.
Then you can have some tools to parse the logs for data analysis.
For a good example of well-formated test logs, see the TAP protocol:
It is used primarily by Perl, but it can be used by JUnit and other tools as well.


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TAYLOR, Floyd E., 84, of Brilliant, Ohio, passed away Friday, November 16, 2012, at Trinity Medical Center West in Steubenville, OH.
He was born December 4, 1927, in Bridgeport, OH, son of the late Edward and Rose (St. John) Taylor.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Donna Lou (Fetty) Taylor; four sons, Edward L., Roger, Frank Taylor, and an infant James Taylor; a brother, John W. "Jack" Taylor; two sisters, Nancy Carpenter and Martha Taylor; a half-brother, Robert Hodgkiss; a granddaughter, Billie Jo "Beep" Cook; and a grandson, Jeff Plant.
Floyd served his country in the U.S. Navy during, World War II. He was a retired construction worker out of Local 809 in Steubenville and Methodist by faith. He enjoyed going to yard sales and auctions, reading, and talking with friends.
Surviving are four daughters, Marsha K. (Danny) Shute of Jewett, OH, Phyllis Jean Fields of Mingo, Patricia (Kenny) Herron of Brilliant and Elizabeth (Bill) Cook of Brilliant; a half-brother, William Taylor of Lansing, MI; his companion, Pearl Stull of Scio, OH; and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Friends will be received on Sunday from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the Wheeler Funeral Home, 712 Third St., Brilliant, where his funeral services will be held on Monday at 11 a.m., with Pastor Bob Carson officiating. Interment will follow at Hopewell Cemetery.
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The emperor Frederick II was, among other things, a very learned man who wrote a highly regarded book on falconry. Presumably, he would have had a sizeable library. Is there some mention of his library in the sources? And, going further, do we have some idea of what happened to it after his death?
I am sorry this is the only thing I could find.
As a result, we can say with confidence that the library has been destroyed as a whole. For instance, the Tabula Rogeriana, written by the Arabic scholar Muhammad al-Idrisi, ended up in Paris and Oxford, while the book about falconry is conserved in the Vatican.
Among the book that it contained I have found:
None of these survives in original, but we have copies.
Let's see the sources:
After residing in Southern Italy, in the Regnum (and in Apulia in particular):
Additional evidence is provided by the fact that:
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SHERMAN, Tex. -- With obesity rates on the rise in American adults, doctors are questioning how to get kids motivated to work out. The conclusion is that habits form in children, but the couch potato syndrome has kept them indoors and inactive for far too long. Now a new wave is on the horizon to get children active, with the help of action-oriented games.
Gaming systems like Nintendo are the old and familiar forms of childhood entertainment, but fast-forward to this generation, and games like Dance Dance Revolution are becoming the new, active form of entertainment.
"It's good exercise, it's fun, it's just something to do on free time," Gross says.
Sixteen-year-old David Gross has been jumping and jiving to Dance Dance Revolution at Sherman's Midway Mall for about seven months now. He says it's great that having fun this way includes hanging out with his friends and staying in shape.
"I lost 10 pounds, and I've maintained weight."
This is how younger kids are getting the exercise they need- mandatory physical education requirements from the state. In fact, this program is brand new and focuses on the children's whole body, but out of school on their own time, parents and doctors are wondering what would motivate kids beyond a mandatory PE class. Certainly, Nintendo and all the old video games do nothing to get them off the couch. But technology is changing that.
"It's new, it's exciting."
Flashy graphics, catchy tunes and the new wave of action gaming is turning the tide of the industry.
"They're trying to encompass as much as they can as a live, movement-oriented action versus sitting around playing on a controller."
Seventeen-year-old Alex Cobb believes the gaming industry is only following what kids and teens have been craving.
"It's great, really great. Games are finally catching up getting kids active instead of making them sit on the couch."
Beren Bragg's girlfriend, Alyssa Wheeler, caught on to the craze, too. Even though she's one of only a few girls playing this mostly guy game.
"I've been playing... Not that long, but long enough to be pretty good!"
Wheeler believes games like this can be a powerful motivator to help kids adapt healthy habits in life, and it's all because the games are just plain fun.
"I would have no problem if they replaced running in school with 'DDR'."
Maybe nothing will replace the good old fashion exercise like programs your kids are doing already, but it could make a nice addition. Some schools have even brought in games like Dance Dance Revolution to give children an incentive to continue working out long after class is over, but it is expensive.
High-schoolers wouldn't even mind either, but for now, they'll have to settle for dance dance revolution at the mall.
So far that's what been keeping David, Alex and Alyssa moving to the music.
"There's variations, Rock Band, Guitar Hero, there's a bunch of technology like this but for getting active this is definitely one of the bigger choices."
They know this healthier choice will last longer than that old familiar game of the past when 'Game Over' meant the end-- instead of a new beginning that includes thinner waistlines.
There's also a version of Dance Dance Revolution for home use. It is portable so you can pick it up and take it anywhere, and you don't even need a game console to do it.
Games are also helping on the front of patient rehabilitation. The new Nintendo Wii's are being used for something called "Wii-hab" to incorporate movement for redeveloping coordination skills.


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I am using .Net 2.0 and my site seems to reach the deadlock state at certain period. It stops working until I recycle the application pool or change something in web.config file. I think deadlock is causing this issue.
I am wondering if there is any tool to debug/check the site to find the code that could be causing the deadlock.
Right now I had to set recycling interval to 10 minutes which is really bad but it is the only way to solve the problem and there is a lot of codes on the site and I need to find the problem. If I use DOS attack tool, can I find the page/code block that is causing this issue? If I can, what is the best tool to test it?
EDIT I tried to check the Event Logs and found the following warning. I don't know if it is issue will keep digging now. Exception information: Exception type: HttpException Exception message: Request timed out.


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Our ISP's DNS servers are unreliable at times. I am looking for reliable, public DNS servers as a replacement.
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I pretty much agree except if it came down to a TE or a LT, I would most likely prefer an actual LT. Then cross all my fingers and toes that he does not get injured and/or put on IR.
Heath is coming off of a major knee injury and will needed at least half of this season to get back up to game form. Unfortunately he isn't a 24 y/o Gronkowski, but a 31 y/o veteran that will need time to get back up to speed. He should be showing up from here on out and once again the TE position will be secure.
Inconsistent play from the QB is the biggest offense issue. It's the big elephant in the room and it's been that way for years.
Jesus... The Eifert man crush is back in action.
But to answer the topic at hand.... no, TE isn't the problem. With that being said, I want a tall athletic TE or WR in the 2014 draft.


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bart, easy does it! I want to see this available, too, but compare Jackson's remark with my last long paragraph. Also, here's the list of permission-givers as printed in the program:
This videotape of George Balanchine's Don Quixote is screened courtesy of: Suzanne Farrell, George Balanchine Trust, New York City Ballet, New York City Ballet Orchestra, Bert Stern, American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA); American Federation of Musicians, Local 802; International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local One, I.A.T.S.E.; and Schott Music International.
On further thought, maybe Jackson has heard more than I have. Hmm. At any rate, there's not much we can do but keep our eyes and ears open for further showings, right?
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I'm trying to setup a router using iptables.
But, after a lot of examples I've tried, I can't get anything to work.
My idea is to setup a box in between my Cisco and the main switch for firewall, bandwidth graphs, filtering, etc.
I am using an old laptop as a test unit for now.
eth0is static with an ip of 192.168.10.5/255.255.255.0 and gw 192.168.10.1. This works as a valid Internet connection.
eth1is static with an ip of 192.168.10.6/255.255.255.0.
I have forwarding enabled via
sysctl.conf and double checked the value inside ip_forward.
When I connect a test Windows laptop via cable to eth1, I get no DHCP (dhcp is handled by the Cisco on 192.168.10.1). This is normal I suspect since I need several iptable rules, but the question is which? I have tried so many variations but none seem to work, can anyone help me please?
cisco: 192.168.10.1
eth0 : 192.168.10.5
eth1 : 192.168.10.6
CISCO<->[eth0]box[eth1]<->devices(eg. Windows laptop)


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Miguel Alexander Pozo '98 Leads Team That Helps Bring HNBA National Legal Conference to New Jersey
When the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) holds its 3rd Annual Midyear Corporate Counsel Conference and 17th Annual Uvaldo Herrera National Moot Court Competition in Jersey City from March 28-31, 2012, Miguel A. Pozo '98, as Midyear Conference co-chair, will become a familiar face to the more than 750 judges, attorneys, public officials, and law students expected to attend from across the country.
Pozo, a litigation partner at Lowenstein Sandler PC, is already well-recognized in New Jersey. He received the 2011 "Professional Lawyer of the Year" Award from the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law, and in 2009 was named to the "40 Under 40" list of both the New Jersey Law Journal magazine and NJ Biz. A brand lawyer and business litigator who specializes in representing clients in the high-end, luxury goods industry, Pozo has more than 13 years of experience representing Fortune 500 corporations, businesses, and non-profit organizations in federal and state court litigation.
In addition to being co-chair for the Midyear Conference, Pozo is HNBA national finance director and leads the HNBA National Finance Committee, which consists of lawyers from across the country. The committee is responsible for ensuring the financial viability of the HNBA, as well as fostering relationships with HNBA sponsors and supporters.
The HNBA, one of the country's largest professional organizations, represents the interests of more than 100,000 Hispanic attorneys, judges, law professors, paralegals, law students, and legal professionals nationwide. The theme of the conference is "New Jersey: Gateway to America," and Pozo and other conference organizers proudly note that New Jersey, the host state for the 2012 Midyear Conference, is home to more than 75 major corporations and law firms as well as a very active Latino community.
Rutgers School of Law–Newark and its Minority Student Program will be well-represented at the HNBA Midyear Conference. U.S. Senator Robert Menendez '79 is a member of the Honorary Host Committee and will deliver the keynote address at a reception on Ellis Island on March 30. Also, members of the Honorary Host Committee are U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas '94, who will be one of the judges for the championship round of the National Moot Court Competition; former New Jersey Attorney General and partner at Lowenstein Sandler Zulima Farber '74; Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes '96; and New Jersey Assemblywoman Annette Quijano '91. Additionally, Anna Maria Tejada '99 has now become the new HNBA regional president for Region III (New Jersey), replacing Pozo who served in that role for four years.
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Isn't the body amazing? Well before your due date, the muscles in your uterus begin practicing for the delivery! These muscles have a lot to do on the big day. When it's time to deliver your baby, they will contract and relax, contract and relax to push the baby down the birth canal. This takes a lot of muscle power. And just like any major physical event that requires muscle power, the uterus needs to be prepared in advance. Your body automatically exercises the muscles of the uterus during the last trimester with Braxton Hicks contractions. These practice contractions feel like a sudden hardening or tightening and then a gradual relaxing of the uterus. Some women say the contractions feel as if an elastic band around the belly is being drawn tight and then relaxed. Braxton Hicks contractions aren't painful, they're just a little uncomfortable. As you get closer to your due date, these contractions might become more frequent and intense. They are usually felt earlier and more intensely by women who have had a previous pregnancy.
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The gaming world was sent into a right flurry earlier this week with the formal announcement of Mortal Kombat X from NetherRealm Studios and Warner Bros. Interactive – a reveal that was accompanied by the game's debut trailer featuring eternal rivals Sub-Zero and Scorpion engaging in… mortal combat.
There's more Mortal Kombat excitement to come, however, if franchise co-founder is to be believed (and sometimes he is).
NetherRealm Studios' Ed Boon piped up on Twitter recently to let fans know we'll be seeing much more of Mortal Kombat X during E3 2014 next week, with two new Mortal Kombat characters and more due to be revealed. Boon wrote:
RT @Y21__ @noobde are we going to see new fighters in the MK X? EB: YES! Two of my new favoriates will be at E3 !!
— Ed Boon (@noobde) June 3, 2014
Regarding the story of Mortal Kombat X, Boon also revealed a few morsels of information, writing in response to fans:
RT @timbo869 @noobde will the story in mortal kombat X Kontinue from mk9 or be a new original story EB: Sort of BOTH.. hard 2 explain.
— Ed Boon (@noobde) June 3, 2014
RT @Insider2000 @noobde Will we get Story information at E3, or not so soon? EB: A little, yes. I think you will like the premise for MKX !
— Ed Boon (@noobde) June 4, 2014
While it's since been revealed that the debut trailer wasn't in-game footage, we'll see Mortal Kombat X gameplay at E3, says Boon:
RT @SuperheroData @noobde when Can we expect gameplay trailer EB: Soon, soon, soon!
— Ed Boon (@noobde) June 4, 2014
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RT @JackRansom97 @noobde will fatalities be as gory and good as mk9's? #MortalKombatX EB: When UC Scorpion's 2nd, you will flip your shit !
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Since the release of the debut Mortal Kombat X trailer, the video has been viewed almost five million times on YouTube alone – seems as though Mortal Kombat fever is back and bigger than ever!
Mortal Kombat X is out in 2015 across Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC. Looking forward to it?
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I tried to make an operating system with my on custom built kernel. It didn't work out too well. I am using Ubuntu and have downloaded Linux 3.2.7 from kernel.org . I am not trying to change the kernel in my Ubuntu system. I want to make my own OS with Grub, the Linux kernel and I want to be able to have this homebrew OS in a file type (such as iso) that I can put on a cd and boot on another computer. My question is: what exactly do I need to make this OS? Any comments or tutorials would be helpful.
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One place to start would be Buildroot.
What is it? It's a set of scripts / makefiles that allows you to produce a linux system literally from scratch. It pulls down all of the relevant components, builds the cross compiler on the host. - pretty much everything.
It is designed primarily for embedded work - as such, it contains uclibc rather than glibc and is missing build steps for many components, e.g. Gnome and some desktop environments - however, if you're making a live CD it is absolutely brilliant. Not limited to live CDs, of course. I say that - it does come with embedded Qt.
The latest stable version comes with grub 0.97 which might not meet your requirements.
I mention this because whilst Linux From Scratch is great in that it tells you how to complete the whole process, it's long, time consuming and requires a lot of patience. Buildroot could be adapted to include whatever you needed; as a learning experience, the ability to use the
In terms of configuring your kernel, I cannot more strongly recommend taking your existing config (usually available in
The bare minimum you need is the kernel and some process you can run as init, along with any loaders and libraries required for the init process. You boot the kernel telling it to run the init process, and where it goes from there is your business.


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What's the least you would pay for a quality 40-inch HDTV?
Tax refund time coming up and looking to buy at least a 40-inch HDTV but trying to get the best value possible. Not too concerned about any flashy extras but any energy-saving that would cut costs in the long run would be acceptable. Amazon has the standard TCL HDTV's that seem to have good reviews and that's what I'm leaning towards but would like to hear wooters opinions.
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Free would be ok. Other than that, just look at your options and make a decision based on the best bang for your buck.
There are a lot of options, so look around and read reviews.
This is the one I just bought to replace an older set:
I'm very happy with it, though I paid about $60 less that the price now showing at Amazon. Prices fluctuate, so watch any set you are interested in for a sale.
I actually just bought a TCL 40" 1080p from Amazon for $319, and it's been fantastic! Speakers aren't the best, of course, but you come to expect that from any realistically priced TV these days. Great picture, nice remote, good menu options that actually make sense. I'd highly recommend them.
Clearly the answer here is free.
#include obligatory reminder that a tax refund is actually you being given money back that you overpaid
I got this one just last week. I like it a lot.
It has loads of features that others in it's class don't have. I know it's a Philips, but I couldn't say no to all the options. The Media access via PC is an awesome feature
PS. Amazon seems to be sold at at the moment, but perhaps they'll get some in stock later? It would be strange if they didn't. Especially for just $500
In reference to energy costs, all modern LCD TVs use very little. The difference between a LED backlit TV and a fluorescent one is less than $1 a month, sometimes much less.
For extras on LCD TVs, unless you watch a lot of sports, a 60hz refresh rate is fine. From what I've read anything above 120hz is also a waste of money. If you look at Plasma TVs, you don't have to worry about refresh rate.
My preference in a TV at 40" or larger would be to get one with 1080p resolution. Look at them in a store and if 720p looks fine to you, you'll save a lot of money. Just remember to stand back at the same distance you'll be watching it at home.
I bought my 40" HDTV for $250, which was the least I could have paid at the time. Based on my observations, it's still the least I could have paid.


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Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Al-Siniora laid the foundation stone for Lebanon's Arab highway road, a project funded by the Saudi government, the Saudi Development Fund (SDF) and the OPEC Fund, during a ceremony today in Beirut. A total of $152 million was contributed for the road's construction.
Addressing the gathering, President of Lebanese Development and Reconstruction Nabil Al-Jisr commended the Kingdom's continuing support for Lebanon.
During his remarks, SFD Vice President Youssef Al-Bassam noted that the infrastructure project will help to link Lebanon's Northern, Southern and Central regions, while also connecting the country to its Arab neighbors. "A third of the total aid appropriated by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to Lebanon is being provided for the construction, rehabilitation and modernization of this important sector in all regions of Lebanon," he added.


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Typically, this is something you don't want out of a child. My 4 1/2 yr old has been brushing his own teeth for about a year. The problem is that I can't convey to him to spit out the toothpaste. I model and explain and still he just swallows. Suggestions very welcome.
Interesting problem. If it were my son, I would try with water. Take a mouthful, swish around, spit. Repeat. Try to make a game out of it. See if he can hit a cup in the sink or something. If this works, move onto toothpaste. Do the exact same thing. Take a mouthful of water, swish, spit.
If your child is pretty good with competition (this won't work with kids who are sensitive about not winning things or who don't want to participate in competition) Have a spitting contest. I know, as you said, "not a behavior you really want most of the time" BUT there are times for it - you've found one.
Practice spitting watermelon seeds and things that do NOT taste good like his toothpaste probably does (explain this behavior is only for really special times like in the bathroom and adult condoned spitting contests).
Have a family contest in the backyard.
Then, when you know he CAN spit (because now he has gotten help from you, siblings neighbors etc and shown you he's pretty good at it right?), you can use water swishing to help him have enough "stuff" to spit when brushing his teeth - just don't use so much you negate any effects of ongoing protection.
You might also try making a game out of it like, how long can you brush without swallowing OR spitting? Brush together and see who "wins". If you aren't having a contest, just encourage him to spit more often than you would yourself, use an egg timer to have him spit every 30 seconds or so. . . Make it fun and silly, he'll laugh, you'll laugh and maybe he'll get it.
Perhaps demonstrating it for him as well might help, aside from what Jeffrey said.
In addition to practicing with water, what helped us was to use a 'big kid' or 'adult' toothpaste - one that tasted of mint.
We found that the little kids bubble gum ones he wanted to eat, but the minty stuff he wanted to spit out. If you check, you can see that the kids toothpaste actually have the same fluoride content as adult ones - at least the ones we were using.
We ended up using Tom's wicked cool children's toothpaste. It is not overly strong, but it doesn't taste like candy (makes his breath fresher too).
It also helped explaining that there was stuff in toothpaste that was good for your teeth, but not your tummy, so he had to spit.
(If worried about the fluoride content of the toothpaste, talk to your doctor or dentist about a good one to use)
My son has recently started doing this all by his own, just because we did it (in a typical 3yo way he did it way too often). Children under 7 should only be using a pea-sized amount of toothpaste to minimise swallowing, so I wouldn't worry, I'm sure they will adjust in their own time. Brush your teeth together, and just keep encouraging them every time you do it.
My son does this, or on occasion he puts his head over the sink and opens his mouth watching the water just fall out, same effect but different concept. Although you could practice outside, or in the bathroom sink, with a cup of water and do more "modeling".
I think the whole swallowing reason is why children's toothpaste, at least in the US, is made to be swallowed since young kids don't always grasp the concept.
it is very challenging and interesting problem. If it were my 12 year old special autistic child, I would try with salted water. Take a mouthful water and demonstrate.


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A quiet Friday evening in a Franklin neighborhood was shattered by violence. Phillip Allen returned to his home with groceries, but not before chatting with a friend outside.
Allen's screams for help are the last thing his girlfriend Becky Davis remembers.
"He yelled sort of. Call 911, I am gushing blood I just got stabbed," recalls Davis.
Franklin Police arrived on scene to find Allen stabbed multiple times. He was rushed to a local hospital where he later died. An investigation and search of the neighborhood by police found the suspect, Jerry Huff, in a neighbors backyard.
"He was located near his residence behind a house hiding and was then arrested and charged with murder," says Lt. Detective Art McFadden from the Franklin Police Department.
Becky Davis says she met Huff the other day. She knew her boyfriend and Huff were close friends.
Friends, who had no history of violence.
"Jerry Huff brought him a present for Christmas and knocked on the door and ran across the yard and said Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas. We opened the door and there was a present there," says Davis.
Neighbors along Rawls Avenue, where the incident took place, say Phillip Allen was always looking out for others. He wasn't the type to get into trouble.
"He actually told me several times if you need anything or anyone bothers you just holler. We will be here, we will watch your back," says neighbor Sandra Goostree.
"He seemed pretty good. Stayed to himself. Never hardly heard from him or seen him. He stayed in doors most of the time," says neighbor Joe Meader.
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I found that I need to use the following facts in a paper that I am writing.
Let $f\in C^\infty(\mathbb R)$, then
If $f(0)=0$, then $f(x)=x g(x)$ for some $g\in C^\infty(\mathbb R)$.
If $f$ is even, i.e. $f(-x)=f(x)$ for all $x$, then $f(x)=g(x^2)$ for some $g\in C^\infty(\mathbb R)$.
These facts are trivial for analytic functions (just look at the Taylor series). In the smooth case, one can prove them by analyzing the derivatives of $f(x)/x$ and $f(\sqrt x)$, respectively, and showing that they have certain limits at 0. However this is somewhat cumbersome (especially if one wants to analyze how $g$ depends on $f$). This is not a problem for me because the facts fall into the category "you should be able to prove this yourself if you are reading my paper". But I would like to know if there is a nicer proof.
For the first statement, I know the following trick (which can be found in textbooks): define $$ g(x) = \int_0^1 f'(tx) \ dt $$ and observe that $f(x)=xg(x)$, and $g\in C^\infty$ since the function $t\mapsto f'(tx)$ under the integral is smooth in the parameter $x$. As a bonus, this argument also shows easily that $g$ (as a point of $C^\infty$) depends smoothly on $f$. (This is another fact that I need to use.)
Is there a similarly nice proof of the second statement? And, by the way, is there a textbook reference for it?
Added. Here is a more precise mathematical question that more or less formalizes what I mean. The function $g$ such that $f(x)=g(x^2)$ is uniquely defined only on $\mathbb R_+$, and its extension to negative arguments involves some choice.
Is there a canonical way to associate $g$ to $f$? Even more precisely, can one make a mapping $f\mapsto g$ which is linear, preserves the pointwise multiplication, and is continuous as a map from $C^\infty$ to $C^\infty$?


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Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal delivered a statement issued on Monday to the 66th session United Nations General Assembly in New York in which he stressed the critical nature of ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to Middle East peace. "The Arab-Israeli conflict still predominates and overshadows all issues of the Middle East. No other regional conflict is more influential upon world peace," he said.
When addressing the necessity of Middle East peace, Prince Saud highlighted the efforts by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz to secure peace in the region and the lack of cooperation from the Israelis. "The Arab states have clearly expressed, through the Arab Peace Initiative launched by Saudi Arabia and adopted by the Beirut Arab Summit in 2004, their commitment to achieving just and comprehensive peace based on the rules of international law. However, we were not met by any reciprocal commitment from Israel."
Throughout his statement Prince Saud reemphasized the strife Palestinians face under Israeli occupation and stressed the lengths the Kingdom has gone, and will continue to go, to protect the Palestinians and ensure that they receive basic life necessities from which they are currently deprived.
Prince Saud concluded his statement calling for an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and asking attending nations to support Palestinian statehood. "As a result of the continued Israeli intransigence and disrupt of the peace process, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia calls upon all Member States of the United Nations to recognize the Stale of Palestine on the border of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital; and to grant it full membership of the United Nations."
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