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Steve Stoute
Steve Stoute L'14 is at home on a college campus, where he has spent a good part of his adulthood and all of his professional life. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, he graduated in 2004 from Seton Hall University, where he majored in Business Administration with a concentration in Sports Management and then spent a year as an intern at the NCAA National Office.
After earning a graduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007, he worked at the University of Southern California in the Athletics Department. Most recently he worked at Princeton University, first in Athletics then in University Development.
Academic leadership in his future.
I have spent a significant portion of my adult life, and all of my professional life, on a college campus. My experiences have opened the window to wonderful opportunities and shaped my perspective on the value of education in empowering individuals to achieve their potential. My career aspirations involve leading an academic institution and therein creating opportunities for students to explore, engage, develop, and contribute.
Wider horizons through cross-disciplinary study.
The cross-disciplinary framework of the curriculum is a hallmark of Penn Law and during my 2L year I took The Making of European Law. The course was taught by a Bok Visiting International Professor and it was a tremendous opportunity to immerse myself in international and comparative law, which will serve to broaden my understanding of legal, political, and socio-economic issues in an increasing global world.
A summer sharpening practice skills.
During my 1L summer I was fortunate to intern at Dechert LLP, in their Philadelphia office. Working in a corporate law firm allowed me to further develop my analytical and writing skills, and also taught me critical practice skills, which include negotiating, oral advocacy, and client management.
Career-building opportunities.
The Networking and Relationship-Building programming is particularly helpful during the 1L year because it provides a platform for engaging in conversations with legal practitioners, improving communication skills, and establishing a network of professionals willing to advocate on your behalf.
Collegiality is more fun.
One of the things that has most impressed me about my Penn Law experience is the ease with which students, faculty, and administrators work together to efficiently and effectively utilize resources to benefit students. The collegiality that is an inherent element of the Penn Law community makes the academic rigors fun and strengthens the bonds between students, their peers, and the institution.
Supreme inspiration.
My best experience at Penn Law was the opportunity to hear from Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the event celebrating the opening of Golkin Hall. The sentiments expressed by Justice Sotomayor, specifically about the role of lawyers in our society, were impactful and inspirational.


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Telco Case Study: "IT-as-a-Service" with Oracle VM Enables Higher Business Availability
By Monica Kumar-Oracle on Dec 17, 2013
In this blog article we want to share with you a use case for Oracle VM enabling high availability through an "IT-as-a-Service" deployment at a Telco provider.
Using Oracle VM, the Telco customer is able to realize a highly efficient server infrastructure to dynamically provision and reclaim resources to quickly respond to business demands. With over 100 Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) servers deployed in an Oracle VM-based virtualized environment, the Telco customer has a solid, highly available infrastructure designed for maximum flexibility.
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Grothendieck's Galois Theory, as developed in SGA I, V.4, or very gently in Lenstra's notes, establishes an equivalence between profinite groups and Galois categories. We can put this into the following more general framework: Let $\mathsf{sets}$ denote the category of finite sets; for a topological group $\pi$ let $\pi\mathsf{-sets}$ denote the category of finite sets on which $\pi$ acts continuously. There are functors
$\mathsf{Cat}/\mathsf{sets} \leftrightarrow \mathsf{TopGrp}^{\mathrm{op}}$
given by $(F : C \to \mathsf{sets}) \mapsto \mathrm{Aut}(F)$ (which is topologized as a closed subgroup of $\prod_{X \in C} \mathrm{Aut}(F(X))$) and in the other direction by $\pi \mapsto \pi\mathsf{-sets}$. In order to avoid set-theoretic problems, $C$ and $\pi$ should be essentially small. There are canonical maps $\eta_C : C \to \mathrm{Aut}(F)\mathsf{-sets}$ and $\varepsilon_{\pi} : \pi \to \mathrm{Aut}(\pi\mathsf{-sets})$ which satisfy the triangular identities; hence we have an adjunction! And every adjunction restricts to an equivalence of categories between its fixed points. Now it's fairly easy to recognize profinite groups as those fixed points on the right hand side, but Grothendieck's nontrivial insight is the classification of the fixed points on the left hand side, which he calls Galois categories (in short: $C$ has finite limits and colimits, which $F$ preserves, there are mono-epi decompositions, monos split off, and $F$ is conservative).
Question 1. Does this point of view of Grothendieck's Galois theory have already appeared somewhere?
My real question is the following: Actually $\mathsf{Cat}/\mathsf{sets}$ is a $2$-category. A morphism $(C,F) \to (C',F')$ is a functor $P : C \to C'$ together with a chosen isomorphism $F \cong F' P$. A $2$-morphism between morphisms $P,Q : C \to C'$ is a natural transformation of the underyling functors, which is base-point preservering in the obvious sense.
Question 2. How can we endow $\mathsf{TopGrp}^{\mathrm{op}}$ with the structure of a $2$-category in such a way that the adjunction above becomes an $2$-adjunction?
- - Edit - - The comments + answers make me believe that it is just the "trivial" $2$-categorical enrichment with identities as $2$-morphisms. And since there is no reaction to Q1, I expect that the answer is "no, this is new"?


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Searching for Schmidt's killer and the keys at the same time, Risa and reaper Azriel track a shape-shifting spider spirit capable of changing her form into a seductive woman. But when they finally find the second key, the Aedh Lucian snatches it and disappears.
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Dear Reader,
One of the questions I'm often asked is, do I write to music? Now, lots of writers don't, but I happen to hate silence when I'm writing. I guess it stems from all those times of squeezing in writing time whenever and where ever I could, thanks to an active toddler and my work as a chef, which meant split shifts and lots of weekends. Generally, when I did get the chance to write, there was always some sort of background noise happening.
But what sort of music do I write to? Generally, it's something that will fade into the background and not intrude on the flow of thoughts. When I wrote the first four books of the Riley Jenson series, the music I listened to was Enigma's MCMXC a.D & The Cross of Changes. There was a moody sexiness to the music that really suited the first few books. But by the time the fourth book rolled around, I was feeling the need for something different. A Google search through various styles of alternative music led me to Eco Zen 2, and that became my new writing music. It's hard to classify the music in Eco Zen 2—iTunes has it listed as rock, but it's not really. It's also pop, alternative, and electronic, all rolled into one. As they say on the One World Music website, it's full of luscious beats and sensual vocals. For me, it was perfect, and that became the soundtrack for not only the next five Riley Jenson books, but also the two Myth and Magic books.
But when it came to the Dark Angels series, I felt the story needed a little extra something. I wanted a song that spoke to the journey Risa Jones, our heroine, was about to undertake. When I heard Melissa Etheridge's "Into the Dark," it was practically perfect—it spoke of Risa's physical and emotional journey in so many ways.
With Darkness Rising (book 2), I added The Heavy's "Short Change Hero." For Darkness Unmasked (book 5), Neil Finn's Song of a Lonely Mountain was added (the longing for home and place seemed appropriate). And for Darkness Splintered, the 6th and penultimate book in the series, I added Black Lab'sWeightless. Again, the lyrics were very appropriate for Risa's current state of being.
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If we have a linear recurrence sequence where each term depends on all previous terms, say
$a_n = \sum_{k=0}^{n-1} \binom{n}{k} a_k, \quad a_0 = 1$
is there any way to estimate the growth of a_n in terms of a Big-O notation?
I suppose the growth must be super-exponential, because if $a_1, \ldots, a_{n-1}$ grows exponentially, say, $q^i$, then we have $a_n = (q+1)^n - q^n$. Hence The exponent grows from $q$ to $q+1$. But I am not sure if this serves as an argument.


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Getting Enough Fiber
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Why is fiber important?
Eating a high-fiber diet is thought to help prevent constipation and its related problems. It may lower blood pressure, improve cholesterol levels, and help control blood sugar levels. And it may help with reaching and staying at a healthy weight.
What is the recommended daily amount of fiber?
The daily adequate intake amount for fiber has been calculated by the U.S. Institute of Medicine. Men ages 19 and older should strive for 38 grams a day and women ages 19 and older should aim for 25 grams a day.
How can you get more fiber?
Fiber is in many foods, including beans, peas, other vegetables, fruits, and whole grain products. You can figure out how much fiber is in a food by looking at the nutrition facts label. If a food has fiber, it will be listed under the total carbohydrate on the label. The food label assumes the daily value (DV) of fiber is 25 grams a day (g/day) for a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Cyd Charisse1921-2008
Posted 17 June 2008 - 02:10 PM
The New York Times has posted its obituary of one of the most glamourous dancing ladies of Hollywood's golden age. http://www.nytimes.c...amp;oref=slogin
Posted 17 June 2008 - 02:14 PM
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Posted 17 June 2008 - 02:32 PM
A lot of the dancers in old movie musicals make me cringe a bit. She was always exquisitely beautiful.
Posted 17 June 2008 - 02:59 PM
I just thought she was set to live to 100. What a magnificently beautiful lady she was.
Posted 17 June 2008 - 03:13 PM
Maybe vice versa, never mind, Cyd was just fantastic. What a dancer and what a beauty. I am glad that we saw her and enjoyed her in those days.
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Posted 17 June 2008 - 03:36 PM
My personal favorites: her Silk Stockings solo in the hotel room, the Dancing in the Dark duet with Astaire cited by Dale, and Baby, You Knock Me Out from Its Always Fair Weather.
There is also Party Girl, a non-musical made in 1958 with another star MGM wanted to dispose of, Robert Taylor (who also had one of those names, he was the former Spangler Arlington Brough). It has a confusing story, poor character development, and is in general your basic mess, but it also has striking cinematography and the dialogue won't hurt you. Charisses acting is even more hapless than usual but she is at her sexiest in the musical numbers, which are well worth checking out.
Posted 17 June 2008 - 03:48 PM
Robert Taylor (who also had one of those names, he was the former Spangler Arlington Brough
I quite like 'Spangler Arlington Brough', which sounds not hick, but rather landed-Southern and strong--much better if more unwieldy than the thoroughly ordinary name he evolved into. I'll now look it up and see what it is, but to me there is no redneck sound to that one . The competition for Tula Ellice Finklea is surely Roberta Sue Ficker, and I'm at a loss to choose between them, although I find all of 'Cyd Charisse' to have been the perfect solution, whereas 'Farrell' has never sounded quite as uncannily inevitable as 'Suzanne.'
Edited to add: Wiki has it as 'Brugh' and it's Nebraska, so probably pronounced 'brew', whereas 'Brough' is 'bro', I've a friend named Brough.
Posted 17 June 2008 - 03:53 PM
Check the boulder on her right hand. The lady must have kept fit to lug that thing around!
Posted 17 June 2008 - 04:28 PM
--much better if more unwieldy than the thoroughly ordinary name he evolved into
Hmm. Now that I think about it, often as not the motive behind such name changes is to make the name more ordinary, not less so. Tula Ellice Finklea and Spangler Arlington Brough certainly stay in the memory banks, and as you note the latter is euphonious in its way. Robert Taylor is indeed a very ordinary name, which is the point to make his name more like those of other people and less singular.
It is pronounced brew. I've seen it spelled both ways, don't know which is right.
The AP obituary linked to by carbro and Gina notes that Charisse was up for the Caron role in An American in Paris, which I hadnt heard before. Thank God that didnt work out.
Interesting also that her height is given as five-foot-six - she certainly gave the impression of being even taller.
Posted 17 June 2008 - 06:17 PM
And for those who haven't seen it yet, I'd wholeheartedly recommend the "Girl Hunt" ballet from The Band Wagon for Michael Kidd's visionary choreography for the corps of gansters, in addition to Charisse's spangles and singularly erotic arches.
Undoubtedly she was one of the sexiest women ever to appear on screen, but what I admired most about her was the strength of her dance personality. Gene Kelly in particular, I think, had a bad habit of imposing his own low-centre-of-gravity style on his leading ladies, and some of them really struggled with the unsuitability of it for their bodies. Charisse, though, always managed to adapt to the choreography and make it inimitably her own.
Posted 17 June 2008 - 06:25 PM
Interesting also that her height is given as five-foot-six - she certainly gave the impression of being even taller.
IMDB, my favorite source of inaccurate information, lists her as 5' 7 1/2". No matter what her height, she had the most gorgeous legs.
RIP, Cyd.
Posted 17 June 2008 - 07:24 PM
I'd also single out her "Desert Song" number from Deep in My Heart as the quintessence of Charisse-as-sex-goddess, and the "Two-Faced Woman" number that was cut from The Bandwagon (because with a number like that, the movie's original Faust musical wouldn't have flopped), but which is included on the film's DVD.
Thanks for mentioning these, I'm going to fetch them. I love the Band Wagon, but have never seen that number.
Posted 17 June 2008 - 08:07 PM
Was Nanette Charisse her sister or her sister-in-law? (I imagine in-law, but sometimes others in a family take on a stage name)
... okay... went & dug on the net (like I should have done first... sometimes I forget most answers already exist in cyberspace)... it's Nenette not Nanette... she was a sister-in-law.
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3 Oct 2012 5:05 AM #141
Hi Qumhieh,
The Proxy works like a webproxy, so if you use a filter to retrieve your 1 record you will only have the one record in memory. That's the way we use the DB. We filter to the records we need and don't rely on the findxxx functions for the major lookups.
Just remember that you will need to do some finagling on the filters to clear them out since they stack on top of each other. So if you do a filterCode:
store.filter('eyeColor', 'Brown')
store.filter('eyeColor', 'Blue')
3 Oct 2012 6:37 AM #142
Which version of PhoneGap and SqLite do you have. Is it the latest one?
I tired the example and having the same issue with ridan with PhoneGap 2.1.0 and this latest SQLite Plugin https://github.com/chbrody/Cordova-SQLitePlugin.
3 Oct 2012 6:50 AM #143
It was 1.x phonegap not 2.x... wish I could be more specific but don't have the time to dig up the files right now, sorry!
8 Oct 2012 8:40 AM #144
Thank shepsii for you work.
I am building Phonegap2.1 + lastest Sqlite Proxy + lastest Sqlite Plugin for Android with Sencha 2.1 Beta 3 (RC1 now) and Sencha CMD 3 v190. However the models still be initiated and their proxies created BEFORE the onReady method of the Ext.Application call is executed when i build package/tesing -> it is still OK in development enviroment.
I have double checked and applied your lasted fix related to the issue, but it seem not OK on Sencha 2 Beta 3.
Can you please help us work around.
9 Oct 2012 6:40 AM #145
Thanks for reply shepsii and badgerb1
i have another question, on the application launch event i need to check data from database before any view
created, so what im trying to do is get the store and find the record im looking for (Ext.getStore('store').findRecord()), but its seems during launch event all stores still empty and they get data after launch event done. (i add 'autoload : true' to store but still not works)
so how i can get the data before any view created?
10 Oct 2012 5:00 PM #146
Hopefully, we can continue to use sqlite plugin in next sencha release.
Note: i also adapted sqlitestorage of shepsii with sqlite plugin for Android on Phonegap 2.1.
11 Oct 2012 2:03 AM #147
You need to realise that loading from a database is not an instant event - it takes time.
So if you just call store.load() or set autoLoad to true, you can't assume data will be there instantly.
If you want to be able to make that assumption, listen to the load event on the store, and when this event fires, then instantiate your UI.
anhnt3 - could you share your adapted file - perhaps by branching on github? I wish I could spend the time tracking this down myself, personally I used Sencha Touch 2.1 and thought it was still a complete mess and nowhere near production ready. Promising, but when the general release happens, which in my experience with Sencha will be equivalent quality to a release candidate, I'll treat that as a RC and go through it filing all the bugs I can find... excuse my cynicism that there will still be loads!
11 Oct 2012 2:13 AM #148
There is no tx.executeSql interface in Sqlite Phonegap Plugin, it only support transactionDB API.
So in your setTable function, esspecially createTable, checkDataExists and checkExistingSchema, I must modify to use transactionDB.
Since then when application startup in native Android, DB and table is created succesfully.
Other operation like read,create... I am trying but currently I cannot work around [model 's proxy init before app' onready] problem in package build (Sencha 2.1 and Sencha CMD 3 v/190)
11 Oct 2012 4:51 AM #149
24 Oct 2012 2:07 PM #150
I'm interedted in your sqlite proxy, but I have a few questions :
How to make the demo work ?
We have to test it with phonegap/cordova ?
Do you have a tutorial to do an application with the proxy ?
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MGM // 1987 // 83 Minutes // Rated PG
Reviewed by Appellate Judge Mike Pinsky (Retired) // June 6th, 2001
"It's not really about survival. It's about everything." -- Peter (Sam Waterston)
Woody Allen takes a break between sprawling existential dramas for a claustrophobic character study.
Trapped within the walls of her Vermont cottage, Lane (Mia Farrow) has survived a long physical illness, and an even longer psychological one. As she prepares for her return to New York, she dotes on Peter (Sam Waterston), an ad writer turned aspiring novelist. Peter, who is unsure that his novel is even worth finishing, cannot return Lane's affection: he is in love with Lane's best friend Stephanie (Dianne Wiest). But Stephanie is married and unsure of her attraction to Peter.
As complicated as these present relationships are, they pale before Lane's traumatic past, and the tension she feels toward her mother Diane (Elaine Stritch). Diane's wild youth is the source of much amusement for both Peter and her current husband Lloyd (Jack Warden), but a dark secret exists between her and Lane. And in one very long day, these characters are about to enter the autumn of their lives with an oppressive weight on their shoulders.
If you recall our discussion in an earlier Deep Focus column on Woody Allen, the mid-to-late 1980s were Allen's "Bergman" phase, in which he worked over in meticulous detail the conjunctions between character psychology and the problem of history. After the ambitious Radio Days, Allen decided to attempt a closet drama in a style reminiscent of Ibsen. The result is September. Three key elements mark this film as a departure from Allen's usual style:
The setting: Allen restricts himself to a single set (the cottage), never venturing outside at any point (even the brief porch scenes take place in darkness). This in part creates the feel of a stage play (and the paced and deliberate performances of the small cast enhance this), only livened up by camera movement. Warm tones of late summer float into the rooms through shuttered windows, signs of a world where the characters have missed the frolic of summer and are now preparing to enter a bleak autumn. This enclosed space also generates claustrophobia, well suited to the closeted lives of Lane and her friends. Only Lane's mother has ever seemed to escape the confines of an interior existence. But Diane's famous dalliance with a gangster during Lane's childhood ended in disaster: a history of abuse and murder from which Lane has never psychologically recovered.
The characters: As a result of the damage Diane has caused, Lane has spent the rest of her life in retreat, and is only now coming to realize how much she has become an emotional cripple. But is Lane's withdrawal Diane's fault, or did Lane choose this on her own? Many of the characters in Allen's film are afraid to step outside into the world, and their humorless, arid lives again seem more suited to an Ibsen psychodrama then Allen's usual cinema territory. Allen's use of dialogue is spare and precise (again, similar to a stage play), and he allows the camera to linger to take in the thought process of each character.
The tone: While Allen has shown himself as adept at dramas as at comedies (a fact which we noted in the aforementioned Deep Focus column), September may be one of his driest films, showing none of the stylistic flourishes he would employ in Hannah and Her Sisters or Crimes and Misdemeanors, both of which mark high points of his "Bergmanesque" phase. Although arguably, September is as experimental as Allen's more visually radical films of recent years: the shift to a closet drama format requires him to focus on character development and tiny details of dialogue in order to carry the effect of the film.
That having been noted, I must rank September as a relative failure from Woody Allen. The angst voiced by the characters differs little from his other films (self-doubt over creative potential, unrequited romantic longings, envy over a family member's success), but when boiled down in such an experiment in minimalism, placed under such microscopic scrutiny, the character interactions become stiff, as if confrontations must be timed out for dramatic effect. Ibsen's plays (and Bergman's films) always balance these progressively revealed layers of psychological trauma by heightening reality through narrative trickery (overt symbolism, exposing the narrative process, and so on). Allen has stripped down the drama perhaps too much, and the result is the audience feeling trapped in a house with a bunch of people we just want to slap some sense into.
I also want to slap some sense into MGM. Even if September is a weak effort, it still deserves better attention than has been paid here. Yes, I know Woody Allen has an aversion to DVD, but apart from some information on the insert and a full-frame theatrical trailer that says absolutely nothing about the movie (other than listing the cast), there are no extras. And although French and Spanish subtitles (and dubs) are provided, there are no English subtitles.
The video is serviceable, free of major defects, but there is a noticeable graininess to it. The soundtrack appears in mono only, but since Allen uses almost no incidental music (just a few old jazz pieces as always) and the action is trapped within the confines of the house, there is little need for a wide field of sound.
It might seem unfair to simply dismiss September as a lesser effort from Woody Allen, but it really does cover too much material handled more effectively in other Allen films. Woody Allen fans will want to give it a look to compare it with his other films, but casual viewers may find September less than the sum of its parts.
The court withholds judgment against Woody Allen on the grounds that this film is merely one small part of a remarkable body of work. MGM is fined for the lack of supplemental materials and admonished to provide English subtitling for all its films.
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Video: 85
Audio: 80
Extras: 10
Acting: 85
Story: 80
Judgment: 70
Perp Profile
Studio: MGM
Video Formats:
* 1.85:1 Anamorphic
Audio Formats:
* Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono (English)
* Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono (French)
* Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono (Spanish)
* French
* Spanish
Running Time: 83 Minutes
Release Year: 1987
MPAA Rating: Rated PG
Distinguishing Marks
* Theatrical Trailer
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How can I remove the tag base that WordPress creates by default in permalinks? Any reason why it would be there in the first place?
It's probably there to help visually and programmatically distinguish tag URLs from pages; I'm not sure, I'm not a core developer of WordPress.
But http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-no-tag-base/ and http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-no-category-base/ work well and do not make permanent changes to files or GUIDs, so they can be deactivated with no ill effects.
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Columbia, Mo. � For decades, Columbia College's Jane Froman Singers have delighted audiences throughout the world. Now, listeners in China will be singing their praises as well.
The 24-member student choir was selected by audition as one of six American choirs to represent the United States at the Beijing International Choir Festival held in conjunction with the annual All-China Choral Conductors Convention. This prestigious honor includes an invitation to sing a solo concert at the convention.
The Singers will perform July 8-18 with performances in major concert halls in Beijing and Tianjin. Bilingual choral workshops will be an integral part of this historic gathering, as will sightseeing, cultural exchanges, orientation meetings and other cultural activities.
In preparation for the event, the choir will hold an afternoon rehearsal from 1-6 p.m. on Saturday, July 7 in the Jane Froman Studio on the Columbia College campus. The media is invited to record video footage and take photographs of the choir. Nollie Moore, choir director, will be available for phone interviews at (573) 289-8433 or by appointment at the same number.
Upon returning from China, the choir will join the Missouri Chamber Orchestra as part of the Hot Summer Nights Concert Series. The event will take place at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 22 at First Baptist Church in downtown Columbia. The Evensong concert event will include much of the music performed by the choir in China.
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In addition, the Neuroscience Master's Program offers two options. The thesis option requires a six-credit thesis and is designed for students who are interested in research positions or who plan to pursue doctoral training in the future. The non-thesis option requires a 3-credit research paper where a particular applied/clinical interest is integrated with coursework taken. This option is intended as an appropriate terminal degree for students pursuing advancement in non-research positions.
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I am having an interesting discussion with another database designer about normalization. In this example, we have a GameTitles table and each record must contain the year in which the game was released. He says 2NF mandates that everything must be normalized, so, to be compliant, the year field should be split off into a ReleaseYears table with its own primary key that is referenced by the GameTitles table. I say it should remain as a field on the GameTitles table itself.
My argument for this is that a year is just a non-primitive numeric value that is static by its very nature (ie, 2011 will always be 2011). Due to this, it serves as its own identifier and needs nothing to reference it since it is what it is. This also introduces additional maintenance since you now have to add a new year to the table just to reference it. If you prepopulate the table with a large range of years then you have extra records that potentially won't have references to them at all. This also increases database size since you now have an extra table, record overhead, and the additional primary key for the year itself. If you keep the year as a field on the GameTitles table, you eliminate all this additional maintenance and overhead.
Thoughts on this?
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The 7 Most Irritating Characters From Otherwise Great Movies
#3. Live and Let Die and The Man With The Golden Gun - The Goofy Racist Sheriff
The Character:
We realize that among some of our readers, memories of James Bond only go back as far as Pierce Brosnan. But even if you've never seen a Sean Connery/Roger Moore Bond movie, you know the drill: suave spy, killing dudes with gadgets, sexing the ladies. What you are probably not picturing is a cartoonishly Southern, racist redneck cop character played with all of the depth and realism of Yosemite Sam.
We hope this picture of Sean Connery looking suave makes what follows somewhat less painful.
Which brings us to Clifton James, an actor who made his career playing dumb, obnoxious Southern stereotypes, who turned up in not one but two James Bond movies playing Sheriff J.W. Pepper. He's supposed to be the comic relief, but the only joke here was on Roger Moore's career.
Being born in New York City is no obstacle to a career playing Southerners.
How He Nearly Ruined The Movie:
Cringe along with us while Pepper pulls over a black motorist, then arrests him with the words, "Ya got a set o' wheels that just won't quit, boy, if they's yous, that is. Spin around, boy! Ten fingas on the fenda!"
What's strange isn't just that the scene occurs in a Bond movie, it's that it happens right in the middle of a patented James Bond boat chase. As Roger Moore is leading the bad guys across the water and ramping bridges and shit, we keep cutting back to this sheriff going about his cracker stereotypically racist business.
One second it's Bond escaping death with the wind in his hair, the next we're cutting back to Sheriff Pepper in a patrol car, chewing tobacco and talking to his brother-in-law Billy Bob on the radio (we didn't make any of that up). Seriously, there's like nine straight minutes of this.
You could write the whole thing off as some kind of mix-up at the script stage, like an intern accidentally got pages from one of the Smokey and the Bandit movies mixed in when they were copying the script and nobody noticed until after they had shot it.
But then the bastard turns up again, in The Man with the Golden Gun. Bond's in Thailand and he eventually gets into another boat chase. Once more, J.W. Pepper just happens to be there. In Thailand.
He's on vacation, in a tour boat when Bond and the bad guys speed by. Since he can't immediately join the chase at this point, he's stuck muttering racist slurs from his tobacco filled mouth. He shouts, "Little brown water hog!" at the racing boats, and bellows, "If you got your pointy heads out of them pajamas, you wouldn't be late for work!"
After this, he appears in the passenger seat of a car Bond steals for yet another chase, so he can call everyone "Boy" and refer to "Little brown pointy heads" some more. oger Moore even puts on a Southern accent briefly before they fly off a conveniently placed ramp. Add some banjo music and it'd be The Dukes of Hazzard. Seriously, what the hell?
#2. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Everyone But Indy
The Characters:
Look, sidekicking for Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones mode is a tall goddamned order. Who other than Sean Connery has pulled it off?
Above: Proof that the universe loves us.
Still, when it came time to make the Raiders of the Lost Ark prequel, Temple of Doom, Spielberg decided to match Indy up with Willie Scott, a stereotypical ditzy, blonde nightclub singer (played by an actress who later married Stephen Spielberg).
Alright, we understand Spielberg's motivation here...
But hey, at least in this flick Spielberg resisted the urge to insert a sassy, precocious child... ah, wait, sorry. This movie featured lots and lots of Short Round, the Chinese kid from Goonies.
...but this choice leads to some disturbing questions.
How They Nearly Ruined The Movie:
Willie, the blonde bimbo, is supposed to serve as the comedic relief, but does so by embodying about every ugly stereotype about women ever invented. She's shallow and materialistic; during a gunfight, she's crawling on the floor trying to find a diamond and mourns, annoyingly, about a couple holes in her dress. Later, she's very interested to meet the Maharajah because she hears he's rich. She's stupid; she loses Indy's gun because it's hot, and complains about cracking a nail (damage to her nails being a recurring complaint). She gets hysterical when there's danger; she almost lets Indy and Short Round die because she freaks out at the sight of a bug.
On the plus side, this.
It's like Spielberg was trying to make up for having previously written a strong female character in Marion. Remember her from Raiders? She punched people, drank men under the table and stood up to the Nazis. What the hell happened to Spielberg's opinion of women between 1981 and 1984?
There's a mild disparity, is what we're saying.
As for Short Round, he embodies several dozen of the Bad Child Character traits we mentioned above, with the added fun of being foreign, which the film wants us to find endlessly hilarious. So the adorable little scamp gets lines like "He no nuts, he crazy!" and "You cheat very big!" One of his very first lines in the movie is "Hokey dokey, Dr. Jones, hold onto your potatoes!"
Let's just stop there and enjoy this YouTube clip of him getting punched in the face:
#1. Terminator 2: Judgement Day - Young John Connor
The Character:
Edward Furlong was one of many people to play John Connor, the future savior of humanity against Skynet. In T2, Skynet sends a Terminator back in time to kill John Connor at age 10, but the future John Connor sends back his own Terminator to protect his past self, probably forgetting what a huge dick he was when he was a kid.
"My God, I was such a douche."
How He Nearly Ruined The Movie:
We know what you're thinking at this point and no, we don't hate children. We really don't. But let us summarize Edward Furlong's role in T2 with this one scene. It's supposed to be a powerful exchange where Connor learns that humanity is destined for Armageddon, no matter what:
John Connor: "We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean."
The Terminator: "It is in your nature to destroy yourselves."
John Connor: "Yeah. Major drag, huh?"
A "major drag."
Look, kids are tough to work with. It's hard to write authentic little-kid dialogue, it's hard to make their role in the action plausible, it's hard to find a kid who isn't horrible at acting. Filmmakers seem to do it as a way to appeal to young audiences, but as Plinkett points out in his excellent Star Wars prequel reviews, kids don't go to movies to see other kids. They want to fantasize about being an adult Han Solo, not a young, annoying Anakin Skywalker.
This is especially true when the little kid is written by some middle-aged screenwriter to be cute and hip and sassy, putting into his mouth all sorts of "hip" lingo the kids are using these days. So, our first impression of John Connor is him hacking (again with the hacking!) an ATM machine and stealing $300, then turning toward us and saying, "Easy money!" as if it's his catchphrase.
You know what? We hope Skynet wins.
And he's all about the catchphrases. Later we have the scene where he decides to teach his robot protector to be human, giving him a course in how the kids talk here in 1991:
"You say, 'No problemo.' And if someone comes up to you with an attitude, you say, 'Eat me!' And if you want to shine them on it's, 'Hasta la vista, baby!' or 'Later, dickwad.' And if someone gets upset, you say, 'chill out!' "
When confronted by some bad guys (bad because they... tried to rescue John because they thought Arnold was assaulting him) one of them calls him a dipshit, which he is. Then he proves it by saying, "Did you call moi a dipshit?" in the dipshittiest way possible.
To be fair, we'd probably have done worse with an unstoppable killbot at our backs.
We understand that lots of us were douchebags when we were little kids, so it's perfectly logical that maybe the future savior of humanity was one, too, at that age. But you don't need to include that part in a movie.
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Traditionally, Street Law has been implemented as an educational program designed to complement and expand upon the basic curricula offered to students in public schools. Driven by the generosity and hard work of the Rutgers' community and other public and private benefactors, Street Law's programs have grown in both size and number to include more diverse opportunities for the Newark community. Street Law's most recent endeavors, including the Summer Enrichment Law Academy (SELA) and the Scholars Program, provide a means of reaching an even greater number of youth, in a more personalized and meaningful way.
With the addition of each new program, the need for volunteers and resources increases dramatically. Through the Legal Professionals' Outreach Program (LPOP), local members of the profession can become a part of the Street Law–Newark community on their own terms and armed with nothing more than their existing knowledge and experience.
Participating firms and attorneys are offered an amazing and unique opportunity to reach out to the surrounding community by donating time and/or resources on an as-needed basis. The greatest benefit to participating through LPOP is that there is no commitment – each attorney chooses how his or her strengths can best serve the community, and when and how often to participate. LPOP is aimed at providing flexibility for busy, practicing professionals who would otherwise have to forgo the rewarding and enriching experience of pro bono activities.
Various opportunities are available to firms and attorneys through LPOP. Volunteers can instruct a class in any one of our several schools or youth organizations throughout the City, become a mentor to one of our students, participate in mock trial events, chaperone a field trip or host an event through their office. Of course, volunteers are not limited to choosing only one class or event, but can participate as much as desired.
Thanks to the efforts of participating professionals, our students and the community are greatly benefited. To learn more about becoming a member of LPOP, please contact the Street Law Office or our law firm liaison, Leah E. Capece, Esq., Class of 2008.
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WHEELING - A new, national direction focused on school safety is at the top of the agenda after the tragic events in Newtown, Conn., in December.
Over the past several months, local schools have been reviewing emergency plans and finding new ways to keep students safe in school.
Dirk Fitch, superintendent of Martins Ferry City School District, said school administrators have been meeting with emergency personnel to review safety plans after attending a shooting response training in Columbus in January. He said the first responders, including the EMS and Martins Ferry Police Department, will be meeting at Martins Ferry Schools, St. Mary Central School and Martins Ferry Christian School to become more familiar with the layouts of those buildings in case of an emergency situation.
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Pictured is Sgt. Don Miller, prevention resource officer, on duty at Bridge Street Middle School. Miller said the presence of a police cruiser outside of a school can prevent crime or misbehavior on school grounds.
"We have open lines of communication and continue to have discussions not only about training, but what to do in case a situation arises," Fitch said.
Fitch said Martins Ferry also will add 10 more security cameras to the campus in addition to the current 40. He said the current cameras mostly face outside doors, and the new cameras will monitor hallways and the parking lot.
He said eight of their buses have security cameras, and the district will outfit four more with cameras through the River School Initiative Grant.
Sgt. Don Miller, resource officer for Bridge Street Middle School, said Ohio County Schools are "light years" ahead of most counties in the Mountain State when it comes to school safety measures.
"Ohio County is well ahead of the curve. We're lucky to have five prevention resource officers in the county alone. We're one of the few counties in the state of West Virginia that has more than one or two prevention resource officers in the schools."
Miller said Ohio County constantly reviews and updates emergency procedures and frequently comes up with additional measures to enhance safety. Emergency lockdown procedures also are tailored to each school building layout in the county, so no two plans are exactly the same.
The simple presence of a police cruiser and officer at a school does much to prevent crime as well, Miller said. Wheeling police have been coming into schools more often and becoming familiar with the layouts, especially elementary schools where they currently do not have full-time resource officers.
Transportation safety is another concern for Ohio County Schools, according to Miller. He said resource officers are always present at school bus loading times monitoring the school zone to make sure vehicles are not speeding while kids come on or off the bus.
Ohio County's transportation department will be installing improved digital bus radios that are connected to a state-wide VHF (very high frequency) trunking system used by county fire and police departments. The radio will connect the buses, the transportation department and the Wheeling Police dispatch and eliminate former radio "dead spots" in the county where service did not reach.
Even with the measures in place, school safety remains a concern, something Shadyside parents learned about earlier this month when a suspicious man in camouflage clothing, wearing a ski mask and carrying a bow and arrow, was spotted outside Jefferson Elementary School.
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Arc System Works' BlazBlue spin-off XBlaze Code: Embryo was recently released in North America and to celebrate publisher Aksys Games has unveiled a new developer diary explaining some of the design decisions that influenced the direction of this visual novel. The game takes place 150 years before the events of BlazBlue and tells the story of a high school sophomore named Touya Kagari and his transformation from an unremarkable teenager to a key cog in a widescale tussle for control over the power responsible for the creation of the universe.
In the video below writer and executive producer Toshimichi Mori reveals how the young staff at the heart of XBlaze Code: Embryo's creative process helped to give the game a "youthful feeling" that looks set to appeal to fans of both the BlazBlue series and visual novels in general.
XBlaze Code: Embryo is out now in North America for PS3 and PS Vita. A lengthy demo for the game is currently available to download from the US PlayStation Store. Head over here for El33tonline's previous coverage of this stylish visual novel for more details.
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Wind energy tax-credit extension part of 'cliff' deal
The fiscal cliff deal passed Tuesday included an one-year extension of a tax credit for the wind industry. The tax credit has encouraged investment in wind energy for the past two decades. USA Today reports:
[The tax credit extension] would allow any project that begins construction in 2013 to claim the credit, even if it goes online in 2014, according to industry insiders. The tax credit that expired Monday could be claimed only for projects that were up and running in 2012.
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I want to create a home file server using my old desktop. I plan on using Arch Linux for this as I'm familiar with it. The desktop has 2 hard drives - the old 20gb one & a new 1TB hdd. I plan on using the 1tb hdd for keeping all my files & the 20gb one to install Arch & keeping the system files. Is this a good approach?
That sounds fine to me.
Do look into using LVM for the partition on your big drive. If you ever add a second drive or migrate to a larger one it will make your space much easier to manage. The thing to do then is mount that LVM volume on /home. Everything will pretty much take care of itself then.
If you setup LVM later instead of as part of the installation, make sure you move everything from /home to your volume before your mount it on home or you will loose the home directory for any users setup as part of the initial install.
You're approach is fine, but before you do make a final decision, consider buying a cheap NAS device. They are small, silent, cheap, support standard HDs, many of them are based on Linux and hackable. I personally like DNS-323, but I'm sure there are others worth recommending.
I think it's a pretty normal approach, only that I maybe used Debian for that purpose (being die-hard desktop Arch user).
Anyway, having archwiki, you should set up your server pretty easy and probably add some extra features like ftp or dlna or even a git repo for ypur hobby projects.
If it's an old desktop, consider taking care of coolers (maybe replacing them) so that they run noiseless and make sure the place where you are going to keep it is fire safe just in case.


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Man charged for domestic incident
STEUBENVILLE - A Steubenville man has been charged with domestic violence following an incident in which the alleged victim was seen knocking on the doors of nearby residences for help early Saturday.
Cameron Petteway, 24, of 1329 West Adams St., is being held at the Jefferson County Jail on the charge.
According to police reports, City Police found the alleged victim screaming in the 500 block of Lawson Avenue at about 3 a.m. The reports said the woman told police Petteway, whom she knew, threatened to harm her and himself with knives and attempted to prevent her from leaving her home.
The case is pending in Steubenville Municipal Court.
Area road work plans announced
The West Virginia Division of Highways has announced minor road work to be performed next week, pending suitable weather.
In Hancock County, crews will be patching state Route 2 and U.S. Route 30 and ditching along Hardins Run Road.
In Brooke County, crews will be patching U.S. Route 22, clearing ditches along state Route 2 and pulling shoulders and ditches along state Route 27 and Rabbit Hill Road.
Extension committee to meet Wednesday
WELLSBURG - The Brooke County West Virginia University Extension Service Committee will meet at noon Wednesday at the extension office at 840 Charles St.
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Herbert admitted taking the items and Deputies were able to recover them. While being questioned, Herbert also admitted to taking several items in Morehouse Parish as well. Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office Investigators Libby Brixey and Jeremy Streeter interviewed Herbert and learned that he had taken a zero turn lawnmower and trailer from a residence on Whitestar as well as a shop fan, tools and toolbox, a weed eater and numerous other items which had been reported stolen to the MPSO.
Brixey and Streeter were able to recover the items listed above from a local pawn shop and were told by Herbert that he had sold a Ryobi chop saw with a broken blade guard, a Craftsman router with electrical tape on the cord and a Craftsman saw to individuals in the parking lot of a Bastrop convenience store.
Sheriff Mike Tubbs cautions those who bought the items that they are now in possession of stolen property and could face criminal charges.
"If you bought one of these items from Herbert, please contact the Sheriff's Department or bring the items to the office," Tubbs said.
Inside the city limits, the Bastrop Police Department is looking for information regarding the break-in of two local businesses.
At 1:10 a.m. Sept. 26, a call was received regarding a break-in at the Subway located on Madison. The only item removed from the restaurant was later found outside in the parking lot. Witnesses stated there were two individuals, one wearing a yellow raincoat with a hoodie and the second wearing a dark jacket with a hoodie and carrying a red backpack.
At 1:57 a.m., officers responded to Rite-Aid on North Washington regarding a break-in. Suspects entered the store by breaking out the glass in the front door. A similar description of the perpetrators was discovered. An inventory of the store is under way to distinguish what was taken.
Anyone with any information regarding these thefts or any felony may contact Crimestoppers at 281.0050; the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office at 281.4141 or the Bastrop Police Department at 281.1322. Also, anyone with any information regarding the whereabouts of the suspects shown on Page 2, may call Crimestoppers with that information. Crimestoppers will pay up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in felony cases.
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I want to charge a 12V battery of 150Ah with a solar panel. The solar panel specs is 12V, 25 Watt.
Can anyone please provide me how to calculate that how much time it will take to charge the battery? Please provide the calculations and formulas.
I want to charge a 12V battery of 150Ah with a solar panel. The solar panel specs is 12V, 25 Watt.
Can anyone please provide me how to calculate that how much time it will take to charge the battery? Please provide the calculations and formulas.
Watts (electrical power) = Volts $\cdot$ Amps, so 25W = 12V $\cdot$ 2.1A
150Amp Hour is the total capacity so 150amp $\cdot$ 1hour, 1amp $\cdot$ 150hours, or 2.1amp for 72hours.
That's in an ideal world of course, there are heating losses as you charge the battery, the voltage of the solar panel varies with the load and if you entirely empty a 12V lead acid battery you are likely to damage it. But basically you are looking at 10days of full sunshine
The answers you've got so far from Vladimir and Martin give you a good first-order approximation: power = current x voltage. Energy = power x time. So your 12V battery of 150Ah needs 1800Wh of energy (12 x 150). So a 25W PV panel would need 72 hours at full output (1800Wh/25W).
The equation is: Peak-hours required = $\frac{V_{batt} \times capacity_{batt}}{Power_{PV}} $
That's an unusual combination of quite a small panel and a very big battery - is the battery designed to be a multi-week store for a low-power system, by any chance?
For a more accurate answer, you need a lot more information.
The output of the panel at any moment will depend on:
(1) the voltage, (which will be determined by the battery, and will change as the battery charges)
(2) the ambient temperature, and
(3) the amount light hitting the panel. The amount of light hitting the panel will depend on panel tilt, orientation, overshading, weather, altitude, location, time of year, time of day.
For (1), you need the panel IV curve, typically presented on the manufacturer's datasheet. That datasheet will also tell you how output varies with panel temperature. You can then estimate the panel's temperature from the ambient temperature - it will (to the first order) be a fairly steady amount above ambient.
Here are some example power curves for a 12V PV (and it looks like it's approx 125W peak) panel, from altestore.com :
You also need to know about the battery's characteristics as it charges: the heat losses, and how its voltage changes with temperature and % charged. In a more complex system that involves a controller too, you'd need to know how the controller behaves, how it tracks the maximum power point, and what its internal losses are. A controller is very desirable, not only because it will track the PV panel's maximum power point, but also because it will prevent the battery over-charging.
There are various online PV calculators that will combine some of this information to give you estimates of output, such as the US NREL PVWATTS calculator. And there are free online GIS insolation resources to give you the raw source information to do detailed calculations yourself, such as the EU PVGIS database.
150 Amper*hour is the battery charge capacity. With power of 25 Watt = 25 A*V at V = 12 V you will supply 25/12 Coulomb each second (Amper*s). So the charge time is equal to 150/(25/12) = 72 hours.
In the simplest case, and some unmentioned assumptions, the minimum charging time would be given by the formula already mentioned: $$ T = \frac{V \times Ah}{W}$$ this gives 12x150/25 = 72 hours.
However, this case makes at least two major assumptions, the battery is fully discharged and there are no losses of any kind!
In the real world, the battery will not be fully discharged and there are energy losses "everywhere." Just to drive the point home, if the battery is already charged, then the time would be zero.
A typical 12V battery is considered "discharged" when its voltage is reduced to 9V. This means it has lost only 1/4 of its energy. Everything else remaining the same, it would only need 1/4 of the time (18 hrs) to charge up. If we assume 50% efficiency, this would bring the time up to 36 hours. Assuming 8 hrs per day of sunshine, it would take about 4 days.
You need to know the implication of using a 25W panel, for me that is pretty small. The idea is 150Ah at 12 V (DC) we need to apply the 10hr charging method, so 10% of 150Ah gives 15A.$$\frac{150\,\text{Ah}}{10\,\text h}=15\,\text A$$
So power of needed solar panel is computed as follows, $12\,\text V\cdot15\,\text A=180\,\text W$. So the power of your panel is 180 W.
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5 Ways U.S. Democracy Is More Rigged Than You Think
None of you are naive or think government works exactly the way you learned it in elementary school. We all know there are backroom deals and bribes and blackmail and probably, like, orgies and shit behind the scenes.
But what many people don't realize is that the most unfair and outright broken parts of the system we have in the USA aren't a result of people breaking the law. No, the craziest, most overtly bullshit practices are perfectly legal. That's why ...
#5. Your Congressional Representative Has Already Been Chosen for You
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Here's how neatly the House of Representatives works on paper: For every certain number of U.S. citizens, there is a congressional district. The people in each congressional district elect a representative. If you didn't know any better, you might think that these districts were arranged in a simple grid or something -- small squares in areas with dense populations, large ones for sparsely populated rural areas. But instead, it looks like this:
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District borders are even more ridiculous than state borders.
Yes, these districts are an insane tangle of convoluted shapes that resembles the last game of Tetris you see right before your Game Boy's circuit board dies. So is this all just really sloppy mapmaking? Was the district map drawn by a man with a Sharpie clenched between his butt cheeks?
Nope. Some of you who know this politics stuff recognize this as gerrymandering -- the trick by which parties game the system to keep their people in power. What you may not realize is how profoundly this utterly thwarts everything the system is supposed to be.
The Insanity:
As a result of this border fuckery, U.S. congressional elections are among the most uncompetitive in the world. In 2000, a whopping 98 percent of congressional seats were held by incumbents. That makes congressional races roughly as competitive (and fair) as rigged dictatorial elections.
That's because these tangled districts are all about making sure it is nearly impossible for most congressional seats to change parties. See, nowhere in the rulebook does it say exactly how the districts must be drawn, as long as they're connected. So, the party in power simply finds all of the most loyal voters on the map and draws the district around them. That's how we wind up with the complete madness that is Illinois District 4:
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Yes, all of the green is one single district.
That Rorschach Test of a district was formed by grabbing a group of housing units in the north, snaking its way through some abandoned freight yards and along the highway, and finally snagging another populated area in the south. The result of this gerrymandering is that the district is one of the most reliably Democratic in the nation.
In Texas, Republicans have rigged the district system to their favor so efficiently that the state government openly and freely brags about the fact that Democrats are screwed if they ever want to get elected there. The same goes for Florida, where the party vote is virtually split down the middle, yet Republicans hold the vast majority of congressional seats. Here, just gaze into the mouth of madness that now passes for the U.S. congressional district map:
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Count how many districts aren't deep red or deep blue. We'll wait; it won't take long.
Now let's take it a step further: If you're a congressman and you and your colleagues are supporting a piece of legislation that is deeply unpopular even in your home state, well, who gives a shit? You don't have to watch the polls, because you know you're going to get re-elected anyway -- you're from a district that has been drawn to only include people who always vote for your party, no matter what. So why worry about what the rest of the population thinks? And more importantly, why ever compromise or cooperate in order to actually get things passed?
#4. The Two Controlling Parties Actively Sabotage Their Competition
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In Italy, there are 13 different parties in the parliament. In France, 14. And in the country that frequently toots its horn as the land of freedom and democracy, there are ... the Democrats and the Republicans. Everyone else is on the fringe and can barely win a race for small town mayor.
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Another year, another loss for Candidate Smith and the Viable Solutions Party.
What's up with that shit? Wouldn't a 10-plus party system give a much more diverse set of choices to represent what the people want, as opposed to forcing everyone into a binary system where being against abortion means you have to vote for a party that is also against labor unions (or vice versa)? Well, see, here's the problem ...
The Insanity:
Guess who gets to decide if you can have a third party. That would be the existing two parties, who, as you can imagine, really don't want the competition.
That's because, along with everything else, the current two parties in the USA are also in charge of setting the rules for ballot access for third parties. As such, these rules are roughly as fair as a cage match between a toddler with particularly large ears and a hungry Mike Tyson. Take Carl Romanelli of Pennsylvania. He wanted to run for a congressional seat as a member of the Green Party. Under the rules enforced by the major parties, Republicans and Democrats needed 2,000 signatures to attain ballot access and be allowed into the election. Romanelli, on the other hand, was cheerfully informed he would need slightly more. How slightly? Try 67,000. Shockingly, he didn't make it.
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He submitted 100,000 signatures. Democrats successfully challenged 42 percent of them.
Meanwhile, in Georgia, a third-party candidate must attain 5 percent of all registered voters' signatures just to be allowed to run. Although that might not sound like a lot, if a third party wants to run for, say, governor, that's approximately 250,000 signatures. As a result, a grand total of zero third-party candidates have managed to make it on the ballot for the House of Representatives since the law was changed to its current form in 1943.
However, the taker of the "Fuck you, third parties" cake is without a doubt Oklahoma, a state that doesn't even bother listing third-party presidential candidates. Why would they? They've already got all the candidates they need, sonny boy.
#3. The Government Can Kill Any Court Case by Claiming It's a State Secret
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As is the case with any superpower, the U.S. has secrets that are ridiculously sensitive: What do they really do at Area 51? Can the presidential limo survive a blast from a rocket launcher? What's the nation's zombie contingency plan? Keeping secrets is a necessity, and it always will be as long as there are bad guys in the world.
We may never truly defeat all the alien terrorist zombies.
But here's the big question: If the people aren't allowed to see the secrets, who decides what is and is not considered a secret? In other words, who's to say that the government won't do something embarrassing or illegal and then avoid scrutiny by saying, "Sorry, that's a state secret!" You know, like if someone were to sue the government, could they just declare all of the evidence a state secret and walk away?
The Insanity:
Meet the state secrets privilege, the government's official "get out of jail" card. It can be pulled out any time the president damn well likes in order to protect the things his administration deems secret. When the privilege is called, the case is immediately dropped ... no questions asked. Now, again, we can totally understand the use of a policy like this: For instance, terrorists don't need to be told that the government knows where they're hiding. Sadly, you don't get this kind of power without abusing it.
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Power corrupts; absolute power [redacted].
The privilege's high profile recognition hails from a McCarthy-era lawsuit in 1953, when a B-29 crashed and killed the crew on board. Three widows tried to sue the government over their deaths, but the case was thrown out when the government stated that revealing some of the evidence would be damaging to national security and invoked the privilege. Fifty years later, researchers uncovered said "dangerous" evidence and found out that the only thing it would have damaged was the government's own ass. They were just covering up for their own negligence that ultimately caused the crash.
The post-9/11 world has seen the privilege on the table more than ever, and the reasons are often just as sketchy. The George W. Bush administration used it many times to insta-kill civil cases that challenged the more pungent aspects of the war on terror. If you were a victim of Bush's secret eavesdropping program, too bad -- your only legal right is to watch the telecom companies you sued for ruining your life waltzing away scot-free, thanks to the state secrets privilege. The Obama administration seems to be a big fan of the tactic as well.
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Stop hounding him! Copyright law is totally a matter of national security.
The state secrets privilege has recently been under pretty heavy fire from the courts and Congress alike. Still, it's hard to see it revoked any time in the near future. After all, how can you prove that a rule has been used incorrectly when your opponent can just say, "No, it hasn't" -- and then end the discussion by applying said rule?
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I'm aware the two kanji are often pronounced the same, but why does one contain the other in it?
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That is called 形声. About 90% of all kanjis are created in this way. In this case, the left side
In Middle Chinese and a reconstruction of Old Chinese, 吾 and 五 have the following readings (Baxter):
In modern Mandarin, 語 (yu3) and 五 (wu3) have diverged in pronunciation, but according to reconstructions they were pronounced similarly in antiquity.
There are other cases of 形声 where the phonetic does not apparently match the pronunciation -- some of these are because of this divergence.


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Since having my tires changed, I've been hearing a clunking sound from waht sounds like the back driver side of my car when I apply the brakes if they're applied jsut enoug to start slowing down the car. Hard braking doesn't cause this noise, and normal driving or accelerating doesnt' either. I'm thinking its' something that was done incorrectly when doing the tires, but I want to go back to the shop armed with knowledge.
Car I'm driving is a '05 civic Si, standard 15 inch wheel tires. I'm fairly certain that I have disks on all four wheels. I'd be surprised if it had drums on the back.