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WILL YOU HELP?! Picking out a girl's name is harder than I thought it would be...
So my daughter is due April 3rd and we are still trying to come up with names.. Mind you I am a geek and love geeky things/names/video game references/etc.
We have a few choices on the table but the one that is sticking out most for me is "Zoe(y) Kerrigan" which is comprised up of both L4D and Starcraft..
But if you have other names/ideas, definitely would love to hear them!
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@benyust2: hahaha oh man. It took me a split-second to remember where that was from.
It's a beautiful name for a boy or girl. Especially a girl- or a boy!
Combining two of my favorite franchises, Borderlands and Halo: Lily (Lilith) Cortana
No offense but I think this is rather selfish. Those games will not be a blip on the RADAR when your daughter enters adulthood,so why be so eager to satisfy your tastes? I arrived at this opinion after my college roomate was named "Jammer" - he was never taken seriously. He was academically stronger than I but I got way better internship opportunities. The way people said his name with a "are you serious?" tone or "is this a nickname?" you could tell he was already judged
It's your kid that has to live with it, not you.
What's your surname? Hard to recommend a mellifluous first name without knowing how it will sound attached to a last name.
@ryanwb: There's a world of difference between Zoe (w or w/o y) and Jammer. Zoe is a normal name and happens to be in a game. Jammer begs to be ridiculed. It's not like he's suggesting Cortana (from Halo) as a first name. (Middle names can pretty much be anything.)
@ryanwb: Lol really? I am selfish for wanting to choose the name of my daughter.. ok =/ can you direct me to the list of names that are considered "politically correct and normal" so I can ask my daughter when she pops out which one she likes?
@giaimo13: Anderson is my last name
Also doesn't have to be video games.. Geek references in general (Sci-Fi movies/etc)
@first2summit: Yes I see no problem with that - but naming kids after numbers and Daenerys starts to cross that line.
@devexityspace: I'm just providing you an observation based upon my experience. My parents loved TV shows too, thankfully they didn't name me "Airwolf" (well I was 8 when that came out but still)
I clearly said "no offense" : - )
@devexityspace: How about paying tribute to a scifi writer or scientist? I just had a son and we went with a writer-theme like Hemmingway, Beckett, Emerson, etc. and ended up with Garrison.
@ryanwb: my experience is on the opposite spectrum. I have a very common name and it just caused me to get denied from buying a gun this past thursday which caused me to have to get fingerprints taken and send to the FBI to get appealed.. (I mean I work for the government!!! How did I get denied?)-- Answer: someone with the same name wasn't so law abiding...
(I wonder how many people are named Michael Anderson).. I know in the military my email account was 168...
So I do want my daughter to have a unique name, and even if the names are based on video games-- doesn't mean she will tell anyone they are.. If the franchises I love today arent around when she is 18-- no one will know/care anyways.
@wootfast: rofl...
I would name my daughter after a female figure I find inspiring, which are mostly people prominent in American history.
In order, my favorite names for girls, along with potential nicknames:
1. Amelia (or "Amy" for short), after Amelia Earheart, famous aviator, is my top choice--yes I am aware of her fate and perhaps the symbolism behind choosing such a name...
2. Margaret (or "Maggie"/"Marge" for short), after Margaret Thatcher, first female PM of UK--during the tumultuous era of the Cold War.
3. Susan (or "Susie" for short), after Susan B. Anthony, suffragette and abolitionist.
4. Elizabeth (or "Liz"/"Beth"/"Liza" for short), after Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragette and abolitionist.
5. Marie, after Marie Curie, scientist and "discoverer" of radioactivity along with radium and polonium.
6. Eleanor (or "Elle"/"Ellie" for short), after Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States and vocal proponent of civil rights for African Americans and human rights for the world.
@ryanwb: no, but they could easily have named you Jan, Michael, or Vincent.
@devexityspace: Jayne Cobb Anderson.
Okay! How about Angelinda Cerise Anderson? It's unique, there's plenty of meaning, and it's not a headscratcher or a target for ridicule. Good luck with your baby! And remember the old joke about how Native American babies get their names, if you want a good laugh.
Audio Science..
i feel bad for the kids with weird names and by continuation for society.
@ryanwb: You clearly don't know what are cool first names. "Airwolf" would be great for a boy or a girl! .-)
ada, for ada lovelace
grace, for grace hopper
Had an interesting conversation at the airport over the weekend with a lovely new mom. Her daughter was named "Hero," and her newest son, "Titan." Shakespeare lives on in the hearts of some. It was refreshing to hear there were no unusual spellings, accent marks where none need be, or any other "let's be different & saddle our child with our nonsense."
(This is written by one cursed with an uncommon name that is constantly mispronounced.)
Trillion ;)
Tricia McMillan)
@morriea: HITCHHIKERS GUIDE! brilliant!
@lavikinga: yeah, lavaking... ;)
@devexityspace: You will have to take extra care to meet the men she dates. Count the heads!
I'll second lily (lilith) - i've always liked that name. Here's a scene from Ted (cleaned up) of names to avoid, so your daughter won't get hit with a certain stigma ;)
I think Arya and Sansa (Game of Thrones) are really good names
@hirshy: if i met a person named sansa i would ask if they were named after an inexpensive mp3 player.
@no1: or a refurb
Kaywinette Lee. From Firefly/Serenity. And you could use Kaylee for short.
Marleigh, Kamiah, where on the short list for my new baby girl.
@curtisuxor: You are the only sane one here. Well, Eleanor maybe a little 2 centuries ago but Ellie is good. My advice to the expectant parents is; What name would you want to be raised with? Don't play Hollywood and Rock star and name your child some dumbass name. Keep it in the family and don't embarrass your kid.
I personally have always loved Zoe. It means life in Greek, so it's not totally a nerdy/gaming reference in the end.
Piper is cute :)
And Lillian is pretty.
Sorry, I am not the best at naming kids, I have issues naming my pets, lol!~
i like Zoey. someone else mentioned Kaylee from Serenity. how about just Serenity?
How about Gina
Let's see... Lara (Croft) is pretty. We have an Alexia Katlen (Lexi-Kat), McKenna Nicole (Kenna), Jazlyn Joelle (Jazzy) and Elaina Josephine (EJ or JoJo). Congratulations and Good Luck! :-)
As Chris Rock said, fathers only have one job as a parent of a daughter...make sure she doesn't wind up on the pole:
*It is Chris Rock... so you know, language and such.
Some of the names people have suggested won't make her a stripper in 18 years, obviously, but they sure won't help keep her off it. I know it's boring, but more common names and more common spellings of names will make them feel less like social outsiders.
I will just say that if you find a name that means something to both you and your SO agrees (or vice versa), go for it. Just be prepared to explain it when she asks how you came up with her name. Btw, giving her a middle name of one (or two) of your parents/grandparents will be a great idea and endear both you and your daughter to that person for life.
I always liked the name Capgun. It has a nice ring to it.
We stuck with classic names for our girls. I named one Denise and the other DeOtherNiece... My brother never forgets their names.
Molly Catherine and Anna Elizabeth. They're timeless. Everyone knows the name. The girls get the response "I really like that name!" and it honestly seems genuine, and the best part is -- they're not really that common in today's world of babies (seems like everyone is naming girls Emma, Riley, Brooklyn, Ava, Isabelle, and Kaelyn -- any form of spelling is allowed I think -- and off the wall crap like Paisley -- PAISLEY?).
I agree with the notion that these kids will eventually have to be taken seriously so some names from movies or video games might not be the greatest idea. Although some of those names are unique enough but still sound like names. Cambria is one that comes to mind.
Best Bet: Keep it simple and pretty -- and keep it classic. Nothing wrong with playing it safe.
Just remember when she's older and wants to get a license plate for her bike, or a pen/pencil, a keychain with her name, etc. Will she be left out? Or you could special order some of those things when they are popular among her friends.
Now for the Star Trek name suggestions...
Jadzia (DS9)
Marina (Deanna Troi on TNG)
Majel (Gene Roddenberry's wife)
B'Elanna (Voyager)
For starters, my daughter's birthday is April 3rd, so good day for it.
When we were going through the process of picking a name (and it pretty much lasted the whole nine months of the pregnancy) we first eliminated any names in the census' top 20 girl names for the previous couple years. We already knew the middle name as my wife had a family member she wanted to name our daughter after. After that we went through name books/lists to find one that went well with the middle name. We ended up with Alana Kathleen, I always call her Ali Kat which she'll probably grow to hate as she gets older.
One thing we did not foresee were alternate pronunciations of her name (al-ah-na is the one we use but we get al-ay-na quite frequently), we had assumed there was only the one.
Naming a child after someone you love (NOT an EX-GIRLFRIEND) is always good .
@bindsocket: Good gravy, "Alley cat"? I am sorry to laugh at your daughter's misfortune, but the full name is beautiful. It's good that nothing offensive (that I can think of) rhymes with her full name.
I have seen "ah-lah-nah" spelled "Alanna" more often than "Alana". I have never seen "ah-lay-nah" not spelled "Alena" or "Elena" (derived from Helena, thus similar sounding and spelled). So that makes her name, to me, unique. I am guessing it is too late to add that extra "n" or that you would want to.
Have you heard the story of a girl named Beth,
now known as Tex, who's name fits like a glove?
I love the older Victorian names - Eleanor, Elizabeth, etc. But name 'normalcy' changes with the decades. And with most of this generation naming their kids Braedon, Brooklyn, Madison, or the oh-so-famous La-A (La dash uh) picking a name from a popular franchise won't be too out of line with normal.
while admittedly not the most original answer, and not that you would ever have trouble remembering your child's birthday, but she's Due in april, so, Why not April?
my little pocket Calendar, has a guide in the back, with each month's birthstone,the stone's traditional meaning, and the traditional flower for that month
For April: Diamond(Innocence) Sweet Pea, Daisy
Diamond sounds like a stripper,
Sweet pea is more of a "pet" name,
so how about Daisy?
not super common, not really heard these days without being followed by Duck, or Duke.
If she would happen to arrive a little early,...
March: Bloodstone, Aquamarine (Courage) Jonquil, Daffodil
dunno if you'd want to call your daughter either "Joni(Jonny)", or "Daffy"...
that's My 2 cents anyway
also don't forget, to double and triple check any name related paperwork before signing off.
used to work with a girl, her name tag read Andrea. most people looked @ her name and said ANDrea, she pronounced it Ondrea, apparently it was Supposed to be Spelled Ondrea, but someone @ the hospital had either misread the handwriting, or "fixed" what they thought was an obvious Typo...
I don't know what games you like, but I've been pretty into Dragon Age lately. Leliana is beautiful, as is Morrigan and Anora. Anora Rose Anderson would sound nice. Leliana Grace would sound pretty too (Leliana's favorite flower was Andraste's Grace). Also, I have no idea where my niece got the idea, but she named her Daughter Trinity. I'm unsure if it was a religious thing (she doesn't practice at ALL, quite the opposite) or maybe from the Matrix, at least, I think that was the movie. She was tossing around Trinity Rose and Trinity Lynn, but ended up with a different middle name.
A while ago I was kinda into Blood Rayne, and I watched this movie called Stay Alive where if you die in the game, you die in real life. One of the character's names was October, which I thought sounded unique but not OUT THERE. I then thought October Rayne would sound very lovely until I mentioned it to a friend who informed me that there is either a song or a band called November Rain. And there went that.
It seems, for 'originality''s sake(one of our current national obsessions) that the apparent rule for a girl's name is to add 'ea' or 'ia' to the end of most any word or name and BANG! they's original.
Not saying it's a good rule, just that it's out there.
@earlyre: This happened with my friend's sister. She ended up Milissa because the nurse apparently couldn't understand her mother, nor spell. :-/
Well, you could always borrow from classic mythology.
Perhaps Athena, Daphne, Artemis, Demeter, Diana or one of the others listed here:
I've always been a huge fan of the Tomb Raider series, and I was really happy when my wife liked the name too for a future girl, if we have one (mind you, I didn't mention that I wanted to name our daughter after Lara Croft haha).
At least in reference to "Lara Croft" the name Lara makes me think of someone who is strong, smart, and self-driven. :)
Congratulations on the upcoming baby! This is a fun thread.
When I was 13, I read Dragonsbane and loved the character Jenny so much that I decided that would be my future daughter's name. 10 years later, Jenny Simone (for Nina Simone, one of my favorite singers) arrived. Now that she's older, I sometimes wonder if "Jenny" is a great name for an adult, but the name still means something to me, and thankfully, my daughter likes it.


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We didn't in NY. We lost big time. Many of us have stated its time to move out of this cesspool of a state.
I sincerely feel for you folks in New York. Your Governor has made a mockery of the Constitution.Indeed, if liberty is your desire it's time to vote with your feet.
I hate to say it but I think that is the only way. We are taxed to death which from other posts I've read its by more than I realized. Our rights well you and now everyone knows how that is going.Just sure what else to do. Voting isn't working obviously. Maybe if enough of us walk it will change things? Yeah it won't. I know. Wishful thinking.Sent from my ADR6350 using Tapatalk 2
Even at Sandy Hook (in urban Ct) it took the po-po more than 20 minutes to arrive on scene, once they got the first call.....Even a bad guy with a garrote could kill a lot of people in 20 minutes....what are they going to do, make shoelaces illegal too?
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.And yet nothing has been heard...
At the very least, the entire leadership structure should be fired, along with everyone on duty in the 911 dispatch center.
No, they shouldn't, and I'm speaking as a former San Francisco 911 dispatcher. All we can do it take the call and relay the info to the cops. We can't *make* them go any faster than they want to.I can't tell you how many times I sat trying to calm some woman hiding in a closet during a hot prowl, while grinding my teeth and thinking, "Where the hell are those assh*ole cops?"
Then at least there needs to be an inquest into why exactly it took the police 20 minutes to respond. Who/what failed, and why?In a town that small (geographically), there almost had to be some sort of significant system or individual failure or failures for it to take 20 minutes to respond.But all of that seems to be getting swept under the rug whilst the Powers That Be go tilting after gun control windmills.
There is this:Linky.I am so pleased to know my Sub-2000 is an AR type rifle. So is a Hi-Point Carbine.
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On my tire is printed the following:
25-622 (28 x 1.00 - 700x25c)
6.8-8.0 Bar, 85-115 psi
I think I know what some of this means but am not sure. BTW, this came standard on my 2012 Cannondale Synapse 600 Alloy bike.
On my tire is printed the following:
I think I know what some of this means but am not sure. BTW, this came standard on my 2012 Cannondale Synapse 600 Alloy bike.
700x25c is the diameter x width (in millimeters) of the tire, and 25-622 (ISO) and 28x1.00 (decimal) refer to the size in two different systems (see Sheldon Brown's Tire Sizing Systems page for more detail). Buy tubes to fit as close to this size as possible. I sometimes have to use 25c on my 23c bike when I'm in an area with limited cycling supplies.
6.8-8.0 Bar is the recommended air pressure range, same as the 85-115 psi. Bar is a metric measure for pressure, while psi is pounds per square inch. PSI is more common in the US.
The size of the tire. The way it's written here is kind of a mess, so no wonder you're confused.
The rim size is 700c (this designation is a relic of a sizing system that's no longer used. See the link to Sheldon Brown in the other answer). On a 700c wheel, the diameter of the bead is 622 millimeters. This size is sometimes referred to as "29 inch" when it's on a mountain bike. It can also (very rarely) be called "28 inch".
25 is the width of the tire in millimeters (writing it as "25c" actually makes no sense). I assume that 1.0 is supposed to be the equivalent in inches.
So what you have is a 700c 25 mm tire - pretty common size for road bikes.
Recommended tire pressure, but I'm sure you already figured this out.


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anyone else have this on their wishlist?
I've heard rumors about it's coming but so far hasn't come to be.
Would be such an awesome little thing... at least I'd enjoy it.
"where was that photo taken?" could be a long forgotten question.
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i am trying to insert a post/page into one of my themes files and it wont display shortcodes or php
i have created a page called home in the wordpress admin-paned and inserted into my code the following:
<div id="home_page"> <!-- echos the content from the page "home" id:43 -->
<?php $home_id = 43;
$home_page = get_page( $home_id );
<?php echo $home_page->post_content; ?>
</div> <!-- end #home_page -->
and non of the shortcodes that i have in the page work.
i installed a
php in post or page and tried useing php and it doesnt work.
when i insert
echo do_shortcode('[youtube_sc url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db3XGpt6nNU]');
directly into the code it works.
does anyone know y this happens?
thank you.


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Cited: Patricia L. Mader, 56, 213 Buena Vista Blvd., failure to yield; and Rodney Bills, 21, Apartment 4, 3631 Sunset Blvd., expired plates and no operator's license.
Arrested: Norman Brown, 34, 326 Hill Ave., bench warrant out of municipal court, Monday.
Arrested: Anthony Blancato, 40, 257 Commercial St., Mingo Junction, failure to appear warrant out of municipal court, Monday.
Theft: Unlocked vehicle in the 700 block of North Seventh Street entered and wallet and credits cards among the items taken, Monday.
Arrested: Joseph McShan, 22, 601 N. Fifth St., warrants charging aggravated burglary and aggravated menacing, Monday.
Assault: Man hit in head twice with baseball bat at apartment in the 800 block of Market Street around 2:18 p.m. Monday. The victim was taken to Trinity Medical Center West for treatment.
Arrested: Justin M. Toth, 28, 4122 township Road 120, Dillonvale, possession of drug abuse instrument, Monday.
Arrested: Stacey West, 42, 1412 Oregon Ave., petit theft and municipal court bench warrant, Monday.
Arrested: Gregory J. Stephens, 31, Apartment 4, 1527 Plum St., municipal court bench warrant, Monday.
Arrested: Gene Smith, 45, 435 Lawson Ave., bench warrant out of municipal court, petit theft and violation of no contact order, Monday.
ATV recovered: ATV reported stolen out of Belmont County recovered by police in the 1100 block of Claire Avenue, today.
Arrested: Lauran Nicole Smith, 3325 Orchard St., Weirton, warrants from Brooke County for allegedly driving while license suspended, shoplifting and reckless driving, Saturday.
Arrested: Jarvis A. Whitfield, 801 Market St., Steubenville, no proof of insurance, driving under the influence and reckless driving, Monday.
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Cited: Allison Cupp, 19, of Wheeling, underage consumption and reckless driving; and Jason R. Wright, 25, Weirton, no motor vehicle inspection.
Cited for underage consumption: Morgan R. Trester, 19, of Morgantown; Courtney N. Wallace, 19, Weirton; and John Walton Jr., 20, of Wheeling.


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Elizabeth S. Wiedman, 36, Effingham, was hurt late Friday night in an accident on Interstate 57 in Effingham County.
Illinois State Police said 36-year-old David C. Wiedman of Effingham was southbound at the 162-mile marker when he swerved to miss a construction message board and slid off the snow-covered roadway, hitting a light pole.
Elizabeth Wiedman was taken to St. Anthony's Hospital in Effingham. David Wiedman was cited for having no valid insurance.
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Results from tournament action for the Buffalo and Kaycee basketball teams Friday:
At the 1A State Tournament in Casper, the Kaycee boys were eliminated By Lingle-Ft. Laramie 44-43.
The Kaycee Lady Bucs survive to play again tomorrow for third place after defeating Hulett today 46-31. They will play Lingle-Ft. Laramie for third place at 9am Saturday.
The Bison girls are also in the consolation bracket and they also survive Friday's game, beating Glenrock 49-35 to advance to the next round with their game at 11:30am Saturday.
The Lady Broncs lose to Laramie 33 to 42.
Big Horn Wins over Sundance 49-43!
2-A STATE BASKETBALL - The Tongue River Lady Eagles and the Sheridan Lady Broncs advanced in post season play while the Big Horn Rams were relegated to the consolation bracket at the state tournament.
The Big Horn Rams got beat 61-49 in their first round state tournament game by Wind River. Matt Wigglesworth and Tony Mort led the Rams with 12 points each.
The Rams play Sundance in a loser out game at noon at the Casper events center we will have it live on 14-10 KWYO and 95.9 FM. Sundance was knocked into the losers bracket by Lovell.
The Buffalo Bison boys were the only Johnson County high school basketball team to win at Thursday's tournaments, defeating the Newcastle Dogies 51-33 in their first round matchup at the 3A East Regional Tournament.
They will now move on to face Wheatland in the semifinals at 3pm today, with the winner qualifying for State.
Kaycee's Lady Bucs lost their opening round game to Farson-Eden in the State 1A Tournament Thursday and will now move into the consolation bracket where third place is now the goal.
Kaycee lost the game to Farson-Eden 44-39 in overtime.
First Quarter: Lady Broncs lead Cheyenne South 9 to 2.
At the Half: Lady Broncs lead Cheyenne South 33 to 4.
3rd Quarter: Lady Broncs lead Cheyenne South 45 to 9.
Final Score: Lady Broncs defeat Cheyenne South 49 to 19.
The Tongue River Lady Eagles beat Shoshoni 49 to 40.
The Lady Eagles play Lovell in the semi finals Friday at 4:30 live on 14-10 KWYO and 95.9 FM.
Big Horn lost 61-49 vs Wind River the Rams play Sundance Friday at Noon in a loser out game.Hear it live on KWYO and 95.9 fm
4-A EAST REGIONAL HOOPS - The 4-A East regional basketball tournament opens today at Cheyenne East high school.
The Sheridan Lady Broncs will play an elimination game tonight at 7:00 against Cheyenne South we will broadcast it live on 14-10 KWYO and 95.9 FM.
The Lady Broncs beat South in blow out fashion in both regular season games and Head coach Sean Yeager says the Lady Broncs need to get off to a fast start against the Bison.
If they advance they will play Laramie in tomorrow's semi finals
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Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Ionia High School graduate Brianna Terry was awarded a Juris Doctorate on May 19, 2013 from Thomas M. Cooley Law School. She was also on the dean's list.
Brianna is a graduate of Albion College, where she majored in speech and communications with a minor from the Carl A. Gerstacker Institute for Business and Management
She is the daughter of Todd and Laurie Terry of Ionia.
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To be named to the Dean's List at Columbia College Chicago, students must have taken at least 12 credit hours and have a 3.75 grade point average or above for that semester.
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Are annual physicals passe?
Some medical experts say we are overdiagnosed, overtreated
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"We did not find any signs of benefit," on death risk, researcher Lasse T. Krogsboll, a Ph.D student at the Nordic Cochrane Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, told reporters. "In the absence of documented health benefits, we would say there's a risk of overdiagnosis from this."
As health care costs continue to soar, a variety of experts have been questioning the value of common screenings once considered routine, including the annual physical. Earlier this year, the United States Preventive Service Task Force announced that yearly Pap smears, routine EKGs and prostate specific antigen blood tests (PSAs) were unnecessary, and in some cases harmful, because they lead to too many false positives.The group also rejected the annual exam as an "effective tool for improving the health of patients." In April, a group of nine physician specialty societies released a "top five" list of used tests or procedures which are probably unnecessary (see box). The list included such screening tools as a stress test and chest X-Ray, often part of a routine physical.
All that has left some doctors on the defensive, arguing that the kind of close relationship that a physical can help establish between doctor and patient can help tailor a doctor's approach to the patient, even if it doesn't necessarily lead to longer life.
"It's true that there doesn't seem to do be steady evidence that people will do better over all if they have an annual physical," Dr. Michael Elser, an internist with Alliance Medical Group in Naugatuck, says. However, Elser said, "I think it's a good thing because doctors can get to know their patients better, so when the crisis comes or you need a consultation ...it's a lot easier if I know who they are than if I only saw them 3 years ago for a cold."
At issue with the annual exam is the elimination of a long-standing health procedure and health care costs. Checkups for people with no medical condition are the single most common reason to visit a doctor, reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The cost is estimated at more than $7 billion annually. That has led many experts, like Shannon Brownlee, author of "Overtreated" to question the value of common screening tests and the annual physical. "Doctors themselves will tell you there's no point, there's no reason" for the physical, she said. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Even doctors say they are pulling back on conventional wisdom that an annual physical is a good idea.
"I think there is something to be gained from seeing your doctor every year, just to touch base about health maintenance," said Dr. Lisa Sanders of Yale University, author of the New York Times popular Diagnosis column.
But besides a check of a patient's weight and blood pressure , the annual physical is "probably useless."
Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, a Professor of Medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, says its important to define what a physical is — and is not. He said a head-to-toe physical in which the doctor orders a series of tests to "see if we can find something wrong with you" is often fruitless.
"The problem with this approach is that we all harbor abnormalities and our diagnostic technologies are increasingly able to find them," he said via email. "This kind of check-up can literally make you sick." But a check-up that is more of a "check-in," or "an exploration, not a concerted effort to look for things that are wrong" is more valuable, he said. "This vision requires that the doctor focuses on actually talking with you — learning about what, if anything, is bothering you and what is going on with your life: your marriage, your children, your job, and your parents," he said. "This discussion — along with a few simple tests (weight, blood pressure) and a little family history gives your doctor a sense of what health risks you face."
Dr. Rebecca Andrews, an internist at the University of Connecticut Health Center, agrees. "There are a lot of people who really don't require any tests," she says. "A 40-year-old woman without a family history of breast cancer or heart disease needs very little, if any testing. But when she comes in to see you, your time is spent talking about bone health, talking about nutrition, exercise, stress management, weight control and domestic violence. It's an event that allows the relationship between a doctor and a patient to flourish."
And sometimes, those relationships bear fruit. A review of clinical studies published in 2008 found that doctors who encourage their patients to stop smoking are more likely to succeed than if the patient were to try on their own.
"The patient-physician relationship if very special," Andrews said. "Patients come in and they tell their physician things they wouldn't tell anyone else. Ads on TV don't have that same kind of effect. They know it's coming from a trusted source, not a source than has any skin in the game other than wanting to make them healthy."
Brownlee does not suggest eliminating check ups entirely. "Go to your doctor every so often to ensure that you have a relationship with a physician so that when you do get sick, this person knows who you are and knows a little bit about how you behave," she said. "These are all really good things to have. The idea that you have to go for a yearly physical to get some battery of tests, it is an enormous waste of time and money and is leading to a lot of unnecessary harm."
Moreover, sometimes what patients want out of a physical is unrealistic.
"I've had patients tell me, 'Check everything,'" Elser said. "They want to be screened to make sure they have no disease, that they're healthy.... That's nice. I wish we could do that."
Dr. Robert Carr, a Southbury internist and the medical director of the Western Connecticut Medical Group, says whether a patient needs a physical or not is often a matter of patient and physician preference. "If you're just looking at a physical as just listening to your heart and pressing on your stomach, there is not really very good evidence that there are really positive outcomes for that," he said.
But a health maintenance check, whether as a part of a doctor's visit for another complaint or a periodic check in, is critical to disease prevention, he said. "If a patient comes in for a problem and the physician notices that their blood pressure is high, most physicians are not going to not talk about that, just because (the patient) is there for ankle pain," he said. "They're going to want to follow that up."
Top tests
In April, nine physician specialty societies collectively representing about 375,000 physicians nationwide unveiled a list of tests or procedures commonly used without good cause. They include:
n X-rays for low-back pain.
n Heart stress tests in healthy people.
n CT or MRI scans for fainting.
n CT scans for appendicitis in children.
n Dual X-ray (DEXA) screening for osteoporosis in women younger than 65 or men younger than 70.
n EKGs done routinely during a physical, even when there is no sign of heart trouble
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TEMPLE (January 1, 2013)--Three STAAR parent meetings have been scheduled, one each for elementary, middle and high school parents.
On Thursday, parents of elementary school students are invited out to the Temple High School cafeteria at 5:30 p.m. to get questions answered regarding the new STAAR and End of Course Exams.
Parents will learn how they are different from TAKS and how students will be affected by the new form of testing.
Parents of middle school students are encouraged to attend the January 17 meeting, and the meeting for high school students is January 29.
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[OPEN-1278] SCRIPT438 error with IE9 Beta and ext-all-debug.js
When including ext-all-debug.js from v3.2.1 the following error is presented in the console of the newly released IE9 Beta:-
SCRIPT438: Object doesn't support this property or method
ext-all-debug.js, line 191 character 21
Switching the document mode into IE8 standards doesn't produce this error.
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When you go into the Tools menu, and set a breakpoint there, what's going on?Search the forum: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=01...%3Az7of1ufqccu
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16 Sep 2010 4:53 AM #3
To be honest I'm not sure if the following information will be of any use, so I'll also provide a simple example to reproduce the issue ...
It seems to be caused by a call to (a subclass of) Ext.Window's show() method.
Example: http://stevewilford.co.uk/playpen/ext-window-ie9-bug/
It also happens all over the Sencha website (when using IE9 beta).
I don't know whether it's a related or separate issue, but the drag-drop functionality of the window seems to be broken as well, dragging begins and displays the window ghost but on nothing happens mouse release (i.e. the window continues to drag)
Break at line 191 of ext-all-debug.js:
frag = range.createContextualFragment(html);
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Call Stack:-
Anonymous Function -- calls a subclass of Ext.Window's show() method
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17 Nov 2010 3:48 PM #4
IE9 beta doesn't have the DOM Range method createContextualFragment.
Here's the patch I'm using to fix this at the moment:
if ((typeof Range !== "undefined") && !Range.prototype.createContextualFragment) { Range.prototype.createContextualFragment = function(html) { var frag = document.createDocumentFragment(), div = document.createElement("div"); frag.appendChild(div); div.outerHTML = html; return frag; }; }
7 Apr 2011 2:20 AM #5
Getting exactly the same with IE9 (final) + Ext.NET. It doesn't occur when my app is in IE7/8 compatibility mode though.
7 Jun 2011 8:35 AM #6
ie9 error createContextualFragment
i still have the problem with the rtm version of ie9, i apply the fix but it doesnt work
please help
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i inserted in the ext-all.js, but i tried to put in an override.js and this works perfect
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Hi, still have some products using ExtJs3 so i used your patch but with a slight difference:
if ((typeof Range !== "undefined") && !Range.prototype.createContextualFragment) { Range.prototype.createContextualFragment = function (html) { var frag = document.createDocumentFragment(), div = document.createElement("div"); frag.appendChild(div); //div.outerHTML = html; return frag; }; }
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When executing search on a spweb using SPSiteDataQuery and using a field of type 'Number', the query does not always retun results, although the property query is correct and it must return results. When executing the same query on a document library ; use SPQuery instead of SPSiteDataQuery; on the same spweb, i get the right results.
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Arrest in Death of Toddler
A Bronx man living in North Carolina pleaded not guilty Friday in the death of a 2-year-old boy shot and killed by a stray bullet in the Bronx on Easter in 2006.
Darryl Hemphill, 34 years old, was indicted at Bronx Supreme Court on second-degree murder charges in the death of David Pacheco Jr.
Police arrested Mr. Hemphill Tuesday at the Cary, N.C., home he shares with his wife and two children after investigators discovered new DNA evidence linking him to the crime, prosecutors said.
The boy had been strapped into a car seat behind his mother, Joanne Sanabria-Pacheco, when a stray bullet pierced the rear door and struck him in the chest in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx.
Authorities originally charged Nicholas Morris, a friend of Mr. Hemphill's, with the death, but the case ended with the judge declaring a mistrial in 2008.
Police later obtained a 2011 warrant to get Mr. Hemphill's DNA, prosecutors said. They now charge that moments before the gunfire, Mr. Hemphill—wearing a bright blue sweater—had been in a fistfight a block away from the shooting scene.
"That man in the sweater—Mr. Hemphill—came back to the scene with a firearm," said Assistant District Attorney Adam Oustatcher. "At the moment he fired the gun, Mrs. Sanabria [Pacheco]'s car was passing the intersection."
The prosecutor went on to charge that Mr. Hemphill then fled the scene and discarded the sweater at the home of an unnamed co-conspirator, before fleeing first to Brooklyn and then North Carolina. Authorities have the sweater and said Mr. Hemphill's DNA was found on it.
Eric Sears, Mr. Hemphill's attorney, used the district attorney's failed prosecution of Mr. Morris to question their new narrative. "I have no real reason to think that the district attorney's judgment in this case is any better now," he told the court. His client was remanded.
The killing led the victim's mother to embark on a campaign for gun restrictions. She sat in court visibly distressed Friday.
"Nothing's ever going to bring him back. My pain never goes away—it's 24 hours, 365 days of the year," Mrs. Sanabria-Pacheco told reporters through tears outside court.


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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- A Seneca man was arrested in Manhattan after police say he called local pharmacies pretending to be a doctor so that he could get his hands on prescription drugs.
Patrick Wahl, 27, was taken into custody Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at the Manhattan Target for two counts of Attempting to Unlawfully Obtain a Prescription Drug and two counts of False Impersonation.
On January 3, 2013, Riley County police say Wahl contacted the pharmacy at the Walgreens on Anderson Avenue and told the staff he was a doctor as he tried to get orders filled for prescription pills.
On January 9, 2013, Wahl also tried to phone-in a prescription at the pharmacy at Target off of Seth Child Road acting as a doctor, according to police.
Later in the day, he showed up to try to pick up the prescription medicines at the Target at the same time a police officer was there investigating Wahl's earlier phone call and fake persona.
Wahl was arrested and has since made bond, officials said.


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Innovations in information- and telecommunication technology render the proximity requirement between business partners obsolete and make business service outsourcing via cross-border trade more feasible. Although the (service-led) growth prospects have been widely discussed, evidence at the country level is scarce. In this paper, we evaluate the effect of openness to trade commercial- and specialized business services on long-run growth by applying a dynamic panel data approach to account for unobserved country specific effects and endogenous growth determinants. The system GMM estimates validate that a long-run growth effect for countries taking part in the outsourcing process of producer services exists. The growth effect is significantly stronger in a sample of Non-OECD countries and suggests a kind of catching-up process. Evidence from two stage least square indicate that the impact of professional service regulation on long-run growth work rather indirectly through trade flows.
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Mildred Wuyak
WUYAK, Mildred, 84, of Weirton, WV, peacefully passed away Monday April 1, 2013, at D&D Quality Care where she resided for the past five years.
Mildred was born on June 11, 1928, in Canton, OH. She was the daughter of the late Steve and Anna Vignovich.
Mildred graduated from Weir High School in 1946 and worked as a dental assistant until she married George Wuyak, her husband of 52 years. A long time employee of Stone & Thomas in Weirton, Mildred was an avid reader who supported education and the arts; loved to write poems to her loved ones; and had great affection for her two cats. Her most cherished moments were those spent with her daughters and grandchildren.
Mildred is survived by her three daughters, Cathy Priest and her husband Tom, of Madison, OH, Karen Lombardi and her husband Ray, and Michelle Wuyak, all of Follansbee, WV; grandchildren, Jade Priest-Maoz, and her husband, Mike, of Woodbridge, CT, Jake Priest and his wife, Suzanne, of Washington, PA, and Lindsey Thomas and her husband, Brian, of Houston, TX; three great- grand daughters, and two great- grandson; one sister, Ann Kraina; and one sister- in-law, Dorothy Mergen, both of Weirton, WV; and nine loved nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband George (2-9-2003), sisters, Bertha Vezmar and Helen Paar, and a beloved nephew.
As Mildred wished, there will be no visitation prior to cremation.
Memorial services will be held at the Steel & Wolfe Funeral Home, Inc., 3721 Main Street, Weirton, WV on Sunday April 14, 2013, at 11 a.m. with Pastor Tom Bullard presiding.
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European Markets Rally on Fiscal-Cliff Relief
European stock markets posted stellar gains as investors returning from the New Year's break cheered a deal in Washington to avert spending cuts and tax increases widely seen as potentially threatening a U.S. recession.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index jumped 2% to end at 285.33, the highest closing level since February 2011. The U.K.'s FTSE 100 index advanced 2.2% to 6027.37, while Germany's DAX rose 2.2% to 7778.78. France's CAC-40 gained 2.6% to 3733.93.
Late Tuesday, Congress broke a prolonged stalemate, passing legislation that allowed the U.S. to avoid an austerity package that would have taken effect in the absence of a deal. The bill represented the biggest tax increase in two decades and was passed despite objections from conservative Republicans in the House.
In two months, $110 billion in spending cuts delayed by Tuesday's package will again kick in, making another battle in Congress all but inevitable. At the same time, the U.S. will need to increase its borrowing limit, a change that can only be made by Congress.
"We still have upcoming challenges with the debt limit debate, but a lot of people left the stock market, and they need to come back," said Michael Strauss, chief investment strategist at Commonfund, in Wilton, Conn. In early afternoon in New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 222 points, or 1.7%, to 13326, for a second consecutive session of triple-digit gains. The blue-chip Dow had rallied 166 points, or 1.3%, on New Year's Eve, to close out a year of solid returns.
Haven investments such as U.S. Treasury debt, which have been supported by concern that over the so-called fiscal cliff, lost ground. The benchmark U.S. 10-year notes were down 27/32, to yield 1.841% as European markets closed, while March Bunds were down 157 ticks to 144.07 in Germany.
The euro initially rallied, rising well above $1.32, but slipped back to $1.3163, down from $1.3195 late Monday in New York.
Yields on 10-year Spanish and Italian government debt fell to their lowest levels since March 2011 and December 2010, respectively.
Mining stocks, whose performance is closely tied to the overall economy, posted sharp gains in Europe, getting an extra boost from news that manufacturing activity in China continued to expand at a modest pace in December. The Stoxx 600 index for basic resources rose 4.6%.
Copper futures in New York rose to a 10-week high, while oil, another commodity that marches to the global economic drum, was up $1.28 at $93.10 on the New York Mercantile Exchange as European equity markets closed. Oil was above $93 a barrel for the first time since October.
In London, Evraz and Glencore GLNCY 0.21 % both soared 7.2%, Xstrata gained 6.7%, and Eurasian Natural Resources rose 6.6%.
Banks rallied too, with shares of Barclays up 5% in London. Spain's Banco Popular Español SA POP 2.37 % added 6% and Société Générale SCGLY 2.25 % rose 5.3% in Paris.
Also on the move, shares of Nokia surged 6.8%. Financial-analysis website Seeking Alpha said on Monday that the struggling phone-handset maker could get a much-needed breakthrough in China, where the Lumia phone has proved to be a success.
German car makers, which also are sensitive to growth indications from China, were also on the rise.
Volkswagen shares gained 4%, BMW BMW 1.42 % added 4.1% and Daimler picked up 3.1%.
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We have on overloaded database which is now receiving failed transactions consequently. The proposed solution is to create a 2nd database that taskes all the (ecommerce) transactions initially and processes & persists them. Then, eventually, the current/old database will be updated. That's the simple overview.
The question I have is - when I do the batch update from newDBServer -> OldDBServer every x minutes, won't it slow operations down on the old server during that update (assuming this isn't done overnight, etc...)?
The server is under a heavy load, so that's why I'm not certain it will really help minus the time in between updates. Is there a better way to do this?


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Hi guys,
because of all the rumors and discussions on other forums, I just checked the price for D90. There are a lot of rumors that D90 will be replaced and this should be announced around the photokina.
When models will be changed, it is always a good time to buy an "old model" for a better price.
I just checked the price at one of the biggest resellers in NL.
D90 body from €799 down to €637, and a lot of kit sets with a similar price reduction. This always happens around the world when there will be a replacement.
So this might be a good time to save money....
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"Two related series of color photographs explore Beth Burstein's dual identity as an American born well after World War II and as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Intimate and public, these images function at the margins of both the documentary and fine art.
"The Family Heirloom" is comprised of images Burstein took of her father's concentration camp uniform and her relationship to this family heirloom... The second, related series, "I Thought It Would Feel Like Home", focuses on the 2005 pilgrimage Burstein made with a small group of her relatives to their family's former homeland in Lithuania. In her search to find the remnants of her father's and his family's lives in Lithuania, Burstein juxtaposes townscapes and images of the sometimes hidden memorials to Lithuania's Jewish victims of the Holocaust with her evocative writing about memory, presence, and erasure."
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6 New Spy Technologies You Literally Can't Hide From
Between Facebook sharing your vacation photos and friends list to the world, and Google tracking every search you've ever made, most of us have pretty much given up on the idea of privacy on the Internet. What is easy to forget is that real-world privacy is no better.
No matter how paranoid or how careful you are, if somebody wants to find you, and listen to what you're saying, they will. After all, we're living in a world where there exist things like...
#6. Robo-Roaches (No, Really)
Can Spy On:
Anybody with the brains to search for electronic bugs, but not bright enough to bring a flyswatter to squish actual bugs.
How could you hurt something this cute?
How It Does It:
Humanity is united in our disgust and contempt for bugs. They're vile little bastards. Unless of course you work for the government's uber-nerd collective, DARPA, and they're suddenly your best friends, because they make great robots. Why?
One, bugs breed a lot, as anybody who's had them as houseguests can tell you. Two, they have simple nervous systems and aren't cuddly, so nobody cares if you rip out their brains and replace them with microchips just to see what happens, which is exactly what DARPA researchers did.
Thanks for all the laughs, DARPA.
It turns out that installing a microchip into the brain of an insect is not only easy, it gives you full control over its ability to do things that are great for surveillance, like fly and cling to walls. Attach a camera or a microphone to the bug and suddenly you've got a small, unobtrusive, highly mobile listening device that eats shoe polish and is cheap to replace if it gets crushed.
But we're pretty sure that was just an afterthought between "Let's see if we can rip out a bug's brain and install a microchip!" and "Hey, let's see if we can make them nuclear powered!" Yes, DARPA wants to give us nuclear cyborg cockroach spies. They use a tiny amount of a radioactive isotope to work as a nuclear battery to power the transmitter to relay back to headquarters what you're saying or doing.
The by-product is described as "minimal."
We have no knowledge of whether these have been actually deployed by intelligence agencies, which should be a relief because if they were they would totally tell us.
#5. Van Eck Phreaking
Can Spy On:
Whatever is on your computer monitor, remotely.
How It Does It:
Let's say you scoff when we mention the loss of privacy on your PC. After all, you're careful. As you write your manifesto on your laptop, you have already checked to make sure you have no sneaky trojans or keystroke monitors installed. You've disconnected yourself from the Internet, so the NSA can't sneak in somehow. There are no bugs or cameras in your house.
Those damn cows are staring at you again, though.
Just you and your PC. You're safe, right?
With some very simple equipment it is possible to remotely view anyone's monitor, at any time, from a distance. The technology has been around since the 80s and is called Van Eck Phreaking (after Wim van Eck, a prominent computer guy who discovered it).
All electronics give off radio waves, which is one of the side effects of cranking voltage up and down a billion times a second. These radio signals are generally weak and completely unintelligible, but the right tools can detect the waves given off by your monitor from afar and recreate what's being displayed on it, right down to the nipples.
All they really need is an antenna close enough (like, say, in a van parked down the street) that they can get from Radio Shack, and a method of inserting your monitor's sync pulses into the signal, and boom: You and your PC suddenly have an audience.
This method is so effective that way back in 1985, a guy with enough equipment in a van could see what you were doing. Today, somebody can do it for less than the cost of a top notch gaming PC. It works on your flat-panel monitor, it works on your laptop. There are supposedly countermeasures but we're assuming somebody who wants to monitor you bad enough will come up with countermeasures for your countermeasures.
Or to put it another way: If it's on your computer and They want to know about it bad enough, they will.
#4. Laser Microphones
Can Spy On:
Anybody with a window.
How It Does It:
Here's the thing about "bugs," even if they're attached to living cockroaches. They have to emit radio waves in order to transmit their signal back to the listeners, which means they're pretty easy to detect. With the right tools you could scan your apartment right now to see if the feds are listening in.
Then, if they want to replace them, they still have to break into your place without you knowing it. So if you really wanted to make sure they weren't listening in, you could stop them, right?
That should do it.
Wait, do you have any windows? Then no.
All they need is a laser microphone. Sound is nothing more than vibrations created in the air. Your thin windows vibrate ever so slightly with every sound (the same principle that lets a certain pitch of voice break glass). So if somebody outside your house can capture that vibration, they can "hear" what's being said quietly inside the room.
It's very easy to do. All they need to do is fire a laser at the glass at an angle, and set up a second device to "catch" the reflecting beam. As you talk, the sound wiggles the window, which makes the beam bounce. The listening device can interpret those bounces and translate them back into sound.
Of course, this kind of expensive, high-end device is only available to spy agencies... oh, wait, no: Here's a guide on how anyone can make their own laser listening device with stuff you can easily buy off the shelf.
But you'll see this laser beam firing through your window, right? And probably see the red dot on your wall and assume there's a sniper out there? Not quite. The device doesn't need visible light to work. You'll never know they're doing it. Isn't science awesome?
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Three cows that wandered onto the highway caused a four-vehicle accident, sending two to the hospital Sunday evening.
The accident occurred at 8:06 p.m. on Highway 254 east of Meadowlark Road, according to the report.
A 1994 Dodge, driven by Patricia Kiraley, 55, of Wichita; a 2002 Chevrolet driven by Michelle Beneke, 53, of Valley Center; a 2012 Toyota, driven by Victoria Kenton, 59, of Leavenworth; and a 2003 Mercury, driven by Susan Griem, 53, of Benton, were all westbound when they struck the cows.
Kiraley and Beneke were taken to area hospitals with injuries. Kenton and Griem were not injured.
Another accident occurred Saturday involving one vehicle in the 8400 block of SW Indianola Road.
This accident occurred at 10:22 a.m. when a 2008 Chevrolet SUV was northbound on SW Indianola Road. The driver, John Sullivan, 39, of Andover, steered over the edge of the road, then lost control and went into the ditch, striking two trees and rolling before coming to rest on its wheels.
Sullivan, who was not wearing his seatbelt, was taken to Wesley Medical Center.
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I have a dataset with about 50 points (x,y) and I would like to draw a smooth curve that can pass as closer as possible on those points.
I have heard about Casteljau's algorithm for splines but after hours searching on google I was not able to find a single piece of code I can use.
As far as I understood, to use this algorithm, I have to divide my dataset in groups of 4 points, right? 1234 5678 etc.. and as far as I noticed, my only problem is to find points in the middle. I mean, if I am calculating a curve for points 1234, I already have points 1 and 4 and I need to calculate 2 and 3, right? But it is a mystery to me how to do that.
I would like to ask you guys if you know some code in C, C++ or Objective-C that computes the curves based on datasets with any amount of number.
What I need is: I send the code an array with the dataset and I receive back an array with the points to draw.
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Robust Leadership
With his recent book on First Amendment rights in an era of globalization, Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger '71 analyzes some of the most pressing challenges of the information age
When it comes to the expansion of free press rights around the globe, Lee C. Bollinger '71 does not mince words. "Censorship anywhere is censorship everywhere," the Columbia University president and First Amendment scholar declares in his taut yet ambitious new book, Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A Free Press for a New Century (Oxford University Press: 2010).
Like the global financial crisis and issues surrounding climate change, the dissemination of information, Bollinger contends, is an international phenomenon and should be treated as such. In making the case for free press standards unfettered by national borders, and for the American system as a model, the book traces the evolution of the First Amendment and applies relevant principles to a host of contemporary challenges worldwide.
Speaking from his office in Morningside Heights, Bollinger concedes that America recently has taken a reputational hit for seeking to impose some of its positions on the world. "But," he adds, "it would be a grave mistake to think that just because something has American roots or has evolved here that it is automatically irrelevant to the world or to be considered imperialistic."
Bollinger, who took the reins as Columbia's 19th president after serving as president at the University of Michigan and dean of its law school, makes it clear that the book does not attempt to provide answers to all of the questions that arise in this era of mass media overload. Instead, it looks to stoke a dialogue among journalists, policymakers, First Amendment experts, and the public at large.
His timing couldn't be better.
When Bollinger first penned a publication on the First Amendment, 1988's The Tolerant Society, email was barely nascent, AOL did not yet exist, and Amazon was simply a rain forest. Now, with the brave new media world as his book's backdrop, a host of new and complicated issues predominate. Traditional media is financially under siege, and new media appears fragmented, at times belligerent, and increasingly polarized along party lines.
Amid this fast-paced, topsy-turvy world of modern mass communication, the value of fresh ideas for expanding press freedoms around the globe remains constant. A few months after the book's January release, during a presentation to fellow Law School professors, Bollinger noted that international human rights law norms and enforcement mechanisms available to entities such as the World Trade Organization have the potential to play a larger role going forward. And the book provides a comprehensive analysis of those options, detailing how they could be used to spur free press rights on an international scale.
As for the impact of new media on journalism, Bollinger takes a nuanced position. Technology has served as a double-edged sword in his estimation: While the internet and other advances have revolutionized aspects of the field, he remains unconvinced—at least for now—that this new infrastructure can ultimately replace the more traditional means of news gathering.
"There is no scarcity of opinions, but I think there is increasingly a scarcity of good ideas and really sound, professional, independent reporting," he says.
And so it is within this mix—one part skepticism, two parts pride in the U.S. system—that Bollinger makes his case for a new global free speech code that is not only reliant on the concept of human rights. Like it or not, he says, we are all inextricably bound to one another in a global economy, and there are practical reasons why this nation's traditions in free speech and free press are envied—and needed—both at home and abroad.
"I do think the American system is a good one and is the result of many struggles and a lot of deep thought," Bollinger says. "And I would not hesitate to advocate for it on an international scale."


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We had a really good play-by-post game going for a while, but now it has seemed to stall. I've talked with the member who seems to be most responsible for stalling the game, and he still shows interest, but it's too low on his priority list. In the meantime, the others seem to have lost some of their interest. How can I reignite the campaign?
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Don't force them into it. If you do that they'll have even less interest than they did when they bailed the first time. Offer to start it up and invite everyone, but make sure there's no pressure to join. Run it for the players that still have interest and replace the losses with new players.
I say this because I'm of the opinion that some PCs are lost causes. If you spend too much effort on them, you'll alienate the PCs who did have an interest. It's great if you can win over the uninterested players, but they're only worth so much effort.
It's important to note whether or not the campaign has stalled as the result of life issues or disinterest with the campaign itself. These can lead to completely different suggestions. But here are a few generic suggestions:
One way is to move the timeline of the game forward to the cusp of something amazing happening, so the change of vibe at the table is mirrored by a change in the game itself.
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For any lie algebra $\mathfrak g$, there is a natural filtration on $U(\mathfrak g)$ by "degree": the filtered piece $U^{\leq n}(\mathfrak g)$ is just the image in $U(\mathfrak g)$ of $\bigoplus_{k=0}^n\mathfrak g^{\otimes k}$.
Is there a natural filtration of the quantum group $U_q(\mathfrak g)$ which reduces to this filtration on $U(\mathfrak g)$ when we set $q=1$?
(of course, we restrict to the lie algebras $\mathfrak g$ for which one has a definition of $U_q(\mathfrak g)$, e.g. $\mathfrak g=\mathfrak s\mathfrak l_n$).
To increase the likelihood of a positive answer to this question, let's use the model for $U_q(\mathfrak g)$ which is often denoted $U_h(\mathfrak g)$, that is, the model over the complete power series ring $\mathbb C[[h]]$.
One possible motivation for this question is the following. One definition of the universal enveloping algebra $U(\mathfrak g)$ is that it is a dual of the complete local ring of $G$ at the identity $e\in G$ (where $\operatorname{Lie}(G)=\mathfrak g$). The complete local ring $\hat{\mathcal O}_{G,e}$ comes with a canonical set of quotients $\mathcal O_{G,e}/\mathfrak m_{G,e}^{n+1}$, and corresponding to this is the filtration $U^{\leq n}(\mathfrak g)$ by "degree". Thus we can interpret $U^{\leq n}(\mathfrak g)$ as the part of $U(\mathfrak g)$ consisting of differential operators of order $n$ at $e\in G$. I want to know whether there is a similar filtration/interpretation for quantum groups.


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When Lobster Was Spam: 5 Gourmet Foods That Used to be Cheap
#2. Polenta
Polenta is basically gruel, the food with the world's worst PR team.
But polenta is the gruel made from corn. Which meant that instead of looking forward to a case of the rickets and being forced to waste valuable calories on bursting into song, you instead got pellagra: a disease that takes something forgettable a like Niacin deficiency, and turns it into a disease that is also forgettable because it causes dementia... and death.
Much like gruel, working class families in Italy and Latin America largely depended on this corn mush, which can take an upwards of three hours to cook from scratch, has to be stirred constantly and tastes like something you'd feed to cattle.
"Polentoni" is actually an insult that means "polenta-eater" in Italian. While it's actually intended to describe Northern Italians as boring and flavorless, we suspect it's probably as a dig at the nasty skin condition they might have developed with their pellagra.
Have we mentioned pellagra also causes diarrhea?
It also steals your wallet!
Then How Did It Get So Fancy?
Celebrity chefs. Fairly recently, polenta went from being the dish that every rags-to-riches person thought they'd never have to eat again, to the dish that is costing them $25 in a restaurant run by the only person left on Earth not getting shit for wearing Crocs, Mario Batali.
This fine dining restaurant even did an all-polenta meal. But make no mistake, fine dining polenta is mostly still plain old peasant polenta that is sexed up for rich people. The Food Network's Rocco DiSpirito even has a special recipe for polenta in which the only special ingredient is that Rocco Dispirito is telling you about it.
You could take a few pointers, gruel.
#1. Sushi
The idea behind sushi is that you've got fish, plus stuff wrapped around it to preserve the fish. The fermentation of the rice kept the fish from giving you the types of illnesses you've only experienced through Oregon Trail. So originally sushi followed the formula of fish = "yum"; rice = "silica packet."
Back then the boozy, fermented rice was discarded, presumably because they were already pretty busy with all the opium. Then a 17th century Japanese doctor, Matsumoto Yoshiichi, hit upon the idea of adding vinegar to the rice to make it an edible part of the dish. This would be like if someone decided that a jar of pickle slices was now a soup.
Like most Japanese things, Sushi eventually became pocket sized. Sushi's portability, cheapness, as well as the allure of eating both a food and its wrapper at the same time turned sushi into the hot dog of the Japanese Edo period. The popular Sushi street stalls were the original fast food joints..
Then How Did It Get So Fancy?
Post-WWII, sushi arrived in the U.S. with the word "exotic" attached to it, which means Americans treated sushi the way that hipsters with asymmetrical haircuts treat anime.
Now there are sushi restaurants that charge up to $400 a meal (before booze) with a straight face. Masaharu Morimoto, best known for being the Iron Chef that makes Bobby Flay look like Richie Cunningham, writes in his cookbooks about the short, specific time limits he has eating pieces of sushi.
This seems reasonable until you remember that this is like a century from now reading a celebrity chef talking about how he can only eat his Chicken McNuggets exactly 236 seconds after they've left the fryer.
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Publishing | As the fallout mounts from the revelation that former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child more than a decade ago with a member of his household staff, plans to revive the Terminator star's acting career have been put on hold — a move that now extends to The Governator, the comics and animation project co-developed by Stan Lee. "In light of recent events," representatives announced last night, "A Squared Entertainment, POW, Stan Lee Comics, and Archie Comics, have chosen to not go forward with The Governator project." However, Entertainment Weekly notes the statement was revised two hours later, putting the project "on hold."
Unveiled in late March, on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, no less, The Governator features a semi-fictional Schwarzenegger who, after leaving the governor's office, decides to become a superhero — complete with a secret Arnold Cave under his Brentwood home that not even his family knows about. "We're using all the personal elements of Arnold's life," Lee said at the time of the announcement. "We're using his wife [Maria Shriver]. We're using his kids. We're using the fact that he used to be governor." But even before the couple's separation became public, producers had backed off depicting Shriver and their children. [TMZ, Entertainment Weekly]


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Sales of certain types of fireworks will be restricted in Doña Ana County until further notice, following a unanimous vote by the Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners at its June 11 regular meeting.
The South Central Solid Waste Transfer Center and the county's solid-waste convenience stations in Anthony, La Mesa, Hill, Butterfield, Mesquite, La Union, Hatch and Garfield will be closed all day Sunday, June 16, 2002 for Father's Day.
Doña Ana County, the City of Las Cruces and New Mexico State University have teamed up with a number of public and private entities to stage a press conference on National Small Cities Day, Friday, June 14, 2002, at 1:30 p.m.
The Doña Ana County Assessor's Office appraisal staff will begin a door-to-door assessment of all residential and commercial properties in the county to update files and note improvements or degradations to property conditions. The project will begin Monday, June 24, 2002, and is expected to continue until about the end of the year.
Michael Phillip Gabany has been hired by Doña Ana County Manager David R. King to take over the position of County Fire Marshal.
Alzheimer's disease patients in Doña Ana County, who may wander and become lost from their residence or nursing homes, can be rescued with greater efficiency by tracking equipment purchased by the Doña Ana County Sheriff's Department.
Doña Ana County residents are by and large fortunate to live in an area where the cost of living is reasonable and there is a steady availability of jobs at most income levels.
The Doña Ana County Bureau of Elections has scheduled a May 31 press conference to discuss readiness and plans for conducting the June 4, 2002, primary election in Doña Ana County.
A county-maintained park in the East Mesa community of Butterfield Park has been closed due to repeated acts of vandalism.
The second regular monthly meeting of the Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners will be held at 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at the County Courthouse at 251 W. Amador Ave.