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One in six retired lawmakers currently earn annual pensions of at least $100,000, according to three decades of pension records obtained by Federal Times.
For some retired House representatives and senators, the perks of retirement are astounding. Two retired lawmakers earned annuities of more than $200,000, until one died this year. In all, at the beginning of 2012, four retired lawmakers earned pensions that were greater than the $174,000 salary that senators and representatives earn, according to the data, which Federal Times obtained from the Office of Personnel Management via the Freedom of Information Act. OPM refused to release the retired lawmakers' names or redacted pension records to Federal Times, citing privacy concerns.
These super-pensions are far more common for retired lawmakers than federal employees. USA Today and New Jersey's Asbury Park Press, which, like Federal Times, are owned by Gannett, in August reported that more than 21,000 of the 1.9 million retired federal employees earn six-figure pensions — or a little more than 1 percent of all retirees. But 79 of the 463 retired lawmakers still alive — or 17 percent — get more than $100,000 in pensions.
USA Today and Asbury Park Press also reported that six of the 1.9 million federal retirees get more than $200,000 a year in pensions — a minuscule rate when compared with the two retired lawmakers who were getting $200,000-plus pensions at the beginning of 2012.
In recent years, many lawmakers — almost all of them Republicans — have taken aim at federal employees' pensions, introducing bills to reduce them or end them entirely. But many of those lawmakers overlook just how much more generous their pensions are. Lawmakers operate under far cushier versions of the Civil Service Retirement System and Federal Employees Retirement System than the versions that apply to rank-and-file federal employees.
Lawmakers are able to retire far earlier than regular federal employees — sometimes after serving only five years in office.
And their pensions are calculated at a much higher rate, whether they are covered under the older CSRS or newer FERS programs.
A federal pension is determined by multiplying the employee's high-3 average salary by the number of years and months of service times a coefficient that varies, depending on age and length of service.
FERS lawmakers' pensions are calculated at a coefficient of 1.7 percent instead of the 1.0 percent regular FERS employees get if they retire before age 62, or 1.1 percent if they retire at 62 or older. Similarly, CSRS lawmakers' pensions are calculated at 2.5 percent, far higher than the 1.5 percent to 2.0 percent used to calculate CSRS employees' pensions.
One lawmaker, Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo. — a harsh critic of Congress' pension policies — said he was shocked to learn that some congressional pensions are greater than current salaries.
"How do you do that?" Coffman said in an interview with Federal Times. "How do you earn more than 100 percent of your pay?"
Robert Tobias, director of American University's Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation and the former president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said there are three factors that likely resulted in such large pensions: the higher base salary lawmakers receive, the larger rate used to calculate their pension and years — sometimes decades — of cost-of-living adjustments to pensions that reached as high as 5.8 percent over the last 30 years.
John Palguta, vice president for policy at the Partnership for Public Service, said some lawmakers receiving exceptionally large pensions also may have served in leadership positions in Congress, giving them higher-than-typical salaries, or may have had years of military experience that was also counted toward their pension formula.
Tobias said lawmakers who bash federal employees for their pensions while also accruing far larger annuities are hypocritical.
"Don't be throwing stones at the other guy when you have a better house than I do," Tobias said.
Coffman, who is a deficit hawk and chairman of the Congressional Balanced Budget Amendment Caucus, agreed. He said lawmakers often have successful careers before they come to Washington and they should not expect such comfortable pensions.
"We're in a debt crisis," Coffman said. "For us to get out of it, we're going to have to ask the American people to make sacrifices to programs they particularly like, because it's all unsustainable. How can members of Congress have the moral authority to ask the American people to make sacrifices to get us out of this debt crisis, when they themselves are not willing to give up their pension plan?"
Coffman introduced a bill, HR 2913, in September 2011 that would eliminate the defined-benefit pension for all new lawmakers. Current lawmakers would keep any pension benefits they had accrued up until the time of the bill's passage, but their pensions would be frozen from then on.
Lawmakers would still be able to invest in the Thrift Savings Plan, a 401(k)-type defined contribution plan available to all federal employees.
"I don't think it's right for members of Congress to have a pension plan, period," Coffman said. "It's more about principles than the money."
The total of all annual pensions for the 777 retired lawmakers, both deceased and living, for which OPM provided data is $38.4 million, or $49,412 each on average.
Coffman's bill has been stalled and not come up for a vote in any committee, which Coffman said is frustrating. He intends to reintroduce his bill abolishing congressional pensions next year. Coffman said his backup plan is a bill that would allow lawmakers to opt out of their pensions. He said he wants to opt out of paying into and receiving his pension plan but is not allowed to now.
Palguta said the large congressional pensions aren't that surprising, given the more generous formula under which lawmakers operate. But even Congress' more generous pensions pale when compared with the multimillion-dollar golden parachutes some Fortune 500 executives receive after they retire, he said.
"If you take a look at private-sector corporations, and the packages that their top executives walk away with, congressional pensions would be puny by comparison," Palguta said.
The Congressional Research Service said in a January report that Congress designed its pensions to be more generous because lawmakers can be voted out of office and lose their jobs after just a few years.
Future lawmakers, however, won't enjoy the same pension advantage as current and retired lawmakers. Congress in February passed a law that pays for an unemployment benefits extension in part by lowering the pension accrual rates of future representatives and senators to the same rate as federal employees.
Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla., first proposed the bill bringing lawmakers' pensions in line with rank-and-file federal employees.
But Coffman said it's not enough to simply lower Congress' pension rate.
"Any number is too high," he said. "If you reduced it by half, it would still be concerning. To me, doing congressional pension reform is abolishing it."


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See, isn't it fab?! Such a simple look but so, so flattering.
I wore a look similar to this to work today. Unfortunately it ended up sort of a fail - well, the makeup was nice, but the pictures were all derpy, blurry, or both, and a few hours after I applied it, I got something in my right eye that made it water like CRAZY and all the eyeshadow got totally messed up, so I had to wipe it all off. At least the mascara and liner stayed intact. Anyway, derpface and blurriness notwithstanding, here is my version:
Dolce and Gabbana Creamy Foundation in Classic
Guerlain pressed powder
Rouge Bunny Rouge Delicata blush
Chanel Poudre Signee highlighter
Maybelline Define a Brow in Dark Blonde
Anastasia Brow Powder Duo in Ash Blonde/Taupe - I layer this over the Maybelline pencil
Fyrinnae Snow Leopard on the lid and lower lash line, Urban Decay Darkhorse (Naked 1) in the outer v, Urban Decay Foxy (Naked 2) to highlight, Urban Decay Creep (Naked 1) to set/smoke out gel liner
MAC Blacktrack as tightline, on waterline, and on upper lash line (under Creep)
Hourglass Film Noir mascara
Chantecaille Pink Melon Luminous Gloss - I applied this and took the pics immediately after brushing my teeth, so my lips look much rosier underneath the color than normal!
Thoughts? I need to experiment with this a little more - I really like the look of soft, smoky liner that I get when I set my gel liner with shadow. I've preferred the crisp, clean line of gel liner for years but am just starting to play with... well, less-clean lines. I would love to see links in the comments to any other looks or images you can think of that demonstrate this soft/smoky shadow-liner look!
Edit: the derpface is all me, not meant to be some kind of reference to Nihrida. I have seen her full-face pics too and she never looks derpy, always lovely! :)

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I'm searching for a template which makes a document look like it's written with a real typewriter. Ideally, this means it's not only in mono-spaced font, but the hyphenation is adjusted accordingly. Also, some randomness would be nice (e.g. some characters more bold than others), so that it looks more natural.
Best package for the job is
An alternative is the
As using
Hyphenation can be obtained with
Another tricky option is not Blur the text so it's not readable, but add only an hardly noticed blur (or some more for a carbon copy simulation). The effect is showed in the second paragraph of the example, but I'm not sure if this can be appreciated in the image (using different colors for each layer help to see the effect).
Edit As the comments note, this is still a noticeable computer-generated text because the interword spacing and the smooth right margin.
To avoid a perfect margin, as suggested, one can use
And the result will be not simply a flush left text, but one with an uneven right margin and hyphenation, apparently made by humans:
Using Xelatex and a typewriter font might get the effect you're looking for. This is with the font, "My Underwood", Harting is another choice but there are dozens out there.


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News about Handwriting, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
The End of Prescriptions as We Know Them in New York
Starting on March 27, physicians in the state will have to write out prescriptions electronically, as part of an effort to reduce fraud and errors.
March 15, 2016, Tuesday
MORE ON HANDWRITING AND: New York State , Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) , Doctors , Pain-Relieving Drugs , Computers and the Internet , Law and Legislation , Handwriting
Handwriting Loses Ground, Healing Tattoos, Telescopic Legacies
Letters and online comments on the loss of handwriting in schools, a breast cancer survivor's saving ink and an observatory's adoring public.
June 10, 2014, Tuesday
MORE ON HANDWRITING AND: Handwriting , Breast Cancer , Lick Observatory , Little Vinnie's Tattoos (Finksburg, Md)
What's Lost as Handwriting Fades
Even as the emphasis shifts to the keyboard, experts say that learning to write by hand improves motor skills, memory and creativity.
June 3, 2014, Tuesday
MORE ON HANDWRITING AND: Indiana University , James, Karin , Reading and Writing Skills (Education) , Handwriting , Children and Childhood , Education (K-12) , Memory , Brain
Letters to the Editor
Readers sound off on the latest headlines.
April 6, 2014, Sunday
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In an Era of Squiggles, You Can't Tell the Players Without a Handwriting Analyst
Penmanship seems to be a thing of the past in Major League Baseball, with players often leaving autograph collectors scratching their heads.
March 29, 2014, Saturday
MORE ON HANDWRITING AND: Hunter, Torii , Baseball , Killebrew, Harmon , Robertson, David (1958- ) , Handwriting , Memorabilia and Souvenirs , Collectors and Collections
Much Ado About Who: Is It Really Shakespeare?
A professor says he has found something closer to definitive proof that some 325 lines in the 1602 quarto edition of Thomas Kyd's play "The Spanish Tragedy" were indeed written by Shakespeare.
August 13, 2013, Tuesday
MORE ON HANDWRITING AND: Handwriting , Shakespeare, William , Theater , The Spanish Tragedy (Play) , Bruster, Douglas , Kyd, Thomas , University of Texas
Last of a Breed: Postal Workers Who Decipher Bad Addresses
The Postal Service once had 55 centers where workers tried to decipher addresses rejected by scanning machines. In September, one of two remaining centers will close.
May 4, 2013, Saturday
MORE ON HANDWRITING AND: Postal Service and Post Offices , Computers and the Internet , Handwriting , Postal Service (US) , Salt Lake City (Utah)
Lost Letters
Philip Hensher on the fading art of writing longhand.
March 17, 2013, Sunday
MORE ON HANDWRITING AND: Hensher, Philip , Books and Literature , Handwriting
Critics Question Chávez Signature on an Official Decree
The signature of President Hugo Chávez appeared on a government decree this week though Mr. Chávez has not been seen or heard from since undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba in December.
January 18, 2013, Friday
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Chicken Scratches vs. Electronic Prescriptions
Studies show that errors are much less likely when doctors send prescriptions to the pharmacy via computer. But the move to such e-prescriptions has been relatively slow.
April 29, 2012, Sunday
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New here, but I kept seeing Nodal ninja everywhere and this looks like the ticket for panoheads. Any Real estate Photographers here? I have a 20D which I would like to use. Right now I have the kit lens (18-55),but plan on getting a better one later on. But I am limited in funds as I lost my job last Jan. So I need to prioritize. The NN 3 with RD8 rotator head looks like the best deal. Plus i was thinking of getting PTGUI which seems to be the best for the money software.
I plan on shooting vertically, so do I need a special mount for the NN3, or does the camera just screw onto it?
So far I'm not getting a lot of responses to my calls for Real Estate Photography here in MA, but I'm hoping that will change, so I need to practice, plus I've been experimenting with HDR also using Photomatix, but I've heard HDR Photostudio,gives better more natural looking results, but one thing at a time.
Anyway what do you think of my choices and If you have any advice or info, please let me know. Thanks


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Let $G$ be a connected algebraic group. Is it true that every $G$-bundle on ${\mathbb A}^n$ is trivial? What is the reference? I am actually only interested in the case $n=2$.
This is true for $G=GL(r)$, as shown by Quillen and Suslin.
For arbitrary $G$ there are counterexamples. Quite surprisingly, even $G$-bundles over $\textrm{Spec }k$ may not be trivial. See the paper
M. S. Raghunathan
"Principal bundles on affine space and bundles on the projective line",
Mathematische Annalen Volume 285, Number 2, 309-332
Over an algebraically closed field, for $G$ connected and reductive, every principal $G$-bundle on ${\Bbb A}^n$ is trivial, also by a theorem of Raghunathan:
"Principal bundles on affine space", in C. P. Ramanujam—a tribute, pp. 187–206, Tata Inst. Fund. Res. Studies in Math. 8 (1978).
(Unfortunately I can't find this reference free online.)
In characteristic $p$ you can make an easy counterexample with $n=1$, right? An exact sequence of commutative algebraic groups $0\to E\to X\to \mathbb A\to 0$ with $E$ an elliptic curve.


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ARIES (March 21-April 19). If you request things repeatedly, you'll sound like a nag, and you'll be tuned out. So instead, you'll take matters into your own hands and make it look like fun, too. Others will rush to hop onto your moving train.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The task you've been dreading won't be so bad. Today's high energy level will make it much easier. Once you get over your initial resistance, it will be smooth sailing.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You're a social person, but crowds can still cause you stress, especially when you have to keep track of someone or stick with a group. Evening offers just the tranquility you need to calm your nerves.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Does acting "as if" something is true really make it so? Test the theory by assuming a warm familiarity with someone you hardly know. You'll be surprised at how little time it takes to feel like you're old friends.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Big projects require big efforts. But perhaps one of the most important efforts you can make right now is simply to get more sleep. Taking great care of yourself will set you up to do optimal work in the days to come.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Your manner of speaking may be different from that of others, but oh, how you get your point across! The language of emotions is universal, at least in the way you're communicating now.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The difficulties of the past have made you strong and determined to do something remarkable with your life. Those who've had it easy may not relate to your past story, but they will be affected by the future you create.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Your talents will be highlighted, especially your artistic and interpersonal gifts. This creates a sheen of glamour around you, and you'll enjoy how others react to you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You have many friends, but the one who encourages you to give full, enthusiastic expression to your ideas is truly special and will be cherished as such.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). As your guiding planet pulls across the sky from the sun, you might be tempted to do whatever it takes to reach a goal. Take a step back and think about this. A righteous process is the ultimate success.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The reason you go forward with duties you aren't particularly thrilled to carry out is that you know a valuable secret: The bigger life happens beyond the small world of what you want to do.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your understanding of human motivation and behavior will save you from a hassle — that is if you act on what you instinctively know. Don't be swayed by strong personalities. Stand up for yourself.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (April 25). Your limited view of yourself will be challenged this year. You'll rip up the plan and love how your life follows a natural course through the next seven weeks. Then it's back to the drawing board, and a new goal shapes your decisions. August brings the first in a series of small victories that add up to an October prize. Cancer and Sagittarius people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 6, 4, 33, 12 and 30.
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If Daniel was one of the Prophets, I do not understand why he is not counted among the Prophets.
Why is his book among the Ketuvim and not Neviim?
See this lecture by Rabbi Dr. Leiman.
The standard answer, that of Rambam, is that the exact level of Daniel's visions were always "Divine inspiration", but never quite over the threshold of "prophecy", though he must have been pretty close to the line. (The Malbim says, for instance, that Ezekiel only made it over that threshold occasionally.) Don't ask me exactly what the "threshold" is.
The alternative, suggested by Don Isaac Abarbanel, is that the books of "prophets" were those who were given prophecy to convey to the people at that moment, for some purpose. Daniel was an "armchair prophet" (to quote Leiman); while he had visions, he was never ordered to convey them. So he may have been a "seer", but not a "speaker."
The difference concerns what was originally intended to be written, versus what was originally intended to be announced orally to the people.
In the Moreh Nevuchim, Rambam explains the different levels of prophecy.
This is different from the type of prophecy that the Neviim had - in a dreams or visions.
And different yet from the highest level, which only Moshe Rabenu achieved - to have a clear prophecy without the intermediary of a vision (mouth to mouth).
There is no true nevuah outside of Eretz-Yisrael could be an answer but didn't Yechezkel prophesize in Tel Aviv in Bavel?
An academic answer would be that the division of the Tanakh into Torah, Neviim, and Ketuvim has to do with when the text was canonized. The Torah's text became stable around the time of Ezra, the Neviim around the time of transition from the Persian Empire to the Greek Empire, and the Ketuvim only after the destruction of Bayit Sheni.
This does not address the issue of 'dating' the material; the consensus of biblical scholars is that Daniel was composed at some point in the early Hasmonean era.


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5 Ways to Improve Cats
On paper, no one can argue with cats. Nice concept. Clean design. Right size. Good noise level. No need to go outside. More or less independent. The theoretical cat is perfectly conducive to the lazy man's lifestyle. Yet few men I know own cats. I think it's because we've come to the same conclusion. In spite of their theoretical benefits, ready availability and legions of supporters, actual cats offer nothing of value to modern humanity.
Get a job, you poop-burying hippies.
Oh, you've never met MY cat! Really? Does your cat run around? Does your cat play? Does your cat listen to you? Is your cat loyal? Does it do tricks? So, your best defense of cats is that your cat is different because it acts like a dog? Well, then ...
But you DON'T UNDERSTAND. You're not a CAT PERSON, you say. You're right. I don't, and I'm not. Here's the sad part: I want to. I want to love cats. I really do. I love the idea of owning a small animal I seldom have to think about. It makes total sense for me. I get credit for keeping something alive, and I receive the benefits of companionship. But every time I spend a long period of time with a cat, I'm ripped from my reverie -- usually right after the cat leaves the litter box and walks poop tracks across the dinner table -- and I catch myself and think, "Why would anyone want to own one of these things?"
My comments are divisive, I know. I'm digging at old wounds. I'm not here to deepen the national division. I'm here to help. I'm here to offer solutions on ways we can improve cats so that all of mankind can love cats the way you cat lovers love cats. Some of these suggestions are practical. Some are radical. But no one can ever say I was one of those cat bashers who just complained about the problem and didn't do anything about it. So how about we try some of these on for size?
#5. Bring Cats Live Animals to Hunt
The cat wants to hunt. It was born to hunt. Hunting was the reason humans and cats became friends in the first place. Around 10,000 years ago, the first farmer planted the first crop, and the first mouse that ever noticed the first crop got real excited, because these idiot humans were planting food for mice to eat. For mice, life looked beautiful. Then a cat came along, looked at the mouse (who had no food), looked at the humans (who had plenty of food) and sided with us. It was the start of a mutually beneficial friendship.
"Sorry, ducks, but the pink monkeys have more food and warmth."
The cat still wants to hunt. If you own a cat, you've seen it stalk around your home like an assassin, looking totally awesome. Let it do its awesome thing. I don't care how. Turn it loose in the basement with a live mouse. Buy it a frog to track in your kitchen. Whatever. It's not grotesque. Watching cats kill things is a time-honored human tradition. It's what farmers watched for thousands of years before they got those huge satellite dishes. If there was a channel of cats hunting stuff, I would watch it. So would a lot of men. It's awesome watching cats hunt.
#4. Train All Cats to Use Baby Wipes
Any animal that tracks feces all over your home is disgusting. That's exactly what cats do. This needs to stop. Now. Cats are lauded for being clean, but would a clean animal track potentially harmful waste all over your clean tables, furniture, countertops and children? No, it wouldn't. It would have the decency to sanitize itself. Have you read the literature on cat poop? It's like something out of a Michael Crichton novel.
"Call in the hazmat team, and may God have mercy on our souls."
Parasites in cat excrement may cause problems such as blindness, hearing loss and mental disabilities in babies born to infected mothers. People with weakened immune systems can also develop serious complications. Don't even think about flushing that cat poop down the toilet. Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite found in cat poop, may survive the wastewater treatment process and contaminate waterways, where it can harm humans and sea otters alike. Also, it was revealed that the same parasite mentioned above makes some people crazy.
If the cat:people ratio in your home is more than 2:1, you are legally a crazy cat person.
How do you train a cat to use baby wipes? I don't know. Get on this, cat scientists.
#3. Make Cats Glow in the Dark
Picture this. You and your friends have been out all night. You bring the after-party to your place. That's when you drop the hammer. "Watch this," you say, as you turn out the lights and people shriek and your home goes complete dark except for your neon green glowing cat. Everyone goes nuts. "That cat glows in the dark, man," some guy probably named Steve shouts while everyone applauds you for taking your party to another level.
Usually that kind of praise is reserved for people who discover new exciting mixes of uppers and downers.
The next night, it's back to your place again after the bars, because Steve brought his friend Motor to see the "space cat." You knew your glow-in-the-dark cat was a hit, so you thought ahead. Now you've got two glowing cats, and it blows everyone's minds. Two cats. Glowing in the dark. It's like a Daft Punk video or something. Less than a month later, you've got 20 cats and the most happening after-party scene in town. Dudes want to hang with you. Ladies want to love you. You're the man. Word spreads. Across the country, doomed cats are rescued from shelters by pot dealers, dance club promoters and weird European guys. Cats have found their modern use. They're in demand. Glow-in-the-dark kitties are the new lava lamp.
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Basic Rules for Financial Freedom: Get in the Wealthy Mindset
The concept of money comes with a lot of baggage to most of us. We have an inherent belief that it is good or bad and that wanting it is good or bad. That loving it is good or bad. That spending it is good or bad.
What I am going to suggest in the first few Rules is that maybe, just maybe, how we think about wealth might be holding us back from having wealth. If, in our heart, we believe (even subconsciously) that money is a bad thing and having lots and lots of it is a really bad thing, then chances are we might be undermining our own efforts, unwittingly, to get lots of it.
(Excerpted from "The Rules of Money" by Richard Templar)
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Anybody Can Make Money -- It Isn't Selective or Discriminatory
The lovely thing about money is that it really doesn't discriminate. It doesn't care what color or race you are, what class you are, what your parents did, or even who you think you are. Each and every day starts with a clean slate so that no matter what you did yesterday, today begins anew, and you have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else to take as much as you want. The only thing that can hold you back is yourself and your own money myths
Of the wealth of the world, each has as much as he takes. What else could make sense? There is no way money can know who is handling it, what his qualifications are, what ambitions he has, or what class he belongs to. Money has no ears, eyes, or senses. It is inert, inanimate, impassive. It hasn't a clue. It is there to be used and spent, saved and invested, fought over, seduced with, and worked for. It has no discriminatory apparatus, so it can't judge whether you are "worthy" or not.
I have watched a lot of extremely wealthy people, and the one thing they all have in common is that they have nothing in common -- apart from all being Rules Players, of course. The wealthy are a diverse band of people -- the least likely can be loaded. They vary from the genteel to the uncouth, the savvy to the plain stupid, the deserving to the undeserving. But each and every one of them has stepped up and said, "Yes please, I want some of that." And the poor are the ones saying, "No thank you. Not for me. I am not worthy. I am not deserving enough. I couldn't. I mustn't. I shouldn't."
From The Rules of Money Copyright © 2007, FT Press. Used by permission of FT Press, and Pearson Education. All rights reserved.
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Not sure if this is a 'real' question, but what is the relation between physics and computer science? A lot of physicists are also computer scientists and vice versa. My professor has a PhD in Physics but is a Computer Science professor. Whats the relation? Why is this so common?
First off, physics tends to provide a very good background for people who move on to study problems in other areas, which is perhaps why there is a lot of cross-over to computer science.
However, there are also a number of areas at the interface of computer science and physics which attract people from both sides:
Of these, perhaps the last one (TCS) seems the most surprising. However, in recent years, there has been significant success in applying ideas from thermodynamics and statistical mechanics to problems in computational complexity. An example of this would be the simulated annealing algorithm which works extremely well for optimization problems, as well as work done on phase transitions in 3SAT.
From my reasoning and knowledge of one CS professor who has a PhD in astronomy:
I think the main reason why this is so common is that many people who are of the tenured professor age now (50-60) were in graduate school before most colleges offered a Ph.D. in computer science. So back then, people who were interested in theoretical computer science got their doctorate in Mathematics, and people who were interested in applied computer science got their degrees in a field of the natural sciences. Since physics offers the most readily answerable questions computationally, particularly with the computational power available in the 1950s and 1960s, many applied computer scientists ended up in physics programs. When schools began to offer full bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs in computer science, these people returned to their first love. (I gathered most of this from talking to a CS professor I had in undergrad who followed exactly the same path you describe.) I'm pretty sure there are a lot more physics Ph.D.s in computer science professorships than vice versa (even though I'm sure there are exceptions, and I'll get several comments pointing this out). I realize there is a lot of overlap between the two fields, but if you want to know the real reason what there are so many professors in CS from physics, this is why.
I have an M.Sc. in CS and an M.Sc. in Physics (astro), from my experience the intersections usually originate in (at least) two areas.
First, in many fields of Physics, experiments and simulation produce large quantity of data, eg. SDSS (dataset is many TBs), Pan-Starrs (will produce TB/day) in astrophysics, large colliders such as LHC in particle physics (producing 1PB/s). When dealing with the storage and processing of such large datasets, physicists get involved with CS and some of us enjoy it.
Second, there's a field called "complex systems", such as spin glasses or stock markets, which can be modeled effectively on computers, hence the computer program becomes the experiment itself. Complex systems is an exciting field for physicists because fairly simple systems (eg. a pendelum) can produce very complex behaviour, they are relatively cheap to research (PCs are cheap, software is free), and they can be found in many fields of physics.
A lot of physical modeling can be done in computer programs. Physics is based on creating mathematical pictures of the way the universe works. Physics really builds on the logic that is integral to computer science.
I think this blog post sums it up nicely when it says, "Without algorithms there would be no Physics! Physics is built on the fundamental assumption that we can model the world using algorithms. Computer Science is the most fundamental natural science."
A lot of things are common.


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I was really looking forward for this release. Nice job!
Just wondering what is the maximum size for a collection where the control becomes unusable?
Looks great
can you do the same for a scatter/bubble plot (x,y,radius) and not only a bar chart?
re-scattering points on a chart would look cool - especially if you could auto-add a trendline!
Any plans for a WPF pivot viewer?
@gaelhatchue: I read they are planning, but have to add the Multi-Scale ( Deep Zoom ) technology first. Probably not until a .NET 4 Service Pack or .NET 5.
At the end Brett remarks that the SQL Server team have announced that Pivotview will be in the next version of "Analytics (sic) Services".
Can someone point me to this announcement please?
Goldfarb in the house! Good stuff
What kind of structure do you recommend for the following data collection (Simple , Linked or Dynamic )
A photo archive of a bi-anual event.
# Every event has a given number Joepie 2002 - Joepie 2004 - Joepie 2006 - ...)
# Every event consists of 4 days of sepperate content (day1 - day2 - day3 - day4)
# Every event consists of 16 different 'stages' (all booked fully for 4 days)
This would give me the possibility to look who stood at one perticular podium over the many years, over many days. Or other endless combination. We have about 1500 pictures a day (spread over 16 stages). This seems like an ideal setup!
Also, every 2 years we would add stuff to the collection from the newest event.
I'll try to get someone from the team in to answer some of your questions.
Hello everyone! I am still tracking down the location of the SQL announcement, but I have some other thoughts to share. Great questions, you all really seem to grok what Silverlight PivotViewer is all about.
This partnership was announced at the TechEd 2010 keynote which you can watch here: http://www.msteched.com/2010/NorthAmerica/Keynote01.
Around 1 hr 15 mins in they show Pivot and announce it as a future part of Analysis Services. Thanks!
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#3. Flipping Off the Pope
When you think of the Sistine Chapel, you probably think of the Creation of Adam and God zapping Adam to life with his finger, but it's actually only one image among hundreds. Over four years, Michelangelo and company painted a crapload of cherubs and prophets and one drunk, naked Biblical hero.
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It turns out that Pope Julius II, aka "the Warrior Pope," was such an asshole that he was openly referred to as Il Papa Terribile. Michelangelo chose to seal his fate by personally flicking him off in God's house high above countless priests, cardinals and tourists for eternity. The beauty of the gesture was that medieval soot and the actual height of the painting prevented anyone from seeing it.
Not only that, but three decades after finishing the ceiling, Michelangelo was invited back to paint the wall behind the altar. This time he didn't mess around with mandy-pandy thumb gestures. Oh no. This time he straight painted the mouth of Hell directly behind the Pope's chair.
Either the mouth of Hell or mouth of the Goonie cave. Probably Hell.
#2. UFOs
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Besides being the quintessential study in rock hard Baby Jesus abs...
Dominico Ghirlandaio
...Domenico Ghirlandaio's Madonna with Saint Giovannino also features an interesting little blob hovering in the sky over Mary's left shoulder. Especially when you notice the figure in the background, kind up gawking up at it.
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Wait, What the Hell?
Some Renaissance paintings totally have UFOs in them.
Domenico Ghirlandaio's Madonna with Saint Giovannino is just one of several medieval paintings with strange, kinda creepy-looking unidentified flying objects soaring around in them. And this particular one has had UFO enthusiasts salivating for years.
Never mind that one expert nay says and poo-poos and claims the images are consistent with early Christian iconography intended to represent the so-called "Holy Spirit." He wasn't there. And anyway, since when would the Holy Spirit take the form of a squat little gold man space traveling in a flying arrow?
Unknown Artist/Visoki Decani Monastery
Since never. That's when.
Or a flying bowler hat?
Pierre Spicre/Unknown Artist/Church of Notre-Dame in Beaune
Maybe when he's feeling dapper?
And then there are the cases of people actually illustrating stuff they claimed they saw. In one woodcut, Swiss citizens jauntily witness black spheres hovering in the sky. The dots were said to turn red before vanishing.
Unknown Artist
Or someone just attacked this woodcut with a medieval hole-punch.
Then you have the illustration below, a detail from a woodcut of a mass UFO sighting in Nuremberg, Germany in 1561. The story was that on the morning of April 14, geometric shapes erupted from the sky to do battle with each other.
Hans Glaser
Although it's hard to take this illustration seriously when the sun has a face.
Science has been quick to dismiss these events as aurora borealis, but since the people witnessing them had no idea what the fuck NASA was, Hans Glaser's engraving of Nuremberg came to be known as a "star-battle" (which may explain why the lowest of the spaceships looks a lot like the Super Star Destroyer Executor).
Much of the art made during the Italian Renaissance was specifically commissioned by the Catholic Church, to adorn the walls of Catholic cathedrals, for the everlasting edification of Catholic God lovers. And up until the mid-1500s, the Catholic church was pretty cool with artists getting a free hand on their walls.
Sometimes "free hand" meant tastefully rendered imaginings of the heroes of the Bible. And sometimes "free hand" meant, literally, having a free hand to masturbate with after viewing said pictures.
Wait, What the Hell?
Renaissance artists often used their art to get their freak on.
At least until the Counter-Reformation, when church put the kibosh on the flagrant display of holy genitalia and hired a loincloth painter to cover the most offending penis action. Such as the scene above, from Michelangelo's (AGAIN) Last Judgment. Prior to the cover-up, Mr. Red Robe back there was full-on naked, and looking down at St. Lady Gun's badonkadonk, who was also naked. And considering her bent over posture, it totally looked like he was getting some from the backside.
But the Catholic Church wasn't the only game in town, and plenty of other Renaissance artists used their prodigious talents to prove it. Once these guys were out in the secular world, things started getting explicit. Such as:
Giulio Romano
Snakey guy on girl...
Unknown Artist
Girl on girl...
Hans Baldung Grien
Alonso Cano
Cornelis Bos
Hans Baldung Grien
Jusepe Ribera
And finally...
Hans Baldung Grien
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Contemporary ballet/ballet moderne
Posted 21 February 1999 - 11:48 PM
People usually have strong opinions about this, either loving, or at least generally enjoying the ballets and seeing this as the way ballet will be in the future OR disliking them, or at least not liking them as well as "classical" ballets and worried that this is the way ballet will be in the future. There are, of course, middle grounds.
What say you?
Posted 22 February 1999 - 09:35 PM
I know that there have to be some that are really good, but right now I can't think of any except some of the work I saw several years ago by Eddy Toussaint.
Posted 23 February 1999 - 07:35 AM
I like Libby's response to this question. Though I have the opportunity to see more and more contemporary dance, I still prefer the classical story ballets, especially the romantic ones like Giselle. However I do like some of the contemporary dance I've seen. The performances of Ballet British Columbia which I saw recently seem to fall in Alexandra's category definition. I loved this company's work. Mark Godden's "Conversation Piece" really impressed me.
On the other hand I don't usually connect emotionally with most contemporary dance, many times because I can't see how the dance movements connect with the music. I also dislike the "angst" that seems to be a prerequisite of much modern dance. I just saw the Doug Elkins Dance Company do a set of pieces. Dancing may have been skillful, it was much further from classical style than other contemporary dance I've seen, but again the music seemed to clash with the movement in most pieces. An example, "Center My Heart" was danced to Nusral Fateh Ali Khan, but I couldn't make it make sense to me. After many years in Asia, my automatic reaction to this great music is a completely different dance movement than what I saw with the contemporary company.
Still, the dancers with contemporary dance companies are most amazing in how they control their bodies. When I see a piece of this nature with music that hits chords in my soul then I really enjoy it.
Posted 23 February 1999 - 10:10 AM
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Posted 24 February 1999 - 08:51 PM
I wholeheartedly second Mary's answer. There are some ballet moderne works that I've enjoyed while I was watching them, though I, like Victoria, don't remember them very clearly, Mary points out a lot of the reasons why. I'd add that, for the most part, there are few, sometimes no, steps in them. Just jump, jump, turn, turn, roll on the floor, up and extend. Over and over and over. I can't think of a single work in this category that I'd judge great, and if I read one more promotional blurb about a company whose repertory "goes to the cutting edge, standing classicism on its ear" I will scream. I think what I resent about most of the choreographers of this genre is that they pose as avant-gardists. A suspicion I'd long harbored -- that ballet moderne was much easier to choreograph than works requiring a classical vocabulary -- was confirmed when, in a discussion with a young choreographer who was appalled at the notion that he choreograph a classical ballet because he was "contemporary," the young man mumbled, "Well, classical ballet is harder to do." Aha!
I think anyone who loves classical or neoclassical ballet would kill for a 21st century "Swan Lake" and can't wait for the next Balanchine; it isn't a fear of the new and a clinging to the old.
Libby, you're right. I, too, read all the time statements by company directors that say they don't want their companies to be a museum and to me, that's one of the things that sounds good until you examine it. Can you imagine the Louvre throwing out all their masterpieces to make room for new work? And then judging that work as preferable simply because it's new? I agree, though, that ballet has to be renewed and everyone, dancers and audience, need new works. I just worry when "new" is beginning to be defined as "modern dance" or, in some cases, anti-classical.
Paul, I think your point about the music is a key. Anyone who is sensitive to music will like or dislike ballets depending on whether we like or dislike the music AND how well, or ill, a choreographer uses that music. It also depends on what you've seen. I remember I once liked Glen Tetley's "Voluntaries" Why do they always pick on this one? I'd ask. And then, after watching Balanchine for ten years, I saw "Voluntaries" again and could hardly stand to watch it. When the organ swells, he has them do lifts. That's the extent of the musicality.
Giannina, we do like what we're used to and know something about. I'd add that one of the things people who dislike ballet moderne -- or, at least, a predominance of ballet moderne in a ballet company's repertory -- is that it can cause the dancers' classical technique to become sloppy. One of the "avant garde" cliches is that rules are there to be broken. Good Lord if you want to be modern, you can't have rules, now, can you! I've watched rehearsals where a dancer is scolded for being "too classical." "You're not in the classroom any more, dear," said the producer, wanting the dancer to do two fast pirouettes and hell with the form.
Libby, this issue probably isn't a big deal to most people in the audience, because you'll either like it or you won't, but for those who really like classical ballet, it's worrisome that these works have stopped being novelties, supplementing the classics, and are becoming, in some repertories, the main dish.
Alexandra - who offers these comments to keep the discussion going, please!
Posted 24 February 1999 - 10:44 PM
Lugo, I'd like to hear a little more detail about what you would envision for combining jazz/modern/ballet in a classical style in longer length story ballet presentations. Sounds interesting.
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Posted 01 March 1999 - 05:58 PM
Just that i would love to see the old format of a 2-3 act ballet - but combine the movements of modern and jazz with ballet on pointe - Twyla has done this to some extent, and i believe Nikolai Kabaniev with the Diablo ballet is doing these "mixed" movements on pointe - but with a limited
number of dancers to work with.. also, joffrey and other companies do this "mixed" choreogrphy but most are done in limited modern format - shorter works etc. So,
just hoping we can see some full length works
sometime in the near future with the "story-telling" in a classical format. ok....nuff said....ALoha
Posted 01 March 1999 - 07:03 PM
I also don't think that you need jazz, or popular dance styles, to be contemporary.
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Posted 01 March 1999 - 07:46 PM
just to clarify what i am 'picturing" in my minds eye, so to speak. *S* (i beleive Petipa and many choreographers combined different "styles" of dance - (e.g. Le Corsaire Act I scene 2 at the slave market... Nureyev also combined quite a bit of Theatre dance into his work...Ashton and MacMillan also used inovative choreography which were ahead of their time).
[This message has been edited by Lugo (edited 03-01-99).]
Posted 02 March 1999 - 01:59 AM
I recall some trenchant observations you made on the subject once before on a.a.b. where you said that works from someone with a classical background tended to look classical no matter where they wandered, while works frm someone with an "eclectic" background tended to look eclectic no matter how hard they tried. I'm sure there are exceptions, but it's also often quite true.
However, in defense of ballet moderne, there are things I'd love to see ballet learn from contemporary choreographers; most especially a more thoughtful process of choreography. We can't go on much longer just putting steps together and calling it abstract. There's got to be some intellectual force behind it. What I'd rather we didn't borrow is the sort of heated up sensation that modern ballet seems to subsist on nowadays. I really prefer not to see another violent vision of the apocalypse in toe shoes.
Posted 02 March 1999 - 11:40 AM
And no one I know who loves ballet wants a new choreographer to produce something that looks like Petipa, Balanchine or Ashton. That's one of the things that's always thrown out by defenders of ballet moderne as true ballet, and I find it a bit upsetting, because it's knocking down a straw man; we never say we want imitations. In fact, we say over and over and over that we don't want imitations. I don't think those [ballet modern, i.e., Tetley, Forsythe, et al. vs. Sons of Balanchine] are the only two choices.
If the Forsythe dancers "reject" the notion that what they do is not ballet, too bad. As someone wrote on alt.arts.ballet when this subject was discussed a few months ago, you can make roller skates and call them ear muffs if you want, but they won't keep your ears warm.
I would argue quite passionately that Forsythe and the many, many choreographers like him are not making ballet. Every modern dance company's dancers (at least, those in America) I know of takes ballet class now. That does not make their companies ballet companies. Ballet is a vocabulary, but it is also an aesthetic. Putting the women on pointe and using a few ballet steps here or there does not make something a ballet.
Does what something is called matter? I think yes, because without distinctions established and maintained, ballet will be subsumed into some general mishmash called dance. It may be interesting and exciting to watch and it may be fine as a novelty, but when it becomes the main dish, then what we think of as ballet will no longer be so.
What I've never understood is why the avant-gardist choreographers, who practically spit on ballet in everything they say (I'm not bound by rules, I go beyond classicism, etc.), are is anxious to be considered ballet choreographers?
What's interesting to me about this argument is that it happens only in dance. Skat singers don't go around saying they do opera. Opera and musical comedy remain distinct genres, even in America. Classical theater, Broadway and off-Broadway have specific connotations; the kind of fare offered is instantly understood when so categorized. But in dance, we're supposed to be above categories; they don't matter. And that I don't understand.
Anybody have any theories, pro or con?
Posted 02 March 1999 - 11:53 AM
Posted 02 March 1999 - 07:41 PM
Actually, since this issue is, I think, one of the central ones in ballet right now and because there are so many side of the argument -- and because I don't have a pressing deadline tonight -- I'm going to post about several aspects of the issue. Hope people will join in --
This thread has gotten too long; it loads very slowly. So please post replies on the new threads that I'm about to post.
Thanks, all.
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- July 23, 2008 at 9:09 AM
- shelby said...
Oh. My. Gosh.
That looks so good! I have never tried sorbetto but I might just have to hunt some down.
- July 23, 2008 at 11:41 AM
- Trish said...
This looks really really good. I am trying to experiment with my ice cream maker to make some non dairy low or fat free fozen dessert here at the house, so far still a work in progress.
- July 24, 2008 at 1:21 PM
- Kati said...
Whoa. I must get myself to Philly one of these days.
- July 24, 2008 at 2:27 PM
- habits_kill said...
I used to live near Philadelphia. I wish I still did.
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WEIRTON - Cassandra J. Nicastro and James R. Matthews were married during a 3 p.m. ceremony on July 7 at St. Bernadette Catholic Church in Monroeville, Pa. The Rev. Vincent Fortunato officiated.
The bride is the daughter of Thomas C. and Barbara A. Nicastro of Weirton.
The groom is the son of James and Amy M. Matthews of Monroeville, Pa.
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Mr. and Mrs. James Matthews
Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a sweetheart neckline, mermaid style, ivory taffeta gown with a chapel-length train. She carried a bouquet of ivory roses.
Amanda Nicastro, sister of the bride, and Adriane Rybka served as maid and matron of honor, respectively. Karina Nicastro, sister of the bride; Tracy Kolano, sister of the groom; Heather Contino and Krystina Nicastro, cousins of the bride; and Jaimie Dayoub, Kamilla Fronzaglia, Sarah Plunkett, Jennifer Sams and Alissa Kolano were bridesmaids.
Gianna Chenet and Layla McLaughlin were flowergirls.
Ralph Mastromonaco was the best man. Jeffrey Matthews, brother of the groom; Chris Rafferty, cousin of the groom; and Sean Biancaniello, George Campbell, Ken Echague, Ryan Gubala, Jeff Midgley, Brad Sattler, Brandon Tanguay and Tommy Rafferty, cousin of the groom, were groomsmen.
Benjamin Rafferty, cousin of the groom, was the ring bearer.
A reception was held at the Pittsburgh Airport Marriott. They honeymooned in Tahiti and Bora Bora.
The bride is a 2001 graduate of Madonna High School, a 2005 graduate of Washington and Jefferson College with a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and a 2009 graduate of the West Viriginia University School of Pharmacy with a doctorate in pharmacy. She is the medical director of MedLearning Inc. in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J.
The groom is a 2001 graduate of Gateway High School and a 2005 graduate of Washington and Jefferson College with a bachelor's degree in chemistry. He is the area manager of chemical and pharmaceutical operations of the northeast for Cardinal Health.
The couple will reside in West Hartford, Conn.


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Traveling for work: food was great! Wait staff was very educated on a gluten-free allergy. They also have a lot of options.
Had a great lunch. No issues
I eat here all the time- at least once a month or more and never had any issues. I'm super sensitive to gluten but haven't had any issues ordering from their gluten free menu. The majority of the staff are knowledgeable and go out of their way to make sure my allergy is taken seriously- even the bartender! Love this place!
This is my second time dining here and I have always had a great experience. The food is always delicious and I have never gotten sick. Not sure if the other reviews are just old or had a bad night, but it was great for me
It seemed as though my waiter was very knowledgeable about my Gluten allergy but I still got sick after eating here. I had the GF lettuce chicken rolls and the GF Mongolian beef. Beware!
have eaten here twice. got sick both times.
Incompetent. Ordered takeout. They screwed up order. Waited to remake and that came out not gluten-free. Took a taxi to get it. Didn't notice lack of stickers until home. Didn't get to eat, again. Amount they cared: 0.
Have never gotten sick after eating here. Service is pretty good. Love the chocolate cake.
111 Providence Pl, Providence, RI 02903
Love the food! Thankful for all of the delicious gluten free options they have to choose from. Staff makes me feel secure and are always friendly at every one of their many locations I have dined at.
1716 International Drive, McLean, VA 22102
I was looking for that crunchy sesame chicken basic Chinese chicken gluten free everywhere. Even tried to make it :( didn't work. They have it at PF Changs though! And I didn't have to worry about fishy service. Many gf Options and they will ask you if it is an allergy. Also yum that chocolate gf cake :))
2626 Miamisburg-Centerville Rd., Dayton, OH 45459
Wide selection of GF for takeout. My Mongolian Beef was even tastier than the regular menu version.
148 West Bridge Street, Homestead, PA 15120
this location does not take care with gluten free items. I am fine after eating at the Robinson location but not at this one.
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW), Worldgateway Place, Romulus, MI 48242
Good food, also price too
18250 Tomball Parkway, Houston, TX 77070
This business has now severely reduced the gluten-free options we've loved for years and now has a gluten-free menu you have to ask for instead. Only one dish suits my allergy situations and it was too salty. Very sad to see such changes. They still claim to have the specific gluten-free prep area but the menu is definitely lacking.
820 Eastview Mall, Victor, NY 14564
Tell your server you are Celiac. They have a dedicated GF Menu and have procedures in place. Excellent food and I can kick back and relax.
5621 Paseo Del Norte, Carlsbad, CA 92008
Celiac friendly with dedicated wok - even the menu specifies no cross-contamination! One of the few places I feel safe when eating out!
2525 W End Suite #2535, Nashville, TN 37203
Chinese in Nashville is not that great, making pf changs one of the best Chinese restaurants around. They have a fairly good GF menu and were careful with preparation and service. They have gf soy sauce. They have a gf desert. Just wish they had more gf soup options - as I miss hot and sour soup!
12071 Elm Creek Blvd., Maple Grove, MN 55369
Knowledgable staff, tons of options. Food comes out on special plates to identify allergy.
17390 Hall Road R-103, Charter Township of Clinton, MI 48038
I love their menu! Always delicious and safe to eat. Thank you PF Changs!
5 Woodfield Mall, Schaumburg, IL 60173
Wow! Absolutely Delicious! I got the Mongolian beef with white rice and a glass of wine. BUT, I did not feel well a couple of hours after eating there. Not sure if I will go back.
7132 E Greenway Pkwy, Scottsdale, AZ 85254
New GF menu is great (July 2016). Loved the pad Thai and GF chocolate cake.
1190 Farrow Parkway, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
This restaurant knows what they are doing for gluten free eating!! The plates and sauce bowls are marked differently so you know what's gluten free and regular! Our service was amazing!! Highly recommended to anyone who loves Chinese food! It's been 2+ years since I've had any Chinese food!!
2110 Hamilton Place Boulevard, Chattanooga, TN 37421
always tasty, never have any problems with cross-contamination. pay a little extra for the peace of mind, but worth it.
1125 Fashion Drive, Nanuet, NY 10954
Maybe they had problems when they first opened but let me tell you it was the best Chinese in Rockland County when we were there recently. Fresh not greasy, and very favorable. Give it another try.
17455 Biscayne Boulevard, North Miami Beach, FL 33160
Wow, this was my favorite restaurant as it used to have many gluten free options. Well they just got a new menu and the gluten free items are not in it. They have a separate gluten free menu with less than half of the options they had before. I'm so disappointed!!! Well I guess I will not be eating here much all my favorites are gone !
391 S 8th St., Boise, ID 83702
One of my most favorites places and such delicious food!
721 Easton Road, Warrington, PA 18976
Chicken dish was excellent.
10150 California Street, Omaha, NE 68114
I used to love this place. I had never had a problem with it until my last time there. I got my order (takeout) with the little gluten-free sticker and was satisfied. It tasted no different but my stomach hurt more and more with every bite. I was up all night vomiting and was violently ill for a week and never have risked going back. In their defense, my mom still eats here as a Celiac and has minimal problems.
148 West Bridge Street, Homestead, PA 15120
Ordered the GF combo fried rice for takeout and ended up sick all night. Not happy at all!
2525 W End Suite #2535, Nashville, TN 37203
I had never been to a PF Changs before but I really wanted Chinese. I didn't feel safe ordering form a local place. The Chinese food in Nashville kind of sucks anyway. I read online that PFC has a great gluten free menu. I figured we'd give it a shot. It was actually really good! The food is safely and carefully prepared and comes out on special plates so you know they're paying attention. I thought that was really interesting. I had egg drop soup and chicken fried rice. We didn't have room for dessert, but they had two gluten free options we may try next time! I'm glad we decided to stop by here. My stomach feels totally fine and the food was tasty. So I'm calling this one a success.
255 East Basse Road #1200, San Antonio, TX 78209
Great service! Awesome selection! They were very careful about gluten free items. Very knowledgable. Great place to go!
900 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304
just placed am all gluten free order and the food was great, didn't get ill afterwards.
Town Center Drive, Collegeville, PA 19426
Consistently good service, nice atmosphere. Dedicated GF menu makes it EASY. No need to try to explain things to your server. They have trained kitchen & staff in GF procedures. On the down side, serving sizes have gotten smaller. So, be sure to sign up for the rewards program to get bigger bang for your buck.
321 West Katella Avenue #120, Anaheim, CA 92802
Ordered to go and had no problems: gluten free food was bagged separately from regular food as well.
2300 Village Dr. West Bldg #140, Maumee, OH 43537
I have dined here a dozen times and never had an issue! It's my favorite gluten free restaurant. Lettuce wraps and changs spicy chicken are delicious and sauces all come in a gluten free version (red cups).
4250 Fairfax Corner Ave., Fairfax, VA 22030
Great gluten-free menu. Knowledgeable staff and all-around good experience.
1190 Farrow Parkway, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
Food was very good. I had the beef and broccoli with veggie fried rice from the gluten free menu. It was delicious. The food took 1 hour on Sunday night. Service was slow but this is a good place for a gluten free meal. So I'm giving my rating based on the food not the experience.
17455 Biscayne Boulevard, North Miami Beach, FL 33160
Love the food. Lettuce wraps and pork fried rice are my favorites! Wish they had entire menu gluten free!
7894 N Blackstone Ave., Fresno, CA 93720
We either eat here or get takeout several times a month. It's the safest restaurant we've found for my celiac disease in the area. The staff has always been super courteous and even anxious to make sure there's zero cross contamination for me. The food is always great too!
2420 West Happy Valley Road, Phoenix, AZ 85085
Still the best and safest gf restaurant around
2626 Miamisburg-Centerville Rd., Dayton, OH 45459
It's my birthday. My husband wanted to take me out. We researched and he called the manager before making reservations...and we went to PF Changs. I ordered the shrimp in lobster sauce....the waitress is super attentive and sweet. I'm approximately three bites away from finishing my plate when the head chef and the waitress come out and tell me the new cook used the water to wash the regular noodles in the sauce to make my dish. Our entire meal was free, they profusely apologized, the waitress cried, the manager gave me a free gluten free dessert to take home, and gave me her card to tell me they were reporting the incident and to call if I got sick. 30 minutes later and I'm incapacitated with stomach cramps and anxiety. I look like I'm 9 months pregnant even though I'm a size 6. I am I AM IN SO MUCH PAIN. I took my glutenade before eating and my digestive enzymes immediately afterwards to no avail. I did everything I was supposed to do and someone's carelessness is destroying my health. THEY NEED TO LEARN THIS IS NOT AN ALLERGY!!! This is an autoimmune disease!!
201 San Jacinto Boulevard, Austin, TX 78701
It is consistent and generally safe. Everything you would expect from a chain.
5488 South Padre Island Drive #5001, Corpus Christi, TX 78411
They go out of their way to make sure us gf folks are taken care of. Everything from appetizers to dessert!
3667 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV 89109
This was one of the best places to eat here in Vegas, especially if you have celiacs! They have special plates for the gluten free food and have a separate spot for the kitchen! It was such a great experience because the water was so knowledgable and the food was delicious!
1190 Farrow Parkway, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
Great food and attentive staff.
6801 Fayetteville Street, Durham, NC 27713
Fantastic menu and great food. Celiac safe!
3405 Nicholasville Road, Lexington, KY 40503
A bit pricey but oh so worth it!!! Delicious!!!
1201 Lake Woodlands Dr #301, The Woodlands, TX 77380
Server and restaurant were excellent with celiac. They use a special wok for all GF meals. They use special plates to indicate the different meals. No problems with getting gluten by mistake. However, a non GF meal was also sereved on a GF plate. Not all restaurant staff is aware.
6000 North Terminal Parkway, Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), College Park, GA 30337
Has several gf entrees. My entree was huge and delicious. It's located inside the airport and was a nice place to rest between flights.
910 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland, MS 39157
Friendly manager. They even use different shaped plates for gluten free orders! the gluten free menu is so good my family usually orders off it and we share family style.
9435 Civic Center Blvd. Streets of Westchester Bldg. 1, West Chester, OH 45069
This PF Chang's is amazing. I eat here often and I love that everyone has knowledge of the gluten free menu. I always know I'm safe when I eat here!
910 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland, MS 39157
Never had a reaction here, great food! Staff brings gf food out on specially marked plate
910 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland, MS 39157
My wife has Celiac and we've eaten here on a regular basis (twice per month, both done-in & take-out) without her getting sick. They have a solid selection of GF menu options, and several are very tasty. Our favorite is the Chang's spicy chicken with GF egg-drop soup. Staff knowledge of GF/Celiac can be spotty, but if you ask the right questions & emphasize the importance, they get it right.
10309 Destiny USA Dr, Syracuse, NY 13204
Never had an issue here and they now have a gf dessert! They have a separate prep area in the kitchen. Nice to be able to eat Chinese food again.
110 South Jordan Creek Parkway, West Des Moines, IA 50266
Excellent variety of delicious fresh Asian inspired dishes. I love the Mongolian Beef and Shanghai Cucumbers. Gluten Free options are on main menu. Make sure you ASK for the items gluten free as they have the same items on regular entrees.
12090 Jefferson Ave, Newport News, VA 23606
Love that I've finally found GF Chinese food!!! In complete heaven!
7135 East Camelback Road #101, Scottsdale, AZ 85251
We just had an excellent meal. I had the spicy chicken and my husband had Mongolian beef. He ordered from the gluten free menu so we could share. The waitress was great and the staff knowledgeable. We'll be back again.
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW), Worldgateway Place, Romulus, MI 48242
Had a great experience here. I'm celiac and did not get sick. A bit pricey, but hey, you're in an airport. Great to have a safe place at Detroit airport.
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I'm looking for a reference for the full isometry groups of the
(i) complex Stiefel manifolds $U(m)/U(m-l)$, either for the Euclidean metric (i.e. identifying it with orthonormal $m \times l$-matrices and using the inner product $\operatorname{tr}(X^\ast Y)$) or for the induced quotient metric (where we use on $U(m)$ the Euclidean metric), and of the
(ii) real and / or complex (doesn't matter for me now) Grassmann manifolds with the induced quotient metric from the Euclidean metric on O(n), resp. U(n).
It is easy to see that left, resp. right multiplication with unitary / orthogonal matrices are isometries, so I'm interested whether there are more isometries and especially how to show that there are no more.
Asked that question already on Math.SE and got no answer: http://math.stackexchange.com/q/112175/7110


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5 True Stories That Prove You Shouldn't Piss Off The IT Guy
#2. Joseph Nolan and Jason Cornish Should Not Be Trusted With Passwords
Not every hacker out there is a computer genius: Sometimes all it takes to do some serious damage is a little password. It seems really obvious, but one thing that security experts have to keep reminding companies is that if you're gonna fire someone, it might be a good idea to change your damned passwords. Especially if the guy you fired happened to be a vindictive asshole.
Take Jason Cornish, a former IT administrator at the U.S. subsidiary of Japanese drug company Shionogi, who, after being fired for the second time that year (he was let go in July 2010 but brought back as a consultant, then fired again in September), decided to spend his wealth of free time messing with his former employer.
Throw in a mini-fridge, and you never have to leave the keyboard.
Over the next four months, Cornish attempted again and again to access the company's network -- using the passwords and system knowledge he acquired while working there -- until he succeeded in February 2011 and trashed 15 virtual hosts containing vital information. Oh, and he did that while sitting in a McDonald's, leeching off their free Wi-Fi.
Cornish's attack "froze Shionogi's operations for a number of days" -- employees were no longer able to ship products, cut checks or send emails, because all that stuff and more depended on the hosts that he deleted. Perhaps he wanted his former colleagues to know what it feels like to be unemployed and have nothing to do all day, although it's more likely that he was just being a douche. His attack cost Shionogi $800,000 in damages, and Cornish now faces 10 years in jail and a hefty fine. It wasn't hard to catch him; while he was smart enough to do it from the McDonald's public Wi-Fi connection instead of his own, he actually used his fucking credit card to buy food there five minutes before the attack.
Via Creditcardchaser.com
Presumably while yelling, "I AM JASON CORNISH, AND I AM GOING TO HACK THINGS AT THAT BOOTH!"
But Cornish isn't the only disgruntled IT guy of dubious intelligence who abused passwords to get revenge on his old company. Joseph Patrick Nolan resigned from the Ann Arbor-based Pentastar Aviation in January 2007, but later found out that he wouldn't get his last paycheck because he neglected to sign his separation agreement in time. Nolan took the news like the mature 26-year-old that he was, by which we mean that he logged in to the company's computer system and took a shit all over it.
Nolan accessed his former employer's database and proceeded to obliterate an entire computer drive containing personnel information and payroll records, presumably figuring that if he didn't get paid, no one else should. It cost the company between $30,000 and $50,000 to repair the damage over the next few months, and in the meantime everyone at the office had to be called "that guy" or "that other guy."
"Well, for right now, I just put you in as Butt Muscle. So you'll probably want to let your bank know."
At least Cornish carried out his anonymous attack from a public Wi-Fi connection -- Nolan did it from his own apartment, and it's not clear how anyone mildly familiar with computers could have expected to get away with it. He was sentenced to four years probation, had to pay $1,158.25 to Pentastar and was even shamed into quitting his sweet new job as a senior infrastructure specialist at the Ann Arbor Information Technology Department. Hopefully he remembered to sign the damn agreement this time.
#1. Timothy Lloyd Plants $10 Million Time Bomb
When Timothy Lloyd was fired from Omega Engineering, a company that produced equipment for the U.S. Navy and NASA, his employers thought they'd finally gotten rid of a rogue programmer who bottlenecked and sabotaged projects to make his colleagues look bad and generally acted like a massive dick toward everyone. He was like every bad IT guy stereotype put together. What they didn't know was that even after he was gone, Lloyd would continue haunting them through six little lines of code he had written into the main computer that would pretty much ruin the entire company:
We're assuming every programmer reading this just shat their pants.
Lloyd had worked at Omega since the '80s and was at one time their star employee. However, as Omega expanded, Lloyd felt he was losing relevance and being marginalized (his being a dick probably didn't help). Rather than stepping up his game and proving he still had it, Lloyd started devising a Machiavellian plan. In early 1996, months before his firing, he began testing a little program that would be triggered at a specific date, running a simple line of code that would delete a certain sector of the main server.
At the same time he started centralizing the most important documents in the company's file system in the same place, and asked for access to the only backup tapes for those files. Meanwhile, he began visiting job fairs and interviewing at other companies.
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He also sought revenge for the death of the other two Gruber brothers.
And so on July 10, 1996, Lloyd had to act all surprised when he was finally fired from Omega, doing his best to suppress the maniacal laughter roaring inside of him. Because, you see, exactly 20 days after his firing, on July 30, employees at an Omega manufacturing plant in New Jersey logged in to a computer terminal ... and everything was deleted. More than a thousand design and production programs (i.e., the whole thing they did at Omega) were wiped out in seconds, which ended up costing a staggering $10 million to the company and killing their bright future. In the '90s Omega was a rising manufacturer with contracts all over the world -- today they don't even have their own Wikipedia page, and it's probably all on this guy.
But wait, how could something like that even happen? Didn't they have backups or something for such important files? Yep -- Lloyd had taken them home in the weeks before his firing (along with $50,000 worth of stolen equipment) and deleted them. The baffling thing here is that Lloyd created this complex plan to get revenge on something that hadn't happened yet -- he knew he was such a colossal dick that they had to fire him at some point, and in preparing for the eventuality gave them an even better reason to do it.
"I give this company years of dedicated service, and you fire me just for plotting its downfall?"
He was eventually sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay a $2 million restitution. While his career as a programmer is probably dead by now, we think he could make some decent money doing consulting work for supervillains.
Benjamin Buso lives in Texas and is currently seeking employment in security consulting.
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