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How to Paint Your Own CarWritten by John McGann on April 1, 2008 We got a little help from the local tech school when painted the Car Craft Mustang. Here's how it was done.
Every April, we paint a car, and this time around, we made an honest girl out of our '67 Mustang coupe, which made its first appearance in CC exactly two years ago. To refresh your memory, we picked up this lowly I-6/C4 commuter from its previous owner for $2,000. And it looked like what you'd expect from a 40-year-old car at that price. There were several layers of paint, some rust spots, and someone in the recent past was a regular practitioner of the "park by feel" method-reverse till you hit something, forward till you hit something, inch back, and ... you're good. As you'd expect, the front and rear of the car had more creases and folds than the entire cast of The Biggest Loser.
Over the last few years, we've featured mostly garage jobs for our paint stories, so this year we decided on a different approach. We sent the car to professionals, or at least professionals- in-training. We phoned our buddy Brian Ferre: bodyman, pinstriper, custom painter, and full-time instructor at Los Angeles Trade Technical College, who offered his services and those of his Collision Repair and Refinishing students. Cool-we'd have a team of builders just like the rich guys do.
The students killed themselves over the course of two and a half months and, with a lot of help from the guys at Year One, Goodmark, and The Eastwood Co, the result is a body and paint job much better than we'd even asked for. Watch and read as the saga unfolds.
Like any major project, the first step in your paint job is to determine your desired outcome. Is this going to be a show car, a weekend cruiser, your daily driver, or a demolition derby competitor?
Our Mustang is going to be a track car and cruise-night driver, so it doesn't need to win any awards for looks. Having determined that, we decided against stripping the car to bare metal and planned instead to rough it up and straighten it out prior to its new coat of paint.
Nothing earth-shattering here-taking things apart is usually easier than putting them back together. Devise a system to keep things organized when the time does come to reassemble. In our case, the students put fasteners and small parts in manila envelopes, marking the contents on the outside. It is also helpful to take pictures of things as they come apart. It will reduce your pile of mystery bolts left over after the job is done.
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Dent Pulling
The Mustang's hood was munched pretty badly, and since we had our eyes on a tasty-looking shelby-style fiberglass hood, we tossed the stock one, eliminating the need to metal-finish it. However, the rear lower valance was hopeless, so we ordered a replacement piece from Goodmark Industries.Replacement taillight panels are available, but Ferre wanted his students to take on the task of straightening out the one on our Mustang. With the bumper, fuel tank, and taillights removed, it was easier to read the damage. Notice the two large dents framing the area where the license plate would be? That is where the initial impact occurred-pushing the panel up and in, causing the second dent to form next to the fuel-filler opening.To straighten this panel, we needed to force the dent out in the opposite manner it occurred. The students pushed the car onto the school's Chief EZ Liner frame machine and mounted a pair of clamps in the area of the initial impact. Ferre made an initial pull.With tension still on the chains, Ferre struck the backside of the secondary dent to relieve the tension in the sheet metal in that area. Once the tension there is relieved, the initial dent can be fixed. In other words, all the dents in the taillight panel need to be worked out together rather than treated as three separate dents to be hammered out one at a time.With the chains off the car, Ferre checked the work so far. He showed the students that the most efficient work isn't necessarily the fastest. Taking time to check progress often helps avoid mistakes. Also, with a panel as badly damaged as ours, you'll need to look for clues to figure out how the it's supposed to look. From the factory, the taillight panel on our Mustang had a strong inverse vertical curve, but it also curves in slightly along the horizontal line above the bumper mounts. This is important to know because the temptation would be to pull until that line is straight. Instead, we needed to square up the gas tank opening in the trunk floor just behind the taillight panel, leaving a slight inward horizontal curve at the bumper mounts.The chains went back for one final pull. Please note that you don't need your own frame machine to do this work, so you can stop filling out that loan application. Be creative. The key is to figure out how to apply force to the dent in the opposite direction of the force that created it. This can also be done by pushing on the dent with a hydraulic bottle jack or a Port-O-Power. We've even heard of people chaining the car to tie-downs in the garage floor and pulling on it with a pickup truck.Be aware that the force of an impact like the one to the back of our Mustang can travel through the car's entire body, especially in a unibody car. Check the whole car for ripples and waviness, paying close attention to the quarterpanels, sail panels and roof. Also, look for misalignment of the doors and body gaps. The Mustang had two small creases in the left quarter-panel that were a direct result of the hit to the rear. Ferre hammered them out while the chains were still attached to the rear of the car.The students took the Mustang off the frame machine when the taillight panel was close enough to be finished by hand. At this point, the front fenders were removed and inspected. since there was only minor surface rust, they were cleaned up with a wire brush, and coated with Eastwood's Rust Encapsulator.
Meanwhile, the students block-sanded the rest of the car with 80-grit sandpaper. Though the Mustang had at least three paint jobs already, the paint was in pretty good shape-no peeling or flaking, so we could paint over it rather than stripping it all off.We treated the old paint as if it were a layer of fillerprimer. Block sanding it took most of the waviness out of the sides of the car. You can see by the different colors around the door handle openings and around the side vents where the high and low spots from the previous paint jobs were.At this point, the dents had become smaller and harder to see. Ferre showed the students how to feel for the remaining high and low spots.When the Goodmark replacement valance panel arrived, the guys used it to check their repair of the taillight panel. It was almost a perfect fit. The taillight panel only needed a little more massaging with a hammer and dolly to get all the attachment points to line up with the new valance.We also got new door hinges from Year One. Once they were installed, the door gaps were aligned. To get properly fitting body gaps, you need to align the doors first (since the quarter-panels are fixed on most cars), then align the fenders to the doors, then finally align the hood to the fenders.After receiving the fiberglass hood from Year One, we cleaned it with a water-based solvent to remove the mold-release agents-chemicals used to remove a fiberglass piece from the mold it was formed in. If these release agents aren't removed, they will contaminate the paint job, possibly causing lifting or bubbling as the paint cures. After that, the guys sanded the hood lightly with 150-grit sandpaper on a dual-action (DA) sander, scuffing the surface in preparation for filler and primer.Body Filler
Once the taillight panel had been straightened out to the point where there were only a few small waves left, it was ready for body filler-often generically referred to as Bondo. LATTC student Omar Holloway ground off all the paint where filler would be applied with a 36-grit disc on an angle grinder. The paint had been left on until now because it's easier to see dents in a glossy, painted surface than it is on bare metal.
Ferre then demonstrated the proper way to mix and apply body filler. scoop out the amount you'll need using a stir stick or Bondo spreader.Add the correct amount of hardener as recommended on the product's instructions. The correct ratio of hardener to filler is often described as looking like a bird dropping.Spread the filler in the repair area using enough pressure to keep from trapping air bubbles. When working in areas with body lines or sharp curves, start at the peak and spread the filler away from it. notice how Ferre spread the filler up and away from the horizontal line where the bumper mounts.Here's a cool timesaving tool. Holloway used a file often called a cheese grater to cut the high spots of the filler just before it is fully hardened. Once fully dry, the filler is extremely hard and can require a serious workout just sanding through the spreader lines. use a cheese grater to cut down the high spots in the filler while it still feels tacky, but no longer squishy. It will save a lot of time and effort.The proper method for sanding filler is to use 80-grit sandpaper on a sanding block, following up with 150-grit. Ferre showed the students how to use the different sizes of sanding blocks to fit the various contours of the car. To avoid sanding grooves and flat spots into the repair, sand in an X-shaped pattern using the longest block that will fit in the area being sanded. It is also helpful to spray a guide coat-a very light misting of a contrasting paint color from an aerosol can. Then sand until the guide coat is gone.The right-side quarter-panel was sanded properly and ready for a coat of metal glaze, also referred to as finishing putty. It's like body filler, but lighter and thinner, and used as a "topcoat" over body filler. It's easier to sand and therefore more useful in final-sanding surfaces with compound curves or complex shapes. It's also less porous than body filler and shows fewer pinholes when painted over. notice the light green color of the glaze on the taillight panel.
To best prevent overspray from getting to parts you don't want painted, Ferre recommended using large sections of masking paper, creasing and folding them to follow curves and bends, such as around the windshield. The fewer seams you have, the less risk you run of having the tape lift while you're spraying.Second year student Jason Park was elected to spray the first coats of sealer. To prep the car, he hit it again with another blast of compressed air, wiping it with a tack cloth.Because several areas of the car were sanded to bare metal, those spots need a coat of etching primer or a Direct To Metal (DTM) epoxy primer sealer like DuPont's V2970s. We went with the DTM sealer because we had a little left over from the last car we painted.We originally planned to just spray the areas of bare metal, but since we had enough of the DTM sealer, Park sprayed the whole car with one coat using a DeVilbiss High Volume Low Pressure (HVLP) spray gun and a 1.4 fluid tip.Park demonstrated the proper spray technique. Hold the paint gun perpendicular to the surface being painted, at a distance of about the width between the tips of your thumb and pinky as if you were making the "hang-loose" sign. Overlap each pass by 50 percent, making long passes across the width of each panel or sections of panels, as in the case of the side of the car.Next, Park sprayed two coats of DuPont 2804s high solids urethane sealer. Sealers perform many functions. They act as a barrier between the new and old paint preventing swelling and lifting, they are also an adhesion promoter, and they make the car a uniform, neutral color. This is important when doing a color change like we are. If our metalwork was superstraight, we could topcoat directly over the sealer without an additional layer of primer. And since paint is semitransparent, painting over a neutral grey background would ensure even color over the whole car.In order to eliminate the appearance of any remaining ripples and waves in our sheetmetal, the students each took a turn at spraying Alsa's APs-22712 urethane primersurfacer. These types of primers, also called buildup primer or filler primer, are meant to be sprayed on in relatively thick coats and sanded flat once they've cured. They level out as they cure, filling sand scratches and small nicks and dings. The students sprayed the car with two coats of primer using a 2.5 fluid tip in the spray gun. Compared with the technique used to apply the sealer, basecoat, and clearcoat, this is like spraying with a fire hose. Prior to being removed from the paint booth, the car was again sprayed with a light guidecoat, the reddish splotches you see in the photo.
After allowing the primer to cure for 24 hours, the students began wet-sanding the primer, doing the whole car with 220-grit sandpaper, and then repeating the process with 400-grit. Here sergio Ortiz shows the proper sanding technique. notice he's using a long sanding block and moving long, broad strokes in an X-shaped pattern. This is to prevent sanding grooves and gouges into the primer.If this final step before topcoating sounds like a lot of work, you're right. However, Ferre says this is the most important step in refinishing a car. "It's your last chance to get the car straight before you paint it." To get it right, sand until the guidecoat is gone, constantly checking your progress as you go. When you get to the point where you just start to see the layer underneath the primer (in this case, the gray sealer), you're done.Block-sanded and ready to go, the car was rolled back into the spray booth and masked up again for its color coat. We chose Competition Orange, a '70 Mercury color, hoping it would really jump off our cover. We mixed the color using the tints at the school. The paint is mixed by weight-the formula listed by grams.In the booth, second year student Omar Benitez mixed the paint and laid down a solid coat of orange. After the color cures we are going to mask off some shelby stripes and paint them in Wimbledon White, following that up with three layers of Dupont 2400s Clearcoat.


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South Carolina nursing injuries after victory at UCF
Gamecocks' Shaw, Waldrop, Wilds could all miss time
Published: Sunday, September 29, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, September 30, 2013 at 12:28 a.m.
South Carolina just had a bye last week but could use a few more with its current injury situation.
The No. 13 Gamecocks held on to defeat UCF 28-25 Saturday afternoon, but starting quarterback Connor Shaw, starting center Cody Waldrop and backup running back Brandon Wilds all suffered significant injuries in the win.
Shaw sprained his throwing shoulder, while Waldrop sprained his ankle. Wilds suffered a dislocated elbow.
Wilds' injury is believed to be the worst of the three as he is expected to miss 3-4 weeks. Spurrier said Shaw will likely be out 2-3 weeks, adding that there is a chance Waldrop could play Saturday against Kentucky.
With Shaw out, former Boiling Springs star Dylan Thompson will start at quarterback for the Gamecocks (3-1, 1-1 SEC).
Spurrier was pleased with Thompson's play during the win over UCF and hopes he continues to play well moving forward.
"He prepares every week as if he's going to play a lot," Spurrier said during his teleconference on Sunday. "Whether or not he plays better when he knows he starts I don't know. Let's hope so because he's starting this week, and he may need to play very well for us to beat Kentucky."
USC starting running back Mike Davis will continue to carry the bulk of the load for the running game, but with Wilds out, the backup job is up for grabs.
Sophomore Shon Carson is the most likely candidate to replace Wilds, but Spurrier said highly-touted true freshman David Williams may also get a look.
The Gamecocks appeared set to redshirt Williams but that could change now.
"There's a chance we may bring David Williams on to the varsity," Spurrier said. "He and Shon can sort of get ready to play, along with Mike Davis."
Waldrop, who has already missed time this season with a sprained foot, would be replaced by Clayton Stadnik if he is unable to go.
The freshman started at Georgia and against Vanderbilt when Waldrop was out earlier this season.
Spurrier said Waldrop is a "wait-and-see" for this week.
In addition to injury concerns, USC is also dealing with a suspension to starting receiver Shaq Roland.
The sophomore was leading the team in receiving yards entering Saturday's game at UCF but did not make the trip to Orlando because of a suspension.
Spurrier said he would provide an update on Roland's status later this week. He declined to comment on what caused the suspension but said it was not related to an arrest, anything on social media or misbehavior in the classroom.
"It's a university policy," Spurrier said. "Somehow or another he was in violation. That's about all I should say I guess."
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When sixteen-year-old John Edgar told his mother he was interested in having weight loss surgery she had reservations.
Billie Edgar says, "John had talked to me about the procedure before. And I had put it off because I thought he was too young, he needs to continue to try to diet."
But at 407 pounds his mother finally gave in to him having bariatric weight-loss surgery.
Billie says, "Just all at once I looked at him and I got to thinking he may not live to be 18. He's 16 years old and I had fear that he wouldn't be here for his 18th birthday."
So John and his mother attended a seminar with Dr. John Husted with the Metabolic Surgery Center at Baptist Hospital in Nashville.
John Edgar says, "After attending the seminar I met with Dr. Husted afterwards. He gave me all the information about it, all the health hazards. And anything I might need to know before ever considering this."
When the Discovery Health Channel got word that a 16-year-old would be having the surgery they contacted John and his mother.
Billie says, "When they approached us about Discovery working with him and filming it and following him, I was for it. For the fact that I know what it could do. But I told him it was totally up to him."
John says, "I first looked at it and though maybe I didn't want this much into my personal life. Then I thought about the different people I could help, me being at a young age when I had the surgery. I could help so many people."
Since the surgery life has changed a lot for John.
John says, "After the weight loss, I have a different outlook on how I feel and act."
Billie says, "He's so much healthier now. He's happier now. I now do not have the fear that I'm going to wake up one morning and find him dead from a heart attack."
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It's a given that cycling in it's many forms is "the best sport". That's not really up for debate, but I think there might also be a case for the sport of professional cycling also having the best fans. Talking the Tour de France as my example, I'll attempt to demonstrate.
The Basque Fans
They situate themselves high on the climbs of the Pyrenees, and they seem to tread the thin line between going absolutely bezerk at every cyclist, and not quite knocking them off their bikes. You can't imagine them getting any more excited, until you see how they react when an Euskatel rider is storming up the mountain in front.
The Borats
I'm not even convinced these guys are cycling fans, but they've been sporting their mankinis by the side of the road for a few Tours now and I think those 'taches are actually real so they deserve a mention.
This woman on a horse
I love it when you get someone on a horse riding full pelt alongside the peleton. I makes a great shot from the helicopter too. And it appears to amuse the riders. You never see this kind of thing in football, or Formula 1.
These sumo guys
Not content to just run alongside the Shlecks, these guys even manage it with inflated sumo suits acting as a sail. I wonder weather the guy drafting him took a turn up front.
Lampre fan
His cycling shorts go down over his knees. He's wearing socks with sandals. His jersey doesn't cover his belly. He has camel toe. (Or is that moose knuckle). He is awesome to behold.
Lance's biggest fan
Hard to miss this guy, his flag is larger than most bed sheets, and when you watch him run alongside the peleton, it's hard not to wonder which poor rider is going to lose an eye.


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How many positive integer solutions does the equation x^2+y^2+z^2-xz-yz = 1 have? My guess is (1,0,1), (0,1,1) and (1,1,1). What is proof of that fact that there are none other?
To elaborate on Robin's suggestion, set $x=v+w,y=u+w,z=u+v$, and the equation becomes $$u^2+v^2+2w^2=1,$$ with $u=(y+z-x)/2,v=(x-y+z)/2,w=(x+y-z)/2$ being half-integers. Now a brute force run through the possibilities is feasible, since $|u|\leq 1$ and such.
For the quick answer, you can use Mathematica:
Reduce[x x + y y + z z - x z - y z == 1, Integers]
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Shame they are going to close this, I actually know something about this one. Your form is equivalent to $$ X^2 + Y^2 + Z^2 + Y Z + Z X + X Y $$ meaning there is an invertible integral change of variables. This is a regular form and integrally represents the same numbers as $$ U^2 + V^2 + 2 W^2 $$ which is to say all numbers not of shape $$ 4^k ( 16 m + 14 ) .$$ As it is positive definite, rather than just semidefinite, there are simple bounds on possible values for the variables in your original $$ x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - y z - z x \leq M$$ which can be derived either by eigenvalues for the related symmetric Gram matrix,or, as I do, by Lagrange multipliers in maximizing $x^2$ or $y^2$ or $z^2$ subject to the constraint given. So all solutions to $$ x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - y z - z x = M$$ can be found fairly quickly even for large $M.$
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Does anyone know of a method to convert a File Geodatabase Table into an Access 2007 Table programmatically. I have been trying using the PYODBC library and a series of insert statements but am having difficultly with some of the data types and NULL. Basically an unload to Access.
Along the lines of this question, I wonder if you could pull the table out of the file geodatabase into a text file, then programmatically slurp the text file into Access? Here is a post on Stackoverflow to check out and here is a blog post on using Python with ADO.
Untested, but this should work: Create a personal geodatabase, import file-gdb into that, then open the resulting .mdb in Access 2007 and upgrade it from the Access side. If any of the source feature classes exceed 2gb you'll need to do add some logic for splitting things into pieces and recombining.


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Under the law, disclosures must be made to you, upon your request (unless medically contraindicated) and when required by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate or determine compliance with HIPAA.
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Fund Raising - We may contact you in connection with fundraising activities for AtlantiCare, but you will be afforded the opportunity to opt out of receiving any such communications.
Change of Ownership - In the event that one or more of the AtlantiCare entities is sold or merged with another organization, your Protected Health Information will become the property of the new owner.
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Use or disclosure of your Protected Health Information for any other circumstances requires your authorization. This includes uses and disclosures for marketing purposes and the sale of personal health information. If you authorize us to use or disclose your Protected Health Information in a circumstance for which authorization is required, you may revoke your
authorization in writing at any time. However, the revocation will not be effective to the extent that AtlantiCare has taken action in reliance on the use or disclosure allowed by the Authorization.
If your Protected Health Information includes "psychotherapy notes" as defined by HIPAA, the psychotherapy notes will be only used and disclosed with your authorization.
We may disclosure proof of immunizations to a school where State or other law requires the school to have such information with your agreement and without written authorization.
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You have the right to request restrictions on the uses and disclosures of your Protected Health Information. This means you may ask us not to use or disclose any part of your Protected Health Information for treatment, payment or healthcare operations. You may also request that any part of your Protected Health Information not be disclosed to family members or friends who may be involved in your care, or for notification purposes as described in this Joint Notice. Any such requests for restrictions must be in writing, be addressed to the Privacy Officer and state the specific restriction requested and to whom you want the restriction to apply. However, we are not required to comply with your request, unless you are asking us to restrict the use and disclosure of your Protected Health Information to a health plan for payment or health care operation purposes and such information you wish to restrict pertains solely to a health care item or service for which you have paid us "out-of-pocket" in full.
2. Opt-out of HIE
With regard to the AtlantiCare HIE only, if you do not wish to allow otherwise authorized doctors, nurses and other clinicians involved in your care to electronically share your Protected Health Information with one another through the AtlantiCare HIE as set forth in this Joint Notice, you can complete, sign and submit the AtlantiCare HIE Opt-Out form to your provider, or by fax or mail as instructed on that form, and we will honor any Opt-Out selection that you make. The AtlantiCare HIE Opt-Out form can be obtained directly from any AtlantiCare HIE-participating provider, or you can download the form from www.atlanticare.org or call 1-888-569-1000. If you opt-out of the AtlantiCare HIE, your Protected Health Information will continue to be accessed and released, electronically or otherwise, as needed to provide treatment to you, but will not be made available for such purpose through the AtlantiCare HIE.
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You have the right to request your Protected Health Information be received by you through confidential means. However, we may condition this accommodation by asking you for information as to how payment will be handled or a specification of an alternative address or other method of contact. We will not request an explanation from you as to the basis for the request. Your request must be in writing, be addressed to the Privacy Officer and state the specific alternate means or location.
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5. Request to Amend Your Medical Record
You have a right to request that we amend the Protected Health Information contained in your Designated Record Set if you believe it is incorrect or incomplete. However, we are not required to make any such amendments. If we deny a request, we will provide you with information about our denial and explain how you can disagree with the denial by filing a statement of disagreement with us. We may then prepare a rebuttal to your statement and will provide you with a copy of any such rebuttal. All of these documents will be placed in the appropriate part of your Designated Record Set. If you are requesting that we amend your records because you believe that you are a victim of medical identity theft, we will use reasonable efforts to assist you in making corrections to your record which are determined to be appropriate under the circumstances.
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You have a right to receive an accounting of disclosures of your Protected Health Information made by us, except that we do not have to account for disclosures: made prior to April 14, 2003; authorized by you; made for treatment, payment, health care operations (unless such disclosures are made through an EHR, in which case an additional accounting may be provided to you in accordance with applicable law); provided in response to an Authorization; made in order to notify and communicate with family; for certain government functions, and/or disclosures provided to you, to name a few. The right to receive an accounting is subject to exceptions, restrictions and limitations.
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In accordance with law, AtlantiCare has a duty to notify you if there is a breach of your unsecured Protected Health Information.
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You have a right to a paper copy of this Joint Notice of Privacy Practices upon request, even if you have agreed to accept the Joint Notice electronically.
If you would like to have a more detailed explanation of these rights or if you would like to exercise one or more of these rights, contact AtlantiCare's Privacy Officer.
We are required by law to maintain the privacy of your Protected Health Information and to provide you with a copy of this Joint Notice.
We are also required to abide by the terms of this Joint Notice. We reserve the right to amend this Joint Notice at any time in the future and to make the new Joint Notice provisions applicable to all your Protected Health Information – even if it was created prior to the change in the Joint Notice. If such amendment is made, we will immediately display the revised Joint Notice at our office, and on our Web Site at www.atlanticare.org. We will also provide you with a copy, at any time, upon request.
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You may make complaints to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) for the New Jersey region if you believe your rights have been violated. You may contact OCR at:
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You may contact us about our privacy practices by calling the Privacy Office at: 1 (609) 407-7788.


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Today I proved that if $V$ is a normed space with norm $\|\cdot\|$ then I can define a norm on $V \times V$ that induces the same topology as the product topology as follows: $\| (v,w) \|_{V \times V} = \|v\| + \|w\|$.
I think I can do the same for an infinite product $V^{\mathbb N}$ by defining $\|(v_n)\|_{\mathbb N} = \sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{1}{2^n} \|v_n\|$ and I proved it using the proof of the case $V \times V$ and changing some minor things.
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The USM Campus Safety Project is a university-wide effort to promote healthy relationships at USM by providing prevention education and response training on sexual assault, stalking, and relationship abuse for students, faculty, and staff, as well as coordinating campus and community-based programs and services.
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Support for Victims
If you or someone you know has been impacted by sexual assault, dating, domestic violence, stalking, and/or sexual harassment, the University wants to ensure that you get all of the information and support that you need. Confidential community advocates are available 24 hours a day via the link to the right (or calling the Sexual Assault Hotling at 1-800-871-7741 or the Dating/Relationship Abuse Hotline at 1-866-834-4357). Immediate help is always available by calling 9-1-1. USM Public Safety is available to assist USM Community Members no matter where the incident occurred and can be reached at 207-780-5212 or 9-1-1 from an on-campus phone.
On campus confidential support is available during business hours through University Health and Counseling at 207-780-4050.
For information about how to file a report and to seek other assistance, including a no contact order, academic extensions, housing relocation, etc., please contact Sarah Holmes, Assistant Dean of Students and Deputy Title IX Coordinator at (207) 780-5767 or email@example.com.
Quick Links
- Contact an Advocate
- USM Employees - Important Information (PDF)
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- Mandatory "Not Anymore" Online Training
- University Health and Counseling Services
- Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine (Cumberland and York Counties)
- Family Crisis Services (Cumberland County)
- Sexual Assault Prevention & Response Services (Adroscoggin, Franklin and Oxford Counties)
- Safe Voices (Domestic Violence Agency for Adroscoggin, Franklin and Oxford Counties)
- USM Dean of Students Office
- University Policies (including the Student Code Code)
- USM Public Safety (including the anonymous crime reporting form)
- The Well - Community Wellness Centers in Portland and Gorham
- USM Center for Sexualities and Gender Diversity
- Don't Cancel That Class (guest presentations for faculty)


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I am trying to use FaceBook Registration Plugin (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/registration/). It already has name field which I dont want to use instead i want to use my own First Name and Last Name fields Is there a way to do so ?
In the iframe url of the registration plugin, you pass in a json object listing the fields you would like on the form.
You can specify named fields (ie ones that exist within Facebook and so can be pre-populated) and also custom fields (anything that facebook doesn't know, but you might want). For example:
It's worth noting that facebook already has named fields for firstname and lastname - you can ask for these and facebook will pre-populate the fields, but allow the user to change them.
All this is documented at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/registration/
If a user is registering to your site using the plugin, they are trying to connect via Facebook and therefore would like to have their information auto-filled. If they do not, then that Name field can work for a First Name and Last Name by allowing them to enter their full name.
The problem is, that plugin is optimized for use by Facebook users AND non-facebook users, shown here:
With that said, they intend for this form to work for non-Facebook signups as well. I don't believe you can edit the forms since it uses an iframe and calls those fields through it with no user-allowed editing of the plugin. However, this doesn't mean that you could use the Facebook API to create your own plugin, or maybe a CMS you would use would have its own as well...
Another option is to have your own form, but have a "Sign In with Facebook!" link.
To answer your question directly: No, it does not look like it is editable in any way, but there are alternatives if you do not appreciate the way that the form already works.


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It's that time of the week--time to link up to Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday! This week, we have to write about the letter "L." Ironically, Blogher's Life Well Lived series wants me to write a post this week about Looking your Best! I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone since these two things came together so well!
The question(s) I'm supposed to answer are:
Do you have a favorite blogger or YouTube channel for hair tutorials?
Do you create your own?
What's your best tip for finding the best tips?
Now, when it comes to hair, I've lost the hair lottery. My hair is very thin and fine. It seems the older I get, the worse it gets. I'd like to say that I rely heavily on the internet to find ways to get my hair to look better. Honestly, it has never occurred to me to check out hair tutorials on YouTube. The most I can claim to do is to do internet searches in order to find hair products that would work with my hair without weighing it down too much.
My tip for finding the best tips is: ask a hair stylist that you adore for tips! They know hair, and if they're good with your hair, then they'll steer you in the right direction.
The best tip I've ever received for my hair was from a hair stylist I used to go to in Beverly Hills. She knew her stuff. Many famous celebrities went to her to get their hair done. She was a wealth of information. One of the best tips she ever gave me was to buy the Caruso Steam rollers that were being heavily advertised on television infomercials. She was usually against any type of heated appliance such as curling irons for my hair. But she insisted that these rollers would add body to my hair without damaging it. She was right--they are fabulous! I still use them to this day!
Please check out the tips other bloggers have left here.
Are you interested in a chance at winning a Kindle Fire? Then comment here!
I'd also love to know the best tip you ever received for your hair. Where did you get it?
I think we sometimes get so wrapped up in our busy lives that we don't always look our best. My pledge for 2012 is to put a little more effort back into looking good!


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Law School Stages Transatlantic Corporate Governance Event
This past winter, Columbia Law School co-organized an international conference in Washington, D.C., to discuss the impact of shareholder engagement on corporate governance and financial performance. Professor Ronald J. Gilson chaired the 2011 Transatlantic Corporate Governance Dialogue conference, which brought together more than 100 scholars, executives, lawyers, journalists, and government officials. In his welcoming comments, Professor Jeffrey N. Gordon pointed out that institutional investors are often criticized for shirking their governance duties, while investors such as hedge funds are accused of excessive activism. Professor Katharina Pistor also hosted a panel discussion addressing barriers to institutional investor engagement.


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The general advice I have heard for surprise lightning storms when climbing is to retreat. Since retreating quickly is not without danger itself and often is not even all that quick (I personally have spent two hours plus retreating), I was wondering if there are any other well tested strategies. I was thinking leaving most metal gear behind on the route and just waiting out the storm on a ledge could work? Are there any reported incidents of climbers getting struck by lightning with that strategy? Are there other strategies that have worked for people?
I am by no means an authority on lightning in any way. With that said, however, I have had my share of getting caught climbing in a thunderstorm, and have since tried to do some reading on the subject. The biggest hurdle to surmount here is that most lightning safety advice revolves around seeking shelter, which is often not a viable option midway up a multipitch route.
Here are some points worth considering:
The rough points, as I understand them, are as follows:
Some references
NOLS Backcountry Lightning Risk Management - 2010
10 Lightning Tips for Climbers - by Stewart Green
Storms and Lightning - guidedolomiti.com
As stated above, I am no authority on the subject, and welcome any criticism, corrections, and addenda to this post
Illustration of the voltage difference your multiple points of contact with the ground offer the ground current (page 3 of the NOLS link):
It's risk management. The best way to handle a storm is to get down before it starts. Check the weather and be down by noon or whenever the weather normally gets genned up.
If you're in a thunderstorm and you're very high, it is probably more dangerous to rush a technical descent than to wait out the storm or continue climbing (up or down) normally. Don't overreact. Lightning normally strikes the top or bottom as opposed to a vertical cliff face.
If you are caught in a storm, think about how to stay warm and dry enough to continue up or down safely. It will probably be colder and you'll be wetter after the storm. Your hands don't function as well when they're cold, and when you're hypothermic your judgement isn't as keen.
The small lengths of metal gear you have is not likely to affect a bolt of lightning that has traveled hundreds or thousands of feet through the air to get to the ground. As long as your hair doesn't start sticking out, don't worry about it.


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i received my new "toy" on fri.
Have been searching the forms for various infomration and my eyes are now glazed over.
I am using a D700 with a 35-70mm lens (for a start). Set everything up and now am wondering what degree to start with as a beginner.
Just a bit of back ground, I am an experienced photographer and have been playing with panos off and on, with film and now digital. Mainly by hand or on a tripod with a panning head. I tend to over lap about 25%
As my interest in better result grew and talking with the nice folks At Nodal Ninja i purchased the NN5 with the RD16 rotator.
I would appreciate a basic idea of which degree to use to optain about a 25% overlapping.
I hope to get out in the next few days for some testing but am looking for a rough estimate.
With all the searching and reading i am finding all these numbers about low raiils, upper rails etc being a bit overwhelming.
I followed the directions on the website and have the bottom rail in place with the stop in place, am i missing something as i really thought that was all needed to do before checking for parrallex ?
The reveiw done with the various calucators mentioned in several threads is indicating 8.3 images for a 70mm lens with a 180 pano, does this include the overlapping? That would be in portrait mode.
Thanks for any assistance


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To the Editor,
"The Supreme Court has ruled that because the Selective Service Act is aimed at creating a list of men who could be drafted for combat - and women are not in combat jobs - American women aren't required to register upon turning 18 as all males are. If combat jobs open to women, Congress would have to decide what to do about that law."
The above statement was included in an article concerning the expanded role of females in the military. If it wasn't so sad, it would be funny - Congress deciding anything. We got to our current high-priced all volunteer military today because Congress wanted to avoid such a decision years ago and will continue to do so in the future. Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-military - I joined the Marine Corps as a private in 1958 and left its Reserves in 1982 as a captain. My four sons have all served honorably in the military with three of them seeing service in the first Gulf War. So, I'm not attacking the military but expressing thoughts as to our elected officials being capable of deciding anything but how much to raise their pay.
William Johnson


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I'm currently working on an RPG, using the RPG starter kit from XNA as a base. (http://xbox.create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/sample/roleplaying_game) I'm working with a small team (two designers and one music/sound artist), but I'm the only programmer. Currently, we're working with the following (unsustainable) system: the team creates new pics/sounds to add to the game, or they modify existing sounds/pics, then they commit their work to a repository, where we keep a current build of everything. (Code, images, sound, etc.) Every day or so, I create a new installer, reflecting the new images, code changes, and sound, and everyone installs it.
My issue is this: I want to create a system where the rest of the team can replace the combat sounds, for instance, and they can immediately see the changes, without having to wait for me to build. The way XNA's setup, if I publish, it encodes all of the image and sound files, so the team can't "hot swap." I can set up Microsoft VS on everyone's machine and show them how to quickly publish, but I wanted to know if there was a simpler way of doing this.
Has anyone come up against this when working with teams using XNA?


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SAND ISLAND, WA – An international animal protection watchdog group has released a video exposing the cruelty, secrecy and misconduct of three Federal agencies in a tax -unded slaughter of thousands of native birds off the Pacific Coast – and wasting taxpayer money trying to cover it up.
"The US Army Corps of Engineers, the US Dept. of Agriculture's Wildlife Services and the US Coast Guard are working together to keep the public from witnessing what is happening to animals held in public trust, on public waters, with our money," said SHARK (SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness)
SHARK's operation on the Columbia River, to document the slaughter of cormorants by the USDA/Wildlife Services, has been peaceful and non-violent - and incredibly successful.
While we were on the water, the USDA boat was not shooting birds. How then did the USDA and the their partner, the Army Corps of Engineers react? They went to the Coast Guard and asked for a so-called "Safety Zone," and the Coast Guard gave it to them.
This exclusionary zone meant that we were not allowed to come within 500 yards of the USDA's boat - a ridiculously large area that had nothing to do with safety and everything to do with the government wanting to make sure no one saw their bloody work. That's how shameful this slaughter is.
The public has an absolute right to know what our government is doing to our wildlife, and they must not be allowed to suppress the First Amendment rights of its citizens. That is why SHARK has filed a lawsuit in federal court to have the exclusionary zone overturned.
SHARK is represented by Bryan Pease, who is running for City Attorney of San Diego, CA.
February 24, 2016
A teenager hired to humanely kill birds injured by hunters at the Philadelphia Gun Club has been charged with animal cruelty after an animal-rights activist filmed him last month throwing injured pigeons and pelting them it with rocks and ice.
The boy, 17, of Bridgeton, N.J., was working for a subcontractor hired by the riverside club in Bensalem to retrieve and euthanize birds wounded during a Jan. 30 pigeon shoot, Bensalem Police Lt. William McVey said. His name wasn't released because he is a juvenile.
Activists from SHARK (SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness) have long protested the semiannual shoots, in which hunters gun down live birds released from boxes. A SHARK activist filmed the teen chasing injured birds on the riverbank, throwing them to the ground, pelting them with rocks and ice and jabbing them with sticks in violation of state animal-cruelty laws.
In our last update we told you about the US Meat Animal Research Center, (USMARC) which performs cruel experiments on cows, lambs and pigs, and corrupt Clay County Sheriff Jeff Franklin, who made an illegal traffic stop to harass us after we flew our Angel aircraft to videotape the facility. Read the New York Times article about this facility here: U.S. Research Lab Lets Livestock Suffer in Quest for Profit
In our latest video exposing Sheriff Franklin we show even more lies and hypocrisy.
While returning to Illinois from a Pennsylvania pigeon shoot site, the SHARK team spotted an injured goose. Watch this video to learn the story of that rescue.


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Money and communications:
Airport facilities
Money and communications:
The Main Terminal has banks, bureaux de change, automatic exchange machines and ATMs, as well as a post office. Courtesy telephones are located throughout the airport.
Eating and drinking:
Most restaurants and bars are located in the Main Terminal.
Shops, which are concentrated in the Main Terminal, include duty-free.
Left-luggage (tel: (0210) 353 0160) and a lost property office (tel: (0210) 353 0515) are located in Arrivals in the Main Terminal. A porter service is available 24 hours (tel: (0210) 353 0100).
Other facilities:
These include first aid, emergency medical services, a pharmacy, baby rooms and childrens' play area.


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Reviewers: Li Liu, MD
Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Ultima Vez Modificado: 1 de noviembre del 2001
Authors: Koichiro Akakura, Shigeo Isaka, Susumu Akimoto, et al
Source: Urology, 54(2): 313-318, August 1999
External beam radiation therapy has generally been used for patients with locally advanced adenocarcinoma of prostate with or without hormonal therapy. The use of radical prostatectomy for the treatment of locally advanced disease remains controversial. This phase III randomized study offers badly needed information by comparing these two modalities in the treatment of locally advanced prostate cancer.
After 8-week endocrine therapy, patients with stage B2/C prostate cancer were randomized to radical prostatectomy (RP) or external beam radiation therapy (RT) followed by additional endocrine therapy until progression. The majority of patients received daily diethylstilbestrol diphosphate (DES-DP) as endocrine therapy. The RP group contained more patients with clinical stage C disease.
Radical prostatectomy in combination with endocrine therapy appeared to have better progression-free and disease-specific survival rates than radiation for patients with locally advanced prostate cancer, but with a higher price of late morbidities. The endocrine therapy used in this study is not considered standard first line treatment in the US. Longer follow-up is needed to make any definitive conclusions regarding overall survival.


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Dear Editor,
The Second Amendment has always been about preventing the power of government from invading the lives of citizens.
New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's "in your face" campaign regarding gun rights - is about placing the power of government in direct opposition to the NRA and the constitution.
Oh, sure, Mr. Bloomberg and his anti-gun counterparts will continue to wag their gun control finger to "diffuse the clout" of the NRA - but the fact is, if it were not for the "clout" of the NRA - the Second Amendment would drown in a sea of gun ban laws.
For instance, on Jan. 3, more gun control bills were introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives than on any other day in American history.
For crying out loud, California Senator, Dianne Feinstein, who once had a license to carry semi-automatic firearms - has introduced a bill that would outlaw tens of millions of lawfully-owned guns.
Notice this diversity. Most recently, Ten-Point announced its decision to buy lifetime NRA memberships for all its employees who wanted them. - this from a crossbow company, mind you.
Benjamin Franklin said it best: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
I'm not ready for that noose just yet, but ladies and gentlemen ... your Second Amendment rights are hanging by a thread.
Robert Johnson
St. Clairsville


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I'm trying to restore a document based application from a previous version on Lion. When I select "restore version", the text view doesn't reflect the changes. However, if I close the application and reopen, the changes are there.
I'm using the file wrapper variants of NSDocument, so how can I make the text view's text storage reflect the version that's selected immediately? Am I missing something?


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Emily Explains: Lace Increases in our Harbour Pattern
In last week's KnitBits, we introduced booklet #342 Berroco Linus, and it was a hit! The response was especially good for our short-sleeve lace cardigan, Harbour. Since this pattern includes a few tricky spots, I thought it would be the perfect topic for this week's blog.


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Saturday, April 14.
The poet Odia Ofeimun is launching his new stage production Friday night, a song and dance spectacle called Itoya, at the Musical Society of Nigeria (Muson) Center on Lagos Island. Ofeimun, a wry man with gray tufts of beard and a mischievous wit, notes, as he greets us at the door, that his performance's maiden voyage falls on the same week as the centenary commemorations of the Titanic's sinking. We offer our hopes for a slightly safer passage. I am introduced to Ofeimun by my friend Mike Jimoh, a fellow writer, and he shows some interest as I tell him about my work. He offers me a preview copy of the Lagos Review of Books, an intellectual journal he'll be releasing to the public later in the year. Modeled on its New York and London counterparts, the inaugural issue features essays from Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe and Ofeimun himself; a novel excerpt by Tolu Ogunlesi; a handful of poems. Ofeimun wrinkles his face, his pride tempered by typos and problems with the lay-out. "I have a problem with it, too," says Toni Kan. "I'm not in it." Toni, a big, boisterous, candid man, a respected writer and critic, is one of Lagos' social pillars. If he doesn't appear in the Lagos Review of Books, as I'll soon learn, it's just about the only place he doesn't pop up. Ofeimun promises to include him in future issues; he solicits me, too, for a contribution. "I will not pay you, but the day after, you just might get a check," he says. Leading us into the hall, he hands me a copy of Lagos of the Poets, a collection of poems about the city, which he edited. Opening it to the front page, he writes an inscription: Christopher, You became a Lagosian after the first day.
Itoya, writes Ofeimun in the program, is an Esan expression that loosely means, "I can't tell what sufferings I have been through." It is, in essence, a short biography of the continent, from the horrors of the slave trade through the crimes of the colonial era to the turbulent, corrupt, post-colonial state of affairs today. Hardly has the play begun – the audience still trailing in, adjusting their agbadas, joyously greeting friends over the din of the band – when I hear the sound of beer cans popping open behind me. The sound and light crew, it seems, has decided this performance would best be technically supervised from deep within the sauce. Not long into the first act I feel a tap on my shoulder; a hand in the darkness passes me a beer. Despite the abundant signage warning against the consumption of food and drink in the hall, it feels like a minor heresy. While the audience is mostly entertained by the onstage spectacle, the conspicuous glow of cellphones, the murmured conversations, the couples strategically seated by the doors for a fast getaway, suggest that the Nigerian theater is hardly a sacrosanct space.
Itoya itself feels reined in, as if the shabby pageantry of its costume and set design can't quite match the soaring vision behind it. Ofeimun addresses the challenges of Nigerian theater in the program, and the need to achieve what he describes as "a living, and standing, entrepot of creativity." Given the collective talent onstage – the wailing of the horn section, the rhythmic stomping of the dancers – it is easy to imagine how much more could have been done with a bigger budget. Still, it is an entertaining show, marching toward a bright, pan-African vision of the future as the audience bursts into prolonged applause. In the lobby after the performance, Ofeimun is glowing. A few young poets crowd close to him, looking for an autograph, or advice, or some sort of benediction. Five years ago, the Oxford-educated Ofeimun was denied an entry visa by the British Consulate in Lagos; some clueless consular bureaucrat scribbled in an attached note, "He claims to be a writer." No such difficulties for Ofeimun in Lagos: the reverence for him is absolute. Behind him I see Toni Kan moving energetically through the crowds, laughing his boisterous laugh, greeting everyone, then signaling when it's time to make our speedy exit.
Earlier that night I had met Toni and his friend, Rafael, at a Lebanese-owned restaurant called La Pizza, next to the parking lot at City Mall. It was an open-air place populated by a mostly male clientele, an after-work crowd in open-collared shirts, a few women in business-length skirts, preparing for the weekend. Fans mounted to wooden support beams pushed the hot air in circles. Rafael and I ordered cold Gulder beers; Toni nursed his signature Guinness and Coke. We'd met through a mutual writer-friend in the U.S., and he was offering me a brisk introduction into the city's literary scene. Lagos is a city of writers and poets and thinkers, of passionate souls. (Rafael, too, had introduced himself with a self-effacing smile as "a failed writer.") As we drank our beers, headlights from the adjacent parking lot flashed across our sweat-dampened faces, slowly trailing along the wall, as if in search of some elusive meaning. Toni was telling me about his current book project when the phone rang. It was Mike Jimoh, waiting to meet us at Muson. "We're on our way," said Toni. He put down the phone and continued to nurse his beer. Phrases like "I'm on my way" or "I'm coming" signaled, in Nigeria, just the first spark of intent. They comprised a duty-bound obligation that was not, however, bound by time. We drank our beers. Toni wanted to write a Lagos book that hadn't been done before – something that united the different spheres of city life, the penthouses of V.I. and the slums of the mainland, to show how those spheres intersected and overlapped. "There are people on the islands who have never been to the mainland, except to go to the airport," he said. Another phone ringing. It was Mike Jimoh again; this time, he was calling me. "We're on our way," I said. More headlights lit our faces. I slowly sipped my beer.
After the performance we return to La Pizza, our group having grown exponentially. A surly, hirsute Lebanese man circles the restaurant like a pit boss, barking orders. Tables are pushed together, chairs marshaled into service. Beaded bottles of Gulders and Guinnesses appear, growing warm as fast as we can drink them. It is after nine and the crowd has grown younger, the dresses tighter, the skirts shorter. The air is charged with sex and mischief. Hip-hop videos play on wall-mounted TVs, drawing everybody's attention. We have to shout to hear each other, the conversation drowned out by the music and the clatter of the fans and the rambunctious laughter coming from each table. Friday night. Toni calls for the waiter and orders two plates of fried gizzards and suya: skewers of grilled meat, rubbed with pounded groundnuts, chili powder, ginger, paprika, and other spices. At night you will see vendors selling suya on the side of the road, grilling the meat over massive braziers, their faces lit by kerosene lamps. The food arrives on paper plates soaked through with grease, a toothpick for each diner to spear the meat; sliced onions and chili powder serve as an accompaniment. We've been drinking for hours, straight through the performance, and have worked up fierce appetites. The suya goes quickly. Soon we are drowsy with food and alcohol, a long day spent under the sun, wading through the heat. Beyond the lights of the parking lot, the Friday-night traffic on the street, the dark city is poker-faced, revealing none of its secret meanings. "Lagos is a cauldron," says another poet at the table. "You can be killed for one dollar, or you can make millions of naira.
"Lagos is an enigma."
"A city is like a poem," wrote Ofeimun in the book, Lagos: A City at Work. "You enter into it, and you are into a world of concentrated time. Different ages are brought together. Different histories spanning a common geography. And so, you are in the City of God but have not left the City of Man." The next day I read these words of Ofeimun's, printed in the magnificent coffee-table tome which, I am told, after its fourth and fifth and sixth editions, continues to sell out as fast as the publishers can print it. I'm fortunate to find a copy at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Yaba, on the mainland, where I've come with the German artists from the AAF for an afternoon presentation about performance art. Bisi Silva, who runs the CCA, has managed to put together an extensive collection of art and photography books in the center's library, in spite of the difficulty of acquiring such books in Nigeria. When friends visit Lagos from abroad, she always has a wish list for them; when she travels, a spare suitcase is always reserved for books. She sighs. Nothing in Lagos comes easy. To run a place like the CCA is to run your own personal fiefdom, where the only way to ensure the lights are on and the paintings are hung is to handle it yourself. "You work for nine hours, and you spend six just trying to make sure everything works," she says. "It exhausts you."
Recently a New York-based artist had come to the city for an exhibition. No doubt she had a clear vision of how the show would come off. "Two hours into the opening," says Bisi, "they were still nailing," hanging pictures, making adjustments. The artist was nearly in tears. It was the way things went here. "Lagos doesn't work when you go like this," she says, making a brisk, chopping motion with her hand. "It works extremely well when you go like this." She wiggles her hands every which way, as if to illustrate how the dysfunctional chaos of Lagos serves its own peculiar ends. In the art world there are no government grants, no official support. Artists exist in their own shrunken space. Still, they persevere. "There's so much creative energy here, in spite of the lack of funding," she says. "People are still doing things.
"It's a beautiful city, warts and all."


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I am interested in developing social intelligence in my child. What behaviors have parents introduced into their daily family routine specifically to encourage the development of social intelligence?
I think a daily family supper is a good idea. It's an opportunity for everyone to talk about their day, and how they feel that evening.
Listening, and empathizing, as well as thinking about it and commenting should be a start towards what you're looking for.
I think the best thing to do is get your child thinking and talking about social situations. Presenting your child with hypothetical stories, role-playing exercises, and discussing real stories of people you know and people in the news are a great way to introduce social situations to a child (or adult).
In particular, discussions about ethical or moral issues with hypothetical characters or real people are a great way to get kids thinking. I would try to be as Socratic as possible when doing this. If you just tell them the "right answer" from your own perspective you might be teaching them to blindly copy what you think, or perhaps worse yet, take the complete opposite view. If you focus on asking good leading questions you can really get them thinking about the issue at hand.
Examples of situations, people, or hypotheticals that you can discuss:
3-5 years old
5-8 years old
8-18 years old
We try to spend our time at dinner or during long car rides discussing different issues or hypotheticals. I find it is best not to discuss people who are actually part of the discussion. This often leads to unanticipated hard feelings, defensiveness, or teasing.
Our children seem to respond fine to this type of discussion, but some kids don't. One friend came up with a creative way to having these discussions with his kids. He would play role-playing games (old-fashion RPGs like D&D, not video games) with his sons and introduce different social situations to which his children's characters had to respond. The RPGs also taught his kids to collaborate on a shared goal rather than competing against each other (as @torbengb described).
I've tried to work on this with emotional intelligence: helping my kids understand what they and other people are feeling. Other than that, I try to have them interact with a wide range of different age groups and participate in group activities like sports.
Looking for activities to do in the family, and of course depending on the child's age, you might want to consider board games or garden games. Many games are competitive (players play against each other) but some games are cooperative instead, just like (the own team of) a ball game would be.
I wish I could mention some specific suggestions but I can't think of any right now.
First, Social Development is a pretty broad topic and a lot of it happens fairly naturally. Even gender identity falls under this category and we all develop one at some point. At the same time, you are right to want to specifically address this with your kids. You should know that one of my basic assumptions is that good manners, good social graces and social awareness are all closely linked. A person who is empathetic, thoughtful and fairly self-aware, will automatically exhibit good social graces. With that in mind, I think there are Three major things you can do with your child at almost any age to help with Social Development in significant ways and one more you can add once they reach age 7 or 8 or so.
The "Seven Habits Series": Of interest to families, "The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Families", "The Seven Habits of Successful Teens" and "The Seven Habits of Happy Kids" (that last one is FABULOUS for elementary kids).
10 minute Life Lessons For Kids by Jamie Miller: This book includes fun activities and "games" to play to get a better grasp of concepts relating to Honesty, Trrust, Love, Empathy etc. - Great for Primary School.
E is for Ethics by Ian James Corlett: This book gives 26 quick stories with discussion questions to help get a conversation going after the story has been read. Great for Preschool through about 2nd or 3rd grade.
Aesop's Fables: The version we have was illustrated by Nora Fry: This is a wonderful collection of classic stories that illustrate just about any type of quality of character. You can read a story and after they are fairly familiar with what a fable actually is, you can even have them predict what the fable will be before you read it to them. Sometimes its interesting what they get out of a story vs. what you do and what Aesop intended. Then you can talk about modern examples of stories that would show the same lesson. Besides, these stories are just good literature anyway. If you are religious you can relate these discussions to your core values within your religion as well.
While watching movies or reading books where a child (or adult) is behaving in a not-so-gracious kind of way, pause the movie and ask your kid questions like, "what do you think about that choice that child just made?" "What do you predict will happen to this child later in this movie because of this choice?"
There are TONS of great movies and picture books out there about all kinds of social graces as well as issues. For example, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory gives some great examples of some pretty anti social behavior (social graces), while Fly Away Home is a great picture book by Eve Bunting that shows a child and father that are homeless and live at the airport (understanding social issues). Then there is also a host of wonderful books about manners out there as well. I especially like "Do Unto Otters" by Laurie Keller for little ones.
And the last one, that has a specific age: When they are old enough to become civically involved, get your children involved. Civic duty is as much a part of social development as many other things. That can mean (depending on ages) helping with a beach clean up, creating an education campaign about a pet issue of yours to going with you to the polls when you vote and learning about that process and how you think through the decisions you make when you vote.
Have fun, and let us know what else you find please.


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what is the benifit of sitemap in seo?
what is the benifit of sitemap in seo?
It allows Google to get to URL's which normally Google could not find following a link.
Sitemap is a one common webpage which include the structure of your site, its sections as well as the links between them. They are seen as a vital way of communication with search engines. A sitemap generator program encourages search engine spiders. The sitemap generator of google makes it possible for a website to get listed and get revised by the google search engine. Sitemap can helps to be listed faster on Google search engine.
It is a graphical representation of the structure of your website. It has two uses:-
1)Visitor can access the sitemap to find any pages that they are interested in viewing.
2)A site map is also useful for search engine as well.
1)Visitor can access the sitemap to find any pages that they are interested in viewing.
2)A site map is also useful for search engine as well.
Site map is a tree indication of links to website's main pages and its sub pages. It can make as html page or as xml file. Xml file is more suitable to sites. Site map is helping to search engine spider to index all pages of a site.
Originally Posted by seonitunkA site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for web design, or a web page that lists the pages on a web site. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site.The benifit of site map google crole our all url easily.
its make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google's normal crawling process.
A sitemap is simply a list of your pages in a single page layout. When a visitor goes to your site they can access the sitemap to find any pages that they are interested in viewing. Usually the sitemap is to benefit the people who visit your site and give them a quick and easy way to navigate your site.
Site maps are created in a two different way, If it is created in a XML format it gives a quick and easy navigation to the user for the website from which page he can get more benefits for his query. Whereas If it is created in a ROR format it gives the quick navigation to get crawled all of the web pages within the website for search engine crawler to get indexed.
Sitemap helps in indexing your webpages fast. This will encourage Google to index your entire site.


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360 Panorama for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch for $0
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I've had this app for awhile now, does a pretty good job. It's fun to get the same person in multiple shots.
This reminds me of Microsoft Photosynth which is also free on the iPhone and very well designed.
works pretty good! free! awesome! thanks
photosynth is a better app (in that it is better able to recognize and stitch photos both horizontally and vertically (and diagonally for that matter). Not to mention it's always free and makes it easy to email photosynths to friends/family, post them on FB or tweet them.
I already have this app, it's a great app. I love using it at events.
Definitely worth a free download.
Here is a good review (with 360 degree photo examples) comparing Panorama 360 and Photosynth - http://scobleizer.com/2011/04/24/testing-out-the-new-panoramic-iphone-photo-apps/
@kcmark: Thanks for the link that was helpful. I don't have either of these but will be getting them both now for FREEEEEE.
@gmania: No problem -- cool new apps are always nice, even more so when they're free!
Im excited to get both of these apps. My regular camera does amazing panoramics but I don't always have it. This will be great for quick shots with my phone or iPad. Thanks!
I totally LOVE this app.
Heres one I've taken a couple months ago at Universal Studios.
It's just funny to watch myself take a panorama though because you'll see me going in circles like three times.


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I need to make a model of the digestive system. It would be really nice to actually show it in action, such as by breaking down bread into glucose or something similar. Is this feasible with a small budget and non-dangerous chemicals? If so, how? This should be as similar too the real digestive system as possible.
Amylase would be worth a try. The enzyme breaks down bread (starch), and you can buy it relatively cheaply online or probably at a chemist. Amylase is secreted in your saliva and in your stomach, so it would be most realistic if it was added in your model at those two points.
Generally speaking and as suggested by Rory, mechanical force probably plays a role in most instances (crustless bread may be different):
I was hoping to post more about this but the websites of one of the institutes involved in developing the model gut doesn't provide much accessible information on first read.
Maybe this still gives you something of a starting point:


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WELLSBURG - Looking back on May 22, 1944, Eva Edith Eger can recall being led by German soldiers, with her sister and mother, into one of the Nazis' infamous concentration camps in Auschwitz, Poland.
"My mother turned to me and whispered, 'No one can take from you what you put in your mind,'" she said.
Eger said it was advice that enabled her to survive the atrocities of a concentration camp, where at least 1 million Jews and others died, and it was among advice she gave to Brooke High School students, staff and community members at three programs held Monday at the school.
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SPECIAL GUEST — Edith Eva Eger, seated, a native of Hungary who survived the Holocaust to go on to a career in clinical psychology, shared her experiences with students and staff at Brooke High School, including from left, standing, seniors Lacie McLaughlin, Jackie Schlag and Gerrica Earnest; Toni Shute, principal; math teacher Karen Keener, who arranged for Eger's visit; and senior Lawrance "Skippy" Scurry. -- Warren Scott
"I'm a survivor. I don't say 'why me,' I say, 'what now?'" said Eger, who faced many struggles on the road from her imprisonment at Auschwitz at age 16 to a long career as a clinical psychologist in La Jolla, Calif.
Eger told how soon after her mother was separated from her and her sister, Magda, and she was directed to a "shower room" that really was one of the gas chambers the Nazis used to exterminate more than 3 million Jews and other prisoners.
They already had been separated from their father, who they never saw again. Another sister, Klara, was fortunate to have been smuggled into Budapest by her Christian music professor, Eger said.
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"I?am a survivor. I don't say why me, I?say, what now?" - Edith Eger
Eger believes her own talent, as a ballerina, helped to save her from the gas chamber. Dr. Josef Mengele, a German officer and physician who earned the nickname Angel of Death for the experiments he performed on humans there, had an interest in the arts and would seek talented prisoners to perform for him, she said.
Eger said as she danced for Mengele, she closed her eyes and envisioned herself performing instead, as Juliet, in a ballet version of "Romeo and Juliet" at the Budapest Opera House.
"I decided they (the Nazis) were prisoners, not me," she said.
Her graceful dancing aside, Eger said as a youth she was skinny and cross-eyed, the "ugly duckling" of her family. Her mother once commented that it was fortunate she was smart because she wasn't good looking.
Eger told the students she's forgiven her mother for that, but they shouldn't let anyone define them.
She said her sister Magda was known for her beauty.
When Magda appeared before her, her blond hair shaved from her head, which bore cuts from the dull razor, and asked how she looked, Eger told her the loss of hair made her beautiful eyes stand out.
Eger told the students to consider the impact of their words when tempted to insult someone.
She noted there are two common coping mechanisms when faced with stress: Fight or flight. But neither was really available to her. If she attempted to fight, she would be shot and killed. If she attempted to flee, she would be electrocuted by the barbed wire fence, Eger recalled.
And she was beaten and tortured while at the concentration camp, she said, "but they couldn't murder my spirit."
Eger did encounter compassion from fellow prisoners and an unexpected source.
She, Magda and others were being marched from Auschwitz near the war's end when Magda spied some carrots in a garden. When Eger attempted to retrieve them, a guard put his rifle up to her head but didn't fire.
But as he looked at her, Eger sensed compassion, and he didn't fire. Later he returned with a loaf of bread, saying she must have been very hungry to have made such an attempt.
Eger said she would have liked to have seen the guard after the war so she could thank him.
She did have an opportunity to thank indirectly members of the Army's 71st Infantry, who rescued her, when she visited Fort Carson, Colo., home of the military division.
That was years after she and her husband fled communist rule in her new home in Czechoslovakia and immigrated to Baltimore.
Her husband had been well to do, with several servants, but they left their riches behind and she went to work at a brick factory to help support the family.
When the family became financially secure, Eger, who had read Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" as a youth, decided to enter college and study psychology at the University of Texas when she was 40.
Eger earned her doctorate at age 50 and has helped, among others, military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. At age 85, she has no plans to retire, she said.
"I consider it my duty, so my parents didn't die in vain," Eger said.
Following the first of two talks given by Eger to students at the school, several teens asked if she would pose for a photo with them.
Among them was senior Gerrica Earnest of Wellsburg, who said of Eger, "She's a very inspirational person."
Earnest said she is very interested in the Holocaust and visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and found it "very moving."
Students in the advanced placement European history class taught by Greg Rothwell visited the museum also last fall and spoke to a Holocaust survivor there.
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It never ceases to amaze me the things that come out of my 4-year-old's mouth. Here are some of those things that Little Man says.
LM: Mommy, what's a tornado?
Me: A storm.
LM: No, it's not. It's a big round wind that lifts toys and houses and four-wheelers off the ground. But they don't happen here, just in other states like Mexico.
LM: Mommy, can you teach me how to make scrambled eggs?
Me: We'll see (my standard answer when "no" will bring about a fight.)
LM: I want to feed them to the baby. Can you teach me to use the stove?
Me: I think you are too little to use the stove.
LM: But I want to cook for the baby.
LM: If the baby is a boy, the name will be Daddy, and if it's a girl, the name will be Mommy.
Daddy: I don't think those are very good names. You should think about it some more.
LM: I did think about it.
Daddy: I think maybe we should put some more thought into it then.
LM: No, Daddy, I thought about it, and those are the names. I am done thinking.
LM: Mommy, how is the baby going to get out?
Me: I will go to the hospital, and the doctor will help the baby get out.
LM: Will it crack out like an egg?
Me: I hope not.
LM: Maybe Daddy will get it out.
Me: I don't think so.
LM: Yeah, Daddy can use one of the big machines, like the skid steer.
Me: Next year the Elf (our Elf on the Shelf) will be really busy. He'll have to watch two of you.
LM: Yeah (he says with a laugh)
Me: And Santa will bring toys for two little boys next year.
LM: I don't think so. My brother won't be good. He won't get any toys. Just me.
Random statements:
LM: I am going to push the baby in the stroller and do wheelies.
LM: I can't wait to teach my brother to pee outside.
LM: Mommy, that movie is way, way old. It's from the '80s.
LM: Mommy, can we get the new "Mario Stew" game? ("Mario Brothers Two")
(Letusick, a resident of Rayland, is a copy editor for the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times.)