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Both OpenJDK and GCJ are available for install on Debian, and now I wonder what's happening. Don't these provide same functionality?
Debian's stance is that, beyond certain critical system components which are considered required¹, there is no preferred software. If two programs provide similar functionality, and they're both suitable for Debian², and there's a Debian developer willing to maintain each package, then both programs will end up in Debian. The idea is that it's up to the user to choose which program to use.
On a given system, at most one Java implementation can be
Or at least strongly advised.
They are fine with both for the most part: OpenJDK is installed by default on supported platforms, otherwise GCJ will be used instead.
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In the era before banking was invented, where did wealthy Romans store their cash? The emperor probably could store it somewhere in the imperial palace thanks to the Praetorian guard, but what about the others? Did they hire guards to protect their "silver room" or did they hide it?
Banking existed in the era of the Romans and earlier. In ancient Greece and Asia Minor temples served as a sanctuary where individuals could make deposits for safekeeping. This practice continued with the Romans (see this article titled "Temple Banking In Rome"). For instance, the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus was the largest depository in Asia and served as a depository for Aristotle, Caesar, Dio Chrysostom, Plautus, Plutarch, Strabo, and Xenophon. The Temple of Saturn in Rome housed the aerarium (public treasury). During the imperial period the Temple of Castor and Pollux in Rome was a depository for the State treasury.
The era of the Romans also saw the rise of private depositories. Private individuals (or individuals of a private organization) that served as bankers were known as argentarii. Such individuals were members of a collegium, or guild. Many individuals entrusted all their capital to them. The way these bankers transacted business is similar to modern times. Individuals could deposit funds with a banker, and pay their debts using a draft or check from the bank. If both the debtor and creditor had an account with the same bank it was easy for the bank to internally transfer the funds between the accounts.
There were two types of deposits that could be made with an argentarius (singular form of argentarii). A depositum did not pay interest and was simply a way for the owner to give someone else the responsibility of keeping it safe. The argentarius would not use a depositum in attempt to make money off it. A creditum paid interest to the owner and allowed the argentarius to attempt to profit from the creditum.
There were also public bankers, known as mensarii, who were appointed by the Roman government to loan out money in times of distress, with the first time being 352 B.C. I mention them because a class of the mensarii, the mensularii or nummularii (probably an inferior rank since mensularii is formed from a diminutive), seem to have been permanent state employees that private individuals may have deposited money with.
This page goes into detail and cites many primary sources.
This is an addition to Mike Rodney's answer. The Twelve Tables, traditionally written in 450 BC, were some of Rome's most ancient laws.
The majority of Table III deals with banking. In particular Law I says that bankers can't steal deposits; Law II forbids usury†; Laws V through X concern treatment of delinquent debtors.
So banking was common enough 2500 years ago in Rome that when the plebs demanded written laws they were some of the first few things that were regulated.
† Not more than uncia, variously interpreted as an annual rate of 10% or 12.5%.

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Here is a polygonal disk + gluing scheme model of a surface we are attempting to construct. We want the regions of the surface bounded by the two vertical, dotted lines $\alpha,\beta$ to have zero curvature throughout, while the rest of the surface should be "smoothed out" with some kind of metric which gives it negative curvature and thus allows the entire shape to satisfy the requirement that a two-holed torus have negative total curvature.
Assuming that we can adjust the circled (and, separately, squared) angles so that they add up to $2\pi$ and the relevant identifications (side $a$ with side $a$, $b$ with $b$) can be made smoothly while maintaining the zero curvature of the inner region, the question is the following. Will the smoothing out of edges $1$ through $4$ necessarily need to be continued into the region inside of which we want to have zero curvature, thus giving it non-zero curvature instead? In other words, we have to smooth out the triangled vertices to some extent because their corresponding angles add up to more than $2\pi$. But, thinking geometrically (we have a limited knowledge of the underlying Riemannian geometry here), it seems that we would need to smooth out neighborhoods of these vertices and of the edges $1$ through $4$. Will we be able to stop before reaching the region inside of $\alpha,\beta$?
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In the five plus years I have worked at IIE, the term "workforce development" has become a more stable part of international higher education lingo. Although the concept of workforce development has been around for a long time, it has recently gained prominence in the field based on several factors in the ever-evolving state of the global economy. Here is what I have learned about the impact of international education on global workforce development.
A recent episode of NPR's popular broadcast Morning Edition, deplored the fact that 5.8 million young Americans are neither in school nor work. What's more, according to the show, in some parts of the United States, "the unemployment rate among 16 to 24 year-olds is more than twice the national unemployment rate, which is currently 6.3 percent." However, youth unemployment is not only a U.S. problem.
Are we preparing today's youth to be successful in the workplace? I think that is a question that we as educators should be constantly asking ourselves. Getting a good (and hopefully international) education is not enough. We need to make sure that today's youth are getting the skills and experience to create their own futures and be successful globally. This is one of the reasons I am so proud that IIE is partnering with the Alcoa Foundation to manage their 125th anniversary initiative to support internships for youth from around the Globe.
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Since 2003, undergraduate students in Patricia Kelley's GLY 337 Invertebrate Paleontology course have conducted semester-long team research projects as part of the laboratory component of the course. Students work as teams to develop and test paleoecological and/or evolutionary hypotheses using field-collected or archived fossiliferous sediment samples. Following sample processing, specimen identification, and data collecting and analysis, students write a research paper using the format of a professional paper, with individually written and team-written parts, and present their results orally. After completion, one or more abstracts based on the class results are submitted to a Geological Society of America regional or national meeting. Typically, with support from CSURF, several students attend the meeting and present the posters. This approach allows students to experience authentic research from conception to dissemination. Since 2003 the course has been offered seven times, resulting in 13 abstracts published and presented. This experience in conducting research and presenting it to a professional audience has led many students in the class to seek further research experiences in paleontology, including graduate degrees. For instance, eight students have continued their research as undergraduate DIS projects, two students completed MS Geology requirements with theses in paleontology at UNCW, and one student from the 2003 cohort, René Shroat-Lewis, completed her PhD at University of Tennessee and is now teaching at Eastern Connecticut State University - all thanks to an undergraduate class research project!


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I'll be at Intervention7 this September!
We STILL seem to have a RANDOM ARCHIVE GLITCH where clicking on the next comic will take you to the next comic page, but oddly display a comic from a totally different date. Hitting Refresh sometimes helps.
Comic for Monday 01/27/14
Ref: K'Z'K (Kozoaku) controling a "not dead yet" human (panels 14-16).
Comic for Tuesday 01/28/14
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If I have $30$ objects and $5$ buckets that each hold $6$ objects, how many times could I put the objects into the buckets without an object being in the bucket with an object it has previously been grouped with? So, for each round you would empty all of the objects from the buckets and place them into buckets again (they could be in the same bucket multiple times, just not see another object multiple times).
Edit: A better example would be $120$ objects in $20$ buckets that hold $6$ objects. No object can ever be in a bucket with another object that it has seen previously.


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Very small/classical question.
If you are European fellows you for sure know that the European lottery, named EuroMillions is "offering" today something around €125,000,000.
Damn, that's a pretty nice amount, and for once I realized that I should perhaps give it a try, a simple ticket is only about 2€. But then even for 2€, does it really worth it, or do I have more chance to get struck by lightning ?!
As explained on Wikipedia link, a single grid is composed of 50 "classical" numbers & 11 stars (numbered from 1 to 11). You have to select 5 numbers & 2 stars per grid.
I know this is an old fashion question, but from what I have read here, I would be very interested to hear more about what you, gentlemen, are thinking of this.
Probabilities to become a strike lightning survivor, and/or multimillionaire strike lightning survivor would be some nice to have :)
*Update, after the lottery *: I forgot one value ... the fact that on the lottery day, you can go back home too late to be able to buy a ticket, no matter what's the weather looks like.
And to be honest, the sky was very nice yesterday with no clouds, and no lightning at all, but I was not able to buy a ticket and to play the lottery, so it makes easier the computation of winning chances ;)


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Police say Shoaf lost control of the minivan he was driving on the wet roadway and skidded into the tractor. Killed in the crash were Shoaf and three passengers — 18-year-old Kimberly Shafer, 17 year-old Lindsey Sholar and 19-year-old Dalton McDougall, all of Cadiz. Another passenger, 18-year-old Brendan Breen of Cadiz was injured, but survived.


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I think I know that media is a plural word.
So then which of the following is correct?
- All the media is...
- All the media are...
When you search Google, both seem to appear at the same frequency.
I think I know that media is a plural word.
So then which of the following is correct?
When you search Google, both seem to appear at the same frequency.
Actually, when I google for these phrases, I'm seeing this:
The Corpus of Contemporary American English paints a similar picture, though the sample size is rather small (1 vs 3 cites). You get more results if you leave out the "all" (445 vs 602). These numbers also include a few cites of the form "the quality of the media is..." or "many in the media are...", which are obviously not relevant here, but the overall trend is still rather clear.
The British National Corpus, on the other hand, favors the plural form. There are fewer results overall, so I took my time to check every single one for relevance, and here's the overview:
So the Americans prefer the singular form, while the British prefer the plural. This should come as no surprise knowing that the British like to treat other collective nouns such as staff, Microsoft or Metallica as plural, too, while Americans prefer the singular. See these answers to related questions:
Media can be treated either as singular or plural. When used in the singular, it is often treated as a collective noun.
Here is what the OED online says:
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (see page 630) also notes the use of media in the singular. It gives examples of it being used as a singular countable noun as well.
In short, the usage of media as a singular noun is well-documented.
Language and usage evolve, but I'm sufficiently reactionary to regard "media" as plural, regardless of contemporary examples. In regard to the Fourth Estate, "media" to me signifies the print medium, the broadcast medium, et. al.
Of course, this comes from one who occasionally uses "Yr. obt. svt." as the complimentary closing on my correspondence...
I think treating "the media" as a singular (when speaking of the Fourth Estate) has become so overwhelmingly common now that it has to be treated as acceptable, though it bothers me and I would always personally prefer the plural usage.
If the sentence were about data storage media or some such, I think the plural would be more strongly called for.


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Why must we guess at the weight of Woot-offered consumables?
Currently wine.woot is offering ten chocolate bars with nary a mention of per-bar or total weight. Earlier in the wootoff, it was bags of Sriracha-flavored popcorn. Later, bagged dog treats. No mention of weight to be found. Those are just recent examples I've noticed. C'mon woot, this is a basic consumer requirement. Size, weight, condition, price. Is that really too much to ask?
Well, the chocolates sold out while I was writing this mini-rant. I guess enough people are either familiar with the product (I believe it's been on woot previously) or don't mind googling for critical descriptive info missing from the product listing.
So, does this make me high-maintenance, or should woot step it up a bit? (BTW, I have no issue with googling for reviews or manuals.)
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I think that is a completely reasonable request.
Usually the fastest way to get info on a woot offering is to pose the question in the product's forum. A mod or helpful wooter will usually pop in with an answer, provided the item lasts long enough.
The images of the chocolate bars showed they were 2 ounces (57 grams) of chocolate per bar.
I hate that you were having issues locating that information and I agree that it should have been listed under the description tab.
Yes, it should be listed. And just to piggyback on this a little, am I to assume that all wines are 750's unless otherwise stated? Because it doesn't say for many of the offerings.
Seems reasonable to me to want that info posted, especially during a woot-off when items change so quickly that there may not be time for a mod to answer a question. You might want to page a mod here, to bring it to their attention.
Thanks for the heads up.
We've passed along your concerns.
All told.
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I have a stupid question about the Metropolis-Hastings sampling algorithm.
If I got this right, for every variable $X$ in turn, which currently has value $x_{old}$, you generate a new sample $x_{new}$. To do that, you draw $x_{new}$ from the proposal distribution $Q(x_{new}\mid x_{old})$, then you draw a number $\alpha$ uniformly at random from the range between $0$ and $1$. Then, accept $x_{new}$ if $\alpha < \min{1,\frac{P(x_{new})}{P(x_{old})}\frac{Q(x_{old}\mid x_{new})}{Q(x_{new}\mid x_{old})}}$
The second ratio does not really make sense to me: Why are we more likely to accept if $Q(x_{new}\mid x_{old})$ is low?


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I have implemented a Facebook Comment plugin in a page tab. I am not able to see several comments in it. Till yesterday there were 88 comment now suddenly there are only 39 comments. If I check moderator view I can see more than 100 comments but in public view cannot see comments more than half of the comments. I have kept all comments to be public by default. I tried to figure out various reason that could be behind it but I still have no success. I have on e suspicion that someone has deliberately marked many comments as spam and hence facebook is hiding it. Though I believe at least the admin should be able to see it.
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May Day Distresses As Jobs Data Flop
U.S. stocks fell Wednesday as investors reacted to disappointing economic data and found little comfort in the Federal Reserve's decision to keep its easy-money policies in place.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 138.85 points, or 0.9%, to 14700.95, its worst start to a month since June 2012.
Wednesday's selloff more than offset the 127-point gain the Dow posted over Monday and Tuesday.
The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index shed 14.87 points, or 0.9%, to 1582.70, with all 10 sectors lower, after gaining 15 points over Monday and Tuesday. The Nasdaq Composite Index kept some of its two-day 49-point rally, though, falling 29.66 points, or 0.9%, to 3299.13.
Heaviest hit were small-company stocks, which are seen by investors as most sensitive to trends in the U.S. economy. The Russell 2000 Index, which tracks smaller stocks, saw steep declines, shedding 23.23 points, or 2.4%, to 924.22.
"As people have watched this market move higher, they [were] waiting to see when it was going to sell off," said Jonathan Corpina, senior managing partner with brokerage firm Meridian Equity Partners Inc.
The Fed, as expected, kept monetary policy largely unchanged. But when it came to the bond purchases the Fed has been employing to help boost the economy, officials signaled more flexibility with their strategy than in the past. The Fed said it could either increase or decrease bond purchases, depending on the job market and inflation. At previous meetings, Fed officials had talked only about winding down the bond-buying program.
That shift was a negative for stocks because it signaled greater concern about the health of the economy, said John Lynch, regional chief investment officer with Wells Fargo Private Bank, which oversees $170 billion in client assets.
"If they're willing to [stimulate] more, the economy isn't able to do it on its own," Mr. Lynch said.
Among the data causing investor worries, Automatic Data Processing ADP -3.03 % and Moody's MCO -0.16 % Analytics reported that 119,000 private-sector jobs were created in April, well below the 155,000 expected. Investors often view the ADP release as foreshadowing the monthly government jobs report, which is due out Friday.
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Also out Wednesday was data showing the manufacturing sector remained barely in expansion territory, and March construction spending declined 1.7% from February. Economists had expected a 0.7% increase.
Merck ranked among the biggest decliners in the Dow industrials, losing $1.31, or 2.8%, to $45.69 after the drug maker's first-quarter revenue fell short of forecasts, as patent expirations weighed on pharmaceutical sales.
Demand rose for the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury bond, sending yields down to 1.638%. Gold futures eased 1.8% to settle at $1,446.30 a troy ounce. The dollar slipped against the euro and the yen.
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Most Asian markets were also closed for the Labor Day holiday, including those in mainland China, Hong Kong, India and South Korea. Japan's Nikkei Stock Average slipped 0.4%, after China's official manufacturing PMI for April fell to 50.6 from March's 50.9. Analysts expected an unchanged reading. Australia's S&P ASX 200 lost 0.5%.
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- Thoroughly cover the pine cone with peanut butter, then roll it in bird seed.
- Hang the feeder outside near a window and your child can watch the birds eat.
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Crown Prince Salman chairs Cabinet session (12/3/12)
December 3, 2012
Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz began the Cabinet session at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh this afternoon by thanking God for the success of the surgery recently undergone by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. The ministers prayed for the King's speedy recovery and expressed gratitude to all the foreign leaders and citizens who have sent their good wishes.
Then, the Cabinet discussed a number of topics regarding the Kingdom's relations with foreign countries and reviewed the latest regional and international developments. It commended the final statement of the 11th Session of the Joint Defense Council of the Ministers of Defense of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), during which military actions and joint defense were discussed, as well as the statement of the 5th session of the Turkish-Arab Cooperation Forum, which stressed the importance of Arab-Turkish strategic cooperation.
The ministers also expressed pride over the inauguration of the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue in Vienna. They thanked Austria for hosting the Center, along with Spain and all the other contributors who helped establish the King's vision. Finally, the ministers welcomed the decision of the United Nations General Assembly to adopt a resolution granting Palestine observer state status. They congratulated the Palestinian people on this historic achievement, which embodies the international community's awareness of the justness of the Palestinian cause, and reaffirmed the Kingdom's full support for the creation of an independent state.
Next, the Cabinet discussed a number of scientific, cultural and religious activities that were held in the Kingdom over the past few days, including the 34th King Abdulaziz International Competition for the Holy Quran Memorization, Intonation and Interpretation and the 11th General Conference of the Organization of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO).
Addressing the remaining items on its weekly agenda, the Cabinet approved a number of measures regarding the organization of the school health sector and authorized the Minister of Agriculture to take the necessary measures for the approval of the draft Statute of the International Council of Dates.
The Cabinet approved the appointments of Awadallah Al-Rehaily as Assistant Vice President of the General Auditing Bureau for Branches Affairs (15th rank); Sultan Al-Sultan as Financial Advisor at the General Auditing Bureau (15th rank); Redha Al-Zughaibi as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and Riyad Al-Khunaini as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


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There was a Martial Arts movie I remember seeing as a kid that featured 2 male fighters; one was a serious fighter and the other was comic relief. The one specific scene I can remember is the final fight at the end, where the 2 guys fight another guy in a gym. The guy they fight uses weights to fight them, but, of course, he loses. I thought it was a Bruce Lee movie, but it doesn't really seem Bruce Lee did that many fighting movies. I could be wrong, though.
Sorry, I saw this movie in the early 80's, so it wasn't Dragon. It was just 2 guys versus the one guy at the end... I was in Atlanta at the time and I think it was on Kung Fu Theater, or was it Kung Fu Gold? Channel 46 or 69... =-)


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A vendor has a data database (read only) that gets sent to us via dvd every week. Their upgrade script detaches the existing copy of the database, overwrites the MDF and LDF, drops all the users and recreates what they think proper security should be. Is there a way that I can just synchornize the data without taking the database offline? This is a 24/7 facility that causes 15 minutes of downtime during the updates.
Auxilary Information: The database has ~50 tables with a total size of 400 MB. The actual amount of changed data is somewhere around 400kb. Server is running Server 2008 with SQL Server Enterprise Edition 2008.


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- Number of Pages: 264
- Subject: World War II
- Date Available: May 2013
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BOOK NEWS: Big Guns, Brave Men: Mobile Artillery Observers and the Battle for Okinawa by Naval Institute Press
Although it was the largest and final battle of the Pacific War, the Battle for Okinawa has long been overshadowed by other dramatic events in 1945. The books that have been written about it emphasize the role of infantrymen, armor, and U.S. Marines. This work takes a fresh perspective and focuses on the vital role played by the U.S. Army's forward artillery observers—the eyes and ears of American artillery who were among the least recognized heroes of the war. According to Rodney Earl Walton, U.S. artillerymen matched Japanese gunners in intensity and surpassed them in effectiveness because their forward observers were able to provide a much shorter response time to requests for artillery support. Divided into teams consisting of four or five men led by an artillery lieutenant, these observers would spend three days on the front lines directing artillery against enemy positions, return to their artillery battery for three days, and then rotate up to the line of battle again. While trying to maximize the damage inflicted on the enemy, the men had to deal with the ever-present possibility of firing on their own forces. The ability to shift artillery fire throughout the battlefield was a new development in World War II, and its evolution is fully examined in the book.
Walton, the son of one of the forward observers on Okinawa, spent more than twenty years investigating what happened to his father and other artillerymen during the conflict. Interviews with the artillerymen and the infantrymen they supported are central to his story, which is filled with gripping and sometimes humorous accounts of what happened. The work stands as a stirring tribute from the "baby boom generation" to the "greatest generation."
Rodney Earl Walton served in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1973, including a year with military intelligence in Vietnam. In 1976 he earned a law degree from Cornell and worked as a civil litigation attorney in South Florida for more than twenty years. In 2009 he earned a Ph.D. in history from Florida International University, where he now teaches. He lives in Miami, FL.
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"...Dr. Walton has delivered a well-researched work that provides new insights into a previously underserved realm of battlefield experience during World War II. In particular, he has to be commended for helping shift the commonplace Navy-Marine oriented focus on the Battle of Okinawa towards the significant contributions made by units of the Army while illuminating the valuable service of artillerymen who served in the front lines as forward observers during the most costly campaign of the Pacific War."
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"This well-researched and well-written book analyzed the role of forward artillery observers on Okinawa during the largest artillery battle in World War II's Pacific Theater… Big Guns, Brave Men provided a new, more intimate, look at the largest conflict in the Pacific theater. Along with an excellent narrative, Walton provided maps, charts, and photos of the observers. There is also an appendix with a few combat stories that did not fit into his book; however, they provided some amusing tales of the men in the field…. The book provided a wonderful look at a side of the battle for Okinawa not analyzed before making it a worthy addition to any bookshelf."
– Naval Historical Foundation
"Walton's work sheds new light on the grim struggle for Okinawa, often characterized as the grunt's battle par excellence. This masterly account stands as testament to the previously understated role played by a small cadre of dedicated and courageous forward artillery observers and successfully captures the essence of what it meant to be an embedded specialist sharing the hardships and dangers endured by front-line combat personnel."
—Gwyn Davies, Department of History, Florida International University
"With both military expertise and a compelling personal perspective, Walton portrays the impact on the battlefield of the Army's innovative mobile forward artillery observers during the Pacific theater's largest and bloodiest battle: Okinawa. Drawn to the subject by his father's Army service in that campaign, the author mined previously underutilized archives, compiled oral histories, and introduced appropriate technical analysis to produce this extraordinary work."
—Maj. Gen. Ralph S. Clem, USAF (Ret.)
"As a World War II soldier who fought the Japanese in a rifle company of the 96th Infantry Division, I am pleased that the author, Rodney Walton, prepared this book, which describes and explains the important efforts of U.S. Army artillery forward observers during the Battle of Okinawa, Japan. These forward observers were a key element in defeating the Japanese army. Due to their excellent performance and well-trained gun crews, no 'short' artillery round hit my Company L. Well remembered is our forward observer, 1st Lt. Ralph Palm, Battery C, 362nd Field Artillery Battalion, who was awarded two Bronze Star medals before being wounded on May 15, 1945."
—Donald O. Dencker, historian, 96th Infantry Division Deadeye Association


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I have install Fedora 20 before, a few days ago , I just install Window 7, and now I can not boot to Fedora because I don't have a boot menu. Is there anyway to recover the Fedora boot menu, is there any free software to do it without using the Fedora CD to recover it.
You need to install Windows before you install Fedora (or any other *NIX). Windows and its boot loader don't recognise *NIX installations. However, most *NIX setup programs will recognise a Windows installation.
You just have to boot with Fedora Live CD and reinstall the grub. Nothing else is required.
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Believe it or not there is a wind and water phenomenon in Kansas-it's called kiteboarding. Many players partake down in the southwest region with the warm temperatures keep the lakes enjoyable and the windy conditions are ideal for riding the wind.
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I hope things are going superbly down in the Yucatan with your honey. I have to tell you, We miss you!!!! that would be the entire piercing community in the united states. I still wish I had been able to come down to NOLA before you closed and have the honor of having you do my triangle. Thanks to your recommedations, I flew out to Inifinite in Philly and had the esteemed Kevin Jump perform it for me. Its stretched to a 4 gauge and honestly I don't even wear my VCH anymore (although I could and have) because I love my triangle so much! I got the chance to spend the day with Jen and she is just a love! We shared the miseries of the east coast attitude. LOL
Anyways, the reason why I am writing to you is different. Not piercing related persay, but related to you. Back in the day when I was working on piercings and healing I practically absorbed everything you wrote. Including the information about emu oil. I followed every link, I read every article. and thankfully, I did!
This past fall, my son was being a stupid teenager. and to make a fairly long story short, he ended up being burned on all four extremities from a spray paint can exploding. The paint was on fire and it stuck to anywhere he had bare skin. He was burned over 30% of his body. He was lifeflighted to Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh and lodged in the pediatric burn ICU. Thankfully he didn't need skin grafts but it was a long agonizing painful process.
I received an email through my old Rings of Desire website because this page about female genital piercings still gets a HUGE amount of traffic:
I noticed you don't list the Isabella piercing. Is it because they are too rare? I had one when I was younger and I've got some nerve damage now. Even if you don't have a picture, I think it would be great to provide the info for it and inform people of the damages it can cause. Your site is very helpful. Thank you!
My response: Hi there, Thanks so much for your comments. I'm so sorry to hear you have a bad piercing result. I'd be very interested in learning more about your piercing: who did it, how long did you have it, details about your loss of sensation, etc. I closed my studio Rings of Desire (in New Orleans) after Hurricane Katrina. I moved to the Yucatan and I've written a book: The Piercing Bible. I left my old site up because it still contains good information, but I've applied myself to making the book complete and launching the new blog and website for it. My book contains a warning against Isabella (and other) piercings in the section that begins:
I received this email from a piercer:
I written you before on the topic of aftercare products, and the use of pierced ear antiseptic and am proud to say the studio I work in now carries Satin! Anyway the purpose of this email is to address piercing lactating nipples. Over the weekend I had a very nice young lady request to have her nipples pierced, as we began the "paperwork" she informed me she was no longer breastfeeding but was still lactating. I have never encountered this before, so I phoned some of my fellow piercers with a few more years under their belts, and asked some information. As it turns out this young lady was already at one of our studios on the other side of town and was told no. The other piercers and I all agreed, because we do not fully know what complications could arise that we would not do it. I told the young lady this, and explained why I wasn't comfortable preforming the procedure. I also explained that there could be a potential for mastitis, and suggested she speak with her doctor, or other piercing friendly medical staff. She promptly left in search of another piercer that would do the piercing for her. With all your years of experience, have you ever encountered this before? I've had little to no luck finding information on the Internet and wondered if you could shed some light on this. Thank you for your time, Myke The Piercing Lounge, Madison, WI www.piercingmadison.com
I told Myke that he was correct in declining to pierce someone who is actively lactating and directed him to this information from my book, with info on this point at the very bottom:
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Called the Army's greatest combat general by President Truman, James Van Fleet led American and allied forces to battlefield victory during a career that spanned World War I and the Cold War. In this biography, a military historian who commanded a rifle company under Van Fleet in Korea defines the root of Van Fleet's success as devotion to his men and dedication to rigorous field training and mental conditioning. He describes the general's ability to inspire his men with the will to win through two world wars and in the limited wars that followed. Braim pays tribute to a poor country boy's rise to a four-star general. Published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army, this is the first trade paperback edition.
Paul F. Braim, who was professor emeritus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a retired Army colonel, authored four books on military affairs. He died in August 2001.


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NASA Ships and Space Stationsby Mark Hughes
Since its inception in 1958, NASA has built several lines of spaceships that made space exploration reality rather than a dream limited to science fiction, as well as two space stations that allow scientists to conduct research over long periods of time. This slideshow celebrates the engineering marvels that were borne out of the NASA space program.
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Project Mercury
Project Mercury, which ran from 1958 to 1963, was the United States' first human-in-space program. The basic mission of the program was to improve knowledge about humanity's capabilities in space. Alan Shepard, Jr. rode the Mercury rocket Freedom 7 into sub-orbit in 1961, becoming the first American in space.
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8 Actors Who Look the Same on Every Movie Poster (Part 3)
#4. Catherine Zeta-Jones Really Wants You to Notice Her Right Hip
Catherine Zeta-Jones has a lot to be proud of, physically. But if there's one feature she values above all else, that's her right hip, so she makes damn sure you notice it.
"Yesh, darling, get that ash a little closher to my mouth."
Entrapment and Chicago are two of her most famous movies, but Zeta-Jones has been drawing attention to her right hip for a long time; she's been doing it from her earliest roles (the little seen Blue Juice) to her most recent ones (the little seen Rock of Ages).
Perhaps figuring that the audience has seen enough of her hip by now, in the poster for Intolerable Cruelty, she tries to get George Clooney to look at it. You might think he's doing a great job resisting her charms, but the universal "hiding a boner" posture gives away the fact that he has at least peeked at it.
None can resist the hip.
As you can see, she usually accomplishes her objective by standing like her spine is severely dislocated, but the poster for The Rebound proves that she can even manage to do it while sitting.
"If I don't sit this way, my entire skeleton will collapse."
Granted, it's a nice hip (way nicer than any of ours), but there's just so much more to be proud of, Catherine. We don't know why she's so insecure about this. Even the cartoon version of her in Sinbad is oddly enamored with that particular part of her pelvis.
Yet another disappointingly titled work that does not, in fact, star Sinbad.
But she isn't the only one who benefits from this. The makers of The Legend of Zorro were aware that Zeta-Jones' hip works like a black hole that sucks attention, which is probably why they decided to position the movie's logo in such a strategic place.
Wait, Zorro is in this movie?
#3. Kevin Spacey Is Still Doing Lineups
Kevin Spacey has been appearing in movies since the 1980s, but he hit it big with The Usual Suspects in 1995, the posters for which featured him and the other characters standing in a police lineup -- which made sense, because that scene is actually in the movie.
As was Benicio Del Toro's perplexing accent.
However, the poster was so iconic that almost every movie Spacey has done since then ...
We're still trying to figure out what exactly was so horrible about Charlie Day's boss.
... has been trying to put him in some type of lineup ...
... even if it requires literally drawing lines between the characters. Also, note that the following (sacrilegious) poster is the only one where Spacey isn't in the first or second spot.
Stanley Tucci read the tagline and stole his place.
Some movies even hark back to the whole criminal aspect from The Usual Suspects by making Kevin Spacey stand around with a bunch of tough guys in leather jackets.
You can tell they're tough because they're in sepia.
Other times, they try to shake things up by putting him in a vertical line instead of a horizontal one ...
... or just changing the angle to form a diagonal one.
If you put them together, it's like they're on an X-Men cover.
#2. Natalie Portman Gets Increasingly Bored
Natalie Portman has gone through a strange evolution in her movie posters. Usually, actors develop their skills by learning to express a more varied range of emotions, but she's gone in the opposite direction. Early in her career, she smiled all the time -- there always seemed to be something to her right that she found incredibly amusing.
Zach Braff is like "Dammit, Natalie, you're ruining my super-serious art movie."
Portman first started getting some respect as an actor in Closer, which has a poster that required all the actors to look straight ahead and get as serious as possible. So she dropped the smile for this one, but you could still sort of see some trace of mischievousness in her face.
However, Portman's real turning point was V for Vendetta, where they must have taken 200 different photos before they finally reached the point where she just wanted to go home, as evidenced by the completely bored and emotionless way she's looking at us.
Which would have made a far more appropriate symbol for Anonymous, if you ask us.
Somehow, this worked out pretty well for her, so she's been doing ...
Apparently Mila Kunis is terrible at oral.
... the exact same bored face ...
... in every movie since.
"Sorry, ladies, we've already filled our quota of one female." -- Science
And this doesn't just happen in serious dramas -- Thor and Your Highness are a superhero film and a medieval stoner comedy, respectively, and she still gave us the blank face. This is made even more baffling by the fact that she's never used that expression in the movies themselves. Maybe she just fucking hates doing posters.
#1. Sean Connery Might Be a Giant
You know how they say that Tom Cruise is secretly a short person, but you never notice it in his movies? Well, we're convinced that Sean Connery is the opposite -- he's actually the size of the Empire State Building, and the studios have been spending millions of dollars using special effects to make him look like a normal-sized person. At first, we just chalked this up to James Bond and his tendency to attract tiny women who sit on his shoulders.
"Ladiesh, if you think thish head is masshive ..."
But no, Sean Connery looks like a giant in movies of all types, from The Avengers to Zardoz.
Zardoz's mustache has a dandruff problem, hence the meteorological phenomenon known as "snow."
In fact, it looks like Connery has only gotten bigger over the years. Here we see him towering over a nuclear submarine, an airplane, Catherine Zeta-Jones' hip, and the entire New York skyline:
"The volume of phallic objectsh in my postersh is merely a coinshidensh."
Yes, Sean Connery is bigger than an entire city -- the tiny version of him you see on the Finding Forrester poster is actually his cosmic herald, who scouts the universe searching for planets for Connery to devour. And if you think these are just perspective tricks or something, several posters make sure to include other actors as well just to point out that they are but ants next to Connery.
OK, no more Connery accent, we promise.
The only instance we could find where someone is bigger than Connery in a poster is Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, where they presumably used photo trickery to make Ford appear larger because he's technically the star of the movie.
But look at Connery's face there -- he's pissed. He's clearly thinking, "I'll show that whippersnapper." And sure enough, Connery got them to include a second, actual-sized version of Ford right below him. Just to set the record straight.
"I'm 12 yearsh older and 12 feet taller."
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Can I still play Starcraft 1 multiplayer on Battle.Net?
Yes, you can. You still have to have a valid SC1 account though. And it uses Classic Battle.Net, so you can't hook up with RealID friends from SC2 and WoW.
If you have Windows 9x or Windows XP, perhaps. I haven't been able to play Starcraft 1 for years, simply because I upgraded to Vista (then Win 7) as soon as it came out, and Starcraft 1's DirectDraw suffers massive miscolorization on the newer OS's. The only way I can play is within a tiny window of a virtual machine which I can't handle because my screen resolution is too high so the window is like 3 inches by 3 inches (no I couldn't get it to stretch with the VM software I was trying).
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The 5 Ballsiest Easter Eggs Hidden in Video Games
#2. Overworked Programmer Turns Helicopter Game into Gay Celebration
Before the wildly popular SimCity game series transitioned into the even more wildly popular The Sims, their creators at Maxis tried out about a dozen other "Sim + some other word" combinations to see if they caught on. They did not.
SimFarm failed because it lacked the option to annoy your family and friends with invitations.
The best known of that bunch is SimCopter, but not for the reasons Maxis intended. The game, released in 1996, allowed you to fly through pixelated cities of your own design with a helicopter, doing things like rescuing people trapped on rooftops, putting out fires, stopping riots ... or watching muscular half-naked men with fluorescent nipples making out with each other.
We're not sure who that dude in the gray hoodie is, but we'd bet money he's taken a human life.
This last part wasn't fully intentional, it turns out. After completing a mission, the game was supposed to show you a group of scantily clad bimbos (as the programmers called them) dancing around for no reason. One programmer, Jacques Servin, decided to bring some gender equality into the Sims world by secretly replacing the bimbos with men in Speedos, recoding the game so that "should you encounter one of these youths, you must kiss him" (which would play out with cute lip-smacking noises). He also threw in some dancing cops for good measure, and thickened the legs of some girls to turn them into drag queens.
Which explains the mysterious bulge in the girl on the right.
Servin programmed the characters to come out only on certain dates, but an error in the code made them show up more often and in greater numbers, causing spontaneous gay pride parades to form around the helicopter. The Easter egg was discovered a few days after the game's release, but by that time, 50,000 copies had already been shipped. Servin was soon fired "due to the insertion of unauthorized content."
Looks pretty consensual to us.
Though Servin himself is gay, he says he did it mainly because the working conditions at Maxis were "inhumane" -- he often worked 60-hour weeks, went a year without any vacation time and was refused a week off. At this point he stumbled upon RTMark, the same activist group behind the hack of the educational game above. RTMark later paid Servin $5,000 for his stunt, and he went on to enjoy a far more satisfying career as a founding member of The Yes Men.
Meanwhile, Maxis eventually admitted he might have been on to something there.
#1. Horny, Pissed-Off Programmers Sneak Rants into Nintendo Games
Are you one of those people who long for the days when cursing and sex in video games was practically unheard of? When you could pick any console game from the store and trust it to be as clean as a Disney movie? We're here to tell you that those games were just as profane and just as perverted as the contemporary trash you despise -- it was all just hidden where you couldn't see it.
Take Pachi Com, for example, a seemingly innocent game for Famicom (the Japanese name for the first Nintendo console) involving harmless pinball and slot machine mini-games ... and a long, angry rant hidden in the code, which actually takes up 5 percent of the game's space.
It's the most entertaining 5 percent.
In the hidden rant, a programmer identified only as Y.S. calls his bosses "retards," among other things, and reveals that "there's another message in the MSX Pachi Com," but it's only for perverts. Indeed, there's a shorter and more enigmatic text hidden in the code of the MSX version of Pachi Com, which eloquently states: "SHLICK SHLICK SPRAY SPRAY" (an early precursor of "fap fap fap").
As painstakingly descriptive as it is nauseating.
This sort of shenanigans happened all the time during the Famicom days, apparently: On the surface, Erika to Satoru no Yumeboken was a cutesy Famicom game by the company who created Pac-Man -- however, it contained an even longer (and even nastier) secret message that was actually visible through the game itself by getting to the end, waiting an hour and a half and pressing a combination of buttons on both controllers. If you do that correctly, this shows up:
It looks like just another sequence in the game, but it's actually an anonymous programmer dishing out details of his female co-worker's sex life:
"First off, Kaoru Ogura, who ran off with some guy in the middle of the project. Yes, you, you bastard. Don't show up at the office without showering after having sex six times the previous night."
That's actually Level 3.
Other programmers preferred to use the games as their own depraved personal ads. Like in Ganso Saiyuuki: Super Monkey Daibouken, an action game not nearly as awesome as the name suggests, in which a programmer hid his full name, age, contact info and this delightful little rhyme: "I wanna lick your pussy! I want a perverted miss. I like vagina and the clitoris!"
He's still knee-deep in it, we're betting.
But perhaps the most epic video game rant of all time belongs to David Pridie, a programmer on The New Tetris for Nintendo 64. At over 2,000 words and featuring seven ASCII illustrations, it is the War and Peace of pissed-off video game developers. It can be summed up with the following quote, though: "This game suuuuuucks."
"Remember New Coke? Let's make a video game like that."
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WEIRTON - The weather may have been damp and chilly Saturday but Ben Bowers had a warm fire burning near the entrance to the Serbian-American Cultural Center.
Inside the center a variety of businesses were showing off their products and services while Bowers, owner of Bowers Landscaping of Wintersville was displaying an outdoor living space he had designed and built for the fourth-annual Tri-State Home and Garden Show.
The show started Friday and will be open from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. today.
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"We built a red cedar pergola from scratch and laid patio pavers here in the parking lot. We have the stone pathways bordered by mulch and potted plants. And we have a patio table and chairs for relaxing. But the highlight is the mirage stone fireplace where we are burning firewood. This is just one example of what we can do for someone's outdoor space," explained Bowers.
Inside the cultural center Dale Mattox of DeNoon Lumber of Bergholz had a corner of the room dedicated to the various wood products his company offers.
"We have had a real good response on Friday and so far on Saturday. We are happy to be at this show in Weirton because we have a lot of customers from the Weirton area," said Mattox, a salesman with DeNoon.
"As the oil and gas building continues to grow in our area we have more and more people who are either building new homes or remodeling their existing homes, and they want to use quality products for their homes," added Mattox.
"I will tell everyone who stops by our display area that we are the best buy in town," noted Mattox.
A few steps away John Cucarese and Nicole Vehalik held court at the New York Life booth.
"It has been very good here. The show just opened for today and we are already seeing a number of people walking through the cultural center and stopping here to ask us questions," observed Cucarese.
"Friday was more of a business oriented evening, but today and Sunday we expect more of the general public. We talk about retirement policies which is sometimes a scary thought for some people. But we had a gentleman stop by already today who talked about his pension in the mill had been reduced and he was looking for options and answers. We have already set up some appointments for follow-up conversations," said Cucarese.
"We have been participating in the Tri-State Home and Garden Show for three years in a row and it has been a very good for us," remarked Cucarese.
Just around the corner Marianne Shaw and Darci Yocum, workshop specialists were busy taking orders for the furniture made at the Jeffco Workshop in Steubenville.
"A lot of people know us for our patio furniture. We make adult and children furniture that is treated or untreated, personalized or painted. We do what the customer wants," said Shaw.
"The Jeffco Workshop has been coming here since the show first started. Today we were here 15 minutes and already had an order placed for patio furniture. Our display is nice because customers can look at what we have for sale and can sit down and get the feel of the chairs. This is an excellent opportunity for us," Shaw added.
Danny Greathouse, a Hancock County Commissioner and executive director of the Top of West Virginia Convention and Visitors Center agreed with Shaw.
"I am here with my wife shopping for things for our home and also helping at our CVB booth. I am interesting in landscaping and my wife is looking at the flooring products. We also enjoy looking at the new items on the market. This is a great event for people from throughout the Ohio Valley because we have a variety of businesses here this weekend," declared Greathouse.
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Yesterday my Twitter feed became positively gourmet as this years Michelin announcement was made. It's a time when the culinary elite hold their breaths to see whether they are ascending or descending the ranks.
Little you would say to do with the humble boozer? Well not quite true. Entering the 2011 Michelin Guide was a firm favourite. The Canton Arms in Stockwell. Yes, Stockwell. It has earned inclusion as a Bib Gourmand, denoting quality food, service and value.
Since my early visits and my posts in reverence of what they can do with a slice of bread and a Toastie Machine – think Foie Gras or Haggis – I've returned regularly. Now and again service hasn't been quite as expected but even so I've always walked away well fed, well watered and happy (and eager) to return. It's good to see the Michelin Inspectors recognise this small piece of South Lambeth Road and makes me wonder if they tried the Toastie.
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My rear view mirror came off today while in work. Probably due to age and scorching Texas heat. What do I need to do to glue it back on? and what kind of glue should I buy to do it with?
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As with most jobs that involve sticking dissimilar materials together, cleanliness is the key - make sure that you get all the old glue off both the windshield (fairly easy) and the metal button (not that easy). Follow the instructions on the pack to the letter. I had to reglue the mirror on my wife's Cherokee a few months back, it's a really easy job, just take your time with the prep and give the glue enough time to harden before you put any load on the metal button.
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A uniform bridge of weight 1200kN and of length 17m rests on supports at each end which are 1m wide. A stationary lorry of weight 60kN has it's centre of mass 3.0m from the centre of the bridge.
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It seems that a failure to keep the lines of communication open between the City Council and Mayor Will Flanagan is blocking efforts that could avert mass layoffs in the Fall River Fire Department in fiscal 2015. A deadlocked City Council last week, by a 4-4 vote, rejected Flanagan's proposed home-rule petition that would give senior firefighters an incentive for taking an early retirement.
The plan was never a sure thing — and may only cause more problems down the road — but it represented one way to prevent layoffs and keep younger firefighters on the job. Instead, it ended up with the mayor and council talking at — rather than with — each other.
In fact, they seem to be doing most of their communication through the media and other intermediaries these days. In another example of the lack of communication and posturing that is only adding to the confusion and uncertainty, City Councilor Michael Miozza announced that he had devised a plan to use the $1.65 million in unspent SAFER grant funds held in the stabilization account to help close the FRFD's budget gap and keep staffing numbers above 200.
Only it appears that money has already been earmarked in the budget, at least according to Flanagan, who also decided to take an unnecessary swipe at Miozza, who was just trying to help solve the problem.
"He gave the firefighters false hope because the money's already allocated," Flanagan said. If Miozza thinks the money's in the budget, Flanagan said, "then show us where it is."
It's clear that Miozza thought they money was in the stabilization fund. When Miozza pitched the idea at last week's council meeting, City Administrator Cathy Ann Viveiros and treasurer John Nunes said nothing about the unused SAFER grant funding in the stabilization fund already being earmarked to close the fire department's budget gap. "If this is the case then I think we're in worse shape than I thought," Miozza said. "If our city administrator doesn't understand the funding then the mayor needs to come before the council and explain."
The mayor's absence from council meetings has caused a lot of the miscommunication and misunderstandings that are only adding fuel to the fire. Although Flanagan certainly has a full plate, the issues at hand require direct communication between the mayor and council — either during meetings or outside of them. This ought to be a top priority.
Communication is a two-way street, and it seems the council could also make a better effort to sit down with the mayor to devise solutions. The missing ingredient on both sides is leadership.
The lack of communication between the city's executive and legislative branches — and even within the two branches — is only adding to the confusion. It is beyond time for the mayor and council to set their differences aside, put their heads together and come up with well-informed options for averting mass layoffs of city firefighters and devising a realistic budget together.
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CLEMSON, S.C. – Headlined by several strong performances, the Anderson University track and field teams wrapped up the opening day of competition at Clemson's Bob Pollock Invitational on Friday at the Tigers' Indoor Complex.
More than 20 schools are competing in the two-day event, including the host Tigers, N.C. State, Pittsburgh and in-state Division I teams Coastal Carolina, Charleston Southern and S.C. State. In all, more than 700 athletes are taking part.
Junior Jill Baxter earned seventh in Friday's pentathlon event, as she placed seventh in the 60 meter hurdles in a time of 10.81, while finishing fourth in the high jump with a height of 1.52 meters. The Denver, N.C., native earned sixth in the shot put with a toss of 9.01 meters and garnered seventh place in the long jump (4.55 meters) before wrapping up with an eighth-place finish in the 800 meter run for a total of 2,483 points in the event.
Sophomore Devan Fisher (6:16.86) claimed fourth in the one mile run, with freshman Mia Swierzs placing 12th in the 3000 meter run with a time of 12:32.75. Classmate Bari Robinson garnered 22nd in the 800 meter run by crossing the line in 2:26.61.
Junior Savanna Keese recorded a distance of 14.70 meters in the weight throw and finished 18th, while sophomore D'Yandra Morris was three spots further back in 21st with a toss of 14.33 meters. Freshman Megan Shahoud captured 25th in the long jump with a distance of 4.86 meters.
The freshman duo of Thomas Garrigan (4:36.23) and Jesse Patrick (4:44.62) made their presence known in the men's one mile run, finishing third and sixth, respectively. Westley Wilson claimed sixth in the 5,000 meter run in a time of 16:41.47, while freshman Ned Kennedy (16:54.60) brought home eighth.
Newcomer Michael Burch placed second in the 3,000 meter run in a time of 10:04.62, with freshman Caleb Knight earning 26th in the 400 meter dash in a time of 54.33. Fellow freshman Jonathan Shorter finished 30th by crossing the line in 57.24.
The 800 meter run saw sophomore Joshua Visi-Clark notch 29th with a time of 2:04.45, with Garrigan (2:06.95) and Patrick (2:07.08) earning 34th and 35th, respectively. Malik Brown (9.75) and Shorter (9.81) placed seventh and eighth, respectively in the 60 meter hurdles.
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William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop's treasury of articles on language, died on Sept. 27, 2009. He was 79.
Mr. Safire began writing his twice weekly "Essay" for the Op-Ed Page of The New York Times in 1973. His last Op-Ed column, "Never Retire," appeared in 2005.
From 1979 until his death he wrote "On Language," a New York Times Magazine column that explored written and oral trends, plumbed the origins and meanings of words and phrases, and drew a devoted following, including a stable of correspondents he called his Lexicographic Irregulars.
Mr. Safire also wrote four novels, including "Full Disclosure" (Doubleday, 1977), a best-seller about succession issues after a president is blinded in a freak accident, and nonfiction that included "The New Language of Politics" (Random House, 1968) and "Before the Fall" (Doubleday, 1975), a memoir.
The columns, many collected in books, made him an unofficial arbiter of usage, and one of the most widely read writers on language.
In 1959, working in public relations, Mr. Safire was in Moscow to promote an American products exhibit and managed to steer Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev into the "kitchen debate" on capitalism versus communism. He took the photograph that became an icon of the encounter. Nixon was delighted, and hired Mr. Safire for his losing 1960 run for the presidency against John F. Kennedy.
Starting his own public relations firm in 1961, Mr. Safire worked in Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's 1964 presidential race and John V. Lindsay's 1965 campaign for mayor of New York.
In 1968, he sold his agency, became a special assistant to President Nixon and joined a White House speechwriting team that included Patrick J. Buchanan and Raymond K. Price Jr. Mr. Safire wrote many of Nixon's speeches on the economy and Vietnam.
After Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, then the publisher of The Times, hired Mr. Safire, one critic said it was like setting a hawk loose among doves. As Watergate broke, Mr. Safire supported Nixon, but retreated somewhat after learning that he, like others in the White House, had been secretly taped.
Mr. Safire won his Pulitzer in 1978 for columns that accused President Jimmy Carter's budget director, Bert Lance, of shady financial dealings.
In 2006, Mr. Safire received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush. From 1995 to 2004, he was a member of the board that awards the Pulitzer Prizes.
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