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I have a system running on a 4GB Nandrive. When the drive is full, Ubuntu will not boot :( and I have to plug in a rescue thumbdrive to delete files. The problem is the hardware is not easily accessible except via network.
Is there a sure-fire way to boot Ubuntu, say, to RAM or other means when the disk is full or on any other errors in the normal boot process?
In other words, is there a fallback rescue boot mode with networking?
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Before the Stryker Rejuvenate modular-neck hip stems were recalled by Stryker Orthopaedics in July 2012, approximately 20,000 devices were sold throughout the United States.
That means thousands of people who underwent seemingly routine hip replacement surgeries were implanted with devices whose metal components had the potential to fret or corrode, causing toxic metal debris to seep into the bloodstream and surrounding tissues.
As a result of these Stryker hip implants, many patients have suffered symptoms related to metal ion poisoning, also known as metallosis, hip replacement failure, and other complications, which have forced them to undergo (sometimes several!) revision surgeries to remove the hip replacements.
If these Stryker hip side effects sound all too familiar, you may be eligible to file a Stryker hip lawsuit. Keep reading to learn more.
Complications associated with the recalled Stryker hip are also common to a version of the DePuy Pinnacle hip replacement that includes a metal liner, as well as the Wright Conserve and Wright Profemur hip replacements, the Biomet Magnum M2a hip replacements, and devices affected by the DePuy ASR hip recall.
The amount of Stryker hip problems reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and claimed in lawsuits filed against the manufacturer has grown since the devices were recalled in July 2012.
Since the beginning of that year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") has received more than 60 adverse event reports of metal corrosion, tissue inflammation and other complications stemming from the Stryker hip implants. The high number of these complaints partially fueled concerns that ultimately led to the Stryker hip recall.
The amount of lawsuits filed against Stryker Orthopaedics has grown as well. According to a Feb. 28, 2013 report from NorthJersey.com, over 80 claims were pending in New Jersey Superior Court, to be overseen by Judge Brian R. Martinotti. The New Jersey Supreme Court's decision to appoint this judge to pretrial proceedings was ordered in January.
In federal court, a Stryker hip lawsuit plaintiff filed a motion this February to coordinate pending claims in the U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota. As 10 out of 30 claims are pending at this location, the formation of a multidistrict litigation (MDL) there would be beneficial for all parties. Plus, duplicative discoveries in various trials could be avoided, the request stated. The plaintiff who filed this motion alleges in his lawsuit that he suffered injuries stemming from the Rejuvenate device.
With the rise of claims brought by patients who experienced complications from its metal hip replacement, Stryker Orthopaedics has taken action.
The manufacturer recently teamed up with third-party claims administrator, Broadspire Services Inc. to manage reimbursement requests from patients hoping to be compensated for costs they allegedly incurred as a result of their injuries. More than two years ago, this same company partnered with Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, DePuy Orthopaedics, to manage claims filed over its ASR metal-on-metal hip replacement system. 93,000 devices were affected by the DePuy ASR hip recall, which was issued in August 2010.
According to Stryker's website, participants in the Stryker Broadspire Claims Program may be reimbursed for "for testing, treatment, revision surgery; if necessary; and other costs relating to this voluntary recall."
Besides that description though, Stryker's "Claims & Reimbursement FAQs" page offers few specifics as to the exact expenses covered by the Stryker Broadspire claims program.
Patients are strongly advised to contact an attorney before participating in the Broadspire Stryker claims program, and especially before signing any paperwork. Any information you disclose to a representative of this program can be used in your Stryker hip lawsuit.
Stryker continues to face mounting Stryker hip lawsuit claims following last years recall of Rejuvenate and ABG II hip stems. … Read More >>
More than a year after the Stryker hip recall was announced for Rejuvenate and ABG II hip stems, a New … Read More >>
The consolidated litigation of Stryker recall cases in New Jersey is continuing to grow, according to a recent court update. … Read More >>


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Brown Pelican. Numerous Brown Pelicans have been targeted for slaughter in the Florida Keys in a national refuge park. In the past such killings are sometimes traced to angry fisherman who don't like the competition for the same fish. Rewards are usually offerred.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Forecasters say a storm system could bring high wind and isolated tornadoes to northern Alabama this weekend. The National Weather Service issued advisories today saying much of the state could receive winds of up to 35 mph through tomorrow afternoon.
GAYLESVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- State troopers say a police officer and a young child were among three people killed in an east-Alabama wreck. Officials say 24-year-old Charity Sloane Brewster was driving with a 2-year-old passenger when she lost control and hit a car driven by 51-year-old Centre Police Officer Jeffrey Hugh Bryant of Piedmont. The crash killed the officer, the woman and the child.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Authorities say one person is dead and two more are injured after a birthday party turned violent near Birmingham. Police were called to a party early this morning to find a man dead in the parking lot outside. Two more people were stabbed and were hospitalized.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Astronauts removed an old space station pump today, sailing through the first of a series of urgent repair spacewalks to revive a crippled cooling line. Astronauts successfully removed an ammonia pump with a bad valve although that task was planned for the next spacewalk on Monday.
BIG PINE KEY, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities are investigating the deaths of 10 brown pelicans found with their pouches slashed in the Florida Keys. Florida Keys Wildlife Refuge officials say slashes to the birds' pouches leave them unable to hunt and swallow. The birds are slowly starving to death.
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- A Louisiana man died after a 12-foot boat capsized near Pensacola. The Coast Guard and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission say Brent Wilson of Pensacola and Brent Keller of Metairie, La., floated for hours after waves inundated their boat on Thursday. Wildlife Commission Lt. Doug Berryman says Keller removed his life jacket and eventually sank.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Forecasters say heavy rain and severe storms are possible across Georgia as a severe weather system passes tomorrow. The National Weather Service says the threat of scattered storms and isolated tornadoes will start in the state's northwestern corner before dawn.
HARLEM, Ga. (AP) -- The east Georgia town of Harlem is offering refunds on more than 85 speeding tickets because of a technical glitch. The Augusta Chronicle reports city officials learned police officers were basing traffic tickets on radar equipment that hadn't been certified properly by the state.
VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) -- A federal prosecutor is seeking more surveillance videos from a gymnasium where south Georgia teen Kendrick Johnson was found dead inside a rolled-up exercise mat. The Valdosta Daily Times reports U.S. Attorney Michael Moore issued a subpoena for hard drives containing original surveillance videos of the old gym at Lowndes High School in Valdosta. Johnson's family disputes investigators saying the teen was trapped upside down before he died in January.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- A Chatham County sheriff's officer has accused of child molestation has been arrested. Authorities say the officer, who has been with the department since 2007, was arrested yesterday after his house was searched. Additional details on the case weren't immediately available.


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BELTON (February 11, 2013)—A basketball contest between the Belton High School Magic Belles and Temple High School Kittens will raise money for cancer research.
The "Love Cures" Pink & White basketball game and contest will raise money for the Robert S. Love Foundation whose goal is to help cure cancer.
The game is scheduled for Thursday beginning at 4:30 p.m. in the BHS gym.
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A large meth bust in Butler County has led to several arrests for an area Sheriff's Department and may lead even more. The Butler County Sheriff's Department arrested twelve people Thursday morning. Many of the residents are from Butler County and some are from Ohio County. All of them are being charged with manufacturing methamphetamine.
Butler County Sheriff, Kenneth Morris, says they received a tip about the meth lab and had been watching the residence on Brownsville Road for a while. Police say they smelled a strong chemical coming from inside the house when they pulled up.
When police tried to enter the home, the subjects fled. One woman was sent to the hospital during the arrest after she hurt herself running from the scene. She was believed to be intoxicated. Sheriff Morris says they are expecting to arrest two more people.


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Fort Larned National Historic Site is in the middle of a major overhaul. Transforming and restoring all buildings back to what they would have looked like in the 1860s when the fort was an active military base. But to really make the transformation complete, they are also restoring the grounds to what they would have looked like 150 years ago.
"We wanted to add more living things to our site," George Elmore, chief ranger said. "We want our guests to have the complete feeling of stepping back in time, instead of just visiting a stagnant museum."
So far they're just working on one garden, located behind the North Officers' Quarters, which will grow things that soldiers would have grown while living here. But they hope to expand to have much more in the future.
"There were several gardens here back in the 1800s" Elmore said. "The officers wives had flower gardens, and there were herb gardens to season their food, and lots of vegetable gardens."
Vegetables were so popular to grow because canned vegetables were not a common everyday item. Instead soldiers survived mostly on a diet of meat and bread. So, when spring came around and they could plant foods to supplement that bland diet, they did.
"We're planting things that would have been grown back then," Elmore said. "But, it's not that different from today. Radishes were popular, as were turnips, squash, green beans, onions and corn."
Fort Larned is looking for interested volunteers to come out to the site, and help plant and tend to the gardens throughout the spring and summer.
"We're looking for boy and girl scouts, or any other clubs or organizations who would like to help out," Elmore said. "Or even individuals if they're interested."
There's no time requirements to volunteer, Fort Larned is flexible and will work around your schedule.
"Most volunteers come out on the weekend, because that's when they have free," Elmore said. "But if someone has Wednesdays free and would like to come out, that's fine too."
Fort Larned has other volunteer opportunities as well. They are looking for a woman to be a laundress, men to sit in barracks and talk about soldier life, officers wives and more.
To volunteer call (620) 285-6911 and tell them what you would like to volunteer for. Fort Larned is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. except for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. Admission is free. For more information visit their website at http://www.nps.gov/fols/index.htm.
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Science Features
This month, eight papers coauthored by U.S. Geological Survey scientists are being highlighted in a special section of the journal Science of the Total Environment. These findings are part of an ongoing USGS effort to study a hidden legacy of CaliforniaŌĆÖs gold rush ŌĆö mercury contamination ŌĆö and to better understand its impact on CaliforniaŌĆÖs natural and agricultural wetlands.
An Oasis of Wetlands
Rice fields are agricultural wetlands that provide critical food production. In California, growers produce more than 2 million tons of rice annually, ranking second among U.S. states.
Along the Sacramento River in CaliforniaŌĆÖs Central Valley, much of the natural flood plain has been barricaded behind levees. Here, rice fields are one of the few remaining habitats where natural or managed seasonal flooding still occurs.
As such, rice fields in the Central Valley provide valuable ŌĆ£ecosystem servicesŌĆØ like forage and habitat for ducks and geese, salmon, and other wetland-dependent protected species. Rice fields also contribute economic benefits to the region and to the state of California. Flooded rice fields attract regional birdwatchers and waterfowl hunters during migration season, and contribute $1.8 billion and 25,000 jobs to the state's economy.
Despite these riches, it is likely that many Central Valley rice fields have been saddled with an unfortunate inheritance from CaliforniaŌĆÖs mining history.
The Mercury Legacy of a Gold Rush
After CaliforniaŌĆÖs gold rush began in 1848, miners took advantage of the wondrous natural ability of liquid mercury to bind with gold, improving mining efficiency. Millions of pounds of mercury were used in CaliforniaŌĆÖs Sierra Nevada Mountains, 10 to 30 percent of which was lost in the process, leading to the contamination of the downstream watershed.
ŌĆ£DownstreamŌĆØ means the massive Sacramento River watershed that meanders from the Sierra Nevada through Sacramento and eventually into the San Francisco Bay. For more than 150 years, river flows have been bringing mercury-laden sediment and water into areas such as the Yolo Bypass ŌĆö a 60,000-acre flood plain located between the cities of Sacramento and Davis.
The Yolo Bypass, built for flood control, has multiple land uses, including agricultural production of white rice and wild rice. Here, rice fields are flooded in the summer growing season to irrigate the crops, and flooded again in the winter to decompose leftover rice straw.
However, this agricultural flooding leads to habitat conditions that favor certain natural bacterial processes, including those able to convert inorganic mercury into methylmercury. This form of organic (carbon containing) mercury is particularly toxic to animals and humans and can cause developmental defects.
A Chemical Quandary
When people talk about mercury contamination warnings in fish, they are talking about the compound methylmercury. Methylmercury can be stored in an organismŌĆÖs body ŌĆö and this amount gets passed onto larger organisms that eat them. Methylmercury ŌĆ£biomagnifiesŌĆØ in animal protein, meaning that concentrations increase in animal tissue with each step up the food chain.
The bacteria involved in the mercury methylation process are naturally occurring, and their ability to produce methylmercury is known to scientists and managers of natural and agricultural wetlands. The current challenge, however, is to make accurate predictions of methylmercury production, export, and bioaccumulation in wetland environments.
This information is critical to understand options for adapting rice field management methods and controlling methylmercury trends, so that Yolo Bypass rice fields can continue to provide ecological and economic benefits to the Central Valley region and to California, with minimized risks to local wildlife and downstream watersheds.
A Flood of Discoveries
With support from the California State Water Resources Control Board, and in cooperation the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, a group of USGS hydrologists, chemists, and ecologists began a major study on methylmercury in the Yolo Bypass in 2007. Working alongside colleagues from federal, state, and private laboratories, the team compared methylmercury trends in rice fields versus adjacent non-agricultural wetlands.
Among their key findings:
(The study did not examine whether the observed mercury levels in rice grains poses risks to human health, nor did it directly test the toxicity of rice grains to specific wildlife species. The study also did not examine other possible sources of mercury such as atmospheric deposition from natural and industrial emissions, which are important in other areas such as the eastern U.S.)
Field studies like these go a long way to further understanding of complex aquatic systemsso that scientists can
more accurately predict the amount and fate of methylmercury in the environment. Clarifying the key factors dictating methylmercury levels is the first step in mitigating possible hazards. The study findings suggest that rice harvesting practices and straw management may be adapted to minimize methylmercury production and export.
The trick will be figuring out the tradeoffs. For example, the findings suggest that managing rice field outflows during flooding periods could help control methylmercury exports. However, holding back water in rice fields may have the unintended consequence of enhancing methylmercury bioaccumulation in fish and wildlife foraging within those rice fields.
Accumulating Knowledge and Partnerships
Solving this mercury quandary will not stop at the laboratory door or with a single field study. The eight papers highlighted this month, along with two others published in 2010, are only the beginning, as USGS scientists are reaching out to other government agencies and industry groups to explore opportunities for collaboration and information exchange. USGS has long been active in water resources and environmental health research, and USGS scientists have recently hosted a briefing session with local stakeholders to discuss the findings of the Yolo Bypass study.
The lessons learned in this initial study will help design the next round of studies in the Yolo Bypass and elsewhere in the region, a number of which are already underway. Improvements in water-quality monitoring in the field, together with increased understanding of methylmercury trends, could help scientists create a decision tool for rice growers and water-quality managers ŌĆö a computer model that could test the factors and outcomes of methylmercury formation in rice fields, so that the tradeoffs between minimizing potential harmful environmental effects from methylmercury and optimizing crop production can be assessed.
This field of research will yield valuable information about Yolo Bypass rice fields and other agricultural wetlands around the world ŌĆö and provide tools to help society manage the legacies of our past while cultivating our ecological and agricultural future. ┬Ā(┬ĀPOC for media inquiries: Leslie Gordon,┬Ālgordon@usgs.gov)
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Perhaps like me, you've been considered a little strange, if not downright weird, for believing that reincarnation is the way the world works. Surely it was even worse for the Cayce family in 1923, when this seemingly bizarre concept was introduced by the Source of the readings. Finding both reincarnation and karma expressed as truths in the Bible was a great comfort to Edgar and his family. But the Cayces also visited the Dayton library to see how the past-life information in the readings checked out against known history. As with the Bible, they found the readings usually measured up quite well. Moreover, in general the information in the readings tended to push the dates of historical events back in time, just as we have seen science do since Edgar's day. Perhaps most interestingly, the readings also frequently fleshed out historical epochs and events in a very rich and satisfying fashion. Reincarnation permeates the ancient philosophies of the East. Billions of people have embraced these beliefs as central in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Shintoism, and other faiths. However, one of the most amazing and wonderful discoveries about reincarnation is finding the large number of famous intellectuals and writers in the Western world who have expressed a belief in reincarnation in their writings. This includes Socrates, Pythagoras, Plato, Dante, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Goethe, Albert Schweitzer, and George Patton. Here are some of my favorite examples:
So, it is clear that believing in reincarnation and karma puts us in very good company indeed!
Ann Jaffin
Ann Jaffin, M.S., a life member and field volunteer of A.R.E., has been a member of a Study Group for 40 years. In addition to writing several articles for Venture Inward magazine, she is the author of the A.R.E. Press book Past Lives and Present Karma. She is presently working on a second book and is scheduled as a speaker at the 2012 Annual A.R.E. Members Congress in June in Virginia Beach, Va. Ann has traveled the world, frequently with A.R.E. Tours, and is a dedicated user of Cayce's remedies and therapies. She'll be presenting Life, Death, and Rebirth: Co-Creation with God at the 2012 Wildacres Retreat near Little Switzerland, N.C., from September 27-30, 2012. You can learn more about the Jaffin family in our Virtual Library under the Jaffin Family Archives and Research Project.
Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. blog offers opinion pieces from contributors with a wide variety of backgrounds. These opinions are valued and create points of discussion. Opinions expressed in our blog may not necessarily represent the opinion of A.R.E.


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Hi everyone, I need some brains on something.
Okay, so in Hellboy - the scene between Hellboy and Liz that begins at 1:19:19 on the dvd.
The scene ends with Hellboy saying to Liz, "I can promise you two things, one: I'll always look this good. And two: I will never give up on you. Ever."
What I'm looking for is simple. What does he mean by that? I mean, he could have said "I will never give up on us.", but instead he says "I'll never give up on you."
It's only one word of difference, but what is the meaning of what he says there? I mean, never give up on us, implies that he has hope they will end up together. What I am curious about is what he means by "you". Thoughts will be much appreciated!


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6 Movies That Didn't Realize They Let the Villain Win
Not every movie can end with the main villain being punched, electrocuted, smashed by a fire truck and dropped on a conveyor belt, like in Con Air. (Unfortunately.) We understand that.
What we don't understand are the movies where the writers seemed to forget about the bad guys completely.
Note: These days, defeating evil is tough, which is why we have an entire workforce dedicated to that very purpose, and why we keep a careful eye on the workforce. He who fights with monsters, etcetera.
Our point is that we can't get complacent. And, since we got the feeling that you were just about to, we decided it was time to remind you of the terrible price of complacency with this Cracked Classic, which shows just how easy it is to let evil win. In movies. -Cracked
#6. The Rest of the Aliens from Independence Day
In Independence Day, the film that inaugurated Roland Emmerich's obsession with seeing America destroyed, the bad guys are a "far more advanced" form of intelligent life that looks like something the Queen from Aliens gave birth to after getting drunk with Predator.
ALF just... stared.
These guys packed quite a lunch bag for their Independence Day barbecue: spaceships the size of Hawaiian islands, shields that could withstand the nuclear bombing of Houston, weapons capable of leveling Washington D.C. in a single blast, plus all the information about human anatomy they could possibly probe out of Randy Quaid's asshole.
But, after pancaking dozens of cities, a rag-tag group of humans cause each and every one of the alien ships to crash, the thousands of people who were no doubt crushed under each one a small price to pay for victory.
But We Forgot About...
Let's be generous and assume that every one of the alien city-destroying mother ships was downed. Do you have any idea how large a 15-mile-wide spaceship is? Each one is like a flying city, 1,000-stories high and about 100 blocks wide in every direction. And while New York may not have been designed to have giant spaceships fall on it, we have to imagine the space crafts had been designed with a contingency plan for gravity.
We're not sure how many troops and crew were on board each, but we know each one housed an entire air force worth of those little fighter craft.
Speaking of which, any aliens who happen to be sitting in one of those crafts is probably going to make it. We saw earlier that an alien shot out of the sky was able to survive. And by survive we mean it hot wired a human brain and had a conversation with the fucking President after going through a crash-landing, a cold cock delivered by none other than Will Smith, and being cut in half on an operating table.
"Wow, he went down really easy. It's almost like he wants me to take his unconscious body to my leader."
Take into account the weaponry the aliens will be able to recover from their downed ships, and we have a District 9 situation on our hands... only we're the ones herded into camps.
And we can't quite rock a red vest.


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(RC2) Copy/paste grid data behaves differently in different browsers
Version of Ext GWT
3.0 Release Candidate 2
Browser versions and OS
- Internet Explorer 8, version 8.0.7601.17514
- FireFox 11
- Google Chrome, version 18.0.1025.162 m
All running on Windows 7 Professional SP 1
I try to select and copy the data of a simple grid to be able to paste it in NotePad.
Run mode
Production mode
Steps to reproduce the problem
Run this simple grid example (we run it in production mode): (sample code here)
Try to select all cells by
- pressing the left mouse button in the lower right corner of the lower right cell
- dragging the mouse to the upper left corner of the upper left cell
- release the mouse button
- press Ctrl+C to copy the selected cells (all)
- Open a new document in Notepad
- press Ctrl+V
Expected result
Notepad document containing:
Actual result
Depends on the browser:
- In IE8 the result is the best (for a change):
John Doe
Luc Desmet
Marino Falco
(No tabs between the column values, but simple spaces. Bug or not?)
- In FF11 I simply can't select the column values! NOK
[ (although we added the lineCode:
- In Chrome the result in NotePad looks like:
(Each column value on a new row - NOK)
Code: here
Helpful Information
- I'll make one if needed
Debugging already done
- none
- ?
22 Apr 2012 11:13 PM #2
Hi Sencha,
Any reaction on this one?
10 May 2012 11:58 PM #3
I see that yesterday several bug reports got addressed and did get a reaction.
Is this one forgotten somehow?
It's still a problem in 3.0.0
14 May 2012 9:44 AM #4
Copy and paste from a grid is not a scenario we support. We have currently left the result of such an attempt undefined. As a result, the behavior you are describing is not exactly a bug.
That having been said, the difference in behaviour is something we'd like to look into. Being able to copy in one browser and not another is not definitely not the intended effect. The correct fix may be to make text unselectable in all browsers. We'll look into this further.
For the moment, if you need your data in a format amenable to copy and paste, consider looking into one of the GWT-compatible CSV libraries. These should be significantly easy to copy and won't introduce space/tab ambiguities.
7 Nov 2012 10:55 AM #5
Text is now not selectable for all browsers (the default behavior). You can see the change here:


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1a.Objectives (from AD-416)
The objective of this cooperative project is:.1)to determine the differences in the expression of genes and proteins in plants grown in a greenhouse environment (no UV-B) compared to those in 'field conditions' (normal ambient UV-B concentrations), and.2)to identify the protein and genetic changes during hidden hunger, and using this information, deveolop a technique that growers can use to test their plants for specific and/or general nutrient deficiencies.
1b.Approach (from AD-416)
Microarray techniques will be used to rapidly screen for global differences in gene expression between the two different UV-B environments and nutrient (i.e., N,P,K,Fe,B, and Mg) stress. The initial use of an existing model plant system (i.e., Arabidopsis thaliana) for this work will facilitate identification of specific genes that are responsive to the absence of UV-B during growth. After identifying such UV-B and nutrient stress responsive genes in Arabidopsis, we can then identify related genes in bedding plant species (i.e., impatiens, petunia, begonia, geranium, marigold, pansy, chrysanthemum, and New Guinea impatiens). Simultaneously, proteomics techniques (i.e., identification of proteins of interest by 2-D gel analysis, followed by protein sequencing) will be used to screen for global differences in protein expression between the two different UV-B environments.
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Davis Projects for Peace is an invitation to undergraduates at the American colleges and universities in the Davis United World College Scholars Program to design grassroots projects that they will implement during the summer of 2016.
The projects judged to be the most promising and do-able will be funded at $10,000 each. The objective is to encourage and support today's motivated youth to create and try out their own ideas for building peace.
The Davis Projects for Peace is made possible by Kathryn Wasserman Davis, an accomplished internationalist and philanthropist. Upon the occasion of her 100th birthday in February of 2007, Mrs. Davis, mother of Shelby M.C. Davis who funds the Davis UWC Scholars Program, chose to celebrate by committing $1 million for one hundred Projects for Peace. "I want to use my 100th birthday to help young people launch some immediate initiatives - things that they can do during the summer of 2007 - that will bring new thinking to the prospects of peace in the world," says Mrs. Davis. Because of the many marvelous achievements made by students in the summers since then, Mrs. Davis continued the Davis Projects for Peace. Intentionally, no clear definition is offered so as not to limit the imagination.
We leave it up to the students to define what a "project for peace" might be. We hope to encourage creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. The overall program (all 100 projects) is to be worldwide in scope and impact, but specific projects may be undertaken anywhere and as grassroots as desired, including in the U.S. Undergraduate students at any of the Davis UWC Scholar schools (including seniors who would complete their projects after graduation) are eligible - so long as the president of their institution has signed and returned the grant agreement form. While the schools included are restricted to those in the Davis UWC Scholars Program, all undergraduates (not just Davis UWC Scholars) at those schools are eligible. Groups of students from the same campus, as well as individual students, may submit proposals.
The intention is to fund 100 projects, with at least one at each of the Davis UWC Scholar schools. Therefore, all involved schools are invited to select and submit one proposal for funding and one or two additional proposals as alternates that might be funded as well. Final decisions on all grants are made by the Davis UWC Scholars Program office.
Davis Projects for Peace homepage
Grinnell's Nomination Process
Grinnell College will nominate one project and one alternate in this competition. To apply for Grinnell's nomination, please submit the following materials electronically to Simone Sidwell, coordinator of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program, by midnight, Thursday January 28, 2016.
- One Scholarship Nomination Permission Form and Waiver for each applicant, whether or not they attend Grinnell College
- A cover sheet that gives the name, class year, and email address for each member of the group.
- "A written statement which describes the project (who, what, where, how) including expected outcomes and prospects for future impact (not to exceed two pages).
- A one-page budget
- Written pre-approval of any groups involved in the project
- Two faculty recommendation forms to be submitted directly by faculty member to Simone Sidwell. Email Simone to obtain form.
For the on-campus nomination process, please ensure that all application documents comply with these submission guidelines:
- 12-point font, double-spaced
- Minimum of 1" margins on all sides
- Applicant's name on each page
- Can be single or double-spaced
Ethical Guidelines
All applicants are expected to adhere to these ethical guidelines.
Selection Criteria
Grinnell College's Davis Projects for Peace Nominating Committee, made up of members of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program, has established the following selection criteria to guide its nominating process:
- FEASIBILITY: Does the project appear to be possible to complete with the time, person power, and resources available? Does the budget appear to be realistic?
- CREATIVITY: Does the proposal provide evidence of original thought or unusual imagination? Does the project bring new perspectives to the issues being addressed? Is the project likely to catch the imagination of other people at the project site and elsewhere? Does the proposal explain how the project fits the term "project for peace"?
- IMPACT: How important are the issues addressed by this project? How many people are likely to benefit from it? How likely is it to draw additional outside attention and resources to the issues addressed?
- SUSTAINABILITY: Does the project promise to have effects that last beyond the duration of the summer? Is the project one that could be carried on by people at the project site or elsewhere?
- QUALITY OF THE WRITTEN DOCUMENT: Does the proposal explain clearly what is to be done and why it is important? Is the document free of typos or other errors that would indicate hastiness in its preparation or a lack of careful thought? Is the document one that we can be proud to share with people outside the College as an example of the fine work done by Grinnell students?
- MATURITY OF STUDENTS AND DEMONSTRATED ABILITY TO WORK INDEPENDENTLY AND/OR TOGETHER AS A TEAM: Do the students have a track record of completing tasks independently and with good judgment? Can the students demonstrate their ability to respond to unexpected circumstances and to resolve conflict among themselves in service to the project? Are they emotionally stable and resilient? Students do not have outside or College supervision on this project and need to have the skills and abilities to work independently and with integrity.
Grinnell College Travel Warning Policy
Please note that, in general, Grinnell College policy does not permit us to recommend projects to the foundation that involve travel to countries currently under a travel warning from the United States Department of State. Although in the past a few projects were allowed to take place in countries currently under a travel warning, future exceptions to this policy will be rare. Students who desire to undertake a project in a country with a Travel Warning should a) know that they are not likely to be granted such an exception and must be able to state a clear, compelling reason to justify the risk, even if he or she is a native of the country, and b) speak with Simone Sidwell at least two weeks before submitting their proposal to the college for nomination.
"Shooting for Peace"
A copy of the 50-minute documentary "Shooting For Peace," which covers three Davis Projects for Peace in Uganda in 2007, is available in the Burling Library Listening Room for students to check out.
Recipients of Davis Projects for Peace Grants, Nominated by Grinnell College
Summer 2014
- Anam Aslam '14 Matthew Miller (Messiah College), "Los Niños Son el Futuro: Empowering Women to Bring Peace through Children's Health." Ecuador
- Leah Lucas '14 and Emily Nucaro '14, "Weaving Peace and Stringing Hope." Guatemala
Summer 2013
- Inara Sunan Tareque '16 and Thomas Yim '15 (Brown University), "Stars for Knowledge, Knowledge for Change;" Bangladesh
Summer 2012
- Tinggong Zhan '14 and Xiaorong Yin '14; "50 Yuan That Can Change Lives;" China
Summer 2011
- Ashraya Dixit '14; "Straws of Steel: Piloting Straw Bale Construction;" Nepal
Summer 2010
- Ami Shrestha '13; "Peace in the Mountains;" Nepal
Summer 2009
- Liting Cong '11; "'Yi Fa Wei Quan,' Legal Aid for Migrant Workers;" Shanghai, China
- Joe Hiller '12 and Chandara Veung '12; "Equal Access to Education: A Road to Peace and Development;" Cambodia
Summer 2008
- Meredith Groves '08, Victoria Mercer '10, Eric Nost '09, and Alex Reich '11; "Local Foods for Local People;" Grinnell, IA
Summer 2007
- Jamie Zwiebel '08; "Women in Solidarity for Development;" San Ramon, Nicaragua
For Further Information
Students who have questions about the Davis Projects for Peace or Grinnell's nominating process should contact Simone Sidwell, Grinnell's designated official contact person to the Davis Projects For Peace.


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Many of us know this situation well: we're a one-man (woman) development team, we need some extra help to keep up with all the tasks, the budget is small and we decide to get some help. But hiring someone is difficult. Either the person is inexperienced and I end up becoming their full-time teacher in the hopes they will produce work they way I want, or the person is skilled but for whatever reason doesn't hand over code within budget that I can just plug in and use without reworking it myself.
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I am trying to accomplish the following and have been unsuccessful. I would appreciate any insight. Scenario: http://www.mydomain.com/filename.html is a webpage. On this webpage I am running a viewer script that calls up documents (.png,swf, pdf) and show these to my visitors when they visit the .html page.Right now you can still access the pdg, swf, and pdf files by going to http://www.domainname.com/viewerfiles/nameoffile.png (or swf or pdf). How can I block the direct access (http://www.domainname.com/viewerfiles/nameoffile.png) but still allow the viewer resting on the html page to access the files located in the viewrfiles folder. I have tried .htaccess method but you can still access the files directly. My goal is to allow visitors to view and print the files from the webpage but I do not want scrappers and bots indexing/taking the .pdf, png, swf etc and hosting them on other sites. Thanks!
blocking direct access to files via url input while still allowing a script on server to access files
It is not possible to do what you want to do, for fundamental reasons. The user controls the client. From the server side, the server has no way to distinguish a legitimate browser that happens to be making a request for an image on the page (a case where you want to serve the image) from a malicious user who is trying to directly access the image (a case where you don't want to serve the image). These two situations are indistinguishable from the server's point of view, so the server has to behave the same way in both cases: either serve the image in both cases, or don't serve it.
You might want to revisit what you are actually trying to accomplish, and see if there is some other way to achieve it. What are you trying to prevent? What threat are you trying to protect against?
If you are trying to prevent scraping, one thing you could consider doing is making the images available only to logged-in users. You will have to decide whether that is appropriate for your site, or if it is not a good match (maybe you want the web pages and images viewable by everyone). Another option is to set up your
See also How do I prevent people from stealing photos from my website? and how can I prevent people from using my images from my website.
You can only decide whether a user has access to download a file from your site or not, you cannot control what a determined user does with the file. You could attempt to inspect properties of the request to recognize behavior typical of a browser embedding the file as a resource into your main page, but these properties are easily spoofable, and you are prone to breaking the normal usage of your site.
Try Googling how to use image Hotlink protection to prevent direct access to them.
If your hosting account has cPanel, their instructions are at: http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/CpanelDocs/HotLinkProtection
you told in your post that you are using .htaccess
I already answered this question few days ago on stackoverflow
In that post it was about images, but you can easily modify it for everything


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May 6, 2013
Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz chaired the Cabinet session at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah this afternoon. The Cabinet began by congratulating the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz on the eighth anniversary of his ascension to the throne. It praised the King's efforts in a variety of fields, pointing to the numerous advances made in the Kingdom during his reign. The Cabinet also thanked the King for ordering the compensation of the victims of recent heavy rains and flooding, praising his concern for the well-being of his people.
Turning to international relations, the Cabinet reviewed the latest contacts between Saudi and foreign leaders, including the talks between King Abdullah and visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. It also expressed deep concern over the deteriorating situation in Syria and condemned the Israeli attacks on Syrian territory, calling on the U.N. Security Council to prevent a repetition of the strikes.
On the domestic front, the ministers reviewed the cultural and scientific conferences held in the Kingdom during the past week. These included the 13th Scientific Forum on the Research of Hajj and Umrah; the 4th Scientific Conference for Students in the Kingdom; and the 2nd Regional Seminar on Fighting Narcotics and Information Exchange.
Addressing its remaining agenda items, the Cabinet authorized the Minister of Foreign Affairs to sign a draft memorandum of understanding between the Saudi Foreign Ministry and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA); authorized the Minister of Interior to sign a draft cooperation agreement in the field of combating crimes with Albania; accredited the two final accounts of the Saudi Industrial Development Fund and a guarantee program for funding small and medium-sized enterprises for fiscal year 1432/1433 H.; authorized the Minister of Water and Electricity to sign a draft memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the field of water with Morocco; approved the amendment of a law concerning land grants to charitable foundations; and approved two final accounts of the Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization for fiscal year of 1432/1433 H.
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I am unable to test this right now, however I'm curious about the answer.
If I have a trigger on table A that writes a new record to table B, will
LAST_INSERT_ID() tell me the updated
ID for A or B? I'm curious about both MySQL and PHP, but my understanding is that PHP simply calls MySQL's implementation.
How do I get the last inserted ID for B if it normally returns A, and vice-versa?


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Spanish After Mango Languages
Recently, I've been interested in learning a language. I took three years of Spanish in high school, and while I did better than the average high school student, I still have gaps in my knowledge of the language, and it has been a while since learning everything. I think I just need a refresher on some of the grammar rules I already learned in school and expand my vocabulary. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to study/use?


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Stepping out of the classroom and onto the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation showed second-year law student Courtney Cole a whole different side of being an attorney.
Cole and 10 fellow students traveled to the South Dakota reservation in March as part of their applied training through the school's American Indian Law Clinic.
"There is a very interesting juxtaposition in talking about things in the abstract and being able to do them on the ground," Cole said.
Established in 1992, the American Indian Law Clinic is a one-year practicum course in which students provide pro-bono legal services to clients in the American Indian community. It is one of only a handful of such university-based clinics in the nation and one of the main reasons that Cole, who is Cherokee and Choctaw, chose Colorado Law.
The clinic's student attorneys, supervised by Director Carla Fredericks, were invited to the reservation by the Red Cloud Indian School Economic Development Initiative to present a curriculum on entrepreneurial and business law. They also hosted a roundtable on the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA), a law designed to keep American Indian children within their tribal communities when state intervention occurs.
Fredericks explained that reservation visits are critical to understanding tribal communities and their legal needs. "It's very close to Colorado, but it's a world away," Fredericks said.
The experience helps students more completely engage in the significant challenges their clients are facing. "It helps the students see the modern reality and trauma created by some of the policies they study in school," Fredericks said.
On the reservation, the experience of applying classroom skills to the real world turned into a lesson in adaptability.
The second day of their visit, Cole and her colleagues hosted a presentation on navigating the legal thicket surrounding ICWA, attended by tribal members, state social services representatives and key child-welfare leaders on the reservation. What started as a two-hour event became a four-hour dialogue among participants on their perspectives concerning the law.
"The reality of the roundtable was very different and more meaningful than the presentation we had planned," Cole said. "We learned we could serve the community much better by listening rather than talking, by understanding rather than explaining."
Cole shared a story of a woman she met during the presentation who lost her son to the state foster system. After he was removed from the family's home, he was given psychotropic medication without her consent, and later committed suicide. The mother, a tribal member with a Ph.D., said she was unable to work within the legal system to maintain her family rights.
"Hers was the worst possible outcome for the system," Cole said. "I wondered, if she can't do it, how will other people be able to get their children back?"
To address this, the student attorneys developed materials to leave for tribal members that will serve others in the woman's situation.
Under the guidance of faculty, these situations are an opportunity to practice law in a setting that allows students to make improvements and fosters their confidence, Cole said.
"You know that not only can you do it, but you've done it," she explained. "And it will serve you in your lawyering life and your life in general."
The trip was funded by a legacy contribution left by the late David Getches, dean of the law school from 2003 to 2011. For more information about the clinic visit www.colorado.edu/law/academics/clinics/american-indian-law-clinic.


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I've seen お疲れさま and ご[苦労]{くろう}さま used to say "Thank you" after some had done work of some type. After reading the お疲れさま thread, I realize that the two are not interchangeable. So when do you use ご[苦労]{くろう}さま?
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(First, a note: because there is a ご at the beginning of ごくろうさま, that お〜 is actually not there. :)
I've most often heard ご苦労様{くろうさま} used by people older than myself, when I have done something for the person (or in some way have helped the person,) using that phrase. (Besides age, this could also happen in a business situation, where a senior worker is speaking to a junior worker.)
For reference, more information can be found in the following articles; one in English, and one in Japanese:
From how I understand it, it is sort of a subsection of when you might say


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Software Security at Microsoft: ACE Team Tour, Part 3
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The Application Consulting & Engineering team (ACE Team) assesses all of Microsoft's line of business applications for privacy and security vulnerabilities. This discussion among Ahmad Mahdi (Security Technologist), Ricardo Birmele (Security Technologist
and Training Coordinator), Talhah Mir (Senior Security Technologist), Chris Lundquist (Performance Technologist), and Tony Dang (Privacy and Program Manager) talk about what it involved in the assessment process. Robert Scoble conducts the interview.
Part 2
Part 1
Oops, something didn't work.
Any one on the team get the job because they hacked into something they "shouldn't" have?
yes, convincing the coo && cto
the levels of associated risk they are vulnerable too
is a common problem right now.
~color coded executive level reports with cool pies charts always does the trick...
you should have seen it in the 90's when terminology wasn't in paperback form.
It is the best job in the world to be a hacker
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Dementia: Some Antipsychotic Drugs Riskier Than Others
Feb. 23, 2012 -- The FDA has warned that treatment with antipsychotic drugs increases the risk of death among elderly patients with dementia, and now a new study confirms that some drugs are riskier than others.
Compared to patients treated with the newer second-generation antipsychotic drug Risperdal (risperidone), patients who took the older, first-generation drug Haldol (haloperidol) had twice the risk of death.
The study is by far the largest ever to examine death risk associated with antipsychotic drug use in patients with dementia. The drugs are often used to calm down dementia patients who can become agitated, sometimes to the point of violence.
Researchers from Harvard Medical School reviewed data on more than 75,400 elderly residents of nursing homes in 45 states across the U.S.
They conclude that certain antipsychotic medications may differ in the risk of death among the elderly with dementia.
The study appears today in the journal BMJ.
"Haloperidol is not used as much as it once was in these patients, but it is still used," says researcher and Harvard Medical School instructor Krista Huybrechts, PhD. "It is clear that this drug carries an increased risk for death in elderly patients with dementia and should not be used."
FDA Warning Prompted Study
In 2005, the FDA warned that second-generation antipsychotic drugs, also known as atypical antipsychotics, were associated with an increased risk of death in older patients with Alzheimer's disease and other age-related dementias.
In 2008, the warning was expanded to include conventional, first-generation antipsychotic drugs.
Despite the safety concerns, both first- and second-generation antipsychotics are still prescribed for the treatment of agitated elderly dementia patients when non-medical interventions have failed, geriatrician Gisele Wolf-Klein, MD, tells WebMD.
Wolf-Klein is director of geriatric education at the North Shore-LIJ Health System in New Hyde Park, N.Y.
"There is a perception that nursing homes are putting patients on these drugs to keep them quiet, but that isn't the case," she says. "When we prescribe these medications it is usually as a last resort."
Death Risk Lowest in Seroquel Users
The Harvard Study included elderly new users of antipsychotic drugs residing in nursing homes across the U.S. between 2001 and 2005. The antipsychotics evaluated in the study were Abilify, Geodon, Haldol, Risperdal, Seroquel, and Zyprexa.


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April 17, 2011
Finance ministers, central banks governors and other economic officials of member states of the Group of 20 (G-20) met in Washington on April 14. The Saudi delegation to the meeting was led by Minister of Finance Dr. Ibrahim Al-Assaf and included Governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) Dr. Mohammed Al-Jasser; Deputy President and Managing Director of the Saudi Development Fund Yusuf Al-Bassam; and a number of other senior officials. The summit's agenda included discussions on global economic developments, frameworks for balanced and sustainable growth, reforming the world's monetary system and following-up on the implementation of the G-20's resolutions on financial regulatory reforms and the fluctuation of basic commodity prices.
On April 16, the Saudi delegation also attended the 23rd meeting of the International Monetary and Finance Committee of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington. Addressing the Committee, Dr. Al-Assaf discussed the economic situation in the Kingdom, the current state of the global economy, and the role of the International Monetary Fund in confronting global financial challenges.
In terms of fiscal policy, the Minister of Finance stressed the strength and safety of the Saudi banking sector, which enjoys high profitability and financial solvency. Furthermore, he noted that the royal decrees recently issued by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz aim to provide temporary subsidies to the unemployed and to increase spending on housing programs that will strengthen the social safety network. Dr. Al-Assaf noted that the continuing strong performance of the Saudi economy, supported by large governmental investments in infrastructure projects and the social sector, has contributed to the increasing of IMF forecasts for Saudi economic growth this year.
As for developments in the energy markets, the Minister of Finance reiterated the Kingdom's commitment to strengthening the stability of the oil market, for the benefit of producers and consumers alike, and supporting global economic growth. He commended the growing cooperation between oil producers and consumers, pointing specifically to the signing of the Charter of the International Energy Forum in Riyadh last February.
Finally, the Saudi delegation attended a meeting of the Development Committee of the World Bank, held in Washington on February 16 and 17. Delivering a speech, Dr. Al-Assaf stressed the impact of high food prices on global food security and called for the protection of the poor. He highlighted Saudi efforts in this regard, including the government's partnership with the Saudi private sector for investment in food production in other countries, an initiative that has already begun to yield positive results. The Finance Minister also noted that the Kingdom helps poor countries increase the size of their agricultural lands and contributes to regional and international development institutions.
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Statues of Washington, D.C.by Mark D. Hughes
Photographs by Carol M. Highsmith
A city rich in politics and culture, Washington, D.C. is the capital of America and the center of our governmental system. Washington, D.C. was the home to some of America's most famous and influential historical figures. These figures have been frozen in time as statues for our enjoyment. Follow this slideshow to view the many statues that reside in Washington, D.C.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States (1933-1945). He is the only president to serve four terms in office.
Fun Fact: FDR was the first president to speak on television.
Carol M. Highsmith, a distinguished and widely published American photographer, began donating her work to the Library of Congress in 1992. The Carol M. Highsmith archive at the Library of Congress includes photos from each of the United States and is expected to eventually contain 100,000 photos. Professionally printed and framed prints of these photos are available at PhotographsAmerica.com.
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The Good
Dan Slott has taken the idea that many were outraged over and is crafting an fascinating story. The first two issues showed some new developments but here you really get a feel for what we could see in the coming issues. The whole notion of Doc Ock trying to be a superior Spider-Man is both humorous and interesting. This is more than just Doc Ock trying to be Spider-Man. Like it or not, he's being influenced by Spider-Man's memories and sense of doing good.
This whole concept almost feels like a science experiment. While this Spider-Man may be making some strides and improvements, there will also be some repercussions for when Peter (inevitably) returns. With a more violent or less lenient approach in dealing with the villains, Peter is going to have a lot to deal with whenever he makes his way back. There will also be the public perception and those of close characters like Mary Jane and Carlie Cooper.
This issue brings some great interaction between Spider-Man and J. Jonah Jameson. There's also some interaction with Carlie that needs to be seen. Throw in the fact that Spider-Man has to face Vulture, Ock's former partner in crime, we're looking at a new sort of game. Seeing the reaction to Spider-Man's tactics from others including Peter is priceless. Spider-Man is making strides in some areas but doing highly questionable things in others. All this adds a new level to reading these Spider-Man stories.
These are the aspects of this series that I'm really digging. We've had so many (great) Spider-Man stories and this is giving us the chance to really explore who and what Spider-Man is. Whether things revert back in a month or a year, there's plenty of fallout to be seen.
Ryan Stegman continues to get better and better each issue. The level of detail he puts in and the subtle differences in Spider-Man's posture and body language is remarkable. Whether it's drawing an arrogant Spider-Man, creepy henchmen of the Vulture or flashbacks to Doc Ock's childhood, each moment has its own unique feel.
The Bad
As compelling as these stories are, it is still taking some getting used to having a different Spider-Man as the lead. The scary thing is, Slott is making us start to actually like this Spider-Man. That can't be good, can it?
The Verdict
Last issue gave us a fun (and slightly creepy) look at Doc Ock try to navigate through Peter Parker's personal life. This issue, we're seeing the action kick up a notch. This new version of Spider-Man is a slight enigma as we're seeing Ock do things for his own good while also continuing to prove he can be a better Spider-Man than Peter was. There is quite a bit of inner conflict as we start to see Ock in a different light and you can't help but admire some of the things he's bringing to the table. Stegman is a beast in terms of delivering amazing art. He doesn't just draw Spider-Man with a slightly different costume, you can see by the way he stands and moves that there is a difference here. There may still be some outcry over the changes in this title but Slott (and Stegman) are showing there is more to this than many gave them credit for. We're seeing many opportunities to view Spider-Man in a different light and we know it can't last forever. What's important is to enjoy these stories for what they are as they are giving us something different and it's been a blast reading them. It's almost like reading Spider-Man for the first time.


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Joe Quesada, CB Cebulski and Kieron Gillen discuss Marvel's current crossover event, displaying exclusive art from future issues and reacting to the Agent Coulson/Vision rumours in the wake of "The Avengers."
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Let's say I have some $n \times n$ square matrices $A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_m$ with exact numbers for entries, and I want to find the subspaces of $V = \mathbb{C}^n$ invariant under these matrices. Is there a clean way to do this? The way I'm doing it seems to require writing ridiculous amounts of code from scratch to do things like calculate intersections, get all the invariant subspaces belonging to a particular generalized eigenspace, etc.
This answer is almost entirely about mathematics and algorithms, not Mathematica implementation. I'm not sure whether such answers are welcome on this site; I hope I haven't offended.
This is a very important problem in computational algebra, but is usually stated in a more sophisticated way. The usual way that one thinks about it is to consider the (noncommutative) algebra $R=\mathbb{C}\langle A_1, \ldots, A_m \rangle$ generated by the matrices $A_1$, ..., $A_m$. Think of $V$ as a module for $R$; your goal is to figure out whether the module is simple and, if not, find a submodule. The standard algorithm in this field is the Meataxe, introduced by Parker and improved by Ivanyos and Lux (among others). The problem of simply finding ONE nontrivial invariant subspace is hard enough that I will focus on that.
You REALLY don't want to solve the problem of describing all the invariant subspaces. Simply finding a way to display your output will be very deep as any projective variety can be described as a component of the variety of invariant subspaces for some module over some algebra; see this paper for a much more precise statement.
However, assuming that we restrict ourselves to finding ONE invariant subspace, I have a reasonable idea for a probabilistic algorithm which I would find reasonable to implement in a day.
Before starting, we recall the general structure theorem of $\mathbb{C}$-subalgebras of the $n \times n$ matrices (see sections 2 and 3 of Pete Clark's notes). There is always a composition $n=b_1+b_2+\cdots + b_k$, and a change of basis for $V$, such that every matrix in $R$ is block upper triangular with blocks of the size $b_i$ and the only relations between blocks on the diagonal is that some of them maybe imposed to be equal to others of them. The radical of $R$, denoted $\mathrm{Rad}(R)$, is the set of matrices which are all zeroes on the diagonal in this block presentation. Your goal is to detect whether or not this block decomposition is trivial.
Step 0 If your matrices have rational entries, I would compute the characteristic polynomial of $\sum q_i A_i$ for some random rationals $q_i$ and factor it. If you ever get an irreducible polynomial, then there is no invariant subspace over $\mathbb{Q}$, and the only way for there to be invariant subspaces over $\mathbb{C}$ is if all of $A_j$ commute with $\sum q_i A_i$ (in which case, the eigenspaces of $\sum q_i A_i$ are invariant.) So you might be able to stop here without going further.
Step 1 Let $C(R)$ be $\{ X : A_i X = X A_i \ 1 \leq i \leq m \}$. Compute a basis for $C(R)$; this is a linear algebra problem which I imagine you can make Mathematica do as well as I can. If $\mathrm{Id}_n$ doesn't span $C(R)$, let $X$ be an element of $C(R)$ not a multiple of of $\mathrm{Id}_n$. The eigenspaces of $X$ are nontrivial invariant subspaces of $R$.
From now on, we assume that $C(R)$ is trivial. This implies that either there are no invariant subspaces, or $R$ has nontrivial radical.
Step 2 Compute a basis for the algebra $R$. Here is some not very good Mathematica code for the purpose. I'm sure other members of the site could dramatically improve the implementation; I welcome them to edit in improvements.
Now, for any $v \in V$, you can test whether $v$ lies in an invariant subspace by computing
Step 2.5 If
Step 3 Pick a random element $\theta$ in $R$, by taking a random combination of the elements in
If we have not terminated yet then (1) the partition $(b_1, \ldots, b_k)$ has more than one part (since $\dim R < n^2$ at Step 2.5) (2) all the $b_i$ are equal and all of the block diagonal matrices are equal (or, with high probability, Step 3 would have found an invariant subspace) and (3) the radical is nonzero (or $C(R)$ would have been nontrivial at Step 1. We assume from now on we are in this case. This is the "hard case" which Ivanyos and Lux describe how to attack. I've found a method which, to me, seems simpler than theirs, which I will now describe.
Step 4 We now want to solve the following auxiliary problem: Let $A$ be a matrix. Find the matrix $C$ which preserves the generalized eigenspaces of $A$, but acts on the generalized $\lambda$-eigenspace by the scalar $\lambda$. For example, if $A$ is diagonalizable, then $A=C$; if $A$ is nilpotent then $C=0$. This following solution returns $C$ while using exact arithmetic and never computes an eigenspace; I leave it to you as a puzzle to figure out why it works.
Step 5 Choose a random element $A$ of $R$ as before. Compute the element $C$ as above. It is highly probable that $A \neq C$ and the $R$-module generated by the image of $C-A$ is nontrivial. (More precisely, this will happen whenever the block diagonal part of $A$ is diagonalizable, but there is a nontrivial contribution from the radical.) Check that it is, to be safe.


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Acne Affects How We See Others
Coming from different aspects of the beauty continuum as we do, we've both had a longstanding interest in beauty and the perception of beauty and how they can impact how people feel about themselves and one another. Two of the biggest things to impact teens' psyches are weight/body issues and acne, so we decided it would be interesting to conduct an image-based study quantifying exactly how acne can alter others' perception of teens. The study coincided with National Acne Awareness Month, and the results were very interesting.
Working with the American Acne & Rosacea Society (AARS), we asked thousands of teens and adults to offer their first impressions of teens based only on photos of their face. One face was without acne and one had been digitally enhanced with acne. The results showed that teens with acne are more likely than teens without acne to be perceived as shy (39% vs. 27%), nerdy (31% vs. 17%), and lonely (23% vs. 13%). Perhaps not surprisingly, the opposite also proved true: teens without acne were more commonly perceived as self-confident (42% vs. 25%), happy (50% vs. 35%), and leaders vs. followers (49% vs. 29%).
We were expecting the results of the study to show that having acne would be difficult for teens, which it does, but what we both found most distressing was the extent to which acne can really skew the way society perceives teens. We live in a very visual society and based on the survey results, people do make snap judgments about teens with acne. The results illustrate the fact that unfortunately, acne does play a role in how teens are viewed by both their peers and adults. So, what starts as a purely medical condition can have emotional and psychological implications for young people who are often already dealing with social, sexual and cultural chaos.
Our colleague Dr. Diane Berson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Dermatology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and a founding board member of AARS said, "What surprised me most about the survey was confirming the length teens will go to improve their acne and what they are willing to sacrifice." According to the study, if they could have clearer skin, 59% of teens would go cold turkey on Facebook for one year, 30% would give up dating for 12 months, 13% would take their mom or dad to the prom (now that's a sacrifice), and 11% would be OK with seeing their grade point average drop. That's testament to the desperation with which teens view acne and its role as a kind of marker of social stigma—a modern-day Scarlet Letter, if you will.
To us, this indicates a strong and urgent need to connect with teens about what acne is and who develops it so that we can bust the myths surrounding it and foster greater self-esteem in those unfortunate enough to develop it. Human beings of any age have a hard enough separating appearance from intelligence and moral character. How much more difficult must it be for youths who are in the process of slowly (and sometimes painfully) discovering who they are and developing own their body image? By teaching teens that acne is a disease, not a verdict, perhaps we can help foster greater understanding and kindness while making one of the obstacles on the path to adulthood a little easier to climb.
Stay beautiful,
Debi & Eva
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Tattoos and Piercings on Ballet Dancers?
Posted 26 October 2007 - 11:33 AM
I'm also of an older mindset on this. A dancer I worked with in 1996 and again in 1999 showed up after that hiatus with a very colorful, very visible tattoo on his arm. I was so taken aback that even before I said hello, I burst out, "OH MY GOD YOU GOT A TATTOO. CAN THAT BE COVERED WITH MAKEUP?"
So body modifications - love 'em or hate 'em?
Posted 26 October 2007 - 11:41 AM
Maybe "Hate 'em" is a mite too strong, but my choice was clear for reasons previously stated on the current ABT thread.
Posted 26 October 2007 - 12:48 PM
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Posted 26 October 2007 - 03:04 PM
I don't hate 'em if I can't see 'em on stage.
I agree. If the choreographer said that a particular tatoo worked for a piece it would be ok. Other than that it's like altering a costume.
Posted 26 October 2007 - 03:05 PM
Some tatts are completely inoffensive and by themselves "pretty", usually when small and discrete. But the idea of doing that to your flesh seems odd to me, especially the permanent nature of them.
Sometimes I see what I think is an attractive person and then see their ink and think, why did they "ruin" themselves? Obviously, they think it an improvement and probably can't even imagine how someone would think the reverse?
There's a TV show called LA Ink and it's advertised on a huge billboard on the west side highway. The woman looks like she made herself into a carnival show "freak" and in a sense you can't see her without being assaulted by all her tattoos.
The more extreme the bod mods, the more I find them offensive. And even when they are small, discrete and "attractive" in themselves, they don't seem to add anything to the human body, they're more like putting a pretty postage stamp on human flesh that you can't get off.
But I'm with Helene, if I can't see them, then I don't care.
Posted 26 October 2007 - 03:14 PM
But more and more skin is being exposed these days. Women's midriffs are not a rare sight on the ballet stage, and I've often considered the likelihood that if I were a member of a ballet company, the scar running the full length of one side of my middle would (and should) immediately eliminate some ballets from my rep . And a scar is 1) skin-toned, therefore slightly more innocuous; and 2) in most cases involuntary.
Posted 26 October 2007 - 03:23 PM
Posted 26 October 2007 - 03:43 PM
...can't imagine Marie Taglioni with a tattoo...
I think that sums it up pretty well, cubanmiamiboy.
If I don't know they're there, it's a non-issue.
Quite so.
I dont care for tattoos and dont understand why people get them, unless you're one of those Russki gangsters on view in Eastern Promises. (They looked great on Viggo, though.) On stage theyre less noticeable, but I still don't care to see them. I suppose in some modern works they wouldnt look strange or out of place.
Posted 26 October 2007 - 04:25 PM
I've often considered the likelihood that if I were a member of a ballet company, the scar running the full length of one side of my middle would (and should) immediately eliminate some ballets from my rep .
That seems extreme to me and almost like the purity demanded with monochromatic cygnets, white ballets, etc.. I can't really think of any ballerina whom I thought a great dancer being rightly eliminated from a ballet due to a scar like that, although it's a matter of personal preference of course; to some, it's going to seem sexist of me not to mind the occasional male tattoo (but not prefer it unless the production already seemed somewhat moribund or superficial) and never want to see a tattoo on a ballerina. A tattooed Coppelia--now that sounds hideous. And anything in 'The Nutcracker' too. That POB 'Caligula' with a tattoed hero doesn't sound too bad, though.
For myself personally, I've never even wanted a temporary one, much less any kind of piercing. Worst to me is cheek piercing, which borders on self-flagellation.
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I find most tattoos repulsive, especially the larger ones with yellow and green ink. I can understand the aesthetic in macho, working class guys, but otherwise on an aesthetic level I think they're in bad taste, and on a psychological level they seem to me on par with wearing a baseball cap backwards. There are ways to truly distinguish oneself.
Most of the larger ones and more visible ones are not attractive to me and some are actually repulsive.
Posted 26 October 2007 - 04:48 PM
"Patty, do you have a chrysanthemum tattooed on your right lower cheek?"
"No, only a tiny little rosebud!"
"Uh-oh! You may want to look at that again sometime."
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So how do I remove lubuntu-desktop?
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I've also tried to remove and install ubuntu-desktop, but none has worked.