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Phacomatosis pigmentovascularis
- Association of cutaneous vascular malformations and different pigmentary disorders
- Phakomatosis pigmentovascularis
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What are the signs and symptoms of phacomatosis pigmentovascularis?
Melanocytic nevi[1]
Epidermal nevi[1]
In addition to the port wine stain and pigmentary lesions, other skin lesions are not uncommon, such as:[2][1][3][4]
Nevus anemicus
Cafe-au-lait spots
Mongolian spots
Nevus of Ota
Nevus of Ito
Nevus spilus
Around half of people with PPV have systemic involvement (i.e., other body systems are affected). Eye conditions such as ocular melanosis (also called ocular melanocytosis) is common. Ocular melanosis refers to a blue-gray pigmentation in the 'white of the eye' or sclerae. This condition often occurs along with nevus of Ota and may affect one or both eyes.[2] The complications of nevus of Ota are glaucoma and melanoma, as a result people with nevus of Ota require careful examination and follow-up by an opthamologist.[3] Other eye conditions reported in PPV include iris hamartomas, iris mammillations, and iris nodules.[3]
Some individuals with PPV also have Sturge-Weber syndrome or Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome. Signs and symptoms of Sturge-Weber syndrome include a large port-wine stain facial birthmark, blood vessel abnormalities in the brain called leptomeningeal angiomas, as well as glaucoma, seizures, muscle weakness, paralysis, developmental delay, and intellectual disability. Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome is characterized by a port-wine stain, abnormal overgrowth of soft tissues and bones, and vein malformations.
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- Moutray T, Napier M, Shafiq A, Fryer A, Rankin S, Willoughby CE. Monozygotic twins discordant for phacomatosis pigmentovascularis: evidence for the concept of twin spotting. Am J Med Genet A. 2010 Mar;
- Fernández-Guarino M, Boixeda P, de Las Heras E, Aboin S, García-Millán C, Olasolo PJ. Phakomatosis pigmentovascularis: Clinical findings in 15 patients and review of the literature. J Am Acad Dermatol.. 2008 Jan; Epub 2007 Nov 28;
- Chekroun-Le Du L et al.,. Phacomatosis pigmentovascularis type II. European Journal of Dermatology. 1998; http://www.john-libbey-eurotext.fr/en/print/e-docs/00/01/87/6B/article.phtml. Accessed 2/1/2011.
- Narchi H et al.,. Picture of the month. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001; http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/155/2/191. Accessed 2/1/2011.
- Association of cutaneous vascular malformations and different pigmentary disorders
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I used to be able to use btnx in ubuntu 11.10 to do this, but now i can't find the software from the software centre. can anyone help me with this?
If you want to install btnx, you can use these .deb files:
EDIT: Convenience.
Did not work for me. Better follow these instructions: how to set volume control using mouse shortcut in ubuntu 12.04
if needed: sudo apt-get install indicator-applet-complete then: Ctrl-Windows-right_click on top panel -> Add to Panel... -> Indicator Applet Complete


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Let $\Lambda(n)$ be the von Mangoldt function. The prime number theorem is equivalent to the statement that $\sum_{n \leq N} \Lambda(n) \approx N$. Defining $\lambda_{*}(n)= \Lambda(n)-1$ we may rewrite this as $S(N) = \sum_{n \leq N} \Lambda_{*}(n) =o(N)$. Now it is known that $|S(N)| \gg |N|^{1/2}$ infinitely often. Moreover, on the RH we have that $|S(N)| \ll N^{1/2}ln^2(N)$. Not that these estimates differ by a factor of $ln^2(N)$.
My question is the following: What do probabilistic considerations suggest the correct error term to be?
Let me suggest a model: Let $X_n$ be a sequence of independent random variables such that $X_n = \ln(n)-1$ with probability 1/ln(n) and $-1$ with probability $1-1/ln(n)$, and form the sum $T(N)= \sum_{n=1}^{N} X_n$. Is there an elementary function $E(N)$ such that $ \lim sup_N |T(N)|/E(n) = 1 $ holds almost surely?
Notice that if the primes had positive density in the integers and we adjusted our model accordingly the law of the iterated logarithm would allow us to take $E(N)$ to be a multiple of $|N|^{1/2}\ln\ln(N)$.
(More generally, I'm interested in understanding sums of the above form (that is independent random variables with slowly increases variance) if you know of an appropriate reference.)


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5 Bad Ideas Humanity Is Sticking With Out of Habit
Humans are funny when it comes to technology. We're eager to adopt new technologies when the difference is trivial, like camping out for days to buy the new iPhone when we still haven't figured out the old one. But at the same time, we also have a way of getting attached to worthless technologies of the past, just because it's too much hassle to change.
It turns out old habits die hard. And sometimes, they don't die at all.
#5. The QWERTY Keyboard
Quick -- look at the very computer you're reading this on. Depending on your level of geekitude, you probably have a plasma monitor and a system running six terabytes of RAM powered by a flux capacitor. But in order to communicate with this futuristic device you probably call your Tardis, you're still using an archaic system that hasn't been improved since it was introduced 130 years ago. We're talking about your keyboard.
Why It's Inefficient:
Besides not being able to take a punch.
When you rest your hands on the "home row" like they told you in high school, check out what keys you're touching -- A, S, D, F, J, K, L and semicolon. Besides A and S, you're looking at a conga line of some of the least-used letters in the English language and possibly the least useful punctuation mark of all time. In fact, your right index finger, the dominant finger on most people's dominant hand, is sitting on goddamn J, which is worth 8 points in Scrabble for a reason -- it's the fourth-least-used letter, trumped only by the loser letters X, Q and Z.
How did we wind up with this intuition-defying random configuration? Well, back in 1868, when Christopher Sholes and a couple of other guys had just finished inventing the first typing machine, the keys were arranged in alphabetical order (our current middle row shows vestiges of this, with A, D, F, G, H, J, K and L still in order). But there was a problem: Before long, people were mashing away on these fragile early keyboards, which had a tendency to jam when two keys next to each other were pressed in rapid succession.
Early versions of World of Warcraft were almost impossible to play.
So Sholes consulted a buddy who had studied up on letter-pair frequency, and he moved the keys that were most often typed together away from each other. After a few other minor tweaks, like moving up the R key, allegedly so that salesmen could impress buyers by typing the word "TYPEWRITER" using only the top row, we had our current QWERTY arrangement. Never mind that the most commonly used letters (E, T, A, O, I, N and S, respectively) were randomly scattered all over, and that it took forever every time you wanted to type "ESTONIA." Sholes wasn't trying to make the most ergonomically sound keyboard; in fact, QWERTY is deliberately engineered to slow you down so you don't have to worry about pesky typewriter jams.
And so you don't have to put "awesome typing skills" on your insurance claim.
Why We're Stuck With It:
The only reason we're still tying our fingers in knots more than a century later is simply because QWERTY got here first.
Since then, several more "scientifically" designed keyboard layouts have been introduced, including Dvorak, Colemak and XPeRT, which no one's ever heard of but which has an extra "E" on the keyboard.
And then there's the E-board. Yes, we just did.
Now, debate rages over how much faster these alternatives are than QWERTY. But the fastest typist in the world used Dvorak to set her record, and it's hard to imagine that a layout with a semicolon in the home row would be as fast as one with an extra freaking E.
Speed aside, countless studies show that Dvorak and others are far more ergonomically efficient, requiring fingers to move approximately a third of the distance that QWERTY requires. Oh, and QWERTY also discriminates against right-handed people. Thousands of English words can be spelled using only the left hand, while only a couple of hundred words can be typed using only the right hand. Maybe Sholes just wanted to hold his beer while he typed.
Or maybe he lost it in a game of "Fuck Your Hand."
And yet, QWERTY shows little sign of going anywhere, all because of the "first mover" advantage -- everybody has already grown up knowing only one way to type, and nobody wants to completely relearn how to type for the possibility of slightly increased speed and comfort, at least until they get carpal tunnel.
#4. Cursive
Virtually everyone reading this was made to learn cursive writing in school. Most of the people reading this are either in college or out of school completely, living in the adult world. So when was the last time you wrote something in cursive, other than your name? Do you even remember what a capital cursive Q looks like? Put your hand down, Quentin.
And stop making racist comments in class.
Originating from the Latin cursivus, meaning "flowing," cursive developed in ancient languages to be a speedier way of writing by hand. And for many hundreds of years, it was. Also, nobody could read your handwriting.
Why It's Inefficient:
There's a reason nobody can read your goddamn signature -- cursive is hard to read. Many colleges forbid students from turning in exams written in cursive and present lectures via PowerPoint, not pretty P's and looping L's. Some say writing in cursive can help brain development, but so can printing. Also, kids can type far faster than they can write in cursive, and they can work on their grammar, syntax, spelling and idea flow much more efficiently on a computer than they can with a quill pen and parchment.
The drawback, of course, being that you can't stab someone with a computer.
But the main argument against cursive comes down simply to an allocation of classroom resources. If you somehow already know cursive, fine, but in these days of stretched school budgets and limited teaching time, some wonder whether we should really be devoting school resources to the world's stupidest way of putting words on paper.
Yet 90 percent of schools are still spending the recommended 60 weekly minutes teaching their second- and third-graders cursive. If that hour is going in, what are we sacrificing? Math? Cultural diversity? Phys ed? Our fat, racist, counting-on-their-fingers kids don't need to know how to make flowery Z's. Or at least, they need to know a lot of other things more.
Why We're Stuck With It:
There are some signs that cursive is on the way out. Ten percent of schools have stopped teaching it, which actually makes cursive even more inefficient, as 10 percent of kids now won't be able to read what everybody else is scribbling about.
But most schools are, for now, clinging to their curling C's, thanks to slow-to-change educational standards. Cursive was actually reinstated in Florida's school standards in 2006, amidst fears of students becoming too reliant on technology. Perhaps we should also reinstate hunting and gathering, over fears of becoming too reliant on grocery stores.
#3. Summer Vacation
The standard "take three months off every summer" schedule that our schools use came about through a combination of fiscal limitations, hundred-year-old developmental theories and antiquated medical concerns that kids somehow couldn't hold up under year-round teaching.
You may have also heard that it's a vestige of farming days, when families needed the kids back on the farm. That's not really true -- that would have meant time off during spring and fall, for planting and harvesting. Either way, it's old-fashioned. And it's hurting our kids. Especially the poor ones.
Why It's Inefficient:
Three things happen when you take kids out of school for three months.
Not to the teachers -- to the kids.
A. They get dumber. The human brain forgets things it doesn't use, and not many kids are doing fractions and reading Shakespeare during the summer. A recent Time article found that, on average, students lose around a month of math skills each summer. Kids who are poor and don't have access to summer enrichment programs do even worse: Low-income students lose as many as three months of reading comprehension. Other studies suggest that ninth-grade summer learning loss can be blamed for roughly two-thirds of the achievement gap separating income groups.
B. They need to be re-taught what they've forgotten, so kids wind up spending up to a month in the fall reviewing what they learned the previous year, when they could be moving ahead. Most countries that boast higher test scores have shorter summer breaks, and there could be a connection. Sure, some kids are going to be idiots and need to be re-taught things no matter what, but why exacerbate matters with 90 days with no math beyond counting how many levels are left before their Night Elf can get a Flying Mount?
Now what?
C. They get fatter. Brains aren't the only things that degrade when kids are left to three months of Halo 3 and nut-kick videos -- they also eat worse. Kids gain body mass twice as fast during the summer as during the school year. Most parents can't afford to take three months off work and babysit, or pay for day care, so without adults policing their intake, many kids are left to their own waddlesome devices.
Why We're Stuck With It:
And yet, more than two-thirds of people oppose the idea of year-round schooling. Summer vacation hasn't changed much in the last 100 years, and though a few schools are trying year-round classes, it's hard to imagine it catching on countrywide. Simply put, Americans just love their summers. They've been romanticized through adult memories and storybooks of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn spending their long summer days committing grifts and helping slaves escape. What could be more American than that?
Maybe the Statue of Liberty giving the finger to winter.
Now, nobody's suggesting getting rid of vacations entirely -- after all, kids need to recharge, especially those who don't particularly like school. We also don't have the money to pay teachers and keep buildings open year-round, or to clean up after the riots that would inevitably ensue if such a thing were ever actually instituted.
But maybe we could spread the vacations around, like many of the countries that are kicking our ass do. Take the hottest month of summer off to save AC costs, and take the coldest month of winter off to save on heating. A one- or two- month summer is long enough to take family trips, take up a crappy summer job and prevent teachers from spiraling into a three-month abyss of dread and alcoholism.


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My first ST2.0 plugin : MessageBox aka (native popup for everyone)
MessageBox is a plugin that overrides `Ext.MessageBox` class from core.
The idea is to provide equivalent native implementation when available.
But you should not have to rewrite a single line of code:
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The following are comments from Rep. Barry Moore:
Regrettably, Rep. Barry Moore has been made the subject of a grand jury indictment alleging that he perjured himself by failing to recall a telephone call which occurred seven months before he was asked about this alleged conversation.
Rep. Moore strenuously denies that he is guilty of any wrongdoing, or that he has perjured himself in any way, and he looks forward to being afforded a day in court to defend himself against these baseless charges.
With only six weeks left to go before the election, what happened today can only be characterized as an attempt to deny the voters of Coffee County the opportunity to choose their own state representative.
Barry Moore's campaign opponent has stated repeatedly that he was provided with confidential details of the Attorney General's investigation, and these confidential details have been freely used in his campaign against Rep. Moore.
Despite the unfair and untrue nature of these attacks, Mr. Moore has not been free to defend himself in the court of public opinion due to the constraints of the investigate process.
The timing of today's charges, and the facts and circumstances surrounding this case are a clear indication of the political undertones of this prosecution.
To this point, Barry Moore has not been allowed to defend himself in any way against these baseless allegations.
However, he does want the people of Coffee County and the State of Alabama to know that he is, in every respect, innocent of the charges that have been levied against him, and looks forward to having the opportunity to prove his innocence emphatically in a court of law.
(MONTGOMERY)—Acting as Attorney General in this matter, W. Van Davis announced the arrest today of Felix Barry Moore, a representative from the 91st District in the Alabama House of Representatives, for felony perjury and providing false statements. Representative Moore, 47, of Enterprise, surrendered today to special agents of the Attorney General's Office at the Lee County Jail.
Acting Attorney General Davis is a supernumerary district attorney who was appointed by Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange to handle matters regarding an ongoing investigation involving potential public corruption in Alabama. Rep. Moore's indictment* arises out of that matter.
Acting Attorney General Davis and attorneys with the Special Prosecutions Division presented evidence to a Lee County Special Grand Jury resulting in Rep. Moore's indictment. Specifically, the indictment charges Rep. Moore with:
· Count one: providing false statements relating to any matter under investigation by the Attorney General;
· Count two: perjury in the first degree;
· Count three: providing false statements relating to any matter under investigation by the Attorney General; and
· Count four: perjury in the first degree;
If convicted, Rep. Moore faces a maximum penalty of one to ten years imprisonment and fines of up to $15,000.00 for each count of providing false statements and perjury, both of which are Class C Felonies.
"It is a serious crime to provide false statements to a grand jury," said Acting Attorney General Davis. "All citizens who testify before a grand jury must testify truthfully – even elected public officials. Any witness who makes a false statement in the matter under investigation by the Lee County Special Grand Jury will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, regardless of their political affiliation or position."
Acting Attorney General Davis commended those who are handling this case, noting in particular Special Prosecutions Division Chief Matt Hart, Deputy Attorney General Mike Duffy and investigators with the Special Prosecutions Division.
No further information about the investigation or about Moore's alleged crimes other than stated in the indictment may be release at this time. No additional comment will be available at this time.


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My apologies for inadvertently starting this exchange! I'm a huge Cojocaru fan. I got to see her in person a couple of years ago at the Met on "Super Saturday" in Beauty, and I've got three DVDs with the Royal (her Giselle, Beauty, Nutcracker). Her history of injuries and foot problems has been well-publicized for years, so when people discussed the changes in the Giselle choreography last week (coming off pointe in the first act hops, e.g. -- an unsupported sequence), that was alarming. I'm sure all of us who love her were hoping nothing serious had happened to her in the injury department. It's great to hear that the Bayadere went well and there's no lingering evidence of serious injury, at least that audience members could detect. That's all I was asking. Sorry!
Sorry to you too. My reaction comes from the fact I found some comments about Giselle very strange: I was worried something could be wrong too, and was happy to see on Monday that everything was ok (and on Saturday even better, I've been told by a reliable friend present at Sylphid Dress rehersal). Cojocaru is often cutting the hop on point diagonal, because I'm happy to know she is crazy but not silly and there is no reason to risk to destroy herself in that diagonal. maybe she did it even shorter this time. I've already said about another comment. Another remark has already been dicussed by a person present at the performance. I don't understand what else she changed in the second act. I was happy to read that she did 2 triple pirouettes in her solo: it's hard to believe it happened, but who knows ... Of course it can have been a bad night, yet the comments posted here honestly seem not the best to understand what really happened on stage.


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"With so much technology and networking available at such low cost, what wouldn't you enhance? What wouldn't you connect? What information wouldn't you mine for insight? What service wouldn't you provide a customer, a citizen, a student or a patient?"
- "Conversations for a Smarter Planet: 1 in a Series," IBM. 2008.
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Data: the new natural resource
Executives have traditionally regarded experience and intuition as the keys to formulating strategy and assessing risk. That type of thinking may have worked in an earlier time of information scarcity — but not in the time of big data.
When every company, every city, every country — every individual — is increasingly interconnected with millions of others, the cost of a bad call can be devastating. But analytics is increasingly helping business and government leaders look beyond their own biases to discern real patterns and anticipate events.
Social: the new production line
"Empower people. Understand people. Trust people."
In today's knowledge economy, the exchange of ideas has become the new means of production. The advent of social and mobile technology is shifting employers' competitive edge from hiring workers who gather knowledge to hiring workers who communicate it.
By 2020, because of the pervasive adoption of social technologies, new systems of people-centric engagement will be mainstream. Successful enterprises are now able to tap into shared insights, collective knowledge and expertise at the individual level to empower more meaningful engagement with both employees and customers.
Read the IBM point of view on Social Business (US) (1.39MB)
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Today's cloud is about more than expanding reach. It's about expanding possibility. Once, cloud was simply the tool you used to access your files from anywhere, and to make your operations more efficient. Today, it's an incubator of ideas that can help you continually test, adjust and deploy new innovations more nimbly than ever before.
With the convergence of mobile, social and analytics, organisations are discovering entirely new ways to engage with their customers, employees and partners. And with cloud, they're doing it quickly, iteratively and with very little risk.
Mobile: the new office space
The term "mobile" for business has evolved quickly. It no longer means a web site optimised for a smart phone. It means empowering your employees to be effective no matter where they are, while protecting your infrastructure. It means offering customers a way to do business with you anytime and anywhere. And it means launching new business models based on the computer that most people carry in their pocket.


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I find myself going through long periods of inactivity such as a long vacation or time spent doing things not really related to work (routine, non-complex errands which take a lot of time and put your mind to sleep).
How do you get 'back in the game' and jump back into production? Should it be abrupt (jump right into a lot of complex tasks) or should it be something smoother (give yourself some time to accommodate before you are back at 100% production capacity)?


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If I'm using the normal Ubuntu (not Xubuntu) 12.04 can I add without getting trouble a Xubuntu ppa like https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/xfce-4.10 ?
Yes, you shouldn't have any problems using that PPA and installing packages from it.
Please note that the PPA contains XFCE 4.10, which isn't supported on Ubuntu 12.04, so you will essentially be beta-testing software with the bugs, etc. which accompany it. Put simply: the PPA will work, but the packages may not! :)
Unless you happen to have something available amongst that ppa's packages installed I doubt it would give you issues.
Why you would want to use that PPA is perhaps another question. Even if you then installed Xubuntu - XFCE4.10 is not officially supported.


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As I understand it, undecidability means that there exists no proofs or contradictions of a statement.
So if you've proved $X$ is undecidable then there are no contradictions to $X$, so $X$ always holds, so $X$ is true. Similarly though, if $X$ is undecidable then $\lnot X$ is undecidable. But again, this would mean $\lnot X$ is true which is a contradiction.


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He was a native of Henrietta, NC, and son of the late Hazel Phillips and John Henry Miller.
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I've been studying PowerShell and I've been (slowly) getting it into my day-to-day DBA tasks.
So far I've seen a bunch of disconnected PowerShell scripts for many disparate administration activities.
What I'd like to know is if there is an official (or recognizable) PowerShell scripts collection or repository that people usually go to for SQL Server PowerShell scripts for common DBA activities (something like Ola Hallengren's T-SQL scripts).


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I've see the PVS (passive vulnerability scanner) from Tenable Network Security.
I'm really interested in this kind of approach.
Anyone know if is there any FOSS solution to be used professionally in a company ?
P.S. I know that, from the point of view of functionality, is a sort of NIDS with pattern matching engine with a database of vulnerability, so please don't response to use a a NIDS.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A trip to the Muhammad Ali Museum leading up to Saturday's NCAA Division II national semifinal contest with West Liberty gave the Metro State men's basketball team all the confidence it needed to land a knockout blow. Then the Roadrunners went out and played a little rope-a-dope before finally flooring the No. 1-ranked Hilltoppers.
Nicholas Kay, Jonathan Morse and Brandon Jefferson led five players in double figures with 17 points each and Metro State (32-2) used one clutch basket after another to hold off a furious West Liberty (34-2) rally that came up just short, 83-76 at Freedom Hall. The Roadrunners, who hail from Colorado, will play Drury out of Missouri on April 7 in Atlanta for the right to call themselves national champions.
"We just threw our heart out there," Metro coach Derrick Clark said. "To hold a team like that to 76 points is a heckuva effort.
"Our guys were levitating to play the game and they got off to a great start I couldn't have scripted it any better."
In the end, Metro State outplayed West Liberty at its own game, building a 20-4 lead midway through the first half. The Toppers struggled from the floor the entire game, hitting only 34 percent of their shots, but it was the first half where this game was ultimately decided. The Roadrunners used a zone defense to hold West Liberty to 28 percent (10-for-35) shooting in the opening 20 minutes to grab a 41-28 lead at halftime.
"We were struggling to put the ball in the basket which is kind of unusual for us. Frustrating? Yeah, it was frustrating for me and I could tell it was for my players,'' said West Liberty coach Jim Crutchfield, who saw his team eliminated in the Final Four for the second time in three years. "We're good shooters but they just didn't fall, and I'm sure that had a lot to do with the Metro defense.
"Metro played a great, smart game and had a good level of intensity. When it's all said and done, they're advancing to the final game."
It wasn't quite that simple though, because the Hilltoppers kept punching back. Senior Alex Falk scored 10 straight West Liberty points to cut the deficit to six, but Metro responded with seven more as McCarron sandwiched a third-chance bucket and a 3-pointer around a score from Kay to get it back to 13.
West Liberty has made a living the last four years by making timely, big shots just when the opponent would change the momentum, but the shoe was on the other foot Saturday. Falk hit for three of his game-high 34 to get it back to a seven-point deficit before Morse faded away from the left side and kissed one off the glass.
Then West Liberty cut it to one on a C.J. Hester hoop inside before the Roadrunners stemmed the tide by getting the free-throw line, where they held a sizeable advantage. Metro State finished 27 of 35 at the stripe while the Toppers hit 7 of 8 - all by Falk. That was a byproduct of Metro being physical in the paint and West Liberty shooting a whopping 47 3-pointers, only 13 of which were good.
"That's probably too many," said Falk, who went past the 2,000-point mark in his career in the game. "A lot of them weren't great looks and nobody took more of those than me."
Falk completed a three-point play to again make it a one-point game (69-68), but the Hilltoppers never could get over the hump. Jefferson buried a back-breaking 3-pointer on the next possession and the Roadrunners closed on a 13-8 run to send them on to Atlanta.
"One of the things we talked about, and we talk about it every game, is poise,'' Clark said. "You know a team like that is going to make a run. We weren't going to have a 16-point game the whole game.
"That's why I put as much pressure as I can, so that they can shine in times like this. When (WLU) got it to one I don't think anyone on our bench was panicked like 'oh, we're in trouble.' It was time to make a play and that's what we did."
West Liberty, whose only lead was 2-0, simply built itself too big a hole early. It's a situation the Hilltoppers aren't all that used to, having lost a total of six games the last three years - three in the Elite Eight or Final Four.
"At halftime I felt like we were going to win the basketball game, and I felt that way because I'm around these guys and know what they can do,'' Crutchfield said. "It was a nightmare.
"There's no doubt about that."
Cedric Harris backed Falk, who also contributed six steals and three assists, with 12 points but was the only other Hilltopper in double figures. Seger Bonifant and Chris Morrow added nine points each, while Shawn Dyer netted eight.
Demetrius Miller scored 15 for Metro State and McCarron had 14 points and 16 rebounds.
NCAA Division II National Semifinal
(At Freedom Hall, Louisville)
No. 3 Metro State 83, No. 1 West Liberty 76
WEST LIBERTY (34-2): Morrow 3-10 0-0 9; Hausfeld 1-9 0-0 2; Hester 1-5 0-0 2; Falk 12-26 7-8 34; Harris 5-11 0-0 12; Bonifant 3-12 0-0 9; Dyer 3-10 0-0 8. Totals: 28-83 7-8 76.
METRO STATE (32-2): Kay 8-9 0-2 17; Morse 5-11 7-10 17; Jefferson 4-9 6-6 17; McCarron 3-8 7-8 14; Miller 5-17 4-5 15; McClerkin 0-0 0-0 0; January 0-0 2-2 2; Rayer 0-0 0-0 0; Phenix 0-0 0-0 0; Cooper 0-2 0-0 0; Porter 0-0 1-2 1; Hunter 0-0 0-0 0; Djurisic 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 25-56 27-35 83.
Halftime Metro State 41, West Liberty 28. Three-Point Goals West Liberty 13-47 (Morrow 3-10, Hausfeld 0-7, Hester 0-1, Falk 3-11, Harris 2-4, Bonifant 3-9, Dyer 2-5), Metro State 6-14 (Kay 1-1, Jefferson 3-6, McCarron 1-2, Miller 1-4, Cooper 0-1). Rebounds West Liberty 43 (Hester 11), Metro State 52 (McCarron 16). Assists West Liberty 20 (Hausfeld 5, Harris 5), Metro State 9 (McCarron 3, Miller 3). Steals West Liberty 16 (Falk 6), Metro State 11 (Jefferson 4). Blocked Shots West Liberty 4 (Morrow 2), Metro State 6 (Miller 2, Morse 2). Turnovers West Liberty 17, Metro State 22. Total Fouls West Liberty 24, Metro State 15. Fouled Out West Liberty (Harris, Bonifant).


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Hamilton Beach 5-Quart Portable Slow Cooker, Silver for $19.88
The Hamilton Beach 5-Quart Portable Slow Cooker is a great machine for busy people. Simply let it do the cooking for you and come home to a great meal.
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I've been wanting a slow cooker for a while, I went to buy this right when I saw it (4am, thanks for being 24/7 walmart). Much to my delight there was the same model but in red for $18.00. I like red, and I like $1.88 cheaper. Done deal.
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Squeezing out the last drops of summer at the beach
I had promised myself so much for the summer. The garden would be resplendent and weed-free, its unattended corners well-tended and edged with deep brown mulch. I would put in more miles on my bike, pedaling feverishly across the state, undaunted by pesky injuries and advancing age. I would take advantage of my proximity to the ocean and spend less time harnessed to my garage, sweeping out gum wrappers and matching stray socks.
But I look at my cone flowers and see they have turned a brook-brown. My bike is an indictment of cobwebs and flaccid tires. I have not spent a single August afternoon at the beach. Even my garage is no cleaner than it was in May.
Summer is so splendid and so short in New England that I set great stake in how it is spent. I look to the season as a time to assert my identity, padding about in Bass sandals and tank tops, assuring myself that I really am an outdoor, vigorous person, not the inward-looking, retiring sort who flops under a down comforter, numbly catching up on "The Closer" episodes, sucking down troths full of Earl Grey tea. That, of course, is only the person I am forced to be, in the same way that we are compelled to be one sort of person at work, but on vacation can assert that we really are someone else, more fun and spontaneous, less pragmatic and neurotic.
As a kid, I remember the physical press I felt for summer to begin, like a sprinter, thrusting her chest forward, hungry for the snap of the tape. But once liberated from the exigencies of school, I found I did not do summer very well, not like my swimming or sailing friends, my camper and my hiker schoolmates, who would turn tea-brown and deeply muscled by July, leaving me alone in my mosquito-filled yard, sitting on a bridge chair, reading the last chapters of "Gone With The Wind." For me, summer began with a great sense of liberation and droned on with an anti-climactic lethargy, the disenchanted recognition that either summer had flopped, or I had. By the time the back-to-school sales rolled around, it was clear I'd flubbed the very skill at which kids were supposed to be so adept: Having fun.
So when my son slings his lime green knapsack over his shoulder, I cannot help but wonder if he is gripped by the same sense of disillusionment. Have I failed to give him the jam-packed, fun-filled summer I missed out on as a kid, or is that just the lot of all summer-weary children as August dims? Having children doubles your pleasure, but seems to triple your sense of regret.
On the last day of August, I turn 50, and sit on a beach chair, a book on my lap, watching the pewter gulls peck at a dried-out slice of an orange peel, which turns brittle in the Rhode Island sun. In the distance, the gray-blue surf collapses in the hard, khaki-colored sand and mixes with the screech of the gulls and the screams of children. I watch a timid girl hop over the frothy waves and remember myself at that age, warily plunging my pale feet into the electrifyingly cold Atlantic, unsure of whether to plunge into the surf or retreat to my blanket. A man grabs a little boy and slings him over his shoulder like a duffel bag. The boy clings to his father's back, his screams laced with peels of laughter. The air smells of French fries, cotton candy and fried fish. Nearing 3 p.m., I hug my sweatshirt over my shoulders, aware of the approaching chill.
At home, my son will be getting off the school bus by now, under the trees that have turned a jade green, except for a maple just beyond the bus stop that has turned a sobering and friable plum color. "Does the world just move on a kind of super fast-forward for you," my son asked me the other day.
"Yes, P.J., I suppose it does," I said. For him, the year is just beginning. His pencils are sharp. His binders rigid, his backpack bright and crisp. He will trudge off to school with a resigned sense of obligation that masks a poorly disguised enthusiasm.
As the year drags on, he will dream of summer, of release, of the chance to begin al over again.
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A straight man who performs homosexual acts for money. Usually said of a gay-pornography actor, it also applies to straight guys who dance at gay strip clubs, do photo shoots for gay-themed erotic publications, act in gay romantic scenes in non-pornographic films or television, or hire themselves out as gay escorts.
Q: I hear Simon Rex used to do gay porn. Is he gay?
A: Nah, he was just gay for pay.
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a straight actor who performs homosexual acts in pornographic movies for the sole purpose of incurring monetary gain.
Doug does gay movies then goes home to his wife.
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A straight guy that shags men on camera for money.
by Remmy July 30, 2003
noun. straight male who stars in gay porn but asserts they are not gay
"Oh, Doug has a girlfriend. He's just gay for pay."
by Megan Redhead November 23, 2002
The only way for a blatant homosexual to continually deny his "gayness".
Joe: Hey Grant, are you gay? I saw you in this porn doing another dude.
Grant: No, man, I'm just gay for pay.
Joe: Whatever, it's no difference to me.
Grant: No, man, I'm just gay for pay.
Joe: Whatever, it's no difference to me.
by joeydiz March 30, 2008
Gay-for-pay is the slang term accorded to male (and sometimes but less frequently female) pornographic actors or prostitutes who identify as heterosexual but perform homosexual acts professionally.
"Jenna Jameson and Sylvia Saint on top of each other was gay-for-pay fo sho yo"
by theripcity32 June 27, 2006
A guy who plays the part of a homosexual in lucrative exhibitions such as XXX pornography, but maintains he is really straight, only gay for the money.
"Chris Rockway says he's 23, from Lincoln, Nebraska, and only gay for pay."
"Really!! He's from Lincoln?!?"
"Really!! He's from Lincoln?!?"
by al-in-chgo March 02, 2010
a guy or girl who goes into a gay bar and pretends to be lesbian or gay and flirts with guys or girls to get drinks boughten for them
haha woow jd is straight but he was definetly gay for pay last night, woow how pathetic
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McIntosh Orchards was purchased by Bruce McIntosh in 1997 and the 76 acre property is home to 26 different varieties of apples, 14 of those are specific to the making of premium hard cider in the olde world tradition. The property is also producing peaches and pears. The orchard has been planted from the 1860's. Come and visit our orchard and enjoy the fruits of our labor.
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Modding Question - Will this ever be possible?
Hey guys, I'm new here so hello and thanks for having me.
I've actually been around here for awhile but never registered.
Anyway, does any modder think that there would be any way to eventually add a new clothing store with a completely new (custom made, obviously) set of clothing and put these types of things into the game?
I'm dying to see the world open up with different usable buildings and shops...even activities.
Is this sort of thing even possible given the game's engine limits in terms of modding? It'd be amazing to see the city turn into a real, raging city. I always wish I could just walk into the builings, hehe.
Even something as simple as adding a vending machine in certain lots? Like the internet cafe, maybe turn the coffee machine into something you can actually use to buy a drink?
This is something I would have expected given the amount of detail that R* did take into consideration. I love some of the silly, random things you can do.
On a completely different note, where are the toilets in Liberty City?! Is that why I saw a man peeing against the wall in an apartment building? (It's a rhetorical question, really)!
PS: I should add that I am a texture artist which is why I wonder about the addition of stores and such. It would be so much cooler to add content rather than replace it.
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As of now, no it's not possible. At the rate modding is going - maybe in a couple of months or so, but that is purely a guess.
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Well, good to know that it's a possibility.
On a different note, I think I've mistakenly posted this in the wrong section. Any chance a mod or admin (rappo?) could move it over into the correct place for modding chat?
My apologies and thank you in advance.
I'd love to hear more ideas on this sort of thing being possible in future moddng, so jump in if you have an opinion, or even better, an informed idea of it's possibility!
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By Sara E. Martin, Army Flier Staff WriterMarch 28, 2013
FORT RUCKER, Ala. (March 28, 2013) -- Military working canine handlers, along with six military working dogs, visited Fort Rucker Elementary School March 21 to educate the children on how the dogs help police protect the installation and how to properly behave around them.
The lesson of the event that officers were trying to relay to the children was that military police officers use all types of resources to maintain a safe environment, and that the military working dogs are highly trained and very effective, according to Vicki Gilmer, Fort Rucker Elementary School principal.
"Our on-post agencies have supported our safe school drills and have assisted on two occasions with our lock down drills," she said. "This event was a fun type of event that correlates nicely with the fifth grade Drugs Abuse Resistance Education program."
Officers demonstrated how they use narcotics to train their dogs and how they reward the dogs with toys. They also demonstrated basic obedience skills and, what the children liked the most, attack skills.
Caterina Martineau, a fifth grader, said that it was amazing how much the dogs remember and how trained they are.
"I think that the dogs are very controlled, and they only attack when they have the opportunity and are told to," she said.
The dogs are all trained for attack, drug or bomb detection, according to Sgt. Sean Dearden, MWD handler, who told the children that the dogs are dangerous and to never approach one.
"Do not touch the dogs, and don't make any sudden movements or run around these dogs because they will bite you," he said.
Possibly the highlight of the event for all the students and even school staff was when a teacher, Jennifer Kincaid, volunteered to don the bite suit and be rushed by MWD Cyro.
Before the handlers left they held a question and answer session where children asked everything from what happens if a bad guy climbs into a tree to where the dogs live.
Handlers wanted the children to become more aware of the dogs and to trust the Soldiers who control them.
"They are going to be friendlier towards us instead of running away after seeing what our dogs can do," said Spc. Christopher King, MWD handler. "They have a natural fear of the dogs, but now I think that though they are afraid to get bitten they know we have control of the animal," he said.
According to King, the Soldiers and dogs benefited as much from the demo as the children did because it was good training since the children make a lot of noise and are distracting.


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The June 2009 issue of Budget & Tax News leads with a report on the federal budget introduced by President Barack Obama ... which builds on the spending precedents set by President George W. Bush and would boost non-defense outlays to a record share of the U.S. economy.
Also in this issue:
* The federal tax on cigarettes soared 156 percent on April 1, and state officials are worrying about the impact on their budgets as smokers change their behavior to save money.
* The economic recession has activists in Florida, Maine, and other states confident about prospects for tax and expenditure limitations.
* Sen. Arlen Specter has changed his position, leaving Democrats one vote short of passing their bill to make unionization much easier.
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If so, what? I'm kind of interested in knowing about this. Thanks in advance.
Edit: Yeah, I do intend it use "wall" in the same way that Facebook does
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definite answer, or an alternative term (if I like it)
If you are asking because you are thinking of using the term "Wall" in your own application then you might be on shaky ground.
How shaky that ground would be would depend on many factors - not least of which was how popular your site became. A small site might not bother them, but a high profile site which could be seen as a competitor probably would.
There's nothing to stop you having a part of your application where other users post comments, photographs and links to a page on a user's profile - Facebook can't copyright the idea - however if you were to call it a user's "Wall" then it could be seen as infringing on Facebook to some degree.
Far better to come up with your own term. As to what that term could be - you'll have to give more details about your application, your target market etc.
even if they dont, they will still threaten and bully you to stop using it, and wih the kind of resources and money they have, you would have to be pretty damn sure of yourself to face off against them in court.
I don't think any company or entity can have a legal binding with an English word. Only with words they create themselves, like car models or soft drink names, but not with a word that exists in the Dictionary.


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My Nikon D90 seems to be working fine (it's taking pictures); but I can't preview the pictures in the monitor. It will play the pictures back after I take them, but you used to be able to see them prior to taking the shot. I have read the manual as I suspect that I have turned something off, but can not find a solution. Live view is not the solution I'm looking for. I was able to take a quick look at the monitor and then use the view finder for taking the photos and that is what I would like to do again. Thanks for any help you can offer.
Like rumtscho has said, what you are requesting cannot be done on the D90. I own a D90 and I can say that I only have these options (when exposing for images):
I can however do as ahockley suggested and use image review after I have taken an image. The menu also allows you to setup the camera to automatically show the last image taken for x amount of time period after exposure.
If you go into the menu you can reset to the defaults and this should put the camera back to the way when you first purchased it and will restore back to the factory settings (which potentially will not do what you requested due to the physical limitations of this DSLR)
If I understand your question, all you need to do is press the "Lv" button at the right top of the screen. Just had the same issue and it was that simple for me. Hope this helps!
Go to the menus and go to the Playback menu - I believe this is the top one, with an icon that looks like a right-facing arrow. The setting that you're looking for is called Image Review. Turn that on and you'll again see the photos immediately after capture.
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20 Jun 2012 8:56 AM #1
preserveScrollOnRefresh problem, randomly going to top
When I insert a row at the end of my grid, preserveScrollOnRefresh: true makes the scroll position get preserved across the save (great!). But I'm experiencing a weird issue where the grid later scrolls to the top! It happens something like this:
Insert a record, and save (position is preserved)
Scroll up a bit and select a record
Scroll back down to bottom
Select bottom record
Select bottom-1 record
(bang, I'm suddenly at the top of my grid)
Any ideas of a work around? All solutions I've seen rely on hooking load, but this issue happens much later, and is actually triggered by a row selection.
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20 Jun 2012 9:03 AM #2
Do you have a small test case based on one of our online examples that we can use to test this?
20 Jun 2012 9:06 AM #3
No unfortunately not.. I'll try and build one.
It seems related to the presence of a form in the top third of the page. With the form collapsed I don't see the bug.
21 Jun 2012 2:20 AM #4
Still havent got a test case, but have dug into my code more. I had a form update triggered by scrolling, which calls BasicForm.markInvalid() and it turns out that triggered the scrolling problem!
So my clunky workaround is to do:
var originalScrollPosition = MeldUI.maingrid.getEl().down('.x-grid-view').getScroll();
var newPosition = MeldUI.maingrid.getEl().down('.x-grid-view').getScroll(); if (newPosition.top < 5 && originalScrollPosition.top > 5) MeldUI.maingrid.getEl().down('.x-grid-view').scrollTo('top', originalScrollPosition.top, false);
Some other info: I'm using row editing. Inserted records go at the bottom. It only happens after the first insert, subsequent inserts are fine.


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The two together occupy the same space (in all dimensions) as the mount alone.
Source - Rules Compendium p253, also the Compendium
Also, note that the previous page states that the mount must be at least one size category larger than the rider.
Remember that the space you occupy in D&D also includes the all space you can reach, i.e. the land area of a normal creature is a five-foot square. Nobody really takes up a five foot square but this is the space that your character can easily and quickly affect. In terms of realistic height of a mount with rider the height would be the approximately the shoulder height of the mount (for average horses this is about five feet) plus about half the height of the rider (assuming that the legs are longer than the torso, but in a sitting position) give or take the height of any saddle used. Therefore an average height of a human sitting on a horse is about eight to nine feet.


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Edwards, K., Dunstan, W., Jung, T. and Hardy, G.E.St.J. (2010) Phytophthora species associated with declining Eucalyptus rudis (Flooded gum) in Western Australia. In: 5th IUFRO Phytophthora Diseases in Forests and Natural Ecosystems, 7 - 12 March, Auckland and Rotorua, New Zealand.
Edwards, K., Hardy, G.E.St.J., Dunstan, W. and Jung, T. (2010) The role of Phytophthora species in the decline of Eucalyptus rudis (flooded gum) in south-west Western Australia. In: Plant Health & Protection Research Symposium, 29 October, Perth, Western Australia.
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Say I have some class:
public class A {
private int val = 0;
public int getVal() {
return val;
public void addFrom(A otherA) {
this.val += otherA.val;
if (otherA.val > 0)
otherA.val = 0;
otherA = Math.abs(otherA.val);
Should I be using getter methods instead to use otherA's val variable? Is it better style to do so?
Edit: This is a very simplified version of a class that takes much too long to read. But assume that there IS lazy initialization going on, that there are other methods that access this class, etc. I have updated the example method so that this may be more clear, but I hope it is clear that my question involves accessing the other object's variables, and want to know if it is faux pas to use a direct variable access for something that is not "this".


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5 Dick Moves Your Bank Pulls (You Won't Believe Are Legal)
Some institutions get more hate than they deserve. Most lawyers and police officers are just doing their jobs, and most businesses really are simply trying to make a profit. But banks ... well, banks make it really hard to defend them. They are the middleman in every transaction (you simply can't function in modern society keeping your cash in a coffee can buried in your yard), and goddamn do they exploit their position in the shadiest ways imaginable. Let's take a moment to examine some of the perfectly legal ways these guys screw us on a daily basis:
(And if you think banks are sleazy, wait till you see the dating website in Cracked's new Rom.Com series.)
#5. They Can Arbitrarily Manipulate Your Payments to Create Overdraft Fees
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We understand that banks aren't kindly rich uncles who can dole out money when they feel sorry for us. They have to charge some kind of fine when we try to take out more money than is actually in our accounts, otherwise it'd be a free money festival forever (or until the whole system came crashing down hours later). But where banks take it to the next level is when they carefully arrange things so that, with one mistake, they can keep stomping you with what amounts to a 1,000 percent interest rate. They can charge anywhere from $20 to $35 for every transaction you make while over the limit -- even if that transaction is itself for only a few dollars. But hey, it's all about teaching the customer not to make that mistake in the future, right?
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So they're like that other uncle then. The one with the belt.
Nope! Once the banks saw how much cash they could make from the fees, the next step was to carefully trick their customers into overdrawing their accounts more often. They do this by quietly manipulating the order in which your purchases are charged to your account to nail you with the maximum number of overdraft charges. We're talking "half of your goddamn money straight to the bank" numbers here.
Here's how it works. Let's say you have $100 in your checking account and you purchase the following items over the course of the day:
A pack of gum: $1
Two dildos (one for each ear): $15
Food: $20
Some gas: $10
The "Best Actor" Academy Award Steven Seagal won for Under Siege, bought from a street vendor named Handless Bob: $25
That still leaves you with $29. Hooray, you can manage your money!
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"Oooo, just enough to buy the actual Steven Seagal."
Ah, but you forgot to note that you had a $100 phone bill due the next day. Well, shit, that means one of those transactions will put you in the red, costing you a $35 fee. That's what you get for losing track of due dates, right?
But you're not going to pay one fee. See, the bank doesn't have to process the charges in the order they came in. What they'll do instead is start with the $100 phone bill -- even though it came in after the other purchases. Why? Because that immediately brings your account down to zero. Then they can process those previous, smaller charges so that they can nail you with a $35 overdraft charge for every fucking one of them. Even that goddamn pack of gum sets you back the price of a tank of gas. Now your account is $175 in negative territory, and until you pay all of that back, every single purchase will cost you another $35 surcharge. This is when a bunch of Nigerian princes start lining up to ask your bank how they pulled that off without you stabbing them in the face.
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"They used to stab us with our pens. That's why we added chains."
If you're thinking that it's a clear scam, the government actually agrees with you. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has been all over that shit in recent years, and their actions have caused about 40 percent of banks to drop this particular practice. What actions did they take, you ask? Why, the FDIC wrote the banks a letter and asked them to stop.
Well, that's what happens when one of us gets caught scamming millions of dollars out of people, right? The government writes us a sternly worded letter and requests that we stop doing it?
#4. They Can (and Will) Seize Your Money
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If you, say, don't pay your bar tab, your local barkeep has to take several infuriating steps to try to get his money: He has to locate you, chase you down, smash your knees, and empty your wallet. Slightly more respectable bill collectors have just as many obstacles between themselves and unpaid invoices, the most severe step being to sue to have money taken directly out of your wages. But even then they can only do it in certain amounts, and by law there is some money they can't touch. For instance, they can't garnish funds out of Social Security checks. That shit is strictly earmarked government money, not to mention that taking it would be monstrous because those checks go to some of the poorest, oldest, and most disabled people in society.
Banks, however, can do whatever the hell they like, because they already have full access to our money.
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"Eh, you got cats. You can eat those."
You're keeping it in their building; they can just reach right in. They could be in the vault right now, rubbing their dicks on it. So while nobody can garnish money from a Social Security check, once it's deposited into a bank, it joins the pool of money that the bank considers free for the taking. So if you happen to owe the bank money (like those overdraft fees mentioned above), they just poke in a straw and slurp that money right out.
Think we're exaggerating in order to make banks out to be mustache-twirling villains? OK -- take the story of this Cleveland woman, who fell for a check fraud scam that left her account deep in the red. Her bank promptly notified her that they were going to take her Social Security check to cover the overdraft. "But why doesn't she close the account and go to a different bank, Cracked?" Hey, good idea! She did that, then quickly found out that banks talk to each other. She was immediately blacklisted and unable to open a checking account elsewhere.
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So she went to a store that cashes checks, and then she got mugged.
Of course, there are some cases where this practice is deemed too evil even by bank standards: Between 1993 and 2003, Bank of America gleefully seized over $280 million of Social Security funds for assorted bank fees from the accounts of their elderly and disabled customers. A California jury eventually awarded the customers damages in the ballpark of $1 billion, but we're guessing that's not a huge source of joy for the poor people who woke up to find they had far less money for food than they had counted on.
Hey, speaking of screwing the elderly ...
#3. They Sell Old People Services They Can't Use in the Hope That They Will Die
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A man visited his local Bank of America branch to do some routine financial muddlin' about. He was referred to a financial consultant and eventually force-sold an annuity that would only be beneficial if it could be maintained for a bare minimum of seven or eight years. Otherwise, it would only be beneficial to the bank.
So what's the problem? That man was 86 years old, and presumably not a Highlander.
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"I don't even use the free toaster they gave me. Who has that kind of time left?"
When his daughter learned what the bank had done, she tried to find a way out of it for him. Sadly, the only way to undo it was to pay a whopping $25,000 to the bank. Hey, just consider it extra incentive to stay alive, old timer!
There's a reason the elderly are the most frequent targets of scammers -- they have money and can be easily confused with enough doubletalk. They often have a hard time admitting that they do not understand something, or maybe they just quit giving a shit 20 years ago.
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"Bitcoin? No, thanks. I'd like the whole thing."
The banks figure that if it works for everyday con artists, why wouldn't it work for massive financial institutions? Thus, they take products that don't pay off for the customer unless they hold them for several years and specifically sell them to the elderly, rolling the dice on the customer dying before they see any benefit. Of course, the danger is that a fiscally savvy grandchild will find out what has happened and raise hell, so you make sure the contract includes terms that make it impossible to back out. At this point you picture Gordon Gekko shaking his head and saying, "Jesus Christ, how do you people sleep at night?"


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The Shura (Consultative) Council today stressed the importance of the World Conference on Dialogue, which was held July 16-18 in Madrid on the initiative of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz.
Chairman Saleh bin Homaid said that by proposing the conference, King Abdullah sent a clear message to the world that Islam is a religion of humanity and tolerance, and that it encourages coexistence and respect for human rights.
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How we can show every permutation is either even or odd,but not both......I can't arrive at a proof for this ..... Can anybody give me the proof...
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How we can show every permutation is either even or odd,but not both......I can't arrive at a proof for this ..... Can anybody give me the proof...
Thanks in advance...
One way is to define the sign of a permutation $\sigma$ using the polynomial $\Delta = \Pi (x_i-x_j)$ with $1\le i < j \le n$.
It is easy to see that $\sigma(\Delta) = \Pi (x_{\sigma(i)}-x_{\sigma(j)})$ satisfies $\sigma(\Delta)=\pm\Delta$. Now define the sign by $sign(\sigma)=\frac{\Delta}{\sigma(\Delta)}$
With a little more work you can show that this function is a homomorphism of groups, and that on transpositions it return -1. Therefore, if $\sigma=\tau_1\cdots\tau_k$ is a way to write $\sigma$ as a product of transpositions, we have $sign(\sigma)=(-1)^k$ and so for even permutations (permutations whose sign is 1) k must always be even, and for odd permutations (whose sign is -1) it must always be odd.
There is a proof given here: An Historical Note on the Parity of Permutations, T. L. Bartlow, American Mathematical Monthly Vol. 79, No. 7 (Aug. - Sep., 1972), pp. 766-769.
Here's an outline of Bartlow's proof (it matches the proof given in Ted's answer).
(NB. In earlier versions of this answer I incorrectly labelled this proof as faulty. In fact, this is an excellent proof, and doesn't rely on any auxiliary functions or unrelated concepts.)
I claim all three "proofs" of this result (currently) on wikipedia are incomplete. Let's begin with the observation that, assuming that identity permutation is not an odd permutation, then the result follows fairly easily.
Theorem: Assuming the identity permutation is not an odd permutation, then all permutations are either even xor odd.
Proof: Let $\sigma$ be both an even and an odd permutation. Then there exists transpositions $t_i$ and $s_j$ such that \[\sigma=t_1 \circ t_2 \circ \cdots \circ t_k=s_1 \circ s_2 \circ \cdots \circ s_m\] where $k$ is even and $m$ is odd. Note that \[\sigma^{-1}=s_m \circ s_{m-1} \circ \cdots \circ s_1.\]
Then the identity permutation $\sigma \circ \sigma^{-1}$ is the odd permutation \[t_1 \circ t_2 \circ \cdots \circ t_k \circ s_m \circ s_{m-1} \circ \cdots \circ s_1,\] giving a contradiction. Thus completing the proof of the theorem.
The problem is that we cannot just assume that the identity permutation not an odd permutation (yes, it's an even permutation, but what's to stop it being an odd permutation also?), it does not follow from the definition and it is the base case of the "induction". To prove it, we need to show that the identity permutation cannot be decomposed into an odd number of transpositions (without using the theorem itself).
However, we can deduce from the above theorem that either (a) all permutations are both even and odd or (b) all permutations are either even xor odd.
On wikipedia: Proof 1 states that the identity permutation is an even permutation (which it is) then assumes that the identity permutation is not also an odd permutation (this is analogous to assuming that a closed set is not an open set). Proof 2 essentially says that we can switch signs by multiplying by a transposition (which is fine, if you know a priori that there exists some permutation that is not even or not odd). Proof 3 neglects the possibility that an even-length word might be equal to an odd-length word.
Keith Conrad also gave a proof that the identity permutation is not an odd permutation here. It is almost a page long (and is the majority of the proof of the result in question).
This is overkill, but it follows from general facts about Coxeter groups as outlined here. In particular, it follows from the fact that $S_n$ has presentation $s_i^2 = 1, (s_i s_{i+1})^3 = 1, s_i s_j = s_j s_i, |i - j| \ge 2$ (which follows from the faithfulness of the geometric representation) that the homomorphism $s_i \to -1$ is well-defined.
It is enough to show that the product of an odd number of transpositions cannot be the identity.
Every permutation of a finite set $S$ is a unique product of disjoint cycles in which every element of $S$ occurs exactly once (where we include fixed points as 1-cycles). Let $p$ be any permutation of $S$, let $(ij)$ be a transposition ($i,j \in S$), and let $q=p \cdot (ij)$. It is easy to check that if $i$ and $j$ are in the same cycle in $p$, then that cycle splits into two in $q$; if $i$ and $j$ are in different cycles in $p$, then those cycles merge into one in $q$. Cycles of $p$ not containing either $i$ or $j$ remain the same in $q$. Therefore, $q$ has either one more or one less cycle than $p$ does.
Now let $t$ be any product of an odd number of transpositions. Then by the above, multiplying any permutation by $t$ changes the parity of the number of cycles in the permutation. Therefore $t$ cannot be the identity.


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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- University of Kentucky officials say a temporary ban on alcohol, DJ's, and bands in an area near Commonwealth Stadium, produced mostly quiet and no problems.
Lexington Police Cmdr. Thomas Curtsinger told the Lexington Herald-Leader two large, grassy fields were vacant Saturday where hundreds of students usually hold pre-game parties. Only a few groups gathered soberly under tents along the roadside for cookouts and games, with plenty of elbow room between them.
University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto ordered a temporary ban on alcohol, DJ's, and bands in the area for the home football game against South Carolina.
Capilouto said the move was prompted by fighting Sept. 15 when Kentucky played Western Kentucky.
The Wildcats lost to the Gamecocks 38-17. UK lost to WKU 32-31 in overtime.


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I wondered if you could share some of your experience with plot files in ArcGIS. I've been trying to make these, as I have a good expeirence with them from autoCAD (every drawing is exported to a PLT file, which stands by if another copy is wanted later on).
In arcGIS, I saw there is only options to export to PRN or RTL, but no PLT (which is a HP designed file, if I'm not mistaking).
Both PRN and RTL save the maps (containing vector and raster features) horridly, making the maps produce from them very discolored and messy.
From what I've deduced from the Internet, PRN is usally for documents, so it's probably not meant for rasters, hence the poor capabilities.
(for all those who want to ask: Saving only as a MXD isn't much good, as the layers can be changed over time, moved to different locations, and anyway, handling MXD can be done only by GIS trained personnal while printing plot files can be done by any given secretary).
Any thoughts? Has something in this field advanced in ArcGIS 10 (I'm in 9.3.1)??


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The Colonial Houses were part of the original Bennington campus and make up First and Second Streets. They include Bingham, Booth, Canfield, Dewey, Franklin, Kilpatrick, Leigh, McCullough, Stokes, Swan, Welling, and Woolley. Students enjoy the variety of floor plans and room layouts—some feature porch swings or courtyards, and others open onto Commons Lawn.
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The Barnes Houses make up half of Third Street and boast some of the biggest rooms on campus. They include Fels, Noyes, and Sawtell. They are closest to the tennis courts and soccer field, and feature central skylights, a quad suite upstairs (four single rooms with a common living space), and actively used living rooms.
The Woo Houses, built in 2001, make up half of Third Street. They are Merck, Paris-Borden, and Perkins. The Woo Houses feature multiple common spaces with fireplaces, comfy chairs, and large windows perfect for watching sunsets and thunderstorms. These award-winning houses have been featured in Architectural Record magazine.
Longmeadow, the on-campus "eco" house, gives students the opportunity to explore environmentally conscious ways of day-to-day living, such as recycling, eating habits, and composting.
Welling Town House is the College's only off-campus student house. A 20-minute walk to Commons, the Town House has large bedrooms and numerous hidden nooks.
Housing is personal at Bennington—students live not in dorms but in houses of generally 30–45 people each, with architectural styles ranging from modern design to clapboard houses reflecting 1930s New England. Bennington student houses consistently top the rankings in Princeton Review's "Dorms Like Palaces" list.
Each house offers kitchens and comfy common areas (most with fireplaces), where students relax, study, and hold weekly Coffee Hours to discuss campus and house issues together. All houses are co-educational. There are co-ed bathrooms for every four to five rooms, all with showers, and many with bathtubs. Depending on where you live, you might find yourself enjoying a patio or porch overlooking great views of the mountains, a piano, or a second living room. Take some video house tours or peruse photos of each kind of house: Barnes, Colonial, Woo, and more.
House communities are made up of continuing students, transfer students, and first-year students. Some of the current students will have lived in your house for many terms, while others will be new to the house. Through your housemates, you'll discover new inspiring ideas and influences and express your personality and passions.
House Chairs are undergraduate students who serve as community leaders and mentors to house residents. There are two House Chairs in each house. They are knowledgeable about resources available on campus, serve as a liaison between campus services and your house, and run Coffee Hour, the weekly house meeting. Meet the House Chairs.


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What are the pros and cons of using Wikipedia as an information source, particularly given that anyone can edit almost every page?
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Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
The big pro is that there is likely to be an entry for what ever it is you're searching for.
The big con is that the information on that page might not be accurate.
Like all sources of information (and particularly those on the web) you have to treat it with a healthy dose of scepticism. A good Wikipedia entry will have links to external reference sites which you can (and should) use to verify what it says is true. Depending on the importance (to you) of the information you need you could use the number of references as a rough guide to the accuracy.
If you are concerned about the accuracy check the edit history. Have there been many contributors? Have there been any edit wars?
You definitely have to be aware that there are those who have an agenda, as the Climategate Wikipedia scandal showed us: Medieval Warm Period.
If you need reliable information, Wikipedia may not be the best choice (although some of the more popular articles are often watched by dedicated editors for vandalism), but in that case it can still provide useful links as references.
I ran into the same question 3 years ago while doing some tech research for my company at the time. I found out rival companies often change the content of certain article to tarnish their competition. Some are even foolish enough to do it form their own offices, forgetting that their IP address is captured and easily presented.
I refer you to the (admittedly angry) blog post I wrote at the time, referring to a research done by a guy called Virgil Griffith who exposed this behavior and actually "named names".
I once attended a talk by Jimmy Wales, the founder of wikipedia, where he addressed this question. He said that Wikipedia is good (and meant to be) for getting a large-scale overview of topics -- if you don't care about the nitty-gritty details of things (which he said are usually the things that are wrong) wikipedia is great. If you're writing a paper, or need to know something exactly, wikipedia is not for you.
I tend to use wikipedia as a research starting point. My reasons are, in order of importance:
With this perspective, the only problem I've really had with it is occurrences of spam. And those are few and far between, not because it is rare, but because it is policed amazingly deftly by the community itself.
Pros: Wikipedia is knowledge gathering of all the people around the world, so it is very comprehensive and abundant.