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Want to see my engagement ring?
Rather, the ring that I gave to Light to represent an engagement.
Some of you may recall about 5 months back that I went through a rather bittersweet engagement. I gained a fiancee but I lost a future mother-in-law. You can read all about that here.
About a week and a half ago, I was discussing the ring and @neuropsychosocial was all like "Hey, um, pics?" or something to that effect. Who am I to say no to that! Sorry they took so long. I've been really busy lately as shown by my severely reduced activity on Woot. I've been dealing with Life
Anyway, here are a couple ring pics:
The ring was ordered from Gemvara, and they did an amazing job. I haven't gotten it appraised though. Beautiful nonetheless
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It's very pretty, and congratulations, too!
You should get the ring appraised for insurance purposes.
When's the date? Are we all invited?
@shrdlu: As it stands, we're having trouble scrounging enough money to invite close friends :/ Plans are still for July. Thanks!
Mazel tov!
Love it! Different, unusual & very lovely. Dare I say unorthodox? ;-)
Please don't think longer than 1 moment about how many attend your wedding...it's your special day of love and committment. Heartfelt best wishes to both of you.
I should clarify about the ring, because I don't know if I went into details about it before.
It's a lovers knot with both of our birthstones in it.
@abramokids: What are the birthstones? It is hard to tell in the pic.
My ring and my husband's are both of our birthstones (sapphire and amethyst). Still love them. Never was one for the solitaire diamond thing.
@bnbsouthworth: Well hers is garnet and mine is...
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"Hey, Light, what's my birthstone?"
Yeah, that.
Gongrats! Beautiful ring! Best wishes to you and your fiance.
Very nice, and congrats. I like non-traditional rings.
Oh, how lovely! I adore the symbolism of your birthstones together in a lovers' knot, and it's absolutely gorgeous. Thank you for posting pictures.
If you need to save some money, I'm sure your woot family would be more than happy to contribute Bags of Crap Wedding Favors; we'll even make sure to avoid stuff from the Bacon woot-off! :)
@abramokid :i missed your original story at the time. Mazel Tov and Hamokom Yenachem...
Did you decide on going forward with the secular wedding on Light's Mother's birthday? In which section of the country do you live. I am an ordained minister and would be happy to perform a secular, non-halachik, wedding free of charge. I live in the NY/NJ area.
That's a beautiful ring. I love that it's different than the normal engagement ring.
And congratulations on your engagement!
I remember reading the original story and remembering how (as you said it) bittersweet it would have been.
Hopefully things are going well for the both of you. Planning a wedding can be very stressful.
Good luck and congratulations again.
Very pretty ring. I also went a bit different with the one I got my fiance, but only to the extent of putting sapphires in as accent stones.
I'm about.. checks calendar 10 days from my own wedding. It's a nightmare if you're trying to do it in a "cost-effective" manner. This really hit home when I answered a survey recently and the answers for "How much are you going to spend" were $0-10k, $10k-20k... Yep, we're firmly in that first bracket. Blows my mind how much some folks spend on the wedding.
FWIW, if I/we had to do it again, we would have a ceremony with just parents/gparents present and then have a reception open to friends, etc. If you have any questions, shoot 'em at me.
It's very pretty! :) Thank you for posting it.
Very pretty. Enjoy your wedding day!
@abramokids :
re-posting because I see I spelled your name incorrectly:
i missed your original story at the time. Mazel Tov and Hamokom Yenachem...
Did you decide on going forward with the secular wedding on Light's Mother's birthday? In which section of the country do you live. I am an ordained minister and would be happy to perform a secular, non-halachik, wedding free of charge. I live in the NY/NJ area.
@mml666: Pssssst: Just posting in the thread sends a reply if he subscribed to it....spelling doesn't matter since it's his question.
@jsimsace: Thank you.
Ahhhh, I fell way behind on replies. First I just want to say I'm surprised that nobody commented on the picture of a cat in the original post. That's our kitten, her name is Life. No, it has nothing to do with her mother passing away, we just thought the name would yield some interesting conversations. (EX: Life took a piss on the rug. That's Life!)
@bill7718: @okham: @thunderthighs: @sgrman05: @inkycatz: @dontwantaname: Thanks y'all!
@neuropsychosocial: Sorry I took so long to post them haha. Hey, Baconsalt is a-ok in my book!
@mml666: That's very nice of you. We still don't know whether we will be doing the secular date or not, however I may have been a bit unclear. We aren't planning a ceremony that day, just to get all the paperwork done. Still a very kind offer :D
@ki4rxm: Holy Moley! That's coming up fast. Budgeting seems pretty hard, but I'm sure we can make it work. Best of luck and congrats on your special day!
@abramokids: Set up a paypal account for the wedding -- I'll send along a wedding gift and would be thrilled to know it might fund another guest for you!
PS: I'm serious. Weird, perhaps, but serious.
Edit: The ring is lovely!
@ki4rxm: "I'm about.. checks calendar 10 days from my own wedding."
Congratulations, and remember it's really just a big party full of people who like you a lot. Don't let The Day make you feel crazy!
@magic cave: Er... Uh... I'm not quite sure how to respond to this. Seriously, I turned to Light and was like "How do I even respond to this?" I can either give you my email and thanks, or I can kindly decline... Lemme try both!
You REALLY don't need to do that. It's a very kind offer and your kind words and thoughts alone will do, however if you really feel it necessary, my paypal account is the same as my username here on woot except at AOL.com Too kind sniff
@abramokids: (I'm back from the wilds of North Carolina and seriously wishing we were still there. The weather was better there, and I don't want to go back to work tomorrow.)
Not "too kind" at all; it's a gift to myself -- it's a joy to celebrate another's marriage.
@magic cave: If you really feel that way, you are welcome to :P
Weather today in Boston is pretty nice. Cool and sunny. Love it :D
@magic cave: I want to PM you, but I can't seem to figure it out, so I guess I'll just say thank you very much :D
I often hear about people donating to total strangers but I never thought I'd be on the receiving end, not that we are TOTAL strangers :P Thank you again :D
@abramokids: You're welcome, but once again, let me say it was my pleasure (in the sense that it really is a pleasure).
As for the issue of how to do PM's, it's an ongoing problem: http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/4399a7ce-bf6d-43f2-b3c9-83e0e7f007a4/i-give-up-how-do-i-find-someone-on-the-woot-side-to-pm-them#15
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make a comment, save the address for the link, and then you can always go back to hunt for a deals-side wooter to see if they've left a message there. If so, you can PM them through that message.


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Whilst the current CA system works very well for a lot of people, it does put a lot of power into individual CAs' hands, and makes a CA hack potentially devastating for customers and business. What alternatives are there to certificate authorities, and what are the challenges in switching to such systems? I've seen proposals for a variety of distributed P2P-like systems, but nothing has ever come of them.
"Alternatives" depend on whether you want something which may work in the future, or something which works right now, with existing browsers.
Right now, Web browsers expect that servers send X.509 certificates, and then they validate them against the set of root CA integrated in the browser (or operating system). This means that if you want something that works without any extra software installation, then all you can do is alter the set of root CA (your trust anchors). You can:
(One can note that the direct trust model is exactly what SSH follows, and it works well in the usage context of SSH.)
In the future, there could be other models. There are several proposals, some being backed by existing software add-ons. To my knowledge, none has reached the "generally usable" level yet. There are, for instance:
An important point is that the current system "works". Actual attacks which target the PKI are very rare (much publicized, but still rare). The actual system with roots CA is sufficiently hard to break that attackers find it easier to bypass it through some other ways (foremost of which being abusing the credulity of human users). As such, there is little incentive for replacing it with another system which, at best, will do the same. So, while the alternate proposals have some merit (mostly in financial and political terms), I deem it relatively improbable that any of them dislodges the existing root CA in the near future, for "the Web" as we know it.
For closed architectures which are not the Web, and where you control both client and server, you can use whatever system you want, but closed architecture are precisely the situation where hierarchical PKI work very well.
One alternative is DANE/TLSA, which is a RFC standard that allows self signed keys in DNS.
One of the challenges is that this is very new and most client software doesn't yet support it. (Chrome being a new addition) In addition DNS is subject to various attacks, especially on WiFi networks and the like.
One way to remedy the DNS attack is to use DNSSec, and to ensure the client software will only use DNSSec for domains that offer it. If this latter feature doesn't exist then that would open users up to an SSL-strip type of vulnerability.
SSL also supports Secure Remote Password (SRP). This is where you authenticate using a password instead of a certificate. Too bad Browsers don't support it.
There is also Convergence which is a drop in replacement for the CA/PKI system. In theory you could use a self-signed certificate and still defend your self against MITM attacks. It also provides protection against rogue CAs.
It's worth pointing out that the chain-of-trust concept isn't itself any more or less vulnerable than web-of-trust, shared-secret or any other mechanism if implemented at the same scale as our current PKI.
The primary problem is the proliferation of trusted CAs as well as the lack of differentiation between CAs for trust purposes. For application-specific use-cases (i.e. not web browser), you can work around this and create a very solid and very trustworthy private PKI. Since SSL/TLS implementations allow you to specify your own trust roots, there's no reason why you have to included the popular CA lists provided by Mozilla and Microsoft. In fact, if you're not using a browser, then there's little reason why you should include the global CA list and plenty of reasons why you shouldn't. If you're the only CA, then your attack surface is significantly limited (as Microsoft recently learned).
As for the browser PKI, a more ideal solution would be to create segmented TLDs by trust category (e.g.
But since the current technology is effectively set in stone by popular use, the chance of this or any other alternate security infrastructure becoming mainstream is effectively zero.
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#2. We Feel Like Manhood Was Stolen from Us at Some Point
You know how every comedy has that stock character of the womanizing, amoral guy who just says what he thinks all the time, and cares only about himself? Joey in Friends, Charlie Sheen in Two and a Half Men, Sterling Archer in Archer, Gob in Arrested Development, Ashton Kutcher's character in That '70s Show, Michael in our Web series, the title character in my books?
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A once-great world of heroes and strength and warriors and cigars and crude jokes has been replaced by this world of grumpy female supervisors looming over our cubicle to hand us a memo about sending off-color jokes via email. Yes, that entire narrative is a grossly skewed and self-serving version of how society actually evolved. It doesn't matter.
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I don't know what it's like to be a woman, so it's not easy for me to describe what it's like to be a man, because I don't know what you're using for context. I'm going to do my best:
Did you ever watch old cartoons where a character is starving on a desert island, and when another character approaches, he's so hungry that he imagines the other character as a talking piece of food?
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It's like that for most men, most of the time. We're starving, and all women are various types of food. Only instead of food, it's sex. And we're trying to conduct our everyday business around the fact that we're trying to renew our driver's license with a talking pair of boobs. So, from about age 13 on, around 90 percent of our energy and discipline is devoted to overcoming this, to behave like civilized human beings and not like stray dogs in a meat market. One where instead of eating the meat, they want to hump it. Again, if you want to experience what it's like, get a testosterone injection.
Right now I'm reading a book from mega-selling fantasy author George R. R. Martin. The following is a passage where he is writing from the point of view of a woman -- always a tough thing for men to do. The girl is on her way to a key confrontation, and the narrator describes it thusly:
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We also assume you have the taste of a pimp.
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All those wars we fight? Sure, at the upper levels, in the halls of political power, they have some complicated reasons for wanting some piece of land or access to some resource. But on the ground? Well, let me ask you this -- historically, when an army takes over a city, what happens to the women there?
It's all about you. All of it. All of civilization.
Nope. Can't see a single symbolic thing about this illustration.
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This is really the heart of it, right here. This is why no amount of male domination will ever be enough, why no level of control or privilege or female submission will ever satisfy us. We can put you under a burqa, we can force you out of the workplace -- it won't matter. You're still all we think about, and that gives you power over us. And we resent you for it.
"Now you squat down and crap your pants, or you never touch these boobs again."
All of the most bitter disputes work like this, by the way: Both sides think they're the powerless party. It's why tipping servers is such a bitter topic among some people -- the server feels like the customer has all of the power (because their entire income comes from tips), and the customer feels like the server has all the power (because they can deny them food and drink and ruin their one night out). It's why the richest people in the world can talk like they're besieged victims, and mean it. It's why the male leaders of the most powerful and richest church in the world can talk like they're being made martyrs due to women asking for birth control. And mean it.
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After upgrading to 12.04 I cannot see wlan0 as ny wireless connection. It's now called eth1.
ifconfig and iwconfig also return the same: eth1.
Is this okay, or should I make any changes?
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ppp0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11 Access Point: Not-Associated
Link Quality:5 Signal level:0 Noise level:220
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invald misc:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.


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1. What Mac Hardware, OSX version & sound card you are using?
Macbook Pro 2.1 (2007 model) running OS X 10.5.8. I run an Mbox 2 Mini and M-Audio Connectiv as well as the internal sound card.
2. If you own/have a Mac, why you have one instead of/in addition to a PC?
Bought it for DJ'ing stability, but it's become my primary machine running Pro Tools 8 LE, Reaper and Reason 5/Record. The only reason I still have a PC is for FL Studio.
3. How long you have been using FL Studio as a registered customer?
Since April 2006. Not sure if that's when I registered, but that's when I bought FL Studio 6 boxed. Had used FL Studio 2 on a friend's machine before that. FL Studio has been my primary DAW up until this year. Still running FL Studio 6 but have demoed every subsequent version thoroughly and will definitely upgrade once it's on the Mac.


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5 Disturbing Details You Didn't Notice in Famous Video Games
Video games still haven't fully escaped the stigma of being mindless entertainment for young kids and dumb adults, especially in a decade where games about birds crashing into shit have been among the most played in the world. The fact is that a great portion of gamers don't give a crap about the stories. All they care about is which buttons to push and who to shoot ... and that makes it really, really easy for the developers to slip in disturbing details they know will go unnoticed.
But not by us, damn it! We've paid close enough attention to notice ...
(If you're up for some mindful entertainment, watch Cracked's new series Rom.com.)
#5. All Star Fox Pilots Have to Amputate Their Legs
Star Fox is Nintendo's second most popular franchise involving rolling barrels. In this series, you play a fox who travels through the stars (a Space Canine, if you will) and whose goal is to shoot things that are shooting him while ignoring the ramblings of a frog with debatable credentials. It seems like a fairly straightforward plot for a Japanese video game, but there's a darker element to this franchise, and it's hidden in the character design:
The choice to wear an ascot inside of a fighter jet is baffling, really.
Notice Fox McCloud's legs? Or, to be more exact, his lack of them? Yeah, it looks like Fox and friends all have metallic legs. It seems like a random detail they added to make the characters look cooler, but there's a disturbing explanation for it. In real life, fighter jet pilots and astronauts have to wear a G-suit -- tight clothing that prevents gravity from making blood rush into their legs. Without a G-suit, they'd just pass out, and studies have found that pilots are at least twice as bad at their jobs while unconscious.
However, the Star Fox games are set in a futuristic society populated by fashion-conscious anthropomorphic animals. The implication is clear: They had their legs amputated as a way to deal with intense G-forces that didn't involve sacrificing their precious open blazers.
The only question now is: Did "little fox" have to go, too?
And before you argue that the ships' G-diffusers take care of the gravity problem, let us pre-emptively outnerd you by pointing out that this feature wasn't introduced until Star Fox 64 (at which point Fox and pals probably felt kind of silly). And sure, Star Fox Adventures showed the characters wearing pants and boots, but that game wasn't developed by Nintendo, plus they could still have robot legs under there. Also, this would explain why Fox is so fast in the Super Smash Bros. games -- he's a freaking cyborg.
And we thought Jigglypuff's blatant steroid use was the biggest scandal in this tournament.
Nintendo has never confirmed this, so it remains a theory, but it's the sort of detail that a company that routinely puts nightmarish scenes in colorful games about jumping plumbers would be capable of coming up with. And so we leave you with the delightful thought that, somewhere in the Star Fox universe, there's someone whose job involves disposing of pilot legs.
#4. An Easter Egg in Uncharted 3 Means Everyone Dies
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The Uncharted trilogy of games is about treasure hunters who go around exotic locales swinging on ropes and avoiding enemies -- it's Pitfall in 3D and with more shooting. Part of the charm of this series comes from its characters, like everyman adventurer Nathan Drake, action journalist Elena Fisher, and Nate's cigar-chomping mentor, Sully Sullivan. It's a well-rounded and charismatic bunch, and oh God, they're all going to die horrible deaths.
Seriously. In fact, according to a little Easter egg in Uncharted 3, they might already be dead.
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Uncharted 4 will star Pitfall Harry and the dog from Duck Hunt.
The Easter egg is a simple eight-word phrase that almost wasn't included in the game. There's a bar fight early in Uncharted 3, and if you walk over to the counter after kicking everyone's ass, perhaps hoping for a refreshing post-brawl Fresca, you can see a stack of newspapers there. You can barely make out what the headline says, but this being the Internet, of course someone decided to zoom in on the image. This is what they found:
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Wait, why do we love our pets? We must learn more about this mystery.
"Scientists are still struggling to understand deadly fungus." That doesn't sound very ominous, does it? Unless, that is, you've played The Last of Us (by Naughty Dog, the same studio as Uncharted), which is about a fungus-based pandemic that claimed about 60 percent of the world's population and threw everyone else into a frenzied, murderous panic. The Last of Us takes place in the year 2033, and the game informs you that this is 20 years after the initial outbreak. This means that we can pinpoint the year 2013 as the moment when everything went to shit and humanity entered into a hellish, mushroomy nightmare.
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Don't worry, Ellen Page ripoff. It could be worse.
Uncharted 3 takes place in 2011 ... two years before the fall of humanity. What if fungal infections were simply in the developers' minds when they made these games (maybe one of them visited a brothel) and they didn't mean anything by it? Nope: Naughty Dog confirmed that the connection is intentional and that they actually meant to remove the newspaper, since Uncharted 3 came out before The Last of Us was formally announced, but just forgot about it. So, because someone neglected to erase one small item (or maybe forgot to change the headline to "Everything Is Fine, Don't Worry"), Nathan Drake and possibly everyone else you liked from the Uncharted series are currently dead, mindless zombies, or having a really shitty time.
Oh, and speaking of games set in depressing apocalyptic wastelands ...
#3. Pikmin Takes Place in an Empty Post-Apocalyptic Earth
Pikmin is an impossibly cute series about a tiny alien who uses a bunch of even tinier plant-like creatures (the titular Pikmins) to collect things and solve challenges. As you play these games, you never really pay much attention to your surroundings, since 1) everything happens on an incredibly small scale, 2) you always have like 12 Pikmins going around doing stuff, and 3) seriously, those things are just too goddamn cute, to the point of being distracting.
What were we talking about? Oh, yeah: Uncharted 3.
If you do look around, you might notice that even though the planet the alien protagonist is visiting looks a lot like ours, it's suspiciously quiet and empty-looking -- and that's because Pikmin takes place on a post-apocalyptic Earth where everyone is dead. It never comes right out and tells you this, but the series is full of clues to bring players to this idea. For starters, a lot of the "treasures" that you collect are things used by humans and brands that we recognize, despite the fact that there are no people to be found carelessly chucking batteries into a lake.
If you dig long enough in the desert stage, you come across 20,000 ET Atari cartridges.
Things such as cans, bottle caps, and flip phones are collected and brought back to your ship to scrap for parts. And if you're thinking, "Well, maybe the humans are just hiding" -- no, they're not. In Pikmin 3, the geography of the planet that has been the setting of each game is finally revealed to us through an overworld map. The game never treats it like a big deal or specifically points it out in any way. It's simply known as PNF-404, and it looks like this:
"But our continents don't look like that!" No, you're right. They don't right now, but PNF-404 is almost an exact match for Pangea Ultima, the approximation that scientists of today use to determine what Earth's continents will look like in 250 million years. Here's a handy comparison:
So, not only are they saying that Pikmin takes place in a humanless future, but, considering that the relics you find 250 million years in the future are on par with our current technology (there are no holo-phones or Mr. Fusions laying around), it's implied that whatever caused the human extinction occurred around our current time. Happy Pikmin-ing!


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Which of the following sets are dense in $\Bbb R^2$ with respect to the usual topology.
- $\{(x,y) \in\mathbb{R}^2:x\in \mathbb{N}\}$
- $\{(x,y) \in\mathbb{R}^2:x+y \text{ is a rational number}\}$
- $\{(x,y) \in\mathbb{R}^2:x^2+y^2=5\}$
- $\{(x,y) \in\mathbb{R}^2:xy\neq 0\}$
Clearly 1 is false.
3 is false as it is bounded and closed
4 is true as it is the set of all points that are not on the axes x and y.
Am I correct.
But I am not sure about 2 but my guess is true as rationals/ irrationals are dense and 2 holds iff either both are rational or conjugate irrational .


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we are in the process of porting a game from iphone(made with cocos2s) to android(using the andEngine), and it has been a pain to do. So for our next project (a 2d game) we are thinking about using some multiplatform engine/framework. For now we are thinking about testing both unity, marmaled(former airplay sdk) and cocos2d-x. Do you have any opinion about this? Does someon have experience developing 2d games using Unity?
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I'm currently working on Unity to make a 2d game, not for mobile devices though. What I'm doing to keep it 2d is just to set the Z axis rotation of the camera to 0, and only move it on the X and Y axes. If you can afford the iOS license of Unity, then go for it, Unity really saves time on development, and you can make 3d games easily without messing with openGLES.
People have used cocos2d-x on top of Marmalade to add features such as particles that it is missing.


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- I am new to Mathematica and would like to find the set $$\{ (x,y) \in \mathbb{R}^2: (3x+y\exp(xy))(x-a) + (6y + x \exp(xy))(y-b) < 0 \}$$ for some constants $a$ and $b$. How can I do this? Added: Is the set empty when a=-1.0643 and b=0.150?
- My actual question may be more difficult. For this function $f:\mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}$, defined as $$ f(x,y) := (3x+y\exp(xy))(x-a) + (6y + x \exp(xy))(y-b) $$ I would like to know its range $f(\mathbb{R}^2)$, or better yet $f(\mathbb{R}^2 - \{(a,b)\})$, or as close as possible. Can it be done in Mathematica as well?
[Please please please...post actual cut-and-pastable code.]
Here is a method that is, unfortunately, impractical. But it sometimes gives results if you are patient.
Here is a start on a method that uses contpur plotting. One must settle for a finite range on {x,y} for this; I use -+10 for both.
It just gives a picture but i guess those better versed in Mathematica's Graphics might be able to extract at True/False therefrom. It would of course not be a guaranteed resutl, since plotting uses numeric approximation methods.
It gives a nice result for a=-4, b=-1.
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A comment asks about a specific set of inputs for {a,b}. Not one to duck such a test, I'll show a result with FindRoot. Here we find an {x,y} pair for which the expression of interest is negative (equal to -0.2), by setting y first to 0. I did this because the contour plot indicated there was a negative region in that general vicinity.
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A carer is someone who looks after a partner, parent, a child, a relative, a friend or a neighbour and who does not get paid for caring. They look after someone who has;
- A long term illness
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- Mental health problems
- Learning disabilities
- Frailty due to old age which means they cannot be completely independent
Some carers provide 24/7 care, others may only provide a few hours a week to help someone who is unable to do everything for themselves.
Many people do not consider they are carers and comments such as "I do Mum's shopping because she can't get out now" and "I keep an eye on the old man next door" are common place. Many people in need of help are supported by their families. Husbands and wives, sons and daughters, uncles and aunts just assume that it is expected that they will look after a loved one, but they are carers.
- What is an Assessment?
An assessment is the way in which we find out about what you do as a carer and how it affects your life.
To request an assessment or for more information contact your Adults and Communities Local Office You may ask for an assessment even if the person you are caring for doesn't want an assessment
- You can ask for a full assessment as a carer. This is usually if you find caring difficult and can't cope
- You can ask for an assessment if you intend to care for someone in the future, for example when someone leaves hospital or is planning to come and live with you
The assessment may be part of the Single Assessment Process, which is a new way of organisations working together with you to provide services in a joined up way.
- How long will the assessment take?
- What will happen if I agree to an assessment?
- What happens after the assessment?
- Arranging services
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If we are going to provide or arrange services we will make a written agreement with you. This is called a Care Plan, and you will be issued with a copy.
The care plan will tell you and the person you care for:
- What service(s) you will receive and for how long
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I'm a programmer making his first steps in the GIS world. In order to get to know this world I wrote some map based apps using WMS / OSM , OpenLayers and MS-SQL (non spatial). Now I want to put it all together and do some more advanced coding (adding caching capabilities for example , thematic map...)
What are the most common functions in your opinion a GIS app should have ? I get the obvious are measuring (line and area) probably something related to features info ... But beside that I have no idea what else.
I would like to use your experience for making a base app that will answer most basic GIS requirements (and will put together all the technologies I chose to practice with)
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For 12 years, faculty, students, and alumnae/i of the Constitutional Litigation Clinic at Rutgers School of Law–Newark pursued justice for political asylum seekers who were severely abused while detained by the U.S. government in a privately-run prison. By the time the federal trial was over last November, the Jama case, under the guidance of Clinical Professor Penny Venetis, had established new precedent in the area of international human rights law, secured significant monetary damages for the detainees, and trained hundreds of Rutgers law students to be skilled litigators.
On May 6 Venetis, co-director of the Constitutional Litigation Clinic, will accept the Clinical Legal Education Association Award for Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project for Jama, et al. v. Correctional Services Corp., et al. The ceremony will take place in Tucson at the AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education. In April Boston College Law School presented Venetis with the 2008 Alumni Award of Excellence in Public Service for her efforts in advancing international human rights.
"We are enormously proud that CLEA has chosen to honor the achievements of the Constitutional Litigation Clinic in the Jama case," said Dean Stuart L. Deutsch. "In creating lasting protections for an underserved group while also providing our students with the 'hands-on' lawyering experience that the profession values, the Jama litigation exemplifies the goal of clinical legal education."
The Jama plaintiffs were abused in a detention center where they were held while their asylum claims were processed. After determining that the immigrants had little constitutional protection, Venetis and her students decided on an approach that had not been used before – invoke international law to protect individuals abused within the U.S. In two landmark opinions, U.S. District Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise recognized the plaintiffs' right to sue under international law. As a result, any immigrant who is detained in horrendous conditions can now sue for damages under international law.
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I got an external Debian server. The problem is that my university campus doesn't allow connections to go outside when the port is different than TCP port 22, 80, 443, or UDP port 123. I tested them manually. On my Debian server I would like to listen to all my UDP and TCP ports so I can clearly figure out which TCP and UDP ports my university let through their firewall. Nmap is wonderful on the client side to test that, but what should I do on the server side?
tcpdump usually comes as standard on Linux distros. It will log all packets visible at the server note that
Then just run nmap from your client.
I don't have a good way to test this right now, but...
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Apparently there are some people who do not rely on the OU for kashrus. I have seen a few online references (i.e. this Matzav post) that claim this makes no logical sense, since virtually every other hechsher relies on the OU for ingredients. Is this true?
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It's not true that the claim makes no logical sense. Although most or all other kashrut orgs rely on the OU to some extent, they do so to varying levels: Some will rely on it totally, others will rely on it only for uncomplicated ingredients, or only in cases where there is no possibility of conflicting standards. I believe the OU itself has an internal policy concerning which orgs are fully trusted and which are relied upon only in limited cases.
I do not have the answer to your question but I do know that in order to answer this question you must know all of the kashrus related responsibilities the OU fulfills and which of them are taken over by the other hechsher. The ingredients of an item is not the only criterion required to make something kosher. I think that this question might be assuming an oversimplified view of the enormous system required to ensure that something comes out kosher from start to finish.
Just to make it clear, I am embarrassingly under-educated in this arena and would love to hear people's input. I am just cautions of people seeing one piece of the entire system, taking it out of context and judging it based on a position that is both ignorant of the halachos and the system that any given agency has in place.


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The 7 Most Terrifying Archaeological Discoveries
No professional position, aside from perhaps police officer and horny pizza delivery boy, is more frequently misrepresented in film than archaeologist. In movies, archaeologists are all dashing figures, risking life and limb in the pursuit of knowledge while arcane artifacts and ancient traps besiege their efforts. Or else they're perpetually opening sealed, cursed tombs and stumbling into the haunted caves of unspeakable evils in the name of science. But in reality, we all know archaeology is nothing like that. Obviously.
It's way more terrifying.
#7. The Screaming Mummies
In 1886, Gaston Maspero, the head of the Egyptian Antiquities Service, was doing like he do -- just taking mummies out of their sarcophagi, unwrapping them, dictating all kinds of boring notes -- when he came across an unusually plain burial box. Unlike the kings and queens he'd been working with for most of his career, this particular box didn't give any information as to the identity of the stiff inside. Even stranger, the body was wrapped in sheepskin, which was considered unclean by ancient Egyptians. When he finally uncovered it, Gaston also found that the corpse's hands and feet had been bound for some unspeakable reason. And then, as he slowly panned his gaze upward -- presumably while violins screeched out a dramatic, building score -- he found this screaming, undead face looking back at him:
Because of the strange coverings, the bound hands and the seemingly tortured expression, experts theorized that the body (creatively named Unknown Man E) had been poisoned, buried alive or otherwise tortured before his untimely death. Now that we've done extensive studies on mummification and seen quite a few more intact examples, however, we understand how silly that theory was. Not because the "screaming mummy" was just a fluke, but because they're all screaming all the time.
Or having the most horrific orgasms known to man.
If the jaw isn't strapped shut when a body is mummified, it naturally falls open during the process of decay, leaving a permanent "scream." Most modern burial practices account for this -- the ghost of Jacob Marley, Scrooge's business partner in A Christmas Carol, is always shown with that weird headband/chinstrap for precisely this reason. But not all cultures take closing the jaw into account, or sometimes the knots tying the mouth shut just slip. That's why, since Unknown Man E, there have been several more "screaming" mummies found in various digs all around the world.
Yep. Apparently the screaming torment of the undead just ain't a thing.
But really, when you think about it, the rational explanation for the screaming mummies doesn't actually make the finds less impressive. If anything, we have more respect than ever for archaeologists, who we now realize are constantly stumbling into strange, sealed tombs to find stuff like this thing staring at them from the shadows:
"Not without my makeup!"
And when they come face to face with the scariest props from Raiders of the Lost Ark, said archaeologists not only inexplicably refrain from exploding in a big salty ball of fear urine, but calmly stride over, grab the damn thing by the neck and drag the bastard out into the sun for science to take a good, long gander at.
And that's why we propose a new field of study that devotes all of its research hours just to figuring out how to measure balls that size.
#6. The Mass Grave of the Headless Vikings
Archaeologists were digging up the side of a boring old roadway in Dorset when suddenly, instead of "more cobblestones" and "maybe part of a plow," they unearthed something a bit more exciting: a mass grave containing the headless remains of 54 Viking mercenaries. Instead of rightfully interpreting the pit as some kind of ancient "Caution: Predator Hunting Grounds" warning sign and getting the hell out of there, the archaeologists set about carefully recording the positions of the bones. As they did so, the researchers began to notice something unusual about the placement. Namely, that the leg and arm bones, heads and torsos were all neatly arranged into their own separate piles.
So what happened?
Our leading theory is that the Vikings found a Hellraiser-style puzzle box and accidentally unleashed a horde of Middle Ages cenobites.
You're welcome, Hollywood.
The archaeologists' (substantially less plausible) initial theory was that, after being captured by the occupants of a local village that somehow survived the Viking attack, the assailants themselves were murdered, with their corpses then being stripped naked and dismembered by the villagers, who also took a few heads with them as, like, fun-time souvenirs or something.
We're trying not to pass judgment here.
But that doesn't explain why the unfortunate Vikings were beheaded by strange, precise sword blows delivered from the front, instead of the usual hack-jobs to the back of the neck that accompany normal beheadings. In fact, the archaeologists themselves later revised their theory, admitting that the Vikings were probably not torn apart by a brutally violent mob bent on revenge, but may have been sacrificed in a highly controlled and ritualistic manner not consistent with the surrounding culture of the time. As seems to be the case in this nightmare-inducing photo:
So yeah, in short: Viking Hellraiser.
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Archaeology: ... probably like a hundred million (but not this one, bitches).
#5. The Mount Owen Moa
In 1986, an expedition descended on Mount Owen in New Zealand with the intention of exploring the vast network of caves that dwell deep beneath the mountain.
Ominous setting, isolated expedition, vast network of unexplored caves. Yep, sounds like somebody's filming a sequel to The Descent, all right. And true to horror cliche form, the team was excavating a path between two caves when they found something ... disturbing:
Still connected to shredded fragments of skin, as though fresh.
And attached to this thing:
Seen here, clearly giving Mother Nature ... ugh, the bird.
Imagine peering through the darkness, with only the tiny, wavering beam of your flashlight picking out the world in front of you, when you're confronted by that: a very large, very claw-happy foot from some sort of hell-beast that looks like it probably died recently. And you're down there, trapped in an underground cave system, not knowing whether its bloodthirsty relatives are nearby. We mean, best case scenario, it's going to grant you four ironically cursed wishes that will ultimately kill you, right?
It turns out that the team had stumbled onto the 3,000-year-old remains of an upland moa, a flightless bird that somehow went extinct despite possessing claws that would make a velociraptor jealous. Here's the naturally mummified, 600-year-old head of a different moa:
Gah! It's like The Dark Crystal come to terrible un-life!
And just like the devil's claw above, the background story behind this discovery reads like a classic horror movie plot line: It was originally discovered in another New Zealand cave back in 1863, by James Campbell. And then, with no explanation, the specimen up and vanished for a number of years, until it resurfaced and was sold to the director of Wellington's Dominion Museum by Campbell's great-great-grandson for the suspiciously low price of 5 pounds. Not listed on the receipt were: peace of mind, the remainder of his soul and a promise from the corpse that it would stop tormenting every single generation of the family that disturbed its slumber.
#4. The Tomb of the Sunken Skulls
In 2009, archaeologists were excavating the bottom of a prehistoric dry lake bed in Motala, Sweden, when they stumbled upon the foundations of a mysterious stone structure ... sealed at the bottom of an ancient friggin' lake. Rather than turning tail and running away so fast their legs spun uselessly in the air for a few minutes like a Scooby-Doo cartoon, the stupidly brave scientists started digging. They eventually unearthed the exact kind of stuff one expects from primitive mystery structures: animal bones, stone tools and, oh yeah -- the 8,000-year-old skulls of 10 people, ranging in age from small children to the elderly.
And then they found an 11th skull buried deep within the ancient mud of the lake bottom.
And then they found fragments of one of the other skulls ... deliberately lodged inside the cranium of the 11th skull.
Congratulations, all of you are now cursed.
Let's recap: For reasons that are unclear to us, some ancient society probably butchered 11 people in a stone hut at the bottom of a lake bed, and then put the pieces of one dead person's skull inside the brain space of another person, like the world's most godawfully horrifying nesting doll.
But the horror doesn't end there: Not only had somebody perhaps bashed one person's skull in with another person's skull, but, before being interred inside the tomb, several of the bodies had stakes driven through them and were then set alight. This didn't take careful deduction on the part of the excavators to discover: Two of the skulls were found with the stakes still embedded (and in one case, entirely melded with) them.
The official theories are all over the map, from bizarre funeral practices to a group of warriors mounting the skulls of their defeated opponents as war trophies. But we think differently: Maybe the mysterious prehistoric men who put the bones there in the first place were the good guys, just trying to put down an ancient vampire infestation.
By uh ... by beating the vampires to death with the skulls of their loved ones, we guess? That's one of their weaknesses, right? Garlic, sunlight, holy water, being walloped upside the head with their own brother's severed head. You know: usual canon stuff.


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Yarn Bomb Ojai goes off in the valley
By Nancy D. Lackey Shaffer 06/13/2013
Last summer, bucolic Ojai Valley became a canvas for a new form of artistic expression: yarn bombing. Also called yarnstorming, urban knitting and guerrilla knitting, colorful knitted and crocheted installations — tree cozies, pole warmers, pom-poms and other yarn decorations — have popped up in a wide variety of places, from the Ojai Valley Museum to Libbey Park to stretches of Meiners Oaks. These homespun delights are the handiwork of local fiber enthusiasts known as Yarn Bomb Ojai.
"They've spruced up the valley," says Jenny Newell, owner of Bonnie Lu's Country Cafe in downtown Ojai. "But instead of graffiti, they crochet."
In fact, yarn bombing is considered a new strand of street art. Knit graffiti has been around since the early 2000s and appears worldwide. Renowned guerrilla knitters include the Ohio-based JafaGirls, Yarn Bombing Los Angeles founder Arzu Arda Kosar, Houston's Magda Sayeg (considered the "mother of yarn bombing") and London's Deadly Knitshade.
Yarn Bomb Ojai's founder, who goes by the pseudonym Threep Parlour, became intrigued by urban knitting after seeing bombed poles in Berkeley. When members of her old knitting circle decided to "get the gang back together," she realized a yarn bomb was the ideal project around which they could reunite. Their first installation, "Shock and Awe Night," was an ambitious project that took place in the wee hours of July 25, 2012. "We bombed all of Ojai Avenue," Parlour recalls.
Since then, numerous locations and businesses have found themselves yarn bombed, and artsy Ojai has warmly welcomed the phenomenon.
"It's enhanced my business," says Bookends co-owner Marcia Doty. Last December, on the day before the Meiners Oaks bookstore's grand opening, the artists put up dozens of granny squares and large block letters spelling out "Curiosity," "Look" and "Expand." "It was my first signage," Doty muses.
Often, the objective of a yarn bomb is to make "urban ugly" locations friendlier, more colorful, less industrial. These traditional crafts are generally associated with domesticity and the feminine sphere. When guerrilla knitters bring their art out into the wider world, it's both a playful juxtaposition of interior/exterior and masculine/feminine, and a zealous (if warm and fuzzy) reclaiming of public spaces by and for women.
"Yarn bombing is a form of female street art," explains Parlour. "It's a fresh voice. When we plan our hits, we try to go to the more derelict areas. It just makes the area a little prettier."
Another bomber, speaking anonymously, finds that men in particular are "enthralled" by the art form: "For most women, it's not a huge leap to imagine themselves creating or doing something like this. For many men it's just plain mind boggling."
There's an ecological element woven in as well: Yarn Bomb Ojai employs mostly used materials — sweaters, afghans, unfinished projects, remnants — in its installations. (Bookends accepts contributions, and Bonnie Lu's has a donation box in the back.) Yarn fibers don't damage underlying objects and are easily removed with scissors.
Removal, though, is not a priority here. Local law enforcement has had a laissez faire approach to yarn bombs unless they pose a safety hazard (obscuring a sign, for example), and is content to allow the works to remain. Parlour admits that Yarn Bomb Ojai has a few "moles" keeping lines of communication open between the artists, police and city officials. Bombs that are cause for concern are taken down or modified.
Ojai bombardiers "share a mischievous side," says Threep, and working anonymously has been part of the fun. Installations go up at night, project locations are kept hush-hush, and artists wear all black or disguises to hide their identities. In this small, tight-knit community, certainly some (like Newell and Doty) are in the know. But local lips are sealed. "We think of it as an anonymous kiss — for everybody," says Parlour.
Bookends maintains a mailing list of local female artists who hope to connect with Yarn Bomb Ojai to learn knitting, crocheting and the fine art of yarn bombing. Will a veteran guerrilla knitter be willing to play mentor?
"Perhaps," says Parlour. "But what I'd really love to see is a rival group. Bring it on!"
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We've spotted many of these yarn bombs around Ojai. They're beautiful and spruce up some otherwise blighted areas. It's just too bad that some apparently self-appointed critics have pulled down many of them. We're just that much more aware of the ephemeral quality of these lovely artful contributions to our community.
I thoroughly enjoy finding the art. I don't understand why any one would complain. It's not like they have to remove it or scrub it. When it gets old and worn it will be removed and hopefully replaced with a new and maybe even prettier one.


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RATIONALE: Giving chemotherapy and total-body irradiation before a donor peripheral blood stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cancer cells. It may also stop the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. When the healthy stem cells from a donor are infused into the patient they may help the patient's bone marrow make stem cells, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving total-body irradiation together with fludarabine phosphate, cyclosporine, mycophenolate mofetil, or sirolimus before transplant may stop this from happening. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well graft-vs-host disease prophylaxis works in treating patients with hematologic malignancies undergoing unrelated donor peripheral blood stem cell transplant.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Ages > 50 years with hematologic malignancies treatable by unrelated HCT
- Ages >= 50 years of age with hematologic diseases treatable by allogeneic HCT who through pre-existing medical conditions or prior therapy are considered to be at high risk for regimen related toxicity associated with a high dose transplant (> 40% risk of TRM); this criterion can include patients with a HCT-CI score of >= 1; transplants should be approved for these inclusion criteria by both the participating institutions' patient review committees such as the Patient Care Conference (PCC) at the FHCRC and by the principal investigators at the collaborating centers; patients =< 50 years of age who have received previous high-dose transplantation do not require patient review committee approvals; all children < 12 years must be discussed with the FHCRC PI (Brenda Sandmaier, MD 206 667 4961) prior to registration
- Ages =< 50 years of age with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) (these patients do not require patient review committee approvals)
- Ages =< 50 years of age with hematologic diseases treatable by allogeneic HCT who refuse a high-dose HCT; transplants must be approved for these inclusion criteria by both the participating institutions' patient review committee such as PCC at the FHCRC and by the principal investigators at the collaborating centers
- Aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) and other histologies such as Diffuse large B cell NHL not eligible for autologous HCT, not eligible for high-dose allogeneic HCT, or after failed autologous HCT
- Mantle Cell NHL: may be treated in first CR (Diagnostic LP required pre-transplant)
- Low grade NHL: with < 6 month duration of CR between courses of conventional therapy
- CLL : must have either 1) failed to meet NCI Working Group criteria for complete or partial response after therapy with a regimen containing FLU (or another nucleoside analog, e.g. 2-CDA, pentostatin) or experience disease relapse within 12 months after completing therapy with a regimen containing FLU (or another nucleoside analog); 2) failed FLU-CY-Rituximab (FCR) combination chemotherapy at any time point; or 3) have "17p deletion" cytogenetic abnormality; patients should have received induction chemotherapy but could be transplanted in 1st CR
- Hodgkin Lymphoma: must have received and failed frontline therapy
- Multiple Myeloma: must have received prior chemotherapy; consolidation of chemotherapy by autografting prior to nonmyeloablative HCT is permitted
- Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML): must have < 5% marrow blasts at the time of transplant
- Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL): must have < 5% marrow blasts at the time of transplant
- Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML): Patients will be accepted if they are beyond CP1 and if they have received previous myelosuppressive chemotherapy or HCT, and have < 5% marrow blasts at time of transplant
- Myelodysplasia (MDS)/Myeloproliferative Syndrome (MPS): Patients must have < 5% marrow blasts at time of transplant
- Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia: must have failed 2 courses of therapy
- DONOR: Matched for HLA-A, B, C, DRB1 and DQB1 by high resolution typing
- DONOR: Only a single allele disparity will be allowed for HLA-A, B, or C as defined by high resolution typing
- DONOR: Donors are excluded when preexisting immunoreactivity is identified that would jeopardize donor hematopoietic cell engraftment; this determination is based on the standard practice of the individual institution; the recommended procedure for patients with 10 of 10 HLA allele level (phenotypic) match is to obtain a panel reactive antibody (PRA) screens to class I and class II antigens for all patients before HCT; if the PRA shows > 10% activity, then flow cytometric or B and T cell cytotoxic cross matches should be obtained; the donor should be excluded if any of the cytotoxic cross match assays are positive; for those patients with an HLA Class I allele mismatch, flow cytometric or B and T cell cytotoxic cross matches should be obtained regardless of the PRA results; a positive anti-donor cytotoxic crossmatch is an absolute donor exclusion
- DONOR: Patient and donor pairs homozygous at a mismatched allele in the graft rejection vector are considered a two-allele mismatch, i.e., the patient is A*0101 and the donor is A*0102, and this type of mismatch is not allowed
- DONOR: Only G-CSF mobilized PBSC only will be permitted as a HSC source on this protocol
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with rapidly progressive intermediate or high grade NHL
- Patients with a diagnosis of CMML
- Patients with RAEB who have not received myelosuppressive chemotherapy i.e. induction chemotherapy
- CNS involvement with disease refractory to intrathecal chemotherapy
- Presence of circulating leukemic blasts (in the peripheral blood) detected by standard pathology for patients with AML, MDS, ALL or CML
- Fertile men or women unwilling to use contraceptive techniques during and for 12 months following treatment
- Females who are pregnant or breast-feeding
- Patients with active non-hematological malignancies (except non-melanoma skin cancers) or those with non-hematological malignancies (except non-melanoma skin cancers) who have been rendered with no evidence of disease, but have a greater than 20% chance of having disease recurrence within 5 years
- Fungal infections with radiological progression after receipt of amphotericin B or active triazole for greater than 1 month
- Cardiac ejection fraction < 35%; ejection fraction is required if age > 50 years or there is a history of anthracycline exposure or history of cardiac disease
- DLCO < 40%, TLC < 40%, FEV1 < 40% and/or receiving supplementary continuous oxygen
- The FHCRC PI of the study must approve of enrollment of all patients with pulmonary nodules
- Patients with clinical or laboratory evidence of liver disease would be evaluated for the cause of liver disease, its clinical severity in terms of liver function, and the degree of portal hypertension; patients will be excluded if they are found to have fulminant liver failure, cirrhosis of the liver with evidence of portal hypertension, alcoholic hepatitis, esophageal varices, a history of bleeding esophageal varices, hepatic encephalopathy, uncorrectable hepatic synthetic dysfunction evinced by prolongation of the prothrombin time, ascites related to portal hypertension, bridging fibrosis, bacterial or fungal liver abscess, biliary obstruction, chronic viral hepatitis with total serum bilirubin > 3 mg/dL, or symptomatic biliary disease
- Karnofsky scores < 60 or Lansky Score < 50
- Patient has poorly controlled hypertension and on multiple antihypertensives
- HIV positive patients
- Active bacterial or fungal infections unresponsive to medical therapy
- All patients receiving voriconazole therapy and who are then randomized to Arm 2 or Arm 3 must have voriconazole reduced by 90% of starting dose
- The addition of cytotoxic agents for "cytoreduction" with the exception of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (such as imatinib), cytokine therapy, hydroxyurea, low dose cytarabine, chlorambucil, or rituxan will not be allowed within three weeks of the initiation of conditioning
- DONOR: Donor (or centers) who will exclusively donate marrow
- DONOR: HIV-positive and/or, medical conditions that would result in increased risk for G-CSF mobilization and harvest of PBSC
See this trial at ClinicalTrials.gov
Access protocol and consent forms at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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- Whether you are eligible for a research study depends on many things. There are specific requirements to be in research studies. These requirements are different for each study.


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- Era: 19th Century
- Number of Pages: 240
- Subject: War of 1812
- Date Available: September 2012
In the summer of 1814 a squadron of Royal Navy ships attacked the tiny Connecticut seaport of Stonington, and declared its intention of destroying the town. Over the next four days the British barraged the nearly defenseless civilian population with some fifty tons of explosives, before mysteriously upping anchor and sailing away. Drawing on contemporary news accounts, secret Royal Navy correspondence, and other primary sources, de Kay investigates events leading up to the attack and recounts the exciting details of the battle.
James Tertius de Kay has written a number of well received histories of the U.S. Navy including Chronicles of the Frigate Macedonian, Monitor, and Roosevelt's Navy. He lives in Pawcatuck, CT.
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With many rural residents laboring outdoors under the blazing sun, Kansas has a problem with skin cancer.
Kansas has 9 percent more new melanoma cases than the national average, The Hutchinson News reported, with about 80 Kansas residents dying from skin cancer every year.
"Due to the large number of outdoor workers in Kansas, there is a very high skin cancer incidence," said Dr. Stephen Marshall, a Hutchinson dermatologist. "I personally see five or six nonmelanoma skin cancer (patients) each clinic day and one or two melanoma skin cancer (patients) each month."
A 2009 study by the Center for Disease Control shows that more than a million people in the United States have been diagnosed with skin cancer, making it the most common of all cancers.
Over the years, Bill Heer of Hutchinson has had several suspicious spots removed from his arms, including a few that were pre-melanoma skin cancer. He recalls burning often while growing up on a farm in the 1950s and 1960s.
"A lot of us grew up with an umbrella or buggy top on the tractor, but no protection for the ultraviolet rays," Heer said. "A lot of us out there who were farm kids, we had never heard of suntan lotion."
After a heat stroke while in the fields during graduate school, Heer largely put on sunscreen or wore long sleeves while working as the head agronomist at Kansas State's South-Central Kansas Research Field, a job he had for nearly 30 years.
His precautions, however, came too late in life. The early years of sun exposure and burns already had caused harm to Heer's skin.
"My forearms are affected the worst," he said. "When you operate a piece of equipment, those parts of your arms are always out there and really catching the sun."
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I am trying to install Ubuntu on my new pc but I am encountering problems. When I boot from the installation CD, everything runs fine until the "window" when the user has to decide to Try Ubuntu or Install it in the machine.
Well that "window" appears in blank, and my mouse and keyboard behaves really slow. I can't do anything , so i have to shut it down by pressing power button.
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- HD: Western digital caviar black
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I really need to install Ubuntu or another Linux distribution, i am using de seismic Unix program {Edit : Guess it is this} on my laptop. I hope someone can help me.


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STEUBENVILLE - The alleged victim continued her testimony late this afternoon in the juvenile rape case being heard at the Jefferson County Justice Center .
The alleged victim, who is a student at Weirton Madonna High School, testified to a series of text messages with defendant Trent Mays, 17, of Bloomingdale, where Mays continually asked the alleged victim whether or not she was going to press charges.
The alleged victim also testified to the first time she saw an a now-infamous YouTube video she told the court that she could not watch the entire video, saying, "I couldn't stop crying, so I just turned it off."
The alleged victim testified that she thought she had been drugged by saying, "There was no other explanation for me not remembering a single thing from that night."
Mays reportedly continued to press the alleged victim on the issue, testimony showed.
At one point, Mays reportedly texted the victim that Steubenville High School football coach Reno Saccoccia called his house and indicated there had been a rape allegation, testimony revealed.
The alleged victim testified she was texting back and forth with Mays, still trying to piece together what happened that night, even while she was at Weirton Medical Center at the insistence of her parents to receive a medical check.
The alleged victim identified and pointed out Mays and the second defendant, Ma'lik Richmond, 16, of Steubenville, who are in the courtroom.
The alleged victim has yet to be cross-examined by defense attorneys and is still being questioned by the prosecution.
Mays and Richmond are facing rape charges in connection with an alleged incident that occurred the night of Aug. 11-12. Mays also faces a charge of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material for allegedly having a picture of the alleged victim in an outgoing message on his cell phone. Attorneys for both defendants have denied the charges in court.
A candlelight vigil in support of the alleged victim has been scheduled for 8 p.m. today in front of the Jefferson County Courthouse.
The trial, which began Wednesday, is scheduled to continue into Sunday and could run into Monday, courtroom observers have suggested.


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Project Cauã: Jon "maddog" Hall on creating a sustainable network of entrepreneurs from system administrators in Brazil
I've been hearing Jon "maddog" Hall talk about Project Cauã for a while now, and I've seen mention of it here and there. But his Ohio LinuxFest keynote, "Project Cauã: Creating Sustainable Computing Jobs in the Developing World," was the first time I got to hear a full description of the plan. In... Read more


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Two General Motors plants 90 miles apart will be utilized to build the newest incarnation of the Chevrolet Corvette sports car.
The vehicle is assembled at the GM plant in Bowling Green, Ky.
The Tennessean reported that, for the first time, some body components will be manufactured at the carmaker's plant in Spring Hill, Tenn.
Both plants are near Interstate 65. The Spring Hill plant is about 30 miles southwest of Nashville.
Spring Hill plant spokeswoman Lee Ann Williams-Maley said the plant will mold the front and rear facias for the Corvette -- essentially the front and rear bumpers.
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Now that I'm married and achieved the wish of my sim. How can I divorce without fighting my wife ?
In order to break up/divorce in the Sims 2, the couple's relationship needs to be pretty low. There is no happy way to do that. One way is to purposefully be mean and fight with your spouse. Another way is to have an affair and make sure your wife sees it. She'll be pissed and hurt and you can then break up with her.
I suppose not interacting with her for a while would also make your relationship drop and you'd eventually get the break up option, but that's just a guess.
Of course, if you just don't want to be married anymore, you can always just kill her, as Halfwarr suggested...
To trigger the "Break Up" option, the sims in question must have both a Daily and Lifetime relationship of 45 or less.
How the relationship reaches this point can vary. If you don't want to fight with your wife, you'll have to ignore her for a long time - there's a 2 point relationship decay every day, so you'll have to wait somewhere on the order of 2-4 in-game weeks (14 to 28 days) for the break-up option to be available.
But even once you get there, there's no such thing as an "Amicable Breakup". Your sims are bitter, jealous creatures, and will take breaking up poorly, even with low relationship scores (not to mention forming a negative memory).
That being the case, I'm not sure there's much benefit to breaking up without fighting, as you get the same end result in either case.
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When I vote on any card I am getting "2 votes (with you)". Somehow I once was able to remove one of the votes to show only the one I intended to display. I am not understanding why if I click to place a vote, it shows two votes. Is this a bug or intentional and if it is intentional then why would it show as 2 votes?
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I emailed support, and it is a bug to be fixed.
Hi Chris,
That's a known issue that will be fixed in a future release!
All the best,