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WEST LIBERTY - State budget cuts are making it harder for young people to obtain college degrees in West Virginia at a time when more employers won't let them get a foot in the door without one, West Liberty University students, staff and parents told legislators Wednesday.
The conversation over lunch at the university's Gary E. West Events Center was part of the university's Legislative Day, organized as a forum for students and staff to share their concerns about the future of higher education with lawmakers as they prepare for the start of the 2014 legislative session in January.
Attending the event were state Sens. Rocky Fitzsimmons, D-Wheeling, and Jack Yost, D-Wellsburg; and Delegates Ryan Ferns, D-Ohio, Erikka Storch, R-Ohio, David Evans, R-Marshall and Phil Diserio, D-Brooke.
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HIGHER EDUCATION TALK — Carl Yurko, from left, a parent of a student in West Liberty University's Advanced Academy, state Sen. Rocky Fitzsimmons, D-Wheeling, and Delegate Phil Diserio, D-Brooke, participate in a discussion about higher education Wednesday. -- Ian Hicks
Higher education accounts for about 10 percent of state spending, yet it is expected to absorb about half the overall budget reduction, according to the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Public education and Medicare have been exempt from the otherwise across-the-board budget cuts, and those gathered Wednesday urged lawmakers to treat higher education the same way.
Paying for college is "a challenge sometimes," said Jeffrey Tice, vice president of West Liberty's Student Government Association. "It's rewarding, also. We're striving to take our lives to the next level."
Affordability remains one of West Liberty's biggest selling points, according to Evan Newman, a student who works in West Liberty's admissions office - but he's concerned how much longer that will be the case. Aging laboratory equipment is another concern, added Student Government Association President Dennis Gooch.
Social work professor Sylvia Senften, West Liberty's representative on the West Virginia Advisory Council of Faculty, said it's not uncommon for faculty members to help cash-strapped students pay for books or give them gas money.
"I would love to take the students (to Charleston) to see the legislative process," Senften said. "It's probably not going to happen this year."
Yost said it's a difficult problem that lacks an easy answer. Sixty percent of West Virginia's approximately $11 billion budget will fund education in some form, he said, while the state's infrastructure needs are growing.
Lawmakers are reluctant to resort to tax increases to keep the budget balanced, he added.
"There isn't anyone in the Legislature who opposes education," Yost said. "Is there additional funding out there? It's very difficult to know that."
But Cynthia Rouse, whose daughter is a freshman at West Liberty, is convinced there is money available. She's now paying on both her own and her daughter's student loans, she said, and her son opted to postpone finishing his degree and join the military after two years at WLU due to the debt he'd accrued.
Rouse, who works in the health care industry, said she sees a tremendous amount of waste in state programs such as those intended to provide care for seniors.
"Look for a way to cut back waste, because the money's there. ... There's no oversight," she said.
Storch acknowledged the system isn't perfect, noting she voted against the state budget in 2011 to protest the amount of "unappropriated funds" that agencies could spend any way they wished - and often did, she said, because left over money wouldn't carry over to the following year. She credits Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin for taking the lead in addressing that problem over the past two years, leading to greater accountability in how West Virginians' tax dollars are spent, she believes.
Still, Storch said, the "pie" of state revenue is being cut into a greater number of slices, and more needs to be done to ensure the state is funding only what its constitution intends it to fund.
"Our state is great at picking winners and losers," Storch said. "We help who we want to be successful."


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Proposals for next weeks topics
- Technology
- People
- Access
- People
- Tools
- Come as you are
Moderation Notes for 6/18/2013 Meeting 6pm @Noisebridge Meeting theme "Culture"
(Note to scribe to capture)
New Projects
- PIC (Person In Charge)
- Proposed by Shannon
- Grievance committee
- Continuity, members only
- Access Control
- Proposed by Jake
- Need to take more care over door
- Better use of existing system?
- Lacking the will to act
Open Proposals
- Gradient
- Showers
- ISO Tank
- Front Desk
- Red Shirt
What is our culture, who is it for, how do we create it
- Access to everyone (disable, homeless, children, esl, women, trans, whatever, class)
- Accessibility, stuff organization
Action Items
- Collect access info from Jake
- Blocking of gate
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Danny. Referring to oneself in the plural first person is a standard british way of speaking."We" are Noisebridge people who have discussed this idea, at the meeting(s) and on the mailing list. So this "we" includes you, johnyradio, if I remember the discussion correctly. 220.127.116.11 04:02, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Can we not call it a rebase? Reset, reboot, anything but rebase. Rebases are orwellian bullshit where history is lost and rewritten. It really makes no sense in this case. Is noisebridge local? Who is our upstream and what changes have they made that we would rebase against? Or is noisebridge the upstream? Then we must be rebasing something else to fit it.
Also, I'm going to go ahead and replace Request For Awesomeness with Request For Comments. Requesting awesomeness sounds like expecting other people to do things; these should be proposals for awesomeness and requests for comments about the proposal. 220.127.116.11 04:07, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
- On reconsideration I like proposals for awesomeness more than requests for comment, so I changed it to that. 184.108.40.206 04:12, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
I'm gonna stick with calling this "Reboot" and add to prior page Reboot and leave this one for RFC template doc's, and I propose calling them RFE's "Request For Excellence".thex (talk) 17:08, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

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PlayStation Plus 1 Month Cards for $3.99 + free shipping
An eBay listing for 1 month Playstation Plus cards at $3.99 each with free shipping. The listing is for the physical cards, not emailed codes. The seller seems to be reputable. At this price, you can buy 12 months in singles and it'll still be cheaper than a year card from Sony.
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This is a good deal for 1 month although I think I'd rather pay the extra 2$ to buy the whole year in 5 seconds rather than the 2 hours it would take to enter those long codes in 12 times!
@mleejr: True. I just went in for 5. That way, I can just plug in a code whenever there is a month that has a good deal on a game I want.
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Bigby lets loose in a mysterious Wolf Among Us Episode 3 launch trailerWritten by: / / 1 Comment
Following on from the Wolf Among Us Episode 3 launch trailer yesterday, Telltale Games has announced that the game will become available starting April 8th on PC and Mac, and then on April 9th on PlayStation 3 in North America, followed by a release on the European PlayStation Store as well as on Xbox 360 and iOS.
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Still lacking a solid date and following on from the slightly underwhelming second episode of the series, The Wolf Among Us: Episode 3 seems to be due for release very soon if this launch trailer for the game is anything to go by.
Titled 'A Crooked Mile, Episode 3 of The Wolf Among Us will continue to lead players down an incredibly intriguing mystery that's unravelling in Fabletown – it's up to sheriff Bigby Wolf to get to the bottom of it using traditional, and not so traditional, methods of investigation. Watch the Wolf Among Us Episode 3 launch trailer below and let us know if you've been keeping up with the series so far.
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What do airlines typically do if a long-haul flight is canceled due to bad weather? I'm interested if they prefer to change your ticket to other date or just return the money. How can you protect yourself from such situations?
The specific terms under which an airline will rebook you, refund you, or otherwise are laid out in its Contract of Carriage (or Conditions of Carriage), which in turn may be constrained by regulations in the country where the airline is based or where the flight is operated, as well as various international treaties.
In the event of bad weather, most U.S.-based airlines will attempt to reschedule you on a later flight on the same airline. Naturally, this works out better on routes where there are twelve daily departures than where there are one, as with many international routes. Because phenomena like bad weather, volcanoes, sunspots, air traffic control restrictions, and the like affect all airlines, they are unlikely to endorse your ticket to a different carrier, unless the situation is extraordinary, or you are an extraordinarily high value customer to them. If you cannot wait two days for the next available seat, they may issue a travel voucher or partial refund.
For example, according to the American Airlines CoC, bad weather ("meteorological conditions") constitutes a "Force Majeure Event":
Force majeure events encompass quite a few things that it is difficult to plan for; from the United CoC these include
Given that, I would say the best real protection is purchasing an insurance policy that will cover you in the event of the above situations, either by reimbursing you room and board while you wait or for alternative transportation. Be careful, though, as much travel insurance in fact excludes these very same conditions.


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If $A$ is a null set and $B$ is a countable set, both in $\mathbb{R}$ can anyone help me show that $A+B$ is null.
So I'm slightly unsure of where to start here, but how about assuming that $A+B$ is not null. therefore there must exist an interval of real numbers in $A+B$, but that would be uncountable, contradiction. Am I along the right lines here?


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I am a combinatorist by training and I am interested in learning about the connections between combinatorics and Schubert varieties. The theory of Schubert varieties seems to be a difficult area to break into if one has not already studied it in graduate school. I don't have a formal course in Algebraic Geometry, but I do know some Commutative Algebra. Does anyone have any recommendations on what Algebraic Geometry one needs to understand (and what books/papers one should read) in order to begin studying Schubert varieties? Algebraic Geometry is such a huge subject that I am trying to figure out what is essential to this particular study and what is not. Thanks, in advance, for any suggestions!
I would suggest Part III of Fulton's Young Tableaux book (of which you should skip Part I) as the best starting point for learning about Schubert varieties.
One can get very far in this subject with a naive 19th century view of algebraic geometry, especially if one is willing to occasionally accept without proof a few foundational facts (for example the basics of intersection theory). I would suggest that you don't need to learn algebraic geometry in general for now, though if you're serious about working in this area you'll eventually need to get some feel for what kinds of questions algebraic geometers are interested in.
There is one particular fact that greatly helps me understand Schubert varieties and Schubert cells, and the serves as kind-of an introduction: They are a generalization of row echelon form for matrices. If $V \subseteq F^n$ is a $k$-subspace of the standard $n$-space over a field $F$, then it is well-known that $V$ has a unique basis of row vectors in reduced row echelon form. The shape of the form divides the set of all $V$ (the Grassmannian) into cells which are affine spaces. The closures of such a cell — itself plus lower cells — is a Schubert variety. For example, one pattern of RREF for a 2-plane in $F^4$ looks like this: $$\begin{pmatrix} 1 & * & 0 & * \\\\ 0 & 0 & 1 & * \end{pmatrix}$$ This is clearly an affine cell. It is equally easy to show (in the case of a Grassmannian) that the cells are bijective with the $k$-subsets of an $n$-set.
This is not a complete explanation because a Grassmannian is just the simplest type of flag variety, but it captures the basic geometric idea.
As for references, there is an interesting mini-review for combinatorialists on page 398 of Stanley, Enumerative Combinatorics, Vol 2.
Another reference I've heard suggested before is these notes by Brion:
I second the recommendation of Fulton's book. Another good source is Chapters 14-16 of Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, by Miller and Sturmfels. You don't need to read the chapters before them! Just jump in and refer back as needed.
There is a new book by Lakshmibai and Raghavan called Standard Monomial Theory which is mostly about how to do invariant theory in a "Schubert varietiesque" way. It is introductory to both Schubert varieties and invariant theory. I haven't read all of it, but I would recommend it because it works out a lot of different cases. I don't think you need that much algebraic geometry to read it. They review the relevant facts beforehand.
edit: I should also mention that one advantage of this book over Fulton (which I also recommend) is that it covers Schubert varieties in other types of Grassmannians. Also, it gives a nice application of Schubert varieties to invariant theory (in particular, how to calculate rings of invariants in a characterstic-free way in various cases of classical interest).
I'd also recommend Part III of Fulton's "Young tableaux". Also, if you want a really basic introduction (with some technicalities skipped) to some Schubert calculus and intersection theory you could try reading Sheldon Katz's "Enumerative Geometry and String Theory" which are lecture notes from a Park City advanced undergraduate course. In chapter 7 you can find Schubert calculus of G(2,4), i.e., planes in four dimensional complex space.
Here's an AMS page for the book.
Not exactly about Schubert Varieties, but worth mentioning:
This article by Henry Cohn gives a very nice point of view on some combinatorical questions as being questions about geometry over "the field with on element". Every Schubert cell of a Schubert variety should contain exactly one F_1-valued point...


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February 8, 2012
Performances: March 28 – April 2 at 8 p.m.
Second Avenue Dance Company/2012 (SADC) will present its annual spring concert series this year for six performances beginning March 28 and running through April 2. The spring series will feature the new works of four noted guest choreographers—Aszure Barton, Seán Curran, Sydney Skybetter, and Kate Weare. SADC's spring program also features work, on a rotating basis, choreographed by students who are enrolled in the Department of Dance in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
Featured will be the world premieres of: Aszure Barton's Rookery, a work containing intriguing avian behavior clothed in dresses and suits; Alumnus Seán Curran's Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me?, a witty, romantic, and classical romp set to music by Handel; Sydney Skybetter's Little Boy, a dance piece of sweeping, latticed movement that addresses survival; and Kate Weare's Pura Vida, which is an inventive, lush, and sensual work with Latin overtones.
The student choreographers, with highly individualized works, are Matthew Flatley, Mariel Lugosch-Ecker, Allison Schieler, and Austin Tyson.
The six-performance series opens Wed., Mar. 28 and runs through Mon., Apr. 2, 2012. Curtain is 8 p.m. Admission is $10; seniors $5 and students with ID are free. All proceeds benefit the Tisch Dance Scholarship Fund. Performances will take place in the Fifth Floor Theatre, 111 Second Avenue, New York City. For reservations and information, call 212.998.1982 (Mon.-Fri. between 1 and 5 p.m. only).
SADC is the resident dance company of the Department of Dance, Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. It comprises students in their final year of training and is designed to serve as the dancers' transition into the professional world of dance. Cherylyn Lavagnino is chair of the Department of Dance. Jaclynn Villamil and Lavagnino co-direct SADC.
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Does Your Organization Need a Social Media Policy?
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I installed, Ubuntu using windows installer in Windows 7 OS, will it create any problem, if I create partition of same drive.
Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wubi
No, it wont make any problems, and you are not really creating another partition.
I have both Linux and and 2 installs of Windows 7 (in both 32 and 64-bit versions) installed on my desktop.
The 32-bit version of Windows 7 shares the same physical drive as Linux, but obviously on different partitions. The Windows 7 64-bit version is installed on another drive.
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Up at 4:30 A.M. to make it down to the lake before sunrise. Man, the light sure changes quickly at the moment of sunrise. 30 seconds later and the scene was totally different. Gotta move so very quickly or you miss the pano. It was hard enough just taking a single picture of the sunrise. Taking 4 around plus a hand held Nadir before the light changed too much was very interesting.
Sony NEX-5, Sigma 8mm, NN R1, monopod, Photoshop, PTGui, Pano2VR and a whole lot of luck.


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What performance tuning tricks do you use to make a Mathematica application faster? MATLAB has an amazing profiler, but from what I can tell, Mathematica has no similar functionality.
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Since Mathematica is a symbolic system, with symbolic evaluator much more general than in Matlab, it is not surprising that performance-tuning can be more tricky here. There are many techniques, but they can all be understood from a single main principle. It is:
Avoid full Mathematica symbolic evaluation process as much as possible.
All techniques seem to reflect some facet of it. The main idea here is that most of the time, a slow Mathematica program is such because many Mathematica functions are very general. This generality is a great strength, since it enables the language to support better and more powerful abstractions, but in many places in the program such generality, used without care, can be a (huge) overkill.
I won't be able to give many illustrative examples in the limited space, but they can be found in several places, including some WRI technical reports (Daniel Lichtblau's one on efficient data structures in Mathematica comes to mind), a very good book of David Wagner on Mathematica programming, and most notably, many Mathgroup posts. I also discuss a limited subset of them in my book. I will supply more references soon.
Here are a few most common ones (I only list those available within Mathematica language itself, not mentioning CUDA \ OpenCL, or links to other languages, which are of course also the possibilities):
A successful performance - tuning process usually employs a combination of these techniques, and you will need some practice to identify cases where each of them will be beneficial.
You may use the profiler included in the Wolfram Workbench
Take a look at the presentation Principles for Efficient Mathematica Programs from the Wolfram Technology Conference 2007.
Another useful presentation is Tips for Memory Efficient Coding in the Wolfram Language.


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Creating a new site requiring membership to participate. I don't anticipate emailing members at this time except for password related issues. Perhaps down the road emails will be necessary.
I want to be proactive and assume I will email the members in the future. What do I need to do to be covered legally when sending emails to all members?
Can I get by with including "You may be emailed" in the TOS and having users accept TOS? Or do I need to include an opt-in option even though there may never be an email?
I really don't want to harm the user experience especially if an email is NEVER sent as could be the case.
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We went to this contest as a family. It was a super nice change from the Royal. I love being with my family at BBQ contests. The route to and from PA was spectacular with all of the fall foliage.
The contest was a KCBS & MABA event. KCBS categories Chicken Ribs Pork and Brisket and MABA categories Weavers Bologna, Bell Evans Chicken Wings Bell Evans Leg and thighs plus dessert.
I got the shock of my life when we received our products to use in the auxiliary categories. The Lebanon bologna was unlike anything I had ever seen before. It is much closer to a sweet summer sausage. I had no idea what to do with it. My plans went out the window as soon as I saw it. I had never entered a bologna contest ever. Both the bologna and the wings were submitted on Friday night so it was a busy evening.
So I cubed it up and slathered it with Sam Dog BBQ Mustard Sauce and a few other ingredients. Placed it in one of the Traegers and let it smoke for 4 hours until all the sides were caramelized. Lets just say it wasn't pretty, but it was super tasty. We put it in our individual containers added a shot of Forty Creek whiskey as a chaser and sent it off to the judges.
We also competed in the wing category. I love categories with open plating and we had a lot of fun with this one. We decided to give the judges some of our Yeungling beer as a side to the wings. I mean really who doesn't love wings and beer?? I wish we could have tried one of teh wings but we had so few to work with (Meat was supplied) that we just had enough to barely fill the plate.
The rest of our Friday night was spent socializing. There are a lot of teams we got to catch up with including one of my Sisters in Smoke Jenny from Black Cat BBQ.
I believe there may have been some tequila involved. Really really good tequila from the fine folks Chip & Sally at Red Lion Spicy Foods one of our neighbors.
After a few libations I headed off to bed for a couple of hours. It was a lovely albeit cold evening. Perfect for me.
When I woke up one of my other neighbors was up and stoking the fire in his Jambo. Mike Richter is an uber BBQ competitor. Currently ranked #3 in the KCBS TOY. He is super kind and nice to chat with I am glad to call him a friend. I don't get to see him or Barb often enough.
Then as the sun rose I took a bit of a walk about. Got to visit with the Smokin Gnomes, Tim, Tiny's BBQ, and a whole lotta other terrific people.
The time got away from me a bit and I put on my Bell Evans best legs contest meat a bit late. Grill Grates came to the rescue and we turned in grilled chicken. It was tasty chicken. Much different from our normal KCBS chicken.
I can blame the time getting away from me on one thing. Donuts. Seriously damn good donuts. The biggest box of donuts ever that was provided to the teams along with coffee too! Like a moth to a flame I was entranced….
The rest of the entries including dessert last went off without a hitch. They went in the boxes fine but the brisket was dry and I tried a couple of new presentations that I was thinking of doing for the Jack next weekend. I figured if the brisket came in above DAL well then the judges were going to be very generous.
The awards ceremony time came and we headed off.
To my absolute shock we got a 1st place in bologna. LOL still makes me giggle.
We also took a 3rd in dessert 4th in wings and a 4th in Pork. The judges were uber generous and gave us 39/47 in brisket. They didn't like our ribs 23/47 or our chicken 24/47 overall coming in at 21/47. Ugh. The Bell Evans BEst legs I am not sure where we ended up as they only reported to 5th place.
Huge congratulations to Aporkalypse Now (aka Myron of the North) for their GC and to Lo & Slo BBQ on their RGC and to all who competed!
So that's it for regular comps for the year for us and we are now packing for the Jack next weekend. Hopefully we come home with at least 1 of these again that would be spectacular !
I just need to get through catering a wedding and a baby shower this weekend plus a couple of soccer matches with the kids- a presentation at school and then driving there for 18 hours. I'll sleep when I am dead. God bless the staff at Starbucks. They are keeping me upright with all the caffeine I am consuming.


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Short Life and Expensive replacement
By wallyofbeavertown
from Beaverton, Oregon
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Comments about iRobot Advanced Power System (APS) 3000 mAh NiMH Battery:
Enjoy the iRobot but have to wait until the battery is cheaper to purchase another unit for replacement.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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works wonderful on carpet on patio
By Bubbe
from OH
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Works well on tile floors and covered patio. Wish the battery would preform for a longer period of time, as I do not have a deep pocketbook!!!
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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A gift that keeps on costing.
By Dragon Lady
from Leeds, UT
I loved my iRobot at first. After my fourth battery in about a year died, I packed it away until iRobot corrects this flaw. Either cut the price or improve the quality of the product. I love my iRobot but it has become a luxury that I can no longer justify. My home vacuum works just fine.
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Low Quality
By webkennection
from hampton roads, va
I would never buy another iRobot product again. My first battery started to go in 90 days. [*] For the price, they should offer lithium. This battery is a waste of money a environmental nuisance as they wear out very quickly
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I would never buy this again
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from florida
Wasn't to bad in the begining but battery only lasted about 6 months.Way over priced for product and battery since you have to replace it so often.I can't believe these companies can just rip us off like this. I would never buy another one.
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Why not a longer life? Overcharging?
By Gus in California
from Newport Beach, CA
I love the dirt dog. Great for hard floors. The battery that comes with it is a joke. This battery works well, but for less than a year, and then it needs replaced.Why is that? I know batteries run down over time, they all do, but this one seems to die sooner than most. Maybe when it sits on the home base, and whenever you touch it the battery is warm. Is the home base overcharging it? Maybe it's just needs a smarter charger? I'd pay for a smarter charging base if it meant the batteries would last 2-3 years... Oh well...
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The nature of rechargeable batteries
By dherrenvt
from Vermont
I'm very surprised as I read these reviews slamming any iRobot device for battery life. This is the nature of rechargeable batteries. For something that runs virtually empty and then fully recharges every day, anyone who thinks they should get more than 8 months of life on the battery simply doesn't understand how rechargeables work.I have been fortunate and gotten a full year out of roomba batteries on occasion. (at present I have 2 560s, one 780, and two scoobas (the big one and the small one--can't remember the model numbers) If you're getting less than 8 months, then you're not fully draining the battery on a regular basis, and/or you're not charging it fully and then leaving it on the charger until the next usage.For all those of you complaining about your dirt dogs, I'm in the market for a used one for my basement. I'd be happy to take them off your hands.
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Battery Does Not Last
By Dennis P
from Bay Area CA
This lasted about 3 months with at most 15 charges
(8 of 9 customers found this review helpful)
So Sad, too bad
By TerryB
from Middlesboro, KY
Our original Roomba died and was replaced.Then I bought TWO more Roombas, ONE Scooba and also ONE Dirt Dog.Batteries are DEAD in all FOUR in addition, TWO chargers burned up. Burned up as in melted.Whomever makes the chargers and batteries should be FIRED.As tempting as it is to put these units back into service, I will not pay any more of my hard earned money for this junk.
(11 of 13 customers found this review helpful)
Good product, but the battery life......
By Dave
from Ohio
I own an early model Rumba and a Dirt Dog. Both have gone through batteries that will not hold a charge in less than a year. I bought two top end replacement batteries and within a year are slowly getting to the point where they won't hold a charge longer than 15 to 20 minutes. I don't think I will purchase any more.


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The Logan County Humane Society says it's one of the largest cases of animal neglect they have seen.
More than 25 dogs were found in a home on Kenny Stratton Road, some chained far away and out of sight.
"They've just not had enough food and I'm sure they have lots of worms. I mean they are just severely neglected," says Director of the Logan County Humane Society, Kathy Maddox.
A anonymous tip from a neighbor led authorities to the animals. The homeowner was surprised by the visit because he didn't believe anything was wrong.
"We feed them twice a day. I work and she works too. I work for the railroad and she works in Franklin. By the time we come in we feed them before we leave but they said it was not nourished," says homeowner Sammy Boyd.
Authorities saw a different story. One by one each dog was carried away. So many dogs were found on property a large truck was brought in.
Boyd doesn't believe having more than 25 dogs on his property is a problem.
"Nah I don't feel that's any problem at all sir. I mean you take them to animal shelters they are over-dogged. They need a better home where you can take those animals," says Boyd.
But the humane society says their shelter is that better home.
"Our vets are going to come out and help evaluate them and see what they need to do with them, get them help, and get them homes through our rescue program," says Maddox.
Sammy Boyd says he and his wife will fight to get their dogs back.
The investigation into the case continues. Boyd did cooperate with authorities and was not placed under arrest.


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NCSF Media Updates are a sampling of recent stories printed in US newspapers, magazines, and selected websites containing significant mention of BDSM-leather-fetish, polyamory, or swing issues and topics. These stories may be positive, negative, accurate, inaccurate or anywhere in between.
Media coverage plays a large part in defining public perceptions toward alternative sexual expression. You and your organization can help shape media attitudes by speaking to the press about sexual issues that concern consenting adults.
As Director of one of the largest BDSM/Fetish educational events in the country - The Floating World, I have had numerous occasions to work with people from NCSF in assuring the event goes off with minimal friction. They have offered invaluable advice on dealing with municipal authorities and have been very helpful in dealing with an always-prying media. Susan Wright of NCSF has been our media relations expert from the beginning, and has done wonders in keeping us out of the media circus spotlight.
One particular case was when a reporter from The Star Ledger newspaper decided our event was excellent human interest material, even though we explained clearly that we wanted no press. Susan spent much time on the phone and in person with this very determined reporter and managed to expertly turn the focus away from us. She did her best to get the story canceled, but when the Editor wouldn't have it she did excellent damage control, injecting positive elements into the story and delaying the release of the article until AFTER our event, avoiding a flood of curiosity seekers and other media looking for their own stories.
What could have easily been a media disaster became a manageable issue, and her help meant I could focus on keeping the event on track and protecting the privacy of our attendees.
Dan Andersen,
Director - The Floating World
Edison, NJ
Planning a larger kink event like Winter Wickedness is stressful enough, without adding in efforts to shut it down by the Radical Right. Although we recognized an effort such as this is largely based on misinformation and people's fear of the unknown, we had invested significant amounts of time, effort and capitol, and were unwilling to be swayed by biased attempts to cancel the event.
With two weeks left before opening day, we heard that a local Christian radio station had done an inflammatory story on our event. Subsequently, the host hotel began receiving a smattering of calls from the listeners demanding the event's cancellation. We initially contacted the NCSF to consult with their specialists as a preparatory step, in case this was picked up by the mainstream media.
A week later, the Radical Right had discovered their efforts were not producing the desired effect. They stepped it up and began contacting the mainstream media, the local authorities, including the health dept, the fire marshal, the local police dept, etc – in an effort to bring more pressure. We again reached out to the NCSF, which had Susan on the case, and Robin coming in for the event. Between the coordination of the Action Alert e-mails, Robin on the ground as the local media spokesperson, Susan keeping the heat on, and calling in to offer the media another voice – we had the NCSF as an invaluable ally in maintaining our sexual freedoms.
Although what it is that we do (WIITWD) is legal, safe, sane and consensual and had been given the go ahead by the local and state authorities; the radical right's sensationalism, grassroots efforts and pointed innuendos implying inappropriate behavior, can create enough fear to jeopardize a venue. The NCSF has proven to us, beyond any doubt, that they are willing and able to fight back the bias and discriminatory efforts against us. The NCSF is a valuable asset to the Kink, Leather, GLBT and Alt Sex lifestyles. Adventures In Sexuality (AIS) is proud to be an NCSF Coalition Partner and will continue to bring the NCSF to all our events.
Barak & Sheba
Owners – Adventures In Sexuality
Adventures In Sexuality
Every year, Leather SINS produces two national BDSM events in Chicago: Kinky Kollege and SINSations in Leather. Ever since the Concerned Women for America attacked five Midwest BDSM conferences in 2002, Leather SINS has consulted with the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom to ensure that our events would not face the same problems if we were attacked by religious political extremists.
Leather SINS has consulted with NCSF about a variety of issues while producing our events. We asked Susan Wright to accept the position as our media spokesperson, posting her phone number on our website so she can respond instantly to any media inquiries. Susan checks every page of our website for each event, looking for statements and phrases that may need clarification or may possibly cause problems if taken out of context by the media.
Leather SINS has gratefully named NCSF as one of our "WE CARE!" charities (along with LA&M). We're proud to be a Coalition Partner of NCSF, and would urge any group to take advantage of NCSF's knowledgeable Incident Response program consultants when producing an event.
In leather heart and soul,
Master Z
Leather SINS President & Event Director
1. Community Standard or Double Standard?
2. Women Who Want to Want
3. Swinging one's vows to the limit
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom -- Media Update Digest
December 9, 2009
To read NCSF Media Updates on a daily basis, visit our blog at: http://ncsf.wordpress.com
NCSF Media Updates represent a sampling of recent stories printed in US newspapers, magazines, and
selected websites containing significant mention of BDSM-leather-fetish, polyamory, or swing issues and
These stories may be positive, negative, accurate, inaccurate b or anywhere in between. NCSF publishes
the Updates to provide readers a comprehensive look at what media outlets are writing about these
topics. NCSF permits and encourages readers to forward these Updates where appropriate.
Community Standard or Double Standard?
New York Times
Mr. Lambert's context was different, mostly because he is gay and his song "For Your Entertainment" is
graphically sexual, with intimations of sadomasochism ...
To read the rest of this article, go to:
Women Who Want to Want
New York Times Magazine
by Dan Bergner
The section on deviant desires, to take one example, is denounced by advocates for alternative sexuality
as stigmatizing those whose lusts, no matter how unusual, are harmless, or those whose erotic play, no
matter how unsettling, is consensual. Should a man with a foot fetish be branded as mentally ill? Should
a woman who finds ecstasy in being elaborately bound and enduring denigration or pain? Should such
people be labeled with psychiatric diseases, though the rest of their lives have no serious dysfunction?
Until 1973, homosexuality was among the D.S.M.'s disorders, and critics of the present chapter point to
the condemnation the volume once inflicted on gay men and lesbians' condemnation that both reflected
and bolstered the prevailing cultural perspective by way of arguing that the current manual, the
D.S.M.-IV, is full of unfounded and damaging sexual judgments. Many on the panel, which probably won't,
in the end, do much in the way of deleting conditions, maintain that the chapter on sexuality and gender
identity doesn't brand people too readily with disease. They note that, aside from exceptions like
patients with pedophilia, only those who are distressed meet the threshold for diagnosis. In turn, the
critics respond that such distress stems not from within the individual but from the infliction of
societal standards, from the culture's disapproval and aversion and therefore, in part, from the D.S.M.
itself. This, they emphasize, was why the A.P.A. finally removed a last remnant of the homosexuality
diagnosis what was known as "ego-dystonic" homosexuality in 1987.
To read the rest of this article, go to:
Swinging one's vows to the limit
Minnesota Daily
A simple Google search led me to Club H, a local swingers' organization in Minneapolis. When I called, I
was politely asked by the associate on the other ...
To read the rest of this article, go to:
The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom is committed to creating a political, legal, and social
environment in the United States that advances the equal rights of consenting adults who practice forms
of alternative sexual and relationship expression. NCSF advances the rights and advocates for consenting
adults in the BDSM-Leather-Fetish, swing, and polyamory communities. We pursue our vision through direct
services, education, advocacy, and outreach in conjunction with our partner organizations to directly
benefit these communities.
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
media: (917) 848-6544
office: (410)539-4824
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom -- Media Update Digest
November 13, 2009
1. Why enable pornographers?
2. Library employees fired over censorship of graphic novel
3. Courts Divide Over the Constitutionality of Sex Toy Bans
4. Sex toy research causes a stir at Duke
5. Suburban Swingers Club Outrages Neighbors
6. Lawsuits filed over professor posing on sex site
7. Donn Esmonde: Hands off swingers weekend
8. Sex positivity finds a social 'center'
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom -- Media Update Digest
November 13, 2009
To read NCSF Media Updates on a daily basis, visit our blog at: http://ncsf.wordpress.com
NCSF Media Updates represent a sampling of recent stories printed in US newspapers, magazines, and
selected websites containing significant mention of BDSM-leather-fetish, polyamory, or swing issues and
These stories may be positive, negative, accurate, inaccurate b or anywhere in between. NCSF publishes
the Updates to provide readers a comprehensive look at what media outlets are writing about these
topics. NCSF permits and encourages readers to forward these Updates where appropriate.
Why enable pornographers?
Washington Times
Washington, DC
At the time, as deputy attorney general, Mr. Holder boldly called for stronger enforcement of
pornography and obscenity laws, saying: "Priority should be ...
To read the rest of this article, go to: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/01/why-enable-
Library employees fired over censorship of graphic novel
McClatchy Washington Bureau
Washington, DC
As to the charge about Cook's concern that the library was in violation of the state obscenity laws?
Deborah Caldwell-Stone, acting director of the ALA's ...
To read the rest of this article, go to: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/nation/story/78655.html
Courts Divide Over the Constitutionality of Sex Toy Bans
Mountain View, CA
In 1998, the Alabama legislature passed an amendment to the state's obscenity laws that made it a crime
to distribute "any device designed or marketed as ...
To read the rest of this article, go to: http://writ.news.findlaw.com/grossman/20091110.html
Sex toy research causes a stir at Duke
The News Observer
Durham, North Carolina
At Duke University, a school that likes to tout its cutting-edge research, a sex toy study being
conducted by a behavioral economist and student health workers has roused criticism.
To read the rest of this article, go to: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/177501.html?
Suburban Swingers Club Outrages Neighbors
Cincinnati, OH
Cobra Cincinnati is not the first swingers club in the Tri-State area, but it has become one of the most
controversial because of its location -- quiet New ...
To read the rest of this article, go to: http://www.wlwt.com/news/21531473/detail.html
Lawsuits filed over professor posing on sex site
UNM Daily Lobo
Albuquerque, NM
In-person meetings consist of legal BDSM activities. PEP has been in business for over 20 years. Would
PEP still be operating particularly after the last ...
To read the rest of this article, go to:
Donn Esmonde: Hands off swingers weekend
Buffalo News
New York, NY
The doors are swinging open for bEntice the Falls,b an annual swingers convention billed as bFour Days
of Wicked Temptation.b There is a predictable cry of ...
To read the rest of this article, go to: http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/829464.html?imw=Y
Sex positivity finds a social 'center'
Seattle University Spectator
Seattle, WA
The group was originally conceived as a safe space for the adult BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism and
masochism) community, but according to Gabosch, ...
To read the rest of this article, go to:
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF)
The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom is committed to creating a political, legal, and social
environment in the United States that advances the equal rights of consenting adults who practice forms
of alternative sexual and relationship expression. NCSF advances the rights and advocates for consenting
adults in the BDSM-Leather-Fetish, swing, and polyamory communities. We pursue our vision through direct
services, education, advocacy, and outreach in conjunction with our partner organizations to directly
benefit these communities.
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
Media: 917-848-6544
Office: 410-539-4824
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
Media Update Digest
October 28, 2009
1. In Defense of Extreme Pornography
2. Highlighting the blight of porn
3. New Swingers Club Raising Questions
4. Professor's lawsuit alleges cover-up, retaliation
NCSF Media Updates represent a sampling of recent stories printed in US newspapers, magazines, and
selected websites containing significant mention of BDSM-leather-fetish, polyamory, or swing issues and
These stories may be positive, negative, accurate, inaccurate b or anywhere in between. NCSF publishes
the Updates to provide readers a comprehensive look at what media outlets are writing about these
topics. NCSF permits and encourages readers to forward these Updates where appropriate.
"In Defense of Extreme Pornography"
Reason Online
Los Angeles, CA
Had Zicari and Romano stuck to just rape and murder, with some R-rated nudity to complement artful
scenes of mutilation and dismemberment, as Hollywood does in movies like Hostel and House of 1000
Corpses, they couldbve avoided a lot of trouble. Likewise, had they focused on hardcore sex and kept the
violence and puke out of it.
Unfortunately, Romano and Zicari had the audacity to mix genres of entertainment that, while permissible
on their own, are apparently not allowed to be combined. And thus they managed to achieve what not even
John Waters ever accomplished: They were sent to prison for having bad taste. ...
To read the rest of this article, go to:
"Highlighting the Blight of Porn"
One News Now
Tupelo, MS
"[S]pecifically to get federal and state obscenity laws enforced," he states. "The white ribbon is
intended to be a symbol of community standards of decency ...
To read the rest of this article, go to:
New Swingers Club Raising Questions
Cincinnati, OH
That business is a swingers club, an operation where people pay a fee to join and then can swap partners
for sex. Local 12's Rich Jaffe joins us now with a ...
To read the rest of this article, go to:
Professor's lawsuit alleges cover-up, retaliation
Albuquerque, NM
Chavez posed on a sadomasochism website as "Mistress Jade" in sexually suggestive photos with at least
one of her graduate students. ...
To read the rest of this article go to:
Award deadline March 31st
For immediate release: March 6, 2009
For more details: www.sexies.org
Read anything in your local (or national) paper that reported on sex in a surprisingly informed, non-hysterical way? The Sex-Positive Journalism Awards want to know about it.
Last's year's winners were selected from over 100 entries submitted by both writers and readers, and they covered subjects from sex in nursing homes, prostitution, and sex in Iran to Kink.com and panics over Internet sex. The winning articles were published in a dozen states in all corners of the United States (and one Canadian province), and represent a range of genres, from news to advice columns.
What they all have in common, however, is that they succeed in embodying the Sex-Positive Journalism Award's criteria (www.sexies.org/criteria.html) for responsible sex journalism far better than the vast majority of their counterparts, helping to improve the quality of dialogue around sex and create a more well-informed reading public.
But there's a long way to go. "Mainstream journalists are generally hopeless at covering sexuality. It's not entirely their fault, but it would be great if this award managed to offer both support to
journalists who'd like to do a better job, as well as some needed legitimacy for the subject matter,"
wrote About.com's Sexuality Guide Cory Silverberg when the awards were first announced.
"The media's frequent failure to apply balanced journalistic standards to sex-related topics affects
real people's lives," adds Carol Queen, PhD, co-founder of the Center for Sex and Culture.
The winners of the 2009 Sexies will be chosen by an outstanding panel of judges, who have expertise in both journalism and sex-positive advocacy: Dan Savage, author of the popular sex-advice column "Savage Love"; Carol Queen, PhD, writer, speaker, educator, and activist with a doctorate in sexology; Debby Herbenick, PhD, MPH a research scientist and associate director for the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University and sex columnist; and award-winning journalists Doug Henwood, Liza Featherstone, Amanda Robb, and Kai Wright. (See full bios at www.sexies.org/judges.html).
The Sexies will be given for articles in four categories: news, feature, opinion, and regular column,
plus "unsexy" (the most egregious violation of the Sexies' criteria). Articles must have been published in 2008 (2009 articles can be submitted now for next year though) in an edited print or online publication in the U.S or Canada (personal blogs do not quality). Submissions are due by March 31, 2009.
Both writers and readers can submit articles for consideration. For full guidelines see
www.sexies.org/criteria.html. To make entries please use our entry form at www.sexies.org/submit.php
The Sexies' board is composed of journalists Miriam Axel-Lute and Doug Henwood, The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, The Center for Sex and Culture, and the Coalition for Positive Sexuality. We are sponsored by Babeland, UltraVirgo Creative and the David Weinbaum Memorial Foundation. We are seeking additional corporate sponsors and individual donations to support our mission. Donations can be made at www.sexies.org/support.html
The Sex-Positive Journalism Awards Criteria
We are seeking pieces of journalism that:
* touch on sexbsexual practice, health, or behavior--in some manner (stories just about sexual
orientation do not qualify)
* are intended for a general audience
* meet high overall standards of reporting, fact-checking, and writing
and do at least one of the following:
* show evidence of fairness in seeking sex-positive sources to respond to sex-negative ones
* ask hard questions about the motivation and background of sources who rely on sex-negative soundbites
* avoid biased or sensationalistic language
* cover newsworthy topics, events, or issues that might tend to be swept under the rug because of
controversial sexual content
* report accurately, respectfully and with nuance on sex research results
* contain fair, accurate, and non-sensational portrayals of sexual subcultures
* keep a clear separation between sex crimes, such as sexual assault or pedophilia, and things that
merely make people uncomfortable, such as consensual kink, teen sexuality or gay priests; and help
readers who may not be familiar with the issues make the distinction
* specifically challenge sex-negative assumptions or practices in society at large or in a specific
* educate the public as to the diversity of sexual behavior without sensationalizing
* celebrate sexuality as a positive force in human lives
We are not looking for racy or sensationalistic stories. The awards will be something any traditional
journalist should be proud to hang on his or her wallba testament to journalistic standards of fairness
and accuracy about a charged and controversial subject.
For more information and current press releases.
S&M! Lewd Ken dolls! Worhington's wild weekend.
The Other Paper (Columbus, Ohio)
February, 12, 2009
Despite Right Wing Pressure, Straight BDSM Gathering Goes Forward
The Boston Edge
February 10, 2009
Interview with Susan Wright, Spokesperson for the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
Kasidie Magazine
October 2008
Shrinks: Kinky Sex is a Mental Disorder
Mom Logic
September, 19, 2008
For some, Gitmo interrogation techniques are a real turn-on
New Jersey Star-Ledger
August 2008
Leather Scene Not as Gay as Imagined: Many gay folk in the bondage S/M scene relate more to the leather community than the LGBT community
By Bill Schoell
NY Blade
August 08, 2008
Man on video in R. Kelly trial: He did what?
By Rex W. Huppke
Chicago Tribune
June 8, 2008
Daddy do-right; The Sexies Awards
By Dan Savage
Detroit Metro Times
March 5, 2008
Death shines light on dangers of sex play
By Carly Weeks
Globe and Mail
February 28, 2008
Bound and Flagged: Members of Seattle kink community face discrimination in custody battles
By Jason Simms
The Stranger
February 21, 2007
When three's no crowd
By Rachel Breitman
Gay City News
October 25, 2007
Media, critics get whipped into frenzy by Leather Fest
By Jefferson Siegel and Lincoln Anderson
The Villager (NYC)
October 10 - 16, 2007
Pollard denied access to papers; Justices refuse to hear appeal
By Guy Taylor
The Washington Times
March 21, 2006
Arts Briefly: Justices reject photographer's appeal
By Ben Sisario
New York Times
March 21, 2006
Foes of Anti-porn Law Prep Appeal To Supreme Court
By Fresia Rodriguez Cadavid
Technology Daily
August 22, 2005
Spanking Jessica Cutler: Capitol Hill attorney sues Washingtonienne for exposing his kinks
By Rachel Kramer Bussel
Village Voice
May 31, 2005
Nothing wrong with sex
UCLA Daily Bruin
Feb 14, 2005
Waltham sex boutique aims to attract couples
By Joshua Myerov
Boston Globe
October 14, 2004
Sex, art & politics takes on John Ashcroft
By Susan Wright
San Francisco Bay Area Indymedia
August 30, 2004
Iowa State U.: Iowa State Board of Regents next to receive Cuffs appeal.
By Morris L. Manning
The America's Intelligence Wire
June 1, 2004
Iowa State U.: Members of Iowa State U. bondage group appeal assault verdict
By Tom Barton
The America's Intelligence Wire
May 3, 2004
East Carolina U.: Club focusing on fringe sexuality denied East Carolina U. association.
The America's Intelligence Wire
April 8, 2004
Iowa State U.: Group wants Iowa State U. Cuffs charges dropped.
The America's Intelligence Wire
By Tom Barton
February 23, 2004
Kenner police heavy-handed
The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
October 20, 2003
Sex club is shut down: Restraining order targets 'private' fetish group in Lakewood
By Ann Schrader
Denver Post
May 21, 2003
Queen of Pain, Dominatrix: I'll whip courts over sex rap
Philadelphia Daily News
August 27, 2003
Slap leather, S&M lovers: 'Thunder' to peal soon
By Ann Schrader
Denver Post
June 1, 2003
Controlling clubs a zoning matter
By Peter Ward
The Sun (Lowell, MA)
December 28, 2002
A taste of the whip for Saddam: U.N. weapons inspector Jack McGeorge's leadership role in the Washington S/M scene isn't a liability, says a friend -- it'll help him distinguish between fantasy and reality.
By Kerry Lauerman
December 3, 2002
Monitor irons out kinks with UN
By Joe Williams
NY Daily News
November 30, 2002
U.N. begins searches in Iraq
By Maggie Farley, John J. Goldman And John Hendren
Los Angeles Times
November 28, 2002
No background checks on applicants: Critics say U.N. inspectors are inexperienced
By James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post
November 28, 2002
Cendant, sex lobby communicate but don't make up
Lodging Hospitality
October 1, 2002
Cendant spars with sexual freedom lobby
Lodging Hospitality
August 1, 2002
Bound by a boycott
The Advocate
May 28, 2002
Sex-Oriented convention opens today despite effort to ban it
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 27, 2002
What is going on in that ballroom?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 25, 2002
Senator will try to block sadomasochism seminar
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 22, 2002
Senator wants sex seminar outlawed, says event is 'absolutely dangerous'
Belleville News-Democrat (St . Louis, MO)
April 22, 2002
Hotel will host seminar, despite objections from Southern Baptists...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 7, 2002
One more faction whips Congress
The American Enterprise
March 1, 2002
Group with unconventional tastes draws ire over gathering
By Burt Constable
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
February 7, 2002
The erotic web offensive
By Annalee Newitz
January 14, 2002
New suit targets obscenity law
By Julia Scheeres
December 12, 2001
Tough Love: Inside the city's growing sadomasochistic scene
Philadelphia Daily News
July 10, 2001
Kinky find a cause in 'Paddleboro'
By Amy Pagnozzi
Hartford Courant
March 9, 2001
Lawsuit targets last scraps of Net-obscenity law
By Sam Costello
December 20, 2001
New Suit Targets Obscenity Law
By Julia Scheeres
December 12, 2002
1976 case seen a key to Attleboro sex party charges
By Cindy Rodriguez
Boston Globe
July 17, 2000
N.Y. woman charged in Mass. spank party
By Leo Standora
NY Daily News
July 13th 2000
Safe, sane and consensual' is rule for sadomasochists
By Stacy Downs and Dawn Bormann
The Kansas City Star
June 16, 2000
NCSF Profile
An interview with Leigha Fleming, then-interim Executive Director of NCSF.
On Our Backs
Tristan Taormino interview former NCSF Executive Director Judy Guerin.
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1 Aug 2007 10:15 AM #1
Cell Coloring Issues
I currently have a grid that has the property of having the color of its cells change depending on how big of a change the value underwent. So, some cells are white (unchanged), some are yellow (small change), some are yellow (medium change), and some are red (big change). This is currently done by using a custom cell renderer.
The problem is that this messes up how selected cells are displayed. The change in background color overwrites the selected class that the gridview adds when a cell is selected, resulting in something like this happening:
As you can see in the second of the attached images, that looks pretty ugly, and it's also hard to see the text.
I'd like to have it display such that selected cells are always blue, not a rainbow of colors.
Here's the current code I'm using for the rendering, by the way:
cellRendererWithColors : function(data,cell,record,rowIndex,columnIndex,store) { if(typeof record.dataComparison != "undefined" && typeof record.dataComparison[this.name] != "undefined") { var difference; switch(record.get('displayType')) { case "g": case "contr": case "%gdp": case "add": difference = record.data[this.name] - record.dataComparison[this.name]; break; case "l": difference = store.calcGrowthRate(record.data[this.name],record.dataComparison[this.name],record.dataComparison[this.name]); break; } difference = Math.abs(difference); if(difference >= 1) { cell.css = "cellColorLarge"; } else if(difference >= 0.5) { cell.css = "cellColorMiddle"; } else if(difference >= 0.1) { cell.css = "cellColorSmall"; } } return data; },
1 Aug 2007 10:51 AM #2
I believe that the problem may be that you are overwriting the css completely.
I would ADD and REMOVE the classes as needed. Say something like:
(I don't know if cell is the correct object...it may be cell.el or something)
if(cell.hasClass('cellColorLarge')) { cell.removeClass('cellColorLarge'); } if(cell.hasClass('cellColorMiddle')) { cell.removeClass('cellColorMiddle'); } if(cell.hasClass('cellColorSmall')) { cell.removeClass('cellColorSmall'); } if(difference >= 1) { cell.addClass('cellColorLarge'); } else if(difference >= 0.5) { cell.addClass('cellColorMiddle'); } else if(difference >= 0.1) { cell.addClass('cellColorSmall'); }
1 Aug 2007 11:02 AM #3
Depending on your selection model (row or cell selection) you can check whether the cell is selected in the renderer and if it is selected then don't change cell.css.
1 Aug 2007 1:02 PM #4
Looking at how GridView adds the selected class to cells, I tried something like:
Regarding dnixon's solution, I don't believe that will work. The problem is that renderers are only called when the screen refreshes, which is only when data changes. The screen does not referesh on a selection (or unselection), thus the renderers are not called then.
1 Aug 2007 8:30 PM #5
You are correct -- during the render phase, the cell being passed into your rendering function is actually a raw object that has the properties of a TD, but is not actually part of the DOM yet. An easy approach might be to append your classes instead of overwriting the existing ones like so:
if(difference >= 1) { cell.css += " cellColorLarge"; } else if(difference >= 0.5) { cell.css += " cellColorMiddle"; } else if(difference >= 0.1) { cell.css += " cellColorSmall"; }
2 Aug 2007 5:27 AM #6
Thanks, that did the trick.
Since cells can only be colored once at a time, it wasn't too hard to remove the color class like para suggested. I just did an indexof the different color class names and then took the cell.class up until that index.
2 Aug 2007 7:33 AM #7
Good idea writing your own simple removeClass function.
Glad you got it working.
2 Nov 2012 10:05 PM #8
I have tried with following script to change the color of a cell in TreePanel and it is not working. Please help me to resolve this.
var position = {};
position['row'] = 3;
position['column'] = 5;
cell.setStyle('background:#EEB4B4');[Here marketPanel is Ext.tree.Panel]
I will include these statements in a function and will call at run time.
Please let me know whether this will work.
5 Aug 2013 11:10 PM #9
hi i am also want to change the grid color on the basis of record type . i am using the view Config of grid to change the color of the row according to the condition add the custom css. Here is the code who i am used .
viewConfig: {
forceFit: true,
stripeRows: false,
emptyText : 'There are no items to show in this view.',
getRowClass: function(record) {
return record.data.type =="ERROR" ? 'app42-x-grid3-row' : '.none';
Here app42-x-grid3-row is my own css which is override the extjs css


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What exactly is going on biologically at the molecular level with acne and causes breakouts? Hormonally, there is a lot going on but I'm curious about what is going on chemically.
Acne is caused by blockage of hair follicles by oils (sebum) from your skin and dead skin cells. Hormonal changes in puberty cause your skin glands to produce a lot of oil. Blocked follicles are visible as a small black dot (blackheads).
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Heading into Friday's Apple Cup against rival Washington State, the Huskies defense has become a stout unit that doesn't give up points very easily.
After getting routed by Arizona last month and giving up 52 points for the second time this season, Washington looked like the same leaky defense from the past.
But the recent surge of four straight wins, potentially an eight-win season and likely a return to the rankings is thanks to the defense.
"It just took us a little time to mature on offense. But the end result is, (the defense) gained confidence by us playing that way," Washington coach Steve Sarkisian said Monday. " . Knowing that we were going to lean on them, sometimes that's empowering. They felt that, and they've really responded. The way they've been playing this last month of the season has been tremendous."
Washington (7-4, 5-3) will head to Pullman to face the Cougars not having allowed more than 17 points in any of its last four games. It hasn't been against the toughest competition, but the improvement of the Huskies defense under first-year defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox has been startling.
A year ago, the Huskies gave up nearly 36 points and more than 450 yards per game. This year, the Huskies are allowing just 23 points and 350 yards per game.
Some of it is better personnel. Much of the improvement is due to better schemes under Wilcox.
The biggest improvement is with Washington's pass defense, which ranks ninth in the country and second in the Pac-12 and is giving up just 174 yards per game. While cornerback Desmond Trufant has remained the steady leader of the secondary, the emergence of Marcus Peters as the cornerback opposite Trufant and the athleticism of freshmen Travis Feeney and Shaq Thompson have allowed the Huskies to stay in their base defense while continuing to play strong pass defense.
"It's been good to us that way," Sarkisian said. "We still go to some of our nickel stuff which has been good to us as well. ... But all in all, our base defense is something that is pretty well-versed to play against anything."
That improved pass defense will get possibly its strongest test from Washington State. While the Cougars pass game has yet to match the vaunted productivity coach Mike Leach had while at Texas Tech, it's still a unique style and Washington has struggled facing unique offenses this year. The Huskies gave up 52 points each to Arizona and Oregon, which run unconventional spread offenses.
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The Huskies offense has finally awakened the past two weeks, scoring 34 points against Utah and 38 last Saturday in a blowout win over lowly Colorado. After scuffling through most of the season, Keith Price now has three straight games with at least 230 yards passing and his eight touchdowns the last three weeks matched his entire total for the first eight games of this season.
"The rapport with the receiving corps, the anticipation and understanding coverages and where guys are going to go has just really improved in the last month," Sarkisian said. "Again, that's a sign of a guy willing to work, willing to try and get better, and taking to coaching."


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ELM GROVE - Prior to the 2012 softball season, Buckeye Local hadn't won an OVAC title since 1999.
Well, the Panthers are celebrating back-to-back championships after their gut-check, 4-3, nod over Buckeye 8 rival Harrison Central in the Class 3A title tilt Saturday afternoon on sun-splattered Lisa's Field at the I-470 J.B. Chambers Complex.
"We've faced a lot of adversity this season, but these girls have battled through it as a team," Buckeye Local (10-9) head coach Joe Soos said. "When Ivy (Starcher) came back, we've gotten good play out of all of them for the last 6 or 7 days now. Who knows what is going to happen?
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"You just have to get it going at the right time," he added. "I like where we are at right now."
Leading 3-2 in the bottom of the sixth, the fourth-seeded Panthers, who didn't even qualify for the playoffs until the final day, watched as the second-seeded Huskies (13-5) rallied to draw even when pinch runner Paige Richards raced home on a wild pitch with two outs.
Buckeye Local rallied back to score the game-winner in the top of the seventh. With one out, senior Aliyah Marelli doubled to left-center as Paige Dunlap failed to come up with the ball after a valiant diving effort. Karlee Leonard followed with a double down the left field line that easily scored Marelli.
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The first two Harrison Central batters in the bottom of the seventh watched as the count went to 3-0, but Ivy Starcher fought back to retire both on strikes - the first swinging and the second looking. She then induced a comebacker to seal the deal.
"This is her first complete game in three weeks," Soos said of his ace in the circle. "She's had a pulled muscle in her back. She plays angry. She gets the eye of the tiger and she's tough."
Harrison Central took an early 2-0 lead as Katie Ellzy blasted a run-scoring triple to deep right-center with two outs in the first frame. Dunlap, who had walked leading off, raced home on the hit. Ellzy scored when Starcher was called for an illegal pitch.
The Huskies wouldn't score again until Richards in the sixth.
During that stretch, Starcher, who struck out 10, had set down 14 straight Harrison Central hitters.
Trailing 2-0, Buckeye Local cut the deficit in half in the second when Amy Balk's sacrifice fly to left plated Lauren Swiger, who had walked. A wild pitch advanced her to second and she moved to third on a groundout.
The Panthers took the lead in the fifth as Taryn Tonkovich reached on an error with one out. Marelli launched an 0-2 pitch for a triple to the fence in right-center to make it 2-2. With the count 1-1 on Leonard, Ellzy uncorked a wild pitch that Marelli scored on for a 3-2 edge.
"Buckeye has been playing well of late, and they played well today," Harrison Central head coach Donnie Bethel allowed. "They gave us a few of the runs that we got, so we can't complain about anything.
"Both teams played hard. I can't fault my team's effort. The bottom line today was the best team didn't win, but the team that played the best won. No doubt about that today."
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While trying to prove one property of commutative rings with units I can't prove one fact without assuming existence of infinitely many different prime ideals or elements. I tried to test if it was the neccesary assumptions, but I failed, since I don't know any "toy"-examples of such rings.
I know only one example of this kind ($\mathbf{Q} [x]/ (x^2) $ ) but it's not a domain.
Are there any infinite domains with finite number of prime ideals?
If no, then are there any infinite domains with finite (but nontrivial) number of prime elements?
I am interested in noncommutative examples as well. Sorry if this question is too elementary.


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Consider the following sequence of functions in $L^2[0,\infty)$: $$f_n(x)=e^{-x/n}x^n,\;\;n\geq 1$$ Does this sequence span $L^2[0,\infty)$ (that is, is the set of finite linear combinations of these functions dense)?
(My guess is that it doesn't).
Consider the following sequence of functions in $L^2[0,\infty)$: $$f_n(x)=e^{-x/n}x^n,\;\;n\geq 1$$ Does this sequence span $L^2[0,\infty)$ (that is, is the set of finite linear combinations of these functions dense)?
(My guess is that it doesn't).
I cannot answer your question fully but for numerical computations this 'basis' is not usable since it is not stable. A sequence $(f_n)$ of functions is stable if $$ \|g\|_2^2 \lesssim \sum_n |\langle f_n, g\rangle |^2\quad \mbox{for all }g\in L_2. $$
Consider your system and set $g=\chi_{[0,\lambda]}$, the indicator function of the interval $[0,\lambda]$. Then $$ \sum_n |\langle f_n, g\rangle |^2 \le \|g\|_2^2\sum_n\int_0^\lambda x^{2n}=\|g\|_2^2\sum_n\frac{\lambda^{2n+1}}{2n+1}\to 0 \mbox{ for }\lambda \to 0. $$ This implies instability. It is interesting that in this argument the problems occur near zero. I would like to know if problems occur also near infinity?
Not an answer, but maybe helpful.
These questions can be much harder than they look. There is a simple-looking, explicit set of functions $\{f_\alpha \} \subset L^2(0,1; dx/x)$ (see Operators, Functions, and Systems: an Easy Reading: Volume 1 by Nikolai K. Nikolski) with the property: the Riemann Hypothesis is equivalent to the density of the span of $\{f_\alpha \}$.
Of course it doesn't mean your problem is so difficult; but it's certainly interesting and non-trivial (I think). The necessary results should be known and exist somewhere [UPDATE: I've changed my mind, maybe not!!] I haven't found anything yet; but the general problem I describe below is certainly very "natural" and I'm sure I'm not the first to think of it, so if it isn't known then it's an interesting open problem; I would be very interested to know the solution!
The Laplace transform gives (a multiple of) a unitary operator from $L^2(0, \infty)$ onto the Hardy space $H^2( \{ \mathrm{Re}(z)>0 \})$ (depending on your normalisations).
The Laplace transform of $x^{n} e^{-x/n}$ is, up to a constant, $(z+1/n)^{-(n+1)}$.
So you're asking whether the orthogonal complement of these functions is zero in $H^2$. The scalar product of $F(z)$ with $(z+\overline{\lambda})^{-k-1}$ is, up to a constant, the derivative $F^{(k)}(\lambda)$.
Thus (assuming my algebra is correct), your question is equivalent to asking whether there is any non--trivial $F \in H^2$ satisfying
$$ F^{(n)}(1/n) = 0, \qquad n=1,2,3,\ldots $$
If you just wanted some non-trivial analytic function $F$ on the half-plane $ \{ x+iy : x>0 \}$ to satisfy this, it's possible (I think, if I remember correctly!) - at each point of a countable set without limit point in the domain, we can prescribe values of finitely many derivatives. The extra condition $F \in H^2$ is the difficult part.
More generally we have:
Problem classify all sequences $(z_n)$, $(k_n)$ such that we have a uniqueness result: $$ F \in H^2, \quad F^{(k_n)}(z_n) =0 \quad (n=1,2,3,\ldots) \qquad \Rightarrow \qquad F \equiv 0. $$
Of course there might be a special trick for your particular case $z_n = 1/n$, $k_n = n$.
Special cases are well-known. For example: there is no non-trivial $G \in H^2$ satisfying $G(z_n)=0$ if and only if $\sum_n \frac{\mathrm{Re}(z_n)}{|1+z_n|^2} = +\infty$ (the Blaschke condition). e.g. consider $z_n$ converging to zero, or out to infinity; if it does this so quickly that the sum is finite, then the set $\{ z_n \}$ is sparse enough to allow non-trivial $G$. Thus the classification is known if $k_n = 0$ for all $n$.
My two cents. I would guess that $f_0(x)=exp(-x)$ is not in the vector space generated by the f_n because of its behavior at zero. There is a way to get some confidence at least numerically.
The distance from f to $F_n=vect(f_1,...,f_n)$ can be computed with a Gram determinant. If I remember well,
$d(f_0, F_n)^2 = det((\langle f_i,f_j\rangle )_{0..n})/det((\langle f_i,f_j\rangle)_{1..n})$
Everything is explicit, but there are factorials everywhere, so it is tedious to make it by hand. So I suggest to plug the formula into a computer algebra software (which I can't access at the moment) to get the result. This may hint at the solution.
This is a very interesting problem. An intermediate generalization between that stated problem and that proposed by Zen Harper is to look at the sequence $$f_n(x) = x^n e^{-a_n x}, \quad n=1,\ldots$$ for some given sequence $a_n$ of positive numbers. As in Zen Harper's post, the Laplace transform of $f_n$ is the function $F_n(z)= (-1)^n \frac{1}{(z+a_n)^n}$, defined for $z$ in the right half plan $\{ \mathrm{Re}z >0\}$, and a function $f$ is orthogonal to the span of $\{f_n\}$ if and only if its Laplace transform $F$ satisfies $$ F^{(n)}(a_n)=0.$$
Thus, if $a_n$ is a constant sequence then the span of this sequence is dense, since anything orthogonal to the span would vanish to infinite order at a point.
On the other hand if $\sum_{n=1}^\infty n \frac{a_n}{(1+a_n)^2} <\infty$ then using a bit of complex analysis one can find a non-zero function $g$ orthogonal to the span of $\{f_n\}$. Specifically, we form the Blaschke product $B(z)$ with $n$ zeros at $a_n$ -- this is an analytic function in the right half plane, everywhere bounded by one and with zero of order $n$ at $a_n$ for each $n$. So $B(z)$ satisfies $B^{(n)}(a_n)=0$ and in fact
$$B^{(k)}(a_n)=0,\quad k=1,\ldots,n.$$ Multiplying $B$ by an non-zero $H^2$ function $F$ produces a function $BF \in H^2$ and perpendicular to the given sequence. Taking the inverse Laplace transform gives the desired function $g$.
But the original problem has $n a_n/(1+a_n)^2\rightarrow 1$ so this does not produce a counterexample.
Let me try again (I am surprised to see no moves around the question since my morning): assume that the above functions $f_n(x)$ form a basis of $L_2[0,+\infty)$. Pick an arbitrary function $f(x)$ from $L_2[0,+\infty)$ which is continuous on $[0,+\infty)$. Writing it as $f(x)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty c_nf_n(x)$ and using the continuity of all the functions involved we conclude that $\sum_{n=1}^\infty c_nf_n(x)$ converges to $f(x)$ pointwise on $[0,+\infty)$. But then, restricted to a compact set --- say $[0,1]$, the convergence of $\sum_{n=1}^\infty c_nf_n(x)$ to $f(x)$ is uniform. Since all the functions $f_n(x)$ vanish at $x=0$, so does their uniform limit $f(x)$. On the other hand, there are plenty of continuous functions $f(x)$ in $L_2[0,+\infty)$ which do not vanish at $x=0$, a contradiction.
Summarising, any continuous function from $L_2[0,+\infty)$ that does not vanish at the origin cannot belong to the span of $f_n$'s. In particular, $e^{-x}$ does the job.
By the way, the functions $g_n(x)=e^{-x/n}x^{n-1}$, $n=1,2,\dots$, seem to span $L_2[0,+\infty)$. But I have no idea on how to show this, except the standard orthogonolisation...


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Q: Let the alphabet A be a finite set of $n$ letters such that A=${a_1, a_2,...,a_n}$ and let W be the set of all possible words written from this finite alphabet (here a word is a finite concatenation of letters). Show that W is countable.
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Did the Mayans have plantations of cacao trees, or did they simply gather the fruit from cacao trees in the wild?
According to Cacao domestication I: the origin of the cacao cultivated by the Mayas, genetic evidence indicates that the cacao tree was cultivated from wild ancestors and improved over time.
Mayans were pretty good at agriculture, beyond the slash and burn methods that were used by many other tribes in the Americas during the same time period.
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I created a polygon in Google Earth and saved to kml. After importing as a vector layer, where the polygon crosses the prime meridian, the polygon wraps around the world.
So far, I have figured out that I need to change the projection [and offset?], but I cannot figure out how to do that.
I am new to QGIS (and GIS in general). I have already spent many hours trying to figure this out. Can somebody please help?


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What are your experiences with them?
For an undergrad who knows what a proof is, Bollobas's "Modern Graph Theory" is not too thick, not too expensive and contains a lot of interesting stuff. Beyond this there are books by West and Diestel. I really like van Lint and Wilson's book, but if you are aiming at graph theory, I do not think it's the best place to start.
My favorite is Dots and Lines (now called Intro to Graph Theory) by Richard Trudeau. It's a super-easy and quick read with lots of fun problems that get students to experiment with examples. I usually use it in conjunction with other texts when teaching graph theory courses because students whip through Trudeau's material so fast. I've used Wilson's 4th. Ed. and that's fine; I think Chartrand/Zhang is better, but haven't actually used it in a course yet. I should say that my evaluation of a text is based on having students actually read it, as I don't lecture.
The thing about graph theory (and combinatorics more generally, although it's especially true for graph theory) is that the basic definitions are very simple, and there is a lot of interesting math you can do without using anything but the basics.
As such, there's really only a limited benefit to just reading a text -- if you want to learn the subject, you have to have to have to do problems. Of the textbooks mentioned, I personally own Diestel (free online edition) and Bollobas; of these two, Bollobas has more and better exercises (although Diestel's a wonderful reference, and has the advantage of including hints.)
Honestly, I think the really important thing when teaching/learning graph theory is for the lecturer to know what he or she is doing. Obviously some books are better than others, but none of them are very good if they're not being used correctly.
Wilson (many editions) - great to read quickly to get an overview.
Bondy and Murty (2008) - very clear, lots of stuff. My favorite book.
Diestel (2005) - clinical treatment.
Bollobas (1998?) - lots of stuff, but leaves a lot of gaps for the reader to fill.
West - quite good, not read much of it.
I have Gross and Yellen for the course that I'm taking this semester. Haven't looked through it, but one of the authors is my teacher and I've taken a past course with him, so I'll assume it's solid.
His other book, an introduction to combinatorics, is quite good with its definitions and explication, but the exercises leave a little to be desired.
I learned graph theory from John Kennedy and Christopher Hanusa, the former an extremely well respected graph theorist and the latter a rising young combinatorialist. There's a lot of good graph theory texts now and I consulted practically all of them when learning it. The first edition of Adrian Bondy and U.S.R Murtry's Graph Theory is still one of the best introductory courses in graph theory available and it's still online for free, as far as I know. The second edition is more comprehensive and up-to-date, but it's more of a problem course and therefore more difficult. Jonathan Gross and Jay Yellen's Graph Theory With Applications is the best textbook there is on graph theory PERIOD. Rigorous and as comprehensive as it gets. The section on topological graph theory is particularly good. (I HATE their combinatorics text–it's a hodgepodge text that's nowhere near as well written and organized.) There are several other good books. Chartrand et. al isn't as comprehensive as Gross and Yellen, but quite good and in the same spirit. Douglas West's book is considered by many to be the preeminent graph theory text. I own it–it's pretty good, but not as careful and comprehensive as Gross and Yellen. If you can get a cheap copy, by all means, get West–but if you're gonna end up spending THAT much money, might as well go a little more and get the Ferrari. There's my 2 cents for what it's worth.
There are many books on specialized issues related to graphs: planar graphs, graphs on surfaces, graph coloring problems, distance in graphs, etc. However, if one is looking for a readable introduction that covers a lot of different aspects of "basic" graph theory (degree sequences, trees, colorings, matchings, connectivity, etc.), I think the best place to start is:
Introduction to Graph Theory, (Second Edition), Douglas West, Prentice-Hall, 2001.
I used Graph Theory: Modeling, Applications, and Algorithms by Geir Agnarsson and Raymond Greenlaw as the basis of (part of) a masters course. I was happy with the book, although I didn't go all the way through it. It starts slowly yet covers a decent range of topics at a relatively slow pace.
I also used Graph Theory: An Advanced Course by Adrian Bondy and U.S.R. Murty (already mentioned) as a source of challenge exercises. It's a great resource.
I learned to love graphs and their counting, first from Harary's Graph Theory and later from Harary and Palmer's Graphical Enumeration, or maybe it was more the spirit of their teaching than the letter of their textbooks. These books are classics in my estimation and well worth revisiting, even if you need the supplement, as you always will, of subsequent additions to the field.
I've bought West and it seems a lot for a beginner. specially i've found the excerscises out of my reach. I don't know why it's been called one of the best books.