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what kind of fish this .... good pic
Mother Nature Capture at its best
A complete pic.....
sense of scale from the bones to the hills is really disorienting, a picture that gets better the longer you look at it.
alone until the end
Death as well as life from the sea.
Very nice !
great shot..
great shot...i loved it
Thank you so much everybody for your kind words and thoughts!!!! Just like people around the world and some, so far away, are becoming members of my familly!
Beautiful composition - the ocean, coming to claim back one of its own...
Can see me losing the race to keep my dog from rolling in it or trying to scarf it down...And the aroma remenicent of childhood walks along the beaches of Lake Huron and coming across such a prize.
made me speechless for a moment, what a wonderful photo
Memento mori. It always ends badly, in that every living creature will die eventually.
The photographer's choices of a long shutter speed, a wide-angle view, a deep depth of field, and, most essentially, B&W rather than colour, all contribute to this photo's invocation of primordial elements of nature, and make this earth seem like a melancholy, desolate planet.
A wonderful shot with a Thought... The best part is complete skeleton, with Eye and nostrils are visible
The truth of life........ જીંદગીનું સત્ય
Wow, what a photo. Would have loved to have seen what J S thought about this one!
I don't feel sad, it is serene to me. . the skeleton does make your mind go to death but somehow it is a peaceful feeling, reminding you that time goes on.
@Shanna Jones Totally agree with you
Beautiful and ominous at the same time.
sadness and loneliness great photo..
Almost Armageddon like.Nicely done.
And the sea looks like sand. Congrats.
Nice balance, makes you think of what is going on with the environment, the beauty of it is deceptive!
The drama, the photography and the story! Well done.
I grew up on the American side of the St. Lawrence. It's a beautiful river, but everything it takes winds up on the shore at some point. That's a great pic, portrays beauty, life, and the last ripple of death.
Perfect, nothing else.
This picture was a really great photo but like Janice it envoked sadness in me when i look at it
This photograph evoked sadness in me, seems to be deserted and abandoned there, lonely and quiet. The black and white makes it all stand out even more, it is beautiful though.
This photo evoked sadness in me, seems to be deserted and desolate there. The black and white makes it all stand out even more, especially the fish's skeleton.
Great capture
Wow...the life and death. Water is life....correct. The duality is in this this photograph. Great job
...life and death...
love this for the aesthetics of the image..
pollution!I am sorry for animal's loss
Such melancholic... :) Amazing photo!
Nice capture
I think it's out of Quebec city. This look like St-Vallier. 30 minutes out of Québec city on the south shore of St. Lawrence river. Everyone should go there in october. It's a very wonderful country with falls colors and the hundred of thousands Snow Geese. Cause I live there :)
It's very cool to see a picture on N.G. shot of the day, made in the city where I live!
I like the mix of the waves and the surprisingly big fish squeleton in front. Nice shot.
very nice use of slow shutter and a composition...
Bliss and melancholy. What a feeling.
BIG fish!
Fully used the features of the wide-angle lens to create a shocking effect.
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by Mark Schmidtke
On April 16, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in US Airways, Inc. v. McCutchen (No. 11–1285), deciding the issue of whether equitable defenses, such as the principle of unjust enrichment, can override the reimbursement provision of a health benefits plan established under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Specifically at issue in the case was §502(a)(3) of ERISA, which authorizes health-plan fiduciaries to bring a civil action to obtain appropriate equitable relief to enforce the terms of a plan. The Court held that such equitable defenses cannot override the clear terms of a plan.
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by Mark Schmidtke
It is not uncommon for plaintiffs to argue - and for some defense lawyers to agree - that individual life, health, or disability insurance policies cannot be part of an employee welfare benefit plan governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. Section 1001, et seq. ("ERISA"). Not so. ERISA broadly provides that an employee welfare benefit plan can be funded "through the purchase of insurance or otherwise," 29 U.S.C. §1002(1), and makes no distinction between individual insurance and group insurance. Thus, benefits under an ERISA-compliant plan can be funded by one or more group or individual insurance policies, or a combination of group and individual insurance policies.
In the past year, there have been several federal district court decisions holding that programs involving individual disability insurance policies are governed by ERISA, even in some instances where the actual structure of the ERISA program expired before an insured filed a claim for benefits under the policy. This article will discuss two of those decisions - both in California - as illustrations of the types of arrangements involving individual insurance policies that courts have found to be regulated by ERISA.
Indicia of an ERISA Plan
The ultimate question in determining whether any insurance policy - individual or group - is regulated by ERISA, is whether the policy is part of an employment relationship. That necessarily requires the establishment of an employer-employee relationship, i.e., there must be an employer and at least one covered employee/participant. See, e.g., 29 C.F.R. §2510.3-3(b) and (c) (every ERISA plan must cover at least one common law employee). It also requires evidence that the insurance policy is part of the employment relationship.
In a typical group insurance arrangement, a group insurance policy is issued to an employer who determines that it will provide coverage to a select group of employees. The employer also typically contributes at least part of the cost of the employee's coverage and/or performs other functions or actions indicating that the employer endorses the program and/or has adopted the policies as part of its overall employee benefit program.
A typical program involving individual policies of insurance is not so different. Examples of some of the common practices involving individual insurance policies can include the following:
Structure of an ERISA Plan
The structure of an ERISA welfare benefit plan is statutory and requires five elements: (a) a plan, fund, or program; (b) established or maintained; (c) by an employer (or an employee organization); (d) for the purpose of providing statutory benefits (including life, health, and disability insurance); (e) to participants and beneficiaries. 29 U.S.C. §1002(1). In the context of group or group-type insurance programs, courts also look to whether the program falls within the "safe harbor" regulation, which excludes any program from ERISA where the employer is a mere advertiser of the program. In order to satisfy the regulatory safe harbor, a plan must satisfy several elements. Two of these elements are most often in dispute when one is attempting to determine whether a plan is exempt from ERISA: (a) whether the employer contributes to the program; and (b) whether the employer has endorsed the program. Satisfaction of either of these elements removes a plan from the safe harbor exemption. 29 C.F.R. §2510.3-1(j).
Case Study: Zide v. Provident Life & Acc. Ins.
The employer in Zide v. Provident Life & Acc. Ins. Co., 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 153777 (C.D. Cal. Apr. 9, 2011) signed a salary allotment agreement with Provident Life & Accident Insurance Company whereby the employer represented that it would pay the entire premium cost in consideration for Provident to issue individual disability policies to select employees of a medical corporation, some of whom were also shareholders of the corporation. The salary allotment agreement was in effect for many years. During that time, various doctors were covered under the plan. Some of the doctors were employees when first covered, but later became shareholders. Premiums were billed via periodic list bills sent to the corporation and the corporation paid the premiums. The corporation then charged the premiums back to the various doctors. There was a substantial premium discount as well as other benefits which continued even if a doctor left the corporation and continued to pay the policy premiums. By the time Dr. Zide filed a claim for benefits under his policy, he was the only insured left at the corporation and he was the sole owner of the corporation. When Provident terminated Dr. Zide's benefits, he sued under California state law and alleged bad faith, seeking compensatory and punitive damages. Provident alleged, among other things, that Dr. Zide's policy was governed by ERISA and that his bad faith claim was preempted.
The district court granted judgment to Provident, ruling that the insurance program was an ERISA plan and that Dr. Zide's state law claims were preempted. Applying the statutory five-factor test, the district court concluded:
The district court also concluded that the program fell outside of the safe harbor exemption. Even though the employees bore the ultimate cost of the premiums, the availability of a discount through the efforts and commitment of the employer and which was in existence solely by virtue of the employment relationship, constituted an employer contribution to the program. Finally, the court ruled that even though the program might not satisfy all of the ERISA requirements at the time Dr. Zide filed his benefit claim -- because it no longer covered at least one non-owner employee -- the fact that the program had at one time been governed by ERISA meant that Dr. Zide's policy continued to be governed by ERISA as he continued to reap the various benefits (discounted premiums and higher levels of coverage) made available to him by the employment relationship and the employer's commitments to the insurer.
Case Study: Masteler v. Paul Revere Life Ins.
Another recent example of an individual disability insurance policy being governed by ERISA is the case of Masteler v. Paul Revere Life Ins. Co., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21725 (S.D. Cal. Feb. 22, 2012). In that case, a large national employer entered into an "employee security program" with Paul Revere whereby the insurer agreed to issue individual disability income policies to a select group of executive employees with favorable coverage options and substantial premium discounts, in exchange for the employer's promise to pay the premiums. The program was in effect for several years and multiple policies were issued to executive employees of the employer during that time. When the plaintiff applied for his policy, he represented to the insurer that his employer would pay the entire premium cost. The evidence indicated that the employer did pay the first annual premium for his policy, but several months after the policy was issued, the plaintiff left his employment. He continued the policy, agreeing to pay future premiums himself.
The plaintiff became disabled due to a heart condition and was paid benefits for several years. When benefits were about to reach the maximum pay period under the policy, the plaintiff argued that his heart condition was an injury rather than a sickness, triggering the lifetime benefit clause of the policy. The insurer disagreed, benefits were terminated, and the plaintiff sued under California state law, alleging bad faith and seeking compensatory and punitive damages. Among other things, Paul Revere argued that the policy was governed by ERISA and that the plaintiff's state law claims were preempted.
The district court agreed with Paul Revere and dismissed the plaintiff's state law complaint. The court held that where an employer enters into an agreement with an insurer to make individual disability policies available to employees at discounted premiums and higher coverage levels and pays the premiums, the employer has established an ERISA plan. The court ruled that the regulatory safe harbor did not apply because the employer paid the premium cost. Finally, the court ruled that where the employee elected to continue his coverage under the same policy and under the same terms after he left his employment, the fact that the plaintiff took over the premium payments did not remove the policy from ERISA. The plaintiff's claim was governed exclusively by ERISA and his state law claims were preempted.
The Zide and Masteler decisions are just a couple of examples of situations where individual insurance policies were held to be governed by ERISA. These decisions dispel the myth that only group insurance policies can be part of an ERISA plan and that individual insurance is invariably subject to state law. Of course, in order for ERISA to apply, there must be a nexus to an employment relationship, but once that nexus is established, many fact scenarios may bring individual policy coverage under ERISA and outside of state law.
Mark E. SchmidtkeOgletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, email@example.com
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These make good cat litter boxes as well (the high sides keep things in the box).
Seemed nice, and the price is reasonable...
psssh i got the same thing at home depot for $1.43 recently. now THAT was a deal.
@baqui63: do you use the lid to trap the stench too? :)
Yep! I got the same deal as yesenia did @ Home Depot. $1.43 for a 20 gallon at the end of June. They came in very handy since we bought over $500 in fireworks on the way home. The guy I buy my fireworks from started apologizing that he was out of cardboard boxes. No problem! I have 10 totes in the back of the Durango!
Also it looks like they're still going on Clearance at Home Depots across the country still.
We've never had odor problems if we scoop the box out at least two times a week and completely change out the litter about every six weeks. One advantage to the tote-litter-box is that we have 6" of litter in the box and don't have to worry about them kicking it out or missing the box. (There still are issues with litter on their feet when they jump out but there is no real solution to this.)
We did consider cutting a large hole in the lid to make it like this Clevercat one from Amazon but didn't see the point.


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For most concerned citizens, the issue is not whether the Town of Fraser annexes the property being called Byers Peak Ranch (which includes the the Colorado Adventure Park tubing hill). The real issue is the unsuitable terms of the annexation documents, including the Planned Development District (PDD).
I am not the only one who fails to see how the proposed terms would be of benefit to Fraser residents, property and business owners.
Here are just some of the unacceptable provisions in the related documents:
1. There is a convoluted payment and repayment scheme that would ultimately net the developer well more than 1,000 of his allowed 1,897 water taps for free. That is about a $10 million dollar subsidy.
2. The additional water needs required by the development would cause Fraser to make "enhancements" to the existing water system, such as making some existing wells produce more. It is proposed by faulty reasoning, in my opinion, that Fraser should pay for about half of those costs. That is about another $2 million dollar subsidy.
3. To add insult to injury, the documents propose that Fraser finance their $2 million dollar or so subsidy to pay for these "enhancements."
4. It is against Fraser Town regulations to degrade a water course. It is proposed that a reservoir (they call it a pond) be built on St. Louis Creek for municipal water storage for the Town and possibly for other uses for the developer. Any river runner or angler knows what happens to streams that have been dammed. They are ecologically damned.
5. Fraser regulations allow building heights of 35 or 45 feet depending on the zoning. The developer is allowed buildings of 55 feet in the annexation documents.
6. It is suggested that there would be economy of scale to have more water and sewer customers. This has not been shown to be the case in the past. Very long-time locals will remember what they used to pay, even considering inflation. Not so long ago, we saw how rates increased after the building of another large Fraser development. Economy of scale certainly was not working for us then.
7. The developer is given 35 years to build this project. Besides the fact that those who might live that long could spend their lives in a construction zone, no provisions are made to take into account the change in the value of a dollar over that time period.
8. It is proposed the developer give the town 6 acres which is wetlands. Unless the Town leaves it as open space as a water filter (not likely) there will be expense and ecological cost to make it "useful."
We expect the developer to be required to pay his full costs. We do not want to nor should we have to be paying for him to develop. Part of the full cost of a development is bringing enough real, wet, actual water to serve the whole development.
It is a fact that residential development does not pay for itself. Because the developer is given 35 years to build and residential is usually built before commercial (as we have seen), it will probably be many decades before the town gains back the $12-plus million in subsidies. A more likely scenario is the subsidies will never be recouped after considering the ongoing maintenance costs of roads, infrastructure and the proposed reservoirs.
The next public hearing is at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 1, a session where the developer rather than the public speaks. It is certainly less than fair to have no time for the public to reply after the developer. The last opportunity for the public to comment is by written comments due to the town today on April 24. Hopefully, at last, the town trustees will present their respective reactions to this proposal to increase the town size by a factor of three.
Melanie Zwick has been a business owner in Fraser for 25 years as well as a property owner in the town for two decades.


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The Chronologic Patrol is charged with guarding the timeshaft wormholes and preventing time paradoxes at all costs. But one critical mission ends in disaster, turning Anton Koffield, captain of the Upholder, into a dark legend....
As ships carrying relief supplies to a crippled planet approach a timeshaft, they are mercilessly set upon by mysterious attackers - their crews are murdered and the sanctity of time itself is at risk. In response, Koffield is forced to do the unthinkable: He must stop the invasion by destroying the timeshaft. Marooned 80 years in the future, he lives as a cursed figure, the villain who killed a world.
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RAYNHAM – Operation Flags for Vets, an effort organized by the father of a Medal of Honor recipient from Raynham, is calling for volunteers to pitch in next Saturday.
For the fourth straight year, Operation Flags for Vets will place flags at each of the 57,000 graves at the Massachusetts National Veterans Cemetery in Bourne for Memorial Day.
The volunteer project was initiated by Paul Monti, father of Jared Monti, a soldier who died in Afghanistan in June 2006 and was later posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery in trying to save the life of a wounded comrade.
"We are looking for volunteers to help with this worthy and solemn endeavor," Operation Flags for Vets said in a message. "People of all ages are welcomed to help in the placement of the 57,000 flags on the final resting place of our beloved veterans."
Before the flag placement begins on May 24, a short ceremony will be held at the flagpole at the end of the cemetery's Avenue of Flags at 10 a.m.
Volunteers are asked to bring a long-shanked screwdriver with them to aid in making starter holes for the flags.
Volunteers are also needed for flag removal, which will take place on June 1 at 10 a.m.
The planting of the flags was made possible after Paul Monti advocated for a change in cemetery policies that didn't allow flag placement at the Massachusetts National Veterans Cemetery in Bourne, where Jared Monti is buried.
Operation Flags for Vets is organized as part of the SFC Jared C. Monti Charitable Foundation, which provides a scholarship.
Donations to Operation Flags for Vets can be mailed to Paul Monti, 408 Center St., Raynham, Mass. 02767.
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I'm a new Minecrafter, and was wondering if new updates are backwards compatible. Specifically, will the new "Adventure Update" features (Beta 1.8) appear in existing worlds created with Beta 1.7 and earlier? Or will I need to create a new world for this version?
No, ruins and villages are generated with the world, not actively built. If that changes in a future update, then it might not be required then, but for now all new geographic features require you to generate new chunks.
The usual way of doing this is just making a new world with all new chunks, but if you walk to places that you haven't yet, then new chunks will generate. (Potentially with new features.) It's still recommended that you generate a new world though since you might have to walk a while to get to new parts, the boundary between versions might not line up right, and biomes might shift(especially with the addition of a new one), but if you haven't explored much or really like it so far, it might be worth it.
Areas explored prior to the 1.8 update will not contain 1.8 features, but if you have an old save you will still get 1.8 features when you explore new areas("chunks").
If you want to keep your old save and still have new features close to your base you can delete explored chunks with an editor such as MCEdit. Basically you delete all chunks that are explored and don't contain your base or other modifications you want to keep. The deleted chunks will then regenerate the same again, but with added new features.
This is an excellent way when you are running a long lived SMP server where you want to enjoy the latest features close to the core area.
Check my answer in this thread for a more detailed guide to using MCEdit to delete chunks.
By default, worlds created prior to 1.8 will be Survival maps without structures enabled. If you use an NBT editor (like, er, NBTedit), you can enable NPC villages, etc., by changing the value of Map Features from 0 to 1. (You can also toggle between Creative and Survival by switching Map Type between 1 and 0.)
However, even with structures enabled, new map features and new biomes will only appear in chunks that haven't already been generated, which means they only start generating beyond the furthest points that you've traveled. Since I'd explored a much larger space than I'd built in, I solved this problem by opening my world in MCEdit, using the selection tool to draw a big box around everything I'd built, switched to the Chunk Tool, and selected Prune (which deletes all the chunks outside of the ones you've selected). When I opened the map again once I'd updated to 1.8, the new map features and biomes (including, I can guarantee, mines) appeared in the areas outside my selection.
With this technique, the boundaries can be a little bit jarring, so you can use a script like this one to improve things, although I haven't tried that myself.
I was worried about getting 1.8 features as well, so I went on a journey out of familiar territory. I traveled across an ocean for quite some time, then discovered an underwater temple. I was then satisfied. But the ocean was much larger than what I was use to.


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Hometown of Hammond, Indiana, near Chicago. I now live in Boise, Idaho. Since July, 2015 I've worked for Cloverdale Funeral home in Boise, ID. Prior, I've been a paramedic since 1978, as an EMS provider, manager, educator, and in communications. I've been photographing cemeteries and grave sites for over 15 years. I have developed a presentation on the art and symbolism of gravestones and cemeteries which I give through the city's Community Education system and at genealogy/ family history conferences, and to various historical groups. I also give historical tours of cemeteries in Boise.
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Thanks, Davidfor finding Bill. I can now attach him to the family. Do you remember the Big Band era? I am now putting a shirt-tail relative on Find A Grave--Ray McKinley rather Raymond Frederick McKinley who was rather prominent during that period. I thought someone else would do it but I guess no one will.
I think I now have completed all the Morris Hill transfers. Thanks again. Wilda
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yES, YOU CAN DO ME A BIG FAVOR- I've LOST A COUSIN, WILLIAM ELDON BALTZOR. I THINK HE DIED ABOUT A Year or TWO AGO AND I MISSED HIS OBIT. ONE OF HIS SONS DIED BEFORE HIM AND I THINK HE WAS BURIED AT CLOVERDALE. BILL MAY BE BURIED THERE. I DON'T SEEM TO HAVE HIS OBIT EITHER (THE SON'S, I MEAN)CAN'T REMEMBER THE SONS FIRST NAME,BUT THERE CAN'T BE TOO MANY BALTZORS AROUND
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I dearly believe after much research is William Bullein Johnson Memorial# 162929580 that I made today, and then found this in my searching.. Edits submitted, but thought I would inform you as you had a pic..Gracias
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Would you know other names of Patriots who were in the Ft St Joseph Expidition other than Hamelin,Brady,Boismenu that also may be buried in Holy Family Or other cemeteries in the Area? Do the known Patriots have head stones?
PS we are working on a Indiana Bicentennial Project about the expedition.
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thank you David....any help oyu find will be greatly appreciated....God Bless you
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There's not much you can do for me unless you can give me a new knee. Plain old arthritis has got the best of me and I'm seeing a surgeon in April to consider a knee replacement -- and I just had my 90th birthday!!!!
I was wondering if you would like to take over the people I moved on Find A Grave from Boise' Old Burying ground to Morris Hill. I've had a very few inquires about them.
I'm still working on a few projects I found a woman 0n Find A Grave who said she had finished her family trees. I didn't think that was possible. Wilda
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they are my grand parents....have been searching for where they are buried,,,,last info i have is they were in San Diego when they passed.....could you please use your contacts with findagrave(if you have any) to find them....they were living in Faulkton So.Dakotah but moved to San Diego....dont know they year they left So. Dakota.....everyone who would know has passed on....all i have is grandma passed in 1971....dont know when grandpa passed....hope you can help me with my search.....thank you for reading this......God Bless you.....my name is Ione Stevens...my email is firstname.lastname@example.com.....thank you again if you can help
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Dear Mr. Habben, Thank you for writing back so quickly! My apologies on the missing information; I left out her first name, which is Rose Maysie Walker Pittman, and the Find-a-grave memorial number is 11097455. Thank you so much, Kathy Evans.
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David, Can you link Alonzo Cope (#7677670) to his parents Sam Calvin Cope (#155531080) and Lina Rachel Fox Cope (#155531362)? They are buried at Willow Oak in northern Upshur County, Texas. I will be adding other children of Sam Calvin and Lina in the next few days and would like to see those linked to Alonzo also.
I inherited Alonzo's sister's scrapbook and do have a picture from the Pine School in Camp County, Texas that includes Alonzo as a child along with his siblings. Pine is located a few miles north of the Willow Oak church and cemetery.
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Given $f(f(x))=x+2$ does it necessarily follow that $f(x)=x+1$? This question comes from a precalculus algebra student.
The answer to your question is no. For example, if you are working with function $f\colon\mathbb Z\to\mathbb Z$ then $$f(x)= \begin{cases} x-1; & x\text{ is even}, \\ x+3; & x\text{ is odd}; \end{cases} $$ is an example of a different function such that $f(f(x))=x+2$.
If you want the function $f\colon\mathbb R\to\mathbb R$, you can simply extend this one by putting $f(x)=x+1$ for $x\notin\mathbb Z$.
If you would like to see a continuous solution different from $x+1$, you could use the piecewise linear function obtained by putting $0\mapsto2/3, 2\mapsto2+2/3, 4\mapsto2+2/3, \dots$ and $2/3\mapsto 2, 2+2/3\mapsto 4, 4+2/3\mapsto 6,\dots$
The composition $f\circ f$ will be again piecewise linear and to check that $f(f(x))=x+2$ you only need to verify this for $x\in2\mathbb Z$ and $x\in\frac23+2\mathbb Z$.
The intuition behind this is that the interval $[0,2/3]$ is stretched to the interval $[2/3,2]$ (which has twice the length of the original interval) and $[2/3,2]$ contracted to $[2,2+2/3]$. The same thing is done on other intervals $[2k,2(k+1)]$, $k\in\mathbb Z$.
Answering the question in the topic: definitely not for all
In fact this belongs to a functional equation of the form http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru/en/solutions/fe/fe2315.pdf.
Let $\begin{cases}x=u(t)\\f=u(t+1)\end{cases}$ ,
Then $u(t+2)=u(t)+2$
For $u_c(t+2)-u_c(t)=0$ ,
$u_c(t)=\theta(t)$ , where $\theta(t)$ is an arbitrary periodic functions with period $2$
For $u_p(t)$ ,
Let $u_p(t)=At$ ,
Then $A(t+2)-At\equiv2$
$\therefore u(t)=\theta(t)+t$ , where $\theta(t)$ is an arbitrary periodic functions with period $2$
Hence $\begin{cases}x=\theta(t)+t\\f=\theta(t+1)+t+1\end{cases}$ , where $\theta(t)$ is an arbitrary periodic functions with period $2$
In fact $f(x)=x+1$ is only a paticular solution when taking $\theta(t)=0$ .


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What can be said about the minimal index of subgroups PSL(r,q)?? There is a classification of subgroups of PSL(3,p) by Bloom , even for this list i could not calculate all the indexes.
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The partners will build Lube Park at the Tuas industrial complex in southwestern Singapore, and include import, export and storage facilities for the adjacent lube oil blending plants and grease manufacturing plants of the companies. Construction on the park will begin later this year.
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Arrested: Amanda Gump, 33, 405 Woodview Lane, Wintersville, receiving stolen property, Thursday.
Arrested: Kara M. Clark, 23, 802 Fourth St., Brilliant, failure to appear, Thursday.
Arrested: Niles Harris, 43, 1409 Maryland Ave., Steubenville, domestic violence, Thursday.
Arrested: Jennifer Barnhart, 28, no fixed address, domestic violence, Thursday.
Cited: Barbara Lister, 48, 24 Moody's Drive, Mingo Junction, improper start; Dorian Patton, 24, 234 Murphy Ave., Steubenville, driving while suspended- administrative; Stephen T. Casper, 22, 47 Jefferson St., Rayland, red light violation; Margaret S. Lohr, 54, 621 Forestview Drive, Wintersville, expired plates; Jacob A. Sbicca, 29, 303 Cedar Ave., Steubenville, stop sign violation; and Clint E. Mazalic, 56, Apartment 306, 125 Ravine St., Mingo Junction, marked lanes violation.
Theft: A home in the 800 block of Lincoln Avenue was broken into and copper pipe taken Thursday.
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Arrested: Casey Palmer, 22, of Wheeling, drug trafficking, Thursday.
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Cited: Richard Glover Jr., 27, 909 Loretta Ave., Toronto, expired registration; Richard Pritt III, 22, 809 Daniels St., Toronto, expired registration; Christopher Phelps, 35, Apartment 7, 1323 N. Fourth St., Toronto, expired registration; Vanessa Dettorre, 44, 202 Rosslyn Blvd., Steubenville, expired license; Charles Flinn, 47, Lot 40, state Route 213, Richmond, driving under a suspended license; James Huggins, 32, 28 township Road 281, Steubenville, driving under a suspended license; Jason Prettyman, 42, St. Clairsville, expired plates; Alisha Hess, 28, 401 Dresdon Ave, Steubenville, driving under a suspended license; and Roger Scott Jr., 42, Apartment 43, driving under a suspended license.
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I have a dual boot set up with Windows and Ubuntu. When I'm using Windows, web browsing is a lot faster than when I'm using Ubuntu and I don't know why. It's like there's just a big latency rather than the maximum speed is lower, there's a big delay before anything happens when using Ubuntu, it happens with all websites all the time. I've never configured the Internet connection because it just worked straight away. I have a broadband connection through a router shared with some other computers. When we set up the router and Internet connection everything was done with Windows. What could I do to fix this?
Are you using Firefox? It's dog slow on my PC as well for some reason.
I've installed Google Chrome and Opera - and they just fly.
Also - try this as well: (thanks to Ubuntu Geek)
Open your Firefox and type about:config at URL address bar and hit enter. To make a False into True, select the line to change, and double click. On the 2nd option change, right click and select Modify
You may be suffering from bufferbloat. It manifests itself as huge latencies when you're transmitting or receiving a lot of data.
I've had success doing the following:
Lower the size of your transmit buffer to 50. (Almost every modern chipset will support 0, but some don't, so we'll go with 50 for safety reasons).
To restore the original setting:
As of note, this MAY bump you off the network temporarily - you may need to force your machine to reconnect to the network (unplug/replug cable,
The short version of what this does - TCP expects packets to be dropped and/or not acknowledged in a timely manner. When it encounters these situations it sends out less data to better adapt to the network. By having a huge transmit queue, the queue delays any adaptation the TCP stack would make, and you get these huge latencies and bad throughput because you're sending more data than the network can handle. The "feedback loop" is delayed by the size of the buffers.
Windows XP isn't affected, because it's got other limits on outgoing data and can't saturate lines like Linux & other more modern OS's can.
I have experienced that problem, which I fixed by running my own DNS cache. This will almost certainly speed things up, though who could say definitely the problem you have? I don't know if you have dnsmasq or bind9, but it won't hurt to try to uninstall them. So let's try to remove them, if they exist - replacing them with the dnscache portion of djbdns, killing off any instance of dnsmasq - if running - and removing the BIND start-up script - if it exists.
Then we'll need to tell the system to use our cache.
Edit the file to look like this example. This file defines which name servers to use, the default domain, and the search suffix. The search suffix makes it possible to run queries using only the hostname portion of a fully-qualified domain name. For exmaple, 'nslookup www' automagically becomes 'nslookup www.example.com' when example.com is the value of the "search" parameter.
This is a little fancy, but we need to get the lastest root name servers.
I think the resolv.conf file is overwritten when we use DHCP. So let's give ourselves a static IP address, removing the software that squashes it, and editing our interfaces file to set up the static IP address.
My interfaces file looks as follows, but modify yours to your configuration.
Now let's just restart.
Now you are using a local resolver and the latest root servers. This is much, much faster and more reliable than what I happen to get from my ISP, which is so very slow. Does this help the slow-problem you have?
Or - if you don't want to run your own cache (above), and per the conversation below, you could just log into your router and configure it to provide alternate DNS servers, like Google and OpenDNS: 188.8.131.52, 188.8.131.52, 22.214.171.124. This would fix slow DNS also.
I know this is an old thread but as I was looking for the answer so would be others so I decided to post.
I had the same problem . In windows everything works fine but in ubuntu some websites would not open taking forever to open. I solved it by changing my modem from "DIAL ON DEMAND" mode to "ALWAYS ON" mode.
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MANY BELMONT County roads and bridges are in need of repair. That is no revelation.
Belmont County Engineer Fred Bennett realizes that more than anybody. He has the tough task of being the caretaker of county roads and bridges. Bennett has been our county engineer for so long, I cannot name his predecessor.
Thus, it is safe to say he knows the county roadways and structures better than anyone. He obviously has the wherewithal to get the job done.
Bennett, however, is hamstrung by one big problem. That being money, or rather the lack of it.
Paving is a pricey proposition these days. Bridge work doesn't come cheaply, either. It costs $65,400 to pave one mile of highway, 20 feet wide. That is astronomical.
That is compounded by Bennett's reporting that 80 bridges in the county cannot carry legal loads. That is scary and dangerous.
The engineer's office simply doesn't have the financial resources to tackle such a monstrous undertaking.
Bennett brought forth a proposal at Tuesday's commissioners' meeting to generate money for road and bridge work. Bennett is seeking a $10 increase in license plate fees.
As might be expected with any fee hike, it was greeted with mixed reviews.
According to figures supplied by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, such an increase would generate $536,000.
That is a sizable chunk of money which could yield much repair work. It would not solve all the problems facing the engineer's office, but it would be a good starting point.
I have no problems paying $20 (2 vehicles) knowing that it will be poured back into road work. A $10 payment is a small price to pay for a $536K return.
Local government entities are feeling the pinch of federal and state funding cuts. LGF reductions have really hampered local projects.
Don't look for that to change anytime soon for the better (if ever). So anting up $10 for a half-million dollars in improvements makes sense to me.
THE MONROE County Sheriff's Office holds just one fundraiser a year. Its K-9 Unit Basket Bingo will be held Saturday, May 18 at the Woodsfield Squad Building.
Doors open at 4:30 p.m. An early bird drawing and a new 4-in-1 entertainer will be featured. The event will also have a country store, 50/50 drawing and plenty of food and refreshments.
For more information, call Peg Buckalew at 472-5517 or Claudia Baker ay 740-827-1525 or 472-1865 Monday through Friday.
PRELIMINARY PLANS are in motion to bring back the Bellaire Octoberfest celebration after a one-year hiatus. The festival proved a popular event for several years in the All-American Town before scheduling issues sidetracked it last year. It is a major undertaking by the festival committee but one that results in a great celebration.
THE FLUSHING-area Ruritan Club has erected a monument at the entrance to Schuler Park. The club also acquired the Flushing bell and flagpole. The monument serves to recognize individuals and families associated in and around the Flushing area. There are spaces still available for name plaques. Anyone wishing to buy a plaque should call Sandi Kidd at 740-968-4785 or any Flushing Ruritan member.
GEORGI RISER'S spaghetti was super at last Sunday's fundraising dinner at the Martins Ferry Rec Center. Proceeds benefitted the pool opening and operation. It proved a profitable event. Next up is a pancake breakfast on May 18 at the rec center from 9 a.m. to noon. The menu will feature pancakes, Mickey Mouse waffles, sausage, fruit cup, juice and coffee. All children attending will get a coloring book and crayons of pool activities to color. Cost is $6.50 adults and $3.25 for children 5 to 12. Children 3 and under eat free. If you plan to attend with your children please call the rec center 633-0602 or Georgi Riser 635-4527, so that there will be enough books for all the children.
LEE CHAKLOS, co-owner of the Bellaire Toll Bridge, spoke to Benwood City Council Tuesday. He was lobbying to get the performance bond lowered from $500K to $250K, but to no avail. He blames the bond amount on the delay of demolition efforts. We think not. Chaklos has no one to blame but himself for the ongoing razing fiasco.
BETTY KOTSON of the Belmont County Council American Legion Auxiliary would like to thank everybody for their donations, gifts and support for the group's annual trip to the Chillicothe Veterans Hospital earlier this month. Those making the trip entertained some 58 patients with singing and dancing. A light lunch was held. Kotson said the trip was a huge success thanks to all the support from people from as far away as Florida.
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AN?OPEN house is being held on Sunday,?May 5 at the new Colerain Fire House. The event runs from 2-4 p.m. The public is invited. All local fire departments have been invited to attend the building dedication on this day. The Colerain Volunteer Fire Co.'s new station is located behind the Hilltop Social Hall. Drinks and hot dogs will be served.
I WAS glad to see a change of heart in Shadyside in regards to pay raises for village officials. The salary hike proposal died a quick death Wednesday after an incisive presentation by resident Gregg Warren. If enacted, the pay hike would have resulted in a $50,000 hit to the Shadyside budget, according to Warren. That is way too costly. Elected officials need to worry more about serving their constituents and less about their stipend.
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Hobbies include jigsaw puzzles and rage.
That's how most people think. And it's also what three would-be robbers felt on the day they tried to snatch a crippled 88-year-old retiree's safe. Biagio Sciscione was minding his own business, thinking about erections past, when a woman from the local church knocked on his door with some questions. While the kindly old man listened to her prattling, two men sneaked inside his house and lifted the safe. They were out the door and almost to their Lexus SUV when Scisione noticed them.
So here's the match-up:
Three young, fit robbers within feet of a running car.
One 88-year-old man unable to walk under his own power.
Via LiveLeak.com
Common sense tells us there's only one way that all shakes out. But common sense has never told Sciscione a single thing in his entire life. Veins bulging with adrenaline and Viagra, the retired butcher and WWII vet tossed his cane away and ran to intercept the thugs. He gave the first man "a couple of socks" and wrestled with a female assailant. The burglars, confronted by this raging typhoon of geriatric justice, fled.
#2. Septuagenarian Tourist Goes Commando on a Mugger's Neck
Ah, a Carnival Cruise. The perfect way for upper-middle-class retirees to get away from it all and drink heavily without the threat of social ostracism. While vacations to South and Central America have their dangers, passengers who pay big bucks for a tour usually get to side-step the poverty-fuelled property crime and raging drug wars.
Next stop, Detroit!
That wasn't the case for a group of 12 American tourists who took a run off the beaten path and hired a guide to take them through the Costa Rican countryside. They were on their way out of the van to check out a beach when three masked bad guys rushed them and started waving weapons around.
One fifty-two year-old woman thought the armed robbery was "a skit" until one of the men jammed a gun in her face. At that point, a mystery Carnival Cruise passenger -- aged 70 -- leaped out of the van like a member of the freaking A-Team and charged the gunman.
When we picture it, there was an explosion.
The mystery senior, who was reportedly a U.S. vet who was "specifically trained in self-defense" grabbed the 20-year-old gunman by the head and executed a move familiar to anyone who watched an action movie released during the 1990s.
And beyond.
The gunman dropped with a broken clavicle, and eventually died of asphyxiation. His two accomplices fled the scene. The whole tour group elected to continue their visit to Costa Rica. Because they'll be DAMNED if something as minor as being jumped by and killing some dangerous assailants is going to get in the way of their hunt for really inexpensive homemade crafts.
#1. Samuel Whittlemore Was Harder than Every Person Alive Today
We don't want to take anything away from the acts of elderly badassery on this list. We hope that we're as spry when we're that age, but know that we won't be because we're not that spry now.
But that said, none of these people hold a candle to Samuel Whittlemore.
We're going back a ways -- he was born in England in 1695. He started his military career as a British soldier in one of the innumerable wars France and England fought to determine which nation's accent would go on to grace every villain in American movie history. In 1745, the 50-year-old Sam helped to capture the French Fort Louisburg. He walked away with the sword of an enemy officer who, Samuel claimed, had "died suddenly." In 1758, France and England went to war again (it was a bit of a habit) and the 64-year-old farmer was forced to capture the French fort a second time.
Via BadassOfTheWeek.com
"Ok, but make it quick. I have mountains to punch."
He fought next in the Indian Wars and -- at the age of 69 -- won himself a nice set of dueling pistols whose owner had, again, "died suddenly." The Revolutionary War broke out when Whittlemore was 81 and, finally yielding to his advancing years, the old soldier left the fight up to the capable hands of younger men.
For about ten seconds. When the fighting at Lexington and Concord resulted in two columns of British soldiers burning homes and farms along their avenue of retreat, Minuteman Whittlemore was moved to action. He joined up with another group of Colonial insurgents, but rejected their guerrilla tactics in favor of a more direct approach: standing in the path of a redcoat advance.
Via RealCourage.org
Like this, except he would have melted the tanks.
Sam waited until point-blank range to fire his musket and pistols, bringing three men down and charging the rest of the column with his sword in hand. The British soldiers fired, and one managed to hit Sam in the face. He went down just long enough to be surrounded and bayoneted 13 times.
Via Revolutionary War Archives
"It's only a flesh wound!"
A bullet to the face and thirteen knife wounds would be enough to stop even the hardiest of rappers. But Sam survived. When his allies found him, he was still conscious and trying to load his musket. The field doctors thought Sam was done for. But he ended up pulling through the night ... and the next eighteen years. Whittlemore didn't die until 1793 -- at the age of 98. Or 897 in 1793 years.
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Money and communications:
Bureaux de change and ATMs are located throughout the terminal. A foreign exchange currency dispenser is located on the Departures level. There is a bank on the Departures concourse and a post office in the car park atrium.
Eating and drinking:
The airport has a variety of restaurants, cafés and bars.
Shops include duty-free, with a shopping street in the boarding area of Departures.
A left-luggage facility is available in the atrium of the multi-storey car park. Portage service is available from Greencaps (tel: (01) 814 4633).
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Rutgers Law Review Editors on Groundbreaking Publication of "A New Type of War"
In early summer, when Rutgers Law Review began an update and redesign of its website, journal editors could not imagine that the new site (www.rutgerslawreview.com) would record more than four million hits in its first 36 hours. That intense interest was due to the Law Review's unprecedented publication of A New Type of War: The Story of the FAA and NORAD Response to the September 11, 2001 Attacks. A front-page article in the New York Times on September 8 directed readers to the Law Review site, where they found the interactive document, a narrative with audio clips embedded into the text of conversations between key civilian and military aviation personnel related to the hijackings.
|Rutgers Law Review 9/11 monograph project team (l-r): Isabel Chou, Timothy D'Arduini, Andrew Gimigliano, Mark Heinzelmann, and John Burzynski.
A draft of the audio monograph was prepared by the 9/11 Commission, for which Dean John J. Farmer, Jr., was Senior Counsel but was not declassified in time to be included in the Commission's Final Report. After the Commission's term expired, staff member Miles Kara worked to have the draft monograph released by the National Archives and transcribed each clip. The Law Review team worked with Kara to validate the transcripts and to determine the best format for presenting this comprehensive account of the day's events to the public for the very first time. As Dean Farmer writes in the preface, the 9/11 Commission staff believed that the monograph "would be the best way to enable the public to understand what happened on 9/11 – how the day was lived by those responding to the attacks."
Publication of A New Type of War (the phrase taken from a comment made by a Northeast Air Defense Sector officer after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon) breaks new ground for law school journals, noted editor-in-chief Andrew Gimigliano. The monograph continues a conversation about the adequacy of established legal doctrine and crisis response protocols in responding to global terrorism that the Law Review began with its February 2011 symposium, titled "Unsettled Foundations, Uncertain Results: 9/11 and the Law, Ten Years After," and will conclude with a series of articles from symposium speakers in the next issue.
Response to A New Type of War was global, immediate, and often quite personal. The Law Review received countless emails from around the world thanking it for making the information public. Gimigliano, senior managing editor Timothy D'Arduini, and articles editor Mark S. Heinzelmann did numerous print and radio interviews; news reports appeared on six continents; and the website received almost seven million hits within five days, with visitors from 173 different countries accessing the site in more than 100 languages.
In the following, Gimigliano and the four Law Review staff members who worked on the project look back with pride on the effort:
When Dean Farmer approached Rutgers Law Review about our potential publication of the audio monograph, senior journal management discussed at length the scope of and rationale for our publishing this compelling account of the events on 9/11.
We eventually decided to publish the material—which certainly had the ability to be sensationalist—because we believed that an academic journal, like Rutgers Law Review, would be ideal for such a neutral retelling of what happened on that day. We hoped that the reader could review the monograph and the audio communications and draw his or her own inferences.
This project also was a unique opportunity for the Law Review to step outside the boundaries of what law journals generally publish. In fact, we have received emails from former journal members at other law schools who found it exciting to see a law journal combining media types and using technology to publish creatively.
Of course, we could not have achieved this success without the guidance of Dean John Farmer, Miles Kara, and Andrea Manna. We are thankful they brought this project to the Law Review and found their long march towards making this information public to be inspiring. We also were fortunate to have a great team of editors working towards the launch of our website and managing the subsequent media and public attention. They each played an integral role in the success the Law Review has enjoyed over the past week, and I feel lucky to have had the chance to work with such a great group of people.
Andrew Gimigliano '12, Editor-in-Chief, received a B.A. from the University of Delaware and worked in project management for several years before coming to Rutgers. He is a member of the Moot Court Board and was named Best Oralist in the 2010 Nathan Baker Mock Trial Competition. He has been an Equal Justice America Fellow and this past summer was a summer associate at McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP in Morristown.
As part of the website presentation, I worked with Andy to quality check a number of the audio clips against the transcripts that were developed by Miles Kara, Dean Farmer, John Burzynski, and Mark Heinzelmann. Moreover, I drafted the press materials for our redesigned website's launch with A New Type of War. I also set helped set up Rutgers Law Review's presence on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook to ensure broad awareness of our new website with the audio monograph. Again, it was imperative to us that we not sensationalize or commercialize the content of the monograph, as this really was our presenting to the public the results of the 9/11 Commission members' truth-seeking exercise.
Beginning less than five minutes after the New York Times article was published online just before 11 p.m. on Wednesday, September 7, and continuing for much of the next 48 hours, Andy and I took press inquiries from around the world. I also provided media outlets with complete access to the audio clips and transcripts, as this information is 100 percent public information.
Timothy D'Arduini '12, Senior Managing Editor, is a Marsha Wenk Public Interest Law Fellow, Philip J. Levin Scholar, Moot Court Board member, and former co-chair of the Public Interest Law Foundation. In Spring 2011 he was a legal intern for NJ Supreme Court Justice Jaynee LaVecchia and then was a summer associate at Baker & McKenzie LLP in Washington, D.C. He holds a B.S. from Georgetown University.
My role was originally just to oversee the creation of a new website for Rutgers Law Review. We started the project back in June. I hired a designer and managed the process (i.e., collecting content, developing look/feel of the site, etc.). In August, Andy mentioned that we might be doing something around 9/11 and asked me to look into creating space on the site for the monograph. In mid-August, after learning more specifics about the content, I worked with the designer to develop the most user-friendly way to present it. I provided some parameters and feedback, and the designer worked on the technical aspects and recommended the eventual layout.
We tweaked it a bit, such as making sure the transcript accompanied the individual audio clips so site visitors could read and hear the recordings at the same time in a popup window. The 9/11 section essentially doubled the amount of work that went into the site. We also had to work against the clock, since the New York Times wanted our site to go live before it released the story.
The night of our launch, the designer and I discussed the possibility of the site crashing due to heavy traffic. Our hosting service told us that unless 75,000 people an hour tried to "request" information, our service package could handle the traffic. To my question of how likely it was that something like that would happen, they answered: "highly unlikely."
The next morning, after hearing of problems logging onto the site, we contacted the hosting company, which was completely taken aback that we were registering far more than 76,000 "requests" an hour. We decided to migrate the site to a cloud service to accommodate the traffic. It was definitely the most stressful part of the whole project. I could just see the millions of users we were losing simply because only a few thousand could get on at any given time. We revived the site just before the evening news hit.
I've managed other web design projects, but this has by far been the most exciting. I feel very lucky that I unknowingly volunteered for a project that turned out to be this big.
Isabel D. Chou '12, Editor, holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.P.A. from the University of San Francisco. Her article, "The New Jersey Opportunity Scholarship Act: Another School Choice Solution to Education Reform in New Jersey" is forthcoming this fall in the Rutgers Law Review. A Whitman Family Scholar and participant in the Minority Student Program, she spent her summer as a fellow at Education Pioneers in Newark.
I've always been interested in national security law, so when Andy announced the 9/11 audio project to the Law Review I jumped at the opportunity to get involved. Mark and I traveled with Dean Farmer's assistant, Andrea Manna, to Virginia to meet Miles Kara, a retired U.S. Army Colonel who served with Dean Farmer on the 9/11 Commission. We really can't give enough credit to Miles, who had already transcribed all of the hours of recorded audio. Our job was to work with him to review the transcripts, verify for accuracy, and make corrections. We gathered in his office with transcripts and pencils and began listening to hours of recorded audio between the hijacked airplanes, the FAA, and NORAD.
It was a grueling two-day project that went long into the night. At times we needed to re-listen to static-filled audio fragments a dozen times before we could agree on the wording. Many of the recordings are very emotionally powerful, and really take you back to the events of September 11th in a way that dry text and analysis simply can't achieve. I'm very proud of the work we did, and I'm honored to have had an opportunity to contribute to the historical record.
Mark deserves a great deal of credit for his work with the master transcript and his quick annotations and corrections. Andrea did an amazing job creating the final article that integrated the Commission's analysis, the audio recordings, and the transcripts.
Finally, Isabel's contribution to the team cannot be overstated. We could not have succeeded without her technical expertise, her flexibility in working with an ever-evolving timetable, and her willingness to work overtime and restore the website after it went down following millions of hits. It really was a privilege to work with such an exceptional team.
John Burzynski '12, Managing Editor, is a Jack Solomon Scholar and Philip Levin Scholar; a research assistant for the Hon. Deborah Poritz, Vice Dean Ronald Chen, and Professor Penny Venetis; and a member of the Loan Repayment Assistance Program board. Last summer he was the law intern chair at the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, Appellate Section. He received his B.A. from Denison University.
On the trip to meet Mr. Kara, I read an advance copy of A New Type of War. To say that this document, in its early form, was illuminating is an understatement. It was fascinating, and at the same time tremendously sobering.
Mr. Kara and his wife were incredibly gracious and, quite literally, opened their entire home to us. Dean Farmer, Mr. Kara, Andrea, John, and I began work on the audio tapes and transcripts the next morning, and, except for a few hours of sleep and some time to eat, we didn't stop until the following day.
Knowing the gravity of the work and the importance of making sure the transcripts accurately reflected what was said on the tapes, we worked tirelessly to transcribe every word spoken. This meant going through each file at least 10 to 20 times and often repeating a second or less of audio over and over in order to pinpoint what was being said in the foreground as well as the background. There were quite a few occasions when one person was convinced an individual on tape was saying one thing, and another person was convinced that same individual said something entirely different. Needless to say, there was a lot of confusion and emotion on many of these files, in addition to overlapping voices.
This outlines the biggest challenge of my involvement in the project: These transcripts had to be accurate, but they also needed to be done in a very short time. Additionally, listening closely to the tapes, in particular the ones of Mohammed Atta on American Airlines Flight 11, was often distressing. Being from New Jersey and knowing many people who lost family members on 9/11, I immediately flashed back to when I first heard of the incident during high school physics class. However, taking part in adding the transcripts to the world dialogue was also quite gratifying. Mr. Kara never let us forget that what we were doing was important.
Our work done, we said our goodbyes to Mr. and Mrs. Kara, packed up, and headed home. There was not as much reading on the way back, rather, at least for me, there was considerably more reflection.
Mark S. Heinzelmann '12, Articles Editor, is a member of the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, International. He received his B.A. from Monmouth University. He has worked as a judicial intern for the Hon. Edward M. Coleman, Presiding Judge, Somerset County, as a legal intern at the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, Appellate Division.
Read Metropolitan Corporate Counsel's interview with Dean Farmer and EIC Gimigliano in its October 2011 issue.


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Firefighters in two counties were called to three lightning-related incidents within the same hour this morning.
Only one of the incidents ignited a fire, but one Glasgow family says a loud boom was heard around their house.
"It sounded like a bomb came into our house," Malena Reynolds says.
"She (Malena) wasn't 6 feet from where all this happened, and not a scratch on her this morning, but the clock on the other side of the wall of her was on the floor," her mother, Donna Reynolds says.
Around 7:30 this morning in Glasgow, lightning struck this home on Myrtle St.
"We found that lightning had struck somewhere close to the house and one side of the house, the lightning came up and blew mud on the house, but it also went through the foundation," says Glasgow Fire Chief, Tony Atwood.
Firefighters say the lightning bolt made it's way through the walls in the home, eventually destroying the TV, a Wii, and the wires surrounding the TV.
"I thought it had hit one of the transformers on the pole and I didn't realize it was inside the house," Donna says.
Less than ten minutes later, lightning hit this house on Green St. in Glasgow, knocking out the power.
Around 8:30 this morning, a fire started in New Burley Tobacco Warehouse on 68/80 in Russellville.
"A witness stated that there was a lightning strike in this parking lot here, and he actually saw the strike," says Russellville Fire Chief, Billy Poole.
The owner of the warehouse says its been abandoned for about 2 years.
"I use it for storage and actually my son had a camper in it, and another friend of mine had a pontoon in it. I've got Jon boat in there, and I've got a brand new tug motor in there," says New Burley Tobacco Warehouse owner, Randy Steenbergen.
None of the items were harmed in the warehouse.
Firefighters say they put out the fire in about hour.
Firefighters suggest unplugging all appliances during thunderstorms to help prevent lightning fires.


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Simon's Town
love penguins? you'll love simon's town
Boulders is Simon's Town's most famous beach, with its colony of about 3000 African penguins. This exquisite beach contains huge, rounded rocks (hence the name "Boulders"), and there are numerous coves and rock pools that beg to be explored.
This pretty coastal town is South Africa's main naval base and consists of lovely Victorian buildings, quaint streets and walkways and a fascinating history. Simon's Town is a little further along the False Bay coast from Muizenberg towards Cape Point, and is some 40km from Cape Town, which means it's a great destination for day trips from the Mother City – either by car or by train.
Naval History
Named after the governor of the Dutch settlement, Simon Van Der Stel, who arrived in the Cape in 1679, Simon's Town is South Africa's third-oldest settlement. The governor chose it as a safe alternative to the stormy Cape coast during the turbulent winter months.
Simon's Town is steeped in history, and a visit to Simon's Town Museum, +27 (0)21 786 3046, to get your bearings is a must. The Old Residency was built for the governor of the Dutch East India Company and in its heyday included a brothel and slave quarters. One of the most popular exhibits at the Simon's Town Museum is a statue of Able Seaman Just Nuisance, a beer-drinking great dane which was adopted by the Royal Navy in World War II.
Next door, you'll find the South African Naval Museum, +27 (0)21 787 4686, which celebrates the naval history of Simon's Town with displays of the inside of a submarine and a ship's bridge that moves with a simulated rocking motion.
Enjoy the well-preserved Victorian buildings as you wander down the town's Historical Mile along St George's Street.
what to do in simon's town
Just off St George's Street, you'll find Jubilee Square, where friendly cafés and quirky shops abound. Photograph the famous statue of Just Nuisance and visit the nearby Quayside Mall which overlooks the harbour, from where boats depart regularly on trips to Seal Island and False Bay.
Within walking distance of Jubilee Square you'll find Seaforth, one of the best swimming beaches in Simon's Town. There's also a beach-side restaurant which is a perfect spot for enjoying sundowners. Long Beach is another option; it's not great for swimming but is a good place to take a long walk.
Cango Caves
29km from Oudtshoorn, at the head of the picturesque Cango Valley, lies the spectacular underground wonder of the Klein Karoo - the Cango Caves. Situated in a limestone ridge parallel to the well-known Swartberg Mountains, you will find the finest dripstone caverns, with their vast halls and towering formations.
Southern Suburbs
The Southern Suburbs are a tourist's delight. The area, which stretches from the slopes of the Table Mountain range to the False Bay coast, offers natural attractions and a vibrant nightlife.
St James
Just a little further on from Cape Town's well-known Muizenberg beach is St James. Home to a cluster of well-known and oft-photographed bathing boxes on the beach, St James is a picturesque area that offers beachgoers respite from the westerly wind.
Llandudno and Sandy Bay
Only 18km from the Cape Town city centre, an arc of fine white sand gives away the secluded location of one of Cape Town's most beautiful beaches, Llandudno.
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The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, designed by Philip Johnson and Richard Foster, opened in 1973. It is part of an eight-library system and serves as the primary research facility for New York University, housing over 3 million of the University's 4.6 million volumes. In addition to books, journals, and other print materials, the library provides access to many nonprint resources. These include thousands of electronic journals and databases that you can connect to from your home or residence hall; extensive video and audio collections; and microforms. The library is visited by over 6,000 users daily and checks out almost one million books each year. The library has more than 2,000 seats for study, and a wireless Internet connection is available on all floors.
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Tommy Sparks' GarageWritten by on August 29, 2013
HOT ROD wants you to see a real hot rodder's garage, with all of its clutter and coolness—not one of those homogenized, perfectly polished palaces you see in the Ultimate Garages–type coffee table books. We went to North Hollywood, California, to the late Tommy Sparks' garage with cameras and Morgan Scott in tow to take in the grease and grime of a garage where cars, engines, and projects of all sorts were started and finished. Sparks was a builder, fabricator, restorer, and hot rodder from the '40s and '50s days of hot cars and cool brews. And it was here where the sparks flew and oil flung. More recently, Tommy restored many Concours-winning cars, built some screaming flathead Fords, and tinkered on many a movie car destined for the big screen. He enjoyed getting his hands dirty and took pride in having the tools and equipment necessary to make those projects pleasurable, and it shows when you view his vast shop for yourself. Sparks passed away in 2011, but HOT ROD Deluxe contributor David Steele maintains the place.
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Sparks supplemented his restoration services by supplying the movie industry with cars from a collection of more than 100. When Francis Ford Coppola needed a Tucker factory and cars, Tommy was tasked with rounding up more than 20 of the original 51 produced. In addition, he created a Tucker from an old Studebaker for a racetrack crash scene and made many hanging fenders and other props like this Tucker air-cooled engine. Once movies are completed, stuff like this usually gets pitched or ends up as a cool wall hanger, such as this one.This was obviously set up as the dirty room, with the placement of the various sanders, grinders, and a Kwik-Way brake lathe all lined up in a row. These lathes were used to turn down brake drums and true brake shoes to the drums. Kwik-Way Products (Kwik-Way.com) is still cranking out brake equipment in Iowa today.Tommy Sparks was a seasoned and inveterate mechanic and tinkerer, and you only have to see his workshop to tell that. Bins for fasteners, diagnostic tools, and workbench tools, such as drill presses and grinders, are all evident. Looking at what's hanging from the rafters, you can tell he was cool with collecting, too.In 1956, Tommy trained for the U.S. Olympic Bicycle Team and was an avid cyclist for the rest of his life. The Western Flyer is a rare Columbia Special Edition repop from the '80s. Next to that is the Harley-Davidson bike made by GT Bicycles in the late '90s in a licensing deal with Harley. According to Steele, when Tommy saw one, he had to have one.A well-equipped gearhead has to have machining equipment, and Sparks did. His Mark milling and drilling machine looks like it got plenty of use.Tommy was fairly organized in a sort of unorganized way. Although the original hot rodding intent for some of these nails and tool holders changed during the years, Tommy worked on his Packard restorations and movie projects; there appears to be a place for everything.Weatherhead flexible fuel lines were available at many early garages and auto parts stores like NAPA, and they can still be found there under the Eaton-Weatherhead brand of hoses.Sun diagnostic equipment was a staple of many a service station and garage. This unit from the '60s allowed one to clamp a distributor into the center to adjust the dwell, check the shaft for worn bearings, and generally see how the distributor performed at different rpm and loads. It was a luxury to be able to do any of that as a "bench test," as opposed to having to perform those functions in the car. Tommy definitely had quite a bit of this type of diagnostic equipment from the days before computers. HOT RODSigns are in abundance in the Sparks garage, and this is only a small sample of them. The hanging grille appears to be from a Jaguar, but with a hot rodder's eye, you can imagine it turned upside-down, making a cool track-nose grille. Those vintage Mobil Oil bottles were filled from a drum that pumped the oil into the bottles for conveniently topping off your engine at the fuel pump.