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650 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
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Joe Dimaggio Highway, Eleventh Avenue
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New York, NY 10036
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- Fitness Center
- Indoor Pool
- Residents Lounge
- Childrens Playroom
- Rooftop Deck
- On-site ATM
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- On-site Dry Cleaners
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- Landscaped Roof Deck
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- Landscaped Grounds
- Units: 921
- High-rise (26+ Floors)
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Pet policy: Pets OK , 1 Dog, Weight Limit 50 lbs.
One River Place is a 41-story tower containing, with 921 luxury residential rental units, a 35,000-square-foot state-of-the-art health club with glass enclosed 25-yard pool, two outdoor tennis courts, a basketball court, party room, workout facilities and sundecks. Designed by Costas Kondylis, the building also has 40,000 square feet of retail shops, including a dry cleaner, deli and a Lucky Strike bowling entertainment center.
A luxury residential complex located between 41st and 42nd Streets along 12th Avenue, One River Place has a unique presence in Midtown Manhattan. Steps away from the Hudson River, River Place is also close to the vibrancy of Times Square, Theater District and Hell's Kitchen. River Place commuters have immediate access to cross town buses and citywide train lines.
One River Place is the first phase of the residential complex planned for the area. In 2009, Silverstein Properties will open Silver Towers at River Place, a second luxury rental building located on the eastern portion of the site. Also designed by Kondylis, Silver Towers is two 60-story residential towers connected by a six-story base with a mix of market rate apartments, corporate housing and moderate and low income units. A 25,000-square-foot landscaped public park will separate the two buildings.
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Currently we're using Viewports to load our app. The problem first surfaced when we had a HTMLContainer in a BoarderLayout that needed to scroll because it had a lot of text in it (think of an e-mail client with a grid on one side and a reading/preview area on the other). In the HTMLContainer (in FF only) we are able to click on it to make sure it has the focus and then press the down arrow and the whole page shifts up by 10-15 pixels. Upon finding this we tried it elsewhere throughout other Viewports we render and found the same issue exist there as well.
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I moved this thread to the bugs forum so we can take a look at it. Thanks for reporting. There is currently no known workaround.
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For those who land on this later... The fix for this is adding absolute position to the __gwt_historyFrame This is how its done in the 3.x.
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For example if someone in Islam today converted, and tomorrow they return back to any other religion, then:
Crime has been committed. And must be condemned His Actions will be punished
Is there any command about this in Judaism?
For example if someone in Islam today converted, and tomorrow they return back to any other religion, then:
Is there any command about this in Judaism?
Provided the conversion was valid, the person is considered a Jew forever. If they "revert" to something other than Judaism, they may be sinning, but that is between them and G-d now.
As far as punishment, they are no different than any other Jew. That is to say, Jewish courts today no longer have the power to punish people for sins against G-d.
As HodofHod mentioned, once a person converts to Judaism, mentally and bodily, the conversion is full and effective spiritually and legally (meaning within Jewish law).
Aside from a few cases of very strict rabbinic interpretations of what is considered a "full and effective" conversion (and attempts, thereby, to retroactively invalidate a person's conversion), and different standards among different denominations, nobody disputes that once someone has effectively converted they remain Jewish, in the eyes of Jewish law, forever.
Just to add to that answer and clarify/expand a bit, there is no specific sin against "reverting", because no such thing is recognized. However, any time a convert engages in any act that is forbidden to Jews, the convert is sinning as a Jew by not upholding the commandments in the Torah - not because the convert has "reverted".
Three details that weren't addressed by the other (well-written) answers:
1) The Talmud in Kesubos 11a says that a child who converts has the ability to turn back at the time of their coming of age
This is age 13 for a boy, and 12 for a girl, although see the Tosefos HaRi"D there who says that it is even earlier than that. The Chasam Sofer also entertains that it would be an earlier age.
Such a convert may change their mind on their conversion at that point.
Many commentaries assume this to mean that the conversion of a child is not a done deal until such point, not that they are a full-fledged Jew who can change their mind. However, Tosefos in Sanhedrin 68b s.v. קטן אי אתה צריך לחזור implies that he/she is a full-fledged Jew who becomes not a Jew at the point of their refusal.
2) If a non-Jew converts without having been properly vetted by a valid Jewish court to determine his/her sincerity, there are opinions that say that even though we do not disregard their conversion, we treat them as a questionable convert until their pure intentions have been made clear (see Responsa Achiezer 3:26:3 - חיישינן לחומרא עד שתתברר צדקתו), as the validity of their acceptance of Mitzvos is questionable (I assume this means that we would treat them as a non-Jew as far as counting them for Minyan or marrying a Jew and the like). Your question gave the case of "tomorrow they return back" - the very next day. That would presumably be sufficient reason to doubt the sincerity of their acceptance, and if they had not been vetted by a Rabbinical court, it would cast doubt upon the validity of their conversion.
3) As far as the source of the statements of the other answers, it is the Talmud in Yevamos 47b:


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Mike - you do know the lever is spring loaded - it pulls out so you can reposition for locking. Once you have the initial lock set you usually only need about half rotation to unlock.
See: http://www.nodalninja.com/support/QRS2.html
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Thanks for that, I hadn't appreciated that I could do this. I do still think a knob or cam clamp is nicer to use but that's me being picky.
Oh and FWIW the A rail setting comes in a 68mm.
Here's my QR setup with a 1/4 inch rail plate (http://store.nodalninja.com/product_p/rp1-14.htm) and a Kirk QR clamp
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So don't despair! If the weather makes you leery of venturing out, thinkabout an alternative way to get where you want to go — you just might enjoyit!
From Nov. 1 — April 30 in Oregon, parking in a Sno- Park requires a valid permit displayed on your vehicle's windshield. There are about 100 Sno-Parks throughout the state located in all mountain passes and at most recognized ski, snowmobile and snow-play areas. A list of Sno-Parks is available at TripCheck.com under "Travel Center."The Sno-Park program, established in 1977, helps pay for snow removal in these designated winter recreation parking locations. There are three types of Sno-Park permits:
In some parts of Oregon, driving in the snow is as common as night following day. In other parts of the state, however, driving in the snow is a rarity, something drivers approach with timidity or hubris because of their inexperience.
Driving in the snow requires a certain set of driving skills that some Oregon residents get to use only rarely. But wherever you are and whatever your snow driving skills, the fundamentals remain the same.
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In a contest between a snowplow and any other vehicle, the laws of physics virtually guarantee the snowplow will win. Drivers who try to pass on the right when a snowplow is in operation run the risk of damaging their vehicles, hitting the snowplow or running off the road and into a snow bank or guardrail. It is illegal to pass a snowplow on the right on state highways. On most Oregon highways, snowplows have "wing" plows that stick out more than eight feet from the right front edge of the truck. The snow being plowed or blown off the road can contain rocks and other debris that can damage vehicles. Trying to pass a plow on the left also has its problems. The road behind the snowplow is in much better condition than the road ahead. If conditions are severe enough to require the attention of a snowplow, drivers should use extra care when trying to accelerate and pass other vehicles. Ruts in the snow can grab tires; icy conditions make it difficult to control any vehicle at higher speeds. Drivers should give winter maintenance vehicles such as plows and sanders a wide berth. They do not travel at high speeds and other vehicles quickly overtake them. Plows and sanding trucks pull over periodically to let traffic pass. The best advice is to stay at least three car lengths behind and give yourself more time to get where you are going.
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Winter weather conditions can make driving dangerous for anyone, but when you are driving a 70-foot long vehicle weighing as much as 105,500 pounds, slick roads and low visibility can be especially challenging. An average of 100 truck-involved crashes resulting in an injury or fatality occur in snowy or icy conditions in Oregon each year.
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text: What better way to start the day then with a lesson on a figure that I'm sure all of you know of. He has been a television celebrity but not due to acting or entertaining. Instead, we recognize this man as being one of the most popular infomercial celebrities out there even though he has passed on. Today I will show you "how to draw Billy Mays", step by step. Billy Mays was, as you know the spokesperson for products like Oxiclean, Kaboom, Orange Glo, and even Mighty Putty. He became a regular guest on Home Shopping Network, and because of his exciting personality and strong selling pitch, he is known even through death, around the world. Nowadays there are still people out there that use his motivational way of selling to pitch their own products, but no one, not one person can ever replace Billy Mays the selling King. I do hope you like this lesson on drawing Billy Mays as I did. I will return with more drawing fun so stick around because I know you will like what I have to upload today. Peace out people and may Billy rest in peace.


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April 17, 2013
Sharks in Cape Town: get up close and personal
It was an honour to be invited by the Two Oceans Aquarium to document the release of two ragged-tooth sharks back into the wild on 11 April 2013.
The process had started a few days earlier when the Aquarium team had to move Kay, a 207kg female raggie, out of her exhibit and up to the roof of the Aquarium so that the vet could fit her with an internal acoustic tag. As Kay makes her journey along the coast, and north towards the warmer waters of the Benguela current, the signal from her tag will be picked up by a series of listening stations. Scientists can then use this information to better understand the migratory patterns of ragged-tooth sharks, and assist in the conservation efforts of these majestic creatures.
As you can see in the video, Kay wasn't too keen on leaving the Aquarium! She seemed uneasy at the blue 'cone' that is used to safely hoist the shark out of the exhibit and into a transportation tank. Once the team switched over to the transparent cone, they were able to move her up to a holding tank on the roof of the Aquarium, where she was anesthetised by the vet, and tagged.
Watch the three-minute video clip below to see what it takes to move a shark from an aquarium and into the ocean – it's certainly easier said than done!
On the day of her release, Kay was joined by another young male raggie, who had come down from the Pretoria Zoo. The two were carefully placed on the back of a large truck and taken to Gordon's Bay harbour.
They were then lowered, one after the other, into the boat, Aquarium 1, for their respective trips out to sea. With the smaller male safely released first, it was Kay's turn – and seeing a huge shark being carried through the air by a crane was an unusual sight, for sure! But once safely in the boat, the Aquarium team headed two nautical miles out to sea, said their goodbyes, and lowered her into the cool waters of False Bay. Having been lightly sedated for some of the journey, it took Kay a few seconds to find her fins, but very soon she swam off to explore her new home – the open ocean.
It was a beautiful moment, and an amazing event to have witnessed.
The Two Oceans Aquarium is one of the only facilities in the world that can and does regularly release sharks back into the wild. They collect the animals for their exhibits themselves, and see these sharks as ambassadors for their species – helping us to learn more about them, and hopefully getting the public interested in marine conservation.
Kay had been at the Aquarium for four years. She was well fed and looked after, and is now a viable mating partner. Previous shark releases have shown that these raggies adapt back to life in the wild perfectly. As one of the most misunderstood and maligned animals, the work that the Two Oceans Aquarium is doing is invaluable to shark conservation efforts in South Africa. Long may their fin-tastic work continue!
Get up close with a shark
The Two Oceans Aquarium offers diving in its I&J Predator Exhibit (with ragged-tooth sharks), as well as in the Ocean Basket Kelp Forest Exhibit.
Alternatively, if you feel like braving the open seas, and seeing some other sharks up close (like the great white shark), there are a number of shark cage diving operators nearby. Check out Apex Predators, and read our fascinating interview with founder Chris Fallows on Facing Cape Town's great whites.
Dyer Island Cruises, Great White Shark Tours cc and the White Shark Diving Co operate from Kleinbaai, near Hermanus, while White Shark Africa offers shark dives and viewing in Mossel Bay. All of these operators are have marine conservation in mind, and are invested in allowing visitors to experience these majestic creatures in a way that does not threaten their existence.
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April 6, 2013
WEIRTON — Though the new consolidated elementary school at Preston and Pennsylvania Avenue is more than a year away from opening, Weirton officials already are worried that a traffic signal isn't......
2 words come to mind. First one is BULL second rhymes with SPIT. As soon as some crybaby parent, who will have OHIO tags BTW, has a near miss, a light will be put in "for the children" . Gov can do any thing they want as long as its "for the kids". Sounds like the school should have been built elsewhere for safety reasons, but the dirty deal with ex-solicitor for the land trumps safety I guess. Can also bet school brd will get a kickback from the traffic lite co. too.
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Trojans Welcome North Greenville, Coker to the Electric City This WeekendFebruary 26, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – With a setback on Erskine on Tuesday, Anderson University baseball seeks a long-awaited victory at the end of the week, hosting nonconference opponent North Greenville on Thursday, followed by a South Atlantic Conference three-game series with league newcomer Coker, beginning on Friday at Anderson Memorial Stadium.
The Trojans
Despite dropping its last six contests, AU remains in sixth-place in the SAC standings with an even 3-3 record. With an uneven amount of teams in the conference this season, the Trojans stepped away from their conference schedule last weekend when they headed to Peach Belt Conference foe North Georgia. Despite out-hitting the Nighthawks for the series, Anderson dropped three straight by four runs or fewer in each game.
Currently, senior left fielder Nathan Galliford is tied for the conference lead for home runs with Newberry's Eric Barbieri with four home runs for the year. Galliford also ranks second in RBI (16), third in walks (9) and seventh in slugging percentage (.596). Sophomore first baseman Steven Cooper currently leads the league with seven doubles, while being joined by middle infielder Kyle Bailey for seventh-place in hits (19).
On the mound, junior right-hander Landon Beck, who was named to the Preseason All-SAC Second Team prior to the start of the season, has posted 30 strikeouts in 18.0 innings. His 15.00 strikeouts per game average ranks first in the league as Wingate's Ben Currie ranks second at 10.27 per game. Beck ranks eighth in the SAC with a 2.50 ERA while also earning a save against Carson-Newman in the opening game of the series.
The Crusaders
With a game pending on Wednesday against SAC opponent Lenoir-Rhyne, North Greenville is 3-8 for the season, but winners of its last two games, snapping an eight-game losing streak last weekend with a 7-1 win over Toccoa Falls. The Crusaders made it two straight wins after defeating Brevard 5-1 on Tuesday.
Two-way player Allen Staton leads the NGU lineup, hitting .385 (15-for-39) while starting in all 11 games. Staton leads the team in hits (15), RBI (10) and slugging percentage (.615). While doing damage at the plate, Staton also has two starts on the hill, tossing 15.1 innings and recording a team-high 23 strikeouts. The Laurens, S.C. native has given up just four earned runs and 10 hits, holding batters to a .185 average.
Two other Crusaders join Staton hitting over .300, as redshirt junior Josh Sealey and redshirt sophomore Jessep Polk are hitting .375 and .341, respectively, as Polk leads NGU in doubles with six.
The Series vs. North Greenville
In both of the teams' meeting a season ago, the Trojans claimed both contests with a 7-4 win in Tigerville, followed by a 10-1 victory at Anderson Memorial Stadium. Currently, Anderson is on a three-game winning streak over the Crusaders, having not posted a loss against its in-state rival since Feb. 14, 2012.
The Cobras
Entering the weekend on a six-game winning streak, Coker is 9-3 overall and carries a 4-2 league mark in its first season in the SAC after moving from Conference Carolinas. Last season, Coker finished the 2013 campaign with a 38-16 record and earned a trip to NCAA Division II College World Series. During their first season in the SAC, the Cobras dropped 2-of-3 to Wingate in their first SAC series in program history, before sweeping Mars Hill last weekend.
Despite tallying just one home run as a team this season, Coker's offensive strength comes on the base paths, swiping 50 stolen bases, which leads the league. Newberry ranks second in the stolen base category, which just 23 swipes on the season. In the individual league statistics, the Cobras have the top-four positions in the stolen base category, as senior Fico Kondla is the only player with double digit swipes with 11.
Sophomore right-hander Matt Prosser leads the Coker pitching staff with a perfect 3-0 record with a 1.46 ERA. Prosser has tossed 24.2 innings and has struck out 22 batters, holding hitters to a .188 average.
The Series vs. Coker
Since 2007, Anderson has posted a 14-7 record in regular season matchups against the Cobras. Despite Anderson's move to the SAC before the 2011 season, the teams continued the in-state rivalry with the Trojans holding a 5-4 record against Coker as nonconference opponents.


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A theorem of Clemmens and Griffiths states that a smooth hypesurface in $\mathbb CP^4$ of degree three is not rational. I would like to know if nevertheless it is diffeomorphic (as a smooth real $6$-dimensional manifold) to a rational complex three-dimensional variety?
Let me work out the idea of Ulrich, and deduce that the answer to the question is negative, namely a cubic three-fold is not diffeomorphic to any rational variety. The idea of Urlich is that if a rational threefold is diffeomorpic to a cubic then it is a Fano with $Pic=\mathbb Z$. So we just have to check that cubic is not diffeomorphic to any other type of three dimensional Fanos with $Pic=\mathbb Z$.
There exist $17$ families of Fano threefolds with $Pic=\mathbb Z$ ($\mathbb CP^3$, quadric, five Fanos of index two including cubics, and $10$ Fanos of index $1$). The description can be found here one page two:
Let $H$ be the hyperplane section of the cubic, then $H^3$ equals $3$, i.e., the degree of the cubic. So the cubic has the following property: if we take all classes in integral second cohomology of the cubic then their cubes are of the form $3\cdot n^3$ where $n\in \mathbb Z$. Checking the list of $17$ Fanos we see that the cubic is the only one with this property. So it is not diffeomorphic to any other Fano three fold.


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Let $X$ be Hilbert space and let $T:X\to X$ be a bounded operator. Define the operator $S: X/\Ker T \to X/\Ker T$ via $S(x+\Ker T)=Sx+\Ker T$. I can show that $||S||\leq ||T||$, and I am wondering whether the norms are actually equal. Is this true or false in general?
Edit: Considering the answer below, I am adding the conditions that $\Ker(T)$ is finite dimensional and $\operatorname{Im}(T)$ is not (say $T$ is surjective). Could you please show a counterxample in this situation as well.


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WASHINGTON — The Senate voted last week to urge President Obama to speed the U.S. military pullout from Afghanistan.
Senators voted 62-33 in favor of a faster timetable to withdraw U.S. fighting forces. It was a nonbinding advisory vote but enjoyed support from both parties.
The amendment would keep Obama's goal to withdraw all combat troops by the end of 2014 but urged they be extracted at a faster pace by that date. It did not suggest a specific timetable.
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., said the U.S. objectives in Afghanistan to destroy al-Qaeda camps and track down terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks have been accomplished.
"It simply makes no sense to have nearly 70,000 troops on the ground in Afghanistan when the biggest terrorist threats are elsewhere," he said.
The vote came as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said some undetermined number of troops will need to remain in Afghanistan beyond 2014 to prevent al-Qaeda from returning, and to train Afghan security forces.
Sens. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., and John Boozman, R-Ark., voted against the amendment.
The Senate debated Afghanistan while taking up a $631 billion defense policy bill for 2013. A final vote was expected in the week ahead.
During debate, senators voted 54-41 against transferring to the U.S. mainland 166 Iraq and Afghanistan battleground prisoners still being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
"Simply stated, the American people do not want to close Guantanamo Bay, which is an isolated, military-controlled facility, to bring these crazy bastards who want to kill us all to the United States," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. "Most Americans believe that the people at Guantanamo Bay are not some kind of burglar or bank robber. They are bent on our destruction."
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said the amendment would tie U.S. hands on how to handle the prisoners. She said they could be kept securely in maximum security prisons, as "hundreds of terrorists" already are.
"I believe Guantanamo has been a blight on the image of our country across this world and it should be closed down," she said.
Pryor and Boozman voted to keep prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
The Senate approved an amendment declaring it illegal to detain a U.S. citizen arrested in the United States without charge or trial. It was a compromise designed to head off a full fight over the constitutionality of U.S. detention policies stemming from the "war on terror."
"I believe even with the serious national security threats we now face, America must hold fast to our most fundamental constitutional rights and liberties," said Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah. "The U.S. government should not be authorized to detain Americans indefinitely without charge and without trial."
But Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a military lawyer, said there is a difference "between the law of war and criminal law."
"There is a reason that when we capture somebody in a war we do not give them a trial by jury, and we do not give them a lawyer," he said. "They are held under the law of war because we do not want to let them go back to killing us. And they are not given a lawyer because we are not trying to solve a crime; we are trying to win a war."
Boozman voted for the amendment, while Pryor voted against it.
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I am looking for a way to convert Wiki to a DTP format - what is the most efficient (fast but preserving all of the document elements) way to do that? The "DTP format" can be any format used in the industry but it should allow me to edit the document after processing the Wiki.
My publication may include many elements of wiki syntax, i.e. tables, images, links, code blocks, maybe even math equations.
I use wikidot.com but Wiki format is not an issue here, it can be easily converted to any other wiki syntax.
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The boiler lit and ran the other day, but now the pilot light was out. I could hear a hum at the control. I lit the pilot light, but when I no longer pressed on the valve, the pilot light went out right away. Is it a dirty sensor? What can I do to find out what is wrong?
Most pilot light devices have a sensor that detects that the pilot light is lit, and will shut off the pilot gas if it doesn't detect the lit flame.
This sensor must heat up in order to detect the flame, so after you light your pilot light, keep the pilot valve depressed for 30 seconds in order to ensure the sensor heats up. After 30 seconds, release the valve. If the light still goes off, repeat 1 or 2 more times.
Once the light stays lit, turn the valve to the ON or OPEN position and the pilot light will stay lit.
If the light refuses to stay lit even after several minutes of hot flame hitting it, then yes, you may have a defective sensor or other part.


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The 5 Most Baffling Things About Pinterest: Explained
Chances are you've heard someone, probably your girlfriend, mother, sister or lady probation officer, breathlessly praise the glories of Pinterest. "It changed my life!" they say, followed by a gurgled orgasm noise and a swift, moist exit. With 20 million monthly visitors to the site, Pinterest is now the fastest growing social media site ever -- faster than Facebook, faster than Twitter. Maybe you've moseyed over to Pinterest to see what the hubbub was about, only to be crushed under a tidal wave of random thumbnails of cookies, clothes and crafts made from repurposed toilet paper rolls.
If you're confused, and you will be if you look long enough, Pinterest is basically a virtual "vision board" -- and a vision board is a poster that you paste magazine cutouts expressing your personality and hopes and wishes onto. There was a time when only aspiring kidnappers were allowed to use magazine cutouts to express their hopes and wishes but, you know, OBAMA. Thanks to Pinterest, women (and a tiny number of men, but we'll get to them in a minute) from all over the world are virtually "pinning" their "Pinterests" to their "pinboards" via "the Pinternet." So far, so good? Pinterrific.
Then other people are free to share your pinned recipes, crafts, inspirational photos, etc. on their boards, and so on, at a rate of several billion times a second (probably). Got it? OK, now here's where it gets weird. For instance, you're probably wondering ...
#5. Are These Moms Really Awesome, or Insane?
Kara's Party Ideas via Pinterest
The pink explosion above is a Pinterest user's birthday party ... for a 2-year-old. Did your mom throw you birthday parties when you were a kid? Did they look like that? Or this:
Hostess With The Mostess via Pinterest
Most people don't have weddings this well catered.
No? Hmmm, that's weird. Why didn't your parents throw you a themed celebration with coordinating invitations, decorations, seven courses of snacks, games and $50 goody bags for your first birthday? Was it because they hated you?
Yes, if love is measured by the amount of time you put into Barbie hair detangler recipes and hand-sewing baby dresses out of pillowcases, then Pinterest mothers are the most loving mothers of all. No matter what your picture of domestic perfection is, it doesn't hold a candle to these ladies. Hey, did your parents ever make your Halloween costumes? Not if you grew up in the '80s. Parents of the '80s were much more interested in smothering their offspring than winning the Oscar for Most Creative Sewing Chops. But if Pintermoms are to be believed, Halloween is a whole new ballgame today:
Grosgrain via Pinterest
The wig is even made of real hair, courtesy of grandma.
Costume Works via Pinterest
A real boy who wants to be Pinocchio? That's meta as hell.
How about your lunches? Surely these pictures of lovingly crafted bento lunchboxes will bring back a rush of sweet memories from elementary school:
ParentMap via Pinterest
Because real pirates prefer their grapes sliced in half.
Easy Lunchboxes via Pinterest
Apparently, Nemo was chilling on some green ramen the whole time.
Mmmm, just like mom used to make ... if she loved you.
Not that there's anything wrong with moms pouring hours of love into their kids' rooms, costumes, parties, lunches, every waking moment, etc. To each their own. And hey, if you want to dress your sleeping baby up as a huge sushi roll ...
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The same lady tried a spring roll costume, but the outcome was somewhat more tragic.
Wait a second. Just how much spare time do these people have? We guess that brings us to your next question ...
#4. How Do People Possibly Have the Time to Make This Stuff?
Hey, instead of putting down boring old tile or linoleum on your floor, why not glue thousands and thousands of pennies to it one at a time? Thanks, Pinterest!
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Yeah, it looks nice now. But think of what a few weeks of spilled drinks will do to it.
In case you haven't figured this part out yet, Pinterest is for makers. Makers of crafts, food, clothes, pretty babies, bulimia patients ... but probably not makers of useful modifications to everyday stuff, because that's what Lifehacker is for.
After a few minutes of project bombardment, one will start to wonder how other people have the time to make this stuff. Could it be that others are spending less than six hours on the Internet every day? Or is everyone else stuck in their own Groundhog Day where they have infinite time for infinite projects until they learn a hard truth and move on? How much time would you need to carve tiny people into your fingernails?
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"It was totally worth skipping work for this."
Or make a necklace out of pistachio shells?
Crem de la Craft via Pinterest
And here we've been throwing them at pigeons like fools.
Or tying your hair into knots that surely require 20 hours and a crew of six engineers to get right?
The Beauty Department via Pinterest
Four men died building that hairdo.
SECRET PINTEREST TIP: What's actually happening is one person makes something cool, as crafty/cool types have been doing since the dawn of time, and posts a picture of their project, and then 300 other people "repin" that picture with the caption "WANT TO TRY" or "SOMEDAY" or "IF ONLY I HAD HANDS."
It's easy to go from board to board and see a vast landscape of impossible projects and feel bad about yourself for merely doing the things that could reasonably be expected of a human. So ladies, don't let Pinterest make you feel bad about yourself, and guys, don't let Pinterest set impossibly high standards for the women in your life. After all, do you really want the people in your life to spend this much time on their nails?
#3. What Have These People Done to Their Fingernails?
Oh, didn't you know women were flaunting entire universes on their fingernails now?
Nail Crazy And You Know It via Pinterest
"My toes are a map of the best truck stop bathrooms."
Or painting detailed patterns imitating peacock feathers?
Polished Love via Pinterest
Checking your nails the wrong way might be interpreted as a mating sign by other peacocks.
Look around the office. Two years ago, all the ladies would have been sporting conservative shades of nothing-gloss on their boring finger-ends that ultimately tapered into negative space. Today they're using their own keratin to grow crystal meth! It's crazy!
FashionablyGEEK via Pinterest
Her other hand, themed after The Golden Girls, is less photogenic.
To be fair, Pinterest didn't cause this. It's only documenting the nail art trend that has been going strong for a few years now. If you've been paying attention, you would have noticed more stripes and hearts and discarded baby teeth on the nails all around you. And if you haven't, Pinterest is going to get you up to speed.
Plus, once you sign up for Pinterest, tiny Pintergnomes come into your house and do your nails and braid your hair at night. Read the user terms and conditions. This could be you in the morning:
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These aren't hairstyles, they're part-time jobs.
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Why does the word "hexadecimal" have the prefix "hexa-" if it has a base of 16, not 6?
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Hexa- is the Greek prefix for the number six, from hex, "six"; cf. hexagon, hexameter, hexad, etc.
Decimus is the Latin ordinal number "tenth"; cf. decimate, decimal.
This hybrid construction hexadecimal is strange but often seen in English to mean "sixteenth" or "pertaining to sixteen". It does not exist in either Latin or Greek, of course.
In Latin, it would be sedecimus, "sixteenth", leading to English sedecimal.
In Greek, in would be hekkaidekatos, "sixteenth", possibly leading to English heccaedecatic; but derivations of such polysyllabic Greek numbers are rarely used in English. The prefix would be heccaedeca-, as in a heccaedeca(h)edron, a polyhedron with sixteen surfaces.
If decimal is "ten-ly", hexadecimal is "six-ten-ly", or "sixteenly".
The prefix "hexa-" originally means six, it's "hexadecim-" that means sixteen. (Latin and greek had constructions similar to English for numbers between 13 and 19.) In computer-related usage, base 16 is very common, so the prefix for 16 has come to be systematically abbreviated "hex-" or "hexa-". Since base 6 is never used, there's no ambiguity.
Because "sexadecimal" would be considered too rude for IBM in the 50s.
Knuth says that it should be "senidenary." (The art of computer programming vol. 2 Seminumerical Algorithms p200.)


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I'm currently working out a way to gamify my daily work / life. I want to reward myself via a points system, assigning points to tasks I should do but tend to neglect.
These are things like paying invoice in a timely manner and answering important emails but also things I want to do, but never get around to, like working out from time to time.
As I'm the only "judge" I also work on way to prevent that I game the system, but this isn't a real problem for me because I tend to be objective and don't think I'll cheat myself.
Also, I don't want to tie the system to any specific task-management application (like EpicWin for iPhone)
Have you tried something like this?
Did it work out?
Any input?
Thanks everyone for their answers! I hadn't time to really work out a good system for me so far. So far I use a software (producteev) to manage tasks from everywhere and decide on point value on task creation. I also have daily tasks of calculating daily score and all. Points add to a score value that actually results in a budget for stuff I can buy for myself. per 100 points I can spend 1€. This way t improves my motivation while also limiting my spend-all-my-money-instead-of-saving-it personality.
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5 Historic Artifacts You Won't Believe Still Work
#2. The Twin Satellites That Refuse to Die
When satellites are sent out into space, scientists generally hope for a few good years of info before the equipment succumbs to the cold abyss and/or is eaten by Space Trolls. Few orbiting satellites get past their 10th birthday, and operating that long outside of orbit is pretty much unheard of.
Except, that is, for the Voyager program.
Via Wapi.isu.edu
Seen here, giving Saturn the finger.
In 1977, NASA launched two Voyager satellites to gather data on Jupiter and Saturn. Their life expectancy was estimated to be four years, but after five had passed, the satellites just kept on trucking. People started wondering what would happen if NASA just kept them out there ... forever. So they sent Voyager 1 on a course to outer space, and Voyager 2 got a ticket to explore Neptune and Uranus.
Via Voyager.jpl.nasa.gov
"My only regret is that I'll never live to see my nephew, Skynet, grow into a man-bot."
Thirty-five years and 14.5 billion miles from Earth, both Voyagers are still working as well as they did the day they were launched. And although most of their current data is strictly confined to how cold and empty space is, they might still have a role to play: They are about to exit the sun's sphere of gravity, and will soon, for the first time in history, provide invaluable firsthand information about what lies beyond.
#1. The 36,000-Year-Old Dinner
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At some point, we've all stretched the scientific limits for how long food can last before it becomes inedible and/or poisonous. Meat can generally be safely kept in a freezer for a few months. Military Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), if stored properly, can last around five years. The canning process can give certain foods a shelf life of decades. And the Arctic ... well, it can apparently preserve an edible bison or woolly mammoth for a few dozen centuries. And yes, humans have eaten them.
First, let us rewind to 10,000 years ago, the time when woolly mammoths were roaming Siberia. When they died, their carcasses were lost in the permafrost. Frozen solid, they could stay preserved for thousands of years, as if they'd perished just yesterday. And as the mammoths slowly became extinct, their hulking bodies remained frozen in the hellish wastelands we now lovingly call the Arctic.
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Russians just call this "marinated."
So in the 1920s, people started finding mammoth bodies with meat so well preserved as to be edible ... if you call half-rotted and definitely freezer burned "edible." Having better food available, and also common sense, the meat was reportedly fed to sled dogs.
But in the early 2000s, Russian scientists weren't as choosy or concerned with self-preservation. Feeling the urge for some sweet, sweet mammoth steak, one reckless soul carved a bit off of the plentiful mammoth carcasses they had in their cold storage and Epic Meal Timed the shit out of it.
"And with your mammoth steak, may I suggest the blood of children who died on Christmas Eve?"
The resulting banquet was perfectly edible all right, but tasted "awful" and, shockingly, not unlike "meat left too long in a freezer."
That's not to say all ancient meat tastes like ass, though. When a 36,000-year-old baby bison was found frozen in Alaska in 1979, one scientist knew exactly what to do with it. He performed a bunch of experiments ... and then calmly carved some meat out of it and made a stew, because heavy sciencing makes for a heavy appetite.
The stew was not only edible, but deemed "acceptable." So, yeah, that meatloaf you've had in the freezer since 1994? Some day, after civilization has collapsed, risen again and collapsed once more, some cyborg will heat that shit up and declare it "OK."
"Whoops! No biggie. I will eat literally any fucking thing you put in front of me."
For more things that don't know how to die, check out 5 Animals That Are Terrifyingly Hard to Kill and 7 Historical Figures Who Were Absurdly Hard To Kill.


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I am working on the transport properties of two dimensional electron gas in semiconductor heterostructures and am interested in the characteristic length and time scales of the system like elastic scattering time and length, phase coherence length, thermal length, etc. Kindly suggest a good review paper on explaining the significance of each of these scales in relation to fermi wavelength and their effect in gauging the electronic transport properties as a function of the dimensions of our system (like [ballistic (XOR)diffusive] (AND) [classical (XOR) quantum regimes]).
As any analysis of a particular property of a condensed matter system involves characteristic length and time scales, I would be grateful if you could suggest a reference which deals with the problem of finding the scales in a unified framework. else even a reference which deals satisfactorily the electron transport problem also would do good.


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6 Ridiculous Myths You Believe About Stuff You Use Every Day
Every so often, some company really will admit that it made a terrible, terrible mistake and that one of its products causes cancer or zombies. So in a world full of recalls and class-action lawsuits, it's only natural to be wary of the health scares that show up in your email inbox. The problem is that some of the most well-known product hazards are pure bullshit.
#6. High Fructose Corn Syrup Is Much Worse for You Than Sugar
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The Myth:
Ever since sweetened products began replacing regular sugar with the much-less-natural-sounding high fructose corn syrup, there has been a growing and vociferous backlash against HFCS, which is popularly seen as some kind of super-sugar responsible for a rise in heart disease, obesity, cancer, and tooth decay. After all, didn't everyone start getting fatter right around the time the stuff was introduced?
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The FDA should really also ban the passage of time.
The Reality:
Proponents of the "you can't spell murder without HFCS" crowd can in fact point to statistics showing that American obesity began its rapid ascent at about the same time corn sweetener began its dominance of the edible garbage industry. If you stop there, it looks like a pretty convincing argument. But researchers who like to look at the bigger picture see it another way -- the reason companies switched to corn syrup in the first place is because it's cheaper than regular sugar. Using it pushed the price of sugary foods down, making them more affordable to the masses. So it's not just that we started eating high fructose corn syrup, it's that we suddenly started eating a lot more bullshit.
In actual fact, studies so far have shown that the body doesn't seem to know the difference between high fructose corn syrup and regular sugar. After all, they both contain the same ingredients, in the same quantities. The only difference is in how they're extracted and combined.
Of course, high fructose corn syrup is still really bad for you, as are the foods that are chock-full of the shit. There's also no doubt that our addiction to sweet-tasting foods and drinks is making us fat as hell. It's just that it's no worse than if those same products were made with sugar.
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And just ditching the products and eating pure sugar probably isn't a solution.
And that's the problem -- demonizing one has the effect of making the other look good in comparison. That's the driving force behind well-meaning crusaders calling for bans on high fructose corn syrup and grocery stores stripping it from their shelves and replacing it with good old sugar, declaring the problem solved. Chicago's public schools even dropped chocolate milk from their menus because it contains HFCS, only to switch to a sugar-laden version. In reality, that's like switching butter for lard.
But hey, both of them are better than whatever industrial chemicals they make artificial sweetener out of, right?
#5. Artificial Sweetener Is Poison
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The Myth:
Weight-conscious folks often turn to artificial sweeteners (the kind you find in things like Diet Coke) to keep calorie counts low while still indulging their sweet tooth. But ever since aspartame, the lab-produced chemical in NutraSweet and Equal, was first introduced in 1981, watchdogs have insisted that it's basically the Grim Reaper in powdered form, causing everything from brain damage to cancer.
We associate white powder with poor health, for unknown reasons.
Paranoia about the product was already widespread even before it received FDA approval. Then email was invented, and we all know how that ensures that cooler heads prevail.
The Reality:
In the mid-'90s, an email started circulating around the world warning of a study by a scientist named Nancy Markle that definitively linked aspartame with diseases as broad as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, cancer, diabetes, and even Gulf War syndrome. Gulf War syndrome? They must've been drinking the shit out of Diet Coke over there.
The email circular generated hysteria around the world about the myriad dangers of diet soda. The only problem? Nancy Markle didn't exist. This being the 2010s, you probably know by now the perils of taking medical advice from spam emails forwarded to you by your aunt, but to clarify, both the study and the scientist behind it were completely fictional.
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The author drafted it with a "fancy marker," and then inspiration hit.
But really, there are some clues in Markle's study that should probably have raised a few suspicions from the very beginning. For example, very few peer-reviewed papers make it to publication with so many phrases written in ALL CAPS FOLLOWED BY MULTIPLE EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!!
As it turns out, the email was originally composed by health crank Dr. Betty Martini (her title being an honorary doctorate ... in humanities), and at some point the Chinese whispers effect of the Internet took out the references to her foundation and converted her into a nonexistent person. In reality, study after study after study, hundreds of them, in fact, have shown no link between aspartame and any disease. That is, until crappy aftertaste is classified as a disease.
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Another disease treatable with pot brownies.
Now, once again, the stuff doesn't have any health benefits either -- it won't help you lose weight and only continues to train you that everything you put in your mouth has to be incredibly sweet to be palatable. You're better off without it. It just won't dissolve your brain.
#4. Silicone Breast Implants Cause Countless Diseases and Injuries
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The Myth:
In the early 1960s, plastic surgeons Frank Gerow and Thomas Cronin developed the first silicone breast implants, and were immediately elevated to sainthood. But as beneficial to humanity as breast augmentation has proven to be, you've probably heard of the dangers -- silicone implants are associated with everything from cancer to autoimmune disease, scleroderma, connective tissue disease, and injuries from sexy pillow fights.
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Two hours in the freezer turns this into a deadly weapon.
The Reality:
The good news is that, while implants may cause some localized scarring and pain, there was never any hard evidence that funbag prostheses are responsible for any of these horrible diseases. The problem is that a lot of people have trouble distinguishing correlation from causation, and many of those people sit on juries.
Women were actually getting their boobs pumped up for a couple of decades with next to no problem before Ralph Nader inexplicably declared in the '80s that silicone implants cause cancer. And like the money shot at the end of a 20-year porno scene, the lawsuits burst forth.
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Tens of thousands of suits were filed against Dow Corning, the main manufacturer of silicone implants, over the next 20 years or so, pointing to them as the cause of every disease known to man, up to and including multiple sclerosis. The only problem was, no scientific evidence had ever been found linking the actual implants to these diseases. And not for lack of trying -- the response from the FDA was always simply "Look harder." Nader's lobby group continued to call for the banning of implants well into the '90s, while the courts continued to write out giant checks from Dow Corning's bank account.
In the end, Dow Corning was literally bankrupted by the final Hiroshima blast of a $3.2 billion class-action settlement. Amid the rubble of a company whose only crime was a love of boobies, scientists from the prestigious National Academy of Sciences got together to prepare a 400-page final report about the dangers of silicone breast implants. The conclusion? They don't cause any kind of major disease. Too late for Dow Corning (which, after seven years in bankruptcy, no longer makes breast implants for some reason), but silicone is once again used in over 70 percent of breast-augmentation procedures.


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How can I create a shell script in unix/linux to find the number of lines in a text file that have words which are 5 to 10 character long and begin with a capital letter?
Assuming the original question meant to count the number of lines matching the above requirements, then this should do it:
Assuming it meant to print the line numbers that match:
The way the question is now, it means, filter out lines, starting with a capital letter (like this line) [the line has to start with a capital letter - not the word], and include a word (not necessarily the first word) which is 5 to 10 characters long.
Yes, after reading the original question, there are 4 possibilities to interpret it: The Starting word has to fulfill both requirements or it is a starting word and another word, and: Get the line numbers, or the number of lines.
To print the line numbers for lines, which begin with a capital letter, and contain a word somewhere of length 5-10, we use sed:


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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] non-portable code in examples/Makefile
From: TERRY DONTJE (terry.dontje_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-02-21 06:39:09
On 2/21/2012 5:55 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:
> That is truly bizarre "make" behavior.
> Heads up that in the upcoming fortran revamp, we *only* use FC. I.E.,
> there's only mpifort wrapper compiler (mpif77 and mpif90 still exist,
> but only as sym links to mpifort, signifying that mpifort is the way
> of the future).
> This was done because there have been no f77 compilers for decades
> (literally), and no f90 compilers for 10+ years. All the fortran
> compiler vendors have long-since moved to a single compiler executable
> name (e.g., ifort, gfortran), so mpifort just reflects that.
Hmmm, well Oracle's compiler is still named f90 :-). (now to duck and
> Sent from my phone. No type good.
> On Feb 21, 2012, at 5:01 AM, "Paul H. Hargrove" <PHHargrove_at_[hidden]
> <mailto:PHHargrove_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
>> Thanks, Ralph.
>> Excellent point about not needing to use the "FC" name with its
>> special (absurd?) behavior.
>> -Paul
>> On 2/21/2012 1:52 AM, Ralph Castain wrote:
>>> I went ahead and applied this, with a tweak. There is no reason to
>>> call our flag "FC" as all we use it for is to call the write
>>> wrapper. So I renamed it to something less problematic.
>>> On Feb 21, 2012, at 1:20 AM, Paul H. Hargrove wrote:
>>>> And while we are looking at examples/Makefile on Solaris-10, why
>>>> are the F77 examples getting built w/ mpif90?
>>>> Because w/ the Solaris make setting FC also silently sets F77 (yes,
>>>> I am NOT kidding)!
>>>> So, reordering the F77= and FC= lines in Makefile resolves that
>>>> mis-behavior.
>>>> Attached is my patch to fix both F77/FC and the "better" ompi_info
>>>> queries mentioned in my previous post.
>>>> This REPLACES the patch in the previous post.
>>>> -Paul
>>>> On 2/20/2012 11:36 PM, Paul H. Hargrove wrote:
>>>>> The addition on Monday of the Java cases to examples/Makefile has
>>>>> shown that the default "make" in Solaris-10 will stop on the first
>>>>> failed grep command in the "all" rule:
>>>>>> $ make
>>>>>> mpicc -g -o hello_c hello_c.c
>>>>>> mpicc -g -o ring_c ring_c.c
>>>>>> mpicc -g -o connectivity_c connectivity_c.c
>>>>>> mpic++ -g -o hello_cxx hello_cxx.cc
>>>>>> mpic++ -g -o ring_cxx ring_cxx.cc
>>>>>> mpif90 -g hello_f77.f -o hello_f77
>>>>>> mpif90 -g ring_f77.f -o ring_f77
>>>>>> mpif90 -g hello_f90.f90 -o hello_f90
>>>>>> mpif90 -g ring_f90.f90 -o ring_f90
>>>>>> *** Error code 1
>>>>>> The following command caused the error:
>>>>>> if test "`ompi_info --parsable | grep bindings:java:yes`" != "";
>>>>>> then \
>>>>>> make Hello.class; \
>>>>>> fi
>>>>>> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'
>>>>> The addition of java did NOT break anything, but exposed a
>>>>> pre-existing problem which was not evident in my prior testing
>>>>> because all language bindings were being build prior to adding java.
>>>>> The attached patch resolves the problem in my (admittedly minimal)
>>>>> testing with the smallest possible change.
>>>>> However an entirely different avoids both "test" and "true" and
>>>>> simply looks like:
>>>>> @ if ompi_info --parsable | grep bindings:cxx:yes >/dev/null;
>>>>> then
>>>>> I have *also* tested that approach, and it works fine too.
>>>>> I *did* warn that the introduction of the java bindings would
>>>>> bring collateral damage.
>>>>> I just didn't anticipate encountering it personally.
>>>>> -Paul
>>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>> Future Technologies Group
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Presented by Melinda Telli, MD.; Acting Assistant Professor; Division of Oncology; Stanford University School of Medicine; Stanford, CA. This session focuses on specific groups of women who are likely to develop TNBC; features of TNBC that make it unique and challenging to treat; and emerging and promising treatment options for TNBC.
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