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Suppose one did have an exact formula for the number of $\mathbb{Z}^n$-lattice points intersecting an arbitrary dilate of a (not necessarily rational) finite, closed and convex $n$-polytope. As a result, a formula for the number of non-negative integral solutions of the inequality $\sum_{i = 1}^{n} q_i x_i \leq R$ for positive real coefficients and $R > 0$ would follow immediately, as well as, the de Bruijn function for the number of smooth numbers less than or equal to any given positive real greater than $1$. The solution of a generalization of Ramanujan's Triangle Problem of computing the exact number of positive integers of the form $1 \leq 2^a 3^b \leq N$ would then also follow.
What other interesting problems could be solved or, at least in principle, be better understood by solving the above lattice point enumeration problem? References are certainly welcome!


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Spring time is finally here and it's time for some outdoor fun. May 16-20 is National Bike to Work Week and here at Grand Valley we will be joining in the festivities. Come out and learn about bike safety and a few tips to help improve the biking riding experience. Don't forget to mark your calenders and grab those bikes out of the garage because fun in the sun is just around the corner.
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Most parents want the best for their children, and may even view their successes and failures as extensions of themselves.
Bathroom behavior in particular—with its associations with cleanliness, decency, and civilized behavior—often calls up intense emotions that we may not have realized we had. This is why so many parents feel bewildered by bathroom mistakes that are actually quite common among toddlers and preschoolers. It is hard to keep in mind that such behaviors seem quite normal to our children, and to remember that they frequently occur in other families, too.
When addressing your child's current problem, try to set aside your own agenda—your expectations regarding her progress, your emotional response to her actions, your embarrassment over how her behavior looks to others—and focus instead on your child's need for information, attention, and support.
If you feel yourself losing patience and behaving in angry ways toward your child, ask your partner, a friend, or your child's caregiver to help you until you regain some balance. If your child's behavior has you perplexed or confused, don't hesitate to ask your pediatrician for advice or reassurance.
Other parents, most of whom have experienced or know of similar situations, can also provide insight or offer you a fresh perspective. Parenting classes are another excellent source of information on specific bathroom-related challenges.
Remember—both you and your child are eager for her to move forward in her development, but only you can provide the outside resources she may need to progress.


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Within this one-hour webinar, Phil Rich will provide an overview of a relational approach to the treatment of sexually abusive youth and describe how to use workbooks to model healthy relationships and encourage the skills these youth need to develop. If you have never tried a webinar, it is a chance to both hear a short talk about a specific topic and then be able to ask questions and listen to a discussion as different issues are raised. It is absolutely free, a great way to learn, and you don't need to travel out of your office or home to interact with colleagues across the country.
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EUGENE, Ore.
Justin Gatlin would pick a runoff, reluctantly. So would Maurice Greene, who would do a coin toss as a last resort.
Everybody has an opinion � even Olympic gold medalists � about USA Track and Field�s hastily unveiled options for breaking a third-place tie between Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh, who finished in a dead heat in the 100-meter final at last weekend�s Olympic trials.
On Tuesday, three days after they raced, USATF still has no idea when it will be resolved.
The sprinters have until Sunday, when the trials end, to decide if they want a runoff � a winner-take-all race to break the tie � or a flip of a coin to determine who gets the last spot on the London-bound team.
�I honestly can�t tell you why a protocol wasn�t in place,� USATF President Stephanie Hightower said. �No one ever thought through it. The likelihood of it happening didn�t cross anybody�s minds.�
Surprising, since this has happened before � to Hightower, no less. At the 1984 Olympic trials, she finished in a three-way tie for second place in the hurdles. A grainy photo was used to break the tie, and she was the odd person out, failing to earn a spot.
�There�s no question that everyone was caught off guard,� Hightower said. �At least this gives us the motivation to look at our bylaws and competition rules to see if there are any other gaping holes we need to shore up before the next big championship or Olympic trials.�
That doesn�t exactly help Felix and Tarmoh now. They will compete in the 200 meters and after Saturday�s final, if both make it, decide what to do next. The trials went on a two-day break Tuesday and will resume Thursday.
So far, the women have been mum on the matter.
�As an athlete, this worries me,� said Gatlin, who won the 100 last weekend, but will skip the 200, �because no one knew about this loophole in the system. To run the 100-meter final at the Olympic trials and for it to be decided on a coin toss? It blows my mind.�
As it is, both are eligible to be selected to the 400-meter relay team.
There has been some scuttle that perhaps Felix is waiting to see how she fares in her signature event, the 200, before reaching any decision. Should she earn a spot in the 200 and Tarmoh doesn�t, Felix just might surrender the 100 spot to her training partner.
�It�s noble, but I�m not giving anything up,� Greene said. �I fight for everything. Nothing in life is given to you. You have to take everything you want and you have to work for it.�
He has a solution � a made-for-TV special. No other events, just these two women on the track.
�Tell NBC to give them $2 million and have a runoff,� Greene said. �Then they�ll do it for sure. If they have a runoff, do you realize how much money there�s going to be.�
Maybe that would work if they weren�t already coming off a grueling competition schedule. Bob Kersee, who coaches them both, is concerned about the possibility of injury, since there�s really no rest for either athlete.
The Olympics, after all, are on the line.
�You�ve come this far. I would gut it out,� Gatlin said. �I would run. ... It would bring more excitement to track and field, to have a runoff.�
In every other sport, there�s some sort of tiebreaker in place.
In swimming, deadlocks are settled with swim-offs between the two opponents.
Gymnastics released its revamped tiebreak procedures so it doesn�t have a repeat of the debacle in Beijing, where it practically took a NASA physicist to decipher the complicated formula that settled the gold medal on uneven bars. Now the execution mark will be the big deciding factor, and there is the possibility of sharing medals.
Odds of that happening are rare.
Still, it�s a plan.
�You�re always going to have your haters and your critics,� Hightower said. �That goes with the territory. I think we�ve been responsible, responsive and we�ve been thoughtful. If this is a way to educate people about our sport, I�ll take good with bad.�
In a society that craves everything in an instant, the 100 is the ideal race.
Sprinters blaze down the track, lean at the finish line and look up at the giant scoreboard, where the times and places instantly pop up.
Even high-tech cameras couldn�t break Saturday night�s dead heat in a sport that�s long relied on technology. Unlike baseball, which is slowly turning to video replay, track uses images to help sort things out.
But in this case, the image from the outside camera was inconclusive for determining the finish because both runners� arms obscured their torsos � a key consideration in determining the finish.
The image from the inside camera, shot at 3,000 frames per second, was analyzed by timers and referees, who declared the tie.
�We might even look at where we put cameras in the future,� Hightower said. �Now that we�ve had this incident, it will give us the motivation, for us to do our due diligence to look at things.
�I want to make sure that both (Felix and Tarmoh) walk away from this knowing that there was a fair process in place and they had input into it. They can walk away and feel like we haven�t done anything to harm them and their ability long term.�
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Anal cancer is an uncommon type of cancer that occurs in the anal canal. The anal canal is a short tube at the end of your rectum through which stool leaves your body.
Anal cancer can cause signs and symptoms such as rectal bleeding and anal pain.
Most people with anal cancer are treated with a combination of chemotherapy and radiation. Though combining anal cancer treatments increases the chance of a cure, the combined treatments also increase the risk of side effects.
Anal cancer signs and symptoms include:
Talk to your doctor about any signs and symptoms that bother you, especially if you have any factors that increase your risk of anal cancer.
Anal cancer forms when a genetic mutation turns normal, healthy cells into abnormal cells. Healthy cells grow and multiply at a set rate, eventually dying at a set time. Abnormal cells grow and multiply out of control, and they don't die. The accumulating abnormal cells form a mass (tumor). Cancer cells invade nearby tissues and can separate from an initial tumor to spread elsewhere in the body (metastasize).
Anal cancer is closely related to a sexually transmitted infection called human papillomavirus (HPV). Evidence of HPV is detected in the majority of anal cancers. HPV is thought to be the most common cause of anal cancers.
Several factors have been found to increase the risk of anal cancer, including:
Anal cancer rarely spreads (metastasizes) to distant parts of the body. Only a small percentage of tumors are found to have spread, but those that do are especially difficult to treat. Anal cancer that metastasizes most commonly spreads to the liver and the lungs.
Make an appointment with your family doctor or a general practitioner if you have any signs or symptoms that worry you. If your doctor thinks you have anal cancer, you may be referred to a surgeon or a specialist who treats digestive diseases (gastroenterologist). Once a cancer diagnosis is made, you may also be referred to a doctor who specializes in treating cancer (oncologist).
Because appointments can be brief, and because there's often a lot of ground to cover, it's a good idea to be well prepared. Here's some information to help you get ready.
Your time with your doctor is limited, so preparing a list of questions can help you make the most of your time together. List your questions from most important to least important in case time runs out. For anal cancer, some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
Tests and procedures used to diagnose anal cancer include:
Once it's confirmed that you have anal cancer, your doctor works to determine the size of the cancer and whether it has spread — a process called staging. Determining your cancer's stage helps your doctor determine the best approach to treating your cancer. Tests and procedures used in the staging of your cancer may include:
Your doctor uses the information from the procedures to assign your cancer a stage. The stages of anal cancer are:
What treatment you receive for anal cancer depends on the stage of your cancer, your overall health and your own preferences.
Doctors usually treat anal cancer with a combination of chemotherapy and radiation. Combined, these two treatments enhance each other and improve chances for a cure.
You typically undergo radiation therapy for anal cancer for five or six weeks. Chemotherapy is typically administered during the first week and the fifth week. Your doctor tailors your treatment schedule based on characteristics of your cancer and your overall health. Though combining chemotherapy and radiation increases the effectiveness of the two treatments, it also makes side effects more likely. Discuss with your doctor what side effects to expect.
Doctors typically use different procedures to remove anal cancer based on the stage of the cancer:
Surgery to remove early-stage anal cancers. Very small anal cancers may be removed through surgery. During this procedure, the surgeon removes the tumor and a small amount of healthy tissue that surrounds it.
Because the tumors are small, early-stage cancers can sometimes be removed without damaging the anal sphincter muscles that surround the anal canal. Anal sphincter muscles control bowel movements, so doctors work to keep the muscles intact. Depending on your cancer, your doctor may also recommend chemotherapy and radiation after surgery.
Alternative medicine treatments can't cure anal cancer. But some alternative medicine treatments may help you cope with the side effects of cancer treatment. Your doctor can treat many side effects, but sometimes medications aren't enough. Alternative treatments can complement your doctor's treatments and may offer additional comfort.
Options for common side effects include:
While these options are generally safe, talk with your doctor first to be sure that alternative medicine options won't interfere with your cancer treatment.
A cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming and frightening. You can help yourself to feel more in control by taking an active role in your health care. To help you cope, try to:
Find someone to talk with. Find a good listener with whom you can talk about your hopes and fears. This may be a friend or family member. The concern and understanding of a counselor, medical social worker, clergy member or cancer support group also may be helpful.
Ask your doctor about support groups in your area. Or check your phone book, library or a cancer organization, such as the National Cancer Institute or the American Cancer Society.
There is no sure way to prevent anal cancer. In order to reduce your risk of anal cancer:
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., and Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., are ranked among the Best Hospitals for cancer by U.S. News & World Report.
Mayo Clinic works with hundreds of insurance companies and is an in-network provider for millions of people. In most cases, Mayo Clinic doesn't require a physician referral. Some insurers require referrals or may have additional requirements for certain medical care. All appointments are prioritized on the basis of medical need.
At Mayo Clinic in Arizona, specialists in digestive diseases (gastroenterologists), medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and surgeons work together to care for people with anal cancer. Other professionals are involved as needed.
For appointments or more information, call the Central Appointment Office at 800-446-2279 (toll-free) 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mountain Standard Time, Monday through Friday or complete an online appointment request form.
At Mayo Clinic in Florida, specialists in digestive diseases (gastroenterologists), medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and surgeons work together to care for people with anal cancer. Other professionals are involved as needed.
For appointments or more information, call the Central Appointment Office at 904-953-0853 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday or complete an online appointment request form.
At Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, specialists in digestive diseases (gastroenterologists), medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and surgeons work together to care for people with anal cancer. Other professionals are involved as needed.
For appointments or more information, call the Central Appointment Office at 507-538-3270 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Central time, Monday through Friday or complete an online appointment request form.
See information on patient services at the three Mayo Clinic locations, including transportation options and lodging.
Mayo Clinic doctors and researchers are studying the latest in diagnosis and treatment of anal cancer.
Cancer research is conducted in coordination with the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center. The Mayo Clinic Cancer Center receives funding from the National Cancer Institute and is designated as a comprehensive cancer center — recognition for an institution's scientific excellence and multidisciplinary resources focused on cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
See a list of publications by Mayo Clinic authors on anal cancer on PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine.
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While researching how to call a person that holds a rank at a foreign (non English speaking) military, I came to very confusing results:
Wikipedia is not consistent on the issue:
it sometimes gives the rank in the native language alone, as in the case for Erwin Rommel, Heinrich Himmler, Heinz Guderian, and Gerd von Rundstedt, all of whom are German, and the current Israeli Chief of General Staff Benny Gantz.
In other cases, it gives the rank in the native language with an equivalent rank in English, as in the case for Israel Tal who was an Israeli general.
And sometimes it only gives the equivalent rank, as in the case of Israeli Medal of Valor recipient Zvika Greengold and Japanese military aviator Minoru Genda.
Other sources are also confusing:
The Jewish Virtual Library, in their page about Erwin Rommel call Erwin Rommel, Heinz Guderian and Gerd von Runstedt Field Marshal, even though they have different ranks (Rommel and von Runstedt were Generalfeldmarschall and Guderian was a Generaloberst).
The site's www.auschwitz.dk page about Himmler give's his rank as Reichsfuhrer-SS, while the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum gives his rank as the translation to English with the German rank in parentheses:
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) was the Reich Leader (Reichsführer) of the dreaded SS of the Nazi party from 1929 until 1945
This article on rt.com about the letters of Erwin Rommel simply call him general.
The articles in the Independent, the English version of Haaratz, The New York Times and Israel's Armored Corps Memorial Site about Israel Tal's Death all call him Major-General without mentioning the Hebrew rank.
After all of this I'm left confused as I can't really see any pattern of proper use his,
Should the rank in the original language be used, the equivalent "English" rank be used, or a translation of the rank?
Is there any difference if the original language is a non-Indo-European language vs. an Indo-European language (Hebrew vs. German)?
In the case that an equivalent rank is used, what set of ranks is the standard (Wikipedia uses the NATO Code)?
Finally, since my rank is Rav Samal, should I call myself Rav samal, Sergeant First Class (the NATO corresponding rank) or Master Sergeant (the translation)?


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I just spent quite a while writing an answer. Within mins it'd been downvoted and the downvoter didn't leave a comment.
I'm still quite new to SO and still working out the rules. I guess I've done something wrong - can anyone elaborate?
I just spent quite a while writing an answer. Within mins it'd been downvoted and the downvoter didn't leave a comment.
I'm still quite new to SO and still working out the rules. I guess I've done something wrong - can anyone elaborate?
You can't take down voting too personally. Sometimes there is something wrong with the and people will down vote it because of that. Other times, it may be because someone doesn't understand what you are saying and down votes too quickly or just disagrees with an approach you took. There are other times when someone just wants to see their answer above other people and will down vote you to put below them. If I had to guess if was probably the second one.
Briefly looking at it, it looks like the answer is through and complete. Simply put, if you try and figure out the reason why one of your question gets down voted every time, you are going to drive yourself nuts. You just have to accept the fact that some people like punishing others for no apparent reason.
I don't see any real problems here. Certainly, there's nothing there that would cause me to downvote you.
Maybe the downvoter is frightened of XML. There's certainly a lot of XML configuration there. I know Enterprise Library, and am not offended by XML, so it's no big deal to me.
You might want to replace the XML with a screen shot of the graphical editor.
One reason could be that people thought you were not really aswering the question. I noticed this a few times with questions that were not formulated very well. This can lead to different understandings of what the OP wants, and subsequently to a disagreement on the usefulness of your answer.
Something else can cause confusion in such a case (which is not the case in the question you are referring to): Edits to the question, in an attempt to clarify it. I have given answers to questions that asked for specific things, later someone edited the question and used other terms to describe what was asked for, which made my answer look completely off topic. There's not really much you can do about it. Except, as Kevin points out, not to care too much about the downvote ;-)
I have no idea why you got downvoted (I'm an ignoramus on the topic you posted about).
What I can say is that your answer was verbose.
I had this happen to me yesterday, and ended up deleting my answer.
The problem is that we sometimes get trapped answering trap questions. The question referenced is not well formed and is a 3 for the price of one question.
3 for the price of one questions are risky beasts, for example, the top voted question doe not address this sub question properly (IMHO):
This could imply that the OP is looking for a gui of sorts, like the windows event viewer.
Careful not too get trapped answering 3 in one questions too thoroughly, you may be answering the wrong question.


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7 Movies Based on a True Story (That Are Complete Bullshit)
We don't ask a lot from our movies. A nice story, maybe with some sex, violence and Batman thrown in.
But sometimes a movie comes along and takes on special meaning because it's based on a true story, and so we watch with rapt attention knowing that some real dude lived through all the awesomeness on screen. But if you're going to go with the "Based On A True Story" tag, all we ask is that you make the stories sort of, you know, true. You can do that, right?
Not if these movies are any indication.
#7. The Pursuit of Happyness
The Hollywood Version:
Chris Gardner is a hard-working man with a pain-in-the-ass wife and an adorable little son boasting one of the greatest afros we've ever seen on a child. All Gardner wants to do is make enough of a living to provide for his son.
Through what we assume is black magic, he solves a Rubik's Cube in record time, wowing an employee at Dean Witter and he apparently passes the only test needed to qualify a man to become a stock broker. He toils for months, sleeping in subways and churches with his son at his side, but in the end it all pays off when he claims the one and only opening at Dean Witter, crying tears of joy and getting jiggy wit it in the streets of San Francisco.
In reality ...
Gardner did get a chance to show his stuff in the Dean Witter training program (though we're sad to report his acceptance had nothing to do with solving a colorful puzzle game). But, as the more honest book version points out, he apparently wasn't quite the father the film made him out to be.
First, he was so focused on getting a job and earning his first million that, well, he actually didn't even know where the hell his son was for the first four months of the program.
Chris, Jr. was apparently living at this point in time with his mother, Jackie. Did we mention that the boy had been conceived when Gardner was still married to another woman?
In addition, instead of being arrested just before his big interview due to parking tickets ... well, it seems that Chris was actually arrested after Jackie accused him of domestic violence.
"That's right son, you gotta keep that pimp hand strong."
Don't get us wrong, Chris did indeed get his life turned around after landing the job as a broker. There were just some things in Gardner's past that they couldn't quite bring themselves to have Will Smith do on screen. Like selling drugs (as Gardner admits he did briefly), or doing cocaine with his mistress, with little doses of PCP and a hearty helping of Mary Jane tossed in for good measure.
Adulterous sex? Cocaine? Neglecting your child for months at a time? It says something about the man that he didn't drop the pursuit, despite having pretty much found happyness already.
#6. 21
The Hollywood Version:
Ben Campbell is a math genius excelling at MIT, home to some of the brightest young minds on the planet as well as a really smart custodian. He catches the eye of Kevin Spacey, appearing in all of his "phoning it in" glory, who recruits young Ben for the MIT Blackjack Team. At first, it all seems harmless enough, as they play just to learn the age-old art of card counting.
Once they get good enough, Spacey whisks the team off to swingin' Las Vegas to give their new talent a try in a real world setting. Of course, things don't go quite as planned (typical), and after a severe beating at the hands of Cowboy Curtis, Ben learns some harsh lessons about life and love before tromping off to Harvard Medical School.
In reality ...
If there's anything we can learn from 21, it's that Hollywood won't give an Asian man a starring role unless it calls for someone who can do karate while getting berated by Chris Tucker.
In fact, 21 gives us perhaps the greatest whitewash in recent Hollywood history--a broad, sweeping stroke of Caucasian across the majority of the cast.
The real MIT Blackjack Team was almost totally Asian, but you'd never know that from the film. Even Kevin Spacey's character was based in part on an Asian professor, who has been known to dress like a woman in order to sneak into casinos. Apparently, a transvestite Asian math genius isn't as interesting as Spacey in the "just make sure the check clears" stage of his career.
But hey, at least they did cast a pair of Asians as members of the Blackjack Team. Naturally, in sticking with current Hollywood trends, they were made into goofy loser sidekick types, while the white kids handled all of the heavy intellectual lifting. Not since Mickey Rooney's performance in Breakfast at Tiffany's has Hollywood treated Asians with such respect and dignity.
#5. Lean On Me
The Hollywood Version:
Joe Clark is a bad man. And we mean that in the best possible way, as in "don't fuck with him." When Paterson, New Jersey's Eastside High School found itself on the brink of being taken over by the state due to piss poor test scores, Clark was brought on board as principal to right the sinking ship.
And right it he did, by fighting expelled students in the hall and throwing chains and padlocks on the doors. After all, if Joe Clark was going to go out in a blaze of glory, he was going to take as many students with him as possible. In the end, thanks to a hip new school song and the bullying ways of Principal Clark, Eastside saw a meteoric rise in its test scores and everyone celebrated by joining together in song, as inner city ruffians often do.
In reality ...
Apart from the fact that the test scores never really improved, or that state takeover had never actually been threatened, or the various ways they fudged facts just to make sure the audience was aware that Joe Clark enjoyed putting foot to ass, it's pretty close to the real story. That is to say, a man named Joe Clark did serve as principal at Eastside High for a short time at the end of the '80s.
The biggest goal of the filmmakers was apparently to make Clark as menacing as possible, giving him a bullhorn with which to more loudly crush the spirits of students and faculty alike, and having Morgan Freeman spend the entire film wearing such a fierce scowl that you'd swear someone just shit in his punchbowl.
Here's the punchline to the whole thing, though: One year after Clark resigned and less than two years after the film's release, the state came in and took control of the school. And since they weren't actually threatening to take over in the first place, we're forced to assume they got the idea from the movie.
#4. Rudy
The Hollywood Version:
It seems that back in the '70s, there was a plucky little football player who dreamed of nothing other than playing for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Unfortunately for young Rudy, his support system consisted of people who went out of their way to point out his flaws, of which there were many, and let him know repeatedly that dreams are the main ingredient in the devil's pudding.
"Son, how many times I gotta tell you, goals are for chumps!"
Thankfully, Rudy's best friend from back home got blown right the fuck up in a freak accident, inspiring him to play football for some reason. And play he did, no thanks to the evil scheming of Notre Dame coach Dan Devine, who only allowed Rudy on the field after the entire team threatened to walk out otherwise.
In reality ...
The real life Dan Devine was actually the one who insisted on playing Rudy in his final game. Hell, even when the movie was being made, Devine gave the filmmakers permission to turn him into the film's villain in order to help Rudy, who he considered a good friend.
Devine sounds like one helluva guy, right? So naturally he was repaid for his kindnesses by being turned into the Snidely fucking Whiplash of college football (sans mustache), and forever being remembered as the crotchety coach to whom winning football games was more important than anything. Anything other than ensuring that Rudy's dream would die.
Devine was the father of the vaunted "tied to train tracks" defense
By the way, ever wonder who saw Rudy play that day and got so inspired he just had to make it into a movie? Nobody. It was Rudy himself who spent a full decade trying to convince studios that his life was so awesome it deserved a movie, before one of them finally relented. That's the spirit, little guy!


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Let $A$ and $B$ be 2×2 matrices with integer entries such that each of $A$, $A + B$, $A + 2B$, $A + 3B$, $A + 4B$ has an inverse with integer entries. Show that the same is true for $A + 5B$.
First note that a matrix $X$ with integer entries is invertible and its inverse has integer entries if and only if $\det(X)=\pm1$.
Let $P(x)=\det(A+xB)$. Then $P(x)$ is a polynomial of degree at most $4$, with integer coefficients, and $P(0),P(1),P(2),P(3),P(4) \in \{ \pm 1 \}$.
Claim: $P(0)=P(1)=P(3)=P(4)$.
Proof: It is known that $b-a|P(b)-P(a)$ for $a,b$ integers.
Then $3|P(4)-P(1), 3|P(3)-P(0)$ and $4|P(4)-P(0)$. Since the RHS of each division is $0$ or $\pm 2$, it follows it is zero. This proves the claim.
Now, $P(x)-P(0)$ is a polynomial of degree at most four which has the roots $0,1,3,4$. Thus
$$P(x)-P(0)=ax(x-1)(x-3)(x-4) \,.$$
hence $P(2)=P(0)-4a$. Since $P(2), P(0) \in \{ \pm 1 \}$, it follows that $a=0$, and hence $P(x)$ is the constant polynomial $1$ or $-1$.
Extra One can actually deduce further from here that $\det(A)=\pm 1$ and $A^{-1}B$ is nilpotenet.
Indeed $A$ is invertible and since $\det(A+xB)=\det(A)\det(I+xA^{-1}B)$ you get from here that $\det(I+xA^{-1}B)=1$. It is trivial to deduce next that the characteristic polynomial of $A^{-1}B$ is $x^2$.
Hint $\rm\:det(A\!+\!xB)\:$ is a quadratic polynomial with value $\pm1$ at $5$ points so it has value $1$ or $-1$ at $3$ points, so the polynomial must be constant, either $1$ or $-1,\:$ so $\rm\:A\!+\!xB\:$ has integer inverse for all $\rm\:x.$


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I am playing with some questions concerning connections between certain poset partitions and their linear extensions. This is not my usual playground, I just happened to stumble upon something.
When I was playing with these things, I came up with a very simple construction that I cannot find anywhere.I suspect that this construction is a minor particular case of something well known and much more general. It reminds of an equivariant map, but the group is not fixed here.
Let $n>2$, let $X$ be a finite set of cardinality $n$. Let $\oplus_n$ be an action of $Z_n$ on $X$ such that the action of $1$ is a cycle of length $n$. Pick $x\in X$ and let $\pi$ be a partition of the set $X$ such that $\{x,x\oplus_n 1\}$ is the only nonsingleton block of $\pi$.
In a very simple way, this gives rise to an action $\oplus_{n-1}$ of $Z_{n-1}$ on $\pi$ by ,,squeezing the action'' at $x$:
- $\{x,x\oplus_n 1\}\oplus_{n-1} 1=\{x\oplus_n 2\}$
- $\{x\oplus_n(n-1)\}\oplus_{n-1} 1=\{x,x\oplus_n 1\}$
- $\{y\}\oplus_{n-1} 1=\{y\oplus_n 1\}$ for any $y\neq x\oplus_n(n-1)$.
It can be visualized in a simple way by a digraph construction: if we identify the action of $1$ on $X$ with an oriented cycle, this construction corresponds to a contraction of an edge.
Has anyone seen this construction before? Is there any name for it?


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Leaders Preserving Our Future: Pace and Priorities on Climate Change
On 3 November 2010, the World Preservation Foundation held a conference in Central Hall, Westminster, in partnership with Dods, the first name in political information and communications, to address the urgent need to find near term solutions to climate change.
Short-lived non CO2 climate forcers
Scientific evidence shows that the strong bias of current mitigation efforts toward carbon dioxide emissions reduction will not produce results sufficient to halt global warming in time to stop irreversible tipping points being passed.
In the run up to the COP16 UN climate change conference taking place just 4 weeks later in Mexico, this conference sought to bring to the forefront the crucial role of reducing shorter lived non CO2 climate forcers – methane, black carbon and tropospheric ozone – as an urgently needed solution at this point in time to help halt further rises in temperatures and climate change.
Delegates included Members of Parliament, NGOs, members of media, local government, celebrities and a cross section of civil society from different sectors.
World Preservation Foundation is underlining the immediate need for governments, industry, NGOs and the public to take action now to prevent any further damage to our ecosystems and our planetary life support system.
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This event was carbon offset by growing edible playgrounds in London inner city schools in partnership with Trees for Cities.
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S. Fred Singer, Craig Idso, and Willie Soon: NIPCC's 'Climate Change Reconsidered II: Phyiscal Science'
The Heartland Institute hosted a luncheon event on Wednesday, September 18, 2013 in our library with three of the world's leading climate scientists to celebrate the release of Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science.
Visit the Climate Change Reconsidered Web page to read the Summary for Policymakers and the full report.
This book, the result of five years of careful research and editing, is the definitive rebuttal of the politicized science presented by the United Nations' Intergovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), whose next climate report is expected to be released in late September.
Dr. S. Fred Singer, an atmospheric and space physicist, is one of the world's most respected and widely published experts on climate. He is professor emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia. He directs the nonprofit Science and Environmental Policy Project, which he founded in 1990 and incorporated in 1992 after retiring from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Singer served as professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (1971-94); distinguished research professor at the Institute for Space Science and Technology, Gainesville, FL, where he was principal investigator for the Cosmic Dust/Orbital Debris Project (1989-94); chief scientist, U.S. Department of Transportation (1987- 89); vice chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Oceans and Atmosphere (NACOA) (1981-86); and deputy assistant administrator for policy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1970-71).
Dr. Singer is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Geophysical Union, American Physical Society, and American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was elected to the AAAS Council and served on the Committee on Council Affairs, and as Section Secretary. In 1997, NASA presented Dr. Singer with a commendation and cash award "for important contributions to space research."
Dr. Craig D. Idso, a geologist, is the founder, former president, and currently chairman of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. The Center was founded in 1998 as a non-profit public charity dedicated to discovering and disseminating scientific information pertaining to the effects of atmospheric carbon dioxide enrichment on climate and the biosphere. The Center produces a weekly online newsletter, CO2 Science, and maintains a massive online collection of editorials on and reviews of peer-reviewed scientific journal articles relating to global climate change.
Dr. Idso's research has appeared many times in peer-reviewed journals, including Geophysical Research Letters, Energy & Environment, Atmospheric Environment, Technology, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Journal of Climate, Environmental and Experimental Botany, Physical Geography, and the Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science.
Dr. Idso received a B.S. in Geography from Arizona State University, an M.S. in Agronomy from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, and a Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona State University, where he also studied as one of a small group of University Graduate Scholars. He was a faculty researcher in the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University and has lectured in Meteorology at Arizona State University.
Dr. Willie Soon, an astrophysicist and geoscientist, is receiving editor in the area of solar and stellar physics for New Astronomy, and writes and lectures both professionally and publicly on important issues related to the sun, other stars, and the Earth, as well as general science topics in astronomy and physics. He is the author of The Maunder Minimum and the Variable Sun-Earth Connection (World Scientific Publishing Company 2004).
Dr. Soon's honors include a 1989 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Graduate Scholastic Award and a Rockwell Dennis Hunt Scholastic Award from the University of Southern California for "the most representative Ph.D. research thesis" of 1991. In 2003, he was invited to testify to the U.S. Senate. Also in 2003, Dr. Soon was recognized, with a monetary award, for "detailed scholarship on biogeological and climatic change over the past 1,000 years" by the Smithsonian Institution. In June 2004, Soon was presented with the Petr Beckmann award of the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness for "courage and achievement in defense of scientific truth and freedom."
Dr. Soon earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in science from the University of Southern California and his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California.
The views expressed by Willie Soon are strictly his and do not reflect those of any institutions.
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An excerpt from a recent article at Medical News Today:
Scientists in Portugal and the US have discovered a key mechanism involved in the correct separation of chromosomes during the formation of eggs and sperm. The research about to be published in the journal Current Biology shows that BubR1 a gene recently shown to affect cell division maintains the cohesion of paired chromosomes (until their time to divide) during the production of reproductive cells. Because BubR1 mutations can result in cells with abnormal numbers of chromosomes, the research has potential implications for human disorders resulting from loss or gain of chromosomes such as Down Syndrome, a disease caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21.
As Claudio Sunkel says, "our observations suggest for the first time that inappropriate or reduced function of a gene like BubR1 might be at the heart of age related chromosome imbalance observed in humans".
In which disorders could this finding be beneficial? Just some examples: Down syndrome, Edwards syndrome, Klinefelter's syndrome, Patau syndrome, Turner syndrome. So in cases of nondisjunction when the chromosomes cannot segregate properly during meiosis or mitosis. This unproper segregation leads to abnormal numbers of chromosomes. And it can cause conditions like those mentioned above.
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I'm looking for information on what factors to consider in deciding between a camera with a large sensor and low light sensitivity (for example, the Canon S95) and a camera with a good zoom (for example, the Lumx ZS7). My main uses are for family events and vacations, so I am interested in a mix of indoor and outdoor events. Sporting events aren't an important use for me, but indoor occasions such as graduations and plays in the school auditorium are important. For that type of use, low light capability is important, but an optical zoom to pick out my kid on the stage is also critical. What factors should I be considering to decide?
You say that you want reach "to pick up my kid on the stage". Now, indoors the light is typically poor to say the least. This situation calls for a camera with good high ISO performance and/or a large lens aperture.
While a camera with worse ISO performance and a slower lens, but with more zoom, will let you "pick up the kid" and get good tight framing at a distance, I submit that this will not help you at all if it forces you to use such a long shutter time that your hands will shake, or your kid move, during the exposure. I assume that you do not want a blurry photo? The built-in flash will not help, by the way, it is designed for use at very close range, two-three meters or so.
Also keep in mind that a zoom lens usually has a larger max aperture at the wide end of the zoom than at the long end, a very useful f/2.8 wide end helps you very little if the long end is a more marginal f/5.6, which lets in only 1/4 the light of f/2.8. This bites you twice in fact, because you already need a faster shutter speed at max zoom than at max wide-angle because zoom magnifies the camera shake as well as the subject.
If you give up some reach at the long end for a faster lens/better sensor, it is always possible to crop the photo tighter on the computer afterwards. A blurry photo on the other hand cannot be fixed.
Honestly, I think you answered your own question :)
Large sensor and low light sensitivity are best for indoor use and events in a school auditorium are most important to you.
Note that when it comes to large-sensors, you 98% get the ability to use interchangeable lenses, in which case you can buy any focal-length you want eventually. It will cost you over time but just because you get something with a large sensor doesn't mean you can't get a long zoom.
Hey Will, There are a lot of other differences between those two cameras to consider, top among them are:
Lots of differences: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare_post.asp?method=sidebyside&cameras=canon_s95%2Cpanasonic_dmczs7&show=all
In general, it sounds like for what you're shooting you don't care about long zoom (105mm is pretty tight), you care more about low light performance AND higher shutter speeds at low light (larger apertures). Look at some other cameras that go down to f2 and have good low light performance too.


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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Urban Decay Smoked 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil Set: Swatches and Review
I debated buying it for the following reasons:
1) I already own a full-size Uzi, the sparkly gray shade in this set.
2) Zero, the black shade in this set, just doesn't work well for me. It is the only Urban Decay 24/7 eyeliner that smudges on me, and it is not pigmented enough for my tastes - when I want to wear a black eyeliner, I want it to be BLACK, not sort-of-black. While I know some people love Zero, I personally wish Urban Decay would stop selling it in their sets and would just stick with the Perversion 24/7 pencil, their superstar of a black eyeliner that I love - it is everything that Zero isn't, to me!
3) I wasn't and am still not sure I will use Demolition, the brown shade in the set, simply because I already have several browns that I adore and I don't see the need for another matte brown eyeliner.
BUT... SMOG, EMPIRE, MAINLINE! Oh, be still my heart! All stunning colors for which I have no dupes and for which I dramatically lusted after... until I caved in and just bought the darn set! I ultimately decided that for a retail price of $38 - which was actually $30 for me after my employee discount, or for you with the current Urban Decay 20% off Friends and Family sale going on RIGHT NOW - if I ignore the existence of Uzi, Zero, and Demolition I'm still getting Smog, Empire, and Mainline for $10 each, which was totally okay with me given that they are exclusive to this set!
I skipped swatching Zero because I don't intend to keep it and there are already about 27 million swatches of it floating around on the internet; I think you, my readers, are smart enough to do your research and make do without my adding #27,000,001. So, left to right, we have here: Uzi, Demolition, Smog, Empire, and Mainline.
Outdoors, in overcast sunlight:
Indoors, under my Ottlite:
I doubt this matters to anyone, but the Uzi I swatched was the one I already owned, not the one that came in the set, since I see no need to have both in use at once.
Uzi is a sparkly gray, similar to MAC Lithograph Fluidline and Bobbi Brown Graphite Shimmer Ink, but paler and more shimmery. I really love this color and may keep the Smoked one as a backup - I most often wear it on lazy days with just mascara and no eyeshadow (or a flesh-toned eyeshadow like Burberry Trench) because it's glamorous enough to still look nice, standing alone.
Demolition is a neutral deep matte brown, slightly cooler than MAC Dipdown Fluidline and warmer/less gray than Bobbi Brown Sepia Ink. Demolition has a similar base color to Corrupt 24/7, but is slightly darker, less red, and lacks Corrupt's silver sparkles. Bourbon 24/7 is lighter still, redder still, and more shimmery than Demolition. Underground 24/7 is also far lighter and warmer; I would call it more of a metallic taupe.
Smog is a shimmery bronze, lighter and almost rosier in undertone than MAC Lord It Up Pearlglide. It is closer in color to Stila Bronze Smudge Pot, but Bronze leans deeper and more gold/brown. I wouldn't call Smog a "rosy" color in and of itself, but compared to other bronzes and browns, its slightly pinker tones do stand out. I think because of that undertone, this shade will work well on all fair to medium complexions (too dark, and it just may not show up as well) - the warmth of the bronze color will complement warmer complexions, while the rosy undertones will make it wearable for even the coolest complexions as well.
Empire is a slightly iridescent (not at all sparkly, just more reflective than a pure matte) pure purple, and it is everything I wanted Ransom 24/7 to be and more! It lacks the duochrome nature of Ransom but it is SO much more pigmented and easier to work with. I genuinely don't have any colors that are even remotely dupey to Empire. It is a true violet, much less red/plum than Rockstar 24/7.
Mainline is a deep matte teal that glides on super smoothly and with excellent pigment. I am SO happy with this one. It is a similar base color to MAC Siahi Fluidline (maybe a little bit bluer than Siahi, but that's splitting hairs), but appears darker because it lacks the shimmer that Siahi has. Revlon Colorstay retractable pencil in Teal is definitely greener and less pigmented than Mainline.
All in all, I think this set is an excellent value, even if you're a little nuts like me and only buy it for a few of the colors. The pencils are 0.8g/0.03 oz each, compared to 1.2g/0.04 oz each for the full sized 24/7s (which retail for $19 each). Depending on whether you calculate it based on grams or ounces, that makes each of these pencils a $12.67-14.25 value.
Now I just have to decide if I'm going to spring for the Ocho Loco 24/7 set as well... my poor wallet! I need to hurry up and add more items to my blog sale so I can have some more spending money for all the amazing goodies that are coming out for this holiday season, haha :)
Eyeliner lovers, have you picked this up yet or do you plan to? What about Ocho Loco? Would love to hear your thoughts on either or both!
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Oh wow I am LOVING Smog.....need it...ReplyDelete
Mainline looks SO PRETTY... These are fabulous but I think I'd just try to pick up some gel/cream eyeliners in the colors I'm looking for. I did buy the Vice Palette though!ReplyDelete
Mainline! *grabby hands*ReplyDelete
- LAtPolyOctober 16, 2012 at 8:36 PM
FWIW - Yes, I am nuts just like you! Already owned Uzi and Demolition (and of course, Zero) but *needed* (rolls my eyes - as if!) the other three.ReplyDelete
I now own close to 40 different 24/7 shades...no joke. I think the official count is 38 between limited edition sets + discontinued pencils. (I am only missing 4 regular shades: Lust, Covet, 1999, and Deviant.)
Empire is the first one I tried and oy! It's really lovely! Can't WAIT to try Smog and Mainline now...
Really nice set and it does complement the Smoked palette.
I wonder how Smog compares with the now discontinued Baked pencil...
- AnonymousNovember 8, 2012 at 1:39 PM
Oooh..they look gorgeous. I'm a closet makeup junkie, and I have to have these :D Looking forward to Mainline!ReplyDelete
does the empire eyeliner show and stay on the waterlineReplyDeleteReplies
It does show up well, yes. I think different people will have different results as far as whether or not it will stay on the waterline though. For me it lasts a few hours on the waterline.Delete
how would u compare it to rockstar ?ReplyDelete
how does it compare to rockstar? I find that dark colors on waterline look black. will empire show better on waterline or rockstar . I mean definitely rockstar being comparatively darker will show more on waterline but which of the two would show their true color.ReplyDeleteReplies
I think that's still going to vary by person based on skin tone, but Empire does look comparatively less black on the waterline to me and more like a COLOR, if that makes sense.Delete
LOL yes u got me right. thats what i wanted to know : ) one more question : ) promise its last one. I dont want bournbon, too red. demolition or corrupt ? which shows better on waterline though corrupt looks pretty with its sparkle ?ReplyDeleteReplies
Demolition. It's not safe to put glitter like that on your waterline, ever!Delete
: ) thaks for the quick reply u have been a great help.ReplyDelete
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L.I.V.E.S. Program special education teacher Danielle Everts celebrates with the first graduates from the program. From left: Justine DeLuca, Kaleb King, Thomas Ruf, Hannah Brown, and Caitlyn Friedman.
GENESEO, N.Y. - SUNY Geneseo recently graduated the first group of students from its L.I.V.E.S. Program (Learning Independence, Vocational and Educational Skills). The program is a four-year transitional experience on the Geneseo campus that provides both school-age and adult students with intellectual or other developmental disabilities the opportunity to learn independence, vocational and educational skills.
"These graduates have come a long way the past four years," said Elizabeth Hall, assistant professor of special education at Geneseo and director of the L.I.V.E.S. program. "We are trying to mirror a college experience for them as much as possible and we have seen them grow tremendously."
The five students, all from New York, received program certificates during Geneseo's School of Education convocation May 11. The four students from the Arc of Livingston-Wyoming County program receiving certificates in the school-age program were Hannah Brown from Lansing; Justine DeLuca from Warsaw; Kaleb King from Geneseo; and Thomas Ruf from Avon. Also receiving a certificate in the adult-age program was Caitlyn Friedman from Pavilion, a student in the Genesee Valley Educational Partnership. Several of the graduates have obtained jobs as a result of their success.
The L.I.V.E.S. program is funded through a collaborative partnership with SUNY Geneseo, the Arc of Livingston-Wyoming, the Genesee Valley Educational Partnership and Finger Lakes Developmental Disabilities Services Office. The Geneseo program is the only one in New York serving both school-age and adult students.
"I couldn't be more proud of what these students have accomplished, it's definitely inspirational," said Danielle Everts, a special education teacher in the L.I.V.E.S. program. "We all bring varied abilities to our lives and build on them. In the L.I.V.E.S. program, we focus on students' abilities."
The program is accepting between eight and 12 new students each year for both the school-age and adult-age programs. The students must meet eligibility criteria for services from the Office for Persons with Developmental Disabilities and must live in Chemung, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne, Wyoming or Yates Counties. Hall said the program started five years ago with four students. Next fall, she anticipates 29 students in the program.
The students participate in individual assessments to ascertain career interests, learning styles and social and independent living skills. The students are taught on the SUNY Geneseo campus and can begin auditing college courses at Geneseo beginning their sophomore year as part of their plan of study.
Hall said having the students in college courses has received positive feedback from faculty members and often allows other students in the courses to realize that students with disabilities can make valuable contributions to class discussions.
"I see this program growing because of its success," said Hall. "I would like to see a residential component added for juniors and seniors to truly give them a full college experience."
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Waterways across the Commonwealth will become prep sports' newest venue as the Kentucky High School Athletic Association recently announced that bass fishing will be sanctioned starting in 2013.
KHSAA Commissioner Julian Tackett said it was "a natural fit, given the number of Kentuckians of all ages who enjoy fishing and the outdoors."
Like the recent additions of cheerleading and bowling, Tackett hopes the sport-activity will tap into a new demographic.
"What these activities bring to the table is a group of people who are not already baseball players or soccer players – it's a totally new group of participants. We're not cannibalizing anything and that is a tremendous accomplishment," said Tackett.
Kentucky becomes just the second state to offer the sport, after Illinois.
Tackett expects 65 to 70 schools will field teams in the inaugural season, which will run from late February through mid-April. The first state championship will be held at The Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area.
"All the data shows that participants in interscholastic activities get better grades, they attend class better … there are all kinds of (benefits)," said Tackett. "Why not bring more people into that fold?"
Defending state champion Allen County-Scottsville garnered 22 of 33 first-place votes and topped the Kentucky Softball Coaches Association pre-season poll.
The Lady Patriots edged Ballard 3-2 in last year's championship game and finished with a record of 41-4-1.
The Bruins, who went 39-6 in 2011, are No. 2, followed by Mercy at No. 3.
"I think Allen County is definitely deserving of number one," said Ballard coach Alan Jones. "They lost a lot of people … but until someone beats them, as far as I'm concerned, they are number one."
Along with Ballard and Mercy, the Seventh Region boasts No. 10 Male, No. 23 Eastern and No. 25 Assumption.
Other local teams in the Top 25 are No. 11 Pleasure Ridge Park and No. 17 Oldham County.
Girls' Basketball
After realignment shifted powerhouse Mercy into the Sixth Region before this season, the Butler High School girls' basketball team — regional champs in 2010 and 2011 — didn't care much for their new role as underdog.
"We knew we had to prove something," said senior Cora Moore. "They (Mercy) came into our region and all the talk was that Mercy was going to beat Butler. We had to prove them wrong."
In the final of the Class Act Sixth Region tournament last Saturday the Bearettes did just that.
Moore tossed in 14 points, including 3-of-3 shooting from behind the arc, and junior Alexis Stallard had a game-high 16 points as Butler toppled Mercy at Bellarmine's Knights Hall to earn a third straight trip to Bowling Green.
After falling to Mercy by a score of 65-56 in the regular season, Butler retooled on defense and held the Jaguars to only 47 points, their second-lowest total all season.
"I felt like all year long we had the potential to play with a lot of the top teams in the state," said Butler coach Larry Just. "Tonight it just happened to come together."
In the Seventh Region final Manual got 14 points and eight rebounds from senior LeAsia Wright en route to a 65-43 win over Assumption.
The win sent the Crimsons back to the state tournament for a second straight year. The Crimsons fell to Rockcastle County 62-60 in last year's championship game.
The 51st Houchens Industries/KHSAA Girls' Sweet Sixteen tipped-off Wednesday and runs through Saturday at E.A. Diddle Arena in Bowling Green. The championship game is slated for 9 p.m. (EST) Saturday.
Ice Hockey
The Trinity High School hockey team fell short in its bid for a sixth Kentucky High School Hockey League title, losing to Owensboro 4-1 in the final at the Lexington Ice Center on March 4.
Senior center Chris Kelly put the defending champion Ice Rocks up 1-0 in the first period, but Owensboro rattled off four unanswered goals, including three on power plays.
"It's hard to win from the penalty box," said first-year Trinity head coach Mark Gustafson.
Several local players were named first-team all-state, including Jason Watts and Ryan Macht of Oldham County, Jared Boos (Eastern), Mike Klyczek (Trinity) and Terry Bellot (St. Xavier).
Honorable mention: Burke Davis of Eastern and Trinity's Ramsey Mayne and David Hymes.
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In XKCD #936: Short complex password, or long dictionary passphrase? Jeff claimed that password cracking with "dictionary words separated by spaces", or "a complete sentence with punctuation", or "leet-speak numb3r substitution" is "highly unlikely in practice".
However, there are certainly John-the-Ripper rulesets that perform l33t-speak substitutions and "pre/append punctuation or 1-4 digits (some are even included in the default set, and more are discussed e.g. at https://www.owasp.org/images/a/af/2011-Supercharged-Slides-Redman-OWASP-Feb.pdf, which talks about cracking ~50K "corporate" passwords using such techniques; http://contest-2010.korelogic.com/rules.html has some of the specific JtR rules used), and I can't see any reason why an attacker wouldn't use them.
Jeff used rumkin.com in part to justify his claim that Tr0ub4dor&3 is in practice as secure as a 4-word-from-2K-wordlist passphrase. But rumkin.com doesn't seem to take into account l33t-speak substitutions in determining the entropy.
Are there any password strength checkers which take account of the limited entropy added by l33t-speak and similar substitutions and concatentations?
Open-source non-web-based preferred, for obvious reasons. While a good password generation algorithm (by definition) is secure even when the attacker has seen other passwords produced by the same algorithm, the idea is to point naive users at this checker, and the whole point is that their passwords are unlikely to have been generated via a sound algorithm.
Extra points if it learns from passwords submitted to it... unless it then automatically breaks into the users' paypal accounts and uses the money to fund Skynet...


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We welcome Alicia Betts back with her amazing collection of SKIF (Sweaters Knitted in Freedom) hand-The SKIF method of dress is to mix and match, turn it upside down/inside out, and layer it on. If you have seen us playing with our collection in the shop you know that something magical happens when you put them on; they may not look like much on the rack but they come alive on the body. No two garments are exactly alike.


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The 9 Most Obnoxious Memes to Ever Escape the Web
#6. Crazy Frog
This meme is an example why early detection is so incredibly important. We had many chances to stop this thing before it spread. But it seemed so benign at first.
In 1997, 17-year-old Swede Daniel Malmedahl recorded himself mimicking the sound of a two-stroke combustion engine and posted it on a website. The sound became something of a meme itself, at least in its native Sweden. A local TV producer convinced Daniel to perform his sound on national television, probably on a Swedish prime-time hit called Sounds Made By People.
In 2003, another Swede, Erik Wernquist, created an animated frog to go with the sound, and correctly christened it The Annoying Thing.
Pretty harmless, right?
By 2004, what would come to be known as "Crazy Frog" had spread all over the internet, making the rest of the world wish Sweden could just stick to making Volvos and Victoria Silvstedt.
Where it Crossed the Line:
Shortly after Wernquist combined the frog with the noise of a nearly grown man pretending to be a motorcycle, he was contacted by a German ringtone company called Jamba!, who asked to use it as a downloadable ringtone for cell phones.
The ringtone became one of the most successful ever in the United Kingdom. Jamba! quickly earned approximately £14 million from download sales and everyone who downloaded it quickly lost all their friends.
Again, it seems like some kind of intervention could have kept this thing from going any further. But the world's government turned a blind eye, and soon a dance track was recorded.
It charted in Europe and follow ups were released. By March 2008, the Crazy Frog had three complete albums, all of which serve as proof that music can be weaponized effectively.
Also released in the UK was a string of merchandise including an electronic game, key rings, backpacks, lunch boxes and air fresheners. Two computer games, each widely loathed by critics, have been released for the Playstation 2.
Worse yet, a German production company called The League of Good People have made a sad mockery of their name by entering into talks with a production company to create a Crazy Frog TV show. A film is rumored to be in the works, and is likely.
Unless, of course, it turns out that there is a just God.
#5. Dancing Baby
One of the earliest internet phenomena, the Dancing Baby (or if you're official about your internet meme history "Baby-Cha-Cha") first appeared on the internet back in 1996-97.
The 3-D-rendered animated dancing baby comes complete with a somewhat disturbing hip thrust and mincing arm movements that suggest his parents shouldn't hold out for grandchildren. It was created as a product sample source file for release of a groundbreaking 3-D character creation program "Character Studio" which was apparently dedicated to creating the creatures that populate our nightmares.
Where it Crossed the Line:
Its most famous crossover was on the popular 1990s legal drama Ally McBeal, as a hallucination Ally experienced.
On the show, it was supposed to represent the ticking of Ally's biological clock or some shit, but to us, it just interrupted our fantasies of "accidentally" entering the firm's unisex restroom to find Calista Flockheart and Lucy Liu having a race to remove their underpants first.
The baby appeared in the music video for Blue Suede's cover of the 1969 hit Hooked On a Feeling. Then a song called "Dancing Baby (Ooga Chaka)" was released by a UK group called Trubble, who not only used an internet meme extensively in their marketing, but also felt the need to spell their name as if an infant had written it.
#4. Back Dorm Boys
The Back Dorm Boys are two former Chinese college students who lip-sync most notably Backstreet Boys songs. Using a grainy webcam, they filmed themselves lip-syncing in a college dorm room whilst an uninterested third student sat in the background with his back to the camera, playing a computer game.
They completed their first video in May 2005, a synced version of "As Long As You Love Me" by the Backstreet Boys. They released it on their local college network, but their act was so compelling that it showed up on YouTube and quickly accumulated millions of views.
Where it Crossed the Line:
Before the end of the year, while still in college, the Back Dorm Boys were signed up as spokespeople for Motorola cellphones in China and became the hosts of Motorola's online lip-syncing contests.
They were also employed by Sina.com, China's biggest internet portal, presumably meaning that to millions of Chinese peasants, the internet appeared to be nothing more than a high-tech karaoke device. The Back Dorm Boys also maintain a blog, one of the most popular in China, which, in a somewhat unsurprising turn of events, was awarded the "Best Podcaster" award in 2006. The award was given by their employers at Sina.com, but still.
In February 2006, just before they left college, the Back Dorm Boys signed a five-year deal with Taihe Rye, a Chinese talent management company in Beijing, to continue making lip-syncing videos. As it stands, the Back Dorm Boys have made at least 19.
At this point the Back Dorm Boys began to infect the rest of the world, getting mentions in the US on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, South Park and in the first episode of Heroes. We can't imagine that anyone has gotten more famous on less talent. And luckily we don't have to, because our number 3 meme exists.


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MONROE — The best quarterback in Connecticut high school history is gone. The all-everything running back is gone. Masuk's ability to dominate opponents and score points by the dozen is not.
Masuk wide receiver Thomas Milone, the last remaining superstar of last year's South-West Conference championship squad, racked up nearly 400 all-purpose yards and scored five times as his Panthers routed Pomperaug 47-10 in Friday night's season-opener at Masuk High in Monroe.
"We were definitely trying to make a statement," Milone said. "We're just one big team now. We don't have all the names. We just have one name: Masuk."
Pomperaug saw little of the name on the front of Milone's uniform. The senior scored on his first two touches of the game, returning a punt 60 yards for a score before catching an 84-yard touchdown on a perfectly thrown fly by new quarterback Malik Cummings.
Milone's 144-yard opening duo of plays made it 13-0.
"He's a special kid," Masuk coach John Murphy said. "It was pretty obvious tonight. We just try to find ways to get him the ball."
Masuk scored again in the first quarter when Cummings shoveled a fourth-down pass to Frank Bacarella, who ran 20 yards for the touchdown to bump the lead to 19-0.
Pomperaug's Dylan McAllister ran the ensuing kickoff 73 yards to the Masuk 10, but Eric Beatty's 25-yard field goal was all the Panthers got.
Milone scored Masuk's next three touchdowns to put the game completely out of reach. He returned another punt 73 yards for a score early in the second to make it a 26-3 lead, and then hauled in a 5-yard fade from Cummings just five seconds before halftime to give Masuk a 33-3 advantage.
But Milone's most impressive play came about four minutes into the third quarter. After a pair of penalties set Masuk back to its own 15-yard line, Cummings flicked a swing pass out to Milone in the left flat.
Milone used his few blockers to gain some momentum before quickly cutting away from them to the right and darting all the way across the field to beat every Pomperaug defender in sight. His 85-yard catch-and-run gave Masuk a 40-3 lead and allowed the starters to find a place they became used to last year: the bench.
"He's a great player," Pomperaug coach Dave Roach said of Milone. "He's tough to tackle. We were going after him but you can't prep for that. We can't simulate that in practice."
Milone didn't let himself be led on to saying he's one of the state's best players, which may become a consensus with more performances like his first of 2012.
"It depends on what everyone thinks," Milone said. "I'm just looking to playing every game this season with my team."
While Milone ran wild, Masuk's defense stifled Pomperaug's young offense. Pomperaug gained only 20 yards in the first half and didn't find the end zone until Beatty hooked up with Steven Croce for a 49-yard score early in the fourth quarter.
Beatty finished 12-of-22 for 142 yards and two interceptions. Pomperaug had just seven rushing yards.
"Their defense always flies around," Roach said. 'They're going to bring the linebackers every time and it's tough to simulate that. They can play with two platoons and at the same time we have to emulate that. It's still going to be a few years before we can get back to that."
Murphy, whose team was not ranked in the media's preseason top-10 poll, said he was impressed by his no-name defense.
"They really got after it," he said. "The guys play fast and I think we're pretty good up front. There are names people might not know but we're not lacking in talent."
Clearly, there's no reason for alarm in Monroe. Things will be just fine in the post-Casey Cochran era.
"There's still a football program here," Murphy said. "We didn't turn in the helmets because those guys graduated. There's tradition here and these guys believe in it. They want to uphold their part of the bargain."
Murphy's first game ball
Murphy, Masuk's longtime head coach, had never believed in handing out a game ball in the postgame huddle. That changed Friday night.
The visibly emotional coach presented the ball to junior wide receiver Russell Lilly, whose father, Norm, passed away just hours before kickoff. A moment of silence was observed before the game in his honor.
Murphy told his team after the game that none of Masuk's league or state championships had ever made him prouder of his team than the way they rallied around Lilly, who saw playing time in the second half.
"To choose, on a day like today, to be with his team and coaches, that moved me more than anything," Murphy said. "My pregame speech wasn't fire and brimstone. It was telling these guys how much it means that he would come here on a day like today."
Murphy closed his postgame speech per usual by telling his players to show their parents love after leaving the field.
"That's something I say every game," Murphy said. "Today it means a little extra."
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So Linkin Park has put out (at least) four live recordings this year, all available on amazon, but they haven't generated one customer review. Why such apathy?
I bought all four. Who can deny four albums for 4 bucks?
@sasdragon: to paraphrase Dennis Miller: four of crap is still crap - if they really wanna screw you, they'll give you five.
ugh live
I normal don't like live albums but I have always loved Linkin Parks Live albums. Got all 4
Got'em.....good catch!
Link'n Park is a pretty good band live... and for only a buck an album, you can't lose!
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