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Much has changed in the world of technology since Dakota Wesleyan University (DWU) first attempted to deliver an online RN-Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program back in 2007. Due to technological and infrastructure limitations at the time, the program had both traditional face-to-face and online formats instead of the fully online option busy adult learners really needed.
Flash-forward to 2013 when DWU launched its degree completion program for registered nurses with associate's degrees. DWU successfully accomplished its goal to deliver a streamlined program focused on the needs and wants of adult learners.
"The program is very user friendly for students," said RN-B.S. Program Director Diane Sandhoff, who has been with DWU for 25 years. "It fits their lifestyle. They feel like they can succeed."
All required courses for DWU's RN-B.S. nursing program are offered online. Through the program, which can be completed in just 14 months, students gain technical nursing abilities and build on their critical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills—all of which are essential for nurses
"We believe nursing is an art and a science," Sandhoff said. "Our program focuses more on the soul."
Our RN-B.S. nursing program also offers:
o Enhancing skills in leadership and management
o Decision making and problem solving
o Nursing research and evidence-based practice
o Health promotion
o Health assessment
o Service to community
o In-depth study of pharmacology
o Care of families, populations and communities
As Sandhoff points out, "The whole trajectory of nursing has changed from the traditional bedside nurse to something that is so much more broad. Careers in healthcare are being developed that we haven't even considered yet."
DWU, then, must prepare future nurses who are good thinkers, adaptable, flexible, open to new ideas, and believe in the value of lifelong learning.
If you are considering this degree, you might be concerned about your ability to succeed. Please know that the support—and encouragement—is there for you. The DWU program is demanding, yes, but it is also manageable, thanks to eight-week sessions with two courses at a time for full-time students.
Another plus: We also offer a May start so you do not have to wait for a traditional fall semester start.
DWU understands that sometimes life gets in the way of your best intentions. So if you get into the program and must step out for a time, our online program offers you that flexibility. Stepping out is nearly impossible in a traditional 16-week session.
To learn more, please contact Amber Turner, our DWU online admissions counselor.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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The documentation for CompilationTarget says, "if you do not have a suitable C compiler then you will not be able to set CompilationTarget to C". Well at this time, I don't have a compiler installed on either of my computers running Windows XP, or Windows 7. Is it safe to say that any compiler that will run with my OS will be "suitable"? If it isn't that simple, can you recommend a compiler?
I believe that any compiler that works on your system is suitable, but those compilers that are not explicitly supported by the
It is important though to use a 64-bit compiler with a 64-bit version of Mathematica and a 32-bit compiler with the 32-bit version.
(Note: I think
If your OS is Windows, I recommend that you use Microsoft's command line compiler from the Windows SDK. This comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit varieties and should be auto-detected by Mathematica (saving effort).
If you choose to use the popular MinGW version of GCC on Windows, the 64-bit version will need a bit of manual configuration (i.e. it's not so convenient to set up). If you only run a 32-bit version of Mathematica, you can download this 32 version of MinGW, extract it, and place the MinGW directory at
You may also be interested in this question:
How to install and configure Intel C++ Compiler for Mathematica correctly?
I believe this is answered in Specific Compilers:
The CCompilerDriver package has been tested with several versions of the GNU Compiler Collection (http://gcc.gnu.org) on a variety of different platforms.
Tested versions of GCC and platform.

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With her debut in Peter Pan, Tinkerbell
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gets even, but always sticks up for her friends and family. Even when she
doesn't play very nicely with Wendy, we still feel sorry for her. After
all, the adorable blonde-haired little pixie was in Neverland first.
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$f(x)= \frac{\sin(\pi x)}{x(1-x)}$
How can I define $f(0)$ and $f(1)$ to make $f(x)$ continuous on $[0,1]$?
I've found that the limit at $0 = \pi$, and the limit from the left at $1 = \infty$.
I understand that if $f(0)=\pi$ then $f(x)$ is continuous on $[0,1)$, but must I define $f(1)=\infty$? Would that make $f(x)$ continuous?
EDIT: Also, can someone explain why $\lim\limits_{x \to 0} \frac{\sin\pi x}{x} = \pi$?


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The Replacement For Displacement Part 2Written by on January 4, 2011 Contributors: Courtesy The Supercharger Store Our Supercharged 318 Finds A Home In A 1973 Plymouth Scamp And Goes To Las Vegas
While the old adage that there's no replacement for displacement does have some truth to it, the fact is that there are many ways to make a small engine powerful using aftermarket parts, especially when you bolt on power-adders like nitrous oxide, a turbocharger, or supercharger. Deciding to show the potential of one of the smallest and most overlooked Mopar small-blocks, the 318, we teamed up with The Supercharger Store for a project with some specific goals in mind. Take a mild 318 built with quality internals, then supercharge and tune it to make 650 hp and 600 lb-ft of torque, run 12s, and get 16 mpg in an A-Body on 91 octane pump gas.
As you might remember from the first article in this series (May '10 issue), our .030-inch over 318 exceeded its horsepower goal, making 662.7 hp at 6,000 rpm, but fell just shy of the torque goal making a stout 587.5 lb-ft at peak. Even so, this engine should still easily propel a correctly prepared A-Body to sub-13 second quarter-mile elapsed times, and the brake specific fuel numbers indicate we'll be close to our mileage goal as well. To find out how this engine will perform in the real world, we prepped a test-mule '73 Plymouth Scamp for the 318.
Originally equipped with a Slant Six, power steering, air conditioning, and a column shifted automatic, we decided to retain all of the factory options and add power brakes as well. One benefit of this project is that since a supercharged engine doesn't require a radical camshaft to make power, we'll have plenty of manifold vacuum for power brakes. Calling Master Power Brakes, we ordered a power disc brake conversion kit for the front and a set of 11-inch drums for the 8-3/4 rear end we'll be installing. We've always been impressed with the quality and fit of Master Power's products, and this project was no exception.
To handle the nearly 600 lb-ft of torque this little monster makes, an 8-3/4 rear differential was the logical choice, and 3.23 gears were chosen for drivability and economy. To hang the rear end, we chose a set of Mopar Performance super stock springs, installed with offset brackets and hangers to make the most room for big rear tires. Goal 45 Motorsports fabricated the frame connectors, and we installed an adjustable pinion snubber to minimize axle wrapup. After serving the front suspension, we installed a set of Pacer wheels with 275/60R15 rear Mickey Thompson street radials and front P16580R15 tires, all from Competition Tire.
With the suspension ready, we called Pro Trans who built a fully automatic 727 TorqueFlite that would stand up to our 318's torque. We even maintained the factory column shifter, using a Lokar kick-down cable system in place of the factory kick-down linkage. Knowing that we'd have to compromise in terms of the torque converter in order to achieve our mileage and performance goals, Alan at A-1 Performance built us a somewhat tight 3,000-rpm converter for our application.
One of the most important systems in a supercharged application is the fuel delivery system, as the engine's appetite changes dramatically throughout the rpm range. We chose a MagnaFuel Protuner 525 fuel injection fuel pump, inline filter, and boost-referenced fuel pressure regulator to provide the necessary go juice for our application, knowing these parts are proven and reliable. To build the special blow-through carburetor, we called Bob Oliver at Competition Carburetion. Like the converter, the carb for our application will be a bit of a compromise, blending good power with minimal fuel consumption.
To ensure proper ignition and expulsion of the spent fumes, we called on MSD and TTI respectively. TTI is known for quality exhaust components, and they recommended their off-the-shelf step headers and 3-inch exhaust system. MSD provided the Blaster coil, plug wires, 6AL ignition box, and billet distributor to ensure our boosted mixture ignites at the proper time. To further control detonation, we also installed a water injection system from The Supercharger Store. This system uses distilled water to keep the intake temperature at 80 degrees Fahrenheit, and the water slows the flame front as well, effectively increasing the octane of the fuel.
Since our Scamp was shaping up to be a real performer, we decided to make it look its best as well. Taking the car to Goal 45 Motorsports, we ordered two Chrysler colors, Inferno Red and Cool Vanilla, from local M&M Paint, then applied the two-tone paintjob in their booth. Alejandres Upholstery stitched up the interior to match the outside of the car, and we had the windows tinted as well.
Though our goal was to have Bob and the crew from The Supercharger Store drive the Scamp to the Mopars at the Strip show in Vegas, we just barely got it put together in time, finishing the car the night before they had to leave. Since there was no time for any shakedown passes or even to put some miles on the car, we decided not to risk it and took it to the show on the trailer. At the show, the car was driven regularly, performing great on the street. The one pass we got to put on the car in Vegas yielded a 13.2 second elapsed time at 109 mph which isn't bad, but is a little shy of our goal.
After the Vegas show we put about 300 miles on the car and performed a little carb tuning. Taking the Scamp back to the track yielded best of 13.6 seconds in the quarter-mile at 114 mph. Knowing that the car's mph reflected plenty of power to run 12s in the quarter, we knew the problem was with our sixty foot times. In our attempt to achieve fuel economy, our 3.23 rear gear ratio, combined with 27-inch-tall tires and a tight converter, just wasn't letting the car launch. Changing to a 3.91 gear, we went back to the track and ran the quarter-mile in 12.7 seconds at 118 mph, verifying our combination could go 12s with relative ease.
Overall, we're impressed with the performance of this combination. The car drives nicely, idles at 700 rpm with some 12 inches of manifold vacuum, and everything fits under the stock hood. With the 3.23 gears, we can easily cruise 75 mph at a relatively low 2,900 rpm. At those speeds, the car got an impressive 16.2 mpg, with plenty of power throughout the rpm range. Additionally, our performance goals were originally based on a 3,400-pound car, and as raced our Scamp tips the scales at some 3,650 pounds with driver. When you consider that this is an air-conditioned street car that comfortably cruises to the track and runs 12s, the performance of this 318 is unquestionable. As is, this combination is a viable alternative to the stroker big-block or Hemi engine, and with a little development would be nothing less than wicked.
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On the dyno, this potent little supercharged 318 cranked out an impressive 662.7 hp and 587.5 lb-ft of torque. With the testing complete, it was time to put the engine in our '73 Scamp for some real world road and track testing.The test bed for our 318 is this '73 Plymouth Scamp, which we had painted in two Chrysler colors, Cool Vanilla and Inferno Red, by M&M Paint in Sierra Vista, Arizona.While we were at it, we had the interior stitched in a more matching tan and red combination and a pattern fitting the mildly modified theme of the car.With this kind of power on tap, the chassis definitely needs the extra support of sub-frame connectors. Goal 45 Motorsports fabricated these and also installed the springs and offset shackles for our 83/4 rear differential.In an attempt to achieve our goal of 16 mpg, we used a 3.23 gear and Sure-Grip differential in our 8-3/4 rear.In a supercharged application, fuel delivery is critical, and an inadequate fuel supply can lead to a lean condition very quickly. We're using a blow-through carb on this 318 but will run a MagnaFuel 525 inline fuel injection fuel pump to provide the needed volume of pump gas.The Magnaflow pump was mounted to the floor near the tank, and the inline filter a little farther upstream.
Our Scamp didn't come with power brakes, but we wanted to add the option. Fortunately, Master Power brakes had a kit that included front disc brakes, 11-inch rear drum brakes, and a booster/master cylinder combination that fit great in conjunction with the centrifugal supercharger.A Pro Trans 727 was chosen to handle the power and torque of our little beast, and matched with a 3,000-rpm stall converter from A-1 Performance.This may sound a little tight, but remember two of our goals are reasonable economy and drivability.To expel the gasses, a complete exhaust kit from tti was utilized. In our experience, tti products are top-notch, fit well, make power, and stand up to the test of time. For our Scamp, we chose their coated headers and three-inch exhaust and mufflers.The tti headers fit properly, clearing all of the suspension components with plenty of room. Additionally, they don't capture the starter like some other brands.Even in the confines of our A-Body, the tti three-inch pipes installed easily with plenty of clearance.For additional room up front (and better front-to-rear weight ratio) the battery was moved to the trunk.


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ipchains? What was the benefit of adding tables to
ipchains? Is there a simple scenario that would illustrate how tables are used to increase performance or offer some other benefit?
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"tables" were included because the concept carried over to ipchains from when Linux used BSD's IPFW firewall. They make it easy to apply one or more rules to a set of IPs that should administratively be treated the same.
The most common place I see them is when using black or white lists. You might be using fail2ban to automatically block IPs that are "attacking" your server, adding them to a naughty table instead of creating a rule for each IP keeps things clean. Similarly you might have a set of "administrative" machines on your network with diverse IPs, you could add those to a table then write a single rule that allows them to SSH into your server.
So, in the above example, you don't have to write rules for the same set of allowed UDP/TCP ports over and over again for the allowed networks. So, you have 9 lines instead of 15. There should be some performance improvement since each incoming packet doesn't have to try matching on 15 rules. Instead, a packet will be matched those 3 INPUT rules, and if there's a match on the source IP, it will try matching on the 4 rules in the dmzrules table.
I think if you're using iptables for a single box, it may be less useful to use tables. You can probably just enumerate the allowed ports in one swoop, though Chris's point about black/white lists is something to keep in mind, i.e., you can update this list without mucking with the main set of rules.


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Baseball Falls at USC Aiken, 14-3March 26, 2014
AIKEN, S.C. – After USC Aiken began the game with eight runs in the top of the first inning, Anderson University baseball was unable to inch back into the game, falling 14-3 Wednesday evening in a nonconference showdown at Roberto Hernandez Stadium.
With the setback, the Trojans have dropped three straight contests and fall to 11-22 overall, while the Pacers improve to 22-7 for the year.
Three Trojans tallied a double for the evening, as sophomore first baseman Steven Cooper went 2-for-5 with a run scored and an RBI, while senior catcher Ben Pendleton also recorded two hits with a run scored. Junior shortstop Brett Cash notched AU's other extra-base hit, closing the evening 1-for-2 and driving in a run.
Anderson's counterpart, USC Aiken, notched six extra-base hits, highlighted by three home runs, as the Pacer trio of Kody Belcher, Tyler Moore and Grayson Smith all hit Trojan pitches over the wall en route to the victory. Moore also totaled one of two Pacer doubles, joining TJ Costen in the category.
After AU went down in order to begin the game, the home side began the game with four straight hits, including triples from Moore and Costen and a double by Ty Barkell. Belcher capped off the scoring spree with a three-run home run, handing the Pacers a convincing eight-run lead after the first inning.
USC Aiken added another run in the third before the Trojans found the scoreboard for the first time in the top of the fourth inning. After Cooper provided a one-out double down the right field line, Cash traded places with the first baseman with his own double, as the visitors cut into the Pacer advantage.
After USC Aiken crossed two more runs in the fifth, the Trojans scored one more in the top of the sixth when senior outfielder Josh Hickman knocked a sharp single, plating classmate Nathan Galliford. The RBI was Hickman's 26th of the season.
Anderson tallied its final run of the evening in the ninth when Cooper singled through the right side, scoring Pendleton. Cooper now has a hit in five straight games and has recorded an RBI in six of his last seven contests. For the year, Cooper is hitting .359 with a .431 on-base percentage and slugging .609.
The Trojans return to South Atlantic Conference play on Friday, beginning a three-game series with Brevard on Friday. The set begins with a 3 p.m. start on Friday, followed by a doubleheader on Saturday beginning at noon.


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Fun with synonyms - "to grab/catch/capture"
From my current understanding, 捕らえる means 'to capture', while 捕まえる is used to mean 'to arrest'. Is this correct? And is 捕まる its passive?
From my current understanding, 捕らえる means 'to capture', while 捕まえる is used to mean 'to arrest'. Is this correct? And is 捕まる its passive?
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Like many other 漢字 "捕" has different pronunciations:
Both have the same meaning of catching as in "The cat catch the mouse." or "The cop catch the thief."
As a note, とる as "take" is one of these verbs that has many 漢字 with nuance in each use. The main used 漢字 for とる are:
Of course the line is not that clear, and some 漢字 can be exchanged with others depending on the context.
I'll cite some dictionary entries that should give some insight:
Judging from the dictionary entries, these are basically the same, with つかまえる being in the first definition of とらえる. You may notice, however, that these words have alternate kanji, and the choice of kanji can affect the nuance. For example, definition 2 of つかまえる only applies to the other two kanji. So with this particular kanji the two words appear to be more or less the same.
Some question sites have some other interpretations from regular people, though, who have their own insights about the differences.
Like here, for example, where someone offers this distinction:
Basically the distinction is that つかまえる emphasizing that you use your hands or arms to catch something, whereas in とらえる the emphasis is on the capture, and the prevention of escape. とらえる is stronger than つかまえる. For example, you would つかまえる a bug or a small animal, but not とらえる. There's more explanation on that page too. It seems reliable to me.
And yes, 捕まる is just the intransitive verb.


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I have a True Believer out which gives me shroud. My opponent has an enchantment that says that each player must sacrifice whenever he sacrifices a card. Does the enchantment target me, thus allowing me to avoid the effect, or does the enchantment still have its effect despite me having shroud?
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"Shroud" means "This permanent or player can't be the target of spells or abilities."
Unless the ability specifically uses the word target, it is not affected by shroud.
I'm not sure which enchantment you are talking about, but if it says each player, like Grave Pact, then it is not affected by shroud. If it says target opponent or target player, then it is affected by shroud.
Note that there is a subtype of Enchantment, Curse, which have the line Enchant Player. These Enchantment Aura spells do target a player when they are on the stack, so they are affected by shroud.
If you have True Believer out, you have shroud. You cannot be the target of spells or abilities.
If a spell like Grave Pact comes along, you still must sacrifice, because you are not a target. As an analogy, Mist Leopard still dies to Day of Judgment.
If a spell like Curse of Bloodletting comes along, you're safe because the Aura targets you by definition (CR303.4a), but you are an illegal target. You're also safe from Lightning Bolt and its ilk.


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This is the first of a 3-course series on Character, Calling, and Karma: Practice of Soul in Astrology. The first course explores character, beginning in the ancient and medieval worlds. Soul is depicted as aliveness and our physical existence in the world of space and time. What are the parts of the soul and how can the soul act in harmony with itself and the world? We will look at the traditional depictions of the Good Life and how this gave rise to a complete astrological psychology. In this context we will look at idea of the astrological daemon or planetary guide in application to individuals' natal charts.
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Solvents such as Toluene, Trichloroethylene and Butane are present in glue, cleaning fluid and aerosols and are often abused by teenagers resulting in sudden death.
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6 Ways Your Body Loves to Screw You (Explained by Science)
Every once in a while we hear a story about a person in an extreme situation hulking out and doing something strongtacular, like lifting a dinosaur off of a loved one or fighting a bear over a hoagie.
Most of us read those stories and say, "Wait a second. Not only do I not take on superpowers when under stress, I actually get all shaky and poop my pants."
Well, science has been looking into all the hilarious ways we screw up, and not just because the research is hilarious. There are scientific reasons why it seems like your body turns on you at the worst possible moments.
#6. "Brain Farts"
A "brain fart" is the term that describes a sudden, unexplained instance of unknowledge. Like when you walk into a store for something and immediately forget what it was you came in for.
Wait, there it is.
Of course it's not just a minor inconvenience if it happens when you're blowing through that red light you didn't notice, or remembering you were supposed to turn the cooling tower on as your town's emergency alert sirens start going off.
So What's to Blame?
This has long considered just one of those mysteries of the brain, but researchers have recently done studies that found that your brain basically has a built-in sleep mode, like your PC. The "brain farts" weren't sudden, random glitches, but planned shut-downs. Up to 30 seconds before a mental fart occurred, researchers could see the relaxation centers of the brain lighting up and other sections going dark.
This "sleep mode" exists in your brain for the same reason it does on your PC: to conserve energy. The studies found brain farts usually happen when you're in the process of doing an activity that you've done a million times, like a routine task at work or skinning a jackrabbit. The thinking part of your brain figures it doesn't need to be around for that boring shit, and nods off.
The problem, of course, is that a whole lot of those repetitive tasks are also the most important things we do in the course of a day. Some of us have jobs where failing to do them right even once results in everything catching on fire.
"Dammit, brain! Not again!"
Tests showed that the sudden, horrible realization that your brain had checked out on you is usually all it takes to jolt it back into action. So basically the brain says, "I'm going on break, but don't worry, I'll be back as soon as you fuck something up."
"Hey, what'd I miss?"
Scientists are actually working on a mind-reading hat that can detect when you're in that 30-second countdown until brain-shutoff and prevent it. This is presumably for people who have the kind of jobs where even a momentary lapse of concentration can mean disaster. Lion tamers and such.
There's no way this idea can go wrong.
#5. "Choking" Under Pressure
There are only two things you and millionaire athletes have in common: You both could probably sleep with your wife if you ask nicely, and you both have a capacity for choking under pressure.
If you watch sports highlights regularly, you've probably seen it happen just this week. A field goal kicker misses the chip shot with no time on the clock; the NBA guard who had no problem scoring his first 30 points of the game can't drain his last two standing at the free throw line down by one with two seconds on the clock.
So What's to Blame?
Scientists (who were probably pissed that they have to spend six months writing a grant to fund their choke research when the aforementioned shooting guard was making an eight-figure salary) have actually studied the choking phenomenon. Why are some players "clutch" and others "chokers"? It has to do with how the brain learns new information.
When you first learn a skill, you learn it explicitly, which means you learn the technique of what you're attempting in a methodical, mechanical way. Like a robot.
But after a few thousands lay-ups or bat swings or alligator throat punches or whatever, the process becomes implicit, meaning you can do it without even thinking. If you're doing it in the realm of high-level athletics, that's absolutely essential because every move is done with split-second timing. Kobe Bryant often has to decide how he's going to approach the basket while in mid-air. There's no time to think, so how well you perform depends entirely on how well you've trained the instinctual part of your brain.
For the small portion of our readership who aren't professional athletes, you may have experienced the difference between explicit and implicit skills while walking in front of a room full of people, or typing while someone looks on, or flying down a stair case when some asshole tells you to "watch where you're going with that chainsaw." The moment you start thinking about it, the thing you've done a million times becomes awkward or impossible.
The problem is every now and then, particularly in high pressure situations, the explicit part of the brain that first learned those skills a thousand repetitions ago wants to come to the party, too. Your body suddenly reverts back to the technical, deliberate, awkward movements it took to learn the game. Suddenly, you're thinking through the task ("step one, grab the alligator around the jaws, step two, make a fist...") instead of just doing them in one lightning-fast, smooth motion. The ground ball skips off your glove because you're trying to field it with a part of your brain that hasn't played baseball since you were in little league. You "choke."
Aww... that's OK, sport. You'll get it next time! Who's ready for ice cream??
#4. Acne
Nothing captures the eye of a beautiful, young woman like a face full of pus-bubbles. Then that beautiful, young woman turns away in disgust and may or may not vomit.
So isn't it wonderful that your body is capable of randomly peppering your facial area with dozens, if not hundreds, of inflamed marks of pre-manhood? Those little whiteheads and blackheads single-handedly kept you out of the popular clique in high school, didn't they?
Eh, maybe not single-handedly.
But what's worse is the way the pimples seem to know that you've got a big date or prom coming up. It's like your complexion "chokes" just like the basketball player at the free throw line up there.
So What's to Blame?
While it's been an old wives tale for generations that acne is caused by stress, until recently, scientists scoffed heartily at the very notion. What they could not scoff at is the fact that acne outbreaks are caused by oil that builds up under your skin and blocks pores, however.
So scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine studied students during finals, just to see if the pressure of taking tests exacerbated their acne. Guess what? It totally did. First, stress prompted the adrenal glands to pump out more hormones, which led to extra face oil, which led to more zits. This was then compounded by the fact that the normal healing processes slowed down. It was like dropping a Mentos of stress into the diet soda of clogged pores.
Your chin during finals.
Stress is, in fact, a very common way to throw off the balance of hormones in your body. Other times that hormones might get adjusted and ruin your skin include: puberty, pregnancy and menstrual cycles. Is the correlation becoming a little clearer? Basically any time in life that could cause you physical and/or emotional misery and embarrassment is fertile ground for blemishes to appear.
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#2. Albert Einstein
Trying to convince you that Albert Einstein was rejected in any way during his lifetime let alone a moron is a hard sell, considering that he was one of the most famous men on the planet at the time. But buried deep in a lifetime of utter brilliance, Einstein was saddled with one big mistake. One that it turned out wasn't a mistake at all.
Einstein, seen here chilling out and sparking a doob with Niels Bohr
To understand, you have to know a little bit about Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Not a whole lot, just the fact that it didn't allow for a static universe. Einstein believed the universe had to be static, or else the forces of gravity would cause the whole universe to contract onto itself, which it apparently wasn't doing. So, to make up for this weird conundrum, he invented something called the cosmological constant, an unknown, unchanging force that allowed him to have his cake (General Theory of Relativity) and eat it, too (stand by a static-universe model).
"Yeah, just throw an X in there, then integrate how little I give a shit."
But not too long after Einstein came up with the cosmological constant, Edwin Hubble burst his little unmoving universe bubble by finding evidence that the whole shebang was expanding. Einstein called the cosmological constant his "biggest blunder" and went to his grave thinking he was an idiot for having proposed it. And so did everyone else. For a while.
"Way to go, Einstein."
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Einstein didn't get heaped with scorn like some of the other geniuses on this list, so he got off with a little self-deprecation with a side of regret. And he also dropped the whole idea of the cosmological constant. But here's the thing -- it turns out he may have been right all along. Not about the universe being static, of course, but that this mysterious, unknown entity existed in the first place.
In the 1990s, scientists discovered that the universe was expanding faster than they had previously thought and that the rate of expansion was being fueled by a mysterious, unknown entity. There are several contenders up for consideration as the cause, but everyone's favorite? You guessed it: Einstein's cosmological constant. His math of the constant magically fit the bill. Also because you never go wrong when you bet on Einstein.
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#1. Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann had the unfortunate luck of being born with a genius brain at the wrong time. Back in the 19th century, there was a huge debate over the nature of matter. Boltzmann not only had the audacity to presuppose the existence of atoms at a time when the atomic model was still controversial among scientists, but also built every one of his brilliant theories as if there was no debate at all. How brilliant? Hang on to your test tubes, because thing are about to get sciencey.
With a beard like that, how could the man not be a genius?
For one, he pioneered the study of statistical thermodynamics, which is a field of physics that provides a framework for predicting how a large number of particles will behave in a system. So, let's say you're camping and you start a fire. Boltzmann was the guy who tried to figure out what the crap was going on in those logs on a molecular level that allowed the fire to kindle, and he used fancy math formulas to figure it out. His work ultimately paved the way for the field of quantum mechanics, which eventually paved the way for the greatest time travel show ever.
Suck it, Dr. Who.
His Genius Was Rewarded By ...
Death. He got death.
And a $5 Subway gift card.
Back then, defending the existence of atoms was akin to defending creationist version of the origins of man today. Boltzmann wasn't just forced to defend something that would be accepted as fact within a few years, he was shamed for his stubborn refusal to yield and for his so-called materialist beliefs.
Nobody ever told scientists that nonmaterial science is already called philosophy. A long series of uneven debates left nearly every other supporter of atoms silent, leaving Boltzmann as their chief defender. Even colleagues who originally agreed with him began to question atoms' existence when his work seemingly undermined previously understood laws of physics.
A Helium atom, seen here being a total dick to Physics.
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Non-root user cannot login (Linux kernel version 22.214.171.124) !!! SOLVED !!!
February 08, 2011, 04:10:20 PM »
I noticed the problem first when I tried to test cgi-bin using mini-httpd on my Sheeva Plug. The server would not produce any output. I then cross compiled mini-httpd
and added logging. It would fork-execve the cgi script but get a SIGCHLD and no HTML output would be produced. Turns out that /etc/mini-httpd.conf wants to run
as user "nobody". When I changed this to "root" cgi-bin started working. I tried user "gopal" and this did not work. I checked permissions and things seemed
fine for non-root users. Yet the problem. I was intrigued.
I then tried logging in as user "gopal" using ssh. Sshd authenticates me fine, prints the 'motd' and then the shell gets killed. User "root" had no problems. I
thought it was sshd related and cross-compiled telnetd. Ran telnetd both as standalone and under inetd. Same result - when it did execve of the shell
it would get killed.
I decided to run telnetd under gdb. I cross-compiled gdb, installed gdbserver on the ARM box. I got rid of the fork() in telnetd. I saw that telnetd would go all
the way (open pty, authenticate user, setuid/setgid to user) and when it did execve() of "/bin/bash" it would just die. I ran telnetd under strace and noticed
that the last syscall was execve() and then it would print "killed". No shell.
I then decided to login as "gopal" from console. No luck. I googled this issue and things such as PAM related misconfiguration, /etc/nologins file, /etc/securetty
file etc. popped up. I decided to cross-compile the /bin/login program and make sure there was nothing wrong with credentials. Again my login program went all the
way up to execve of the shell and then would get a signal and terminate.
Suspecting bash, I even tried tcsh. That had the same problem too. It occured to me that root was able to do execve but non-root was not. So I decided to change the
login program to remain root until it did the execve but then do the setuid/setgid calls in the bash shell. To do this, I cross-compiled my own bash and added the
above calls to hardcode userid "gopal" in bash. Lo and behold my bash was spawned and it successfully changed it's UID/GID to "gopal". But bash was crippled. It could
not run any commands. Basically, once the process was non-root it was hosed.
I then decided to put printks in the do_execve() function in the kernel. I wrote a hello_world program, downloaded it into the box, and ran it as
"sudo -u gopal /tmp/hello". When I saw the printk's getting hit and the return value of do_execve() was -EPERM (-1), I knew that the end was in sight. It was just a matter
of finding out why the EPERM was happenning. Followed inside search_binary_handler() which interprets binary formats such as AOUT and ELF. elf_map() calls do_mmap() that
calls security_file_mmap(). Because I had not enabled CONFIG_SECURITY it called cap_file_mmap(). cap_file_mmap() checks if the address being mapped is below the
'dac_mmap_min_addr'. It does not allow non-root to mmap at this address. The kernel config CONFIG_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR was set to 4096. My printk showed that the
address being mapped was 32786. So why was I having trouble ? Turns out that the value of dac_mmap_min_addr can be set by sysctl "/proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr". Doing a
cat of this file showed it was set to 65536 ! Bingo ! I then did
# sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=32768
Then did ssh to the box and Voila ! I was logged in as user "gopal" !!!
So who was changing the default setting from 4096 to 65536 ? A quick grep showed /etc/sysctl.d/10-process-security.conf was the culprit ! Changed it from 65536 to
32768. Rebooted the box and login for "gopal" was still working ! I've attached the contents of the sysctl file below so you can look at the comments:
# cat /etc/sysctl.d/10-process-security.conf
# protect bottom 64k of memory from mmap to prevent NULL-dereference
# attacks against potential future kernel security vulnerabilities.
# (Added in kernel 2.6.23.)
vm.mmap_min_addr = 32768
I think the Posix Discretionary Access Controls (DAC) were added in 2.6.23. I'm using 22.214.171.124. Did the helpful folks at Ubuntu who created the distribution check
this on different architectures and make sure it was compatible with the kernel config variable ? I'm running an Ubuntu jaunty Root FS that came with the box.
In any case, this was a great journey of discovery ! The thing with Linux is that it makes this process rewarding and enjoyable. I'd gladly miss work to debug this (which
I did). Thanks to this, I've validated my cross-compilation tools, gdb, and seen the insides of /bin/login, telnetd, and to some extent bash.
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Thank you share this experience it is very valuable information.
Good Luck
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Re: Non-root user cannot login (Linux kernel version 126.96.36.199) !!! SOLVED !!!
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Quote from: rgkwustl on February 08, 2011, 04:10:20 PM
address being mapped was 32786. So why was I having trouble ? Turns out that the value of dac_mmap_min_addr can be set by sysctl "/proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr". Doing a
cat of this file showed it was set to 65536 ! Bingo ! I then did
# sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=32768
I hope you didn't install one of my kernels, otherwise I'd have to say shame on you for not reading the README-22.214.171.124. It tells you to do exactly that. It's in all of the README's going back to 2.6.30-rc6.
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I'm so glad it's Friday! This has been a long, stressful week. In bad news, my ankles and feet are still in rough shape and are very swollen and painful. I wound up going to the ER Tuesday night because I was kind of freaking out and didn't want to wait for a doctor appointment. Thankfully all of the blood/urine tests came back normal. The doctor told me that she thinks I just have a random case of edema and she prescribed a diuretic for me to take for a week (Lasix). Today is Day 2 of taking the water pill and I don't notice anything different. I also don't feel like I'm having to go to the bathroom more often. So now I'm afraid that the swelling is from the RA. My rheumatologist's nurse is supposed to be calling me back today about this. When I talked to her a few hours ago and explained what was going on, she didn't seem to think that my swollen feet/ankles are from the RA. But who knows, right? Most of the time with this disease I can never get a certain answer or diagnosis which DRIVES ME CRAZY. It's so maddening. I really hope this swelling problem gets sorted soon because I feel like I'm really on the verge of not being able to handle it. What that means, exactly, I don't know – but I'm close to it.
In good news, my new glasses came in a couple days ago (which I am sporting in the above photo). They're different than my old frames and a bit bigger, but I think I really like them. Change is hard for me sometimes – arthritis flare-ups, new illnesses, new jobs, new glasses. Stress! I keep trying to tell myself that change can be good. I probably look even more like a librarian in these specs, but that's fine with me. Librarians are pretty awesome.
Ok, I better get back to "work." Happy weekend!
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Hi Angela :) I love the new glasses, you look so pretty! I swell a lot also, but have been diagnosed with hypothyroidism..have you had your thyroid checked recently? There is such a thing as being subclinical or in dr speak being within normal limits of the reference range..you can be at the very upward normal limit, and unless you ask specifically if it could be subclinical hypothyroidism they won't treat.. just a thought! Hope you have a great weekend :) Annamarie
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Hi Sweetie! I Know it's Been 2 Years Since You Posted This But I Wanted To Share A Bit Of Wisdom. I've Been diagnosed With RA As Well, Due To A Genetic Disease That I Have Called Spondylo Arthropathy, And My Ankles Swell Almost Every Morning. I Have An Amazing Rheumatologist In Dallas TX, His Name Is Dr. Don Cheatum. He's One Off The Top 3 Dr's In His Field. He sent Me To Have A Bone Scan And That Shows Exactly Where All Of The Arthritis Is Located. No Confusion, No Wondering. If You Can Get Your Dr To Send You To Get One It'll Be Life Changing. I Hope Things Have Gotten Easier For You In The Past 2 Years! But Whether Easier Or Not, That's Life! Thanks For Sharing Yours With Us!
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[3D modeling]
One of the most significant outcomes of rapidly increasing
computing power has been in three-dimensional (3D)
visualization; oil discovery makes extensive use of it, for
example. To a professional responsible for the safe and
efficient operation of an oil and gas facility, todays
immersive 3D computer games might seem like only a form of
engaging relaxation. However, the world is changing. The
visualization technologies pioneered for the games industry
will play important roles in the lifecycles of tomorrows
capital assets.
Technology involving 3D
visualization has long been essential to the work of the
engineering designer, but lush visual rendering has
historically been sacrificed for more immediately productive
uses of available processing power, such as responsiveness and
sophisticated clash detection. However, to overlook the
potential of realistic 3D representation is to miss an
opportunity to increase design productivity and quality.
Recent research has shown that only a limited set of visual
cues is necessary to create a convincing representation of
reality. These cues can be incorporated into design solutions,
providing designers with a highly intuitive visualization that
does not have an adverse impact on system performance.
Interactive controls enable a user to adjust three rendering
elements: edge definition, highlighting and shadowing. The
result is surprising: As the settings are adjusted, simple
geometric shapes quickly assume convincing, solid forms and
unambiguous positions in the virtual plant.
The result is a new level of intuitive interaction with the
design model. As a designer moves an object, the subtle cues of
shadows and highlights make its actual 3D location more
obvious. The result is a small but valuable improvement in the
time and effort required to position an object or to route a
pipe. Aggregate this across the many individual positioning
operations performed every day during design development, and
the result is significant. Design productivity increases,
saving time and effort through quicker, more accurate
positioning and less repositioning. Soft clashesthose
between collision spaces around objectscan be avoided
almost unconsciously, as shadows indicate proximity between the
objects (Fig. 1).
New design has improved with advances in 3D modeling technology, but can the same
approach help with brownfield projects? Here, the challenge has
always been in the limitations of available surveying methods.
However, rapid advances in 3D laser scanning systems have not
only overcome this, but have also unlocked a new level of
capability in upgrading and revamping older facilities.
Among recent advances, 3D scanning captures far more detail
at greater accuracy than any other method. Todays
scanners generate accurate, photorealistic 3D representations
of an in-service facility, and they can do so quickly and
without disruption to normal operations (Fig.
2). Additionally, they are becoming increasingly
affordable, compact and easy to use.
New design has been taken further in the latest software
releases. These can combine both design models and laser-scan
models in the same 3D environment (Fig.
3). The improved design visualization described above
is matched by high-definition laser-scan data, so that the
designer can work intuitively with both types of information.
Now, for the first time, the real and the virtual worlds can be
integrated in a common environment.
The most far-reaching benefit of integrating as-designed and
as-built elements lies in the enabling of lean
construction methodologies. Lean has long been a
discussion topic in the plant industries, but until now they
have lacked the key to unlock it. By exploiting the ease and
affordability of laser scanning at every stage in the
fabrication and construction sequence, and by integrating the
data with the as-designed model, the feedback loop between
design, fabrication and construction can be closed.
In one-off capital projects, if a costly item is made
incorrectly, the program impact can be considerable. But if the
deviation can be identified immediately and in detail, an
informed decision can be made to mitigate its impact and
protect the program. For example, consider a project that
requires a concrete base with a number of mounting points for
key modules. The concrete is poured, but only when the modules
are being installed is it discovered that some mounting
positions are incorrect. Crisis management ensues, with
inevitable cost and schedule overruns.
It is, of course, possible to survey the foundation as soon
as the concrete is adequately cured for walking. An accurate,
photorealistic 3D scan can be immediately sent to the design
office, loaded into the design system and quickly compared with
the design model. Immediate, informed action can be taken to
recover the situation and protect the project schedule. This action might,
for example, involve rerouting pipes or access structures, or
authorizing a design modification to the affected plant modules
while they are still in fabrication.
Plant operators have long regarded 3D as a tool exclusive to
designers. However, the industry is now rapidly coming to
recognize the considerable value of 3D visualization when
applied to plant operations. With realistic, immersive
visualization of complex engineering assets, one can learn by
doing in a safe environment, just as in a flight
Staff training and procedure planning are obvious
applications for this technology. People learn most effectively
by doing, and they understand most easily by seeing.
Three-dimensional visualization can be used by new recruits for
facility familiarization, in preparation for visits to remote
facilities or for updating skills
and procedures following plant modifications (Fig.
4). It can cover training in operations or safety
procedures, such as testing the most complex
what-if emergency-response scenarios or
collaborative planning between multi-site teams.
Maintenance management is made
easier with applications that show the physical locations of
current and planned work orders on a 3D representation of the
facility. This is a powerful tool for avoiding potential
clashes between apparently unrelated tasks.
The ability to apply color-coding to objects in the 3D model
view can also be exploited for purposes such as risk-based
inspection (RBI) planning. By color-coding the various lines
according to, for example, fluid carried or operating
temperature, it becomes possible to do a virtual walk-down to
trace the route of a particular line, checking its proximity to
adjacent objects. This process can be performed in locations
that would be inaccessible at the physical plant.
To summarize, 3D is entering a new era. Simplified
representations of design objects are being replaced with
realistic renderings that are intuitive and easy to manipulate.
Also, 3D has moved out of the design office to bring its power
to every aspect of asset lifecycle management.
Combining more powerful design functionalities with the
ability to accurately capture the as-built asset and associate
both types of information with every other type is transforming
the way plants are created, operated and maintained. The
digital 3D counterparts of tomorrows plants will be
essential to their efficient design, construction and operation.
Additionally, it is now practicable to bring
yesterdays plants into the digital world of 3D models and
integrated information, to enable their continuing safe and
efficient operation, upgrade and lifecycle management.
All comments are subject to editorial review.
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jared hanscom
A well written explanation of the position that 3D visualization technology is assuming in the management of industrial assets.
Kevyn Renner
Completed 3D Virtual World and Visualization projects in operations at a major O&G in both Downstream and Upstream The application of 3D as presented here shows enormous promise for cost reduction, safety improvement, operations training etc. Nice article!!
Dr. Rasmy Azoole
Very promissing!!
This is perfect and excellent.
Arturo Aranda
Estoy muy interesado en esta herramienta de visualizacion de proyectos de modo a comparar con planos y calculos hechos sobre el mismo proyecto y sobre los modelos matematicos de funcionamiento. El porcentaje de visualizacion del proyecto debe aumentarse de modo a reemplazar los indices matematicos por indices visuales de presicion. Querria mayor informacion al respecto
Frank Meyer
I would like to contact Simon Bennett to find out what firms are using 3D for 5 furture plants we are developing.
Kenneth Harper
In the old days, we used to build plastic 3-D models of the new plant. I always found them useful, but the practice stop because of cost. It is nice that the computers are bringing back 3-D models.
it's perfect for training
Simone Robinson
We have been using 3D animations for a number of years to demonstrate to our clients (Shell, Saudi Aramco, BP etc) how our research and development of advanced cleaning techniques will help clean their heat transfer equipment faster, safer and more effectively. Link to one of our animations here for those who are interested. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am20FxuTo1M
rashid hasan
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Engineers and designers are highly skilled individuals. Forcing them to enter design changes using tables, forms and spreadsheets is unproductive and uneconomical, and it increases the likelihood of human error—this is the way that most instrumentation software systems currently work. For too long, software vendors have denied engineers and designers the simple practicality of a graphical visual engineering interface with "drag and drop" capability and inbuilt intelligence, ensuring changes are automatically replicated into all the associated data and databases.
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When I download a new launcher and install it, the next time I hit home, I'm presented with a dialog to choose which application to launch from the home button.
I'm working on my own launcher app, and when I install it from ADB, it doesn't clear the default and give me the prompt when I hit home the next time. It shows up if I clear the default manually, but simply installing it doesn't clear the default the way it does when I install apps from the play store.
So, basically, what's clearing the default app when you install (or even update) an app, and how can I make my app do it. I'm not trying to force it to be the default, I just want my installation to reset the default and allow me to choose again.


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Discover art, natural history and geology. With a busy programme of exhibitions and events, we have something to amaze everyone, whatever your interest – and admission is free!
St Fagans is one of Europe's foremost open-air museums and Wales's most popular heritage attraction.
Big Pit is a real coal mine and one of Britain's leading mining museums. With facilities to educate and entertain all ages, Big Pit is an exciting and informative day out.
Located in the historic former Cambrian Mills, the Museum is a special place with a spellbinding story to tell.
In AD 75, the Romans built a fortress at Caerleon that would guard the region for over 200 years. Today at the National Roman Legion Museum you can learn what made the Romans a formidable force and how life wouldn't be the same without them.
The National Slate Museum offers a day full of enjoyment and education in a dramatically beautiful landscape on the shores of Llyn Padarn.
The National Waterfront Museum at Swansea tells the story of industry and innovation in Wales, now and over the last 300 years.
Rhagor (Welsh for 'more') offers unprecedented access to the amazing stories that lie behind our collections.


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The embryo now has 14 somites-the building blocks of your baby's muscular system. The first nine pairs are shown here. The upper part of the image shows the open end of the neural tube, which, along with the opening at the base of the spine, has closed.
You and your partner are probably the only people who know you're pregnant, and you may still be wondering if it's real. At this stage you may not have any symptoms at all, despite the rapidly changing and growing embryo inside you.
This absence of pregnancy signs is completely normal and is not a cause for concern. Try to remember that the majority of pregnancies are without any complications. It's normal for a healthy pregnant woman to have a wide range of side effects or none at all. So don't worry if you're feeling great-in fact count yourself lucky!
It is common to not especially want food if you have morning sickness (see You are 5 Weeks and 3 Days). You may no longer be able to stomach your favorite foods. If you're not eating much, it's important that what you do eat is nutritious. Choose nutrient-rich dark green leafy vegetables and legumes, and fish (see ... Nutrition) since it contains essential fatty acids.
Up to 90 percent of your supply of vitamin D depends on adequate exposure to sunlight.
Vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium, which is vital for the development of your unborn baby's skeleton. A daily 15-minute walk outside-with the sun on your skin-is sufficient; you can also boost your intake of vitamin D by eating oily fish, eggs, fortified cereals, and bread, and by taking supplements (see Folate and folic acid).
Some women will have an early ultrasound scan, but the majority of women will have one around the 12th week of pregnancy (see You are 11 Weeks and 1 Day). Early scans are usually done vaginally, with a scanning probe inserted gently into the vagina. They are performed for the following reasons:
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I have a question about how dynamic the Y axis of a burn down chart in Scrum should be. We plot the chart in the beginning of a sprint having the total number of estimated story points on the Y axis, and the planned days on the X axis.
Usually, during the sprint, we have a fair amount of:
- unplanned tasks / stories;
- tasks / stories that take longer than estimated (re-estimated by the person checking out the task);
- should the story points of the unplanned tasks be plotted into the chart? if so, extend the y axis as well and redraw the expected curve? or just plot the points and have an actual curve with points maybe higher than the starting point?
- should the re estimations be counted when plotting the chart, or just the initial estimations? same questions as for the first question... enter image description here
I would prefer to ignore the unplanned items and the re-estimations as they will show up in the actual focus factor calculation anyway. Is it wrong?


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C. S. Lewis's classic Narnia books spring to life in the hands of award-winning paper engineer Robert Sabuda. Each of the seven books in the series has its own pop-up spread rendered in spectacular detail with stunning special effects. Experience a different adventure from Narnia on every spread in this beautiful addition to the Narnia library—sure to enchant fans of both C. S. Lewis and Robert Sabuda.
Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably the most influential Christian writer of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English literature at Oxford University until 1954 when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. His major contributions in literary criticism, children's literature, fantasy literature, and popular theology brought him international renown and acclaim. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include The Chronicles of Narnia, Out of the Silent Planet, The Four Loves, The Screwtape Letters, and Mere Christianity.
"Featuring spectacular three-dimensional pop-ups this is sure to be a welcome addition to the Narnia library."
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"From the first page, it's obvious that pop-up master Sabuda has done it again. A gem."
"Sabuda works his pop-up magic once again. Expect plenty of 'Wow!' reactions from viewers."
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COLLEGE STATION (December 7, 2012)--A toxicology report from the autopsy performed on 19-year-old Texas A&M University student Garrett Luce shows that Luce had been drinking heavily before he was struck and killed by a train on Nov. 4.
The Travis County Medical Examiner's Office found Luce's blood alcohol content was 0.23 at the time of the accident, nearly three times the legal limit.
Medical examiners said Luce died of blunt force injuries.
"That's pass out drunk for a lot of people," said Dr. Boone Barrow of Scott & White Hospital.
College Station Police are investigating the accident.
Luce was a College Station resident and a sophomore at Texas A&M.
He was pledging the Kappa Alpha fraternity.
Union Pacific Railroad spokesperson, Raquel Espinoza, said the train's engineer saw something on the track from about a quarter of a mile away.
"The engineer sounded the whistle as soon as he realized it was a person on the tracks. The engineer put the train into emergency in an effort to stop the train, but the train was not able to stop before impact," Espinoza in a phone interview.
Investigators said Luce was alone at the time of the accident.
"He was laying on the track. The train whistle was sounded two different times before the accident. He was not wearing earphones and should have been able to hear the train whistle both times. We just don't know why he didn't respond to those warnings," said Espinoza.


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In 2002, designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez combined their mothers' maiden names to create Proenza Schouler. The duo attended Parson's School of Design where their senior thesis became their first formal collection and was bought in its entirety by Barneys New York. Inspired by youth culture and modern art, the designers continually wow their worldwide following while using custom-developed materials to skillfully craft their womenswear, accessories and, of course, signature handbags.
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I want to check if a user liked my fan-page from my website and if he did i skip the step and if he didnt i want to suggest him to like my fan-page,its all on my website i dont want to put a landing page or something else on my fan-page.all of it is on my website,i don't want to put a landing page or anything else on my fan-page. Thanks
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Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
there are only 2 ways for this:
-) use the edge.create event: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB.Event.subscribe/
downside: this can only check right after clicking a like button on your website. so, if the user comes back, you can´t be sure if the like button is still clicked. also, you never get the id of the user, of course
-) authorization with facebook login > you can check for the user likes > user_likes permission needed. but i doubt that you really want to authorize the user just for this...
the graph api call you could use:
subscription: permission user_subscriptions needed. graph api call would be the following:
You need
refer to: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/login/user-friend-permissions/
then simply use fql to request information.
If user likes the page graph will return id of page. Example graph request like for page Facebook. http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/135669679827333/?fql=SELECT%20page_id%20FROM%20page_fan%20WHERE%20uid%3Dme()%20AND%20page_id%3D20531316728
Else array will be empty.


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Equestrian style canters onto the streets with paddock-inspired clothes, shoes and accessories
Even neigh-sayers will embrace this season's fashionable twist on traditional equestrian style. Classically cut jackets go brighter, feed bag-style hobos get graphic, and fashion jewelry incorporates the sport's mane motifs, even if just a little bit.
A great gait:
Riding jacket: Smythe, $665.
Cotton blouse: Banana Republic, $69.50.
Leather-trimmed jeans: DL 1961, $225.
Riding boots: Cole Haan "Daelin," $498.
Oversize bag: Rebecca Ray "The Maryann," $210.
Earrings: Ann Taylor LOFT, $24.50.
Silvertone bit bracelet: Lauren Ralph Lauren, $48.
There's nothing conventional about Cole Haan's "Carolyn" platform ankle boot, which turns traditional riding-boot styling upside down. $398.
With its equestrian-themed ends in russets and gold, this generously sized scarf has a surprise inside: a pattern of stars that pop in colors like teal and hot pink. Codello, $150.
Take the reins:
Leave it to Ralph Lauren to freshen up this leather and silver wrist wrap with silvertone bit accents. Lauren Ralph Lauren, $44 each. Dillard's.
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Wesley Mathena
World War II veteran Wesley Eugene Mathena, 88, died at his home in Kettle Falls on July 22, 2011. The son of Roy and Lessie (Parrish), he was born in Grainger, Missouri on Jan. 27, 1923. Wesley was raised in Illinois, where he attended school and graduated from Blandinsville High School. He enlisted in the United States Navy and was part of an elite group of radarmen being assigned to the South Pacific on PT. After the war, he returned to the Midwest and married Luella Parish in Fort Madison, Iowa on Jan. 16, 1946. This year they celebrated their 65th Wedding Anniversary. Wesley spent his working years as a postal carrier and clerk in Fort Madison, where they lived and raised their family. He retired from the U.S. Post Office in 1979 and he and Luella moved to Stevensville, Montana. Family vacations had always been to visit and camp in Montana and Colorado. It was Wesley's love of the mountains that led them to the Bitterroot Valley. He also worked in the postal department of University of Montana. A good hike in the mountains or around Lake Como was a perfect day for Wesley. In 2008 Wes and Luella relocated to Kettle Falls to be near their sons. He was a member of the Colville Christian Church and had spent all his adult life involved in church activities. Survivors include his wife, Luella; son, Steve, Kettle Falls; son, Randy (Peggy), Arden; grand-daughter, Sarah (Matt) Miller, Long Beach; grand-daughter, Carly Mathena (Mike Wahler), Mill Creek; great-grandchildren, Marcus, Cody, Alex and Madelyn. The family would like to express heartfelt thanks to Spokane Hospice for their help and support. A Memorial service celebrating his life will be Sunday, August 7 at noon at Colville Christian Church (828 S. Summit), with refreshments following. Memorials may be made to Kettle Falls Food Bank. His guestbook is available at www.danekasfuneralchapel.com .


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The Royal Livingstone Hotel is a 5 star venue situated near the world renowned Victoria Falls, one of the biggest waterfalls in the world.
Peak water flow is during the months of March and April each year, and this is the best time to view the amazing spectical the Vic Falls provides.
Welcome to Africa, AKA the motherland! Check out African Internet Radio while you're scoping the panoramas.The earliest fossil of the homo sapiens family (human beings) was found in Ethiopia, dating back more than 200,000 years. Compared to this length of time, even the "ancient Sumerians" from 6000 B.C. are drooling toddlers.Let's mention a few African heroes you may have heard of, for inspiration in the face of the continued economic inequality and violence which plague Africa today: Nelson Mandela, first democratically elected President of South Africa, who fought against apartheid and served 27 years in prison while advocating freedom and peace. Haile Salassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, who resisted Mussolini and the fascist Italian invasion of WWII, and who is worshipped as an incarnation of God by the Rastafari movement. Kwame Nkrumah, first Prime Minister of Ghana, advocate of uniting Africa in Pan-Africanism. Fela Kuti, inventor of Afrobeat music, who declared his home to be an independent state, ran for president of Nigeria, and to whose funeral ONE MILLION PEOPLE came to pay their respects.In June 2001 the African Union was formed, consisting of 53 African States organized, like in the EU, around common economic and political development.Text by Steve Smith.


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6 Ways Your Sense of Smell Is Secretly Controlling Your Mind
Our sense of smell is the antivirus software of the senses -- we don't pay much attention unless it's telling us about something bad.
Sure, we occasionally take the time to appreciate perfumes and flowers and the smell of chocolate-covered bacon, but unless there's dangerous gas or hidden corpses around, nose powers just don't seem all that important. It's not as if we can, like, smell buried treasure, or the location of the cellphone we left on silent.
But while you're ignoring it, the stuff your nose is doing in the background borders on freaking magic. After all, your sense of smell can ...
#6. Make You (Mildly) Psychic
Do you, or someone you know, feel like you have an "intuition" about people? Can you sense when they're scared, or attracted to you, even if they're doing everything they can to hide it? Well, there's a good chance your "intuition" comes from that thing on your face between your mouth and your eyes.
It's all about smell. Scientists found that women can smell when a man is horny -- the experiment was as simple as getting some men sexually aroused, collecting their sweat and having women smell it. The women's brains were being scanned by an MRI at the moment they smelled the sweat samples, and sure enough, the horny sweat made their brains light up.
This guy just made them vomit.
If you're a dude and reading that makes you feel anxious, there's more bad luck coming. Your date can probably also smell your fear, and so can the guy at the table next to you. This was discovered in another experiment that was conducted in a similar way. They collected sweat from people of both sexes as they watched either scary or funny movies. Women were able to successfully identify which was the fear-sweat and which was the "laughing at Rob Schneider" sweat. Men didn't do quite as well, but still were able to identify both male fear and female joy from bodily fluids alone.
But How?
It's caused by a class of chemical signals, unoriginally called chemosignals, that are found in human sweat, tears and possibly other fluids. The extent to which chemosignals affect humans in day-to-day life is still under debate: It's hard to measure this kind of thing accurately, because a lot of the time the influence of chemosignals is subconscious.
"Wait, why do I keep having flashes of gay pornography?"
That's what's so weird about it -- even though the MRI showed different parts of the women's brains working depending on which sweat they smelled, in every case the subjects claimed they couldn't tell the difference. Yet, when made to guess which was which (fear sweat vs. happy sweat, horny sweat vs. normal sweat), they were able to pick correctly (at least, at a rate better than chance). So it appears that a lot of what you just "sense" about people is nothing more than picking up chemicals in their fluids.
And make no mistake, these psychic nose-messages do affect us: Sweat collected from men about to go skydiving was shown to activate the "fear" sections in brains of people exposed to it. Women exposed to male fear-sweat also rated neutral faces as more "fearful" than when they were sniffing sweat unassociated with terror.
And psychotic faces to be more "murdery."
And get this -- the military is funding research into automated emotion detection systems that use chemosignals to detect suspiciously anxious people in public places. To picture the future, imagine a robot nose sticking into a human armpit, forever.
#5. Make You Spend More Money
It's no secret that the neighborhood BBQ joint is relying on the smell of cooking meat to get you in the door, and that millions of new cars are sold every year purely because of the spell their scent casts over us. But your nose can make you buy things in endless, less obvious ways. Retailers call it "environmental fragrancing," and it really is nothing less than an attempt to brainwash you through your nostrils.
"We sell a lot more HDTVs since management started piping in the smell of strippers and hot wings."
So, in the swimwear aisle, they'll give you a faint coconut smell. In the infant aisle, you'll smell baby powder. Big deal, right? Well, one experiment showed sales of men's and women's clothing nearly doubled when "masculine" and "feminine" scents were used nearby, an effect that disappeared when the smells were reversed.
"I dunno, man, I smelled potpourri and just blacked out."
Another study in a Las Vegas casino found that areas piped with pleasant smells made 45 percent more money than those without them, although that might have just been all the gamblers moving over to a location that best masked the smell of desperation and old people.
But How?
As you'll find is a running theme with this article, your nose works on a subconscious level in a way that your eyes and ears don't. It has to do with the way your brain is wired -- think of your sense of smell as being able to avoid the filters that your other senses go through when you process them.
We can smell your soul, Devil Clown.
If you see a bear in the woods, that sight goes through all sorts of pathways in your brain that handle things like logic and language. You actually think, in your head, "That's a bear. It's dangerous. What's that they say about bears? That you should play dead? Or is it like a shark, where you're supposed to punch it in the nose?"
But if you are in the wild and you merely smell a bear, or the cologne of a crazy ex-boyfriend, it's a more physical reaction -- you'll feel it before you think it. That signal goes directly to the limbic system, the primitive part of the brain generally associated with emotions. This is why we can see a painting and immediately describe it in words: it's "colorful" or "religious" or "Wait, did you steal this from the Louvre?" But give us the smell of an orange, and the extent of our description will be: "It smells like an orange."
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Napalm can smell like victory, but only before noon.
So, if consumers can hear a few notes and instantly think of a particular brand of cat food, imagine what hitting someone with a smell can do. And putting scent in the store is just the beginning -- a lot of brands are now developing their own "brand scent," which is then infused into stores and products. In the past, your new car might have had a new car smell because it was made out of new plastic, glass and leather. Today, it's just as likely to have been infused with a new, improved new car smell, like Cadillac has been putting in its vehicles for almost a decade.
And they're doing it with everything -- the rubber in the handle of your razor may also have been infused with a scent, which is presumably what they decided to start doing when they ran out of room to cram more blades in there.
"Honey, did you put my razor in your ass?"
#4. Manipulate Your Memory
You ever get ambushed by a memory? Like you're just sitting there, watching Magnum, P.I. reruns, and out of the blue you suddenly, vividly remember some completely unrelated event, like the day you spent at the zoo when you were 9, or something horrible that happened to you in kindergarten?
You didn't know it, but you smelled something that was connected to the memory. You can even use this to your advantage, strangely enough. If you smell a certain scent when you're studying for an exam, like say you are baking a pie while you read your notes, and then bring the smell back on exam day, like if you bring the pie with you, science says your score will improve.
Mmmmm ... fractal geometry.
And even if your instructor forbids pie in the classroom, your nose can still help you out: Being exposed to a particular smell while learning during the day, and then again while in a deep sleep that night, can improve your memory the next day.
But How?
The part of your brain that processes smell, the olfactory bulb, has strong physical links to the hippocampus and amygdala, brain areas that are heavily involved in memory formation and encoding. This close relationship means that while visual memories tend to decay quickly -- you'll lose 50 percent of them within months -- the majority of new smell memories will still be there a year later. So you can improve visual memories (like the ones you gained by reading) by associating them with a scent, like less attractive people latching onto good-looking friends in order to skip the line at a nightclub.
"Do NOT let the nose in. Last time he snorted all of our whiskey."
The trick works best if the smell you're latching onto is appropriate -- studies showed that people remembered book passages better when they read them in the presence of scents that "matched up" to the reading topic. So, the fragrance of blueberry pancakes might not be the best choice when you're studying for that History of Genocide test in the morning. And as for smell helping you when you sleep, we've said before that the brain uses deep sleep to encode memories that formed during the day, and it seems like this works even better when the brain is helped along by a nose-based reminder.
So, before dozing off on the night before the History of Genocide exam, instruct your roommate to fill the apartment with "genocide smells." Don't be any more specific than that -- the fun part is seeing what he comes up with.


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Five Things You Should Know about Guy Fawkes Day
Guy Fawkes was a terrorist.
Guy Fawkes was one of a group of terrorists who plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament on Nov. 5, 1605. The plan, known as the "Gunpowder Plot," was discovered the day before. The reasons behind the plot are suspected to be religious in origin, although historians don't agree on whether the terrorists were acting to re-establish Catholicism or to reinforce the Protestants in power.


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Update: House votes to derail health care law, fund government
September 20, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP-controlled House voted Friday to cripple President Barack Obama's health care law as part of a risky ploy that threatens a partial shutdown of the government in a week and ......
I am one of the "we the people" also and I support ACA. It is benefits me and my household. I am glad that families with pre-existing conditions can now be insured, etc. For all the CHINOs (Christian in name only). Its time to focus on the poor and disadvantaged. WE ALL KNOW that defunding will not happen so why won't these nuts just FIX the ACA? There are good things in it and yet maybe some bad things. Common sense says it should be examined that way and dealth with. By the way, if the government is shut down, that means no government checks or services either.
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Spanky you didn't. You didn't put the words Mom and Pop shops and world wide corporations in the same sentence and expect to be taken seriously.
Health care reform is still needed.
House Majority leader E. Cantor is now attaching the Keystone pipeline to raising the debt ceiling to Obamacare.
The whole lot aren't working for us, the Mom and Pops, but they sure love the corporations.
Fighting over tidily winks instead of making real, supportive change is what this has come down to.
Worst do nothing congress ever!
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Obama a few weeks ago asked Congress to go back to their constituents and see what"We the People" wanted to do about the gassing in Syria. The Congress, in trying to stop ObamaCare is just trying to do what the MAJORITY of "we the people" want. And what "We the People" want is to get rid of ObamaCare. So why is Obama crying like a little baby claiming that the Republicans are picking on him? It's not only the Republicans, it's the People (Republicans and Democrats), working people, business owners, Mom and Pop shops, World Wide Corporations that do not want ObamaCare. The Government needs to listen to the people.
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Agent Orange
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The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: June 27, 2002
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
What are the symptoms of agent orange exposure? Is it associated with cancer?
John Han-Chih Chang, MD and Kenneth Blank, MD, Editorial Assistants for Oncolink, respond:
Dear JA,
Thank you for your interest and question.
Agent orange is a pheno-oxy-herbicide that was used in the past to defoliate areas. The most notable usage was during the Vietnam War, when it was reportedly used to defoliate the forested areas of Vietnam. A component of the herbicide is the highly toxic dioxin, 2,3,7,8-TCDD, which can deposit in the adipose tissues of the body.
Symptoms are variable related to the concentration of the exposure. It has been reported that this dioxin was associated with malignancies. This is a large area of controversy. There are data to support the contention that high exposure to this chemical does cause malignancies in animal models. However, agent orange has not been found to have caused a significant increase in the risk of soft tissue sarcomas, non-hodgkins lymphoma, testicular, primary liver, nasopharyngeal or lung cancer. These are based on retrospective review studies performed on Vietnam War veterans compared to their non-military counterparts.