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Today I was contacted (as Medical Liaison to the Association of Professional Piercers) by the media relations department of the Loyola University Health System. They are planning to write a press release on "clitoral piercings" because their obstetricians have been seeing a rise in the popularity of genital piercings. I clarified to her that piercings of the clitoris itself are quite rare, but that female genital piercings--especially of the hood area--are extremely popular. She wanted to know if they were more painful than other areas, or more prone to infections. These are common questions, and the answers are sometimes surprising: no--they aren't necessarily more painful than other areas (when the piercer is skillful and well trained), and they tend to be easy and quick to heal. From my book, I also filled her in on the very important rules for having safer sex while you're healing a genital piercing:
I struck up this conversation with a gal who made a comment on a post I made about surface piercings. She wrote:
… I'm getting a five point star surface piercing/s on my right hip in a few days :] gotta talk it over with my piercer but should be cool to go :] ...
I asked her:
Has your piercer been clear with you that the surface piercings are unlikely to stay long-term and that you will most probably end up with scarring instead of jewelry there?
Her reply:
Yeah I've been told that before. I knew it wasn't going to be long term/permanent anyways. Does a surface piercing count as one that goes under the skin, with two balls on each end? because I was thinking of doing that instead of where you can only see one ball. Does that make sense? Sorry if I'm confusing you but id like to get more background info before I get it done. thank you
I provided her with some additional information and I hope it will make her decide to take more time figuring out the best course of action:
Substantive research studies, statistical analyses, and other definitive resource materials related to modern piercing are in short supply; therefore, the information, practices, and procedures described in this book are largely based on my own extensive, clinical experience. I've integrated industry standards where they exist, but there is still precious little that is truly standard, so my opinions are a primary component of many chapters.
I received this email recently:
I am considering piercing my breasts. I have inverted nipples however and I am wondering if you feel this would prevent a successful piercing for me. Previously, I had a sternum piercing which rejected. I currently have a VCH, which is still healing. I assume I must be a slow healer since the VCH was done about four months ago, and I still am doing my salt water soaks to keep it from being sore. I would appreciate any advice or thoughts you might have. My piercing was done by a member of the APP. Thank you again for your time, Dawn
Dawn, My goodness! That is slow healing--the VCH usually heals in closer to 4 weeks, not months! Have you tried changing your VCH jewelry or the care product you're using on it? After that long a period of time, I think something should be changed. Have you considered trying emu oil? It can be very effective for healing problem piercings (and those that are doing well, too). Are you wearing a bar or a ring? What material? I wouldn't say a history of a rejected sternum piercing is indicative a tendency toward troubled healing--surface piercings such as these often have problems. The VCH is another matter. If it is determined that your jewelry is of good quality, the piercing properly placed and cared for, then you simply may not be a good candidate for piercings. Here is a brief section from my book about piercing inverted nipples:
Loved your article in PAIN magazine this month. It still surprises me how many clients will ask if its ok to heal their piercings with rubbing alcohol or peroxide!! I had one girl ask if it was ok to put liquid bandage over her freshly pierced nipples!!
I don't offer surface percings in my studio because I have seen so many pictures of them rejecting but my friend is begging me to do the nape of his neck. Do you have any suggestions for the correct jewelry or tips for that piercing that would give me a better chance with not having it reject?
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Is it reasonably possible to currently travel from Juba to Khartoum (or vice versa) over land? How? What would be the route? What would be the transport?
Considering recent border conflicts I would suggest you check travel advice from your government on this issue. My guess is that it would be best to leave it for a year or two. South Sudan is a new nation in the process of building up its government offices. For one border stations might not be properly set up. I guess getting a VISA on the border might be difficult. Taking vehicles across borders could in itself be a challenge.
Roads are of course subject to general quality and seasonal changes. A shallow search on the net indicates that the rainy season may make it near impossible to travel the stretch.
In a discussion on the Lonely Planet webpages back in 2008 someone asked the same question as you:
Basically - it sounds like a bad idea. But one of the contributors in the above hiked from the south to the north. Quite recently it seems. The person also mentions that parts of the trip might be done by boat from Malakal to Juba.


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Ten years ago when I studied in the university I had no idea about definable numbers, but I came to this concept myself. My thoughts were as follows:
- All numbers are divided into two classes: those which can be unambiguously defined by a limited set of their properties (definable) and such that for any limited set of their properties there is at least one other number which also satisfies all these properties (undefinable).
- It is evident that since the number of properties is countable, the set of definable numbers is countable. So the set of undefinable numbers forms a continuum.
- It is impossible to give an example of an undefinable number and one researcher cannot communicate an undefinable number to the other. Whatever number of properties he communicates there is always another number which satisfies all these properties so the researchers cannot be confident whether they are speaking about the same number.
- However there are probability based algorithms which give an undefinable number in a limit, for example, by throwing dice and writing consecutive numbers after the decimal point.
But the main question that bothered me was that the analysis course we received heavily relied on constructs such as 'let's $a$ to be a number that...", "for each $s$ in interval..." etc. These seemed to heavily exploit the properties of definable numbers and as such one can expect the theorems of analysis to be correct only on the set of definable numbers. Even the definitions of arithmetic operations over reals assumed the numbers are definable. Unfortunately one cannot take an undefinable number to bring a counter-example just because there is no example of undefinable number, but still how to know that all those theorems of analysis are true for the whole continuum and not just for a countable subset?


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Is there a program which can tell me the ip address of a computer when is connected to my network? A list of names or ip addresses.
For example when my wife is on my main desktop computer I can either go on another desktop or laptop and work. However I don't know the ip address of the computer she's on it's dhcp and no static ip addresses. I would like to ssh into the main desktop and work on it. Sometimes I have asked her if I could get on for a minute to get the ip address. From a terminal I do an ifconfig and get the address. I could get it from the router too but that is requires logging into the router. There must be some short command I can run? All the computers are running Ubuntu and samba is not installed. Once I know the ip address I can ssh into the main desktop.


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I usually train with poker academy and I am wondering how goods are the pokerbots there. What is the truth about them ? How good are they in playing poker ?
First of all Poker academy has shut down. Another company took over their website but they are not related to poker academy.
There are other better poker bots available tough. I use this Poker Bot, you can get a Free Trial there as well. This bot can be customized. You can make it play however you want. It uses Profiles (scripts) for the decision making. You can make a Profile yourself or purchase ones made by professional players.
How good are they in playing poker ?
As mentioned above the Bot that I use can be customized and you can get Profiles that play a professional top level game. The Holdem Bot looks for the following information every time it is your turn to act:
As you can see there is a great deal of information collected. All this information allows for very sophisticated Profiles to be created. One particular MTT profile has 5 different stages, meaning that it switches between different sections of code depending on the size or your stack. The chart below illustrates the different stages.
This is just one profile, there are a lot of profiles available each with their own strategies, some Profiles will bluff whenever it is theoretically safe to do so. The playing possibilities are endless.
Truth of the matter is, it is fairly easy to get a Bot that plays good poker but being profitable is much more important than playing good poker.
The major challenge for a Bot is to not be predictable. It is futile to play good if you are always playing the same. Your opponents will eventually get the upper hand. Keep in mind that players do take notes and there are also a few HUD type software that collect data on players. This is where I find most poker bots fall short, because most of the poker bots available cannot be customized and have their logic hard coded in the program.
I find it extremely important to change Profiles and playing strategy frequently to keep your opponents on their toes. You can change Profiles on the fly with the Holdem Bot and you can even set it to automatically change profiles when your stack reaches a certain size or when a specific number of players is left on the table or even at a specific time interval.
It's totaly about artificial intelligence issue. They read the poker table window as an image, and each part of the table with information specific to the hand is analyzed and recorded for computation. No matter how they were written well, no matter how they created in a good intteligence, no bots can be successful as such as a person. Because poker is not only a card game.
The truth about them, they play in in poker rooms more than you think. But today's technology prevents a lot of them. "I believe that poker sites should allow bots, but only on clearly defined tables. Players should know who the bots are, and have the choice if they would like to play them or not," says Barry Greenstein.
Giving an answer to this question is subjective but they are playing good. In the summer 2005, the online poker room Golden Palace hosted a promotional tournament in Las Vegas, at the old Binions, with a $100k giveaway prize. It was billed as the 2005 World Series of Poker Robots. The tournament was bots only with no entry fee. The bot developers were computer scientists from six nationalities who traveled at their own expense. The host platform was Poker Academy. The event also featured a demonstration headsup event with Phil Laak.
The truth? Depends on which form of poker you're talking about.
Heads up limit is near solved. People have successfully developed near equilibrium bots with such fine grained and sophisticated abstractions that they're unbeatable by humans. They've done this using a variety of means, the most widespread being variants of counter factual regret minimisation.
Other games with larger game spaces, such as heads up no limit or multiplayer limit are much further from being solved, although there are some bots that can beat (well, not lose in) all but the toughest games.
Put simply, the larger the game space, the further we are from beating the game. By game space I mean number of possible game states. The reason limit is so far ahead of no-limit is simply that there are a huge number of possible game states in no-limit as you can bet any amount of your stack at any time - in limit there's only a handful of possible betting sequences in comparison.
Note the bots I'm discussing here are based on getting as close to a nash equilibrium as possible - they're taught not to lose rather than to win. The thing is though, people make so many mistakes that they win "by accident" along the way as their opponents deviate from the equilibrium when playing.
What is the truth about them ? How good are they in playing poker ? I'll speak about post-"Poker Academy" software. Now it is called Poker Genius (http://poker-genius.com). Well they are great both for beginners and more advanced players. For beginners: 1. You can learn the poker rules very fast. 2. Try all kind of games: ring games, MTTs, SnG... 3. Analyze your game. For advanced: 1. Simulate and rign or MTT structure. 2. Set the opponents behavior: play against aggressive, tight...etc. players.
And the biggest advantage for me that you can train offline.
Currently, the best Poker Bot out there is PokerSnowie
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My 9 year old girl is currently going through a phase where she isn't getting her homework done by herself. I'm trying to find the right balance between encouraging her to get her homework done, yet, not have her reliant on me to do so. Anyone have any tips out there?
Don't waste your time trying to get her to be self-reliant right now when she hasn't already formed the correct habits for accomplishing her work. You're primary goal is to sit down with her each and every night and help her establish a system of discipline and organization. Help her learn how to study and learn. If you don't know how to help her, find someone who can. Don't sit back and expect her to accomplish the work on her own and find out that she's just not doing it. Worse yet, don't let it get to the point where she is telling you that she's done, when she's not.
Don't let her think for a second that not finishing her work is even an option. Not to suggest that you should tell her this directly, but show her through your involvement and discipline in staying engaged with her work. Stay in touch with teachers and make sure you have a clear picture of their test, project, and homework deliverables. Make a calendar and have them update and refer to it regularly. You maintain it for them and walk them through it until they learn the system and can emulate.
Also, never talk about school work in a negative way like "I know this is hard, but you can do it". Always refer to the work as a positive and achievable thing.
Besides all the points mentioned about stress, a child-teacher-relation and others, I would like to mention another: boredom.
As a child I never did any homework, unless it was absolutely necessary (like I had to give a class presentation or something). Reason was there wasn't any challenge in it.
I do not want to say this is the case with your child, but it might be and it's absolutely worth checking for.
What to do depends on why she isn't getting it done. Most kids won't walk up to you and say "this is too hard" or "this teacher and I don't get along so I find doing work for him/her stressful" or "I'm worried about this bully and I can't concentrate" or "you and dad fighting all the time has me too stressed to work" or "I'm having low-grade migraines" or "my blood sugar is messed up".
When a kid who wasn't having trouble with homework starts to, something has changed, and the kid herself may not know that it has or understand the effect on her. Incentives or punishments can help with lack of motivation, but not with stress, medical issues, fear of a particular teacher, etc.
Start by figuring out what has changed, and you'll find your answer.
You should always encourage her first, offer the help she needs or other incentives, but be strict about it to. Homework should come first, if she can't get her homework done then start taking away her fun things. Just like being an adult, you do what you have to do (work) so you can do what you want to do. If you get slack on your job and get fired you can't do the fun things either.
One other thing. It is possible sometimes to make a game out of certain things, like spelling tennis. Things like, can she spell a word before having to catch a ball you bounce pass to her? Sometimes this kind of activity can shake it up a little and remove some of the stress associated with homework and let her know that learning can be fun and doesn't alwyas have to be about pushing pencils on paper. Speak with her teacher about what the reasons might be and see what you can find out and develop together.
Based on your answer to the question I asked above, I suggest speeding up the fun stuff going away then, at least until homework is done. My parents did that to me at about 4th grade or so (when I hit in retrospect the worst teacher I'd ever had, and gave up caring about schoolwork). School was my "job", and hard work at it was what earned the fun things to do. Ideally that also means you don't get to do "fun stuff" until she's done... as part of your job is to make sure she's keeping up with her school work. The simple old mantra of you can play with your toys after your homework is done came about for a reason after all. :)
(and yes, you should hear that mantra above as "You can waste time with your friends when your chores are done" by Uncle Owen near the start of the first star wars movie... that's what was playing in my head at the time.)
kids today are different my daughter didn't even tell me she had homework. I set rules and my kids do homework when they get home. They have to do it first before play. I found giving them a cookie or treat for getting done has worked. Right now i do tick tack toe. When they complete homework when they have it and not miss more then three for her age. They get a zero. If she misses I don't put anything. The x are for if they don't turn in homework the next day. I check their backpacks because my kids don't tell me alot about imoprtant papers alot. I hope this helps. They do after after school homework help but if you have the money great if not then do something fun. The internet has alot of ideas for rewards for homework. Kids will do anything for it. even getting a scoop of ice cream.


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Absolute novice here with a problem I can not get around.
On a BuddyPress installation, test registrations appear in the user table but no activation emails are being received. I believe they are not being sent.
I understand WordPress uses phpmail(), and that I should check if that is running on Bluehost servers?
New re-install of WP3.3.1
WPMU DEV Update Notifications 2.1.3
All other "stock" plugins de-activated
Theme is BuddyPress Community 1.4.2
Note the original site was originally set up under a different domain name (at bluehost). We then switched the primary domain to a newly registered name, so:
Main Domain newurl.org
Username oldurl
Home Directory /home7/oldurl
I have changed the email address in WordPress settings to email@example.com which does exist in the site's cpanel at bluehost.
If I use the Configure SMTP plugin, a) it attempts to send to my primary email address (a site hosted by 1and1.com), and b) the test email from the plugin results in
SMTP -> get_lines(): $data was ""
SMTP -> get_lines(): $str is "451 Temporary local problem - please try later "
SMTP -> get_lines(): $data is "451 Temporary local problem - please try later "
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:451 Temporary local problem - please try later
SMTP -> ERROR: RCPT not accepted from server: 451 Temporary local problem - please try later
Note the problem exists even when Configure SMTP is deactivated and/or removed. (I presume this gets my main email address from my admin user profile, different from the admin@ address in settings).
Also, if I don't use Configure SMTP, but I use email@example.com as the new user (i.e. another address at the same domain so the email is supported by bluehost) I still don't get the email, although again it shows up in the user list on the WP dashboard.
I do see this same problem showing up in various forums. Sometimes it's a spam folder issue or non-existant email from address in the cpanel, but often bluehost comes up, often the problem is not showing as resolved.
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Jessica Simpson On America's 'Disgusting' Weight Obsession and Being Called Fat
Norman Jean Roy for Allure
Let there be no mistake: Jessica Simpson is not fat. Following the controversy and ridicule that plagued the starlet after an unflattering picture of her performing in high waist jeans was widely circulated last year, Simpson—who looks absolutely gorgeous (and decidedly svelte) as Allure's new cover girl—turns on the sarcasm and quips, "When I walk through an airport and people go, 'You're not fat!' I'm like, 'Thanks. Thanks. That's great. Good to know I'm not fat today. Thank you!'" On a more serious note, she adds, "I would not wish on my worst enemy what I went through," of the abuse she faced from the media in the aftermath of that photo. Filming her new VH1 reality show, Jessica Simpson's The Price of Beauty, was enlightening: "When I think of America, it's very diverse, but we do have the cookie-cutter way we're supposed to look, and going to all these countries, it's so completely different. I was fascinated going on that journey to discover that, even just for myself." Spending time in Asia was particularly eye-opening: "In a lot of Asian cultures, the whiter you are, the more beautiful you are—and what I'm so used to is 'The tanner you are, the thinner you look, the skinnier you feel.'" The 29 year-old, who declares, "I think I have great legs," is growing more confident over time, and calls America's obsession with weight "disgusting." The Texan says, "My job is to be creative. And I'm not weighing in for anybody." For a closer look at Jessica's style, and to go behind-the-scenes on her cover shoot, visit allure.com. – Emily Hsieh
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About NYU / News, Publications, and Facts / NYU News / 2013 / May /
May 3, 2013
"The Board of Trustees fully supports John Sexton, and has full confidence in his leadership.
"NYU's great story is its transformation from a regional university into one of the world's great institutions of higher learning. That has accelerated during John's tenure, and we look forward to the University's continued progress under his stewardship. In recent weeks, I and some of my fellow Trustees have been meeting with faculty groups and other constituencies. It is clear from our dialogue that the innovative steps taken to move the University have not always been easy, and more could have been done to communicate with faculty and involve them in the decision-making affecting the University's strategic direction. But we think important steps have already been taken, and additional improvements to our governance systems that emerge out these series of meetings will go a long way towards addressing faculty concerns.
"We want the faculty of the Gallatin School, which has just completed its vote, to know why we view John's leadership with such confidence. Since John became President of NYU in 2002, the University has thrived by almost any measure. Undergraduate applications are up 45 percent, freshman SAT scores have climbed, and financial aid has increased by 134%. NYU has moved upwards in national and international rankings, faculty recruitment and retention have been strong and successful, and initiatives have been started in new fields of study. The university's finances are stronger, fundraising has set records, long-range planning has been set in place, and important new investments have been made in academic facilities. And, uniquely among its peers, NYU has been redefining what a university is through the creation of its global network, which has allowed for unprecedented new educational and academic activities around the world for students and faculty alike."
This Press Release is in the following Topics:
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Some friends and I recently started a medium-size project. We already covered the design part (at least the first attempt) and now we are moving into coding. We already have implemented some objects of the design, just to test if everything is going as expected (we are beginners, so we do not really trust our programming skills).
The project is growing really fast but I do not really know when to start documenting the code. If I do it too soon the code will probably change, and so the documentation.
Is there any "golden rule" for when to start documenting the code? Is there any time which is optimal to start? or it just does not matter?
EDIT: I changed "commenting" to "documenting" because I realized it is not the same. Sorry.
Thank you all for your contributions. I'll try to post here the solution I got from reading all your answers.
When do you start commenting?
Comment the code as you write it because...
- you wont come back later to comment
- it will never be clearer in your mind
Document the API. Create a design document separated from the original code and/or comment the header of your interfaces so:
- It gets everyone in the same page
- It helps everyone stay in the same page (no unwanted morphing)
- It can evolve in the future into a more elaborated document
I selected @Octávio answer as the right one because it hit an important fact: comment before it is too late.
Thank you all again for your insightful answers!


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I hear this song 15 times a day. Of course I bought it.
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The newly appointed Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee met on March 19 to discuss priorities and key issues in a joint work session with the Wilmington City Council and Planning Commission. The 18-month plan development process will formally kick-off in May.
When completed, the comprehensive plan will serve as a policy foundation to proactively manage the city's growth and development. In addition to guiding growth and development for years to come, the plan will also serve as the City's "to-do" list by establishing priorities that will be implemented over time to achieve the community's vision. The plan will be developed with extensive citizen participation and input.


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I'm on a project that has complex requriements (no visuals), and I am the User Interface lead. I'm not sure where to start, I was thinking about conducting a white-boarding session to start brainstorming ideas. Any Suggestions?
Simply put:
Jon's answer is great and has the basics, but here's more detail in case you need it.
1) Figure out your audience. This could be customers, staff members, etc. Depending on your application you may have several types of audiences, and that's okay.
2) Come up with some user stories. These consist of roles and desires, involve both your audiences and requirements. Some examples:
Start broad with these and get more specific. This helps you figure out your workflows. More on user stories
3) Data Requirements. Figure out what you will need to get from your audience (roles) in order to carry out the tasks (desires). Focus on need here so your interface doesn't get bloated.
4) Start building workflows & wireframes. Start sketching out how the application will help your users (roles) get things done (desires). Make the workflows and interfaces as painless & simple to use as possible. Show the wireframes to other people (end-users if possible) early and often to see if you're on the right track.
5) Get it up and start testing. Once your workflows and wireframes seem to be adequate, build the thing and start going through your user stories to see if everything works. Then give it to some people in your target audience(s) and observe.
Don't be afraid of change. Along the way you will discover that some things don't work. You will probably need to rethink workflows and interfaces several times, but that's fine. The more work you do here will pay off in user satisfaction.
Talk to some users. We're currently doing some simple group interviews and surveys. The primary purpose of this is to learn what real people care about, so we know where we should focus our efforts. But also, by holding them in different employees' homes, we've got more than just the UX team talking about users. The company president, lead developer, and project manager now have faces to put to "the user" - not just the UX team.


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I have worked as a software engineer (.NET) for 2 years.
Our job is easy and it doesn't require a lot of technical or conceptual knowledge. In fact, we always use console apps with XSLT and basic C# programming. The work conditions are good: good colleagues, acceptable salary, flexible job time, a lot of spare time. However, we don't use any agile methods at work, we don't do conception.
I have mediocre competencies. I have no idea about new technologies in .NET, such as Entity Framework , MVC 4 , ASP.NET, WCF, WPF (I know just the names).
I'm enjoying my comfort zone and laziness, but deeply I feel scared about my career and my future. I try to do some tutorials when I have time but I haven't the will. Am I destroying my career?


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10 Old-Timey Medical Treatments Inspired by Your Nightmares
#5. Net Suspension
"We've caught another one, boys! We're gonna eat like kings tonight! There ain't nothin' like the meat of a well-tortured human!"
That dangling torture device was actually for patients with scoliosis and other deformities, in order to "set" their crooked backs before putting them in a cast by dangling them in a net by their hands and feet. This was also back during the terrifying reign of polio, when the medical community was so overwhelmed with cases of skeletal deformity that they were a hair's breadth from just paying circus strongmen to hammerpunch people's spines back into place. Though that would have made for a less disturbing photo.
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"Let's just topple the whole damn thing, teach a lesson to this wishy-washy spine."
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Nothing mildly amuses a soldier like a woman whose hair is on fire. Wait, is he trying to extinguish the fire? Is he setting it? Is this all some kind of prank?
Don't worry, that's not actually smoke. It's just a huge cloud of bug poison that he's using to kill the lice in her hair. Lice carry diseases, and in World War II, lice were especially common among POWs and concentration camp survivors, because those people clearly hadn't been hit with enough bullshit.
"I made another bet with the devil, then forgot why. I ... may have a problem."
The USDA discovered that DDT mercilessly destroyed lice, in addition to anyone in a physical contest against Jake "The Snake" Roberts. So, it became common practice to hose down pretty much anyone on the front lines with DDT powder, because we weren't entirely clear on what cancer was at this point.
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"This should prune your tiny ovaries, dearie!"
#3. Violet Ray Machines
That space-bong the suffragette in the picture is shoving into her nose is called a Violet Ray machine, which were essentially portable Tesla Coils doctors gave to patients to use at home for the relief of minor pain and skin irritation (because if it's old and weirdly science-awesome, it must be Tesla). They started out as legitimate medical devices, but quickly dissolved into mass produced trinkets that could supposedly cure everything from stuffy noses to prostrate trouble.
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That's right, "prostate trouble." As in "one of those wands is going on a voyage up your asshole".
The idea was, you plugged the machine into a light socket and then used a variety of glass or metal attachments for different parts of the body to zap away ailments with the combined might of 1920s science and medicine. The medical claims were nowhere near accurate, of course, and the FDA eventually had Violet Ray machines recalled and destroyed.
#2. Plombage (Lung Balls)
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You can be forgiven if you can't tell what you're looking at here, because it looks like an X-Ray of somebody with dozen golf balls in their right lung. Of course, that would be ridiculous -- what possible medical benefit could be derived from cramming a patient's lung full of golf balls? No, they actually used these:
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It was a procedure called plombage, which was the process of collapsing a person's lungs with acrylic balls to allow them to "rest" and heal the lesions caused by tuberculosis. The drawback to this therapy was that sometimes the balls were never taken back out, which led to infection, sepsis and other serious complications related to having your lung tissue inundated with balls made of the same material used to craft RuPaul's fingernails.
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#1. Radioactive Strontium Eye Treatment
We could jokingly compare this to the infamous clamped-eyeball psychological torture scene from A Clockwork Orange, but then was saw the radiation symbol here and realize the reality is probably worse. No matter what the intended use of that device was, this was not an era when people knew a whole lot about safe uses of radioactivity. Or cared.
The patient here is receiving doses of radioactive strontium, which shoots radiation into the eyeball to destroy tumors or whatever other sort of thing you'd hate having on your eye so much that irradiating your eye is considered a preferable alternative. This one is still used, by the way, though they're working on a much less terrifying method of just injecting some strontium directly into your goddamned eyeball.
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When former college teammates face off as coaches of opposing football teams, two things seem certain. Extreme bragging rights will be at stake, and it will be difficult for either to fool the other.
That was the case Friday night at Zerger Field when former Bethany Swedes Marc Svaty and Jamie Cruce met up. Svaty's Halstead Dragons got the better of it, downing Cruce's Pratt Greenbacks 29-15. With few surprises up either coach's sleeve, the game would come down to which team got a few breaks and made the most plays.
The contest was tight most of the way, neither team leading by more than 7 points until late in the proceedings.
The first quarter went by quickly, and scorelessly. Pratt's defense held inside the 10 yd line, but Halstead still had the field position advantage as the second quarter commenced.
Halstead was the beneficiary of a misconnection on a Pratt punt, and got a short field as a result. At 10:13 the game's first score came on a 12 yd QB scramble. It was 7-0 Halstead.
Pratt's offense had been shut down in the first couple of series as the ground game wasn't working. On the Frogs ensuing possession, the offense got things going through the air. Cesar Regalado, Ryan Landry, Shawn Ramos and Derek Barnard had receptions as Pratt moved the ball to the Halstead 12 before sputtering.
A Ramos interception gave PHS the ball back at the 15. At 4:46 Derek Barnard caught a TD pass and the 2-point conversion to put Pratt ahead 8-7. Halstead calmly drove the ball on their final possession of the half, and connected on a TD pass with 7 seconds left to go up 14-8 at the break.
In Q3, Bryson Cruz picked off a Dragon pass giving Pratt the ball at Halstead's 28. Receptions by Samson Kohman and Ramos took the ball down to the 1 from where Regalado punched it in to put Pratt back on top 15-14 at 5:44.
In the final stanza, the Frog defense held Halstead on 4th down at their 16. Unable to move the ball, Pratt had to punt it back to Halstead. Halstead again drove into Pratt territory, and this time converted on a 25-yard pass play to regain a lead they would not relinquish— 22-15.
Halstead tacked on the clincher with 1:55 remaining and the final score would be 29-15 Halstead.
Coach Cruce was not dispirited after the game. "We actually played a football game for 4 quarters this week," he observed.
Pratt travels to Hesston next week. Look for stats online next week.
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I've found a timetable for sports courses. The columns seem to describe ID, time and something more. What could A, L and F mean?
10101 L Mo 20.00-21.30
10102 A Di 17.00-18.30
10106 A Do 17.00-18.30
10108 A Di 17.00-18.30
10109 F Di 17.00-18.30
10301 A Mo 17.00-18.30
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10304 L Männer Mo 18.30-20.00
10305 F Di 18.30-20.00
10308 F Frauen Do 17.00-18.30
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I thought this was a great deal but it turns out Walmart has them at the same price and everywhere else sells them at $99. Must be cheaper construction than it looks.
The price on this makes me feel less than enthused about it being "competition series". Real competition quality table tennis tables are thousands of dollars. This could be a decent table to have around the house, but it's almost certainly not competition quality. I'll have Marketing Gimmicks for 1000, Alex.
According to the selling site, top comes in 4 pieces.
Might not be a show stopper, but worth knowing.
Anything used in competition is going to have a 1" top. I can't find the specs, but getting a 1" top at this price would be like getting a Bentley for the price of a Honda. Every table I've ever seen used in a competition cost more $1000. You can literally tap dance on a real competition table. Doubt you'll be able to do that with this. They put "competition" in the name, so that people who know nothing about table tennis will think they're getting a good table. People that actually play competitively or at least a tournament style/level of table tennis would not be fooled by such labeling and would automatically know this is just a cheap table.
This is a 4-piece table so skip it. Eventually, the smaller boards become a little warped and you end up with a 'lip' running down the middle of the table.
Get a 1-piece or 2-piece only.
This is not a 'competition' type table. The same table (but in green) is available at Walmart for same price (not a sale).
I have one like this--not this brand, but constructed and trimmed out just like this one. Got it for $40 at Target and almost feel cheated. The wheels in the center have popped out, just from moving it around. The top doesn't line up perfectly due to the construction and the whole thing makes Ikea look like Ethan Allen.
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Anthony A. Rawlinson, 52, Grayville, was booked at the City-County Jail in Carmi around 9:50 p.m. Saturday on a White County warrant alleging failure to pay or appear in a previous case. His bail amount was not listed in a Grayville Police Department incident report.
Joshua L. Tucker, 20, Carmi, was booked at the City-County Jail in Carmi around 12:04 a.m. Sunday on a White County warrant alleging an unspecified misdemeanor offense.
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I've just finished high school but I don't feel my knowledge of mathematics is good enough. I'd like to start again from scratch, possibly adding a bit (a lot) of problem solving to it. What is the order in which I should study the various branches of mathematics? What are some good books to do so? Keep in mind that for 'starting from scratch' I mean starting from (possibly at a university level) set theory and the four operations. Thanks in advance for the answers!
I feel like it depends on where you are headed. If you want to make mathematics you future profession, the way you take will be different from what say an engineer will take. For example, in my case I am engineering student and i got to study plenty of calculus, probability and much of the fancy stuff but by the end of the day i still felt my knowledge of maths to be unsatisfactory(that's why i am on his site by the way).
So on the way to achieving your goal, here is what i can tell depending on my experience.
If engineering is your way:
You have to work very much on problem solving. A possible way to approach the task, here it is. Start will "normal" calculus but now try to understand the concepts not just for computing answers but also try to understand what it means in real life. For example, say "limits". You must have studied those in high school. Understand carefully what it means. Try to find examples where this concept might fit. Here is an example: I am given a material whose 'flexibility' is modeled by a given function. And that function depends on temperature. Here limits may help you understand how the material behaves when the temperature tends towards a certain value. See ... Try to start thinking like that about concepts, not just solve some exercises - but don't get me wrong: exercises are of crucial importance in learning, but the difference between you and a maths software is that you must understand the why of every computation you are doing.
Now a possible road map:
I/ Calculus:
II/ Algebra
From there you can go ahead and study other areas of interest mainly (i) Engineering optimization and numerical analysis (ii) Statistics and probability.
Those two because as an engineer the sooner you start producing results, the better off you are.
Starting with calculus is important because it has a lot of applications you can play with, it gives computational skills fast if you do exercises, has interesting concepts and forms the foundation of much mathematics engineers deal with.
Possible books:
So basically, it boils down to
If mathematics is your way:
Now if you want to make mathematics your profession, you will need a different frame of mind. First i am neither a professional mathematician nor have i reached a level where i can say that i am thinking like one. Yet that is my goal too. So i will share with you what i have learnt so far.
First, mathematicians, from i can tell so far, work differently from say physicists and engineers. When a you hit a theorem, don't go ahead and read the proof, first try to prove it yourself.
That will form the basis of the mathematician in you.
Here is the books i can advice to start with.
Once you are grounded in Set theory ( not too much though, whatever is provided by the two previous will be enough ) and proofs, continue with these:
Always try to prove theorems before reading the proof. Every time you read a mathematics book, usually graduate level ( don't be concerned about these for now ), and they tell you that a certain amount of mathematical maturity is expected from the reader, what that simply means is that they expect you to be able to prove the theorems or at least follow the logical arguments.
Mathematical literature
Also I highly advice like others that you try to read about mathematics in the general sense. Some books you may start with, here they are.
You may not be able to follow, the proofs in the two first books but nonetheless, you will enjoy the ride!!!
So that's the best i can do for my level and I wish you good luck and success!
I had a similar situation some 2 years ago, and here are some quick points from my journey:
If you want to read up on introductory maths at university level, I would suggest that you take a look at the first-year undergraduate maths curriculum of some university. Especially the "big" universities have websites containing detailed descriptions of their courses and curriculum. See which topics they cover and which books they use. Often you will also be able to find lecture notes etc. which are a good supplement to the suggested literature.


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I have a friend that wants a desktop-based content management system -- one that publishes entirely to static HTML (and images, CSS, etc). What are the best options?
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A couple of years ago Fog Creek's Citydesk was popular for this. But it's an orphaned product, the developers are not building on it any more.
There are several that I know of, but no clear 'market leader'. Most projects are smaller, and have a fairly small user base.
Therefore Jekyll is arguably one of the current 'market leaders', in the sense that it powers Githubs Pages, and thereby sees a fair amount of use. It's Ruby based.
You could consider running a CMS locally to manage content and then use a website scraping tool to extract and upload a static version.
If you are running Windows getting a CMS up and running locally is really easy with WebMatrix and there is a lot of free open source CMS's to choose from.
Here is a sample approach - my selection of CMS is slightly biased, but it does contain a demo site option for quick proof of concept testing:
The whole process can be seen in this video.
Once the demo site is there use a tool like HTTrack to extract website content - this tool should be able to sync with a mirror site - giving you the 'from CMS to static site' feature you want.
How about http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ ?
Not an CMS per-say but it's an editable offline wiki, runs in almost all recent web browsers.
Etomite is a lightweight CMS that has an "Export to HTML" option. So you can make your changes and export the whole thing every time.
My company wanted something similar for a set of kiosks that we were running at a large tradeshow we hosted. Internet access was a problem. We found Citydesk and some other solutions, but they weren't as configurable as we wanted.
We ended up going really low-tech: we dropped an install of WAMP on each computer and ran the CMS of our choice. For one show, we ran a version of the company's website CMS, on another we ran Joomla because it was quick. Regardless, each option gave us total control over look and feel and it was easy and free. Couldn't go wrong there!
Best option is to use FTP. You can easily add/remove/update html/css/js/images on your website with it. And a there is wide support for it in multiple software packages, either stand alone that only handle FTP ... or parts of bigger packages that create the content in the first place.


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A Sequester Is A 'Jelly-Like Mass,' And Other Notes On Fiscal-Cliff Jargon
Here's a quick rundown on three of the most impenetrable terms related to the fiscal cliff. For more, see our post, The Fiscal Cliff In Three And A Half Graphics.
1. Sequester
The sequester is a bundle of spending cuts that kick in automatically next year unless Congress acts to block them. This makes sense, given that sequester means "to set aside." It's like a bunch of money is getting set aside and not spent.
But when I looked up "sequester" in the OED, a much more obscure definition seemed to capture the feel of the broader political mess that's happening here:
A jelly-like mass gradually hardens and becomes ossified, surrounds, like a sheath,..the necrotic bone, which is then called a sequester.
2. Doc Fix
Two words: "Doc," as in "doctor." So far, so good. But what is "fix" doing there? Is something broken?
Yes. In particular, the formula Congress uses to determine Medicare payments to doctors is broken.
Years ago, Congress created a formula to limit the annual increases in Medicare payments to doctors. But when it came time to actually adhere to the formula, Congress balked. But instead of getting rid of the formula altogether, Congress passed a temporary fix.
This happened again and again over the years. The most recent temporary patch is set to expire at the end of this year. If it expires, Medicare payments to doctors would fall by 27 percent.
3. AMT Patch
It's not a Boy Scout merit badge. It's a weird tax thing Congress does every year.
The alternative minimum tax was created as a tax on people with high incomes who met certain criteria. But it wasn't indexed to inflation. As a result, it tends to cover more and more people every year, as inflation drives up wages for everyone.
Congress keeps intervening — patching the law, if you will — and passing temporary, one-year measures that prevent the AMT from applying to middle-income workers.
If Congress fails to patch the AMT, it will mean a tax increase for millions of households.
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My IPS recently detected a type 8 ICMP packet (echo request) with an unusual payload.
The echo request command a fragment of a command that looked like part of a route add. Here's a PCAP of the ICMP data payload.
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The IPS tagged it as Loki tunneling traffic - but it's limited to a single packet. I thought it could be a random grab from memory, but I saw the exact same packet a few days later.
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STEUBENVILLE - Emiley Masloski didn't start Thursday's Big Red-Catholic Central girls basketball game inside the Mickey Barber Gymnasium. She did, however, play a major role in finishing it.
The standout junior guard, still recovering from a knee injury, knocked down all of her game-high 13 points in the second half as Phil Casinelli's club dealt the Crusaders a 41-32 setback.
Coupled with a 39-29 victory earlier in the season, Big Red, now 12-3, earned the 2012-2013 city championship. Tom Winland's CCHS crew fell to 5-12.
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CITY CHAMPIONS — The arms of Steubenville Catholic Central's Rachel Irvin and Steubenville Big Red's Mytia Barker interlock during the rebound off a missed free throw in the third quarter of Thursday's 41-32 win by Big Red, sweeping the Crusaders to win the city championship. Looking on is Steubenville's Brittany Bodo.
"A lot of the girls hoped I would put her in last night (a 54-51 loss to Linsly), but I didn't," Casinelli said of Masloski. "We felt we needed her tonight and all the girls felt her presence on the floor. She wasn't on early but she finished strong. Our girls feel comfortable with her out there."
After Crusader senior Rachel Rigaud scored from the paint to make it 21-20 Big Red midway through the third stanza, Masloski went to work. She banked home a triple then drained a pair of free tosses. Her deuce late in the period allowed the visitors to increase their advantage to 31-22.
Masloski struck again to start the fourth, putting Big Red on top 33-22. She would score four more points before the final buzzer sounded.
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STEUBENVILLE (12-3): E. Masloski 4 4-6 13; H. Masloski 1 1-4 3; Young 0 3-5 3; Poole 0 1-4 1; Wilson 2 0-2 4; Barker 4 1-2 9; Rice 0 1-2 1; Bodo 2 0-1 4; Taylor 1 0-0 3. TOTALS: 14 12-26 41. 3-pointers: E. Masloski, Taylor; Rebounds: 38 (Barker 8); Turnovers: 7.
CATHOLIC CENTRAL (5-12): Knight 2 4-6 9; Irvin 0 3-4 3; Rigaud 2 3-6 7; Mirabella 1 0-0 2; Parkinson 1 1-2 3; Dziewatkoski 1 1-2 3; Torrance 0 0-1 0; Ondos 0 0-0 0; Hunt 1 3-4 5. TOTALS: 8 15-25 32. 3-pointers: Knight; Rebounds: 29 (Rigaud 11); Turnovers: 22.
"We needed this win more than anything," Casinelli added. "We knew it was going to be a tough game. We were coming off two losses, playing our third game in four days and it is a rivalry game.
"There was a lot of pressure on our girls and they responded well."
Big Red, thanks to four Mytia Barker points, led 8-7 after the opening frame. Central hung tough in the second, freshman Lauren Hunt recording five of her team's 10 markers, and was down 19-17 at the break.
Both teams had trouble scoring from the floor. Big Red was 14 for 64 and Central just eight of 33. The city rivals combined for 51 free throws (the winners making 12 and the Crusaders 15). There were 21 free tosses attempted during the final eight minutes.
In fact, of Central's 15 second half points, nine came from the stripe.
"It was a typical Big Red-Central game very physical," Winland pointed out. "I think their physicality hurt us on the offensive end. We missed some easy shots and we struggled getting into our offense because of their physicality.
"Overall, I thought we played well. We were in the game. Our effort was there defensively and we were able to hang around. I'm proud of how hard they played."
Barker contributed nine points for the Lady Red and grabbed eight of her team's 38 rebounds.
"Mytia has been having big nights since Emiley's injury," Casinelli noted. "She has stepped up with her rebounding and scoring. We're putting her in unusual positions and she's been doing well at the point.
"We got balanced scoring tonight. Everyone that got into the game scored. When you can get that, it's great."
Big Red will return to action Monday, traveling to Edison.
Tori Knight was the Central scoring leader with nine. Rigaud finished with seven and collected 11 boards (as a team the Crusaders had 27).
"That's Rachel," Winland said of Rigaud's performance. "She is our leader. With Rachel, you know what you are going to get out of her every night. Her, Rachel Irvin and Tori are great seniors to have."
The Crusaders will travel to Toronto next Thursday.


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Thanks John, good to hear. I've been wrestling with trying to post videos in the blog for awhile now, but kept running into one technical issue after another. I'm using Screencast now, and that, in conjunction with the "Expert settings" function on the Mac, that allow me to fully customize my file size and compression rate, I can now create Quicktime Movies that have decent resolution, yet the file size isn't ridiculous. One of the other issues I was running into was related to aspect ratio. What my camera produced, and what my blog software wanted to see, were two different things. The "Expert Settings" function on the Mac lets me customize that setting as well. Screencast hosts the videos, and generates the HTML code that I can cut and paste into my blog stories. Doing that, allows me to embed the videos in the stories without having to just post a link to YouTube and their crappy resolution. I think, being able to do this will add a nice touch to some of my hunting stories. Thanks for the feedback.
Cliff, I tried it on both my Mac and PC and it worked flawlessly. Good job and you have a great blog.
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Thanks for the feedback. I'm really happy with the video resolution. I wanted to go with a system that I have control over, including my content. YouTube took down several of my prairie dog hunting videos, claiming that they had received too many complaints. (from tree huggers, and prairie fairies I'm sure) After that, I took them all down, and will repost them on my blog, in much higher resolution. With the system that I'm using now, I have total control of my content, and the resolution is a hundred times better than what I had with YouTube. I'm really looking forward to finally being able to embed good resolution video clips into my blog stories. The tree huggers can go pound sand.
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Simpson County judge, Jim Henderson, says, "This pretty much came as a result of a bad accident last October on one of rural highways, and that got the attention of a lot of people here."
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How does a supervisor in a prison address an inmate? For example, a relative came to visit one of the inmates, so the supervisor is going to the cell (where many inmates are) and is about to call on that inmate. How would he address him then? It seems quite unlikely to me that the supervisor would address an inmate as "Mr. (Last name)"
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I have never been in a prison, but in fiction, guards generally address inmates by their last names, without honorific: Johnson, you have a visitor. In a more formal situation, full names without honorific might be used: Michael Leroy Johnson, you are hereby released from the custody of this prison. An especially cold guard or warden might use the inmate's number: Hey 24601, get back to work.
Last name is usual. An announcement where the supervisor does not necessarily know that last name will be specific enough may be of the form first name, last name; last name, first name; or last name, first initial. "Mr. Last Name" would pretty much only be used to put the inmate on notice that this is a particularly formal, and therefore particularly threatening, interaction. Identification numbers are almost never used.
Also note that in the United States, the preferred term for someone in the supervisory role you describe is "corrections officer", or CO ("see-oh") for short; inmates who are not specifically trying to be unpleasant will usually use the term CO. Corrections officers look down on the concept of being a "guard" as a sort of low-rent, mindless warehousing function, whereas the job they do is felt to be considerably more demanding. They do not like to be called guards.


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In a world ruled by fear of anyone different, life is dangerous for those affected by exposure to radiation. Authorities and Governments alike have taken an unreasonable stand against anyone with both physical and mental capabilities beyond that of a human. Hundreds of children and adults have been forced to register as mutants. They are different. No one asks whether this is right or wrong, no one dares to oppose what the rulers of the world declare as abnormal and threatening, no one dares to challenge the rules that have been set out, no one has asked about the futures of the unlucky ones who are taken away no one except for one man. Professor Xavier takes an opposite view on those with mutant powers, he believes with the correct training and mentoring that a select group can help. Theyre called the X-Men, and this institution is the just the beginning.
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After thinking on Joel's answer at Computable nonstandard models for weak systems of arithemtic for a few days, I do not see how to develop enough tuple machinery in I-Sigma_0 (PA with induction restricted to Sigma_0 formulas) to prove the necessary result.
Does I-Sigma_0 prove that "for any number d, there is a number c coding the set of Turing machine programs less than d that halt on input 0 with output 0 in at most d steps", with a coding such that determining whether a standard number n is in the set is computable from (=,0,S,+,*)?
With the coding Joel suggested, which is code(set) := $\displaystyle\Pi_{n \in set} \; p_n$, I don't even see a way for I-Sigma_0 to prove "For all n, there is a number coding the set of numbers less than n", and I can't think of a better coding either.


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Someone I know, wants to run a campaign in Celtic Britain. He normally uses Pathfinder but is looking for something more appropriate to the background.
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I suspect that the answer depends entirely upon what tone you want to have in your game. If you want something that's truer to mythical source references, then you should look at GURPS Celtic Myth as a sourcebook for either GURPS or some other rules-system (Ken and Jo Walton wrote the book, and Jo Walton knows her some Celtic myth).
If you want "King Arthur and the Celts", then you can use Pendragon along with the supplements Pagan Shore for Ireland and Savage Mountains for Wales -- except of course that King Arthur is post-Roman and that can mean a lot. Still might have some useful resources, but the game as written is most definitely post-Roman.
If you want something less "realistic", then you can look for the RPG (now out of print) that Mongoose published based on the 2000AD comic, Sláine, called Sláine: The Role Playing Game of Celtic Heroes. It's crazy over-the-top, but full of flavour, and has a host of sourcebooks released for it. Unfortunately, it's likely that it'll be hard to track down because it was a licensed property, now I believe out of print, so PDFs are not (afaik) available: you'd have to hit the used market.
There is a free Mythic Ireland setting PDF by John Briquelet (direct link) that contains a lot of useful flavour and cultural detail, assuming you want some mythical and magic touches to your pre-Roman Celts. Even if not, the feeling of the culture – especially the details of honour, the political organisation of the Celts, the role of Druids and the law – is conveyed impressively well and can be used separately from the more mythic beliefs and truths of the setting. It also gives you a solid grounding in what they believed was true, even if it's not actually true in your own Celtic setting.
The PDF happens to be for Savage Worlds, but like most sourcebooks for multi-genre systems, it's valuable regardless of what system you're using.
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