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STEUBENVILLE - Voicing favor for free market economics and smaller government, supporters of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney cheered on their candidate during his televised debate with President Barack Obama Wednesday evening in Denver.
"We are for individualism and accountability - not socialism," said Romney supporter Lynne Whatley while watching the debate at the Triple Play Cafe in Steubenville. "We believe in a free country with a small government. We need to get these oppressive regulations off of small business."
However, in Bellaire, Obama supporters gathered at Flanagan's to say they believe the president is doing a good job - and that they fear the consequences of a potential Romney presidency.
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BACKING ROMNEY — Mitt Romney supporter Albert Macre of Wintersville, an accountant and owner of Triple Play Cafe in Steubenville, watched Wednesday night as the Republican presidential candidate debated President Barack Obama. - Casey Junkins
BACKING OBAMA — Supporters of President Barack Obama gathered Wednesday evening at Flanagan's in Bellaire to cheer him on during the first debate with Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The supporters are, from left, Teresa Ricchetti, Sue Bayat, Pam Wampler, Cassandra Stobbs, Johnette Pollock and Gretchen Young. - Casey Junkins
"I would rather have Obamacare than no care," said Obama supporter Cassandra Stobbs, currently a student at Belmont College. "The president did not come from money. He had to work for everything he has."
"He walked into a total mess when he took over from" President George W. Bush, noted fellow Obama supporter Teresa Ricchetti. "We have to continue down the road to progress."
Recent public opinion polls have shown Obama maintaining a lead in the race to win Ohio's 18 electoral votes, which both candidates consider vital to collect. No president has taken office without winning the Buckeye State since John F. Kennedy in 1960. However, Romney supporters believe a strong showing in the Wednesday debate may give him the momentum needed to close the gap.
"Romney's record as a businessman is very impressive. He knows what it takes to get this economy turned around and create jobs," said Albert Macre, an accountant and owner of Triple Play Cafe. "Most of the clients I serve in my accounting business are doing worse than they did four years ago. It is just time for a new direction.
"We had to build our own business," added Whatley. "The government didn't build that for us."
However, Ricchetti and Stobbs said Obama has plans to increase the availability of higher education, which they believe is key to moving the economy in the right direction.
"Every person in this country should be able to go to college. This is what the president is working for," Ricchetti said.
"We have to stop shipping our jobs overseas," added fellow Obama supporter Pam Wampler. "We have to create jobs in this country."
Ricchetti said local Obama volunteers have been campaigning door to door, noting the reception has mostly been positive.
"There is a lot more work to do. Just because we are ahead in the polls does not mean that we can stop. We have to keep working hard to make sure we turn Belmont (County) blue," she said in reference to the color used to designate when a state has voted for the Democratic candidate.


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I'm tired of downloading 300mb updates. Windows has done delta updating since XP. It's just silly to download the whole thing if just a few bits of the package change.
There is nothing on upgrading via deltas. So, no, as of today there seem to be no plans.
Incremental updates have been introduced to apt around the time of the Dapper release (apt 0.6.44). The ubuntu developer community rejected using them because of incompatibilities with their infrastructure.
Here is a list of everything that's happening, and going to happen, in 11.04 (excluding what is not publicly tracked).
There is a blueprint for it, and I would love to be able to make it happen for all sorts of reasons, but we haven't been able to find the time to do it - it doesn't help that it requires a significant chunk of time from the Launchpad archive infrastructure team, which has been entirely swamped. It's still very much on our back-burner list for whenever we do find the time, though.
One likely issue is that the more you compress packages, the harder it is to sync them. This is a fairly fundamental property of good compression algorithms. It may be that even once we implement this there'll be some packages that will sync little better than the current situation.
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The method you mention is called delta updates and has been rejected as a method for several reasons, one of them being that calculating what to download takes up too much time (more mentioned in the link in the comments).
An alternative might be apt-fast.
It works the same as
Delta-RPM was touted as the next killer package management feature, but it was less than fabulous mainly because of the calculations required. True if you are on a highly restricted bandwidth connection, it will save your time, but if all you want to do to save time consider using apt-fast a faster front-end to dpkg.

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You provided staffing numbers. That, along with the assumption that it's a well run business, and the structure of your website, is sufficient to come up with a ballpark figure.As an aside, the ad hominem attacks on members here by dealers is totally unnecessary.
General comment -Please could I ask people not to send me private messages making defamatory personal comments about individuals.Many thanks.
But just for the record I don't believe that anyone has a right to know what a privately held company sells or receives in gross and net income.That's between the owners, the government and well . . . that's it.
I would like it to be noted that I have not sent any private message to Gerald. I agree with Gerald that whoever sent the message to him should not have.Steve HendrixCapture Integration
I rented the 1dx(s) and today asked for quotes to buy one or two. The thing is I'm almost positive that at the end of two years I'll probably sell it and I'll just bet you in those two years I'll still own and still be working with my digital backs.
I'll take back that Fred is out of his mind. I think he is very much in his mind. And knows exactly what he is doing. It's a shame how some on this forum command a huge amount of time and attention by providing agenda-driven slanted criticism or misinformation. I am sorry, but I feel strongly about this and feel it is a huge disservice to the forum.Steve HendrixCapture Integration
Hello,My guess is the total sales of Phase/Leaf backs per year would be about 100 units world wide.CheersSimon
Please feel free to point out any mistakes in information I post and refrain from these personal attacks.
Okay from my seat which is a lot of workshop folks and of course the forum but a lot of hobbyists have bought into medium format maybe a lot more than Pros. It's not like a lack of money so throw that case scenario out the window it's simple not the case. Many of these hobbyist bought a IQxxx along with a DF since Phase and the dealers make a nice package. Buy a back get a DF and 80 LS to go with it. That is usually there first jump in than add a few lenses and graduate into the tech cams . Some go directly to tech cams. Now folks I can tell you this without blinking a eye they out spend me by miles. So lets not get into this D800 crap because this is a hobby for them and they want to play big and frankly photography believe it or not is a cheap hobby. Yes you heard it here, go buy a boat , sports cars , planes and such. This is chump change to a lot of these folks when it comes to a hobby, I play golf and that's dirt cheap compared to others. LOLNow yes your talking about professional people , scientist, engineers, doctors and lawyers. I get them all on our workshops. Actually 18 workshops and I always had a doctor on board for instance. Thank god I may need one. LOLThe money argument does not always wash these discussions. To guys like me sure we worry about our ROI and use case but Pros are such a small minority here . We are seriously out numbered when it comes to photography. Frankly I would guess in today's world in total cams made we are maybe 1-5 percent of the total market is my guess. Love to know that number actually. Btw I'm not knocking the hobbyist at all I am if anything embracing them as without them we would still be shooting film. The market and technology may never have grown without them, they drive the sales. I agree with Steve sure there are departures both in 35mm and MF. That's just a natural order that has always been around. Some departures are also short term as well. The negativity towards MF is now resting on D800 shooters as the new holy grail. I'm not one of them I shoot it but I still love MF and hopefully will get back to it. The economy sucks and sure it's hurt a lot of things but if I was putting it on anything than that would be it. Maybe we will climb out I hope so, frankly its too freaking slow and let's be honest many of us are hanging on and some have already gone away. I work for big corporate clients and its slim pickings. It's rampant all through photography even for the top guns things are in adjustment periods both what you do and gear you have. Anyone tells you different is feeding you a line of BS.
What a tempest in a teapot.For the record, literally millions of private companies disclose financial results. D&B sells the data. In some countries, the results are filed with regulators and made public ... albeit slowly.
Actually 5-7k of new MF backs sold last year is not a bad figure at all considering that older backs are still in use, even some many generations behind now. To me that means there are more and more MF users out there each year. The problem MFDB makers have is these things don't wear out!
Lets get back to the numbers regarding market share. I don't think Guy's estimate was intended to be a solid figure, but if the numbers are in the 1 to 5 % of total camera sales I think it would be safe to say that the MF manufacturers would be drowning in cash.Consider this.Canon in 9 months made 10,000,000 EF lenses. That would be about 13,000,000 in a year. http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/about_canon?pageKeyCode=pressreldetail&docId=0901e024806188ec&WT.mc_id=C126149Canon sold 7 million DSLRs in the previous year and estimates sales of 9,000,000.Just for ballpark lets assume canon has 40% of the DSLR market ( it's a bit less I think)So that would roughly put the market at about 22,000,000 DSLRs If MFDB cameras had just 1% of the totals cameras made that would be 220,000 units.Then lets even assume that they only their less expensive 40mp Phase And Hasselblad bodies. $21,000 and $17,000. And lets split the one percent between the two:That would be $ 2,310,000,000 for one and $ 1,870,000,000 for the other.These are just very rough numbers. No intention of establishing accurate figures, but just give an idea of the magnitude of the market.Sales are in smaller numbers that 1% of the total market. However if we consider the size of the DSLR market even a very small percentage or fraction of a percentage is still a lot of sales.The real problem though is the costs of development in regards to significant image quality gains and significant functionality gains.
You need to read a little better, those are not sales percentage I am quoting.
Hi,My guess is that it takes about 100000$US to keep a person employed in the western world. So you need to sell like 5-10 backs/year for each employee making his/hers living of those backs, in development, manufacture and sales.Best regardsErik


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The Rama (Orach Chayim 583:2) says that some have the practice not to sleep on Rosh HaShanah, and it is a correct practice. The Taz (3) quotes the source of this: The Yerushalmi which says "Whoever sleeps on Rosh HaShanah, his luck sleeps." The Magen Avraham (6) quotes the Arizal, that it is permissible to sleep after midday, since the angel (of "luck," I guess) has already been awoken by then. However, the Taamei HaMinhagim #606 (in Kuntres Acharon #22) writes in the name of Mateh Efrayim that you shouldn't sleep even according to the Arizal, because ordinary people don't do even one thousandth of what the Arizal did even in his sleep.
The Magen Avraham there also adds that someone who sits idle is just as bad as if he were sleeping. The Machatzis HaShekel explains that the reason for the Yerushalmi is that the person isn't praying or doing something to awaken the angel for him. Therefore, being idle is not awakening the angel.


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I love this show. It's also where the name and most samples came for Handsome Boy Modeling School.
My favorite episode is S.P.E.W.E.Y and me. (Special Person Entering World Egg Yolks).
@bcherlprty There's a hidden bonus commentary for "S.P.E.W.E.Y and me" featuring Carrie Fisher
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The 17th Australian Street Rod NationalsWritten by on June 20, 2005 CCT Goes Truckin' Down Under
My interest in Australia began before I knew what foreign countries were. Because I was named after my paternal grandfather Robert Sidney Boyd, Sydney, Australia, was the one place outside of the U.S. that I wanted to learn more about during grade-school Geography. Sure, I'd like to visit this city that's named after me, I thought. Years later (at the tender age of 11), the youth organization I was a member of scheduled a trip to Sydney. Unfortunately (after I had obtained my passport and shots) I didn't get to go (for reasons that were never fully explained). And that's what started my lifelong desire to go to Australia.
In the late-'80s, while I was Associate Editor at Street Rodder magazine, several Australian street rod magazine editors stopped by the McMullen offices to get directions to shops and local events where they could soak up the West Coast vintage-car culture. Of course we all traded magazines, and I learned about Holden and Ford Utes that were never produced in the U.S. It was obvious, our '30s, '40s, and '50s cars shared a good deal of sheetmetal tooling--and we shared a great deal of enthusiasm for our vintage- vehicle hobby as well.The 17th Annual Australian Street Rod Nationals is very much like our regional NSRA and Goodguys events. The rods, customs, and trucks all have a registration sticker in the front windshield that allows them to drive into the showgrounds where they line up to park. Approximately 2,000 vehicles were driven to the Gold Coast Parklands Fairgrounds in Queensland, about an hour south of Brisbane.
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The Australian spectators were happy to sit and watch the burnout contest. Competitors literally shredded the drive tire on their rides and filled the air with noxious burnt-rubber fumes.Entry #88 was this '54 Holden Ute with the latest in color-changing iridescent paint of purple and green. We noticed that all the street rods and trucks driven to the event had green inspection stickers on their windshields.The owner of this blue '35 Ford pickup from New South Wales is a member of the North Beaches of Sydney Hot Rod Club, the NSRA, and the Australian Street Rod Federation.We saw many Model A closed-cab pickups--this one sat great over American Racing Torq-Thrust D's.I thought the passenger in the cab was eyeballing my camera until I remembered the steering wheel (and driver) was on the right side of the vehicle.Model A roadster pickups were in abundance as well. The owner of this red one is a member of the Easy Street Rod & Custom Club, Central Coast, New South Wales. Note the fuzzy dice mounted on one side and the critter tail on the other--all the hot rod cliches are found down under.
Another prime evil is this channeled '38 Ford pickup sporting apple-green wheels with baby caps and an International grille. This truck had a restricted-use sticker from the Queensland Road & Traffic Authority (DMV) in the windshield, and the mandatory cycle fenders. Power comes from a late-model Ford V-8 engine.The neat display and custom chassis from this Toowoomba, Queensland, hot rod shop captured my attention. They had neat T-shirts and hats as promo items--I brought some back with me.We thought this mid-'30s-looking, purple-with-ghost flames, four-passenger roadster pickup was pretty cool. What is it? Hmm, I don't believe the sticker that says it's a Datsun. Looks more like a '34 Chevy Tourer.If you drive them, sometimes you break them! Just like the NSRA, the Aussie blokes lend a hand when someone needs help and tools to make a repair away from home. The repair-shop sponsor is Suncorp Metway and Brisbane North Institute of TAFE.John and Rosemary Lakeman and their fuchsia-pink magic '34 Chevrolet Tourer are proud members of the Bent Eight's Hot Rod Club, Sydney. The chassis under this reproduction-bodied Ute is also a '76 Datsun 620--must be something the lads in Australia do for modern mechanicals and reliability.The habit of extending the small pickup cabs is alive and well down under. Entry #0917, a red '46/47 Ford from New South Wales, appears to have an extended chassis as well. The truck rides on traditional American Racing mags and BFGoodrich tires.Of course we were greatly interested in all the Utes we saw, especially the early-'50s Fords. This purple Coupe-Ute with purple-painted bumpers was lowered and driven to the Australian Nationals by a more youthful pair of rodders wearing straw sombreros.One of the Chainsaw Bob's East Coast Cruisers was this light-blue Coupe-Ute that looks a bit sedate with wire wheels, whitewalls, and chrome bumpers. Imagine how much fun it would be to import a few of these light-duty Ford trucks to the U.S. and tell the natives, "It's a custom!"
The back window of Bill and Vicki Bassett's nifty "Ylo 32" Deuce pickup is a billboard advertisement for Downunder Innovations, the one-off specialists (0408 122 724). The sign proudly states; "You think it up--We'll make it up!" How's that for confidence?The cab of this blue pickup (The Northern Territory Traffic Department rules it as non-standard) appears to be a '38 Ford standard. The grille, however, is older by more than several years and appears to be a '32 Ford shell, as are the guards (fenders). If observers should question these mix 'n' match decisions, the owner simply directs them to read the personalized license plate: BCOZ.This sign on the back of a '36 Ford needs little explanation of the Australian attitude about being a responsible citizen.Here's another Coupe-Ute, this one's a '51 Ford in basic florescent-yellow. There's a statue of Elvis at Las Vegas on the dash under the yellow fuzzy dice, and a personalized plate that reads: BUTE 51.This '55 or '56 Ford Ute is not the Coupe-Ute style (no quarter window), but appears to be relatively stock with a lowered suspension. The side-trim reads: Mainline.As the rain started to fall, we noticed this neat blue '64 Holden Special Ute from the state of Queensland.The interior of the '64 Holden Special was as neat as a pin--notice the tachometer mounted below the dash and the short-throw shifter on the trans hump.Shades of Jimmy Shine! This pavement- scraping prime-evil, late-'30s Chevy is consistent with the LCI (low-cost-involved) youth movement that has flourished the past few years. We believe this one's finished for instant fun and will be driven as is--or has only a few minor, cost- effective modifications yet to be made.
Australian hot rodders are not newcomers to our hobby. This lo-buck, purple-and-yellow primered '28 Ford roadster pickup from Queensland, was wearing a Valla Rod Run event sticker--the event has been held for the past 28 years."Webby's Speed Shop is where all the bad cars go!" So states the graphic on the side of this Model A Ford delivery. The fun shifted to inside the rides as the wet stuff came down. Note the 10-spokes in front and the Daisy spokes in the rear of this frame- dragging Ford.The afternoon rain didn't dampen anyone's spirits. We spotted what appeared to be a '37 Chevy--turned out to be a '37 Holden Coupe-Ute. There's no quarter window on this example. We love vent windows, but might be tempted to fit one-piece glass in the doors.


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A Sexual Act: to place a toilet seat over your lover's head (specifcally one you don't like), then you proceed to have rough sex with her mouth (she probably wont be enjoying it), then when your done, you slam that seat down on her ugly hoe face.
my bitch was complaining way to much so i decided to toilet seat that hoe.
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Noun. The left over hair on a male head after the balding process is complete. The hair on the back and sides of the head.
"Wow! I haven't seen Bob in years! He's got a full blown toilet seat!
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what according to women should be down all the time, like someone is lifting it up for men when they have to take a piss.
I have to lift the fucking toilet seat myself
by Slunjan July 18, 2008
A toilet seat is a person that is so incredibly messed up that you can do anything you want to them at any given time. Including making them into your human toilet seat.
Hey Joe, you see that dude over there rolling around on the ground tripping his face off?
Yeah I see him.
I am about to make that dude my toilet seat
This whole bar is FILLED with Toilet Seats tonight.
Yeah I see him.
I am about to make that dude my toilet seat
This whole bar is FILLED with Toilet Seats tonight.
by the dreidel October 24, 2013
An inconsistency in someone's characteristics, behaviours, beliefs or actions. Refered to as such because, like a toilet seat, they're always undecidedly "up and down" about whatever it is.
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Diversify your Labor Day grill with veggie pizza
Published: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 7:47 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 7:47 a.m.
Labor Day is sneaking up on us and many homes will pull out the grill for a final tribute to summertime. In addition to the expected burgers, try serving your family and guests a pizza straight off the grill. This recipe not only incorporates the last of the summer veggies grilled to perfection atop each slice, but I have also incorporated several vegetables into the sauce itself.
It's a great way to sneak vegetables into your kids' diet (or the diet of other stubborn family members) by disguising them with something they already love.
Experiment with various vegetables hidden in your next recipe.
Grilled Pizza with Grilled Summer Vegetables
Makes 2 10-inch or 3 6-inch pizzas
Canola oil 1 eggplant, sliced into ½-inch slices Kosher salt 1 onion, peeled and cut into ¼-inch thick rounds 2 yellow squash 2 zucchini 2 bell peppers, ribs and seeds removed; cut into 1- to 2-inch planks Pizza sauce (recipe follows) Pizza dough (recipe follows) 8 ounces fresh mozzarella cheese, sliced into rounds Cornmeal for dusting
Preheat grill or grill pan to medium-high. When hot, rub with a towel dipped in canola oil.
Place sliced eggplant on a plate and sprinkle with a generous amount of kosher salt. Set aside for 10-15 minutes while the salt draws out some of the moisture.
Pat the eggplant dry with paper towels; season eggplant with freshly ground black pepper and drizzle with olive oil.
Place eggplant slices on the grill. Let cook undisturbed for at least 3-4 minutes or until the eggplant begins to soften and grill marks appear along the bottom edges. Flip once and finish cooking on the remaining sides. Remove from grill and set aside.
Drizzle the onion slices with olive oil and set on the grill. Try to keep the onion rings together so the slices don't fall between the grates. Place on the grill and let cook until softened on one side, 5-10 minutes depending on thickness, before flipping.
Meanwhile slice the remaining vegetables into ½-inch slices. Season sliced vegetables and bell peppers with kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, drizzle with olive oil, and place on the grill. Let cook undisturbed for 2-3 minutes before flipping only once and finish cooking on the remaining sides. Remove from grill, along with the onion slices, and set aside until cool enough to handle.
When the grilled vegetables are cool enough to handle, roughly chop.
While the vegetables cook, prepare the pizza dough.
On a lightly floured surface, use a rolling pin to roll each dough ball into a flat disk. Using the backs of your hands and your knuckles, shape one ball of dough into a disk. Lightly pull and turn the dough, taking care not to tear it. The end result should be about 8- to 10-inches wide, and does not have to be perfectly round. Repeat with remaining dough.
Re-oil the grill and place one disk of pizza dough onto the grill. Drizzle the top of the dough with olive oil.
Let the pizza grill until grill marks are visible along the edges of the dough. Use a wide spatula to flip.
Immediately spread desired amount of sauce on the pizza. Arrange grilled vegetables on top of the sauce and place a few slices of cheese on top of the vegetables.
If using an outdoor grill, lower the lid to allow the heat to circulate and melt the cheese. If using an indoor grill pan, invert a stainless steel bowl or baking sheet over the pizza and cook until the cheese has melted.
Remove from the grill, slice, and serve.
Pizza Dough
1 cup warm water (100-110 degrees) 1 tablespoon sugar 1 packet dry instant yeast 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more as needed 1 teaspoon kosher salt 2 tablespoon olive oil
In a small bowl or measuring cup, combine the water and sugar. Sprinkle with the yeast and allow the yeast to dissolve and bloom. Within 5-10 minutes, the mixture should appear creamy and begin to foam. If it does not foam, discard and start over with new yeast.
Place the flour in a large mixing bowl and make a well in the center. Add water/yeast, kosher salt, and olive oil. From the inside of the well working outward, incorporate the flour into the other ingredients. Stir with a wooden spoon until the dough becomes stiff. Dump the dough onto a floured surface.
Form into a loaf pointing toward your body. Fold the top of the dough toward yourself and push down and forward on the dough with the palms and heels of your hands. Give it a quarter turn (like 15 minutes on a clock), and continue kneading and turning. If the dough sticks, dust it with more flour, but too much flour will result in dry dough. Knead the dough until it is smooth, elastic and no longer appears webbed, about 15 minutes.
Divide the dough into 2 equal pieces and shape them into balls. Cover with a kitchen towel and let rest for 30 minutes.
Veggie-Based Pizza Sauce
½ carrot, scrubbed ½ celery stalk, peeled of stringy fibers ½ zucchini Olive oil 1 onion, peeled and finely diced Kosher salt 1 tablespoon dried Italian seasoning 1 clove garlic, peeled and grated 1 (15-ounce) can tomato puree
Use a box grater to shred the carrot, celery, and zucchini. Set aside.
Heat a sauté pan over medium heat. When hot, add enough olive oil to lightly coat the bottom of the pan.
When the oil shimmers, add the onion, a generous pinch of kosher salt and Italian seasoning. Stir to coat, and cook until the onion is translucent, about 3-5 minutes.
Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute.
Add shredded vegetables and stir to coat with the onions, adding more oil if needed. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are tender, about 7-10 minutes.
Add tomato puree and bring to a simmer. Reduce the heat to medium-low and allow sauce to simmer for about 15-20 minutes.
Use an emersion blender, or by transferring to the carafe of a blender, puree the sauce. Season it to taste with more salt as needed.
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GENESEO, N.Y. -- SUNY Geneseo celebrated the reopening of the special collections area of Milne Library Oct. 11. The newly opened college Archives and Special Collections display area house rare, historical unique collections that are resources for such diverse topics as college and regional history, Henry David Thoreau and publications authored by faculty, staff and alumni.
"Geneseo Special Collections provides an engaging collection of primary and local resources, opening opportunities for research, as well as new study rooms equipped to serve as teaching and learning labs for academic and community researchers and students," said Cyril Oberlander, Milne director.
The event marked months of work by Milne staff and student assistants, who moved, sorted and compiled more than 238,000 items to make the new Geneseo Special Collections a reality.
"The opening of the Geneseo Special Collections is an innovation that is also a tribute to many of the college's values - excellence, innovation, community, service to society, and tradition," said Geneseo President Christopher C. Dahl.
Milne is also celebrating its first digital publishing venture. As part of Milne's mission to transform scholarly communications, Milne reprinted "The Recollections of 3 Rebel Prisons," by Col. G.G. Prey, a book by a Civil War Wadsworth guard who survived three prisons. It is the first in a series of Genesee Valley Historical Reprints for Milne, said Oberlander. Those who utilize the collections, he says, bring new life to local history and research with rare books.
"What is special to the collection is determined by readers," said Oberlander. "Some may see the treasure in local history, while others along the edges in paintings, detailed artistic covers, or in the international rare books."
The new area houses:
• The Genesee Valley Historical Collection - covering eight counties surrounding the Genesee River
• The College Archives Collection - history of SUNY Geneseo from 1871 to present
• The Geneseo Authors Hall - publications of Geneseo faculty, staff and alumni
• The Wadsworth Family Papers - materials from the land offices of the prominent Wadsworth family, who settled in the local area
• The Walter Harding Collection - writings by the late Walter J. Harding, the world-renowned Henry David Thoreau researcher Emeritus, on Thoreau and transcendentalism.
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Overcoming Cancer Disparities through Community Based Education: The National Black Leadership on Cancer
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The United States Census Bureau estimates that there are 38 million people living in America who identify themselves as black or African-American. This is an extremely ethnically-diverse group of individuals, yet they have one sobering fact in common. African-Americans have the highest cancer mortality (death) rate of any racial or ethnic group, for all types of cancer combined and for most of the major cancers, including breast, prostate, colorectal and lung cancer. Although death rates have been decreasing since 1993, efforts are still needed to continue this positive trend.
The National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer (NBLIC) is an outreach initiative of the National Cancer Institute ( NCI ), established to spread the word about cancer incidence, treatment, and prevention to the African-American community in ways that are culturally sensitive and appropriate. The NBLIC understands that advances made through cancer research will be of no benefit unless this information is readily available to the African American community. Thus the primary goal of the NBLIC is to positively influence the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of African-Americans about cancer, ultimately closing the racial gap in the fight against cancer.
In their quest to achieve this goal, the NBLIC established the Network Project in 2000. This program targeted 23 densely populated African-American communities, each with a high prevalence of cancer. They have launched several unique programs in these communities, and we are joined today by Joyce Sheats, RN, MPH, Project Director for the NBLIC, to talk about the NBLIC and their initiatives.
: Thanks for talking with us today. Let's first talk about the NBLIC's current goals. What does the group hope to achieve in the coming years?
Ms. Sheats: Thank you for this opportunity. In 2005 the project became NBLIC III: Community Networks Program, a part of the NCI 's Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD). The NBLIC has four regions with the national office, located at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and with Dr. David Satcher as our Principal Investigator. NBLIC III's overall goal is to reduce cancer health disparities for African-Americans by developing collaborations that enhance existing community partnerships. These partnerships will address the disconnect between delivery systems and community-based participatory education, research, and training in the African-American community.
: African-American women are less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than white women, yet they are more likely to die of the disease. NBLIC has developed a novel outreach project to educate African-American women about breast cancer, called "Stay Beautiful, Stay Alive". This program uses the beauty salon, a place where African American women spend many hours, to promote cancer screening and healthy behaviors. Trained volunteers present information on breast and cervical cancer screening and help dispel myths in the community. Can you tell us how this program came to be, and how you gained the support and participation of the beauty salons? What type of response have you seen to the program?
Ms. Sheats: "Stay Beautiful, Stay Alive" ( SBSA ) was developed out of the Midwestern Regional Office in Chicago, Ill. The project gained support by including the community partners in the planning and implementation of the project early on [in the process]. The beauty/nail salon owners, who typically focus on their clients' physical beauty, embraced the opportunity to offer a program that would emphasize breast and cervical cancer screening in this unique setting.
: As we know all to well, women are not the only African-Americans disproportionately affected by cancer. African-American men have a 20% higher incidence rate and a 40% higher death rate for all cancers combined than white men. African-Americans are more likely to be diagnosed with later stage disease, and therefore have a poorer prognosis. The NBLIC program "For Men Only" was developed to educate men about prostate cancer and screening practices. Where is this program being presented, and how has it been received?
Ms. Sheats: "For Men Only", developed by the Nashville,TN coalition, is usually presented in conjunction with an existing activity such as a men's health screening in the community, at a church, or it may be presented as a stand-alone session that is requested by a particular group or organization, such as the 100 Black Men of America, Inc. The program continues to be well received due to the content and format of the sessions, which not only address prostate cancer and health, but also look at other common co-morbidities seen in the community, such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and obesity.
: What other programs does the NBLIC have ongoing?
Ms. Sheats: We have two other best practices, "Down Home Healthy Living" (DHHL) and "Clearing the Air" (CTA). DHHL targets colorectal cancer and nutrition, while CTA focuses on lung cancer and tobacco use. The National Office of NBLIC is currently a partner organization with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded Men Against Breast Cancer (MABC) Partners in Survival Program. MABC is the first national non-profit organization to educate and empower men to be effective caregivers when breast cancer strikes a female loved one. NBLIC was chosen as the organization to implement the program for African-American men. Our regional program offices are involved in numerous community-based research, education and training activities which address cancer health disparities in African- Americans. Some of these activities include: clinical trails education conferences for African-American clergy, the Hope Cometh cancer survivorship program and the Body and Soul project which has a nutritional focus.
: How can individuals or groups get involved in the program?
Ms. Sheats: By calling 1-800-724-1185 or go to our website for more information at www.nblic.org
: Thanks so much for telling us about the NBLIC's efforts. There is a lot of work to be done to spread the word about cancer screening and survivorship and I am sure the NBLIC can use all the help they can get. Hopefully our readers will be inspired to get involved by the great work already being done!


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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: Java MPI bindings
From: Paul H. Hargrove (PHHargrove_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-02-07 15:33:56
As an HPC software developer and user of OMPI, I'd like to add my $0.02
here even though I am not an OMPI developer.
Nothing in George's response seems to me to preclude the interested
institutions (listed as FROM in the RFC) from forking a branch to pursue
this work until there can be standardization of Java bindings. If the
JAVA bindings really are as "orthogonal" to the rest of the code as the
RFC authors claim, then merging a branch back to the trunk when they
have a stable/standard interface should not be onerous.
I know from experience in other projects that work that SHOULD "have
zero impact" on those not using it seldom does. There is always
something that pops up, such as small autotools mistakes that break
nighlty tarballs and goofs like that. If nothing else, the existance of
the JAVA bindings would seem to impose an additional testing burden on
developers making changes to internal interfaces and data structures.
For that reason I agree w/ George that there is not yet sufficiently low
risk/reward to support adding Java bindings in OMPI's trunk.
So I'd propose that the work be done on a branch and the RFC can be
reissued when there is both
a) a standard to which the bindings can claim to conform
b) an implementation which has been shown to be stable
On 2/7/2012 12:18 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:
> Nobody is asking us to make any decision or take a position re standardization. The Hadoop community fully intends to bring the question of Java binding standards to the Forum over the next year, but we all know that is a long, arduous journey. In the interim, they not only asked that we provide the bindings in our release, but also are providing the support to maintain them.
> If members of the Python or R communities were to step forward, offer to do the work and maintain it, and could show it had zero impact on the rest of the code base, I for one would welcome their bindings. Can't see the harm - can always be removed if/when they ceased to support them on their own.
> On Feb 7, 2012, at 12:33 PM, George Bosilca wrote:
>> This doesn't sound like a very good idea, despite a significant support from a lot of institutions. There is no standardization efforts in the targeted community, and championing a broader support in the Java world was not one of our main target.
>> OMPI does not include the Boost bindings, despite the fact that it was developed at IU. OMPI does not include Python nor R bindings despite their large user community. Why suddenly should we provide unstandardized Java bindings?
>> I think we should not tackle such inclusion before there is at least a beginning of a standardization effort in the targeted community. They have to step up and address their needs (if they are real), instead of relying on us to take a decision. Until then, the fast growing targeted community should maintain the binding as a standalone project on their own.
>> george.
>> On Feb 1, 2012, at 15:20 , Ralph Castain wrote:
>>> FROM: LANL, HLRS, Cisco, Oracle, and IBM
>>> WHAT: Adds Java bindings
>>> WHY: The Hadoop community would like to use MPI in their efforts, and most of their code is in Java
>>> WHERE: ompi/mpi/java plus one new config file in ompi/config
>>> TIMEOUT: Feb 10, 2012
>>> Hadoop is a Java-based environment for processing extremely large data sets. Modeled on the Google enterprise system, it has evolved into its own open-source community. Currently, they use their own IPC for messaging, but acknowledge that it is nowhere near as efficient or well-developed as found in MPI.
>>> While 3rd party Java bindings are available, the Hadoop business world is leery of depending on something that "bolts on" - they would be more willing to adopt the technology if it were included in a "standard" distribution. Hence, they have requested that Open MPI provide that capability, and in exchange will help champion broader adoption of Java support within the MPI community.
>>> We have based the OMPI bindings on the mpiJava code originally developed at IU, and currently maintained by HLRS. Adding the bindings to OMPI is completely transparent to all other OMPI users and has zero performance impact on the rest of the code/bindings. We have setup the configure so that the Java bindings will build if/when they can or are explicitly requested, just as with other language support.
>>> As the Hadoop community represents a rapidly-growing new set of customers and needs, we feel that adding these bindings is appropriate. The bindings will be maintained by those organizations that have an interest in this use-case.
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Ashes Series Baffles the Pundits
Three Matches In, Both Teams Have been Dominant and Both Have Collapsed
Although many foresaw a scoreline favoring England, the current Ashes series continues to confound most predictions. Both within the passage of individual games and from match to match, the series keeps providing endless twists and turns.
In the first match, at Trent Bridge, the lead changed hands at least six times before England squeaked a 14-run victory. In the second, at Lord's, England had its foot on Australia's throat from day two onward, triumphing by a massive 347 runs. And now, in the third, which ended at Old Trafford on Monday, the visitors—entirely unexpectedly after their drubbing at Lord's—were on top from the start, only to be cruelly denied victory by the fifth-day weather.
The resulting draw meant that England leads 2-0 in the five-match series and, as the incumbent, has therefore retained the Ashes—but rarely can a match in which one side confirmed its hold on the urn have provided so much succor to its opponents. The most encouraging aspect of the match for Australia was that its dominance was built not on its bowling but on its batting—and specifically on the 527-7 it piled up in its first innings.
The biggest change in that innings was that the captain, Michael Clarke, finally came to the party, with a typically elegant, chanceless yet positive, faultlessly executed 187. He was accompanied by an increasingly fluent Steven Smith, after Chris Rogers had set the tempo with an uncharacteristically forthright 84 at the top of the innings.
Brad Haddin and Mitchell Starc provided an incisive late flourish—although, given the way the lower orders have batted in this series, particularly Australia's, it wasn't even particularly surprising that the eighth wicket added an undefeated 97 in under 20 overs, with the No. 9 smacking 66 off 71 balls.
The worry for Australia is that it only seems to compete for victory when Clarke excels. England's batting was often substandard in this game, but the hosts were saved by a first-innings century from Kevin Pietersen, where Ian Bell and Joe Root had performed similar roles in the previous two matches. Clarke, meanwhile, is the only Australian to notch a ton in this series; in other words, England is a whole lot less reliant on a single batsman.
With the ball, Australia's Ryan Harris and Peter Siddle were again impressive throughout, bowling mostly at the stumps with accuracy, sharp pace, some movement, and intelligent plans of attack to the England batsmen. Starc took three first-innings wickets but released the pressure with too many loose balls that could be hit and wide ones that could be left, and the usually metronomic Jackson Bird ought to come into contention for the remaining two gamesof the series.
The next match is at Chester-le-Street, which has a reputation as a low-scoring wicket where another draw is unlikely. However, not only is it in drizzly England, but it is, in fact, the farthest north that Test cricket is played, so the possibility of the weather staging another decisive intervention can't be ruled out.
Old Trafford's pitch, re-laid at a 90-degree angle to the old wicket in a process that closed it for international cricket for three years, provided an excellent track on which the high first-innings scores—England followed Australia's 527-7 with 368—weren't necessarily indicative of a benign surface. The pitch always had something in it for the seamers, with pace, bounce and movement even on the final day.
The one thing it did less than expected—and less than Old Trafford pitches have in the past—was encourage spin. Despite giving the ball far more of a rip and looking far more threatening than Ashton Agar, the man he replaced, Australia's Nathan Lyon returned match figures of 1-103, while England's Graeme Swann was forced to toil for 58 overs for his six wickets, which came at a cost of almost 40 each.
As they have all series, the umpires again managed to position themselves front and center at Old Trafford, and not just because of the Decision Review System technology—although the system still provided its normal share of controversy. In Australia's first innings, for example, Usman Khawaja was given out caught behind off Swann; the decision was reviewed and despite no obvious evidence of an edge, was confirmed out by third umpire Kumar Dharmasena anyway. The incident even provoked an angry tweet from Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.(Australia might just be the only country in the world where no one's surprised when the head of government weighs in on sporting matters).
Then, on the final day, England's Pietersen received a similarly marginal caught-behind decision off the bowling of Siddle, with the Hot Spot infrared imaging system not showing an edge. Eventually Snicko, which is currently too slow to be used in third-umpire decision-making, suggested that there was indeed a faint tickle. But it wasn't detectable using the equipment available to the third umpire during the time the decision was made, and so Dharmasena was left in an impossible situation, unable because of the Khawaja decision to overturn the catch despite a lack of evidence that the ball had in fact been edged.
The umpires were equally under the spotlight during the final session of the fourth day. With Australia attempting to push on, to set England as large a fourth-innings target as possible before the forecast rain closed in, umpires Marais Erasmus and Tony Hill decided to haul the players off the field for bad light, ruling that it was too dangerous for the batsmen, despite the fact that those batsmen desperately wanted to remain out there.
With protective clothing constantly improving, it might be time to do away with the bad-light rule altogether, or at least to tighten up the criteria so we don't have ridiculous situations where a batting team is denied the chance to play and the crowd also don't get what they want, because of a decision by the umpires.
As it happens, the weather would probably have saved England anyway, but the hosts were incredibly lucky. But for the rain that chopped nearly a session off the fourth day and reduced the fifth to just 20.3 overs, after which England were floundering at 37-3, , we would now be talking excitedly about just how far the Australian comeback can go, and whether it may just be possible for the visitors to still win the series 3-2.
They could, of course, still draw it. Australia can't really be blamed on this occasion, but its habit of coming close to excellent results and then not quite achieving them persists—the exact opposite of the ability to win from seemingly impossible positions that characterized its years of Test dominance.
It's worth bearing in mind that, despite the 2-0 scoreline, of the three games in this series so far, one has now been dominated by each side, with the other fairly even. And so, in common with most of the punditocracy, this column hereby officially throws its hands in the air and declares that it has no idea what's going to happen next in this series, and that it's very happy about that.
—Richard Lord writes about cricket for the Wall Street Journal


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How do you call a space with a function which is symmetric, non negative, positive definite and which satisfies a quasi-triangle inequality:
$d(x,z) \leq C( d(x,y)+d(y,z) )$
for all $x,y,z$ and some $C > 1$?
That is, it satisfies all the axioms of a metric space except for the triangle inequality, which is replaced by the one above.
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Choosing a Good School
Q: Hi! Maybe I am not looking in the right category. Could you please see if FEN has any information on qualities to look for in a good teacher/curriculum? I have a 6 yr. old boy who will be in 1st grade next year, probably in public school. We are in the process of discussing teacher selection with the school principal. Any hints?
A: This is the time of year that class placement is being made for l998-99 and this question may be on the mind of many parents. Parents are generally not allowed to specifically request a particular teacher, as you can imagine the logistical nightmare of 200 parents all wanting the same person.
The most common scenario is for a principal to work with the teachers and guidance counselors to create classrooms that are balanced in all ways, including boys/girls, slow/fast learners, special needs, and so on.
In which type of learning environment does your child excel? Sharing this information with your child's school can help him adjust in those first days. For instance, does your child stay on task, or does he need strong guidelines? Does he tend to make friends easily, or is he withdrawn?
Above all, be careful about listening to gossip about a particular teacher. Your child's learning needs should be what matter, not what a neighbor has to say about a teacher with a strict reputation.
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After teaching in California for nearly ten years, Barbara Callaghan moved to New Hampshire in 1985 and became a principal. After 10 years as a principal, she returned to teaching, her first love and true vocation.


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Christmas Cheers
Choosing which wine to serve over the holidays is a task one either relishes or fears. For the wine lover, it is a joyous, indulgent treat that begins weeks before and requires hours of research. Websites, merchant catalogs and wine columnists' tips are all read, choices are circled, calls are made and orders placed. When the day finally arrives, family and friends are in for a thrill as the avid oenophile debates the merits of a Chablis reviewed in the press or a Napa Cabernet Sauvignon recommended by a friend. For the majority, the task can be a complex and overwhelming experience.
Whereas the ingredients for a traditional Christmas lunch have changed very little—turkey, goose, guinea fowl, beef or roast ham—followed by a rich fruit pudding, tart or gingerbread, the landscape for wine has been transformed beyond recognition.
Thirty years ago, our choice was limited to a handful of European wine-producing countries and California. These days, choosing a red wine to pair with your turkey could take you to the foothills of the Andes, the vineyards of Oregon or the sunny valleys of Australia. Such is the swathe of wines on offer that one could be forgiven for asking whether there is a country in the world that doesn't produce wine. From Chilean Merlot to Tasmanian sparkling wine, the unlimited choice is, in reality, confusing and paralyzing. The good news is that in today's fiercely competitive wine market, with savvy buyers, improved winemaking techniques and considerable capital investment, buying a bad bottle of wine is surprisingly difficult. For the modern consumer, the challenge isn't to avoid the undrinkable but to find that interesting bottle that will inspire the taste buds and impress your guests.
This is why this year I have once again done the hard work for you, tasting my way through dozens of wines to create a manageable, bespoke selection containing a tipple for every occasion. Whether it is a small nip of sloe gin after a long afternoon's walk, a glass of lighthearted sparkling wine for a festive party or an altogether richer, more complex red wine for the main meal, my simple list aims to meet your every need.
When choosing my wines, I jotted down a few helpful criteria. Would the wine pair well with most traditional Christmas recipes? Does it offer a positive price-to-quality ratio, and, lastly, what is its alcohol percentage? This last factor is important. Faced with a month of parties, after-work drinks, celebratory lunches and dinners, the onset of palate fatigue is very real.
Where I can, I have tried to find wines that offer purity, freshness and palate-cleansing acidity, while not containing too much alcohol. It is a view shared by two-star Michelin chef Michel Roux Jr. who says: "Something light and refreshing is definitely the way to go."
I'll certainly drink to that.
The Pick of the Christmas Drinks
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Make-a-Wish requests up while donations down
|Nine-year-old Olivia Harvey, right, who suffers from a heart condition, reacts to receiving a gift of an underwater camera for her trip to the Disney Resort in Hawaii at a party in Newnan, Georgia, September 8, 2012. She and her family will leave on Sept. 23 for a weeklong tropical vacation through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. (Phil Skinner/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/MCT)
The bright, animated 9-year-old Newnan, Ga., girl, who was born with multiple heart defects, will get her wish, but it's been a long wait.
"I just hope my wish comes true," said Olivia, the day before she found out she and her family would be going to Disney's Aulani resort and spa.
Olivia waited more than a year to have her request granted through the Georgia and Alabama chapter of the Make-a-Wish Foundation. The charity grants wishes to children with life-threatening illnesses.
With a slow economy, corporate and individual donations dropped, but requests have risen 22 percent in Alabama and Georgia since 2007. The bigger increase has been in Georgia.
CEO John J. Brennan said the nonprofit, which has its chapter headquarters in Atlanta, is still working through a "long waiting list" of requests. The chapter is one of 62 in the nation.
The typical wait time is about six months, although much depends on the recipient's health and treatment schedule.
Now, however, some youths are waiting as long as two years to have their wishes granted.
Olivia was referred to Make-a-Wish in June 2011 and has since had open-heart surgery to replace her pulmonary valve and to remove a muscle bundle in her left ventricle.
Her mother, Melissa Harvey, worried that by the time Olivia had her wish granted she might not feel well enough to go. "As it turned out, everything worked out OK," said Harvey, who doesn't blame Make-a-Wish. "You don't know how things will turn out." Delays in granting wishes were caused by a slowdown in donations as well as an increase in the cost of wishes.
Many of the wishes included travel, and as the cost of airfares has risen, so have the costs of granting a child's wish. Roughly a third of all chapter requests involve a Disney-related visit. It's about half for the national office, which is based in Phoenix.
In Georgia, corporate donations dropped 18 percent from 2010 to 2011.
Final fiscal 2012 numbers are not available, but officials say fundraising goals are on target and may exceed previous years. At the same time, individual donations in the state fell 7.2 percent.
"We're running on all cylinders," Brennan said. He expects the nonprofit will "move out of the storm" in fiscal 2012, "but we have to make up for lost time." The chapter granted hundreds of wishes in the most recent fiscal year but had to tap into its reserves to do so, he said. "Now we have very little reserves left," he said. "Based on national policy, we should have about three months' liquidity, and that's about how much we have."
Based on the most recent Form 990, ending Aug. 31, 2011, Make-a-Wish's Georgia and Alabama chapter operated on a $1.076 million loss, compared to net revenue of $515,854 for the previous period. Expenses included the estimated cost of promised wishes that hadn't yet been fulfilled.
The annual budget for fiscal 2011 was $4.43 million.
What Make-a-Wish is experiencing is not that unusual. While giving was up about 4 percent nationally in 2011, "we do know that there are a lot of nonprofits at the local level that are still feeling the pinch and really haven't rebounded from what was going on during the Great Recession," said Geoffrey E. Brown, executive director of the Giving Institute and Giving USA Foundation.
He said some geographical areas have rebounded faster than others as well as nonprofit sectors. For instance, the greatest increases in giving occurred in the areas of arts, culture and humanities, international affairs and the environment, he said. The areas that still showed declines in giving were religion, health care-related causes and foundations.
Karen Beavor, president and CEO of the Georgia Center for Nonprofits, said nonprofits often lag behind for-profit businesses, although she's not familiar with the Make-a-Wish situation.
"They're usually the last to recover," she said. Additionally, during the recession, some nonprofits were forced to lay off staff.
"Individual giving is one of the slowest types of giving," she said. "You might have a donor that gives to three or four causes, and now they have to tighten their focus."
Brennan said the Georgia/Alabama chapter plans to focus more on marketing and fundraising.
In October, it will hold the annual "Celebration of Wishes Gala," its biggest fundraiser of the year. The nonprofit also is working to increase the number of fundraisers hosted by outside partners. In July, the chapter launched the "Wishes Can't Wait" campaign to raise funds to address the extended waiting list of wishes.
And that's good news for youths facing long waits.
Tina Wilson said her son, Jordan, who lives in Kennesaw, Ga., waited more than a year to have his wish for a Hawaiian cruise granted.
She said the family worried that Jordan, 16, who had acute lymphatic leukemia, might not feel like going on the trip. "It was one of the things that kept looming over my head," she said.
But it all worked out well. "He had no chemo to take, no meds," she said. "He actually looked at me and said, 'My dimples hurt, I've smiled so much.'"
Most requested wishes for fiscal 2012: Trip to Disney World, 33 percent
Shopping spree, 11 percent
Go on a Disney cruise, 8 percent
Georgia Regional Office 1775 The Exchange S.E., Suite 200, Atlanta. 1-888-517-9474, www.ga-al.wish.org.
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6 Insane Game Shows You Won't Believe Were Allowed on TV
#3. The 1950s Quiz Show About Crushing Poverty and Product Placement
In the 1950s, television was still a new medium, but watching human suffering was already a well-established pastime. Strike It Rich began as a radio show on CBS in 1947 and did well enough to make a successful jump to the small screen in 1951. Ostensibly a quiz show, the questions weren't particularly hard. That didn't matter, as the real draw was the contestants themselves -- they were selected because their lives were an impoverished disaster.
Like folks on Cantando and Bailando por un Sueno, the contestants on Strike It Rich were flat broke or needed quick cash for medical crises. Only those with the most heart-string-tugging tales of woe made the producers' cut.
"There are 31 tumors between the four of us."
The target audience -- bored housewives -- ate this stuff up and made the show's sponsors bundles, thanks to the graceless in-show advertisements. The combination made for some surreal moments -- one television historian notes, "This juxtaposition provided some astounding sights, such as a single mother answering quiz questions to earn money needed to keep custody of her child followed by a glamorous model cheerily plugging underarm deodorant."
Here's a clip of dapper host Warren Hull sitting in front of two boxes of strategically placed laundry detergent. Watch as he segues from smarminess to googly-eyed deep concern in 3.5 nanoseconds, holding up a newspaper while describing the devastation of a recent flood.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I couldn't give less of a shit about this."
Nowadays, Strike It Rich is considered one of the worst television series ever produced, and its exploitative nature didn't escape the audiences of its era. Hell, in one episode of The Honeymooners, Ed Norton disparages his mother-in-law by describing her as "so mean, she watches Strike It Rich for laughs."
It offended a guy whose best friend's hobby was threatening to punch his wife.
#2. The Show That Tests the Viability of Human Sperm
Back in 2005, German reality TV conglomerate Endemol sought to showcase the most intense race on Earth, more colloquially known as the Fallopian Tube 3000. Yes, for the proposed reality show Sperm Race, 12 men would pit their flagellum-wagging racers against each other to fertilize a human egg.
We're guessing that it was something like this, but with CG sponsor logos a la NASCAR.
No, they wouldn't be all at the same time, like a bunch of naked circus clowns trying to cram into a comically tiny VW Bug. We're not sure why you were imagining that. Instead, the 12 sperm donors' ... uh ... "teams" were to be frozen and shipped to a studio, where the chemically induced race could be observed by doctors. The reward would be bragging rights as the most fertile man in Germany (and a new red Porsche).
Which is weird, since Porsches are usually driven by men who question their fertility.
Although there was no promise that the egg would be fertilized by the end of the show, Sperm Race never made it to air, nor did its sister reality show Make Me a Mum. For that program (also by Endemol), a woman would pick one man from a list of donors, and scientists would pick the other contestant. They would then actually impregnate the woman and -- using a paternity test -- see whether "love" or science had triumphed in the end. It's unclear if the resulting child would receive lifelong residuals from being born of a media clusterfuck that would make The Truman Show look like a Dr. Spock-approved child-rearing documentary.
#1. The Georgian Show About How Stupid Women Are
As tasteless and downright offensive as some of the shows on this list are, we only know of one that resulted in an actual protest -- like, crowds with signs and shit -- in front of the makers' studio. That show comes from Georgia (the country between Europe and Asia, not the American state).
In spring 2012, the Georgian television broadcaster Imedi TV unveiled the quiz show Women's Logic, hands down the most famous game show ever to come out of the Caucasus Mountains region. Its premise? Models are invited to the show and asked a variety of questions. Meanwhile, teams of men are awarded points for guessing exactly how the beauties will answer each question incorrectly.
We're going to take a wild guess that "Feminist Issues" isn't a category.
See, that's why it's called Women's Logic: The show isn't about getting the right answers -- it's about logical, smart males trying to guess the mental workings of those stupid, shallow, vapid humans known as "women." They could easily have gotten the same funny moments by just featuring stupid people of both sexes (you could call it Idiot Logic or something like that), but no, that wouldn't make the point they were looking for (i.e., "men good, women bad.")
"Tee hee!" the creators of Women's Logic must have tittered when the show debuted. "We're trash-talking half of the planet's population like a bunch of sexist assholes! There's absolutely no way this show can blow up in our faces!" Just imagine their doe-eyed dismay when it did (and on an international scale).
The dude in the back is clearly shocked by this.
So how long did this one last before somebody cancelled it out of sheer embarrassment? Actually, it was still on the air the last time we checked.
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Authors: AJ Bayley, CN Cattan, T Haycocks, et al.
Source:Radiotherapy and Oncology 70 (2004) 37–44 .
Controversy regarding tumor targeting, patient position, and immobilization for external beam radiotherapy to the prostate has existed for more than two decades. Central to this debate has been the argument whether treating the patient in the prone versus the supine position better spares normal tissues while providing adequate target coverage. Patient immobilization, daily target localization, and the physiologic impacts of bowel and bladder are known to directly mitigate the effects of position. This article from the Princess Margaret Hospital sought to delineate the effects of patient position on organ motion, positioning errors, and dose to critical structures through a randomized crossover study in prostate patients with organ-confined disease.
This study reports on a randomized trial comparing organ motion, positioning errors, and dose to critical structures in patients with prostate cancer treated in the supine and prone positions with external beam radiotherapy. The authors conclude that there is no difference in TPE or DVH isodose to bowel, bladder and rectum for isodose D85% and greater. Furthermore, supine treatment is favored by both patient and radiotherapist.
Bentel and colleagues have shown that the physiological status of the bladder and rectum greatly impacts prostate shape and location in the pelvis in a dynamic fashion ( Int. J. Radiation Oncology Biol. Phys., Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 247–253, 2000). Many groups employ considerable effort to localize the prostate daily
using either fiducial markers or BAT ultrasound. Through daily target localization, the differences between prone and supine treatment appear to be largely mitigated. In these settings, the debate between supine versus prone positioning is reduced to one of comfort and simplicity.


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Sorry if this is an extremely stupid question, but I'm brand new to Linux and I'd like to try to figure out how to modify my own system. From what little I know so far about Linux, I would imagine that what I'm actually looking for is the kernel's source code. I know that there are some resources out there that would allow me to download a copy of the kernel (like kernel.org), but presumably that is just a copy, and I would have to switch from my current kernel to that new one after modifying it in order to see the changes that I make take effect. Is there a way to avoid doing that, and just modify the kernel that I already have? And if not, how do I tell Ubuntu to use the new Kernel that I've downloaded rather than the original one? And how do I know whether or not my changes will screw up the system? Thanks in advance for your help!
There are a few different ways to do so, but it's good to know as much as you can about your computer (hardware wise). I used the instructions here :http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/how-to-customize-your-ubuntu-kernel/. I had to do some things different because the website had an older kernel version than the one i have.
Ubuntu Wiki has an article on that: Kernel/Compile
The article is a bit dated, but the important difference with other methods is that they explain how to get the source from kernel's Git repository, which is important if you ever plan to update your working tree to a new version.
Your question can be broken down into two parts, as you can tweak some kernel parameters during runtime and also bytepatching but as a beginner i would strongly not suggest you to try bytepatching.
In your case, to getting started would i strongly suggest to do modifications to the source code recompile it, and install and test it. It do also exist ways to test your kernel in emulators eg. without the need to reboot your system eg. QEMU is one...
It exist a lot of ways to do kernel development, here is way that should be simple if you have some expirence with using ubuntu.
Quick and dirty (you need to complete some arguments\paths):
Just enter the menu tweak around if you wanna or just exit and save.
The level of parallelism when compiling it. (number of processor-cores +1)
Pick the targeted system, google it or leave it out. Two examples
If you want the compiler to optimize eg.
Do your tweaks, eg.
Compile the kernel and make deb packages, and report time used.
Install your compiled kernel and the headers.
Your kernel should be installed and show in your grub-boot-menu. Reboot.
Enable the grub boot menu or tap shift a few times during startup.
Select your desired kernel to boot.
If you use this guide, feel free to improve it.