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The fact that the PRODH alteration studied in Gogos et al....
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The fact that the PRODH alteration studied in Gogos et al. leads to alterations in glutamate release, and this corresponds to deficits in associative learning and response to psychotomimetics, provides a nice parallel to the human condition. The Reiss paper examines humans with the 22q11.2 deletion, and shows that the COMT low-activity allele of this deletion syndrome correlates with cognitive decline, PFC volume, and development of psychotic symptoms. This is a nice addition to the Weinberger and Bilder papers about how COMT can lead to psychosis vulnerability.
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I echo Jeff Lieberman's comment regarding previous reports of a weak association between the Val COMT functional allele and schizophrenia. Notably, the most recent meta-analysis (Munafo et al., 2005) shows no significant association. Even in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22qDS), our group (unpublished) and Murphy et al. (1999) have reported that there is no association between COMT genotype and schizophrenia, and Bearden et al. reported that Val-hemizygous patients performed significantly worse than Met-hemizygous patients on executive cognition ( 2004) and childhood behavioral problems (2005). Though important as an initial prospective study, there is a risk in the Gothelf et al. small sample size and multiple testing for type 1 errors. Certainly, there is little evidence, even in 22qDS, for COMT (or PRODH) as "key" risk factors for schizophrenia. There may be some evidence for small effects on cognitive or other measures. Regardless, there is not "extreme deficiency" in COMT activity in the many individuals with Met-hemizygosity in 22qDS, or Met-Met homozygosity in the general population.
Regarding the news item, there are a few widely held misconceptions about 22qDS. Our recent article (Bassett et al., 2005) shows that, accounting for ascertainment bias, the rate of schizophrenia was 23 percent, and congenital heart defects was 26 percent. Of the other 41 common lifetime features of 22qDS (found in 5 percent or more patients), neuromuscular palatal anomalies were common but overt cleft palate was so rare it did not meet inclusion criteria; intellectual disabilities ranged from severe mental retardation (rare) to average intellect (rare) with most patients falling in the borderline range of intellect; and on average, patients had nine of 43 common features. We propose clinical practice guidelines for adults with 22qDS which may be directly applicable to the 1-2 percent of patients with a 22qDS form of schizophrenia.
References:Bassett AS, Chow EWC, Husted J, Weksberg R, Caluseriu O, Webb GD, Gatzoulis MA. Clinical features of 78 adults with 22q11 Deletion Syndrome. Am J Med Genet A. 2005 Nov 1;138(4):307-13. Abstract
Bearden CE, Jawad AF, Lynch DR, Sokol S, Kanes SJ, McDonald-McGinn DM, Saitta SC, Harris SE, Moss E, Wang PP, Zackai E, Emanuel BS, Simon TJ. Effects of a functional COMT polymorphism on prefrontal cognitive function in patients with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Am J Psychiatry . 2004 Sep;161(9):1700-2. Abstract
Bearden CE, Jawad AF, Lynch DR, Monterossso JR, Sokol S, McDonald-McGinn DM, Saitta SC, Harris SE, Moss E, Wang PP, Zackai E, Emanuel BS, Simon TJ. Effects of COMT genotype on behavioral symptomatology in the 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. Neuropsychol Dev Cogn C Child Neuropsychol. 2005 Feb;11(1):109-17. Abstract
Munafo MR, Bowes L, Clark TG, Flint J. Lack of association of the COMT (Val158/108 Met) gene and schizophrenia: a meta-analysis of case-control studies. Mol Psychiatry. 2005 Aug;10(8):765-70. Abstract
Murphy KC, Jones LA, Owen MJ. High rates of schizophrenia in adults with velo-cardio-facial syndrome. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1999 Oct 1;56(10):940-5. Abstract
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I was looking for some benchmarks on the search capabilities of FAST Search Server to try and determine whether or not we need a single or multi-server environment for FAST Search Server. Do any exist? How big of an index have people seen before FAST Search starts to have issues serving queries or indexing? Thanks!
Really the best place to look through is link text as there is no short answer. There's so much good content there, giving you a link to a single document / web page is simply not enough.
From my experience, if you have a small corpus < 50,000 then a single server is sufficient. I've got a pretty noddy server that is nowhere near capacity with that number of items.
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Let $\mu\in\mathcal{S}'(R)$ be a Schwartz distribution. The solution of a heat equation with $\mu$ as the initial data is
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You can assume that $\mu$ is non-negative, i.e., a measure on $R$.
The problem is how $u(t,x)$ behaves for $x$ fixed as $t\rightarrow\infty$. I guess that it might not increase too fast for large $t$, e.g., it does not increase like $e^t$. Do anyone have any idea?
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Stefano, I am a GM and one of "those" players. The main thing that makes me hesitant and generally concerned about my character gets killed comes from a few sources:
Your player probably has different reasons. But, for me, the "fix" is not to play a care bear game or to ruthlessly me off until I leave or "get over it." the fix is, play a system where the stakes are known. I am perfectly willing to risk character death for the "right" reason. Everyone talks about how cool it is when their character dies for glory. I wouldn't know, I have only died because the GM rolled a double crit...
For instance, Shadow of Yesterday has a "free and clear" phase where you can negotiate what you get and what you risk in a roll. While Dogs in the Vineyard has Stakes setting and a "Give" rule where you can just concede the Stakes without risking character death. Finally FATE has Consequences and Concession. These are all games where the Player has more control over when their character lives and dies. But it does mitigate or prevent risk. Most of these players are not risk averse, they just want a means of risk assessment.
So, that would be my advice, try one of these games and if that doesn't work out, then you need to figure out what is really going on (it probably doesn't have anything to do with their character death then)...
Play games where those kinds of stakes aren't on the table. Mouseguard, maybe.
Or where such strong character-identification isn't encouraged. Troupe-style play. Do modern versions of Ars Magica work this way? I haven't played since first edition, but with that, you could play any of several characters so character loss for dramatic gain was just fine.
And if you're going to keep playing the same game, could you make it less painful to die? Maybe you get to start a new character at the same level (or whatever) and you get some cool showcase role to play as a new entry. You could grant a meta-game ability to any player whose character bites it -- maybe they get to define something about the world or something. Alternately, if a fight is going so badly that a character is dying, it's probably pretty dire for the whole group. What if dying triggers some extra power that aids the combat dramatically? (I.e. if you're playing 4e, everyone gets a 'last-gasp' power that is as much more powerful than their daily as their daily is than their regular ones.)
I like games where dying is awesome. If all it means is pain and suffering or admitting to personal failure, that kind of reaction is reasonable.
This is a good place to talk with your group about defining a social contract. This will set out the expectations in your group of these kinds of things.
In our game (we are still fairly low level playing D&D 4e), our group has had several characters die in combat. But these have been major boss battle style combats, they have served a dramatic purpose. However it is also generally accepted that our group will find a way to return that party member to life as soon as it is possible. Our DMs have been helpful with this and have made it a bit easier than it has had to be. However, I imagine as the stakes get higher in the game the sense of danger should increase and there may be a time when our characters cannot return to this world after leaving it. How we deal with this will have to be discussed.
The last thing I want to mention is that it seems like RPGs in general are cooperative games and the GM is encouraged to serve the interests of the players not his own. If you are playing a game where players are attached to their characters strongly (maybe the are RPG newbies, or maybe they have been playing these characters forever), it doesn't seem to serve the players' interests to kill them or damage them permanently. Although if you are playing a game where death is a common thing and there is a reasonably convenient solution available (similarly aligned temple, raise dead ritual, whatever), then it just serves the drama without hurting the players too badly.
I was going to write a defense of people who get emotionally attached to their characters (like me) and don't like them to suddenly go away, but then I had another thought:
How does your group handle XP?
I ask because "level drain" implies to me you're playing 3rd edition or earlier D&D, and one of the things that I really liked about 4th edition was the wholesale removal of XP-loss effects like energy drain and ressurection. Level drain can quite literally be a fate worse than death in D&D; until the party has ready access to Restoration and True Resurrection spells, there's a very real issue of level-reducing effects rendering characters more permanantly ineffective than death.
Suppose the whole party is hit by an Enervation-like trap and gains two negative levels. If they don't have access to at least Lesser Restoration (which can happen even if the cleric has it memorized, since negative levels also remove memorized spells), everybody makes two fortitude saves. Suppose the cleric, fighter, and wizard make their saves, but the rogue has some bad luck and fails both. The rogue is now two levels lower than the rest of the party. He has fewer hit points, and is more likely to die, which will cost him levels when he's ressurected, which makes him weaker than the party... There can be a vicious recurison involved in this sort of thing, and even if monsters aren't targeting the weak party member, they may find they're useless simply because they can't hit anything. The rest of the party, being several levels higher, will be seeking stronger foes than the rogue can effectively fight, and so on.
And, of course, if your group handles XP in a way that already has disparities (Do you penalize players XP for bringing in new characters? Do you penalize them for missing sessions? Do you distribute XP based on factors such as "who was alive at the end of the fight" or "who hit this monster and who didn't"?), then negative levels are just icing on the cake.
This will sound kind of touchy-feely, but let them know how you feel about it. I had a player who was getting extremely tense and stressed out at the table and was not hesitant to communicate it. I let him know that it was stressing me out and making it difficult for me to enjoy the game. He apologized and he's done pretty well since then.
In some cases, TPKs are easier to deal with than individual losses. It may help to throw them into a particularly deadly system in hopes of desensitizing them a bit. You also have some flexibility in responding to the death of an entire party - if a low-level party is wiped out by ghouls, the next party can be hired by a priest to help cleanse the ghouls, or they can be warned away from the area by an NPC on account of the recent danger. Anything that lets the players feel like their loss had an impact on the world helps, and that's easier to show when it's a TPK.
It can be much tougher to deal with being the only player in a group who lost a character or levels, especially when playing a system with rapid character advancement. If you're looking forward to finally getting the next big shiny on your level progression, and suddenly you're a month further away from that shiny, and everyone else in the party is a week closer, it can really sting. Worse, it's harder to do anything to mitigate that without feeling like you're just giving in to the person who cries the loudest. That's why I think it's important to acclimatize them to such losses in situations where everyone at the table is sharing in the loss, even if it means switching campaigns, settings, and systems to something where TPKs are part of the routine. Of course, that's a lot of investment in time and energy compared to the "keep killing off their characters every session until they stop asking to play" alternative.
Although no one likes it when they lose a character, to me this is a basic sportsmanship issue. If someone throws a fit when they lose a board game - I don't play board games with them. (Unless it's my 8 year old and I don't have a choice.) If someone is a big spaz when they don't get the loot roll they wanted in a WoW raid - I don't group with them again. And if they flip out when something goes wrong in a RPG - I don't game with them.
Of course, there's a difference between chronically being a bad sport and having a bad day. Sometimes they just need to cool down, or get a pep talk, or otherwise be encouraged and then snap out of it, and sheepishly say "Sorry I was being a dick, guys." But if they're just a bad sport - I'm in my thirties, and the people I game with tend to be around there, and if they haven't learned how to play nice by now they're not gonna. I'll save my instruction and kid-glove treatment for my actual kid. They can move along.
This is a tough one. It would be nice to say "well, if he can't take the heat, get rid of him." But, realistically, this isn't always the ideal solution. We often play with our friends or people we want to get along with. Heck, they could be great roleplaying people, but just have a hangup about this type of thing. Presumably you want to do something to work it out, or you wouldn't be asking.
Avoiding this kind of situation is a possibility: just don't have/use these kinds of events. Not ideal, but certainly a possible solution.
Another possible solution is to talk to them about it, and try to nail down exactly what it is that is making them so upset. There are many possibilities, of course...but if they can tell you what it is about the situation that is upsetting them, it may be that there is a way around it.
If they are a powergamer, they may feel that this is a large step back from what they view as what should be, essentially, continuous progression. You might be able to mitigate this by emphasizing the temporary nature of the effect (assuming it's temporary). Or perhaps it could open a new door of opportunity to them, that otherwise would have been closed.
If it's caused because of a seemingly foolish choice they've made, it may be a defensive reaction: the gamer doesn't want to be seen as having messed up. Trying to defuse the "blame-game" might help in that case.
It also may be that they don't realize their behavior is as outlandish as it is. Just letting them know, in a private setting, how it's viewed, and why it's a problem might just solve the issue.
In a nutshell, you're going to have to either
Hypothesis: From the player's perspective, the GM controls EVERYTHING IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE GAME UNIVERSE. All the player has is this one character. That's all they control. And now you're MESSING WITH IT AND TAKING STUFF AWAY. If that's the player's perspective, they aren't overreacting at all. They're struggling to stop you from taking away pieces of the only thing they control. You have everything else - leave the PC alone!
I'm not saying this is a good perspective for a player to have, but I think it's a common one.
So if we accept this hypothesis, what's an appropriate way for you to respond? Either change your game or change the players. I assume that you want to: 1) Play a game that includes things like level drain and PC death, and 2) Include these players in your game.
If you won't change, ask them to. Start by clarifying your expectations for your game. OUTSIDE OF PLAY, let them know that you might be killing characters, draining their levels, taking their possessions, imprisoning them, etc. And explain why - maybe it's for drama, maybe it's to heighten suspense, maybe it's just how you like to play. I guarantee you that not everyone shares that expectation. So announce it up front, and ask them to go along with it. You might lose a little suspense. You'll gain enough player trust to compensate for it.
Personally, I get mad if the GM kills my character, and double-mad if I think it was arbitrary. My expectations don't include much PC death. Perhaps your players' expectations are the same. So if you do expect that kind of thing, make it clear to them.
Dragonlance 5th Age had a system in which you wouldn't die when taken down to zero cards, you'd just be incapacitated and out of the fight. You'd possibly get looted, but would be left for dead, or captured by default. Death wasn't mechanically guaranteed. For a character to die they'd have to be fighting some enemy that goes out of the way to kill defeated enemies. Intelligent undead would likely be in this category. The point there would be to rarely use those kinds of enemies, and if they are used, highlight the danger so that it's a special event. It's occasionally something to raise the stakes, without having it happen haphazardly.
Implementing this would of course depend on the system. You could house rule a standard HP system so that for example if you're brought to 0 but not below -10 (or -CON), you're incapacitated, it would take a coup de grace or a massive hit to actually kill you in that blow. Again, only certain enemies would do a coup de grace, and that risk would be highlighted ahead of time, so that the death doesn't happen in some random battle.
The same goes for level drain - any enemy that does level drain would be a rare and significant event. Not just a higher level intelligent undead to encounter. Also a good idea would be to maybe bring the threat of one in once right before the party is of a level to learn restoration, so that before the time limit is up, they can reach that level and cast the spell to get the level back. So the character would be temporarily handicapped, but would eventually be back with everyone else.
Several options.
It sounds like there's a mismatch between the DM and the player's expectations of danger.
Death comes in two parts: 1) How easy/likely is it a character will die? This can range from GM "rocks fall everyone dies" fiat, through variously random chance (this is where most D&D games are - if the table rolls badly enough, you can kill anyone), through to "you only die for epic story reasons". If your player is expecting that his character will be The Hero and only die in a blaze of glory, and you're setting up save or die traps... your player is going to be rightfully irked. (Your choice of game affects this greatly - no-one should be too attached to their character sheet in Paranoia, for instance).
2) What are the consequences of dying? Again, this can range from "none; his twin comes walking around the corner", to plot penalties (if you died attempting to save Princess Peach and she wasn't saved, she's not particularly grateful to NewYou), to gameplay penalties (loss of gear/abilities/levels). (And again, choice of game goes a long way here, although you can mitigate it with houserules - I personally never enforce the "lost level on resurrection" bit).
Mixing and matching the two settings lets you change the feel of your game. As a personal example, I run my games with "risk of death" set fairly high (no dialing back monsters if they're overmatched, and no take-backs if you fail that save), but "cost of death" set fairly low (some plot penalties, no mechanical ones - you come back at the level you died at). This sets the game as fairly deadly (my opinion is that you're a "hero" when you survive, and players should plan to retreat if they find themselves overmatched), but I'm not going to punish them excessively for failing.
From the question, I would suspect that the player thinks the "risk of death" is a lot lower than the rest of the table does. You can either readjust the levels, or they can readjust their expectations. (You could just be nice to that player, but I don't think anyone would call that a good suggestion).
Let the player surrender.
This works from any of the big three playstyles. For a simulationist, few battles were fought entirely to the death. Most enemies will respect a surrender, or at least a retreat. For a narritivist, characters who win all the time are boring. For a gamist, there's such a thing as a tactical retreat.
This will also help you as a GM. What are your players fighting for? What does a surrender cost them? Maybe the treasure they were going after is captured by the enemy, and they have to go attack the enemy camp. Maybe they're captured, and have to break out in the dead of night. Make character failure an interesting story.
Some games call this out explicitly. (Dogs in the Vineyard, FATE) Others work just as well however with a bit of workabout. Drop the player to -1 hp in D&D and then have the bad guys stabilize the player, or whatever equivalent your system has.
My first reaction would be that this type of player really isn't the best for a roleplaying game and you should avoid them. But what you could do is encourage the player not to identify strongly with just one character, have them roll up multiple characters so when one bites the dust, the others are ready to go. Make dying/losing levels a less painful experience by bringing in other characters when the time is right.


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In principle Low Cost Carriers (LCC) like Easyjet, Ryanair, or Vueling offer 1 leg journeys alone. Still they offer some interesting "connecting" opportunities. Especially if you start combining between different LCC's. So far I have refrained from combining LCC tickets, because I guess the penalty when you miss a connecting flight can quite high. Is this perception of mine correct, or are there still ways to buy connecting flights on LCC's?
Low-cost airlines operate on a model called 'point-to-point carrier transit', one implication of which is that every single leg of your journey is a separate one. As Stuart mentions in his answer, some LCCs refer to 'hubs' and in fact many of them (especially Asian ones) do operationally maintain hubs, but that's for their own logistics handling. For customer, most LCCs issue a disclaimer along the following lines in their terms and conditions (following taken from easyJet):
They also given good advice on what you should do in case you do plan to book flights on multiple carriers: leave enough of a gap between them.
If you get travel insurance, check whether it covers missing connecting flights as grounds for compensation claim.
easyJet also offers a premium rate flight fare called 'Flexi' and they offer you a free flight if your easyJet flight is more than 15 minutes late. At higher rate 'Flexi' fares you aren't charged booking fees and are free to make changes to your flight dates within a specified period, but the fares are also higher so in some situations you might just find booking Flex-fare priced tickets the same as buying tickets from a full-cost airline!
I don't think you can buy 'connecting' flights as the term connecting in air travel has a specific meaning in that they are two flights that can be booked on a single ticket with luggage transferred. However you can reasonably buy two flights that arrive depart from the same airport.
Things to watch out for:
Changing carriers where you need to change terminals, will require something like this border control -> baggage collection -> customs -> baggage drop off/check in -> security -> border control this happened to a friend of mine when he changed from Fly Dubai to Easy jet in Amman he also got stung with a $20USD for a single entry visa.
Does your travel insurance cover missing a non connecting flight if your not even in the country when it departs?
Missing bags might not get forwarded to your destination as the carrier you took your first flight with may not service your finial destination.
Make sure you have a backup plan so you don't spend your entire trip re-routing yourself around only end up where you started 2 weeks later having seen nothing but the inside of airports and train stations.
How likely are you flights to be delayed? Summer is probably less likely than in winter, are there any events taking place in the area that would make finding temporary accommodation expensive or unavailable such as festivals or sports matches?
From my observations you have two options:
A. Pay more and take a full priced carrier to your destination with the security that goes along with a connecting flight.
B. Spend more time (waiting at airports as a buffer encase flights are delayed collecting / re-checking baggage) and pay less.
Essentially it's a cost benefit analysis, which do you have more to spare, money or time?
I have noticed that Easy jet in their in-flight magazine started referring to certain City's as 'hubs' which suggests to me there could be in the near future true connecting flights with Easy Jet.
If you're planning on transferring between carriers on separate tickets (rather than a single combined ticket issued by a codeshare partner), best make sure there's ample time for the connection to account for delays, baggage handling (as said, it might involve rechecking your bags manually, travel to different terminals, customs, etc. etc.) and things like that. Several hours at least over what you'd want for a codeshare is the minimum.


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JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (WIBW) -- Christmas came a few days early this year for Elaine Brown and her two young daughters. They were chosen to receive a reconditioned car at Auto Craft Collision in Junction City.
It was all part of the "Acoat Selected National Benevolence Program" that presents refurbished cars to deserving individuals or organizations during the holiday season. This year, 250 cars were given away at 82 body shops across North America.
"Mostly, I've been walking to work and the kids have been walking back and forth to school and home and everything. My oldest daughter has asthma so the weather hasn't been good for her. I'm just glad that I have a vehicle now to bring them to school. This is a very huge help for me and for my family," Brown said.
Jaden Randle with Auto Craft Collision on East Chestnut Street says they worked with a local church to find a qualified recipient and they were happy to make things easier for Brown, a single mom of two.
With her children by her side, she was surprised Tuesday afternoon and received a free Ford Taurus. Other local businesses who contributed to the project were present for the big reveal.
"The project started a long time ago when we took cars that were either written off, totaled or something like that to where we refurbished them, making them perfectly safe to drive. We had a lot of volunteers that helped make the car look right- oil changes, tires, insurance, car seats, toys, Dillons cards, whatever we need to make someone less fortunate have a happy holiday," he said.
"There wasn't a dry eye here when she saw that car. It made it all worth it," he added.
"I've never won a contest or anything like that so it just feels so great. My heart is all warm and fuzzy right now. This is definitely the best Christmas present I've every had," Brown told WIBW.


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Bars and restaurants along Bardstown Road and Baxter Avenue are mixing up holiday-inspired cocktails for the chance of being named champion in Four Roses' third annual Holiday Bourbon Battle. The competition kicks off Four Roses' title sponsorship of the 27th annual Bardstown Road Aglow in the Highlands. Guests of the competing restaurants and bars will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite holiday-inspired bourbon cocktail by text message or by "Liking" their favorite cocktail on Four Roses' Facebook page.
Each participating restaurant/bar will develop its own signature holiday cocktail to be made available for the public to taste and vote on two weeks before Bardstown Road Aglow – Nov. 23 through Dec. 2. Participants competing in Four Roses' Holiday Bourbon Battle include Asiatique, Monkey Wrench, Boombozz, The Bard's Town, The Bristol, Ramsi's, Lynn's Paradise Café, Lilly's, Seviche, Big Bar, Winston's, O'Shea's, Flanagan's, Bearno's and Impellizeri's.
Restaurant and bar guests can vote by texting the name of the restaurant/bar to "22333," or by visiting Facebook.com/FourRosesBourbon and clicking "Like" on the picture of their favorite Bourbon Battle cocktail. Restaurant winners will be announced the week of Dec. 3. For more information, visit www.fourrosesbourbon.com or www.thehighlandsoflouisville.com.


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Dakota Wesleyan University president Amy Novak announced today that the university has raised $10 million toward a new health and wellness center and renovation of an existing athletic facility. The university will break ground this fall.
Novak, accompanied by board of trustees members, made the announcement to campus today within the recently renamed Christen Family Athletic Center. The total $15 million project will include a new health and wellness center, renovations to the Christen Family Athletic Center and an operating endowment.
The new health and wellness center will be located on the south side of Norway Avenue, just across from the current practice fields. The first step toward this project will be a 90,000-square-foot facility on two levels, including: a 200-meter running and walking indoor track, three indoor multipurpose sport courts, locker rooms, 7,000 square feet of wellness space dedicated to cardiovascular equipment, weights and fitness training, a wrestling room, classroom space for seminars and leadership training, and strength and conditioning training space.
The second phase will include renovations to the existing Christen Family Athletic Center to upgrade heating and cooling units, expand the athletic weight room, expand the athletic training space, office space for coaches and athletic trainers, and a remodel of the large locker room spaces. Final plans for both facilities are expected within the next few months.
"Our students need and deserve a facility in which they can pursue their athletic aspirations as well as personal wellness," said Novak. "Our student athletes are severely limited in their practice space. Further, our general campus population rarely has an opportunity to exercise or work out as the university's growth has nearly doubled the number of athletes on campus over the past two decades, rendering our current athletic center largely unavailable. Our students need this facility, our university community needs this facility, and this long, cold winter has verified that our Mitchell community also needs this facility. We will be excited to offer the use of this facility to members of the Mitchell community. We also see this facility as a place where we can hold youth camps and tournaments that support the economic vitality of this community, especially during the winter months "
It was the completion of the university's new $11.5 million Glenda K. Corrigan Health Sciences Center this fall that triggered the momentum needed for the university board of trustees and DWU leadership team to embark on its most ambitious campaign to date. "A Greater Wesleyan" will see the campus transformed – not just structurally, but through new, innovative programs that will keep the university at the forefront of education and producing future employees for the region.
DWU produces nearly 70 percent of the nursing graduates employed in the local healthcare industry, nearly 40 percent of the area teachers, and also countless business, criminal justice, human service professionals, ministers, musicians, and writers, "who as graduates of the DWU community now call the Mitchell region home," Novak said.
"The interest and support for this project has been tremendous, but I must give credit where credit is due," Novak said. "At the board of trustees meeting last fall, our board endorsed this project with their votes and shortly thereafter, with their financial commitments. With this strong start, many generous donors became enthused about this project and by February, we knew this facility was going become a reality sooner rather than later. We are truly humbled and blessed by significant gifts that were pledged to this project."


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A friend recently mentioned that she has not gone to her parents grave in over ten years due to its distance and when she wanted to go she was told by a Rabbi that if she has not been there for over seven years she has to send someone first to request forgiveness prior to going. What is the source for this? To which people does this apply? Why seven years?
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Nitei Gavriel Hilchos Aveilos 2 - 88:5 mentions that some people have a Minhag if they have not gone for 10 years to their parents grave not to go anymore. Then he goes on to say that there are those who after 7 years of not going to their parents grave do not go anymore. And he concludes that there are those who are not concerned about this at all. Sources mentioned are the Otzar Yad HaChaim 278 in the name of MaHarash M'Belz Zatzal, Mishmeres Shalom 5:32 and Mekor Chaim. It only applies to parents, and only if it was intentional. However if it was impossible to go then the deceased has no complaint and you may go. In 88:11 he mentions that by sending someone first to advise the deceased that the child is coming then even if the child was not there for 7/10 years the child may go.
The She'arim Metzuyanim BaHalachah (128:12) writes that the custom not to visit your father's grave after not seeing him for seven years has no basis in halachah, and we even have a proof to the opposite from the Zohar.
There are many different customs with regards to visiting graves.
The biography prefacing Igros Moshe volume 8 writes that Rabbi Moshe Feinstein didn't visit his father's grave -- "not the custom of Volozhin." Yet years later, when Rabbi Feinstein knew he would soon be leaving Eastern Europe for good, he traveled to his father's grave to say goodbye.


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Peter D. Ehrenhaft '57 LL.B.
July 25, 2012
Peter D. Ehrenhaft '57 LL.B. was a gifted attorney who served as a senior law clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court and as a deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury. He passed away on July 25, 2012, at the age of 78.
Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1933, Ehrenhaft became a U.S. citizen in 1945. At Columbia, he was enrolled in a special program that enabled him to earn an A.B. from Columbia College, an LL.B. from the Law School, and a master's degree from the School of International and Public Affairs in just seven years. After graduation, he moved to Washington, D.C., to serve as a motions law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
A year later, Ehrenhaft joined the U.S. Air Force JAG Reserve. He remained a member of the active reserve for the next 30 years, during which time he was an appellate military judge with the Air Force Court of Military Review. In 1961, he was named senior law clerk by then U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. After a stint in private practice, Ehrenhaft served as a deputy assistant secretary for tariff affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department. He eventually returned to private practice, specializing in international transactions.
Ehrenhaft served as a past president of the board of trustees of the National Child Research Center and on the council of the American Bar Association's international law section. He was also on the board for D.C. Appleseed, a nonprofit organization that works to develop solutions to public problems in and around the nation's capital.
Ehrenhaft is survived by his wife of 54 years, Charlotte; his children, Elizabeth, James, and Daniel, and their spouses; his brother, George; and six grandchildren.


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The 5 Miserable VFX Jobs That Make Movies Possible
So I am a visual effects (VFX) artist, putting fake things into movies with computers (often referred to as CG effects). You think you know me? You don't know me! You know that CG makes things like Gollum and dinosaurs and pretty much everything in Avatar, but most of the CG you've seen in your life, you didn't know was CG at all.
Just a collection of 1s and 0s.
For instance, did you know that there was only one real helicopter in Black Hawk Down? Or that most movie sports stadiums are filmed completely empty, or that no buildings were harmed in the filming of the Bourne trilogy? If not, then we know we did it right. If you ever find yourself saying, "That's a pretty cool CG effect there!", that means we fucked it up.
Everyone assumes VFX happen in an office that looks something like Mythbusters except with excited artistic types gathering around computers, talking about what kind of dinosaurs they want to make today. And for the top ranking people, the ones who get to talk on the DVD special features, it might be.
But several steps down the ladder from those guys, you have an army of peons whose job descriptions seem to have been created as part of some cruel psychological experiment. If you dream of a career making super heroes fly, these jobs are where you'll start, and you may never leave.
So, as you watch some $200 million VFX-filled blockbuster this summer that has CG in basically every frame, remember to say a prayer for the...
#5. Roto Artists
Basically It's:
Rotoscoping is a fancy word for "tracing." Specifically, tediously tracing around hairs on an actor's head, over and over and over until you long for the sweet release of insanity.
If you've ever tried to, say, use Photoshop to put some celebrity's head onto a naked fat man, you know just how fun it is to painstakingly trim out the background around a guy's head with your mouse. Roto is basically that, all day long.
Rotoscope artists look at film frame by frame, 24 frames in each second of film, carefully tracing around individual hairs or hoodie cords so that someone else can have the satisfaction of putting the actor or object behind or in front of explosions or dinosaurs or Jar Jar Binks. For the rest of their lives, roto artists are thus instinctively drawn to people who wear tight clothing and have short slicked-back hair, so there's a pro tip if you're looking to date one.
Roto artists' attempts to speak up for their community are often mistaken for PETA protests.
Why would someone want to trace Brad Pitt's head for ten hours a day? Well, it's a stepping stone to the cooler jobs (like Compositor, the guy who gets the satisfaction of actually pasting different elements together into a frame that actually looks like something). Roto is an initiation stage, like a fraternity pledge or a knight's squire, only if most pledges and squires never got promoted.
The second reason you'd want to do roto is if you live in India. A lot of this grunt work gets outsourced these days, because it looks pretty good if your only alternative is to have your eyes put out by a red hot poker and sing for your money, which is what I gathered about Indian career options from Slumdog Millionaire.
Don't even get me started on the gang problem.
#4. Production Assistants
Basically It's:
Doing whatever has to be done that no one else wants to do.
The duties of Production Assistants (also known as runners, or gofers, or peons, or self-moving ottomans) can range from relatively respectable tasks, like getting coffee, to slightly demeaning tasks, like holding coats for visiting Hollywood execs or being set on fire so the FX artists can have a reference for their fire effects.
Occasionally they fight for their boss's amusement.
When I was new to the field, the concept of working with PA's was pretty unnerving to me because they were basically like servants, waiting on you hand and foot. Over the years, though, I've gotten used to gently resting my feet on an obliging PA's back as I leaned back to think about a rendering problem or calling several PAs to form a bridge across a puddle on a particularly rainy day.
Producer and PAs, c. 14th century
Why would someone willingly submit to this treatment? Well, it's the Hollywood dazzle. When someone has the chance to be in a movie or participate in any task slightly related to a movie, the judgment centers of their brain go dead. Being a PA is like buying a lottery ticket to the Hollywood production big time. The chances of winning are laughable, but at least you have a ticket.
And even more tempting, a PA applicant often doesn't have to demonstrate any actual skills. They truly are looking for enthusiastic go-getters that will learn on the job and don't have a leg to stand on in salary negotiations. It also helps to look good, because, you know, Hollywood.
Unfortunately, to get a promotion, PAs do have to demonstrate some kind of skill, even if it's just being "well-organized" or finding very good delis to get catered sandwiches from. There is a production ladder they can work their way up, each step as unlikely as the first, truly a churning whirlpool of cutthroat competition. Along the way they will gain more responsibilities, like managing schedules, communicating artists' needs between departments, and filling out a lot of forms.
Or picking up a producer's "medicine."
If they manage to make it all the way up, they might become a producer, in charge of budget and schedule, with a pretty firm grip on the balls of all the artists on their project. It's basically like a pawn crossing the chessboard to become a queen. And then some country actually declares the chess piece to be their actual queen.
#3. Matchmove Artists
Basically It's:
Drawing dots on individual frames that need CG, so the computers don't get confused. Over and over.
Matchmove is a lot like roto as far as prestige--that is, zero to negative.
The average hobo commands twice the respect of a matchmove artist.
Little known industry secret - most cubicles for real animators are actually built out of extra matchmove and roto artists. So what could matchmove artists do that could be as mind-numbing as roto?
Well, when the film makers shoot a scene with a camera, the camera is usually moving, even if just slightly. Your CG effect, on the other hand, will want to hold perfectly still if you don't tell it otherwise, so you need to match its motion with the real scene or else your Gollum or aircraft carrier landing on the White House will appear to jiggle haphazardly through the frame.
To fix this, some poor bastard has to put a little dot on the corner of the central building's tower in this frame...
...and then in the next frame, put a dot on that same tower to tell the computer that it's the same corner. He usually has to pick out several landmarks to put dots on, at which point he will turn it over to the computer, which will scream back that it doesn't have enough dots and make him do more.
Computers, like people, are put at ease by the freckles on Morgan Freeman's face.


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This is an exercise in Artin,
Describe the ring obtained from $\mathbb{Z}$ by adjoining an element $\alpha$ satisfying the two relations $2\alpha - 6 = 0$ and $\alpha - 10 = 0$.
I have seen examples in the text where one relation is imposed on a ring, but not two. I would very much like to see how this is done. Thanks!


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Side-Effects of Pregnancy
In This Article:
Your changing figure
Spacing Out—My Hormones Made Me Do It
Momma Said There'd Be Days Like This
At one point in my pregnancy I became lightheaded whenever I rose quickly from a chair or bed. Of course, I panicked. But my doctor said not to worry. He told me to drink extra fluids and eat something salty like potato chips so that I could balance out the fluid my body was using for the baby.
Your hormones guide the changes that occur in your body during pregnancy. Once the fertilized egg attaches to the uterus, your body's off and running with changes designed to provide everything your baby needs—and everything you need to ultimately give birth.
But while your hormones are making these changes, you might find yourself more absentminded than usual. Do not worry about this too much—it's a very common occurrence during pregnancy. Just accept that you may need some extra sets of keys. The worst of it is the teasing you may end up taking when you space out every once in a while.
Figuring on a New Figure
As your pregnancy progresses your body is going to fill out. For some women this means more cleavage than ever. And, for some women, this is a welcome change—it can make you feel very womanly. But for other women it can be an unwelcome change—the extra weight in the chest changes both posture and carriage, and can be uncomfortable.
While you are gaining cleavage you are also filling out in the hips—and certainly in the stomach. This was nothing new to me, a lifetime weight watcher, but for some women the change in shape can be depressing.
Womanly Wisdom
If your partner's empathy for your pregnancy symptoms isn't all you'd like it to be, drop him a reminder of his role in this whole process. A little creatively applied guilt works wonders, since men are generally baffled by this whole "woman" thing.
Momma Said There'd Be Days Like This
I didn't eat for two during my first pregnancy—I ate for 23! So I took a little longer than most to regain my prepregnancy shape. When I got around to it, however, I lost the weight and was in great shape for the deliveries of both my second and third children. So don't obsess over your weight during pregnancy. Use good sense in your food choices but do not allow concern about your changing figure to make you feel down about yourself. Tell yourself how beautiful you are, because you are beautiful.
And it certainly takes some getting used to: As you begin to show you lose your waist and fill out in all kinds of directions. This is a very good thing for your baby and your skeletal system, but initially it can interfere with your sense of balance. Never fear—your body will find its equilibrium eventually, so you won't topple over with the weight of the baby.
Again, your attitude will determine how well you accept the physical changes that occur during the course of your pregnancy. Remember that your bodily changes are all natural aspects of preparing for the birth of your child. You will not always be built as though you are carrying a basketball under your ribcage. And with a little effort, once the baby's born you can completely regain your prepregnancy shape.
If you are eating reasonably healthy foods, don't freak out when you see the scale creep up with each monthly visit to your ob-gyn. You are supposed to gain weight during pregnancy. Your baby is growing, and you have increased fluids and have changing nutritional needs. The thing to keep in mind is that if you're not taking care of yourself nutritionally, your body will fill your baby's needs at your expense.
Make sure that you take a good prenatal vitamin and that you eat well. Do not even consider restrictive diets or excessive exercise. Your doctor will advise you if your weight gain or loss is healthy or not.
Most of all, don't let yourself obsess about your changing figure. You have many more important and rewarding things to think about when you're having a baby—why waste time worrying about how your shape has changed?
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Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motherhood © 1999 by Deborah Levine Herman. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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The Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ) is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a 2013 Youth Summit, Empowering Young Leaders for Juvenile Justice Reform, on August 2 and August 3, 2013 in Washington, DC. The Summit will bring together young people from around the country and is open to all young people interested in juvenile justice reform. (The Summit content and training sessions will be appropriate for individuals ages 16-30.) The Summit seeks to cultivate and empower a young body of juvenile justice advocates. Participants will learn the basics of juvenile justice, and will have the opportunity to delve into more detail about two hot topics in juvenile justice reform: Disproportionate Minority Contact and the School-to-Prison-Pipeline. The Summit will also engage participants in skill-building sessions on leadership development and civic engagement.
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Does anyone know what happened to Linsux / OMGCheesecake?
Does anyone know what happened to Linsux / OMGCheesecake?
Looks like it's broke.
Some of the regulars there are involved in the fuduntu project. You could try asking on their forums or irc channel.
They would appear to have suffered a serious failure, I feel for the owners/administrators.
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There was a security breach on the VPS hosting for forums. Some Adobe Reader exploit. ViperChief shut down the site until things could be sorted, and it was decided to wipe the site and restore from a recent (uncompromised) backup. He had been dissatisfied with his current VPS plan, so it was decided to also migrate the site at the same time. Currently, members are hanging out on IRC and on a lifeboat temp forum hosted by one of the members.
And the OS the VPS was running when this security breach happened? Ubuntu.
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I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me.
@schauerlich, I know you can't help being a troll, but not matter what OS a site is running, it can be cracked. It seems to me the same thing happened several years ago while the forum was running a different OS.
Security is up to the system administrators, it is not something that can be setup once and left alone, security patches have to be kept up to date, or the inevitable will happen.
I think we can close this now.
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- Master of Science Degree in Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics (MIT)
Careers in MIT
Graduates of this program will be skilled in two radiologic or therapeutic disciplines: their undergraduate discipline and the chosen study area for the MIT Degree. Upon completion of the MIT program, in addition to having significant technical and clinical expertise in two imaging specialties students will be able to sit for the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists national certification exam in their chosen Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics discipline. These graduates also have didactic and hands-on clinical trials experience and are prepared to work in a variety of research settings.
Why a Masters in Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics?
The degree will help the graduate who is looking to advance their career, giving them unique skills and knowledge not provided in any other program. The graduate of this program is extremely valuable to imaging/radiation oncology departments and medical corporations because current and developing technology require increasing knowledge of magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine, radiation therapy and other radiologic and imaging disciplines in the diagnosis and treatment of patients.
Students Abstracts
Aaron Ferguson
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Aaron Ferguson
"The Master's of Science in Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics program at Saint Louis University opens a new avenue of professional development for technologists and addresses the evolving need for properly trained hybrid imaging technologists in the field of molecular imaging," Ferguson said. "As the first graduate of this program, I would like to find a career where I can have an impact on the future of molecular imaging and therapy."
While completing his degree, Ferguson completed a 12-week rotation in the Center for Clinical Imaging Research at Washington University. He collaborated with Richard Laforest, Ph.D., and Jonathon McConathy, M.D., Ph.D., to investigate and correct for the attenuation caused by MR headphones during simultaneous positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance (PET/MR) studies. The manuscript from their research project was accepted by the Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology and was published in June 2014.
Post-graduation, Ferguson accepted a position at the local St. Louis research firm, Biomedical Systems. Faculty from the Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapeutics said they were very proud of Ferguson, his completion of this innovative new program, success in the registry exam and recent employment.


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I want to start my own wiki page for note keeping. As the info I will be keeping is sensitive I need to host the wiki internally on my LAN. It's possible I will be the only user of the wiki but I could very well see several other people potentially using this.
That being said, what is a good wiki software that I could install on my laptop or the local LAN with ease in a Windows environment?
Is there a wiki that would allow for a locally-cached version, only to update at a later point in time? (I realize the better option might be to simply take notes and then update at a later time)


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STEUBENVILLE - Pam Thomas admits she gets a little, well, passionate, when she thinks about the family business.
She and her husband, Harry, own the Original Ed McCauslen Florist on North Fourth Street. They purchased it in 1986 from Harry's father, Harvey, who, with his uncle, Charles Harvey, had bought it in the 1960s from Ed and Bus McCauslen.
Harvey Thomas had gone to work for the McCauslen brothers as a delivery boy when he was 16 and still in high school. After graduating, he did a stint in the Army before coming back to work for them as a designer.
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KNOW YOUR CUSTOMERS — Pam Thomas and her husband, Harry, say in a business like theirs, knowing your customers — and your customers knowing you — is paramount. The Thomases own the Original Ed McCauslen Florist in downtown Steubenville. They purchased the business in 1986 from Harry's father, Harvey, who'd acquired it in the 1960s from Ed and Bus McCauslen. Features like the fireplace mantle, pictured above, are original to the shop.
-- Linda Harris
GOOD OLD DAYS — The old Huscraft Florist shop on Market Street, precursor to McCauslen's, is shown. Martha Huscroft McCauslen was the mother of Ed and Bus McCauslen, who operated McCauslen's on Fourth Street, Steubenville, well into the 1960s.
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"As a child, Harry did the same thing," she said. "He came down here and started helping, doing what needed done. He went to the Marines, and when he came back we purchased the store from his father."
She knows the business and its history inside-out, from the original punched-tin ceiling and fireplace mantel to the ornate gold mirror so prized by Martha Huscroft McCauslen, mother of Ed and Bus and whose family had at one time owned Huscroft Florist. She said her father-in-law told her that Martha, in her later years, would sit in a corner of the shop, watching people come in and out.
"History, that's what you have here," she said. "We have a lot of older customers still who knew Ed and Bus. They've come in and said things like, 'Oh, Ed did the flowers for my wedding.' We still have Ed's customers as our customers."
She figures there's a reason for that.
"We value our customers," she said. "We put our heart and soul into knowing what our customers want, how our customers feel. We know our customers, and we know what they like. We have customers who'll call in and just say, 'Just tell Harry, he knows what I like.' They put a lot of trust, a lot of faith into his designs. That's the way to run a business, to know your customers."
Her husband, Harry, actually studied design at the Indianapolis Design School. She said he does a lot of design work himself, though they have three very capable designers on staff who also do outstanding work.
She handles the bookkeeping and some of the detailing, like "tipping" flowers with a touch of glitter. Their daughter, Melissa Roberts, has been working with them as well, learning the ropes just as her father and grandfather did before her. Son Corey, a Marine, lives in California.
"Melissa's starting like Harry started, at the bottom and working her way up," she said. "She doesn't design, but she's got a good eye and she's got passion. She's got heart, too. I hope that she (takes over) someday, but I'm not sure."
She said she feels blessed that her customers "keep coming back, but they keep coming back for a reason."
"Our customers care about us, and we care about them," she said. "That's what builds a business - our customers stick with us because of how we treat them. Whatever goes out of here, we make sure it's right because we feel like they're our family. We know them, we know what they like. We treat them the way we would want to be treated."
She said they also support a range of community activities, including the United Way, Salvation Army and area churches and schools. They've even loaned their live plants out to help them stage special events.
"We try to give everything that extra-special touch," she said. "If it's important to our customers, it's important to us. We've had customers who've (ordered) out of town come back and tell us, 'They're is nothing like you guys - you guys have spoiled us.'"
At one time they had a second location, in Weirton, but sold it in 2005 to focus their attention on the Steubenville store.
"You have to have a strong foundation," she said. "If you have a strong foundation, you can build from that."
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Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC consists of Venezuela, Algeria, Nigeria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Indonesia.
OPEC consists of Venezuela, Algeria, Nigeria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Indonesia.
40% of our oil comes from OPEC.
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1. A cartel of the major oil producing. Their sold purpose of banding together is to combat Zionism in all its forms. This group banded together during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War to stop Zionist support of an illegal occupation and invasion of Palestine. Current Zionist nations include the EU and US. Majority of these nations are completely against Zionism and support of Israel, but the few in power are either jewish or on their payroll. In turn, this has created manufactured oil shortages and outrageous oil prices.
Man, than OPEC really hates those jews/zionists/israelis
by shdwsclan May 22, 2009
An international consortium of charlatans, thieves, and extortionists who rip off their client nations (especially the US) using corrupt business practices and the unholy power of money. A mafia of nations that cuts back its production to drive up prices.
We should declare war on OPEC, invade them, annihilate them, and take them over through force.
Kill 'em all!
Kill 'em all!
by Iggy Hazard January 16, 2004
You want to anhialate kuwait? sounds like a strange thing for a neoconservative to say.
Please join neocon anonymous to help cool your rage.
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6 Famous Movie Wisemen Who Were Totally Full of Shit
Sometimes you'll be watching a movie and an old wise man will appear on the screen. He will say little, but those few words will be full of sage advice that will guide the hero on his journey. You may even find yourself quoting him later.
What is easy to forget is that behind that wise old man is just a hack Hollywood screenwriter, and that those ancient words of wisdom were thrown in on the third draft, at four in the morning, after half a pound of cocaine.
#6. Yoda
Hollywood loves it when wisdom comes from unexpected places. There is always a homeless man around to teach an uppity grad student about love or janitor or limo driver to offer some folksy homespun wisdom.
More often than not, Morgan Freeman is involved.
That's why The Empire Strikes Back introduces Yoda as a rubbery little nuisance, seeming at first to be the comic relief, until we realize this wacky little gremlin is the spiritual and philosophical heart of the trilogy. The wisdom that comes from this troll sets the foundation for a creed which is more adored and revered today than many religions.
And it's pretty much all shit.
Take Yoda's chilling warning to Luke about the consequences of his decision to go to Cloud City:
"If you go now, help them you could, but you would destroy ALL for which they have fought and suffered..."
Set aside that this is vague to the point of incoherence, it consists of two separate clauses which are both proven completely untrue within minutes of Yoda saying them.
You're full of shit, old man!
The marginal "help" Luke provides to his friends consists in absorbing a Washington Generals-level beatdown from Vader, thus creating a painful and humiliating diversion to distract the Sith Lord from his friends' escape. Luke showing up at Cloud City has NO negative consequences for anything the Rebellion was fighting for or anything else we can see for that matter.
And let's not forget that Luke also "helped" them pick up Lando Calrissian, the guy who eventually joined the Rebellion and BLEW UP THE SPACE STATION CARRYING THE EMPEROR. In other words, the guy who ended up winning them the war.
Great call, Yoda. With those predictive skills, you must have spent many a long, hard day at the race track.
But even this comes after Luke's training, which largely consisted of slogans like:
"Do, or do not. There is no try."
Nonsensical lines like that one make Yoda the Yogi Berra of the galaxy. He seems to have picked up an incorrect definition of the word "try" at whatever community college he attended. You cannot do without trying first. It is impossible. If he'd said "get drunk, or do not, there is no drinking" it would have made as much sense.
"WOOOOO! Pride or no pride, I will get drunk."
Or was he just telling Luke to believe in himself, to plunge ahead against all odds, regardless of appearances? After all, Yoda said the line after Luke expressed doubt in his abilities. Well, we're all for self-confidence, but Luke's whole problem was that he overestimated his own abilities, and was charging into the situation without stopping to train first. The entire rest of Luke's training revolved around breaking him of that.
Which brings us right back to the trip to Cloud City that Yoda tries to talk him out of. Wasn't that just Luke trying to seize the initiative and "do" instead of hiding on a planet with the swamp rats and doubting himself?
#5. Gandalf
Despite being generally the least useless of the forces of good, Gandalf is not immune to delivering little wisdom turds like these:
Frodo: It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill [Gollum] when he had the chance.
Gandalf: Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.
No, someone should have really, really killed Gollum. It's precious that Gandalf wants a little Hobbit to keep his innocence, but the price of that innocence is thousands of other beings dying in a war over The Ring. Gollum is the one who told the bad guys where to find the ring, and later it's his betrayal that gets the ring within inches of being captured by Sauron (thanks to him feeding Frodo to a giant spider).
Though, we may have done the same thing.
Also, why is Gandalf so uptight about killing people, when according to his own words:
"End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take. The gray rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... And then you see it. White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise."
Hell, you'd be doing him a favor! Only we see just minutes later that Gandalf and the good guys are delivered from their fate by, well, dead people. Dead people who have not actually been resting in beautiful fields, as much as trapped in a dark, dank cave for millennia.
It turned out they had been trapped there due to an old curse. So, no, Gandalf. In the Lord of the Rings universe you don't get to see those "white shores" if some third party, without your knowledge, casts the right spell. Better hope you never pissed off any powerful wizards when you were alive!
#4. Mr. Miyagi
It was the 1980s and American spirits were at a nadir. We were still heavily ensconced in the Cold War, and recovering from a recession. Skinny, vaguely ethnic kids across the country were getting their asses kick by blond alpha-douches. America needed something to believe in.
America, circa 1985.
Then a man with crazy moves and ancient wisdom emerged from the most unlikely of places (Happy Days) and taught America how to believe in itself again. That man was the Fonz.
But we were also introduced to Mr. Miyagi, the mentor every hapless kid dreamed of. He gives you a classic car, beats up high schoolers for you and speaks in a broken English that alternately sounds hilarious and wise. Between Miyagi and Yoda, we want to know what it is about clearly spoken English that interferes with sage pontificating. Quote:
"No such thing bad student only bad teacher."
No. That's not even sort of right, Mr. Miyagi. We are not blaming bad teachers for Hitler, Timothy McVeigh and Spencer Pratt. Each of these guys had probably dozens of teachers in their life and we highly doubt they were all assholes.
And kids, whatever classes or karate trainings you try in your life, you'll only get out of it what you're willing to put in, even if your teacher is a cyborg with Bruce Lee's resurrected brain.
All Rights Reserved on that idea.
Do not write off your failure to a bad teacher.
The thing is, Miyagi knows this from his own life experience. In Karate Kid 2 we meet Miyagi's nemesis, Sato, the guy who drove Miyagi out of Japan. How does Miyagi know Sato? They were both students of the same teacher, Miyagi's father! In what must be the most telling statement in the Karate Kid franchise, Miyagi essentially says that his father was a miserable prick, and apparently so is Miyagi.
And while we're here, we'd like to point out another piece of wisdom that doesn't sit well. Upon Daniel finding his Medal of Honor, Miyagi tells him:
"Daniel-san, this [points to heart] say you brave, this [points to Medal of Honor] say you lucky."
The Medal of Honor is apparently the same as a four leaf clover.
This is one of the real bad habits of movie wise men. It's not enough for Miyagi to say he won a medal due to sheer luck. No, he has to phrase it as an inarguable law of the universe: Every Medal of Honor recipient who put their life on the line in defense of their beloved country is just a lucky asshole.
But, we guess Mr. Miyagi is a fictional character who made fictional heroic sacrifices so he's entitled to his fictional opinion.


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Border Guards intercept smuggler infiltrating the Kingdom on a glider
September 28, 2011
Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki announced during a press conference in Riyadh today that Border Guards near Rafah in northen Saudi Arabia have foiled an attempt by smugglers to bring drugs into the Kingdom using a motorized glider. The two-seater glider crossed into Saudi airspace from Iraq early Tuesday morning before being intercepted by security forces, who exchanged gunfire with smugglers waiting for the delivery in four vehicles on the ground. The pilot and nine of his associates, including one non-Saudi, were arrested. Authorities seized the glider and three bags of narcotics, weighing 172 kg (380 lbs) and including 700,000 captagon tablets. No injuries were reported and an investigation is underway.
Maj. Gen. Al-Turki noted that this incident is the first in which a glider was used to infiltrate the Kingdom, speculating that the smugglers were attempting to overcome the tightened border security being put in place along the Northern border. Describing the security measures, he explained that the region is surrounded by a security belt with a depth of 10 km made up of natural and metal barriers. These includes three different types of wire fences with heights reaching three meters, as well as natural obstacles supported by early warning electronic systems consisting of radar and thermal cameras and other technologies. He added that the border security project will be completed and fully operational by early next year.
Addressing the dangers posed by infiltrators, Maj. Gen. Al-Turki said, "The goal of this group was limited to the smuggling of drugs, but the idea itself entails a risk for security and safety due to possible misuse of such means." Since the Kingdom has been targeted by terrorism, such cases must be dealt with seriously and decisively, he said, warning, "We do not rule out the use of gliders in acts which threaten security and safety whether in populated areas or targeting security, industrial or other facilities, or crossing borders."


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City commissioners will consider changing the street department budget to slash a new patching machine in exchange for new radios and a storage building.
Commissioners earlier budgeted $70,000 for a patching machine that would be used to fix potholes and reduce surface deterioration, but Dan Giittinger, public properties director, said the price for the machines is about $15,000 higher than expected.
He is asking commissioners to redirect about $12,000 to replace obsolete radios in vehicles and funds to build at 36x36 foot building to store equipment.
Also on the city's March 18 agenda is a request for a bicycling plan.
Janet Palmtag and Alma Breckenridge have written the city asking permission to place bicycle racks at various locations around the city.
They would also acception donations of bicycles and raise private funds to maintain the bicycles.The city is proposing extending its Home Ownership Opportunity Program.
City Clerk Arnold Ehlers said the city had set a goal of helping 12 homeowners and has had seven participants so far.
He said there are applicants and funds available and requested extending the program to Sept. 27.
Commissioners will consider higher fees at Wyuka Cemetery.
Fees for interment, cremation and grave spaces would increase $25 to $50.
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I have an application which writes its log files in a special folder. Now I'd like to add a functionality to delete these logs after a defined period of time automatically. But how long should I keep the log files? What are "good" default values (7 or 180 days)? Or do you prefer other criteria (e.g. max. used disk space)?
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There's no single answer. Factors to consider:
I've got some logs that roll over in days, and others that are kept for years.
I tend to keep access logs longer (in some cases, forever, once I've stripped identifying information out of them) than error logs as in theory, I don't need them once I've fixed the problems.
I keep some other debugging logs (showing user activity, how they're interacting with the system, etc.) around so we can see how things change with each version.
And this reminds me of anecdote when I worked for a university -- management brought in an outside consultant to do a third-party review of the webserver we were building. I was told to hand over 3 months of logs for them to review if we had sized the system appropriately. I knew that was a sign they didn't know what the hell they were doing, as universities are cyclic -- webserver load trended up over time, but with spikes at the beginning of each year, finals time, etc.
Depends on the requirements... there can be legal requirements for record keeping, and also you have to factor in how long they will be helpful for troubleshooting.
In addition to legal requirements and utility considerations, it depends quite a bit on how much disk space your logs are chewing up. I've seen very verbose programs rotate their logs every day, while very quiet programs rotate almost never.
Depending on your system, it might be worth considering the "logrotate" package instead of handling log rotation internally. Just place a file with reasonable defaults in /etc/logrotate.d/ and let your users modify it if they deem necessary.
It depends on the industry that will be using your software. There are lots of production applications that will fall under government regulatory requirements that may require any outputs, including log files, to be kept for a specific period of time.
If your application falls into one of these areas or you are unsure, you should consult your companies legal department.
You should for sure archive your logs before you run out of space. :)
In our organization, logs are archived daily. So the special "logging" folder will have only logs for current day. The archive is retained for 3 weeks on disk on a special archive location with lots of storage. This will help prod. support devs to go look if something gets reported. This is backed up to tape(yes tapes!) after 3 weeks. As a policy tapes are retained for another 35 days.
I'm running into this same decision currently. I have an app that writes non-critical exceptions to a log file and what I've settled on is setting a configurable size threshold for the log file itself. Once the log file reaches a certain size it will be archived. The archive will be cleaned once every week. I'm also thinking of setting a "Growth rate" threshold so if the log fills up too quickly customer support will be notified. Not sure yet if that's overkill.
These logs are for support only so, in my case, there is no legal or business requirement to keep them past a week.
The retention of log files depends on the criticality of the data being logged and the actual size of the storage medium on which the logs are stored as well as the various compliance procedures in the geographical location where the Server is hosted.
There is no hard and fast rule to the number of days the logs files should be retained though logs for at least a month ( space willing) would not be a bad idea.
Storing old logs as tar.gz files is also a nice idea if space is a constraint.


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I am looking for interesting ways to introduce the Doppler effect to students. I want some situations in nature or every day life, where a student is possibly surprised and may ask "how could it be"?
The common example for Doppler effect of sound waves is the siren of a moving emergency vehicle. Clearly the siren example is one way to introduce it starting from a phenomenon. However are there other interesting, perhaps astonishing phenomena in nature or in every day life which can explained by Doppler effect of sound waves?
In this question I am only interested in Doppler effect of sound waves, not that one of light.


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