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Len Tooley is an HIV-negative gay guy on pre-exposure prophylaxis who works in Toronto as a gay men's health promoter, HIV educator, tester and counsellor. In the first of three interviews about being on PrEP, he discusses his decision to go on it.
In July 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of Truvada (a fixed dose combination in one tablet of emtricitabine and tenofovir) to reduce the risk of HIV infection in uninfected individuals who are at high risk of HIV infection and who may engage in sexual activity with HIV-infected partners. This use of an anti-HIV drug to prevent infection is known as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
PrEP is considered by most observers to be a major breakthrough in the war against HIV transmission. In Canada, however, there's no indication that we'll follow the American lead any time soon. Experts, and indeed many in the HIV community, argue about the desirability of doing so.
However, some Canadian physicians are already prescribing Truvada "off-label" as PrEP for some of their patients. Len Tooley is one patient of such a physician. He agreed to talk to PositiveLite.com about his decision to go on PrEP.
In this series of three interviews, Len and I talk about his decision to access PrEP, his experience starting to take PrEP and how he responds to critics of negative guys like him who decide that PrEP is right for them.
John McCullagh: Len, thanks for agreeing to talk with PositiveLite.com about your decision to go on PrEP. Before we get started, can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
Len Tooley: Sure, John. I'm a 31-year-old queer guy who lives, loves, cooks, cycles, and works in downtown Toronto. I also work professionally in the HIV sector as an HIV-negative guy. In that regard I work as the coordinator of community health promotion programming at CATIE, Canada's national HIV and Hepatitis C knowledge broker. At CATIE I coordinate a number of projects related to gay men's sexual health. In my spare time -- if you could call it that � I also work part-time as an HIV and STI tester and counsellor through Hassle Free Clinic, a sexual health clinic in downtown Toronto.
I mention what I do professionally because it's given me the opportunity to learn a huge amount about HIV and gay men's health that has really informed my decision to access PrEP. That being said, I should make it clear that I decided to do this interview with you as an individual telling my own story -- I'm not speaking on behalf of either organization but rather as someone who is affected by HIV.
John: Thank you for that clarification, Len. In that regard, I should also mention that I'm a member of CATIE's board of directors. So let's start with the obvious question: Why did you make the decision to go on PrEP?
Len: First and foremost, John, to prevent HIV infection. I have a tricky relationship with HIV. I know that given the proper treatment, medical care and social supports it has become a pretty manageable illness that doesn't have to drastically change someone's life. Of course, that's not at all to say that being HIV-positive is easy or without complications, but it is different from even a decade ago. By different I mean in terms of the treatments available and long-term health outcomes � especially if the infection is caught and treated early. So, while I know that getting HIV doesn't have to be the end of the world, I also know that it's probably easier and better for my body overall to stay HIV-negative.
As I mentioned, I'm a relatively young, sexually active queer guy who has sex with gay men. And I'm doing so in downtown Toronto, which has the highest prevalence of HIV among gay men of any urban centre in Canada � as high as 23% according to the best sources we have to date. To me this means that it's almost certain that I have had, and will have, sex with HIV-positive guys. As I've learned through providing HIV testing, and as more and more evidence is showing us, when you're having sex in an HIV epidemic almost everything you do sexually � even low risk activities like giving oral sex without a condom � has an added risk for HIV infection.
John: "Having sex in an epidemic". That's an interesting way of expressing the risk we gay guys run when we have sex. Can you talk a bit more about that?
Len: Sure. One of the main reasons I say that is because of the way we know HIV moves among men who have sex with men (MSM). Studies show that anywhere from 50-75% of new HIV infections among MSM in Canada every year are driven by people whose HIV infection is also recent (what we call early or acute HIV infection). That's because when someone is newly infected with HIV they're less likely to know about their status. At the same time, they have the highest levels of the HIV virus in their body fluids because their body has not yet developed any ability to control the virus at all.
So I know that even if the guy I'm having sex with says he's HIV negative, there's always a chance that he's not only positive, but that he also recently got HIV so he's very likely to pass it on as well. It's in these 'perfect storm' scenarios that lower-risk activities (which, we must remember, are not 'no risk' activities) are much more likely to enable HIV transmission. In other words I know that even if I'm having 'low-risk' sex, I'm more likely to get HIV than most people.
John: For almost thirty years now, most gay men have known that the most reliable way to prevent HIV transmission, even in an epidemic, is for us to wear condoms, at least when we have anal sex. So why did you decide to take PrEP too? Isn't this a little like wearing a belt and suspenders?
Len: Ha! To be honest with you, John, I'm not perfect -- even if I wish I was. And I have to admit, I haven't had perfect condom use throughout my life. I've managed to stay HIV-negative for quite a while, but this was partly a combination of "responsible" condom use and -- when "not-so-responsible" -- luck. Those moments when I had done something that I knew might put me at higher risk often led to a lot of anxiety. Not constant, overwhelming anxiety, but one that prevented me from feeling good (meaning, guilt free and shameless) about the awesome sex that I had had.
John: So taking PrEP would give you added protection from HIV on those occasions when you might find yourself in such a situation?
Len: Exactly. Working in the HIV sector I'm fortunate enough to be aware of the newest advancements and research going into HIV treatment and prevention. I'd been reading about PrEP and how, even if it's not a �guarantee,' it's been shown to be quite effective. But it hasn't been approved in Canada so it seemed like an impossible, or at least unlikely, tool. Early last November, during one of my more anxiety-filled days thinking about what I might have done since my last HIV test that might have exposed me (even though "I should know better"), I thought -- wouldn't it be great to have PrEP? And then I realized it was totally possible. That all I needed to do was to convince my doctor to prescribe me the drug. My confidence was bolstered by the fact that the U.S. FDA has already developed guidelines for prescribing PrEP to gay men. I read a really helpful resource by Project Inform that helped me make the decision too.
But beyond my own risk, there's another set of reasons for me to choose to access PrEP: the positive guys in my life that I have had, or will have, relationships and/or sex with. From doing testing and knowing a lot of positive guys, I know that for many of them passing HIV on to someone they're having sex with is something they want to avoid at all costs. Sometimes this leads them to only dating or having sex with other poz guys. For me, PrEP is a way that I can not only take responsibility for my own sexual health (and the sexual health of my community), but it's also something I can do to help reduce the fears and anxieties that some poz guys have around transmitting HIV to someone else.
I also understand that it can be really hard for some poz guys to disclose their status to negative guys, and I hope that my being on PrEP can make those guys feel more comfortable disclosing their status to me. I also hope to help create an opportunity for more honest and open dialogue about our safer sex decisions.
Next week, in part two of this interview, Len talks about the conversations he and his family doctor had about going on PrEP and his experience of actually taking Truvada as a way to help him stay HIV-negative.
This article was originally featured on PositiveLite.com.


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Strengthening its presence in California, where a Vatel Campus has been open in Los Angeles since 2008, is for the 1st Worldwide Business School Group in Hospitality and Tourism Management, bringing an answer to a two-pronged need: that of young students who want to attend a local school, and that of the hotel management profession, which would like to hire its employees directly from the geographic zone where it is located. With this in mind, Rodrigue Colaianni, the Vatel Los Angeles Director, has announced the opening of the Vatel San Diego Campus, in a partnership with the California International Business University, known as CIBU.
As of September, 2015, the first Vatel San Diego students will be starting classes for their Bachelor's Degree in International Hotel Management as well as their MBA in International Hotel Management, two French State- certified degrees. Following the example of their Vatel Los Angeles neighbors, these students will have the opportunity of taking two different kinds of courses: learning American methods of hotel management as well as the key rules in the famous French art of hospitality.
These degrees target a booming field and one where local and international job markets are still growing: during the past 60 years, tourism has been expanding and continually diversifying until it has become one of the most important and most dynamic economic sectors in the world. According to the publication of the WTO's "Tourism Towards 2030" article, which gives long-term outlooks, the number of international tourists throughout the world will increase by 3.3% per year.
Opening this new School in the United States thus continues the great idea of our President and Founder of Vatel Group, Alain Sebban: exporting a curriculum and the French art of hospitality throughout the world and training students in their home countries. In thirty years the Group has trained 27.000 Vateliens to have successful careers any place in the world and has opened Schools on four continents, training Vatel 7,000 students each and every year.
In the presence of the French General Consul, Mr. Axel Cruau, the partnership between Vatel and the CIBU was signed on March 25, in the prestigious Jonathan Club in Los Angeles. "Thanks to our partnership with the CIBU, our expertise in hospitality and our privileged relationships with partner hotels in the United States, Vatel will be able to train a new generation of managers and senior executives for tomorrow's hospitality industry." Rodrigue Colaianni.
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An Open Letter To My Children:
Dear children,
It goes without saying that I love each of you immensely. I love each of you for vastly different reasons, since you are all such neat, little people with your own big personalities. I may be biased, but I think that you are three of the most beautiful children in the world. You are amazing, you are wonderful, you give my life so much purpose, blah, blah, blah.
Now that that is out of the way, let's get down to business. I am laying out some new rules around here. The following are effective immediately.
1. My name is Mom. Not mooooo-ooooom. Not momm-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Nor any other variation where you whiningly exaggerate any part of my name. If you expect me to answer, you may call me "Mom" "Mommy" or "Your Majesty" from here on out.
2. I am not a short order cook. If you want to eat, you will eat what I cook when I cook it. Do not say "Gross, will you make me some chicken nuggets instead?" The answer is "NO!" I am not McDonald's.
3. Do not complain to me that your favorite purple shirt, dinosaur pajamas, or cozy jeans are not clean. You are welcome to do the laundry anytime you like.
4. Some toys can not be glued back together. Don't freak out about it, just stop breaking stuff to begin with.
5. You may not have friends over every single day. I don't care how much you cry and talk about how bored you are. I am not a babysitting service for stray children!
6. This one is just for Miles: DO NOT SPIT! One of these days I may just surprise you and spit back. And I spit like a cobra- look out. You've been warned,
7. Banish the words, "He hit me," "Can I have a snack, again" "He's poking me!" and "You never let me do anything fun!" from your vocabulary. Those words serve no purpose except to make Mommy blow her stack real quick.
8. When you see smoke start to come out of my ears and eyes- RUN! Do not stick around and keep pestering me.
9. Do not throw a fit when it is green shirt with yellow polka dots and blue stripes day at school and I refuse to go buy you a new outfit to fit into the corresponding color day. I will gladly cut out construction paper polka dots and stripes and safety pin them to your shirt, but I will not go buy a new one.
10. Do not ask me for a quarter every time you see a machine full of junk at the exit to a restaurant. If I have to pick up one more tiny man attached to a defective parachute or one more plastic ring that is split in half, I will scream.
11. You must use toilet paper when you go to the bathroom. When I walk in the bathroom and see a "surprise" left in the toilet and no toilet paper, I will get suspicious. Do not lie to me when I ask if you wiped your butt.
12. When I say, "Come here, let me wipe your nose/change your diaper/give you your medicine/clean your face", do NOT run in the other direction. I will hunt you down. And even though I am old and 25 pounds overweight, I will beat you in a foot race around the living room any day of the week.
13. Don't run away with my cell phone. I know that playing "Angry Birds" on the iPhone is super fun, but it is mine and I don't share my technology very well.
14. If I find any more of those plastic popsicle wrappers in inappropriate places, I will make a lifelong permanent ban on popsicles. Just FYI- life can go on without popsicles. You will not die. I promise.
15. Stop beating the crud out of each other while I am on the phone. The phone ringing is not your cue to become Kung Fu warriors.
16. Do not wipe your nose on the couch. Or the bedspread. Or the bathmat. Or in my hair.
17. When you spill something on the carpet, please tell me. I will gladly help you wipe it up. Do not pretend like it didn't happen and then 3 days later confess when I freak out that our whole house smells like mildew.
18. My checkbook is not a drawing pad. Neither are the walls, the refrigerator or the cabinets.
19. The living room curtains are not tug-o-war ropes. Do. Not. Touch.
20. Last but not least: Stop growing up. Stay little. Stay sweet and innocent. I love you all just the way your are at just the ages you are right this minute. This may be the hardest rule to follow, but try really hard on this one, okay?
Mom (aka- Your Majesty)
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Quality Control
From UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation
There are 2 major steps in the Quality Control process, the QC script and spot-checking.
QC Script
- The script we use in QC can be found on the Share drive here: S:\Digital Projects\Administrative\scripts\qc\ filenamesAndDupes.pl
- This program will check for correct and sequential filenames per the collection number in a Scans folder and its corresponding Transcripts folder (if there is one) as well as check for duplicate filenames. It will print out a report in the "output" folder.
- If it shows errors, please rename the files accordingly and also check the metadata and trackingFiles to make sure the filename is OK in those spreadsheets. When you are done with the report file this script created, please delete it.
- After you have corrected the errors, RUN THE SCRIPT AGAIN. If the script still finds errors, correct those and run it again. Keep running the script until it does not show any more errors.
- You should be able to run this program by double clicking on it. You might need to associate the file type with Perl the first time you use it.
Once you've run the programs and fixed any problems, please spot-check images.
- Open every object folder with Adobe Bridge.
- Verify what you see against what's in the Metadata and the number of scans recorded on Tracking files.
- Check general image quality (cropping, alignment, colors, etc.)
If you are working on a collection in collaboration with someone else or are working on an ongoing collection, mark the items that have been QCed on the QC tab of the Tracking Files sheet.
Commercial QC Software
Click here to access a quick guide to settings/preferences for Adobe Bridge.


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LOS ANGELES—This summer, the J. Paul Getty Museum will host the largest exhibition ever held in the United States of Gustave Le Gray photographs. Le Gray (1820-1884) is considered France's most important 19th-century photographer, acclaimed for his technical innovations, noted as the teacher of other important photographers, and prized for the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture making. Le Gray applied his training as a painter and skills as an inventor to the fledgling art form of photography.
Gustave Le Gray, Photographer will be on view at the Getty Museum, its only U.S. venue, from July 9 through September 29, 2002. The exhibition, selected from a survey of Le Gray's work created by and shown at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in the spring of 2002, presents Le Gray's career through more than 100 rare photographs made between the early 1850s and 1867—many of which have never been shown before in this country. Le Gray's finest works will be featured, including the seascapes and cloud studies that made him famous, atmospheric forest landscapes, portraits of Napoléon III and his wife, French architecture, views of Paris, troops on field maneuvers, Giuseppe Garibaldi and the effects of revolution in Sicily, and powerful photographs from Le Gray's final sojourn in Egypt. The Getty exhibition was organized by Gordon Baldwin, associate curator in the Getty Museum's department of photographs. About one third of the photographs in the California exhibition are from the Getty's collection, with loaned works from 18 other collections.
"The work of Gustave Le Gray laid the groundwork for photographers of his era and ours, and we are proud to bring this exhibition to Los Angeles. It is a unique opportunity to introduce many rare photographs, never before published or exhibited, to a broader public," said Weston Naef, curator of photographs at the Getty Museum.
Le Gray: Artist, Inventor, Teacher, Adventurer
Le Gray lived a colorful life and his work reflects his experiences. The only child of a prosperous business owner, Le Gray joined painter Paul Delaroche's studio in 1842, after a brief law apprenticeship. He followed his teacher to Rome and while continuing to study painting, began to investigate photography and married his landlady's beautiful daughter. When he returned to Paris in 1847, he started making daguerreotypes and set up a workshop that became an informal academy for many would-be photographers. His skills in chemistry and a penchant for experimentation led to his invention of two negative processes—a wax-coated paper negative and a collodion on glass plate negative. He also published four editions of a treatise on photography.
Le Gray reached the height of his success during the 1850s, beginning with a government commission to document French architectural monuments, and independent expeditions to the Fontainebleau forest to photograph landscapes. He later launched a portrait studio in Paris, which indebted him to backers. In 1857, he was commissioned to document the French army's summer training camp at Châlons, yet was continually drawn to photograph the Normandy and Mediterranean coasts. By 1859, Le Gray's inattention and, perhaps, his distaste for studio portraiture, brought his business to the brink of bankruptcy. During this time, he turned to making photographs of Paris that were readily saleable.
Possibly to escape his financial woes, in 1860 Le Gray accepted a proposal to accompany the famous novelist Alexander Dumas on a luxurious Mediterranean yacht cruise that Le Gray would photograph and Dumas describe. When they arrived in Sicily during Garibaldi's liberation of the island, the Italian leader requested photographs that would publicize his exploits. Le Gray's striking scenes of the damaged city of Palermo were published in Paris. The voyage terminated when Dumas decided to run guns for the revolution and abandoned Le Gray on the island of Malta. Le Gray made his way, via Lebanon, to Egypt where, as drawing master for the ruling khedive's sons, he accompanied the princes on a voyage up the Nile. The photographs of ancient temples he made then are among his most distinguished. Le Gray spent the last 23 years of his life in Egypt, and never returned to France. He died in Cairo in 1884 just before his 64th birthday.
Associate Curator Baldwin said, "Le Gray defined many of the possibilities of the medium and helped to establish photography as a fine art. His career and many achievements are remarkable and still stand as landmarks in the history of photography."
Exhibition Overview: From France to Sicily and Egypt
Portraiture and the Studio, the exhibition's opening gallery, features Le Gray's portraits of Napoléon III and the empress Eugénie, an Italian street musician, and close friends and pupils Henri Le Secq and Count Olympe Aguado. Two of only five known Le Gray photographs of nudes will also be on view, along with rare surviving daguerreotypes.
The second gallery includes work from the Mission Héliographique, 1851 and The Forest of Fontainebleau, 1852. The first section is devoted to photographs from a governmental survey of medieval and Renaissance French architecture. He and his former student Mestral were two of six artists selected to carry out the project. Also on display here is a new Getty acquisition, Factory at Terre Noire (between 1851 and 1855), a rare image of early industrialization, which shows a factory amidst clouds of smoke and denuded hillsides.
Le Gray's forest photographs were taken in Fontainebleau, a popular weekend excursion area near Paris. Drawing on his training as a painter, he produced photographs reminiscent of the paintings of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot as well as those from the Barbizon school of artists. Two works on view, Study of a Tree in a Clearing and Study of Tree Trunks (both 1855-57), were recently discovered at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and can be seen at the Getty for the first time in the United States.
The Camp at Châlons, 1857 and Seascapes, 1856, 1857 comprise the third gallery and highlight both Le Gray's photographs of a military training camp and studies of breaking waves and clouds. Le Gray's commission to document the camp led to works like Cavalry Maneuvers, October 3, Camp at Châlons (1857), which offers an oddly romantic vision of men practicing for war. The gallery also includes seascapes that are both expressive and technically remarkable. The Great Wave, Sète (1857), for example, is a celebrated picture that he printed from two negatives to equally capture both the sky and the water, an extraordinary achievement at the time.
The final gallery encompasses Paris, 1859; Sicily, 1860; Lebanon, 1861; and Egypt, 1862-1884, and showcases Le Gray's later photographs. From Paris, there are views of monuments, bridges, and buildings such as the Mollien Pavilion, the Louvre (1859) and the Panthéon, Paris (1859). From Sicily, there is an outstanding portrait of Garibaldi and dramatic scenes of destruction. In Lebanon, he photographed the ruins of Baalbek and in Egypt, he made masterful, expansive studies of the ancient monuments along the Nile including Hypostyle Hall, Temple of Amun, Karnak (1867).
Catalogue and Related Programming
In conjunction with the exhibition the Getty Museum will offer the catalogue Gustave Le Gray 1820-1884 by Sylvie Aubenas, with contributions by Anne Cartier-Bresson, Joachim Bonnemaison, Barthélémy Jobert, Claude Schopp, Mercedes Volait, and Henri Zerner. This 416-page catalogue includes 237 color illustrations, 113 black-and-white illustrations, and six gatefolds. It was originally published in French to accompany the exhibition Gustave Le Gray, Photographer (1820-1884) at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. This English-language edition, edited by Gordon Baldwin, is available in the Museum Bookstore, online at www.getty.edu, or by calling 800-223-3431. (Hardcover: $100, Paperback: $50)
Related programs including lectures and Point-of-View talks will also be offered.
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About the Getty:
The J. Paul Getty Trust is an international cultural and philanthropic institution devoted to the visual arts that features the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Foundation, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Getty Research Institute. The J. Paul Getty Trust and Getty programs serve a varied audience from two locations: the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Getty Villa in Malibu.
Sign up for e-Getty at www.getty.edu/subscribe/ to receive free monthly highlights of events at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa via e-mail, or visit our event calendar for a complete calendar of public programs.
The J. Paul Getty Museum collects in seven distinct areas, including Greek and Roman antiquities, European paintings, drawings, manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts, and European and American photographs. The Museum's mission is to make the collection meaningful and attractive to a broad audience by presenting and interpreting the works of art through educational programs, special exhibitions, publications, conservation, and research.


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1. Introduction to ONC+ Technologies
4. Programmer's Interface to RPC
5. Advanced RPC Programming Techniques
6. Porting From TS-RPC to TI-RPC
7. Multithreaded RPC Programming
8. Extensions to the Oracle Solaris RPC Library
Memory Requirements for XDR Routines
B. RPC Protocol and Language Specification
XDR is the backbone of the Sun Microsystems Remote Procedure Call package. Data for RPCs are transmitted using this standard. XDR library routines should be used to transmit data accessed (read or written) by more than one type of machine.
XDR works across different languages, operating systems, and machine architectures. Most users (particularly RPC users) only need the information in the sections on number filters, floating point filters, and enumeration filters. Programmers who want to implement RPC and XDR on new machines should read this technical note and the protocol specification.
You can use rpcgen to write XDR routines even in cases where no RPC calls are being made.
C programs that use XDR routines must include the file <rpc/xdr.h>, which contains all the necessary interfaces to the XDR system. Because the library libnsl.a contains all the XDR routines, you compile it by typing:
example% cc program.c
In many environments, several criteria must be observed to accomplish porting. The ramifications of a small programmatic change are not always apparent, but they can often have far-reaching implications. Consider the program to read/write a line of text that is shown in the next two code examples.
Example A-1 Writer Example (initial)
#include <stdio.h> main() /* writer.c */ { int i; for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) { if (fwrite((char *) &i, sizeof(i), 1, stdout) != 1) { fprintf(stderr, "failed!\n"); exit(1); } } exit(0); }
Example A-2 Reader Example (initial)
#include <stdio.h> main() /* reader.c */ { int i, j; for (j = 0; j < 8; j++) { if (fread((char *) &i, sizeof(i), 1, stdin) != 1) { fprintf(stderr, "failed!\n"); exit(1); } printf("%ld ", i); } printf("\n"); exit(0); }
The two programs appear to be portable because they:
Pass lint checking
Exhibit the same behavior when executed locally on any hardware architecture
Piping the output of the writer program to the reader program gives identical results on a SPARC or Intel machine.
sun% writer | reader 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 sun% intel% writer | reader 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 intel%
With the advent of local area networks and 4.2BSD came the concept of "network pipes," which is a process that produces data on one machine and a second process that consumes data on another machine. You can construct a network pipe with writer and reader. Here are the results if the writer produces data on a SPARC system, and the reader consumes data on Intel architecture.
sun% writer | rsh intel reader 0 16777216 33554432 50331648 67108864 83886080 100663296 117440512 sun%
Executing writer on the Intel and reader on the SPARC system produces identical results. These results occur because the byte ordering of data differs between the Intel and the SPARC, even though the word size is the same.
Note - 16777216 is 224. When 4 bytes are reversed, the 1 is placed in the 24th bit.
Whenever data is shared by two or more machine types, a need exists for portable data. You can make data portable by replacing the read() and write() calls with calls to an XDR library routine, xdr_int(), a filter that knows the standard representation of an int integer in its external form. The revised versions of writer are shown in the following code example.
Example A-3 Writer Example (XDR modified)
#include <stdio.h> #include <rpc/rpc.h> /* xdr is a sub-library of rpc */ main() /* writer.c */ { XDR xdrs; int i; xdrstdio_create(&xdrs, stdout, XDR_ENCODE); for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) { if (!xdr_int(&xdrs, &i)) { fprintf(stderr, "failed!\n"); exit(1); } } exit(0); }
The following code example shows the revised versions of reader.
Example A-4 Reader Example (XDR modified)
#include <stdio.h> #include <rpc/rpc.h> /* xdr is a sub-library of rpc */ main() /* reader.c */ { XDR xdrs; int i, j; xdrstdio_create(&xdrs, stdin, XDR_DECODE); for (j = 0; j < 8; j++) { if (!xdr_int(&xdrs, &i)) { fprintf(stderr, "failed!\n"); exit(1); } printf("%ld ", i); } printf("\n"); exit(0); }
The new programs were executed on a SPARC system, on an Intel, and from a SPARC to an Intel. The results follow.
sun% writer | reader 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 sun% intel% writer | reader 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 intel% sun% writer | rsh intel reader 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 sun%
Note - Arbitrary data structures can create portability issues, particularly with respect to alignment and pointers. Alignment on word boundaries cause the size of a structure to vary from machine to machine. Pointers, which are very convenient to use, have no meaning outside the machine where they are defined.


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From the opening bars right through to the end, here is a song reminiscent of tacky disco disasters at a Butlin's holiday resort - where many under the influence of pina coladas think it's a good idea to swagger together doing the conga. However, whilst thoughts of such drunken hazed nights in neon Bermuda shorts and Pat Butcher plastic earrings is quite cringeworhty, it's secretly known that it was a jolly good blast at the time.
Which is exactly what 'Baby (Stand Up)' expands into. This unabashed, fruity tune is the brainchild of a Swedish band who seem to be taken by the electro twist of Erasure, Human League and Visage – only to pay to tribute the over-excessive joys of 80s Eurovision. Overall, it's one of those heartbeat rhythm guilty pleasures that will eventually get you grooving, despite all your resistance.
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Pentagon body movement study will track another leader
WASHINGTON — A Pentagon program that analyzes the body movements of world leaders to predict their actions is scheduled to issue a report on an unnamed leader in the fall, military contract records show.
USA TODAY reported Thursday that researchers for the Body Leads project backed by the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment have studied the movements of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Rear Adm. John Kirby, spokesman for Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, said Friday the project conducted studies of Putin in 2008 and 2012 but is not studying him now.
Hagel, Kirby said, has not seen the studies of Putin conducted by the team led by Brenda Connors, a research fellow at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I.
"The secretary has not read these reports and … I can tell you for sure they have not informed any policy decisions by the Department of Defense," Kirby said in an afternoon briefing at the Pentagon.
Hagel, Kirby said, "was interested in the press coverage of it, he asked some questions about it this morning, and I suspect he'll be asking more questions about it."
Since 1996, the researchers have examined 15 world leaders, Kirby said, including Putin, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. No Americans have been studied, Kirby said.
STORY:Pentagon studies Putin body language for hint of intent
Last week, the Pentagon released a plan for the latest round of Body Leads research. The plan detailed how a project psychologist will "utilize recent advances in Body Leads in the analysis of multiple pieces of footage of a world leader to generate a summary publication/deliverable for policy makers."
The goals for the latest research, the contract document shows, include reviewing "interview footage versus recorded speeches," preparing an analysis with "relevance to policy makers" and seeking potential outlets for publication.
The study of the unnamed world leader would use data assembled by Body Leads researchers to allow policy makers to use the principles of movement pattern analysis and "basic neurological patterns" (BNP) to "provide reliable and meaningful insights on the leadership and decision-making style of a given world leader."
Researchers are scheduled to provide a series of reports over the course of the year starting in May and ending in January 2015, the contract document shows.
Movement pattern analysis is the study of an individual's movements to gain clues about how he or she makes decisions or reacts to events. First developed in Great Britain in the 1940s by Rudolf Laban, a Hungarian movement analyst and dance instructor, the practice was expanded after World War II by Laban's protegé, Warren Lamb, a British management consultant.
Lamb and his associates believed each individual has a unique "body signature" consisting of how one body movement links to the next. These "posture/gesture mergers" can lead investigators to learn more about a person's thinking processes and relative truthfulness when matched with what the person says.
The patterns, Lamb believed, were as unique to each person as DNA.
The Office of Net Assessment (ONA) is an internal Pentagon think tank created in 1973 and that been led since its inception by 92-year-old Andrew Marshall, a former National Security Council aide in the Nixon administration. Its allies credit Marshall with anticipating the demise of the Soviet Union, while skeptics sayONA inflates the threat posed by U.S. adversaries, including China.
Marshall, Kirby said, "is an out-of-the-box thinker who likes to study all kinds of issues. Many of them never go beyond his office, and this is one of them."
In December, Hagel announced that ONA would no longer report directly to the secretary of Defense but to a lower-level official.
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My name is Simon Urbanek and I'm currently working as a researcher at AT&T Research Labs in Statistics Research.
More about my current research (recent publications, current projects in mathematics) can be found on the research pages. See also my AT&T research page. Most of my R-related projects are now available from RForge and GitHub.
Previously I was working as assistant researcher at the department of computer oriented statistics and data analysis at the University of Augsburg - you will find several interesting projects I am involved in on the software pages.
Already since my early age I was interested in programming, software development and networking. Some of my projects are listed in the projects section. Source code for many of these projects is available either on request or can be downloaded directly from the corresponding pages.
My hobbies beside sports (tennis, golf, badminton, diving, windsurfing and volleyball) are also teaching other people programming (perl, C/C++/Obj-C, Java, Asm, ...). I used to work a lot with Linux, but since Apple has switched to BSD-based unix I spend most of my time using Mac OS X. I am contributing to the R project and most of my programming these days is related one way or another to R, distributed computing, Macs or iOS devices.
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Days after Nancy Pelosi took the Speaker's gavel in 2007, former Speaker Newt Gingrich told Republicans at a closed-door retreat in Cambridge, Md., "John Boehner will be Speaker, and it will happen more quickly than you can imagine."
It was not Gingrich at his boldest. "I want to shift the entire planet," he told the Washington Post in 1985.
But with his remarks coming immediately after steep losses for Republicans, Gingrich showed surprising confidence in and support for the Ohio Republican.
Things have not always been so rosy between the two, whose shared history — and ideology — spans nearly 20 years in public life. They have sharply different personalities and have run the House with distinct styles. But as Gingrich rises in his presidential bid, these one-time partners in insurgency are near the height of their political power at the same time. Again.
The worst days in the Gingrich-Boehner relationship came in 1997, when a band of frustrated conservatives eager for more rapid changes launched a coup to depose Gingrich, who had been weakened by a House reprimand over ethical issues. Boehner's role in the failed uprising remains hotly disputed, but in the tumult that followed, Boehner lost his leadership position.
Boehner has not yet faced an overthrow, but he has also seen plenty of unhappiness to his right — and much more quickly. Unlike Gingrich, who was widely credited with leading the GOP from 40 years in the wilderness to a House majority in 1994, Boehner is dealing with tea party conservatives who cite allegiance to a movement, not a person.
It's interesting, then, that Gingrich and Boehner began as fiery right-wing insurgents themselves.
Gingrich forced Democratic Speaker Jim Wright (Texas) to retire over questions about a book deal (Gingrich later faced controversy over a book deal, too). Boehner rose to prominence as a member of the "gang of seven," which attacked Democrats over the House banking scandal. "John Boehner from the 8th district of Ohio," he said, introducing himself at a press conference in May 1992, standing next to Gingrich. "We're literally unable, this Congress is unable to deal with the real issues in our society today until we reform."
After a surge of legislative action following the GOP takeover in which Republicans passed most of their "Contract With America" agenda in a 100-day flurry, Gingrich settled in as a Speaker who didn't really strive for order.
"We'd go from crisis to crisis," said Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio), an ally of Boehner's. "Whereas Boehner sort of has this steady-as-she-goes approach."
"Sometimes we'd take a position on Monday and it'd change by Wednesday," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who was in the House during the mid-1990s and was a leader of the attempted coup.
Boehner, who at the time was the Conference chairman, couldn't coordinate a message for his party with Gingrich at the mic. Gingrich famously fumed in the midst of a government shutdown over the "snub" of being ignored by then President Bill Clinton during a long trip on Air Force One to the funeral of Israel's slain prime minister. "You just wonder where is their sense of manners? Where is their sense of courtesy?" Gingrich asked.
Before long, the disruptive government shutdown triggered by a fight over spending had been recast as the result of a Republican Speaker who was in a snit over a plane ride. And there was more: Gingrich talked expansively about his policy ambitions, once saying that he expected the federal agency in charge of Medicare payments to "wither on the vine," providing Democrats with ready-made ad copy.
"I was supposed to be doing communications," Boehner complained to Roll Call in October 1997, "but everybody was doing communications."
Boehner confronted Gingrich about his Air Force One gaffe in a leadership meeting. Gingrich lashed back and later stripped Boehner of some of his messaging turf, handing it to an aide, Tom Blank.
It is a matter of style that still separates the two. Boehner likes to let the House "work its will" on open-rule voteathons, but he's no loose cannon.
"Newt is probably a little more willing to think outside the box," Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) said. "John is a reformer, but he wants to be a little more within the lines."
Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, noted that Gingrich didn't delegate. With Boehner, "if you talk to the chief of staff, you've talked to the Member," Norquist said. "With Gingrich, if you didn't talk to Gingrich you didn't have him."
Looking back, Members say Gingrich's reign was chaotic, but productive.
"He brought about substantial change on his watch. Newt's energy and passion led to balancing the budget and welfare reform," Graham said.
"There's an element of chaos. Things aren't perfect, and they aren't smooth, and they aren't pretty," Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) said. "I think a president who was very effective was Bill Clinton. And certainly he and Newt were very similar in that style of leadership."
Boehner has called Gingrich a "mentor." And their 1990s rifts appear dead: He's told colleagues that he and Gingrich have "agreed to look forward, not backward."
"They realize each other's strengths and each other's weaknesses," Kingston said.
It's not the only relationship Gingrich has repaired. His allies say he's matured.
Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.), who attended Gingrich's first communion when he converted to Catholicism in 2009, said he's been "very impressed by his faith."
"I sense that the Newt Gingrich, 68-year-old Newt Gingrich with two grandkids, is a different being than he was back then," Graham said. "He has a calmness about him I haven't seen."


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Unique Aspects of the Program
A key element setting JPS apart from many other OB/GYN programs is its team concepts. This approach to patient care involves a close working relationship between faculty, residents and nurse practitioners. Residency teams consist of:
- Two general OB/GYN faculty
- Two OB/GYN residents (second and fourth year levels)
- One family medicine resident (second or third year level)
- One family medicine or obstetrics intern
- Three to four nurse practitioners
- Medical students
The residency teams have the following structure:
- 12-hour work days on average
- Fourth year residents work with faculty to manage labor and delivery (L&D), surgery (OR) and clinics for their team
- Direct faculty supervision of individual teams
- Family medicine, obstetric interns and residents work together on individual teams
- Three weeks of day shift and one week of night shift
- Two days per week in L&D
- One OR day per week, three weeks per month
- Two clinic days per week
- One colposcopy clinic day per month with pathology conference
- Scheduled time off with your team
- Two weekends off per month for second and fourth year residents
- Two faculty members per team directly responsible for two residents – to provide excellent communication with faculty and a small resident-to-faculty ratio
- Direct one-on-one operating time with generalist and subspecialty faculty
Robotic Surgery
Beginning with the intern year, robotic surgery training for our residents involves a unique curriculum that allows them to use the daVinci robotic surgery system. With enhanced optics and dexterity, the robotic system allows surgeons to address more complex cases through a laparoscopic approach, thus improving post operative pain control and shortening recovery time.


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Ever growing in Academies and opportunities, our ethos focuses on delivering a first class education while raising aspirations and outcomes of all learners. We are looking for enthusiastic, passionate and dedicated individuals to join a Family of Academies with a proven track record of career progression and staff development. Continued Professional Development is central to our philosophy of improvement throughout our Academies. Staff from across the Trust regularly share outstanding practice and develop resources to ensure all students receive a world class education.
Whilst we welcome applications from all suitable candidates; please consider that our interview process will require you to attend our Trust in person as we do not offer a remote interview process. All applicants for teaching posts must hold or be working toward QTS.
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arabica needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 25 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
Need exciting fresh imagery on business cards (background only, we will add text) and also selling material eg table cards and poster size eg A4 and A3. Product shots of frappes in Coffee, Chocolate, Vanilla, Mocha, Strawberry, Mango, Tropical and Berries are the main flavours. (we will add text etc to poster prior to printing)
Open to suggestion - but it must help me sell to cafe owner or for them to sell to the public
Desired Color Scheme:
Colour to relate to the flavours of the frappes as above
Desired Style:
Fresh and eyecatching - think of what would make you come in off the street to buy a frappe from a cafe!!
Accepted File Formats:
Would like to be able to give straight to a printer, and be able to modify or change text as required.
The selling posters will be given to cafes to help them sell to the public - needs to be attention grabbing and mouth watering. The finished product shots can be in either glass mugs or the takeaway style frappe see through plastic domed lid type cups. Could even be used on sidewalk A-frames.
Love to see use of product shots of frappes in clear domed style cups in Coffee, Chocolate, Vanilla, Strawberry, Mango - these are the main selling flavours, but if you can do it with characters or design, love to see entries.


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Chicken Fried X Factor?
God, how long has it been since I wrote about Britney? A while. Is it possible to have lost interest in Britney? I never thought I'd lose interest in Britney. But Britney's last tour, the going through the motions of the obvious money grab... if there's no passion from the performer, how can there be passion in the admirer? I need to believe that you want it if you expect me to care about it.
It's now been reported that Simon Cowell has offered Britney Spears $10 million to be on The X Factor. The first season was not what he needed it to be. After a major overhaul, he's desperate for marquee talent. Janet Jackson's name has been floating around. And now this...
A major coup on paper if it really materialises.
For Team Britney, the cash money, of course, is always the motivation. But there's compensation and then there's competence. Can Britney be present for an entire season? Do more than just smile blankly and speak in platitudes? Can she add value? Can she function? For all of Christina Aguilera's f-ckedupness, she does have opinions. And the way she communicates those opinions is entertaining. There's spark. There's FIRE.
When was the last time Britney showed you any FIRE???
Britney's fire took her to #1. Britney's fire also brought her down. The last few years has been about managing that fire, or dimming it to the point where she can exist safely. That's one way of living for someone who is no longer interested in living with a camera in her face, someone who wants to be removed from Celebrity. I've spoken to several sources close to Britney over the last few months and this has been what she's been asking for for a long time. Or at least a lengthy break from the game, to raise her children, to experience a life that isn't centered around work.
Needless to say, judging X Factor isn't exactly in line with that mission statement. But sometimes the paycheque is too hard to walk away from.
I won't lie. Of course I'd watch. At least the first few times. And I'd want her to be awesome, funny, a little crazy, saucy too, all the attributes that make for good television. Ultimately that's the great hope, intoxicating hope. This is why we all root for a comeback - hope is irresistible because it helps us believe in the possibly for ourselves. Is it reasonable to be hopeful where Britney is concerned? Thing is, it's also compelling television on the other side of that equation too, isn't it? In that way that you couldn't turn away from Anna Nicole Smith. What, then, is our responsibility as the viewer?


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Certified Quality
Founded in 1981, the International Aloe Science Council (IASC) was formed to protect the Aloe Vera industry against unfair competition and unnecessary regulations. It exists to ensure ethical practices are followed in the Aloe Vera industry, and it has a strong code of ethics that must be followed to warrant IASC status.
Companies with Aloe products that meet the high standards outlined by IASC are certified and allowed to display the International Aloe Science Seal of Approval. This critical testing program began in 1985 and in 1986, IASC announced that Forever Aloe Vera Gel and Forever Aloe Berry Nectar would be the first products to meet (and exceed) the International Aloe Science Council's high standards.
The International Aloe Science Council continues to carry out a strict inspection and testing program on Forever's Aloe, and we are proud to share that a significant number of Forever's products have been awarded with IASC's Seal of Approval.
Gluten is a protein that is found in wheat, rye and barley and it is often added to foods to help them maintain their shape, due to its glue-like properties. Intolerances to wheat and gluten are now widely diagnosed, which is why Forever is pleased to offer a wide range of products that have been certified as gluten-free.
We know that following a vegetarian or vegan-friendly diet is extremely important to many of our Forever Business Owners and customers around the world. We therefore feel that it's important to share that a wide number of Forever's products are in fact free from animal by-products and therefore considered suitable for vegetarians and vegans.
The term 'kosher' is linked to cleanliness, purity and supervision. It is a process of food production that adheres to strict dietary guidelines outlined in Jewish law. For a product to be considered kosher, it must first go through a detailed and controlled technical procedure that abides by the steps outlined in the Torah. Kosher products meet very rigid standards of purity and quality which is why Forever is proud to offer a selection of products under this category.
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Forever is against all animal testing and we are committed not to test on animals in any part of our supply chain. We proudly hold Leaping Bunny accreditation, an internationally-recognised certification for cosmetics, personal care and household products, which is awarded to companies that do not test on animals.
Since 1982, the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America (IFANCA) has been committed to helping its consumers with halal information. Halal is an Arabic word meaning lawful or permitted, and eating halal food is a dietary set of guidelines for Muslims living an Islamic lifestyle. IFANCA's certification symbol, the crescent 'M', is attached to products they certify as halal, but to qualify, goods must adhere to rigid guidelines and quality checks. Halal products are free from alcohol and questionable ingredients of animal origin, and Forever is proud to display the crescent 'M' halal certification on many of its products.
To learn more about the certifications and seals on the Forever products, visit our product pages on foreverliving.com.


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Ivy League style was born in the elite universities of America's East Coast, and went on to conquer the world. A new book, Hollywood and the Ivy Look, celebrates the years when movie stars exhibited a firm grip on a style of dressing that continues to exert great influence on what men wear.
The appeal of the real Ivy look, which bears little relation to the brightly coloured clothes that have come to be referred to as preppy (another reference to elite American educational institutions), is that it's beautifully low-key. Crudely put, this is about stealth wealth, not luxury or razor-sharp style, which is why shirts are often in Oxford cloth, sports jackets are often in tweed, suits are undarted and have soft shoulders, and lapels and ties are narrow. It's restrained and smart but also - crucially - comfortable. It speaks of the confidence (and uniformity) of the class that first adopted it.
In the 50 years since Ivy's heyday - President John F Kennedy's period in office was arguably the zenith of the era - the style has persisted. These incredible photographs, which between them offer a variety of convincing definitions of the phrase "smart casual", demonstrate why.
Hollywood And The Ivy Look, by Tony Nourmand and Graham Marsh, is out now £45, Reel Art Press)


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We think it is unlikely that Carl Icahn will win his Yahoo (YHOO) proxy fight. We also think that, even if he wins the proxy fight, he will have a tough time persuading Microsoft to buy the company for anything close to $34 a share.
With regard to the proxy fight, we still don't think Carl Icahn has a plan for Yahoo other than selling to Microsoft (and using the threat of a Google deal to force a sale to Microsoft). Carl Icahn can't win the proxy fight without the support of Yahoo's big institutional shareholders (Capital Research and Legg Mason, for example), and without a compelling Plan B, we don't think he's going to get it. (See "Sorry, Carl, We're Not Voting For Your Proxy Slate" for details).
With regard to the $34 a share, we believe that if Yahoo had handled the original Microsoft offer better, the two companies would have agreed to a deal at $34-$35 in mid-February. In February, this was the clear middle ground between Microsoft's original $31 and Yahoo's $40. However, Yahoo spent three months trying to find any deal BUT Microsoft, and, in the end, we think Steve Ballmer's enthusiasm for the deal waned (justifiably, in our opinion).
Since February, moreover, lots of things have changed. To wit:
- Microsoft has lost interest in the deal,
- The online display ad environment has deteriorated significantly, and
- Microsoft's stock price has dropped 10%.
This last factor alone, in our opinion, makes a deal above $30 unlikely. Steve Ballmer now knows that many Microsoft shareholders and employees hate this deal, and they'll hate it more if he does it at a price high enough to knock the stock down again. In light of its own stock price, we think it is perfectly reasonable for Microsoft to say "we based our original offer on the conditions at the time, and those conditions have changed. If we were to make the same offer today, it would be at least 10% lower, or, say, $28." And we don't see the club Icahn is going to wave to make Microsoft change this.
Which raises the question: Is Carl Icahn going to end up losing a boatload of money on his Yahoo bet? This seems a reasonable possibility.
We estimate that Carl's cost basis in Yahoo (mostly via options) is about $25. A few weeks ago, he was $120+ million to the good. Now, however, his paper profit is shrinking, and--in our opinion--it could soon disappear altogether.
If Carl loses his proxy fight and Yahoo doesn't pull a magical Google deal out of the hat, Yahoo's stock will likely fade toward the low $20s. If, somehow, Carl wins the proxy fight, we think the best Microsoft takeout price he'll likely be able to negotiate is in the $27-$28 range. If Yahoo and Microsoft agree to a deal at $27.50, Yahoo's stock will probably trade around $25 now and close in on $27.50 over the course of the year of pre-closing purgatory.
Unless Carl has an impressive Plan B, in other words, we think he'll either end up making only a modest amount on a transaction that, a couple of months ago, looked like a layup sale at $33--or actually lose money. We would not be surprised, therefore, if Carl soon gave up and started selling.
See Also:
Icahn Win Will Trigger Yahoo Severance Bonanza: When Will Carl Give Up and Sell?
Sorry, Carl, We're Not Voting For Your Yahoo Proxy Plan


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He presented the Vezina Trophy to Tim Thomas (Duana, this is pronounced vezz-na) at the NHL Awards last night in Vegas. Here's the video. Ummmm... look at how he saunters out on stage. Hot. Anyway, I've included here a selection of player photos from the event – and George Strombo because there are several of you who request him on a weekly basis – to satisfy some hockey porn which many of you have been asking for. Full Story


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As expected, Parenthood has been renewed for a fourth season of 15 episodes by NBC. NBC also confirms that 30 Rock has been renewed for a seventh and final season of 13 episodes. These renewals join Law & Order: SVU which was renewed for a 14th season yesterday.
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Hi, I have a question about macros. I am developing a cpp program that will be run as a standalone exe. The exe will run with a parameter inverse=true or false.
I wish to define 2 macros prefix and suffix such as their values should depend on the command line parameter inverse.Code:test.exe -inverse=true OR test.exe -inverse=false.
When inverse is true,
Whereas, when inverse is false,Code:#define PREFIX "P5F" #define SUFFIX "P5J"
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bkelly needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 50 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
Build upon an existing logo. Will award a winner in 2-3 days.
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I need a finished format that can be used in powerpoint. Would also like a format that can be manipulated in Illustrator.
I need a small logo that will be used on powerpoint slides. It's for a smal business called S*P*R Dea*ler La*bs. I've inserted asterisks to hide from search engine spiders, please remove them when preparing your submissions.
The logo will incorporate an existing logo, which can be seen here:
It's OK to resize, re-color, change, or otherwise take liberties with the initial S*PR logo.
Additionally, it should include the word "Deal*er L*abs." I'd also like it to incorporate a science or labratory theme. Perhaps an atomic symbol (like the one that shows three particles orbiting in oval-shaped circles).
Let me know what questions you have, I will try to provide very quick feedback.
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24hour Battery needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 102 designs submitted by 31 freelance designers.
Looking for a modern, professional logo that incorporates two elements:
1. time(24 hour)
2. power/energy/battery
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At the end of the day, when people see this logo, they should see that they can buy battery/energy, anytime, anywhere(with an internet connection).Â
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BBC News - Muslim peace conference condemns terrorism
"About 12,000 Muslims gathered at Wembley Arena for Islamic group Minhaj-ul-Quran's Peace for Humanity Conference.
The conference launched a campaign to get one million people to sign an online declaration of peace by 2012.
Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri said the conference would send a message that 10 years of extremist activity should end."
"(Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri ) told the audience: "In spite of statements and memorandum and condemnation of the terror, the voices of the 99% true, peace-loving Muslims have not been heard, they have been drowned out by the clamour and the noise of extremists."
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text: Jesus, Chris Colfer! I know that you star on a popular TV show, are a novelist, inspire open mindedness in our nation's youth and have now written and acted in your own movie, but can you please, for once, get off your ass and be productive for a change? Sure, some people would consider Struck By Lightning — a film you wrote before you could legally order a drink — to be a bit of an accomplishment, especially when the cast includes the likes of Allison Janney, Christina Hendricks and Rebel Wilson, but we all know you could be doing much more. Please take the time that the rest of us are using to watch your new movie's trailer to think about cutting the lazybones act. You have so much potential and it's a shame to see it all go to waste.


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Richard Ha recently posted a post on his blog entitled "TMT is Pono" where he talks about a community meeting where they created some radio spots for the Thirty Meter Telescope project.
Wayne Joseph and I left a comment for Mr. Ha and the response that he gave me is very pleasing.
Statement from UH President David McClain:
After discussions with academic and community leaders on the Big Island, and review with the Board of Regents, I can say that should TMT come to Mauna Kea, the Hawaiian community and community-at-large will benefit through an annual $1 million community benefit package, which will provide funding for locally chosen and managed educational programs on Hawai'i Island. This will begin once all permits for the project have been received.
The compensation to the University of Hawai'i, which is expected to begin at "first light", will be split equitably between a higher education package to be used for selected initiatives of the University of Hawai'i at Hilo and Hawai'i Community College on Hawai'i Island and observing time for University of Hawai'i scientists.
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The Bethel Public Library was founded in 1909 with a bequest of $2,000 and some books from Maria Parloa, a prominent Bethel citizen. It was located in a couple of rooms above a local store and was open 8 hours per week. Today, for little more than one penny of each tax dollar you pay the town of Bethel, the Library offers over 100 different services and is open 55 hours per week. Approximately 67% of the town's eligible residents have and use their library cards on a regular basis.
If you have some time to look around our home page, you'll find information on many of the Library's services listed here. But there's much more and we hope you'll join the more than 142,876 visitors last year who have already discovered the wonderful treasures the Bethel Library has to offer you from within the walls of the library building itself. And you, too, can discover it @ the Library!
Services provided by the Adult Services Department:
- Receive answers to your questions in person, by telephone, fax, email or online.
- Attend educational programs designed for adults.
- Learn how to use a mouse, create a Word document, or search the Internet.
- Reserve a computer for use in the library.
- Find information on local government and town history.
- Research your family's genealogy.
- Pick up tax forms.
- Use a photocopier.
Services provided by the Children's Library:
- Attend one of many Pre-School Story Hour sessions for children ages 3-5.
- Attend creative and fun programs for elementary school aged children.
- Participate in special Summer Reading Programs and enjoy games, prizes and a party, too!
- Find the books you need to do your summer reading school assignment.
- Explore Internet websites designed especially for parents & kids.
- Receive help with your homework and get answers to your questions.
- Find information on books and authors.
- Use a computer to write a letter, do your homework, or play a CD-ROM game.
Services provided by the Teen Library:
- Books, movies, music, and audio books for grades 6-12
- Creative and fun programs designed especially for teens.
- The books you need to complete your summer reading assignment for school
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Maybe this game has always been popular, but I see people playing while tailgating for football games. The basic idea is that you toss these two balls connected by strings (a bolo) at a ladder. Points are scored based on where the bolo lands. Here is an example:
Question: Does the center of mass of the two-ball system have a constant acceleration? Well, it should – but does it? Time for some video analysis with Tracker. (Oh, if you want to analyze this yourself, you can download the video from youtube).
First, you might need to adjust the coordinate system a little in each frame – I tried to keep the camera still, but I was just holding it with my hand). As a bonus, Tracker's autotracking feature worked pretty well for this video. After get data for both balls, it looks like this (note: I could not figure out how to get Tracker to show the plots of two different objects at the same time – I am sure it can be done and I am just an idiot).
Here is a plot of the x-position of the balls (and of the center of mass of the balls – in green):
I also fit a linear function to the center of mass data and I get:
This is what you would expect. For the system, the only force is the gravitational force, which is in the y-direction. This means that there should be no change in the velocity in the x-direction (for the system).
And here is the similar data for the y-direction:
I added a quadratic fit to this data:
My scale is way off. However, this quadratic data does fit quite nicely. Don't you think?
Modeling motion in python
Now let me go the other way. Let me model the motion of two balls attached by a string as it is thrown in the air. The motion of each ball should be similar to the data above. First, let me draw a force diagram for these balls as they are being thrown:
Key point: both balls have the same mass, so the same gravitational force. Both balls are attached by the same string, so the tension on the two balls will be the same magnitude, but opposite direction. How will I model this in python? I am going to cheat, well, not really. I am going to model the string as a super-stiff spring. There are two ways I could take into account the string. I could call it a force of constraint. In that case, the string would be whatever force it needs to be to keep the two masses the same distance apart. Or, if it is a spring, it will reach an equilibrium position and essentially do the same thing.
Here you can see that both balls have motions are rather squiggly. This is because of the spring. I could fix this – with two different methods. First, I could add a dampening force to the motion to make the spring behave more like a string. Or, I could start the two balls off with better initial conditions. If in these initial conditions, the balls are at an equilibrium distance from each other, there will be no oscillations with respect to the center of mass. One important thing to notice is that even though the two balls have squiggles, the center of mass motion is a parabola (constant acceleration).
Why does the center of mass behave?
It is all about systems. If I take both balls as the system, then there is only the external gravitational force on the system. The string exerts a force on one ball, but it exerts the same (but opposite) force on the other ball. The effect is that the system moves just like a point mass being thrown.
If you look at just one of the masses, then there are two external forces on that mass: the string and gravity. The combination of these two forces is what makes the ball move in a non-parabolic motion.
What if I just look at the motion of the balls with respect to the center of mass? Here is the real data from the video showing the trajectory with respect to center of mass.
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There are big differences in how credit union members and bank customers use mobile banking, according to research by Malauzai Software, which examined 2.2 million logins from 158,000 mobile banking users at 144 banks and credit unions.
It turns out that credit unions, in some ways, are ahead of their bank counterparts in this realm. "This starts with the number of apps in the App Store and Google Play, all the way through enrollment levels," the company reports.
Some notable differences:
• Credit unions enroll faster. Credit unions are enrolling members in mobile banking faster than banks are enrolling customers.
Typically, credit unions see monthly growth rates of 9% to 10% per month within the first six months of launching mobile banking, compared to 7% for banks.
"This runs counter to the belief that credit unions have an older member base than banks," Malauzai reports.
One interesting twist: After nine months, credit union mobile banking enrollment tends to decrease for one to three months before getting back on track.
• Bank customers transfer more money. Bank customers transfer money internally with higher values than credit union members, although both end users make the same amount of transfers in a month.
In January, bank customers' average transfer was $456 compared to $326 for credit union members. Both end users make approximately three transfers a month.
• Login frequency and session duration. Bank customers log in more frequently during the month: 16.2 times on average versus 12.1 times for members.
Session duration, however tends to be slightly longer for credit union members (one minute, 25 seconds compared to one minute, 15 seconds).
• Higher check deposits for bank customers ($536 versus $385). Both parties make about two deposits per month.
• Features and functions. Bank customers and credit union members generally have access to the same mobile banking features, but the percentages of how many active end-users actually use these features is different.
Nine-percent of credit union members make deposits using a mobile device versus 5% for bank customers. On the other hand, 31% of bank customers look at transaction history versus 18% of credit union members.
Fourteen-percent of active bank users make internal transfers versus 19% for credit union members. And 11% bank customers view check images via the mobile device versus 5% for credit union members.
What conclusions can be drawn from this information?
"The higher money transfer averages for bank customers point to them holding more money in their deposit accounts," Malauzai reports. "Banks customers also log in more frequently, showing higher engagement, though their sessions are shorter."


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Q: Fall is just around the corner. What kind of prep work should I be doing now?
Karen – McHenry, IL
A: Though we all wish summer could linger on forever, the reality of fall—and its associated pond chores—is nearly upon us. Cooler temperatures, shorter days and those brightly colored (and falling) leaves means you need to take a break from summer fun and get to work.
Here's a quick rundown of the prep work you should be doing now:
Add Bacteria
When temps start to fall (particularly below 50°F), it's time to add some cool-water beneficial bacteria to your pond, like the tiny muck-eaters in Pond Logic® Seasonal Defense®. They go to work decomposing leaves, scum and sediment that will inevitably build up over the fall and winter, which will result in better water quality for your finned friends.
Clean Up Your Plants
Cut back and remove any dead plant vegetation that's inside and around your water garden. Use a handy long-reach tool, like the Pond Scissors and Pliers, to cut back water lilies and clear away dead marginals. As the temperatures cool even more, you'll need to remove floating plants like hyacinth and water lettuce, sink your hardy water lilies and marginals into the deeper areas of your pond to protect them from freezing, and make plans to overwinter your tropical lilies inside.
Cover Up
Blowing leaves and other debris will drop into your pond during the fall, and if you don't get them out, they'll decompose over the winter and create a mucky mess in the spring. Plan to put a net over the pond, like the The Pond Guy® PondShelter™ Net Kit, to keep them out, and use a skimmer net to remove any stragglers.
Have Supplies Ready
While you're thinking about fall, now is a great time to stock up on winter water garden supplies. Purchase a six-month supply of Seasonal Defense®. Buy some Spring & Fall Fish Food, which will help your fish transition from their regular diet to one that's easier to digest in cooler temperatures. Make sure you have an aerator or deicer ready to keep a hole in the ice. Preparing ahead of time will prevent any last-minute scrambling.
Regular Maintenance
Finally, continue to perform regular maintenance chores, like keeping your filter clean and operating well, doing periodic water changes, and feeding and checking on your fish. Summer is nearly over, but don't neglect your pond-keeping routine!
Pond Talk: What other fall chores do you do in and around your water garden?
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A while ago, I had written a poem about a sleep condition that I have on and off, sleep paralysis – a sensation where you feel like you are awake, and there is something or someone in the room with you that you fear, but your body and voice is paralyzed, so you are unable to escape or defend yourself. It has to do with the how the brain paralyzes your body while you are dreaming to prevent you from physically acting out your dreams, but sometimes doesn't release the paralysis when you are awaking, or starts it too early when you are falling asleep. You then find yourself in a familiar place, like your bedroom or another area in your house, awake but not safe.
It has been awhile since I experienced it, but it has now resurfaced with a vengeance. One night in particular I had three episodes of it. Over the past few nights, there were two memorable episodes. The first felt like I woke up to the flash of a camera. Someone that I couldn't see but I knew was there standing at the foot of our bed had just taken a picture of us, and I was certain that their next move was to kill us. I truly believed we were about to be murdered. In the second one, I awoke and was looking at the bedroom window. Through the blinds, I saw a figure in a baseball hat trying to pry the window open. Fortunately, my fiancé has been my knight in shining armor every time it happened, waking me up when I started twitching or making weird sounds, and then calming me down so I can go back to sleep, which is a difficult task considering I wake up in a mild panic attack.
So for those of you who have experienced this, here are a few things I have noticed that have coincided with the return of this for me, along with the ways out of it.
- Watching creepy movies is a definite trigger. I like scary, horror, thriller movies, and the return of my sleep paralysis came after the nights when I watched House of Wax, Taken, and Seven.
- One of the things I want to do most is try to move, hoping to get my mate's attention, but the most movement that is noticeable no matter what I'm doing in my mind is twitching. What does work is trying to make a sound. It may not come out as loud as I want it, but it is more likely to get my rescuer's attention. And in the past, when I was sleeping alone, the noise I made would sometimes snap me out of it.
- Contrary to the things I have read, sleeping on my back is not always the culprit. My last several episodes happened when I was sleeping on my side.
- There have been occasions when I realize I am going into a sleep paralysis hallucination as I'm falling asleep. It feels somewhat like I'm slipping into a black hole, almost like I'm forcibly being put to sleep. When I realize this, I focus on seeing a particular person, like my fiancé, someone I know wouldn't hurt me so I wouldn't have to fear him in my dreamlike state. It's hard to do after I've had a recent episode the same night, as I'm already scared of falling asleep again in the first place. But sometimes, it works, and I pass that phase and fall into regular dreams again.
The following are some videos about sleep paralysis – what it is, and even how to learn to take control of the experience (including use of lucid dreaming techniques), something I will definitely work on if I continue having these experiences. If you experience sleep paralysis, or just find this interesting, I'd love to hear from you in the comments below.
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A graduate of the Roman Turczynowicz Ballet High School in Warsaw. As a student of the school he took part in yearly dance concerts in the Grand Theatre. He polished his skills attending sports acrobatics classes. He also took part in various dance and media projects.
Ever since he was a child he showed great interest in and skills necessary for theatre, especially comedy and parody.
Ever since September 2009 he has been a Baltic Dance Theatre dancer and can be seen in all spectacles performed by the company.
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Thank you for your interest in membership in the American Association for Cancer Research. We welcome the involvement and the membership of those who conduct cancer research and related biomedical research, as well as health care professionals, research administrators, cancer survivors, advocates, students, and others who share AACR's commitment and vision and support our mission to accelerate the prevention and cure of cancer.
Applications for membership may be submitted at any time during the year. You may either submit the official AACR membership application online or download the application and submit it to the AACR office with the required documents. Please allow 30 days for application review and approval notification.
By becoming a member you will join more than 40,000 investigators from around the world who depend on the association's programs and activities for the exchange of timely scientific information. Furthermore, you will have the opportunity to take advantage of the many benefits of membership, including substantially reduced fees for meeting registrations and journal subscriptions, as well as excellent opportunities to foster important relationships and collaborations with cancer scientists internationally. These are just some of the benefits that are offered to you as a member.
The AACR offers seven categories of membership to support each aspect of our members' professional development and enhancement in cancer research.
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I manage to up mail and running properly. Thank to ZhangHuangbin help me to solve me.
- Country: Malaysia
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- Company: OAS Sdn Bhd
- Web Site: http://www.oas.com.my/
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