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Nominations and submissions are sought for the AJ's third Women in Architecture Awards celebrating women working across the profession
Nominations are now open for the AJ's annual architecture awards.
The AJ is seeking candidates for the three honours celebrating women in architecture; the Jane Drew Prize, Woman Architect of the Year and Emerging Woman Architect of the Year.
The AJ Women in Architecture Awards celebrate excellence in design and thought leadership while promoting role models for aspiring architects and young women in practice.
Last year the Jane Drew Prize was awarded to Eva Jiřičná in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the status of women in architecture. The jury was unanimous in its decision to award Jiřičná, 74, the prestigious accolade, hailing her as an 'extraordinary architect'.
This year, the AJ is asking for your nominations for the prize, named after architect Jane Drew, who was an advocate for women in the profession.
Stirling Prize-winning architect Alison Brooks picked up the Woman Architect of the Year Award at last year's awards luncheon held at the Langham Hotel, while co-founder of Catalonia-based practice Arquitecturia Olga Felip was crowned 2013 Emerging Woman Architect of the Year.
The awards were launched in January 2012 as part of the AJ Women in Architecture campaign, which aims to raise awareness of discrimination in the workplace, while presenting role models for young women in practice through talks and events, an annual luncheon, an industry survey and three honours.
The deadline for entries to the awards is 22 November 2013. The winners will be announced at the next annual awards luncheon, to be held at the Langham Hotel on 7 February 2014.
The categories
This is a career award for the individual who has made the greatest contribution to the status and profile of women in architecture. The Award is named after Jane Drew, an advocate for women in a male-dominated profession. The award existed in a previous incarnation with a different criteria before being revived by the AJ. Nomination or entries would benefit from a brief outline of the reasons behind the recommendation including the candidate's long-term commitment to the built environment and the architectural profession. You may nominate someone else, or enter yourself.
Jane Drew Prize entry guidelines
Previous winners
Recognising excellence in design, thought leadership and role models for aspiring architects, with an emphasis on achievements during 2013, the award is open to architects, sole practitioners, women-led practices and women leaders in practice. Submissions should include a maximum 300-word statement outlining the nominee's current and completed work and practice alongside recent images of projects and design output. Applicants can nominate themselves or someone else.
Woman Architect of the Year entry guidelines
Previous winners
2012 Cindy Walters and Michal Cohen
Recognising excellence in design, thought leadership and a bright future ahead, with an emphasis on achievements during 2013, the award is open to emerging architectural designers, with a recommendation that they have been in their current role for five years or less. In a change from previous years, the upper age limit restriction of 40 has been removed from this award, however the selection committee will take a view on whether submitting architects should be considered 'emerging'. Applicants should submit a maximum 300-word statement with images outlining the nominee's current and completed work and practice. Applicants can nominate themselves or someone else.
Emerging Woman Architect of the Year entry guidelines
Previous winners
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I attended the Awards ceremony last year, and was so impressed with the standard of nominations, and general buzz around the event. So inspiring!
I have found just being at the awards events in 2012 and 2103 inspiring and empowering - and this year I am thinking hard about whom to nominate. I have been checking past Stirling and RIBA gold medal winners for other women architects to celebrate. My short-list includes Patty Hopkins who was joint winner of RIBA Gold Medal; Denise Scott Brown - for obvious reasons; M J Long; and Georgie Wolton 'forgotten' 4 member of Team 4. Am I allowed to nominate more than one?
Yes, you can nominate as many as you like, and we've taken a note of these - although people should feel free to second the nominations too, here or on Twitter
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|Syria rebels assault army base as fighting rages
|[Al Ahram] Syrian rebels Thursday launched an assault on Wadi Daif, one of the last military bases in northwestern Syria still under the regime's control, while fighting also erupted around Damascus
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, a watchdog said.
Several rebel brigades joined forces for the attack on the fortress-like base in Idlib province, while the army responded with heavy fire and shelling, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Further south, rockets struck areas between Al-Hajar al-Aswad and the Paleostinian refugee camp of Yarmuk in Damascus province, the Britannia-based Observatory said.
It added that warplanes bombed orchards in a rebel-held zone extending from Kfar Sousa near Damascus to Daraya in the southwest, where fighting has been raging for weeks. In video footage the rebels announced on Wednesday they are holding the representative of the interior ministry for the town of Daraya, the de facto local head of police.
Elsewhere, a rebel was killed in festivities in the city of Deir Ezzor in the east, while another was killed in a village near the central city of Homs, said the Observatory which relies on a network of activists and medics on the ground. On Wednesday, at least 158 people were killed in Syria, including 99 civilians, the Observatory said in its daily toll.
The watchdog has recorded more than 40,000 people killed since a popular uprising against the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
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Carbon rise spurs 'urgent' call at UN climate talks
Negotiators on Monday launched a new round of UN climate talks to warnings that a newly breached threshold was a wakeup call to tackle surging carbon emissions.
The 12-day talks under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) seek to breathe life into a quest to forge a pact on heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
Troubled by bickering, nit-picking and defence of national interests, the process coincides with the rise of carbon dioxide (CO2) to historic levels.
UNFCCC chief Christiana Figueres told delegates that US scientists in Hawaii last month had detected more than 400 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 in the atmosphere for the first time in human history.
"I do not need to remind you that we simply cannot afford not to deliver implementation results urgently," Figueres said.
After discussions among two technical bodies on Monday, the talks get down to tougher business on Tuesday.
They will try to flesh out commitments for the deal, expected to be signed in late 2015, and to beef up action in the years before the pact takes effect in 2020.
The negotiations lead up to the UNFCCC's annual minister-level talks, which this year will take place in Warsaw from November 11 to 22.
Political interest on tackling climate change at a global level peaked in the runup to the 2009 Copenhagen Summit.
But the low-level compromise that was brokered there, amid scenes of chaos and finger-pointing, has dashed expectations that the UN forum can do very much.
In the meantime, carbon emissions are reaching new record highs, driven by emerging countries that are devouring coal, oil and gas to power their economic growth.
The 195 UNFCCC parties have pledged to limit warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to pre-industrial temperatures, when CO2 levels were 270 ppm.
But carbon concentrations are escalating at around two or three ppm each year, placing Earth on track for warming of as much as two degrees C (nine degrees F) by century's end, a figure that many scientists say would be catastrophic.
According to some opinions, emissions must peak within the next few years, and then decline sharply afterwards in order to reach safer levels.
"We have already seen real changes to rainfall patterns, to crop yields, increases in storm surges and droughts that are starving and parching vulnerable people across the globe. These impacts are the heralds of a planetary emergency," said Harjeet Singh with the group ActionAid.
In an interview in Manila with AFP, Greenpeace chief Kumi Naidoo said he saw "no reason to have even any sense of optimism" that momentum had improved since the last big UNFCCC meeting, held in Doha, Qatar, last December.
"The UN negotiating system is cumbersome, it is problematic, it is tedious. However, the UN, warts and all, is the best and only vehicle we have to ensure we can move forward as a united global family to address climate change."
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The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 10, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 18, 1933
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What do your shoes say about you?
We've already announced that our Chictopia Shop "Step Into Spring" selections are at up to 20% off and now we have another treat for all Chictopians! Chictopia has teamed up with Solestruck and blogger Olivia Lopez of Lust For Life to give you an extra spring in your step! We want to see you wear an outfit with your favorite pair of shoes! Whether they're sky high, laced up, or cut out, we want to see your sole! In your post, tell us why your pair of shoes is your favorite and what they say about your personality.
The 1st place winner will receive $300 worth of Solestruck shoes and will be featured on Solestruck's blog and Chictopia's blog Everybody Is Ugly! The first runner-up will win a $150 gift card to use at Solestruck. The second runner-up will also win a $150 gift card to use at Solestruck. Pretty sweet kick into spring, eh?
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To test a profile for a particular Solaris release successfully and accurately, you must test a profile within the Solaris environment of the same release. For example, if you want to test a Solaris initial installation profile, run the pfinstall command on a system that is running the Solaris OS.
You need to create a temporary installation environment if you are testing a profile under one of the following conditions:
You want to test a Solaris 10 10/08 upgrade profile on a system that is running a previous version of the Solaris software.
You do not have a Solaris 10 10/08 system installed yet to test Solaris 10 10/08 initial installation profiles.
Boot a system from an image of one of the following:
For SPARC based systems:
Solaris Operating System for SPARC Platforms DVD
Solaris Software for SPARC Platforms - 1 CD
For x86 based systems:
Solaris Operating System for x86 Platforms DVD
Solaris Software for x86 Platforms - 1 CD
If you want to test an upgrade profile, boot the system that you are upgrading.
Respond to the system identification questions.
To exit from the installation program, type ! at the following prompt.
The Solaris installation program will assist you in installing software for Solaris. <Press ENTER to continue> {"!" exits}
Execute the pfinstall command from the shell. For details about using the pfinstall command, see Step 7 in To Test a Profile.


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When I was in junior high school, high school, and college, my American history classes always preached the same message: Franklin Roosevelt saved America by "priming the pump." That is, he took money away from the rich, filtered it through the government, and then used the brain-power built into government to decide upon the infrastructure projects we know and love today, everything from Hoover Dam, to the Tennessee Valley Authority, to the cool art deco post offices dotted around the nation. It was only when I was in college that the teachers put a name to this wondrous system: Keynesian economics.
Keynes wasn't a communist. He just wasn't a believer in marketplace efficiency. He advocated a privately-owned economy, with the government making the important decisions. (The Nazis, incidentally, used this economic approach, which they called "National Socialism.") More than that, Keynes and his acolytes believed that, when times were tough, the only entity that could respond rationally and effectively to market chaos was the government. Keynesians therefore believed that economic downturns should be met with higher taxes from the rich and more government spending directed at the poor. The theory was that the poor would take this money and pour it back into the economy, thereby priming the pump.
Apparently Keynes and his friends had never read Frédéric Bastiat's "broken window parable" or, if they had, they dismissed it as a foolishly simplistic parable that wouldn't meet the demands of the Ivory Tower and elite governance:
Have you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James Goodfellow, when his careless son has happened to break a pane of glass? If you have been present at such a scene, you will most assuredly bear witness to the fact that every one of the spectators, were there even thirty of them, by common consent apparently, offered the unfortunate owner this invariable consolation—"It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. Everybody must live, and what would become of the glaziers if panes of glass were never broken?"
Now, this form of condolence contains an entire theory, which it will be well to show up in this simple case, seeing that it is precisely the same as that which, unhappily, regulates the greater part of our economical institutions.
Suppose it cost six francs to repair the damage, and you say that the accident brings six francs to the glazier's trade—that it encourages that trade to the amount of six francs—I grant it; I have not a word to say against it; you reason justly. The glazier comes, performs his task, receives his six francs, rubs his hands, and, in his heart, blesses the careless child. All this is that which is seen.
But if, on the other hand, you come to the conclusion, as is too often the case, that it is a good thing to break windows, that it causes money to circulate, and that the encouragement of industry in general will be the result of it, you will oblige me to call out, "Stop there! Your theory is confined to that which is seen; it takes no account of that which is not seen."
It is not seen that as our shopkeeper has spent six francs upon one thing, he cannot spend them upon another. It is not seen that if he had not had a window to replace, he would, perhaps, have replaced his old shoes, or added another book to his library. In short, he would have employed his six francs in some way, which this accident has prevented.
But back to history as I learned it.
After their almost rote teaching about Roosevelt's brilliant Keynesian save of the economy, my instructors would always add, sort of as an addendum that wasn't really important, that WWII finally broke the Depression's back.
War does represent the perfect Keynesian paradigm, with the government directing the whole private-sector economy towards a single martial goal. Putting aside the twenty million dead, war was good for the Soviets too. And right up until D-Day, the Germans weren't doing so badly with a war economy either.
As the British discovered, though, once war is over, continuing a war-time economy (complete with government rationing) doesn't work. The government may be good when everyone's efforts are directed to national survival, but it's a lousy wealth creator during peace time. Only when rationing ended in the 1960s did the British economy start to recover, and its real boom happened after Maggie Thatcher de-nationalized major industries.
In America, the post-War period was the anti-Keynesian period, and that — not Roosevelt's taxing and spending — is what really broke the Depression's back. The late 40s and the 1950s celebrated American individualism, innovation, capitalism, and freedom. With Communism as a foil, America was almost aggressively free. And when it periodically tried to put the brakes on that freedom by raising taxes, the market foundered. John F. Kennedy got it:
"In today's economy, fiscal prudence and responsibility call for tax reduction even if it temporarily enlarges the federal deficit – why reducing taxes is the best way open to us to increase revenues." — John F. Kennedy, Jan. 21, 1963, annual message to the Congress: "The Economic Report Of The President"
Although Kennedy did get his lower taxes, pressure from the Left resulted in another Keynesian experiment in the 1970s. The economy cratered. Reagan released the economy from tax pressure and it was revitalized. Bush Sr. ("Read my lips: no new taxes") raised taxes again, and down the economy went. Clinton, under pressure from Republicans, decreased spending, which helped the economy grow again. Bush Jr. went one step further and lowered taxes, and the economy roared again — and that was true despite 9/11 and a long war.
Meanwhile, though, the Democrat controlled Congress that Bush got in 2006, while it didn't address taxes, starting putting the government thumb on the scale again. Rather than backing off of banks (as McCain and Bush suggested), it increasingly limited what they could and couldn't do. This government pressure resulted in banks being forced to give loans to people with no equity. The banks got creative to avoid risk, packaged, and resold these loans. It looked good for a while, and then, in 2008, the bubble burst.
Enter Barack Obama. Obama spent the first half of his presidency doing classic Keynesian pump priming by pouring massive amounts of government money into his pal's pet projects. Many of those projects went bankrupt, others ran over cost, others never got off the ground. Obama also laid the foundation for an ostensibly private, but still government-controlled medical sector (1/6 of the American economy). The economy alternately stagnated or sagged. Romney fully understood the problem, but was never able to articulate the solution. Since he couldn't sell the public on the free market (not to mention that he was trying to push back against the appalling character attacks leveled against him), the public in 2012 chose the devil it knew: Obama.
Obama has now begun the second half of his presidency by doing Keynes on steroids: on New Year's Day, he got significant tax increases on producers, without in any way stopping his spending. Obama, though, has done something Keynes never imagined. Obama has not used the pump priming money to put shovels (or even spoons) in the hands of those who are supposed to reinvigorate the economy. Doing that at least gives those receiving government money a job (which is good for the resume and a sense of self-worth) and it gives them an ownership interest by allowing them to create a lasting benefit to society. What Obama is doing is just handing out money in the form of pure welfare. He's not creating a working class; he's creating a parasite class.
Classic Keynesian economics has never worked. Obama is now trying the un-classic version. If I were a betting woman, I'd say that, not only will Obama's experiment fail, it will fail on a much vaster level even than Roosevelt's Keynesian debacle. (And if you want to know just how bad Roosevelt's failure was — and how grossly misleading my public school history education was — you must read Amity Shlaes' The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. Roosevelt's economic experiments were a disaster, and it was only through the aggressive propaganda flowing out of Hollywood, media, and educational institutions, propaganda that escalated after WWII, that we remember his presidency as an economic success.)


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Court Says Gov't Can't Double Dip And Charge Email Hackers With A Felony For Both Hacking & Hacking Email
from the good-ruling deptOrin Kerr has an interesting blog post, discussing how the government has been rejected in an attempt to turn a misdemeanor email hacking case into a felony, by finding two overlapping laws to charge the guy with for the single action. Kerr nicely summarizes the issue as follows:
Federal criminal law has two overlapping misdemeanor criminal offenses that prohibit hacking into an e-mail account. The first, 18 U.S.C. 2701, specifically prohibits hacking into an e-mail account stored on an ISP's server. The second, 18 U.S.C. 1030(a)(2), generally prohibits hacking into any computer, which will always be implicated when a person hacks into an e-mail account. The present overlap is largely a historical accident. When the two sections were enacted, both in 1986, Section 1030's scope was very narrow. There was little overlap. But Section 1030 has been expanded over time so that it now covers every computer. As a result, 2701 in its current form is redundant: It doesn't do any work that 1030 doesn't already do. However, that overlap matters because violations of 2701 and 1030(a)(2) are normally misdemeanors, but Section 1030 contains an enhancement: The crime becomes a felony if it is conducted in furtherance of another crime. The present overlap between 1030 and 2701 raises the prospect that prosecutors might try to use the felony enhancement to engage in a kind of double-counting. Here's the question: Can DOJ charge hacking into an e-mail account as a felony by claiming that it is a 1030 violation in furtherance of a 2701 violation?Apparently the Justice Department originally tried this with the guy arrested for hacking Sarah Palin's email, but later changed the charges. However, in this other case, United States v. Cioni, the 4th Circuit appeals court has rejected this line of reasoning by the government, and made it clear that it's attempting to double dip over a single action in order to turn a misdemeanor into a felony. The court points out that this pretty clearly violates US principles on double jeopardy:
Looking simply at the allegations of Count 2, it does appear that the government charged Cioni with unauthorized access or attempted access to information in [Victim 1]'s e-mail account and sought to elevate that charge to a felony by alleging that the access to [Victim 1]'s e-mail also constituted a violation of § 2701. Moreover, the facts that the government offered into evidence in support of Count 2 confirm this reading. . . . We thus conclude that a merger problem did arise, implicating double jeopardy principles, and that therefore the felony conviction on Count 2 must be vacated, and, as requested by Cioni, the count remanded for entry of a simple misdemeanor conviction, under § 1030(a)(2)(C).Always good to see courts get things right.
. . . . Count 4, which claims two crimes, one in furtherance of the other, is actually based on Cioni's single unsuccessful attempt to access [Victim 2]'s AOL electronic e-mail account. Moreover, this is all that the government proved at trial. If the government had proven that Cioni accessed [Victim 2]'s e-mail inbox and then used the information from that inbox to access another person's electronic communications, no merger problem would have arisen. But the government charged and attempted to prove two crimes using the same conduct of attempting, but failing, to access only [Victim 2]'s e-mail account. This creates a merger problem, implicating double jeopardy principles.
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welcome to the new chookooloonks!
Thanks so much for your patience, friends -- and welcome to the brand new Chookooloonks! There are still a few tweaks and updates to be done, but for the most part, the site design is complete.
As you've probably noticed, the site design is very different from what it looked like last week, or even the design incarnation before that one. And while there are a few technical reasons why I decided to change the look of the site so drastically, there are a few bigger personal reasons, as well. For example:
• I promised myself that I was going to focus more on the Story -- and I found that if I were going to do so in any real way, I needed to get rid of any distractions on the site -- really pare it down, so that it focused on the words and the images. To this end, I eliminated the sidebar on the blog -- now, when you visit, you'll just see stories and images, and nothing else.
• I remembered why I started blogging in the first place. Or to be more honest, I recently realized that I had been buying into the current social media thinking that getting viewers to click on pages as often as possible to maximize page views as a good thing, even more important than actually creating content, and I was depressing myself. Seriously, what had happened to me? I started blogging almost 10 years ago because I wanted to share words and images, not because I wanted to maximize page views! This realization was a true wake-up call, and reminded me what was important to me, and what really motivates me to shoot and write every day. Besides, nothing bugs me more when I'm visiting a site than when it requires me to click-click-click to see images, or look through galleries. And if it bugs me, I'm assuming it bugs you -- so I was mindful of minimizing clicks as much as possible in this design.
• Finally, my birthday's this week! Last year when I turned 45, I actually had a hard time with my birthday for a variety of reasons, but most of which boiled down to my not having taken care of myself as well as I should have been in recent years. Since that time, quietly, privately, I've been making some adjustments -- small, simple changes, nothing drastic (I've become exceedingly "anti-drastic" when it comes to taking care of myself) -- that mostly have to do with really paying attention to what my body wants, and absolutely nothing to do with whatever the current "intelligence" is on "what's good for you." The result is that I'm feeling better than I have in a long time. And now it's a year later, and I'm actually quite excited about my birthday! So I wanted my site to reflect how I'm feeling about myself these days: clearer, if that makes any sense, and more open, both physically and mentally.
So, given all this, I present to you the new, more "me" site! As I mentioned, there are still a few tweaks here and there that need to be done, but while I'm making them, please feel free to poke around: the gallery page is new, featuring some of my favourite shots from some wonderful places. Also, please check out the shop page -- I'm finally offering signed, personalized copies of The Beauty of Different (US only for now, I'm afraid, but stay tuned for some ebooks in development that I'm getting really excited about, and will be available to you wherever in the world you might be). And please, let me know if you see anything that's buggy -- because I want Chookooloonks to be a place that you're excited to visit.
And now, to celebrate!
Since it's both my birthday week and the launch of the new Chookooloonks, I figure that there can't be any celebration without gifts, right? So I'm doing a giveaway -- one that reflects the new focus on words and images, and will hopefully inspire you to do the same. When I was planning this, I knew I wanted feature products made by people who make it their business to buck trends, and who are fastidious in staying true to themselves as they create their work.
Naturally, Cheryl Schulke came to mind.
Cheryl is the founder and creative mind behind Stash, a company located in an old mattress factory in Sealy, Texas, that hand-makes beautiful leather bags.
I visited Cheryl and Stash a few months ago, and at the end of the visit, walked out with a gorgeous camera strap (shown in the process of being made in the image above, and which has remained on my camera since that day) and a beautiful, leather-bound journal. Both of them wear wonderfully, and since they, in essence, represent both words and images in my life, I thought they would be perfect. I purchased two new ones, and I'm going to give them away today.
But that's not all!
Last week, I was sharing a preview of the site with my friend Jeannine over at The ONE Campaign, and she was so excited at how the Kenya and Ethiopia galleries were looking that she offered to add to my little giveaway. So, courtesy of the awesome folks at ONE, I'm also giving away this beautiful scarf by FashionABLE. You might remember that I visited the FashionABLE facility in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- their story is really amazing. And for the record, I have this particular scarf, and it's even more gorgeous in person (and, like the camera strap and the journal, the scarf is unisex, too! And seriously, I love a man in a scarf).
And finally, of course, I'll throw in a copy of The Beauty of Different, inscribed to whoever you'd like.
To enter to win, please simply leave a comment below telling me where you are (city and country), because nothing chuffs me more than "seeing" you all, all over the world. I'll pick one person at random to win it all -- the camera strap, the journal, the scarf and the book, a total of almost US$ 300 worth of awesome -- and I'll announce the winner by updating this post tomorrow, my birthday.
Thanks, friends -- for introducing yourself in the comments below, and for supporting Chookooloonks as you have for all of these years. It really means the world to me.
Update, July 16, 2013:
Thank you so much for all your lovely birthday wishes! According to Random.org, the winner of all of the Stash-FashionABLE-book goodness is Alison Lee, who said, "Congratulations on the new site, Karen, it's beautiful! I just bought a new DSLR and have been looking for a camera strap. The Stash one is gorgeous! U'm in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Talk about far flung. :)" Congratulations, Alison! Look for an email from me to get your details.
And thanks again, everyone. You truly made my day.


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I tried to do some math in a blog post of mine and came to one with a floor function. I wasn't sure how to deal with it so I just ignored it, and then added the ceiling function in my final equation as that seemed to give me the result I wanted. I'm wondering what is the correct way of handling these functions in equations?
What I did was this:
$$\begin{align} G(n) &= \left\lfloor n\log{\varphi}-\dfrac{\log{5}}{2}\right\rfloor+1 \\\\ n\log{\varphi} &= G(n)+\dfrac{\log{5}}{2}-1 \\\\ n &= \left\lceil\dfrac{G(n)+\dfrac{\log{5}}{2}-1}{\log\varphi}\right\rceil \end{align}$$
How should I have done this in a correct way? How do I work with the ceiling and floor functions when I shuffle around with equations?


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The dishes you'll find on our menu are the exact dishes you can find in Florentine restaurants dating back hundreds of years. Tuscan cooking is incredibly simple, relies heavily on fresh ingredients, and good olive oil. We are not trying to revolutionize or reinvent Tuscan cuisine. By focusing on traditional Tuscan recipes, and using the best quality meats and vegetables, we are able to present honest and simple dishes that honor the past and let the ingredients speak for themselves.
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Good Lord. Boys are complex beings. My boys are best friends and worst enemies and that dynamic changes on a dime. They'll be playing and then all of a sudden one will punch the other in the face. Then they'll help the hurt one stop their bloody nose. It's very weird. I can hardly keep up with the love/hate fest. But sometimes... sometimes it is total love fest.
I've talked a couple of times about my boys and their affinity for pillows. They used to spend hours making the perfect "pillow stack" to jump in- like a pillow pool. But these days they are getting smarter. Their capacity for engineering has taken a huge leap and a pillow stack is no longer cutting it. Now they are into "caving".
All over my house are these intricate cave systems made out of pillows. The pillows are carefully stood on their ends and balanced perfectly- the big ones supporting the little ones. Sometimes these caves get very elaborate with each boy getting their own "bedroom" in the cave. One cave even had a storage unit to put their games and snacks in.
I'm trying to get over the fact that these tunnels and caves make my house look like a disaster and block my path to the kitchen and the bathroom. It's hard to be mad when they are having so much fun. I think my favorite one of their cave houses was this one:
Please ignore my mess. I thought about cropping it out, but I figured as long as my undies weren't spilling out of the hamper, then showing our real life wasn't so bad!
The reason it's my favorite cave house is because of this:
That pillow case draped over the laundry hamper is their TV. For two straight afternoons they stayed curled up in their cave "watching" this TV. The programming must be riveting.
Now, if I can just figure out how to keep them from beating the crud out of each other, I'd be in business! About ten minutes after this was taken, one jumped off the bed on top of the other one WWE style and nearly crushed him. I will never figure out the complexity that is the brother relationship. Love/Hate. Brothers. Best friends. I LOVE it (96% of the time)!
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Well.....all u bollywood fans, cum forward! Or, if u dont like the movies, u may cum forward as well!
The latest one ive seen is Guru!
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Well.....all u bollywood fans, cum forward! Or, if u dont like the movies, u may cum forward as well!
The latest one ive seen is Guru!
I've yet to see Guru, but the latest one I've watched was Salaam-e-ishq and Bhagam Bhag.
How were they? They were both promoted hugely. How did they actually turn out?
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Bhagam Bhag was alright, nothing special, just the usual comedy.
Salaam-e-ishq, I personally, quite liked... It was a good mix of almost everything. The songs were pretty good too.
The last one I watched was 'No Entry' when it first came out. My mom watches a bunch of them with the same old actors and sometimes I watch with her, but I couldn't tell you their names.
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Last one I watched was Guru. Overall a good movie. The first half is excellent. The second half kinda loses steam. Abhishek is awsome. I'm gaining more respect for him with each new movie of his.
Guru was a fairly good film for me as well. I thought the court scene in the end had elements of The Aviator in it, except, while The Aviator used logic, Guru didn't. If you tell any court that you have indeed done what you are accused are, you are proving yourself guilty. They probably wanted to give a moral ring to it by being freed by the jury (without manipulations). Shahrukh Khan was taking revenge and hence committed the crimes in Baazigar, Amitabh Bachchan in Sarkar wouldn't agree to doing the drugs business as it harmed the people (as opposed to Brando in The Godfather who didn't because it would mean losing support from the police). So it is some thing to be expected in a hindi film.
bollywood films just arent my thing
Guru was quite a decent movie.
I watch more of South Indian movies, pretty much cover 3 languages from the south tbh.
Wanted to see Road to Kabul but it isnt out in video/dvd yet where i live and i just missed it when i was in India last.
Overall a decent movie.
Anyhoos, in the last 3 years, i've watched only 5 hindi movies : Rang-de-basanti, Lagaan, Mission Kashmir, Devdas(new one) and Brahmachaari ( starring Shammi Kapoor, quite old).
Overall, Lagaan, Roja, Mother India, Bombay, Mission Kashmir, Devdas(original, not the new one), Anand, Koshish ( imo, best movie ever made in bollywood) and Sholay are definitely the best bollywood films i've ever seen.
Of the above, i find that Anand, Devdas, Mother India and Koshish are extremely underrated.
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Greg Cote: 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick can prove he's legit and not a fleeting phenom
Colin Kaepernick's full introduction to America happened to occur on a Super Bowl stage, where the probing light reaches all corners and crevices, and so you find out things like this:
The 49ers' young quarterback got a small pet tortoise as a boy and now Sammy weighs 115 pounds.
He is dating an aspiring model who goes by the name J.Marie. (Colin is, not Sammy).
His favorite tattoo of the many covering both arms is one that reads 'My Gift Is My Curse' because being an NFL quarterback makes it tougher to "just walk around as a normal guy."
He reads the Bible every day and watches no sports on TV.
He calls Red Robin his "favorite haunt," thrilling the restaurant chain so much it has offered Kaepernick free food for life if he beats the Ravens on Sunday.
And this, one of those too-good-to-be-true things: In fourth grade Colin wrote himself a letter predicting he would grow up to be 6-4 "and then go to the pros and play for the Niners or Packers even if they aren't good then."
Well, Kaepernick is 6-4, he has the Niners in a Super Bowl for the first time in 18 years, and he is poised to become something he dared not predict in that letter to himself: One of the biggest sports stars in the country.
A true story
Winning a Super Bowl isn't an automatic bridge there for every quarterback, but it can be for Kaepernick because his story is too good.
He was a mixed-race baby given up by an unwed teen mom who couldn't handle the responsibility, and then was adopted at six weeks old by a white Wisconsin couple.
The tattoos alone are such an aberration for a QB that one major website columnist this season, apparently trying very hard to play the Out Of Touch Middle-Aged White Guy, lambasted Kaepernick as setting a bad example.
The reality is, in an increasingly diverse America, with race lines blurred and labels tossed out, a half-white, half-black, tatted-up QB seems closer to who we are than most other guys.
I'm not sure winning on Sunday will make Kaepernick the face of the NFL, but it should make him one of the faces the NFL wants out front if the idea is to appeal to a younger, hipper demographic.
Kaepernick, 25, wears his Niners cap with a flat bill, hip-hop style. He has the look of someone you could drop into a Jay-Z video, a mosh pit or a party at Justin Timberlake's house and he'd fit right in.
He could be a star
He is a dull interview, a bad quote, but what he does on a football field struts and preens. His tattooed arm is a cannon. His legs set a QB-record with 181 yards rushing in his first playoff game. He'll be modest in his answers, and yet he bends to kiss his flexed biceps after touchdowns. Somebody called that "Kaepernicking." Now Colin has moved to trademark the phrase.
He could be a flaring, fleeting phenom, a Tim Tebow or Jeremy Lin who is the flavor of the month but then melts and disappears.
Or he could become a sort of counter-culture, Gen X superstar, a new model for the dual-threat, "read option" quarterback of the future.
The earliest evidence suggests the latter.
Kaepernick started at midseason only because Alex Smith had a concussion, but coach Jim Harbaugh kept him in even after Smith got healthy. Harbaugh became the bold genius for that decision only because Kaepernick has succeeded in a way that stirs the imagination.
He was little known as the season began, just the sixth quarterback drafted in 2011, somebody from the University of Nevada, just a guy trying to get off the bench.
"Trying to find a way to get in a game," as he said earlier this week.
Now, with all of nine career starts, he'll be the third-least experienced QB to start a Super Bowl. Only the Rams' Vince Ferragamo (seven starts entering the 1980 game) and the Giants' Jeff Hostetler (six in 1991) had fewer.
Kaepernick has a chance to not only win, but to join the pantheon of Super Bowl QBs who truly stand out.
I'm not sure the Ravens' Joe Flacco does. The Flacco theme entering this game is, "Is he elite?" Rule of thumb: If you have to ask, the question is no, or at least, charitably, not yet. Flacco does not excite or enjoy the off-field panache that Kaepernick does.
He owns stage
Kaepernick reminds us why the quarterback owns the Super Bowl stage — even this one. The preamble has been mostly about the coaching Harbaugh brothers and about Ray Lewis' emotional farewell. But once the game kicks off the championship will literally and figuratively be in the QBs' hands.
Maybe that is why 25 of the 46 Super Bowls MVPs have been passers.
The Super Bowl is not an automatic bridge to stardom at the position — winning QBs have included career also-rans such as Mark Rypien, Trent Dilfer and Brad Johnson — but as often as not the Super Bowl makes or secures legends at the position.
Like Joe Namath, with his famous "guarantee" in 1968, or Kenny Stabler's swagger in 1977 (any QB nicknamed "Snake" has a leg up), or Doug Williams as the SB's first black quarterback in 1987. Men like Terry Bradshaw, John Elway, Brett Favre and Peyton Manning were lacking until the moment the Super Bowl completed them. Joe Montana and Tom Brady became football royalty because this game was their kingdom.
Watching what this game does to Kaepernick and Flacco, what it means to their reputations moving forward, will be interesting.
I also find intriguing what these two QBs and this matchup tell us. Remind us, really:
There is no verifiable formula to get to the Super Bowl. No reliable road map.
The starting point
This should be both exhilarating and terrifying to teams like the Dolphins who are trying to get here, trying to divine that formula or find that map.
An elite QB is the starting point, right? Well, maybe. Except that Brady, Manning, Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers are all watching Sunday's game just like you are while some little-known guy with tattoos takes over their stage.
A dominant team is required, right? Well, hmm. The reigning-champion Giants were 7-7 at one point last season, their coach rumored on the firing line, before they got hot late. The Ravens this year are the seventh wild-card team in the past eight years to reach the Super Bowl.
The 49ers and Ravens instruct as that, even in the space-age NFL where the quarterback is king, a team still can ride a strong ground game and big defense.
And yet the quarterback still is likeliest to steer Sunday's result.
The TV cameras will focus on the coaching brothers and the storyline will center on Lewis' farewell, but chances are the game will be decided because one of these two things happens:
Flacco will make his case for that elusive "elite" tag.
Or Kaepernick will properly introduce himself as America's newest star, a tatted-up, biceps-kissing gust of fresh air.


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Deal Pusher is the hippest slickest way to receive and redeem deals with smart phones.
I was the Brand Marketing Manager of a performance footwear company but I've moved on to pursue my life long entrepreneurship goal is tech savvy San Francisco. We are looking to build our creative team and hope you will become a key team member over time.
Our other team members include a mobile programer with experience at a well known social tech company and a successful business owner who consults for Deal Pusher.
The target audience is 21- 35 year, male or female, smart phone users, middle class, college education, enjoys going out with significant other or friends several times per week, an early adopter or early majority for new technologies, internet savvy, lives in a large city, hip, and an opinion leader among friends, heard of groupon or similar company...
The logo should include the words "Deal Pusher" and should not include the initials DP (they have a negative connotation that we are not trying to communicate)
Design Look - sexy polished and LIGHT INFUSED background with http://www.thecoolhunter.net colors
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The UCSD men's water polo team, currently ranked 14th in the nation, has battled through a tough schedule with a relatively young team. Driver Ben Miller is one of only three seniors on this year's squad and has played an important role for the Tritons throughout the season, scoring five goals and adding 14 assists. "Ben's worked his tail off," says Head Coach Denny Harper, "and has positioned himself to hopefully make a major contribution at the WWPA Championships." The Tritons now prepare to host No.3 UCLA this weekend in their final home game of the year. As the team prepares for the Bruins and a WWPA title defense two weeks later in Colorado Springs, Miller took some time to answer questions about his season and career, as well as what lies ahead, both in and out of the water.
Q: With your college career heading into the final stretch, do the past five years seem like a blur?
MILLER: Without a doubt. I remember coming in as a freshman with [fellow seniors] Curtis [Williamson] and Simon [Schafer] as if it was yesterday. There are moments of nostalgia, especially in hell week, when we don't even need to say anything to each other...we all just seem to recollect the same memories from our early years because we spent every waking minute together.
Q: How has your role, as one of only three seniors on the team, changed this season?
MILLER: My role hasn't changed a lot this year as far as my game is concerned. I haven't been a real big goal scorer in my career, but my speed and quickness allows me to get the drop on a lot of players in transition. This year, I was fortunate to see some starting minutes, but I feel my real specialty is coming off the bench with guys like Sidd [Menon] and Simon and earning ejections and making the other team seriously regret not being faster and stronger. A lot of us have become experts at playing a sort of shock and awe type of role for the program. We embrace the physicality and challenge.
Q: What does this year's Triton team need to work on in hopes of repeating last season's success in the WWPA Tournament?
MILLER: We need to relax and convert our six-on-five opportunities. On every team I've been on, we out-draw everybody in our conference by far in ejections earned. A lot of the reason we've had such a hard time getting started this year has been our inability to convert these opportunities. It comes with experience and confidence. There is no doubt in my mind that when we convert these opportunities and play good defense, we are more than capable of defending our title.
Q: To this point, what has been the most memorable moment during your men's water polo career?
MILLER: The most memorable moment for me was in the locker room after we won the WWPA Championship last year. It was the first time I was able to be part of a championship team in my life. I felt proud to bring the title back where it belonged for all the guys I'd played with before, my brother [former Triton goalie Dave Miller], and for Denny. The look on Denny's face after that game and on the faces of all my teammates is what will stick with me forever. We all knew that the hard work had paid off, we were finally allowed to feel proud of ourselves for proving everybody wrong, because we weren't really expected to do much that year. That's why I'm not worried about our team this year. We have a lot of fight left in us.
Q: With UCLA coming to play at Canyonview this weekend, what memories does that bring up for you in regards to previous match-ups with the Bruins?
MILLER: It brings to mind my second most memorable moment thus far. Our victory over UCLA last year was phenomenal and it let us know we were capable of doing a lot. I look forward to having that same feeling after Saturday's game, regardless of what the scoreboard reads. UCLA is a great team, maybe the best in the nation, and they will attest to the fact that everybody needs to be careful about coming into our house. They will undoubtedly come fired up as will we. It will be a good experience for both teams in preparing for the playoffs.
Q: What area of your game have you worked the hardest at to improve over the course of the season?
MILLER: Well it's undoubtedly been challenging for me to get my shot up and running again before this season started. I've had some bad shoulder problems over the years, so maintaining my strength and mobility have been challenging. Currently, they are both attached and I can throw the ball hard when I need to, so all is well. A shot is something that you are constantly working on and trying to improve, so as long as I'm healthy, I should keep improving.
Q: Did you or any of your teammates suffer property damage or get evacuated during the recent
MILLER: In addition to [Associate Head Coach] Brad Kreutzkamp, Peter [
Q: How did the team practice and stay prepared for the upcoming games during the campus closure?
MILLER: It wasn't easy. We play a unique sport where finding a place to play isn't as easy as going to a park with a baseball diamond, soccer field, or basketball courts. Denny emailed us dry land workouts which we conducted as a team. That was interesting as well, if you can picture 20 guys crammed into a living room and kitchen doing jumping jacks, running in place, push-ups, and every other imaginable exercise. Fortunately, the administration up at LMU was kind enough to let us use their facilities for two days before our road game, which helped us work out the kinks a little bit.
Q: Your brother, Dave Miller, was a goalie and co-captain for the UCSD men's water polo team when you were a freshman in the 2004-05 season. You play different positions, but did he ever give you any important water polo advice and how did he help you with the transition onto the team?
MILLER: Dave is an amazing water polo player. He's an even better brother. He understands the game as well as anybody I've ever met, which is probably why
Being a goalie, he has helped me a lot with my shot. He tells me what will get him to jump and what kinds of motions throw him off. It lets me get into other goalies' heads a little bit I guess. He comes to every home game and stays afterwards to give me feedback.
Dave is the type of guy you can't help but love. He helped me coming into the program because it's easy to get down and worry that you might not make it through the training. But if he could do it...I could do it. We helped each other a lot in that way I suppose. It also helped because no matter how much fun the other older guys had with me in the water, I knew that the best and worst would always come from Dave, so I had nothing to fear. All the guys on the team are sort of like brothers in that sense: we challenge each other, we respect each other, admire each other's abilities, and take good care of each other. Without a doubt, Dave has been my rock in my time here at
Q: As a Political Science major, what have been some of the most interesting classes/teachers you've had at UCSD?
MILLER: A few of my favorite classes have been in the Poli 142 series. Victor Magagna is an incredibly knowledgeable man and a great professor as well. Also, John Stoessinger is world renowned for his publications and probably has the most incredible life story I've ever heard. If you ever have a chance to talk with any of these men don't pass it up.
Q: What do your post-graduate plans include?
MILLER: The first thing I plan on doing after graduation is get my shoulders fixed up, then taking a two week nap. I'm in the process of applying to a variety of different jobs, and I'm thinking about law school still. I'd like to do something that enables me to travel and still earn money.
Q: What will you miss most about your time at UCSD?
MILLER: I'm going to miss it all. The first thing that comes to mind is the friendships...polo guys and the other friends I've been fortunate enough to make. To be honest, after that I'd have to say it's the access to all the great facilities we have here. Everything ranging from the libraries, to the pools, to the gyms, to the career opportunities and abroad programs we have here. If there is one piece of advice I'd give to the rest of UCSD students it would be to embrace your workload and get lost in the opportunities we have here. We are really lucky to have all the cool stuff here on campus...take advantage of it while you still can!
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