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This resulted in an optimization match by various people, which Behdad has somehow summarized here (read also the comments).
Fast forward to December 2006, when I was going over the new Unicode book and was trying to make sure Gnome and friends are Unicode compliant. One of the bugs I filed was this one, and some of the answers I received somehow discouraged me from continuing the effort which basically led me to stop the whole thing. (The bug is about getting rid of legacy support for an old version of UTF-8 which is now considered by the Unicode Standard to be a security problem.)
Then, last month I have been reading some draft material Donald Knuth is putting online, for his infamous Volume 4 of The Art of Computer Programming. One of the pre-fascicles he has put online is about Bitwise Tricks and Techniques, which I really enjoyed reading. Knuth, being a Unicode fan, had inserted some interesting excercises, regarding UTF-8 and UTF-16.
One of the exercises included a magic (!) formula to replace the utf8_skip_data array (see Federico's post again). It is provided in exercise 197.
Knuth's formula not only needs no memory reference, it's also branch-free (which is considered very good for many modern CPU architectures). The formula does it with four operations, which would become five when adapted to the present formulation used in glib. The only problem is that it only works for proper UTF-8, the version the Unicode Standard requires, but not glib's UTF-8.
I tried to extend Knuth's formula to glib's UTF-8, and did it on paper with two more operations (seven instead of five), using 64-bit boolean arithmetic.
After chatting with Behdad, he told me it's not really worth it to replace the array with the formula (I cannot understand the reasons well enough to explain them here, but I trust him), but he was interested in seeing my extended formula.
So last night, I tried to make sure my formula works fine before emailing it to Behdad. And I found a bug, which meant that I needed to add two more operations to get it done properly, a total of nine operations.
This is my new formula, which is tested and works fine. It may not provide exactly the same results as the utf8_skip_data array for all values, but many of the array's cells are redundant. For necessary cells, it provides the same results:
def utf8_skipper(c): t = (c >> 1)^0x7F return ((0x924900009201B128 >> ((t & ~(t >> 1))*3)) & 7)+1
Can you do it in less that nine operations? Or with 32-bit boolean arithmetic only? [With no branching or memory access, of course.]
This may just be a mental exercise, but please email me if you could, as I'm starting to feel an affection towards the problem!


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Sanford Health Registered Nurse (RN) Inpatient - Medical/Surgical in Bismarck, North Dakota
Job Title: Registered Nurse (RN) Inpatient | Medical/Surgical | Bismarck
City: Bismarck
State: North Dakota
Department : 4NW GENERAL SURGICAL NURSING
Job Schedule: Full Time
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Hours Per Shift: 12 hr
The Registered Nurse is responsible for utilizing the nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, outcomes/planning, implementation & evaluation) to provide individualized nursing care to designated area. The RN collaborates with other inter-professional colleagues, including physicians, to plan, implement and evaluate care. Documents patient history, symptoms, medications and care provided in compliance with applicable standards/regulations. The RN is expected to utilize technology to enhance quality patient care, to collaborate with physicians and inter-professional team members, effectively delegate to and supervise unlicensed personnel, assume overall nursing accountability for a patient assignment and serve in leadership roles on department/organizational tasks forces and committees. The RN demonstrates competency and practices within the full scope of nursing expertise/knowledge and utilizes appropriate age and population specific standards as designated in the specific care area or unit. Must have effective communication skills to collaborate, negotiate and resolve conflicts, situations, and/or issues with peers, inter-professional colleagues, patients and families. Must have strong clinical reasoning and critical thinking skills to analyze data and appropriately respond to changing situations. The RN functions within the scopes and standards of nursing practice as outlined in the Nurse Practice Act and Administrative Rules in state of practice and licensure. The Sanford Professional Nursing Practice recognizes the Scope and Standards of Practice (2015) and the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (2015) as published by the American Nurses Association as the foundation of nursing care delivery and professional conduct.
4NW is a 28-bed unit operated on a 24-hour basis located on the 4th floor of Sanford Health Bismarck. The most frequent diagnosis for admission to this unit is bariatric surgery, abdominal surgery, and medical management of the Med/Surg patient. Full time position available, Day/Night rotating shifts, 12 hour shifts, rotating weekends and holidays.
Currently holds an unencumbered RN license with the State Board of Nursing where the practice of nursing is occurring and/or possess multistate licensure if in a NLC state. Obtains and subsequently maintains required department specific competencies and certifications (i.e. ACLS, PALS, TNCC, NPR etc.). Depending on the unit or department where the RN is employed there are requirements such as ACLS certified within nine months of employment; TNCC certified within the first year of employment; CCRN preferred specialty for Critical Care RNs. Graduate from a NLN or AACN accredited nursing program is strongly preferred. Graduate from an approved nursing program is acceptable. Bachelor's Degree in nursing preferred.
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In compliance with federal law requiring employers to verify new employees' U.S. employment eligibility, Sanford participates in E-Verify. To learn more click here for English Version at https://e-verify.uscis.gov/emp/media/resourcesContents/EverifyPosterEnglish.pdf or here for Spanish Version at https://e-verify.uscis.gov/emp/media/resourcesContents/EverifyPosterSpanish.pdf .
City: Bismarck
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Job Function: Nursing
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text: Once In A Lifetime Opportunity of the Day: Yesterday, Louis C.K. was a guest on The Opie and Anthony Show. As was former secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. I think you see where I'm going with this, but, just in case, here's a hint: It involves Louis C.K. asking Donald Rumsfeld if he and former VP Dick Cheney are lizards from outer space who eat the flesh of Mexican babies.


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If you've been missing Mystery Science Theater 3000 ever since it went off the air, you're in luck. Longtime fans of the movie-riffing series know that its original star Joel Hodgson left the show in 1993, when it was at the height of popularity. Mike Nelson, the head writer for the series, took over and it lasted another six years before finally going off the air in 1999. Almost ten years later, Joel and most of the original crew including Trace Beaulieu (Crow), J. Elvis Weinstein (Tom Servo), Frank Conniff (TV's Frank) and Mary Jo Pehl (Pearl Forrester) have returned in the form of Cinematic Titanic, and it's awesome.
The show doesn't air online or on any channel (yet), but you can order the newly available pilot episode The Oozing Skull from their website. The gang doesn't build gizmos or robots this time (unfortunately), but they do appear onscreen in silhouette and riff on movies. It's great just to hear everyone together again, even if we do miss terribly the characters of Tom Servo, Crow, and the Satellite of Love.
There's no theme song introduction this time that explains what the show is all about, but there is the Time Tube. At the end of every episode, the gang puts its review in a massive steel torpedo which is meant to preserve 500 bad movies for over 5,000 years. Meaning if future generations ever do invent time travel, they're going to come back and and wipe most of us out just for subjecting them to this unbearable torture. Joel, if that becomes the premise of your next endeavor, at least tip your hat to us.
Mike Nelson's own RiffTrax offers a similar movie-riffing experience, which is audio-only and features him movie-riffing on popular films with guest hosts. We won't be having a Titanic Riffing head-to-head battle just yet. But wait for it.


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text: Farmers who may have lost cattle due to the recent heat wave may be eligible for the Farm Service Agency's Livestock Indemnity Program. Angie Vos, the Marion County FSA Director, says livestock losses should be reported to the Marion County FSA Office within 30 days of the death. Adequate documentation, preferably from a vet, must prove the death of the livestock occurred as a direct result of a weather event. A recent report from the Iowa Cattlemen's Association says that around 4000 cattle have died in Iowa as a result of the recent heat wave.


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Kyoku founder Asim Akhtar was so awed by the youthful skin quality of men living in a small village in Japan that he set out to create a skincare product line that would incorporate ingredients native to the town. This deluxe facial exfoliator uses ash, walnut shells, bean powder, and rice bran to slough away dead skin cells and leave your face looking fresh, so you're ready to go out and discover your own inspiration. Who knows, someone might discover you and be inspired to start a skincare line.
This is my favorite scrub out of the 20+ I have tried. After about a weeks worth of use my skin looked noticeable better. My face had a nice glow to it, and it was clear of acne/ingrown hair/red shaving bumps. It has the perfect sized scrubbing particles and there is enough of them to really feel like you get an effective scrub.5


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Tracy Potter
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In this letter dated 15 February 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt responds to a letter from historian Roger B. Merriman concerning American neutrality in the face of German aggression in Europe.
While Germany began the process of rearmament during the 1930s, isolationists in the United States passed the 1935 Neutrality Act which restricted trade and assistance to any country involved in conflict whether they were the aggressors or the victims. In March of 1938, Germany had occupied Austria with little response from England or France. By September of the same year, to avert war, representatives from England, France, Germany, and Italy met at Munich and agreed to Germany's demand for the annexation of the Sudetenland--a province of Czechoslovakia. At the same time, the British government and its friends in America began to pressure Roosevelt to drop his neutral stance and help England and France stop Hitler. A little more than six months after Roosevelt wrote this letter to Merriman, Germany invaded Poland. The United States remained officially neutral, but after the fall of France in 1940 began sending more aid to England.
In an attempt to convince Roosevelt to overturn the policy of neutrality, Merriman forwarded to the president an assessment of the German threat written by renowned historian George M. Trevelyan. Like many Britons both in and out of government, Trevelyan saw the United States as the only possible savior for England and Europe and chastised Americans for their isolationist views writing: "If you [the United States] don't want Europe and Africa to be prostrate at the feet of Germany and her allies, with Japan in possession of Asia, you had better be reconsidering your isolation policy before you are indeed 'isolated.'"
In his letter to Merriman, Roosevelt, still heated from a stormy exchange with the British Ambassador, Lord Lothian, vented his frustration regarding the British and their attempt to draw the United States into another war: "What the British need today," he wrote, "is a good stiff grog, inducing not only the desire to save civilization but the continued belief that they can do it. In such an event they will have a lot more support from their American cousins--don't you think so?" Despite their disagreement on this issue, Roosevelt exchanged a letter each year with his former history teacher, Merriman--usually on more benign topics--until 1941. While Roosevelt gave additional aid to England after the fall of France in 1940, he refused to take any direct military action until Germany declared war on the United States after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States could no longer avoid war.
Roger B. Merriman was a prominent historian and Anglophile. He graduated from Harvard in 1896 and continued on to obtain his Ph.D. in history in 1902. As an instructor at Harvard he schooled a young Franklin Roosevelt (Class of 1904) in European history. Merriman was the Gurney Professor of History and Political Science and founding master of Eliot House. From 1904-1945, he was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, serving as corresponding secretary from 1923-1932, and vice president from 1932 until his death in 1945. Merriman's historical interests focused on European history, in particular the Tudor monarchs of England and the Spanish Empire, but his interests kept him abreast of the political and social mood of England and Europe.
This letter and others like it can be found in a new finding aid, Presidential Letters at the Massachusetts Historical Society. This subject guide brings together descriptions and locations of all letters written by presidents found in the Society's manuscript and autograph collections. While the guide emphasizes letters written during each president's term of office, it includes an overview of letters written over the lifetime of each president. The Massachusetts Historical Society is famous for the thousands of letters of Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Thomas Jefferson held in the Adams Family Papers and the Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Papers, but the Presidential Letters guide describes more than 3,500 letters written by all but the three most recent presidents. The guide to Presidential Letters at the Massachusetts Historical Society will be available soon, (and a link will be provided here).
The Massachusetts Historical Society holds a large collection of partially processed Merriman family papers, 1695-1902 including the papers of Roger Bigelow Merriman, http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0122.
Cannadine, David. "Historians as Diplomats?: Roger B. Merriman, George M. Trevelyan, and Anglo-American Relations," The New England Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 2 (June 1999), 207-231.
Mattingly, Garrett. "The Historian of the Spanish Empire," American Historical Review, vol. 54 no. 1 (Oct. 1948), 32-48.
Mitchell, Stewart. "Tribute to Roger Bigelow Merriman," Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 68 (1944-1947), 493.
Beard, Charles Austin. President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, 1941: A Study in Appearances and Realities, New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1948.
Freidel, Frank. Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Apprenticeship, Boston: Little, Brown, c1952.
Rauch, Basil. Roosevelt: from Munich to Pearl Harbor: A Study in the Creation of a Foreign Policy. New York: Creative Age Press, 1950.
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum in Hyde Park, NY holds the Franklin D. Roosevelt papers.


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Lance Armstrong Admits Doping, Calls Himself "Deeply Flawed"
NEW YORK (CNN) — Calling himself "deeply flawed," now-disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong says he used an array of performance enhancing drugs to win seven Tour de France titles followed by years of often angry denials.
"This is too late, it's too late for probably most people. And that's my fault," he said in an interview aired Thursday night. "(This was) one big lie, that I repeated a lot of times."
Armstrong admitted using testosterone and human growth hormone, as well as EPO — a hormone naturally produced by human kidneys to stimulate red blood cell production, which increases the amount of oxygen that can be delivered to muscles, improving recovery and endurance.
In addition to using drugs, the 2002 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year admitted to Oprah Winfrey that he took blood transfusions to excel in the highly competitive, scandal-ridden world of professional cycling. Doping was as much a part of the sport as pumping up tires or having water in a bottle, Armstrong said, calling it "the scariest" that he didn't consider it cheating at the time.
The same man who — as he has throughout and after his career — insisted he'd passed each of the "hundreds and hundreds of tests I took" contended in the interview that he wouldn't have won without doing what he did, and which he suspected many other cyclists did as well. While Armstrong didn't invent the culture of doping in cycling, he said, he admitted not acting to prevent it either.
"I made my decisions," Armstrong said. "They are my mistakes."
The first installment in his interview, which was conducted earlier this week with the talk-show host, aired Thursday on the OWN cable network and on the Internet. The second and final installment will be broadcast Friday night.
Armstrong admitted he was "a bully … in the sense that I tried to control the narrative," sometimes by spewing venom at ex-teammates he thought were "disloyal," as well as suing people and publications that accused him of cheating.
He described himself as "a fighter" whose story of a happy marriage, recovery from cancer and international sporting success "was so perfect for so long."
"I lost myself in all of that," he said, describing himself as both a "humanitarian" and a "jerk" who'd been "arrogant" for years. "I was used to controlling everything in my life."
Armstrong's history of alleged doping has tarred the cancer charity Livestrong that he founded, as well as tarnished his once-glowing reputation as a sports hero.
Those who spoke out against Armstrong at the height of his power and popularity not only felt his wrath, but the wrath of an adoring public.
Now, with Armstrong stripped of endorsement deals and his titles, those who did speak out are feeling vindicated.
"Eleven years of bullying and threats," Kathy LeMond, the wife of cyclist Greg LeMond — one of Armstrong's earliest targets and the first American to win the Tour de France — wrote on Twitter. "LA is now the Greatest Fraud in the History of Sports."
In his interview with Winfrey, Armstrong said he understands why many could be upset that it took him so long to speak out, especially after going on the offensive for so long. He said he's reached out in recent days to several people who publicly accused him of doping and then were attacked — and in some cases sued — by him.
And the former athletic icon also conceded he'd let down many fans "who believed in me and supported me" by being adamant, sometimes hurtful and consistently wrong in his doping denials.
"They have every right to feel betrayed, and it's my fault," he said. "I will spend the rest of my life … trying to earn back trust and apologize to people."
Armstrong stripped of Olympic bronze
Not only is Armstrong no longer officially a Tour de France winner — he's no longer an Olympic medalist, either.
The International Olympic Committee has stripped Armstrong of the bronze medal he won in the men's individual time trial at the 2000 Olympic Games and asked him to return the award, an IOC spokesman said Thursday. The committee has not yet decided whether to bestow the bronze on fourth-place finisher Abraham Olano of Spain or to leave the slot vacant, IOC spokesman Andrew Mitchell told CNN.
In October, the International Cycling Union stripped Armstrong of his Tour de France titles. Armstrong responded a few weeks later by tweeting a photo of himself lying on a sofa in his lounge beneath the seven framed yellow jerseys from those victories.
The International Olympic Committee said in October that it was reviewing evidence against him.
Armstrong competed in two events in the 2000 games in Sydney, Australia — the men's individual time trial, where he medaled, and the men's individual road race, where he finished 13th. He is retroactively disqualified in both races, the IOC said.
"We have written to Armstrong asking him to return the medal" and informed the U.S. Olympic Committee, Mark Adams, another IOC spokesman, said Thursday. It's up to the U.S. committee to handle retrieving the medal from Armstrong, the IOC said.
The decision was made "in principle" at a meeting of the IOC executive board in December, Adams said. The committee did not act on the decision until it received confirmation from the International Cycling Union that Armstrong was not appealing that agency's decision.
The USOC was notified Wednesday that the IOC wants the medal back, USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky said.
"We will shortly be asking Mr. Armstrong to return his medal to us, so that we can return it to the IOC."
Deadline for Justice Department to join lawsuit
Thursday was also the deadline for the Justice Department to decide whether to intervene in a federal whistleblower lawsuit filed by former Armstrong teammate Floyd Landis, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. The source said the department and Armstrong's lawyers were in talks regarding the case, but Armstrong lawyer Robert Luskin would not comment on any reported talks Thursday.
"We remain hopeful there will be an agreed resolution," Luskin told CNN.
Landis, the 2006 Tour de France winner, lost his title for doping and is among those accusing Armstrong of taking banned substances while leading the U.S. Postal Service cycling team. His lawsuit accuses accuses the team's former management of defrauding the government of millions of sponsorship dollars because the team management knew about the drug use and didn't do anything.
The New York Times reported earlier this week that Armstrong has been considering testifying against others to help his own situation, but Luskin denied that allegation.
"There is no truth at all to any suggestion that Lance is trying to limit his own liability by implicating others, and that remains true," he said.
TM & © 2013 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.


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Latest FCC Broadband Performance Tests Show Verizon FiOS Internet Continues to Deliver Reliably Fast Online Connections for Consumers
WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission on Friday (Feb. 15) issued the results of its "Measuring Broadband America February 2013" broadband speed and reliability testing for residential broadband service. This is the third broadband report issued by the FCC in conjunction with SamKnows, an independent company that tests broadband performance. The study, based on tests conducted last September, measured the speed and performance of 14 of the largest Internet service providers nationwide.
For the first time, the study also included Verizon's FiOS Quantum speed tiers of 50/25 megabits per second (Mbps) and 75/35 Mbps, introduced last summer. The following is a statement by John Wimsatt, senior vice president of product development for Verizon's consumer and mass market business unit, on the FCC's test results:
"As the FCC report showed, every FiOS Internet speed tier delivered more than 100 percent of its advertised and sustained download performance during peak Internet usage periods, differentiating FiOS Internet from most cable company competitors.
"The FCC's findings reaffirm the results from the past two FCC broadband performance tests, which found that FiOS Internet provides blazing-fast and sustained upstream and downstream speeds as well as low latency, even during the peak Internet usage time periods of 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. local time.
"FiOS Quantum speeds of 50 Mbps or higher will increasingly become what most of our customers use because it provides capacity a step above competing services, as households add and use more Internet-connected tablets, laptops, video game consoles, smart TVs, Blu-ray players, streaming video services and smartphones.
"While the number of Internet-connected devices grows, so too does the amount of time that consumers use those devices simultaneously, boosting their demand for not only fast downloads and uploads but also consistent and reliable performance at all times of the day. Consistently faster Internet service helps consumers get more value from all the Internet-connected devices they're using."


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Court employees in Norwich and New London receive active shooter training
The mere thought of being present during an "active shooting" incident at work — or anywhere else — is terrifying, but the state Judicial Branch is encouraging court employees to think about what they would do if somebody opened fire.
More than 160 employees attended Active Shooter Awareness & Preparedness Training this week at courthouses in New London and Norwich, where the primary message was that having a plan and a survival mindset could mean the difference between living and dying.
Court staff from several departments said they found the training informative and recited the three-pronged advice they were told to follow if they were to see a gunman or hear the "pop" of gunfire: "Get out, hide out or take out." The experts say the best option is to run away from the shooting, exiting the area altogether. If leaving is not possible, then finding a safe and secure hiding place is the next best option. The last resort is trying to incapacitate the shooter.
"I thought it was very valuable training for the court staff, both in their position as employees and potentially for a situation in a public arena outside of the workplace," said Emmet L. Cosgrove, administrative judge for the New London Judicial District.
"You hope you never use it," Cosgrove said, but having the framework to respond is invaluable. "When an emergency happens, it's natural for people to panic," he said. "To stop the panic, we have to have some sort of plan. That's why we have fire drills."
The training sessions, which are voluntary, were "sold out," and another will be added in December, said Cosgrove. Additionally, he said he has encouraged lead staff in every work area to talk through possible scenarios. Three hundred people work in the district's four courthouses and other sites. Judicial marshals, who are responsible for courthouse security, underwent the training several months ago.
Melanie Kerr, program manager for the Court Operations Division of the Judicial Branch, said 750 people statewide have taken the hour-long training program, which will have been offered in two locations in each of the state's 13 judicial districts by the end of this month. She said the course was developed under the guidance of Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers and chief court administrators Patrick L. Carroll III and Barbara M. Quinn, who recently retired.
"After the Sandy Hook incident, our leadership became more and more concerned about safety and security and put an active shooter program together," Kerr said. The trainers decided to go out to the work sites so that they can offer suggestions on how to get out of buildings safely or hide.
The branch decided to give employees information to think about and to practice with co-workers. "If you do it on a daily basis, when you're in a really stressful situation you are more likely to remember it," Kerr said.
The course includes a PowerPoint presentation, a discussion of active shooter incidents, including some that have taken place at courthouses, and screening of a video titled "Shots Fired: When Lightning Strikes."
"We tell people we are helping them develop a personal protection plan," Kerr said. "It's information they can use if they're at the mall or on their child's college campus or at a restaurant. We're identifying actions they could take, but the choice is absolutely theirs, and it's all contingent on the dynamics of the incident."
In addition to knowing the layout of the buildings they work in and multiple exit points, the trainers suggest employees park in a different spot and use different entrances once or twice a week to familiarize themselves with potential paths to safety. Also, the trainers told employees that a common practice known as "tailgating" should be eliminated.
"When you're coming into a building and you key in, it's common courtesy to hold the door open for a co-worker," Kerr said. "We're encouraging people not to do that. You don't know what their status is."
Kerr said another important piece of the training concerns how to interact with law enforcement officers who respond. Don't run at them. Don't try to hug them. Keep your hands up and your fingers spread so they can see you are unarmed.
"We also tell them that if they have information that might be helpful, give them the information but don't try to engage them in any other way," she said.
Never forgive, never forget: Trump once again bashes John McCain over health-care vote
With cap on H-2B visas for foreign workers, businesses struggle to find summer employees


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UC Berkeley is implementing food waste tracking systems at the four largest residential dining halls on campus. Specialized equipment and software helps kitchen staff weigh, record and analyze pre-consumer food and portion sizes, allowing them to identify and prevent food waste at the source.


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'The Vow' -- 2 1/2 stars
PG-13; 1:44 running time Well. At least it has Rachel McAdams. In this Chicago-set romance ¿ based a wee bit on a true story and written by Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein and Jason Katims ¿ the formidably skilled and charming alum of "The Notebook" and "The Time Traveler's Wife" plays a newly married School of the Art Institute student and sculptor whose husband, Leo (Tatum), runs a fledgling recording studio. In the dreamiest, least painful slow-motion depiction possible, McAdams' Paige is sent flying through a car windshield after their car gets rear-ended in a snowstorm. -- Michael PhillipsRead the full "The Vow" movie review
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Ok, I knew this was here, but thought, really - do I need another board to spend hours and hours on?? Oh heck, who cares. It's "my" time, and with a toddler, I'm in desperate need of some of that!
I'm Jennifer, and know a lot of you from another board. I owned a beautiful and loving Rottie for 13 years, until we had to make the humane decision to let him go this past September after a long battle with arthritis . We also owned (and still do), a big lug of a yellow lab for the past 8 years. I inherited him from my brother who died at 21, and he is a wonderful legacy of him.
After my Rott died, my husband and I decided to adopt a Pitbull. After seeing a few dogs, we fell in love with Zoey, who is currently probably at home spooning with my husband while I work the night away. We also have a ten-year-old black lab mix that was a foster-failure , and a two-year-old smaller yellow lab mix who is currently our foster.
Two cats, my Mom, and our fifteen-month-old round out our busy household. Never a dull moment, but a happy place to be.
We love our Pittie, she's the sweetest, most gentle girl with my son, and loves the cats and all the dogs too.
I'm unable to post pics - my computer decided to take an early retirement, but will post as soon as I buy a new one!!
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Aldwick House St Leonard's Road.
This painting by
Evacustes Arthur Phipson
depicts Aldwick House.
This was the former home of
composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor.
A portrait of Coleridge Taylor
is on display in the 1800 - 1899
Aldwick House is on St Leonard's
Road and is marked with a
blue plaque commemorating
the life of
Samuel Coleridge Taylor.
Maureen talks about Phipson and his wife
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Evacustes Phipson
I was born Maureen Larkin,
and my father was
Frederick Henry Larkin
whose father was also
Frederick Henry Larkin
who was the brother of
Elizabeth (Lily)
Frederica Larkin
who married Mr Phipson.
When Lily (Elizabeth)
married Phipson she was
only 15 and my
great grandfather was asked
if he would let her marry him
and he said yes as long as
he gave her an education
which I think he did.
She died quite young (23 years)
she had two daughters
Anna and Illithia an interesting name,
she travelled on the continent with
Phipson because I have a photograph
of her somewhere, I think it's in Holland?
and I think in a lot of his paintings
there are two little girls standing
by some of the architecture and
I think they were probably
his two daughters.
I'm surprised he isn't more famous,
he's got these paintings
in all these libraries
including the V and A
and I'm really, really surprised
he's not more famous, not more known.
Changes in Croydon
The 1920s was a period of
huge change in Croydon landscapes.
Developers bought land
and built the suburbs we know today.
Not everyone embraced these changes
including Phipson.
He did not draw exactly
what he saw in Croydon.
He preserved a romanticised image
of the town by refusing to paint
telegraph poles and lamp posts,
which in his eyes ruined a good view.
Instead of motor vehicles he
preferred to paint horse-drawn carts.
To Find Out More
There are over 300 works by
Evacustes Arthur Phipson
in the Croydon Art Collection.
If you would like to
see more works by this artist,
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By Jeffrey Deutsch Mar 14, 2012 3
A View of Accommodations
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) involve what Bill Goodyear, who has taught and coached Aspies and autists for over 30 years, has called the Triad of Impairments—difficulty with communication, with social relationships and with flexible thinking.
As William Stillman, an Aspie speaker, has pointed out, a high percentage of Aspies are unemployed or underemployed. Sherry Moyer, Executive and Research Director of the University of Toledo Center for Excellence in Autism, tells of Aspies just 25 or 30 years old who have already held 20 or 30 different jobs. Many, if not a majority of, Aspies have literally no friends. We also have a very hard time finding and keeping romantic partners.
The impairments we have cause these problems for us. Some people feel that we shouldn't have to change; the rest of the world simply needs to accept our differences and accommodate us by, for example, not taking offense at our staring, stimming or standing too close. People should accommodate our inability to change plans on short notice, and should let us do things one at a time, etc. While we do need some accommodations in order to contribute to society, we need to remember that acceptance and accommodation need to go both ways. Imagine, for instance, substituting another disability for autism. We might end up with something like this modest proposal:
Glaucoma patients...ummm, people with glaucoma...errr, people on the vision-challenged spectrum (PVCS), unite!
Why do people keep trying to find a cure for glaucoma? That's eliminating PVCS—a form of genocide!
Why can't people accept us as we are? Why do they keep trying to change us—"for our own good," no less?
Society is ableist! It's currently built around people who can see wide angles. They miss our unique strengths ... after all, when your vision is limited to a small circle, you don't get distracted easily, right? We PVCS can focus our vision much better.
Also, our sense of hearing can get stronger than average to compensate—another unique strength!
Why does society discriminate against us? For example, why do we need any kind of peripheral vision to drive a car? Isn't it all too easy to be distracted—say, by a pretty young woman walking on the sidewalk, or a billboard, or a bumper sticker?
Instead, we should have cars with telescopic windshields. Maybe also roads with only one lane each way, so that we don't accidentally get hit by some car we can't see changing lanes. (And can't people hear other cars, anyway?) Society can accommodate us if it really wants to!
Meanwhile, if you have to directly face someone to see and talk to them that makes eye contact much easier. So glaucoma actually improves social interaction.
Not to mention so-called "tunnel vision" means we don't need really big flat-screen TVs or monitors or other expensive stuff ... any old screen will do.
And it helps us hunt—in fact, it's just like Thom Hartmann points out when he uses the model of "a hunter in a farmer's world" in talking about ADHD! We can focus on the prize, just like (other) predators with their eyes in front of their heads instead of off to the side like prey.
We need to focus on the beauty of glaucoma—being able to shut out more and more of life's visual annoyances, better exercise for your neck as you turn to look at everything—even being less likely to accidentally look at a solar eclipse!
Maybe it's not "normal" to look out at the world as if through a tube. So what? Normal is a city in Illinois. Normal is a dryer setting. Normal is not for people! Visual diversity is the way to go.


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Devante Smith-Pelly scored on a deflected shot in the opening minutes of the second period Monday night. He scored again on a beauty of a backhander on a breakaway moments later. Jakob Silfverberg then slammed a rebound into the back of the net later still.
The Ducks turned the Honda Center electric with a stunning display of offensive hockey to start the middle period of what became a 4-3 victory in Game 5 of their second-round playoff series against the sloppy and inconsistent Kings.
The Kings rallied, but the damage was done. Their frantic play merely enabled them to turn a 4-1 deficit midway through the second period into a 4-3 defeat by game's end. That was as close as they could get as they lost their third in a row after winning the first two games of the series.
"You can't get behind, you can't dig yourself a hole against a team like this," said Kings defenseman Alec Martinez, whose atrocious giveaway led to the second of Smith-Pelly's goals. "We gave up too many chances and they capitalized."
Now, the Ducks can eliminate the Kings with a victory in Game 6 on Wednesday at Staples Center. It remains to be seen if the Ducks can drive a stake through the Kings' hearts, something the San Jose Sharks could not do while coughing up a 3-0 series lead in the first round.
"I've got to believe they think they were robbed again tonight," Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said of the Kings. "They'll be ready again Wednesday, that's all I know. To win four games against this team is going to be the toughest job this team will ever face."
Smith-Pelly, 21; Silfverberg, 23; defenseman Sami Vatanen, 22; and goaltender John Gibson, 20, handled all the pressure the Kings could throw at them in the closing minutes of Game 5. The Ducks' youngsters emerged unscathed.
"We knew they were going to come," said Gibson, who made 39 saves in his second playoff start in place of Jonas Hiller. "We knew they were capable of coming back. It's happened before in this series, so we knew what to expect. We found a way to get the job done and got a win."
Trailing 4-1 and looking as if the series had passed them by, the Kings found a spark in the form of a power-play goal from Marian Gaborik in the closing moments of the second period. Gaborik scored again at 14:12 of the third period, cutting the Ducks' lead to 4-3.
Suddenly, the Kings' many shortcomings during a disastrous second period didn't seem to have harmed them. There was time for a comeback and to pull out another victory, as they did when Gaborik scored late in the third period and again in overtime to win Game 1.
There would be no comeback this time, however. Gibson was every bit as unfazed as he was during a 2-0 shutout Saturday night in Game 4 at Staples Center, when the Kings attacked in relentless fashion in the second and third periods.
Vatanen played a steady game over the course of 20:48, second on the Ducks to only veteran defenseman Francois Beauchemin, who played 22:34. Smith-Pelly and Silfverberg joined their teammates in playing a strong defensive game the rest of the way.
"Awesome," 43-year-old right wing Teemu Selanne said of the kids. "They put 'Devo' in the first line and he answered the bell. Great to see that confidence. It's fun to watch. 'Gibby,' he has all the tools. It's fun to see the young guys. I'm so impressed. It's amazing."
Said Smith-Pelly, who recorded his second two-goal game of the playoffs and moved into the team lead in the postseason with five. "I'm trying to create energy. We're just having a lot of fun. It's fun to play in the playoffs. This is what you dream about when you grow up."


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Tutorial Overview
This chapter describes the Java API for RESTful web services (JAX-RS, defined in JSR331). RESTEasy is an portable implementation of this specification which can run in any Servlet container. Tight integration with JBoss Application Server is available for optimal user experience in that environment. While JAX-RS is only a server-side specification, RESTeasy has innovated to bring JAX-RS to the client through the RESTEasy JAX-RS Client Framework.
Detailed documentation on RESTEasy is available here.
The source for this tutorial is in github repository git://github.com/tdiesler/javaee-tutorial.git
OpenShift, is a portfolio of portable cloud services for deploying and managing applications in the cloud. This tutorial shows how to deploy a RESTful web service on the free OpenShift Express JavaEE cartridge that runs JBossAS 7.
An application running on Android shows how to leverage JBoss technology on mobile devices. Specifically, we show how use the RESTEasy client API from an Android device to integrate with a RESTful service running on a JBossAS 7 instance in the cloud.
The following topics are addressed
- What are RESTful web services
- Creating a RESTful server endpoint
- Deploying a RESTful endpoint to a JBossAS instance in the cloud
- RESTEasy client running on an Android mobile device
What are RESTful Web Services?
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This section is still under development.
RESTful web services are designed to expose APIs on the web. REST stands for Representational State Transfer. It aims to provide better performance, scalability, and flexibility than traditinoal web services, by allowing clients to access data and resources using predictable URLs. Many well-known public web services expose RESTful APIs.
The Java 6 Enterprise Edition specification for RESTful services is JAX-RS. It is covered by JSR-311 (http://jcp.org/jsr/detail/311.jsp). In the REST model, the server exposes APIs through specific URIs (typically URLs), and clients access those URIs to query or modify data. REST uses a stateless communication protocol. Typically, this is HTTP.
The following is a summary of RESTful design principles:
- A URL is tied to a resource using the @Path annotation. Clients access the resource using the URL.
- Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations are accessed via PUT, GET, POST, and DELETE requests in the HTTP protocol.
- PUT creates a new resource.
- DELETE deletes a resource.
- GET retrieves the current state of a resource.
- POST updates a resources's state.
- Resources are decoupled from their representation, so that clients can request the data in a variety of different formats.
- Stateful interactions require explicit state transfer, in the form of URL rewriting, cookies, and hidden form fields. State can also be embedded in response messages.
Creating a RESTful endpoint
A RESTful endpoint is deployed as JavaEE web archive (WAR). For this tutorial we use a simple library application to manage some books. There are two classes in this application:
- Library
- Book
The Book is a plain old Java object (POJO) with two attributes. This is a simple Java representation of a RESTful entity.
The Library is the RESTful Root Resource. Here we use a set of standard JAX-RS annotations to define
- The root path to the library resource
- The wire representation of the data (MIME type)
- The Http methods and corresponding paths
The Library root resource uses these JAX-RS annotations:
|Identifies the URI path that a resource class or class method will serve requests for
|Defines the media types that the methods of a resource class can accept
|Defines the media type(s) that the methods of a resource class can produce
|Indicates that the annotated method responds to HTTP GET requests
|Indicates that the annotated method responds to HTTP PUT requests
|Indicates that the annotated method responds to HTTP POST requests
|Indicates that the annotated method responds to HTTP DELETE requests
For a full description of the available JAX-RS annotations, see the JAX-RS API documentation.
Package and build the endpoint
To package the endpoint we create a simple web archive and include a web.xml with the following content
AS7-1674 Remove or explain why web.xml is needed for RESTful endpoints
The root context is defined in jboss-web.xml
The code for the JAX-RS part of this tutorial is available on https://github.com/tdiesler/javaee-tutorial/tree/master/jaxrs. In this step we clone the repository and build the endpoint using maven. There are a number of JAX-RS client tests that run against a local JBossAS 7 instance. Before we build the project, we set the JBOSS_HOME environment variable accordingly.
Arquillian, the test framework we use throughout this tutorial, can manage server startup/shutdown. It is however also possible to startup the server instance manually before you run the tests. The latter allows you to look at the console and see what log output the deployment phase and JAX-RS endpoint invocations produce.
Deploy the endpoint to OpenShift
First we need to create a free OpenShift Express account and select the JavaEE cartridge that runs JBossAS 7. Once we have received the confirmation email from OpenShift we can continue to create our subdomain and deploy the RESTful endpoint. A series of videos on the OpenShift Express page shows you how to do this. There is also an excellent quick start document that you have access to after login.
For this tutorial we assume you have done the above and that we can continue by creating the OpenShift application. This step sets up your JBossAS 7 instance in the cloud. Additionally a Git repository is configured that gives access to your deployed application.
Next, we can clone the remote Git repository to our local workspace
Because we want to deploy an already existing web application, which we'll build in the next step, we can safely remove the source artefacts from the repository.
Now we copy the JAX-RS endpoint webapp that we build above to the 'deployments' folder and commit the changes.
You can now use curl or your browser to see the JAX-RS endpoint in action. The following URL lists the books that are currently registered in the library.
Building the mobile client
The source associated with this tutorial contains a fully working mobile client application for the Android framework. If not done so already please follow steps described in Installing the SDK. In addition to the Android SDK, I recommend installing the m2eclipse and the EGit plugin to Eclipse.
First, go to File|Import... and choose "Existing Maven Projects" to import the tutorial sources
You project view should look like this
Then go to File|New|Android Project and fill out the first wizard page like this
Click Finish. Next, go to Project|Properties|Build Path|Libraries and add these external libraries to your android project.
You final project view should look like this
To run the application in the emulator, we need an Android Virtual Device (AVD). Go to Window|Android SDK and AVD Manager and create a new AVD like this
Now go to Run|Configuration to create a new run configuration for the client app.
Now you should be able to launch the application in the debugger. Right click on the javaee-tutorial-jaxrs-android project and select Debug As|Android Application. This should launch the emulator, which now goes though a series of boot screens until it eventually displays the Android home screen. This will take a minute or two if you do this for the first time.
When you unlock the home screen by dragging the little green lock to the right. You should see the the running JAX-RS client application.
Finally, you need to configure the host that the client app connects to. This would be the same as you used above to curl the library list. In the emulator click Menu|Host Settings and enter the host address of your OpenShift application.
When going back to the application using the little back arrow next to Menu, you should see a list of books.
You can now add, edit and delete books and switch between your browser and the emulator to verify that the client app is not cheating and that the books are in fact in the cloud on your JBossAS 7 instance.
In Eclipse you can go to the Debug perspective and click on the little Android robot in the lower right corner. This will display the LogCat view, which should display log output from that Android system as well as from this client app
Exploring the mobile client
There is a lot to writing high quality mobile applications. The goal of this little application is to get you started with JBossAS 7 / Android integration. There is also a portable approach to writing mobile applications. A popular one would be through PhoneGap. With PhoneGap you write your application in HTML+CSS+Java Script. It then runs in the browser of your mobile device. Naturally, not the full set of mobile platform APIs would be available through this approach.
The JAX-RS client application uses an annotated library client interface
There are two implementations of this interface available.
- LibraryHttpclient
- LibraryResteasyClient
The first uses APIs that are available in the Android SDK natively. The code is much more involved, but there would be no need to add external libraries (i.e. resteasy, jackson, etc). The effect is that the total size of the application is considerably smaller in size (i.e. 40k)
The second implementation uses the fabulous RESTEasy client proxy to interact with the JAX-RS endpoint. The details of Http connectivity and JSON data binding is transparently handled by RESTEasy. The total size of the application is considerably bigger in size (i.e. 400k)
Mar 04, 2014
Link to the sources https://github.com/tdiesler/javaee-tutorial/tree/master/jaxrs is broken. Looks like actual url is https://github.com/cvasilak/javaee-tutorial/tree/master/jaxrs .


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. – The weekly accolades continue to roll in for sophomore All-American sprinter Hulerie McGuffie (Lynn, Mass.) as she was named the Little East Conference Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week for the second straight week.
On Saturday, the Lynn native recorded a pair of first place finishes at the 5th Annual Ramapo College (N.J.) Roadrunner Invitational. In the 200 meter dash, McGuffie recorded a new personal best with a time of 24.81 seconds. She would then blow past the entire field in the 400 with her time of 56.98 seconds, which was .25 seconds away from matching the program record.
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Seven-year-old Elijah Dace didn't know he had been shot until his older brother, running behind him, saw a hole in the little boy's jacket.
"I was like, 'Did you have that before?' " the older brother told WGN-TV. "He's like, no. And then when I opened his jacket, he say, 'I got shot, I got shot, I got shot.' "
The bullet went through his shoulder, but Elijah's family said the boy was alert and talking as doctors worked on him at Comer Children's Hospital on Wednesday evening. He underwent surgery Thursday morning and was listed in good condition.
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I have a friend who is moodier now than last year so I always have to get on her good side. Sadly, she has PMDD, it's a hormonal disorder and it's possible that she may not conceive. It made me wonder, to what extent do hormones affect our behaviour? Of course there is no denying that hormones can influence our actions and feelings, but if a person has hormonal imbalance, can this affect a person's overall behaviour?
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Under questioning from Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) last week, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood defended the state of our roads in the U.S.
Bond, who sits on the Senate's transportation appropriates subcommittee, was questioning the Administration's plan to spend $527 million for "livable communities." According to the American Assn. of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), Bond wondered if DOT was siphoning money from road improvement efforts to fund this new initiative.
"We have a state-of-art interstate system in America; we have very good roads," LaHood said. "At DOT, we have an obligation to maintain our roads, to make sure they're fixed up, and in places in the country where they need capacity, we're for that. The idea we're giving up on our road program or don't care about highways is nonsense."
Perhaps LaHood needs to spend more time on our highways and less time in Washington.
A 2009 study by the Pacific Institute for Reasearch & Evaluation (PIRE) found that crashes on U.S. highways cost American businesses $22 billion annually, in addition to a $12 billion cost to government and $12 billion medical bills.
"The cost of crashes involving deficient roadway conditions dwarf the costs of crashes involving alcohol, speeding, or failure to wear a safety belt," said Ted Miller, Ph.D., with the Beltsville, MD-based Pacific Institute for Research & Evaluation (PIRE), in testimony before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
In all, the report, On a Crash Course: The Dangers and Health Costs of Deficient Roadways, says deficient roadway conditions cost $217 billion a year.
Numerous organizations have come out against the livable communities plan. Anything that diverts funding from solving our nation's infrastructure woes – upon which, at last check, the majority of goods move in this country – needs to be closely examined.
Livable communities sound really good, unless you expect your local grocery store to have milk on its shelves when you need it. We've long since passed the time when milk is delivered via horse-and-buggy.
I'm sure LaHood is right. Compared to other nations, we probably do have a state-of-the-art transportation system. That doesn't mean we have to settle.


text: Dear Geoff, Hi! It seems that this last message did not reach Annelida discussion group. Please take a look at it and tell me if you find it relevant and if so, please forward it to the list. Best wishes, Sergio . . . . Dear folks, This is my last message on Capitella, I promise! In their contribution to the Copenhagen Polychaete Conference, Wu, Qian & Zhang (1991 Ophelia Suppl. 5:391-400) reported their studies on the morphology, reproduction, ecology and allozymes of three Capitella from Qingdao. From their table 2 (p. 393), four features seem promising: prostomial surface (smooth vs papillate), number of genital spines in chaetiger 8, number of hooded hooks per abdominal rami, and number of accessory teeth in hooded hooks. In their discussion (p. 399) they stated: Wu (1964) compared 9 subspecies of Capitella capitata collected from different parts of the world and suggested that differentiation of these subspecies was not just due to the geographic isolation but might be the result of a complicated evolutionary process. The key paper to understand this perspective is: Wu BL 1964 Subspecific differentiation and ecological characteristics of Capitella capitata (Fabricius, 1780) (Polychaeta, Capitellidae). Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica 6:266-271. It would be very helpful if someone could make a pdf of the original, which is fast, and an English translation of the text, which may not be that fast, so his conclusions can be understood by any non-Chinese speaking person. I think Baoling Wu was following Olga Hartman, but I may be wrong. Olga Hartman (1947 Allan Hancock Pac. Exped. 10:391-481) made a diagram to capitellid genera (that Amaral, Gillet, and Piltz i.a. have followed), and included a key to Western species of Capitella with C. capitata, C. dizonata Johnson, 1901 (Washington), and described C. ovincola (California) from a squid egg mass. For the catalogue (Hartman, 1959:439-440) besides C. capitata, she included: C.c. antarctica Monro, 1930 C.c. belgica Czerniavsky, 1881 (=C. c.), C.c. danica Czerniavsky, 1881 (= C. c.), C.c. floridana Hartman, 1959, C.c. hebridarum Czerniavsky, 1881 (= C.c.), C.c. neapolitana Czerniavsky, 1881 (= C. c.), C.c. suchumica Czerniavsky, 1881 (Black Sea) (= C.c.) C.c. ovincola Hartman, 1947. For the supplement (Hartman, 1965:64) she added: C.c. europaea Wu, 1964 (Mediterranean Sea, perhaps = C.c. neapolitana, mihi). C.c. japonica Kitamori, 1960, C.c. oculata Hartman, 1961 (California), and C.c. tripartita Hartman, 1961 (California). Linda Warren (1976:197; sorry no pdf because my photocopy is in very poor quality) included a comparative diagram to the two subspecies (C.c. capitata and C. c. floridana), and seven others were regarded as full valid species: C. aberranta Hartman & Fauchald, 1971 C. giardi (Mesnil, 1897) France C. hermaphrodita Boletzky & Dohle, 1967 (Mediterranean, Loligo egg mass) C. jonesi (Hartman, 1959) Florida. C. ovincola Hartman, 1947, C. perarmata (Gravier 1911) (not stated but it might include C.c. antarctica), and C. tripartita Hartman, 1961. Linda did not recognize most subspecies because they were regarded as juveniles, or as morphological variants that might fall within the stem species. Further, she regarded several species as having a wide or very wide distribution. This perspective was significantly modified when together with David George (1986 Bull. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. Zool. 50:117-125), they described C. caribaeorum from the Grand Caribbean region (Florida to Saint-Lucia). For the discussion, they relied on several morphological differences such as the presence of genital spines, the thorax chaetal formula, the number of hooded hooks per ramus, and the relative egg size. Further, they also included some ecological details about the type of substrate where the similar species were recorded from. Thus, taking the latter approach, together with the ideas that Wu et al and Blake proposed, there is an exciting ground to study the morphological variation in the same region, and between different populations or species. Good luck everyone! Have fun, Sergio


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To promote research and scholarship, the University has made high performance computing support part of its IT services. Every faculty and student at Marquette are eligible to use MUGrid and Père for their course or research projects without cost.
In order to get access to MUGrid, each faculty member must complete a Marquette Research Computing Account Request Form at the Marquette HPC web site. He or she is responsible for complying with Marquette's Acceptable Use Policies and receiving necessary training for using the system. Several self-paced training resources are available on both the MUGrid and Marquette HPC web site, and bootcamps are offered regularly throughout the year.
Students need the approval of a faculty member, typically their research advisor or instructor, who will be responsible for overseeing the training and activities of the student on MUGrid. The student then need to complete the same Marquette Research Computing Account Request Form at the Marquette HPC web site. The student should provide a faculty sponsor in the request form.


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Maine Ethics Commission recommends that anti-marriage group NOM be fined
May 19, 2014
This week, ethics investigators in Maine are recommending that the so-called National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a group that works against the freedom to marry, be fined more than $50,000 for failing to register and disclose its activities in the 2009 ballot campaign to protect marriage in Maine. In that campaign, a marriage bill approved by the state legislature was overturned (although just three years later, in November 2012, marriage supporters went back to the ballot to pass the world's first-ever proactive ballot initiative in favor of marriage for all couples).
The Bangor Daily News reports, "The Maine Ethics Commission launched an investigation into NOM, alleging the group had violated Maine law by not registering as a ballot question committee and providing detailed reports about its fundraising and spending. .... The Ethics Commission staff's recommendation that NOM be fined means state investigators feel there is sufficient evidence to prove the organization sought contributions with the explicit purpose of spending the cash in Maine. They cite fundraising emails sent my NOM that detailed to large donors their strategy for overturning marriage equality in Maine."
The report reads:
After consideration of this evidence, there appears to be little doubt that NOM received far more than $5,000 for the purpose of promoting the Maine referendum, which is the legal trigger to require registration and financial reporting as a ballot question committee.
The staff views NOM's failure to register and file financial reports as a significant violation of law. Maine people deserve to know who is funding political campaigns to influence their vote. After setting forth our analysis of the facts, we recommend specific findings of violation and civil penalties against NOM totaling $50,250.


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University Of Missouri Concludes That Big Government Used "Distorted" Video In Latest Sting
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Last month Andrew Breitbart made good on his promise to "go after the teachers," as his Big Government website published a series of misleadingly edited videos attacking the University of Missouri's labor studies program. Big Government's editors claimed the video showed two labor studies professors at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and the University of Missouri-Kansas City teaching students that "fear, intimidation, and, even, industrial sabotage are important and, often, necessary tools."
But the claims Big Government writers made about those videos are simply not credible. And this isn't just our view; after reviewing all of the tapes, the chancellor and provost of the University of Missouri-St. Louis reached the same conclusion.
From an open letter published on St. Louis Activist Hub:
We have finally completed viewing the videos originating at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) from the UMSL course Introduction to Labor Studies. The excerpts that were made public showing the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) instructor Don Giljum and students as well as the UMKC instructor and students were definitely taken out of context, with their meaning highly distorted through splicing and editing from different times within a class period and across multiple class periods.
As stated previously, our campus supports academic freedom, civility, diversity, open discourse and the pursuit of knowledge. We support the academic freedom of faculty, staff and students at UMSL. Contrary to some reports, Don Giljum has not been fired from the campus faculty, and in fact, is completing the course; he remains eligible to teach at UMSL. We sincerely regret the distress to him and others that has been caused by the unauthorized copying, editing and distribution of the course videos.
The full text of the letter is available here.
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