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Sorry Detroit. Your native son is all our for another 6 years.
The Vancouver Canucks wrap up their five-game home stand with a date on Hockey Night in Canada with the Detroit Red Wings tonight at GM Place. The Red Wings are fresh off a shootout loss last night in Edmonton, and will be looking to avenge an earlier bad loss to the Canucks just over two weeks ago.
The Canucks will be looking to take advantage of a tired Red Wings team, who went to a shootout last night in Edmonton. Vancouver appeared to have dusted off any cobwebs that had formed against the New York Islanders on Tuesday. The Canucks had another tremendous early home start, as they took control early against the San Jose Sharks and controlled the flow of the game for the most part. Certainly there were parts where the Sharks took over. After all, they are the Sharks. They're a damn good team. For the most part, the Canucks owned the puck enough to decisively win that game.
The Canucks will need a similar effort against a resurrgent Red Wings team, looking to keep their playoff spot to which they are barely clinging right now. Really, the Canucks just have to duplicate the effort from 17 days ago against these same Red Wings, and they'll set. However, the Wings are 5-1-1 in their last 7 games, so this is no small order.
One player who always has great games against the Red Wings is Detroit-area native Ryan Kesler, he of the newly signed 6-year, $30 million contract. Look for Kesler to be buoyed by his new-found money, and a crowd that will surely be cheering for him louder than ever as he takes the ice. It's been quite a month for Kesler. He was arguably the best skater for the US Olympic team during the Vancouver 2010 games, has been playing like a man possessed since returning to NHL action, and now has $30 million to his name. Not bad, Ryan. Not bad at all.
The Canucks certainly do have their work cut out for them tonight. The Red Wings are 5-4-1 in the second half of back-to-back games, and are 6-3-3 after a loss in extra minutes. The Red Wings are also a very disciplined team, ranking 2nd in PIM per game at only 9.1. Where the Canucks can seize victory is 5-on-5, where the Red Wings are surprisingly poor statistically. Detroit ranks dead last in 5-on-5 goals for, and 18th in 5-on-5 goals against.
The Canucks need to stay disciplined tonight, be the aggressor early against a likely tired Red Wings team. Teams that play in the second half of back-to-back games like to score early, ge a lead and hold on. If the Canucks can turn that around and themselves score early, they may find their key to success tonight.
Can the Canucks grab this opportunity? Do they have what it takes? The Canucks are 10-1-1 in games on Hockey Night in Canada. Whether is good luck or good play, Vancouver sure loves its Saturday games. Let's hope we do too at the end of the night.


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Eighty-nine percent of Chinese information workers use smartphones at work, according to Forrester's second annual Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey.
Forty-nine percent of these workers use Android phones but 45 percent plan to use iPhones and only 28 percent plan to use Android phones. Fourteen percent plan to buy a Windows Phone and although only three percent intend to buy a Blackberry, this percentage may increase due to the recent launch of BlackBerry 10.
The global data overview focusing on mobile workforce adoption reveals that Android phones are currently being used by more information workers than iPhones.
Only 16 percent of information workers are using iPhones these days but 33 percent said it will be their next work smartphone. In fact, iPhone's popularity is set to increase in the coming days as Forrester says 208 million information workers want an iPhone for their next work smartphone.
Forrester's survey also shows that the percentage of anytime, anywhere workers has increased from 23 percent in 2011 to 29 percent in 2012. These employees have three or more devices, work from multiple locations, and use multiple apps.
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Use of tablets across the world is gradually increasing and about 905 million tablets will be in use for work and home globally by 2017.
Another Forrester's report '2013 Mobile Workforce Adoption Trends' shows that 32 percent want a Windows tablet and 36 percent want to put in money to get the computer of their choice.
One-fourth of information workers are using tablets, 22 percent use a file sync/share solution like Dropbox and 70 percent of employees using Dropbox use it for work or personal files.
Forrester advises CIOs to develop a very deep marketing understanding of their employees and try to understand the reason they are using technology for.
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Tracks Ahead "Saxony Narrow Gauge Railways" Tracks Ahead visits the German state of Saxony to see narrow gauge steam line; Enjoy a large Lionel club layout in Levittown, New York; visit a combination freight and passenger railroad in Pennsylvania; and visit a 7 inch gauge steam line in Pennsylvania. D
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Live from the Artists Den "Iron and Wine" On a chilly fall night, Atlanta's historic Buckhead Theatre hosted an unforgettable, marathon performance by Iron and Wine. The show was a sort of homecoming for frontman Sam Beam, who grew up a few hours from Atlanta, and he delivered a two-hour, 24-song set for the invitation-only audience of 500. The 11-piece band played virtually all of Iron and Wine's most recent album, "Kiss Each Other Clean," plus favorites like "Naked as We Came" and "Boy With a Coin," before Beam closed the remarkable night with a luminous solo version of the brand-new "Flightless Bird, American Mouth," from the "Twilight: Breaking Dawn" soundtrack. D
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Sesame Street "The Latinization of Marco" Gina is reading a book to Marco about the Spanish names for animals. Rosita asks what she is doing and Gina explains that since Marco was born in Guatemala where people speak Spanish, she would like him (and herself) to learn Spanish too. Rosita explains that there is so much more to learn and dashes off to get her guitar. D
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Dinosaur Train "Paulie Pliosaurus/Elmer Visits The Desert" Paulie Pliosaurus - The Pteranodon family takes the Dinosaur Train underwater to visit a marine reptile called Paulie Pliosaurus, a creature known as the "T. rex of the Ocean." Buddy and Paulie compare features and find that they actually have a lot in common. D
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Super Why! "The Princess and the Pea" It's the Annual Junior Princess Competition, and Princess Pea is worried she won't be able to pass the test and win her very own Golden Crown! The Super Readers soar into the fairytale adventure of the Princess and the Pea, and learn all about Princess Priscilla - Princess Pea's mother - and her Princess test. Princess Priscilla surprises everyone with her quick thinking, and inspires Princess Pea to follow in her mother's footsteps. Educational Objectives: To learn about thinking things through. D
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Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Super Cleaner Uppers/Itty Bitty Water" Seaweed Superhero - Nick and Sally are cleaning up the backyard when they come across a yucky apple core. Who's going to pick it up? The Cat in the Hat takes them to meet the best cleaner-upper there is, Sandy the Sand Hopper! Sandy teaches them the difference between natural "garbage" and man-made trash, and how some animals use the natural garbage as food. Back at home, they put the trash in a garbage bag, and the apple core in the garden for Wriggles the worm to enjoy! Itty Bitty Water - Nick and Sally are about to dump out the water in their kiddie pool when The Cat stops them - water is too precious to waste even a drop! Off they go to the Drippety Dry Desert to meet three creatures who are experts at conserving water. D
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Wild Kratts "Falcon City" The Kratt brothers are itching to fly with the world's fastest animal, the Peregrine falcon, which can hit top speeds of 240 mph. But their efforts are side-tracked when the rest of the Wild Kratts team challenges them to find the falcon in the city instead of in the wild, and Chris' Creature Power Suit is accidentally activated with Pigeon Powers ! But then they discover that Zach is sending his Zachbots to clean off a building that has a peregrine falcon nests with chicks! Martin and Chris must activate their Peregrine falcons powers and harness the force of gravity to pull off a high flying creature rescue!. D
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Wyland's Art Studio "Crossing Sea" Create the clear pristine ocean using special painting techniques, focusing on color and contrast.G
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Piano Guy Host Scott Houston and guests show viewers how to play Antonio Carlos Jobim's bossa nova tune, "Corcovado," and the signature lick from Billy Preston's "Nothin' from Nothin'." Featured guests include Lori Mechem, Dave Powers and Bradley Sowash. D
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The Desert Speaks "Beyond The Asphalt Part 1" Just off the highway there are a plethora of adventures awaiting the exploratory traveler. Host David Yetman heads west of Tucson to visit some of these undiscovered places. After visiting the largest dune field in the United States, we head to Yuma for a hot air balloon ride and a walk through "the hell-hole of Arizona," the Arizona Territorial Prison. D
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Outdoor Idaho "Birders, Banders & Binoculars" They can be fierce predators and some of the gentlest of creatures. Some are rare, others are quite common; but they all have the power to bewitch and bedazzle. Birds live in a world that for us is the stuff of dreams and wonder. We take to the field to celebrate birds and the people who study, care for, and watch them.G
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Nature "Radioactive Wolves" This film looks at what happens to nature after a nuclear accident. Two groups are studying the native wolf population now living in the devastated Chernobyl area 25 years after the event. Through the studies, scientists are piecing together a picture of the entire ecosystem and seeking to determine the status of the wolf population.G
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Wild! "Cats & Eagles: Mountain Rivals" In the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa, the black eagle rules the skies. The caracal lynx is a solitary and efficient hunter. One pair of eagles breed twice in one season and is the first pair on record to have three chicks in one brood.G
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Wonders of the West "Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park" Listed as a World Heritage Site, Yosemite's breathtaking vistas inspire and awe. From bears to trout fishing, learn about the wildlife of this area, visit with Native American Master Basket Weaver Julia Parker, and discover the rich history of Buffalo Soldiers in the park. Visit a grove of giant sequoia trees as we continue our adventure to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. D
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Wonders of the West "Sonoran Desert" For many generations, the Tohono O'odham Indians have been harvesting the fruit of the saguaro cactus and welcoming the summer monsoon rains that have been so vital to their survival. Learn the traditions of the annual harvest as we collect and prepare fruit with members of the Tohono O'odham nation. Discover the wildlife of the Sonoran Desert and join us as we learn about some of the tastier plants that grow here!. D
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Born Free Legacy Joy Adamson's book Born Free caused a sensation when it was first published in March 1960. As well as topping the New York Times bestseller list, the book and its later film adaptation made a massive impact on conservation and science. The programme marks the 50th anniversary of Born Free's publication by revisiting the inspirational story of Joy and her husband George, a game warden turned wildlife observationist and author. D
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Children of the Amazon CHILDREN OF THE AMAZON follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenous Surui and Negarote children she photographed fifteen years ago. Part road movie, part time travel, her journey tells the story of what happened to life in the largest forest on Earth when a road was built straight through its heart. D
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Nature "Radioactive Wolves" This film looks at what happens to nature after a nuclear accident. Two groups are studying the native wolf population now living in the devastated Chernobyl area 25 years after the event. Through the studies, scientists are piecing together a picture of the entire ecosystem and seeking to determine the status of the wolf population.G


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This article, entitled "Breaking the Rules," comes from Erin Ferris at chasingroots.com
On her first day of life she fell asleep on my chest.
Since that day she's fallen asleep primarily in her crib and then her big girl bed, and on rare occasions sleep has won her over while in her daddy's arms, on her grandpa's chest, or in her car seat or stroller. But not in my arms. Never in my arms.
It's kind of a "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" situation. Do my kids prefer sleeping independently because I sleep trained them? Or were my kids successful at sleep training because they were predisposed to prefer sleeping independently? It's impossible to say for certain, but if I were the betting type, I'd wager that my two children fall into different categories. I think my son prefers sleeping independently because I sleep trained him, and that my daughter succeeded at sleep training because of a predisposition to sleep independently.
I believed - and still believe - very strongly in the importance and benefits of sleep training. I couldn't have survived those first few months of my babies' infancies without a regular nap schedule (I recognize now that postpartum depression contributed to my inability to relax and "go with the flow" during that time period), one that included consistent nap times, durations, and locations. During the napping years - which have officially come to an end...excuse me while I shed a tear or two - my kiddos slept like champs, and to this day they handle bedtime and sleeping through the night in stride. I worked hard to give them the gift of good sleep - and to give my husband and me the gift of peace during naptime and at night - and all four of us are happier and better rested because of it.
I never felt as though I was missing out on anything because my girl wouldn't/couldn't sleep in my arms; she gave me plenty of hugs and kisses and love while awake, and I felt grateful for the comfort she experienced in her bed.
Until a couple of weeks ago, that is, when she developed an ear infection after suffering from a head cold and started crying in her sleep. The only way to console her was to let her sleep on me on the couch. As she drooled down my neck and sweated through the front of my shirt, tears streamed down my face. All I could think about was how it had been nearly five years since she had fallen asleep on my chest. FIVE YEARS.
I don't regret sleep training my children, not even a little bit. But a small part of me wishes that my sleep training manual had included a chapter on breaking the rules. I missed out on five years of naptime cuddles (and drool and sweat) that I can never get back.


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SEATTLE (AP) Before the defending Super Bowl champions Seahawks took on the Green Bay Packers, another Seattle favorite played.
The NFL got veteran grunge band Soundgarden and hit-maker Pharell to join the league's season opener festivities with a free concert at the parking lot of Century Link field. The concert was open to all fans, even if they were not attending Thursday's game.
The concert was part a day of festivities in downtown Seattle. Fans started tailgating first thing in the morning and the stadium was full well before kickoff.


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Destructive DRM Strikes Again: Creative Professionals Blocked From Using Adobe Products For Days
from the defective-by-design dept
The MacUser article also noted that Adobe avoided providing workarounds (even as there were a few), insisting that there was nothing that could be done. This was either out of ignorance, or standard corporate fear of revealing basic workarounds to dodgy DRM. Adobe eventually (after more than 24 hours) got things working again and posted a rather weak apology.
The biggest problems, though, were faced by users who couldn't launch apps. Along with many others, Stefan Goodchild wondered: "Can @Adobe explain why all my Creative Cloud apps are all disabled when their login system has an outage? What about when I'm on a deadline?"
Their confusion was understandable: Adobe had categorically assured users and journalists, when replacing Creative Suite with Creative Cloud in May 2013, that apps only needed to check in with the server every 30 days, telling MacUser in a written reply that products would continue to work for 99 days in the absence of a server connection.
The @AdobeCare account seemed to have been given the same information, telling user Robert Lewis at 18:13 on Thursday: "Your apps should launch without checking w/ server." But Lewis was far from being alone in finding this simply wasn't the case. "Since I can't sign in, it won't let me use my photoshop right now," complained photographer Linda Watson Nkosi, among many similar tweets.
Of course, this kind of mishap was exactly what many people feared would happen when Adobe ditched basic software licenses to go with a forced "cloud" setup, whose main benefit (to Adobe) was that it acted as DRM.
This all took place just a few weeks after the official day against DRM and Mozilla's decision to accept DRM in Firefox. Many people still don't seem to realize just how destructive and dangerous DRM can be, but perhaps last week's events will get a few more folks in the design community to recognize the serious problem.


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My tuppence. Well, probably a little more than tuppence.
The first thing I'd say is: don't trust the Keenspace logs too much. They do fluctuate. Eleven extra hits can quite easily be generated by people returning to the site after a thirty-minute time period, finding Keenspace slow and coming back later, or even Keenspace just not working for a lot of that month. At any rate, these are more likely than readers becoming confused and vowing never to return.
As for the question of whether it's worth putting the time in to make a really polished comic strip when the results don't seem to be appreciated... Art (of the type I think you mean) is, by definition, less popular than entertainment. Compare the numbers visiting art galleries yearly with numbers viewing a soap opera daily. Of the two, art is less popular because it's difficult: it raises questions and requires thought. Comic strips have the potential to be a wonderful synthesis of the two - just read Peter Blegvad's Leviathan - but the audience for that, as opposed to passive 'light entertainment', is small. Many just want a laugh, and anything beyond that - even something innocuous like interesting panel layouts - is off-putting. I can't say that fills me with hope and joy, but I fear it's true. Even so, there is a smaller nucleus of people who can and do appreciate comic strips which do something interesting. They are out there, and there are more than forty of them. It's just a question of finding them, or rather, them finding you. And they will eventually (although the speed of it, inevitably, is proportional to how much 'networking' you do).
Lastly, I'd warn (from no real experience, but still) that attempting to be more accessible to a wider group of people is really the kiss of death. Trying to improve your writing and art is quite all right, but diluting your style to popular tastes usually produces insipid results, which are far less satisfying to the creator than lesser popularity would ever be. The Yes analogy (which is somewhat dependent on liking Yes):
Yes in 1970: individual and innovative progressive band with smallish fan-base.
Yes in 1985: rock band with large fan-base and nothing whatever to differentiate them from any other rock band.
Even if you like bland stadium-rock, you wouldn't listen to Yes of the latter period: you could get better examples of it elsewhere. But you can't get the Yes of 1970 anywhere else, which is probably why they still have a following. I reckon a small, appreciative fan-base is probably a better thing than a broad one coming back just to get yet more of what they like.


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Students are taking on the world in Professor Melissa Stimell's class, Advocacy for Policy Change. The centerpiece of an Ethics Center initiative, students in the course conceive solutions to real-world injustices, with help from their professor and prominent guest lecturers. Students then take their fight to the State House and courts, and learn firsthand how to turn a bill into a law.
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Montessori education information from a Montessori teacher and Mom. Personal art work and journal entries about my life as a busy Mom of three sons ranging in age from 7 years to 21 years. My hope: To create a place where parenting questions can be answered and conversations as well as ideas shared.
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The Importance of Art Education
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- Joyful Learner said...
Thank you for posting this. Art is neglected and we need more, not less.
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Thanks for your post...
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Arts education allows students to express themselves freely and to discover, explore and experiment. They also give them a safe place to introspect and find personal meaning. In this respect, the arts are important in their own rights for education.
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ASU Human Performance Center Renamed
Angelo State University's Center for Human Performance will be re-named in honor of Benjamin Kelly, a former student-athlete who broke the color barrier at then San Angelo College and became the first black to play for a previously segregated college football team in Texas.
The honor was approved last Friday (Feb. 28) at the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents winter meeting in Lubbock on the recommendation of ASU President Brian J. May.
Kelly enrolled at San Angelo College (SAC) in the fall of 1953, eight months before the Supreme Court's 1954 landmark Brown vs. Board of Education, which overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine originally ruled constitutional by the 1896 Supreme Court in Plessy vs. Ferguson.
When Kelley stepped on the football field at San Angelo's Bobcat Stadium against Phoenix College on Sept. 19, 1953, he stepped into civil rights and football history as likely the first black to play for a previously all white college football team south of the Mason-Dixon line.
"Though we are honoring Ben Kelly in 2014," May said, "he long ago honored this institution by the dignity with which he integrated San Angelo College, the talent he displayed on the football field and the collegiality he demonstrated to his classmates. It is fitting that we place his name upon the Center for Human Performance as a building that is used both for academics and for recreation."
"There are many great stories and accomplishments by former students of San Angelo College and Angelo State University," May continued, "but none is greater than that of Ben Kelly. He is truly the Jackie Robinson of Texas collegiate football, though his story is certainly not as well known."
That obscurity is gradually changing, though, with his induction earlier this year into both the Texas Black Sports Hall of Fame and the Angelo State University Athletics Hall of Honor. Graduating from San Angelo's Blackshear High School in 1950, Kelly enrolled at the University of Illinois and played on the freshman team for the Big Ten school. He then enlisted in the Army for two years before returning to San Angelo.
Still desiring to play football and continue his education, Kelly approached athletic director and head football coach Max Bumgardner along with line coach and future athletic director Phil George about the prospect of playing for SAC. Although the coaches lacked the authority to permit him to play, they encouraged him to visit SAC President Rex F. Johnston about enrolling in the institution.
After listening to Kelly's request, Johnston sent him to the registrar to enroll. Kelly was joined on the SAC campus that fall by two other Blackshear High School graduates, Annie Laura Owens and Mary Frances Simpson, who went on to become SAC's first black graduate and one of the first black women admitted to the University of Texas Law School.
"While Ben Kelley's courage should never be overlooked," May said, "neither should the vision of President Johnston and his coaches in seeing a wrong and taking no small step for the time to correct it."
In a 2006 interview, George, who was present when Kelly first inquired about playing for the Rams, said, "What Ben did for this school in relationship to integration could not have been written nearly as well, even if it had been a movie script, because this was a human, walking it on a daily basis without any structure as far as a formula to go by. In other words, there's not enough talent in the film-writing area to tell this story as well as Ben lived it."
In all, Benjamin Kelly suited out for 19 games in a Rams uniform before leaving San Angelo in 1954 for the National Football League. In many, if not all, of his SAC contests, Kelly entered the game as a target of dirty play, racial epithets and abusive fans. Though he traveled with the team, he often was forced to eat in the kitchens of segregated restaurants or to find his own accommodations on overnight trips.
Despite the hardships of 1950s Jim Crow segregation, Kelly persevered and earned not only the love of his teammates, but also the respect of his opponents, winning All-Pioneer Conference honors in both years of his SAC career. After his first year at SAC, his San Angelo classmates named him class favorite.
The Center for Human Performance was originally known as the Physical Education Building when it was opened in 1972. The then 81,000-square-foot facility included a gymnasium that was home to Rams and Rambelles athletic teams until the opening of the Junell Center/Stephens Arena in 2002 when the facility was re-named the Center for Human Performance. The facility was expanded in 2011 to include additional student recreational facilities.
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Have you seen the lesson on Modern Cryptography? At the last checkpoint this was the most popular question asked by users:
In the lesson we saw how prime factorization played a fundamental role in the construction of mathematical locks. A mathematical lock (or one-way function) requires a procedure which is easy to perform and hard to reverse.
For example, If I randomly pick two large prime numbers such as:P1 = 709 andP2 = 733
and multiply them to get: N = P1 * P2
N = 709 * 733 = 519697 (this is easy to compute)
I end up with two things: a large number (519697) and the prime factorization for that large number (709 * 733)
Now, imagine I hide the prime factorization and only provide you with the following:
519697 = ? * ? (this is hard to compute)
If I ask you to find the prime factorization, where would you begin? Don't worry, everyone would struggle with this problem! To find the solution you must do a bunch of trial and error tests. Multiplication is fast (easy) to compute while prime factorization is slow (hard). This simple fact forms the basis for the RSA encryption scheme.
Though before going any further, we need to zoom in on the first step and ask ourselves an important question. When we say "randomly pick two large primes", how do we do this quickly? Is it an easy problem?
If you think about it for a while, you'll eventually agree that this step requires, at minimum, the ability to check if a randomly generated number (such as 99194853094755497) is prime or composite. Do you have a button on your calculator to tell you this?
I don't see one….Why is this?
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Henry Frazer Parry, 99, formerly of Chestnut Hill, a physician who was the founding director of what is now Magee Rehabilitation Hospital, died Oct. 4 at Foulkeways Retirement Community in Gwynedd.
Dr. Parry was a founder in 1958 of Magee Memorial Hospital, the first specialty rehabilitation hospital in the Philadelphia area. He later served as director of rehabilitation at All Saints Rehabilitation Hospital at Stenton and Evergreen avenues in Chestnut Hill.
Dr. Parry was a graduate of Germantown Academy and Haverford College. He received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and completed his residency at Pennsylvania Hospital.
Athletic and adventurous, he stayed alert and active throughout his life and enjoyed sports, especially tennis, squash, golf and bicycling. He maintained a regular walking routine through the wooded pathways at Foulkeways until a few weeks before his death.
He is survived by his wife, the former Kathleen Anderson; a daughter, Martha Parry; a stepson, Steven Shaffer, and a step-granddaughter. Dr. Parry's first wife, the former Mary Kelly of New York City, died in 1984.
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Keith Olbermann, No Longer Afraid Of Corporate Parent Interference, Willing To Talk On Air About PIPA/SOPA
from the stand-up-to-the-man dept
So, it's interesting to see that someone who is willing to discuss this issue on TV is Keith Olbermann. Love him or hate him (and I recognize the strong emotional feelings he brings out in people), he's still a big name in TV news... just not on one of the big channels any more. As you may recall, he had a bit of a "falling out" with MSNBC. One of the points he made when he signed on with Current TV was that he constantly felt some pressure not to piss off corporate ownership:
During the conference call, Olbermann acknowledged another upside in his new arrangement: not being tied to a larger corporation like Comcast or G.E. Olbermann said the "purity of this operation" is that he doesn't have to worry about whether what he says on air will affect the conglomerate's other non-news businesses.Thus, it should come as no surprise that while the big cable channels seem to have a blackout on anything criticizing these bills, Olbermann had Senator Wyden come on to discuss the problems with the bill, as well as some of Wyden's suggestions for ways to fix the bill. Wyden also noted that he's working on a bipartisan alternative bill that doesn't involve censorship or breaking fundamental tenets of the internet, and which (hopefully) won't hold back innovation online. We'll certainly be interested to see what he comes up with.
"There is nothing on my shoulder other than getting the best news, information and commentary show on the air every day," Olbermann said, adding later that in writing practice shows, "I've stopped myself from stopping myself."
Either way, it kind of makes you wonder how much longer the big cable news channels can continue to ignore the story... and what that says about the editorial independence of their reporters and commentators. Still, the message should be loud and clear for those working at any of those stations: if your corporate bosses get pissed off at you for challenging them on SOPA/PIPA... the internet will be quite happy to embrace you.


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Dec. 30--Marlon Ferguson acknowledges he was late in learning about the tiny home craze sweeping cities such as Seattle, Dallas, Detroit and Portland over the past several years.
The executive director of Veteran's Place of Washington Boulevard is eager to use the minimalist living trend to achieve one of his Pittsburgh-based nonprofit's top priorities next year: helping struggling veterans find permanent houses to call their own.
Veterans Place, in collaboration with BOB Project, plans to establish Western Pennsylvania's first shared community of tiny homes built specifically for veterans on vacant land in Penn Hills.
"The Tiny House Project will give veterans an opportunity to live in some high-quality housing at an affordable cost," said Ferguson, a Navy veteran and former University of Pittsburgh basketball standout.
The goal is to have several of 15 to 18 tiny homes under construction and a community center built by Veterans Day, Nov. 11. The municipality of Penn Hills donated four acres for the site on Jefferson Road.
"Funding right now is the hold-up," Ferguson said.
As the new year begins, Ferguson and his team will be scrambling to raise $3.8 million in public, corporate and foundation donations to complete the project. They've raised about $700,000 so far, including $200,000 donated by UPMC and two anonymous donors who each sponsored a tiny house. The project will benefit from $135,000 in state Neighborhood Assistance Program tax credits announced this month.
The tiny specs
True to their name, the tiny houses for veterans will be small, at about 400 square feet for a single resident and 600 square feet for doubles.
Rent will start at an estimated $400 per month.
Preliminary plans call for sleek, urban cabin-like designs with high-tech appliances, energy systems, 10-foot ceilings and large windows to let in plenty of light, Ferguson said.
Each home will have its own bathroom, kitchen, studio-style bedroom and outdoor deck overlooking trees, shared gardens and a walking trail.
"High-sustainability, super-insulated, solar panels, clean air systems -- the folks living in the tiny homes will have access to really cool, affordable housing," Ferguson said. "The design is really modern, very attractive, and that's what we wanted. We wanted veterans to have a sense of ownership with the tiny homes."
The space will include a 5,000-square-foot community center that offers life-skills classes such as financial management, parenting, healthy home cooking and gardening.
"Nature is restorative," Ferguson said, "so we're going to plant a lot of trees, and we're going to have a greenhouse on-site."
Strip District architectural firm AE7 contributed the project's award-winning design , and students from Carnegie Mellon University'sTepper School of Business helped complete a project feasibility study.
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About 900 veterans in Allegheny County are homeless, with more living in shelters or participating in temporary housing programs, Ferguson said.
"Right now the housing supply for veterans, especially in this area, is short. It's limited," Ferguson said.
Within Pittsburgh's city limits, "a lot of the one-bedroom apartments aren't affordable," Ferguson said. The ones that are often don't have easy access to public transit such as major bus lines.
Veteran's Place's facility in Pittsburgh'sLarimer neighborhood already includes 13 townhouses that can accommodate up to 48 veterans. The temporary townhouse occupants live communally, sharing bathrooms and kitchens.
The transitional program averages a 96 percent occupancy rate, and participants can only stay for up to two years, Ferguson said.
In contrast, the tiny houses would provide permanent shelter for veterans vetted by Veteran's Place.
Plans for the Tiny Home Project have been in the works about 18 months. Ferguson and Shawn O'Mahony, founder of BOB Project, drew inspiration from a visit to a 27-acre tiny homes community for the homeless in Austin, Texas. Ferguson recalled meeting a veteran there -- sipping coffee on his front porch -- who boasted that he had the best of both worlds, because if he needed alone time he could go inside his place, and if he wanted company, he had "community right at his front door."
"We always say housing will never solve homelessness, but community will," Ferguson said. "That's the concept behind this. I'm a veteran myself, and we all want community. We want our veterans to feel supported. "
Defined as 1,000 square feet or less, tiny houses have been popping up across the country as young and older buyers seek alternatives to hefty mortgages and energy-guzzling McMansions.
Entire neighborhoods of tiny homes have emerged in Portland and Seattle, and owners established a community of tiny houses on wheels in Washington state.
Pittsburgh joined the movement last year when cityLAB, a nonprofit economic development company, built and sold a 350-square-foot home in Garfield.
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Microsoft released its Windows 8 Developer Preview and free developer tools to the public for download last night. It's intended to help developers start building apps for the forthcoming newest version of Microsoft's operating system. But that won't stop hordes of regular users from installing it anyway, just to get a sneak peek.
We got our hands on a copy of the software and figured that the most compelling system to install it on was a Apple MacBook Air 13-inch running Boot Camp. For the most part, the Windows 8 Developer Preview installed and ran smoothly on the Air despite being the first public build. It's stable enough that I didn't encounter heat issues, the infamous blue-screen of death (yet), or even a single application crash.
There are some key MacBook Air components that Windows 8 didn't recognize, however. These included the speakers, SD card reader, webcam, and Bluetooth, although a sophisticated user could probably tinker with current Windows drivers and get some of them to work. The good news is that the essential ones, such as Wi-Fi, the keyboard, trackpad, and USB ports, worked perfectly.
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NCAA Tournament Tidbits: 03.21.2011Posted by Brian Goodman on March 21st, 2011
Throughout the NCAA Tournament, we'll be providing you with the daily chatter from around the webosphere relating to what's going on with the teams still playing.
- No one team had a more impressive day yesterday than the Ohio State Buckeyes. Their tremendous play may be due the emergence of freshman point guard Aaron Craft, who dished a career-best 15 assists. Craft, who comes off the bench, plays starter's minutes for Thad Matta's squad.
- Once thought to be an afterthought on John Calipari's Kentucky team, big man Josh Harrelson has made a huge contribution in leading the Wildcats to the Sweet 16. If Kentucky wants to continue its run, Harrelson needs to keep putting up solid numbers.
- After their second-round upset over Syracuse, former bubble team Marquette is headed to the Sweet 16. Head coach Buzz Williams, a man known for his wide variety of emotions, could not be happier with his squad.
- While Tyler Zeller and Harrison Barnes mostly lit up the stat sheet, Dexter Strickland served as a defensive menace in North Carolina's win over Washington. Strickland was key in the Tar Heels' comeback, as he was handed the assignment of guarding Washington's Isaiah Thomas.
- Following Washington's loss to North Carolina to end its season, many are beginning to wonder if junior guard Thomas will return to school or enter the NBA Draft. Last week, coach Lorenzo Romar acknowledged that he would encourage Thomas to at least test the waters. The Huskies have turned Brandon Roy and Nate Robinson to the league in recent years, so in that regard, another early departure would hardly be surprising.
- Who would have thought at the midpoint of the season that Butler would be headed to another Sweet 16? Right now, their upset win over #1 seed Pittsburgh is gaining great acclaim across the country.
- While Florida is happy with its Sweet 16 berth, its ultimate goal is beyond the Sweet 16. This should not be surprising, as the program knows how it feels to win college basketball's ultimate prize.
- After their healthy win over Gonzaga, BYU finds themselves in the Sweet 16. One Salt Lake Tribune columnist argues that the Cougars have a chance at the Final Four.
- Wisconsin has recently held the reputation of being a quality team that gets quality contributions from a variety of guys. This tournament, it seems as if their role players are stepping into a more important position.
- Florida's advancing to the Sweet 16 was hugely influenced by the hot shooting of guards Erving Walker and Kenny Boynton. The two guards, who have struggled with inconsistency in their careers, look to be on a hot streak for Billy Donovan's Gators.


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State of Emergency Declared, Appropriations Bill Passes House Committee
- A state of emergency was declared late Tuesday in 20 Eastern Washington counties in response to multiple wildfires threatening homes, businesses, public infrastructure, and natural resources in many parts of the state as fire crews face continued severe fire weather conditions.
Firefighters are battling multiple fires in eastern Washington, including six that started on Tuesday. The fires are threatening more than 500 homes, resulting in numerous evacuations and may result in additional damage.
Extreme fire weather conditions and a lack of available firefighting resources could hamper future firefighting efforts in the state.
- The House Interior appropriations bill passed through committee Tuesday.
The bill allocates how federal dollars are spent for the Department of Interior, EPA and related agencies. It includes language that is important to keeping livestock producers in business such as blocking the listing of Sage Grouse and requiring alternative allotments where ranchers are impacted by drought or wildfire without the need to complete extensive environmental analyses.
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by Mike Masnick
Fri, Mar 11th 2011 2:37pm
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democratic underground, eff, righthaven
It's true. With apparently no self-awareness whatsoever, Righthaven -- the highly questionable company that has sued 239 websites/companies for reposting some content from the Las Vegas Review Journal or the Denver Post -- is now claiming that one of the sites it's sued, Democratic Underground, is engaged in "litigation overkill." That's because of the EFF and Democractic Underground submitting new "key evidence," that apparently proves the copyright assignment from the newspapers in question is a "sham" and not a legitimate assignment. We've seen that charge in the past, and it hasn't stuck, so it's interesting to hear there's "new evidence" on that question. Unfortunately, for now, that evidence is hidden. Still, Righthaven isn't happy about this and is claiming the whole thing is litigation overkill. I guess it would know what litigation overkill is...
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EG, 11 Mar 2011 @ 3:03pm
Why, don't you know?Litigation overkill would be any process or discovery that works against them in a court case.
Tim, 11 Mar 2011 @ 3:05pm
IronyEither that or hypocrisy.
Anonymous Coward, 12 Mar 2011 @ 1:02am
Re: IronyI'm going to go with "shamelessness".
Anonymous Coward, 11 Mar 2011 @ 3:41pmA taste of their own medicine is evidently disagreeing them. Some one find some other medicine for colic.
I don't think they have one out yet for ironic sputters.
lostalaska (profile), 11 Mar 2011 @ 4:40pm
Poetic...I guess they're finding it less than fun to be on the receiving end of litigation thats only point is to utterly screw you over.
Beta (profile), 11 Mar 2011 @ 6:02pm
lawyers who don't know that words have meaningsHas anyone else noticed... "Overkill" means excessive use of something appropriate. Righthaven's use of the word here implies that Democratic Underground is in the right, and could have won with less effort.
Righthaven's lawyers seem to have a penchant for this kind of sloppy language: �Righthaven intends to fully expose the readily apparent flaws presented in defendants� arguments that would completely eviscerate countless years of licensing and related transactions throughout the country." Fully expose flaws that are already apparent? Eviscerate past transactions? Whah?
John Horstman, 14 Mar 2011 @ 8:57pm
Re: lawyers who don't know that words have meaningsHuh, that sort of sloppy language use makes me wonder what they could have written that wasn't worth re-writing in a much clearer, more engaging style, avoiding the problem entirely. :-P
The eejit (profile), 11 Mar 2011 @ 11:58pm
I have only one question:Will the Righthaven site be seized by ICE for criminal copyright infringement?
Victim, 12 Mar 2011 @ 6:24am
TimelineIn our case:
1st, story posted at Las Vegas Review-Journal.
2 days later, story posted at Ely Times.
2 days later, we reproduced Ely Times story.
1 month later, Righthaven queries private registration for owner of domain. We find one story we neglected to excerpt and correct that oversight (which turns out to be the story in question).
1 week later, Righthaven submits copyright of story (under LVRJ title).
1 week later, Righthaven sues us.
Being a volunteer, spare-time nonprofit, we reluctantly settled. 6 months later, the stories at LVRJ and Ely Times still have no notice of Righthaven's copyright.
Ken, 17 Mar 2011 @ 11:37pm
Boo Hoo RighthavenRighthaven is now fighting 7 counter-suits and more of their litigants are choosing not to settle but fight. Clearly Righthaven misjudged the resistance they would encounter when they set up their business model. They assumed it would be similar to the RIAA that had only a couple of their litigants fight but they forgot to add in the equation that downloading illegal music is much more cut and dry than posting an article or image. Downloading a song has few fair use arguments while using an image or article has a wide range of arguments that can be used.
Just these 7 counter suits alone will wipe out the estimated 350,000 that Righthaven has squeezed out of victims. Unless Righthaven's backers are willing to lose a lot of money over this I would suspect Righthaven's rein of terror will soon come to an abrupt halt.


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