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ORB 493. Oral Microbiology The major groups of microorganisms causing oral disease are reviewed with emphasis on basic biology, genetics, physiology, and pathogenic mechanisms.
ORB 501-504. Dental Research Seminar The purpose of this series is to provide experience to participants in preparing, organizing, and presenting material to a critical audience. The fall semesters are devoted to a systematic review of recent significant research developments in one of the basic sciences fundamental to Oral Biology. In the spring semesters the students report on original research. Required of all graduate students in oral biology and open to other graduate students and dentists.
ORB 579. Saliva and Salivary Glands This course gives students an understanding of the fundamental biology of the salivary glands. The regulation of salivary gland physiology is discussed, as is the structure/function relationship of salivary proteins and lipids. The molecular basis of salivary gland gene expression is explored. The etiology, pathogenesis, and consequences of salivary gland diseases are also discussed.
ORB 580. Fundamentals of Dental Caries This course presents the latest developments in many aspects of dental caries, from the most fundamental basic science to clinical applications.
IND 501. Ethics in Research Ethics and Professional Integrity aims to bring to light some of the salient issues related to ethics and responsible conduct in clinical and basic science biomedical research arenas. The course meets weekly for 90 minutes for 10 weeks. A broad range of topics is covered, including the University of Rochester policy and procedures regarding human and animal experimentation, intellectual property, as well as scientific misconduct. The course emphasizes experiential learning in small group format, and case studies are used to facilitate active discussion and interaction. In addition, the course features a series of "survival skills" presentations aimed at helping students advance in their career paths with integrity and with the highest of ethical standards.
Other courses administered by the Center of Oral Biology which may be chosen as part of the program of study
ORB 414. Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis The molecular mechanisms by which bacteria cause disease are examined. The emphasis is on understanding how bacteria colonize the host, evade host immune defenses, and cause damage to the host, as well as understanding the regulation of synthesis, structure, function, and mode of action of bacterial toxins.
ORB 556. Biology of the Periodontium Stressing the biological behavior of the periodontium, the course reviews the fundamentals as well as the latest developments in periodontal research. Topics covered are the development, morphology, and physiology of the periodontal tissues, the epidemiology, etiology and histopathology of periodontal diseases, plus current concepts regarding mechanisms of periodontal tissue destruction and repair.
ORB 558. Craniofacial Growth and Development This series covers the prenatal embryogenesis and postnatal growth and development of the craniofacial complex. Mechanisms of growth control, the development of occlusion, and methods of study and timing are presented. Clinical implications for normal and abnormal facial development are discussed.
ORB 563. Pharmacology and Therapeutics Pharmacotherapeutics of drugs most often used in dentistry are reviewed with emphasis on critical analysis of the related literature and current directions in pharmacological research.
ORB 570. Introduction to Dental Epidemiology and Research Design Students are introduced to the fundamentals of epidemiology. Emphasis is placed on the natural history of common dental diseases.
ORB 593. Complex Carbohydrates The synthesis, structure, and function of complex carbohydrates is considered with emphasis on recognition phenomena.
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MBI 473. Immunology
STT 212. Applied Statistics for the Biological and Physical Sciences
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"Tom" Turkey Speaks
The knowledge that he was going to be consumed by people, especially at Thanksgiving, gave meaning and purpose to his own and the lives of other turkeys.
Published: December 12, 2012
In response to Mark Rifkin's "Turkey is Murder" (Dec. 5, The Mail), unlike Mr. Rifkin, I have discussed this issue with turkeys, and concluded that they indeed are aware of their options. One male turkey, who would only give his name as "Tom," informed me that he owed his very life to human choices to breed turkeys for the dinner table, and that the knowledge that he was going to be consumed by people, especially at Thanksgiving, gave meaning and purpose to his own and the lives of other turkeys that would not have otherwise. He also was aware that, were human farming of turkeys to cease, many of them would die more brutal deaths in the wild.
It is misleading to say, as Mr. Rifkin did, that "there is no biological need for meat"; there is, in a literal sense, no biological need for any specific food item. However, most foods do contain proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals which meet human biological needs, and meat, especially consumed in moderation, can certainly be included in healthy human diets, as it has since human beings first became a separate species.
Vegans are certainly welcome to consume whatever diets they wish. They should, however, spare us the sense of moral superiority to those of us who do choose to consume meat and fish.
Steven Shore
double down on dollar house Program
Thanks for Edward Ericson Jr.'s update on Baltimore's Vacants to Value Program ("Still Pretty Vacant," Mobtown Beat, Dec. 5).
Wouldn't it be wonderful if our city would bring back the highly successful and nationally famous Dollar House Program?
Much of the Inner Harbor, Otterbien, Ridgley's Delight, and other neighborhoods were restored with the help of this program.
The last time it was instituted briefly, urban homesteaders lined up and camped out overnight for the chance to renovate vacant houses in low-income communities.
The program, as I remember, required the buyer to bring the property up to code within a year and to occupy it for at least five. This discouraged "slumlord"-type speculators from abusing the program.
With the cost of housing still proportionately inflated from the actual cost of land, materials, and labor, urban homesteading is in the interest of an ever-increasing number of people.
I realize the city officials would rather work with developers than with individuals (less work for them, bigger campaign contributions), but the mantra that the "program didn't work" is simply not true. Demolishing blocks of historic houses has hidden costs to society, and the environment is not being factored into our city planners' equations.
Let's put Baltimore back on the preservation map and reinstitute our innovative and ecologically sensible Dollar House Program!
Daniel Van Allen
Larnell is Light
As we Baltimoreans fa-la-la and party, and as our city, our nation, and the world barrel recklessly towards the new year, I thank the Baltimore City Paper for year-round excellence.
In particular, I thank you for including in your columns the letters of Larnell Custis Butler.
I know that Ms. Butler is an Afro-centric feminist. She is a magnificent, self-ascribed "troublemaker".
I am a Jewish feminist, living with life-long mental illness.
For any newspaper to consistently give space so that Larnell's voice, her pain, and her profound vision of injustice are heard and acknowledged, is to give power to us all.
Thanks, Ms. Butler. Thanks, City Paper.
Leslie Robin Kassal
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Necromancer is such an ugly word, but it's a title Eric Carter is stuck with.
He sees ghosts, talks to the dead. He's turned it into a lucrative career putting troublesome spirits to rest, sometimes taking on even more dangerous things. For a fee, of course.
When he left LA fifteen years ago, he thought he'd never go back. Too many bad memories. Too many people trying to kill him.
But now his sister's been brutally murdered and Carter wants to find out why.
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Lawyers say it is the first known effort to overturn an Islamic Shariah law that prescribes jail terms of varying lengths or fines for convicted cross-dressers.
The secular High Court in Malaysia's southern Seremban town rejected a bid by four Muslim transsexuals who were born male to declare the Shariah law unconstitutional.
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Mewtwo can't sweep fast, but it's good late-game. It's not as good as it is in RBY, but it's still Uber to the max. Mewtwo absolutely needs to have Submission—otherwise Blissey, Snorlax, and Tyranitar are going to wall it to hell and back.
Curse bolsters Mewtwo's Attack and cushions its Defense. Let loose with Submission when you feel the timing is right. If your opponent tries to stop you with a physical wall or Ghost-type, counter it with the move of your choice. Thunderbolt has the best overall utility in the Uber metagame for the last slot. Shadow Ball is a possibility too, but it leaves Mewtwo kinda stuck against Skarmory and, to an extent, Lugia (since most of those have Curse). I know it seems like a crime not to use that 406 Special Attack, but in the Uber metagame, special attacks aren't going to do a lot to the likes of Ho-Oh and Lugia.
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Mewtwo can use Selfdestruct effectively. There's Ice Beam to run from that nice Special Attack stat too. If you're scared of status, such as Sacred Fire's burn, Mewtwo can use Rest. Mewtwo learns Thunder Wave, something that could be handy in the Uber metagame if your opponent doesn't have a cleric.
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Umbreon can use Charm to stall out Mewtwo, but it can't take too many Submissions on the switch in. If you can paralyze Mewtwo and get lucky, Heracross has a chance to take it out. If it doesn't have Submission, any of the special walls can usually stall it out—Blissey, Umbreon, and Snorlax in particular.


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American, US Airways announce $11 billion mergerDALLAS — US Airways CEO Doug Parker has landed the big merger he sought for years. Now the soon-to-be CEO of the new American Airlines has to make it work. Planes need painting. Frequent flier programs have to be combined. And the new airline will still be weak in Asia and need to win back business travelers who have been drifting away to other airlines.
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Meet Josh, he's a bit of an addict when it comes to running—and to show his dedication he gets up super early five days a week to go jogging, but this video shows Josh running (GoPro style) his first 135 mile race in the Caminho De Fe, or Path of Faith, in Brazil. Brutal.
if you wanted to see a couple of French guys withstand the onslaught of a flamethrower, all experienced in slow-mo, then you've come to the right place. If nothing else you get to watch the awesomeness of fire filmed at 2100 FPS.
World press photographer Christopher Herwig turns his lens to the curious bus stops of Soviet-era Russia—in this period, and against the norm, transportation-related buildings were given complete creative freedom, and some very interesting types of structures arose.
Memory cards, they're robots in disguise! At least, they are in this video which shows a micro SD card that doesn't just store endless photos of your cat, but instead it's a tiny robot that can run, fly, swim, battle magnets and bust through walls.
Ellen Degeneres takes no prisoners in this hilarious spoof of the shooped Target image which showed a model with ridiculously long arms and a huge gap between her thighs—at least, we think it was shooped but this clip says otherwise.
What do you do when you become hooked on a free-to-play app game? You could tirelessly spend every waking hour trying to rack up some points, or you could build an automated machine from Lego which taps your iPad all night long so you can collect all the points.
Prepare to be impressed as Rob Scallon acts like a big fat show off with his guitar and plays a whole bunch of songs in a really short period of time—watch in awe as he nails everything from Led Zeppelin to the Inspector Gadget theme.
You know how it is, you get the tub of ice cream from out of the fridge but it's just too damn solid to eat—damn your impatience! But Haagen-Daz have got a solution: knowing that ice cream is best when slightly thawed, they built an AR app to play you music while you wait for it to become the perfect consistency.
Just because you're old and grey doesn't mean to say you have to be a total grump—just look at this lot who are dancing themselves a newbie to Pharrell's hit song that you feel you should hate but just can't bring yourself too.
A new take on the popular strategy game lets players colonize a new world out there in the universe—previously the Civilization games have started on earth, but this new instalment goes interstellar and pits you on an alien planet to explore and colonize.
Jimmy Kimmel dressed Drake up in a beard and glasses and sent him to the streets to ask people what they thought of the Canadian rapper—and some of the responses are hilarious, with one guy even composing a song about himÚ "Drake yeah I think you suck," it goes.
The Masters may be a long-established golfing tradition, but that's not to say it couldn't be improved by some of golfing's finest taking on the obstacles found on a crazy golf course, like in this spoof video—will Tiger beat the windmill? Tense stuff.
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On the Republican primary race after the Iowa caucus (in which Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum tied for first place)…
Perry said last night he was going to head back to Texas for prayer, and reflection, to figure out what he should do next. Because he spent a lot of money in Iowa, and it didn't translate to votes. And the theory is that if money didn't translate to votes in Iowa, then it may not translate to votes anywhere else. And is it worth going into debt. Does he have a high enough base here to pull off what now would be a miracle. I hope he stays in. 'cause I told you I like Perry. And I like Santorum. And I told you countless times I know, either one of those guys, and I said this about Bachmann as well – if any of them are elected President, I know, I have no doubt whatsoever, they are gonna be fighting for this country each and every day. No doubt whatsoever.


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The file I am trying to use a video file that was created in Premiere by capturing video from a DV tape and rendered in Adobe Encoder as a compressed AVI. The AVI looks just fine until it is imported into After Effects.
This is a good example of what the lines look like most notable are the lines near the net, the top of the net and the far side line. This is actually a shot from Premiere, when this image is displayed (smaller size) here it is doing the same thing I see in After Effects. I am assuming there is a problem in the settings when I create the AVI and how the After Effects project is configured. The problem is I know next to nothing about After Effects and only slightly more about Premiere. If some one could give me some direction (as detailed as possible the better) as to what might be causing this and how I can correct it, that would be fantasctic
The picture below is a screen shot from After Effect
Why are you capturing your video in Premiere and then rendering it to use in AE? Why not just import the Premiere project into AE? (Or use Dynamic Link?)
Also, if you must render, why are you using a compressed codec to do it? That's just bad juju. What compression codec are you using?
Anyway this link may be able to explain some of your problems from Premiere's perspective and this link from the After Effects perspective.
I have tried it, importing the Premiere project directly. It is exactly the same result.
Widescreen DV, right? Is the field order correct in the interpret footage settings, which should be lower field first?
File --> Footage Interpretation --> Main. Turnn off fields, if you want it to display sharper. Everything else is perfectly normal. Compressed footage is always gonna expose artifacts and color space conversion and different display modes between programs will make them stand out more or less.
I agree with the others that you're mishandling fields somewhere along the way.
This video from the "After Effects CS5: Learn by Video" series provides an introduction to fields and interlacing, and shows how to avoid common problems.
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StarWars.com readers may remember our interview with Peter Shillingford, who directed the 1977 childhood immunization public service announcement ad that aired shortly after the release of A New Hope. As it seems a lot of archival home-made movies have been making their way online lately (see the 1976 ILM home movie here), we thought we'd share another recent discovery reportedly posted by the grandson or granddaughter of the Star Wars PSA's producer. From poster "sowtime444":
This was shot by my grandparents in England. There is no sound. My grandfather worked for the Kennedy Foundation and produced the Star Wars commercials. He was a talented writer, among other things. He is the one with the orange-red vest on.
The footage reveals over five minutes of the goings-on behind the scenes on the commercial shoot, which starred both Anthony Daniels as C-3PO and Kenny Baker as R2-D2. Director Peter Shillingford is the chap in the blue sweater.
Watch Video: 1977 Star Wars PSA Behind the Scenes
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RHEED patterns for bare (001) InAs along (a) the ⟨110⟩ and (b) just before the growth and for -thick along (c) the ⟨110⟩ and (d) the ⟨100⟩ azimuths. All azimuths are refereed to the InAs substrate.
Typical AFM images of -thick . (a) Topography showing a stepped surface with large terraces. (b) Enhanced view of a terrace showing rectangular features attributed to domains with different surface terminations.
Fe high-resolution XPS spectra for -thick grown at under oxygen partial pressures of (a) and (b) . The compositions obtained are indicated in the figure.
(a) Room temperature hysteresis loop obtained with a superconducting quantum interference device magnetometer for -thick with a magnetic field applied along both the parallel and perpendicular directions with respect to the film plane. (b) Enlarged view of the hysteresis loops.
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what geeks eat – please welcome vanessa!
Well, I have about a month left of guest-writing for Accidental Hedonist and it's been a blast. I'll be wrapping up my guest position at the end of December and here to take over the post is Vanessa of What Geeks Eat – you are in very good hands, guys. Of course, I'll continue to write regularly at my own blog – the Sassy Radish.
Aside from the instant affinity for the name (I went to a techie college and I'm a photo optics junkie – which qualifies me as a geek) – I found the blog refreshing, well-written and firmly grounded in reality – Vanessa is a mother and a wife and has a family to feed. Oh and she's from Wisconsin (I've a soft spot for that state) – go Badgers!
So to properly introduce Vanessa to you, I posed a few questions to her and her answers are below. Welcome Vanessa – we're excited to have you on board!
1. How did you start cooking and when?
In college when I met GH. I wooed him by cooking for him. A year a later we were living together and figuring out how to make homemade bread and three meals out of one chicken. Since then we've never stopped.
2. What is your earliest food memory?
Eating red, ripe tomatoes, warm from the garden. I'd come home on the school bus and I'd stop at the garden, pick a tomato and eat it like an apple.
3. What are you favorite foods? Least favorites?
My all time favorite is pork…oh what a lovely animal and what delicious meat. I adore pies, fruit, chocolate, cheese, beef, sushi, actually there's not much I don't love. I don't cook fish well…so I don't like fish for that reason but I will order it at a restaurant.
4. What's one dish you've always wanted to make but were afraid to and why?
Fabulous, dainty, french macarons…I swoon at the thought of eating them but no one makes them here in Madison…I keep saying I'll make them this winter.
5. What is the one cookbook you cannot live without and why?
I won't actually buy a cookbook until I've checked it out from the library at least four times. This year I bought Dorie Greenspan's Baking and I love it. But I
don't really feel passionate about any one cookbook. I read a bit here and there everyday and as I go along I compile lists of flavors that go well together, techniques to try, or ingredients to hunt down and use. I love Peter Kaminsky's Pig Perfect, Heat by Bill Buford, and I'm looking forward to Ruhlman's Elements of Cooking. However, I cannot survive without the internet, google, and my moleskine notebooks.
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There Are No 'Acceptable' Terrorists
There Are No 'Acceptable' Terrorists
Horner Op-Ed in The Bucks Country Courier Times
February 10, 2002
The United States has engaged in war on terrorism, irrespective of source, form or target. The president clarified his intentions with his State of the Union affirmation of the Bush Doctrine, alerting the "Axis of Evil" that its behavior, barring reform, risks U.S. intervention.
Yet, the terror campaign under way on American soil well before Sept. 11 will test this doctrine. President Bush must not manifest, through word or deed, a policy distinguishing "good" and "bad" terrorists. As Congress explores the matter of eco-terrorism, this issue deserves thoughtful consideration.
Post-Sept. 11, the Earth Island Institute was the first to seemingly sanction the terrorist mindset of "by whatever means necessary," editorializing on its Web site that our victims essentially got what they deserved. After all, according to EII, they mostly worked for the Pentagon and "multinational financial empires," perpetuating an oil-based economy. An anti-anti-American backlash led EII to implausibly label its editorial as a personal e-mail accidentally posted (by the site's editor) and not reflecting the institute's views.
The spokesman for a more active eco-extremist group, David Barbarash, whined with equal plausibility, "to call Animal Liberation Front terrorist is an insult to those who lost their lives on Sept. 11." According to NannyCulture.com, Barbarash's record includes being charged with possessing explosives and impermissibly toting weapons. Our animal activist is not likely a hunter.
On Sept. 11, ALF took credit for firebombing a Tucson McDonald's, one of a string of many such acts. NannyCulture.com reported, "ALF has also set off firebombs at meat companies and feed mills, kidnapped and tortured a British journalist, and was called 'a true domestic terrorism group that uses criminal activity to further their political agenda' by the FBI. Jane's Intelligence Review calls ALF 'the most prominent eco-terrorist group' ... noting that one ALF target 'received two letter bombs, letters with razor blades, his car was damaged and the windows and doors of his house destroyed.' "
It seems at the same time both unnecessary, yet imperative, to articulate that such activity is intolerable by civilized society and that a policy of turning the other cheek toward such "low-level" terrorism irrefutably encourages escalation. Any "war on terrorism" not attacking this scourge is irresponsible. It hit our shores well before Sept. 11 and is increasing.
Congress has heard tales of eco-terror's threat in the recent past. Former FBI Director Louis Freeh addressed domestic terror in his prepared remarks last May submitted to several Senate committees:
"Special interest extremists continue to conduct acts of politically motivated violence to force segments of society, including the general public, to change attitudes about issues considered important to their causes. These groups occupy the extreme fringes of animal rights, pro-life, environmental, anti-nuclear, and other political and social movements. Some special interest extremists - most notably within the animal rights and environmental movements - have turned increasingly toward vandalism and terrorist activity in attempts to further their causes ..."
Freeh went on to point out that the ALF "has become one of the most active extremist elements" in the United States with eight terrorist incidents in the United States during 1999 attributed to either the ALF or the Earth Liberation Front, another extremist group.
The administration defined "domestic terrorism" in its anti-terror legislative proposal after Sept. 11 consistent with Director Freeh. Plainly, there is no justifying, for purposes of the "war on terrorism" or otherwise, the idea of "acceptable," or exempt, terrorists such as self-described "environmentalists."
Let us hope our lawmakers recognize the folly of playing favorites.
Christopher C. Horner is Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.


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Sitting at the desk, Chávez began with a long pep talk for his supporters. When the camera cut away for a short, sharply critical film about ExxonMobil—it opened with a montage of images of Hitler, oil spills, and John D. Rockefeller—an aide held up a large white screen to shield Chávez while a young woman applied powder to his face. Another aide poured him espresso from a thermos, which he carried in a black leather briefcase.
Back on the air, Chávez spoke scornfully of the students known as los chamos ("the kids"), who, in demonstrations last year, rallied considerable public opposition to him. Some of the leaders of los chamos have expressed interest in running against Chávez's candidates in mayoral and gubernatorial elections scheduled for November; Chávez called out to those who might "throw themselves" into the race, "Go ahead, jump!" He then added, "Better put on parachutes."
Chávez has a gospel preacher's deftness with language and an actor's ability to evoke emotions. Within a single soliloquy, he comes up with rhymes, breaks into song, riffs on his own words, gets angry, cracks jokes, and loops back to where he started. His speeches can be highly entertaining, but it is sometimes difficult to know if he means what he says or has simply been carried away by his own oratory. A couple of years ago, at the United Nations General Assembly, he announced that he smelled "sulfur" at the lectern. The stench, he said, had been left by President Bush, who had spoken the day before, and was "the Devil." (Chávez has a repertoire of colorful labels for Bush, including "coward," "donkey," "drunkard," and "Mr. Danger.") At a summit meeting in Chile last November, Chávez repeatedly interrupted Spain's Prime Minister, until Juan Carlos, Spain's king, snapped, "¿Porque no te callas?"—"Why don't you shut up?" The King's rebuke became an instant YouTube sensation. In Spain alone, more than half a million people downloaded it as a cell-phone ring tone.
Chávez, sitting at the stage desk, drew a diagram on a large white card, and, holding it up to the "Aló Presidente" cameras, told viewers that he'd been thinking about a new "windfall profits" tax on oil companies. He called out to Rafael Ramírez, the president of P.D.V.S.A.—a tall, blue-eyed man who resembles Tim Robbins—and he promptly stood up and began taking notes, nodding furiously. This was not a rehearsed moment; to an unusual degree, "Aló Presidente" is Chávez's government in action, and it is a government that Chávez does not so much administer as perform live. A couple of Chávez's younger advisers told me that they frequently felt like supporting actors in Venezuela's own "Truman Show."
The show went on for five hours. At one point, Chávez spoke darkly about an assassination plot against him involving Colombian and American agents. He blamed Venezuela's private companies for shortages of food—milk, for instance, had become extremely scarce. Chávez informed his audience that, a few hours earlier, a cargo of powdered milk from Belarus had been unloaded at a Venezuelan port. He elicited a round of applause, as if the mere fact of the milk's arrival were a feat worth saluting, and pointed out a delegation of Belarusian officials in the audience. Chávez talks incessantly about building an alliance of nations that can challenge the United States; he has sought out relationships with Iran (and had earlier sought one with Saddam Hussein), China, Russia (Chávez has called Putin one of his "buenos amigos"), and, of course, Belarus.
The show cut away by satellite to a group of Belarusians and Venezuelans at the site of a joint seismic-mapping project. After a few minutes of pleasantries exchanged through an interpreter, Chávez remarked, "That translator, from the sound of things, is Cuban, for sure." He smiled. "Cuba all over the place!"
Then Chávez turned to the camera and, looking directly at it, asked, in English, "How are you, Fidel?"
Fidel Castro, who will turn eighty-two this summer, has been sick since July, 2006, when he vanished from view after returning from a trip to Argentina with Chávez. Despite rumors that he had cancer, it appears that Castro was suffering from diverticulitis, a severe intestinal disorder, which nearly killed him, and from which he has not entirely recovered. He has not appeared in public since, but photographs and video footage have offered glimpses of a diminished man. In all this time, Chávez has been one of the few people outside Castro's immediate family who are allowed to see him. He has taken it upon himself to visit the Old Man regularly and to cheer him up.
"For me, Fidel is like a father. Like a beacon. Fidel is, I believe, irreplaceable," Chávez told me. "He is a giant of the twentieth century, and, just as he entered its history, he has also entered into that of the twenty-first. And there he is, even now, doing everything he can to keep on fighting what he calls the battle of ideas, until his last breath."
The deep friendship between Chávez and Castro began well before Chávez took office. In 1979, when Chávez was a young lieutenant in the Venezuelan Army, he and other junior officers began talking about a revolution. Their plans became more serious in 1989, after the Caracazo, a three-day riot that began when the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez implemented International Monetary Fund reforms, resulting in a spike in the cost of gasoline and public transportation; the Army was called into the streets, and hundreds of civilians were shot dead. Three years later, in 1992, Chávez, then a lieutenant colonel, led a military rebellion. But he surrendered when it became clear that his men were outnumbered, and that continuing would only mean further bloodshed. (At least twenty people died.) Allowed to appear on television, he said that the coup was over, but only "por ahora"—for now. The bombast, and the implicit threat of Chávez's words, captivated Venezuelans, and launched his political career.


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The junior safety from Marbury returned an interception 70 yards for a third-quarter touchdown that stretched the Gamecocks' lead to 31-10.
He felt he needed it to make up for an earlier shortcoming.
"When they scored their first touchdown, that was my guy who scored it, so I felt like I let the defense down," he said. "I had to make up for it some way and when I saw the pick come my way and 83 (Andrew Robustelli) dropped it and it touched me, I knew I wasn't going to be tackled.
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Warren has a nose for the ball and a nose for the end zone. The pick-6 Saturday gave him a defensive touchdown in each of his first three seasons with the Gamecocks.
He returned a fumble for a touchdown last season against Chattanooga and had a 98-yard interception return for a touchdown as a freshman against Tennessee State.
"On defense it's hard for us to do that, so every time I touch the ball, I just try to score," he said. "I really feel like I really can't be tackled — just keepin' it real."
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The way Jacksonville State coach Bill Clark sets up his depth chart, the player who performs the best is the one gets the chance to be the starter.
Given that approach, it would natural to assume redshirt freshman Eli Jenkins would be back working with the first team when the Gamecocks return to practice this week given his showing in Saturday's 48-13 win over Jacksonville.
Max Shortell earned his first JSU start based on his showing in the opener, but was ineffective early against the Dolphins. Jenkins came in, made plays with his legs and led the offense to a bunch of points.
Clark said one might assume Jenkins goes back with the ones this week, but in the immediate aftermath of the game he seemed non-committal on a starter going forward. He did say, however, there would be no quarterback controversy.
"Now you're going to come look at who we originally thought we might be," Clark said. "That's how Eli was ahead, yet there are some things he's got to do better. We're going to be a work in progress. I hope everybody bears with them because they're learning as they go."
For his part, Jenkins said he would take the week as it came.
"Monday, me and him are both going to go at it," Jenkins said. "We fight for the position every day. When one of us does good, we clap hands. When we do bad, we tell each other what we thought we did wrong. We're just going to keep going at it each week.
"Whoever starts on Saturday, they start. I feel like both of us can play. It doesn't matter whoever the guy, we think we can win."
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The Gamecocks are now 47-18-3 in openers since moving into their current stadium in 1946 and have won eight in a row.
Clark became the seventh head coach to win his home debut.
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The Gamecocks are now 55-9 when scoring 30 points or more in a game.
The 48 they scored Saturday were the most since getting 48 in that wild come-from-ahead loss to Eastern Kentucky in 2011.
Up next
The Gamecocks will look to make it 3-0 for the first time since 2010 next week when they step out of division to play Division II North Alabama.
The last time the Lions came to JSU — 2003 — they stunned the Gamecocks 28-16. That UNA team was led by a quarterback — Will Hall — who nine years later was a finalist for the JSU coaching job that ultimately went to Bill Clark.
Apparently learning that lesson, the Gamecocks beat the next (and last) non-Division I team they played — Emporia State, 26-15, in the 2004 season opener.
The Gamecocks are 3-1 against non-Division I opponents since 1997, the first year they were in a Division I conference.
If they do win the game next week, Clark and Jim Fuller will be the only football coaches in JSU history to start their Gamecocks head coaching careers 3-0. Fuller won his first five games on the way to an 11-3 season and a loss to Lehigh in the Division II national championship game.


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In 2010, the then-18-year-old found herself face-to-face with the toughest man in music, Simon Cowell, when she auditioned for "American Idol." While she did make it to Hollywood, she was eliminated in the finalist round, but that didn't stop her from winning the 2010 Texaco Country Showdown, performing on the car racing circuit at Daytona and Mobile (she also will perform in Talladega on May 4) and opening her own business with her family, Popcornopoly.
Her star has only gotten brighter as she has continued to write and perform, and is preparing to release her debut album. But before she takes the stage tonight at The Smoking Moose, read about the Texas native's journey to the top, how she perks up for popcorn, and what she really thinks of Simon.
What made you decide to try out for "American Idol," and more importantly, what's Simon really like?
I moved to Nashville when I was 16 and I was chomping at the bit to audition! I didn't feel I was ready to really compete, though, until I was 18. Simon is actually a pleasant fellow. I was so blessed to be on the show during his last season. He liked me, so I was a happy chick. I have actually tried out for "The Voice," "X-Factor" and "American Idol" every year since I was cut from "Idol." But I think in the big scheme, it's all about timing and what is in store for "your" unique road.
Clearly you have talent; you won the 2010 Country Showdown, you became a finalist on American Idol, you are continuing to perform music — what do you do when you face adversity?
I never give up. If everything were easy, I would know I wasn't growing and I wasn't pushing to be the absolute best I could be — gotta keep on keeping on. I start and end the day on my knees. Whether I feel like it or not, it keeps me from forgetting who I am without all the noise.
What inspires you when you are writing music, and what do you have to have nearby when you are working?
Life and people. I know it [sounds] cliché, but the human heart is something that absolutely leaves me speechless. As long as I'm breathing, I'm never going to lose my inspiration.
I also get ideas from books, commercials and movies — gives me a good excuse to go see all those sappy chick flicks.
I definitely have to have candles and dim lighting. A guitar is mandatory and depending on the weather outside, sometimes I break out my piano and write on my first love.
You performed at Daytona in February, Mobile in March, and will be performing at the Talladega Superspeedway this weekend — what's your soundtrack when you hit the road?
I didn't realize how much at home I would feel in the racing family! I love their passion for music and we share the need for speed and competition.
Because I played softball for so many years, I love how racing is second nature to me in being competitive, and we share the love of winning! The race fans I met at Daytona and Mobile showed me so much love, that I can't wait to get to Talladega to see them again!
My soundtrack is pretty mixed up. I make a new playlist for myself every month, so April had everybody from The Wanted, Miranda Lambert, Redlight King, Lee Brice, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Jason Aldean, Kelly Clarkson, Civil Wars, The Wanted and Carrie Underwood. Right now I have the new Bonnie Raitt record in my car.
You also have a side business, Popcornopoly, based near Nashville. It seems that you have really immersed yourself in the city of Nashville — what made you start it, and how do you balance it all?
Growing up, I was allergic to several things — nuts, milk, chocolate, whey, pineapple … so desserts were very limited. However, popcorn was a staple in my home. We realized that there were no popcorn stores in Nashville at the time, so we decided to start one! It has been a crazy ride, but we are in our second year and just opened our third location in the new Opry Mills Mall.
It has taken a few lessons in juggling, but I have an amazing family and they work with me on a daily basis to make everything flow. I think as an artist or a professional in any area of life, diversity is extremely important.
I believe that having a well-rounded outlook on life makes things easier. Life is more fulfilling because you realize how small you are in the big scheme of things and that the world is a wonderful exciting adventure!
What are you working on now? When can we expect to hear new music from you?
I am actually working on a new album that's going to be different from a lot of mainstream country stuff going on right now.
It's country but Jaclyn's way. I have a new single that I'm currently promoting, "Never Give Up." Go to jaclynnorth.com/freedownload to get a copy of it. This is a teaser from the new record and let me tell you … it's gonna be a good one!


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Wisdom Meets Passion by Dan Miller & Jared Angaza September 8, 2012
If there is one book that has had an effect on me in the past year, Wisdom Meets Passion would be it. When I initially decided to read this book, I really expected that it would be dry and boring. Nothing could be further from the truth. From the very first chapter, I was intrigued. This book is about finding and then reaching for your dreams. That was what stood out to me. I have always believed that if you want your dream bad enough you have to work at it. Dan Miller and his son, Jared Angaza, both backed up my belief in this book. In this book, they go over principles for finding your passion and, with wisdom, working toward your dreams. They also share stories of how they and others have used those same principles, wisdom, and passion to successfully reach for and attain their own dreams.
What I liked most about this book is that it didn't say "if you do this, then you will have a good life, make lots of money, and everything will come up roses." Instead, it took a realistic view of reaching for your dreams. The authors challenge the reader to look within him/herself (and to God), find his/her passion, and then work toward reaching his/her dream. They challenge the reader to stop making excuses and allowing fears to keep him/her from moving, and to start taking one step at a time. Another thing I like is that the book is so easy to follow and read. It's interesting, without being "over the top" and the principles and ideas that are given are things that anyone would be able to do, if he/she is willing. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has a dream that they have not yet tried to attain. The stories and principles in this book show that with hard work and a little ingenuity, dreams CAN come true.
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Today we face a unique dichotomy between the wisdom of the Baby Boomer generation and the passion of Generation Y. According to Wisdom Meets Passion, the question is not which is right, but rather how can the two work together?
Wisdom, meet passion. Passion, wisdom.
By bringing these two voices to the issue, this book takes readers through familiar plights, such as understanding the American Dream, the quest for security, and work that matters—regardless of age. Through candid storytelling, Dan Miller and Jared Angaza uncover various generational approaches to work, money, success, and relationships, proving that it is possible to be both passionate and wise..
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The UObject API can be used to add new objects written in C ++ to the urbiscript language, and to interact from C ++ with the objects that are already defined. We cover the use cases of controlling a physical device (servomotor, speaker, camera…), and interfacing higher-lever components (voice recognition, object detection…) with Urbi.
The C ++ API defines the UObject class. To each instance of a C ++ class deriving from UObject will correspond an urbiscript object sharing some of its methods and attributes. The API provides methods to declare which elements of your object are to be shared. To share a variable with Urbi, you have to give it the type UVar. This type is a container that provides cast and assignment operators for all types known to Urbi: double, string and char*, and the binary-holding structures UBinary, USound and UImage. This type can also read from and write to the liburbi UValue class. The API provides methods to set up callbacks functions that will be notified when a variable is modified or read from Urbi code. Instance methods of any prototype can be rendered accessible from urbiscript, providing all the parameters types and the return type can be converted to/from UValue.
UObjects can be compiled easily directly with any regular compiler. Nevertheless, Urbi SDK provides two tools to compile UObject seamlessly.
In the following sections, we will try to compile a shared library named 'factory.so' (or 'factory.dll' on Windows platforms) from a set of four files ('factory.hh', 'factory.cc', 'ufactory.hh', 'ufactory.cc'). These files are stored in a 'factory.uob' directory; its name bares no importance, yet the '*.uob' extension makes clear that it is a UObject.
In what follows, urbi-root denotes the top-level directory of your Urbi SDK package, see Section 13.2.
On Unix platforms, compiling by hand into a shared library is straightforward:
$ g++ -I urbi-root/include \
-fPIC -shared \
factory.uob/*cc -o factory.so
$ file factory.so
factory.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, \
version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, not stripped
On Mac OS X the flags '-Wl,-undefined,dynamic_lookup' are needed:
$ g++ -I urbi-root/include \
-shared -Wl,-undefined,dynamic_lookup \
factory.uob/*.cc -o factory.so
$ file factory.so
factory.so: Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library x86_64
umake can be used to compile UObjects. See Section 17.7 for its documentation.
You can give it a list of files to compile:
or directories in which C ++ sources are looked for:
or finally, if you give no argument at all, the sources in the current directory:
If you installed Urbi SDK using its installer, and if you had Visual C ++ installed, then the UObject wizard was installed. Use it to create your UObject code:
Then, compile your UObject.
And run it.
Let's illustrate those concepts by defining a simple object: adder. This object has one variable v, and a method add that returns the sum of this variable and its argument.
To summarize:
When you start an Urbi server, an object of each class registered with UStart is created with the same name as the class. New instances can be created from Urbi using the new method. For each instance created in Urbi, a corresponding instance of the C ++ object is created. You can get the arguments passed to the constructor by defining and binding a method named init with the appropriate number of arguments.
You can register any member function of your UObject using the macro
UBindFunction(class-name, function-name).
Once done, the function can be called from urbiscript.
The following types for arguments and return value are supported:
Functions bound using UBindFunction are called synchronously, and thus block everything until they return.
If you wish to bind a function that requires a non-negligible amount of time to execute, you can have it execute in a separate thread by calling
UBindThreadedFunction(class-name, function-name, lockMode).
The function code will be executed in a separate thread without breaking the urbiscript execution semantics.
The lockMode argument can be used to prevent parallel execution of multiple bound functions if your code is not thread-safe. It can be any of LOCK_NONE, LOCK_FUNCTION, LOCK_INSTANCE, LOCK_CLASS or LOCK_MODULE. When set to LOCK_NONE, no locking is performed. Otherwise, it limits parallel executions to:
There is however a restriction: you cannot mix multiple locking modes: for instance a function bound with LOCK_FUNCTION mode will not prevent another function bound with LOCK_INSTANCE from executing in parallel.
You can perform your own locking using semaphores if your code needs a more complex locking model.
You can limit the maximum number of threads that can run in parallel by using the setThreadLimit function.
You can register a function that will be called each time a variable is modified or accessed (for embedded components only) by calling UNotifyChange and UNotifyAccess, passing either an UVar or a variable name as first argument, and a member function of your UObject as second argument. This function can take zero or one argument: a UVar reference pointing to the UVar being accessed or modified. The notifyChange callback function is called after the variable value is changed, whereas the notifyAccess callback is called before the variable is accessed, giving you the possibility to update its value.
The callback functions are expected to return a value of type UReturn, currently typedefed as an int. This return value is ignored in the current implementation.
Notify functions can be unregistered by calling the unnotify function of the UVar class.
The UNotifyChange and UNotifyAccess features can be used to link multiple UObjects together, and perform data-flow based programming: the UNotifyChange can be called to monitor UVars from other UObjects. Those UVars can be transmitted through bound function calls.
One possible pattern is to have each data-processing UObject take its input from monitored UVars, given in its constructor, and output the result of its processing in other UVars. Consider the following example of an object-tracker:
class ObjectTracker: public urbi::UObject
ObjectTracker(const std::string& n)
: urbi::UObject(n)
// Bind our constructor.
UBindFunction(ObjectTracker, init);
// Take our data source in our constructor.
int init(UVar& image)
UNotifyChange(image, &ObjectTracker::onImage);
// Bind our output variable.
UBindVar(ObjectTracker, val);
return 0;
int onImage(UVar& src)
UBinary b = src;
// Processing here.
val = processing_result;
return 0;
UVar val;
The following urbiscript code would be used to initialize an ObjectTracker given a camera:
var tracker = ObjectTracker.new(camera.getSlot("val"));
An other component could then take the tracker output as its input.
Using this model, chains of processing elements can be created. Each time the UObject at the start of the chain updates, all the notifyChange will be called synchronously in cascade to update the state of the intermediate components.
The API provides two methods to have a function called periodically:
In Urbi, a variable can have a different meaning depending on whether you are reading or writing it: you can use the same variable to represent the target value of an effector and the current value measured by an associated sensor. This special mode is activated by the UObject defining the variable by calling UOwned after calling UBindVar. This call has the following effects:
You can read or write any Urbi variable by creating an UVar passing the variable name to the constructor. Change the value by writing any compatible type to the UVar, and access the value by casting the UVar to any compatible type.
Some care must be taken in remote mode: changes on the variable coming from Urbi code or an other module can take time to propagate to the UVar. To have more control on the bandwidth used, you can disable the automatic update by calling unnotify(). Then you can get the value on demand by calling UNotifyOnRequest (variable, function). Then to get an updated value, call the requestValue method on the UVar, and your callback function will be called as soon as the value is available.
You can read and write all the Urbi properties of an UVar by reading and writing the appropriate UProp object in the UVar.
The UEvent class can be used to create and emit urbiscript events. Instances are created and initialized exactly as UVar: either by using the UBindEvent macro, or by calling one of its constructors or the init function.
Once initialized, the emit function will trigger the emission of the associated urbiscript event. It can be called with any number of arguments, of any compatible type.
The UObject API is thread-safe in both plugin and remote mode: All API calls including operations on UVar can be performed from any thread.
Urbi can store binary objects of any type in a generic container, and provides specific structures for sound and images. The generic containers is called UBinary and is defined in the 'urbi/ubinary.hh' header. It contains an enum field type giving the type of the binary (UNKNOWN, SOUND or IMAGE), and an union of a USound and UImage struct containing a pointer to the data, the size of the data and type-specific meta-information.
The UBinary manages its memory: when destroyed (or going out-of-scope), it frees all its allocated data. The USound and UImage do not.
Reading an UBinary from a UVar, and writing a UBinary, USound or UImage to an UVar performs a deep-copy of the data (by default, see below).
Reading a USound or UImage from an UVar performs a shallow copy. Modifying the data is not allowed in that case.
In plugin mode, you can setup any UVar in 0-copy mode by calling setBypass(true). In this mode, binary data written to the UVar is not copied, but a reference is kept. As a consequence, the data is only available from within registered notifyChange callbacks. Those callbacks can use UVar::val() or cast the UVar to a UBinary & to retrieve the reference. Attempts to read the UVar from outside notifyChange will result in nil being returned.
Sometimes, you need to perform actions for a group of UObjects, for instance devices that need to be updated together. The API provides the UObjectHub class for this purpose. To create a hub, simply declare a subclass of UObjectHub, and register it by calling once the macro UStartHub (class-name). A single instance of this class will then be created upon server start-up. UObject instances can then register to this hub by calling URegister (hub-class-name). Timers can be attached to UObjectHub the same way as to UObject (see Section 3.7). The kernel will call the update() method of all UObject before calling the update() method of the hub. A hub instance can be retrieved by calling getUObjectHub (string classname). The hub also holds the list of registered UObject in its members attribute.
If you need to send Urbi code to the server, the URBI() macro is available, as well as the send() function. You can either pass it a string, or directly Urbi code inside a double pair of parentheses:
send ("myTag:1+1;");
URBI (( at (myEvent?(var x)) { myTag:echo x; }; ));
You can also use the call method to make an urbiscript function call:
// C++ equivalent of urbiscript 'System.someFunc(12, "foo");'
call("System", "someFunc", 12, "foo");