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Subject: yes one more entry (harvest fest maddness) Time: 9:51 pm. (This is going to be a dull entry, well just like all of mine are. But I feel no effort to putting excitement into this, since i have told the story about a million times to people. haha.) So deal biotches. Hmmm I guess I will just start from friday, when sarah simon and I left for Toronto.We didnt end up leaving Tweed until like past midnight. haha. it was amusing, and agravating at the same time. Simon decided to take his car apart THAT DAY, the day we leave for TO. So his friends and him spent alllllllll day putting it back together. We were suppose to leave around 9:30, and we didnt leave until hours later, because we had to wait for him to CLEAN his car. haha. :) Soo yah...We got to TO around 2 or somthing like that...and we went and stayed at some guys house, and he had some other people living with him. Really nice apartement, it was in a really nice part of TO too. Huge place. And it wasnt that much, since there were like 4 people living there. So...Sarah and I were both dead tired, but we didnt get to sleep until like almost 4 because there were people talking and being loud. But Meh. Oh well. We got up fairly early the next morning and one of the guys at the apartment took us to some restuarnt so we could eat breakfast. We ate on the roof. :) It was nice. Good food. ^_^Ummmm yeah. so we stopped over at maxs residence, which is some hotel that UFT bought for the students. Its a really nice hotel actually. So yah. we got to see him and jesse, and meet his roommate. We would have stayed longer but we couldnt. But it was super nice to them. I actually really miss max. hes a cool cat. ;o)Uhhh yah. so I forget the order of events. but the simons car started to fuck up. The brakes or somthing werent working properly, which was causing the car to stop or somthing weird like that. i know nothing about cars. so deal with my lack of knowledge on the problem .But anyway, so we had to stop in China Town for a while, to see if Simon could figure out what was going on. He did, kind of. Or rather, temporarily. Then like 10mins later, the car started acting up again, and we had to stop again. We were on some street for awhile, letting the car cool down.. etc etc. And people seemed so genuinly concerned. Ha. right. they just like to stare. and laugh in their heads. ha. stupid people. stuck. dont know how to fix their own car. bums. no not really.but maybe. its possible. they sure did stare a lot.Ummm then we were on our way again. We were going to pick up John at his house, (a friend of sarahs that she met at a new years party) But the care messed up again, so instead of risking it to johns, we told him to meet us at the nearest MCd's. Turns out, his place was like 10mins from where we were. haha. but yeah, down from Mcd's some crazy guy was having a lil street sale. And I found some cool anime comics. A pack of 3 of oh my goddess, and the other pack of 3 was some new anime vampire ones. pretty crazy comics. haha. anime is so sexual i find. >_<So yah. Simon drove like a maniac all the way to Bondhead, to where the farm was. And the car lasted until we got there. Simon haha, of course, tried to get out of paying, so he made a commotion with the gate people. they didnt fall for his 'sweet talk' lol. so sarah and him had to pay, but they didnt have enough mulla on them so they had to go back into town and get some. So since Ryan bought my ticket for me a head of time, I stayed at the gates to wait for him. John waited with me, cause he already has his ticket. So we sat there for a couple of hours and had a nice chat. He is really really nice guy. I thought he was like 23 but hes actualy only 18 or somthing. He use to live in the NWT, but came to TO to go to school.so yah. He turned out to be a really wicked guy, great style ;) I loved his clothes. Ryan finally showed up, and i talked with him briefly.Got into the festival, it was now getting dark and cold. haha.I just wanted my freaking wine, and john wanted to be warm. (as did I) But Mostly, i just wanted my friggin wine. We explored a bit, and then went to the kitchen and ate some tasty organic foods to pass the time, until simon and sarah got back. I guess the car was being dumb again, and they just barely got back to the festival and then the festival peopel were freaking out cause simon wouldnt move his car, but of course he couldnt..so they had to just deal with where it was parked. the gate people were being stupid and anal about everything. So yah..they finall got back and we set up our tents and everything. and i got my wine!!! wooo!we when first got there in the pyramid thing there was a guy playing my fav instrument, the diggerydoo and he was using a distortion petal with it, and some girl was singing along. it sounded really really cool.THe other stages were both barns, 3 levels to them . Really cool set ups. they had huge pictures/slide shows played on the side of the barns. The shows were pretty strange...random words...nature..bugs...bugss...ikky. spiders. ew.. that was kinda gross.I think (well other then the little little kids) sarah john and I were the youngest ones there. Most of the people there were in their 30s and above. Kinda neat though.Peoples get ups were pretty cool. It was fun to watch people dance. And the crazy hippie guy was there again with his bmw van. haha. he was at OM too. Hes quite the character. a lot of 'new age' hippies there...of course... (i forget the actual term for them)The music was awesome though. A lot of it was kinda hard to dance to, but it was great to listen to. Even though some of it was trance and house, it wasnt your tradition trance and house and what not. it was pretty cool...they even played tricky, which i found pretty cool. oh yah, and the pyramid thing, was mostly a chill out place for smoking pot, djs and the odd mc was in there as well. lots of beds and couches. pretty cool..............Um yeah. the only shitty part. haha you will think i am a total loser and a geek for this, but we all went to bed at like 2 in the morning (the main party time) how pathetic is that. but we were sooo tired. haha. and it was sooo cold. I thought i was going to freeze to death. agh!so yah. haha .we got up around 7 or somthing, and wandered around..got breakfast..sat by the fire.... but yeah. the evening was pretty fun --i did dance! ha. sooo many cute dogs there. :) In the morning before we left, the doors of simons car were open, and the cuttest fluffiest husky dog jumped in, and we didnt even notice she was there until like half an hour after..but she was adorable..and i wanted to take her home with us. but i wasnt allowed *pouts. I want a dog. haha.:oP (dammit. I am sick of typing already.)Bored yet? yah. :0)Ummm so the car was being dumb again when we started to leave in the afternoon...so we stopped at some gas station in some small town. tried to fix it with the help of simons friend brennon, still didnt work properly. Sooo they went to barrie which was like 45 mins away, and took john with them to drop him off at the go station. So sarah and I stayed at the gas station, and in front of the parking lot there was a little ditch, near where the car was, so we curled up on blankets and slept for over an hour. haha. people laughed at us.and made random comments "are they alive" "goodmorning" blah blah. silly nonsense for weird people. haha. jesus. we were tired! so yah. the gas station peopel were being anal about letting us use their washroom, saying the keys were lots etc etc, when we just saw a million people use the bathroom..so later we walked down to the IGA, used their bathroom...bought some food.went back. the guys still werent back....we waited like 3 hours give or take for them. finally they got back, turns out while we were gone, they were there and had tried to put the car back together, except canadian tire the assholes forgot to give them a part.so they had to go allllllll the way back to barrie. jesus christ..so we waited half an hour for them to get the car working. miracle, its starts working fine. so we go down to coffee place or whatever its called, to get food. brennon says he will meet us in new market or somthing to eat a real meal. so he goes off in his car. Simons car starts to fuck up again, we are screwed, cause brennon was long gone. So we made it back up to this closed garage across from the gas station we had been at for hours. (so yah. great.back where we started. wonderful.) simon tried to get a hold of people, and CAA to get his car towed. decided not to get it towed, and instead we called sarahs dad. So steve had to come allllll the way out to where we were to pick us up. We felt really bad, but there was nothing else we could do. We ended up getting to new market ok, and meeting them at MCDs. haha. sarah and i had a vinegar fight there. and ended up smelling like it all the way home. ewwwwy. haha. it was funny though. so yah...steve met us there...we got home not too later, around 1:30 or somthing. Simon ended up taking his chances and riding back home. ahh. i hope he got back ok. I am sure he did. but i havent talked to him or sarah since that night. sooooooo . :o| I dunno?!But yeah. I think that is all. that was my little adventure. with many other laughs and giggles, and fun stuff involved. but my mind at the moment can not recal everything. so there. entry is finally written. wooooooooooooo*much fun.didnt take pictures cause i was too lazy.
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Andreas Haeberlen
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Office hour: Wednesdays 2-3pm
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Mondays + Wednesdays 10:30am - noon
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Xu Wang, email@example.com
Office hour: Thursdays 4-6pm (Moore 207)
Antonis Papadimitriou, email@example.com
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This course focuses on the issues encountered in building Internet and web systems:
scalability, interoperability (of data and code), atomicity and consistency models,
replication, and location of resources, services, and data. Note that it is not
about building database-backed or PHP/JSP/Servlet-based web sites (for this, see
CIS 330/550 or
Here, we will learn how a Servlet server itself is built!
We will examine how XML standards enable information exchange; how web services support cross-platform interoperability (and what their limitations are); how "cloud computing" services work; how to do replication and Akamai-like content distribution; and how application servers provide transaction support in distributed environments. We will study techniques for locating machines, resources, and data (including directory systems, information retrieval indexing and ranking, web search, and publish/subscribe systems); we will discuss collaborative filtering and mining the Web for patterns; we will investigate how different architectures support scalability (and the issues they face). We will also examine the ideas that have been proposed for tomorrow's Web, including the "Semantic Web", and see some of the challenges, research directions, and potential pitfalls.
An important goal of the course is not simply to discuss issues and solutions, but to provide hands-on experience with a substantial implementation project. This semester's project will be a peer-to-peer implementation of a Googe-style search engine, including distributed, scalable crawling; indexing with ranking; and even PageRank. We will also incorporate the use of topic-specific recognizers and mash-ups.
As a side effect of the material of this course, you will learn about some aspects of large-scale software development: assimilating large APIs, thinking about modularity, reading other people's code, managing versions, debugging, and so on.
CIS555 is now a core course for the MSE degree; for details, please see the MSE requirements. The Daily Pennsylvanian recently published a nice article about CIS455/555.
|The format will be two 1.5-hour lectures per week, plus assigned readings from handouts. There will be regular homework assignments and a substantial implementation project with experimental validation and a report. There will also be a midterm and a final exam.
|This course expects familiarity with threads and concurrency, as well as strong Java programming skills. Those highly proficient in another programming language, such as C++ or C#, should be able to translate their skills easily. The course will require a considerable amount of programming, as well as the ability to work with your classmates in teams.
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Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, 2nd ed, by Tanenbaum and van Steen, Prentice Hall
Additional materials will be provided as handouts or in the form of light technical papers.
|Homework 32%, midterm 15%, final exam 15%, project 33%, participation 5%.
|Other resources
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|The homework assignments will be available here. If necessary, you can request an extension (requires PennKey login).
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Wondering what you will be able to do at the end of this class? Here is
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Honorable mentions went to Team "Ozone" (Swati Goswami, Gokulkrishnan Ragunathan, Sriram Ramanujam, Harini Srinivasan), whose search engine had an impressive "staged" architecture and a stunning front-end design, and to Team "8ball" (Amit Bose, Vikrant Goel, David Gregson, Hari Rajaraman), whose solution supported image search via a separate crawler and offered lightning-fast results.
You can read more about previous Google Award winners and their projects in the CIS455/555 Hall of Fame.
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And now we'd like to celebrate our favorite baseball tradition of them all: throwing out the first pitch. Naturally, over the years, more than a few style icons—from JFK to Eddie Vedder—have taken the mound for the inaugural heave, and we've rounded up some of the most stylish non-belly-itchers of all time. So, without further ado:
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If we were less civic-minded, we'd skip the whole thing and fire up a few episodes of House of Cards—if only to be reminded how a well-put-together politician actually looks (a lot like Kevin Spacey, incidentally). In fact, Hollywood seems to be the only place turning out politicians we'd actually want representing us. So, in hopes of moving a few congressmen to up their style game, we present:
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In so doing, he broke with tradition: ever since the Reagan era, every president has taken the oath of office in a pair of Wisconsin-made Allen Edmonds—until Obama snubbed them in 2009. And early reports from this morning's festivities indicate he's forgone them again. There's still a chance he slips into a pair for the inaugural ball—you know what they say about Wisconsinites and their dancing shoes—but it's still an interesting choice to note.
Luckily, he's still got four more years to get it right.
Barack Obama's status as a pop icon has already been solidified, but here's some more icing on the cake.
Terry Richardson—the closest thing fashion photography has to an Andy Warhol—has just unveiled a vintage photo shoot that starred the president himself. Judging from Obama's more youthful visage—notably the lack of gray—we guessed that Richardson has been sitting on these photos for a few years (and they most definitely were taken before the "Uncle Terry" scandal), so we did some light research and found that they were taken during a Vibe magazine photo shoot in 2007. Start making room in your reelection scrapbook…
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Not since the likes of Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, a fellow by the name of Honest Abe and just about every US president in the second half of the 19th century have we had a president with some sort of facial follicle to pensively stroke while guiding this fair land. Back then it was more unusual to run for president and not have a crazy-ass beard.
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No, we're not talking about Obama's hair color.
We're talking about suits. So far we've seen a lot of navy on the campaign trail this election season, but the equally "safe" suit color of gray has been totally avoided on stage. It was once a White House favorite (see President Truman and his gray-swathed Cabinet above). But politicians have been afraid of the gray debate suit ever since an ill-fated Nixon showed up to the first televised debates in a light charcoal suit that looked so much like the stage backdrop on black-and-white television, the producers quickly repainted it minutes before airtime (the paint was still wet, and Nixon still faded away).
But we think today, with the debate stage backdrop usually some form of dark blue (and you know, color TV), showing up in a gray suit would have the opposite effect—leaving the candidate in the navy suit to fade into the background. (Perhaps a Reagan-esque brown suit could be even more impactful.)
Though you'll still have to choose your tie color wisely.
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Hang Tight: Valet discovers a new carry-on bag that transforms into a hanging dresser in your hotel room. [Valet]
Hoop Dreams: GQ posits that we are in a golden age of NBA style, and takes us back to when things weren't as handsome. [GQ]
Prez Credentials: A roundup of all the truly presidential suites Barack Obama has stayed in over the past four years—from Vegas to Moscow. [Details]
Home of the Good Burglar: Another high-profile art heist rocks a Dutch museum. Perhaps somebody's been reading Kempt. [WSJ]
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As you may or may not have noticed, the first presidential debate happened last night.
And while we'll leave the parsing of half-truths and double-talk to the pundits, we noticed one glaring difference between the candidates: their tie knots. Obama's was a study in the perfectly dimpled knot—it's hard to tell whether it was a half-Windsor or just a masterful four-in-hand, but it was textbook, symmetrical, some might even call it professorial. On the other side of the aisle, Romney went with a taut four-in-hand with no dimple—an old blue-blood affectation that felt unfussy and verging upon Kennedy-esque—another surprise, considering everyone expected him to show up and pull a Nixon (which he managed to avoid). In other words, the ties told the whole story: Obama played it safe while Romney came off surprisingly slick.
Remember, ties have been a major stumping point this election year.
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Gangnam-busters: A journalist who grew up Gangnam-style explains life in the suddenly-most-well-known neighborhood ever, and the official birth of irony in Korea. [The Atlantic]
Tweezin' Season: A master class in eyebrow maintenance—for guys not named Anthony Davis. [Details]
Scotch, Neat: The next time you find yourself in need of a bang-up haircut—while in Edinburgh—this is your place. [NY Times]
Game On: Vanity Fair tallies up President Obama's impressive in-office sports résumé. [VF Daily]
Pants Don't Lie: Put This On explains the three-tiered hierarchy of chinos. Study up. [PTO]
It's Just the Tits: It seems The New Yorker has pushed Facebook's limits of decency with their latest cartoon—they're calling it "Nipplegate." [New Yorker]
Barry F-bama: A glorious soundboard of Barack Obama reciting the colorful language of a schoolmate. Use this only for good (and prank-calling that right-wing roommate of yours from freshman year). [Regretsy]
Karl and Aziz: Refinery29 catches up with Aziz Ansari during Fashion Week to talk dinner jackets and a reality show with Herr Lagerfeld. [R29]
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Dean Martin, Bing Crosby and Groucho Marx, Palm Springs, CA, 1954
It may prove a bit tricky to duck out of the office this week for a twilight round of golf, given that we're coming off a 10-day Fourth of July sabbatical. To tide you over, we now present, in no particular order, 18 photos of style icons spoiling a perfectly good walk.
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D'oh!: Here to explain the Supreme Court's landmark ruling on Obamacare: nine Simpsons GIFs. [Buzzfeed]
Readers, Digests: Selectism brings news of a Warby Parker pop-up that's easy on the eyes. [Selectism]
Always a Critic: Being a restaurant critic sounds like a plush gig. Here are some words of wisdom from a guy who is one. [The Art of Manliness]
Drink Up: It's Friday afternoon and you're thirsty. Pick one of Esquire's 50 summer cocktails and then make it. Enjoy. Repeat as necessary. [Esquire]
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Richard Dawson, the Kissing Bandit, has died.
As you may recall, Kempt recently sauntered back to the Golden (Brown) Age of Game Shows, a glorious, sepia-toned era of wide lapels, sexual innuendoes and long-stemmed microphones gracefully held by extraordinarily tanned and charismatic gentlemen like Richard Dawson. "The way he was on [Family Feud] was the way he was in real life," said Dawson's son, Gary. "He not only wanted people to win, but to have a comfortable, great experience."
Click here for a comfortable, great experience (survey says)…
In the process of researching our game show story last December, we stumbled upon this clip of Dawson's estranged sons surprising him, on air, for his birthday. We'll go ahead and call it the most poignant moment in game show history.
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Manchester City wins the English Premier League title, May 11, 1968
They hadn't won a championship in 44 years. Down 2-1 with time running out, it seemed Manchester City would once again concede the English Premier League title to its crosstown rivals, Manchester United. Then, the impossible happened: Edin Dzeko and Sergio Aguero scored back-to-back goals with seconds remaining in stoppage time—and the city of Manchester partied like it was 1968.
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The Best of Times: It's amazing what a keen eye for salvageable Italian shoes and a good cobbler can do for you. [Put This On]
The Trapublicans: After the President joked that his next musical performance would be a Young Jeezy tune, NY Mag speculates as to which song it should be. (We would've liked to see "Gangsta Grillz" in the mix). [Daily Intel]
Craig Swagger: Every year, as the NBA playoffs get into full swing, our attentions turn to… Craig Sager's egregious suit choices. Esquire investigates. [Esquire]
Good Drugs: Next time you down a couple aspirin, know that you're decreasing your cancer odds by 46% as well curing your hangover. [The Atlantic]
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In addition to crooning love-makin' ditties, the president of the United States demonstrated over the weekend that he can deliver a joke—even if that joke refers to him eating dogs. Yes, we know it's super cool for journalists who weren't invited to condemn the White House Correspondents' Dinner these days, but we're still fans. After all, in what other setting can you catch the leader of the free world attempting, and failing, to wink.
It's time for your Monday morning update, starting with a recap and two hours of Radiohead from Coachella. Also, a few good Secret Service may have been dallying with prostitutes in Colombia, and some sick bastard stole five of Tom Petty's guitars…
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The world lost a veteran newsman and the most lucrative painter in America this weekend. Also, we've got the most beautiful shot of the Masters and the story of an unusually optimistic cruise ship that's retracing the exact voyage of the Titanic. (Except for, you know, the iceberg part.)
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All hunters must wear blaze orange beginning Nov. 4Pop-up blinds must be outfitted with color, too
Ed. Note: Island resident and hunter Chris Blane called The Block Island Times this week to let us know there have been changes to the rules about wearing fluorescent orange during the hunting season, which begins Monday, Nov. 4. Blane also offered a good bit of advice, fluorescent orange isn't merely to protect hunters. Any pedestrians that see a hunter wearing the color, or if they see a pop-up blind similarly colored then, for safety's sake, stay away.
The following is taken from the 2013-2014 Rhode Island Hunting and Trapping Abstract, which is available at Town Hall:
Fluorescent orange safety clothing is required during the hunting season statewide for all hunters. To meet this requirement, safety clothing must be solid daylight fluorescent orange. Fluorescent camouflage does not meet this requirement. The hunter orange must be worn above the waist and be visible in all directions. Examples are: a hat that covers 200 square inches or a combination of hat and vest covering 500 square inches.
1. 200 square inches by small game hunters during small game season.
2. 200 square inches by fall turkey hunters while traveling.
3. 200 square inches by muzzleloader hunters during the muzzle-loading deer season.
4. 200 square inches by archers when traveling to and from stands during the muzzleloader deer season only.
5. 500 square inches by all hunters (including archers) and all users of management areas and undeveloped state parks during all portions of shotgun deer seasons.
6. Hunters using pop-up blinds during the firearms deer season must display 200 square inches of fluorescent orange visible on the outside from the blind from all directions. Hunters must also wear orange in accordance with the rules for the specific seasons while in the blind.


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WASHINGTON D.C., November 2, 2012 – If you're watching this year's nail-biting presidential race too closely, you just might miss out on some of America's most unique and inspiring newcomers to national politics. Here's five candidates from across the country to watch:
1. Ted Cruz, former Texas Solicitor General and candidate for U.S. Senate
Seeking to replace retiring Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Ted Cruz is one of the most dynamic new leaders of the Republican Party. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law, Cruz served as law clerk to William Rehnquist and made history as the first clerk of Hispanic heritage to serve a Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Having won a tough primary runoff against his state's lieutenant governor David Dewhurst, Cruz is a Tea Party favorite and will likely win his safe-Republican district. If elected, Cruz will likely become the conservative movement's tip-of-the-spear in Congress.
2. Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii candidate for U.S. Representative
When first elected to the Hawaii State House of Representatives in 2002, Democrat Tulsi Gabbard at age 21 was the youngest female state legislator to hold office in the nation. Leaving the State House in 2004 to enlist in the Hawaii National Guard and serve in Iraq, Gabbard would later go on to receive an officer's commission in 2007. Three years later, Gabbard returned to Hawaii politics and ran for Honolulu City Council and won. With the retirement of Senator Daniel Akaka from Hawaii's congressional delegation, Congresswoman Mazie Hirono's candidacy for U.S. Senate created an opportunity for Gabbard to run for Hawaii's second congressional district.
Making her national debut at this year's Democratic National Convention, Gabbard is a highly motivated rising star and veteran from Hawaii.
3. Mia Love, Mayor of Saratoga Springs and Utah candidate for U.S. Representative
The 36-year old Republican mayor of Saratoga Springs and candidate for Utah's fourth congressional district is a charismatic, attractive firebrand who wooed conservatives at the Tampa RNC. A daughter of Haitian immigrants whose parents came to the U.S. with only ten dollars in their pockets, Love was elected to Saratoga Springs City Council in 2003 – the first ever female Haitian to hold office in her city – and six years later was elected as mayor.
Love shares the story that during her college orientation she was told by her father, "Mia, your mother and I never took a handout. You will not be a burden to society. You will give back." Her incredible humility, driven sense of purpose and rock-solid conservative values makes her one of the best congressional candidates of the Republican Party's 2012 lineup.
4. Tisha Casida, Independent Colorado candidate for U.S. Representative
The most incredible example of America's growing liberty movement and testimony to the power of new ideas is Tisha Casida, candidate for Colorado's third congressional district. Without the covering of a major political party and equipped with only her passion for Constitutional government and common sense solutions, the young 30-year old businesswoman turned candidate skyrocketed to national attention after appearing on Andrew Napolitano's Freedom Watch and became a rallying icon for an entire nation of disaffected voters. In a recent OpEd published in Steamboat Today, Casida writes "My experiences have taught me that it is pertinent that we create sound money, get our fiscal house in order, protect the civil liberties and natural rights of Coloradans and work together to find solutions – not just use the outdated two-party rhetoric that does nothing to help us."
In spite of the challenges of running unaffiliated, Casida's incredible grassroots efforts and wide appeal has set a powerful example for the liberty movement to emulate.
5. Rupert Boneham, former Survivor contestant and Libertarian candidate for Indiana governor
Three time Survivor contestant and fan favorite Rupert Boneham is now a Libertarian candidate for Indiana governor. Having raised over $70,000 for his gubernatorial campaign, Boneham is the highest fundraising non-presidential LP candidate of this year's election. But it's not surprising that Boneham is such a popular Libertarian state candidate: For over twenty years he has been active in his community as a mentor of children and a generous donor to local charities.
Running against Republican Congressman Mike Pence and former Democratic state Speaker of the House John Gregg, Boneham is a hero to third parties all across America and an shining example of how persistence and humility can change the political narrative. The man nicknamed "The Gentle Giant" is the epitome of a hometown hero and arguably the most inspiring rising political star this year.
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Robyn Farmer, 56, Stevens Point, died Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, after suffering a stroke at her home.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Shuda Funeral Chapel in Stevens Point, with the Rev. George Thayilkuzhithottu officiating.
Visitation will be at the chapel from noon Wednesday until the services.
Condolences may be offered online at www.shudafuneral.com.
Mrs. Farmer was born Nov. 20, 1955, in Albany, N.Y., a daughter of the late Donald and Ellen (Domin) Reutershan. During her early high school years the family moved to Stevens Point when her father served as an executive for Sentry Insurance. She graduated from Stevens Point Area Senior High School (SPASH) in 1973. She was in the choir at SPASH and also sang with Sweet Adelines. She also sang at Frame Memorial Presbyterian and Trinity Lutheran churches.
She was married to Michael Farmer on Feb. 14, 1978, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Stevens Point.
The couple settled in Stevens Point. She worked at Hardee's for many years and ran a daycare out of their home for 15 years.
Survivors include her husband; three daughters, Greta (Mark) Mlodik, Abbey Farmer and Ashley Farmer, all of Stevens Point; one sister, Meredith (Rob) Lauter, Norfolk, Va.; and two stepgrandchildren.


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Tuesday, 19 Jan 2010 06:18 PM
"Dexter" star Michael C. Hall is undergoing treatment for cancer and the disease is in remission, a spokesman said. "I feel fortunate to have been diagnosed with an imminently treatable and curable condition, and I thank my doctors and nurses for their expertise and care," Hall, 38, said Wednesday in a statement.
The actor was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system, which is part of the body's immune system. The disease is considered highly treatable with the potential for full recovery.
Craig Bankey, a spokesman for the actor, said the cancer is in complete remission and Hall's treatment will continue as planned.
When Hall was diagnosed and the name of the Los Angeles-area health facility where he's undergone treatment were not released.
Hall plans to attend Sunday's Golden Globe awards and the upcoming Screen Actors Guild ceremony with his wife, actress Jennifer Carpenter, who plays his sister on Showtime's "Dexter." Hall is a nominee at both awards shows for his role as Dexter Morgan, a serial killer working as a blood-spatter expert.
Bankey said Hall will return to production on the drama's fifth season later this year.
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Pediatric Ear, Nose & Throat
Tonsils and Tonsillectomy
The tonsils are two clumps of tissue, on either side of the throat, embedded in a pocket at the side of the palate (roof of the mouth). The lower edge of each tonsil is beside the tongue...way in the back of the throat. The adenoids are a single clump of tissue in the back of the nose (nasopharynx). They are located (in the adult) on the back wall of the throat (pharynx)...about one inch above the uvula (the little teardrop shaped piece of tissue that hangs down in the middle of the soft palate).
The tonsils and the adenoids are mostly composed of lymphoid tissue, which is found throughout the gastrointestinal tract and on the base of the tongue. Lymphoid tissue is composed of lymphocytes...which are mostly involved in antibody production. Since we generally consider antibody production to be a good thing, many studies have been performed to try to clarify the importance of the tonsils. There seems to be no adverse effect on the immune status or health of patients who have had them removed. Any noticeable effect has generally been positive. It appears that the tonsils and adenoids were not "designed" to effectively handle the multitude of viral infections that occur in children in an urban population. Rather, the immune system, including the tonsils and adenoids, developed during a era where the child was rarely exposed to a large number of other people and the germs they carried. It may also be that these organs are relatively more important in dealing with certain types of infections, such as worms or other parasites, that are relatively uncommon in today's society. It is clear that in many cases, the tonsils and/or the adenoids become "dysfunctional" and are more of a liability than an asset.
There are a number of well-established valid reasons for removal. Some patients will have more the one reason. The most common are listed below.
In general, yes. We rarely see patients over 40 years old with significant enlargement or infections of the tonsils. However, we have also seen 35 year old patients in severe heart failure due to sleep apnea and severely enlarged tonsils...about to undergo a heart transplant...and their doctor had said they did not need the tonsils out because they would outgrow the problem. (A tonsillectomy would have prevented the heart failure and years of sleep deprivation.) In short, the potential gain of a tonsillectomy (or any other procedure) has to be weighed against the likelihood of resolution, the risks of the procedure, the discomfort, and the expense. For many patients, tonsillectomy is still an appropriate decision.
At least in young children, enlargement or infection frequently affects the adenoids as well as the tonsils...so they are often removed together. Compared to a tonsillectomy, an adenoidectomy is less traumatic and painful.
There are many techniques used for tonsillectomy. General anesthesia is usually employed; but it is possible to perform tonsillectomy with sedation and local anesthesia. In the United States, some degree of electrocautery assisted dissection is most commonly employed, because of the ability to rapidly stop bleeding. Some surgeons use very little cautery...with more bleeding, but with less burned tissue. Use of lasers has been studied and considered by most surgeons. We feel that laser use is primarily a marketing gimmick at this point, since it offers no apparent advantage over certain cautery techniques, and has some very real hazards and extra costs.
Most surgical procedures share the general risks of anesthesia, bleeding, and infection. The anesthetic risk is, in general, proportional to the health of the patient; and serious problems should be very rare. Bleeding is most commonly encountered in a delayed fashion...five to ten days after surgery...when an eschar (scab) comes off. Post-operative bleeding is more likely in teenagers and adults, as opposed to younger children (who have smaller vessels). The area where the tonsils were removed (the tonsillar fossae) always become colonized with high numbers of bacteria, and often cause a low-grade fever. Serious infections are very rare. If tonsils are very large, speech may be different post-operatively (often temporarily high-pitched and "whiney"). Most often the post-op speech is actually more normal. Remember...very rarely, someone can die from complications of tonsillectomy (or any other surgery); so no surgical procedure should be undertaken lightly.
Not usually. Nine out of ten patients do well enough to go home. We will admit anyone who doesn't meet standard discharge criteria...significant breathing problems, no oral intake, severe nausea/vomiting, or serious co-existing illnesses. An occasional patient goes home, but comes back to the hospital, because of poor liquid consumption or bleeding.
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Fill an old coffee cup with ten tablespoons (150 grams) of sugar, two tablespoons (30 grams) of yeast, and one and a half quarts (one and a half liters) of water, and put it in the middle of an upturned dog bowl.
Voila! You have just made a bedbug detector that beats others on the market and is much cheaper.
This do-it-yourself (DIY) device to trap bedbugs was created by Narinderpal Singh, Changlu Wang, and Richard Cooper from Rutgers University in New Jersey. It does not kill the bugs, but it can alert homeowners to infestations at their earliest stages, when the bugs are more easily exterminated.
"This is about early detection. When you detect the bugs, then you can call the professionals," says Singh, whose study was published in the Journal of Economic Entomology.
Bedbugs are blood-sucking insects that have been feasting on humans for thousands of years. In the 1940s, they were mostly eradicated in the developed world using insecticides, but they are enjoying a resurgence that leaves tens of thousands of people with itchy welts.
Many scientists are racing to find new ways of dealing with the bugs, including synthetic bean leaves that impale their feet.
Detection Is Key
But spotting them is also a problem. The adult insects are about one-fifth of an inch (five millimeters) long, are mostly active at night, and hide in crevices during the day. This makes them very hard to spot by eye if there are just a few of them.
"By the time people see the bugs, they're already in their thousands," says Singh.
His new trap is just an upturned dog bowl from IKEA covered in surgical tape that has been dyed black. Bedbugs are attracted to black and have a natural tendency to scale vertical surfaces. Those that climb into the bowl have a hard time getting out.
The market's leading bedbug detector—the Climbup insect interceptor—is effectively the same, although its shallower sides are less effective at retaining trapped bedbugs. When Singh tested both designs in a tray and on the floor of an actual infested apartment, he found that the dog bowl captured three times as many bedbugs as the interceptor.
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The trap becomes even more effective when it is baited with a cocktail consisting of nonanal and 1-octen-3-ol (two substances found in human body odor), spearmint oil, and coriander Egyptian oil. As in a previous experiment, the team found that these four chemicals are good at attracting bedbugs.
However, sugar, yeast, and water work just as well. The yeast ferments the sugar to release carbon dioxide—the gas that bedbugs use to track down sleeping human hosts. This irresistible vapor lures insects toward the trap from long distances, and in experiments more than doubled the number that were captured.
Only one other monitor on the market actively lures bedbugs—and it costs between 40 and 50 dollars. By contrast, Singh says, "Our design is inexpensive, simple, and convenient. People can make their own after going to any grocery store."
i just want to know how long the trap is effective for? like after how many days should i replace it?
How long does it take for the bed bugs to get detected? I.e. how long do I need to leave the trap out to find even the smallest of infestations?
Your info was very helpful. The article mentions coating the inside of the dish with a resin, I assume to trap the bed bugs inside. is the purpose to make a sticky surface that they will get stuck to? Or a smooth surface that they can not climb out of with no traction? And what should a typical shopper use to achieve this? I did not recognize the substance they mentioned.
The paper was mostly concerned with creating a good bedbug lure, and less concerned with the actual trap. It concluded that a sugar-yeast- water mixture that produces 400 ml/hr of CO2 worked well in field ("real world") settings. Apparently people produce about 250 ml/hr, so you need more than that to lure the bugs away from the people and into the traps.
The recipe shown above was used in the lab setting and only produced an average of 100 ml/hr over four hours, so I'm a little confused why it was given here. Also a little suspicious of the grams-to-tablespoon conversion for the yeast. It's not the same as it is for sugar. My cookbook says dry yeast is 8.5g = 1 tbsp, so 30g would be 3.5 tbsp.
Anyways, the field recipe was 150g yeast and 750g sugar in 3 liters of warm water, which produced 400 ml/hr CO2. I'd use that recipe if I wanted to try it out in my bedroom. There was a 250ml (8 oz) coffee cup, but it was used to collect the CO2 as it came out of a compressed tank. Again, confused. The yeast-sugar-water mixture was kept in much larger vented plastic containers (a jug or a storage box), and simply rested on the upside-down dog dish(s). Check out figure 5b and/or 6a in the actual research paper.
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Re: Joel
"They basically just stole my entire concept. I put this video together nearly 6 months ago"
Stole? Really?
It's not like bedbugs are a national epidemic or anything. You were most certainly the only one of the over 7 BILLION people on this planet smart enough to come up with this simple "concept", which is based on known bed bug behavior.
Yup, it's all about you. Thanks for gracing us with your presence.
They basically just stole my entire concept. I put this video together nearly 6 months ago
Paper (with pictures) available in PDF format from a link this page:
The pictures show that the "upturned" dog dish is indeed upside-down. The coffee cup appears to be a plastic foam cup from Starbucks or the like.
This article should be simple but it is opaque. What is an "upturned" dog bowl? Was it too difficult to provide a photo of this mysterious device?
Great idea, but as addicted as I am to my caffeine, I don't own a coffee cup - new OR old - that holds over 48 ounces.
It was 1.5 liters, right? And I was thinking exactly the same thing. Why don't they give a recipe that'll work for 1 cup or 500 ml of liquid?
What if i can't find an old coffee mug that holds 1.5 quarts?
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On opening night of the 2004 Arizona State football season, two unsung players emerged as stars.
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By Gwynne Dyer
Syria now has a new government-in-exile that allegedly unites all the groups seeking the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad's murderous regime. But if this is the best that they can do, Assad will still be in power next year, and perhaps for a long time afterwards.
It took a week of haggling in Qatar to bring all the fractious Syrian rebel groups together, and it wouldn't have happened at all without great pressure from the Gulf Arab countries and the United States. Basically, the Syrian rebels were told that if they wanted more money and arms, they had to create a united front.
So they did, kind of, but the fragility and underlying disunity of the new government-in-exile is implicit in its cumbersome name: the Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces. It's really just a loose and probably temporary collaboration between different sectarian and ethnic groups whose ultimate goals are widely divergent.
This new body has already been recognised by the Gulf states as "the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people," in the words of Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim. France, Syria's former colonial ruler, has done the same, and other Western countries may follow suit (although probably not the United States). But it won't end the war.
It is a real civil war now; the days of the non-violent Syrian democratic movement that tried to emulate the peaceful revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia are long past. Moreover, it is a civil war whose ultimate outcome is unclear. It is by no means certain that Assad and the Baathist regime he leads will finally be defeated.
The Syrian government has all the heavy weapons, but it does not have enough troops to establish permanent military control over every rural area in a country of 24 million people. However, it does have the strength to smash any attempts to create a rival authority with the powers of a real government in those rural areas, and it still holds most of the cities: the front line in Aleppo has scarcely moved since last summer.
How has Assad managed to hang on so long when other Arab dictators fell so quickly in the early days of the "Arab spring"? Partly it is the fact that he's not a one-man regime.
The Baath Party which he leads is an organisation with almost half a century's experience of power, and plenty of patronage to distribute to its allies. It began almost as an Arab Communist party (without the atheism), and although its economics are now neo-liberal, it retains its Communist-style political discipline. Moreover, the Alawites who populate its higher offices know that they have to hang together, or else they will hang separately.
The other thing Assad has going for him is the highly fragmented character of Syrian society. Seventy percent of the population are Sunni Muslims, but the other 30 percent include Shias, Alawites (a Shia heresy), Druze (an even more divergent sect with Islamic roots) and Christians. All of them are nervous about Sunni Muslim domination in a post-Assad Syria, and the presence of various foreign jihadis on the battlefield only deepens their anxiety.
Moreover, the main suppliers of arms and money to the insurgents are Sunni Muslim countries in the Arabian peninsula, like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, that are not know for being tolerant of non-Sunni minorities. This has persuaded most non-Sunni Syrians that they are under attack – and thirty percent of Syria's population, with a big, well-equipped army and air force, can probably fight 70 percent of the population with only light weapons to a standstill.
In fact, the Syrian battlefield, after only a year of serious fighting, is already coming to resemble the Lebanese battlefield after the first year of the civil war there. Large tracts of the countryside are under the military control of the religious or ethnic group that makes up the local majority, while the front lines in the big cities have effectively congealed into semi-permanent boundaries.
In Lebanon, the level of fighting dropped a lot after that first year, apart from the period of the Israeli invasion and occupation in 1982-83, but the country continued to be chopped up into local fiefdoms until the Taif accord in 1989 led to the end of the fighting.
There are obviously differences between the Lebanese and Syrian cases, but they are not big enough to justify any confidence that Syria's future will be different from Lebanon's past. Assad will continue to have access to arms and money from Iran and Russia, and there will be no large-scale military intervention from outside to tilt the balance decisively one way or the other.
A split in the Baath Party or a military coup could open the way to national reconciliation if it happened relatively soon, but that is not likely. Apart from that, the only thing that might really change all these calculations and break the stalemate is an Israeli attack on Iran and a general Middle Eastern conflagration. That is not a price anybody wants to pay.
Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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Written Answers. - Maps of Dublin Constituency.
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61. Mr. J. Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any full or up-to-date maps of the western frings of the Dublin West constituency incorporating all the new estates that have been built there over the past few years; if he will have such a map made available to the Deputies for the constituency; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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