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Benefit (producer)
My Enemy on MusicBrainz
Benefit on Last.fm
There are four artists with this name: 1) Benefit - underground rapper. Making his mark with winning the Napster competition, his entry "Power To The People And The Beats", Benefit, still highly unknown, is a highly talented young MC from Florida.
He is most famous for his track "Warp to World 6-9" also known as "Super Mario Bros. Freestyle", in which he raps about Super Mario's adventure in his video games as a quest to get the Princess's "goods".
Read more about Benefit on Last.fm.
Also from this album:
Friends,If I Owned a Midget,Fairwell,Proceed With Caution,My Story,A Page in Hip-Hop's Diary,Supreme,Exact,Call of Revolt,Warp to World 6-9


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World War II veteran's family wins fight for his benefits 70 years later
CORPUS CHRISTI - George Flores fought off the pain of frostbite and exhaustion during the Battle of the Bulge.
It was nearly 70 years later that his family's fight for his benefits led to his first visit at a veterans clinic last week.
"Daddy was denied, denied, denied, and as a young man just put up with the pain," his daughter Gloria Vargas said, "but as he got older it got worse."
When Flores, now 91, returned home after World War II, his sister boiled his socks and bandaged his feet for months, Vargas said.
Dr. Hector P. Garcia helped treat his frostbite and also recommended he apply for benefits. Lack of medical care after the war is one of many reasons Garcia founded American GI Forum — to fight for equal rights for all who served.
Vargas and her five siblings resumed the battle for his benefits a few years ago.
Flores's wartime records were among an estimated 17 million Army files destroyed by fire in 1973 at the National Personnel Records Center. No duplicate or microfilm copies of these records were ever produced, according to the record center in St. Louis.
Flores was born in Laredo. He moved to Corpus Christi at age 21 and joined the Army after his older brother, who had three children, was drafted.
"I told them to take me instead," Flores said. "They took us both, and my brother was captured, but he made it home, too."
The Battle of the Bulge was launched Dec. 16, 1944, through a dense forest of the Ardennes mountain region of Belgium. Troops fought more than a month without relief from frigid conditions.
Then-Cpl. Flores drove a field artillery weapons carrier.
"I tried to use the exhaust pipe to warm my feet," he said.
It didn't help, because he remained on the move most days.
His daughter Carmen F. Garcia, a 60-year-old teacher in Las Vegas, sent a letter to the White House, asking President Barack Obama to take care of our veterans, especially those from World War II.
"Daddy's a very humble man who never wanted to discus it," Garcia said. "But it just wasn't right for him to keep suffering without any help."
In the next weeks she fielded calls from Veterans Affairs representatives, while her siblings sought advocacy from the Nueces County veterans' service officer and others who wrote U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold.
Flores was denied for VA medical assistance, despite statements from family members who knew he served, and pictures of him in his uniform.
Last year after his wife's death, his kidneys failed.
Dialysis costs overwhelmed his medical insurance coverage and left his children reeling to pay $871 monthly for him to continue treatment.
Flores wanted to quit treatment, he said.
"I didn't want to be a burden to my children," he said. "I'm really proud of them and am very grateful, but now age is against me."
A social worker at his dialysis center knew of a veterans pension program commonly termed Aid and Attendance. It's a monthly payment for wartime veterans, or surviving spouses, who are homebound or need the aid and attendance of a caregiver.
Being on dialysis qualified Flores, and he received his first pension check in January.
The pension qualification led to recent approval for full VA medical benefits. Last week Flores visited Corpus Christi's VA health clinic to be assigned a doctor for his care and prescription needs.
"Now here at the end of his life, it's such a blessing knowing the VA is really being true to him when he most needs it," Vargas said. "Now Daddy can be at peace. He just keeps saying 'Praise the Lord.'"
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HOUSTON (AP) -- Texans defensive coordinator Wade Phillips says he had gall bladder surgery that forced him to miss two games.
The 64-year-old Phillips went on medical leave on Dec. 14. He returned last week and worked from the press box in Sunday's 23-22 loss to Tennessee. He'll work from there again when the Texans (10-6) play Cincinnati (9-7) in the playoffs.
Phillips says his energy level is still low, but didn't give more details about his condition.
Houston's defense made a remarkable turnaround in Phillips' first season.
Phillips was fired as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys midway through the 2010 season. Despite his health issues, Phillips says he "should be considered" for a head coaching job, though he's not looking to leave Houston.


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Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have often been described as "revolutionizing" or "disrupting" traditional higher education during the past couple of years as interest in their potential has surged.
The common vision: Nimble Internet startups were destined to sweep through academia, the last walled garden, just as they had in the worldwide media markets years earlier.
In retrospect, the hyperbole and excitement around MOOCs was understandable. While "online education" -- broadly defined as a class delivered in part or whole across a computer network -- goes back decades, the scale of MOOCs, in which a single course can attract a quarter-million students, was new and breathtaking.
Most histories of MOOCs start with the 2008 course "Connectivism and Connective Knowledge," created by George Siemens, then an associate director for research and development with the Learning Technologies Center at the University of Manitoba, and Stephen Downes, an online learning and new media designer and commentator.


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South Korea: population aged 65 and above (as a % of total population)
by New Statesman Published
The graph shows an increasingly old population, following a small drop in the 1960s. More than 10 per cent of the population was over 65 in 2008 and this proportion is increasing.
Economists are concerned that a rapidly growing aging population may decrease economic growth in the country as the labour market shrinks, and government spending increases. Consumer businesses, however may be able to adapt to the growing aging population and even benefit from it.


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This had been written as I grew up. It mainly concerns only the computer stuff I've done, it doesn't have anything about music, school, and other aspects of life. I may have skipped a few things.
My experiences with game (and software) development began when I got this thing called QBASIC from my neighbour. I started copy-pasting tutorials from all over the internet, not understanding a thing. Finally though, I gave up and tried to learn how it all works. I made a few QBASIC programs. Some of them involved graphics, but they weren't that great, just some random lines (at that point, trigonometry was something I'd never heard of). My Dad then gave me a fun assignment: Write a program that takes some numbers and sorts them. I wrote some algorithm that worked (a few years later, I discovered that it was called 'Gnome sort'). I decided that, if I can write programs that sort numbers, I can make games.
I searched on Google for 'game creation program'. I found a lot of stuff I downloaded and could not use, until I found Game Maker. I stuck with it. It had two ways to make games :- Drag and drop, and programming. At first, I used drag and drop but it was good only for simple games (like pacman). I switched to coding. It took me a long time to learn, but I still stuck with it thinking I would some day get it. Game Maker had great documentation, which helped. 3 weeks later, I finished my first game, Space Age. I made a few more games. I made lots of little demos and quick applications, trying to incorporate physics, particle effects and whatnot. A lot of people released their Game Maker games' editable documents (source code), which served as a great place to learn. My dad bought the full version for me, and then there I was, bashing away at the keyboard almost everyday. I just loved the way Game Maker organised your game. It was flawless. In Game Maker, there were the following 3 important things:- Sprites (the images and graphics), Objects (the actual logic objects), and Rooms (the worlds or levels). Each object handled itself, instead of one big function where everything is done. An object actually defined a 'type' of object, and then there were individual instances of these. It was an ingenious method of organizing the game. But, all my games were 2D. I tried to to 3D. It worked ('Kidnapped' was a 3D-GameMake attempt, Summer 2005). But when I made the second level of my game, it was almost reduced to a slideshow.
I decided to try making games using C++ (I had seen some C++ code before and was horrified) in September, 2005. My dad bought me a C++ book long before that time, I tried to learn but couldn't. I discovered that it was about Visual C++ (the IDE), not the language itself. But, there was a small C++ section too. I learned from that. After a week, I downloaded Ogre and tried to make something (I had seen Ogre before, but thought that it would be really complex and difficult to use like the other C++ engines). For around 3 or 4 days, it didn't work. I put it up on the forums, and in less than 2 hours, I got a reply and it got fixed. Been using Ogre since then. :-) I messed around with the tutorials on the Ogre wiki, and wrote some little applications (one of them involved a Robot you could walk around with, and suddenly he went into jetpack mode and you flew him around). I also made a small remake of Pong in 3D (Winter 2005). Taught me quite a bit about 3D math and physics.
After making many small demo games and little apps (and later adding physics and sound to them), I decided that something serious should be done. I began work on HAPDV (I forget what the acronym meant). The game was to be about driving hovercrafts around a city, racing, and combat. It was a very ambitious project. I found that it was difficult to organise a game in C++ unless you had some kind of well-thought-out-framework going. So, I tried to emulate the Game Maker method (splitting everything up into objects, each minding their own business). But, the game required lots of work and art and was abandoned (stopped). During the Summer of 2006, I decided to sit down and start designing a clean, extensible framework, that allowed each 'GameObject' to do different things, while still maintaining an 'order', notifying them of events, and in general, managing things. A framework that works like Game Maker. Each day of the summer vacation I would make little diagrams showing object relationships, hierarchies, and flowcharts of such a system. Thus, NGF (nikki's Game Framework) was born. It allowed the programmer to make objects, organize and manage them, update them every frame, send messages between them, make worlds (Game Maker rooms), load levels and lots of other stuff. In the first, and half of the second, month of the vacation, I didn't write a single line of code, just design. Then, I made a short code sketch, and then wrote the actual code. The problem was that, in India (I went there for vacation), I was working on my aunt's laptop and had no C++ compiler (she was a Java coder :P, and even if I installed a compiler I'd have to get the dependencies and setup Ogre and stuff), so I couldn't test my code. I could only prove it right. Once I came to Doha, I incorporated NGF into a demo I made before the vacation, and was surprised to see that it worked with only 2 or 3 small errors. I then made the world manager, the level loader and the Blender 3D (3d modeler) to NGF level exporter.
I had been thinking of a game that had a ball rolling around in a maze back in July. The maze should have electricity, spikes, bombs, switches, keys etc. I drew some small sketches and planned until October 26, when, finally, I had written the first line of code of GraLL. The first time I ever ran GraLL, it had a ball in empty space that just fell into the depths of infinity. By August 2007, it was completed, and I first released it on the event of my dad's birthday (10th of that month) (later, there were some bugfix releases). I also made a little website for it. It had had 30 levels, and was quite a bit of work. Every time I figured I finished something, there was something else left. Working on a large project by myself was a hard thing to do. I had to do the art, the programming, and the levels myself. But, I did it anyway. I did it just because it felt good doing it. I did it for the process, not for the result. During the Doha Asian games in December 2006, we went to stadiums everyday to check events out. It was great fun. Somehow, it also gave me great ideas for GraLL (no, the ideas weren't based on sport, just that, as I enjoyed myself my motivation grew).
After that, I worked on adding more features to NGF, to make it more general purpose and less tied to GraLL. I released the NGF source code the end of that year. Soon, I wasn't able to concentrate much on writing software, because I had to concentrate on school, and also because I began to develop a deep interest in music.
After the end of the final exams, I got back to work. I began developing a new level format for NGF. The old format was just a 'scenedump' (yes, almost as unorganised as a coredump). This format was more organised, and allowed per-instance 'properties' (such as 'difficulty' for a Monster, or probably 'diffuse component' for a Light). I also cleaned up the code a bit. Near the end of the first term of school (around June), I added more features to NGF and started work on a small demo application (which was similar to GraLL) called OrangeBall, because I was getting bored. :-) For my summer vacations, I went to India, and I continued to develop it there for a while. However, I got bored soon (again), and thought of doing something different. In the middle of the vacations (August 2008), I decided to try Linux. I'd already tried it out before (SUSE) but couldn't get the internet connection to work. This time, I tried Ubuntu, and it worked fine. I tried setting up a working development environment (gvim + premake = awesome!) under Linux because I found it nice (I especially loved bash, no more mouseclicking and waiting for a screenfull of icons to load). I tried getting Ogre, MyGUI, Bullet to work. I faced a few problems at first, but it was fine eventually. I wrote a little application to test that everything was working fine. I also tried scripting using Squirrel, and found it to be great fun. I made my own little website with a blog and a page for my software projects, at http://nikki.drupalsite.org. After I returned to Doha, I found it really easy to get Linux set up on the Desktop. The internet connection worked fine too. I tried some alternative window managers (instead of the resource-heavy GNOME and KDE, both of which provided features I didn't really need anyway). I settled with 'xmonad', and 'dwm' on a few occasions. I was preoccupied with school, but tried to learn as much as I could at the same time. I released a 'new NGF' with better features, and much better documentation (a tutorial, a demo application and a manual).
However, a few days after the release, my desktop monitor got busted, and I moved over to the laptop. We never got the monitor fixed, but that was alright, it helped me concentrate on school more. At first, I worked with Windows (oh noes!), which was already installed on the laptop. I began reading a book called 'The Cg Programming Tutorial' which was released free by NVIDIA, to learn more about shaders. I'd written quite a few fun shaders, and read some papers about optics and tried stuff from them. Then, I decided to actually understand how quaternions work, and read a few math articles. After that, I wrote my own quaternion implementation for Cg shaders. Soon, however, I got bored with Windows, and decided to install Linux again. :-) On the laptop, I installed Arch Linux, a more 'geeky' distro than Ubuntu. I had problems getting input to work at first, but fixed it. I installed 'dwm', really cool window manager, and hacked the source code to suit my needs. Soon, I got Ogre and the usual stuff installed, and got NGF working too. One weekend, I started working on a thin Bullet-Ogre connection called 'BtOgre' and released it. It seemed to be useful to quite a few people. It was more minimal than most other Bullet-Ogre connections at the time, and didn't try to wrap Bullet constructs. It only did the Physics→Graphics and Graphics→Physics communication (in fact, the files were named to reflect this philosophy). I decided to learn Haskell, and over a week, I read a book called 'Real World Haskell, and wrote a few simple programs. Haskell taught me about functional programming philosophies. They seemed quite weird at first, but when I tried to forget everything (no, not permanenlty, just for that period) I knew about programming at that time, I could see the logic. I tried Lisp too, it was pretty cool. Then, I turned to learning assembly programming. By learning assembly, I understood more about how the CPU works (at the software level). I'd learnt about the registers of different sizes, high and low bytes, extended registers, endianness, segmented/protected memory models, the hex and binary number systems (I knew about them already but this gave me a deeper understanding), hex-binary conversion (convert 4 digits and concat because hex-base = binary-base ^ 4) etc. I saw the interface between hardware and software, where everything happens. I used quite a few languages before, but I never really knew 'how it all worked'. Through assembly I understood the real stuff about compilation, linking etc. It was one hell of an experience. :-) An internet friend of mine (I met him on a TF2 server) and me would talk for long hours about this stuff. He was an embedded systems programmer. This particular winter was one of the best in my life. It showed me that, at times, you have to give up something you're used to, and try stuff out. I moved to the laptop, and because of the constraints involved (can't play games, installed different distro) I tasted a completely different environment (well, not that different, most Linux distributions follow the same model, but this particular one involved a lot of 'do it yourself' stuff). After that I had to concentrate on school because we had the 'board exams' (which everyone considers pretty important) coming up.
During the board exams, I in fact had a lot of free time. There were between 3 to 10 holidays between each exam, and I could get a lot of non-school stuff done too. I evaluated Lisp as a scripting language for games. I got it working great, but ultimately, when it came down to what I wanted scripting for – level-edit-time costumization of per-instance-behaviour – it couldn't scale well. Particularly because I couldn't get CLOS working very well with the C++ OO mechanism. After looking around at many languages (Lua, Squirrel, Python, Io) on which to use, I finally setteled on Python because of the cool boost.python API. I wrote a small interface on top of NGF that allowed Python-scriptability of Ngf GameObjects. It was easy for GameObjects to write their own methods to be exposed to Python without having to talk to boost.python. This was done by having requests for members of the object be redirected to call a 'method' function. This 'method' function took the name of the function and the arguments. It was a C++ callback. Using gperf for the hash mechanism, I could get methods working quite easily. C++ members could be explosed to Python too. Scripts for each instance could be written right in Blender, where objects are placed, and shapes are modeled. Then, I wrote a simple serialisation mechanism to be able to save and load the state of the game (in one night :-) ). What it did was create a container of 'GameObjectRecords' that held information about each object in the game, and then serialised that, instead of directly serialising all GameObjects. It saved the state of the game as in Python (Python sides of the objects could have their own member variables) too. The 'load' mechanism involved a two-step process to fix dependency issues between objects, especially circular ones. I also seperated the Bullet-NGF connection into a seperate plugin, to keep the core NGF code cleaner (earlier I used dirty #ifdef stuff). By then the exams were over. My dad considered buying a new computer, one with all the latest jazz.
At this point, NGF was getting pretty mature. The best part was, I could decide how it all works, because I wrote it :-). After we got the new computer (Quad Core, 4GB DDR2, NVIDIA GTX 285 :D ), I began work on GraLL 2. GraLL 2 was to have a lot of new stuff, Python scripting, a 'dimension system', new obstacles, better physics… All this was made easy due to the new developments in NGF. As I worked on GraLL 2, I found flaws in NGF and BtOgre that I fixed as I went along. GraLL 2 had eye-candy improvements too, I wrote shaders in Cg (the book I read in winter helped), normalmapping, parallaxmapping, and glow. Lights (point/spot) could be placed in Blender. Instance-specific scripts could be edited right in Blender's text editor, making things a lot easier. The code was on GitHub, and I had a 'Notes' file with a complete ChangeLog right from the start. In summer that year (August 2009), we went to India on a vacation. I took along the GraLL 2 code on the laptop (was easy, as now it was on GitHub). Since the laptop couldn't run shaders with good performance, I was forced to turn them off, and this way I could test GraLL 2 on a low-end system. On vacation, I fixed many bugs in (mostly Physics stuff, stability issues) and developed the menu system. Since this one used 'MyGUI' (an Ogre GUI library), it had the usual GUI controls (sliders, radio buttons). Also, in India, we bought some books. I bought a book on 'Understanding The Linux Kernel'. It was a great book, I was always interested in how Linux works under the hood. I also read Tanenbaum's book on operating systems (belonged to my aunt, she used it in college). It's nice to see how the system that manages programs, memory, IO etc. (which is usually taken for granted) has to do so much book-keeping to carry out even tasks that are considered quite simple, like reading/writing a file. The driver has to be communicated with, locks maintained, race conditions prevented. It's a big headache, but also fun to read about. :-) The book inspired me to look deeper into Linux again. We were on a train journey to Chennai. On the train, I compiled an 'LFS' (Linux From Scratch) system, with my own costumized kernel! However, though the installation was a great learning experience, I couldn't exactly use it for day-to-day work. I need something like 'pacman' or 'apt-get'. :-) So I decided to get back to the regular distros (although I did try Gentoo).
After returning to Doha, I got back to work. I tried to improve the Python scriptability of GraLL 2, by writing Python dosctrings, and better feedback about errors. At this stage, the Python scripting system in the game was advanced enough for me to be able to start developing 'prefab' objects (as I call them). 'prefab' objects are simply native objects with scripts added, saved in a 'frozen' state in Blender ready to be thawed in your level and played with. :-) It's like a native object, except that a lot of it's functionality is written in script, and the script functionality actually becomes another level of abstraction (the Door prefab reads the NGF GameObject propertylist in the script!). The first prefab was the Generic Door. It read it's 'opening condition' from a string. The string is a Python expression that evaluates to a boolean value. Whether it opens or not depends upon this value. This way, the Door is 'generic'. I also added a generic 'Pickup' system. Instead of having to stick to just 'keys' or 'powerups', you have a generic Pickup object, each instance of which can have a 'type' associated with it. The Player keeps a track of how many Pickups of each type he's picked up. This information can then be examined at any point through the Player's Python interface. With the Door and Pickup mechanism, if you set the condition to 'other.hasDecPickup("KeyR")', voila! Instant Door! The 'hasDecPickup' function just decrements the Player's count of a certain pickup, while returning whether or not he had it (before decrementing of course (semaphores, anyone? :P ) ). All this, and the Door and Pickup don't even know about each other, and the Pickup doesn't even know what types of Pickups are available! I also added a handy feature that allowed you to just click on an object and retreive a handle to it in the Python console. Saves you from having to assign random names to every object, forseeing that future moment where you'll have to reference it in your console scripts. I also added something people had been pestering me to put in GraLL 1 – enemies. Well, not really very clever ones that come up with ingenious plans to destroy your hopes of completing the game – but rather unintelligent 'turrets'. They shoot at you, take a rest for a while, and then rinse and repeat. Some might even wait until you come into view. This involved some fun state machine stuff. First, the state machine involved 'in-class logic', but then I wrote a separate 'NgfStates' library that has fun macrohax (argh!) to build simple statemachines using a nice syntax within the class definition. Then, I realised that I had to make it possible for users to make their own levels, own textures, and any other kind of media for use in the game. So I came up with the 'User Content' mechanism, in which users can just dump their own content (maybe even in .zip files, it searches them too!) inside the 'usr/Content' directory in the game directory. At the time of writing this part of this Biography, there's just 'user levels' and 'user materials' (with an in-game material WYSIWYG viewer/tweaker).
(this period witnessed a lot of additions to the game, which, due to my blog-infrequency, have been summarised in this post – please do read it for a more technical description)
Now, it was time to add some old GraLL 1 obstacles to GraLL 2 (Traps, Acid). Of course, this being a sequel, more is needed. So, I added some new obstacles too, like the 'FallingBrush' (in-game – a 'Falling Block', falls when you roll over it), the 'OneWay' (a screen through which you can only pass, well, 'one way'), the 'Magnet' (a rather fun physics obstacle that can attract or repel magnetic objects (guess what? GraLL is magnetic :-) ), 'AmbientSounds' (well, not really a gameplay object, but a Python prefab that loops ambient sounds to set the mood). I also added a HUD. This was a dynamic HUD, to which timer, pickup or icon displays can be added dynamically. The 'dimension 1/dimension 2' icon at the bottom of the screen, for example, works this way. Then came a really fun new feature – gravity inversion. You press 'G' (or whatever key you've assigned for 'gravity switch'), and woosh! GraLL flies 'upward', the camera view turns (ableit smoothly – this involved some fun Quaternion math) upside down and the level has been 'inverted'. This feature effectively doubles the fun (in the levels that it's available – gravity switching isn't free you know – you need the 'Gravity Key') – just like the 'dimension switch'. Also added were the 'SpeedBoost' and the 'JumpPad' – both of which I think are rather self-explanatory.
December saw a period of gradual decline in productivity. This of course, was because of academic responsibilities I had to attend to (high-school examinations, and I'd decided to try the January SAT too). Right after the end of January, I tried to get back to work – but I could only do so much before another 'low period' in March (yes, I didn't add to my biography between September and May, hence the 'prediction'). I decided to start working on the levels, realising that I had enough obstacles and features. After all, it's how you connect them together and make something bigger with them that counts, as highlighted by this excerpt from an interview with Chuck Sommerville (creator of the original version of 'Chips Challenge' – a game that had a big influence on the design of GraLL (and thus GraLL 2) )
"One way to come up with a new idea is to think of ways to use an element in a manner that you have never seen it used before. As an example from Chip's Challenge, monsters, buttons and doors could be used to build a simple counter that would determine the time when the access to a particular part of the maze would close. … Another way to make a good level design is to come up with an idea inspired by a real life process and try to model it in the level. One of the designers, Peter Englebright, came up with a most interesting level, "Perfect Match", which was inspired by a description of bubble memory. Bubble memory was an experimental form of computer memory with a string of bits that were continuously rotating around on a circuit. He built a level that did a simple simulation of this process. You could add a bit with a clone machine or delete a bit by diverting a monster to drown."
By the beginning of March, I managed to complete 6 levels, and finished part of level 7. Level 6 introduces the dimension switch in a rather fun way – after you get the switch, there's an 'ambush' (Python scripting FTW!).
For the next two months I did nothing. No work on the game, at least. I even managed to live through the first anniversary of the first day of GraLL 2 development without noticing. This was rather disappointing, but then, I did something else – I'd learnt about electricity and magnetism. And also a little single-variable calculus. While I did know a little calculus before myself, it was far from a rigorous understanding (I read the book on Calculus by Tom Apostol, the stuff in which was far more rigorous than any I'd seen before). And electricity and magnetism – I knew none (nothing worth talking about, at least). I was always keen to check out E&M (as I shall abbreviate it from now) – it's what makes computers run at the low level. I tinkered a bit with assembly, and got as deep as reading the output from a linker and trying to understand which part of the program each instruction corresponded too. But that's it. It never got deeper than that. The programs I wrote, were written on an abstract interface. How this actually worked in physical reality, I did not know. I wanted to read about electronics, but obviously, electrostatics, current, magnetism etc. were prerequisites. So I began to read about these things. I decided to also try giving the AP exam in May 2010 to see how well I'd understood the stuff. This was before we began studying current electricity in school, so I self-studied (the material intersected with the E&M stuff I was into). I was surprised that I managed to miss such a fascinating side of Physics. I had to read some Classical Mechanics stuff before to try and understand how to go about implementing physics in a 2d game (for the 3d games I worked on I just used ODE or Bullet). E&M however, remained untouched (in school we did just some qualitative descriptions in 10th grade, 12th grade would bring in the detailed stuff from Coloumbs Law to Maxwell's Equations, but I had to learn this before we did so in school anyway). After the AP exams I decided to get back to GraLL 2 work. Thus, I just learnt about some basic E&M stuff – the usual highschool cirriculum till Maxwell's equations – but never any electronic circuitry. Something told me GraLL 2 was missing me (I'd say the feeling was mutual though :-) ).
I completed level 7 (which was 'on hold' for two months!) and began working on level 8. Level 8 involved a 'spinning platform' (imagine a 2-blade propeller in a large upward facing vent). There was an intricate arrangement of bombs and keys floating above this platform (in both dimensions), and one would have to make his way through it while also taking care not to fall off the platform. Then soon…
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Despite Misgivings, Georgia Moves Ahead with Exchange
Posted on November 21, 2011
The Washington Post reports on the steps Georgia is taking on preparing to implement the Affordable Care Act, even as the state challenges the law in court:
In Georgia, like many other Southern states, opposition to the new federal health-care law runs deep. Yet a conservative committee of experts has, without rancor, outlined a plan to give the state a health insurance exchange, a cornerstone of the legislation enacted last year.
The panel had the blessing of Republican Gov. Nathan Deal, a former congressman who describes himself as the first House member to denounce the health-care law as unconstitutional. Georgia has joined 25 other states in a legal challenge to the legislation that is now on the Supreme Court's schedule.


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Set up your own cloud services in any office, school, studio, or other small organization with Apple's affordable and easy-to-install OS X Server.
Shows what servers are and why they're necessary, and how to set up Lion Server quickly.
Introduces the critical concepts to get an OS X network service up and running quickly.
Shows how to set up a brand-new system or migrate data to a new Snow Leopard server installation.
Shows all the enhancements and new features in Snow Leopard, the newest server rollout from Apple.
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The University of San Francisco is fully dedicated to making education more accessible for our nation's veterans and their dependents. We are proud to announce our participation in a program that provides tuition and fee benefits to qualified veterans who are accepted and enrolled at the University. The Registrar's Office acts as a liaison between the University, its students, and all the agencies involved with VA benefits. The University certifies enrollment for students in a degree-seeking program. The College Tuition Fee Waiver program is not applicable to the University.
To determine eligibility for benefits, the VA requires that you complete the form: VA22-1990. Students can also apply online on the VA website at www.gibill.va.gov. You must be accepted, matriculated, and enrolled for classes before the University can certify your enrollment to the VA Processing Center.
After you have completed and submitted the form online, the Department of Veteran Affairs will send you a Certificate of Eligibility for Educational Benefits. Upon receipt of this notice, please send the copy of the VA application and the Certificate of Eligibility to the Registrar's Office.
During the period of time that the VA is evaluating your application (4-6 weeks), the Registrar's Office will verify your enrollment and submit the necessary enrollment certification provided that you have already registered for your courses.
Once you start receiving benefits, you must maintain satisfactory attendance and progress. If you do not meet the standards set by the school, the certifying official will notify the VA. The VA in return will stop your benefits.
Anytime you change your unit load, whether it is an increase or decrease in status, it is your responsibility to let one of USF's certifying VA officials know. Failure to do so will result in overpayment or underpayment for your benefits. If you promplty notify the school and the VA of these changes, you can prevent or reduce overpayments.
All students receiving either the Montgomery GI Bill Active Duty or Selected Reserve must now verify their enrollments monthly to receive payments. This verification can be done either by using the Web Automated Verification of Enrollment (www.gibill.va.gov) or by using an automated telephone system at 1-877-823-2378.
Distance learning consists of interaction between the student and the instructor (who is physically separated from the student) through the use of communications technology instead of regularly scheduled, conventional classroom or laboratory sessions. Communications technology includes mail, telephone, audio or videoconferencing, computer technology (on-line internet courses or email), or other electronic means such as one-way and two-way transmissions through open broadcast, closed circuit, cable, microwave, broadband lines, fiber optics, satellite, or wireless communications devices.
Any courses that consist of some interaction using communications technology and some weeks of standard class sessions, but that do not meet the requirements to be classified as in-residence training, are considered distance learning.
Effective October 1, 2011: Those enrolled solely in distance or online training will be entitled to 1/2 the national average BAH rate of $1,347.00 monthly (or $673.50 monthly).
The following paperwork must be submitted to the Office of the Registrar in order to begin the certification process:
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Since I've now sold a couple of cars, here's a look at the cars I've had in the past, including some that have gotten their own pages here on the blog.
They have all been fun, and will never be forgotten.
- 1995 Honda Del Sol (My first car)
- 1995 Honda Civic hatchback (Hubby's first car)
- 1990 Nissan 240sx
- 1997 Mazda Miata
- 2003 Subaru Legacy GT sedan
- 2011 Subaru Impreza WRX STi Limited sedan


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- Willamette
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- Nelson NWC Student-Athlete of the Week
Football | Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Nelson Repeats as NWC Defensive Student-Athlete of the Week
Registers 19 Tackles in 56-20 Win over Lewis & Clark
SALEM, ORE. -- For the second consecutive week, Willamette University inside linebacker Jack Nelson (So., Portland, OR/Jesuit HS) has been selected as the Northwest Conference Football Defensive Student-Athlete of the Week.
Nelson received this week's honor for his efforts in Willamette's 56-20 win over Lewis & Clark College on Saturday, Oct. 13. He previously earned the award following the Bearcats' 38-24 victory at Whitworth University on Oct. 6.
In the triumph over Lewis & Clark, Nelson recorded 19 total tackles, including 10 unassisted stops. He produced 1.5 tackles for losses and broke up a pass. He helped Willamette limit the Pioneers' offensive efforts in the second half after the teams reached halftime tied 14-14. The Bearcats outscored L&C 42-6 over the final 30 minutes of the game.
At Whitworth the previous week, Nelson accumulated 14 tackles (12 unassisted). He also broke up a pass. During Willamette's last two games, he has achieved 33 tackles, including 22 unassisted tackles.
Nelson leads the Bearcats on the season with 47 total tackles and has made 28 solo tackles. His season totals also include one interception and three pass break-ups.
Willamette, ranked #19 in the AFCA Coaches Poll and #22 in the D3football.com Top 25, is 6-0 on the season, 2-0 in the Northwest Conference. The Bearcats will take on NWC rival Pacific Lutheran University on the road on Saturday, Oct. 20. Game time in Puyallup, Wash., is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. (PDT).


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Swansea City: Ashley Williams relishing battle with Southampton's Rickie Lambert
Posted: November 09, 2012|
ASHLEY Williams has warned Swansea City to be wary of his former team-mate Rickie Lambert when they visit lowly Southampton tomorrow.
The two played together in the lower leagues at Stockport County almost a decade ago and, after Lambert left for Rochdale in 2005, the pair will meet again in the Premier League this weekend.
It has been a testing first top-flight campaign for Lambert, who has struggled to keep his place in the Southampton side despite helping the Saints win promotion last season with 31 goals.
The 30-year-old has still managed four goals for the Premier League's bottom side this term and, as somebody who will have to mark the Scouser tomorrow, Williams knows exactly what to expect.
"He's a great player. He's a former team-mate of mine and I know him well," he said.
"He's playing with a lot of confidence and it will be a tough game. He's a great lad and we got on really well so it will be nice to go up against him. There will definitely be a bit of banter on the pitch."
Williams's 11th-placed Swansea side have enjoyed a better start to their season than Southampton, and they travel to St Mary's in buoyant mood having beaten Liverpool and drawn against Chelsea last week.
Swansea manager Michael Laudrup insists the Southampton fixture is more important than Chelsea was, and Williams appears to share that view.
"Southampton is arguably a harder game for different reasons," he said.
"We know how tough the likes of Manchester City and Chelsea are. They are some of the best teams in the world, but we're playing away from home against a good team."
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Thank Your Gov. Cutting funds to higher education is what republicans do, because they are rich enough to pay for their kid's education so why care about everyone else?
I never understood how one could even contemplate cutting any funds for education. It should be locked up every single year. If you need to make cuts then start with the small scratch-my-back-and-I'll-scratch-your-back programs this state has.
I would use Chris Rock's analogy: Spend money on education now so that the kids don't rob me later.
As for Nicholls State, I would advise anyone to just go to a better school. Even people in La don't know what Nicholls state is. Most degrees are only as good as the name of the school printed on it.
I mean seriously Nicholls State cost just as much as ULL so just go to ULL. ULL is nationally recognized and had a better academic rating than LSU last year according to the Princeton Review. Or if you can afford it just go to LSU.
Either schools would be much better in the long run than Nicholls State. In the short run, Baton Rouge or Lafayette is much better than Thibodaux.
"The bands are made from blessed lamb wool, to symbolize the archbishop's role as a shepherd, according to the Catholic Church."
Seems appropriate being that they are leading the sheep. Baaaa, baaaa, baaa.
Imagine the uproar over gender discrimination the "Church" would be in if it was actually considered a corporation, which it basically is.
Girl: Mommy when I grow up I want to become the Pope or a Cardinal or a priest.
Mother: Ahh sweetie that is nice but unfortunately the church's dogma states that females are inferior to men and could NEVER obtain a leadership role in Church.
Basically the Church's view is that God thinks less of females and it's okay to molest little boys but dog darn it when it comes to allowing equal rights to females that's where we draw the line! HAAH
P.S. I stopped believing in fairy tales a long time ago, maybe you all should too. God would have never written or dictated such a horrible piece of literature with so many blatant inaccuracies and inconsistencies.
Thank God! They are going to need the money when they continue to pay off the families of the molested children.
If the church is doing so well financially then maybe they should give back the state and/or federal funds they received for those new projects.
I liked Christianity the first time when it was called the Egyptian religion. Well, who am I kidding, they are all fairy tales.
The TP deleted my post of me correcting their spelling mistake and yet they still haven't corrected the mistake.
"Killed in and uptown neighborhood."??????
I think you meant killed in AN uptown neighborhood.
Must be that new diploma track education.
These brothers just keepin it real ya heard!
Thomas Jefferson and Madison had these assault weapons in mind when they accepted the 2nd Amendment people.
I WOULD BET EVERYTHING I OWN that if the Constitution was being drafted in today's world by the same people, they WOULD NOT HAVE PUT IN THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS to include semi-auto and automatic assault weapons.
Why can't there be a compromise? You can keep your rifles but say NO NO to these assault weapons?
P.S. we all knew what color they were
New Orleans salaries are extremely low compared to other big cities. Ex: top law firms in New Orleans start at 95-110,000 a year. 5 hours way in Houston they start at 160-175,000 a year. Factor in that it cost less to live in Houston than New Orleans that almost equates to doubling your salary by moving to Houston. DOUBLING YOUR SALARY.
Why would anyone want to come to New Orleans?
How do we create better jobs? We need better citizens? How do we get better citizens? Well we cut funds to higher education and we dumb down high school admissions and graduation requirements!
Louisiana is a huge republican state. That means, the people who have money want to keep it and they will do whatever it takes to keep it that way and not let other's have a chance at earning any.
How do they accomplish this? The rich republicans tell the poor redneck republicans, who don't make any money and actually use govt programs just as much as those of "color" or other poor people, that if you don't do what we say or agree with what we are doing then somehow the Democrats are going to take all of your money, which they don't have because they are poor too, and give it to the other people who are just as poor.
"I think the only thing that can help is prayers."
First, why does someone need to pray to God for help? I mean I thought he was ummm God? Doesn't God know everything? Didn't God create everything? So saying that we have to Pray to him for help means that he doesn't know what is going on, which then would mean God isn't almighty at all OR that God is almighty and KNOWS everything and knows what is going on but refuses to help his people.
EITHER WAY logic tells us that there is no man in the sky looking out for you, if there was then I would feel extremely bad because that means he deliberately doesn't care and obviously isn't helping.
I am not saying there isn't a god but I am saying if there is or was he darn sure isn't watching over us.
P.S. The one thing religion hates is LOGIC
Might be able to sign Thornton in FA if he doesn't get drafted.
Tuition should be based on the degree one earns. If you are earning a BA then you should pay no more than the paper it is printed on.
Why pay 25-150,000, depending on the school, to receive a BA and get out making 24,000 a year (if you can find a job)?
Everyone talks about regulation well the ONE field that NEEDS regulating is the educational field.
Universities are no longer institutions of higher learning they are now Corporations and Businesses.
Kids spend 150 bucks for a book and schools, publishers, and authors purposely come out with a "new" edition the next year, when nothing in the book has really changed. But makes sure that each year students are forking out the dough for these over priced books.
With AD's making 500,000+ and Coaches Making 2 million + and Presidents making 1 million + and the players making 0, it is crazy that the cost gets passed on to the kids. Remember these kids are going to school to earn a degree so they can make money in the first place. They don't have money.
I wish someone would justify why tuition has sky rocketed over the past 10 years. Besides the fact that colleges realize their school can be a business now.
Society says you MUST have at least a college degree for anything except in Louisiana where you can now work towards the how-to-work-offshore diploma if you fail the 8th grade test. Anyways, if kids must get a college degree then make it affordable.
In other world power countries a college degree is cheap cheap cheap
Duh, but how well did it do across the nation TP?
So we now have to go to a kid in the 7th or 8th grade and ask him/her "Do you plan on going to college?"
We should not be determining the rest of a kid's life based on their decision they make when they are too young to understand the consequences or know what they want.
Heck nobody likes school in the 8th grade.
Hey Louisiana I know another way we can increase graduation rates. HOW ABOUT JUST LETTING ANYONE WHO ATTENDS SCHOOL HAVE A DIPLOMA AFTER 12TH GRADE.
Seems to be what the state really wants. The state is more concern with the stats than with the actual substance.
Well Dollar Bill it's a wrap!
You're only defense is claiming that what you did was not in connection with your official duties as a congressman and that you did not use your office in these illegal acts.
Well when the guy produces a letter you sent to him in regards to these illegal acts on YOUR OFFICIAL CONGRESSMAN LETTERHEAD then it is over.
This is great news but if this is all they plan on doing then it might be a waste. Everyone knows that for most people their opinion of a city is based on said city's airport. New Orleans airport is one of the worse in the country.
Heck even Detroit has one of the best airports in the country and it is freaking Detroit.
They need to brighten it up some. The lower floor where you get your luggage feels like a dungeon.
the difference is when a Democrat cheats on his wife, he lies about it.
When a Republican cheats on his wife, he admits it and resigns.
Strike300 I would like you to meet David Vitter.
I do not believe in ANY fairy tales (aka religions). Sorry, if what I said was too complex, but what I meant was that Mormonism is really bad because it is relatively new. It started at a time when we had knowledge of science. We know what was actually going on around Mormonism when it was being started, unlike 1,500-2,000 years ago when illiterate men made up the other fairy tale that is Christianity.
P.S. Christianity is a rip off of the Egyptian religion and the Muslim religion is a rip off of Christianity.
Mitt has no shot at the republican post, he is a Mormon! Most republicans are die hard christians and would never vote for him.
I think all religions are fairy tales but Mormonism is really bad. First, up until the late 70's they believed Black people were not fully human and that God was mad at their people a long long time ago so he burned them, to forever lived with dark skin.
Next, they believe that the garden of eden is in Missouri. They also believe in Magical Underwear (yes that is true), that Jesus lived in the North East part of the U.S. and they used to believe in polygamy (many of the die hard mormons still practice it).
Next, Joseph Smith was a fraud and a scam artist. He was arrested for glass-looking which was a common illegal practice in those days. It is similar to the fortune tellers in the french quarter only back then the people like Smith claimed they had the true power. Whereas today the people in the french quarter tell you its just entertainment. Back to the issue, glass looking was where Smith would look into a hat or glass and say he could see the future or that some power was giving him valuable information and then he would tell the client this info and they would pay Smith.
If this sounds awfully familiar to how Smith claims he founded Mormonism, it is because it's the same scam. Smith claims an God gave him these magical Gold plates and then he would look into a hat and God would translate and dictate to him what the plates meant. Of course logical people asked Smith to produce these plates and the decoder but Smith Said God destroyed them after he was done. LOL
Religion is for the naive.
Republicans are the worst. They boast about family values and being better than the next guy, but really they are the ones with the least amt. of character, ethics, and family values.
The republican favorability poll last week was at only 28%, I imagine this should drop it to the low 20's...OUCH.
One of the problems with many republicans is that most people aren't republicans they just think being a republican means anti-color and that is why they are mostly for.
I have spoken to many "Republicans" that do nothing but harp about "minorities" getting a free ride. Funny, thing is that most of these "Republicans" use the govt just as much. They have their kids in public schools and use other governmental programs.
The Republican party needs a new name and face. When your leaders are dummies like Palin, Sean Hannity, Rush, and John-graduated last- McCain, then you have a serious problem.
The media doesn't say anything good about Bobby, because, and here it comes: Hey hasn't done anything worth mentioning. Other than traveling around the country on La's dime to lobby for his presidential race in 2012.
The most memorable thing Bobby did was making that republican rebuttal speech to Obama's state of the Union Address speech. Remember when he said something like: Obama wants to spend money to fund volcano monitoring, that's a waste. LOL
Then like 2 weeks later that Volcano monitoring save the lives of thousands when that volcano erupted lol.
What a moron.
I would never buy an American Vehicle. They have been so greedy and lazy that their product is money in the waste basket.
This isn't the first time American Autos have been under fire. Remember when they got caught using used parts on new cars? Remember when they got caught purposely mfging vehicles so that they would not last , so people had to buy a new one?
Take Chevy for instance, what person would want to coin that ugly gold/brown color as their signature color? NOBODY!
Even on the new Chevy's they still use that ugly brown color as their signature color on their little chevy symbol, even when the car is like a nice silver color. It is so tacky. Those little things add up.
I had an import and it was 13 years old and never once did anything go wrong with it. What is even more remarkable is the fact that my said car was a cheap car brand new. So, I am not talking about a 13 year old car that was a luxury vehicle when it was first made.
The paint was exceptional. People would come up to me and ask about my car, and say wow did you just buy it? I was like nope it's 8 years old and has the original paint.
Buy a Mustang and in 3 years the paint looks 15 years old.
Dollar Bill your days are number mon frere.
Go straight to jail, do not pass go, do not collect 90,000 in frozen bills.


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After many years of living on the planet, it's obvious to us that maps can both clarify and obfuscate. There's nothing more frustrating than an out of date map, but newcomers need them… we noticed when we first traveled here that we spent a lot of time with our maps. Now that we have lived here for a while, we use maps more as a "rule of thumb" when driving through the Yucatan countryside. The magic of traveling in the Yucatan is easier to find when the maps are left folded up in the back seat.
It used to be that there wasn't much in the way of maps here. When we left California to drive to the Yucatan (it took us ten days of driving from 8 am until dark), we took with us very detailed guides that had been given to us by the company that sold us Mexican car insurance. These guides laid out routes (Guanajuato to Mexico City, for instance, or San Miguel Allende to Puebla). And they told you every single turn you needed to make at every single tree or gas station. The guide told you where the signs were or were not. But while these guides were thorough, they were not always accurate because even then, things were changing rapidly.
When we finally arrived in Merida, we were given a large map with all the place names of every little pueblito in Yucatan. We were told this was a very precious document, and if we wanted another, we'd have to go to the INEGI office, something local Yucatecos seemed to know how to do but very few gringos had yet accomplished.
Then maps started showing up more often in the local Dante bookstores. Good maps, then better maps. We "discovered" the Guia Roji for driving anywhere in Mexico. Guia Roji is published yearly as an 8×10 book. It is only sold in Mexico, but it is sold in many places. We've seen them in Dante Bookstores, Sanborn's and WalMart. Guia Roji also has a comprehensive website, with both paper maps and maps on CD for sale. With the most recent Guia Roji, you can drive anywhere in Mexico with assurance. But don't think last year's Guia Roji will give you the same warm fuzzies. Mexican roads are being built at a rapid rate, and it helps to have the newest information. This is *especially* true in the Yucatan, where the local government has prided itself on the kilometers of new road it has laid down every year for the last few years, and has erected billboards to tell us about it.
When maps started showing up as useful tools on the Internet, those of us who lived here were disappointed to find that none of them included the Yucatan (or much of Mexico for that matter). It didn't surprise us and we wrote off the whole idea of Internet maps. When Google Earth was launched, Merida was a big white blur.
But in the last few years, Merida has started to show up very nicely, thank you very much. Google Earth now has high resolution photos with street overlays of Merida. And just like that out of the blue, MapQuest had all of Merida completely mapped! What a find! No longer does anyone have to rely on outdated maps of this area. We now have the same tools available to us as anyone in New York City or Paris.
So when it comes to the Internet, we can say Merida is finally on the map!
- Mapquest map of Merida
- Mapquest map of Cancun
- Guia Roji
- Google Earth
- Beautiful Satellite Photos of the Yucatan Peninsula from Earth Snapshot


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Exhibitions & EventsFriday Night Live!
Friday Night Live!
Igor Stravinsky's Firebird
Friday, January 18, 2013
7 & 8:30 p.m.
Choreographer Jeff Rebudal and the Firebird Trio present a re-imagining of Igor Stravinsky's classic ballet. The Firebird is a classic Slavic folktale set to Igor Stravinsky's groundbreaking score. Rivera Court. Igor Stravinsky's Firebird is presented in conjunction with the DIA exhibition Fabergé: The Rise and Fall, now showing through January 21st, 2013.


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Rocky Mountain Featherbed at Silver and Gold
—01. Khaki, Olive, Black.
You could quite easily write about something new at Silver & Gold every week. In fact; I pretty much do. However, when the subject matter contains both great product and interesting presentation, what's to dislike? That it's not from a store based in the US maybe, or perhaps that it's yet another vest I'm posting, while still not sure if I'm ready to change the habit of a short lifetime, and make the leap of purchase myself. Those two reasons aside, the Military Down Vest from Rocky Mountain looks like a pretty solid addition to anyone's winter wardrobe. Whether you track it down and make the purchase from home, or abroad.


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Joseph E. KaminskiJanuary 10,2013
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WEST RUTLAND Joseph E. Kaminski, 74, died Sunday, January 6, 2013, at Rutland Regional Medical Center, following a long illness.
He was born on March 14, 1938, in Lynn, Mass., the son of Joseph and Anna (Hunt) Kaminski.
Joe was formerly employed as a draftsman at GE in Lynn, Mass., for many years.
He was a very patient and soft-spoken man with a great sense of humor, who easily made friends.
He had a passion for trains, planes, enjoyed animals and woodworking, and was an excellent, unbeatable, Scrabble player and loved to read the dictionary.
He is survived by his wife, Loraine of West Rutland; a stepdaughter, Kristen Carpentier and her husband Stephen of Pittsford; a stepson, Lee Hoyt of Maine; a sister, Joan Cheever of Lynn, Mass.; nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by a sister, Louise Broderick of Pompano Beach, Fla.
There will be no calling hours.
Family and friends may call at the Barnard Funeral Home in Pittsford on Saturday, January 12, from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. with a memorial service to be held at 3:00 p.m.
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Federal Aid
Federal Direct Stafford Loan Program
There are two types of Federal Direct Stafford Loan, subsidized and unsubsidized. Students apply for these loans directly throught the department of education. It is important to understand the terms "subsidized" and "unsubsidized" when discussing the loan programs. A subsidized loan means the federal government pays the interest while the student is attending college and during other periods when the borrower is not required to make payments. Once in repayment, students are then responsible for paying the interest on the loan. An unsubsidized loan means that the federal government does not pay the interest on behalf of the student. Instead, the borrower pays all the interest that accrues throughout the life of the loan, including the interest that accrues while the borrower is enrolled as a student. The borrower can pay the interest as it accrues or have it capitalized (added to the principal amount of the loan). Another major difference with the unsubsidized loan is that the expected family contribution (EFC) is not taken into consideration when determining eligibility. This has allowed many students who did not meet the eligibility requirements of a subsidized Federal Stafford Loan due to a large family contribution to apply for a loan under the unsubsidized calculation.
Additional unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loan eligibility is available for independent students and for certain dependent students (whose parents are denied the parent (PLUS) loan).
Federal PLUS Loan Program (PLUS)
The Federal PLUS Loan Program is designed for parents of dependent students and allows them to borrow federal money to help pay the cost of attending college. Parent PLUS loans are the financial responsibility of the parents, not the student. If the student agrees to make payments on the PLUS loan, but fails to make the payments on time, the parents will be held responsible.
Federal Work-Study Program
The Federal Work-Study (FWS) Program provides jobs for students who need earnings to meet a portion of their educational expenses. Each college is allocated a specific dollar amount of Federal Work Study funds that may be awarded. As a result, work study funds are limited. They may or may not be awarded as part of your financial aid package. The work-study allotment is not credited to a student's account, since the student is paid directly as work is performed.
Work-study positions are available in various Hilbert departments and offices, such as the offices of the President, Student Life, and the reception area. The college also offers off-campus positions with public or private non-profit agencies and community organizations. Work-study students receive a paycheck every two weeks with normal withholding. Students are limited to 20 hours per week during the academic period and 40 hours per week during all breaks.
The primary benefit to the work-study student is that the income from this type of employment is exempt from the income reported on the subsequent year's financial aid form. If a student works beyond the dollars offered through work-study, the additional income will have to be reported on the subsequent financial aid form.
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"No matter how low the dose gets, it's more than zero," Lurie said, "so you need to have a good reason" for the X-ray, he said. Patients should ask their dentists: "What is it going to tell you that will help you decide how to treat me?"
The study had two principal weaknesses, beginning with people's notoriously unreliable recall for past events, in this case past X-rays, and the lack of data on what doses of radiation they received. "You would want to know the radiation dose to the part of the brain where the meningioma occurred," said Dr. Henry D. Royal, a nuclear medicine specialist at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology in St. Louis, who said that dose "should be trivial." He pronounced the paper flawed.
In his 2009 book, "Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles," Black expressed his concern about frequent X-rays among youngsters undergoing orthodontia because they're "aimed not just at the jaw, but at the lower brain." An advocate for minimizing the use of X-rays in dentistry, Black said he routinely refuses dental X-rays. "I haven't had a dental X-ray in 20 years."
Although children's developing teeth are more prone to decay than those of adults, sometimes requiring more X-rays, their bodies also are more vulnerable to the effects of radiation.
Dr. Robert J. Emery, executive director for environmental health and safety at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, suggested patients ask their dentists if the X-rays are "absolutely necessary," what radiation doses will be delivered, and if they use lead aprons and collars to shield organs vulnerable to radiation's effects. He also recommends that when patients first see a new dentist, they bring along copies of previous X-rays.
Dr. Paul Casamassimo, chair of pediatric dentistry at Ohio State's College of Dentistry, was even more emphatic about questioning dental X-rays: "My advice would be to challenge your dentist on why radiographs are needed in any given situation, particularly when a child is involved."
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This book studies number theory the old-fashioned way — by looking at lots of numbers. Most of the sections start out with a big table of numbers. For example, to start the discussion of the Diophantine equation x2 + y2 = z2, we have a whole page listing the squares and using that to form the numbers that are sums of two squares. We are then invited to circle all the squares in the table and look for a pattern.
The style of the book is similar to Pólya and Szegö's Problems and Theorems in Analysis. The book consists of many long sequences of problems, each leading to a notable result, and there are very brief solutions in the back of each chapter. The Burn book is much easier that Polya & Szego, partly because it does not go very deep and partly because there are many more steps. The pace seems very slow to someone who is already familiar with the material, but I think it does give a good feel for how research is really done, with lots of experimentation and wandering around.
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The book's first edition was in 1982, but the book is what we would today call "inquiry-based." I compared it to the 2007 volume Number Theory Through Inquiry by Marshall, Odell, and Starbird. The latter book is much more conventional; in fact to some extent it looks like a plain number theory book with definitions, theorems, and examples, but with the proofs left out. The latter authors are also very interested in pedagogy and they have a lot of tips and exercises to see if you are learning the material; Burn is only interested in numbers.
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Division algorithm
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Unique factorisation into primes
Infinity of primes
Mersenne primes
Historical note
Notes and answers
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RSA codes
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Notes and answers
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Notes and answers
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Notes and answers
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Irrational square roots
Purely periodic continued fractions
Pell's equation
Lagrange's theorem on quadratic irrationals
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– Despite outshooting its opponent, 11-4, the University of
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Just over 14 minutes into play, Iona had its first chance to strike, but Giovanni Destasio's shot hit the post. At 17:40, Alexander Paszek headed the ball into the net beating junior goalkeeper Colin O'Donnell (Hampden, Mass.). Mario Rios set up the play passing the ball to Alekander Haxhari, who crossed it high to Paszek, resulting in the Gaels' first goal of the season.
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Banks, who totaled four shots in the game, headed the ball toward the goal a second time, but Binstock was able to come up with the save in the 33rd minute. The Gaels countered with a shot on net just over a minute later, but O'Donnell made the save to keep it a one-goal game.
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Binstock, the Gaels' senior goalkeeper, made four saves in the win.
The Wildcats will open up at home when they host the 20th Annual UNH Nike Fall Soccer Classic. New Hampshire will face Bucknell (Sept. 4) and Central Connecticut State (Sept. 6) on Bremner Field. Also playing in the tournament will be America East foe Vermont.
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Ford's new C-Max hybrids are achieving the corporate aim of eating into the dominance of Toyota Prius in the segment, so Ford is doubling down with an extension of the popular TV-advertising campaign that launched the vehicle.
Ford's share of the U.S. hybrid market grew by nearly 9 percentage points between December 2011 and December 2012, mostly from the October launch of C-Max, the company said, while Toyota's share of hybrids dropped by 8 percentage points even though last year was the first complete year on the market for the company's expanded line of Prius models.
Additionally, initial sales data show that C-Max is stealing hybrid sales away from other brands at an impressive clip: Its conquest rate is about 64 percent, with Prius and the Honda CR-V ranking as the top nameplates abandoned by customers in favor of C-Max.
"We clearly sought to go head-to-head with Prius" in introducing C-Max, Ford's first nameplate reserved only for electrified vehicles, C.J. O'Donnell, marketing and strategy manager for Ford Electrified Vehicles, told me. "C-Max is, all around, just a better car."
To that end, of course, Ford's first ads for C-Max last fall made direct comparisons in fuel economy, passenger roominess and other areas with Prius v, the slightly larger version of Prius that Toyota introduced last year.
Soon, C-Max advertising — retaining the "La Linea" character introduced in its first spot — will pivot to some playful poetry readings designed to highlight C-Max features. C-Max pops up in the new ABC reality cooking show The Taste and will be a key part of challenges on the March 8 episode. The car also will be visible this season in the course of Ford's regular sponsorship of American Idol on Fox.
"Unlike typical launches, we're going to continue to invest in 2013 in C-Max to extend the launch," O'Donnell said. "Spending in media and creative and on grass-roots efforts will remain strong for nine to 12 months since the introduction rather than the typical three to six months."
O'Donnell said that Ford is encouraged by the fact that the C-Max Hybrid and the C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid, launched at the same time, have been helping the company exceed its usual market share in important electrified-vehicle markets such as California.
At the same time, about one-third of C-Max sales are occurring in the Midwest, typically among the worst markets for hybrids — but, of course, the historical strength of the Ford franchise.
"Leading with this technology is a great entree to markets where we're striving to improve share, on the East and West coasts, but it's great to be able to use it to retain our strength in the Midwest also," O'Donnell said.
O'Donnell said that one of the most gratifying aspects of the sales patterns for C-Max so far is that the car has been able to steal significant numbers of customers who owned CR-V, Honda's compact SUV. "It's packaged with enough versatility to compete with that segment," he noted.
In fact, within the Ford brand, many C-Max buyers migrate down in size from previous versions of Escape and Escape Hybrid — even though there's a significantly refreshed new Escape SUV available now — as well as move from the Ford Focus compact sedan.
While Toyota has focused its electrified-vehicle efforts on conventional hybrids, and General Motors has emphasized its Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, after a long and unspectacular record of offering conventional-hybrid versions of some of its most popular conventional models Ford has begun determinedly fielding a wide variety of new electrified vehicles. At this point they include not only the two C-Max models but also the Focus Electric.
"As a company, we're now second [in electrified vehicles] and pecking at Toyota because of the range of our products," O'Donnell said. "We don't have a single entry that we're trying to put all our weight behind. We provide choices to customers in what electrified product best suits their driving styles and personal needs."
Still, about 70 percent of electrified vehicles sold by Ford this year will be conventional hybrids, he said; about 25 percent will be C-Max or Focus Energi plug-in hybrids; and the remaining 5 percent will be Focus Electric.