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George Carlin on war
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George Carlin on war
Snippets of conversation over in Kavar's Corner have had this Carlin bit running on repeat in my head for most of the last day.
I thought I would share it here and hopefully get a conversation going. Here it is:
[Carlin speaking about the 1991 Gulf War]
Now you´ve probably noticed I don´t feel about that "war," the way we were told we were supposed to feel about that war ... the way we were ordered and instructed to feel by the United States Government to feel about that war ... you see, I tell ya ... my mind doesn´t work that way ... I got this real moron thing I do - it´s called, "thinking," - and I´m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions. I don´t just "roll over" when I´m told to.
Sad to say most Americans just "roll over" on command. Not me - I have certain rules I live by.
My first rule:
I don´t believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. Nope.
And I don´t take very seriously the media or the press in this country, who, in the case of the Persian Gulf War were nothing more than unpaid employees of the Department of Defense, and who, most of the time functioned as sort of an unofficial public relations company for the United States Government.
So, I don´t listen to them, I don´t *really* believe in my country, and I gotta tell ya folks, I don´t get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them to be symbols, and I leave symbols to the symbol-minded.
Sadly, much of this routine is eerily relevant more than a decade later (every time Carlin mentions Dick Cheney or Saddam Hussein, I feel like I'm trapped in some kind of creepy time warp thingy). And every time I see an American flag pin on some politician's lapel or one of those yellow ribbon magnets stuck on the back of an SUV, I think of Carlin.
This isn't really a Carlin remembrance thread though. I was hoping his comments might spark a discussion about patriotism vs jingoism, how U.S. military action isn't always the noble thing the media and the gov't wants us to believe it is, etc.
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Lured by beachfront vistas, quaint colonial
backdrops and a historic construction boom, thousands of Americans
are heading down Mexico way to snap up vacation homes, retirement
villas and investment properties.
Heartened by wide-sweeping reforms in the country's
judicial and foreign-investment systems over the past decade
or so and heightened interest from investors, many Yanks have
watched the values of their south-of -the-border properties
head north in surprisingly short order.
"The market has just become prolific in
Mexico, with about 1.5 million Americans now owning property
there," says Mitch Creekmore, vice president of the Stewart
Title Guaranty de Mexico office in Houston and one of
America's foremost experts on Mexican real-estate acquisition.
"Values in some markets have tripled in five years --
far exceeding the rates of return you find in the United States."
Barriers falling
Yet foreigners are still paying a premium to finance such
deals, either through developer/seller financing that requires
at least 30 percent down, or pricey, hard-to-get mortgage
loans at Mexican banks that can hover well above 15 percent.
That's why several U.S. institutions are gearing
up their own lending programs to cater to the growing niche.
Only a handful of banks, including Houston-based Conficasa
Holdings; Birmingham, Ala.-based Collateral
International; and Phoenix-based Marshall
& Ilsley now provide mortgages to U.S. buyers and
developers in Mexico.
Richard Brinkley, a real estate broker with
Lionhead Realty Services
of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., has sold numerous residential
resort-area properties in Mexico. He says while financing
is available, buyers may find it more cost effective to use
second mortgages
or additional credit lines in the U.S. to pay for Mexican
Brinkley said Mexico is really like Florida was 40
years ago when the American dream was still attainable. And
Mexico has lower property taxes and total cost-of-living expenses.
You will pay $500 in annual property taxes in Mexico for a
property you'd pay $20,000 on in Florida. And for people
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Collateral announced its "Mexico -- My Dream" program
in late 2004, focusing on the vibrant Cancun and Riviera Maya
markets. The company plans to step up its program in 2005,
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offers title insurance in Mexico.
Previously, American banks were reluctant to
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Gomez del Campo, partner in the Phoenix office of Bryan
Cave LLP, who specializes in the representation of U.S.
companies and financial institutions investing in Mexico.
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officials or other individuals to mess with the chain of title
or encumber properties for no legitimate reason," says
Gomez del Campo. "Under NAFTA and other reforms, the
Mexican government can't discriminate against foreigners in
terms of property ownership."
Hence, Mexican haciendas are becoming hotter
and bigger targets for many Americans and Canadians, especially
those who have been priced out of U.S. resort areas, he says.
Rules, restrictions remain
However, Mexican real-estate laws still differ substantially
from the American system and there are many crucial nuances
to consider before cutting a deal for Mexican property, say
While foreigners can purchase real estate in
their own names throughout the country's interior, they can
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Today's post is from Ryan Applegate, assistant manager of our Dillon, Montana, store. Last summer Ryan took two months off work to pedal his bike 2,300 miles from Yukon's Watson Lake to Yellowstone National Park. But Ryan's trip was more than a summer bike tour. Working with the Freedom to Roam Coalition, he and six others rode on behalf of wildlife, which is losing more and more habitat to development and finding itself increasingly challenged by climate change. Funded with an environmental internship grant from Patagonia, Ryan received both salary and benefits during his hiatus.


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What's this did McCain just wake from a coma? He has suddenly come to the realization that immigration reform must wait until the border is secure. Well, welcome to the party John. It's about time you take a stand for our existing laws that our President has constantly broken. We need some law and order in this country not more of the liberty limiting, freedom diminishing legislation we've encountered the past six years. Case in point it's finally made public that we're paying the new $8 billion Obamacare tax!
But wait, just as McCain gets your hopes up you see that he still wants that "Gang of Eight" bill passed that will surly tank the economy and send unemployment skyrocketing for American citizens. The roller coaster goes on as McCain admits it could take a couple of years to secure the border and then then blames the House for holding things up. For the sake of America, pray that he doesn't seek another term.
Those who were or are in favor of Obamacare will be disappointed to hear that in addition to all the medical increases the taxpayer has had to endure there will be an addition $8 billion due to insurers in 30 days who pass it on to us. Yes, private insurers are passing the tax onto you. So, i.e. you are paying for illegal alien's medical expenses, deadbeats' and expenses you probably don't care to.
With that in mind wouldn't it make sense to obey and enforce the laws we have now instead of creating new ones that drowns us in debt?


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Five-level Course Prerequisites. The student must complete three months in the duty position or have apprentice experience before beginning journeyman training.
Seven-level Course Prerequisites. The student must be a staff sergeant or higher, be enrolled in seven-skill level upgrade training, and have met the minimum time requirement in upgrade training. The student must also be familiar with Microsoft Word version 6.0 or later and Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0 or later.
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Some estimates put the Move at approximately 400,000 units sold in the U.S. in its first six weeks on the market, while in Europe that number is reportedly somewhere in the region of 1.5 million. By comparison, Microsoft said last week that Kinect sold one million units globally in its first ten days of availability, but it didn't break down the number by region.
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All about Async/Await, System.Threading.Tasks, System.Collections.Concurrent, System.Linq, and more…
PLINQ is a very cool technology, and I believe it will prove useful for parallelizing operations in a wide range of important scenarios. Moreover, I believe that the programming model it provides will enable a wide-range of developers to easily take advantage of concurrency in their applications. However, one of the risks involved in our providing such a simple programming model is that we don't currently shield developers from all of the possible issues they may run into from using it to parallelize code.
As an example, there is a set of 101 LINQ samples available at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/aa336746.aspx. Unfortunately, many of these samples rely on implementation details and behaviors that don't necessarily hold when moving to a parallel model like the one employed by PLINQ. In fact, some of them are dangerous when it comes to PLINQ.
On our team, we've been referring to these kinds of dangers as "parallelism blockers," and they're one of the primary reasons we're not planning to automatically replace all LINQ-to-Objects queries with PLINQ queries, instead supporting the opt-in model available through the AsParallel extension method. We've talked about some of these issues before (see the CTP documentation for a more thorough look at some of these issues), but as a refresher, consider a few examples:
The 101 LINQ samples are not good exemplars for PLINQ. Consider the Query Execution category. These samples contain code like:
int i = 0;var q = from n in numbers select ++i;
int i = 0;var q = from n in numbers select ++i;
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! With PLINQ, those increments to i will potentially happen in parallel, and they won't be atomic. You could fix this by using Interlocked.Increment rather than ++, but then you'd likely destroy your performance.
Luckily, only a few of the 101 samples modify state. But that doesn't mean switching over to PLINQ will produce the same results as LINQ for all of these. Almost all of the 101 samples have the potential to produce different output orderings than the LINQ versions due to lack of order preservation by default (at least in the CTP; we're reconsidering whether that is a good default, so if you have any opinion on the issue, please let us know). For most of the samples, this doesn't matter semantically (except for a hypothetical tool that does a straight output to output comparison between LINQ-to-Objects and PLINQ runs); for example, the first sample lists all of the numbers from the array { 5, 4, 1, 3, 9, 8, 6, 7, 2, 0 } where the numbers are less than 5, and the second sample lists all of the sold out products from a dynamically generated list of products. However, there are some where (depending on the intended usage) ordering may matter. For example, the eighth sample generates the name of a number in the array (e.g. 5 to "five"); the output ordering may not match up to the input array in this case, and thus while you're successfully generating all of the relevant outputs, the correlation between input and output is lost (you'd either need to update the query to include in the results the original position, or you'd need to enable order preservation). There are other sample queries that will have this same issue.
Additionally, almost all of the samples deal with very small data sets, and do very little work on each item. It's likely that PLINQ's overhead will dominate in many of these cases, producing slower runs than if LINQ-to-Objects were used. We're spending a lot of time now on PLINQ performance, and we're hoping to see that overhead decrease as much as possible, but even with all of the optimizations we plan to throw at it, it's likely there will still be some queries for which the non-parallel LINQ-to-Objects will still be preferred. That's one place where we need your help. If you have queries that you believe should be executing much faster in parallel than they are, please send them our way; we'd love to analyze them to figure out where bottlenecks may be.
How do you want them passed on? I've got a portion of a library that I can tweak a bit to basically form the parse phase of a C# compiler...it has plenty of points of parallelization and should be able to handle large source code files. It's not something I'd prefer to post onto a forum right now, but it's an interesting test case because it's very recursive and very threaded (but also very incomplete for what it is ultimately intended for)
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The potential "Frozen" cameos have been discussed for the upcoming PS4 and Xbox One video game, "Kingdom Hearts 3." According to a report from Gaming Bolt on Aug. 24, Tai Yasue revealed that he would personally like to include the popular movie in the next installment of the series. However, he was not willing to officially confirm that "Frozen" will indeed be a part of the third main title of the franchise.
Tai Yasue did state that he would like to create a world that will be similar to The Land of Dragons from the "Mulan" level in "Kingdom Hearts 2." The co-director would also like to include the musical features that were found in "The Little Mermaid" world. Square Enix has not yet reveal any Disney-themed worlds that will be added in "Kingdom Hearts 3." However, early videos did confirm that Twilight Town, which was created just for the video game franchise, is returning for the sequel.
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"Kingdom Hearts 3" is expected to come out after "Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix." An official release date time frame has not yet been announced and it has been some time since the last official video was shown for the sequel. However, Square Enix did reassure fans that more about the third main installment, along with "Final Fantasy XV," should be shown by the end of this year. You can find a screen featuring "Kingdom Hearts 3" near the top of this article (via the official Facebook page for the intellectual; property).
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New electricity meters are accurate, says review team
THE NEW meters being installed by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) have been given a clean bill of health by a review team set up by the Office of Utilities Regulation.
"We, in the conduct of this investigation, have found absolutely no evidence to suggest or even substantiate any claim that the electronic meters that are being installed by the JPS are inaccurate," J. Paul Morgan, head of the review team, said.
Morgan's team tested 40 meters - 20 electronic and 20 electromechanical - and concluded that the new meters being installed by the JPS were accurate.
Morgan said 17 per cent of the electromechanical meters failed the accuracy test.
"We have come to the conclusion that about 18 per cent of the accounts where meters have been changed, there is going to be some problems associated with those accounts," he said.
The JPS has embarked on a programme to replace some 17,000 meters and Morgan said at least 3,000 customers, who have had their meter changed, may have problems with bills they receive. He said one reason for this is that the old meters may have been under-recording.
Time to review policy
Meanwhile, on the matter of back-billing, Morgan said the time has come for a review of the policy which allows for this. He noted that the JPS has been enforcing a 10-year-old policy that needs to be reviewed.
Morgan's team also agreed that the back-billing policy of the utility needs to be radically revised.
"There is absolutely no basis on which they can establish how long ... the customer has been receiving and benefiting from that service," he said.
"No matter how you cut it, there is an allegation of some sort of wrongdoing and the company then tries to apply the full force of the provisions, in that, they can recover for the statutory period of six years.
"They don't have the means to apply the appropriate test to prove that the individual has been using the service for that period."


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By Sammy Caiola
Carla*, a senior at a Suffolk County high school, returns home exhausted after extra help with her academic studies, a rigorous track practice and an SAT review class. It is 10 p.m., and while most kids her age are going to bed, she is only starting to dig into the tower of homework assignments on her desk. But rather than succumb to fatigue, she works until her essays are finished, and flawless, determined not to sacrifice a point on her homework average and consequently damage her GPA.
This is life inside "overachiever" culture: a division of high school students who are pushing themselves a little too hard to gain acceptance to top-notch universities, no matter the cost.
Carla dreams of going to an Ivy League school that accepts only 11 percent of its applicants, and for the past three years she has been stacking her schedule with Advanced Placement (AP) classes and extracurricular activities to achieve that goal. This year alone she is enrolled in three AP courses, adding to the grand total of nine she will have when she graduates.
"I really want to show colleges that I want to take the hardest classes," says Carla. "I've always tried to challenge myself as much as I can. I gave up lunch last year and went straight through nine periods"
But it is not enough just to take challenging courses; it is about running straight A's through all four years and not only doing well, but doing better than everybody else.
"The whole notion of wanting to be the best really pushes a lot of kids," says Michael Quinland, clinical psychologist at a Suffolk County high school. "Students feel that they have to compete in order to be at the top of their class and will use any means necessary to accomplish that."
The night before a big test, Carla's room is a war zone. Flash cards, notebooks and loose leaf are everywhere, covering her carpet, desk and bed. She takes a blank piece of computer paper and rewrites the main points of every chapter in a different color marker until her fingertips are stained. She does not take breaks or sleep until all of the work is done.
"I don't do anything else," says Carla. "I don't watch TV. I don't go on the computer. I find a way to get it done. I don't come unprepared to school. I don't give in work that I know isn't my best."
The pressure that a heavy workload puts on overachievers is obvious, especially to teachers, who see the distress on the students' faces every day.
"A lot of these kids are taking many AP classes at once," says Christine Nelson, honors chemistry teacher at Paul Schreiber High School in Port Washington. "And they don't have enough time to come to extra help if they're having trouble."
But even after all their hard work, grades don't always meet the mountainous expectations students build for themselves, often causing them to crumble. For some students, a 95 just isn't good enough, and they mentally rebuke themselves for not getting the 100.
"I had one major emotional breakdown over grades last year," says Carla. "I was crying for about an hour, and then I had to go to practice. I get very stressed out and I tend to snap at people."
Crazed from the Cradle
Even as a toddler, Alli Boccio's mom knew she was special. Shortly after her arrival in kindergarten, teachers saw that she was a quick learner and urged her parents to transfer her to an advanced school with other children of her intellect. After test results revealed that Alli had an IQ of 150 at age 4, her parents enrolled her in the Long Island School for the Gifted (LISG), where she was first put to the high academic standards that would define her education for the next 10 years.
LISG is an accelerated educational program for students of outstanding intellect who want to challenge themselves by working one to three levels above their grade level. Located in Huntington Station, it is the only school of its kind on Long Island, and enrolls students from 60 different school districts, including those in New York City.
"We accelerate [the students] only in the subjects in which they are naturally talented," said Carol Yilmaz, founder and current principal of LISG. "We want it to be challenging, but not so difficult that it impedes the learning process. Having to work at something helps them to have better study habits and teaches them to be good students."
Being accelerated at such an early age encourages kids to keep their eyes on the future. They sit through standardized testing earlier than other children. LISG students take the English Language Arts exam (ELA) in third grade, while other students take it in sixth grade. By fifth grade, LISG students are taking placement tests for John Hopkins University, and by seventh grade they take the SAT.
"They trained us right from the start to succeed; it was like a college prep school," says Alli, currently a freshman at SUNY Stony Brook. "The intelligence of a kindergartener there was equal to that of a third grader at a public school. The teachers praised us for everything, and always urged us to exceed expectations."
Unlike a regular school track, where students stay in one classroom for all subjects until they reach junior high, LISG students start moving from class to class as early as fourth grade. Students of similar levels of intellect are placed in the same classes, and teachers try to create an atmosphere that fosters productivity and confidence. This places students on a focused academic path from which they are warned not to stray.
"We were very disciplined there," says Alli. "Sometimes we called it a prison."
Students graduate from LISG and move on to a public or private high school. Alli enrolled at St. Anthony's High School in Melville and found the transition more difficult than she had expected. Coming from LISG, where she had already completed many of the courses her peers were taking, Alli was put in AP classes with students a year older than her. Though she was the youngest in her classes, she had been challenged so much since kindergarten that the work was still easy for her.
"The adjustment was very difficult; I was a sophomore and every class I took was a junior or senior class," says Alli. "I was better at the subjects than they were, and they resented it. I was teased and ridiculed. It was awful at first. I went from a graduating class of 17 students into a class of 600 students and I was overwhelmed."
Brains on Drugs
Eleven p.m. is approaching, and Wesley* still has two essays and a calculus packet to finish by morning. Knowing he won't make it through the night, he tells his mom he's driving over to Andrew*'s house to borrow a textbook. When Wesley arrives, Andrew retrieves a vial of pills from his desk drawer and spills out two white capsules, which he gives to Wesley for $10. Wesley leaves, assured he'll finish his work.
The capsules he just bought are 40mg doses of Ritalin, one of the several prescription amphetamines that high school students resort to when they need to cram. Ritalin, Adderol, and Concerta are three mild central nervous system stimulants that are often prescribed to children and adolescents with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). For a teen with ADD, the methylphenidate in the pill stimulates certain receptors in the brain and helps a diagnosed patient focus and stay calm. For a teen without ADD, it has the opposite effect.
"There is a high risk involved when taking these stimulant medications if they have not been prescribed to you," says Dr. Timothy George, a West Islip-based pediatrician. "If you don't have ADD and you take Ritalin, it increases your alertness, heart rate and metabolism. If taken in large doses, the result can be fatal."
But despite the risk, overachievers sometimes use these medications when they need to pull all-nighters and coffee isn't enough.
"Sometimes it would be caffeine pills or sometimes natural energy drinks that had some sort of caffeine or guarana or taurine," says Wesley, a senior. "When it got really bad I resorted to amphetamines."
Students diagnosed with ADD often have excess pills or just don't take their prescription, which makes the drug fairly easy to find. But this isn't a black market run by hardcore street dealers. Here, all involved are pill-popping honors students. Many of them are aware of the potential effects of the drug, but when it's a question of finishing their homework, they do whatever is necessary.
"It's dangerous, works for only a couple of hours, and when you run out, you want even more," says Wesley. "Also, it's a bit illegal. I'm aware of the damage I'm doing to my body when using the drugs, so I use them very sparingly."
The use of amphetamines and other stimulants keeps determined students awake, which helps them finish their work, but takes its toll the next day. According to American Sleep Disorders Association, the average teenager requires nine hours of sleep every night, but many overachievers ignore this requirement.
"I was living on 3 to 5 hours of sleep [per night]," says Rob McAllister, senior at Hauppauge High School. "I pulled an uncountable amount of all-nighters throughout the school year and just forced my body to get used to it."
But why would anyone—let alone teenagers—force themselves to get used to such an unforgiving life?
Though some overachievers motivate themselves to do well, many are pushed by their parents to live up to a certain familial legacy, or feel that they have to match or exceed high expectations set by siblings. When the family car already has two decals from top-notch universities, the youngest child is often mortified by the prospect of attending a second-tier institution and becoming the "failure child."
"I've always been a little jealous of my older siblings for their good grades and their success at college," says Mark Espina of Bay Shore High School, whose older siblings went to Dartmouth College, American University, and University of Virginia. "They all got scholarships, and I feel like my parents will kill me if I don't get one. I want to go to a college of the same caliber as them, but not the same one because I don't want to be compared to them."
Getting accepted to top-notch universities is no easy task. According to Harvard College's statistics from the class of 2013, 29,114 applicants were considered for the undergraduate college. Only 2,175 were admitted.
To make themselves stand out among a herd of Ivy League hopefuls, overachievers join clubs and community service groups in an attempt to appear well-rounded on their transcripts.
"I run track, I'm in French honor society, music honor society, and regular honor society, and I'm on Science Olympiads," says Carla, the Half Hollow Hills senior. "I want colleges to see that I can balance everything, even with a lot on my plate."
But that balancing act can be counterproductive. Says Christine Nelson, the chemistry teacher at Paul Schreiber High School: "[These students] think that their entire lives rely on their grades and they get overly stressed out, sometimes to the point that it makes them physically ill."
Whether the pressure started in kindergarten or in senior year, many children struggle with their academic identity every day. And the psychological, emotional and physical tolls paid by these students can be even greater than the tuition fees at the schools to which they hope to be accepted.
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As ordered reported by the Senate Committee Environment and Public Works on July 25, 2012
S. 1735 would authorize the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to convey certain federal properties to the state of Mississippi. Enacting S. 1735 would affect direct spending; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures apply to the bill. CBO estimates, however, that the net impact on direct spending would be insignificant over the 2013-2022 period. Enacting S. 1735 would not affect revenues or spending subject to appropriation.
S. 1735 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would benefit the state of Mississippi.
Based on information from TVA and the state of Mississippi, CBO estimates that TVA would convey approximately 172 acres in an area known as the Yellow Creek Port in Iuka, Mississippi. Under a law enacted by the state in 2011, Mississippi is authorized to acquire the property if environmental assessments determine that the property is clear of any contaminants or pollutants and if TVA waives certain payment obligations. The conveyance is subject to Congressional approval because the transfer would occur through a noncompetitive process.
TVA would incur some administrative and other expenses to implement the conveyance, but CBO expects that those costs probably would be minimal in any given year. Although some spending may occur if the state's environmental assessments identify a need for remedial action, TVA anticipates that any such costs would be negligible and could occur under current law. Similarly, waiving the amounts due from Mississippi would have no effect on the budget because no such payments are expected over the next 10 years. Furthermore, any changes in TVA's expenses would have no significant net effect on direct spending over the 2013-2022 period, CBO estimates, because TVA is required by law to pass on all of its costs and savings to its electricity customers.


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Kappadokia / Turkey
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Sokak of Guzelyurt by *Chris-Lamprianidis is a delightful character-driven HDR photograph, one of many beautiful pictures in this artist's gallery. ( Suggested by xthumbtakx and Featured by RockstarVanity )
Congrats on the DD!
Have a nice day! : )
Have a nice day! : )
This is great,I love the angle that it looks like and the way it just comes together in this photograph !!!nice work!!!
VERy nice! I love the constant contrast in this shot. My wife wants us to visit Kappadokia too.
Thanks a lot. If you will visit Kappadokia take with you a lot of memory cards for your camera.
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Beautiful shot!
wow!!!!mpravo Xristo m!!!!an kai einai alitheia oti auti den einai i agpimeni m apo tin seira kai pali ksexwrizei1!!!!mpravo kai well deserved DD!!!!
Great photo! Interesting street and wonderful juxtaposition of the old and young people! Congratulations on your DD!
Great photo (:
Congrats on the daily deviation!
I totally love the atmosphere
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να γίνεται DD!
Congratulations both to you for your awesome photo Chris
and to Sara for suggesting it!
να γίνεται DD!
Congratulations both to you for your awesome photo Chris
and to Sara for suggesting it!
Oh my beautiful country... Thanks for that superb shot!
Lovely piece. Congrats on the DD
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Numerous rain delays sent kids on and off the court throughout the day on Monday, forcing players to compete into the early evening.
No. 1 seed, Alva Caine defeated Ohm Sharma, 6-4; 7-5 in the Boys 12's. Caine, from Birmingham, Ala. said, "I feel confident and excited." This makes the first time Caine has snagged a championship title at this level of competition.
Caine admitted to being a little worried. "(Sharma) came back and almost won the second set." At 5 games all, Caine turned to his mental game and tried to stay focused. "I was attacking and he came back because he was pushing me back. I kept trying to be aggressive and I pulled it."
In the Girls 12's, No. 2 seed Jenna Thompson took out top-seed, Anna Mitchell in two sets, 7-5; 6-2. The 12 year old from Charlotte North Carolina said, "It feels great,' she holding her trophy and carrying her tennis bag over her shoulder.
Thompson, who began playing tennis at age 6, relies on the help of her mother to critique her match play. "They,(both Thompson's parents) played college tennis," she explained in a post-match interview. "My mom understands what I'm going through on court
Of her championship match win, Thompson said, "I kept fighting. I played it one point at a time. I kept the ball deep and I hit it to her backhand because she could attack with her forehand and hit winners."
Simon Wilson, lost a 5/6 playoff match to Trey Maust 7-6; 6-4 but won the Sportsmanship Award. It was a surprise to him, announced during an off-court interview. "You know this is an important award," Donna Bailey, tournament director said as she delivered the news. Wilson shook his head yes. "I played pretty solid but during a few key moments, I got kinda lose. He played more solid in the big moments more than I did."
"I have to play my game and make sure I execute," said Maust about his first set play. "I went after my shots fearless. I was a little worried when he broke my serve but I knew I hand to keep playing my game."
Boys 14's Champion, Tyler Stice, No. 2 seed from Atlanta hedged out Bryce Keim in a three-setter, 0-6; 6-2; 6-4. "I kept my head in the game and kept fighting," Stice said, on how he came back after dropping the only set of the entire weekend. "In the first set I didn't feel like I played my best. But I knew that if I stayed mentally tough, I'd come back." Stice trains at Olde Town Athletic Club where the players several hours a day and are required to do yoga.
No. 2 player, Nicole Stephens toppled top-seed, Emma Navarro to collect her championship title hardware. Stephens won, 6-4; 6-4. The 13 yr. old was slightly upset prior to the match because tournament officials couldn't find her after she had already checked in for her match. "You can never let stuff like that bother you," she said. "You have to regroup and focus on the match because it was in the past."
Stephens has known her opponent for years. "She's a great player. She plays every ball. She always makes you play. I have a lot of respect for her but I do know how to beat her. I had to move her around a lot, shut down her heavy ball and take the ball on the rise because she very consistent."
Stephens also added, "She(Navarro) isn't an emotional player, she never gives up and is a great player."


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Dastardly Cookie Thief Demands Cookies for All Sick Children
A German man known as Krümel Monster (Cookie Monster) has pulled off the perfect crime: swiping an iconic, 44-lb. golden cookie from the headquarters of the Bahlsen, a world-famous biscuit-maker. Authorities were confounded. Bahlsen was outraged, offering over a thousand dollars for information leading to the crook's capture. And yesterday, a ransom note showed up at a local media outlet. It was a picture of the Krümel Monster himself, taking a bite out of the beloved cookie. "I have the biscuit!" the dastardly note claimed. "You want it and therefore you want on one day in February, to give biscuits to all the children in Bult hospital. But those with milk chocolate, not those with dark chocolate and not those without chocolate. And a golden biscuit for the child cancer ward." Fortunately, Bahlsen does not negotiate with terrorists and is standing its ground, maintaining that it has "already done a lot" for the children's hospital and that the company "doesn't need to be coerced in this way." It's heartening to see that sort of courage in the face of such wreckless hate. The showdown begins ...
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Helps increase skin elasticity and resilience to greatly improve the look of sagging skin above and below the eyes. Regular use will dramatically reduce the visible signs of aging—fine lines, wrinkles and crow's feet.
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Can be used by women and men with all but the most sensitive skin.
This formulation is extremely well tolerated and can be used by the majority of people without fear of troublesome skin reactions such as sunlight sensitivity—that can occur with other skin smoothing preparations.
Generally, improvement in the overall appearance of the skin around the eyes can be seen within 8 – 12 weeks of daily use.
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2014: Started all nine games in which he played ... injured and did not play final two games of season.
2013: Injured early in the season but saw action in final three games and drew high praise from the coaching staff.
2012: Redshirted.
High school: Played football at Terry Fox Secondary in British Columbia ... team captain and all-state selection ... had 30 tackles and eight sacks ... also played lacrosse and basketball as well as three years for the Langley Minor Football club team.
Personal: son of Brian and Bernie Woods ... born Oct. 29, 1994.


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U.S. Figure Skating announced today that all 12 U.S. Olympic figure skating champions will attend the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Spokane, Wash.
The gold medalists will participate in an on-ice presentation during the Smucker's Skating Spectacular on Sunday, Jan. 24 and will attend a "Destination Vancouver" fundraising dinner later that evening at the Davenport Hotel. Details on the dinner, including how to purchase tickets to it, will be announced later this week.
The Olympic champions scheduled to appear are Dick Button (1948, 52), Tenley Albright (1956), Hayes Jenkins (1956), Carol Heiss Jenkins (1960), David Jenkins (1960), Peggy Fleming (1968), Dorothy Hamill (1976), Scott Hamilton (1984), Brian Boitano (1988), Kristi Yamaguchi (1992), Tara Lipinski (1998) and Sarah Hughes (2002).
The 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships will take place Jan. 14-24 at the Spokane Arena and be televised live on NBC and webcast on icenetwork.com.
Over the course of 10 days, the event will crown 12 national champions in ladies, men's, pairs and ice dancing on the senior, junior and novice levels. The championships are the final event before the selection of the figure skating team that will compete for the United States at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, B.C.
U.S. Figure Skating's "Destination Vancouver Send-off Dinner," will take place at the conclusion of the 2010 AT&T U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Sunday, Jan. 24 at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Wash.
The black-tie optional fundraising dinner will feature all 12 U.S. Olympic gold medalists and the athletes nominated to represent U.S. Figure Skating at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia.
A limited number of "Gold-medal Tables" and tickets for general seating are available.
The event will feature live and silent auctions, and 1988 Olympic champion Brian Boitano, star of the Food Network show "What Would Brian Boitano Make?" will prepare one of his signature desserts.
The pre-sale period will be open through Dec. 31, 2009. Tables will be sold based on availability, with an eight-guest maximum per table.
For more information on the event, or to purchase tickets, contact the U.S. Figure Skating development department at 719.635.5200, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. Additional information is available at the association's website.
U.S. Figure Skating and the Pioneer Fund announced have establishment the Helen M. McLoraine Figure Skating Scholarship Program to assist eligible current and former amateur and professional figure skaters who which to pursue a college education. Scholarships are offered each year for full-time undergraduate study at an accredited institution of the student's choice.
The Pioneer Fund is a private family foundation, established in the 1960s by the late Helen M. McLoraine. Influenced by her mother's dedication to philanthropy, McLoraine became a generous benefactor to others with a focus on figure skating, higher education assistance and medical research. McLoraine's most cherished pastime was the sport of figure skating, and she attended many competitions, events and skating shows throughout the world each year.
The scholarship program is administered by Scholarship Management Services, a division of Scholarship America. As many as 10 scholarships will be awarded, ranging from $3,000-$7,000 per scholarship recipient. Scholarship applications must be postmarked by Feb. 18, 2010.
Information on the program and the scholarship application can be found at HERE.


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OK, let's get it out in the open. It's a shaving cream called "lube." That's not something you run across every day, but neither is $16 shaving cream. While the name and the price do have distinguishing qualities all their own, Jack Black Beard Lube does possess some stand-alone attributes that make it a viable option for today's modern groomer. For one, Beard Lube is translucent upon application; that may just mean that it's clear to some, but for those who wear facial hair, that means they can actually see where they're shaving. That leads to more accurate lines and fewer nicks for us all. The most interesting aspect, though, is that it functions as three products in one: a pre-shave, a shave cream and a moisturizer. You get a shave that's three times the quality of your ordinary creams or gels.
A reliable shaving cream never goes out of style. In fact, that's so true that most of us stick with the same can (and razor) for years. Old habits die hard, but Jack Black Beard Lube might just resurrect your tired old grooming routine. How, you might ask? Well, Beard Lube does offer a high-quality shave that gives you a smooth, soft finish. It's a three-in-one shave cream that brings added dimension to most one-dimensional shaves. Aside from the eucalyptus and peppermint that stimulate the skin cells, the oils, for instance, help moisturize both the beard and the skin; this allows the razor to glide more smoothly across the face. So, at the end of the shave, that leaves you not only with less razor burn, but also with more conditioned and younger-looking skin -- and there's probably not a man among us who can't appreciate that on a daily basis.


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This vintage-inspired giclee wall art depicts two purple love birds.
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Do it yourself panniers class from community cycles of Boulder
If panniers are too expensive or ghetto is your preferred route since the likely hood of getting stolen drops way down then check out the Community Cycles do it yourself panniers class this March 26th
From Community Cycles
Need new panniers but can't spare the cash? Tired of getting a racing stripe up your back after riding wet roads? Want to try out bike commuting without a big cash outlay? This workshop is for you.
Even if you can't remember "righty-tighty, lefty-loosie", we'll walk through the steps together to create bucket panniers of our very own. These panniers made from kitty litter buckets are waterproof and virtually indestructible, and even double as camp chairs! They can be made to easily attach and detach to your bike rack, or be fixed to the rack for more security.
If you'd rather have a backpack pannier, bring a backpack. We'll add a hook and bungee system to allow you to hook your trusty pack to your bike, then comfortably take it with you when you reach your destination.
Materials fee: $15 for one bucket pannier or $10 for one backpack conversion.
This workshop is being led by Ann Haebig
Reserve a spot in the DIY Panniers and Fenders workshop.
Saturday March 26, 10a.m.
2805 Wilderness Pl Ste 1000
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Dec 11, 2006 10:42 AM
This rugby-inspired Anna Sweater from Abercrombie & Fitch ($70) reminds us of crisp winter nights and warm fireplaces. Made of a wool, rayon, and angora mix, the zip hoodie is comfy yet fitting. We love the extra little details like velvet and grosgrain draw cord and the velvet interior within the hood.
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Published: March 6, 2014
Capt. Perry Harrison of the Youngstown Fire Department shows off the new locker room for firefighters on duty at the new Station 9 on East Midlothian Boulevard. City officials cut the ribbon for the new station Wednesday.
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Batali Bases New Cookbook on OTTO Menu
'Molto Gusto' is co-written with Mark Ladner of Del Posto.
Mario Batali's new cookbook will be out on April 6, publishing imprint Ecco announced today. Molto Gusto: Easy Italian Cooking is co-authored with Del Posto's Mark Ladner and will draw from OTTO's menu. Expect recipes for pizza, antipasti, dried pasta, and lots of gelati. This is Batali's ninth cookbook. [HarperCollins]


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You'd be pretty pissed if you lost your progress on FIFA.
Users are reporting a serious PlayStation 4 glitch corrupting save files.
According to a lengthy thread on the official forum, the glitch, with error code CE-34878-0, loses progress and can make games unplayable by causing them to crash.
Originally found with FIFA 14, which becomes unplayable, it's also been seen in other games including Battlefield 4, Call of Duty: Ghosts and NBA 2K14.
"I've even done a full restore to factory settings and it made no difference at all," said user aaronmcadam in late December.
The problem has persisted and at the time of writing, Sony has not responded with the cause or fix.


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Completely new to this, so please bear with me.
I have been using a VPS with HG for a few months, other than needing the extra resources to deal with loads I haven't used it much. Anyway... I am trying to set up a private proxy with the VPS, after hours of looking into this it seems Putty is the best option for me, every tutorial I read has the same process and when they say 'that's it!', it never seems to be it.
I can successfully connect via Putty and have even gone as far as connecting automatically for the profile with keys, I have also assigned and saved a Dynamic Source Port.
I can connect automatically no problem with everything in this profile, here's my problem.
First off, would I be safe to assume I start Putty and load this profile and run it to use the private proxy?
Second, I have tried configuring FF and FoxyProxy with the necessary proxy settings i.e. 127.0.0.1:1234 (assuming 1234 was the Dynamic Port set earlier), when I try visiting a web page I get no error, but I just get a blank screen, does anyone know what this problem is?


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One of the things we like to see in a potential turnaround stock is a strong brand name. That will often provide the foundation on which the company can build its turnaround.
However, the recent Chapter 11 filing by Hostess Brands and Eastman Kodak are reminders that well known brand names alone may not be enough to save a company. In both of these cases the brand names are widely recognized, but the products with which they are associated no longer represent strong business franchises.
The Hostess "Twinkie" brand is probably one of the most widely recognized names in the snack food industry—at least to those of us of a certain age. And Hostess Cupcakes, Snowballs and Wonder Bread are probably not far behind. But in this health conscious era, most of Hostess' brands evoke thoughts of fat, calories, sugar and lack of fiber. Add this to labor and debt issues at Hostess, and it does not make a good recipe for a turnaround.
Similarly, the Kodak brand remains number one or two (battling it out with Fuji) in the photographic film business. But unfortunately, in this digital era nobody uses film any more. Eastman Kodak undoubtedly has patents with some value, but they may not have enough value for the company to successfully reorganize in Chapter 11.
We still like to see a stable of good brands when we evaluate turnaround candidates, but the brands have to represent currently viable products. They must offer management a tool with which to reinvigorate the business. Unfortunately, as we've seen with Hostess and Kodak, that is not always the case.


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One of the staple breweries of LoDo will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a Brewmaster's Dinner at the Breck Brewery's Kalamath location on July 8th and the big celebration on July 10th.
They will feature a four-course beer pairing dinner on the 8th starting at 6:30pm. Spaces for this beer dinner are limited, so get your tickets at the Kalamath or Blake Street locations ASAP.
The big 20th anniversary celebration is July 10th starting at noon. Primarily an outdoor party that includes music by Wynkoop marketing man Marty Jones and his band, the Great Unknowns as well as Breck's very own, The Goat Ropers. In addition to serving great barbecue and Breckenridge beers, the brewery will offer tastings of special single release barrel-aged beers and firkin treatments of existing mainline beers. The Infinite Monkey Theorem, an urban winery and neighbor of the brewery's, will also offer tastings of it's Colorado-made wines. $20 CASH at the door. Noon to about 7:00 PM. All to benefit the Colorado Brewer's Guild.
Brewmaster's Dinner
When: Thursday, July 8th at 6:30pm
Where: 471 Kalamath St Denver CO
How Much?: $40 which includes a 4-course beer pairing dinner. Tickets can be purchased at either the Kalamath location or the Ballpark Pub on Blake St.
20th Anniversary Pary & Good Ol' Fashioned Pig Roast
When: Saturday July 10th from 12pm til around 7pm
Where: 471 Kalamath St. Denver CO
How Much?: $20 CASH at the door. All proceeds go to the Colorado Brewer's Guild and includes beer samples and a pig roast.


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I've tried everything that I could think of, but I just can't solve this one. The WmiPrvSE.exe process + ntdll.dll eats up to 15% of my CPU (Dual-Core E6700 @ 3.20GHz) on my PC the whole time. I tried suspending the service, restarting it, uninstalling recently installed programs etc. Still the same..
I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit.
Here's a screenshot from Process Explorer:
I would appreciate any help.


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Marco Antonio Galdino is seeking asylum in the U.S., after what he says were years of physical and emotional abuse in his hometown of São Paulo, Brazil.
But he's not fleeing persecution for his political views or religious beliefs.
Galdino is gay.
"Despite Brazil calling itself an 'open country' for homosexuality, a carnival country, where everything is permitted, where sex is permitted, where liberalism is permitted...Brazil is one of the most homophobic countries in the world," he said in a fusion of Portuguese and Spanish. "It is a country with the highest number of homosexual killings in the world, a country where the violence against homosexuals is huge."
He fled Brazil in 1995, and currently lives in Tucson while he waits for a final decision on his case.
Galdino is among the between 4 percent and 10 percent of asylum seekers and refugees in the country who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, according to reports by the Rainbow Welcome Initiative, a Chicago agency, funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, focusing on LGBT refugees and asylum seekers.
The initiative was established in 2012 at the sight of increasing numbers of people pleading for asylum based on persecution for their sexual orientation or gender identity.
In Galdino's case, the abuse began at home.
"From all of the brothers, I was the most persecuted for being different, for being effeminate," he said. "So, my father, through beatings...he tried to teach me that that wasn't right. I don't know why I am the way that I am, but I am who I am and nothing will change that."
When asked about his mother, one particular memory came to his mind.
"I remember when I was 11 years old, I never forget these words, she said, 'I prefer to cry you dead, see you in a casket with candles surrounding it, than to find out you are homosexual,'" Galdino recalled.


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BlackBerry Playbook 1.0.5 update brings Facebook, in-app payments, and many enhancements
RIM's BlackBerry Tablet OS has just received an update to version 1.0.5. This is the OS that powers RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, so in effect this is a PlayBook update. And while not being a major update, it does bring a lot of neat enhancements and some new features.
First of all, the Facebook application now comes preinstalled. Previously, this was available in BlackBerry App World, but now it will come with the OS. The Facebook app has also been updated and now includes video uploading, message deletion, as well as Facebook Search enhancements. There's also improved access to pages, and News Feed improvements.
Next up is support for in-app payments, which the 1.0.5 update finally brings. In-app payments are all the rage these days, allowing your kids to buy silly virtual animals for loads of actual money.
Alongside these more important additions, many enhancements have made their way into this update. For example, you can now charge your PlayBook even when fully powered down. If you touch the battery indicator, a new pop-up will appear and allow you to quickly turn off, restart, or put your tablet to sleep, in addition to setting the brightness (this new pop-up can be seen in the picture above). A very useful little new feature there.
You'll also be alerted if you stick an incorrect charger into your tablet, additional languages are now supported, video chat now works behind corporate firewalls, automatic Wi-Fi hotspot detection is now active during the set up process, and finally, Headset Audio Boost gives you more volume for when you need it the most – in an airplane when you're surrounded by screaming kids who've just maxed out daddy's credit card by purchasing virtual fish and/or farm animals.
The update will reach your tablet over the air. If you're impatient, just go to Software Updates in the Settings Menu and force a manual download. If you're going to purchase your PlayBook after today, it should come with OS version 1.0.5 preinstalled, so you don't need to worry about updating.
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This is the catalog for The Light Factory Fourth Juried Annuale displayed in The Light Factory's Knight Gallery May 31 through September 25, 2011.
For the Fourth Juried Annuale exhibition, over 140 entries were submitted. Six photographers' work was the most challenging and inventive. The winners chosen for the exhibition are Jerry Atnip (Nashville, TN), Ronit Citri (Palo Alto, CA), Glenn DeRosa (Matthews, NC), Lydia A. Harris (Haverhill, MA), Scott Hubener (Asheville, NC) and Rachel Nemecek (Charlotte, NC).
The Annuale was juried by Dr. Susan H. Edwards and curated by Dennis Kiel. Learn more about The Light Factory at www.lightfactory.org.
THE LIGHT FACTORY, dedicated to exhibition and education, is one of only four museums in the U.S. that promotes the power of image through photography and film. The Light Factory hosts photography exhibitions and film screenings, as well as community outreach and classes that range from basic photography to advanced Photoshop, screenwriting, filmmaking and more. For more than 30 years, The Light Factory has served the diverse community of Charlotte, giving both local and emerging artists a place to learn, while exhibiting internationally-renowned photographers and filmmakers. The Light Factory promotes media literacy and self-expression using the most powerful mediums of our time. Become part of The Light Factory and harness the power of image.
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The Light Factory Sixth Juried Annuale (Hardcover) Published May 23, 2013
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The Light Factory Fourth Juried Annuale Catalog - HARDCOVER Published June 03, 2011
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Steve Perille: Unfiltered (Catalogue, Hard cvr) Published August 10, 2010
The Ties That Bind: Exhibition Catalogue Published September 04, 2009


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Nov 24, 2009 8:45 AM
Dear Santa, We would love this pair of Irish Green Driving Gloves ($70) in our stocking. They are a gorgeous color that will brighten our spirits and make us very merry indeed. In fact, if you could make them show up a little earlier, so that we could enjoy their loveliness through the first part of winter, we would truly be ecstatic. Love, O.B.
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Assuming that it is possible, how would you rearrange
$$x^{2n+1}-y^{2n+1}$$ as $$({\frac{x-y}{1+xy}})^{2n+1}$$?
I just need to do this as part of a larger proof. Some help would be appreciated! The $n$ relates to a series so the only variables that can change are $x$ and $y$. The proof is that
Instead of using identities I'm using the Maclaurin series for $\text{arctan}(x)$. So I need a way to transform the first expression into the second.