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STONY BROOK, N.Y. - Senior Jordan McBride (New Westminster, British Columbia) scored a season-high seven goals to lead the #15 Stony Brook men's lacrosse to a 16-5 win over UMBC in the America East opener for both teams.
"We got off to a fast start and kept it up for three quarters," coach Rick Sowell said. "We got our first America East victory under our belt, and this is great momentum going into next week's game against a tough Hartford squad."
McBride led eight different scorers for the Seawolves (5-3, 1-0), who have won two straight against the Retrievers (2-5, 0-1). Senior Kevin Crowley (New Westminster, British Columbia), Division I's active leader with 213 points, added two goals and four assists. Senior Tom Compitello also netted two goals to go along with two assists.
Senior Adam Rand (Niantic, Conn.) won 15 of 18 draws and had 11 ground balls. He has 725 face-off wins for his career and is third all-time in Division I history, moving ahead of Shane Walterhoefer of North Carolina and Steve Vecchione of Johns Hopkins.
Stony Brook held UMBC scoreless for the first three quarters, the second time this season it's done so (St. John's).
McBride, who scored a season-high four goals at Marist earlier this season, scored five of the Seawolves' first eight goals of the game. "I've been slumping a little bit so I did my best to get involved early," said McBride, who's Division I's active leader in goals with 153. "I think our team is starting to find its groove. Tonight was a total team effort."
Stony Brook dominated the first-half statistics, outshooting UMBC, 32-1. The Seawolves also grabbed 30 ground balls to the Retrievers' six and won all but one face-off. McBride scored back-to-back goals in the third quarter to give Stony Brook its biggest lead of the game, 14-0.
Ryan Johnston (two goals) put UMBC on the board with a goal 54 seconds into the fourth quarter.
Freshman Kyle Zorn (Millersville, Md.) tallied his first collegiate goal when freshman Cole Millican (Sunrise, Fla.) found him in the slot. Millican also assisted on a goal from junior Adam Dahms (Herndon, Va.).
Stony Brook continues conference play at Hartford next Saturday. Face-off is slated for 7:00 p.m.
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Home List of Titles The 'stump-jumpers': national identity and the mythology of Australian industrial design in the period 1930-1975
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- The 'stump-jumpers': national identity and the mythology of Australian industrial design in the period 1930-1975
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- Stump-jump plows, Sunshine harvesters, Ford and Holden utes (pick-up trucks), Victa lawn mowers, Hills Hoists—even if these objects are unknown to an international audience, they are celebrated by Australians to the point that they have become interwoven with the national identity. Most visible in the public's recent awareness of Australian design objects has been the 1988 Bicentennial and 2000 Olympic Games festivals which have used certain design objects as emblems of what it is to be Australian. Smaller events such as the earlier 1996 Adelaide Festival also made use of such objects—in this case an image of a Hills Hoist rotary clothesline was used in its official publicity poster. Despite this public interest, specific books on the activity of industrial design in Australia have been few.1 While many general art books have included a few pages on the subject of Australian designed objects, a certain pattern has emerged—some design objects are celebrated, while others are ignored. This paper asks why. A review of historical and contemporary writings has suggested a list of myths that reveal how Australians have chosen to view themselves, and how industrial design has helped define perceptions of the Australian character.
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- Swinburne University of Technology. School of Design
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- Design issues, Vol. 18, no. 4 (Autumn 2002), pp. 14-23
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- 2002
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- Industrial design; Australia; Australian national identity; Braybrook Stump-Jump Plough; Victa Lawnmower; Hills Hoist; Ford Ute; Furphy Water Tank; Coolgardie Safe
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text: You would think I know it all by now as this is my second baby. My newborn vomitted last night after feeding. She actually nursed twice.... the second time was more for comfort, but I have lots of milk so the breast always gives her milk. I chalked that time up to getting too much milk due to comfort nursing. But she vomitted again tonight about 10 mins. after a feeding, and I'm wondering if she is just getting too much milk??? She did gain 10oz in 3 days at her weight check!!


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Transforming Lives through a Tradition of Private Support
For over a century, Northern Michigan University has dedicated itself to providing the widest possible access to uncompromising excellence in education and student enrichment. As a result, NMU graduates have gone on to become leaders in the arts, the sciences, business and industry and to demonstrate a commitment to civic and global engagement and to the health and welfare of their neighbors and the world.
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text: May 7, 2007: Queen Elizabeth II will learn about NASA education tomorrow, May 8, when she visits NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Bonnie Eisenhamer, the Hubble Space Telescope Formal Education Manager at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., will lead an education workshop for local middle school students during the Queen's Goddard visit. This tapestry of galaxies represents a small piece of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). Imaged September 2003 through January 2004, the HUDF is the deepest visible-light view of the cosmos. This snapshot includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colors. During the workshop, students will use the image to classify the galaxies in the HUDF by shape and color. By analyzing the HUDF image, the students will learn how light is used to explore the universe.See the rest:


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Indian police personnel present six arrested men, accused of a gang rape in Punjab state, Sunday.
Updated at 8:39 p.m. ET: Six suspects have been arrested over the rape of a woman on a bus in northern India, just weeks after the gang-rape and murder of a student sparked nationwide protests, reports said early Sunday.
Police say a 29-year-old woman was a lone passenger on a bus to her village in northern Punjab state on Friday when she was attacked, The Associated Press reported.
The driver and conductor allegedly refused to stop at her village and instead drove her to a desolate location. They took her to a nearby building where they were joined by friends and raped her repeatedly, the AP said.
The woman went to a police station in the morning to file a complaint. Six of the seven suspects have been arrested, Reuters reported.
The issue of rape has taken center stage in India, where a 26-year-old woman said she was raped through the night Friday by six men. NBC's Duncan Golestani reports.
The apparent case follows the gang rape and fatal beating of a medical student on a New Delhi bus in December, which sparked protests in India over national attitudes to violence against women and made headlines around the world.
Related: Defense attorney blames victim in India gang-rape, murder case
Despite the heightened awareness of the way sex crimes are dealt with, the Times of India reported that the latest victim was publicly named by police in Punjab – a move the newspaper described as "completely insensitive."
Related: Father of rape victim: Hang the monsters who did this
"Six men have been arrested on allegations of having raped a 29-year-old woman... after forcibly taking her to an unknown location on the night of January 11," local police officer Raj Jeet Singh said, according to Agence France-Press.
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In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Kolcraft Enterprises Inc., of Chicago, Ill., is voluntarily recalling about 425,000 infant play yards following the death of a child.
CPSC received a report of a 10-month old boy who strangled on the changing table's restraint strap that was hanging down into Kolcraft's "Sesame Beginnings" Travel Play Yard where the child was located.
Twelve different Kolcraft play yards are included in this recall. All of the play yards have raised changing tables with a restraint strap that forms a loop beneath the changing table, posing a strangulation hazard to a child in the play yard.
In addition to the strangulation hazard with the changing table restraint strap, one play yard also has a raised cradle that rocks back and forth. A child can roll and get trapped against the side of the cradle in the Contours 3-in-1 Play Yard. If that happens, a child can suffocate. Kolcraft has received 45 reports of children rolling to the side of the rocking cradle attachment.
The recalled play yards were sold in a variety of colors and patterns. Play yards and model numbers included in this recall are listed in the chart below. The model number is printed on a white sticker located on one of the feet of the play yard. They were manufactured in China.
The play yards were sold at retail stores nationwide from January 2001 through September 2007 for between $50 and $130.
Consumers should immediately stop using the changing tables and rocking cradle and contact the firm for instructions on receiving a free non-looped replacement strap for the changing table and a free repair kit to secure the base of the cradle. Consumers should immediately cut off and remove the existing changing table restraint strap. Consumers should always remove the raised changing table and cradle or bassinet before placing a child in a play yard.
A free repair kit for the rocking cradle will be sent to consumers separate from the replacement strap.
For additional information, call Kolcraft at (888) 655-8484 anytime, or visit the firm's Web site at www.kolcraft.com
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Willie Iles was named national director of Government and Community Relations, Boy Scouts of America, effective August 12, 2008. He is responsible for managing the functions and giving leadership as the liaison to the Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America in working with the executive branch of the federal government and national community organizations in the areas of youth advocacy, environmental awareness, workforce preparedness, youth healthy living, education outreach, and volunteerism. He works closely with the Boy Scouts of America's national leadership team to coordinate the Report to the Nation, reports to the states, and national community organization initiatives in order to reconnect with families and youth in America. Since March 2002, he has served as national group director, Development & Strategic Initiatives, giving leadership to the Marketing & Communication Division, Crisis Communications, Research Service, Scoutreach Division, Finance Support Division, National Scouting Museum, Legislative Affairs, and the Learning for Life program, an affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America.
Iles has been active in Scouting since his youth. He began his Scouting career in 1971 as a local council employee in Houston, Texas. While in Houston, he was promoted to Exploring executive in 1974, senior district executive/multiple person in 1977, district director in 1983, director of Exploring in 1984, field director in 1987, and director of field service in 1991. In 1995, he became chief executive officer for the Southeast Louisiana Area Council in Metairie, Louisiana. In 1999, he joined the Southern Region as assistant regional director-operations. In 2001, he became the deputy regional director-operations for the Southern Region, which comprises 13 states and 95 councils. In January 2002, Iles joined the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America as the director of the Development & Strategic Initiatives Group before assuming his present assignment.
He is an active member of the Greater Dallas Chapter of 100 Black Men of America, Inc.; White House Council on Boys to Men; American Marketing Association, Chicago, Illinois; advisory board member, American Society of Association Executives, Washington, D.C.; member, Council of Foundations, Washington, D.C.; member, National Human Services Assembly, Washington, D.C.; member, Independent Sector, Washington, D.C.; member, Black History Makers, Chicago; advisory board member, Frost Bank, Houston; member, Coalition for Juvenile Justice; life member, NAACP; member, Jack Yates Senior High Alumni in Houston; and member, Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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ONU presents piano recital by Assaf Sommer
The Ohio Northern University Department of Music presents a faculty piano recital by Assaf Sommer in the Snyder Recital Hall in Presser Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 27, at 8 p.m. The program, free and open to the public, will include works from the Renaissance through the 19th century.
Born in Jerusalem, Sommer earned a bachelor's degree at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem under the guidance of Mark and Tatiana Dukelsky and professor Benjamin Oren. He was the prizewinner from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation for the years 2000-03.
Sommer was accepted to the Manhattan School of Music and was the only student of the American pianist Eugene Istomin in 2002. He later studied with James Tocco and graduated in 2004.
As a winner of Artists International, he presented a solo recital debut in Carnegie Hall in 2006. The same year, he began his doctoral studies at the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.
Recent performances include solo performances with the Cincinnati Ballet at the Aronoff Center, performing Beethoven Concerto No. 4 with the Cincinnati Sinfonietta, a solo recital at Steinway Hall in New York as part of CCM Steinway Series, and the "Close Encounters with Music" chamber music series with his piano trio "Troika."


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13 things women do better than men
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By Christie Griffin for Cosmopolitan
We're still annoyed at the recent study that found men throw better than women (we know puh-lenty of women who can out-throw men). That said, there are tons of studies proving women have some amazing abilities that men lack. So, we rounded up some of our favorites. Hello, ego boost!
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According to a study of IQ tests from around the world, women have higher IQs than men. Researcher James Flynn checked out the IQs of people from the U.S., Europe, Canada, New Zealand, Argentine, and Estonia, and found that women came out on top. Score.
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A study from San Diego State University of offices across the U.S. found that men's desks and offices are germier than women's. Researchers discovered that men had anywhere from 10 to 20 percent more bacteria in their workspaces than women—and scientists say it's because they tend to be less hygenic. Ick.
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A new study out of the University of Western Ontario found that women are better at handling the stress of a job interview. Researchers found that, while women get more freaked beforehand about interviewing, we do better in the actual event. Why? We prepare more before the big moment.
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A recent study revealed that women are getting better looking through evolution; meanwhile, men are staying the same. After following more than 2,000 people through four decades of life, the study showed that attractive women had 16 percent more children than average-looking chicks and that beautiful people are 36 percent more likely to have a daughter as their firstborn. All those gorgeous daughters mean more beautiful women than in past generations.
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This is sad but true: Men are 77 percent more likely to die in a car accident than women, according to a study done by Carnegie Mellon University. Our boyfriends should be thanking us when we nag them to "Wear your seatbelt."
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A Mind survey of 2,000 people revealed that women are far more likely than men to talk through their problems. Fifty-three percent of women talk to their friends about what's stressing them out, as opposed to 29 percent of men.
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 80 percent of those who have lost their jobs since December 2007 have been men. Ouch. This could be because male-dominated fields have been hit the hardest, like manufacturing and finance. That really sucks...but hey, maybe it's time more men became nurses and educators.
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We already know that female enrollment is higher than male, but the Department of Education's statistics reveal that men are also less likely than women to graduate and get their bachelor's degrees. Men are also more likely to take longer than five years to complete their degree.
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A survey of more than 14,000 people, conducted by the University of Minnesota, showed that women choose far healthier foods than men. While men are more likely to chow down on frozen pizza and red meat, women are piling fruits and veggies onto their plates. It all sounds pretty obvious, but we get so much grief for our chocolate addictions that we just had to point this one out!
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No wonder men act like such babies when they have a sniffle—women really do have stronger immune systems than men! If there are little battles going on in our bodies, women have a secret weapon: estrogen. A study done by McGill University indicated that estrogen gives women an edge when it comes to fighting off infections. That's because estrogen confronts a certain enzyme that often hinders the body's first line of defense against bacteria and viruses.
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Among the world's population of those who are over 100 years old, 85 percent are women, according to the New England Centenarian Study. In general, women continue to live five to 10 years longer than men as well.
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This one is a little controversial, but a slew of experts are confident that women make greater bosses because they are better listeners, mentors, problem solvers, and multitaskers than their male counterparts. In a recent Daily News article, management expert Jay Forte said, "It's a very service-oriented economy [right now], so you need employees to be motivated. Women are better connectors than men and more astute about knowing how to activate passion in their employees."
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A study of 100,000 portfolios showed that women's investment returns outperform men's, 18 percent to 11 percent. This could be because women are typically more cautious with their investment decisions and think longer term.


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When tweeting in frustration, it helps to direct your anger toward the right target.
There were social media-using court watchers around the country who took to Twitter to express their dissatisfaction with Monday's Supreme Court's decision in Burwell (Sebelius) v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., the 5-4 decision that said some for-profit companies can't be forced to pay for certain types of contraceptives for their workers. Several tweeters directed their comments right to the Supreme Court.
The only problem: The Supreme Court isn't on Twitter.
What is on Twitter is SCOTUSblog, a privately-run blog that covers Supreme Court news. So instead of directing angry comments to the justices responsible for the ruling, people tweeting to @SCOTUSblog were chastising a group of bloggers who had nothing to do with making the decision.
And the folks at SCOTUSblog decided to have a little fun with the confusion, retweeting several tweets with their own comments added.
In some cases, SCOTUSblog's writers responded as themselves.
In other cases, they posed as justices, sending tweets dripping with sarcasm.
SCOTUSblog also dropped hints that tweeters should check the account's Twitter bio to figure out who they were.
A few people figured out something was a bit off about the responses, but none of the tweets @SCOTUSblog retweeted quite hit the nail on the head.
Let this be a lesson for Twitter users everywhere: Double check who owns the account you're conversing with before unleashing complaints on Twitter.


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Cooking lessons for lifeNovember 28,2013On the first night, my father made chicken piccata. Flour and lemon, bouillon cubes, the funny-looking hammer. He had no idea what he was doing.
Usually my mother would have helped she would have done it herself but that evening, and over the next three in the fall of 2009, she sat on a stool across the kitchen counter, close enough to observe but far enough that she wouldnt be tempted to step in. Neither of them had said it, but both had known that eventually this time would come. He had to learn to cook for himself.
My mother knew it as soon as she saw the scan strewn with tumors my assassins, she called them. She came home from the doctor, cried for a long time, and then made two lists. One list of all the women who would be suitable matches for my father when she was gone. And one list of his favorite dinners. Turkey chili. Split pea soup. Wheat nut loaf. Chicken piccata.
Also, tuna fish sandwiches. That was the other thing she told me, he said the other day. It was OK to have tuna fish sandwiches once a week.
Id asked him to tell me about those four nights in the kitchen four years ago. I knew about the cooking lessons at the time, but I wasnt allowed to help or even to witness. No one was.
My father is proud and shy, and he doesnt like to broadcast what he doesnt know. So my mother pulled out the dinner list, and it was just the two of them, an hour a night for four nights. Forty years of a shared life, boiled down to a few simple instructions: Keep the knives sharp. Put all your ingredients in little dishes. Read the whole recipe. Always wash your hands.
They had tried something like it decades earlier, when everyone was free to be you and me and the world was without end. She was going to take over the finances, and I was going to take over the cooking, my father remembered. And we both hated it so much that we said, To hell with this! Lets enjoy our lives.
They returned to their corners, and they stayed there. As far back as I can recall, my father never entered the kitchen when the stove was lit. He came downstairs to eat when he was called, and at some point he started doing the dishes. But his physical involvement with food preparation was limited to starting the grill, carving the turkey, and cobbling together an occasional plate of salami and cheese to go with his early-evening martini.
As the days shortened, his regret grew. She often asked me if I would stay in the kitchen with her when she cooked, he said. I was always too busy working.
That fall, at last, he stayed. And he liked it. I work to rule, he told me. I do exactly what Im told to do. I found it comforting that there were rules to follow.
But then the lessons were over, and in the first week of November, my mother climbed into bed and pretty much didnt get out again. She desperately wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving; it was the most meaningful holiday to her. By mid-month it was clear that wasnt going to happen. She warned us that if we had anything important we wanted to say to her, we had better do it now.
I tried my best. So did my sister and my uncles and my aunt, my mothers best friend. Who knows what any of us said?
On Thanksgiving Day, I spent the morning cooking the parts of the meal we hadnt already ordered from the supermarket. My uncle sat upstairs, watching my mother breathe. That was all that remained of her, the breathing.
My father needed small tasks to keep him busy, so I pulled him into the kitchen to help me with the brussels sprouts. He shook one of those cardboard canisters of salt over them, gently at first, and then the top popped off, and a pound of salt poured out. He cursed and left the kitchen.
I put the food out at 6 p.m., just as my mother spiked a temperature of 106. Nobody ate. She stopped breathing on Friday.
I asked my father about his last words with her. There werent any, he said. Everybody talks of these times they shared with her toward the end, and I didnt. I cant think about what I wouldve talked about.
But he has the cooking lessons. Knives sharp. Ingredients out. Read the damn recipe. It was the way we could have a conversation, he said.
Every time I cook, shes in my head. Even when I see the little dishes, I think about her. Shes just there, on my shoulder, when Im cooking.
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Recent news that the U.S. Postal Service is in deep financial trouble does not come as any surprise because recent news is as old as I am, it's only updated in brief items in daily newspapers.
And every time I read one of those brief stories, I am saddened.
I like the mail, which is code for the U.S. Postal Service, and not for UPS or FedEx, the Internet or other delivery services. I've always liked the mail, and I've always liked letter carriers because of the human touch. I like post offices, even if the lines are long, because they are proof that people need the service.
I even collected stamps when I was a child, and I still have my collection. My dad collected stamps when he was a kid, and I marveled at his hardcover collection of stamps from decades before my birth.
My older brother collected stamps, too, but his was a collection of stamps from around the world. He did not collect U.S. stamps because they were, well, ugly. Stamps from Europe, Africa, the Pacific islands and Oceania were beautiful and colorful and came from wonderful places that I could only dream of.
But I was sticking to the United States because the postal service had started issuing colorful and artistic commemorative stamps that highlighted famous Americans, national treasures and accomplishments, sports, arts, holidays, music, you name it.
Commemorative stamps make a statement. They decorate your envelope. They are a teaching tool. I don't want the common stamp of the flag or the Statue of Liberty on my envelopes, nor do I want horrid black-and-white, computer-generated postal marks befouling my envelopes.
I was going to support my country and learn more about it. And I was going to be more like Dad than Dave, under whose shadow I lived, and I didn't necessarily like that. And I certainly was not going to do exactly what he was doing, although I found myself trying to do pretty much what he was doing. If he was going to collect stamps from around the world, I was not going to do the same.
But more important than the stamp collection was the envelope and what was inside the envelope – a letter.
And that's what saddens me most about the ongoing recent news that the U.S. Postal Service is in financial trouble. The postal service delivers, among other things, letters. I like to write letters, and they can go on and on. I like to receive letters. I like to touch them, and I like to reread them.
When I was in grade school, almost every year we were given the assignment to write a letter to a pen pal – someone who lived in a foreign country. Each of us was given a name and address, and we were given the task of writing a letter of introduction, then we would seal them in envelopes, place stamps on them, and the teacher would mail them.
Then we would wait for a reply. And wait. And wait. And get on with our lives. Unrequited friendship with pen pals was an annual disappointment.
I have written letters my whole life, and I save the replies and the random letters that were written to me without my having initiated it. We wrote letters because we certainly were not allowed to make long-distance telephone calls. Oh, the expense. Long-distance telephone calls were reserved for notification of deaths in the family. Otherwise, you wrote a letter or sent a card.
The world has changed. We can call anyone in the world, using small phones that we carry in our pockets. Or we send email, which arrives moments after it is sent. Or we send text messages with our pocket phones if we don't have time for a conversation.
Everything is immediate. And over. And done with.
But none of it can replace the letter that is handwritten or typed that is delivered by a human being – a letter carrier – with a satchel over his or her shoulder, walking the same route every day, all day, wind or sleet or snow or the dark of Central Standard Time as winter bears down on it.
I cherish those letters, which are infrequent because there are so many other ways to communicate with people with technologies that once existed only in science-fiction books. The technologies are putting the U.S. Postal Service in a vice.
What I recommend is that we all go to the post office, select some beautiful commemorative stamps, find a pen and paper, and surprise someone with a letter that is hand-carried by another human being hundreds or thousands of miles away from you. I can almost guarantee that the recipient will enjoy that day's mail more than any other day, although I cannot be held accountable for the tone of your letter.
If enough of us write letters regularly, maybe we can save the postal service.
• Dick Peterson, who lives in Woodstock, is a mental-health advocate, freelance writer and a former Northwest Herald Opinion Page editor. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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To add a question about these manifolds if I could. I know all the 4 spd small block cars in 69 came with smog. Did any of the small block, automatic SS 300 hp 350's ever come from the factory with smog that model year?
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Software metrics often receive negative criticism, as they are viewed as an exact science, uniformly applicable to all scenarios. True, software metrics are an unbiased, objective measurement of a particular aspect of code; however, a particular metric's applicability to a domain is usually subjective. For instance, highly coupled code may have been intentionally designed that way for performance reasons; consequently, a coupling metric that suggests problems with this code must be evaluated in the context of the overall application.
With this in mind, applying various software metrics to a code base can be an effective overall gauge of software quality. One such metric, cyclomatic complexity, can be helpful in ascertaining areas of code that may require additional attention to head off future maintenance issues. That attention, moreover, can take the form of unit testing and refactoring.
Pioneered in the 1970s by Thomas McCabe of McCabe & Associates fame, cyclomatic complexity essentially represents the number of paths through a particular section of code, which in object-oriented languages applies to methods. Cyclomatic complexity's formal academic equation from graph theory is as follows:
E represents the number of edges on a graph,
N the number of
nodes, and
P the number of connected components.
If you've already given up on software metrics after reading that equation, there is an easier equation that
will make sense. Cyclomatic complexity can be explained in layman's terms as follows:
every decision point in a method (i.e., an
while, or
case statement) is counted; additionally, one is added for the method's entry point, resulting in an integer-based measurement denoting a method's complexity.
For instance, the following uncomplicated method will yield a cyclomatic complexity value of 3.
public int getValue(int param1) {
int value = 0;
if (param1 == 0) {
value = 4;
} else {
value = 0;
return value;
In the above method, there are two decision points: an
if and an
else. Remembering
that a method's entry point automatically adds one, the final value equals 3.
Indeed, the example method is quite simple; however, one can imagine that if there were 10 additional decision points (yielding a cyclomatic complexity value of 13), the method may be perceived as complex. While one's opinion as to what construes code complexity is quite subjective, over the years the software industry has largely agreed that highly complex code can be difficult for engineers to understand and therefore harder to maintain. Moreover, highly complex code has a high probability of containing defects.
Various authors and studies have, in fact, suggested that a cyclomatic complexity value of 10 or higher for a particular method is considered complex. This is the key point. By determining the cyclomatic complexity of various methods found in objects and paying attention to outlier values, one can uncover code that most likely should become a candidate for a highly focused unit testing/refactoring effort.
There are various commercial and open source software metrics tools on the market that can examine source code and report on the gamut of software metrics. One such tool, which happens to be open source, is PMD.
Running PMD against a code base is quite easy (see this article by Tom Copeland). Upon examining the code, PMD will produce a report in various forms, such as XML and HTML, that describes the various customizable infractions found.
For example, running PMD against a code base may produce a report that contains the following snippet of XML:
<file name="C:\com\dgg\web\AnomalyAction.java">
<violation line="1"
A value of 27 may denote a high amount of coupling
within the class
<violation line="103"
The method 'updateAnomaly' has a
Cyclomatic Complexity of 22.
As the XML demonstrates, AnomalyAction.java has a
updateAnomaly, which has a rather high value of cyclomatic complexity. Interestingly enough, this class also appears to be quite coupled to various other objects within the code base, which only
serves to complicate the code further. After viewing this report, red flags should
start popping up, as clearly the
AnomalyAction object's quality and relative
stability have been called into question.
Software metrics, however, need to be evaluated in the context of the application against which they are being applied. While some red flags have now been raised, are there others? Reading the entire report may reveal even more egregiously high values of cyclomatic complexity. Additionally, it could turn out that every class examined possesses a high cyclomatic complexity value. The key to effective utilization of cyclomatic complexity and other metrics is to look for the outliers; i.e., those whose complexity is much higher than the rest of the code.
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The outliers indicate areas where one should focus. If there is a uniform pattern of complexity throughout a code base, then deciding where to make repairs becomes significantly more challenging. In this situation, other metrics, such as CM delta rates, can help indicate areas of needed attention.
Interestingly enough, there are multiple practices for discovering outliers. Tools like PMD report on individual methods' cyclomatic complexities. Other tools may report an object's aggregate cyclomatic complexity, or even a package's collective value. Unfortunately, aggregating cyclomatic complexity is rarely useful. As every concrete method found in an object will yield a minimum value of 1, any object following a JavaBean-like pattern (entity beans, DAOs, value objects, etc.) may produce a high cyclomatic complexity value. Large classes containing many methods may also produce elevated cyclomatic complexity scores.
When the determination has been made that a class is, in fact, complex, there are two steps available to mitigate the associated risk: unit testing, followed by refactoring.
As the cyclomatic complexity of a method is fundamentally the number of paths contained in that method, a general rule of thumb states that in order to ensure a high level of test coverage, the number of test cases for a method should equal the method's cyclomatic complexity. Unfortunately, this bold statement often is ignored.
Indeed, writing 22 unique test cases for
updateAnomaly, while a noble goal, will probably
not happen. Time constraints, developer attention spans, caffeine deprivation, etc. all
work against even the most well-intentioned quality plans. While 22 test cases for
updateAnomaly may be unattainable, surely zero should also be cause for concern.
As before, common sense needs to be applied. A further examination of the code may reveal that five test cases can effectively exercise all paths of the code under focus. Conversely, it may be determined that most of the paths in the code under focus are rarely executed edge cases; therefore, fewer test cases may suffice (for now). At this point in the process, one's tolerance for risk must be applied.
If five test cases can indeed assist in lowering the risk of the method's complexity, the next question becomes, "What is the most effective method for building the associated test cases?" By far, the most useful manner is unit testing with a framework like JUnit. White-box unit testing is close to the code and ensures that the code under test fulfills its fundamental responsibilities at the lowest possible level. Unit testing is also quite easy as one can implement unit tests before and after actually writing the code. Higher-level testing usually involves other aspects of a system, such as other packages, objects, databases, containers, etc., that introduce dependencies and complexities that ultimately make it harder to effectively address low-level code details.
Unit testing helps mitigate risk by instilling developer confidence and facilitating rapid code change; however, unit testing will not make the code under test less complex. To simplify complex code, one must surgically remove the knots via refactoring. Be warned, however, that well-written unit tests are required before one attempts to refactor code.
The seminal book Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, by Martin Fowler and friends, provides a catalog of techniques that can produce code that is simpler and, consequently, easier to maintain. Additionally, the patterns found in Design Patterns, by Erich Gamma et al., can also help disentangle code.
Imagine a business-to-business application that handles orders for a restaurant chain. These orders can be for beverages, food, napkins, silverware, etc. Given a need for additional beverages, the system creates an XML document and transmits the document to a beverage vendor, which then fulfills the order. Different vendors have varying XML formats and, as the system is such a success for the chain's business, additional vendors have been joining the network over time. This places additional requirements on the system, which can increase complexity.
A common pattern of code that usually triggers elevated values of
cyclomatic complexity is a large method with many
if conditions
that each do a small unit of work on some input or in creating the method's output.
We've probably all crafted these methods and have probably discovered, at some later
point in time, that the method has grown and continues to grow, as new requirements
come up, triggering additional conditionals to handle them.
For example, the following snippet of code returns a
List of XML documents
depending on the
orderType property found in the containing class.
this.getOrderType())) {
messages.add(new StandardMessage(
}else if(MessageConstants.ORDER_TYPE_BEVERAGE.
equals(this.getOrderType())) {
messages.add(new StandardMessage(
//many more to follow...
As you can imagine, as new types of
Orders are added to the system, the
conditional statements grow to handle the resulting new XML documents.
Not surprisingly, running PMD against this code produced a report indicating
that this method,
processRequest(), contained an elevated cyclomatic complexity.
The first step in stabilizing the code indeed proves to be somewhat
arduous, as in order to craft an effective JUnit test suite, we have to
craft multiple XML documents. What's more, the original class containing
processRequest() method is part of an inheritance hierarchy, which
contains state and depends on other classes and their respective states.
Looking deeper into the code reveals the base class's constructor obtains
an instance of a
PropertyUtility, which happens to require that
System variables are set to facilitate finding a property file!
We finally develop a suite of test cases that exercise our class to a level of confidence. Below is an example test case.
public void testHandleResponseGeneration
throws Exception{
String baseXML = //...obtain XML
StandardMessageGenerator generator =
new StandardMessageGenerator(baseXML);
List messages = generator.processRequest();
Message mess = (Message)messages.get(0);
TestCase.assertNotNull("message was null",
Once we've attained a level of confidence in the code, we can move on to other tasks in other objects, or further refine this one. As we're aware that this code is one of the core components of the application that is continually pushed and morphed by various developers into a high level of chaos, we decide to refactor.
One of the most effective techniques for breaking up a large, complex group of conditionals utilizes polymorphism. Based upon Replace Conditional with Polymorphism and a liberal interpretation of Design Pattern's Template Pattern, Factory Method Pattern, and Chain of Responsibility, we can craft an elegant framework that pushes each conditional into a separate class. With this surgical maneuver, we can now easily isolate each conditional, which allows us to write effective unit tests.
As the original code flow went down the conditional stack adding XML documents to a
List if a condition held
true, we will create an
API that takes
Order object and a
List object, as shown below. The
Order object embodies all of the properties of the original class that forced the previous code to reference
public abstract
class AbstractResponseMessageHandlerBase {
public AbstractResponseMessageHandlerBase() {
abstract public void handleResponseGeneration(
final OrderMessageInfoVO orderMessage,
List messageList)
throws ResponseMessageException;
Each conditional will now embody a separate class, such as
BeverageOrderAcceptResponseHandler, which
matches a conditional testing whether the
order is of type
With the abstract class defined, we simply push the corresponding conditional's logic
into the template method. Below is
BeverageOrderAcceptResponseHandler's implementation.
public void handleResponseGeneration(
final OrderMessageInfoVO orderMessage,
List messageList)
throws ResponseMessageException {
if (MessageConstants.ORDER_TYPE_BEVERAGE.
&& (MessageConstants.
orderMessage.getOrderAction()))) {
final String orderXML =
}catch(MessageFormatException e1){
throw new ResponseMessageException(e1);
We also define an Abstract Factory,
IResponseHandlerAbstractFactory, which takes
Order object and returns a
List; furthermore, we create an implementation of
the factory.
Bearing in mind our liberal interpretation of various design patterns, we simulate a chain by adding all our
ResponseHandler objects into a
Collection and then iterating over the collection in the
manufacture method, calling
handleResponseGeneration and passing in our
List and
Order objects.
public class DefaultResponseHandlerFactory
implements IResponseHandlerAbstractFactory {
final private static
AbstractResponseMessageHandlerBase[] HANDLERS;
Collection temp = new ArrayList( );
temp.add(new FoodOrderAcceptResponseHandler());
new BeverageOrderAcceptResponseHandler());
new NapkinOrderAcceptResponseHandler());
temp.add(new CancelOrderReponseHandler());
final AbstractResponseMessageHandlerBase[]
tmAr = new AbstractResponseMessageHandlerBase[
public List manufacture(
final OrderMessageInfoVO orderMessage) {
List messages = new ArrayList();
for(int x = 0; x < HANDLERS.length; x++){
AbstractResponseMessageHandlerBase iHandler =
orderMessage, messages);
}catch(ResponseMessageException e1){
return messages;
Our resulting framework is actually quite simple, as shown below in Figure 1. Our
DefualtResponseHandlerFactory contains a
Collection of
AbstractResponseMessageHandlers. As more vendors come online, we simply
AbstractResponseMessageHandler and ensure the newly created class
is part of
DefualtResponseHandlerFactory's collection.
Figure 1. Class diagram of refactored code.
Testing each
ResponseHandler is now trivial. We craft a desired
Order object and pass it
into the corresponding
ResponseHandler; subsequently, we ensure that the resulting
List contains our desired XML document(s).
public void testHandleResponseGeneration
throws Exception{
List messages = new ArrayList();
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handler = //...obtain desired Handler
handler.handleResponseGeneration(vo, messages);
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TestCase.assertEquals("vendor id should be 7908",
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Additionally, after we have test cases for each handler, we then move on to test the
DefaultResponseHandlerFactory. Again, testing this object could not be easier, as we
essentially perform the same steps as above. We create an
Order object, pass it into
the factory, and ensure that the desired number of XML documents can be confirmed in
the returned
List. What's more, the original test cases we crafted before refactoring
serve as regression tests!
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As you utilize this metric and begin a process of stringent unit testing and refactoring, you may start to see the value in Test-Driven Development. As adopters of this revolutionary methodology can confirm, test-case development before actually writing implementation code yields highly elegant and, indeed, simple code, which is quite easy to test. In fact, projects that carry out Test-Driven Development will find their code bases are rarely flagged for high cyclomatic complexity values. Give it a try -- it will save you time down the road!
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Any pharmacy. If they ask, tell them your doc has you on TRT. They don't require a prescription.
I apologize if this is in the wrong section, I'm looking for a reliable source for just needles. its the only thing left on my list.
Can someone please direct me towards one? Thanks!!
Any pharmacy. If they ask, tell them your doc has you on TRT. They don't require a prescription.
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In my state they will not sell you needles unless you have a script at least the 2 places I tried. You can try http://www.allegromedical.com/
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Worse case, you can try and they say no. Just go to a different pharmacy and ask until you get what you want.
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Why are you going to the pharmacy? I ordered 100 20g, 100 25g, and 100 plungers on eBay for $40. Not that hard to get needles
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Just go to http://gpzservices.com. You can get 25 needles with syringe for $6.
When I first started I visited, CVS, Walgreens, Wal-mart, and Target. They aren't going to have what you need, they are going to look at you like a junkie, or they are going to try to sell you 1 needle and syringe for $1. Save yourself the trouble.
I buy the pins and plungers seperate. Much cheaper and you get way more
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Its legal to purchase without a prescription here but when the nice lady at the counter asks the pharmacist for help finding what I asked for, the pharmacist always gets uptight and acts like an ass, always makes it their personal policy, have tried Walmart, Walgreens and Rite-Aid in my area, same issue at all three, getpinz, allegro and gpz, have all been good to me, pretty fast shipping and the price is always reasonable
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They got slin pins too which is nice. I used to get those from my pharmacy, but always felt odd to ask for them... :/
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you dont need a script for anything they just have "store rules" they can do whatever they want. like walmarts around here some might serve you some will denie you another one called "the medicine shoppe" will only give 10 a day for 8$
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However, Wall-mart will sell slin pins to anyone...any size...as much as wanted. These days it is all I use, as scar tissue build-up is way less of an issue with slin pins. It is kind of a pain in the ass if using more than 1 cc at a time, but not too bad. I just fill the pin and after I inject it all, I leave the needle in my leg, pull out the plunger, backfill it, then inject again.


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Home List of Titles The morphological identification of the rapidly evolving population of faint galaxies
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- Title
- The morphological identification of the rapidly evolving population of faint galaxies
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- Glazebrook, Karl; Ellis, Richard S.; Santiago, Basilio X.; Griffiths, Richard
- Abstract
- The excess numbers of blue galaxies at faint magnitudes are a long-standing cosmological puzzle. We present new number-magnitude counts as a function of galactic morphology from the first deep fields of the Cycle 4 Hubble Space Telescope Medium Deep Survey project. From a sample of 301 galaxies we define counts for elliptical, spiral and irregular/peculiar galaxies to I=22. We find two principal results. Firstly the elliptical and spiral galaxy counts both follow the predictions of high-normalisation no-evolution models at all magnitudes, indicating that regular Hubble types evolve only slowly to z∼ 0.5. Secondly we find that irregular/peculiar galaxies, including multiple-peaked, possibly merging, objects, have a very steep number-magnitude relation and greatly exceed predictions based on proportions in local surveys. These systems make up half the total counts by I=22 and imply the rapidly-evolving component of the faint galaxy population has been identified.
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- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 275, no. 2 (Jul 1995), pp. L19-L22
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- 1995
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- APM redshift survey; Cosmology; Counts; Evolution; Galaxies; Luminosity function; Number; Observations; Peculiar; Structure; Surveys; Universe
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- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
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Last night she had a bottle (of EBM) at 8, had a few little vomits afterwards so I topped her up around 930&she slept until 330. She also seems to settle better after having a bottle, goes longer between feeds i.e 3 hourly instead of 1.5- 2. Is this because a bottle is probably faster flowing/less control over how much she gets?
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It's not clear if the legislature and the governor will embrace any of the 96 recommendations contained in a new report from the Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission, but if they do, there could be significant changes coming to the way gas drilling with high-volume hydraulic fracturing is conducted in Pennsylvania.
The commission's recommendations, which were released on July 22, did not say anything about a severance tax on gas drilling and, in fact, when Governor Tom Corbett ordered the creation of the commission in March, he barred the participants from considering a tax. But they did make a recommendation regarding fees.
The report said, "Based upon the testimony presented, research conducted and first-hand personal experiences, the commission recommends the enactment of—or authorization to impose a fee for—the purpose of mitigating and offsetting the uncompensated portion of demonstrated impacts borne by the citizens and local governments of the Commonwealth attributable to unconventional natural gas development."
David M. Sanko, executive director of the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors, who was a member of the commission, said, "By embracing a local impact fee, the commission is helping to avoid potential property tax increases. At the same time, the commission endorsed the preservation of local common-sense zoning over a state-mandated 'one-size-fits-all' solution. This ensures that our local leaders and citizens maximize the benefits of natural gas exploration and minimize the negative impacts."
Among the other notable recommendations is that natural gas should be considered an alternative energy. The report says the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act of 2004, which requires electricity providers to purchase 18% of the power they distribute from renewable sources by 2020, should be amended to say that natural gas from the Marcellus Shale is an acceptable alternative energy.
This has caused concern among some environmentalists who say that making gas part of the mix would cause other renewable sources to be used less, and since natural gas is already used to create a large amount of electricity in Pennsylvania no incentive is needed.
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