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Located on the north side of Rhode Island Sound, Narragansett Bay is New England's largest estuary. The bay covers 147 square miles of scenic waterscape, is home to over forty islands, and serves as a natural harbor for the area. While most of the bay itself is located in Rhode Island, 60 percent of its 1,853 square mile watershed is actually in Massachusetts (the other 40 percent is in Rhode Island).
Narragansett Bay is deemed an estuary of national significance along with 27 others that are included in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Estuary Program. Like other estuaries included in the program, Narragansett Bay is threatened by land development, increasing populations, water pollution, species decline, and habitat loss and degradation.
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Farzad Rouhani Splits The Field - Interview
The dust has settled on event 10, the Omaha, Stud/8 mix event of the World Series, and on the final day of reckoning, Farzad Rouhani was the last man standing, winning the bracelet and $ 232,911 in stunning fashion after hitting quads on the river to defeat Tom Chambers. We grabbed him for a few words after his historic victory.
Congratulations Farzad on a great result there. There was a pretty strong field in this competition wasn't there?
Yes, there were lots of great players in the tournament but in this game, I feel at home, especially when I come to the final table.
When I have chips I don't give away my options very easily and of course cards are what it's all about, you have to hit the cards but I feel very strong about this game.
It looked like you played very well, but you did get some great cards toward the end as well. Do you feel like this was a crucial factor in the win?
Well, when you are a poker player and you are 100% confident about your game, you can switch strategy. If the cards don't come your way, you can make different decisions, maybe become more aggressive.
You took a dominant chip lead into the heads up. How did you feel when it got to that stage?
Well Tom's a good player of course but not experienced so I was very, very sure I could take him down. I didn't have to take him down the aggressive way, just little by little. And as you could see, I had real fun!
You could tell! That last hand was amazing too, finishing with quads to win a bracelet, how does that feel?
I feel like a WINNER! I feel like I finally made it! I wish my wife was here to see it.
What do you plan to do for the rest of the series, are you going to play some other events?
That is why I came here, to play lots of events. I come here every year, play as many tournaments as I can and this year I have plans to play more than last year.
And this is a nice boost to your bankroll!
Of course, every extra bit helps. This is the third tournament I have played this series. I plan to play some more and see what happens.
Well congratulations once more Farzad for a great performance and a great result.
Thanks, I feel great!
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Former Owner of Power Control Services Inc. And Best Selling Author of "The Million Dollar Total Business Transformation" Made an Additional $1.1 Million+ In Only 90 Days
By 2010, 14 years into running his company Power Control Services, Inc., Walter Bergeron was, by all accounts, living the dream of every American entrepreneur.
After six years serving in the Navy as an electronic tech operating nuclear reactors while stationed aboard the USS Carl Vinson, he had launched his industrial repair business out of a small shed in the middle of the sugarcane fields of his hometown of Lafayette, Louisiana. Employing standard sales techniques, from cold calling and door to door sales to displays at trade shows and what he calls "guerilla marketing," Bergeron and his growing staff provided an invaluable service for numerous companies (including multi-national corporations like GM and Tyson Foods), repairing control circuit boards in the automation equipment that ran manufacturing plants.
Starting locally and eventually hiring salesmen to gain the business of large manufacturers, he had effectively transferred his electronics expertise from running nuclear power plants for Uncle Sam to manufacturing plants for a variety of corporations. Bergeron oversaw growth of about 20 percent per year for his first ten years and made some wise decisions to purchase and sell businesses in other industries connected to his interests, like scuba diving and video services.
And then in 2010, Bergeron found out that his lone outside sales rep was being recruited by a competitor. Realizing that if he lost that person he would have no immediate way to generate additional clients, he scared himself into taking massive action – which turned a successful business that was humming right along into juggernaut that in a few years would sell for a cool eight figures.
Within months of hooking up with Glazer Kennedy Insiders Circle (GKIC), branded as the nation's Leading Provider of Information and Training for Entrepreneurs, Bergeron's company exploded exponentially and became a multi-million dollar business. It didn't happen overnight, but pretty close to it. His 2012 bestselling book "The Million Dollar Total Business Transformation" is a fascinating, unabridged chronicle of what he did in only 90 days to win the 2012 annual GKIC Marketer of the Year Competition and make an additional $1,120,197.77 for his business.
Bergeron's bestselling titles include "The Million Dollar Total Business Transformation," and "Marketer of the Year." His business expertise has also been featured in the second edition of Dan Kennedy's ""No B.S. Direct Marketing," Seth Green's "Cutting Edge Marketing Magic" and Charles Gaudet's "Predictable Profits."
It had taken Power Control Services about a decade and a half to get to a seven figure income level – and by the end of 2010 it had doubled to about $2 million; by the end of 2011, over $4 million; and by the end of 2012, when he sold it, it had exploded further to almost $7 million. During this time of rapid expansion, Bergeron grew the company to 40 employees with service and sales locations in six states, including Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Colorado.
While he attributes this growth to the implementation of what Bergeron called in his Marketer of the Year Presentation the "GKIC Unfair Advantage" system, he also believes it helped that his repair business is technically recession proof.
"It almost goes the opposite of the way other firms go in an economic downturn," he says. "When large corporations have more money, they generally invest in new equipment. When there's a recession, they tend to be more frugal so they will have their existing equipment repaired instead of buying new items."
Speaking of his experience with GKIC, Bergeron says, "You should really be careful about what you wish for, because it might come true! Helping me through all of these transitions was GKIC co-founder Dan Kennedy, who became my personal coach. Inspired by his bestselling 1991 book The Ultimate Marketing Plan, I first got involved with them through his Platinum Masterminds group and attended his Fast Implementation Boot Camp. It's a three day intensive course where they gave us foundational marketing pieces to implement in business. Essentially, they showed me and the other 500 businessmen at the event all of the things we were missing in my current marketing system.
"I had a huge epiphany on the last day," he adds. "The speaker told us that only one out of every three of us will ultimately take action with the tools they're giving us, that only one out of every three will experience a significant life impact by implementing these strategies. He told us to look to our left and right. I had gotten to know these guys next to me pretty well. One ran a furniture store, the other had invented a musical education tool in his basement. The furniture guy had left early because he apparently had something more important to do. The music guy had dozed off. So I realized of the three, I was going to be the guy to take these implementation strategies and make them work."
In Bergeron's compelling GKIC Marketer of the Year presentation (available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1y_mrWomN8), the Louisiana native brings his innate Southern charm to a discussion about his breakthrough understanding that he had four different kinds of clients each worth different amounts to his company – and his subsequent realization that a one size fits all marketing message would no longer be effective. As part of the GKIC "unfair advantage system," he created four newsletters, each directed at a different type of client, distributed in various forms: physical printed paper, e-newsletter, a post on his website. In addition to handing the newsletter to customers who came in for repairs, he would include it in the boxes they shipped to customers around the country.
The newsletters, which included 3D direct mail pieces, included word find activities and the promise of a ten dollar discount gift card if the completed word find was faxes back to Power Control Services. He also put the names of new clients in his newsletters and included a "success" interview with them. More grass roots but no less effective, he created compelling mini billboards along the highway outside Lafayette that mentioned some of the things they repair. Bergeron found that these signs alone brought in 5-6 new customers per week, leading to an ultimate extra gross of $260,000. He closes his presentation by mentioning three key points to success in 90 days: 1) Take massive action every day; 2) Good is good enough; and 3) simultaneous implementation of all strategies rather than a step by step rollout.
"I learned from GKIC that there are multiple types of marketing, and that direct marketing comes in three parts—the message, the market and the media," says Bergeron. "Success comes when you have your foundational marketing pieces set up, and that includes the physical newsletter and the direct response website. We developed avatars to identify just who it was that we were marketing to and develop the right methods to communicate our message with these people. One of the ways I set Power Control Services apart was transcending the industry standard of a one year warrantee with a lifetime warrantee on all repairs."
For most entrepreneurs, this incredible growth spurt would be the beginning of a new, higher level chapter for their business – but for Bergeron, it was a whirlwind leading a dynamic exit strategy that would allow Bergeron the freedom to live life on his own terms. As his website bio says, "He chose to live a few years of his life like others won't so he could live the rest of his life like others can't."
On the outside, he was flourishing and successful, but on the inside, he was unhappy. The time he put into taking his company to the next level was all time away from Jana, his wife, of 21 years, and his son Evan, now 11. Lee Milteer, one of the GKIC coaches for their Peak Performers group who was one of Bergeron's personal coaches through the journey, knew this and suggested that he consider selling his company. A key to maximizing value would be entering the Marketer of the Year competition and writing his book. Shortly after he won this title, a buyer made an offer of $10 million to purchase Power Control Services.
Bergeron, now 43, had his freedom and enjoyed a year off, staying with his family all summer at a house in Grand Cayman (he's an avid scuba diver), then returning home to Louisiana and getting a lake house where he could indulge in his other hobby, jet-skiing. Completing the seasonal activity cycle, he took his family to visit his in laws in Idaho, where he went snow skiing.
Bergeron's resounding success story has made him more than a walking billboard for the powerful direct response marketing strategies created by GKIC – it's now taken him to the next phase of his career, in which he is helping other entrepreneurs achieve the kind of success he found and they still dream of.
In January 2014, Bergeron launched an online training system (that includes physical products, including DVDs, videos, books and manuals) around a unique concept he calls the Industrial Business Transformation to help different business owners across the country. He specializes in blue-collar industrial entrepreneurs – much like he is – and currently has 600 clients nationwide who have advanced purchased the system.
When he sold his company, he wrote everything down to create a documented, trademarked process manual on how he conducted his own business that any company can apply and duplicate. He is now taking clients through the journey that he experienced, showing them how to build their businesses organically and helping them create similar systemization processes so they too will have an intangible asset to sell after they have sold their physical businesses. Besides created and documenting a trademarked process, the comprehensive process outlined in this Transformation include how to achieve exponential growth in business, how to diversify by purchasing other companies while still owning your primary one, and – the Holy Grail – how to increase the value of a company so that it can be sold, as his was, for $10 million or more.
"The best part of all this for me is having the opportunity to make a difference in someone else's life," says Bergeron. "I'm a down to earth guy who learned what it takes to create success on my own terms, and I want to help others experience similar transformations in their lives, with the ultimate goal of freedom to pursue their life's passions. For me the lifestyle freedom is about not having a set schedule for doing anything but helping people when I they need it and I want to. But mostly it's about being able to spend time with my son and enjoy family time in a way I never was able to before."
Amazon Best Selling Author:
"The Million Dollar Total Business Transformation"
"Independent Representative Selling System"
"Do It Yourself Power Supply Repair"
"Secrets To Getting Industrial Repair For Less"
His Business expertise has been featured in multiple books:
Dan Kennedy – "No B.S. Direct Marketing" second edition
Seth Green – "Cutting Edge Marketing Magic"
Charles Gaudet – "Predictable Profits"


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This section describes how to create your own natively compiled COM components.
The goal of the following set of definitions is to provide a
way to use the same header file definitions to provide both
a C interface and a C++ object oriented interface to COM
interfaces. The type of interface is selected automatically
depending on the language but it is always possible to get
the C interface in C++ by defining
It is based on the following assumptions:
all COM interfaces derive from IUnknown, this should not be a problem.
the header file only defines the interface, the actual fields are defined separately in the C file implementing the interface.
The natural approach to this problem would be to make sure we get a C++ class and virtual methods in C++ and a structure with a table of pointer to functions in C. Unfortunately the layout of the virtual table is compiler specific, the layout of g++ virtual tables is not the same as that of an egcs virtual table which is not the same as that generated by Visual C++. There are workarounds to make the virtual tables compatible via padding but unfortunately the one which is imposed to the Wine emulator by the Windows binaries, i.e. the Visual C++ one, is the most compact of all.
So the solution I finally adopted does not use virtual tables. Instead I use in-line non virtual methods that dereference the method pointer themselves and perform the call.
Let's take Direct3D as an example:
#define ICOM_INTERFACE IDirect3D #define IDirect3D_METHODS \ ICOM_METHOD1(HRESULT,Initialize, REFIID,) \ ICOM_METHOD2(HRESULT,EnumDevices, LPD3DENUMDEVICESCALLBACK,, LPVOID,) \ ICOM_METHOD2(HRESULT,CreateLight, LPDIRECT3DLIGHT*,, IUnknown*,) \ ICOM_METHOD2(HRESULT,CreateMaterial,LPDIRECT3DMATERIAL*,, IUnknown*,) \ ICOM_METHOD2(HRESULT,CreateViewport,LPDIRECT3DVIEWPORT*,, IUnknown*,) \ ICOM_METHOD2(HRESULT,FindDevice, LPD3DFINDDEVICESEARCH,, LPD3DFINDDEVICERESULT,) #define IDirect3D_IMETHODS \ IUnknown_IMETHODS \ IDirect3D_METHODS ICOM_DEFINE(IDirect3D,IUnknown) #undef ICOM_INTERFACE #ifdef ICOM_CINTERFACE // *** IUnknown methods *** // #define IDirect3D_QueryInterface(p,a,b) ICOM_CALL2(QueryInterface,p,a,b) #define IDirect3D_AddRef(p) ICOM_CALL (AddRef,p) #define IDirect3D_Release(p) ICOM_CALL (Release,p) // *** IDirect3D methods *** // #define IDirect3D_Initialize(p,a) ICOM_CALL1(Initialize,p,a) #define IDirect3D_EnumDevices(p,a,b) ICOM_CALL2(EnumDevice,p,a,b) #define IDirect3D_CreateLight(p,a,b) ICOM_CALL2(CreateLight,p,a,b) #define IDirect3D_CreateMaterial(p,a,b) ICOM_CALL2(CreateMaterial,p,a,b) #define IDirect3D_CreateViewport(p,a,b) ICOM_CALL2(CreateViewport,p,a,b) #define IDirect3D_FindDevice(p,a,b) ICOM_CALL2(FindDevice,p,a,b) #endif
The ICOM_INTERFACE macro is used in the ICOM_METHOD macros to define the type of the
this pointer. Defining this macro here saves us the trouble of having to repeat
the interface name everywhere. Note however that because of the
way macros work, a macro like ICOM_METHOD1 cannot use
ICOM_INTERFACE##_VTABLE because this would give
ICOM_INTERFACE_VTABLE and not
ICOM_METHODS defines the methods specific to this interface. It is then aggregated with the inherited methods to form ICOM_IMETHODS.
ICOM_IMETHODS defines the list of methods that are
inheritable from this interface. It must be written manually
(rather than using a macro to generate the equivalent code)
to avoid macro recursion (which compilers don't like).
ICOM_DEFINE finally declares all the structures
necessary for the interface. We have to explicitly use the
interface name for macro expansion reasons again. Inherited
methods are inherited in C by using the IDirect3D_METHODS macro and the parent's Xxx_IMETHODS macro.
In C++ we need only use the
IDirect3D_METHODS since method
inheritance is taken care of by the language.
In C++ the ICOM_METHOD macros generate a function prototype
and a call to a function pointer method. This means using
once t1 p1, t2 p2, ... and once p1, p2 without the
types. The only way I found to handle this is to have one
ICOM_METHOD macro per number of parameters and to have it
take only the type information (with const if necessary) as
parameters. The undef ICOM_INTERFACE is here to remind
you that using
ICOM_INTERFACE in the following macros will
not work. This time it's because the ICOM_CALL macro
expansion is done only once the
IDirect3D_Xxx macro is
expanded. And by that time ICOM_INTERFACE will be
long gone anyway.
You may have noticed the double commas after each parameter type. This allows you to put the name of that parameter which I think is good for documentation. It is not required and since I did not know what to put there for this example (I could only find doc about IDirect3D2), I left them blank.
Finally the set of
IDirect3D_Xxx macros is
a standard set of macros defined to ease access to the interface methods in
C. Unfortunately I don't see any way to avoid having to
duplicate the inherited method definitions there. This time
I could have used a trick to use only one macro whatever the
number of parameters but I preferred to have it work the same
way as above.
You probably have noticed that we don't define the fields we need to actually implement this interface: reference count, pointer to other resources and miscellaneous fields. That's because these interfaces are just that: interfaces. They may be implemented more than once, in different contexts and sometimes not even in Wine. Thus it would not make sense to impose that the interface contains some specific fields.
In C this gives:
typedef struct IDirect3DVtbl IDirect3DVtbl; struct IDirect3D { IDirect3DVtbl* lpVtbl; }; struct IDirect3DVtbl { HRESULT (*fnQueryInterface)(IDirect3D* me, REFIID riid, LPVOID* ppvObj); ULONG (*fnAddRef)(IDirect3D* me); ULONG (*fnRelease)(IDirect3D* me); HRESULT (*fnInitialize)(IDirect3D* me, REFIID a); HRESULT (*fnEnumDevices)(IDirect3D* me, LPD3DENUMDEVICESCALLBACK a, LPVOID b); HRESULT (*fnCreateLight)(IDirect3D* me, LPDIRECT3DLIGHT* a, IUnknown* b); HRESULT (*fnCreateMaterial)(IDirect3D* me, LPDIRECT3DMATERIAL* a, IUnknown* b); HRESULT (*fnCreateViewport)(IDirect3D* me, LPDIRECT3DVIEWPORT* a, IUnknown* b); HRESULT (*fnFindDevice)(IDirect3D* me, LPD3DFINDDEVICESEARCH a, LPD3DFINDDEVICERESULT b); }; #ifdef ICOM_CINTERFACE // *** IUnknown methods *** // #define IDirect3D_QueryInterface(p,a,b) (p)->lpVtbl->fnQueryInterface(p,a,b) #define IDirect3D_AddRef(p) (p)->lpVtbl->fnAddRef(p) #define IDirect3D_Release(p) (p)->lpVtbl->fnRelease(p) // *** IDirect3D methods *** // #define IDirect3D_Initialize(p,a) (p)->lpVtbl->fnInitialize(p,a) #define IDirect3D_EnumDevices(p,a,b) (p)->lpVtbl->fnEnumDevice(p,a,b) #define IDirect3D_CreateLight(p,a,b) (p)->lpVtbl->fnCreateLight(p,a,b) #define IDirect3D_CreateMaterial(p,a,b) (p)->lpVtbl->fnCreateMaterial(p,a,b) #define IDirect3D_CreateViewport(p,a,b) (p)->lpVtbl->fnCreateViewport(p,a,b) #define IDirect3D_FindDevice(p,a,b) (p)->lpVtbl->fnFindDevice(p,a,b) #endif
IDirect3D only contains a pointer to the virtual/jump table. This is the only thing the user needs to know to use the interface. Of course the structure we will define to implement this interface will have more fields but the first one will match this pointer.
The code generated by
ICOM_DEFINE defines both the structure
representing the interface and the structure for the jump
ICOM_DEFINE uses the parent
Xxx_IMETHODS macro to
automatically repeat the prototypes of all the inherited
methods and then uses
IDirect3D_METHODS to define the
IDirect3D methods.
Each method is declared as a pointer to function field in
the jump table. The implementation will fill this jump table
with appropriate values, probably using a static variable,
and initialize the
lpVtbl field to point to this variable.
The IDirect3D_Xxx macros then just
dereference the
lpVtbl pointer and use the function pointer
corresponding to the macro name. This emulates the behavior of a virtual table
and should be just as fast.
This C code should be quite compatible with the Windows headers both for code that uses COM interfaces and for code implementing a COM interface.
And in C++ (with g++):
typedef struct IDirect3D: public IUnknown { private: HRESULT (*fnInitialize)(IDirect3D* me, REFIID a); public: inline HRESULT Initialize(REFIID a) { return ((IDirect3D*)t.lpVtbl)->fnInitialize(this,a); }; private: HRESULT (*fnEnumDevices)(IDirect3D* me, LPD3DENUMDEVICESCALLBACK a, LPVOID b); public: inline HRESULT EnumDevices(LPD3DENUMDEVICESCALLBACK a, LPVOID b) { return ((IDirect3D*)t.lpVtbl)->fnEnumDevices(this,a,b); }; private: HRESULT (*fnCreateLight)(IDirect3D* me, LPDIRECT3DLIGHT* a, IUnknown* b); public: inline HRESULT CreateLight(LPDIRECT3DLIGHT* a, IUnknown* b) { return ((IDirect3D*)t.lpVtbl)->fnCreateLight(this,a,b); }; private: HRESULT (*fnCreateMaterial)(IDirect3D* me, LPDIRECT3DMATERIAL* a, IUnknown* b); public: inline HRESULT CreateMaterial(LPDIRECT3DMATERIAL* a, IUnknown* b) { return ((IDirect3D*)t.lpVtbl)->fnCreateMaterial(this,a,b); }; private: HRESULT (*fnCreateViewport)(IDirect3D* me, LPDIRECT3DVIEWPORT* a, IUnknown* b); public: inline HRESULT CreateViewport(LPDIRECT3DVIEWPORT* a, IUnknown* b) { return ((IDirect3D*)t.lpVtbl)->fnCreateViewport(this,a,b); }; private: HRESULT (*fnFindDevice)(IDirect3D* me, LPD3DFINDDEVICESEARCH a, LPD3DFINDDEVICERESULT b); public: inline HRESULT FindDevice(LPD3DFINDDEVICESEARCH a, LPD3DFINDDEVICERESULT b) { return ((IDirect3D*)t.lpVtbl)->fnFindDevice(this,a,b); }; };
In C++ IDirect3D does double duty as both the virtual/jump
table and as the interface definition. The reason for this
is to avoid having to duplicate the method definitions: once
to have the function pointers in the jump table and once to
have the methods in the interface class. Here one macro can
generate both. This means though that the first pointer,
t.lpVtbl defined in IUnknown,
must be interpreted as the jump table pointer if we interpret the structure as the
interface class, and as the function pointer to the
QueryInterface method,
t.fnQueryInterface, if we interpret the structure as the jump
table. Fortunately this gymnastic
is entirely taken care of in the header of IUnknown.
Of course in C++ we use inheritance so that we don't have to duplicate the method definitions.
Since IDirect3D does double duty, each ICOM_METHOD macro defines both a function pointer and a non-virtual inline method which dereferences it and calls it. This way this method behaves just like a virtual method but does not create a true C++ virtual table which would break the structure layout. If you look at the implementation of these methods you'll notice that they would not work for void functions. We have to return something and fortunately this seems to be what all the COM methods do (otherwise we would need another set of macros).
Note how the
ICOM_METHOD generates both function prototypes
mixing types and formal parameter names and the method
invocation using only the formal parameter name. This is the
reason why we need different macros to handle different
numbers of parameters.
Finally there is no IDirect3D_Xxx macro. These are not needed in C++ unless the CINTERFACE macro is defined in which case we would not be here.
This C++ code works well for code that just uses COM interfaces. But it will not work with C++ code implement a COM interface. That's because such code assumes the interface methods are declared as virtual C++ methods which is not the case here.
This continues the above example. This example assumes that the implementation is in C.
typedef struct _IDirect3D { void* lpVtbl; // ... } _IDirect3D; static ICOM_VTABLE(IDirect3D) d3dvt; // implement the IDirect3D methods here int IDirect3D_fnQueryInterface(IDirect3D* me) { ICOM_THIS(IDirect3D,me); // ... } // ... static ICOM_VTABLE(IDirect3D) d3dvt = { ICOM_MSVTABLE_COMPAT_DummyRTTIVALUE IDirect3D_fnQueryInterface, IDirect3D_fnAdd, IDirect3D_fnAdd2, IDirect3D_fnInitialize, IDirect3D_fnSetWidth };
We first define what the interface really contains. This is
_IDirect3D structure. The first field must of course be
the virtual table pointer. Everything else is free.
Then we predeclare our static virtual table variable, we will need its address in some methods to initialize the virtual table pointer of the returned interface objects.
Then we implement the interface methods. To match what has
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Silver Among Best Performers in November
On Friday, gold (NYSEARCA:GLD) futures for December delivery fell $16.30 to settle at $1,710.90 per ounce, while silver (NYSEARCA:SLV) dropped $1.14 to close at $33.20.
Both precious metals declined, as the U.S. dollar reached its highest level against the Japanese yen since April. Japan's cabinet approved an economic stimulus plan before elections take place in December. Polls indicate that an opposition party, which is calling for unlimited monetary easing, will win the political race, according to Bloomberg.
"If the Bank of Japan is forced to become even looser, the yen will be potentially even weaker…being elected in December, they are not going to have the time to do anything really dramatic, except looser monetary policy." The greenback has gained more than 3.0 percent against the yen in November, its biggest monthly gain since February. Year-to-date, the dollar has increased about 7.0 percent against the yen.
Gold closed the week 2.3 percent lower, but finished the month relatively flat. The price of silver declined 2.7 percent on the week, but logged a gain of 4.8 percent for the month.
In afternoon trading, the SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:GLD) fell 0.80 percent, while the iShares Silver Trust (NYSEARCA:SLV) dropped 2.70 percent. Gold miners (NYSEARCA:GDX) such as Yamana Gold (NYSE:AUY) and Barrick Gold (NYSE:ABX) both declined 1.70 percent. Silver names such as Silver Wheaton (NYSE:SLW) and Endeavour Silver (NYSE:EXK) also traded more than 1.0 percent into the red.
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Lehi » Two dozen gay-rights advocates rallied outside of Thanksgiving Point on Thursday night as more than 600 Utahns gathered inside to answer what they saw as a "challenge to family and freedom."
Conservative think tank The Sutherland Institute formally launched its Sacred Ground Initiative to counter Equality Utah's push for "common ground," a legislative effort that would offer some basic protections to same-sex couples and make it illegal to fire or evict someone for being gay or transgender.
The Common Ground Initiative, declared former Rep. LaVar Christensen, the author of Utah's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, Amendment 3, "is actually very uncommon."
"It would be groundbreaking and lead to what we just witnessed in California," he told the crowd, referring to California Supreme Court's ruling legalizing gay marriage, which later was overturned when voters approved Proposition 8.
Gay-rights activist Jacob Whipple used Facebook to encourage supporters of the Common Ground Initiative to "infiltrate" the meeting to listen and possibly offer a contrary view to attendees. Despite sending an RSVP to Sutherland, many gay-rights backers were turned away at the door. Those who did get in didn't disrupt the 90-minute program.
"I was surprised that [Sutherland's speakers] didn't mention even one of the Common Ground bills," said gay-rights activist Eric Ethington, noting the focus of the evening was on marriage. Ethington told guests seated near him that it's legal to fire someone in Utah for being gay.
"Every single person around me said, 'That's not right,'" Ethington said. The Sacred Ground proponents "want to scare people with what the future might possibly hold rather than focus on what these bills are now."
Sutherland Institute benefactor Lauralyn Swim encouraged the audience to get involved during the legislative session to defeat the gay-rights push.
"Some claim that standing up for the enduring, even sacred, definitions of marriage and family is showing hate for those who disagree," she said. "They are wrong. Defending marriage and family is an act of love for our children and our children's children."


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An effective boundary element method for analysis of crack problems in a plane elastic plate
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A simple and effective boundary element method for stress intensity factor calculation for crack problems in a plane elastic plate is presented. The boundary element method consists of the constant displacement discontinuity element presented by Crouch and Starfield and the crack-tip displacement discontinuity elements proposed by YAN Xiangqiao. In the boundary element implementation the left or the right crack-tip displacement discontinuity element was placed locally at the corresponding left or right each crack tip on top of the constant displacement discontinuity elements that cover the entire crack surface and the other boundaries. Test examples (i. e., a center crack in an infinite plate under tension, a circular hole and a crack in an infinite plate under tension) are included to illustrate that the numerical approach is very simple and accurate for stress intensity factor calculation of plane elasticity crack problems. In addition, specifically, the stress intensity factors of branching cracks emanating from a square hole in a rectangular plate under biaxial loads were analysed. These numerical results indicate the present numerical approach is very effective for calculating stress intensity factors of complex cracks in a 2-D finite body, and are used to reveal the effect of the biaxial loads and the cracked body geometry on stress intensity factors.


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Sundance Channel Plans Drama Series on Fictional NRA Leader Called 'Cold Dead Hands'
Robert Redford's Sundance Channel is developing a new scripted series built around a fictional leader of the National Rifle Association called "Cold Dead Hands." The lead character is Early "Trip" Thibodeaux, described as "the nation's most powerful gun-rights advocate and the de facto CEO of the gun industry."
The creator is Scott Gold, who's spent the last 15 years as a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. He's a Hollywood newbie, with just a couple of writing credits for the CBS drama "Under the Dome." He's working with veteran TV producer Tony Krantz, who was looking for an "important and current issue" not explored on network TV. Gold told The Washington Post they won't shy away from the controversial issues of gun violence and the NRA:
"This is a divisive issue, no question about it," executive producer Scott Gold told us Wednesday."We won't be shy about that. It's also an issue that speaks to what it means to be American - and there are a lot different versions of that."
...Since the entertainment industry is considered to be inherently liberal, the question of how exactly the show will address these questions is likely to be hotly contested — before the first episode is ever aired — by everyone who has strong opinions about the Second Amendment and gun ownership. "In order to help protect lives, promote gun safety and build a national consensus on the issues, we want to respect and understand all sides of this story," Krantz told the Hollywood Reporter.
The show's title comes from movie star and former NRA president Charlton Heston's impassioned speech to the annual NRA convention in 2000, when the actor concluded his address by holding a replica rifle: "So as we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to say those fighting words for everyone within the sound of my voice to hear and to heed, and especially for you, [Democratic presidential candidate] Mr. Gore: 'From my cold, dead hands!'"
As for how "Trip" will make the NRA look -- will he be slimy like Kevin Spacey on "House of Cards"? -- is unclear. But Hollywood is likely to make him consider and reconsider the liberal talking points on gun control.
How much he'll resemble the real head of the NRA, Wayne LaPierre, is unclear, but Thibodeaux is described as a "charismatic and polarizing figure" who finds himself in a crisis of faith.
"My hope is that Trip Thibodeaux will be the most principled man you've ever met," said Gold. "Whether you agree with that principle or not is entirely up to you." The NRA, which has no involvement in the project, did not respond to requests for comment.
Here's a little clue about how liberal Sundance Channel sounds: They're also developing a show about a transgendered man after sex "reassignment" surgery named "Thora" with NPR star Ira Glass. It's called "T."


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After leading Shorecrest to the Class 2A state baseball championship game, Marc Brakeman started receiving accolades locally. He was named the Times all-Pinellas County pitcher of the year and was a first-team selection to the Times all-suncoast team.
Now, he is getting noticed nationally.
Maxpreps recently published a list of its small-school All-Americans and top underclassmen in the country. Brakeman was on two of those lists, earning second team honors as a small-school All-American and being named one of the top 30 sophomores in the country.
Other top sophomores include Jesuit's Lance McCullers, who led the Tigers to the 4A state final.
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Fox's Griffin falsely claimed Clark "disparag[ed] McCain's military service"
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On the August 28 edition of Fox News' Special Report, national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin claimed that retired Gen. Wesley Clark "disparag[ed] [Sen. John] McCain's military service," repeating a falsehood previously advanced by numerous media figures, in reference to Clark's June 29 appearance on CBS' Face the Nation. As Media Matters for America has repeatedly noted, Clark did not "disparag[e] McCain's military service" during that CBS News interview.
From the August 28 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume:
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GRIFFIN: The military figures chosen to speak included the first woman Army Lieutenant General, Claudia Kennedy. Once a Hillary Clinton supporter, she headed Army intelligence in the '90s but has little experience in Iraq.
SCALES: The speakers came across as a weak assortment of military experts. There was no one retired military who had real military bona fides or who had a connection with the war as it is today.
GRIFFIN: Senator John Kerry talked of the Bush administration now taking Obama's policy and making it their own -- negotiating with Iran, setting a timeline for withdrawing from Iraq. And there was much talk of consensus-building and diplomacy to prevent future wars.
REP. JAMES CLYBURN (D-SC): Barack Obama's approach to foreign affairs does not consist of might making right, but using right to buttress our might.
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GRIFFIN: Absent last night, General Wesley Clark, asked not to speak after disparaging McCain's military service. At the Pentagon, Jennifer Griffin, Fox News.
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OMG, hasn't Cristina left Grey's Anatomy (8 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4) yet? We've seen them dealing with this for pretty much the entire season, and it's reach a new level of annoyance over the past couple of episodes.
Sandra Oh announced that she was leaving the show after this season and taking her character, Cristina Yang, with her NINE MONTHS AGO. We've known she was going for 22 episodes so far. There is no suspense. Attempts to build suspense have failed.
My mother used to say, "How can we miss you if you won't go away?" And that certainly seems apt when it comes to Cristina Yang.<


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How could you put eight beanbags in the hoops so that there are four in the blue hoop, five in the red and six in the yellow? Can you find all the ways of doing this?
Roll two red dice and a green dice. Add the two numbers on the red dice and take away the number on the green. What are all the different possibilities that could come up?
What happens when you add three numbers together? Will your answer be odd or even? How do you know?
Find the sum of all three-digit numbers each of whose digits is odd.
Using 3 rods of integer lengths, none longer than 10 units and not using any rod more than once, you can measure all the lengths in whole units from 1 to 10 units. How many ways can you do this?
Place six toy ladybirds into the box so that there are two ladybirds in every column and every row.
If each of these three shapes has a value, can you find the totals of the combinations? Perhaps you can use the shapes to make the given totals?
Who said that adding couldn't be fun?
Ben has five coins in his pocket. How much money might he have?
This problem is based on the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Investigate the different numbers of people and rats there could have been if you know how many legs there are altogether!
Winifred Wytsh bought a box each of jelly babies, milk jelly bears, yellow jelly bees and jelly belly beans. In how many different ways could she make a jolly jelly feast with 32 legs?
Use your logical reasoning to work out how many cows and how many sheep there are in each field.
This task, written for the National Young Mathematicians' Award 2016, invites you to explore the different combinations of scores that you might get on these dart boards.
Using the statements, can you work out how many of each type of rabbit there are in these pens?
Number problems at primary level that require careful consideration.
Add the sum of the squares of four numbers between 10 and 20 to the sum of the squares of three numbers less than 6 to make the square of another, larger, number.
What do you notice about the date 03.06.09? Or 08.01.09? This challenge invites you to investigate some interesting dates yourself.
What do the digits in the number fifteen add up to? How many other numbers have digits with the same total but no zeros?
You have 5 darts and your target score is 44. How many different ways could you score 44?
Can you put the numbers 1-5 in the V shape so that both 'arms' have the same total?
Look carefully at the numbers. What do you notice? Can you make another square using the numbers 1 to 16, that displays the same properties?
Can you make square numbers by adding two prime numbers together?
A group of children are using measuring cylinders but they lose the labels. Can you help relabel them?
This magic square has operations written in it, to make it into a maze. Start wherever you like, go through every cell and go out a total of 15!
Arrange eight of the numbers between 1 and 9 in the Polo Square below so that each side adds to the same total.
Three children are going to buy some plants for their birthdays. They will plant them within circular paths. How could they do this?
Place the numbers 1 to 10 in the circles so that each number is the difference between the two numbers just below it.
There are 78 prisoners in a square cell block of twelve cells. The clever prison warder arranged them so there were 25 along each wall of the prison block. How did he do it?
Tim had nine cards each with a different number from 1 to 9 on it. How could he have put them into three piles so that the total in each pile was 15?
There are 44 people coming to a dinner party. There are 15 square tables that seat 4 people. Find a way to seat the 44 people using all 15 tables, with no empty places.
Can you put plus signs in so this is true? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 99 How many ways can you do it?
Place this "worm" on the 100 square and find the total of the four squares it covers. Keeping its head in the same place, what other totals can you make?
There were chews for 2p, mini eggs for 3p, Chocko bars for 5p and lollypops for 7p in the sweet shop. What could each of the children buy with their money?
Ram divided 15 pennies among four small bags. He could then pay any sum of money from 1p to 15p without opening any bag. How many pennies did Ram put in each bag?
Use your logical-thinking skills to deduce how much Dan's crisps and ice-cream cost altogether.
This task, written for the National Young Mathematicians' Award 2016, involves open-topped boxes made with interlocking cubes. Explore the number of units of paint that are needed to cover the boxes. . . .
Can you put the numbers 1 to 8 into the circles so that the four calculations are correct?
Zumf makes spectacles for the residents of the planet Zargon, who have either 3 eyes or 4 eyes. How many lenses will Zumf need to make all the different orders for 9 families?
Exactly 195 digits have been used to number the pages in a book. How many pages does the book have?
This task, written for the National Young Mathematicians' Award 2016, focuses on 'open squares'. What would the next five open squares look like?
Find the sum and difference between a pair of two-digit numbers. Now find the sum and difference between the sum and difference! What happens?
This dice train has been made using specific rules. How many different trains can you make?
In a Magic Square all the rows, columns and diagonals add to the 'Magic Constant'. How would you change the magic constant of this square?
This challenge focuses on finding the sum and difference of pairs of two-digit numbers.
Can you substitute numbers for the letters in these sums?
Cherri, Saxon, Mel and Paul are friends. They are all different ages. Can you find out the age of each friend using the information?
Can you arrange 5 different digits (from 0 - 9) in the cross in the way described?
Place the digits 1 to 9 into the circles so that each side of the triangle adds to the same total.
Suppose there is a train with 24 carriages which are going to be put together to make up some new trains. Can you find all the ways that this can be done?
Write the numbers up to 64 in an interesting way so that the shape they make at the end is interesting, different, more exciting ... than just a square.


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Been searching everywhere, but can't find the answer.... I would like to change my carrier logo for specific carriers, namely the "Orange T-mobile" carrier and "Orange".
I am with Orange so the carrier will switch between orange and orange t-mobile depending on signal.
Ideally I'd like to do this with winterboard for simplicity sake.
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Even before the sundial was invented, mariners knew that the relationship between Earth, Moon, and Sun controlled the tides. Today, thanks to our refined knowledge of celestial movements and how land masses affect the ocean's movements, we can quickly and easily predict the height of tide and flow of tidal currents. It is well to remember that these are theoretical predictions only, and may not reflect the actual values.
On the open ocean, tidal heights are not noticeable. It is only in coastal areas where the tidal ranges and currents become apparent, and their effects can often be significant. The height of tide determines where you can travel and anchor safely, while the tidal current will affect your boat speed and complicated course calculations.
Among some boaters the terms "tide" and " tidal current" are often used incorrectly. To avoid any confusion I will use them in their formal sense. Tide is the vertical rise and fall of the ocean's level due to the orbits and gravitational relationship of the Earth, Sun, and Moon. Tidal current is the horizontal flow of water from one place to another due to a difference in height of tide between them. Non-tidal current is the horizontal flow of water from any cause such as a river flowing to the sea, or a major ocean current like the flow of the Gulf Stream. It is important to understand the difference between current and tidal current. For example, have you ever been in the mouth of a river as the tide is rising? The clash of tidal current against river current creates standing waves which will give you quite an exciting ride.
Tide rises and falls while tidal current floods and ebbs. At most places, the tidal change occurs twice daily. The tide rises until it reaches a maximum height, called high tide or high water, and then falls to a minimum level called low tide or low water. This rate of rise and fall is not uniform. From low water, the tide begins to rise slowly at first, but at an increasing rate until it is about halfway to high water. The rate of rise then decreases until high water is reached, and the rise ceases. A falling tide behaves in a similar manner. The period at high or low water during which there is no apparent change of level is called stand. Range is the difference in height between high tide and low tide.
Earth, Moon, and Sun Basically, as the Earth rotates, high tides are created on opposite sides of the Earth by the combined gravitational relationship of the Earth, Sun, and Moon. Centrifugal force causes the oceans to bulge on one side of the Earth, while the gravitational attraction of the combined Sun and Moon causes them to bulge on the other side. Because the Moon is so much closer to the Earth than the Sun, its affect on the tides is almost twice as powerful. The rotation of the Moon about the Earth takes 24 hours and 50 minutes. As a result the tidal highs and lows occur about 50 minutes later than the highs and lows of the previous day. It has been said that "the tides follow the Moon."
To further complicate matters, in its monthly orbits around the Earth, the Moon travels north and south of our equator. Mixed and diurnal (once daily) types of tides occur when the Moon is further north or south of the equator in its orbit. When the Moon is over the equator, the tides are semi-diurnal, but the daily cycle of tides varies widely from place to place and depends on the latitude of the location as well as the Moon's north-south location (declination) in its orbit. Generally speaking, tidal ranges decrease as you approach the equator.
The Moon's orbit is also elliptical, and when the Moon is closest to the Earth, the tidal ranges are greater. Conversely, when the Moon is furthest away, the tides are smaller. Yearly variations in tidal ranges are also caused by the Earth's Elliptical orbit about the Sun. When the Earth is closest to the Sun in the winter, the Sun's gravitational effect is greater, resulting in higher tidal ranges than in the summer when the Earth is farthest from the Sun. If you would like to read a more detailed explanation, I refer you to Bowditch, and his classic, The American Practical Navigator.
Calculating Tides For semi-diurnal tides along the US east coast, high tide can be determined for a local area by first noting the relative position of the Moon at high tide. From then on when the Moon is in that same relative position you are at high tide. For a new Moon use the Sun. For boaters in Maine in the summer months, on the day of a new Moon or a full Moon high tide will occur at approximately 1200 EDT, plus or minus 15 minutes. For each day after the new or full Moon the time of high tide will be 50 minutes later.
The height of tide computed should not be confused with depth of water. Soundings shown on your chart are the vertical distances from the selected reference level (MLLW) to the seabed. The actual depth is this charted depth plus the height of tide. For example, if the chart depth is 20 feet and the height of tide is 5.7 feet, the actual depth is 20 + 5.7 = 25.7 feet. When the height of tide is negative, such as -1.3 feet, and the charted depth is 15 feet, the actual depth is 15- 1.3 = 13.7 feet. It is important to understand that the actual depth may be less than the charted depth several times a month on neap tides.
Remember, heights found in the Tide Tables and computer programs are predictions. When conditions vary considerably from those used in making the predictions, the heights shown may be in error. Heights lower than predicted should be anticipated when the atmospheric pressure is higher than normal or when there is a persistent strong offshore wind.
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The all-new fourth-generation Prius will be powered by the same 1.8L four-cylinder engine, but it's been reworked to help the Prius have the highest fuel economy of any vehicle without a plug.
Toyota has officially unveiled the much anticipated all-new fourth-generation 2016 Prius at an event in Las Vegas. The new Prius is the first vehicle based on Toyota's New Global Architecture and as predicted has a ten percent fuel economy improvement over the current model.
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Last minute styling changes are the reason that the next-generation Toyota Prius has been delayed until the end of 2015.
Toyota has announced a new special edition of the 2015 Prius, which it's calling the Prius Persona.
When the 2016 Prius arrives we can expect it to be more fuel efficient with updated styling, but some other details have started to surface, including a report that two battery options will be available.
The arrival of the next-generation 2016 Toyota Prius is being delayed until December 2015, which is six months later than originally planned.
We're still about a year away from the release of the fourth-generation Toyota Prius, but more details about the next Prius have been released.
Toyota has announced the pricing for the 2014 Toyota Prius Plug-in hybrid, which starts at $29,990, over $2,000 less than the 2013 model.
Today Toyota released some of the early details about the next generation Toyota Prius that is due sometime in 2015.
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Edelman released its 2011 Health Barometer this week, with results showing the impact that one's personal network of friends and family can have on healthy behaviors.
According to the findings, 31 percent of respondents will distance themselves from unhealthy people, and 43 percent think that those close to them have the most impact on their health-related lifestyle.
"Health – good and bad — is communicable, and it is the responsibility of every citizen, especially those of us with leadership roles in any sector or industry, to act on this," said Nancy Turett, global president of Edelman's health group, in a statement.
For the study, Edelman's research firm StrategyOnedid in-person interviews and polled people online between June 10 and July 26. A total of 15,165 adults over the age of 18 were polled across 12 countries including the U.S., Japan, and Russia.
The study also found that while 62 percent of people tried to change bad habits half failed. Among the reasons for failure identified were enjoyment of the negative habit (30 percent), addiction (20 percent), and delayed benefits from the positive behavior (18 percent). The list of unhealthy behavior includes not exercising, smoking, and sleeplessness.
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Yes, it is possible that there will be codes generated. I would guess codes like O2 sensor reading lean, or MAF not reading correctly- as a guess. If you swap over to a CAI or simply put a 3.5" cone filter on the end of the MAF tube, then you will want to purchase some MAF cleaner and a Torx screwdriver so you can remove the MAF and clean it. The oil from those filters will contaminate the MAF and cause bad fuel economy. The MAF should be cleaned weekly for a month. After that, simply clean it with each oil change.
My car is running fine so far. I have close to 82K and tend to be OCD on non serviceable parts. I did an internet search and cannot find where or how to test it. What I did find, Ford says 150K is the usual expectancy of the filter.
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Muslims Say NYPD Surveillance Is Already Changing Behavior
Reports of the NYPD's surveillance program targeting Muslim student groups, businesses and mosques across the region have provoked outrage, even as Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other officials have defended the program, arguing the practice is keeping the city safe.
But the news is having side effects: prompting some Muslims to stop frequenting places out of fear of being monitored, or avoiding discussion of politically sensitive topics.
"A lot of families are pressuring their sons and daughters to either not be involved in anything to do with the Islamic Center at NYU, to not pray there, to not go, to not hang out with other members," said Elizabeth Dann, a third year law student at New York University, and the outreach director of the school's Muslim Law Students Association.
While Dann says it's too early to say whether attendance at Muslim gatherings at NYU will dip, CUNY undergrad Dania Darwish says the impact is already being felt at her Muslim Students Association.
"I used to go there and we used to barely have room to sit down," Darwish said. "And now, I just come in and it's sort of empty."
She thinks students have been "traumatized" by the revelations, and also notes that discussions have been stifled, ever since the Hunter College Muslim Students Association posted a sign asking students to refrain from having political discussions when initial reports of NYPD surveillance surfaced last year.
The sign has since been taken down, she said, but the idea behind it remains, "not to talk about world affairs, and not to talk about the uprisings in the Arab Spring, or not to talk about anything political, it makes me feel oppressed."
In addition to student groups, attendance may also be down at some mosques.
Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdul Rashid, president of the Islamic Leadership Council of Metropolitan New York, says that while African American Muslims haven't changed their patterns of worship at mosques, Muslim immigrants have.
"In some cases people are coming, really just being uneasy, and in other instances people are actually staying away," he explained
Other Muslim leaders say the fear extends to Muslim business owners. Some are hearing from customers who are increasingly antsy about the idea of frequenting a store or restaurant that's been under NYPD surveillance, not only in New York, but in New Jersey, where the NYPD conducted surveillance of Muslims in Newark.
The NYPD argues that the surveillance of Muslim Student Associations is justified because a dozen alumni of the groups went on to be arrested or charged with terrorist plots. They include Anwar al-Awlaki, the chief propagandist for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, until he was killed in a U.S. drone attack in Yemen last year, and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, known as the Underwear Bomber.
However, Dann says students worry they'll be the victims of guilt by association, even years from now.
"The fear is that, if at any point, you come into contact, whether intentional or not, with someone who later becomes a criminal, or later becomes a suspect or terrorist, that taint can never be scrubbed off," she explained
That's the same fear felt by Bay Ridge resident Zein Rimawi. He has six children, one of whom is studying at Columbia, another at Harvard. They're both actively involved in their school's MSA. Rimawi says he doesn't discourage them from staying active in the groups. but he worries for their future, arguing that being under constant surveillance will only amplify any of their routine lapses.
"Because if you keep watching these kids, year after year, and they make small mistakes," he explained, "and [if authorities] collect all these mistakes, and talk about them in front of a jury, of course all these mistakes, will be a big, big mistake, and to some people here, maybe they will be criminals."


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State lawmakers approve tailored healthcare for BYU-Idaho
REXBURG, Idaho - The Affordable Care Act requires health insurance policies to provide certain benefits that are morally objectionable by church-sponsored universities, like BYU-Idaho.
Although the Idaho Legislature enacted laws that prohibit insurance companies from offering abortions; the act still requires access to contraceptives and medications that induce abortions.
"They shouldn't have to provide something that their moral convictions tell them isn't appropriate," said Brent Hill, state senator.
Lawmakers said it's all about protecting religious liberties. Both the house and the senate gave BYU-Idaho the go ahead to manage its own health plan for students without going through an insurance company.
"There was a provision that a university could provide a self-funded plan to their own students, where they're not using an insurance company, but they're funding it themselves, collecting premiums from students," said Hill.
The university issued this statement:
"BYU-Idaho welcomes the opportunity to pursue other health insurance options that allow the university to keep costs down for students, to ensure all students have coverage, and to provide coverage that is consistent with our values as an institution," - Marc Stevens, university spokesman.
But students on campus had mixed feelings.
"I have no strong opinion, I'm just on my parent's insurance," said Rhett Fullmer.
"Having our own insurance, it makes sense because we're a private school," said Kristin Melville. "We don't need to do exactly what the government does, but we do what we need to."
"Students are going to have sex here whether or not the school allows it, so taking that option away from them, I don't think it's very smart," said Garrett Allen.
"I think it's good students have the option to choose that insurance if they want it," said Andrew Timmons.
At the moment, BYU-I is the only university in the state that will manage its own health insurance.
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Complete combustion of 4.80 g of a hydrocarbon produced 15.6 g of CO2 and 4.80 g of H2O. What is the empirical formula for the hydrocarbon?
Convert to mols C and mols H.
15.6 x (12/44) = ?
4.80 x (2*1/18) = ?
Find the ratio of the two. The easy way to do that is to divide the smaller number by itself, then divide the other number by the same small number. I get 1:1.5 which in small whole numbers is 2:3
How do you get a ratio?
I slipped up by converting to C first. It can be done that way but it's longer. Let me start over.
Convert 15.6g CO2 to mols. mols = g/molar mass
15.6/44 = 0.354 mols CO2 = 0.354 mols C since there is 1 atom C in 1 molecule CO2.
4.80g H2O to mols.
4.80/18 = 0.2667 mols H2O and mols H will be twice that or 0.2667*2 = 0.533 mols H.
To find the ratio do what I suggested you do. Divide the smaller number by itself (that gives you a 1.00 every time), then divide the other number by the same smaller number.
We have 0.354 mols C
and 0.533 mols H.
0.533/0.354 = 1.51 H which rounds to 1.5 and that is a ratio of 2C for 3H or the empirical formula is C2H3.
However, let me point out that 4.80g C2H3 will give you 15.6 g CO2 but it will NOT give you 4.80g H2O so I think someone goofed when they constructed the problem. But the above procedure is how you work the problem.


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I've noticed a common denominator in some of the netbooks I've seen of late: the integrated microphone is sub-par. And while many folks don't use a netbook for audio recording or voice communications, I've found that the form factor makes for a great little Skype machine. If only the microphone worked as well as the camera. That's why I was interested in the Snowflake USB microphone from Blue. The folks at Blue sent over a review unit and I've had a few weeks to give it a go.
The Snowflake works with both PC and Mac computers without any drivers needed. I tested it on both a PC and my Mac; since to the computer it's simply a USB microphone, you just plug and play. Does it meet my requirement for better sound on a netbook? Absolutely, but then again you couldn't get much worse. I find that I need to sit just a few inches away from the integrated mic on the Wind in order to be heard.
Here's a very short, sample audio track from the Snowflake when clipped to my display. I looked for the option to make me sound like Josh Groban, but couldn't find it. ;)
So there's no question that the Snowflake is an improvement over the integrated solution I've been struggling to use. Other features make it a nice add-on as well:
- The Snowflake slides into a plastic base so you it can easily "stand-up" on its own.
- The base doubles as storage for the included USB cable.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As Hollywood recovers from a tumultuous writers strike that ended in February, U.S. television networks are bracing for a possible actors walkout that could delay the upcoming fall TV season.
Jitters over renewed labor unrest have mounted in recent days as contract talks between the Screen Actors Guild and the major film and TV studios have grown increasingly rancorous with little or no sign that a settlement is near.
The three-year labor pact covering film and prime-time TV work for 120,000 SAG members is due to expire in two weeks.
SAG leaders triggered an outcry from the studios late last week by suggesting a deal was unlikely to be reached by the June 30 deadline and saying they were considering whether to seek permission of rank-and-file members to call a strike.
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In April, a musical I cowrote won the NJ Playwrights competition and had a full production.
A couple of weeks ago, a theatre company in the city contacted me that they wanted to put on a play I submitted to them AGES ago. (I honestly kinda forgot I even wrote it, let alone submitted it anywhere...I tend to do that...)
I've met with them, and they're awesome, and I think it's going to be a really good thing They told me that my play was the first one they read months ago, and they knew right then that they wanted to include it in their festival.
I'm really excited!!!!
I even get my bio and headshot on the theatre company's website
Hopefully, this can be the start of a great relationship between myself and the company!
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Dianas playwriting debut was a home run. Im already looking forward to her next production.


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