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A federal prosecutor in New Hampshire, Gary Milano abruptly switched careers after terrorists brought down the World Trade Center's twin towers in his hometown.
Milano's explanation sounds hokey unless you know his background. Son of a New York state judge, a kid who dreamed of government work, a compulsive reader of history. "I left for a different career in public service because I felt that was where I could do the most good,'' he says.
Milano went to Syracuse (N.Y.) Hancock International Airport as federal security director. He took over the same position at Tampa International in November.
In five months, he's stepped up random vehicle inspections and is working with airport executive director Louis Miller on a redesign of security checkpoints to speed up the lines. Milano, 53, talked with the Times on Wednesday about passenger beefs with security screening, what officers find in carryon bags and a proposal to let pilots sidestep the regular lines.
You must have seen all kinds of strange things that travelers try to bring through airport security checkpoints in almost six years with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Is there anything that still surprises you?
That they can forget that they have the gun in the bag. Or even more amazing, that they can forget that they're not allowed to have a gun on an aircraft. And nationwide, it's a recurring theme: "Well, I have a permit in Florida, so I thought I could bring a gun on a plane.'' Never ceases to amaze me.
How often do you catch travelers with weapons at TIA?
(An assistant) got me some stats here. I thought they'd be high, but didn't think they'd be this much. For a one-week period during our current spring rush, the number of prohibited items at our checkpoints was slightly in excess of 1,500 … and of those 73 were considered deadly or dangerous weapons — knives, brass knuckles and the like. Ten dangerous weapons a day in a one-week period.
What are the most frequent complaints from passengers about security screening? The rules about removing shoes or taking laptop computers out of their cases?
You're hitting all the high notes there.
Some airline pilots say they should be allowed to skip regular screening with a biometric card that confirms their identity. Is that a good idea?
Whenever I fly anywhere, even if it's on official business, I always get screened. Even at this airport and I have no problem with it. It's better to be safe than sorry. I don't see any reason anybody should be singled out for either worse treatment or better treatment.
You hear a fair amount of criticism from frequent fliers that the screening process is too heavy-handed and TSA officers can be overbearing. Why don't you get the same respect as, say, local police?
Let me make an analogy. Think of your leg. You never get blisters on your calf because there's no friction there. The place you get blisters sometimes is on your heel, the place the shoe and the foot … rub against each other. The officer in the cruiser, you don't have any contact with him unless you do something wrong or you have an accident.
But aviation is so important, and since TSA has such a big responsibility in aviation, it's natural the traveling public and TSA — usually in the person of the uniformed security officer — do have a lot of contact. As a result, there's so much opportunity that something analogous to a blister happens.
(Flying) can create a lot of anxiety, The parking the car, the crowds, the lines. And I've found that … people who don't have a problem, who like the job you're doing, rarely say anything. The ones who are vocal are a very small minority who go to the trouble of voicing their complaints.


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My last two blogs were about the Conway's Game of Life [1][2]. Actually this game belongs to a broader set of models, that are called Cellular Automata. All of them follow the same idea of applying simple rules according to the current state of the cell and its neighbours. A simple modification as changing any of the 4 rules of the game of live or taking into account second order (Figure 1) neighbours will produce very distinct patterns in the game.
However, the Game of Life is a quite sophisticated cellular automaton compared with the simplest version of them. The Game of Life is actually a 2-dimensional and, yes, there are 3-dimensional version of it. But I am looking for more simplicity and there are 1-dimensional automata (Figure 2). Again, we have "live" and "death" individuals and a few rules to decide the next state.
The way we are going to define rules in this scenario is slightly different. We are just going to use two neighbours and the current state of the cell itself to stablish the state in the next iteration. We can represent this with 3 values indicating the actual state of the neighbours and the current cell: left neighbour – current cell – right neighbour. We are going to use symbol 0 for death and symbol 1 for alive. For example, 111 means that both neighbours and the current cell are alive. When 111 happens, we have to decide whether the next state would be 0 or 1 (Figure 3.).
There exactly 8 possible combinations of 0s and 1s with three values. If we define 111,110,101,100,011,010,001,000 as a universal order for this kind of cellular automaton, then we just have to define 8 values that indicate the next state of the center cell. For example, in the Figure 3. the values would be 00011110. Yes, that is a binary number that could be represented in decimal system as 30. So the rule of Figure 3. is Rule 00011110 or Rule 30. Just remember we accept the universal order of 111,110,101,100,011,010,001,000.
Take a few seconds to re read the previous two paragraph. It may seem very complicated but it isn't. You just have to remember that the state of each cell in the next iteration is going to be the result of the two nearest neighbours and the cell itself. Just to be sure, Figure 4. gives and example. First row is the current iteration and second row the next iteration. Use the Figure 3. to check everything is fine. You can practice calculating the next "next generation". When you are on the leftest cell you can use as the left neighbour the rightest cell (like a ring).
Ok, so what? Let's say you continue doing this with a bigger 1-dimensional array (instead of just 10 cells per iteration, use 1000 or more). At the end you are going to have something like the Figure 5. You may see a pattern but actually there is no way of complete generalization, welcome to chaos! It is true, there are parts that have order and even cycles (I like to think the live on Earth as one of that ordered universal instants) but in general is unpredictable. Actually Wolfram proposed a computer random generator (more properly say pseudorandom number generator) with it.
Going back to Figure 3., all we need is 8 1s and 0s to define a rule. There are exactly 256 different rules (actually just 128 because the other 128 are a negative mirror of the first 128, black would be white and white black). Not all of them produces this kind of crazy patterns (another good example is Rule 90 in Figure 6.).
Some of them produce no patterns at all. Think about Rule 0 (Rule 00000000), everything is going to die in one iteration. Others produces some kind of cycles or more order structures like Rule 184 (Figure 7.) used to model traffic flow in a single line of a road.
Well, you may say. This very artificial, simplistic and unrealistic. Take a look the Figure 8 and compare it to Rule 30 in Figure 5.
You may said it is a coincidence and it just looks like. Maybe, but the probabilities of Rule 30 appear in nature is very high so the coincidence is the rule appearing and not the whole pattern out of the blue. Just think how the growth of a shell is done. The conclusions are the same of my previous post:
[2] Yet another "yet another blog about the "Conway's Game of Life"
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15 days I wrote the blog "yet another blog about the "Conway's Game of Life" . My purpose was convincing you that very simple individual rules could produce group patterns. This patterns emerge from the individuals interacting with their environment and nothing else.
I promised I was letting the best for today. So here it is. You probable were wondering how complex this group patterns could get with the right positioning. Actually what I showed in the previous blog were just the most basic and well known examples. There are much more complex things. Take a look at the next youtube video, but start it at minute 1:10, since you don't need explanations about the game of life anymore.
That is very cool but there is more. Some very simple patterns can produce very unstable sequences (chaotic) structures. You can go here and click on run. It takes 5206 to converge (Here is a list of other long-lived patterns that you may want to try). Of course you can also randomize the canvas and wait. It could easily happen that you stare at your screen for a few days, weeks. What to say? The universe is still here in a constant accumulation of simple interaction of small particles. Even in a simple game like this would be almost (just giving a benefit of doubt) impossible to predict the final stage, and we are starting just five individuals.
You may say, simply run the game and then you have your prediction. First, is that really a prediction? Second, there is a practical problem if you want to apply that to, say, the universe. You need another one to simulate it (and a faster one so you can use the prediction). There is another solution. Simplify the individuals. Instead of simulating a whole human being, just grab the main characteristic of his behaviour and you may learn something of the factors you picked it up. This is the theoretical background of my thesis and I will be talking about this in many different ways.
But let's go back to the "Conway's Game of Life" to stress two important things:
Three important conclusions so far:
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Around 1970, John Horton Conway created a fascinating game called "Life" [1]. The reason for the name is going to be quite obvious as I quote the rules of the game. Before that just imagine a large white checkboard (the world where 'Life' happens) and a plentiful supply of counters (the creatures that plays 'Life'). Counters could be simple 'poker chips'. See Figure 1. to be clear.
So, how to play? In fact you (or the computer) just have to follow three rules. "Conways genetic laws are delightfully simple. First note that each cell of the checkerboard (assumed to be an infinite plane) has eight neighboring cells, four adjacent orthogonally, four adjacent diagonally. The rules are:
[1] Gardner, Martin (1970-10). Mathematical Games – The fantastic combinations of John Conway' new solitaire game "life". 223. pp. 120–123. ISBN 0-89454-001-7. Archived fromthe original on 2009-06-03. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
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Ok. Digital Humanities. Everybody is talking about it, so am I right now. But this talking talking is not Digital Humanities (DH). The discussion about DH is not DH. The definition of DH is not DH. This post is not DH. Yep, it doesn't matter it is on the tweeter, facebook or blogs. The problem is that everybody is giving an opinion, and opinion over opinions, and then I don't really know what is people talking about.
So, what is this DH about? Does it makes sense? It seems is something related with humanities and digital. Humanities includes a lot of other areas and the term digital is already corrupted. Originally the term "digital" is related with discrete values in contrast with "analog" (continues values). A discrete system is for example the binary. Other discrete system is the alphabet, which is used to write novels, which are studied by the area of literature that belongs to humanities. Therefore wasn't the literature already digital?
I guess they mean something else with digital here. It seems to be more related with either Internet or computing. In the first case, Internet, I agree that there are new forms of expressions (Orsai or Balada/Track) that deserve being studied separately because they include new elements to the "traditional" literature. Before the Internet, those elements didn't exist. Other examples are studying the behaviour of people in social networks or analysing the work of graphic designers. I agree that they are new forms of expressions that need theories that have to be developed. But not all out there is new. Most of the change that we are seeing nowadays is because of there is much more information that could be studied. From independent movies or books to interactions between individuals.
This take me to the second case, computing. Specially processing lots of information. Here, the possibilities are huge. Not just to study the new forms of expressions but also the old ones. For example, processing a whole collection of the Spanish golden age period. However, things here are also not necessarily that new. For example, computational linguistics has been there for a while. Note the use of more specific name. It requires a big deal of linguistics, statistics and computer sciences. And yep, it is claimed to be part of DH.
There are clearly two big areas here. And, each one, contains also big areas. A criticism of digital graphic design should be way different of that girl who is dealing with understanding Orsai. What about computer linguistics and artificial societies (simulation of social interaction)? Is digital humanities all of this? Seems a bit too much. I think it would make more sense to start (1) listing all the new forms of expression and (2) study which new tools are being applied to the already existing areas of humanities. DH is just an umbrella for all this but I cannot think in a curriculum for all of that…
Anyway, this is just me increasing the bubble of Digital Humanities… talking talking…
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The last week I was in the Latinamerican Conference in Informatics. Three to five were running at the same time. It was an overwhelming schedule that serve more as a restaurant menu. Papers from history of computer science to biological computing. However, the best part of the event was listening to John E. Hopcroft in his tutorial "Mathematics for the Information Era" and his conference "New directions in computer science".
Both of them were related with the constantly increasing and, since long time ago already, intractable amount of information available to us. We generate an amount of information equivalent to a couple of hundreds newspapers per day per person. Of course that include junk and data generated by computers themselves. Still, information should be useful to us, unless we are just trying to create the biggest museum of the world (called Internet) receiving visits just to take pictures.
But there is nothing new in what I just said. What is new is the summary that Hopcroft manage to put together. He gave sort of the set of the "new" mathematical tools that we had to attack the problem of Big Information. Here is the list that I can extract from my notebook and a very brief explanation (forgive if I am not precise as him or if I misunderstood any of the concepts):
High dimensionality: things in many dimensions doesn't behave as things in 1,2, 3 or even 4 dimensions. There is a new set of theories that are being developing in this area increasing our understanding of how complex problems (with many dimensions, such as texts) may work. Some of the next topics are related with high dimensionality. This is more like a new whole area of study.
Volumes: in many dimensions volumes does not behave as we expect. For example, as dimensions tent to infinite, the volume of the sphere (or hypersphere) goes to zero. For the Gaussian surface things are even more unexpected. It looks like a ring. For that reason, its consequences are totally nuts. Let say you have two Gaussians that generated points in a high dimensional space. Then you can deduce which of the Gaussian generate each point (with extremely good accuracy).
Dimension reduction: if you have some vectors in a (very) high dimensional space, you can decrease the numbers of dimensions and still distinguish between them (very different when you reduce from 3 dimension to 2 dimiensions).
SVM: One of the breakthrough in machine learning (and Artificial Intelligence, unfortunately he didn't have more time to continue on this topic). This could be seen opposed as the previous one. This is, the possibility of increase the number of dimensions of the vectors so it is to classify (learn) quicker the solutions of problems. For example, try to draw a straight line that separates the "x" from "+".
x + x x ++++ x x + x
Now, the mathematical magic come and increase the dimensions. Now, try again!
+ ++++ +
x x x x x x
Of course, it is not as simply at that, there is a lot hidden in the mathematical magic part. It is important to notice that computers are better learning single lines than curves.
Sparse Vectors: in nature, if you have a huge vector representing, say a genome, most of the values (gens) are 0. Even more, the sparse solution is unique. This is why geneticists are able to crack out ADN. This also reminds me that in nature, interactions of 3 factors (or more) are rare. This is great for statistics in which we look for low interactions or no interactions (independent variables).
Probability and statistics: no need to explain what is this. But most of the big advances in the areas that are producing big information is going to require more than means and standard deviations. It took almost a year to generate enough collitions and, just then, be able to confirm the Gibbs Bosson with 5 sigmas, a statisc.
On the infinite and beyond: well, basically calculus. A good understanding of certain concepts such as limits, derivatives, singularities.
Others: Markov chains (random walks), generative models for producing graphs (richer gets richer concept), giant components, ranking and voting (and its problems), boosting, zero knowledge proof, sampling (accepting you cannot store or process all the information, how can you sample to get the right answer?)
In general the good news is that if you have huge information and you lose some, you are still able to find all the answers because the structure and properties doesn't change. This reminds me "The library of Babel" of Jorge Luis Borges.
Hopcroft points out seven problems in the new directions of computer science:
It sounds a bit like Cultureplex, doesn't it?
"The information age is a fundamental revolution that is changing all aspects of our lives. Those individuals, institutions and nations who recognize this change and position themselves for the future will benefit enormously" John E. Hopcroft.
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Ever since I was a kid I have found interesting how it is possible to find a relation between any to objects. As many others, I had been following the news about the Higgs Boson. Cycling to my university, I was trying to sort out the new ideas of quantum physics that I have learned in this process. Not that I understand a lot of it but I remembered quantum physics still have problems to explain one of the most obvious forces that keeps the universe together and beautifully ordered, gravity.
Yes, Higgs Boson explains the universe not being just a disperse wave of energy with any structure. But this particle is a micro force unable to keep the earth going around the sun. So, they have several theories including gravitons. It is not that quantum theory is incompatible with gravity, there is just not a well proven theory but most of the scientists accept its existence.
So, there, culture. What keeps a culture together? Why do we recognize and feel different when are surrounded by the ones we considered members of our culture? The majority find this place just comfortable. A few express totally the opposite, a repulsive effect. There is good explanations of collaboration between individuals. There is also evidence of the strong cohesion between small groups, according, around 12 [1]. "Furthermore, the maximum number of people with whom we can develop relations of trust regulated by face to face interaction and the presence of a mutually respected leader, during any time, is several hundred people"' [2] And that is more or less the size of most of the companies in the world.
Then, we have countries but I will stop here because not sure what to say about cohesion of countries. We have very uniform ones, as the one in Nordic regions and we have Guatemala, for example. With 20 different languages and a bigger number of identities. Furthermore, a clear distrust on the government after the war in the 80s (considered genocide by many). If I were a governor, I would definitively would like to be in a country with a uniform culture. So, what is that force that keeps people together?
[1] http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674363366
[2] Evans, Susan. Ancient Mexico and Central America. Third Edition. pp 27.

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Am I just not looking hard enough?
What are the reasons you would NOT use a Javascript/Applet based cart?
Thanks in advance.
I'm not technically minded enough to know how you might do this but I would think anybody who allows data like prices to be available client-side (possibly this would only be the case if the entire shopping cart was javascript) is a damn fool.
It was easy to install though - I even did it myself (which is saying something!)
Java is a horrible choice for a general purpose shopping cart/online store. There are virtually no advantages and too many disadvantages to list (complex, slow, inaccessible, inflexible, etc.).
not sure why pbreit feels this way. java and the MVC model allows for one to code an excellent and quite flexible shopping cart. not to mention the built in jvm secure functions are another advantage.
inaccessible? not sure what is meant by this.
granted java is not as easy to manipulate for non-java programmers, but that should be part of the decision making process.
as far as using applets in a cart(or on any web site), much like with javascript(beyond form validation), you are relying upon the user's settings, or lack thereof.
it seems to me, that implementing technology in a cart that could eliminate potential buyers(ie. javascript/java applets) is dangerous for business success.
If you're putting up a website, you're going to be best served using technologies that stay on your server, under your control. A Java applet or ActiveX object is running on the client's machine, is slower than dynamic HTML, and can generally be duplicated on the server side with minimal effort. The only advantage I can see to using applets/ActiveX is that they can be integrated into your site with fewer steps. To my mind, that's not enough of a bonus to justify this method.
As far as JSP/Servlet carts, I think you're not looking hard enough.
I believe most of you have associated the negative aspects of applets and JavaScript with "Java".
Java is NOT an applet or the somewhat risky JavaScript.
For instance, our company (why we can't name our products if they are relevant to the thread baffles me), has developed the leading mid-market ecommerce solution for the J2EE platform. It is written with Java using servlets and JSP. The benefits of which are open standards (no hardware restrictions as it will run on anything: Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac etc. and no Database restrictions as it will use Oracle, MS SQL, mySQL, DB2 etc.)
As for Java being slow, yes it has that notariety within client side applications, but when using web technologies such as JSP to deliver the data, there is no performance hindrance.
Java should be seriously considered as a ecommerce technology as it scales much better than proprietary languages.
Would You Ever Use A Java Applet Cart?
No way. even online banks that where about the only people are getting rid of this.
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Sun itself very soon realized that for the broad market java appleets where a non-starter, so they introduced servlets and JSP to handle the work on the server.


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Citation: Rogers Jr, H.H., Davis, M.A. 2005. Carbon and nutrient flow through multiple trophic levels in co2-enriched plant communities [Abstract}. Proceedings of the Joint Southeast Regional Center-Midwest Regional Cneter (SERC-MWRC), National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC) Regional Conference. p. 15. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: The ability to predict the consequences of global change is predicated on our understanding of controls of energy and material flows through ecosystems. A significant gap in that understanding is in the interaction belowground and at the soil-litter interface. The effects of CO2-enriched leaf litter on soil fungi, bacteria, and micro arthropods have begun receiving attention in the past decade; however, macro arthropod detritivores have been largely neglected. Even less attention has been given to the effects of litter quality on detritivores-predator interactions. This project is investigating arthropod responses to reduced dietary quality (litter or prey) which include reduced fitness, increased consumption, and alterations of dietary preferences, all of which would impact nutrient cycling and carbon flow through forest systems.


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To provide an introduction to three phase circuits, transformers, and electromechanical systems with emphasis on analysis and some design insight.
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This is one of the technical electives (3 out of 5) in the EE curriculum. The goals are to impart basics of three phase power circuits, transformers and electromechanical systems with an emphasis on rotating machines. This addresses the ECE department Program Educational Objectives to provide depth, breadth, and learning environment.
The letters (a)-(n) refer to ABET Criterion 3 as follows:
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(b) Ability to design and conduct experiments as well as to analyze and interpret data
(c) Ability to design a system to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability
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(f) Understanding of professional and ethical responsibility
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E. By the end of the semester the student should be able to analyze the basic steady-state operation of synchronous machines, induction machines and DC machines (a, c, k). This includes being knowledgeable in the following topics:
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Re: Freshmen OrientationGerald Soriano May 8, 2014 7:22 PM (in response to Jesseka Lipscomb)
I don't think you need to register. I didn't have to for my freshman year. You should be set. Make sure to check your mailbox over the summer though. Important information will be coming your way!
Re: Freshmen OrientationJesseka Lipscomb May 8, 2014 7:32 PM (in response to Gerald Soriano)
Thank you very much : )
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Exactly what Gerald said! As a freshman you will be moving in on August 30th (due to your last name) and Welcome Week for freshman will be the rest of that week then! We will definitely send you more info over the summer about it!


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Over the last couple of years, many in the hip hop community have been the singing the praises of Cory Gunz. The son of 90's rapper Peter Gunz has earned the respect from the hardest of rap critics because of his keen rap skill and lyrical talent. But of course, skill breeds competition.
In an exclusive interview with BET.com, Cory Gunz answered questions about comments made by rapper Lil Twist that could have incited a rap battle. Speaking on his Young Money brethren, Twist said that Cory Gunz could "rap circles around Slaughterhouse," the Shady Records supergroup consisting of Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Crooked I and Royce Da 5'9," all highly-respected MCs.
"Twist is my little brother...On that, I'm pretty sure he didn't mean no harm, no foul or nothing...We family and I really take pride in what I do and he knows that," said Gunz. "At the end of the day, we fans. We fans of Slaughterhouse, so it's all fair."
Cory continued to clear up Twist's comments, which he feels were taken out of context. "Certain things people say get taken out of context, know what I'm sayin'. [It] ends up one place, and everybody adds their own barbecue sauce on every situation. Ain't nothing too major about that and I'm a fan of Slaughterhouse."


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DJ MagicPO Box 8834
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Abundance Acres1206 Mendota Street
Madison, WI, United States
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Daffodil Parker502 West Main Street
Madison, WI, United States
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Amelia John Photography1976 Atwood Avenue
Madison, WI, United States
"(Formerly known as Yonda Photography). I cannot say enough about Jennifer and Andrew! Our engagement session was a great time to get to know them and their style. We got a personalized guestbook and also fantastic save-the-date cards through their studio. They have a wide array of packages and options to choose from. Most of all, they are creative and talented. Their photos are breathtaking. The very best part is that they are fantastic people to work with! We loved every minute of working with them."
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ANiU Salon2275 Deming Way
Middleton, WI, United States
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Brandi's Bridal Galleria1101 State Road 69 # 13
New Glarus, WI, United States
"The employees at this shop are all very friendly. The shop is never overcrowded and you always feel that you are getting personalized attention. Everyone was genuinely thrilled when I selected a dress, and the alterations were perfect. It's a great shop in a quaint town."
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Paradise Park3109 Oak St
Cottage Grove, WI 53527, US
"The family who owns Paradise Park is incredibly friendly and easy to work with. They have great relationships with Bucky's Rentals, so it's easy to rent chairs/tents as needed. The property is breathtaking. My guests would not stop talking about how beautiful the backdrop was for the ceremony. It's perfect for brides who love outdoor ceremonies in a more rustic setting."
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The Madison Club5 E Wilson St
Madison, WI 53703, US
"The Madison Club is truly something special. Their service and food are unparalleled. My water glass was never more than 1/3 empty before it got refilled. They excel at making guests feel comfortable as well as meeting their needs at every moment. The space is beautiful, elegant, and the built-in dance floor has enough room for plenty of dancing. It was the best party of my life! My guests raved about the dinner as well as the venue itself."
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Glass Nickel Pizza Co2916 Atwood Ave
Madison, WI, United States
"We held our rehearsal dinner in the downstairs room at Glass Nickel Madison East. The pizza was delicious, and there was bar access in the room as well. Great experience working with the staff, planning was a cinch!"


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Just tried it again after an update for this appeared on cydia. Didn't work again for me. Uninstalled it and it reloaded the springboard just to find a bunch of white icons instead of the stock app icons. Rebooted to see if that would help anything and nothing would reboot. After first time trying to boot, redsnow kept bringing up Unexpected error messages everytime I pressed the sleep button to enter DFU mode to boot.
Ok, I have questions about how this works with certain apps. First off, how does the semi-tether state affect apps like Facebook, Twitter, myYearbook, and others that use internet besides Safari and Mail? I know that many internet apps call another process to view webpages(UIWebView, or something like that?), and I am not clear on whether this is considered part of Safari, and thus affected by semi-tether state or not.Also, seeing as jailbreak tweaks, and specifically any jailbreak tweaks related to notification center or also things like SBSettings, cannot be used, and such mentioned jailbreak tweaks supposedly cause a respring loop, how does one goes about deactivating such tweaks before or once in semi-tethered state? Are they automatically deactivated? Or the way I read it, if they are even installed on the device, and one attempts to boot the device to semi-tethered state, then the device will go to this respring loop? Thus effectively, this semi-tethered state is not functional, therefore the device is effectively NOT a semi-tethered jailbroken device, and still just a tethered jailbreak?
it works fine for me. only thing is when I do boot semitethered, all my apps in my folders scatter out, because I have folderenhancer installed, and that supports infinite icons, where as a semitethered booted iPhone can only support 12 icons per folder. it's a hassle but its definitely worth
sorry mate, I was having a problem where all my icons would get pushed down 3/4 of an icon length, and my dock was gone, and spotlight didn't work. so I restored and re jb and I think the problem either came from semitether or music to iPod for ios 5, I don't plan to reinstall either of those again
Got a problem here with semi tether.After i jailbroke with redsn0w and installed semi-tether, everything was working great.Installed a few tweaks and am satisfied with it.However, a few hours later, the screen will suddenly turn black/ when i off the phone, it will boot into a non-tethered state.I then put my phone into DFU mode and tried to boot tethered with redsn0w(extras>just boot tethered). However, it will only be stucked at the pineapple booting screen.Tried it with redsn0w and ibooty, and everytime this happens, it will be stucked at the pineapple/apple logo and not proceeding.Any help is greatly appreciated. TIA!
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I had the same problem with a 330 at work, there is a valve that controls flow to the heater core located near the drivers side near the firewall, I forgettthe exact name of it but if I remember correctly theres 3 hoses that go to it, its kind of a pain to get but its there, if you follow the coolant hoses to the back of the drivers side of the engine bay you'll see it, that could very well be the problem
If that valve was stuck open or closed it wouldn't open/close while driving, it would always be stuck open or closed.
I think your water pump is failing, but that's just my .02 worth of experience with my cooling system. I would bleed properly and definitely keep an eye on the temp gauge and coolant level. The little hole just inside the ET fill neck should piss coolant when there is good flow. Maybe check that out while you're poking around.
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Matter.js (GitHub: liabru / matter-js, License: MIT) by Liam Brummitt is a stable and flexible rigid body physics engine for browsers. The author describes it as an alpha project that came about as a result of learning game programming.
If you're interested in reading more about physics for game programming, Liam has collected some useful resources in Game physics for beginners.
Matter.js uses time-corrected Verlet integration, adaptive grid broad-phase detection, AABB mid-phase detection, SAT narrow-phase detection, and other algorithms for managing collisions and physical simulation. More well-known engines like Box2D support these features, but if you take a look at the some of the classes Liam has written then you'll see how clean and readable his version is.
I've been looking at the source to see how to use it, and the API seems friendly to me:
var Bodies = Matter.Bodies;
var Engine = Matter.Engine;
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Synchronization of the electrical and mechanical properties of the heart
Arrhythmias arise from genetics
-abnormalities in the ion channels controlling
Or from injury
-Death of heart muscle
Drugs increase conduction of electrical impulse
Strong side effects limit use (toxicity + proarrhythmic)
increased use of non-pharmacologic 'device' therapies
Ventricle contraction delayed 0.12 to 0.20 seconds.
-perfectly timed to account for the physical passage of the blood from the atrium to the ventricle
Membrane potential controlled by several ions
-Na+, Ca2+, K+ and Cl-
Dependent on:
1. Extracellular vs. intracellular concentrations 2. Membrane permeability
Voltage-gated or Ion-gated channels
-prevent free diffusion
-create electrical and chemical concentration gradients
Phase 4- gradual depolarization
-reset of automaticity
Phase 0- spontaneous rapid
-Na+ ions rush in
Phase 1- initial re-polarization
Ca2+ influx
-L channels
-triggers heart pump
Phase 2- calcium influx wanes
-K+ re-polarization
Phase 3- Potassium efflux-re-polarizes heart cel
-Reduced AP duration, slowed conduction, decreased pacemaker rate
-Prolonged AP duration,
increased pacemaker rate
-increased arrhythmias,
Torsade de points
Electrical gradient in Purkinje fiber
-Normally -70 to -90 mV (distribution of Na+, K+ and Ca2+)
P wave: atria contraction/ depolarization
QRS complex: ventricular
RST segment = contraction
T wave: re-polarization of ventricles
Bradyarrhythmias: abnormally low heart rates.
Often due to structural defect of the heart.
Therapy involves implantation of a mechanical pacemaker.
Tachyarrhythmias: abnormally high heart rates.
More common clinical problems.
Causes are diverse: drugs, ischemia, cardiomyopathy, etc.
Treated with anti-arrhythmic drugs.
Disturbances in impulse formation
Disturbances in impulse conduction
enhanced automaticity
Lower TP = increased contraction rate
Shortened diastolic interval
Caused by increased Phase 4 slope or lower TP
-Induced by: Hypokalemia, beta agonists,
fiber stretch, partial depolarization by injury current.
Arise during or after a normally evoked action potential
EAD exacerbated by slow heart rates (long QT
Example: Torsade de pointes
Caused by:
AV node or bundle branch block
Unilateral Blocks (Re-entry)
To occur:
1. Obstacle to conduction
2. Unidirectional block
3. Conduction around circuit outlasts refractory period
One impulse excites areas of the heart more than once
-localized to AV node
-Large area in atrial or ventricle walls
Multiple re-entry circuits meander through heart (Afib/Vfib)
Unilateral Blocks (Re-entry)
Local site of reentry within atrium
-causes atrial tachyarrhythmia
Signal repeatedly stimulates atrial branches
Atrial flutter
Unilateral Blocks (Re-entry)
Ventricular fibrillation is typified by chaotic irregular appearance without discrete QRS waves.
Local site of reentry within ventricle
-causes ventricle tachyarrhythmia
Signal repeatedly stimulates ventricle branches
1. Sodium channel blockade
2. Block sympathetic autonomic effects in the heart
(beta-adrenoreceptor drugs)
3. Prolong the refractory period (target K+ channels)
4. Calcium channel blockade
1A ( ↑AP duration)
1B (¯↓ AP duration)
Drugs act mostly on the most active cells, which are usually those driving the arrhythmia.
Class 1 Drugs: Therapeutic Effects
-increased TP prevents triggering of cells
At ↓ conduction, AP may end before re-entry.
Subgroups A-C differently affect duration of AP by differently affecting
K+ current.
Subgroup 1A drugs: ¯¯¯↓↓↓ K+ current ⇒ slows repolarization ⇒ ↑ AP duration
Subgroup 1B drugs: ↔ K+ current ⇒ does not slow repolarization
Na+ blockade accelerates repolarization ⇒ ¯↓ AP duration
¯↓ K+ current ⇒ slows repolarization a bit
Na+ blockade accelerates repolarization a bit
No net effect
on AP duration.
↑ AP duration may prevent ______ _________.
↑ AP duration may prevent re-entry by ____________?
Re-entry does not happen if re-entry point is _______when stimulus passes by it.
Common adverse effects are related to the drugs anesthetic action:
Precipitation of certain types of arrhythmias
Extension of therapeutic effects:
•¯ ↓ conduction may result in heart block.
Asystole and cardiac arrest
Bronchoconstriction in patients with Asthma
Class-3 drugs block the re-polarizing K+ current, thus prolonging AP.
Cardiac effects: bradycardia & heart block
Torsades de pointes (due to AP prolongation)
Other effects: hypotension (due to vasodilation and cardiac effects)
Pulmonary fibrosis (drug accumulates in lungs)
Liver dysfunction (hepatic metabolism)
Hypo- or hyperthyroidism (drug is T3/T4 analog)
-T3- triodothyronine, T4- thyroxine
Substrate of cytochrome P450 3A4 and moderate inhibitor of isoenzyems (CYP 2D6, 2C9 and 3A4). Inhibits P-glycoprotein.
Blockade of
Ca2+ channels
Drugs act mostly on the most active cells, which are usually those driving the arrhythmia.
Ca2+ block: ↑ TP
Ca2+ block: ¯↓ Conductivity
Only verapamil and diltiazem
are antiarrhythmics
causes hypotension and ventricular fibrillation
Negative inotropic effects (limits use in diseased hearts)
Large doses may cause atrioventricular block
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