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|April 18, 2002
|A Laboratory Newspaper at Cleveland State University
|Volume 3 Issue 16
Student Life
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CSU officials are looking for suggestions regarding long-term planning for the University physical plant. This map, created in 1995, is being updated. Students, faculty and staff are being asked to share their ideas.
Officials seek views on campus plan
Students who are unhappy with the physical environment of Cleveland State can share their concerns in a series of on-campus workshops developed by the Master Plan Consulting Committee.
The full article is available in the News Section.
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The university has more than 41,070 students enrolled on its eight campuses, meaning that one in three students enrolled in a public, four-year institution in the Palmetto State is at a University of South Carolina campus, said Dr. Dennis Pruitt, vice president of student affairs and vice provost of academic support.
"This record number comes during the same week that a report for the Commission on Higher Education has found that people with bachelor's degrees earn more than $1.2 million more over their lifetime than those with high school degrees," Pruitt said.
"Every part of our state benefits by having a college-educated workforce, and the university's statewide campuses play an integral role in that education," he said.
The university began the 2009 – 10 academic year with accolades in the 2010 "Best Colleges Guide" by U.S.News & World Report. The undergraduate international-business program at The Darla Moore School of Business was ranked No. 1 in the nation for the 13th consecutive year, and the university's First-Year Experience and Learning Communities programs were highlighted in the guide's "Programs to Look For" section. The university also was among 19 colleges and universities recognized by the guide for "making the most promising and innovative changes in academics, faculty, students, campus or facilities."


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ECU Greeks Retain and Graduate higher than non-Greeks!
On Deck with Student Affairs: Our Vice Chancellor notices the ECU Greeks!
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From The East Carolinian
Panhellenic Creates Woman of the Month
Greek Week 2014
Greeks Attend National Conference
Pi Kappa Phi returns to ECU
Interfraternity Council Hosts Chili Cook-off
Greek Life Award Banquets Award Winners 2013!
ECU Adds Phi Mu and welcomes back Alpha Kappa Alpha
News from other sources involving ECU Greeks!
ECU Alumnus and Board of Trustees Member Named Delta Zeta Woman of the Year for 2011
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Test your knowledge of the rules of the road for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. This app has been created by Kentucky.gov to assist you with learning the rules of the road. This app is designed to help you prepare and test your knowledge so that you can get an idea of the type of questions that will be asked on the written test given by the Commonwealth. Please take note that taking this practice test does not replace studying the Kentucky Drivers Manual.
Great app This app is great I downloaded it for my boy friend bc he is from a different country and he has to pass his test asap. After using this app for 2weeks and reading the manual he passed his test
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Very helpful. This was very helpful, however I strongly recommend reading the manual at least 1 time through. I don't know that I would have passed if I didn't do this 2-3 times a day for the past 2 weeks.


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As a Style Guru, I end up spending a lot of time outside ambling about the most populated areas of campus, such as the quad, to essentially stare at the outfits of my peers and find those worthy of writing about for CollegeFashionista. (I apologize to anyone reading this who may have once noticed me heavily scrutinizing your outfit in public, causing you to feel a little awkward. I swear I mean well.) This new sense of awareness that I've developed over the last couple semesters has also enabled me to pick up on fashion patterns amongst Kent's students. At this gloomy, cold and seriously snowy time of year, the uniform characteristic of most students' looks is usually that of a neutral one. It's impossible to walk around the quad, the esplanade or even downtown without feeling like you're drowning in an ocean of students wearing black and gray parkas/hats/boots/gloves… Everything.
This Fashionista, however, proved to be somewhat of a lighthouse in this aforementioned ocean of dull-hued looks on the quad. While I've actually spotted more navy blue peacoats on campus this winter than ever before, I loved that her particular coat took this trend up a notch by featuring a multicolored floral pattern. Peaking out from beneath the coat was a pair of light blue tights, and she seamlessly balanced out the colorful outfit by accessorizing with brown combat boots and a cream-colored tote.
Her look was full of color without being too loud or showy; to put it simply, her brightly colored outfit was refreshing. Spending time on the quad allows for you to take a break and switch up the scenery from the classroom. I think we can all agree that it's much more interesting to witness a stylish splash of color instead of a less than thrilling, all-gray ensemble. The quad, or anywhere outdoors on campus really, makes for great people watching (which, as previously mentioned, I can definitely vouch for), so it's always a good idea to let your style come through by going for something a little more bold. This Fashionista did just that, and what's more, she surely stayed warm while strolling around the quad in her winter coat, tights and boots.
If you're planning on taking a break between classes at the quad today, keep in mind that the winter weather doesn't have to completely hinder your personal style. Go ahead and strive to be that bit of brightness amongst the mass of neutral outfits (and don't forget to bundle up!).
One Simple Change: This delightful look is also just the thing to cheer up any rainy day. Just make sure to switch out the combat boots for your favorite rain boots first!


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Cold Planet II by NortenyoWatch
©2006-2017 Nortenyo
This is a work that is final, but I think I will revist and continue working on. Imagine this a mining colony on some freezing cold planet...a sort of grand canyon if it was in the ice age. The Miners harvest a special crystal which can be broken down into useful minerals and other chemical compounds. They in turn use these materials to build their cities and power and feed their populations. C&C welcome. Keep in mind that I may add a vehicle coming into frame and and landing pad as well as more indicia or another far away settlement.
Daily DeviationGiven 2006-12-18
Cold Planet II by *Nortenyo is a great design that was executed extremely well. The color choice is perfect for the icey mining facility that stands in defiance against the harsh elements. I really like how the inside lighting gives the viewer perspective on how large this building is by revealing the floors of the complex. Great vision with this one. ( Featured by Aeires )
Can anyone add new comments? Or is this stuck at 169?
The white clouds make me think of a warm summers day. Be brutal!
i'd love to live there
I was there, it was awesome. XD I can't wait to bring back more imagery from that place, too. Ughh..so many projects...so little time.
Wow, this beautiful. I feel like I am standing there, excellent work!
This reminds me of Forerunner architecture from Halo, the large metallic texture and the familiar blue.. I like
Thanks man. This piece was done in 2006 and is dying for an upgrade...It's something for me to think about in my free time, but I'm glad you like it.
Structure design is remarkable
The detail is just . . . wow. I don't even know where to start. How long do paintings like these usually take you? And what resolution do you use?
This one is actual size, digital size of course. I have been meaning to paint a new vision of this all in glorious 4K resolution or even higher at 8K. A painting like this takes a few hours at most...depending on how the ideas are flowing. If I knew exactly what I wanted it would be a matter of minutes to do the actual labor.
Quick update to anyone listening out there...(crickets chirping). If you have been following you may have seen that I have not posted much anything in a long time. check out my journal for more on that...but for now...know this: Cold Planet III is in the works. You might call it an upgrade to Cold Planet II...or the one that sparked an idea in me noggin. I am currently working hard on finishing up American Clockwork my first graphic novel, written by Aaron Rodriguez, my partner in crime and one of my best buds. I have forsaken making any real new art mostly because of that project, but the minute I clear it off my tasklist, Cold Planet III will green light and may become my first solo comic project as well. Shout out if anyone is interested in seeing concept art and sketchwork as that project develops. Thanks for reading this massive post, if you did, you are a gem!
~Nortenyo dateline: Las Vegas, NV
~Nortenyo dateline: Las Vegas, NV
Sorry I know I have promised to follow this up with a high revision, and I will, it's just I have been a divorce, a few funerals, and a near loss of a dear family member's life. I'm getting back on track, though, and Cold Planet III is planned as one of my first new pieces in a long time. I have more art than has been scanned in, also since many pieces I have are traditionally drawn or painted. I thank everyone for al the great comments, suggestions, and general awesomeness that makes you, you. Thanks for all your support and kind word DA buddies, you rock!
The buildings sure look like they could take some heavy duty wind, too. Nice work.
Yeah, I bet they could. I was imagining this day to be JUST before a nasty storm came in...the calm, clear , and crisp air still hanging in the sky and around the canyons and between the structures.
likey likey
this is awesome!!!
I will be follow up on this one...higher rez...new shot. And more will follow that. This image has turned into a major project of mine, so hope you come back to see more as it develops.
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Very nice and atmospheric! A DD (how many do you have!?!) well deserved!
ya great wok
Woah, that's a really imprevise picture...
If this was sometime in december it means you finished the follow up right? *looks expectant*
Nice work!
We could take a peak of future residence.
The work prompt us to imagine how annusual and harsh place we can actually live!!
We could take a peak of future residence.
The work prompt us to imagine how annusual and harsh place we can actually live!!
Just AMAZING!!! love the color and the design for the architectural forms!!! very very very nice
O.m.g. breathtaking. I am in awe of your talent. The color is perfect, the mood is intense, I love this painting so much. Absolutely stunning...!!!
I'm currently in the middle of painting a follow up to this one. Come back sometime to check it out when I finish.
This is just perfect . U rock!!!
Beautiful work!!
the shafts of sunlight are a nice touch
Thanks. I've been swamped with work but I shall return with a new higher rez and re-envisioned cold planet 3... Hope you come back to see it.
Simply beautiful! *_*
detailed, neat, cool environtment and etc
3 words ( awesome plus amazing)
3 words ( awesome plus amazing)
wow, nice composition, great job! gratz!
my god: it's wonderful.... very dull and dark atmosphere but the blue and the piece of sky with the clouds make a peaceful feeling....the way you decided to draw the rocks (very flat) is aesthetic..... and it's stupid but one of my favourite part are the lights....
It's way too good
I absolutely love this piece. I hope you dont mind if i use this idea in a book im writing, I was having a hard time coming up with a look for one of my planets.
As a writer...go for it. A picture tells a thousand...so you owe me a few. jk. Have fun! Send me a sample when you are done.
I think this is a pretty interesting piece. I couldn't properly see what this picture was from the preview on the first page, but really looked like a ship/set of ships out on the sea in a storm. Was it part of the intended interpretion of the piece or not? Anyways.. I think the ship out on a stormy sea works well as an analogy here only thing is, they're on a freezing planet and this is their only real cover.
What I really like in this piece is the colors and the mood. I think there's many different layers in this piece to be looking at, that draws your eyes from one point to the other. Probably what most people see at first is the cold, harsh blue colors that make up the primary lighting and the sail-like structures. Then onto the sun's rays, after that the clouds in the sky, which leads off to the distant landscape and back to the landscape in the front. What's best about this is that there's lots of detail on the way, so there's more than enough to look through.
Great piece! Now I know what I'll have as Christmas present for myself.
What I really like in this piece is the colors and the mood. I think there's many different layers in this piece to be looking at, that draws your eyes from one point to the other. Probably what most people see at first is the cold, harsh blue colors that make up the primary lighting and the sail-like structures. Then onto the sun's rays, after that the clouds in the sky, which leads off to the distant landscape and back to the landscape in the front. What's best about this is that there's lots of detail on the way, so there's more than enough to look through.
Great piece! Now I know what I'll have as Christmas present for myself.


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New Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is ready to make his former Southampton captain Adam Lallana, 26, his first signing at White Hart Lane.
Chelsea want Real Madrid's French defender Raphael Varane, 21, to fill the hole left in the squad by the imminent departure of David Luiz to Paris St-Germain.
Sunderland boss Gus Poyet is pondering a move for West Ham's former Newcastle striker Andy Carroll.
Chelsea forward Eden Hazard, 23, has played down reports that he will follow Luiz to PSG this summer.
Manchester United are interested in PSG midfielder Adrien Rabiot, 19, who has also been linked with Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City in recent months.
QPR manager Harry Redknapp has admitted defeat in keeping former Newcastle loanee Loic Remy, who wants a move to a Champions League club. Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea are all interested in the 27-year-old France striker.
Redknapp also says there is a "very slim" chance of signing Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard or Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand, both 35.


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I have a whole system already setup that has been working for me and was
recently able to get monowall integrated into it. I have a mysql db server
that holds all the user info and how much time is left. 2 radius servers
communicate with the database server. I built a web interface that lets the
user login, and add more time to their account. It is a use it till its
gone type of model. Idle timeouts keep the user from using a lot of time.
In the admin they can see their usage which shows that they logged in and
used X amount of time at X location. Since each of my units submits its own
mac to the radius server, I tie the mac's to an address so it will show each
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> what i want is to run m0n0wall
> under it is a hotspot server where it can create a prepaid accounts
> which can be billed/sell by time usage.
> in short, its a billing system and account generation system in one
> central server.
OK, lets narrow this down to the things you need. You need a transport
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You need an account generation system. And you need some way to take
An AP and a m0n0wall box at each location would work to capture traffic. A
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is beyond me. I would suggest looking in groups for RADIUS, and online
billing, as that is where the gap lies for you.
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Governor Orders Flags To Be Lowered in Honor of Corporal Raphael R. Arruda
Jul. 30, 2011
SALT LAKE CITY - Governor Gary R. Herbert has ordered the Flag of the United States of America and the Flag of the State of Utah to be lowered in honor of Corporal Raphael R. Arruda. The flags will be flown at half-staff at all state facilities from sunrise to sunset on July 30, 2011.
Corporal Raphael R. Arruda, of Ogden, died on July 16, 2011, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
He was assigned to the 744th Engineer Company, 416th Theater Engineer Command, U.S. Army Reserve, Ogden, Utah.
Governor Herbert issued the following statement upon receiving word of his death:
"With sincere gratitude for having paid the ultimate price to maintain our freedoms and defend our country, all of Utah mourns for the loss of Corporal Raphael R. Arruda. Jeanette and I offer our deepest condolences to Corporal Arruda's family. On behalf of the people of Utah, we offer thanks for his service to our state and our nation."


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Have come relatively recently to Vancouver. Grew up in Paris and have been living in different places for work before moving to Vancouver.
Love the outdoors, camping, snowboarding, hiking, arts....
Can talk for ever about healthy food, cooking or my eclectic taste in music ...
Like dancing ...yes I said "like" ...which doesn't necessarily mean that I am good at it!
Laughing and learning everyday, volunteering, , travelling, arts, books, comedies, social justice are also important to me.
Like meeting with people of different origins, learning about different paths of life, different cultures....
People who try to make the world a better place quietly with simple acts of kindness or perform their everyday job with the spirit of service have always struck a chord with me.
Let's meet! Let's go for a tea or a coffee and avoid endless emails. No it is not a "date", it is a bit of friendship...a sine qua non condition before starting a relationship ...therefore antinomic with anything fake related to dating. Yes it takes a bit of time.
Also no profile picture no answer ...sorry!
Cyrano, Mesrine, Spanish apartment, all kinds of documentaries.
All kind of music I like Pop Jazz Hip Hop Reggae, soul, Bossa Nova, Dusbstep but also classical, traditional and modern Indian, Chinese, Japanese, west African , Persian music yes I have a very eclectic taste. Right now I listen to Stromae, Indila...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiKj0Z_Xnjc.
and food don't get me started... I believe in you are what you eat.... So it is mostly fresh healthy, delicious, mostly vegetarian, mostly cooked by myself from all cultures et every part of the world.
The diversity of colors in a rose-garden adds to the charm and beauty of the scene as variety enhances unity.....
The happiness and greatness, the rank and station, the pleasure and peace, of an individual have never consisted in his personal wealth, but rather in his excellent character, his high resolve, the breadth of his learning, and his ability to solve difficult problems ...
A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.
Adam's sons are body limbs, to say; For they're created of the same clay. Should one organ be troubled by pain, Others would suffer severe strain. Thou, careless of people's suffering, Deserve not the name, "human being".
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Aim for service and success will follow.
Albert Schweitzer
You are what you eat!
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed–I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do.
Bruce Lee
The only difference between reality and fiction,
is that fiction needs to be credible.
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are built for.
John A. Shedd
It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair but possibilities which we have failed to realize.
Robert Mallett
The edge is the safest place to be during times of uncertainty.
Robin Sharma
Always reserve the right to laugh the day after at your ideas of the day before
Napoleon Bonaparte
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf
There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: in our home and in Paris.
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Praise is like expensive medicine – be careful how you administer it
Could praising our kids be doing more harm than good to their self-esteem? Dr Justin Coulson takes a look at the latest research on praising children and finds the news isn't great.
As a university researcher, I was intrigued when I discovered a study that highlighted how praising our children is actually 'bad' for them. This had to be wrong! After all, aren't we supposed to be catching our kids doing the right thing and reward them for it? Shouldn't our praise be reinforcing the good behaviours we want to see more of?
I was so fascinated that I conducted my own study with about 100 participants. I asked them to complete an easy puzzle task. Half of them were randomly praised for their intelligence. The other half received no praise. Then all of the participants completed a very challenging puzzle task which they all failed at. Badly. No praise was given.
Next, I asked whether they would prefer to do another puzzle task like the first one they'd done (the easy one), or one like the second one they'd done (the hard one).
The results were astonishing.
Praise undermines motivation and performance
Praised participants were significantly more likely to choose the easier puzzles – almost as if they had to prove how smart they were by getting another high score. Their motivation for challenge was reduced.
Additionally, they scored significantly worse the second time around than they had the first time. It was almost like the pressure to prove their intelligence clouded their thinking. They couldn't perform as well.
Other researchers have found that praise – particularly the type of praise that labels kids as 'good', 'intelligent', 'talented', etc. – has similar effects. And others have shown that praise is often interpreted by kids as an adult saying "I don't think you're really good at that, so if I praise you, you'll think you're good at it". I've written here at Kidspot, about other issues with praise.
Yes, it's true that there are much worse things you can do to your kids than praise them. Things like criticism, neglect, failing to give limits and boundaries and being overly permissive all serve as examples of what not to do.
But the research is interesting and compelling – praise is unhelpful if we want our kids to have a winning, creative, open, positive, mastery-oriented mindset.
Beware of 'inflated' or empty praise
Recently, a new study has appeared in the scholarly journal, Psychological Science. This research examined how 'over-praising' our kids affects them – and the news isn't good.
The study compared the impact of regular praise with 'inflated' praise. Simple praise might be something like "You're good at this". Inflated praise included an adverb (such as 'incredibly') or adjective (such as 'perfect'), which indicated a very positive evaluation – "You're incredibly good at this".
The results? Adults provide double the amount of inflated praise to kids identified as having low self-esteem compared to kids with high self-esteem.
In another study, the researcher assessed the level of self-esteem the kids had, and then asked parents to video a maths puzzle session. The parents scored their children's results and provided feedback. Watching the video tape, the researchers counted how many times the parent praised their child, and classified praise as inflated or non-inflated. The most common inflated praise statements included "You answered very fast!", "Super good!" and "Fantastic!".
Once again, parents gave more inflated praise to children with low self-esteem than they did to children with high self-esteem.
Is this really a problem?
All this praise is supposed to improve our children's self-esteem, but a third study in this particular research report shows it actually makes them feel worse about themselves.
In this other experiment, 240 children drew a famous Vincent van Gogh painting – Wild Roses - and then received inflated, non-inflated or no praise in the form of a note from someone identified as a 'professional painter'. Of course, the notes were pre-prepared and were randomly assigned.
After receiving the note, the children were told they were going to draw other pictures, but they could choose which ones they would copy. They were told they could choose pictures that were easy to do, "but you won't learn much". Or they could choose to draw more difficult pictures in which "you might make many mistakes, but you'll definitely learn a lot too".
The results revealed that children with low self-esteem were more likely to choose the easier pictures if they received inflated praise. By contrast, children with high self-esteem were more likely to choose the more difficult pictures if they received inflated praise.
So what does this mean?
This research highlights that praise has different effects on different people depending on the reason for the praise, the way the praise is given and even who it is given by. But when we give praise to children with low self-esteem (in particular), they think "Gee, I must really suck at this, if they have to keep telling me how incredibly good at it I am".
We think we're doing our kids a favour when we praise them, but often our praise is having the opposite effect to what we hoped. The ones who don't need it because they have high self-esteem just accept it and keep moving forward. But if you praise those with low self-esteem and tell them that they did incredibly well, they may think they always need to do incredibly well. They may worry about meeting those high standards and decide not to take on any new challenges.
It's counter-intuitive, but more and more research is showing us that praise should be administered like expensive medicines – very carefully and only as directed.
Do you think we are becoming a society that 'over-praises' our children?
Related reading:
- 5 minute fix: Why praise is bad for kids
- 5 things we should say to our kids as often as possible
- How too much praise can be demotivating
Read more:
- Positive reinforcement: 9 things you shouldn't say to your child from Parenting magazine
- Can you praise children too much? from Body + Soul
- The key to raising confident kids? Stop complimenting them! from Psychology Today


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I've seen a few parody videos of "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen, but this is one of the best by far. This is performed by members of the U.S. Army Infantry soldiers stationed in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.
It cracked me up, I literally laughed out loud!
Two of my favorite scenes – one when the guys is singing while they're firing off mortar rounds, and the second is when they had members of the Afghani National Army helping out with their dance scenes.
Too funny! Hooah! Thank you for your service!


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Calcutta, June 7: If cyclone Aila had offered Mamata Banerjee an opportunity to hound a poll-battered Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the chief minister hit back today by highlighting her partner Congresss presence at an all-party meeting to discuss relief and rehabilitation at Writers Buildings.
The Congress joined the meeting ostensibly to record its criticism of the governments disaster management failure but many in the CPM were happy, apparently having succeeded in driving a small wedge between the Opposition allies.
The Trinamul Congress skipped the meeting and if the reaction of its state president is anything to go by, it did not take kindly to the Congresss gesture.
Bhattacharjee didnt let go of the opportunity, pointing out his rapport with Manmohan Singh and Pranab Mukherjee. Why should we think our meeting ended in a deadlock just because the principal Opposition party didnt turn up? We held the meeting successfully
. All the Left parties were there. The Congress, a national party which is running the government at the Centre, was present, he said.
I am in touch with the Prime Minister, finance minister and the home minister. We are working together (to tackle the post-cyclone crisis). The Congress leaders today assured me that they would try their best to ensure central assistance, he added.
The chief minister underlined the importance of the Congress several times while briefing the media on the 90-minute meeting. The Congress gave the suggestion and others agreed to it. So we decided to meet again next Sunday, Bhattacharjee said.
According to him, many participants felt they had had little time to ponder over the governments report on the damage and destruction since it was only circulated during todays meeting. They will come up with their considered opinion next week.
Manas Bhuniya and Sub- rata Mukherjee of the Congress not only signed the official resolution urging a joint effort by the state and the Centre to help the distressed but also agreed to attend the second round.
Yesterday, state Congress working president Pradip Bhattacharya had said that not attending the meeting would show the party in poor light across the country.
At the media briefing, Subrata tried to highlight how critical his party had been of the state government at the meeting. We ripped apart the state government for its shoddy relief work. We told the chief minister that the CPM was doing politics over distribution of relief, which has not reached many.
The chief minister, too, was politically correct, admitting the failure to reach out to the people in remote areas and stressing that the meeting had been called to rise above narrow politics.
Bhattacharjee said: You ask the principal Opposition party why they didnt turn up. It is unfortunate that she did not attend the meeting despite my invite. Nor did she send a reply to it
. We cant stop our efforts just because of their absence. Our invitation (to Trinamul) stands.
Trinamul state chief Subrata Bakshi said: The Congress protests at the meeting were an eyewash. They are helping the CPM improve its image, which has taken a beating.
Mamata said her party would also not attend next Sundays meeting. We cannot oblige those who could not send a drop of drinking water to the cyclone-hit in a week by attending an all-party meeting.
Asked about the Congress, she said: The Congress is a different party and has its own compulsions. Maybe the Congress is thinking that the CPM may not attend an all-party meeting when it calls one.


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AUDIO: Dispatcher, 8-year-old girl help mom deliver baby
TAMPA, Fla. (970 WFLA) – An 8-year-old girl and a Tampa Fire Rescue dispatcher helped the girl's mother deliver her baby at home while help was on the way, Tampa Fire Rescue officials said.
Firefighters said it happened just after 7 a.m. Monday morning on the 4700 block of Wisconsin Ave. in South Tampa.
Dispatch received a 911 call from the woman who was in labor so the dispatcher talked the mom and 8-year-old daughter through everything until paramedics arrived shortly after, according to TFR. They successfully delivered the baby boy then transferred mother and son to Tampa GeneralHospital for follow-up care.
Both mother and son are doing fine.
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Gays seeking military exemption in Turkey no longer need to provide visual proof of their homosexuality
Author: Metin Gurcan Posted November 17, 2015
Turkey makes it difficult for potential conscriptees to avoid the draft, generally making exceptions only for those who are sick, disabled or homosexual. To receive an exemption based on their sexuality, men must publicly declare they are gay — a declaration that ensures discrimination will follow them for the rest of their lives. It's either that, or they must successfully hide their gay identity for a year.
As if that isn't bad enough, until last week, to receive the exemption men also had to prove their homosexuality by undergoing nude examinations and submitting photos of themselves engaged in homosexual intercourse.
Last week, however, the military silently amended the most controversial provisions in the regulation. Doctors will now merely observe the behaviors homosexuals display and the verbal declarations they make. In other words, a homosexual can choose to disclose or not to disclose his identity. If he does, this declaration will constitute the sole basis for the doctor's decision.
The change represents a major step toward aligning Turkey's military with the norms for basic human rights. This overhaul in the pre-draft medical examination is a revolution on the part of the Turkish military. Allowing homosexual men to voluntarily disclose or conceal their identities amounts to a shift to a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy.
In the past, Turkey's 12-month compulsory draft has been a dreaded experience for homosexuals.
"Being gay in Turkey is difficult, but for a gay of draft age, these difficulties become a hell," Ahmet K., a 27-year-old homosexual Turk, told Al-Monitor in Istanbul. Ahmet, who completed his military service last year, said, "To start with, the medical examination [to determine fitness] for military service is perhaps the first challenge in your life that forces you to make a choice between your gay identity and social realities. In that examination, we can get an 'unfit report,' which we call the 'pink certificate.' But getting this report means that you disclose and document your gay identity. And in your life afterward, this means social exclusion, loss of job opportunities, no chance of becoming a public employee, increasing snubs and pressure from your social environment or, in short, you ruin your life."
Ahmet lamented that things are no easier for those who wish to get the "fit report" and do their military service. "To conceal your gay identity, you have to bargain with the doctors because their 'fit report' is the way to a 'problem-free' military service. Then, for 12 months, you still have to conceal your gay identity to complete your military service without problems," he said. "That's how you prove your manhood to society and your social environment, and become a young man entitled to marriage, job opportunities and so on."
Indeed, military service is arguably the biggest test in the life of a homosexual in Turkey. In newspaper interviews in August 2014, another homosexual, Kaan Anter (a pseudonym), underlined that for some gays, braving the "unfit report" is out of the question. "Some may be planning to work in public service, or may not wish to disclose they are gay. They simply can't afford it, which confronts them with a big dilemma. They have to go into the army, but feel scared," Anter said.
In 2011, a soccer referee made headlines when he was forced to quit his job after disclosing his homosexuality in a pre-draft medical examination. The referee's lawyer, Firat Soyler, argued the main problem stemmed from the Turkish military's classification of homosexuality as "a psychosexual disorder."
"People face very serious difficulties in their working lives afterward," Soyler said. "My client's case is a glaring example. He is now unable to work, not as a referee or as a radio programmer, a job he has done for 16 years. He has been socially excluded."
The Turkish Armed Forces' Physical Capabilities Regulation, issued in 1986, listed homosexuality as an "advanced psychosexual disorder," a mental illness. Accordingly, homosexuals were issued medical reports declaring them unfit for military service after examinations in military or public hospitals. Such procedures kept stirring controversy and the army faced harsh criticism for flouting basic human rights.
The regulation was amended once in 2013 to soften the definition of homosexuality as "a psychosexual disorder." The amendment introduced the category of "sexual identity and behavioral disorders," which effectively meant that homosexuality was now acknowledged as a chosen identity and the military no longer saw it as an illness. The amendment also spoke of men whose "sexual manners and behavior cause or are expected to cause problems of adaptation and functionality in a military environment." That clause of the amendment was another indication that the army's categorical rejection of homosexuality as an illness was replaced with a softer definition classifying it as a source of adaptation and functionality problems.
And what about homosexuality in professional ranks? The military remains tough on this issue. Under the Turkish Armed Forces Discipline Law, homosexuality is a reason for expulsion from the military for commissioned and noncommissioned officers, as well as for military school students.
During my doctoral studies in the summer of 2015, I conducted a survey among some 1,300 officers asking whether homosexuals should be allowed to serve in the army. The overwhelming answer was "no," given by 96.3% of the respondents. This demonstrates that military perceptions remain strongly unwelcoming of homosexuality.
That said, the improvement in the pre-draft medical examination, which covers about 500,000 young men in four terms each year, represents a major step forward in observing the basic human rights of homosexual individuals and removes a significant source of criticism the Turkish military has faced for years.
Read More: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/11/turkey-military-gay-rights-homosexual-picture.html
Metin Gurcan is a columnist for Al-Monitor's Turkey Pulse. He served in Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Iraq as a Turkish military adviser from 2002-2008. Resigned from the military, he is now an Istanbul-based independent security analyst. Gurcan obtained his PhD in May 2016, with a dissertation on changes in the Turkish military over the last decade. He has been published extensively in Turkish and foreign academic journals and his book titled "What Went Wrong in Afghanistan: Understanding Counterinsurgency in Tribalized, Rural, Muslim Environments" was published in August 2016. On Twitter: @Metin4020
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Australian Mathematical Society Lift-Off Fellows
The Australian Mathematical Society Lift-off Fellowships are designed to help recent PhD graduates in Mathematics and Statistics jump-start their career by giving them financial support during the period between the submission of their PhD thesis and their first postdoctoral position. The Lift-off Fellowships are awarded on the basis of academic merit.
The rules and application forms for the Lift-Off Fellowships can be found on the Lift-Off Fellowship information page.
The Australian Mathematics Society Lift-Off Fellows to date are:
- 2015 – Dr Koenraad van den Dungen Dr van den Dungen's research is in the field of noncommutative geometry applied to gauge theory and relativity. He has developed two definitions for Lorentzian spectral triples, shown that they both preserve the link with analytic K-homology, and identified the conditions under which Lorentzian or pseudo-Riemannian manifolds satisfy these definitions. He has also defined Krein spectral triples, proposed a Lorentzian alternative for the fermionic action, and shown that this action recovers exactly the correct physcial Lagrangian. Dr van den Dungen will use his Lift-Off Fellowship to conduct research with Associate Professor Adam Rennie at the University of Wollongong. He intends to develop a symmetric version of a theorem of Kaad and Lesch, in the context of indefinite Kasparov modules, and also to analyse the properties of the Dirac operator on the standard example of Schwarzschild spacetime.
- 2015 – Dr Caley Finn Dr Finn's research area is statistical mechanics, with a focus on the asymmetric exclusion process (ASEP), a one-dimensional stochastic model. He has calculated the relaxation rate in the reverse bias regime, by numerically solving the Bethe ansatz equations. He has studied the Prioritising Exclusion Process, a queueing model with high and low priority customer; he found the exact stationary state in some phases, and calculated approximate average waiting times when the queue length is finite. He has also found an integral form for some components of the solution of a q-deformed Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov (qKZ) equation with mixed boundaries, along with developing a combinatorial algorithm that determines a factorised expression for a generalised sum rule. Dr Finn will use his fellowship to attend the three-week workshop "Statistical Mechanics, Integrability and Combinatorics", at the Galileo Galilei Institute in Florence, Italy. He will also visit his future collaborator, Professor Eric Ragoucy, for research discussions at the Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique (LAPTh) in Annecy, France, where he will take up a post-doctoral position in October 2015.
- 2015 – Dr Kristen Harley Dr Harley's research focuses on advection–reaction–diffusion equations and travelling wave solutions arising in models from mathematical biology, and uses methods from dynamical systems theory such as geometric singular perturbation theory and canard solutions. She has proved the existence of travelling-wave solutions for a malignant tumour model with small diffusion, and the existence of a shock-fronted travelling wave solution for a wound-healing model. Dr Harley will use her Lift-Off Fellowship to participate in the 2015 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS15) in Utah, USA, and for research collaboration at the University of Oxford with Dr Frits Veerman. She will also continue collaborations on models of solid tumour growth, on the stability of travelling waves, and on periodic solutions to a three-component FitzHugh–Nagumo model, with collaborators including Dr Petrus van Heijster of the Queensland University of Technology, Associate Professor Sanjeeva Balasuriya of the University of Adelaide, Ms Lotte Sewalt of the University of Leiden, and Dr Robert Marangell and Professor Martin Wechselberger of the University of Sydney.
- 2015 – Dr Andrew Holder Dr Holder's research area is the mathematical modelling of tumour invasion, using differential equations, dynamical systems, spatio-temporal modelling, asymptotic analysis and numerical programming. He has introduced an algorithm for reduction of a dynamic system to a set of algebraic equations, from which parameter estimates can be deduced. He has applied this algorithm to three areas within mathematical biology. Dr Holder will use his Fellowship to participate in the 2015 ANZIAM Conference on the Gold Coast, and to write up a paper drawing on research from his thesis on a system of reaction–diffusion equations used for modelling the acid-mediation hypothesis with chemotherapy intervention. He also intends to develop a new model that examines the interaction between a tumour, its metabolism and the host immune response.
- 2015 – Dr Naghmana Tehseen Dr Tehseen's research areas are partial differential equations, differential geometry and mathematical physics. She has developed a new approach to constructing solutions of differential equations, which is complementary to the symmetry reduction methods initiated by Sophus Lie. She has used her approach to construct solutions to the Boyer–Finley and heavenly equations from general relativity. She has also analysed the monotonicity of the Shannon entropy on solution surfaces of the second-order evolution equation. Dr Tehseen will use her fellowship to collaborate with Professor Peter Vassiliou of the University of Canberra, and Associate Professor Jose de Dona of the University of Newcastle. She plans to use the geometry of differential systems on manifolds to attack the geometric control theory problem of finding computable necessary and sufficient conditions under which a control system is flat. Further, she will investigate higher-order solvable structures, in particular the properties of solutions found by her methods for partial differential equations, in more than two variables, that have infinite-dimensional symmetry algebras. Also, with Professor Geoff Prince of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute, she will apply geometric techniques to analyse the monotonic entropy behaviour of fourth-order evolution equations on solution surfaces.
- 2015 – Dr Ying Wan Yap Dr Yap's research area is the kinetic theory of rarefied gases. She has developed high accuracy numerical solutions for rarefied oscillatory nanoscale gas flows, specifically the Boltzmann–BGK equation for unidirectional steady and unsteady Couette flow. She has also found solutions to the 3D flow generated by an oscillating sphere, and has contributed to understanding the validity of the lattice Boltzmann method for non-continuum flows. Dr Yap's Fellowship will enable her to participate in the 2015 ANZIAM Conference. In addition, she intends to prepare further manuscripts stemming from her thesis work, in collaboration with Professor John Sader of the University of Melbourne and Dr Jason Nassios of Victoria University, and to initiate a study of heat transfer using the lattice Boltzmann method.
- 2014 – Dr Yi Huang Dr Huang's research focuses on genus g hyperbolic surfaces with n cusps and their Teichmüller and moduli spaces. He has generalised known coordinate systems on the moduli space of hyperbolic surfaces with cusps or geodesic boundaries or a combination of both. He has also produced various new McShane identities on hyperbolic surfaces which generalise known identities. He has generated a simple length spectrum of a projective plane with three punctures to prove various results, including calculating the maximum systole on the moduli space of hyperbolic projective planes with three cusps. Dr Huang will use his fellowship to visit A/Prof Hideki Miyachi at Osaka University to develop a quasiconformal maps-based approach to the Teichmüller theory of crowned hyperbolic surfaces. He will also visit Dr Hengnan Hu and Prof Ser Peow Tan at National University of Singapore to determine a geometric interpretation of Hu and Tan's recently derived new McShane identity.
- 2014 – Dr Stephen Maher Dr Maher's research area is mathematical optimisation with a focus on airline applications. He has investigated such problems using column-and-row generation and found that the implementation of this approach to solve an airline recovery problem required further development to reduce solution runtimes. To address this issue, Dr Maher will use his fellowship to visit Francois Vanderbeck at the University of Bordeaux to establish collaboration in order to improve the column-and-row generation solution approach to significantly improve the solution runtimes of large scale optimisation problems. The fellowship will assist Dr Maher to develop improved row generation strategies, analysing the formulations of problems successfully solved by column-and-row generation and improving the integration of column-and-row generation with branch-and-price.
- 2014 – Dr Hui Li Dr Li's research area is operator algebra. He has developed a structure theory for the associated Cuntz–Pimnser algebra and used his theory to show that a result in the literature is an example of a twisted topological graph C*-algebra. Dr Li will use his fellowship to visit Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Brazil, in order to collaborate with Professor Daniel Gonçalves and Professor Danilo Royer. At UFSC, Dr Li plans to study a representation of each k-graph algebra on the Hilbert space L2(Rk), where k is the dimension of the k-graph. For both directed graphs and higher-rank graphs, he intends to find conditions such that these representations are irreducible; conditions which are important in the representation theory of Lie groups and harmonic analysis.
- 2013 – Dr Brian Corr Dr Corr is a computational group theorist with a particular interest in matrix groups and so-called black box algorithms for recognising groups. His thesis contains a generalisation of the famous Kung–Stong Cycle Index Theorem as well as developing several new algoithms for matrix group recognition. He will use his Lift-Off fellowship to visit researchers in Germany, the USA and New Zealand.
- 2013 – Dr Natalie Aisbett Dr Aisbett is a combinatorial topologist with particular interest in simplicial spheres. She has made significant contributions towards solving some of the major conjectures in this field. In particular, Dr Aisbett has proved the Nevo-Petersen conjecture for the class of simplicial spheres that are obtained from the boundary of a cross-polytope by an arbitrary sequence of edge subdivisions. She will use her Lift-Off Fellowship to continue her work on simplicial spheres and to study combinatorial complexes for complex reflection groups.
- 2013 – Dr Nahid Banihashemi Dr Banihashemi uses numerical methods to solve optimal control problems with an emphasis on real world applications. She has developed novel algorithms for solving a general class of box-constrained optimal control problems building on inexact restoration methods and Euler discretization. Dr Banihashemi will use her Lift-Off Fellowship to develop a computational model of the co-metabolism of carbon and nitrogen in collaboration with Professor John Crawford at the Charles Perkins Obesity Centre at the University of Sydney.
- 2012 – Dr Nicholas Beaton Dr Beaton works on solvable lattice models, polymer absorption and self-avoiding walks. With coauthors he has given precise estimates for the surface fugacity of random walks on several planar lattices. He will use his fellowship to study self-avoiding walks on a rotated honeycomb lattice and prudent walks on lattices.
- 2012 – Dr James Caffrey Dr Caffrey is a mathematical biologist who has developed models of interacting populations to understand experimental observation using a mixture of analytical tools and simulations. He will use his Lift-Off Fellowship to continue his work and to attend the 12th International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology in Arizona.
- 2012 – Dr Bao Ho Dr Ho is a combinatorial game theorist with expertise in analyzing the game of NIM and its many variations, some of which he introduced. He will use his Lift-off Fellowship to investigate periodicity in subtraction games and, more generally, in octal games.
- 2012 – Dr Anthony Mays Dr Mays works in mathematical physics and random matrix theory, having particular expertise in studying the distributions of the eigenvalues of random matrices. Dr Mays will use his Lift-Off Fellowship to attend the "Random matrices" workshop at the University of Bonn in May 2012 and to visit Professor Akemann at the University of Bielefeld, one of the leaders in his field.
- 2011 – Dr Tyson Ritter Dr Ritter is a complex geometer with particular expertise in elliptic manifolds and Oka theory. He has shown that every Riemann surface with abelian fundamental group can be acyclically embedded into a two dimensional elliptic Stein manifold. Using very different techniques, he constructed some interesting new examples of elliptic manifolds which he then used to prove similar results for open Riemann surfaces. He will use his Lift-Off Fellowships to study related questions in Oka theory.
- 2011 – Dr Joanne Hall Dr Hall works on the interface between coding theory, combinatorics and geometry. She gave the first explicit construction of mutually orthogonal Latin squares from mutually unbiased bases. Her lift-off fellowship will allow her to continue her work relating these structures and Hjelmslev geometries. In addition, it will partially support her collaboration with Metod Saniga at the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
- 2011 – Dr Wendy Baratta Dr Baratta's research is concerned with the non-symmetric Macdonald polynomials. She will use her Lift-off fellowship to continue working with Forrester at the University of Melbourne and to finishing writing up her work and making it readily available to other mathematicians via Mathematica.
- 2011 – Dr Michael Pauley Dr Pauley works on generalisations of cubic polynomials to Riemannian manifolds and Lie group. He will use his lift-off fellowship to investigate higher order variational problems with Prof Óscar Garay and his colleagues at the University of the Basque Country, Spain, and to visit Imperial College.
- 2010 – Dr Neil Saunders Dr Saunders' has obtained substantial new results about the minimal embeddings of finite groups inside symmetric groups. He will use his Lift-Off fellowship to continue his study of the minimal embedding problem for Coxeter groups and complex reflection groups and to help foster collaborations with groups in Cornell and Melbourne.
- 2010 – Dr Philip Brooker Dr Brooker has obtained significant results in the theory of operator ideals and Banach spaces where he has used Szlenk indices to define a class of operators ideals which, by his work, have very favourable algebraic and geometric properties. Philip will use his Lift-Off Fellowship to compute the Szlenk indices of the Banach spaces of continuous scalar valued functions on a compact space.
- 2010 – Dr Judith Egan Dr Egan has obtained significant results in the area of orthogonal partitions of latin squares. With her Lift-Off Felllowship Judith will continue her collaboration with Ian Wanless (Monash) and Brendan McKay (ANU).
- 2010 – Dr Michael Haythorpe Dr Haythorpe works in numerical optimisation and computational mathematics with particular expertise in numerical algorithms. He was awarded the TM Cherry Prize Winner for Best Student Presentation at the ANZIAM conference in 2008 and he was runner up in 2009 and 2010. Using his Lift-Off Fellowship Michael initiated a collaboration with Walter Murray at Stanford University.
- 2010 – Dr Roslyn Hickson Dr Hickson is an applied mathematician with particular expertise in modelling and industrial applications. She has wide ranging interests from diffusion and heat transfer to disease modelling. Roslyn used her Lift-Off Fellowship to participate in a course on Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases at the University of Utrecht.


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London (UPI) Jul 2, 2010
A government minster angrily hit out at Britain's top counter-terrorist policeman over remarks that cuts to police budgets would increase the risk of an attack.
John Yates, assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan Police, also known as Scotland Yard, described the recently elected government's 25 percent police budget cut as "eye-watering."
The cuts are part of the Conservative Party and Liberal Democrat Party coalition government's budget reductions to all central departments and agencies, including police and the National Health Service, to help reduce the country's debt by $237 billion.
Yates reportedly told a private session of the annual conference of the Association of Chief Police Officers that the cuts would impair the fight against al-Qaida. The government would have to "accept a higher level of risk" of a terrorist attack, he said.
The Met's anti-terror budget is to be slashed by around $132 million and that of other forces in the United Kingdom by another $93 million.
The cuts come as London prepares to put on the 2012 Olympic Games, whose security remains a police priority, Yates said.
He also warned against diluting police powers to use the 28-day detention rule for terror suspects and to make it harder for police to gain surveillance orders.
Yates' comments come days before the anniversary of the July 7, 2005, London terrorist attacks. More than 50 people died when a bomb in a double-decker bus exploded in the afternoon, ripping the top off the vehicle and injuring dozens of shoppers and tourists on sidewalks.
Yates's comments infuriated Francis Maude, Cabinet Office minister who speaks for the prime minister's inner circle.
"I'd like to avoid public servants doing this kind of shroud waving in public," he said. "There is a special responsibility on all public servants to be really careful what we say and what we do."
Maude, Conservative member of Parliament, said all public servants had to be "damn sure" they had cut out waste.
"It's going to be pretty important for people who are managing big public services, like police forces, to focus on cutting out unnecessary costs, driving down costs, being as efficient as they possibly can before they even begin to contemplate talking about alarming the public in this kind of way."
Yates, 51, has 29 years in the police force. He took over the top anti-terrorist job in April 2009 after his colleague, Bob Quick, resigned following a security incident.
A journalist photographed Quick getting out of a car at the prime minister's London residence, No. 10 Downing Street, clutching open documents in his arms. Clearly visible and legible in the photograph were pages deemed secret and confidential.
Quick resigned after police brought forward a major anti-terrorism operation because it was concerned the information in the documents, if known to terrorist, might have been useful.
Maude, 56, is a past chairman of the Conservative Party and is sometimes called "The Enforcer" for his ability to ensure party members fall in line over policy.
Maude also openly backed Republican Party hopeful Sen. John McCain in his presidential campaign.
Maude led a delegation of Conservative members of Parliament to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., in September 2008. He was quoted at the time as saying he was a "strong supporter" of McCain.
"But I think this is shaping up to be a very even race and we need to be in good shape with whoever wins the presidency. There is certainly a lot to be learnt from Obama, he's an interesting guy."
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Venetians do not generally oppose the project, but insist that it will not be enough to save their city from disappearing.
Venice is not only at risk from high tides - the worst of which dumped sludge on artworks and buildings in 1966 - but is also sinking through subsidence, while the Adriatic Sea is rising.
Water levels have risen by 80 centimetres since the 18th century, when Canaletto painted the lagoon city. St Mark's Square floods more than 100 times a year. Less than 100 years ago, the city flooded 60 times in a decade.
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Do you need further proof that you can find anything on the internet? A new show premiered on Stan Lee's World of Heroes YouTube channel, and it's all about cosplay and piano. The two things go together surprisingly well. Talented musician Sonya Belousova arranges film, television, or video game themes and puts together an episode around it.
She dresses in a costume and plays the piano, acts out some scenes, and plays in locations fitting of the theme. The first episode focuses on The Walking Dead. I wasn't sure what to expect, and I'm not positive I can explain how it works – it just does and it's cool.
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Really, CBS? We're going to get that detailed here? As we near the hearing tomorrow morning in the never-ending CBS v. ABC Big Brother/Glass House battle, CBS didn't waste any time on Thursday releasing an eleven page document pointing out just how ABC has copied the CBS reality staple. Copyright expert, Jeff Rovin, reviewed Glass…Details


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Just making a projector amazingly small isn't enough, as we noted in our recent review of Optoma's Pico PK101. Call us old-fashioned, but we also like our pint-sized gadgets to perform, too – something the PK101 really didn't manage, thanks to a pretty devastating lack of brightness.
So it's with some suspicion that we set about Samsung's first foray into pocket-sized projection waters, the SP-P400B.
Not quite pocketable
Our mood is hardly improved by Samsung's claims that the P400B is a pocket projector. While it's certainly small, it's substantially larger than the PK101, and only fitted into one pocket we could find: that of a particularly nerdy wax hunting coat.
Still, the P400B will certainly easily fit into a briefcase or rucksack, and its 1kg weight is hardly going to strain your back.
Its body is also quite attractive with its glossy black, sensuously curved case, and although larger than the PK101, its extra size raises hopes that it might also have more power at its disposal.
The P400B's connections are disappointing, though, with just a D-Sub PC port and a low-quality, standard definition composite video input for receiving pictures.
We guess this just proves how the P400B is clearly aimed first and foremost at the portable business rather than home cinema brigade.
No zoom
Another concern noted during setup is the lack of any optical zoom. The only way to adjust the image's size is thus to move the projector forward or backwards – hardly an ideal solution.
The projector does at least provide some vertical keystone adjustment, though, to get the picture's sides straight. Plus there's a decent 4:3-ratio native resolution of 800x600 pixels (versus the Optoma PK101's 320x240), a respectable promised contrast ratio of 1000:1, and a not-disastrous claimed brightness of 150 ANSI lumens.
As with all pocket projectors to date, the P400B uses LED lamps, allowing it to quote a massive 30000-hour minimum lamp life. Or, as Samsung puts it, 'one lamp, one life'.
Turn on the bright lights
Expecting little, we settled down with a series of PC presentations (woo) and, optimistically, a couple of films. And much to our surprise, the P400B actually proved pretty good.
Brightness levels, crucially, are in a different league to those of the Optoma PK101, presenting an image that has genuine punch and even remains watchable in some ambient light.
This immediately makes the P400B a million times more practical, as it's genuinely usable in 'real world' environments – conference rooms, bars, darkened living rooms and so on.
The extra brightness also allows the P400B to deliver a larger realistic screen size. For where the Optoma became unwatchably dull beyond 30in, the P400B managed a 60in-or-so picture that still retained definition in dark areas and a degree of punch.
Believable blacks
The P400B's brightness doesn't come at the expense of believable black response, either. Dark parts of the picture are startlingly little troubled by the grey clouding problem found with many budget projectors – even full-sized ones.
More good news finds the P400B's pictures generally looking respectably sharp, and reasonably low on video noise.
Inevitably, the P400B isn't the greatest colour performer in the world, with its lack of video processing power leaving shades looking more 'clumpy' than we'd like.
There's quite a bit of colour noise over fine details when watching the composite input, too, as we'd expect. But these aren't deal breakers given the P400B's size and money – so long, at least, as you're not trying to find a home cinema projector for anything more than totally casual use.
Built-in speakers
If you've been wondering how you're going to get sound to accompany the pictures when you rig the P400B up at home or in the office, now's probably a good time to reveal that the P400B has built-in audio. A whole 2x 1W, to be precise.
Given the inevitable paucity of power, the P400B's sound isn't actually that bad. The soundstage is, at least, clear and detailed – though obviously its lack of power means it can only satisfy the most casual of viewers. Especially as the built-in sound struggles to drown out the noise made by the projector's cooling fans.


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When do you think Pirates 5 will be release ?
I know that Kevin R. McNally said he think it will be release in 2013, but he also said that they didn't already conctact him, so he can't really know the real date... So when do you think it SHOULD be shooting and/or releasing ?
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(TMZ) - Gives a whole new meaning to house music - Calvin Harris just dropped $7 million on one of the most insane Hollywood Hills mansions you've ever seen.
According to legal docs, Calvin - real name Adam Wiles - purchased the 4,000-square-foot pad last month. Like a true baller he dropped MILLIONS upfront, only taking out a $4.9 million mortgage.
Now to the house - or should we say really-awesome-crazy-amazing-mansion. It's got 4 bedrooms, 7 baths, top-of-the-line everything, infinity edge pool, chef's kitchen, home theater, built-in fire pit lounge, floor-to-ceiling windows, plus panoramic L.A. views.
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Tomorrow morning, the House will appoint Members to the conference committee on the supplemental.
Spurred on by President Obama and an array of businesses, medical providers and consumers clamoring for change, congressional Democrats have begun to lay out specific plans for overhauling the nation's healthcare system. House Democratic leaders gave members their first glimpse of their version of President Obama's healthcare overhaul on Tuesday.
I hope that we will pause tonight and honor the memory of Stephen Tyrone Johns of Temple Hills, Maryland, who died today defending the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum against an anti-Semitic gunman.
I am pleased that the House passed the CARS Act this afternoon with strong, bipartisan support.
Today, Members of Congress joined with President Obama as he proposed restoring statutory "pay-as-you-go" (PAYGO) legislation.
Today's announcement of proposed statutory PAYGO demonstrates Democrats' continued commitment to bringing down the deficit.
Black, Latino and Asian lawmakers want President Barack Obama to focus more on racial disparities reported in medical treatment. Despite consistent increases in spending, disparities among demographic groups persist. Low-income Americans and racial and ethnic minorities experience disproportionately higher rates of disease, fewer treatment options, and reduced access to care.
Thank you for offering me the opportunity to speak on behalf of Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher.
I am pleased that Chairman Obey has put forward an aggressive draft schedule to bring all the FY10 appropriations bills to the House Floor for consideration before we leave for the August District Work Period.
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After months of insisting he would leave the details to Congress, President Obama has concluded that he must exert greater control over the health care debate and is preparing an intense push for legislation. The Democratic National Committee is trying to lay the groundwork across the country for broad acceptance of President Obama's upcoming overhaul of the nation's healthcare system.
June 8, 2009 — The Daily Whip
Most observers see rising costs as an inexorable force, blame advancing technology, and conclude that only by rationing beneficial care or making draconian price cuts can we slow the growth of health care costs. As support grows on Capitol Hill for taxing workers' medical benefits to pay for a health care overhaul, Democrats on the House's tax-writing panel hold a thin line of resistance.
The 111th Congress had a strong start and accomplished a great deal in the first five months.
June 5, 2009 — The Weekly Whip
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A new study by Harvard University researchers shows a sizable increase over six years in bankruptcies caused in part by ever-higher medical expenses. Yesterday the White House released a letter sent by the President to Senators Ted Kennedy and Max Baucus, the Chairmen of the key committees in the Senate handling health care reform, spelling out in detail what he would like to see in this historic legislation.
Sixty five years ago tomorrow, American, British, Canadian, and Free French forces launched the amphibious invasion of Normandy and the campaign that would liberate Europe from Nazi domination.
May's job losses were down dramatically, a sign that the economic recovery policy put in place by President Obama and the Democratic Congress appears to be starting to work.
Over the last five months, Congressional Democrats worked with President Obama to improve the lives of Americans and help our nation through this economic crisis.
Analysis in a report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that limiting the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance could provide significant revenues for health reform. The 161 million Americans with employer-sponsored health insurance are facing substantial increases in out-of-pocket costs.
As Congress and the President move to reform our health care system, a report released today provides context for what health care reform means for the American economy. Yesterday, six major health care organizations from across the stakeholder spectrum followed up on their promise and delivered to the President a more detailed proposal of where they could save the health care system $2 trillion over 10 years.
The report released today by the Council of Economic Advisors underscores this key point: health care reform is an economic imperative that is essential to several aspects of our economic health and security.
This morning the White House Council of Economic Advisers issued a pivotal report entitled "The Economic Case for Health Care Reform," explaining in the greatest depth to date why health reform is vital for the future of the American economy.
June 2, 2009 — The Daily Whip
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They ride silently like shadows, with no clatter of stirrup or chink of bit.
She cringed and fell to her knees, screaming and seizing his stirrup.
With one foot in the stirrup, Dave turned savagely: "Why don't you go up in the Gap with me now an' fight it out like a man?"
He then grasped the pole tightly in his arms, and placed his feet firmly in the stirrup.
Instantly every left foot is in stirrup; but before they can swing into the saddle a joyous cry is in their ears, and pop!
Malicorne hastened to hold the stirrup for him, but the king was already in the saddle.
I was dragged thus over a quarter of a mile, and would undoubtedly have been killed had not one and then the other stirrup broken.
And then he was at her stirrup, smiling up at her broadly and cordially.
The seaman had followed the departing Lionel to the door of the little inn and stood by his stirrup after he had got to horse.
While doing this, she should be careful not to put any weight on the stirrup.
Old English stigrap, literally "climbing rope," from stige "a climbing, ascent" (from Proto-Germanic *stigaz "climbing;" see stair) + rap (see rope). Originally a looped rope as a help for mounting. Germanic cognates include Old Norse stigreip, Old High German stegareif, German stegreif. Surgical device used in childbirth, etc., so called from 1884. Stirrup-cup (1680s) was a cup of wine or other drink handed to a man already on horseback and setting out on a journey, hence "a parting glass" (cf. French le vin de l'etrier).
stirrup stir·rup (stûr'əp, stĭr'-)
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Steven Bradbury was last in the final of the 1,000m short track final as the other four went into the final bend, but as they fought for the medals there was a huge crash.
Four skaters crashed out
All four slid into the boards around the side of the ice, leaving Bradbury to skate past them all and into first place, winning Australia's first ever Winter Olympic gold.
Bradbury is now being used as an example to anyone who takes part in sport, encouraging them never to give up even if they think they have lost.
The 19-year-old was so badly hurt that he had to use a wheelchair to go to the medal ceremony, where the home crowd gave him a massive cheer.
Elsewhere at the Games, Canadian skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier were presented with their gold medals at a special ceremony, after originally having to settle for silver.