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Hey, banditas, I'm thrilled to welcome my good friend, Susan Mallery, to the Lair! Susan's next book, ALREADY HOME, is coming out in a few days and I can't wait for you all to read it! It's a step away from the romance she usually writes. ALREADY HOME is a fabulous, emotional story about a woman with two mothers. Take it away, Susan!
Does anyone else get ticked at advice columnists when they advise people to see a therapist? I mean, okay. I understand that therapy is healthy and is sometimes necessary, but I feel like that answer is a cover-your-butt protective move.
When people write to an advice columnist, they want honest-to-goodness advice. They do not want to be told to ask someone else for advice.
Plus, it deflates my voyeuristic balloon. (Yes, it's all about me.) I want to read about the crazy things people do and think and say, and then I want the advice columnist to present a solution that I can either cheer or mock.
Here are letters from three characters from ALREADY HOME. I want you to give them advice. I promise not to mock you… unless you tell them to see a therapist.
Dear Banditas,
I made a big mistake. I opened a kitchen store. What was I thinking?! I don't know anything about running a store. I'm a chef. Or at least, I was. I seem to have lost my mojo in the kitchen, which is why I thought opening a store might be a good idea. But it was an impulse, and now I'm drowning. I have three years of lease payments to make and no clue what I'm doing. The last thing I need is another complication…
So of course that's exactly when my birth parents show up unannounced in my store. And Banditas… they're weird. They said the Universe told them to come. They're from California, they would have named me Butterfly, and they don't eat dairy. Seriously, what kind of person chooses to live without cheese?!
But they said I have two brothers and a niece on the way. And my birth mother looks a lot like me. I am a little curious about the life I didn't have. But what if I hurt my real mom by spending time with the woman who gave me birth? What should I do?
- Torn in Texas
Dear Banditas,
My daughter! My little Butterfly! For 31 years, we celebrated her birthday. Missed her. Waited for her to find us… until the Universe told me not to wait any longer. Finally, our family is reunited. Why is she fighting it? I want to share the world with her, and we've lost too much time already. If she doesn't open her heart to me, how will she open herself to the man I've found for her? I don't want to wait any longer. How can I convince her to stop turning me away?
-Earth Mother
Dear Banditas,
My daughter's birth mother is getting to be a pain. I don't hate the woman; how could I? I was born to be a mother, but I couldn't have children. Serenity made my life complete when she gave Jenna to me. I want to be open-minded about this whole thing, but Serenity is being way too pushy, and my instinct is to protect my daughter. Why is Serenity so insistent that Jenna jump whole-heartedly into a relationship with the birth family she just met? Why does everything have to happen now, now, now?
How can I help my daughter? Should I step in and tell Serenity to back off? Or should I encourage Jenna to get to know the people whose DNA she shares?
-A Real Mom
Okay, Romance Banditas, put on your Advice Columnist hats. Pick a question, or respond to all three. What advice would you give the women of ALREADY HOME?
And while you're thinking of Susan, you absolutely must rush right over and join her Members Only area at http://www.susanmallery.com/. There, you'll find extended excerpts, contests, freebies, exclusive short stories, games and videos, and more.


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Eisert, D., & Jensen, M. K. (2003). Victimization of Girls in American Society. Article
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Golly, A., Sprague, J., Walker, H. M., Beard, K., & Gorham, G. (2000). The First Step to Success program: An analysis of outcomes with identical twins across multiple baselines. Behavioral Disorders, 25(3), 170-182. Abstract
Golly, A., Stiller, B., & Walker, H. M. (1998). First Step to Success: Replication and Social Validation of an Early Intervention Program. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders 6(4), 243-250. Abstract
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Sprague, J., Walker, H., Sowards, S., Van Bloem, C., Eberhardt, P., & Marshall, B. (in press). Sources of Vulnerability to School Violence: Systems-Level Assessment and Strategies to Improve Safety and Climate. National Association of School Psychologists. Abstract
Sprague, J., Walker, H. M., Wagner, L., Stieber, S., Simonsen, B., Nishioka, V. (in press). Exploring the Relationship Between School Discipline Referrals and Delinquency. Psychology in the Schools: "Appraisal and Prediction of Violence in Schools." (Special Issue). Abstract
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ICD-10 Diagnosis Code T48
Agents prim act on smooth and skeletal musc and the resp sys
Diagnosis Code T48
Short Description: Agents prim act on smooth and skeletal musc and the resp sys
Long Description: Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of agents primarily acting on smooth and skeletal muscles and the respiratory system
This is the 2019 version of the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code T48
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The code T48 is a "header" and not valid for submission for HIPAA-covered transactions.
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The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has published an update to the ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes which became effective October 1, 2018. This code was replaced for the FY 2019 (October 1, 2018-September 30, 2019).
This code was deleted in the 2019 ICD-10 code set with the code(s) listed below.
- K59.03 - Drug induced constipation
Code Classification
Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00–T98)
Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of drugs, medicaments and biological substances (T36-T50)
- Agents prim act on smooth and skeletal musc and the resp sys (T48)
- Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of drugs, medicaments and biological substances (T36-T50)
Information for Medical Professionals
References found for the code T48 in the Index of Diseases and Injuries:
- 7th Characters: "With"
The word "with" should be interpreted to mean "associated with" or "due to" when it appears in a code title, the Alphabetic Index, or an instructional note in the Tabular List. The word "with" in the Alphabetic Index is sequenced immediately following the main term, not in alphabetical order.
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T48
Information for Patients
Drug Reactions
Also called: Side effects
Most of the time, medicines make our lives better. They reduce aches and pains, fight infections, and control problems such as high blood pressure or diabetes. But medicines can also cause unwanted reactions.
One problem is interactions, which may occur between
- Two drugs, such as aspirin and blood thinners
- Drugs and food, such as statins and grapefruit
- Drugs and supplements, such as ginkgo and blood thinners
- Drugs and diseases, such as aspirin and peptic ulcers
Interactions can change the actions of one or both drugs. The drugs might not work, or you could get side effects.
Side effects are unwanted effects caused by the drugs. Most are mild, such as a stomach aches or drowsiness, and go away after you stop taking the drug. Others can be more serious.
Drug allergies are another type of reaction. They can be mild or life-threatening. Skin reactions, such as hives and rashes, are the most common type. Anaphylaxis, a serious allergic reaction, is more rare.
When you start a new prescription or over-the-counter medication, make sure you understand how to take it correctly. Know which other medications and foods you need to avoid. Ask your health care provider or pharmacist if you have questions.
- Angioedema (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Drug allergies (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Drug-induced diarrhea (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Drug-induced tremor (Medical Encyclopedia)
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U.S. government weighs security damage from NSA disclosures
The NSA contractor who leaked U.S. programs remained out of sight, as the Obama administration launched reviews of the damage to security by the disclosure.
The National Security Agency contractor who leaked top-secret details of U.S. surveillance programs remained out of sight on Tuesday as the Obama administration launched an internal review of the potential damage to national security by the disclosures.
A senior U.S. intelligence official said the review will be separate from a criminal investigation by the Justice Department into Edward Snowden's disclosures of the NSA's broad monitoring of phone call and Internet data from big companies such as Google and Facebook.
Packs of reporters staked out hotels in Hong Kong in hopes of finding Snowden, who had worked at an NSA facility as an employee of contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. He went public in a video released on Sunday by Britain's Guardian newspaper but then dropped from sight and has yet to resurface.
Snowden's disclosures launched a sharp debate about the tradeoffs between privacy rights and national security in the United States in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and whether the resulting measures have been given sufficient scrutiny and oversight.
Members of Congress will be briefed by intelligence and security officials on the programs this week, including a Tuesday session with the House of Representatives. Lawmakers promised public debate and legislative efforts to tighten the laws on U.S. government surveillance.
"We'll have a lot of hearings on this," said Senator Barbara Mikulski, a Maryland Democrat. She said there were questions about how Snowden, a high-school dropout, gained a top-secret clearance and access to high-level government secrets.
Booz Allen said it had terminated Snowden's employment on Monday for violations of its code of ethics and policies. It said he had been an employee for less than three months at an annual salary rate of $122,000.
A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill designed to end the secret supervision of the programs by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court by requiring declassification of significant court rulings.
"Americans deserve to know how much information about their private communications the government believes it's allowed to take under the law," said Senator Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat and chief co-sponsor with Senator Mike Lee, a Utah Republican.
Snowden said in the Guardian video that he wanted to make the public aware of the NSA's broad surveillance programs, but his disclosures to the Guardian and the Washington Post have sparked a mix of condemnation and praise.
"He's a traitor," House Speaker John Boehner said of Snowden in an interview with ABC News. He defended the NSA programs and their congressional oversight, saying Americans are not "snooped on" unless they communicate with a terrorist in another country.
"The disclosure of this information puts Americans at risk, it shows our adversaries what our capabilities are, and it's a giant violation of the law," Boehner said.
Many other lawmakers, both Democrats and Republicans, have also called for swift punishment. But Senator Rand Paul, a Republican popular with the Tea Party movement that campaigns against intrusive government, said he was reserving judgment on Snowden.
"I think most Americans don't want this surveillance," Paul said on CBS's "This Morning." He said such civil disobedience happened when people felt like they had no other options.
In Hong Kong, reporters continued to stake out hotels across the city on Tuesday in search of Snowden, who checked out of his luxury hotel in the Kowloon district on Monday.
Snowden said he fled to Hong Kong because of its commitment to free speech and political dissent, but pro-democracy activists have complained that the former British colony's freedoms have eroded since its return to Chinese rule in 1997.
Hong Kong has a longstanding extradition agreement with the United States that has been exercised on numerous occasions since 1998, but Snowden could challenge any U.S. extradition request and make a claim for political asylum, a course of action that typically takes months if not years.
Russia said it would be willing to consider granting asylum to Snowden if he asks for it. "If he says: I request (political asylum), then we will consider it," Dmitry Peskov, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, was quoted as saying in the Russian daily Kommersant.
Snowden has not mentioned the possibility in public of seeking asylum in Russia. While fleeing to Hong Kong, he also has mentioned Iceland as another potential spot for asylum.
The surveillance program rattled some foreign governments and some dissident and opposition groups in Asia. European lawmakers threatened to re-open data-sharing agreements with the United States if Washington has been using the programs to spy on Europeans.
In a heated debate in the European Parliament in Brussels, lawmakers said they had yielded to U.S. demands for access to European financial and travel data for a decade and it was now time to re-examine the deals and limit access.
"We need to step back here and say clearly: mass surveillance is not what we want," said Jan Philipp Albrecht, a German Green lawmaker in charge of a planned overhaul of the European Union's data protection laws.
Dissident and opposition groups in Asia, including three supported by the United States, said they were worried the data collected in the surveillance programs could some day be used against them.
"We share a lot of sensitive data, election-related data, using Google Docs," said Ong Kian Ming, a member of parliament for Malaysia's opposition Democratic Action Party.
"That's definitely something we are concerned about because we don't know what messages are bring tracked and who these messages would be given to."


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text: Almost one-third (32%) of nurses and midwives are considering moving on. Anna Jurkovska/Shutterstock September 28, 2016 Burnt-out and overworked, Australia's nurses and midwives consider leaving profession Peter Holland, Monash University and Tse Leng Tham, Monash University Nurses and midwives are among society's most highly valued professionals. But a disturbing national picture is emerging of escalating levels of over-work and burnout.


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Group of migrants ashore in Florida; 1 body found
HILLSBORO BEACH, Florida (AP) — Officials say more than a dozen people believed to be from Haiti have come ashore in Florida.
Hillsboro Beach Police Maj. Jay Szesnat says nearby residents alerted them that the group of migrants, including some children, were on the beach early Monday. One woman was found dead in the surf, a second was taken to a hospital, and 17 were turned over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Another man was found in nearby Boca Raton and was taken into custody.
The Miami Herald (http://hrld.us/1lrR8kV ) reports that it was not clear how they got to shore because no boat was found.
Officials say there is no correlation "at this point" to four bodies found floating in the water off Hollywood Beach on Sunday.
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Weird vibe on campus? Chalk it up to Notre Dame-USC week
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- With nary a sunbeam in sight just after 5 a.m.,Sam Young arrived at the Guglielmino Athletics Complex on Tuesday and nonetheless saw plainly and clearly how weird the week before the USC game was going to be.
On the sidewalk outside the complex were messages written in chalk. Like, disturbing messages.
"I was wondering when the preschool class came in and did that," Young said. "I was wondering what they're teaching at our schools if they're writing 'Kill USC.'"
People on campus are chalking the talk, as it were. There are signs exhorting the Irish to beat the Trojans taped to light posts. It's why Irish coach Charlie Weis said earlier this week that the game isn't just important for his team -- it's critical to a university community that's watched its emotional investment get drained like a 401k every time the Trojans take the field against Notre Dame.
The Irish, too, are a little geeked, adding to a particularly palpable tension on campus. Safety Kyle McCarthy spent all day Wednesday thinking it was Thursday.
"I'm pretty anxious just to get to Saturday," McCarthy said.
Said linebacker Scott Smith: "There's a feeling around campus, everyone is real excited. They have high expectations for us. Hopefully we can live up to them."
Roommates Armando Allen and Jimmy Clausen are even beyond discussing the excitement with actual words. Allen nodded when Notre Dame scribe John Walters of AOL Sports keenly likened the feeling to anticipating Christmas.
"Every time we wake up in the morning, nothing is being said," Allen said. "We just look at each other and smile. It's getting here pretty soon. The anticipation is crazy. Everybody really can't wait for Saturday to be here. Which is a good thing. It's us knowing that we're prepared."
It's difficult to discern just who is more excited between the team and the fans -- though at least with all the sidewalk chalk talk of killing the Trojans there has not yet been a chalk body outline stenciled somewhere.
"I haven't seen one yet," guard Trevor Robinson said, "but I wouldn't put it past them."


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Is there any reason why an external hard drive wouldn't work with an XO? I haven't bought one yet but, of course, wouldn't want to spend $80+ if it wasn't going to.
If it does work, can anyone recommend a model? It doesn't have to be hundreds of gigs at all, just enough to store a good amount of video/high-res image files.
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Carly Rae Jepsen: Candie's 2013 Campaign!
Carly Rae Jepsen shows off Candie's Spring 2013 looks in these new campaign pics.
The 27-year-old musician was revealed as the new Candie's girl just yesterday by actress Lea Michele.
"I feel very honored to be the next Candie's girl," Carly Rae shared. "It's a dream come true to be in the company of such amazing women! The photo-shoot was really fun because it was so different- I'm actually the photographer as well and can't wait to share it with my fans!"
Carly Rae's campaign — which she shot herself using a photo booth — will debut in magazines in March. Candie's is available exclusively at Kohl's.
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Among the "sensible" actions might be more cooperation with others. Becker points out that we impose a high tariff on Brazilian ethanol. But sugar give and 8 : 1 return on energy invested by comparison to 1.25??? or less? for corn. Are we no longer believers in relative advantage and "free trade?"
Even worse this is a description of Mexico's sugar situation:
With the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, the industry hoped to export their sugar excess to the United States, and thus acquire additional revenue that would be used to pay for the harvest, repay part of the loans, and invest in modernizing the existing infrastructure. Unfortunately, the US has not fulfilled NAFTA's agreement on sugar and thus, the mills are left with tons of sugar in their warehouses without buyer: they cannot sell them at home, because of the saturization of the domestic market nor in the US. The loss is unquantifiable and the industry will need more than a restructurization to bring it out of 90-year crisis. The government has been left with a great challenge: restructure the industry while providing for those 2.5 million people that depend on the industry for their monthly income.
If we're at all serious about slowing the migration of Mexicans to the US shouldn't we be looking for win-win trading opportunities that would employ them on their own economy?
Let's see, an $8 billion subsidy for the barely breakeven corn ethanol as compared to spending the $8 billion on an 8 : 1 source in a low wage country should give us at least $50 - $60 billion of ethanol and help to solve a portion of Mexico's surplus labor problem, not to mention making tortillas affordable again.
Am I missing something or are "our" lobbyists choking us to death?
Another considered and informative pair of posts.
But why the newspaper column style, free-floating from anything that has been said in the blogosphere this week? I think you'd attract a more sophisticated audience if you dropped it and engaged the other elite economics bloggers --- Brad DeLong, Tyler Cowen, and Paul Krugman. They're part of a friendly but critical conversation that has gained a lot of media influence.
You guys could really tear them up if you'd just engage! Please!
Congratulations, Professor Becker, on your being announced as one of this year's recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Say hello to your co-recipient, C-Span's Brian Lamb, for me.
I thought you made good points on the share of a countries income being higher in developing countries than developed however I have a question.
Wouldn't that rise be partially be offset by the rise in food? I expect that these same countries have a higher percentage of their income from agriculture too, so a rise in prices would increase their paychecks.
This all depends on how much the rise in income is, they could still be worse off.
Given that food is one of the major goods traded in the world economy, that the US dollar is one of the major currencies used internationally and that many analysts in the financial sector have biases, I would not be surprised if it were to be eventually realized that the increase in food prices was due to the falling value of the US dollar (along with certain other currencies) rather than the rising value of food.Maybe the costs of food production really have increased or maybe there really is more demand or maybe there really are market inefficiencies creating artificial shortages but there's also the USA's massive budget deficits (that the Iraq war sure hasn't helped) and the Federal Reserve's policy of buying up the debt in order to keep interest rates low while China buys up US dollars to keep the dollar from devaluing. These kinds of questionable policies could be creating a situation that we'd like to believe is an increased value of food but that is in fact something else entirely.
Wes I think you've hit many of the factors. I don't know, on average, what the energy component of food is but add up farm production, and I think US food is transported over 2,000 miles, the energy used to make products and box or wrap them, and the energy consumed in stores with open coolers etc. and it must be substantial.
Somehow wars always add to food costs, perhaps filling up the pipeline to get food delivered half way around the world, much of it wasted as wastage is inherent in wars and perhaps especially in Iraq's climate, plus Iraq is now so screwed up we're probably providing half of their food too....... one war cost I don't object to when H-burton actually delivers what it charges for.
Ha, Ha! The US, with huge trade deficits, instead of cashing in a bit on the high corn prices our idiotic ethanol subsidy has created, is instead trying to fill the tanks of its fleet of gashogs with even pricier fuel made with increasingly costly fossil fuels! Oh well, perhaps make it up on volume?
Whoops! Left out the effect of $90 price of oil on low wage farmers and workers when the increase from $20 to fill a small tractor takes more than the guy used to earn in a month.
I agree primarily that policies should encourage food production, especially abroad, but the Mexico case was brought on by NAFTA. American access to the Mexican corn market dropped prices enough to drive many domestic farmers out of the market. Mexico should have filed an anti-dumping case against the US, but didn't and this was the result. Meanwhile the WTO was supposed to lower barriers and allow access to OECD agricultural markets but due to the way it was negotiated that didn't happen. This is the issue where the Doha negotiations are stalled.
The real problem is that the bias in expanding agricultural production (which is needed) is toward extreme labor efficiency when where the production needs to be expanded labor is a much cheaper factor. In order to re-establish falling food prices there needs to be technical advancement to allow the efficient allocation of factors in the third world.
I agree that new (fuel) role of bio-products with increasing oil price may cause people starve in near future. No remedy, although. Just economic efficiency.
Hopefully, genetics can meet requirement of ethanol production with some breeds which are not eable. Again economic efficiency.
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The women of the LPGA Tour responded in kind, providing an epic show that, against all odds, didn't end Sunday.
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Four times Icher had played here. Four times she missed the cut. Eight rounds, all over par.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
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Illustrators' Christmas Packages
Here's a curiousity I came across in the December 1953 issue of Good Housekeeping" "Eight of America's Most Famous Illustrators Design Christmas Packages You Can Copy".
A couple of observations about this article... first that in 1953 the editors at Good Housekeeping had enough faith in the public's awareness of illustrators that they would care what those artists devised as Christmas packages. But then, in the fifties, illustrators were actually fairly well known by the magazine reading public. Jon Whitcomb had a monthly column in Cosmopolitan called "Jon Whitcomb's Page", Al Parker was the subject of a cover story in that same magazine, Woman's Day sometimes featured illustrator's favourite recipes in a special "Recipes from our contributors" column, The Saturday Evening Post, on their last page, did short articles about the lives and processes used by their artists and writers, often showing photos of those creators, and letters to the editor often praised or criticized artists for their previous month's efforts.
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Secondly, the illustrators chosen as "eight of America's top illustrators" all hale, I believe, from the Cooper Studio - with the exception of Al Parker. This might have been a function of convenience; Good Housekeeping regularly commissioned Cooper artists for its fiction articles, and the editors likely felt it would be expedient to send away this assignment to one address and know it would be handled professionally. No having to track down eight freelancers who might be here, there and everywhere.
But then to say, "Oh yes, and we better see if Al Parker can do one for us as well"?
That clearly confirms Parker's status as a most-in-demand illustrator.
Also, of all eight chosen, why include Stan Klimley? Though a very competent and successful illustrator he hardly strikes me as one of the "most famous" of America's illustrators.
Perhaps Albert Dorne and Robert Fawcett were too busy to participate.
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Weird and cool only from our modern day perspective, CT. When the public had less media to distract it, magazines were a primary form of entertainment, photography was not yet sophisticated enough to accomplish what illustration could, and people scrutinized illustration and illustrators more closely than we do today.ReplyDelete
People clipped magazines and kept scrap books of their favourite illustrators' work - a practice that goes back at least as far as Charles Dana Gibson's "Gibson Girls". As recently as this past decade Will Davies showed me a fan letter from an elderly lady who tore the covers off her Harlequin Romance books whenever they were illustrated by Will and glued them into a Will Davies scrap book she kept.
I have many examples where illustrators from the 50's were used as endorsers of products, were written up in major articles, and were asked to lend their opinion to various topics, all because they were known by the public and respected as authorities on esthetics.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – With their first championship-style meet under their belts, five members of the Yale women's swimming and diving team will head to Atlanta this weekend to compete at the 2011 AT&T Winter National Championships. Racing at Boston University's Terrier Invitational less than two weeks ago has prepared the squad for three days of heats and finals, but this weekend's long course meters racing format will still be a change from the short course yards format the Bulldogs are more used to seeing. At stake are bids to next summer's U.S. Olympic Team Trials for individuals who qualify.
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NEW YORK, NY- September 25, 2013 - The Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College welcomes Gish Jen as the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence for the 2013 fall semester. The author will speak about her most recent book, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture and the Interdependent Self on Tuesday, October 29.
Based on the Massey Lectures she delivered at Harvard University in 2012, Jen will address East-West differences in the self and how they affect art and literature.
The author of four novels --World and Town, Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land and The Love Wife--as well as of a collection of stories entitled Who's Irish?, Jen has published in The New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Granta, and numerous anthologies including The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike. One of her stories will appear in the Best American Short Stories of 2013 being published this month- the fourth time a story of hers has been included in this series.
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RISC OS used to have two options available when it came to hardware: Castle's Iyonix and Advantage6' A9Home. Sadly, the former is out of production, and we haven't heard a thing from the latter in ages. Then again, these machines weren't screaming when they first came out anyway - "Things that are taken for granted on a Windows or Mac OS machine, such as watching video, are simply impossible on current generation RISC OS hardware."
There is another way to run RISC OS: emulation. You can use the free and open source RPCEmu, or the commercial, for-pay VirtualAcorn. Still, this is just emulation - real men don't virtualise. They run native.
Luckily, though, the Castle branch of RISC OS (more on the RISC OS fragmentation) has had its code opened up, so one could start dreaming about maybe porting RISC OS to more modern (more available) hardware. This is actually what's going on today (we've reported on it before): RISC OS is being ported to the OMAP line of ARM processors, with the test bed being the Beagle Board.
The Beagle Board is a tiny SoC built around a Texas Instruments OMAP3530 processor, which runs at up to 600Mhz with 256kb of L2 cache. It also has a TMS320C64x+ HD video capable DSP, so it's actually pretty powerful. Port-wise, it has DVI-D, an MMC+/SD/SDIO slot, s-video, and audio ports, and you can power it over USB. It has limitations too: 256MB of RAM is the upper limit, and it can only do 1280x1024.
RISC OS is currently being ported to this board, which is available for only 149 USD. However, the long periods of stagnation in the development history of RISC OS make the porting effort a daunting one indeed. Still, a lot of progress has been made, and the Beagle Board can now more or less run RISC OS (see the screenshot below), but limitations remain: no video acceleration, no audio, and there are issues with the CMOS settings.
Getting RISC OS to run on the Beagle Board requires some old fashioned handywork which you virtualisation-spoilt brats of today might not be familiar with, but then again, if you own a Beagle Board, you are most likely willing to get your hands dirty anyway. The RISC OS 5 OMAP build can be downloaded from the RISC OS Open website.
If you have a Beagle Board, you can help the effort too by testing it out and reporting bugs. If you have the skills, you can help the coding and porting effort in more direct ways, too, of course.


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November 24, 2015
Here's a game: pick a positive natural number and if yours is the smallest number no one else has picked, you win. What's the best strategy?
November 20, 2015
A bump in the data from the LHC promises exciting news.
November 17, 2015
A famous question involving networks appears to have come closer to an answer.
November 12, 2015
Does a church in Pisa display Fibonacci's famous number sequence?
November 4, 2015
Stephen Hawking's successor as Lucasian Professor studies the maths of soft matter.
November 3, 2015
A fascinating discovery sheds new light on the work of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
October 29, 2015
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Hollywood couldn't have come up with a plot twist as unusual as the latest development in the case of Bernie Tiede, the east Texas assistant funeral director whose killing of his closest confidante, a reclusive 81-year-old millionaire, inspired Richard Linklater's well regarded 2011 film "Bernie" starring Jack Black.
On Tuesday, Tiede was released from prison after a Panola County judge recommended that his life sentence be reduced to time served and that he be released on $10,000 bond pending appellate court approval, The Times has reported.
And Tiede, 55, already has a new home lined up: Among the conditions of his release is that he will live in a garage apartment owned by Linklater, who spoke in front of the court on Tiede's behalf.
Tiede is also to work as a legal clerk for Jodi Cole, the attorney who first approached Linklater after a screening of "Bernie" and questioned Tiede's original conviction.
As the film (shot in a pseudo-documentary style as it captures the foibles of small-town Texas) and a gleeful Black depict, Tiede befriended Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow in the town of Carthage, after handling her husband's funeral and soon began overseeing many of her affairs. Eventually, she became overbearing, and one day in 1996 Tiede snapped and shot her four times in the back.
Cole, in part because of what she saw in the film, reviewed the case and wound up finding that Tiede had been repeatedly sexually abused as a child, a revelation that helped convince Dist. Atty. Danny Buck Davidson, who originally put Tiede away (he's played in the film by a boisterous Matthew McConaughey), and State District Judge Diane DeVasto that Tiede's actions were probably influenced by the abuse. He wasn't, they determined, a coldblooded killer after Nugent's money.
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BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Cory Vaughn's three-run homer in the third inning propelled the Binghamton Mets to a 6-3 win over the New Hampshire Fisher Cats on Sunday at NYSEG Stadium.
The teams split a four-game series in Upstate New York.
Blake Forsythe also homered for Binghamton, which got five solid innings from Rafael Montero for the win.
Kevin Pillar had a run-scoring hit and scored a late run for New Hampshire. Brad Glenn hit a solo homer, his first of the year. The Fisher Cats had the tying runs aboard in the eighth, but Mets reliever Jack Leathersich ended the threat by retiring Adam Loewen on a fly ball to left.
Austin Bibens-Dirkx (1-2) took the loss, allowing six runs over 4 2/3 innings. Rafael Montero (2-0) earned the win for the Mets with five innings of work, allowing two runs and striking out six.
Pillar led the Fisher Cats offense with two hits. He has hit safely in nine straight games, picking up 17 hits overall. He finished the series with the Mets with seven hits in 17 at-bats, driving home five runs in the four-game set.
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The Institute for Supply Management's non-manufacturing index increased to 56 last month from 55.2 in January, the Tempe, Arizona-based group said today. Economists projected the gauge would be little changed at 55, according to the Bloomberg survey median. Readings above 50 signal expansion.
A pickup in the housing market that's driving sales at companies such as Hovnanian Enterprises Inc., along with sustained consumer purchases, is supporting the service industries that make up almost 90% of the economy. The figures follow a report last week that showed the fastest pace of manufacturing since June 2011, indicating the expansion may be broadening.
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The reading today compares with tempered services growth in the world's second-biggest economy. China's services industries expanded in February at the slowest pace since September as a gauge of new orders declined. The non-manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index fell to 54.5 from 56.2 the prior month, the Beijing-based National Bureau of Statistics and China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said on March 2.
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You're probably right... though I think it might be worth considering that if one takes the literal idea of rebirth so seriously, then I don't think that he would be looking down on the children easily.Ñāṇa wrote:I don't think it is. Rather, suggesting that a small child can comprehend the first two noble truths is an example of a superficial understanding of the dhamma.beeblebrox wrote:I think that's quite patronizing.
Even when we consider that a stream-entrant would already be assured of his/her liberation, regardless of how he or she is treated, or spoken to... I still think that kind of talk is bad kamma. Even when it's spoken out of their ear-shot... because that still would be planting the bad seeds, whether within oneself or others.
I think it's better to venerate, the children included, rather than to try to argue so strenuously for one's own particular ideas of rebirth... especially when he/she doesn't seem to have such application within the practice.


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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Brad Keselowski has been vocal about his desire to use his position as NASCAR champion to be an industry leader.
Sometimes that outspokenness gets him in trouble.
Keselowski confirmed Saturday he met with NASCAR chairman Brian France and International Speedway Corp. CEO Lesa France Kennedy, but revealed few details about what was actually discussed with either executive.
"We are all engaged in the same thing, and we are all embracing making the sport better. We just have to discuss how we share that passion sometimes," he told The Associated Press following the final practice for the Daytona 500.
Keselowski was summoned Friday to meet with the France's, the grandchildren of NASCAR founder Bill France Sr., on the same day USA Today ran a lengthy profile piece on Keselowski in which the driver specifically mentioned both in wide-ranging comments about the direction of the sport.
"There are a lot of people that share the same passion for the sport, and I am confirmed of that by some people's reactions to some of the things I said," Keselowski said of the meeting. "I think that's a good thing. It's just a matter of embracing that passion and making a better sport out of it."
Keselowski has not been shy about voicing his opinion throughout his career, and vowed in his champions' speech last November to be an industry leader and help NASCAR grow.
NASCAR Chief Communications Officer Brett Jewkes said Keselowski was not in trouble, and the point of the separate 30-minute meetings with France and France Kennedy was to establish a dialogue with the reigning champion. Jewkes also said the meeting was not a direct result of the USA Today article.
"Brad has wanted more dialogue with senior executives, and Brian has wanted more dialogue as well. Yesterday provided a great opportunity for more dialogue," Jewkes said. "At the top of the list, Brian wants him and all drivers to be candid. That has not changed one ounce."
By meeting with top executives, Jewkes said Keselowski can be properly informed on the topics he chooses to delve into when taking a stand on the issues facing NASCAR.
Four-time series champion Jeff Gordon believes that's the position NASCAR needs to take with Keselowski.
I can see that coming from them ... wanting him to have all the details. He was pretty descriptive with a lot of it," Gordon said, adding he has no issue with Keselowski using his champion's pulpit. "I applaud a guy who's passionate about the sport and wants to give his opinion.
"I think it's not out of the ordinary for a new champion to feel confident to be able to express an opinion on things. Brad cares a lot about the sport. He's not trying to do anything that would hurt the sport. When you're that open, it doesn't surprise me that NASCAR is wanting to talk about it. I don't think it necessarily means they're saying don't do that."
Keselowski told the AP he won't change based on his meetings with France and France Kennedy, but indicated he may be more careful going forward.
"If there's one thing to come from this experience is that there are different ways to approach things," he said. "There is no right, wrong or indifferent. But there are easier and harder ways to do it. I have a bad habit of picking the harder way."


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Resume: Parallel treebanks have received increasing attention in the past few years, primarily due to their potential use in statistical machine translation. Creating parallel treebanks manually is a time-consuming and expensive task and for this reason there is considerable interest in creating treebanks automatically. This task can be solved using standard tools such as parsers and aligners. However, because parallel treebanks are based on parallel corpora, we are in a special situation where the same meaning is represented in two different ways. This thesis is about how we can exploit this information to create better parallel treebanks than we can by using standard tools.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8385
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Resume: We propose a novel machine learning technique that can be used to estimate probability distributions for categorical random variables that are equipped with a natural set of classification hierarchies, such as words equipped with word class hierarchies, wordnet hierarchies, and suffix and affix hierarchies. We evaluate the estimator on bigram language modelling with a hierarchy based on word suffixes, using English, Danish, and Finnish data from the Europarl corpus with training sets of up to 1–1.5 million words. The results show that the proposed estimator outperforms modified Kneser-Ney smoothing in terms of perplexity on unseen data. This suggests that important information is hidden in the classification hierarchies that we routinely use in computational linguistics, but that we are unable to utilize this information fully because our current statistical techniques are either based on simple counting models or designed for sample spaces with a distance metric, rather than sample spaces with a non-metric topology given by a classification hierarchy. Keywords: machine learning; categorical variables; classification hierarchies; language modelling; statistical estimation URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8221
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YORK, PA - Three York College men's basketball players earned NABC (National Association of Basketball Coaches) Honors Court accolades as announced by the organization recently.
Graduated seniors Todd Maciejewski (Red Lion, Pa./Red Lion) and Chad Styer (Elizabethtown, Pa./Elizabethtown) were joined by rising senior Brian Stevko (Walnutport, Pa./Northampton) on the national list.
The NABC Honors Court honored more than 700 student-athletes from 287 colleges and universities from all three NCAA Divisions. To earn the award, the student-athlete must be a junior or senior academically, a varsity player, must earn a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher for the 2012-13 academic year and must have spent at least one year at their current institution.
Maciejewski finished the year as the Spartans' leading scorer and rebounder. He averaged 11.3 points and 7.6 rebounds per game. He shot 56.9% from the floor while he also had 51 assists and a team-high 33 steals in 26 games.
Styer had a solid year for the Spartans as he averaged 5.6 points and 1.9 rebounds per game for the Green and White. Styer played in all 26 games as he earned a start in eight of those contests. He shot 39.8% from three as he converted 39 triples for the year.
Stevko played a reserve role for the Spartans as he played in 18 games for the Green and White. He tallied 21 points on 53.3% shooting from the floor. He also added 14 rebounds, four assists, and three steals in 106 minutes of action.
Spartan head coach Matt Hunter was happy to see his three players rewarded.
"We strive to have not only good basketball players but good students as well," said Hunter. "It is good to see Todd, Chad, and Brian get recognized for their work in the classroom."
Maciejewski graduated with a Recreation Administration degree and is the son of Stephen and Donna Maciejewski. Styer finished his stay in York with a Public Relations degree and he is the son of Mike and Andrea Styer. Stevko is a Secondary Education/Social Studies major and is the son of Joseph and Monica Stevko.


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On April 19, three weeks before he called the end of the 30-year bull market in bonds, Bill Gross said he was buying inflation-linked Treasuries, a bet that money printing by the world's central banks would push up consumer prices.
While Treasuries subsequently fell as he had predicted, so did inflation expectations, amplifying rather than limiting losses for Gross's Pimco Total Return Fund, which had 12% of its $289 billion in Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities at the end of the first quarter. The world's largest mutual fund fell 4.7% in May and June, prompting $9.9 billion in withdrawals last month, the most on record.
The losses highlight the difficulties Gross faces as he steers Pacific Investment Management Co. through what's arguably the biggest market challenge for the $2 trillion bond-fund manager since its inception in 1971. A premature bet against Treasuries caused his flagship to trail peers in 2011, prompting Gross to apologize to clients. With about 10% of the TIPS market owned by Pimco, according to Morningstar Inc., his success is tied in part to an asset class fellow bond manager Jeffrey Gundlach has avoided.
"Unless inflation goes higher, then all you have with TIPS is interest rate risk, just like every other Treasury," said Gundlach, the portfolio manager for the $39 billion DoubleLine Total Return Bond Fund. "It's an asset class that is exposed to investor surprise and disappointment."
TIPS 'Trap'
Gundlach, who called TIPS a "disaster" and a "trap" during a webcast last week, lost 2.6% in the two months through June and is down 0.3% so far this year in his main fund, beating 83% of peers. None of Gundlach's funds reported holding any TIPS as of March 31.
Gross didn't return an e-mail seeking comment. Mark Porterfield, a spokesman for the Newport Beach, California, firm, a unit of the Munich-based insurer Allianz SE, didn't return calls and messages.
Gross has had between 9% to 12% of Pimco Total Return's net assets invested in TIPS since at least the end of 2011, convinced that efforts by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and other central bankers to stimulate their economies will ultimately fuel inflation. The government bonds provide protection against inflation by increasing in par value with the U.S. Consumer Price Index.
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At the end of the first quarter, Pimco Total Return had about 33% of its net assets invested in Treasuries, including $52.9 billion of traditional or "nominal" bonds and $34.3 billion of TIPS. The latter proved costly during the second quarter, when TIPS swooned under muted inflation expectations and sales by funds that lost money under a leveraged investment strategy employed by money managers such as Ray Dalio, known as risk-parity funds.
The TIPS held by the fund as of March 31 declined in value by $3.9 billion during the second quarter, according to data through June 28 compiled by Bloomberg. In contrast, the value of the fund's holdings in nominal Treasuries fell by about $1.9 billion, assuming the holdings were unchanged.
Gross made another bad bet on Treasuries almost 2 1/2 years ago. In February 2011, he eliminated his allocation to Treasuries, only to miss out on a rally in government bonds that left Pimco Total Return trailing 70% of peers. Gross, in a letter to clients at the time titled "Mea Culpa," called 2011 a "stinker." His fund lost an estimated $5 billion to withdrawals that year, according to Morningstar.
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