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March 11, 2003
Sheep hits the fan
NME | Submitted by: Dirty Sammy
"Norwegian death metal band MAYHEM were involved in one of the most bizarre rock accidents last night (March 9) when a flying sheep's head fractured a fan's skull... Lead singer Maniac was carving up a dead sheep as part of the stage act in Bergen when the animal's head flew off, striking Per Kristian Hagen, 25." Interesting history of the band's varied troubles.
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Big Brother is in your steering wheel
The Boston Channel | Submitted by: anonymous
"When you say "black box", the crash data recorder retrieved after airline disasters immediately comes to mind... So, it may come as a surprise to learn that millions of cars and trucks are also equipped with a similar device imbedded deep in the airbag module... The vehicular homicide charge Zimmerman now faces rests on the evidence police found days after the accident; after police obtained this search warrant to extract the so called black box from her mangled sport utility vehicle."
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Iraqis already trying to surrender
Sunday Mirror | Submitted by: Shep Smith
"The stunned Paras from 16 Air Assault Brigade were forced to tell the Iraqis they were not firing at them, and ordered them back to their home country telling them it was too early to surrender... Last night the Ministry of Defence officially denied the incident had taken place, but the story was corroborated by an intelligence source."
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Angry young bulls
BBC | Submitted by: Corporal Punishment
"Two Sunday football matches had to be abandoned and playing fields evacuated when a bullock ran wild through a Wiltshire village... The young bull became separated from his herd as he was being moved into a field in Lavistock."
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Did Hoover foil Trudeau assassination plot?
Canadian Press | Submitted by: Rufferto
"The terse teletyped missives, stamped secret, are part of a file the Federal Bureau of Investigation kept on (ex Prime Minister) Trudeau that was obtained under the U.S. Freedom of Information law by Canadian Press. In rather breathless encoded messages, Hoover scrambled FBI agents across the United States in an attempt to locate at least two men who might have been part of a plot to kill Trudeau. A subsequent investigation suggested the alleged conspiracy may have been hatched by the American Nazi Party." Article also mentions he thought Trudeau was a communist. Dude, he just had a RED rose in his lapel.
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Mouse testicles improve fertility
iAfrica | Submitted by: Captain Prozac
This is from January; I don't know how we missed it: "Hsueh and his wife first learned that the mouse testicles were helpful to fertility two months ago when they were taken by a friend to a local restaurant to taste a dish made from the organs... They then bought some six kilograms of raw mouse testicles at the restaurant, which had become part of their daily meals for more than a month until the wife was diagnosed as pregnant, it said." I think I'll stay sterile, thank you.
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Con artists make the best suckers
The Register | Submitted by: anonymous
Man falls for Nigerian 419 fraud. Man rips off seven friends for $250K. Man gives $750K to the Nigerian Widows and Orphans fund. Man gets kewl artwork, but no money. Man no longer has friends. Man will probably make special friends in Leavenworth.
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Crazy Horse
WDIV-TV 4 Detroit | Submitted by: stereocrumb
"Two people were injured by an out-of-control horse during the Michigan Horse Council's Horse Expo 2003 at Michigan State University. It appeared that something spooked the horse, causing it to go on a four-minute rampage Sunday inside the university's Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education, witnesses told The State News for a Monday story."
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Is Colorado preparing for regime change?
Inside Denver | Submitted by: ZsaZsa
"The state of Colorado could seize antibiotics, cremate disease-ridden corpses and, under extreme circumstances, dig mass graves under executive orders
for use in the event of a bioterrorism attack... Another order would suspend statutes pertaining to death certificates and burial practices. In certain situations, mass cremations or burials might be required. A ninth executive order, pertaining to quarantines, is being prepared."
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The $27 Million Rat
New York Daily News | Submitted by: Mr. Ramon
"A captured Egyptian radical ratted out terror kingpin Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, but only after squeezing $27 million in reward money from American investigators, it was reported yesterday." Did the Feds forget that we're trying to PREVENT Al Qaeda from getting that kind of money?
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Portrait of Christ weeps blood
WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: Rio
"Crowds are flocking to a church in India to see a portrait of Christ that has been observed weeping blood, according to a Local 6 News report.The blood was first noticed by a student at her house last week. The piece was then moved to a church in India's coastal state of Goa for public viewing. Several viewers of portrait call it a miracle, according to the report."
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Beef Association wants girls to eat more meat
Minneapolis Star Tribune | Submitted by: Bammer
Choke on this baby... "The National Cattlemen's Beef Association has put some meat into its new message to girls: Cows are yummy. "I think that the site is fine if you aim to be really fat and really constipated," countered Andrew Butler, a campaign coordinator for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals." Truth is, beef doesn't make you fat or constipated, unless you've been a vegetarian for too long.
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Pakistani Literature
Wire Services | Submitted by: freakymeatballs
Photo of a child looking at a book about Osama bin Laden's 9/11 atrocities. If you look in the background, it looks like the whole shop is dedicated to idolizing Osama.
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Pizza delivery hell
Canadian Broadcasting | Submitted by: anonymous
"A single mother lost her job delivering pizza because she took time off duty to attend to a man who had been shot in the stomach... when she reported back to Frank's Pizza her supervisor, Jason Boyd, fired her. "We feel just as bad as the next guy, but we don't pay employees to be EMTs (emergency medical technicians)," Boyd said."
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Russian school angry over shooting of porno
St. Petersburg Times | Submitted by: Glusker
"As the producer and distributor of what are labeled "hard erotica" films by the standards of Russian censors, since he founded his production company, SP Company, in 1997, Sergei Pryanishnikov has angered religious organizations and the St. Petersburg police alike. When the company released the film "Schoolgirl 2" last fall, the staff of St. Petersburg Middle School No. 193 joined the list of groups and people less than impressed with his work."
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Jerry Springer: Unfavorable!
CNN | Submitted by: Boat6float
"Talk show host Jerry Springer, who has said he might run for the Senate, scored the highest unfavorable rating in the 14 years that the Ohio Poll has been taking the state's political pulse." Springer is former mayor of Cincinnati (one of the most repressive places in America), and is contemplating running for Senate.
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Let the disinformation begin
Salon | Submitted by: Ann Onymous
"Reports that a new Office of Strategic Influence might dabble in disinformation caused such an uproar this year that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered it closed, insisting the Pentagon doesn't spread lies... Even so, in Afghanistan last year, the U.S. military dropped leaflets with a doctored photograph showing Osama bin Laden beardless in a Western-style suit. And some of the administration's claims about links between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida have been stretched."
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Mumbai woman upset over daughter's relationship, strangles her to death
The police at Pydhonie station have registered a case under section 302 - punishment for murder of the Indian Penal Code.
by PTIMumbai: A 40-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her 23-year-old daughter as she was upset with her over her affair, police said on Monday.
The woman, P Waghela, strangled her daughter, Nirmala Ashok Waghela, with a dupatta (stole) on Sunday at 9 pm at their residence in Pydhonie in south Mumbai, the police added.
According to the police, the accused did not approve of her daughter's affair with a man. So she killed Nirmala when she was about to elope with her boyfriend.
"On Sunday, Nirmala was packing her bags to elope with her boyfriend. She had an argument with her mother during which the latter strangled her. She then approached the police and confessed to the crime," an officer said.
The police at Pydhonie station have registered a case under section 302 - punishment for murder of the Indian Penal Code. "We arrested the accused on Sunday itself," he added.
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Another approach in studying CA, even if it is probably not a practical way to study the CA is to see CA as a Markov process76. A Markov process, is a stochastic process that exhibits memorylessness 77 and it means that the future state is conditionally independent 78 of the past. This property of the process means that future probabilities of an event may be determined from the probabilities of events at the current time. More formally if a process has this property following equation holds: \[\begin{aligned} P(X(t_n)&= x \,| X\,(t_1) = x_1,X(t_2) = x_2, \ldots,X(t_{n-1})=x_{n-1}) \\ &= P(X(t_n)=x | X(t_{n-1}=x_{n-1})\end{aligned}\]
In PCA analysis we are more interested in Markov chain because each cell has a discrete set of possible value for the status variable. In terms of chain a CA is a process that starts in one of these states and moves successively from one state to another. If the chain is currently in state \(s_i\), than it evolve to state \(s_j\) at the next step with probability \(p_{ij}\).The changes of state of the system are called transitions, and the probabilities associated with various state changes are called transition probabilities usually represented in the Markov chain transition matrix : \[M = \left( {\begin{array}{cccc} p_{11} & p_{12} & p_{13} &\cdots \\ p_{21} & p_{12} & p_{23} &\cdots \\ p_{31} & p_{32} & p_{33} &\cdots \\ \vdots & \vdots &\vdots& \ddots\\ \end{array} } \right)\]
This could seems to be a good way to analyze the probabilistic CA but, a small grid \(10\times10\) (common models model use grid \(100\times100\) or larger) identify \(2^{10\times10}\)possible states and the resulting matrix dimension of \(2^{10\times10}\times2^{10\times10}\) that is a very large number!


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A PVRApi FrameBufferObject implementation. Use through the Reference counted Framework object Fbo. Use a Context to create an FBO (IGraphicsContext::createFbo()).
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A PVRApi FrameBufferObject implementation. Use through the Reference counted Framework object Fbo. Use a Context to create an FBO (IGraphicsContext::createFbo()).
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Construct an FBO on device with create description.
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| device | A Context to create this FBO on |
| const TextureView& pvr::api::impl::Fbo_::getColorAttachment |
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Get the color attachment at a specific index
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Get the color attachment at a specific index
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Get the depth-stencil attachment at a specific index
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Get the Dimension of this fbo
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Get the Number of color attachments this fbo has
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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:
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"RING" Used as an ornament to decorate the fingers, arms, wrists, and also the ears and the nose. Rings were used as a signet (Genesis 38:18). They were given as a token of investment with authority (Genesis 41:42; Esther 3:8-10; 8:2), and of favour and dignity (Luke 15:22). They were generally worn by rich men (James 2:2). They are mentioned by Isiah (3:21) among the adornments of Hebrew women.
"RING" Used as an ornament to decorate the fingers, arms, wrists, and also the ears and the nose. Rings were used as a signet (Genesis 38:18). They were given as a token of investment with authority (Genesis 41:42; Esther 3:8-10; 8:2), and of favour and dignity (Luke 15:22). They were generally worn by rich men (James 2:2). They are mentioned by Isiah (3:21) among the adornments of Hebrew women.


--- layout: newsstory title: STAYING ALIVE match: Ilkeston 1 Yeltz 3 ---
After the recent disappointments, it's great to report a victory against a poor Ilkeston side who look certain to go down. Goals from new bloke Mark Danks (he scored for Bradford against the Albion in the Cup), a McHugh penalty ( view video - thanks to Chris Davis) and a third from Jason has at least kept us within some sort of reach of safety.
With all of the teams above us drawing we've 'closed' to 4 points of safety , and with Cambridge visiting The Grove next Saturday let's hope we can get even closer.
However, we've got the distraction of a League Cup semi-final against Chips'n'ham on Tuesday. It would be great to beat them, but it really is a case of concentrating on the league at the moment.


Following on from Optiverse, Erik Verlage moved straight on to developing Crosspoint as his second educational game with the Gamkedo club. This time the intention was to teach basic vector mathematics, up to and including the dot and cross products. I once again contributed a large number of levels to the project, some of which even stumped Erik himself, for a while!


This section describes the development of the Buildings library.
Contributions of new models and suggestions for how to improve the library are welcome. Models that are contributed need to adhere to the following guidelines, as this is needed to integrate them in the library, make them accessible to users and further maintain them:
- They should be of general interest to other users and well documented and tested.
- They need to follow the coding conventions described in
- They need to be made available under the Modelica license.
- For models of fluid flow components, they need to be based on the base classes in Buildings.Fluid.Interfaces, which are described in the user guide of this package. Otherwise, it becomes difficult to ensure that the implementation is numerically robust.
The website for the development of the library is https://github.com/lbl-srg/modelica-buildings
Adding a new class, such as a model or a function, is usually easiest by extending, or copying and modifying, an existing class. In many cases, the similar component already exists. In this situation, it is recommended to copy and modify a similar component. If both components share a significant amount of similar code, then a base class should be introduced that implements the common code. See for example Buildings.Fluid.Sensors.BaseClasses.PartialAbsoluteSensor which is shared by all sensors with one fluid port in the package Buildings.Fluid.Sensors.
The next sections give guidance that is specific to the implementation of thermofluid flow devices and to pressure drop models.
To add a component of a thermofluid flow device, the package Buildings.Fluid.Interface contains basic classes that can be extended. See Buildings.Fluid.Interface.UsersGuide for a description of these classes. Alternatively, simple models such as the models below may be used as a starting point for implementing new models for thermofluid flow devices:
When implementing equations for pressure drop, it is recommended to expand the base class Buildings.Fluid.BaseClasses.PartialResistance. Models should allow computing the flow resistance as a quadratic function with regularization near zero as implemented in Buildings.Fluid.BaseClasses.FlowModels.basicFlowFunction_dp and in Buildings.Fluid.BaseClasses.FlowModels.basicFlowFunction_m_flow. The governing equation is
with regularization near zero to avoid that the limit \({d \dot m}/{d \Delta p}\) tends to infinity as \(\dot m \to 0\), as this can cause Newton-based solvers to stall. For fixed flow resistances, \(k\) is typically computed based on nominal conditions such as \(k = \dot m_0/\sqrt{\Delta p_0}\), where \(\dot m_0\) is equal to the parameter m_flow_nominal and \(\Delta p_0\) is equal to the parameter dp_nominal.
All pressure drop models should also provide a parameter that allows replacing the equation by a linear model of the form
Note
Equations for pressure drop are implemented as a function of mass flow rate and not volume flow rate. For some models, this allows decoupling the mass flow balance from the energy balance. Otherwise, computing the mass flow distribution would require knowledge of the density, which may depend on temperature, and temperature is only known after solving the energy balance.
When implementing the pressure drop model, also provide means to
Disabling the pressure-drop model allows, for example, a user to set in a series connection of a heating coil and a cooling coil the pressure drop of the heating coil to zero, and to lump the pressure drop of the heating coil into the pressure drop model of the cooling coil. This often reduces the size of the system of nonlinear equations.


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Honors/Awards
Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar ’19 ‘20
Princeton University Ambassador 1vyG Conference ‘20
NCWIT Aspirations in Computing National Award Winner ‘19
Yale Science & Engineering Association Science Fair Award ‘18
National AP Scholar ’18
National Hispanic Scholar ‘18
Mount Holyoke Book Award ‘18
Academic Scholar in Computer Science ‘18
Prestigious Programs
MIT MOSTEC Program (AI Course & Project) ‘18
Mathroots @ MIT ‘18
Columbia Girls in STEM Initiative ‘17
Languages
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• Help 350+ undergraduates understanding CS concepts for intro course
• Interact with students one-on-one to help with debugging Java code
• Promote products and services for 12 student-run agencies
• Experience analyzing marketing strategies and designing advertisements
• Build user friendly web pages and features on e-commerce website
• Conducted customer segmentation on 550-person survey using Pandas
• Wrote Python script that scores homes based on data scraped throughout multiple sites using Beautiful Soup and Selenium
• Tracked impact of COVID-19 in Cuba by analyzing recent news and activity on the black market.
• Read publications and conducted interviews to understand the distribution channel and costs associated with “El Paquete Semanal”.
• Built and managed website: miamiaffordablehomes.com.
• Created and managed social media accounts including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Linkedin.
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The following button will fire 3 events with 3 different configurations by interval
of 1500 millisec.
To be able to pass under this limit the async bin must be improved.
1st: type info, blink slow
2nd: type warning, blink medium, position top-left, duration 2000
3rd: type error, blink fast, position top-right, duration 6000


LITTLE BUDDHA A film review by Michel Hafner Copyright 1994 Michel Hafner
- Director: Bernardo Bertolucci - Screenplay: Mark Peploe, Rudy Wurlitzer - Camera: Vittorio Storaro - Costumes: James Acheson - Editing: Pietro Scalia - Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto - Cast: Keanu Reeves: Siddhartha/Buddha Ying Ruocheng: Lama Norbu Chris Issak: Dean Konrad Bridget Fonda: Lisa Konrad Alex Wiesendanger: Jesse Konrad Sogyal Rinpoche: Kenpo Tensing
LITTLE BUDDHA is Bernardo Bertolucci's new movie (following THE SHELTERING SKY and THE LAST EMPEROR). The story is rather simple. The spiritual master of Tibetan Lama Norbu (Ying Ruocheng), Lama Dorje, has died and ever since Lama Norbu is looking for his reincarnation. Kenpo Tensing, a Tibetan monk living in Seattle contacts him. In dreams the late Lama Dorje revealed him where he has been reborn. It's in the house of the Konrad's, Seattle, USA! So a few days later the Konrads, Lisa (Bridget Fonda) a math teacher, Dean (Chris Issak), an architect, and their son Jesse (Alex Wiesendanger) get a visit from Lama Norbu, his companions and Kenpo Tensing. The idea that Jesse might be a reincarnation of a late Lama is first hard to swallow for the sober scientific minds of the parents. Yet they allow the monks to introduce Jesse with the help of an illustrated book for children to the story of prince Siddhartha, who became known to the world as Buddha. To be sure the monks want to take Jesse back to their convent, but this is only possible after Dean Konrad has an experience he wasn't prepared for. He, Jesse and the monks leave for Bhutan....
LITTLE BUDDHA consists of two "universes." There is Seattle standing for the western world, dominated by technology and presented in sterile looking blueish shades. And there is the world of prince Siddhartha, 2500 years ago and today, colorful and juicy, a paradise, but also a place of suffering, decrepitude and death. The gorgeous images by Vittorio Storaro, telling us the story of Siddhartha every time Jesse looks into his book, are the main attraction of LITTLE BUDDHA. They have to be appreciated on a big cinema screen. Don't wait for the LD or tape. Especially the scenes with Siddhartha leaving his palace for the first time and Siddhartha fighting the demon Mara before enlightenment are breathtaking.
Keanu Reeves as Siddhartha gives an acceptable performance. Physically he fits the role quite well with his exotic looks, enhanced by suitable make up. For the ascetic scenes he went on a strict diet to become skinny enough. Ying Ruocheng as Lama Norbu is the emotional center of the story. His fine performance helps the movie a great deal. Bridget Fonda is competent in her role, but there is really not much she can sink her teeth into. Chris Isaak's role offers more possibilities, but the actor turned singer keeps his facial and other expressions to a minimum. Little Alex Wiesendanger looks a bit uncomfortable at times, yet he pulls it off quite successfully at the end.
Bertolucci gave up the idea of a realistic and detailed Buddha biography in favour of a more fairy tale like approach with "pretty" pictures providing a crash course in Buddhism. The movie is supposed to be accessible to children and capture the attention of grown ups at the same time. I'd say it does, but at the cost of simplifying things and, sometimes, even provoke laughter where laughter is not appropriate (especially in the scene of Siddhartha's birth).
Ryuichi Sakamoto's music is an asset to the movie. There are two main themes, one for Siddhartha (majesticly descending 12-note motive) and one general theme standing for the movie as a whole (I guess, but it's also related to Jesse). Strings, Indian instruments and synthesizer are the main ingredients. Musical highlights are (again) the scene of Siddhartha meeting "the world" and Siddhartha achieving enlightenment. The final scene features a soprano singing in a style very reminding of Gorecki's third symphony.
Bertolucci doesn't shy away from (ultra-modern) special effects (morphing and other digital tricks ). With varying success, going from embarrassing (lotus flowers growing in baby Buddha's footsteps) to near perfect (Siddhartha fighting Mara in the form of Siddhartha ).
LITTLE BUDDHA is all in all a bit disappointing. From Bertolucci more can be expected. This movie is no LAST EMPEROR and all it can hope for at Oscar time is a nomination for best cinematography and costumes/production design. And for these a trip to the nearest big screen cinema is worth its costs.
-- Michel Hafner Email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>.
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