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Sisters, At Last
Rosalie and Edward have never had an easy relationship. It was worse for her and Bella. But when Bella finds out she's pregnant, Rosalie is the one she calls for the support she needs. Who would've known that it would be Bella getting what Rosalie always wanted that would bring them together...as sisters. Starts right after Bella calls Rosalie and asks for her help on the last page in the first book of Breaking Dawn.
So, this is just an idea I had. I know a lot of people don't like Rosalie because of her attitude, but some people like her a little better after Breaking Dawn. I've always liked Rosalie, even in Twilight. I just she's looking out for her family. And you have to feel a little sorry for her: She wants so bad to be human and to have had children of her own. I don't know. I like her. So, ponder that and enjoy!
1. Understanding
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"What's the problem, Bella?" Rosalie asked, her voice having a slight concerned edge to it.
I was worried, too. What if she wouldn't help me or support me? What if she wanted nothing to do with me now that I was getting what she always wanted? I knew Rosalie could easily choose that alternative. But I had to try, and fast. For all I knew, Edward would be back any second. What would he do if he caught me on the phone-and with Rosalie of all people? At that, I had to hold my stomach again, wishing I didn't have to worry about getting caught in the act of confiding in my own sister.
"I-I don't know for sure. I don't have much time, Rosalie, but I'm sure you've been told that I'm pregnant."
"Yes, I have," She said quickly. "Is there some kind of problem? You sound scared to death."
"Edward is furious. He's running around here going crazy."
"Why?" She asked, now angry.
"I think he's angry at himself. This was very unexpected and he thinks I'm in danger and this all should be put to a stop."
I talked as if I couldn't believe the words, as if I was trying to convince Rosalie that they just weren't true. I only wished Edward wasn't being like this.
"Bella, listen to me. I know you're worried about him catching you on the phone," Rosalie talked in a calming voice now, which actually was working, her having the voice of an angel. "So, I'll be there when we meet the two of you at the airport, and you and I can go somewhere and talk. Don't worry about anything, alright?"
"Thank you, Rosalie." I whispered, my voice thick.
"You're welcome, Bella." She said.
I immediately set the phone where it was, not even wanting to be seen with it in my hand. I turned and closed my eyes in relief. Rosalie would help me.
"Bella? Are you all right?"
My eyes flew open, but Edward was already at my side with his arms around me.
"Yes, I'm fine," I said much too quickly to pass as calm. I assumed he hadn't me on the phone with Rosalie. I wondered how he would react if he found out the things I'd said to her and her agreeing to help.
"Are you ready to go?" He asked, the words coming out like velvet.
There was another nudge inside of me then, as if to answer for me. I was already used to this feeling, the feeling of the baby moving. It was like a reassurance; my oxygen was still here. I could breath.
I nodded, fearing I would lose it if I said too much. As he started toward the door, I looked around me, not wanting to leave, not really. I didn't want to leave the very best weeks of my life behind me.
Edward must've caught some of my distress. "Don't worry, love, everything of yours is packed. You're not forgetting anything."
I sighed. Though he was trying to reassure me, he didn't understand. His arm went tighter around my waist as he pulled me with him out of the house, consequently leaving Isle Esme.
When we first sat down on the longest of the two flights, I immediately noticed how hot it was, so I pulled my hair back into a pony tail.
"Are you warm?" Edward asked me.
"Yes, and a little hungry."
Because I'd tended to get sick the past couple of days after eating something, he wasn't sure how much my stomach could handle. So he got out for me bottled water and some crackers.
I let my mind wander as I rested against Edward, my head on his shoulder. I would be completely drawn out of my daze whenever I felt a nudge, which was every short while. I wanted so badly to reach over, take Edward's hand and place it on my abdomen. Fantasies swirled in my head; Edward smiling his exultant smile at me while caressing my stomach, moving down to kiss the skin there…
But no, it was not like that. That's how it was supposed be, not this. Then I remembered something I'd said to Alice a few weeks ago, scoffing about how Edward and I weren't your average, traditional couple. She'd laughed and agreed with the statement. Despite that, in many ways Edward and I were like a normal, every day couple. We held hands when we walked down the street, or his arm would be slung carefree around my shoulders so he could easily pull me close to kiss me in front of all those who passed by. We joked and teased and played with each other. I loved his family with all my heart and the sister he was closest to was one of my best friends. I fell asleep in his arms every night. And to me, there was no better thing in the world then to have his arms around me, kissing me until I couldn't see straight. Surely, these were the things that were associated with every day, normal couples, right? Things that Edward and I did all the time. So, if we did all those normal, traditional things, why was he being like this now, when we'd just found out we were going to have a child? A normal couple would be ecstatic. It was true; I wanted and needed this child. I was carrying Edward's son, how could I not be ecstatic?
*Edward's POV*
The sound of Bella's breathing was all I heard as she slept against me. She'd only been sleeping for a short while, it having been almost an hour since we got on the plane. I was glad she was sleeping peacefully against my cold body. Normally, I would be worried she would get too cold and it would wake her, but I knew how warm she was. So it was a comfort to have her against me. My coldness helping her physical comfort was about the only thing comforting me now.
I would watch her as she looked out the window, she having the aisle seat. She seemed so…calm. But this didn't surprise me. Bella wouldn't want it to show on the outside that she was frightened on the inside. She must be frightened though. And angry. We hadn't spoken much since we gotten on board but when she did speak I noticed that she seem angry at all. The way her voice sounded was calm. And I as I watched her, Bella seemed at ease and…thoughtful. I could only imagine what must be going through her head.
She must be angry with me. No amount of words could describe the anger I felt for myself. This was all my fault. I didn't know what I felt more of: Anger or shock. The shock hadn't diminished whatsoever since Bella and I were seated on the bathroom floor, both of us realizing that she was indeed pregnant. Carlisle only confirmed after having Bella tell him her symptoms that he thought she was pregnant, too.
I listened to Bella's quiet, gentle breathing again. How I loved to hear her breathing and especially her heartbeat. That sound had always somehow been a comfort to me. Even now. I panicked though when the plane hit a rough spot of air and it got extremely bumpy. Bella jolted awake and held her stomach.
"Bella, it's alright. It will be over soon," I said, but I doubted she was listening.
Bella tipped her head back and had her eyes closed, and I assumed she was trying not to get sick. Everything was still shaking as I took her hand in mine and caressed her face with other, pushing her hair back, trying to take her mind of the violent turbulence.
It was over momentarily and Bella exhaled and took a couple of deep breaths. I realized that she had been holding her breath.
"It's over," I breathed as I pulled her close to me, and she nodded. "Are you alright though? Did it upset your stomach?"
"No, I'm alright, I think. If I get sick, you'll be the first to know. Or maybe the person across the aisle will be, I don't know."
Typical Bella, trying to make a joke out of everything. It was quiet between us after that, Bella falling asleep again, this time in my arms.
*Bella's POV*
We walked quickly through the airport in Seattle, Edward holding me close to his side. I wasn't that tired, partially because I'd slept some on the plane, but mostly I was eager to find Rosalie. And I knew that the whole family would be here.
"What time is it?" I asked Edward, my tone a little too impatient.
"A little after four. Bella, you must be tired, why are you," He cut off abruptly.
I was confused at first, but then I looked and saw his family walking toward us. They were all walking at a pace most humans would regard as "quick walking," but Rosalie was walking just a little bit faster.
Edward grabbed hold of my arm. "Bella," He gasped, "Rosalie says,"
"I know," I said, looking into his eyes. "Edward, I need to talk to her."
"Bella," Rosalie called, and I shot Edward a pleading glance as I walked toward her.
Then I was in Rosalie's arms, and everyone was around us. I got hugs from everyone, with Esme smoothing my hair and Alice giving me a kiss on the cheek. Rosalie then looked past me, to Edward, as if to warn him and plead with him too, though her eyes almost looked to angry to be pleading. Then she turned back to me and took my hands in hers.
"Come on, come with me to the bathroom," Rosalie said, reassuring me with her eyes, silently promising me that this would indeed be private. I smiled a little and nodded, and her cold hand grasped mine and she led me to away to be alone.
When we got to the women's bathroom, I found that there was no one else in there. Not surprising at four o' clock in the morning.
"What has Edward said to you, Bella?" Rosalie asked, her and I facing each other in front of the mirrors.
"Not much, really. We didn't talk a whole lot on the plane, but before that he just said that this would all be over with soon and that I didn't have to worry."
"You don't have to worry, Bella. I'll make sure nothing happens to you or the baby."
I turned slowly, gripping the counter and leaning against it.
"It's funny," I said, Rosalie moving to stand next to me, still facing me. "I never really pictured myself being a mother. I'd wanted something else, an older sibling. That's what I wanted. But now," I paused, my hand went to the visible bump, "I understand it. I want this baby more than anything in the world. I understand you so much better now, Rosalie. And Esme, too."
It was quiet for a moment between us, but then her arm went around my shoulders and her head was against mine.
"It's a wonderful feeling, isn't it?" Rosalie asked, although I knew that she already knew the joys a baby could bring. Not because she'd experienced it herself, but witnessed it herself, when she was human.
I sighed. I wanted to share this feeling with Edward, my husband. While still lightly grasping my shoulders, she turned me to face her. She smiled a little and looked down as her hands went to touch my waist.
"You're already showing."
"Yes," I said, my hand going to my stomach. "It happened literally over night. That's one of the things that has Edward worried; Everything is happening so fast." I explained.
"Well, you'll be well taken care of, and so will the baby."
"Thank you." I whispered, and Rosalie nodded.
When we got home, all I wanted to do was sleep. So Edward and I went upstairs to what was now our room and I fell asleep almost right after I laid down and he started to sing my lullaby in my ear.
My eyes closed as Rosalie brushed my hair. It was the next night, and I had just gotten out of the shower. I sat on the floor in front of her. Having her brush my hair was actually quite relaxing, which I think she knew because she'd been brushing my wet hair for some time now. I was pretty comfortable over all, partially because of Rosalie's gentle brushing, and partially because I was in a pair of my pajama shorts and one of Edward's plain, grey t-shirts. My hands rested on my stomach, the bump having gotten a little bigger.
"Would you like me to French braid your hair, Bella?" Rosalie asked, now running her fingers through it.
"Sure. I never learned how to do it myself."
"It just takes practice. It's something anyone can be good at after practice."
I smiled, surprised at how easy it was to talk about trivial, little things with Rosalie. I enjoyed our conversations. It's like we really were sisters, talking about hair, French braiding. I was glad for her company, to have someone that understood.
"There," Rosalie said shortly after she had started. "All done."
I lifted my hand and ran it over the braid, knowing that I would only have to look to see that it turned out perfect.
"Thank you, Rose." I said, and smiled up at her.
She smiled back, effortlessly it seemed. In a way, I was glad to see it, finally. She smiled at me like I was…her sister. I looked into the golden eyes of my sister and felt the warmth and understanding that had taken so long to surface, coming like a wave, a cool, refreshing wave.
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Well, it got exciting at the end. The Dolphins had a chance to tie it, but Caleb Sturgis missed a desperation 57-yard field goal attempt to tie with only a few clicks left on the clock.
Dolphins lose to the Ravens, 26-23, and go into the bye with a still respectable 3-2 record.
Tough loss.
The defense made it close. Reshad Jones had an interception return touchdown to tie the game at 23. But the defense also gave up a field goal drive. The winning field goal drive.
The offense?
Only scored one touchdown. Rushed for 22 yards on 11 carries. Ryan Tannehill was sacked six times, including three by Terrell Suggs.

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Firefighters responded Friday evening to a Waukesha home after a neighbor noticed flames coming from the garage. They found the man in need of immediate medical assistance.
Some firefighters began treating the man while others brought the fire under control. The 34-year-old was airlifted to a burn center, where police said he was in critical condition Saturday.
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The single-player slice sees Isaac escaping a disintegrating spaceship and seeking sanctuary aboard the derelict Roanoke, which naughty necromorphs have infested. Naturally, amputation ensues. Dead Space 3's creative director and senior audio artist are on hand to commentate.
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Absolutely. I've actually had to work with someone I knew was cheating in school and they couldn't code their way out of a pile of leaves, let alone a wet paper sack.
They got the grades because they cheated. They got the job because they got the grades. Eventually, they were among the first to get the layoff because B and C students like me just plain outperformed them day in and day out on the job.
Years ago I worked as a developer for a subsidiary of Fujitsu. One day a colleague asked for my help.
The crux of the problem was that he was unfamiliar with the concept of a 'while' loop. Not the specific implementation in the language he was using, but the actual concept itself. He had some kind of computer science degree and he'd been working in the same team as me, as a developer, for at least two years.
It took me a while to realise what the problem was, as it never occurred to me that he might be unfamiliar with basic control flow. He sheepishly explained that the bulk of his degree was coursework (presumably he got some 'help') and that he'd been hammering square blocks into round holes for the last couple of years. From what I recall, whenever a while loop was appropriate he'd instead use a for loop with an extremely high upper limit and a break condition.
Usually makes sense to establish what CS is in any article headline to establish defined context.
So it used to be a lot easier to cheat in CS. I used to use an old wallhack that I hex edited and was able to use for years without detection. When they switched from WON to Steam, it all became harder.
You meant computer science?
I thought the same thing and I never even played CS.
Years ago I worked as a developer for a subsidiary of Fujitsu. One day a colleague asked for my help.
The crux of the problem was that he was unfamiliar with the concept of a 'while' loop. Not the specific implementation in the language he was using, but the actual concept itself. He had some kind of computer science degree and he'd been working in the same team as me, as a developer, for at least two years.
It took me a while to realise what the problem was, as it never occurred to me that he might be unfamiliar with basic control flow. He sheepishly explained that the bulk of his degree was coursework (presumably he got some 'help') and that he'd been hammering square blocks into round holes for the last couple of years. From what I recall, whenever a while loop was appropriate he'd instead use a for loop with an extremely high upper limit and a break condition.
I'm sad to say that I've encountered the same situation several times where someone that is supposed to be a CS grad (or what should be a junior/senior CS student) is lacking in something fundamental. Sometimes it is in things that are not so obvious (but should be) such as not knowing what an interface or abstract class is for or thinking that procedural programming means "programming with GOTO statements", or simply not knowing what structured programming really is.
In other cases, the deficiency is gra
I actually used to do in something similar in an interpreted language (I won't name names).
For i=32767, i=i+1, i 32767
would run much faster than this:
While True
The token check to evaluate True took the interpreter longer than adding 1 to i which would overflow each time i reached 32767 and checking it was less than 32767.
You must be talking about the guy who wrote this code:
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Break-Out.aspx [thedailywtf.com]
I had a similar experience with a co-worker who had an MSc in CS (from U. of Windsor, Ontario).
"Stack, stack! What's all this about stack?" he impatiently groused to me one day during a work conversation.
I pulled him into a back room (because I was embarassed for him) and explained to him what a stack was.
Those people will eventually be discovered, but I every time that happens it weakens the value of the diploma from that school. That's bad for the graduates who actually worked. The schools need to stop this kind of thing from happening - that diploma certifies that the person earned it. Not that they cheated their way through a program. If it happens enough, they should lose their accreditation.
Absolutely. I've actually had to work with someone I knew was cheating in school and they couldn't code their way out of a pile of leaves, let alone a wet paper sack.
They got the grades because they cheated. They got the job because they got the grades. Eventually, they were among the first to get the layoff because B and C students like me just plain outperformed them day in and day out on the job.
I hated coding in higher level languages, but I loved doing it for microcontrollers in Assembly. Combined wit
When you get into a corporate environment, "cheating" is actually preferred. No reason to re-invent the wheel when there is existing code that gets the job done.
Need a report that's "like this one except for..."? Take the code for that report and add some mods and there ya go. Your manager would consider you an idiot if you started each project from scratch, re-writing all the functions and methods that already exist in other applications and have perhaps already gone through rigorous QA.
Besides, how many ways can you write a QuickSort?
But, to be successful over the long haul you have to be capable of producing the report from scratch in the first place. Cheating your way through school does not promote that skill set. Sure, you know how to copy and paste the right code but... can you tell why it's the right code in the first place? Can you optimize a/o improve the copied code?
So, I agree on your point re: reuseable code in the workplace but, you still need to do the work up front.
How is a person able to "add some mods" if he's spent four years cribbing everything and never coded anything himself?
You've never worked with COBOL in a mainframe environment, have you? At Cincinnati Bell Information Systems, there are billions of lines of COBOL, APL, PL1, Assembler, Forth, FORTRAN and God knows what else. You didn't write any NEW apps from scratch. You took what was written, modified to do "the new thing" and you were done.
And people were paid big money back in the 1990's for this. A buddy of mine still codes in Assembler for 5/3rd on their mainframe, because the speed of the code is so much faster, by several orders of magnitude. He occasionally gets to write a new program, but rarely. The majority of his job is modifying 40 years of accumulated code.
You've never worked with COBOL in a mainframe environment, have you? At Cincinnati Bell Information Systems, there are billions of lines of COBOL, APL, PL1, Assembler, Forth, FORTRAN and God knows what else. You didn't write any NEW apps from scratch. You took what was written, modified to do "the new thing" and you were done.
and this lazy approach is why Y2K scared the shit out of all the banking companies. They have been reusing old broken code everywhere.
Why? because the managers were too stupid to al
What you call lazy, the company calls good business. They want to pay for all-new code.
So, learning the mindset of a "code modder" instead of "code originator" is a survival skill. This is about putting food on the table and shoes on the kids. You do what the companies are willing to pay to be done.
You and I, we know this is the wrong way to do it for the long run. Businesses of that size have done their math and simply think it is cheaper to mod the existing code, than write all new code. And since it
In university my friend and I worked together on the same assignment. We were in different tutor groups so we believed it wouldn't be detectable. Indeed it wasn't but he got 80/100 and I got 40/100! Mother f$@%^&. It's not like I could complain about it but my friend thoroughly enjoyed it.
In university my friend and I worked together on the same assignment. We were in different tutor groups so we believed it wouldn't be detectable. Indeed it wasn't but he got 80/100 and I got 40/100!
Actually, it sounds to me like you were caught. Giving different grades to people who "worked together" is a way for the teacher to punish people for cheating, if he or she doesn't want to go through all the bureaucracy involved with making a formal accusation.
I have two anecdotes from my years of teaching low-level courses in CS:
1) An introductory Java course had about 5 TAs that took care of programming labs, helped grade assignments and tests. One TA received an assignment for a student, but comments in the code mentioned that the author of the code was another student who was under a different TA. Both TAs spoke to these student separately, and it was pretty simple to determine which one had the student that was copying code from the other. When *that* studen
Ya I had the same thing happen to me.
I had some fiends take CS 101 late in their education. They had the same assignments. Two of them were in a bind, so I dug out my old assignment and gave it to them and said "go nuts". I did pretty well on it with a 80%, which I cobbled together the night before in about 2 hours before going to the University pub.
Anyway one come up to me all excited, they got a 90%. I was about to say "Son of a..." when the other showed me theirs, and the got 100%. W.T.F. I was pissed.
When you get into a corporate environment, "cheating" is actually preferred. No reason to re-invent the wheel when there is existing code that gets the job done.
But that's not cheating. Academic cheating is a breach of ethics: you're told your work must be original but you re-use some else's anyway, without permission from your instructor.
The professional analogue of academic cheating is copyright and patent infringement: using third-party code without consulting your supervisor, the legal department, and so on. That is definitely not encouraged in any corporate setting I know of; the threat of an IP lawsuit is so great that it could drive a small or mid-sized company out of business.
Sharing code between two projects at the same company may or may not be allowed depending on the business use of the respective code bases. For example, the company may not want the latest fancy libraries from R&D being imported into their internal business apps. Again, if you went and did that without approval, I doubt your boss would be happy.
Yeah, as a few others have said, I agree with you and I was going to post something similar. At least up to a point. Most software development projects are highly cooperative affairs and its rarely a matter of success hinging on one's brilliance as a coder. Still, you have to be able to contribute and at least some members of the team need good design skills of various types.
The reality is that successful projects mostly succeed because someone in charge is good at utilizing the strengths of the other team
Need a report that's "like this one except for..."? Take the code for that report and add some mods and there ya go.
Dear god, anything but a copy and paste programmer. We had one here and the results and the results are devastating. Giant swaths of repetitive code pasted in large blocks, all mangled (I mean 'modified') in their own way. It's obvious the guy had no clue what he was doing and it's even harder to understand what his code is doing because so much of it is completely unnecessary.
Your manager would consider you an idiot if you started each project from scratch, re-writing all the functions and methods that already exist in other applications and have perhaps already gone through rigorous QA.
Sure, but building a reusable code base is something I would hardly consider cheating. Building proper and efficient classes and then leveraging them to handle 80% of your work takes experience that you cannot obtain by cheating.
We had one here and the results and the results are devastating.
Good example!
I was lucky enough to take a class in college where the prof understood and embraced this idea. After all, he was teaching us to be engineers rather than coders. On the first day of class he told us in no uncertain terms that, if we found some code that would be useful in our projects, we were free to use it as-is provided we clearly noted where it came from.
He even told us a story where, in a previous year, he (inadvertantly) gave out an assignment that was almost identical to an assignment given at anot
Besides, how many ways can you write a QuickSort?
When I was grading programming homework a decade or two ago (theoretical physics, oddly enough) it was obvious when people shared their code. The use of spaces, indentation, variable names, curly braces etc. really made each assignment unique, and the people who resorted in copying someone's code almost never bothered to make any changes at all. My solution was to give the first assignment turned in whatever grade it deserved, and each subsequent copy a 0, and that seemed to make short work of the practice. At my current university the response would be significantly harsher.
My solution was to give the first assignment turned in whatever grade it deserved, and each subsequent copy a 0, and that seemed to make short work of the practice. At my current university the response would be significantly harsher.
My father once taught computer science to high school students. His approach was to grade the assignment, and divide the points equally among all the students who handed in substantially identical work. (One good assignment, total grade 90%. Handed in by three people -- everyone gets 30%.) The problem didn't usually recur.
My father once taught computer science to high school students. His approach was to grade the assignment, and divide the points equally among all the students who handed in substantially identical work. (One good assignment, total grade 90%. Handed in by three people -- everyone gets 30%.) The problem didn't usually recur.
Slight permutations of the assignment also provide interesting results, as each student hands in identical answers to different questions.
My friend had an interesting tale when a student c
I don't know... there seems to be a lot of perks for Goldman Sachs employees
A - You're talking about CS students here. No need to include the possibility of "she."
B - Is that you, Tiger?
Some times not even later.
As a CS student my buddy and I (we were working as teams) were tired of people copying our stuff. We shared with anyone who wanted to, and had full read access for anyone to our code, so we didn't make it hard for them to copy. Still, it was annoying to do the work and then have others just copy and hand in.
Our assignments required print-outs delivered with the software (yes, this is before there was even an internet) and we suspected people just copied our software, compiled it (which incidentally at the time could take hours) and ran it without even looking at it. So, just for fun, we inserted into our own code the equivalent of a system call to "rm -rf $HOME/*" (yes, this is before we got our Pyramid Unix boxes, so it was not exactly that). We did this two days before the assignment was to be delivered. It took less then an hour before we heard the first "WHAT THE F#CK HAPPENED???". Five teams were unable to deliver their assignments.
Interestingly two of the teams complained about our behavior to the professor. His only reaction was to ask if they had some serious mental problems (or the polite equivalent). I am sure today we would have been sued and the morons would have won since we "hacked" their accounts.
I am sure today we would have been sued and the morons would have won since we "hacked" their accounts.
That's funny you actually mention that!
approx 8 years ago, I was at university. We did have internet and decent computers. I did the same kind of trick as you did.
My trick wasn't as bad, I only made my program modify their login scripts so that they wouldn't be able to login anymore (it would ask the password in loop via a fake login program, always denying them access). No data deleted.
One single guy got caught, it was funny, except that everyone knew if someone was able to do this at the time, it was me. Thus they inspected my code, and my account, and shortly I had to see the director of the university. I was asked to leave the university for "hacking" and that there would be no repercusions on my scholarity. If I had chosen to ignore and try to stay, I would have to deal with a trial instead.
I left this university and went into a smaller school instead. yep it kinda sucks i suppose. Nevertheless.. the guy never got punished for cheating. Best part of the story I guess.
I'll mention this university was in the French riviera.
I forgot probably a small bit of the story:
it took a week for the admins of the university to figure out the trick (tells a lot about their abilities or the lack thereof - i bet they were cheaters too lol), thus they lost a week of time, claiming it to be the reason why I had to leave or face trial.
True. True. True!
I had a fellow student during my university years who cut corners where he could. Which wasn't too hard, considering our profs didn't really care whether you cheated (well, most of them). And often I wondered why I didn't try it as well. Ok, I did. In electrical engineering and hardware design. But I knew I'd not end up in hardware (now it bites me in the behind when I try to toy with atmels, the code is fine but I usually need helpl with the soldering, but
He on the other hand
When I was in college, we had lots of practical group assignments for which we had to deliver reports. In the end of the semester the teacher for each discipline would sit with every group and discuss the reports.
This was great, since the teacher could tell very quickly (with sophisticated interrogation techniques) who did the assignments and who slacked. And then the slackers would go on a round of technical questions. They could cheat on the exams, but they couldn't get through the discussion with the
I cheated and copied this post from another article.
From TFA: Mr. de la Torre was taking the computer science class for a second time in his junior year when he cheated. After he was disciplined, he resigned from his position as student body vice president in November
He shouldn't have resigned, I think he has the makings of a great politician...
Just make the punishment for cheating sufficiently harsh. You cheat.. you get kicked out. Simple.
I dunno about Stanford but when I went to school my CS classes (especially the earlier ones) were huge. I never met most of my classmates. I would be *extremely* pissed off to have my academic standing affected by someone else's cheating.
Just make the punishment for cheating sufficiently harsh. You cheat.. you get kicked out. Simple.
Many years ago, the University of Virginia had a policy where students caught cheating were kicked out, and then their records were burned publicly. Don't know if they do this anymore.
Harsh punishments don't work. Because the punishments are so drastic, instructors become reluctant to give them out to "good kids" who made "one mistake." Lax punishment becomes to de facto standard, and of a rogue instructor tries to apply the penalties as written, his students and his peers look at him as a monster and exert considerable pressure to loosen up.
The difficulty is that stronger punishments require stronger proof. You must be be 100% sure that you have the right person. It would suck if you tossed-out the best and brightest because people were copying their work.
Wall hacks and aim bots, that's how...
... but also cheating in CS:S is not that difficult.
Valve should really stop those nasty cheaters.
Now that I've posted a reply, I'm going to RTFA.
I am wondering what exactly they are calling cheating here, since the code says they "will not plagiarize, copy work or get outside help."
Plagiarize and copy are obvious, but I never heard of asking for help on homework being cheating. How else does one learn ?
If you didn't get the concept in class, you are out of luck, that's it ?
I was in an Engineering program (Stevens Institute in Hoboken), and I would venture that at least half of homework was done in study groups, sometimes just to bounce idea off each other, sometimes as a collaborative group effort. This was part of the learning process.
Agreed. Learning to ask for help, getting outside help, and incorporating that advice into your work is a huge part of learning.
There's definitely a sliding scale between: "will you help me to understand X?" and "will you do X for me?" And it's more than just a line between those two points, because there are other ways to get help, such as group projects, or working side-by-side with an expert. It seems obvious to me that the intent of the code is to stop students before they get all the way to the lat
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I did many years in grad school and discovered several cheaters. The lack of punishment for such was part of what caused me to abandon a career in academics. Part of the discovery that academics is a very very political space. A system that tolerates cheating perpetuates cheating and rots itself from within.
1) Crowded class writing mid-terms. There are 2 copies of the exam with minor but significant variances handed out in a checkerboard pattern. Am proctoring and see a student looking at another paper get another to proctor to witness it. Make a note on the exam when collecting it. Sure enough they guy has the right answers to the wrong questions. No way that would happen without copying. Have to write a formal description of what happened, it goes up the chain. Nothing but a "formal reprimand" on the record and zero for that exam.
2) Programming lab is scheduled 1/2 the class every other week. They are supposed to write code during the lab and have the help of the tutor to explain things. On second week I have people handing me a program "how does this work". I reply "didn't you just write this?" It takes me a couple of minutes to get them to admit they did not write it.
This is university, they are paying to learn. Yet they are unwilling to work at it. I wonder what they are looking at getting out it?
The number of taxi cab drivers with university degrees does not surprise me.
I attended a school where cheating was also grossly ignored. The most flagrant example I can think of was in an intro to software engineering course where about 70% of our final grade was based on a semester-long project. Of course, the semester-long project does not change from semester to semester, so last semester's (and the one before that, and the one before that) projects were readily available. On the final day of class, each group (maybe 10 groups of 3 or 4) presented their projects. More than half of the class turned in the same project from the previous semester. Some of them actually took the time to at least change the colors on the GUI, but two or three did not. I talked to some of the students that turned in the same project the next semester and asked if anybody had called them out on it, and they all said that they got their A and nothing happened. The professor did not care at all.
Regarding your first scenario: My favorite story on that front was from my dad, who teaches math at a private high school. He handed out a midterm with multiple versions, and within a few minutes had a student raising his hand to tell him "Mike's test is different than mine!"
This is university, they are paying to learn.
That's a misconception on your part. The vast majority of kids at university are there to do whatever it takes to get that piece of paper. The goal isn't to get educated; the goal is higher earning potential by virtue of a better job.
Cheating in CS is terribly easy to detect. We had programs we could use to pick up anything suspect, but I never actually used them - at the entry-level I was teaching at, it was pretty easy to catch someone out. In fact, often you can complete the assignment in the time it would take you to modify your stolen/plagiarized code so as to be undetectable. Half the time you just need to google the code they submitted before you find a forum/Yahoo Answers post from the student in question, and once you've been coding a student for a while you get a good feel for what exactly is and isn't their style and their code.
As to preventing it: there was a very simple policy at my university. You cheat, you fail. In most cases, it was rarely followed. We tended to be far more strict at the Summer School sessions, but then again, we also tended to get considerably more problems, mainly because the high school students and foreign exchange students attending didn't know better. The university also didn't really have a problem showing them the door.
Undergraduates were more of an issue. A lot of the time, we would let them know we'd discovered it, and let it slide. Repeat offenders were usually dealt with by using some kind of grade penalty. Very rarely did students get referred for academic discipline (although this is partly due to the entry-level nature of the courses I taught. Something high-level, or with a substantial amount of original research required, would be another story).
Finally, and perhaps most importantly - why were these students cheating? Well, honestly, I suspect because of the academic pressures placed upon them. I'd be extremely interested to compare the rates of detected cheating at somewhere like MIT, where grades are rounded up/down for GPA (ie, get a B+ and it's recorded as a B in your GPA, get an A- and it becomes an A) and at my university. Given the vast number of emails I used to get at the end of each semester from students desperate for a grade boost to help their GPA, I can see how some might have convinced themselves it was 'ok' to cheat. And maybe....just maybe...people are cheating because they're not getting the support they need. The article says the guy was taking the class for the second time. Sounds like maybe he wasn't getting the one-on-one help and extra support teaching staff should be giving him. Just a thought.
It requires a personality trait. If you don't have it, then you shouldn't be taking that course. The last thing the workforce needs is another cert chaser who has no talent and no skill in that line of work.
And frankly, if you have that personality trait, then cheating is far from necessary. CS isn't so much about memorizing as it is about understanding the material. There are often many correct answers in CS.
I've been TAing every semester since I got to college, and every semester we tell people that we run their submissions through MOSS [stanford.edu] (the canonical code plagiarism detector, hosted at [and perhaps developed at?] Stanford). We exhort that it's really not worth their trouble to try to get their code past it, and that they really ought to just contact the course staff if they're in a bind, as there's really nothing worse for them than getting caught cheating. And every semester, we find several pairs of students who have copied each others' code. Sometimes it's a literal, word-for-word copy (comments too) with the name changed (or occasionally without!); sometimes it's the same structure with different comments, suggesting they just sat side by side and wrote the lab together.
I'd really like to see the penalty for cheating to be an immediate failure in the course, if not expulsion. The idea that honest students spend hours working on an assignment, and then someone who didn't plan their time well, or doesn't get things as well, or is too lazy to ask for help thinks they can just not do the work and get the same grade is offensive, and cheaters should be punished accordingly.
There are only so many ways to write a Las Vegas Algorithm when the teacher counts off for not following the algorithm as stated in pseudo code in the book.
Then he wants you to structure it a specific way. Then he wants a certain input. Then he wants a certain out put.
By them time your done, the only part of your program you get to "write" is the gui to display the output.
Oh and it has to be in the prof's preferred language, java.
So you end up with alot of remarkably similar programs, especially when the teacher has all these style demands and the same prof teaches students 2 or 3 classes in and everyone starts naming classes and methods the way he does.
FTFA, I understand the argument of, "Your friends want to cheat, great. Good luck on my uber-weighted final worth, now, 102% of your final grade", and I am personally not a fan of it. I've seen that type of methodology applied at the 101-level and gen-ed classes but I just don't like it at any level as it applies to college. IMHO, I paid for my schooling with the G.I. bill and the rest of it in loans and of course it would piss me off when I'm putting in hard, valid work in a class and not cheating to be punished for what others are doing. If people cheat and don't take the class seriously, the Mr/Mrs Professor should deal with that student accordingly and make sure it qualifies for an automatic failure of the class. I had professors in college that has a very low threshold for that type of behavior and the student would learn (or mom and dad fronting the college bill every semester would learn) that taking classes over and over will only make you either a 7 year senior or a drop out. Furthermore, I don't like how the professor gives up his authority and puts a layer of discipline on the students by punishing them. Is he looking for a militaristic approach? Does he think all the kids in the dorm are going to gang up on "the cheater" and give him/her a blanket party? Absolutely not.
However, when I started working in the real world in the Information Technology field, I never knew that this "group-punish" methodology would apply at most of the jobs I've been at with substantial perks (e.g. Work-from-home a good portion of the week, very flexible and accommodating work schedules with the option to make up time whenever).
To me, it just reminds me of being treated as less as an adult and more like a 2nd grader having to lay their head down on their desk for someone talking in the back of the classroom during teacher instruction time.
I apologize for the long post. The issue of cheating is very dear to me. It was the single most frustrating part of my education, and I often felt as if I were the only honest student in my undergraduate program.
As another poster mentioned, blame can be pinned on both instructors and students. But "blame" is only useful when it can be used to fix the original problem, and this problem is too big to fix by pointing fingers and admonishing each other. It's a cultural shift toward the worst, and we're powerless to stop it.
You can only deal with cheaters when cheating is uncommon and has an attached stigma. We've come to the point where cheating is so common that accusations of plagiarism are just met with "so, lol?".
Really, what we have here is a failure to take life seriously. In school, everything is a joke, a show. Nobody earnestly attends class, or does homework. People who ask questions in class are either trying to delay the lesson or merely stroke their ego by one-upping the professor. (I've been accused of both.)
At least in my experience, the typical student doesn't even seem to consider the idea that someone might want to actually learn. Learning is a chore, class an ordeal, and the professor the enemy. As a result, shameless, rampant cheating is rampant in the "I can haz degree nao?" generation.
My favorite example involves a project to build a userspace filesystem "driver". It was simple enough, and the professor even gave us interface specifications.
The reaction was catastrophic. Students complained that the assignment was too hard, that they didn't know the algorithms, and that half a semester was too little time. They talked in the hallway in hushed tones of outrage and asked whether they could appeal to the dean.
The real issue behind the complains is that the assignment would make them think, and most of them had no idea how to do anything beyond compile code fed to them with a spoon. The assignment involved analytic thought, which my fellow students appeared to consider Herculean.
"Poor students whine about having to do real work for once," you might say.
Except that the TAs for the class shared this adversarial, anti-intellectual mentality. In recitations, the TAs provided "sample code" sufficient for the whole project. Crisis averted, right? A grades were handed out to people I personally knew had no idea of when to use a loop instead of a function call.
These people graduated with degrees in CS, but they're completely unable to develop original software. Tasked with an assignment, they'll just copy code from the internet or ask on IRC, laughing about it the whole time. They'll choose systems based not on their technical merits, but on "documentation" --- meaning they'll choose the system that has the easiest-looking introductory tutorial. Their code will have bugs because they have no idea how to code, and their programs are chimeras of copy-and-pasted examples.
We're all worse off for these imbeciles running around, and those of us who consider this profession a craft, and who take pride in our work, and impoverished by having to share a degree with people who want to avoid thinking at any cost, and who laugh at the idea of serious work. The laughter is what bothers me most. It's how I know we're doomed.
*Never mind that the "operating systems" class never involved leaving ring 3.
I RTFA and I agree that a big incentive to cheat is when your project doesn't work. When you still can't find that nagging bug at 3 AM, cheating seems like a good option. But I think honesty is the better way. Once, I turned in a project that didn't work ; I had an oral exam a few days later to defend my code, and one the professor actually congratulated me on the code. Turns out he had just read the code and liked it, because I followed his specs to the letter and used all the OOP patterns that he taught in his course. The one bug that made it crash was a missing call to an ancestor's constructor, undetected by the compiler (this was in Turbo Pascal)
I would offer help to other students at this one college I would visit, and this one guy had a problem with his Turbo Pascal program (version 3) that it wouldn't compile and he couldn't figure out why. This was a fairly long program, say on the order of 20 screens (about 1,000 lines) so it wasn't clearly obvious. So I ask him if I can make a few changes. I go in and I find a point where the code should be complete, e.g. no pending procedures, and I insert a 'BEGIN END.' I exit and compile and the compil
My junior year there was a CS lab that was particularly tough at the end of the semester. I turned it in (a few days late) but managed to complete it (first true all-nighter I pulled in school). I was taking the final in the CS labs (they put 6 bugs into your program and you had to find and fix them) and a student next to me was escorted out into the hallway where the dean, a sysadmin, and another student were waiting for him.
Apparently, he couldn't pass the course unless he turned in that lab on time. So, when a student next to him got up to get a course TA to verify his program (without locking his screen), this student scp'ed a copy of the student's program over to his account. But he didn't stop there, he then deleted this students program and replaced it with a copy of his incomplete program.
The student whose program was stolen met up with the sysadmins and they were able to determine what happened by looking at logs.
Needless to say, the student cheating was expelled.
From the article: "Programs are idiosyncratic as sentences and no two are alike," he said. "They are not even comparable if they are independently generated. It's particularly easy to detect if they've been copied."
While it is extremely hard to independently produce duplicate programs at the 3GL level, it isn't impossible. The problem space will have only one optimal solution. The semantics of the problem space could easily lead to a common choice of classifications. The higher you go in abstraction, the more likely it is to produce identical programs.
I won't say where, but a couple of times I did someone else's college computer programming assignment for them, making sure I 'dumbed down' the quality of the work so that it wouldn't be too obvious that someone who has a considerable amount of experience (over 5 years, then) did it, as opposed to a new student. What can I say other than I was broke and needed eating money, and as with today, it was just as hard then to get a job programming without a degree as it is now. At least it's over 20 years ago so the statute of limitations applies, presuming I did anything illegal. I can admit, however, I think I actually learned a few things from having to do the assignment.
"About the things I've done in the past, I hope either they've been forgotten, or if not forgotten, covered by the Statute of Limitations."
— Robert A. Heinlein
The professor who teaches operating systems at my university runs people's code through an automated cheating detector. The first operating systems project ends up being around 8 lines of code to complete a stub he provided. In a class of 30 people, there will inevitably be a couple of people who produced similar enough code that they get a zero on the assignment even if they may not even have talked to the person who had similar code. After the first project everyone gets scared and writes the most obscure code they can to avoid being accused of cheating.
On another note, I was a teaching assistant for a lab last semester, and caught a few students cheating. Most often I could hold the two assignments up to the light and see that each line lined up exactly. I had a couple of students who would hand in the same assignment in different fonts, but I nailed them for having the exact same typos.
There were some other people I suspect might have been cheating, but they changed variable names and switched around lines if the order didn't matter to the point where I wasn't confident that the similarities weren't just because they were solving the same problems.
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Philippine aviation authorities yesterday said they were investigating Cebu Pacific pilots and crew who left passengers waiting about 15 minutes before deploying emergency slides on a plane that overshot the runway and landed on its nose.
None of the 165 passengers was injured, but several complained about the slow response.
The rough landing in stormy weather on Sunday evening forced the closure of the Davao International Airport in the southern Philippines, while the Airbus A320-200 remained stuck on the runway.
Philippine Civil Aviation Authority Deputy Director General John Andrews said that the pilots' error probably caused the accident.
"Everyone panicked. Women and children were screaming," Percival Jacones told the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
He said that the cabin crew appeared stunned and that it took 15 minutes before the captain came out of the cockpit to address the passengers.
Davao Mayor Sara Duterte said airport management was late in alerting city emergency services about the landing and denied quick access to the passengers. She said that an airport security guard phoned Emergency 911 to report the accident.
The aviation authority said that all angles would be investigated.
Andrews told reporters that the pilots and cabin crew have been grounded pending the investigation.
He said the pilots violated the standard operating procedure by not ordering an immediate evacuation of the aircraft.
Cebu Pacific president Lance Gokongwei apologized, but also defended the crew's action.
"In this situation we may not have handled all issues perfectly, but we can learn from this experience," Gokongwei told ABS-CBN TV.
Cebu Pacific is the Philippines' largest low-cost carrier. It operates 33 Airbus planes and eight ATRs, and also flies on regional routes.
A similar accident occurred in 2011, when a Cebu Pacific plane overshot the runway in Puerto Princesa in Palawan province. There were no casualties.
The Ateneo de Davao University, which had members aboard Sunday's flight, published an open letter saying it would boycott the airline to protest "the insensitivity and ineptness" of the crew.
"Your personnel lack training for an emergency situation. They froze. They did not know what do to. They must be able to put the welfare of the passengers before their own," university president Joel Tabora said.


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Rummaging around the old attic I found my sausage pants from the '70's. Wife says that I can only wear them upstairs, but it sure feels good to be stylin' again...except for the potential lawsuits from scaring the neighbors.
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In Part 1 of Rear-Surrection, Project Getaway had its underbelly hacked from beneath to make room for the 4x2-inch pre-welded rear frame from Chris Alston's Chassisworks-with the much-appreciated assistance of Carroll's Rod and Racecraft in Spotswood, New Jersey.
As previously mentioned, Ed Krawiec and Bobby Carroll decided to take the project a step further by sinking both the front and rear frame sections up an additional 2 1/2-inches into the carcass of the Chevy II. While this will give the deuce a lower center of gravity and some seriously bad-to-the-bone looks, it will also create some additional modifications, possible headaches, and a few late nights-worth of head scratching. We are confident that all will be well in the end, because modifications like this are nothing new to Carroll-and will be rewarding for sure.
What kind of modifications you ask? For starters hood clearance. All parts are engineered to fit as they should. By pulling an additional 2 1/2-inches of overhead, it might be necessary to facilitate a change in the position of engine mounts to lower the engine assembly. That, in turn, might cause issues with oil pan clearance in the area of the crossmember.
Next is wheel fitment. Since the Nova came from the factory with 14-inch wheels, and since Ed decided to go with Intro Wheels 19-inchers up front, fender modifications are a must-in some cases suspension modification might even be necessary.
Out back the 20-inch Intro Wheels should not cause any problems beyond fabrication of the custom wheel housings and a 3-inch stretch of the rear wheel opening. Under a less customized situation, the mating of the floor wouldn't be altered from such a modification, but since we planned on a plethora of custom tinwork, we won't encounter any surprises in this portion of the build.
Beyond a sit-down to discuss the aforementioned modifications, we've decided to take the project even further by removing the stock firewall in favor of a smoothed, one-piece custom unit to be fabricated by Carroll's. Additional discussion had ventured off into the placement of the master cylinder for braking. Future plans at this time have us installing the unit internally below the dashboard in a 90-degree fashion for an ultra-clean look beneath the hood, although during a project of this magnitude, plans do change from time to time.
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Kinetic IV wrote:Thank god and Greyhound it's gone....or in this case thanks for the wormhole....
Reminds me of that old Soundgarden song:
"Wormhole sun, won't you come and dry up all the rain, wormhole sun, won't you come, won't you come ..."
Ugly Dougly wrote:How about a covered tunnel that goes through a couple of camps to emerge on another playa street? Kind of a wormhole, anyway...
Dustbuddy wrote:Ugly Dougly wrote:How about a covered tunnel that goes through a couple of camps to emerge on another playa street? Kind of a wormhole, anyway...
Interesting, but sounds like a lot of work. Wouldn't you need to raise the tunnel up on platforms at a few points to allow people to circulate through their own village?
Idea: A camp where visitors get into a vehicle to be driven blindfolded to a random place in BRC and dropped off.
I had an idea of something like this ... Valet Parking
Just inside the gate you have a guy with a reflective vest and a couple of orange cones sitting in a chair and a few others standing around. You have a sign that says "Valet Parking" You probably also need another little sign too that says "Bus Stop" or some such.
Person pulls over, you ask them where they are camped, they get out, one of the folks standing around takes their keys, drive the car to their camp and park it, leave them standing there by the gate at the "Bus Stop" sign for a couple of hours.
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MOUNT AIRY, Md. (AP) — Community colleges in Carroll, Frederick and Howard counties are celebrating the opening of a joint center for health-care education in Mount Airy.
U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski and Rep. Elijah Cummings are joining college officials at the event Monday morning.
The federal government contributed $1 million toward the project. It includes three lecture rooms, a computer lab, two allied health labs and two biological science labs.
The complex will train up to 500 students a year to alleviate a shortage of health-care workers in Maryland.
Mikulski says the center will help meet the rising demand for workers ranging from dental hygienists to paramedics.
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BERKELEY, CA—October 1, 2012 – A beloved holiday tradition, the KPFA Crafts Fair offers an intimate and relaxed bazaar style shopping experience with over 200 artisans offering unique handcrafted gifts under one roof. Original and contemporary handcrafted items in all media from wearable art to art for the home will be featured; leather, glass, textiles, ceramics, jewelry, gourmet food, self-care products and more.
Many artists at the fair have come from a long lineage of craft workers that are passing the trade onto the next generation. Karl Schroen of Sebastopol is a 4th generation blacksmith who makes exquisite knives. He uses tools passed down from his great, great grandfather. Rupam Henery of Rupam's Apothecary is part of a family lineage of herbalists and pharmacists reaching back 13 generations. She creates quality tinctures, salves and herbal remedies for self care. Niko Culevski from Washington State is the 6th generation of weavers originating from Macedonia. He creates hand-woven wool blankets on a loom just the way his parents taught him, a skill he is now teaching his children. David Giulletti, a fine Jeweler from Berkeley, is teaching his two teenagers his craft in expectation that one will take up the family business some day. Supporting artists such as these insures that their skills will not be lost but can continue for generations to come.
Creatively using recycled materials in their work is a popular theme for artists at this year's fair. At least 25% of the exhibiting artisans use re-purposed materials and are "Up Cycling." Shoppers who care to keep their carbon footprint light will be pleased to find books bound for the trash bin transformed into safes, clocks and shelves by Denise Jones of Cutten, CA. Paul Loughridge of Morgan Hill, CA transforms what most people would consider junk into one-of-a-kind, surreal, cyber/steam punk assemblage sculptures. Nicole Flood of Flood Clothing in Portland buys previously worn clothes by the pound, deconstructs and re-sews them into her fashionable new designs.
KPFA Crafts Fair and ACCI Gallery Proudly announce their second annual Collaborative Exhibition: CreativiTea. This exhibit will showcase artworks incorporating and /or depicting tea, tea leaves, tea bags and artworks crated for or about drinking tea. After the fair, the exhibit will be on display March 9 - April 8, 2013 at the ACCI Gallery in Berkeley.
12x12 is a special exhibit debuting this year! 12 artists make 12 pieces of art in 12 months. The pieces must finish at 12 inches square. What began as a challenge to get back into exploring new ideas and making art a commitment, a group of artists have been meeting monthly this past year to support their goal of creating 12 new works. Come see the end result and become inspired.
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Letang Is The Truth wrote:blackberry jam ALL DAY. anyone that put grape jelly is a loser. so boring. i bet you drink miller lite too
FreeCandy44 wrote:How about Pearl Jam? ;)
Troy Loney wrote:Kraftster wrote:Generally speaking, jam contains the guts, jelly does not. I think jam and jelly are two different types of "preserves." Within the jam category, you have a wide range of amount of guts that are included in the preserve, though.
Yeah, i checked to see how that differentiated, I feel like i've seen "strawberry preserves" as it's own label.
We can just shorten it to Jam > Jelly
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Posted by examinerebb on 6/4/2014 2:45:00 PM (view original):Bobby Bowden said it best. "It's not my job to stop my offense. It's your job to stop my offense."
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Blizzard has confirmed that it's "exploring" in-game microtransactions for World of Warcraft, after an XP booster mentioning an in-game store was discovered in the latest test patch. It's not yet clear exactly what else it'll sell, and whether this is a global move or simply for regions friendlier to microtransactions.
The 5.4 public test realm patch includes the Enduring Elixir of Wisdom, a buff from an item which doubles XP earned by complete missions and killing monsters--and is tagged with "In Game Store" (via WoW Insider).
Blizzard senior community representative Jonathan 'Zarhym' Brown confirmed in a forum post that the developer is "currently exploring the possibility of adding a way for players in certain regions to make purchases directly within the game."
He explained, "As part of this process, elements related to this will be appearing on the PTR. We'll provide additional updates on our plans as development progresses."
An XP boost is a fairly innocuous microtransaction item, and certainly not rare for MMORPGs. And given how much Blizzard has accelerated levelling up over the years, it's hardly like boosters would destroy anything sacred. The mention that it's for "certain regions" may suggest it's intended for Asian markets, where such things are more common.
Let's remember that Blizzard does already sell in-game pets and mounts through its web storefront; moving all that in-game only seems sensible.
What will be interesting is discovering what other microtransaction doodads it's experimenting with. A more impetuous commenter would blurt out that it means WoW is going free-to-play soon, but let's not be so rash. While subscriber numbers are steadily falling and Blizzard does cite the rise of F2P MMOs as one cause, 8.3 million 'subscribers' (active players, really: the figure includes players in PC bangs and such who don't pay monthly subscription fees) is still nothing to scoff at.


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Shirley J. Powers, 76, of Ankeny died Aug. 17, 2013, at Mercy Hospice in Johnston.
Graveside services will be 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, at Murray Cemetery. Iles Funeral Homes - Grandview Park Chapel, Des Moines, is in charge of arrangements.
Shirley J. Powers was born April 3, 1937, in Centerville.
She moved to Ankeny 10 years ago after living 36 years in Thayer.
Shirley is survived by her husband Fred; children, Pamela (Tony) Moore, Becky Powers and Fred Powers III; stepchildren, Marsha (Ron) Alleman, Douglas (Carol) Powers and Kevin (Michelle) Powers; sister Robin Thomas; brother Floyd Figgins; 10 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Shirley was preceded in death by her parents, Floyd and Helen (Bennett) Figgins and sister Judith Mueller.


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Both Robert Basic and Ekerete (on the Avnet Labs site) have posted reviews of one of the more recent offerings from Packt Publishing on development with the Zend Framework - Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development.
In Robert's review he talks about some of the usual concerns with Packt books (the poor quality of the writing) and looks at the contents of some of the chapters - walking you through the process of building a sample application. He's recommend the book to those just starting out with the Zend Framework.
On the Avnet Labs site Ekerete agrees with most of Robert's comments but disagrees on a few points the author made on recommended ways to handle things like the application's models.


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I am pulling my hair out and need some assistance.
I originally created a JavaScript sorting table from a third-party but then it wouldn't work in IE 10. I'm pulling the data in from an XML file.
I then used a Spry Sorting table. It is compatible in all browsers but I can't get the link to act like a link. It displays like a link and will even change hover colors in Firefox, but clicking on it does nothing in all browsers. I used <a href="{link}"><\a>.
So, now I'm considering a jQuery sorting table. However, none of the examples I've found on the web show links from the data.
Is it possible to create a link from the XML data? It worked from the third-party script, but how do I do it using spry or jQuery?


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The generosity of a New York policeman who gave a pair of boots to a dishevelled, bearded homeless man touched the world.
But it has had a far greater impact on the family of that homeless man, who had all but lost contact with him. They didn't even recognise his picture, which had gone viral after being captured by a tourist.
He has now been identified as Jeffrey Hillman, 54, but how the man with no shoes became homeless is unknown.
Mr Hillman's brother, Kirk, was stunned when he saw the photo in a newspaper, and was speechless. His wife did not recognise him on television.
"The last time we heard from him was maybe a year ago on New Year's Day," Kirk's wife, Tish Hillman, told the New York Post from her home in Pennsylvania.
"Once a year, he calls us to let us know he's OK."
The photo became an internet sensation as it was shared online. The tourist who took the photo, Jennifer Foster, said the policeman, Larry DePrimo, put socks and the new boots on Mr Hillman's feet and told him: "Let's put these on and take care of you."
The Post reported that Kirk and another brother, Alfred Hillman, heard much from Jeffrey, who was described by a neighbour as "a bit lost".
By 1993, he was bankrupt and living in homeless shelters.
Recently, he had not been seen at his regular haunts, which include a liquor store.
His family, though, says he is always welcome at home.
"Jeffrey has his own life, and he has chosen that life, but he knows that our hearts and home are always open to him," said Alegra Hall, his niece.
"He knows that, he's well aware of that."
Police have not been in contact since the presentation of the boots.
"We're not looking for him. He has shoes now. He's much more difficult to spot," police commissioner Ray Kelly said.


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Submission + - MIT discovers the location of memories: Individual neurons (extremetech.com)
MrSeb writes: "MIT researchers have shown, for the first time ever, that memories are stored in specific brain cells. By triggering a single neuron, the researchers were able to force the subject to recall a specific memory. By removing this neuron, the subject would lose that memory. To do this, the researchers used optogenetics, a bleeding edge sphere of science that involves the genetic manipulation of cells so that they're sensitive to light. These modified cells are then triggered using lasers; you drill a hole through the subject's skull and point the laser at a small cluster of neurons. Just to temper your excitement, we should note that MIT's subjects in this case are mice — but it's very, very likely that the human brain functions in the same way. To perform this experiment, though, MIT had to breed genetically engineered mice with optogenetic neurons — and we're a long, long way off breeding humans with optogenetic brains. Still, the main significance here is that we finally have proof that memories are physical rather than conceptual. We now know that, as in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, specific memories could be erased. It also gives us further insight into degenerative diseases and psychiatric disorders, which are mostly caused by the (faulty) interaction of neurons. "The more we know about the moving pieces that make up our brains," says Steve Ramirez, co-author of the paper. "The better equipped we are to figure out what happens when brain pieces break down.""


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NEW YORK -- Signs of a slowing economy dragged down the stock market Wednesday. Even the prospect of continued stimulus from the Federal Reserve didn't help.
Major market indexes fell by 0.9 percent, their worst decline in two weeks. Small-company stocks fell even more, 2.5 percent, as investors shunned risk. The yield on the benchmark U.S. government bond fell to its lowest of the year as investors sought safety.
Stocks opened lower and kept sagging throughout the day, hurt by reports of a slowdown in hiring and manufacturing last month. Discouraging earnings news from major U.S. companies also dragged the market lower.
"Investors are going to be rattled by these numbers," said Colleen Supran, a principal at San Francisco based-Bingham, Osborn & Scarborough. She expects stock market swings to increase following the early gains of the year.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 138.85 points to 14,700 points. Merck, the giant drug company, had one of the biggest falls in the Dow after reporting earnings that disappointed investors. The Dow had risen for four days straight.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index, a broader market measure, dropped 14.87 to 1,582.70.
The stock market was down even after the Federal Reserve stood by its easy-money policies after a two-day policy meeting.
The Fed is maintaining its $85-billion-a-month bond-buying program, begun in 2008, which aims to keep interest rates low to encourage borrowing, spending and investing.
The Fed also raised concerns about the economy, noting that tax increases and spending cuts that kicked in this year are slowing growth. The central bank made clear that it could increase or decrease its bond purchases depending on the performance of the job market and inflation.
John Lynch, chief regional investment officer at Wells Fargo said: "If you get a market that is purely built on free money, as opposed to solid fundamentals, investors should take pause."
The Fed's program has been one of the supporting factors behind the stock market's rally this year. The S&P 500 reached record highs in April and has risen every month in 2013, gaining 11 percent so far this year.
The market has stumbled in recent weeks following several reports suggesting the economy might be weakening.
Employers added only 88,000 jobs in March, far fewer than the 220,000 averaged in the previous four months, and the economy grew at an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the January-March quarter -- a decent rate but one that's expected to weaken in coming months because of higher Social Security taxes and the federal spending cuts.
On Wednesday, a report showed that U.S. factory activity in April dropped to its slowest pace this year as manufacturers pulled back on hiring and cut stockpiles. Companies added just 119,000 jobs in April, the fewest in seven months, said payroll processor ADP.
Company earnings also drew investors' attention.
Drugmaker Merck & Co. fell $1.31, or 2.8 percent, to $45.69 after cutting its 2013 profit forecast. The company said competition from generic versions of its drugs and unfavorable exchange rates hurt its profit.
MasterCard eased $13.11, or 2.4 percent, to $539.80 after the payments processing company reported that revenue missed the expectations of financial analysts who cover the company.
About two-thirds of companies in the S&P 500 index have announced earnings for the first quarter.
The earnings are at record levels, and about seven of 10 companies have topped the forecasts of Wall Street analysts, according to S&P Capital IQ. Revenues have disappointed, though, with about six of 10 companies falling short. That suggests companies are raising profits through cutting costs rather than boosting revenues.
Earnings at S&P 500 companies are expected to increase 4.1 percent in the first quarter versus the same period a year earlier. Financial analysts expect that growth to accelerate throughout the year, reaching 12 percent in the final quarter, according to S&P Capital IQ.
But with much of the profit gain coming from cost-cutting rather than higher sales, some market watchers are warning that the market's four-year surge could be coming to an end.
Savita Subramanian, head of U.S. equity and quantitative strategy at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, said companies need to show revenue growth. "If we don't see that, then the equity market is toast."
Among other stocks making big moves:
Home security provider ADT fell $3, or 6.9 percent, to $40.64 after its profit didn't live up to analysts' hopes.
T-Mobile USA Inc., the combination of T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS, rose 96 cents, or 6.2 percent, to $16.52 on its first day of trading. Goldman Sachs analysts opened their coverage of the stock with a "buy" recommendation and a 12-month price target of $22, predicting that the company will benefit from further consolidation in the industry.
The Nasdaq composite index dropped 28 points, or 0.8 percent, to 3,300. The Russell 2000 index, a gauge of small-company stocks, fell 23.25 points to 924.21. Small stocks are generally seen as riskier investments because their less established, have fewer resources and are more prone to failure.
In government bond trading, demand for the 10-year Treasury note rose, pushing down its yield to 1.63 percent from 1.67 percent. The yield is at its lowest of the year.
Markets in Europe were closed for the May Day holiday.
The start of the new month will also remind investors of the investing adage "Sell in May and go away."
The S&P 500 hasn't advanced in May since 2009. In recent years, stock gains at the beginning of the year have been followed by late spring-early summer swoons. In 2012 stocks plunged in May on growing concern that Spain and Italy would be sucked deeper into Europe's debt crisis. The year before, wrangling about the U.S. debt ceiling rattled markets.
Since 1970, the S&P 500 has generated an annualized return of 4.1 percent from May through October, well below the 17.2 percent annualized return from November through April.


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Uhh... April Fools?
Smotrycz, Brundidge, Christian All Exit
I had these tweets up from Sam Webb that hinted at some attrition from the basketball team but that's all irrelevant now:
University of Michigan men's basketball head coach John Beilein announced today (Wednesday, March 21) that sophomore forward Evan Smotrycz (Reading, Mass./New Hampton Prep [N.H.]),sophomore forward Colton Christian (Bellevue, Wash./Hargrave Military Academy) and freshman guard Carlton Brundidge (Southfield, Mich./Southfield HS) each decided to leave the Wolverine basketball program and transfer to another school.
Smotrycz is the headliner here. He started the first half of the year before Michigan went to Stu Douglass in the starting lineup; playing out of position the rest of the year at the five he still saw 20 minutes a game and was Michigan's best three-point shooter over the course of the season. He was projected to start at the four next year. His loss is both inexplicable and harmful. Unless Smotrycz was flat out told that McGary and Robinson were going to eat his minutes I don't understand that departure.
Brundidge only saw a few minutes spotting Trey Burke; Christian was also an end of the bench type.
Michigan's scholarship crunch just got blown away: Michigan could bring in two additional guys in the 2012 class and still have room for their three guys in 2013 without any further attrition. They only have one active target, 6'5" Findlay Prep PG/SG Amedeo Della Valle. He's got a top five Michigan is a part of along with Texas A&M, Ohio State, Arizona, and Gonzaga. They could also get in on the Trey Ziegler transfer sweepstakes now.
"It's just a matter of what I thought was the right fit, something my family agreed on," Smotrycz said. "I don't want to say too much right now in being sensitive to the coaching staff. But it was a decision I had to make to be somewhere I was happy."
Smot knows they call stupid fouls in every league, right?
sheesh...best of luck to him. Wish he would have stuck it out.
Man, I can scream .. I tried to post in this earlier, but the site went crazy on me... I haven't been able to express my opinion on so many basketball issues, but here, I hope this finds everyone. I'm not saying why Smotz left, but I am guessing one of the main reasons is the lack of playing time he'd get going forward, mostly from a guy named McGary. Mitch McGary is going to start from day one, there's not much guessing on that one. Smotz can shoot, yea, but you know what he can't do, man the block. We need someone that can be a presence on the inside, rebound on both sides of the floor, while also running the floor and offering up some offense in the process. That's not Smotz, sorry. You know who that is; Mitch McGary. I bet McGary averages more than 5 rebounds more than the guy who finishes second on the team in rebounding, he's going to gobble up that many, so while some might be shocked by all these moves ..... I'm not. We lost depth, sure, but hopefully we can go hard for a guy like Trey Ziegler, and Sam Webb already said on his twitter that we'll have two spots open for the 2012 class, and we desperately need to find a backup PG. Heck, we might have to nab two PGs, that is, if Trey Burke believes the person who told his dad the three biggest lies of 2012, one of which was that his son would go between 18-24 in the first round...
...of the NBA draft!
not a fan of his quote; he should have had RVB help him out who would have said something like:
"It's just a matter of what I thought was the right fit, something my family agreed on," Smotrycz said. "I loved my time here at Michigan but it was a decision I had to make."
But... it's March?
Smotrycz is very puzzling. While this will take our 9 man rotation down to 8, I do not think this should lower anyone's expectations for next year. Still though, I can't help but wonder what caused Smot to want out.
While I think he is an excellent shooter, our team will be much more athletic w/o him. He will definitely be missed though!
I appreciate Smot's skill with the ball, I'm gratefull for his effort this year, and I wish him well wherever he goes. But with Robinson and McGary likely taking the minutes he would have played, we're almost certainly a better rebounding and defensive team. We won't be able to stretch the floor nearly as well offensively, but McGary and Robinson both look pretty skilled on that end as well. Obviously, we're going to be relying more on true freshman, but I expect both those guys to step in pretty smoothly.
EDIT: I originally read "I do not think" as "I do think" in your post.
=> shorter version of my post: I agree.
you may not be considering how baffling this is, and that it may be indicative of a bigger problem than just Smot. That team was not right for a while, and Beilien did very little coaching in either the Big Ten tourney or against Ohio. I think there is a cancer somewhere on that team. This is not good news, recruiting class aside. A mass exodus is very unusual for a basketball team, especially for one player who was a substantial contributor. Stay tuned here.
That's all I can say. Wow. And not in a happy way.
If this helps us land Trey, I'd be okay with all these moves.
We need to add a backup PG, asap though!!
more and more like we're gonna need a STARTING pg. :(
Interesting indeed. Too bad to see Smotrycz leave.
Too bad to see them go. Good luck gentlemen, and thanks for your contributions to M Bball.
Boy, how things have changed with the M basketball program in just a couple of weeks. After losing to Purdue at home we come back and get a share of the Big 10 regular season championship, then look miserable the rest of the regular season and in the NCAA's. Now this. I'm guessing DB is wondering what happened to Beilein and the program in such a short time frame. Negativity breeds negativity and some good recruiting news is needed to reverse the current downward momentum.
I fail to see the logic behind this post.
"I fail to see the logic behind this post."
Because there is no logic to this post.
the ship of state is running aground. But losing all three at once is likely to be seen as a negative. I think that it's going to emerge both that there was a little friction between Smot and the coaches and that he was going to see his PT drop.
That's because there is none
We just won the damn big ten for the first time in 26 years and you're claiming negativity?
These moves could be 100% NON basketball related (especially Smot). Sometimes things don't work out, doesn't mean the program is on the fritz.
On the contrary....
This is a sign of an upward leap..... these three transfers are all due to playing time... . don't believe anything else.... For when someone wants to do something, then any excuse will do. Smot knew his playing time would be still limited, and perhaps would prefer to play near home and start full-time... this still is all about playing time, which is a function of an uptick in the program.... Amen I say to that [Amen means "So be it"]
By this time next year we will be a club team!
I'm guessing "DB" isn't "wondering what happened to Beilein and the program in such a short time frame" because Dave Brandon is smart enough not to evaluate the status of a major program by only looking at a three week period in which nothing that could be construed by any reasonable person as "negativity breed[ing] negativity" took place.
similarly, my i.q. was around 140 before i read your post, and now it's down about 60 points.
Yeah, John Beilein should totally be on the hot seat for losing two games at the end of the season.
If you were actually the sports editor of the Daily . . . wow.
Man, you just got TOLD.
Edit. Double post
i hate to say this, but i really think the fans ran off Smot. he's just a college kid and he got criticized constantly. maybe he needed a thicker skin, but i don't blame him.
If smotrycz transferred because some people gave him a hard time for turning the ball over in the Ohio game, then he probably is better off not continuing to play basketball anywhere else. Don't have a twitter if you really don't want to hear that stuff. Not to mention that there was an equal amount of people that told him to keep his head up, etc after the Ohio game.
I thought he was unhappy all year, his body language screamed it. He made this decision or at least thought about it for a while and the turnover had nothing to do with it - IMHO.
I just think he didn't like his role on this team or didn't care for Beileins system. There is no doubt he ends up being a solid player by his senior season, the fact that he could have been a team leader next year is sad.
Even commented to people I watched games with. He looked like a player 'going through the motions'.
Good luck to him and the rest wherever they land. Sports are supposed to be fun.
Bring them back!
The Smotrycz's Lobstryczes can use the costumes for the upcoming football season and dress as Urban Meyer's Crabs.
then it explains his inconsistent play and his lazy defense...hes a quitter not tough enough to make it at a big time school...
Go back to your shanty.
What will become of Smotrycz's Lobstryczes?
I don't understand him transferring at all.
I can kind of understand CC and Brundidge wanting to transfer, but like everyone, I'm puzzled by Smot wanting to transfer.
Holy smokes! Didn't see that one coming.
Brundidge and Christian I might be able to understand. But Evan? He was basically a starter on a B1G Championship team. Wowza. Interested to learn of the details behind his sudden departure. Good luck to all three.
Very sad to hear Evan is leaving. I really thought he was going to do great things at Michigan. I wish him all the best.
I was always puzzled why Brundidge was so highly ranked. He didn't look that impressive against high school competition. Talent wise, only Smotz will hurt, but he really had a tough year considering the pre-season expectations for him.
Got his recruiting service to rank him that high. I never heard anyone as high on him as Sam was. But Sam's on the radio, not coaching.
What the !?!
Wow, totally unexpected. Good luck to all three. The only upside to this is not having to look up how to spell Smotrycz all the time.
We lost a large percentage of the team in the last four weeks.
Trying to figure out what I am missing on the scholarship situation. How can we fit two more in the 2012 class and still get our 3 in 2013. Is Brian assuming Biefeldt slides over to a walk-on?
I have a 2013 Roster of
SR: Hardaway, Morgan
JR: Burke, Horford
SO: Stauskas, Robinson, McGary, Biefeldt
That's 8, two more in 2012 is 10 and not enough room for 3 in 2013. What am I missing?
considering that 3 scholarships are opening up with this I don't see how you are confused.
We were gonna need some attrition to get those three in already.
Well, logic would dictate that if Beilein was counting on attrition before, he likely still may.
Totally. Although it's very possible that one of these three were part of his planned attrition.


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LIlacrossenews.com, Posted 4/7/12
From Press Release
All levels of lacrosse play continued growth, according to annual report
More than 680,000 players participated in lacrosse on organized teams in 2011, according to the 2011 US Lacrosse Participation Survey, released today. The figure resulted from an increase of roughly 60,000 players from 2010, the largest one-year increase in the total number of players since US Lacrosse began tracking national data in 2001.
More than half of the total players compete at the youth level (age 15 and below), but every segment of the game is showing continued growth patterns. Lacrosse has been one of the nation's fastest-growing team sports for more than a decade, and that trend continued in 2011.
At the youth level, the US Lacrosse survey reveals more than 360,000 players on organized teams in 2011, an increase of 10.9 percent over the previous year. The number of high school players topped 275,000 in 2011, an increase of 7.8 percent. The number of collegiate players (varsity and club) grew 4.6 percent to more than 33,000. Major League Lacrosse, one of two professional lacrosse leagues, has added expansion franchises in Charlotte, N.C., and Columbus, Ohio, for the 2012 season, and thousands of players continue to participate on the field at the post-collegiate level.
Beyond the sheer participation numbers, lacrosse continues to grow in terms of exposure. Led by the ESPN family of networks, nearly 100 collegiate and professional lacrosse games will be broadcast nationally this year, with scores more streamed on the web. CBS Sports Network and NBC Sports also will air games in 2012.
The sport also is highlighted through print and Internet vehicles, led by Lacrosse Magazine, which is read each month by the more than 400,000 members of US Lacrosse.
The US Lacrosse Participation Survey is produced annually to monitor participation at different levels of the sport across the country. This survey counts only participation on organized teams and does not include leisure-time play of lacrosse.
The primary source of data for this report is provided by the 64 US Lacrosse regional chapters. Each chapter reports participation data at the youth, high school and post-collegiate levels. Significant data also is obtained from US Lacrosse membership records, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the National Federation of State High School Associations and www.laxpower.com.
The full participation survey is available in PDF format by clicking here.
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