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SPRING VALLEY — Hall coach Pete Kasperski always had old reliable Johnna Schultz to fall back on the last few softball seasons, both pitching and at the plate.
Schultz, the 2012 BCR Player of the Year, who won all 13 games for Hall a year ago with a 1.86 ERA and batted .418, has moved onto IVCC and Kasperski is looking for new people to step up.
"It's going to be a transition not having Johnna Schultz around. We're not only losing Johnna on the mound, but lost her bat, also. That's going to be the key," Kasperski said.
Senior Stephanie Stocking is going to have to carry the pitching load, Kasperski said. While she got in 26 innings of work last year, Kasperski admits it's going be an unknown.
The Lady Devils also have sophomore Kylie Whightsil, who broke her ankle two weeks into her freshman year, and freshmen Heide Nelson, Adrianna Pikula and Lucianna Mautino waiting in the wings.
Hall brings back three players Kasperski says will have "to be our mainstays — juniors Brenna Faletti, Becca Herrmann and Deidra Whightsil.
The slap-hitting Faletti has already shown star power, batting .545 a year ago as the table-setter for the Hall offense. She is coming of a severe knee injury in basketball and hopeful to get back to form.
Becca Herrmann (.288, 19 RBIs) returns for her third season behind the plate catching while Diedra Whightsil will be moving from left field to center and will be batting leadoff.
Sophomore Ellie Herrmann (.263) also returns for her second season on the big club, taking over at third base. Classmate Abby Azarskis (.341, 4 homers, 34 RBIs) exploded onto the varsity season her freshman year with some early-season power before going into what Kasperski called some kind of funk.
Junior Kaylee Golden will see time at second base with senior Becca Dagraedt stepping in at left field and senior newcomer Ally Carlson sharing time in right field with Nielsen. Other sophomores who could see time with the varsity include Hailey Goetz, Adrianna Hawton and Shelbi Justi.
"We're going to be like anybody, looking to get some games in and get our feet wet," Kasperski said. "We want to get the girls ready for when the weather get nice and be ready for regional play. We want to be competitive. We'll have to put the ball in play. We can't rely on our pitching like we did with Johnna, so were going to able play good defense and put ball in play and score more runs."
Notes: While Wednesday's varsity game with Erie/Prophetstown was canceled, Hall remained hopeful to play at home Thursday vs. Newark. ... Kasperski said he will lose seven girls to the French Club's trip, who leave Thursday and will be out until the middle of next week.


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Published for The Washington Post, January 28, 2013
After highly classified details of a U.S. cyberattack on Iran's nuclear program were made public, President Obama went to the White House press room to denounce those who suggested the leaks were coming from his top national security aides. "The notion that my White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive [and] it is wrong," the president declared.
Well, the Federal Bureau of Investigation may disagree. The Post broke the news Sunday that the FBI has launched an "aggressive" investigation into "current and former senior officials suspected of involvement" in the leak that Obama personally ordered cyberattacks on the Iranian nuclear program using a computer virus called Stuxnet. The New York Times story which first revealed the details of the cyberattack on Iran's nuclear program cited as sources "members of the President's national security team who were in the [Situation Room]" and even quoted the president asking during a top secret meeting: "Should we shut this thing down?" Only Obama's most trusted national security advisers would have been present when he uttered those words.
Now several members of that inner circle are receiving promotions. Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough has just been named the new White House chief of staff. And John Brennan, the White House counterterrorism adviser, has been nominated to be next director of the CIA. With the investigation reaching the top echelons of the administration, it is time for the White House to come clean and tell the American people which of Obama's senior advisers is under investigation. There are no confirmation hearings for the chief of staff post, but Brennan will soon appear before the Senate on Feb. 7 for his confirmation hearings. If confirmed, he will be responsible for protecting our nation's secrets. Congress has a right to know what he knows — and if he is being questioned by the FBI in the leak probe.
Read full post here

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NACHUSA – Rock River Valley VietNow has applications available for 2013-14 scholarships.
Each applicant is required to complete an essay which is detailed in the scholarship application.
The topic changes each time, requiring a new application each year someone applies.
Applications must be turned in by March 31.
To receive an application, call 815-288-5872 and leave a phone number, name and address where the application should be sent.


text: I am thinking about getting a slingbox and was wondering if anyone has used the sling player on their storm, it is not in the supported blackberry phone listed. I seem to recall seeing someone's list of apps here on BBOS that had used it. Does it work well with vzw? Thanks!


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Venstar Add-A-Wireless Thermostat - T1119RF
About This Thermostat
|Yes (7 Day)
|System Compatibility:
|Multi-Stage,Heat Pump,Single Stage
|Power Options:
|Heat/Cool Changeover:
|Automatic or Manual
|Programmable Fan:
|Temperature Limits:
|Keypad Lockout:
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Venstar Add-A-Wireless Thermostat - T1119RF
The T1119RF allows you to add a wireless thermostat to your existing Venstar model T1800 or T1900 thermostat. NOTE: This product will only work with the T1800 and T1900 thermostats, which are sold separately.
The T1119RF kit consists of:
(1) T1100RF Thermosat
(1) Plug-In Wireless Module
This accessory will allow you to control your T1800 or T1900 thermostat from any location in your home using the handheld T1100RF Wireless thermostat.
Operation is simple! When a button is pressed on the T1100RF it will take complete control of the thermostat. From the T1100RF you can change the mode of your thermostat, turn the fan on, and even engergize your heating and cooling system. To transfer control back to the T1800 or T1900 thermostat, press any button on that thermostats keypad (except for the outside button).
- Transmits through walls and floors - range up to 500 feet in clear air
- Transmits at 418MHz using pulse code modulation - won't interfere with other wireless systems
- Uses two AA lithium batteries
- 7 day programmable with 4 time periods per day and copy command
- Large, easy to read display with ThermaglowT backlight
- 64 house codes allow installation of up to 64 systems within transmit range
- Thermostat includes tilt-out stand for table mounting
- 7 Day Programmable with 4 time periods per day
- Copy command
- Holiday mode
- 1 Year Warranty
Thermostat is 4.75" H X 3.25" W
Receiver is 3.25" H X 4.75" W
Uses 2 AA Lithium Batteries (included)
Reviewed by 1 customer
- Confusing Controls
Best Uses
Comments about Venstar Add-A-Wireless Thermostat - T1119RF:
This product meets my need of a wireless portable thermostat for an upstairs room, but it lacks refinement.
My main areas of complainant are:
1) Confusing controls, this unit could really use a couple more buttons to make setting the unit more intuitive.
2) No obvious indicator that the wireless unit has control of the HVAC system.
3) Lack of wireless strength indicator, while the 415 MHz communication frequency probably does a good job of reaching most parts of a standard size house, I think it is unforgivable that there is no way to see the connection strength.


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SOURCE: Xcite Energy Limited
November 09, 2012 02:00 ET
ABERDEENSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - Nov 9, 2012) -
9 November 2012
Xcite Energy Limited
("Xcite Energy" or the "Company")
Results for the 3 and 9 Month Periods Ended 30 September 2012
Xcite Energy announces its results for the 3 and 9 month periods ended
30 September 2012.
Operational Highlights
- Bentley pre-production well test successfully and safely
concluded in September 2012, with initial well test results
exceeding management expectations:
- Water breakthrough better than expected (i.e. less water
- Extensive data gathered for reservoir model calibration and
production facilities design, enabling optimisation of field
development plan
- Significantly improved understanding of oil, gas and water
movement behaviour
- Produced approximately 149,000 barrels of Bentley crude,
which was combined with approximately 58,000 barrels of diluent.
- 9/3b-7 and 7Z wells suspended for future use as production wells
during Phase 1B and the Rowan Norway demobilised from the field,
with all associated equipment off hire.
Financial Highlights
- Revenue generated of GBP13.3 million from the sale of the blended
crude oil and diluent.
- Net loss in the three month period of GBP0.57 million. Further
increase in net assets through continued investment in the Bentley
field development programme.
- Cash of GBP54.6 million as at 30 September 2012, following net new
equity capital and debt financing of GBP21.2 million in the three
month period.Included in cash balances are amounts held in escrow
of GBP44.0 million relating to the Bentley Phase 1A work programme,
a significant amount of which is expected to be returned to the
Company in due course.
- Issue of an additional US$10 million of unsecured 14% loan notes
to West Face Capital Inc. in the three month period, giving a total
of US$60 million in the nine month period.
- Signing of a US$155 million reserves based lending facility inJune with a
leading syndicate of lending institutions to provide a
substantial part of the Phase 1B work programme funding requirement.
Post Period Event
UK Department of Energy and Climate Change has offered the Company
licenses over Blocks 9/4 (part), 9/8b and 9/9f (split) as applied for
in the UK 27th Offshore Licensing Round. These licences could add
significant additional value to a Bentley hub development concept.
Significant Work Ahead
The Phase 1A programme was a highly successful, extensive and thorough
pre-production well test, which has provided substantial quantities of
valuable data.The Company's immediate priority is to continue to
analyse this information in order to update the reservoir model and
production profiles, which, together with the inclusion of recently
acquired new 3D seismic data over the Bentley field and its surrounding
prospects (including 27th Round licences), will form part of the
updated reserves report (a Competent Person's Report) and the RBL banks
review process, expected early in 2013.
This data and analysis thereof will also be utilised in a data room in
due course for the intended farm-out discussions, with the intention of
commencing the initial engagement process by the end of the year.
2013 is therefore expected to be an important year for Xcite Energy,
with an updated Competent Persons Report, discussions with potential
farm-in partners, the re-submission of the updated Field Development
Plan to DECC and the initiation of the Phase 1B work programme, the
planning for which is well underway. The Company looks forward to
updating investors on these important events.
The following tables summarise the Group's financial performance in the
3 and 9 months ended 30 September 2012 and the comparatives for the 3
and 9 months ended 30 September 2011.
9 months 3 months 9 months 3 months
ended ended ended ended
30 Sept 30 Sept 30 Sept 30 Sept
Income Statement Information 2012 2012 2011 2011
GBPm GBPm GBPm GBPm
Revenue 13.3 13.3 - -
Net profit/(loss) (0.8) (0.6) (1.0) (0.7)
Earnings/(loss) per share (basic (0.3p) (0.2p) (0.6p) (0.4p)
and diluted) in pence
9 months 3 months 9 months 3 months
ended ended ended ended
30 Sept 30 Sept 30 Sept 30 Sept
Cash Flow Information 2012 2012 2011 2011
GBPm GBPm GBPm GBPm
Net cash flow from (8.2) (13.0) (16.8) 0.7
Net cash flow from (100.8) (35.4) (12.2) (4.9)
investing activities
Net cash flow from 99.5 21.3 43.8 10.6
financing activities
As at As at As at
30 Sept 31 December 30 Sept
Balance Sheet Information 2012 2011 2011
GBPm GBPm GBPm
Total assets 260.7 152.8 130.2
Cash and cash equivalents 54.6 64.1 50.8
Current liabilities 53.7 9.5 7.0
Long term liabilities (deferred tax) 0.5 0.5 0.5
Total net assets 206.5 142.7 122.7
Click on, or paste the following link into your web browser, to view
the associated PDF document:
Xcite Energy Limited +44 (0) 1483 549 063
Rupert Cole / Andrew Fairclough
Oriel Securities (Joint Broker and Nomad) +44 (0) 207 710 7600
Michael Shaw / Ashton Clanfield
Morgan Stanley (Joint Broker) +44 (0) 207 425 8000
Andrew Foster
Pelham Bell Pottinger +44 (0) 207 861 3232
Mark Antelme / Henry Lerwill
Paradox Public Relations +1 514 341 0408
Jean-Francois Meilleur
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements contained in this announcement constitute
forward-looking information within the meaning of securities laws.
Forward-looking information may relate to the Company's future outlook
and anticipated events or results and, in some cases, can be identified
by terminology such as "may", "will", "should", "expect",
"plan","anticipate", "believe", "intend", "estimate", "predict",
"target","potential", "continue" or other similar expressions concerning
that are not historical facts. These statements are based on certain
factors and assumptions including expected growth, results of
operations, performance and business prospects and opportunities. While
the Company considers these assumptions to be reasonable based on
information currently available to us, they may prove to be incorrect.
Forward-looking information is also subject to certain factors,
including risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from what we currently expect. These factors include
risks associated with the oil and gas industry (including operational
risks in exploration and development and uncertainties of estimates oil
and gas potential properties), the risk of commodity price and foreign
exchange rate fluctuations and the ability of Xcite Energy to secure
financing. Additional information identifying risks and uncertainties
are contained in the Company's annual information form dated 26 October
2010 and in the Management's Discussion and Analysis for Xcite Energy
dated 24 July 2012 filed with the Canadian securities regulatory
authorities and available at www.sedar.com . The Company disclaims any
intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking
statements whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise, except as required under applicable securities regulations.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider
(as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange)
accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this
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Mark Webber handed grid penalty for ride on Fernando Alonso's wing in Singapore Grand Prix
Mark Webber is reportedly fuming after being punished by Formula One stewards for hitching a ride back to pit lane on the side of Fernando Alonso's Ferrari at the end of Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix.
Both drivers received reprimands over the incident, but it was Webber who was hit hardest given it was his third sanction of the season.
The Australian Red Bull pilot was cited for walking on to the circuit without permission and slapped with a 10-place grid penalty for next month's race in South Korea.
Webber had pulled off the track with his car in flames after an engine failure on the final lap.
Rather than having a slow post-race walk back to the pits, he dashed out on to the circuit, hailed Alonso's Ferrari like it was a taxi and then clambered onto the sidepod for a quicker ride back.
Alonso, reprimanded for his dangerous actions, had already finished the race in second, behind winner Sebastian Vettel.
Three cars on their slowdown laps - including Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes - had to take evasive action to avoid Webber and Alonso's slow Ferrari.
"There's not much I can say about that," Webber said.
"It's very frustrating, but the stewards have made their decision. It's now going to compromise my race in Korea, which is tough to take."
But according to former driver and TV commentator Martin Brundle, Webber was filthy.
Just spoke with @AussieGrit, you have no idea how p***** off he is about a 10 place grid drop in Korea for catching a lift with Alonso
- Martin Brundle (@MBrundleF1) September 23, 2013
The penalty did not sit well with Red Bull boss Christian Horner either, who said the image of Alonso giving Webber a lift was "good TV" and did not deserve such a harsh punishment.
"It should have been dealt with by a fine or a slap on the wrist," Horner told Autosport.
"Perhaps, in this instance, a talking to the drivers would have sufficed. Ideally a fine would have been better, but I don't believe that is something available to the stewards now.
"It is a shame and frustrating because that puts Mark now on the back foot now in Korea. It is what it is and we certainly can't change it."
Hamilton, who said the image was reminiscent of Nigel Mansell giving Ayrton Senna a lift home at the 1991 British Grand Prix, admitted he was "really shocked" by the incident.
"I went to the right of him, but if Mark had been walking across where I went then I would have run him over. Fortunately, that wasn't the case," he said.
"It's good for the fans to see and, as long as it's done in a safe manner - you don't stop on the racing line - then maybe it should be allowed for the future."


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For Lab Members
March 2013
Congratulations to Anthony Berger and Molly Carroll for winning NSF GRFP fellowships. Good job!
December 2012
The Kreeger lab's work was recently profiled by the WI Public News Service. See link for full story.
November 2012
Congratulations to Dawn Tian for receiving a Great Lakes National Scholarship!
October 2012
Congratulations to the Kreeger lab for being awarded a Research Scholars Grant from the American Cancer Society link
August 2012
Congratulations to Chloe Kim for winning a fellowship from the UW graduate school and to Molly Carroll for winning a Holton graduate fellowship. Good job!
May 2012
Congratulations to Greg Czaplewski for receiving his MS degree!
January 2012
Congratulations to Dawn Tian for successfully defending her PhD proposal!
November 2011
Congratulations to Danielle Bourgeois for passing her PhD Qualifying Exams!
June 2011
Congratulations to Rexxi Prasasya (MS, BME) and Katie Pollock (BS, BME) on their graduations. Rexxi will be pursuing a PhD in the Integrated Graduate Program in Life Sciences at Northwestern and Katie will be pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota.
June 2011
Welcome to our summer undergraduates - Christie, Kang, Lauren, and Marika!
April 2011
Katie Pollock will present a poster "Characterization of Endometriotic Cell Behavior Using a 3D Culture Model" at the UW Undergraduate Symposium.
November 2010
Congratulations to Dawn Tian for passing her PhD Qualifying Exams!
October 2010
Rexxi Prasasya will present a poster "Analysis of ErbB Inhibitor Sensitivity and ErbB Network Patterns in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer" at the BMES Annual Meeting in Austin, TX. Kathryn Pollock is a co-author.
August 2010
Congratulations to Danielle Bourgeois for winning a Holton graduate fellowship. Good job!
September 2010
Welcome to the new Kreeger lab members - Danielle Bourgeois and Greg Czaplewski.
August 2010
Congratulations to Megan Gnazzo and Valery Adorno for their outstanding presentations at their REU program research symposia! We had a great time having them in the lab this summer and wish them the best!
July 2010
Megan Gnazzo presented a poster "Signal Pathway Cross Talk Between the ErbB Receptor and IL-6 and IL-8 Cytokines in Ovarian Cancer Tumor Cells" at the CIC/SROP Summer Research Conference in Columbus, OH. Co-authors include Rexxi Prasasya and Kathryn Pollock.
April 2010
Congratulations to Dawn Tian for receiving an Honorable Mention in the NSF GRFP this year.
March 2010
Pam Kreeger is awarded a NSF CAREER - "Quantitative Analysis of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals"
December 2009
The Kreeger lab is awarded a Veritas luminometer by Turner Biosciences.


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Every year, the Reinbeck Elementary holds a celebration for the 100th day of school. The day is filled with a lot of activities regarding the number 100. The students were put into groups mixed with all ages. Each grade created an activity for the groups of students to participate in.
The Kindergartners activity was to make hats in which they were required to count by tens to one hundred. The first graders' activity was to draw and fill out a paper that included questions about what they look like now and 100 years later. They also had to include what they would be doing then. The second grade class activity required the students to roll dice and color in a square, for the amount that they rolled. The first one to fill in a 100 square chart was the winner. The third graders' game required the students to make 100 squares. They took turns drawing lines to form squares. When they drew the line, to finish the square, they put their initials in the square. The person with the most initialed squares won. Fourth grade classes had an activity that used creativity. Everyone was given the number 100 on a sheet of paper, and they had to make something out of it.
The Kindergarten students also set a goal, which was to collect 100 food and paper products for the local food bank. They were able to collect 178 items to donate. Another one of the things that the Kindergartners were able to do was to write, by 10's, to 100 on a t-shirt. They all wore them on the 100th day of school. The IMPACT group purchased the shirts, for these students, and made this activity possible.
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Upon asking what their thoughts were. Mrs. Egesdal, a Kindergarten teacher shared, "My class made a graph, sharing their favorite activity of the day. The most popular activity was making a hat. It's so amazing how much they've learned over these 100 days and how fast the year is going by. The day was a lot of fun and it was exciting to see kids of all ages joined together and the entire school participating. It was a great cooperation of the staff and students to make this celebration possible and a great experience."
Caleb Egesdal replied, "It was an awesome day with great activities. The day went so fast and so has 100 days of school."
IMPACT and others contributed to make the shirts and food challenge possible. The teachers look forward to 80 more days with the kids filled with learning!


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The rest of the details aren't quite as shocking. I hope nobody gets fired for leaking this controversial info.
Doesn't make any sense at all to me, as this content has to be paid for somehow. Would you prefer to personally pay for page views of information that would be important to you?
Yes, I would. "We're not asking you to pay, so we get to annoy the shit out of you," just doesn't work for me.
But why pay when I can just block the ads?
It's an empty non-story with NO new information. Don't reward them with ad hits.
I totally agree, those features were previously discussed here [slashdot.org].
And the list of those features is listed in a pdf file on the website of microsoft itself [microsoft.com]
Through Windows Update, the download size varies, but it is typically 70 megabytes (MB), depending on the
computer's configuration. Through the Download Center, the download size is approximately 580 MB.
They could make a deal with game developers so that new games would only run on Vista. Hmmm. Might work.
I doubt it. I've written about this before, though I'm far from an authority. Game makers want to develop for the largest platform. You really htink they would shoot themselves in the foot by switching over en-masse to DirectX 10, where gamers haven't really gone? Have you noticed that despite Vista's length of time out (Relatively short compared to XP, but long enough.) the door, the game market is sti
This isn't the case as far as I've experienced if you slipstream existing SP2 media with the latest service pack. Maybe you have to use new SP3 media from MS, who knows.
Microsoft clarified that there will not be any integrated SP3 release for Windows XP Media Center Edition or Windows XP Tablet Edition. That means you won't be able to buy or obtain a complete Windows XP Media Center Edition / Tablet Edition SP3 CD. In addition, users of Windows XP Media Center Edition or Windows XP Tablet Edition will only be able to update to Service Pack 3 through Windows Update
MS does some things that really boggle the mind sometimes. I can't possibly understand THAT behavior, but mayb
It's actually very easy to understand - Microsoft wants every XP user to buy Vista and to make it as difficult as possible for those of us who are "hanging on to dear life" to XP.
Ah, but you CAN slipstream SP1 now. [vlite.net]
I just looked at the XP sister tool page [nliteos.com] and they have support for the latest XP SP3 refresh so it's a good bet they'll support it in 1.4.5 final.
http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/software/svpk/2008/02/windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu_9afedbd6b2941bf568c27046d6688e6ccb5ce018.exe [windowsupdate.com]
The absent ones are always at fault.


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My EM light has started blinking 6 flashes on my thermostat..indicating "discharge sensor". It is a York Heat Pump 3 ton, 12 SEER. Where do I find my sensor to replace? (split system)
Let me guess.....hmmmmmm.....maybe the discharge line?
Thanks Bobby...I not in the business...so could you explain a little about the discharge line as to what needs to be done....in simple terms please! Thanks again.
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Do-It-Yourselfers - not here.
This site is for industry professionals and folks seeking HVAC/R advice and knowledge. Please do not ask for step by step instructions on purchasing, installing or repairing your own HVAC equipment, that is our job and our livelihood. We are generous, but not to a fault.
Questions of this type will not be answered and may be deleted
Sorry Mark, but for obvious reasons (see above) I can't give step by step directions. In all honesty though, you didn't have to tell anyone you weren't in the business. Somehow, we already figured that out. Anyway, your heatpump has three sensors in the outdoor unit that constantly monitor temperatures and protect the unit from dying a harsh death. There is also a chance that the sensor might not even be the problem because there are some things that a tech can check that could give you that same code. I have seen sensors changed only to get the same code a few days later many times, so you really need to call a local York dealer and have them check out the system and service it, if needed. And yeah, you do need to find someone familiar with York. Your heatpump is fairly simple if you understand it's operation, but York just does some things different from other brands and it can appear to be really complicated to those not familiar with them. Good luck with it.
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Being a housewife takes patience, concentration, and organization. It's easy to become overwhelmed or fatigued.Your family comes home and messes up what you just cleaned.Here are some tips to keep from burning out.Let's be honest: there are times when you're just not feeling it. Don't worry: we're all tempted to fake it sometimes. A little organization, housecleaning, tips, shortcuts and hints to help her save time and we can have that wonderful little Suzy come out in each and every one of us.
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TELUS started pushing a new app to their BlackBerry OS 7 devices today. Telus App House is a telus-branded app that will provide you with direct download links to many of their partner apps or app specifically designed for the carrier.
This should start coming pre-loaded on BlackBerry 7 devices (BlackBerry 9810, 9900, 9860, 9360) soon, but will be coming to BlackBerry OS 5/6 & many other mobile platforms later this year.Quote:
Directly access best-in-class applications through a gateway residing on their devices home screen. TELUS App House is an app that lives on a customers smartphone. A customer simply clicks on an app in App House and it will provide a direct download or take them to the download page in the appropriate app store Content on the portal will include TELUS apps like the TELUS eCare account app, TELUS International Roaming Guide, well known, branded, partnered apps like Rdio and Skype and other top third-party apps.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 18th Jul 2012 21:12 UTC
The moment Microsoft announced it would lock other browsers out of being installed on Windows RT, we all knew regulatory bodies the world over were wringing their hands. Today, this has been confirmed: in the wake of an investigation into Microsoft not complying with the existing antitrust rulings regarding browser choice, the EU has also announced it's investigating Windows 8 x86 and Windows 8 RT (ARM).
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The antitrust case in the early 2000s was specifically about x86-class computers. [...] My guess is that the EU is primarily interested in the x86 market, but is casting a wary eye at the ARM market to understand the competitive dynamics; either way, the EU really can't do much about ARM, given Microsoft's lack of monopoly power. Microsoft can pretty much do anything it wants there.
This might come as a shock to you, but the EU is not US ...and in the EU cases against MS, it wasn't really, as in the US, explicitly about ~Intel machines.
OTOH, the EU cases (and rulings, and big fines) were about so broad things as access to protocols, specifications to be used by 3rd party software vendors. The issue with browsers would probably fit those.


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Atheist believes in God's wife
OK, believes "in" might be a stretch, but an atheist scholar does believe that the Judeo-Christian God may have been married, according to the U.K. Daily Mail [1].
That there were many gods (and goddesses) worshiped in ancient Israel is no surprise if you've read a bit of the Old Testament or are even familiar with the Ten Commandments. University of Exeter lecturer Francesca Stavrakopoulou, however, says that biblical and archeological evidence point to the Hebrew God being paired with a goddess who was worshiped in his temple in Jerusalem. The Daily Mail quotes another article she wrote:
"In the Book Of Kings, we're told that a statue of Asherah was housed in the temple and that female temple personnel wove ritual textiles for her.
In fact, although the Bible condemns all of these practices, the biblical texts suggest that goddess worship was a thriving feature of high-status religion in Jerusalem.
What, then, was her relationship to Yahweh? Ancient texts, amulets, and figurines unearthed here reveal that she was a powerful fertility goddess.
But perhaps most significant of all, Asherah was also the wife of El, the high god at Ugarit - a god who shares much in common with Yahweh. Given the evidence within the Bible that she was worshipped in the temple in Jerusalem, might she have played the role of a divine wife in ancient Israel too?"
Is this fallacy to be dismissed, an oddity from history, or a threat to our monotheism? Or could it be an admission that religion evolves with our understanding of God and a good reason to stop calling YHWH "he"?


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bill cosby actually having a show called the cosby mysteries. really though? bill cosby is about as much of a detective as he is a doctor. "dr." bill cosby.
the geico caveman actually getting a tv show.
jay-z marrying beyonce and having a child with her. the real life beauty and the beast.
ice cube doing commercials arguing with beer bottles over who's colder and him actually doing kids movies "are we there yet?" dude WAS the maddest rapper alive. not saying that he has to be that way but wasn't he dissing mc hammer for doing the same thing he's doing now?
rihanna actually having a long lasting music career despite the fact that she can't sing to save her life.


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On Thanksgiving morning, more than 1,000 runners put on long-sleeved shirts, braved the chill and competed in the annual 5K Turkey Trot.
On Thanksgiving morning, more than 1,000 runners put on long-sleeved shirts, braved the chill and competed in the annual 5K Turkey Trot.
Hours later, many of those athletes traded their race-day bibs for dinner bibs and trotted toward a dining room table.
Exercise, then eat. Seems like a fair trade. And for that one day, perhaps it was — provided the pumpkin pie slices were of defensible dimensions.
But statistics suggest many Marion County residents are eating more than exercising on the 364 other days of the year. And while talking about weight management during the holiday season might be a bah-humbug kind of thing to do, the timing actually is just right. Because in 2014, the medical profession will be zeroing in on patients' weight like never before.
In mid-November, national medical experts issued a new, headline-grabbing set of guidelines concerning heart health and proper use of cholesterol-lowering statins.
The general idea was that patients' heart risk should be assessed in a more broad fashion, not just by their cholesterol numbers, and that medical providers should be more aggressive in getting patients on medicinal regimens.
Less noticed, but equally significant, was a related set of guidelines for combating and addressing obesity. In essence, the rules call for a more aggressive approach to identifying and addressing weight problems.
In other words, at your next annual checkup in 2014, the doctor is less likely to say, "Hey, you could afford to lose some weight," and leave it at that.
Rather, doctors are now asked to, at least once a year, calculate their patients' body-mass index (BMI) and measure their waists. If appropriate, doctors are advised to develop a weight-loss plan that includes dietary and exercise components and, perhaps, face-to-face counseling sessions.
Surgery, once the last-gasp choice of the desperate, is now recommended for patients with a BMI of 40 or greater or a BMI of 35 and two other risk factors for heart disease.
These guidelines, and others like them, came from the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology and the Obesity Society.
There will be plenty of these doctor-patient conversations in Marion County, where 32 percent of adults were listed as obese in 2012. That compares with 19 percent overall for Florida, according to the latest report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
Pediatricians are in on the act, as well. More than 46 percent of public school students in first, third and fifth grades are overweight or obese, according to the latest review from the Florida Department of Health in Marion County.
The proactive approach is a comfortable one for Dr. James F. London, who practices at Ocala Family Medical Center. He has seen a dramatic increase in patients who have, or are close to developing, metabolic syndrome, which is a group of factors that raises the risk of developing heart disease, diabetes and stroke.
"Unfortunately, we don't have a magic pill" to eliminate problems related to weight, lipid levels and high blood pressure, said London, who is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology and nuclear cardiology.
What medical professionals do have is the power of persistence.
Some patients hear what the doctor says and respond with behavior modification. Others don't.
"You just have to keep working at it," London said.
London doesn't just talk the talk. He literally walks the walk.
Several years ago, London started a local version of the "Walk With A Doc" program. On Saturday mornings, he or another staff member leads an exercise walk for patients from the practice building to a nearby park.
"I didn't think they (the walks) would last," said Larry Mayfield, the practice CEO.
But they have, and they are well attended.
"I can feel that there is a trend toward people being more active," said London, who has been in the Ocala area for five years or so.
Todd R. Panzer, a certified advanced registered nurse practitioner at Ocala Family, said the patient-care provider relationship is critical. Trust is earned, and patients respond to activities like the Saturday morning walks and the practice's well-attended education seminars.
"We're trying to make sure we maintain that" rapport, Panzer said.
That's also part of the reason Ocala Family sponsors youth sports teams and conducts athletes' physicals.
"You can tell people things all day long," Panzer said. But you also have to play some offense and help them along in their exercise efforts, both in a clinical setting and in a broader context.
Although this new set of guidelines came out last month, the insurance wing of the health care industry already has been moving in that direction.
Mayfield notes that last year Medicare started covering behavioral counseling for obese patients. According to USA Today, the new Affordable Care Act will require most private insurers to cover such counseling and related treatments in 2014.
Dr. John Nardandrea practices at Family Care Specialists, which is part of the Ocala Health family. He said just this year insurance providers started requiring providers to include patients' BMI readings in their assessments.
Failure to list that metric would be akin to leaving out the patient's blood pressure reading — and perhaps complicate the practice's efforts to be reimbursed for care.
Nardandrea, like London, has long been addressing his patients' weight and related issues. "I'm pretty aggressive about that," he said.
Nardandrea's approach: "Always empower the individual first."
In other words, don't just encourage good diet and regular exercise. Add to that by recommending plans (such as the South Beach Diet) or books (like "Younger Next Year.")
In other circumstances, referrals to clinics, dieticians or commercial programs like Weight Watchers might be appropriate.
"I don't give up easily," Nardandrea said, though he acknowledges some longtime patients might not budge even after repeated pushing.
Nardandrea, who is board certified in family practice and hospice/palliative care, said it's important to set realistic goals. Even if a patient can't lose all his or her excess weight, consistently dropping 2 or 3 pounds a month is a move in the right direction and will lead to measurable health improvements.
Debbie Kemp, 47, is one of those people who help others meet fitness goals — whether modest or ambitious. She is group exercise manager at Brick City Health and Fitness and on any given day, for personal or professional purposes, can be found engaging in cross-fit, spin, Pilates and interval training.
Due to her career and healthy lifestyle, her weight has not been questioned by any doctors. But not everyone is as fortunate.
"Yes, they (health care professionals) need to address the fact of healthy eating and exercise versus diet alone, or weight-loss medications or surgeries," Kemp said.
Dr. Eric I. Rosenberg, chief of internal medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, approaches the issues from two vantage points: clinician and educator.
As a physician who is board certified in internal medicine and sees patients in clinic, Rosenberg said the new guidelines are "music to our (providers') ears."
Even when patients know they are overweight it can be difficult to take that next step. The patient might be embarrassed; the clinician might be wary of giving offense.
But now, with the issue a hot topic in the news, the barriers might be lowered. "I think this helps," Rosenberg said.
Health care providers know it's important to address patients' weight, not just the consequences, such as high blood pressure. Once clinician and patient can get to the next step, progress is possible.
Providers can engage in "motivational interviewing." It starts with a discussion (How have past weight-loss efforts gone? What are the barriers to success?) and progresses to goal setting and planning — everything from diet and exercise modification to surgery, in the extreme cases.
Rosenberg also is an associate professor of medicine at UF and teaches medical students in residency. So he is training the next generation of doctors to address patients' weight issues.
He said it's important for students to see success stories, where patients have lost weight and improved their health — just as people have stopped smoking and experienced health benefits.
Persistence is key, Rosenberg said, and barriers like the patient's potential embarrassment or trepidation can, and must, be worked around.
"Be their ally, not their judge," he said.
Andrew Harrison, 20, of Ocala, works out four to six days each week, mostly by lifting weights. The University of Central Florida student said his doctor told him he was over his recommended weight, but only because of muscle mass.
Harrison said it's a good idea for doctors to take a proactive approach on obesity because it is such a rapidly growing problem.
"Most doctors approach the topic very gingerly, like they are scared; in fact, I think it is wrong that they tiptoe around the topic so much because it is their job to be concerned about their patients' health," Harrison said.
Rich Offenberg, a 55-year-old account executive, said he never works out. He has an annual physical but has never been presented with a question about his weight.
"When you go for an annual physical, in a sense, that is a proactive visit. And if you are overweight based on your height and age, it would be a great practice to discuss health concerns that could be attributed to your weight," Offenberg said.
"If you have no current issues that might be due to weight — however, you are (still) overweight — the physician should discuss potential health issues that might arise if you do not lose weight or continue to gain weight," he said.
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Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli revealed the bad news today.
Or maybe it's good news considering the four to six weeks Rich Peverley is scheduled to miss should allow him to return to action this season.
But Peverley, who was sent home to be examined yesterday, suffered a third-degree MCL sprain in his right knee Wednesday night in Montreal, according to Chiarelli. Peverley was hit by Canadiens defenseman Hal Gill in the third period of Boston's 4-3 shootout win.
The Bruins are now down two top-line right wingers, as Peverley had been filling Nathan Horton's spot on the No. 1 line. So you can expect Chiarelli to intensify his efforts to add help up front before the Feb. 27 trade deadline. He has plenty of salary-cap space, prospects and draft picks to work with. He just needs a trading partner, which can be hard to find in a NHL that features all but a handful of teams within striking distance of a playoff spot.
Dominic Moore was already dealt out of Tampa Bay, and the Washington Capitals say they're not moving Mike Knuble. Phoenix has pulled into seventh in the West, so Ray Whitney seems like an unlikely trade asset. Boston might be best to look West toward Edmonton, where Ales Hemsky might make a nice fit. Or maybe the Bruins could convince Colorado that it's out of the race and pry away David Jones. There's always the Teemu Selanne option, but there are too many obstacles there — starting with Anaheim's continued rise in the standings. You also have to convince Selanne to OK a deal and come up with the proper compensation for the Ducks for a guy who would be the ultimate rental because he might not even play beyond this season.
In the short term, the Bruins will use in-house candidates to fill in the gaps. According to several reports from this morning's skate in Winnipeg, Benoit Pouliot skated with Milan Lucic and David Krejci, while Chris Kelly centered Daniel Paille and Jordan Caron and Josh Hennessy jumped on the fourth line with Gregory Campbell and Shawn Thornton.
Pittsburgh has done a remarkable job maintaining its excellence without several key players for long stretches, including nothing more than a cameo by the world's best player, this season. Now it's the Bruins' turn to prove that its resiliency and depth are as strong as they often brag about.


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ST. CHARLES – After living in Europe for four years, Brianna Smith will return to her native St. Charles to share a unique program that combines music and foreign language-learning for children.
With a Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, the musically inclined Smith will teach Music Lingua – German and Spanish foreign language-learning summer camps – in July and August.
Music Lingua is a program that uses music movement, storytelling and art to teach foreign language to children ages 2 to 8 years old (ages up to 10 years old can be considered).
"I just think it will be something fun," Smith said. "When kids are so young, they learn really quickly. People think, 'Oh it's too young to learn,' but I started playing piano when I was 5 years old, and now I still play."
Smith said she fully realized music's ability to connect to memory when she played piano during a previous summer at the Hunter Club Village apartment community for seniors in St. Charles, where her grandma, who experienced brain damage after having a cardiac arrest, resides.
"We were doing these Broadway hits that [my grandma] would have known when she was younger, and right away without even looking at the words, she remembered the lyrics," Smith said.
In addition to Smith's love of music, she discovered a passion for languages after living in Vienna, Austria, and Madrid, Spain, where she learned German and Spanish.
"Music is one of the best ways to learn other things because it breaks down inhibition and makes it fun to learn," Smith said, adding that – as a certified instructor – she taught English and music through the Helen Doron early English learning schools in Austria and Madrid. "I did it myself in Austria … so why not try it [in St. Charles] and see if it works, because it worked so well there."
The camps will consist of learning a foreign language through song, vocabulary, visuals, games and crafts. Depending on the level of interest in each language, children will be separated by age, and classes will be coordinated to best fit the schedules of interested participants. The Spanish class theme will be "Under the Sea," and the German class theme will be "On the Farm."
The location of the class still is being considered.
"It depends on how many people sign up," she said. "See how much interest we can drum up and then go from there if we're going to rent out a space or if we're going to do it in my basement or in my backyard [in St. Charles]."
If more children sign up, Smith said the MECA music school in South Elgin may be a suitable meeting space.
Participants will receive learning materials, books and a CD.
For information, camp dates, pricing or to sign up, email Smith at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 630-377-2513.


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Manchester United will have to smash their own transfer record in order to sign Marco Reus in January.
According to the Daily Mail, Reus' current employers - Borussia Dortmund - have slapped a mammoth price tag on the versatile attacker and the Red Devils will have to pay £40 million if they wish to land a player believed to be one of the club's main targets.
24-year-old Reus, who joined Bundesliga title hopefuls Dortmund from Borussia Mönchengladbach in January 2012, is a key figure for Jurgen Klopp's side and it is not too difficult to see why they appear to have attached such a seemingly large fee to a player who has already netted eight goals so far this season.
Manchester United, who currently sit eighth in the Premier League table after enduring an unsteady start to life under the tutelage of former Everton favourite David Moyes, have been linked with Reus for several weeks now.
The Germany star, whose technique and sheer versatility would make him an incredibly useful addition to the ranks at Old Trafford, reportedly did have a release clause of £29.4 million in his contract at Signal Iduna Park, but that appears to have altered somewhat in light of the move that saw Mario Gotze enticed to domestic rivals Bayern Munich during a hectic summer.
After losing arguably their most valuable asset to such a fierce rival in truly gut-wrenching circumstances. it would not be a shock to see Dortmund take somewhat of a harsher and more resolute stance to interest in their better players in future.
Whether Manchester United will indeed be willing to pay such an exorbitant fee to land Reus, though, remains to be seen.
Given Moyes' dramatic failings in the summer market and the club's underwhelming season so far, fans will surely be desperate to see the club invest considerable sums on the kind of world-class talent that is crucial to ensure that they are not let cut adrift of the likes of Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal in the years to come.
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The draws for the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League play-offs will take place on Friday 10 August at the House of European Football in Nyon at 12.00 and 13.30CET respectively. The ceremonies will be conducted by UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino and UEFA competitions director Giorgio Marchetti.
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I have never kissed my children or grandchildren or my parents on the lips (or my dog!) That is a sexual thing. Period.I never kiss anyone one on the cheek. Why? The head of a clean baby, maybe.I don't hug, either, except when almost forced into it, like at weddings and funerals. We see our children just every few weeks, and rarely hug then. BUT! Usually phone calls end with, "I love you."Lucas and I are very, very affectionate, if you wonder. We hug and kisss daily.
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SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) - Josh Hamilton knows there will be some boos when he returns to Arlington the first week of the season.
If he performs the way he did during his first game against Texas on Thursday night, they will be well earned.
Hamilton hit one of four home runs for Los Angeles in the top of the fourth inning off Derek Lowe, but the Angels lost 10-9 to the Rangers.
``The guys already have a poll on the team, if I'll get more claps or boos,' Hamilton said before the game.
``I can't worry about it. There are people that clap and people that will boo. I think it's funny. I got booed when I played there, why wouldn't I get booed when I play for the Angels and play there?'
Hamilton isn't the first player to move from the Rangers to their division rivals on the West Coast. C.J. Wilson switched teams before last season after signing a free-agent deal and went 13-10 with a 3.83 ERA for the Angels.
But Wilson didn't have the same cache as Hamilton. He overcame drug addiction to win an MVP award become one of the games biggest stars.
In five seasons with Texas, Hamilton hit .305 with 142 home runs and 506 RBIs with another six homers and 22 RBIs in the Rangers' two World Series runs.
The Angels rewarded him with a five-year, $125-million contract. Though expectations are high, Hamilton said he's not feeling any additional pressure.
``Somebody told me to think about the contract you sign now, but you're really getting paid for what you've done in the past,' said Hamilton, who finished 1 for 3. ``So don't put extra pressure on yourself to perform. Just go out, have fun, play the game and contribute any way you can.'
Earlier this spring, a minor firestorm broke out when Hamilton said the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex was more of a football town. But he said Thursday he wasn't questioning the priorities of the Rangers fans.
``When you start thinking about having 50,000 out on a Friday night instead of high school football games, that's fun,' he said. ``I'm glad the fans came out. Everybody loves a winner. Everybody comes out to watch a winner.
``I spent so much time with the fans, not because I wanted to get them to like me but because I wanted to,' he added. ``When we go back there, if there's somebody ragging me, cussing me or whatever the case may be, it's still not going to stop me from signing autographs and spending time with them.'
Hamilton, Albert Pujols, Howie Kendrick and Hank Conger homered during the Angels' six-run fourth inning against Rangers starter Derek Lowe that pulled Los Angeles to 7-6.
Lowe had allowed only two hits in his first three innings, facing the minimum nine batters, before struggling in the fourth.
``Wow. I should have stopped,' said Lowe, who was pitching for the third time in seven days. ``It was unbelievable. It's hard to do. All kidding aside, it just shows you how important location is. Get the ball over the middle of the plate and bad things are going to happen.'
Conger had a two-run triple in the sixth that put Los Angeles ahead 8-7. Erick Aybar added a solo shot in the seventh.
Leonys Martin, the only Texas starter to play the full nine innings, hit a bases-loaded double in the bottom of the ninth to give the Rangers their third win in four games.
``They put some runs up in a hurry,' Rangers manager Ron Washington said. ``But we can do that, too.'
Ian Kinsler doubled and scored in the first, then the Rangers used eight straight hits off Angels starter Jerome Williams to six more runs for a 7-0 lead.
Williams allowed the seven runs on 11 hits while facing only 14 batters. He struck out one.
NOTES: Rangers SS Elvis Andrus was 3 for 4 with with two RBIs and a run scored. . Kendrick went 2 for 3 to raised his batting average to .521. . Conger has driven in 15 runs in 12 games. . Pujols started at first for the second time in three games while also playing three straight games for the first time this spring. . Texas RHP Yu Darvish, who was scratched from his start Monday because of a stiff neck, threw a bullpen session Thursday and will start Saturday against Cincinnati. . Washington announced earlier Thursday that left-hander Matt Harrison will be the opening day starter and that right-hander Robbie Ross, who was vying for a spot at the tail end of the rotation after 58 relief appearances last season, will return to the bullpen. . Texas released RHP Yoshinori Tateyama from his minor league contract so he can try and pursue a major league job elsewhere.


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When you intentionally mar a national treasure due to current political correctness:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/01/06/1555251/the-continued-censorship-of-huckleberry-finn/ [slashdot.org] - where they searched and replaced "ni99a" with "slave" from Huckleberry Finn...
Well that's just arrogant (demonstrates a belief in the superiority of current social mores over historical realities) spineless (so our genteel sexting children don't have to face the fact that some Americans enslaved and legislated the inferiority of a whole race) and impoverishing (robs people of the opportunity for a real authentic discussion of the troubled history of race in this country).
Setting aside the idea of whether or not the word should be replaced at all, replacing it with 'slave' is deeply stupid.
I understand how that word can make the book hard to read, and if people want to release altered versions, whatever...but the word to substitute in is 'Negro' or 'colored', not 'slave'. 'Nigger' isn't about Jim's state of enslavement, it's about his skin-color. He will still be called that slur whether or not he is free, he will always be seen as 'other' and 'not part of society', not because of his enslavement status, but because of his pigmentation
Glossing over that is revisionist history of the worse kind, leading to a total screwed up lesson that, hey, Jim is now free, thus not a slave, and hence all those people who were so concerned about him being a nigger^Wslave will be entirely happy now, and Jim's entire life will be fluffy bunnies from now on and he'll be invited to their dinner parties.
I don't know how Mark Twain would feel about his text being altered, I suspect that he'd be happy that racial slurs are no longer accepted, and could conceivable be okay with changing the text so that people continued to read it...but I suspect he'd be rather annoyed at the new text conflating racial prejudice with slavery. (And, thus, sans slavery, everything is fine.)
I swear there's a quotation of Twain where he has choice words for anyone who dares to change his text, but I can't find it...
I remember that reading that when his books were first published the editor removed anything then considered offensive. I don't remember what all that was though I do remember that it included references to perspiration. Twaine told the woman who did the editing at the children's book publisher that she could use scissors to remove anything she thought improper, but she was not to alter one word of what was left.
Twaine knew that he tended to be crude. He relied on friends and editors to tell him when it sho
Well, I found "censorship is telling a man he can't have steak, just because a baby can't chew it," but I still remember one about how editors who interfere with his writing ought to be put against a wall and shot. That probably has more to do with style and deadlines than removing vulgarities, though.
I really have no idea how he would feel. It's entirely possible he'd say 'That is the way it was, so it will remain that way.'. Alternately, he might say 'The word has become much more vile than it was back then, which I applaud, but that now lends the wrong connotation to the text, so I will change it'.
I'm not even sure how this hypothetical works...Huck Finn was a specific book written for a specific audience for a specific reason, and Twain probably wouldn't even _care_ what modern audiences saw in it,
It's an important aspect of the book that people use the terrible slur nigger as easily as they use any other word. Changing it to anything else is revisionist bullshit and the people responsible should be carted off to someplace they can no longer harm our societal development.
Uh, not really. Word meanings and connotations changes over time.
'Nigger' was a slur, but it wasn't, as you call it, 'a terrible slur'. I point to Scout using it (And being corrected by her father.) in To Kill a Mockingbird, set in the 1930s, written in the early 60s.
It's only fairly recent that it became an obscene word that people won't say, ever. Not even in the context of reporting what other people say.
Or to look at it another way: Huck and Tom talk about 'Injun Joe' all the time, just like 'Nigger Jim'. That is also a racial slur, used in exactly the same context. And if you went around calling people 'Injun' in the modern day, well, people would rightly assume you were racist. But when they recounted the story, they would say that you said 'Injun', not 'the I-word'. And you'll notice that no one has proposed changing 'Injun' to anything in Huck Finn.
This is because at some point the taboo against 'nigger' became so strong that it managed to cross the boundary into the obscene, thus fundamentally changing how we see the word, which imparts a rather unintended impact to Huck Finn.
You can argue for that impact, but it's certainly not something Mark Twain knew was going to be there.
'Nigger' was a slur, but it wasn't, as you call it, 'a terrible slur'.
Unless someone happened to be calling you nigger.
It's only fairly recent that it became an obscene word that people won't say, ever.
That's not because the meaning of the word has changed. It's because now black people have some power. Also, I note you don't think that black people are people; they will say nigger at the drop of a hat. And don't give me any of that jazz about it being "nigga" because we all know that's just nigger in disguise.
This is because at some point the taboo against 'nigger' became so strong that it managed to cross the boundary into the obscene,
It's called black rights. It didn't just happen. When blacks became legally recognized as people they could react against being called nigger without
There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule--and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time. - Letter to Denver Post dated Aug. 14, 1902; also published in NY Tribune Aug. 22, 1902 (regarding banning of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the Denver Library.)
But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me. - Letter to Mrs. F. G. Whitmore, 7 February 1907
Censorship is telling a man he can't have steak, because a baby can't chew it.
.but the word to substitute in is 'Negro' or 'colored', not 'slave'. 'Nigger' isn't about Jim's state of enslavement, it's about his skin-color.
Actually, in the context of the literary masterpiece we are currently discussing, the adjective is technically part of the character's name.
It's not that he's 'a nigger named Jim,' but rather that the character's name is "Nigger Jim." Don't take my word for it, read or re-read the book (worth it anyway, Clemens was a brilliant author), it's fairly obvious that this is the case.
I don't know how Mark Twain would feel about his text being altered
I studied Twain a bit in my youth, as he was a gifted author and pundit whom I happen to share a geographic origin with; from my un
Actually, in the context of the literary masterpiece we are currently discussing, the adjective is technically part of the character's name.
Well, yes, but it's an adjective that describes skin color, is my point. If it is to be replaced, it must be replaced with another that describes the same skin color, not some unrelated word.
The whole 'should it be replaced' is another matter entirely, about which I completely agree with you.
But there's a whole secondary issue with the choice of 'slave' as the repl
A while back, I reverted an edit to the Black & Decker article. Apparently, someone was offended by the name of the company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_%26_Decker&diff=prev&oldid=353835547 [wikipedia.org]
They did the same think with Black Sabbath, changing it to:
African American Sabbath
Sometimes I wonder if Users have their brains turned-off. Everybody knows you can't just "search kindle" and "replace all" with nook, because then you replace words that never should have been replaced (as shown). You're supposed to verify each change one at a time.
A few (dozen?) years back a chemistry prof was writing the lab manuals and wanted to change "protective gloves" to "protective clothing". He did a find and replace gloves with clothing.
Various lab instructions included the phrase "It is not necessary to wear clothing in this lab".
Hilarity ensued.
The radio show RadioLab had an episode that talked a little bit about this. It's not a new problem but the results are just as hilarious. http://www.radiolab.org/2010/jun/28/ [radiolab.org]
AP Headline: "Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic Trials.
Tyson Homosexual easily won his semi-final for the 100 meters...
1990 Fresno Bee Article: New taxes that will help put Massachusetts "back into the African-American"
Chicago Tribune Obituary for Walter Cronkite refers to "Walter Leland Mr. Cronkite Jr." and his show "Walter Mr. Cronkite's Twentieth Century..."
Search and replace gone awry.
Yes deeply stupid... but it does remind me of the incredibly stupid argument back in the 90's (I think) where it was discussed that we needed to change the naming conventions on IDE hard drives.
Master/Slave was just too controversial and needed to be replaced. I remember several times over hearing somebody ask another tech if they had set the drive to slave mode only to be responded with, "Oh yes Masa. Set it to slave mode right quick Masa.". Yes, we did have a sarcasm problem where I worked.
- where they searched and replaced "ni99a" with "slave" from Huckleberry Finn...
Mark Twain was a good writer, and definitely ahead of his time... But I am pretty sure he didn't spell words with 9s.
Such an amazing set of tools such as diff and grep would probably amaze them.
Diff is the kind of thing that MOST PROFESSIONALS would benefit from.
Imagine diffing laws from year to year.
Who sed? A little globbing and reg-ex goes a long way
'eBook Regex Gone Haywire'
This is a straight-forward substring replace, not a regular expression. A not-completely-stupid regex would at least have only converted \bKindle\b, although obviously even then human oversight would be necessary.
A rather less stupid solution would be to separate the original text from the boilerplate "Look out for our other books on Kindle!" and only apply the replacement to the boilerplate.
So, this story is definitely an amusing anecdote, but I feel like TFA has the wrong takeaway. The fact is, while this specific issue is obviously e-book related, the overall problem of poor quality, low cost public domain publications is in no way specific to e-books. There have always been low budget publishing houses that print poorly edited, poorly translated versions of public domain works. Spend some time digging around used book sales, you'll find an endless supply of these, most notably from the 6
So, this story is definitely an amusing anecdote, but I feel like TFA has the wrong takeaway. The fact is, while this specific issue is obviously e-book related, the overall problem of poor quality, low cost public domain publications is in no way specific to e-books. There have always been low budget publishing houses that print poorly edited, poorly translated versions of public domain works. Spend some time digging around used book sales, you'll find an endless supply of these, most notably from the 60's and 70's.
No, the sad part is full price books from Amazon with incoherent pagination, horribly over recompressed jpegs and a verdant sea of spelling errors. I'd give Project Gutenberg a pass for those sorts of things except that the majority of PG books I've read are actually pretty well done.
When I'm paying top dollar for a product, I'd like some attempt at quality control....
I find when paying top dollar is when you are least likely to get quality control. Look at really expensive software as a great example, I have never seen any costing 6 figures or more that was not a huge pain and did not fail to do its job on a regular basis.
Are you telling me to expect problems with SAP?
I find when paying top dollar is when you are least likely to get quality control. Look at really expensive software as a great example, I have never seen any costing 6 figures or more that was not a huge pain and did not fail to do its job on a regular basis.
Having seen what happens with Sharepoint, I'll put money on it the exact same thing happens with other really big expensive packages: some manager used a well-implemented Sharepoint/SAP/(insert product here) system in the past and - thinking it was something you could just install and run with like Office, rather than a toolkit that you're supposed to use to build a system around your business processes - ordered a system based on it to be installed.
$Thousands, maybe $tens of thousands in licensing later, t
This is the problem exactly. I can deal with odd formatting from a PG book (though as you say, most are fine); what pisses me off is recent, full price ebooks where there has obviously not been the slightest attempt at editing or typesetting. One I got recently had a consistent problem where quoted text changed font & size after the first paragraph, which is pretty jarring. A full price book on my Nook should be a better experience than PG or scanned & OCR'd pdb were on my old Palm Pilot but sometimes these types of glitches just take you out of the experience & actually seem worse.
The Oatmeal's book "5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth" I luckily got out of the library (through Overdrive) - the images are so small as to be unreadable, both on the PC & ipad. If you look at the Play store, there are lots of good reviews, but they're all from Goodreads & such for the paper version. I'm sure it's funny, if you can read it; if I'd paid money for this pile of bits I'd be pissed. Does the publisher not own an ipad or a Kindle Fire? Did they not load it on one single device & say to themselves, "hmm, this really sucks, let's fix it"?
sed -i s/wand/wang/g Harry\ Potter*
for those who haven't read the referenced bash.org quote [bash.org]
<JonJonB> Purely in the interests of science, I have replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in the first Harry Potter Book
<JonJonB> Let's see the results...
<JonJonB> "Why aren't you supposed to do magic?" asked Harry.
<JonJonB> "Oh, well -- I was at Hogwarts meself but I -- er -- got expelled, ter tell yeh the truth. In me third year. They snapped me wang in half an' everything
<JonJonB> A magic wang... this was what Harry had been really looking forward to.
<JonJonB> "Yes, yes. I thought I'd be seeing you soon. Harry Potter." It wasn't a question. "You have your mother's eyes. It seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wang. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wang for charm work."
<JonJonB> "Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wang. Eleven inches. "
<JonJonB> Harry took the wang. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised the wang above his head, brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls
<JonJonB> "Oh, move over," Hermione snarled. She grabbed Harry's wang, tapped the lock, and whispered, 'Alohomora!"
<JonJonB> The troll couldn't feel Harry hanging there, but even a troll will notice if you stick a long bit of wood up its nose, and Harry's wang had still been in his hand when he'd jumped - it had gone straight up one of the troll's nostrils.
<JonJonB> He bent down and pulled his wang out of the troll's nose. It was covered in what looked like lumpy gray glue.
<JonJonB> He ran onto the field as you fell, waved his wang, and you sort of slowed down before you hit the ground. Then he whirled his wang at the dementors. Shot silver stuff at them.
<JonJonB> Ok
<JonJonB> I have found, definitive proof
<JonJonB> that J.K Rowling is a dirty DIRTY woman, making a fool of us all
<JonJonB> "Yes," Harry said, gripping his wang very tightly, and moving into the middle of the deserted classroom. He tried to keep his mind on flying, but something else kept intruding.... Any second now, he might hear his mother again... but he shouldn't think that, or he would hear her again, and he didn't want to... or did he?
<melusine > O_______O
<JonJonB> Something silver-white, something enormous, erupted from the end of his wang
<JonJonJonB> Then, with a sigh, he raised his wang and prodded the silvery substance with its tip.
<JonJonJonB> 'Get - off - me!' Harry gasped. For a few seconds they struggled, Harry pulling at his uncles sausage-like fingers with his left hand, his right maintaining a firm grip on his raised wang.
sed -i s/wand/wang/g Harry\ Potter*
I vote for sed 's/Sorcerer/Philosopher/g' Harry\ Potter*
It still irritates me to this day that the US version of HP and the Philosopher's Stone is marketed as HP and the *Sorcerer's Stone*. WHY??? The Philosopher's Stone is a well know fictional device (i.e. used in fiction for 1700 YEARS! [wikipedia.org]) for attaining eternal life - it has meaning and history! The US publishers apparently decided that kids would not want to read a book with the word 'philosopher' in the title, and changed it to the vacuous 'HP and the S
Unless it is in Russian. Any translation runs the risk of not being "as the author intended".
If the translation is done with care, it will follow the author's intentions very closely. That is the hallmark of good translations.
How do we know what the author's intentions are, especially for works whose author has been dead for at least 70 years?
If the author's intentions are not obvious from the text, then you're no better off reading it in the original Russian.
No. Definitely no. There are works which only shine in translation. A notable example would be the TV series The Persuaders! [imdb.com], which was o.k. in the original English, but hilariously great in the dubbed German version.
Indeed, some authors actually do their own translations, or have substantial input into them.
Part of the problem is the grotesque need to put advertisement inside everything we do, because sweet Jebus help me if we can't find some way to squeeze another penny of profit off a dead author's moldering corpse. Sadly, this problem isn't going away any time soon. How about this, separate the "Work of Art" from the annoying bits. Literally have them be distinct and separate objects. Leave the art alone. Do not touch it. Keep your grubby mitts off my masterpiece you heathen. Dork with your part as much as you like... it is after all your part. This is about sloppy data management and publishers need to begin to understand the nature of data. That is, if they intend to sell books in an electronic format. All you publishers, please have a brief but productive conversation with a few software and IT folk about how you manage data integrity, and ensure your product doesn't A) Get stepped on by stupid stuff B) Get corrupted by lack of proper data safeguards.
The rest as they say, is business as usual... please proceed, nothing to see here.
Just more of the same clbuttic errors.
(Hint: "ass" was one of the 13 words.)
" can also mean that readers can never be quite sure that they are viewing the texts as the author intended."
As an owner of a publishing company I can assure you the authors intentions are almost never the highest priority. Having read thousands of unedited manuscripts, many by very well known modern authors, I can say with confidence that you don't want to know what the authors originally pooped out.
Yes, I would.
If I cared what the publisher wanted to write, then I would read something written by the publisher.
I think he meant that books are a collaborative effort between author & editor. Oftentimes authors will put whatever comes to mind, and end-up with a 1000-page tome. It is the job of the editor to shorten that word-barf into something manageable. AND most authors appeciate the effort of the editor, as oftentimes the work is improved via the shortening/editing.
What that means is that your database wasn't normalized properly. In a normalized relational database, the username is stored in only one place, and all other references are through the primary key, which is typically a 32-bit integer userid.
Unless, of course, the username was the primary key, in which case the wtf is that you allow something that should be changeable to be a primary key.
Which reminds me... hi Valve!
Even if you don't ever plan to change a username, a username makes a poor primary key just for performance reasons. In MySQL, for example, primary keys should be kept short because every index will have a copy of every primary key.
I've had the misfortune to access the schema of an accounting system we had to use, and *every* FK was a string. Even if it was an integer. In a DB with 600+ tables, all connected. This ran on Oracle, and when I looked at the query analysis it was quite plain why it ran dog-slow even with a modest userbase. It used most of the IO and CPU on figuring out joins (I don't know the proper term, but I suspect this would not have been a problem if the FKs were ints). The table scans that ran (lots of them as well)
Unless, of course, the username was the primary key, in which case the wtf is that you allow something that should be changeable to be a primary key.
Which reminds me... hi Valve!
Which is why I still sign in to Steam with a long-dead username @ a no-longer-existing domain. I was dumbfounded when it struck me why they couldn't change it. Of course it's possible and highly desirable for everyone involved to change that, and I still wonder why Valve, which employs some arguably extremely brilliant people, isn't able to do the change with a minimum of downtime. It probably plays hell on their db to use strings as keys as well? Can anyone enlighten me on this one?
I've actually had fairly good success with PG and eBooks. They are just as good, if not better in some cases, than the eBooks I've purchased so far as quality control goes.
I have a big thick 1-volume edition of the Lord Of The Rings and it has a section at the front describing all the different editions and how different printings of the book contained different mistakes and things and how they ended up with the text as printed in that particular version.
Buttbuttinate [google.com]. That is all.
The ridiculous fees you pay to get an ISBN for each type of distribution (one # for each hardcover, paperback, epub,
Every novel should have an MD5 hash....
... as its ISDN.
ISBN that is.
... and I should get at least partial credit for reading the hash.
someone did a replace all because they were lazy, on a FREE PUBLIC DOMAIN BOOK
its a conspiracy, B&N is not allowing any use of the word kindle in any book they sell. in fact if you go to the store you will find EVERY PHYSICAL BOOK they sell will have the word kindle crossed out and Nook written in
Cheap, crummy ebook conversions with no editorial checking. This has been going on for years, and it will continue to be a problem for the foreseeable future.
A physical book is costly to produce. It's costly to stock and ship them as well. Given those costs, the additional cost of doing a little editing is insignificant. Ebooks, on the other hand, open up new depths of low cost publishing. It's one of those perverse, ironic results. You'd think that cutting down the reproduction and stocking costs of a book would free up money for other tasks, but in fact what happens is that editing, design and promotion become an opportunity for cutting what is now a more significant proportion of expenses.
As ebooks become the dominant form of book reading, the opportunity arises for marginal publishers to publish books with expenses cut to the bone. Eventually the role of publishers as mediators between the author and public to disappear, and authors will hire editors, story development consultants and designers themselves. Or perhaps literary agents will take the place of traditional publishers, becoming full service business management services for authors. In any case, expect that a greater proportion of "published" books to be poorly designed and edited.
There is a Wikipedia article about this issue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem [wikipedia.org]
"The problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's dirty-word filter prevented residents of the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England from creating accounts with AOL, because the town's name contains the substring cunt.[1] Years later, Google's filters apparently made the same mistake, preventing residents from searching for local businesses that included Scunthorpe in their names.[2]"
There is also a stub article about a specific instance of the replacement effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medireview [wikipedia.org]
From (my contribution on) the talk page of the article on Romance Languages:
Can anything be done about the automated censorship of the Dante quotation in footnote 12, which now ends: "nam domus nova et dominus meus lo**censored**ur"? The censored part is a "c" followed by a "u" followed by an "n" followed by a "t"; the original can be found, for example, here: http://www.greatdante.net/texts/vulgari/vulgari.html [greatdante.net] (chapter XI, paragraph 7).
Apparantly, their Automated Puritan can pull lady parts out of the m
What makes you think the censorship was automated? The article had "locuntur" from when it was first added [wikipedia.org] on 2 August 2011 until a change [wikipedia.org] made by an unregistered user on 26 January 2012. While I don't know why that user made that change, it wasn't automatically done by Wikipedia. So what can be done is for you (or someone) to change it back (actually, someone has already fixed it).
"Superior Formatting Publishing" [superiorformatting.com]'s web site is broken. It consists mostly of "Whoops, looks like there was a problem get the book data from Amazon. Please try again in a moment" and "Amazon API error". Plus a Kindle ad. And "All of our e-books are formatted specifically for the Kindle by an expert in formatting online content using only raw code."
Publishing houses are unfathomably bad at editorial workflow. Consider all the official, licensed ebooks with OCR problems. The publishers didn't have a soft copy of their own books. Staggering.
Now consider that managing the editorial workflow is their only value add, and ask yourself if there's a way to short stock on the publishing industry. Direct to consumer can't come soon enough.
You are cordially invited to dine at my estate to discuss this matter. Please dress appropriately, it will be an African-American tie dinner.
In less than a century, computers will be making substantial progress on ... the overriding problem of war and peace. -- James Slagle


text: We have been told by multiple sources that RIM's very first tablet will be launching on April 10th in retail locations. Additionally, we're told the OS goes GM (gold master) on March 31st and that when you boot up the device right out of the box, you'll be prompted to upgrade to a newer version of the OS. We'll have another hands-on coming up shortly but in the meantime, let us know if you plan to snag a PlayBook next month in the comments below, alright?


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A recent study indicated that twenty percent of adults exercise regularly. Suppose that five adults are selected at random. Use the binomial probability formula to find the probability that the number of people in the sample who exercise is:
a. exactly 3
b. at least 3
Also, find the:
c. mean
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Submission + - Microsoft acquires Interactive Supercomputing (itnews.com.au)
bennyboy64 writes: "Microsoft has announced the acquisition of technology assets of Interactive Supercomputing (ISC), a US company that specialised in bringing the power of parallel computing to desktops and making high performance computing more accessible to end users. Microsoft said it planned to integrate ISC technologies into future versions of Microsoft products and would provide more information over the coming months on where and how that integration will occur. "This move represents our ongoing commitment to parallel computing and high performance computing (HPC) and will bring together complementary technologies that will help simplify the complexity and difficulty of expressing problems that can be parallelised," said Kyril Faenov, general manager of high performance parallel computing technologies at Microsoft. Faenov said the former CEO of ISC, Bill Blake, was bringing a team of industry leading experts on parallel and high performance computing to join the Microsoft team at the New England Research Development Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts."


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2013 Los Angeles Auto Show Studs and Duds
It's finally auto show season again, and this week we managed to weather the first round at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Out of the show, several dozen new concept and production vehicles emerged. We waded through all of them to choose our five studs and five duds of the auto show. It's important to note that our five duds aren't the worst things since Joseph Stalin; we just found them underwhelming amid so many big debuts. An auto show ought to be a showing of a company's best feet forward, and sometimes those efforts just fall flat. Conversely, we love the studs on our lists, but there's no guarantee they'll sell worth a darn when they reach showrooms. With all of the prefaces and disclosures now out there, it's time to go through our Studs and Duds.Stud: 2015 Jaguar F-Type CoupeFor all of our fawning for the Jaguar F-Type, we wouldn't have been able to make this list in good faith if the hardtop version of our favorite rolling embodiment of desires and fantasies weren't included. The 2014 Jaguar F-Type convertible made its debut last year at the L.A. Auto Show, and the 2015 F-Type Coupe follows up with two notable differences: The swooping canopy that cocoons the driver and passenger and an engine upgrade that's exclusively for the F-Type Coupe, a 550-horsepower, supercharged 5.0-liter V-8. We loved our time in the F-Type V8 S convertible; we can't wait to let 'er rip in the coupe.Stud: 2015 Chevrolet Colorado Several of our staff members expected this one to be a full-blown dud. Surprisingly or not, the 2015 Chevrolet Colorado might just be the sort of vehicle that could upset the status quo when it arrives next year. Power comes by way of a 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine, a 3.6-liter V-6, 0r a 2.8-liter Duramax V-6. That's right, it'll have a diesel engine in it, which will be a novel among light-duty midsize pickup trucks. The truck is wholly more civilized than the one it replaces, as well as the international version of the same truck, and it'll have an interior that is frankly nicer than the one in the current Chevy Malibu.Stud: Nissan's Nismo lineup Perhaps the biggest surprise of the L.A. Auto Show wasn't with any single vehicle, but with the onslaught that was Nissan's revamped and reinvigorated Nismo lineup. For those of you not in the know, Nismo is short for Nissan Motorsports. Before the show, we were privy to the 2014 Nissan Juke RS, and even more insane version of the Nissan Juke. Now, it has 215 horsepower from a 1.6-liter, turbocharged four-cylinder engine and Recaro bucket seats straight out of a race car. We were also aware that a revamped 2015 Nissan GT-R would be on its way, too, but instead of getting it as planned, Nissan dropped its 600-horsepower Nismo variant off in the U.S. as a surprise, along with Usain Bolt. Finally, Nissan revealed its Sentra Nismo concept, instilling its dowdy compact sedan with all the power and performance that would make us stand up and take notice. And believe us, we're taking a lot of notice.Stud: 2015 Audi A3 This whole compact luxury sedan class is filling up quite quickly. We were mightily impressed with the style of the Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class, but its substance could be a bit lacking. Not so for the 2015 Audi A3, which comes with two available gas engine--a 1.8-liter and 2.0-liter turbo four-cylinder--a new diesel engine, front- or all-wheel drive, and hatchback, sedan, or convertible variants. There will even be a plug-in hybrid variant available. There's an Audi A3 for everyone, and it'll be accessible, too. That could put a serious buzzkill on the wave of enthusiasm that has come with the CLA.Stud: 2015 Porsche Macan Yes, please. Sure, it's a little more expensive than we would have initially anticipated, starting at just under $50,000 for the mid-grade Macan S that currently serves as the cheapest model available. And it shares a bit of what's under its sheetmetal with the much cheaper Audi Q5. But the 2015 Porsche Macan is otherwise one we'd love to see in our garage now. Sitting inside it, it becomes readily apparent that this little crossover is of the utmost quality, with materials and technology that aim to challenge more expensive rivals. Porsche claims 4.4 seconds to 60 mph with its available 400-horsepower, turbocharged V-6. If there is a flaw with this one, we can't think of it. Oh yeah, except for maybe its price, which can top 100 grand if you're not too careful.Dud: Ford Edge Concept We knew what to expect with the Ford Edge concept, seeing as how this one leaked from the company vault months ago. But seeing the crossover in the sheetmetal was more than a tad underwhelming, to be completely honest. Even with the trick door handles, big wheels, and more chrome that come with a concept version, we couldn't help but think Ford took a backstep with the creativity that came with the first-gen version. The 2015 Ford Edge will probably sell well, and it will probably correct many of the foibles that plague the current model, but Ford could have done so much more with it. Why didn't it? When a car we see in a parking garage has more presence than the model that debuted on the show floor, there's a problem.Dud: 2015 Subaru WRX It's certainly not going to be a bad car, not with a larger rear seat, added power, and more refinement. But is that why you buy a Subaru WRX? No. Hell no. You buy a Subaru WRX to be brazen, in-your-face, and maybe even a little juvenile. You buy it to live out your rally-car dreams and obsessively tinker with your car along with throngs of other Subie people. The new WRX will likely be little of the above, at least compared to past models. In fact, our consensus said it was honestly a little boring. Sitting on the show stand in red paint with gunmetal-colored wheels, this isn't the futuristic WRX we were promised at this year's New York Auto Show; it's an Impreza with a different nose. It's even available with a continuously variable automatic transmission for the first time, a rarity among sporting products of any sort if only because CVTs rarely ever make for the best transmission choice in cars that aren't geared for maximum fuel economy. CVTs are for hybrids and and family sedans; not for cars you're supposed to fling around sideways on a muddy Sunday afternoon. The 2015 Subaru WRX looks rough and tumble, and we're sure looking forward to it exceeding our modest expectations. But on the surface, this looks like one of the most introverted sport compact cars to ever come from Subaru, and we wonder if its substance will make it a better sporting machine than the model it replaces as much as we expect it to be a more polished ride. We hope Mitsubishi stays viable long enough to produce a next-gen Lancer Evolution with some real bite in its personality, and we hope the next STI version is a real fire-breather. So far, this WRX just looks bland. We hope we're proven wrong.Dud: BMW X4 Concept The BMW X4 concept has made the rounds for several months now. This one is more a preview used for publicity than an actual concept, as BMW has already stated that it will be headed for production in Spartanburg, South Carolina quite soon. It's not bad-looking, either. We just think it's pointless. And useless. And redundant. And we can't figure out why it needs to exist. Essentially a sportier version of the BMW X3, the X4 cuts cargo capacity and rear headroom and does so for what will likely be more money than the crossover on which it's based. It will also contend with the far more useful, but less aesthetically pleasing, BMW 3 Series GT. For us, we'd rather have something more straightforward like a fun-to-drive station wagon if we're going for that sort of thing. Or maybe just a BMW X3.Dud: 2015 Kia K900 Was this one a shoo-in for the "Duds" list? You might think so, but there were those of us who thought the car was pleasingly inoffensive and probably priced to move, even at prices likely to start above $50,000. So what's the holdup? The 2015 Kia K900 offers precisely nothing new to the segment, and it does so with a brand that carries less prestige than your average household appliance supplier. Its name also sounds like that of a household appliance. The top-spec model will have some 420 horsepower available from its 5.0-liter V-8 engine, and its interior mimics the BMW 7 Series in nearly every respect, but at a fraction of the price. It's just wholly unsatisfying in terms of bringing something truly innovative to a cutthroat segment. We don't expect it to be a bad car, but will it be a good one? Time will tell.Dud: 2015 Mini Cooper So this car has been dubbed "The new original," as Mini finally has to move beyond the looming shadow of the diminutive 1959 model that inspired the brand in the first place. On the original designer Sir Alec Issigonis' birthday, the 2015 Mini Cooper was unveiled. During the week, we heard, "It looks surprised" and "How big can a Mini be before it's a Medium or a Maxi Cooper?" We wondered the same thing. This car is a substantial 4.5 inches longer than the outgoing model, and it looks fine by itself. Still, its interior is cramped, and next to even a 2014 model, it looks like it's had a few too many burgers. Mini's goal with this car is to broaden its appeal beyond baby boomers, and we think it will mightily succeed. But we also think that BMW, Mini's parent company, is missing the plot for what a Mini ought to be. Innovative with a new turbocharged three-cylinder engine or an engine borrowed from the BMW 320i for the Cooper S, the 2015 Mini should be a great car. But it's no longer a Mini, and it's not quite the charmer it used to be.
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In a project like job portal, how to add the following feature:
if two users have created their accounts and one of them has registered to a job and wants to suggest the same job to the other existing user, how to do that?
Is basically how t refer a friend for the same job? please elaborate the answer