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This is part of Ninety-Nine Haskell Problems, based on Ninety-Nine Prolog Problems and Ninety-Nine Lisp Problems.
[edit] 1 Problem 11
(*) Modified run-length encoding.
Modify the result of problem 10 in such a way that if an element has no duplicates it is simply copied into the result list. Only elements with duplicates are transferred as (N E) lists.
* (encode-modified '(a a a a b c c a a d e e e e)) ((4 A) B (2 C) (2 A) D (4 E))
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P11> encodeModified "aaaabccaadeeee" [Multiple 4 'a',Single 'b',Multiple 2 'c', Multiple 2 'a',Single 'd',Multiple 4 'e']
[edit] 2 Problem 12
(**) Decode a run-length encoded list.
Given a run-length code list generated as specified in problem 11. Construct its uncompressed version.
Example in Haskell:
P12> decodeModified [Multiple 4 'a',Single 'b',Multiple 2 'c', Multiple 2 'a',Single 'd',Multiple 4 'e'] "aaaabccaadeeee"
[edit] 3 Problem 13
(**) Run-length encoding of a list (direct solution).
Implement the so-called run-length encoding data compression method directly. I.e. don't explicitly create the sublists containing the duplicates, as in problem 9, but only count them. As in problem P11, simplify the result list by replacing the singleton lists (1 X) by X.
* (encode-direct '(a a a a b c c a a d e e e e)) ((4 A) B (2 C) (2 A) D (4 E))
Example in Haskell:
P13> encodeDirect "aaaabccaadeeee" [Multiple 4 'a',Single 'b',Multiple 2 'c', Multiple 2 'a',Single 'd',Multiple 4 'e']
[edit] 4 Problem 14
(*) Duplicate the elements of a list.
* (dupli '(a b c c d)) (A A B B C C C C D D)
Example in Haskell:
> dupli [1, 2, 3] [1,1,2,2,3,3]
[edit] 5 Problem 15
(**) Replicate the elements of a list a given number of times.
* (repli '(a b c) 3) (A A A B B B C C C)
Example in Haskell:
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[edit] 6 Problem 16
(**) Drop every N'th element from a list.
* (drop '(a b c d e f g h i k) 3) (A B D E G H K)
Example in Haskell:
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[edit] 7 Problem 17
(*) Split a list into two parts; the length of the first part is given.
Do not use any predefined predicates.
* (split '(a b c d e f g h i k) 3) ( (A B C) (D E F G H I K))
Example in Haskell:
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[edit] 8 Problem 18
(**) Extract a slice from a list.
Given two indices, i and k, the slice is the list containing the elements between the i'th and k'th element of the original list (both limits included). Start counting the elements with 1.
* (slice '(a b c d e f g h i k) 3 7) (C D E F G)
Example in Haskell:
*Main> slice ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','k'] 3 7 "cdefg"
[edit] 9 Problem 19
(**) Rotate a list N places to the left.
Hint: Use the predefined functions length and (++).
* (rotate '(a b c d e f g h) 3) (D E F G H A B C) * (rotate '(a b c d e f g h) -2) (G H A B C D E F)
Examples in Haskell:
*Main> rotate ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h'] 3 "defghabc" *Main> rotate ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h'] (-2) "ghabcdef"
[edit] 10 Problem 20
(*) Remove the K'th element from a list.
Example in Prolog:
?- remove_at(X,[a,b,c,d],2,R). X = b R = [a,c,d]
Example in Lisp:
* (remove-at '(a b c d) 2) (A C D)
(Note that this only returns the residue list, while the Prolog version also returns the deleted element.)
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posted at 12:18 pm on July 21, 2011 by Bruce McQuain
This has been a week for CEOs speaking out against the Obama administration. This time it's someone I actually admire. Bernie Marcus, co-founder and CEO of Home Depot, has given an interview to Investors Business Daily and it is a pretty frank denunciation of the policies this administration has followed since coming into power. It's one of the things I admire about Marcus – he pulls no punches:
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Marcus: The U.S. government. Having built a small business into a big one, I can tell you that today the impediments that the government imposes are impossible to deal with. Home Depot would never have succeeded if we'd tried to start it today. Every day you see rules and regulations from a group of Washington bureaucrats who know nothing about running a business. And I mean every day. It's become stifling.
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We've been warning you from the beginning to pay no attention to the man's words and instead scrutinize his deeds. Often they are the opposite of what he has said he'd do. For example:
In January, however, he issued an executive order requiring federal agencies to review their regulations, looking for rules that are inefficient or outdated. His aim, he explained on The Wall Street Journal's op-ed page, was to "root out regulations that conflict, that are not worth the cost, or that are just plain dumb."
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That's another in a long list of many examples of him saying one thing and doing something else. His speeches are politically driven and designed to give him political cover while his actions are ideologically driven and part of an agenda.
Marcus is then asked about the debt talks:
IBD: Washington has been consumed with debt talks. Is this the right focus now?
Marcus: They are all tied together. If we don't lower spending and if we don't deal with paying down the debt, we are going to have to raise taxes. Even brain-dead economists understand that when you raise taxes, you cost jobs.
With all the talk about tax increases it means we have a lot of zombie politicians who haven't a clue, unfortunately. I mean how difficult is this? When you raise taxes in a recession, many businesses are going to have to make a decision aren't they? Use the money to pay the tax or hire. Any guess which will win out? You can't go to jail for not hiring.
Finally, and this one is devastating in its forthrightness, Marcus is asked what he'd tell Obama if he could sit down with him and talk about job creation. His answer is a classic:
IBD: If you could sit down with Obama and talk to him about job creation, what would you say?
Marcus: I'm not sure Obama would understand anything that I'd say, because he's never really worked a day outside the political or legal area. He doesn't know how to make a payroll, he doesn't understand the problems businesses face. I would try to explain that the plight of the businessman is very reactive to Washington. As Washington piles on regulations and mandates, the impact is tremendous. I don't think he's a bad guy. I just think he has no knowledge of this.
One can only wish Contessa Brewer was around to ask about economic degrees. Marcus is right about Obama's lack of knowledge. He's surrounded by a lack of knowledge in this area if his policies are any indication. As has been pointed out repeatedly, a president who was really concerned about jobs would be green lighting oil and gas exploration as fast as he could make it happen. And he's certainly made speeches about doing just that, but as usual, his actions betray his words.
Marcus has got a bead on this administration and this president. As long as they are in power and continue with the course of their regulatory policies, the economic malaise that has settled over this country will continue.
Bruce McQuain blogs at Questions and Observations (QandO), Blackfive, theWashington Examiner and the Green Room. Follow him on Twitter: @McQandO


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|November 5th, 2008, 07:04 PM
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legal pot
So with pot as a big topic this year I was thinking. Why is it really illegal?
They are fine with us smoking cigarettes, right? Cigarettes are full of hundreds of varying chemicals. We all know the bad smoking does to a person. Hell the government makes the manufacturer tell us their product is harmful.
You cant smoke at work or in a restaurant anymore. You cant smoke in many public places. They make smokers out to be worse than lepers.
How often to you hear the burden smoking causes on the health care system? How often do you hear about the damage smoking causes people?
They do like to get their money from fining people that smoke where they deem it not allowable. They also love their taxes from tobacco.
So far besides the money they collect I dont see a reason they don't make smoking illegal.
Now I am no expert, but I am under the impression that pot is a far safer substance to smoke than cigarettes. Please correct me if I am wrong.
We are hearing it helps people with pain and nausea often associated with chemotherapy. It reduces pressure in the eyes benefiting individuals with glaucoma. It offers some protection of nerves from the damage caused by MS. We can grow our own and dont need to pay drug companies to supply us. Police resources would be freed up for serious crimes. Drug dealers (including some terrorists) would their business.
So besides the fact that the government can't regulate it and tax us I dont see any reason they keep it illegal.
With all this in mind please tell me why it is the government says it is OK to smoke cigarettes and not pot. I thought they were supposed to be looking out for our best interests and not just making $$$ for themselves and their buddies.
What are your thoughts?
|November 5th, 2008, 07:07 PM
circling the drain
Pot is as dangerous or more then cigarettes in terms of causing lung cancer if I remember correctly. It also affects decision making and coordination more so then normal cigarettes if you were to drive etc, but no worse then alcohol.
I agree with your sentiment.
I may have smoked pot once, and I might have enjoyed it.
|November 5th, 2008, 07:09 PM
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Random google. "pot vs tobacco"
|November 5th, 2008, 07:10 PM
Dont Feed the Cyco
Make a law along the lines of the drinking and driving laws. I dont think anyone should be out driving stoned.
I am tired of the government telling us what is legal and illegal based on what is good for their wallets.
|November 5th, 2008, 07:10 PM
circling the drain
Another....I was under the impression that pot could cause lung cancer just the same as cigs but otherwise was fairly harmless....Read on...
|November 5th, 2008, 07:14 PM
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why isnt it legal? a number of reasons. one of the main one is pharmaceutical lobbyists with loads of money fighting to keep it illegal. who would take Motrin if you could use pot instead. legal pot would be nice, it would make it easy to get, cutting out the drug dealers. plus people would no longer be persecuted in the workplace for smoking pot. how fucked is it that i have to be drug free to work for a company, but a lazy ass "insert racial slur here" can smoke dope and collect welfare?
|November 5th, 2008, 07:25 PM
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holy cow, chad. Forgive me for not reading what you wrote---(unless you are willing to give me CEUs for it so I can use it to maintain my sub abuse license, that is...).
I agree that it should be legalized, regulated, and taxed just like alcohol and tobacco. As far as harm, it is my understanding that the amount of carcinogens (sp?) and other harmful chemicals are the same, if not less due to the "organic" nature of pot. What I mean, is that most pot smokers and growers do not use any chemicals in the preparation of their weed for smoking (unless, of course, they are lacing it with something to enhance the effect.).
The inhalation of pot smoke becomes detrminental more so because it isn't filtered, meaning folks usually smoke it wrapped in a paper or "blunt" (hallowed out cigar) that usually doesn't have a filter on it to help take out some of the chemicals, etc.
From what I have read and been taught, the addictive nature of pot is similar to cigarettes and it is often called the "gateway drug" because as people's bodies get used to it they will often move onto another drug to feel the same high they used to get. That is why they sometimes lace it with things to aid in the effect. I kinda liken it to beer drinkers who end up going to hard liquor because "beer doesn't get me buzzed." sorta thing.
Like I've said before, if it is legalized then there can be some sort of regulation of it. Pot growing is a lot like making your own beer or wine. Once you get acquainted with the art of doing it, you can learn how to increase or decrease the addictive (mind-altering) aspects of it to your liking. I think our government should legalize it and tax the crap out of it.
|November 5th, 2008, 07:27 PM
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actually, your lazy person on welfare must now submit to random drug tests in order to maintain their benefits. Now we all know there are easy ways around them, but if you get a good caseworker who hunts you down when you aren't expecting it, you may just find yourself truly down and out...
|November 5th, 2008, 07:33 PM
circling the drain
I once did a 25 page research paper on a controversial subject....i chose marijuanna, I wonder if I still ahve it? That was before every student was expected to own a laptop, I ended up with 30 hadwritten front and back pages.....
I used to know a lot about the subject, I've lost some touch. But that information seems to be pretty solid info with some references at the bottom.
In a nutshell pot is not addictive, its not any more dangerous then smokes or beer and its illegal because of myths and the inability at this point to regulate it.
Oh yeah, and don't forget the money the government gets from lobbyists fighting these drugs and the officers who get arrests, jobs, fines, etc.
|November 5th, 2008, 07:37 PM
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The government doesn't need to make a buck off me every time I breath.
|November 5th, 2008, 07:37 PM
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|November 5th, 2008, 07:54 PM
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I do agree that when pot is available (legal or not) you see less use of harder drugs. However, in my experience with addicted individuals, they began to lace their pot, use harder drugs (most often escatsy, meth, or other hallucinogens [wow those words are much easier to say than spell, sorry if I have them miss-spelled]). These were often kids who used alot of pot and found the highs from other drugs were either quicker or better. Also these kids would use anything they could get their hands on and when pot wasn't available that often caused the "gateway" if you will. Now, were these kids addicts because of pot? Nah, I don't think so, I think they had some genetic make up or predisposition to addiction as they had other behaviors and seemed "prone" to addiction where as other kids using the same amount of pot for the same amount of time never experimented with harder stuff. I do think there is a genetic make up to addiction that leads someone to use and end up with addiction issues.
As for making a buck off you when you breathe, that I agree with. I guess even if it were legal, people could still grow it (and let's face it, there are probably people who do in their gardens because the chance of a cop stopping in your back yard to peek at your veggies is probably low...). I would bet that it would continue as regulated stuff wouldn't be as good as what folks grow on their own and hybrid to their liking.
As far as pot addicts, I have never worked with one. My addicts where kids who did harder drugs and used pot socially, even though they were using all the time before they were picked up. Even when I ran a detention center, I never saw a kid detox from pot. Most of my kids were hard core abusers, but once they were out of the environment and had limited access they had some lingering symptoms (slow coordination, memory lapse, poor skin color and condition) but no detox symptoms that required medical attention.
I don't have a good argument for the why tax it question. I just don't ever see it being legalized without some sort of government oversight. I can't see the Ivory Tower giving up that sort of income, even if it does cost them billions to get it.
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this morning marked the 2nd time this week some inconsiderate ass-spelunking dipshit smoker in front of me flicked their lit cigarette out the window showering me (top down) with ash and sparks
bet the pot smokers wouldn't flick it away like that...
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Union Leader Correspondent | January 12. 2014 10:08PM
Wayne Hood, president of the Weare Winter Wanderers snowmobile club, checks for traffic on Route 114 before crossing. (NANCY BEAN FOSTER PHOTO)
"We depend a lot on private landowners to let us ride on their land," said Hood. "But they don't like to have people out just buzzing around. A certain few make it bad for the whole."
Over steep inclines, around sharp bends, and through smooth straightaways Hood guides the machine, stopping here and there to clear large branches and rocks from the trail, and to render a verdict on how well he did grooming the day before. Hood and several of the club's members go out on the trails regularly. Using one of the club's three tractors with drags pulled behind them, they cut up the snow, tumble it around a bit, and place it back on the ground.
"Looks like it got hit by a groomer," Hood said. "We'll have to fix that."
On Saturday, members of the Winter Wanderers and other local clubs gathered to honor Clifford Russell, a man who helped make possible snowmobile trailblazing in southern New Hampshire. A monument to him will be put on the trail this spring.
Russell, who passed away last February, also blazed trails that helped connect the trail systems across the area, and was working with a club in Hillsborough to extend the trails toward Deering and Weare when he died.
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Coos Bay, Oregon's largest coastal estuary and shipping port, together with its surrounding coastal range forest lands and tributary streams, has provided human beings with a place to live and work for thousands of years. The ancestors of today's local Indian tribes--the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, and the Coquille Indians--lived here long before Europeans landed on the eastern shore of North America. The Coquille Tribe, as owner of the Mill Casino on Coos Bay, is today one of the region's largest employers.
Although Spanish and English ships sailed along the Oregon coast as far back as the 16th century, Hudson's Bay Company fur traders were the first Europeans to reach Oregon's south coast and Coos Bay in the 1820s. After early settlement of the Willamette Valley by white Americans in the 1840s, and the California gold rush in 1849, a small group of Americans reached Coos Bay in 1853, and established the first town of Empire City, which is now part of the city of Coos Bay. The lumberman and shipbuilder Asa Meade Simpson established the mill and shipbuilding town of North Bend in 1856.
The pioneer period on Coos Bay lasted for about another half century. The first sawmills and shipyards were built in the 1850s. Coal mining began with the first settlers who came in 1853. By the late 1850s and 1860s farmers settled along the Coos and Coquille Rivers. A war between whites and Indians that engulfed all of southern Oregon from the Umpqua River south to the California border in 1855-56 led to the defeat of Indian people and their forced relocation onto Indian reservations on the north coast of Oregon. From the beginning of white settlement the Coos Bay region was tied into a coastal market for lumber, coal, salmon, and agricultural products centered on San Francisco and Portland. From the 1890s to 1920 the Coos Bay region's economy shifted from a mixed economy to one centered more on forest industrial production and large-scale coal mining. Agriculture became more specialized with dairy farming becoming the chief producer. During World War I there was a temporary expansion of wooden shipbuilding, but it proved to be the last days for this industry. The single most important event was the opening of the C. A. Smith Lumber Company mill on Coos Bay in 1908. This was the largest and most advanced mill on the Pacific Coast at the time. From the 1890s, federal funding of bar and harbor improvements helped make Coos Bay an ideal lumber shipping port.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the coal mining industry collapsed because of the introduction of fuel oil. Shipbuilding on Coos Bay also declined. But new technology in forest industry led to the construction of veneer, pulp and paper, and plywood mills throughout the region. In the 1920s road building created a new transportation network. People were no longer dependent on riverboat transportation. As of 1916 the railroad competed with coastal steamers to transport people in and out of the region. But in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, federal and state government funded coastal highway and bridge building. After 1936, Coos Bay was linked to the Willamette Valley and the rest of the Oregon coast by automobile transportation.After 1945 Weyerhaeuser Timber Company and Menasha Woodenware Company built manufacturing plants on Coos Bay. The region launched into a new era of stepped up forest industrial production. The peak year of employment in forest industry came in 1960-61. But a steep decline in forest industry employment, and closure of manufacturing plants, did not come until the 1980s. In the years 1981-83, some 2,000 timber industry jobs disappeared in Coos County. The decline in forest industry continued through the 1990s.
In view of recent developments in the forest industry, it is surprising to find that the population of Coos County has declined only slightly since 1980, when its population was 64,047. In a market analysis for the Coos Country Historical Society completed in the year 2000, Dean Runyan Associates reported:
"In 1999, according to the Center for Population Research and Census of Portland State University, Coos County had just over 61,000 residents. About a quarter, or just over 15,000 of these residents, live in Coos Bay, the largest city on the Oregon Coast. Despite significant job losses in the forest products industry, the population of Coos County has remained fairly stable over the last decade. Since 1990, the County's population has grown slowly by about 1,100 persons or about 1.8%, and steady growth is expected to continue through 2010. All of the population growth since 1990 has occurred because people have been moving to the area. Statewide, about 70 percent of population growth since 1990 has come from people moving into the state."
The city of Coos Bay used to be called Marshfield, and there is still Marshfield High School. But the city changed its name in 1944. Marshfield expanded after the turn of the century. A major fire on Front Street in 1922 led to the relocation of the city hall on Central Avenue. The area between the waterfront and 4th Street and two blocks on either side of Central Avenue became the center of the new Marshfield, and what is now considered to be the city of Coos Bay's "Old Town."
In A Guide to Oregon South Coast History (1999), I have described recent developments in the twin cities of Coos Bay-North Bend as follows. In the mid-1990s, three blocks of pedestrian mall in downtown Coos Bay, created in the late 1960s, was reopened to traffic. Covered walkways to protect pedestrians from rain were torn down to open sidewalks and streets to sunlight. The covered mall experiment turned out to be a failure. It did not recapture business from newly built shopping malls, and the covered sidewalks kept out sunshine as well as rain. But while this aspect of urban renewal was reversed, a waterfront boardwalk became a reality, offering tourists access to a walking view of the bay.
In other parts of the four block square old downtown area, many buildings were removed to make way for parking lots and a scattering of new professional office buildings. A new city hall was built to replace one built in the 1920s; in 1998 the "new" city hall of the 1920s housed a restaurant, dancing ballroom, and office spaces. An historic Elks Club Building was restored and remodeled into a bank headquarters. An old bank building was turned into a brewery. A 1930s post office building became an art museum.
Away from the old downtown center of the city of Coos Bay, four new shopping centers appeared in the 1970s to 1990s, anchored by Albertsons, Bi-Mart, K-Mart, Fred Meyer, Safeway, and Wal-Mart outlets. A publicly financed Bay Area Hospital, built in the 1970s, expanded. The Southwestern Oregon Community College campus built in the early 1960s added new classrooms, office spaces, playing fields, cafeteria, and dormitories in the 1980s and 1990s. The town of North Bend built a new public library, and Coos Bay in the last two years has expanded its library facility.
In these and many other ways, the Coos Bay-North Bend landscape has been transformed. The two small cities, still administered separately, have grown together in the last thirty years. The old downtown areas of the twin-cities have been integrated into a larger pattern of multiple business centers linked by commercial streets and interspersed with old and new residential areas.
The urban landscape on the Coos Bay estuary retains some of the features of an older, coastal-frontier West, but it is has been continuously re-engineered to meet the changing needs of business, industry, government, and individuals. This makes the human landscape on Coos Bay historically interesting, as well as a good place to live.


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A networking version of speed dating will take place at Wayne Law Feb. 21 , when about 30 attorneys and judges from a variety of practice areas will sit down across a table from Wayne State University law students, who will get five minutes with each mentor to ask questions and get advice from each professional before moving on to the next.
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Last year for the 4th we buried a front quarter and let it cook over night. It was great. Hole is 3 feet deep, coal were about a foot deep.
This year we did it but added a little vent tube with the thought that it would help the coals to breathe. We did a whole rear quarter and wanted to boost the heat. FAIL. It barely cooked. The onions were still crunchy even. Total waste of about 15 pounds of meat.
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Further to my armour, bucket and belt threads, here's the latest instalment of what I've been up to.
These are RKT gauntlets which I have assembled to open in a clam shell style (glued on the outside edge, velcro fastening on the inside edge) which I am told is movie accurate,
The flamethrower box is strengthened on the inside with glued in pieces of spare plastic (provided) then glued onto the side of the left gaunt. I shall be rivetting it also, for strength.
The flamethrower buttons are just a couple of momentary push buttons, and the LED on the left gaunt is my favourite individual part of the whole costume so far, courtesy of Halo 1 and his magical little shop of parts in Singapore! (cheers buddy!).
Neil (UK Scout) very kindly helped me out as I'm on a tight schedule to get this finished. He cleaned up the resin parts, sanded primed and put on the base coat of a colour I chose - Citadel paints Scab Red, and painted the insides black. Thanks so much for your help Neil, much appreciated, and great job!
I then applied the damage/weathering, based loosely on a combination of the visual dictionary and the MOM photo's, plus some ad libs here and there, where I thought the gauntlets would have received damage or wear.
I have the gaunt darts, hose connectors and tube under the whipcord housing to finish on the right gaunt, and I may re-paint the missile on the left gaunt, but I'm happy with the results so far.
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Guys, I need a receipe for using up goose legs. When getting back my buddy and me beast out the geese. I saved the legs from both our birds and have almost as much meat as breast. Maybe 2/3 of the breast amount. I want to cook them slow in a crock pot to get them tender and make a stew or something like that where the meat can be pulled off to remove the tendons. Looking for ideas with lots of great favours
I want to try a few receipies and have a party. :salude:


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There isn't a state in better shape than Utah today, but its future is threatened by diminishing educational attainments and battles in Washington over the U.S. fiscal crisis, a top economist said Thursday.
"I can stand before you as an economist representing the University of Utah and the largest business organization [in the state of Utah], and I can tell you that we now have the best economy in the country," Natalie Gochnour, associate dean at the university's David Eccles School of Business and chief economist at the Salt Lake Chamber.
Speaking to several hundred people at Gov. Gary Herbert's annual economic summit, Gochnour ticked off numerous examples that she said showed the state economy had bounced back from the Great Recession. Job growth and unemployment rates are better than almost anywhere in the U.S. Personal incomes are growing rapidly, and migration, retail sales, exports and construction activity all are strong, she said.
But, Gochnour added this warning:
"I also live in a country that has economic leadership in Washington, D.C., that is letting us down. While in Utah I can talk about economic leadership, in Washington I can only criticize the economic leadership that is occurring. I picked the word 'bumbling,' " she said.
"We have in our control the ability to take purposeful actions to control our fiscal future, and for whatever reason, we are choosing to fight" with one another, Gochnour said.
Herbert spoke at length during the lunch hour about the state's economy, its robust technology sector and its lean government, which he said is smaller today than it was in 2001, even though 500,000 more people live in Utah.
"Here in Utah, we have the people, we have the opportunity and the passion to continue to be a global leader in economic activity," Herbert tweeted later.
But Gochnour said several worrying signs suggest Utah's educational system is in danger of falling behind and ultimately weakening the economy. Graduation rates at the U. and other colleges and universities are in decline. The percentage of people age 25 to 34 with bachelor's degrees is now lower than that for people 35 to 44 years old.
"This is unacceptable. In an information economy, education is a key to your family's future. For us to have fewer 25 to 34 year-olds as a percentage who have taken a bachelor's degree than the people ahead of them [is] unacceptable," Gochnour said.
Math scores also have slipped. In 1992, Utah eighth-graders were No. 10 in the country. In 2011, they had dropped to 26th from the top 20 percent to the bottom half of all states, a warning sign that should be saying something to elected officials, she said.
Citing a Utah Foundation study, Gochnour said the reading skills of Utah fourth-graders ranked last among a number of states with similar characteristics, after adjusting for race, ethnicity, socio-economic backgrounds and educational levels of parents.
Compared with all 50 states, "we are about average, but we're dead last when you compare to [states] we should do well with," she said.
The Legislature took a step this year to confront the problem, the economist said. Lawmakers created a 14-member education task force to make recommendations on long-term policies for public and higher education.
"Education is getting the attention that it deserves. It's a major red flag for the state if we don't take care of it," Gochnour said.
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The two-term president will deliver the keynote speech at Zions Bank's trade and business conference on May 29, at the Salt Lake Marriott Downtown at City Creek hotel. The speech will not be open to the public or the media. Only invited guests can attend. Other parts of the conference will be open to the public.
Registration, cost and other conference information will be posted at www.zionbank.com/conference.
Economic, demographic projections for Utah in 2013
Employment expected to increase by 3.5 percent vs. 3.2 percent in 2012
Population should grow 1.7 percent vs 1.5 percent in 2012
Unemployment rate should average 5.4 percent vs. 5.7 percent in 2012
Home prices expected to rise 2.8 percent vs. 1.1 percent in 2012
Retail sales should rise 6.1 percent vs. 6.7 percent in 2012
Source: Governor's Office of Planning and Budget


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The invitation, emailed Tuesday, has a picture of the Apple logo surrounded by multi-colored polka dots and the sentence: "This should brighten everyone's day."
The iPhone 5, which went on sale in September of 2012, comes only in black or white.
The event is on Sept. 10 at Apple Inc. headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. The company's latest phone model was expected to be unveiled this month.
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EFL rejects accusation its policy on young footballers has 'confused' clubs
Clubs have been fined for not playing full strength sides in the EFL Trophy, but rewarded for playing young players in league games.
Terminally ill Rochdale fan given Football League accolade
The five-year-old, who has a terminal brain tumour, was named on the Rochdale substitutes bench for the Checkatrade Trophy match against Hartlepool.
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Rochdale will name five-year-old fan Joshua McCormack on their substitutes' bench for the Checkatrade Trophy match against Hartlepool United.
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At least 16 of Tuesday's 24 games in the Checkatrade Trophy drew attendances of less than 1,000 and only Chelsea and Luton drew more than 1,500.
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Re: Optimization doing more function evaluations than claimed?
Hello again,
Daniel Lichtblau sent me a suggestion (thanks Daniel), which led
tangentially to the following observation: the double evaluation I
described goes away if I remove the large secondary arguments (vectors
and matrices that are the datasets) from the function by making them
global variables. So the new function is
lDistExp[b1_?NumericQ] := Module[{distQ,pMaps, logList, logLike},
distQ = mapExponential2[distMaps, b1];
pMaps = Map[toProbs[#] &, distQ];
logList = Log[MapThread[#1[[#2]] &, {pMaps, e}]];
loglike=Apply[Plus, logList];
and distMaps and e are global.
My practical problem is now solved, but can anyone explain why the
passing of large numerical expressions as arguments might cause a
double evaluation when the function is within a FindMinimum statement?
Just wondering, really...
On 2005-05-20 05:11:49 -0400, Gareth Russell <gjr2008 at columbia.edu> said:
> Hi All,
> I have been using FindMaximize without symbolic derivatives to maximize
> a likelihood function that operates on a large dataset. Because the
> process is slow, I want to track progress as it happens, so I include a
> Print[{parameter1, parameter2, ..., likelihood}] step in the function
> being evaluated. In doing so, I have noticed that the function appears
> to be evaluated twice for each trial of the parameter values. When I
> look at diagnostics after the fit is complete, such as the output of
> the EvaluationMonitor option, it shows each trial only once. For
> example, if Mathematica claims 20 steps after the fact, the number of
> printed outputs is always 40, in identical pairs. The 40 outputs appear
> evenly spaced in time, and the total timing of the fitting process,
> compared to the timing of one evaluation of the function, confirms that
> indeed, it was evaluated 40 times.
> Does anyone know why (i.e., under what conditions) FindMinimum might do
> this? You won't be able to evaluate my function, as it calls the
> datasets, but here it is anyway, with some info:
> lDistExp[distMaps_, e_, b1_?NumericQ] := Module[{distQ, pMaps,
> logList, logLike},
> distQ = mapExponential2[distMaps, b1];
> pMaps = Map[toProbs[#] &, distQ];
> logList = Log[MapThread[#1[[#2]] &, {pMaps, e}]];
> loglike=Apply[Plus, logList];
> Print[{b1,logLike}];
> logLike
> ]
> distMaps is a (large) matrix of reals, e is a vector of integers,
> and b1 is a real.
> The functions mapExponential2[] and toProbs[] are compiled functions
> (for speed).
> The function is maximized with respect to b1.
> As a side note that may be relevant, if I load the
> Optimization`UnconstrainedProblems` package and use the FindMinimumPlot
> function, the target function is be evaluated THREE times per step,
> even though the output again says just 20 steps.
> Because the fitting procedure is necessarily slow because of dataset
> size, I don't want to be doing more function evaluations than are
> necessary!
> Thanks,
> Gareth Russell
> Columbia University


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The course I'm applying to has given me an enormous pre-interview task to do and whilst I can confidently approach most of the questions, I've found a few (admittedly basic) parts of the task to be quite perplexing. Please see below and comment if you can:
1) Sentence parts - in the below sentence, what is the word "down"? Is it a preposition? Or perhaps it is part of the adverb "quickly" as in "quickly down"? I am really stuck with this one.
'He ran quickly down the stairs'
2) Sentence parts again - What is the word "from" in the below sentence
'She disappeared from my sight'
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Football, Men's Lacrosse and Women's Lacrosse
Monmouth University plays all of its home lacrosse and football games at Kessler Field on the school's beautiful 155-acre campus in West Long Branch, New Jersey. In the summer of 2005, Kessler Field was refitted with a state-of-the-art artificial surface by the FieldTurf Corporation. The $900,000 project enhances Kessler Field's status as one of the finest venues in New Jersey.
For the opening of the Monmouth Hawks' first football season in 1993, a 3,000-seat grandstand with press box was built. Alumni John and Henni Kantor Kessler, class of 1969 and 1968, respectively, donated $250,000 toward construction. The Monmouth Hawks now boast one of the finest facilities for Division I lacrosse in the region.
Kessler Field was built in 1993 and opened for the Hawks' inaugural season. On September 25, 1993, the first-ever game was played at Kessler Field as the Hawks hosted Sacred Heart University. Incidentally, the Pioneers won the coin toss and elected to receive the ball, which was kicked off by Randy Brewster at 1:06 p.m. The Hawks' first offensive play was a reverse, resulting in a four-yard gain by William Holder. Sacred Heart posted a 12-0 shutout in the contest.
Although the facility officially seats 4,600 fans, a record crowd of 6,233 packed Kessler Field on Homecoming Weekend in 1993. The spectators witnessed a barnburner as the Hawks fell to Hartwick, 17-13. On December 2, 2007 Kessler Field hosted the Inaugural Gridiron Classic. The University of San Diego, the Pioneer Football League Champions travelled to Monmouth County to face the Hawks in a televised game. USD topped the Hawks 27-7 in the game.
Monmouth, which has posted a 43-25 mark at Kessler Field in its 14 seasons of play, has averaged over 3,400 fans per game in the program's history. In 2007, the Hawks led the Northeast Conference in attendance for the second consecutive year.


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Ok, I'm working on my third suit of Mando armor. I did the trash can & sintra mixed. But now I have encountered a problem and was wondering if anyone else had the same issue.
I was baking (I use the bake on 200 for a cpl mins method) and things were going fine. I took out the plates and molded them directly on my girlfriend (who's gonna be wearing it). When i sat the plates down, the left chest plate was a totally different size. At first I thought that I just traced the pattern bad or cut it weird. But then I was making gauntlet bodies and the same thing happened. The left gauntlets were longer than the right, despite the fact that things were baked separately.
I never noticed such a dramatic expansion or shrinkage of sintra before and was wondering is this common? Obviously, I'm gonna have to remake the chest plates & this time bake them together so they are exactly the same.


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With public works departments under greater pressure to squeeze longer life out of each piece of equipment, preventive maintenance (PM), the functions necessary to prevent trucks or light-duty vehicles from breaking down, takes on greater importance.
PM is built around oil and filter changes and, where still needed, chassis greasing. It also involves inspecting components on a regular basis to prevent failures of wear items like fan belts.
A good PM program requires downtime for the vehicle while it is in the shop, and it includes recordkeeping. The benefits of a PM program go far beyond just preventing breakdowns. Done properly, it can lower maintenance costs and extend vehicle life. A comprehensive approach also improves safety and minimizes legal liability.
When vehicles are in the shop, they can't do their specific tasks, so you will want to minimize the time they spend here as much as possible. One way is to schedule more tightly. If you know that PM on a particular piece of equipment will take 2 hours 45 minutes, schedule a truck every three hours instead of "in the morning" or "afternoon."
If you do oil analysis and chart dynamic results, you can safely extend PM intervals by predicting when oil should be changed. By extending intervals, you reduce shop time and increase vehicle utilization.
Corrosion control
The effects of snow-fighting chemicals are well-documented in northern climates. But even in warm weather states, saltwater and humidity cause corrosion, especially when dissimilar metals are in contact.
When aluminum bodies, boxes, or brackets are mounted to steel chassis and bodies, they are often separated by rubber gaskets or RTV compound. Overtightening can distort the materials, allowing condensation or spray to come in contact with the metals. That can set up corrosion often out of sight of normal inspections. By the time warm weather corrosion is discovered, it may already have weakened support structures, necessitating fabrication of replacements.
In the Snow belt, where more highly corrosive snow-fighting chemicals are used, chemical-induced damage is usually more severe. Often, the very trucks that apply the chemicals are the most severely damaged. This can include dump trucks doing duty as snow plows and plow-equipped pickup trucks.
You don't need to apply chemicals to be affected. Every time you drive on treated roads, tires kick up a fine spray of liquid or salt that enters the tiniest crevices. About a dozen years ago, a new term entered the trucker's vocabulary: rust jacking. This occurs when brake shoes corrode under the linings. The increase in volume stresses the brake lining until the lining, riveted in place, cracks to relieve the stress caused by the rust jacking up the linings.
A cursory inspection may not reveal this condition. After driving on snow removal chemicals, the undercarriage should be hosed down with copious amounts of water. But even if that is done daily, brake shoes must be inspected for cracks.
Every part of the truck where bare metal is exposed to spray is vulnerable. Road debris, sand, and gravel can abrade surfaces, presenting a path for salts to act on metal. Hangers and brackets, hose connections, exhausts, springs, hinges, and body mounts are especially vulnerable. Inspection may not prevent corrosion, but it will allow you to identify it in time to take remedial action.
Minimize liability
While your drivers and operators stay close to home and are not required to complete log books, drivers should have a procedure to report vehicle defects. Also, you need procedures to address defects as they are brought to your attention.
Not all may require immediate attention. But any involving safety, especially those concerning steering, braking, vision, and vehicle stability, should be addressed immediately. Keep records from the moment it was noticed until the time it was resolved and the vehicle was cleared to resume operations. This is not only for your maintenance operation, but for liability protection as well.
Let's assume that an operator brings a dump truck back to the yard and he comments that the truck pulls to one side when braking. You already have a full schedule of trucks in for service and are short-handed. You note to check the brakes when you get time. After all, the driver brought the truck in without too much difficulty and he wasn't complaining too loudly.
The next day, he takes the truck out and comes back without incident, but he comments again about the brakes. You can imagine the rest of this hypothetical problem.
After the inevitable crash, what is your department's liability? If you are a defendant in a lawsuit, can you defend yourself and your department with documentation? To minimize exposure, your maintenance program should include comprehensive records keeping.
— Paul Abelson (firstname.lastname@example.com) is a former director of the Technology and Maintenance Council (TMC) of the American Trucking Associations, a former board member of Truck Writers of North America, and is active in the Society of Automotive Engineers.


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Welcome to the Sizzix Fresh Vintage Blog Hop! I am always so honored when Eileen Hull asks me to participate on these hops, and this round is probably the most exciting one to date! The new Fresh Vintage series is a great group of dies - I honestly don't know how Eileen keeps coming up with these amazing ideas. Today's featured die is the 3D Wrapped Flower. It's a fun, trendy flower that can be done up quickly and with great variety.
For my wreath project, I started out with a wreath base from the craft store. I die cut patterned papers from Grant Archival - and because this is a steel rule die from Sizzix, you can easily cut two pieces of paper at once. Assembling those pieces is as easy as using a piece of tape - seriously! I mixed and matched papers to create a whimsical look. To tie them all together, I used Wild Honey Distress Stain (Ranger) on the edges. The button centers were created with Epiphany Crafts' button tool, then highlighted with some Copper Stickles (Ranger).
To adhere the individual flowers, I just pulled out my handy glue gun and put them in the blank spots on the wreath. This is such an easy, one-of-a-kind project - and it would be so fun to have them for every occasion during the year!
Would you like a chance to win this die? All you have to do is head over to the Oh My Crafts! Blog and enter! It's that easy! And to continue on the Blog Hop, please just use the widget on the right and click Back or Forward - you will continue along with the other designers highlighting this fantastic die. Thanks for joining me today, and thanks to the incredibly talented Eileen Hull for putting together such an inspiring hop!


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By Chris Harris
Laurent Koscielny has praised Per Mertesacker's form this season - even though the Germany international has kept him out of the first-team picture.
The France centre back began the season with an injury and has found opportunities hard to come by since recovering his fitness. Koscielny scored Arsenal's equaliser at Manchester City but has only made two starts in the Premier League with Thomas Vermaelen and Mertesacker preferred in defence.
Koscielny's stock rose during his second season in English football and he believes Mertesacker is going through a similar transformation.
"I think everybody sees he is better this season," Koscielny told Arsenal Player. "The English league is very difficult, very strong and different players have a smaller time or a longer time to adapt to this football.
"I am happy for Per because he's a nice guy, very important in the dressing room. He's a joker so he's good for the team. I'm happy because he's played well this season and it's good for the team.
"We have a good team with every position, we have very good players. Now I cross my fingers to not be injured, like last year. We have three or four centre backs who can play so it's good for the team. The boss chooses the two centre backs who play.
"For me it's important to have a good relationship with my team-mates and when I play with Thomas or Per or Johan, I give myself for the squad. If I'm on the bench, I motivate my team-mates to do well for the squad and winning the game."
Koscielny will be hoping for a recall when Arsenal host Queens Park Rangers at Emirates Stadium on Saturday. And he knows that this could be a productive weekend for Arsène Wenger's side.
"It's a very important game because the other game is Chelsea v Manchester United. One team will lose some points so this game is very important," he said.
"We lost two games [in a row] - Norwich and Schalke, so this game is very important for the confidence of the team. We have the quality to come back stronger because we have some players who can [make] the difference. We must go [as] a unit on the pitch and [at] the end of the game, I just want to have the three points."
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One of the reasons microbes have survived and flourished for billions of years is the different ways they reproduce and how fast they do it.
Bacteria usually reproduce by simply dividing in two. Each new bacterium is a clone of the original—they each contain a copy of the same DNA. This is called binary fission (bye-nair-ee fish-un). If conditions are just right, one bacterium could become a BILLION (1,000,000,000) bacteria in just 10 hours through binary fission!
Sometimes bacteria do have a form of sex called conjugation (con-ju-gay-shun). One bacterium reaches out to another using a thread-like structure called a pilus. The first bacterium transfers part of its DNA to the other bacterium through the pilus.
By this exchange, bacteria can quickly create or pass along new traits that help them adapt to different environments.
Some yeasts, which are a type of fungus, also reproduce through binary fission. Other yeasts reproduce by budding. A parent yeast cell forms a growth, or bud, on its surface. As this bud gets bigger, the parent cell's nucleus divides into two by a process called mitosis (my-toe-sis). One of these nuclei transfers into the growing bud, which eventually pinches off. One yeast cell can produce up to 24 daughter cells.
Other fungi reproduce through spore formation. Fungi can produce spores either without sex or when two fungal cells fuse and share DNA. Spores are kind of like seeds in that they can be carried on the wind or rain, spreading the fungus to new places. Some species can do both sexual and asexual reproduction, depending on environmental conditions.
Microbes in the protist category reproduce in a number of ways. Algae, for example, can reproduce without sex. The nucleus of the algal cell divides by mitosis and moves to opposite ends of the cell. Then the cell divides into two new cells—this is called cytokinesis (sigh-toe-kin-ee-sis). Some species can reproduce sexually. Some do both. Protozoa reproduce by binary fission, budding or a process called schizogony (skiz-og-uh-knee). Schizogony is multiple fission: the cell's nucleus divides several times before the cell itself divides into multiple new cells, each with one of those new nuclei.
Viruses cannot reproduce on their own, which is one reason people debate whether they should be counted as living creatures. But when they're inside a suitable host cell, all they do is reproduce and they do it well. They take over the host cell's machinery and use it to make copies of their genes and proteins. These genes and proteins come together to make new viruses, which eventually escape the host cell and drift off to infect new cells.
So why aren't we up to our elbows in bacteria, fungi and protists if microbes can reproduce so quickly? It's because conditions are almost never perfect in the real world. Once there are too many microbes in one place, food runs out, their wastes pile up, they crowd each other and eventually they start dying off.
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I just met the licencing detective in my town on Monday 2/25 and got
all the applicible forms to apply for my FID and pistol purchase permit.
I filled out all forms and gathered up all applicible documents
(birth cert, SS card, tax bills etc.) and called to make an appointment
to meet the detective to sign said documents and submit them.
I was informed that the licencing data computers were somehow
affected by hurricane/storm Sandy and there would be a 6 month
delay ! Now, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed but this seems like
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Strasbourg, 05.11.2013 - A delegation of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) visited Switzerland from 21 to 25 October 2013 as the first step in the preparation of a monitoring report. During its visit, ECRI´s delegation gathered information on legislation, hate speech, violence, integration policies, LGBT issues and other topics.
The delegation held meetings in Bern and Geneva with representatives of the federal and certain cantonal governments, municipalities, independent bodies, international organisations and NGOs.
Following this visit, ECRI will adopt a report to be published in 2014 in which it will make a fresh set of recommendations on measures to be taken by the authorities to address racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, antisemitism, homo/transphobia and intolerance in the country. Among these, two will be revisited in two years' time as part of an interim follow-up procedure.
In its 2009 report, ECRI highlighted the following concerns: lack of a full range of civil and administrative law provisions against discrimination; polarisation in political discourse, specifically in that of the UDC party, which has taken a racist and xenophobic tone; certain Swiss media put across racist and xenophobic stereotypes; travellers and members of the Yenish community with an itinerant lifestyle still encounter difficulties with regard to the number of permanent or transit sites available.
ECRI is a human rights body of the Council of Europe, composed of independent experts, which monitors problems of racism, discrimination on grounds of ethnic origin, citizenship, colour, religion and language (racial discrimination), as well as xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance, prepares reports and issues recommendations to member States.
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From HaskellWiki
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1 Overview
Bullet is a professional open source multi-threaded 3D Collision Detection and Rigid Body Dynamics Library written in C++. It is free for commercial use under the zlib license.
2 Installation
A cabalised wrapper is available: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bullet
Note that you have to install the library before installing the package:
svn checkout http://bullet.googlecode.com/svn/tags/bullet-2.78 bullet-read-only cd bullet-read-only cmake . make sudo make install
Now you can install the Haskell binding:
cabal install bullet
3 Todo
- vehicle interface
- constraints
- soft body system
4 OpenGL example
The example on the screenshot below can be found in the package. You have to compile it by hand. Make sure that OpenGL and GLUT is installed, then enjoy:
cabal unpack bullet cd bullet-x.x.x/Examples ghc --make -O2 BulletExample ./BulletExample
You can use the arrows to navigate the scene and P to pause/unpause.
5 Combining LambdaCube and Bullet
Hackage contains an example for combining LambdaCube and Bullet: lambdacube-bullet


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RE: I hire Christians to do Web Design16th September 2011, 19:32
(10th September 2011, 06:41)FutureAndAHope Wrote: Hi Guys,
How many of you guys are into website design? I have recently started up my own business, and it is a lot of fun, but is hard work.
I am actually a Christian my self, and like to employ Christian workers. It was interesting when I first started out in business that the day my site actually went live was the 4th of July, American independence day, I felt like it was God's way of saying I am giving you independence from the past and giving you a new and better future.
When I was praying there were two things that were quite amazing. The first was God told me one of my previous clients would come accross and want me to workk for them. And they did, and no one else did, and I did not tell them I was leaving, they just asked me. It happened just as God predicted. Secondly I heard God say, I am moving you to england, I had no idea what it ment, but a day or so latter my first client who actually had work done came from the UK (england). So I just think God is a really cool bloke to have around.