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Trash, altercations, vandalism among reasons cited
PRATT -- The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) has announced that it has banned all alcohol -- including 3.2 percent malt beverages -- from state fishing lakes in many parts of the state. Intoxicated drivers, trash, vandalism, fights, rowdy parties that disturb other lake users, and lack of law enforcement manpower are among reasons for the move.
"Drinking at our state fishing lakes has gotten to be a big problem," says James Hulbert, public lands manager for KDWP. "We have intoxicated drivers leaving lakes. Almost every weekend last year at Pottawatomie Lake Number 2, either the state or neighbors had to patch fences where vehicles drove though them. Since we banned alcohol there Jan. 1, we haven't had to fix one fence.
"In addition to trash in the areas, our pit toilets were constantly vandalized when drinkers threw cans and bottles in," Hulbert continues. "It should cost $125 to have the pit toilets pumped, but one contractor took eleven 33-gallon bags of trash out of a pit and had to charge $450 to cover the extra time spent picking out trash. Ninety percent of it was beer cans and bottles."
Hulbert also notes that alcohol has been the cause of many fights at lakes and that families have threatened to abandon lakes because of the rowdy, sometimes dangerous behavior of drinkers.
Currently, the following lakes are closed to all alcohol possession or use: Rooks State Fishing Lake (SFL), Atchison SFL , Douglas SFL , Leavenworth SFL , Middle Creek Lake , Miami SFL , Pillsbury Crossing Wildlife Area , Pottawatomie SFL #1 , Pottawatomie SFL #2 , Shawnee SFL , Pratt Backwaters, Kingman SFL , Black Kettle SFL, McPherson SFL , Chase SFL , Butler SFL , Cowley SFL , Lyon SFL , and Montgomery SFL .
If problems persist, more lakes may be added in the future. For more information, contact the nearest office of the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.


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Should Dexter bring back the dreads to enhance the nostalgic value of the upcoming tour?!
*A goddamn old man (mods fix plz)
Should Dexter bring back the dreads to enhance the nostalgic value of the upcoming tour?!
*A goddamn old man (mods fix plz)
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When they said "sit down", I stood up.
id support it! it would be so vintage!
How is he supposed to grow these magical dreads?
Or are you suggesting that he should wear some kind of wig?
This is absurd.
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dreads? do you mean braids haha
personally i think everyone in the band should grow huge dreads and start wearing rastafarian hats and smoke a lot of pot
it's a funny idea but?? man
I don't think it would look as cool as it did back in the day. However, I do think it'd be awesome to bring back the couch, the Intermission sign and of course the infamous baseball bat for the Ixnay on the Hombre 20th Anniversary tour.
Probably the single most important poll here. That's a 'yes' from me. Get to it, Dex.
Night brings bad dreams
Bad dreams and guillotines
An old, well fed man with braids, that would be silly.....
Kevin: We never talk about my glasses; they're cool! We talk about Greg's penis, we can talk about my glasses.
Ron: Really fuckin' big man.
Brian: Yeah, just for the record, Greg has the biggest penis in the band. It's 7 1/4".We all got drunk and...
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After a four-decade career at Pocono Raceway, Joseph R. Mattioli III announced Monday that he is stepping down as a member of the track's Board of Directors and Executive Committee.
Mattioli is the son of Dr. Rose Mattioli and Pocono founder and patriarch, the late Dr. Joseph "Doc" Mattioli.
After he graduated from Lehigh University in 1974, Mattioli began his tenure at Pocono. Prior to serving on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee, he was the track's president and chief operating officer, positions he stepped down from in 1995.
"After college, Joe was heading to law school, but his father asked him to take a year off and help us at the track," Dr. Rose Mattioli said in a press release.
"We were still practicing medicine in Philadelphia and needed him there at the track. One year turned into over 20, and he was very instrumental in the raceway's success in the early years."
In August 2011, Doc Mattioli retired and turned over everyday duties at Pocono to his three oldest grandchildren - Brandon Igdalsky, Nick Igdalsky and Ashley Igdalsky Walsh.
With the track in their capable hands, Joseph Mattioli feels the timing is right to step down.
"My nephews, nieces and sons are the future of Pocono Raceway," Joseph said in a press release.
"I have no doubt they will continue to provide leadership, meet the challenges and guide Pocono Raceway into the future as my dad's legacy had always intended."
As for his future plans, Joseph Mattioli plans to focus on nonprofit and veterans organizations he supports. One is the Military Warriors Support Foundation, which provides housing assistance to returning veterans. Another is the Motor Sports Institute, which promotes academic success through engagement with motor sports.
He also plans to develop Group 341, a consulting business he began in 2011 that provides strategic planning, marketing, branding and event management consulting services.


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The Racial Chris Matthews Meltdown You May Have to Watch Twice: This Will Sound Partisan to Hell with It
Aug. 28, 2013 5:48pm Jason Howerton
MSNBCs Chris Matthews is famously known for saying President Barack Obama once sent a thrill up his leg, and on Wednesday the TV host continued to pile on the praise in a very animated way.
Reacting to Obamas inspiring address commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.s historic Dream speech, Matthews bizarrely argued that Obama is everything the white conservative should have designed as the perfect African-American president.
This will sound partisan to hell with it, Matthews began. The speech the president gave today is an example of why there is no credibility to his right-wing critics. He is a moderate, he is a pro-American guy, a patriotic guy, who preaches over and over again unity among the various groups in this country. He never preaches division.
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Herron School of Art and Design will host Packet Switcher, an exhibition of recent projects by artist, designer and programmer Owen Mundy. The exhibition opens in the Robert B. Berskhire, Eleanor Prest Reese and Dorit and Gerald Paul Galleries on February 27 with a lecture by Mundy at 6:00 p.m. There will be a reception immediately following from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Packet Switcher runs through April 13.
Mundy is an assistant professor of art at Florida State University. He earned an M.F.A. degree in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego and a B.F.A. degree from Indiana University, Bloomington. He's a founder of Your Art Here http://yourarthere.org, an art organization that creates venues where art and ideas can be expressed freely through the use of billboards and other public spaces. In 2009 he created Give Me My Data http://givememydata.com, an online application that helps people get their data out of Facebook in reusable formats.
Packet Switcher contains a survey of recent and never before exhibited works. The individual pieces are varied; from dystopian visualizations of anonymous network data, to custom software which generates print resolution tests from news images. Owing to the increasingly decentralized models of artistic and cultural practice, as well as new forms of authorship like crowdsourcing, this exhibition features numerous collaborative projects with Mundy and other artists including Joelle Dietrick, Ryan Boatright, The Periscope Project, and Commodify, Inc.
The exhibition title references the process used to move digital communication by breaking files into smaller, faster blocks, or packets, of data. The packets travel through networks via the quickest available route and are reassembled at their destination. A digital photograph, for example, might be broken into several packets, each of which may travel through a different city before delivery.
As a U.S. Navy photographer, Mundy observed militarism's effect on cultures, sites and bodies. These experiences became an important influence on his work.


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Some guys called me a cock tease in college. Others just thought I was prude. I didn't care.
I was a classy teenager. I had kept a list of boys I kissed in high school. If there was an asterisk next to a name, it meant he also felt my boobs. When I met my college boyfriend, I made him wait months until I decided to lose my virginity to him. I wanted everything to be perfect, and neurotically planned out everything — including the dinner, the music, and my fancy new lingerie.
Of course, when I finally had sex I was completely disappointed. It felt like everything leading up to it — especially the flirting and the foreplay — was better than the act itself.
So I learned to stop worrying and love the attention. In fact, I realized I didn't want sex as much as I wanted to make out and satisfy my own needs. At my small liberal arts college, word quickly spread that I was a tease. I didn't give a damn about my reputation then, and I certainly don't now. I have my reasons — and I have sex! But I often shut the guy down before he can pass second base. Here are my true confessions.[ITPGallery]


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Beef Wellington (Recipe)
An old-fashioned, seriously indulgent British dish for special occasions
Beef Wellington, supposedly named for the first Duke of Wellington (who also gave us wellies), is the show-off British classic made with beef tenderloin coated in pâté and mushroom duxelles, and encased in puff pastry. Whether its origins had anything to do with nobility is debatable, but it's a wonderfully decadent dish for special occasions.
The last time we ate beef Wellington at our house was New Year's Eve, 1999. My husband, Alex, said he'd make individual ones for our six guests and us as a splashy way to see in the new millennium. For reasons that remain unclear to this day, he then decided to go shopping for clothes, leaving me to cook. Shortly after he drove off, our cleaning lady at the time, who was from New Zealand, called to tell me that the Queen had declared the day a holiday, so she wouldn't be coming.
I spent the final hours of the last millennium racing about with a vacuum cleaner and creating mini beef Wellingtons tailored to each guest's requested doneness, with their initials in pastry on top so we'd know which was which. Our friends arrived that evening bearing enough hors d'oeuvres for about 30 people. They and Alex, who had been shopping at the Johnny Cash outlet, judging from his all-black attire, got completely stuffed, as well as a little snookered, so that when dinnertime rolled round, nobody could manage more than half their pie. Our dog celebrated the arrival of 2000 with the world's finest table scraps.
It was certainly a memorable night, but I'm over it now, and I'm making beef Wellington again this New Year's Eve. (I have to submit these posts ahead of time, so it's still 2013 as I write.)
Anyway, if you want to spoil your friends in the dreary mid-winter, scrape up some shekels and go for it. It's not as fiddly as it sounds, and although it's expensive, it costs less than going out for dinner. Here's how it's done.
Beef Wellington
Serves 8
- 3½ to 4 lbs beef tenderloin fillet
- 2 Tbs olive oil
- ¾ lb mushrooms, finely chopped
- 2 shallots, finely minced
- 3 Tbs butter
- 4 ounces of liver pâté (optional)
- 2 sheets of thawed puff pastry
- 1 egg, beaten
- Salt and pepper
- 2 Tbs Madeira (optional)
- Heat the oil in a large sauté pan and brown the beef all over, including the ends. Cool completely on a wire rack.
- To make the duxelles: Over moderate heat, melt the butter and sauté the minced shallots and mushrooms until the mixture is nearly dry. Add the Madeira, if using, and cook until it evaporates. Season with salt and pepper and let cool completely.
- Mix together the pâté and duxelles and spread evenly all over the beef.
- Overlap the edges of 2 sheets of puff pastry on a lightly floured work surface and roll out to a rectangle about 12 by 20 inches. Place the coated beef lengthwise in the middle and carefully wrap the pastry around it. Tuck the ends under, and seal the joints with egg wash. Trim any excess. The beef should be completely enclosed. Set the package seam-side down on a baking sheet, brush with egg and cut a few shallow slits in the pastry to allow steam to escape. Refrigerate for 15 minutes or up to 4 hours.
- Bake in the middle of a 400-degree oven for about 35 minutes, until the pastry is golden brown and the center of the beef registers 130 degrees for medium rare. Let rest for 15 minutes. Serve in inch-thick slices.
Some cooks think adding liver pâté is gilding the lily on a ritzy cut like tenderloin. You can leave it out, but the mushroom duxelles is a must.
Happy New Year, everyone!
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April 3, 2007 > September Snow
Book ReviewByRobert A. Garfinkle"September Snow"By Robert BalmannoRegent Press; 346 pages; $15.95This science fiction novel - the first of four books of a series entitled "The Blessings of Gaia" - is set in locals around the world a few decades from now. Written by South SF Bay author Robert Balmanno, the story describes a world devastated by a combination of an 11 year global war which kills over a billion people, and massive environmental damage caused by global warming and eradication of the ozone layer. People are dying of sun poisoning, unless they are among the privileged few protected by domes.Sounds gruesome, but it gets worse when world leaders, known as the Magisters, who have established a new religion called Gaia, after the Greek goddess of the Earth, turn this order from its intended purpose of preserving the Earth into a violent regime that exterminates anyone 60 years or older and the peasants of the world. All religions, except the new Gaia are ruthlessly crushed and all copies of anything (books, films, etc.) related to history prior to the new regime are being systematically destroyed. The Magisters also establish giant nuclear-powered wind machines to control the environment.A rebel group emerges, headed by September Snow whose late husband had been a distinguished scientist before the regime killed him. In an attempt to kidnap a high-level Magister, September's troops mistakenly capture a former writer, Tom Novak, addicted to Vita-Man, a drug that makes men more virile and slows aging but whose sinister side effect makes addicts receptive to Magisters propaganda. Everywhere, TV-like wall screens spew propaganda and spy on the population. September, her daughter Iona and a "clean" Tom emerge as pivotal characters in the struggle for the survival of humanity and its home on Earth. I found this debut novel to be a very intriguing story and I certainly look forward to reading the next book in the series, "The Runes of Iona". "September Snow" is unfortunately plagued with novice writer mistakes, such as ping-pong dialogue but I am sure Balmanno will correct this in his next book. Despite these minor flaws, Balmanno has created a page-turning thriller that will captivate and get you thinking about how today's global problems may haunt us all in the near future. I would not let these minor flaws steer you away from this story.


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SOME of the best athletes Port Macquarie has to offer will be in action at Flynn's Beach today, as the Port triathlon and surf life saving clubs battle it out at the annual aquathon.
Members from each club will vie for bragging rights in the event, which consists of an 800m beach run, 400m surf swim and 2km run to finish.
Points for the top 10 in each age group are awarded, and the club that has the most points takes bragging rights for the year.
Both clubs say they are in with a chance of doing well.
Port Macquarie SLSC club president Jade Zaicew said his team should have the edge.
"Traditionally we've handled the ocean swim better than them," he said.
"And we're used to beach running."
Port Tri Club vice-president Jo Pilgrim was adamant her members would do well.
"Us for sure," she said when asked which club would triumph.
"It's a good thing to get both clubs together."
Former surf club president Tony Wright said his club was keen to continue its success, after winning the aquathon last year.
"They got the first two," he said of the tri club.
There'll be events for kids, consisting of shorter runs and beach wades.
The kids' wade gets underway at 6pm, with registration from 5pm.
Members from both clubs are invited to a barbecue and drinks afterwards.
For more information on the event, phone Mel Cockshutt on 0478 405 207.


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Latest update : 2011-10-13
Syrian stories: what strategy against Assad's crackdown? (part 2)
Longtime human rights advocate Haitham Maleh describes his release from a Damascus jail one week before the uprising, while Syria-watcher Joshua Landis explains – seven months on – why a stalemate still persists.
- Haitham MALEH, Syrian human rights activist;
- Bassam ISHAK, Member of the Syrian National Council;
- Joshua LANDIS, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma; Blogger, syriacomment.com;
- Samir AITA, Editor of the Arabic editions of 'Le Monde Diplomatique'.


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Elva Nielsen, 91
Elva Inez (Knapp) (Babcock) Nielsen age 91 of Broken Bow formerly of Anselmo was called to heaven Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at the Golden Living Center in Broken Bow.Funeral services were Jan. 15, 2011, at Govier Brothers Mortuary in Broken Bow, with the Rev. Mike Wheatly officiating. Burial was in the Broken Bow Cemetery. Govier Brothers Mortuary of Broken Bow is in charge of arrangements. A visitation was held at Govier Brothers Mortuary. Memorials may be given to the family. Elva was born on April 13, 1919, at Winnebago, Neb., to Jasper Edward and Ada Sarah (Howard) Knapp. Elva was married to George Walter Babcock on April 16, 1935, in Julesburg, CO. To this union eight children were born. He died in 1961. She then was married to Harlan David Nielsen Nov. 25, 1965. He died in 1975. Elva worked at nursing homes, cleaned house, and raised eight kids.Survivors include her daughters Elva Bramer of Arizona, Darlene Yates of North Platte, Wanda Roper of Loup City, Josephine Murphy of Anselmo, Mable Kelley of Anslemo and Phyllis Olson of Grand Island; one son Walter Babcock of Greeley, Colo.; 36 grandchildren; and numerous great and great-great- grandchildren. She is also survived by one brother Clinton Knapp of North Platte.She was preceded in death by two husbands, brothers Marvin, Orvil, and Marcus; sisters Mable, Mildred, and Hazel; a son Marcus; grandsons, granddaughters and some great-grandchildren.Elva had a heart of gold, who loved flowers, family and animals.


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- Alexander Motyl: Crimea vote a joke: Many believe war with Russia inevitable
- He says when Yanukovych was overthrown, Ukrainian-Americans were euphoric
- Motyl: Then Putin made threats; Russia stole Crimea and massed troops at border
- Motyl: Ukrainian-Americans fear for friends and relatives in Ukraine
As Crimea held a bogus referendum on independence under the watchful eye of Russian occupation force on March 16, I confess that my mind and heart were elsewhere.
I have never experienced war or the threat of annihilation. But now, thanks to the Internet, like thousands of other Ukrainian-Americans I am living at the edge of an existential abyss. The violence—the war—that threatens Ukraine does not threaten me. I am in New York and Ukraine is thousands of miles away. But war will threaten my friends, colleagues and family in Ukraine. We Ukrainian-Americans must now live with the very real possibility that their lives could be extinguished if Russian President Vladimir Putin chooses to do so. Indeed, Ukraine could even disappear as a state, if he chooses to make it disappear.
The Internet has inserted the reality and possibility of mass death into our lives. We watch events unfold in real time. And we watch these events unfold all day, every day. There is no respite. There is no pause.
Ukrainians in Ukraine must live with the tangible threat of physical annihilation. We must live with the virtual threat. Their fears are palpable. The consequences for them of war and violence are real: destruction and death. The consequences for us are virtual: We are witnesses to tragedy and mass killings. We watch, our eyes glued to our computer screens, and we imagine the horror.
Our empathy is not abstract: Our friends, colleagues and relatives are real people. Neither is our feeling of impotence abstract: It gnaws at our insides and reminds us that we, too, are dying, albeit spiritually.
For three months, starting in late November, when the mass pro-democracy demonstrations began in downtown Kiev, and ending on February 21, when Ukraine's version of Papa Doc Duvalier, Viktor Yanukovych, fled and people power triumphed, we had been witnessing daily regime violence punctuated by a few killings in January and mass killings just before the regime collapsed.
Every morning, turning on my computer, I wondered whether this was the day the criminal Yanukovych regime would crack down, as it continually threatened to do. If all that happened that night was a disappearance or two, a few savage beatings and fire-bombings of cars, we Ukrainian-Americans breathed a sigh of relief. You see, we had actually gotten used to daily terror. We, like the demonstrators in Ukraine, could live with that. After all, they had been living with the violence and predations of the Yanukovych regime since 2010.
What we feared above all was mass violence. And then it happened.
On Tuesday, February 18, about 16 demonstrators and 10 police officers were killed. We were shocked and mourned their deaths, while hoping and expecting the violence to ebb. On Wednesday, February 19, nothing happened and our hopes appeared to be justified. On Thursday, February 20, the regime ordered snipers to shoot randomly at demonstrators. Scores died. And, thanks to the Internet, we saw them being mowed down. The violence had come home. The criminal regime had insinuated itself into our lives.
After Yanukovych fled and a democratic government assumed power, we rejoiced. Finally, we thought, Ukraine would be able to become "normal" -- free, democratic, liberal and Western. We were euphoric. The death of the country had been averted.
Except that, exactly one week later, on Friday, February 28, that euphoria was replaced with the deepest of fears. Vladimir Putin's Russia invaded and occupied Crimea. That was bad enough. Far worse was yet to come. On Saturday, March 1, Putin claimed to have the right to "defend" "Russian citizens" anywhere in Ukraine, thereby giving himself carte blanche to invade any part of Ukraine he chooses. Which province would be next?
On Tuesday, March 4, our existential angst got worse. At a revealing press conference, Putin claimed he had the right to go to war with Ukraine in defense of "Ukrainian citizens." Putin also said if he made the decision to go to war, "women and children" would act as a shield for Russian troops.
Many Ukrainians in Ukraine now believe that a Russian invasion of mainland Ukraine is inevitable. If it happens, war will break out and thousands will die.
It's hard to believe that Putin will stop with Crimea. Putin's former economic adviser Andrei Illarionov, who resigned in protest after a bloody hostage crisis, believes Russian armies will march on Kiev.
Putin's ideological mentor, Aleksandr Dugin, insists that Russia's goals go beyond Ukraine into Europe -- a reunification of the Slavic peoples. Meanwhile, Russian troops and tanks are massing on Ukraine's borders. Terrified realists that we have become, we suspect the worst: that they will soon be attacking a country that dared say no to Putin.
As the clouds of a massive land war appear to approach Ukraine, we watch our screens with horror and hope against hope that Russian bombs will not begin to fall on our friends, colleagues, and family in Ukraine.


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Featured App Archives
by Wayne A. Thorp
Free ($0.99 for additional soundtracks)
Airsleep for iOS turns your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch into an in-flight sleep system.
If you are someone like me, sleeping on an airplane is all but impossible. I can count on one hand the number of times I have gotten any meaningful sleep on a plane, and that includes trans-Atlantic flights. The app is currently free at the iTunes store until the end of the year.
When you first install the app, you are confronted with what I considered to be a rather intimidating disclaimer that you must sign off on before you can use the app. It warns that pregnant women, individuals with a pacemaker and people prone to epilepsy or seizures shouldn't use the app.
The app gives you three different sound mixes for free. If you want more, you can purchase them within the app for $0.99 each. So over time, this "free" app could get a little pricey. The app uses patent-pending Dreamwave technology, which is based on brain wave science that blends ambient sounds with low tones to activate delta waves. Delta waves are low frequency brain waves that the brain produces when in the deepest stages of sleep. The idea is that the Dreamwave technology helps the user to achieve a deeper level of relaxation in order to sleep.
The soundtracks combine a mix of nature sounds and ambient music. Combining the music and nature sounds makes for an odd mix, and I'm not sure I could handle it for long periods of time. However, if the app does what it's supposed to do, I would sleep through most of it! The three preloaded tracks are Rainy Day, Beach Sleep and Desert Wind. After selecting a track, you can select a duration from one minute to 10 hours (the shorter the trip, the faster the Brainwave technology will bring you into a deep sleep). When the selected amount of time has passed, Airsleep also lets you choose the wake chime—harps, bells, chimes, xylophone or gong.
Airsleep is an interesting potential fix for those who can't sleep on an airplane (and who can't afford noise-cancelling headphones). By blending ambient noise with science, the app hopes to coax the brain into a deep and relaxing sleep. However, you also have to be someone who isn't bothered by background noise in order to fall asleep. I will be curious to try this app out on my next plane trip.
Free ($0.99 for additional soundtracks)


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CHICAGO — The Federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation insurance program will continue through December 2013, the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) said Jan. 2.
Congress, this week, extended the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program as part of the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations. As such, Illinois workers collecting EUC should continue to certify for benefits. Congress did not add new weeks to the federal unemployment insurance program. Therefore, individuals who exhausted EUC are not eligible for additional unemployment insurance benefits.
Extending the EUC program will support a gradually improving economy. Every $1 in unemployment insurance generates $1.63 in economic activity because the dollars are quickly spent at neighborhood businesses.
Had Congress not re-authorized the program, 90,000 Illinois claimants would have received their last EUC payment within the next two weeks. Additionally, 2,800 individuals each week would have completed the state's Regular Unemployment Insurance program and not had access to the federal EUC.
Extending EUC will not alleviate IDES' budget pressures. The Illinois department receives operational funding entirely from the federal government. Funding levels are tied to the number of people collecting unemployment insurance. Fewer people collecting state unemployment insurance means an $11 million annual cut. These cuts come at a time when the numbers of claims remain 38 percent higher than prior to the recession. The fiscal cliff negotiations, also called the sequester, did not resolve cuts to budgets such as IDES'. Rather, Congress delayed by two months the date the sequester takes effect. Therefore, IDES still stands to lose an additional $17 million in operating funds.
To begin to address these budget challenges, IDES already has stopped scheduling 216 intermittent employees, consolidated eight offices and vacated 10 outpost locations shared with partners. The federal cuts might necessitate further service reductions, including additional office consolidations.
Illinois businesses provide the state's 25-week regular unemployment program for claims initiated in 2012. The federal EUC, divided into Tiers I, II, III and IV, provide the next 53 weeks of unemployment insurance. The federally funded Extended Benefits (EB) program provided the final 20 weeks. It expired in May 2012.


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Is it just me, or does everybody on here sound like pathetic politicians, just trying to make themselves sound more believable putting others down than proving themselves? Has anybody heard of the phrase, "You catch more flies with honey than vinegar?," or has the complex design of human intelligence been reduced to stupidity?
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While there is no prohibition of theists here, this site feels (to me) like it has fewer stupid theists annoying the atheists. Humans being what they are, when you have a chance to get away from the source of your annoyance to tend to vent your frustrations.
Plus, I don't know what we should be proving and who we should be proving it to. The site is called "Think Atheist" not "Prove Athiests/Atheism are/is Better".
If anything this site (like other atheist sites), shows that atheists are individuals who really only have one thing in common. As with any gathering of people you will find that you do have other things in common with some people but not others. That does include, you Warofages, in addition to being the general "you".
As for your reception here, your post is severely antagonistic and theistic so you shouldn't have been been surprised by the responses you got.
The complex design is like the afterlife: only an idea but ultimately not real. I'd like to have more than this short life but I take comfort knowing there is no idiot who did a crap job designing us.
@ Warofages - I do believe the complexity of human intelligence has been reduced to ironic stupidity at times, but this page is not a good example of that for me. Surely, some of us vent and say unpleasant things about theists, religion, creationism, etc. What else do you think we should do? Contrary to what some theists think, being an atheist is not easy, and it can be absolutely infuriating.
Why not believe in god, you say? Because I can't, given the information available to me. I can't simply believe because you or anyone else thinks I should. I can't believe in god because a) I don't want to, b) I see no evidence of your particular deity or any other deity, and c) I won't allow myself to be brainwashed into thinking that believing is a good idea.
Why do you not believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster (all hail His Noodleyness), even though there is the promise of a beer volcano in the afterlife? If you come up with reasons why you don't believe in the FSM, you will know EXACTLY why I don't believe in any deity. They are all the same to me.
Shall I totally disregard what I believe and betray myself so that theists will be satisfied? No, I won't.
I'm not catching flys, I just don't want to be oppressed by fraudulant nonsense and backword idiot garbage.
warofages, wishful thinking does not make a thing true.
Hi Warofages – Do you believe that your death will lead to you becoming immortal? Is that something that you are "looking forward to after you die"? Religions give people the hope that there is an afterlife. It is their main selling point. It plays on the innate fear of the unknown that all humans have. Why address it further if you believe that there is a god?
I do not believe in gods. Therefore I do not expect to live again and for all eternity after I die. I see this as a more mature viewpoint. I can understand why believers would consider that I "am putting others down" as it may seem an arrogant statement to make. I cannot prove there is no eternal afterlife. My death will be the end of my "self". My body will breakdown into atoms and be recycled. That is all and I am quite happy and content to live my life with that understanding. So do you believe you will become immortal when you die?
warofages; to answer your questions in order...
...Why not believe in a god? ans. - Because it would make me feel stupid. What is there to look forward to after you die? ans. - nothing; but who cares? I'll be dead. Do you guys believe in an afterlife or is it just nothing? ans. - I can only speak for myself: no, I don't; and it IS just nothing.
Is it just me, or does everybody on here sound like pathetic politicians, just trying to make themselves sound more believable putting others down than proving themselves? Has anybody heard of the phrase, "You catch more flies with honey than vinegar?," or has the complex design of human intelligence been reduced to stupidity?
Don't ask us to prove the negative. All we can do is tell you why the arguments in favor of God's existence are lacking.
What we CAN do if you're ready for it is tell you why the reasons you believe in God are misguided or stupid.
i mean, why not believe in God? or a god? What is there to look forward to after you die? Do you guys believe in an afterlife or is it just nothing?
Why not believe in God, you ask? Do you just post or don't you ever read. Try reading others' posts a bit and you should have a laundry list of good reasons not to believe in God, starting with his non-existence. If that's not enough, then there's the worthiness issue: is his personality worthy of worship (should he exist)? After that, which of the many gods to believe in.
Don't you reject at least one or two other religions?
And why? (Have you asked yourself these questions?)
@Diane & Reg
i appreciate the more positive replies and i thank you :]
i believe in God because i've had things happen in my life that isnt explained, that could only be, such as "an inside joke," that makes me realize "aha, somebody up there has a sense of humor." now it sounds pretty idiotic, yes, so no need to continue your hate rants that dont particularly daze me, but nonetheless, i just have a presence sense around everywhere i go.
i apologize again for the title and the crude intro, but anywho, have you guys ever thought, "what happens if i'm wrong?" like one of you said, "wishful thinking does not make something true." i've always longed for long lost answers to how the Big Bang supposedly went down, and it just isnt logical. nothing --> something? no offense, but even if you say you have sufficient evidence, what stops this from happening again? and why hasnt it yet? and what exactly "banged together" if nothing existed @.@? lots of questions, i know, but rather than being negative, i hope you guys could be helpful to my thinking.
...oh, and why is the year only 2012?


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James Foley's Killing Highlights Debate Over Ransom
Foley's Family Tried to Raise Funds to Secure Release of Journalist, Despite FBI's Warnings
Until the day American journalist James Foley was killed by Sunni extremists in the Middle East, his family and friends were working to collect millions of dollars they hoped would secure his freedom.
They knew they couldn't raise the $123 million his captors had demanded. But they were still hopeful they could collect $5 million to offer for Mr. Foley's release, said Phil Balboni, the chief executive of GlobalPost, the online news outlet where Mr. Foley worked as a freelance journalist....


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Racket (formerly PLT Scheme) is a programming language suitable for implementation tasks ranging from scripting to application development, including GUIs, Web services, etc. It includes the DrRacket programming environment, a virtual machine with a just-in-time compiler, tools for creating stand-alone executables, the Racket Web server, extensive libraries, documentation for both beginners and experts, and more. It supports the creation of new programming languages through a rich, expressive syntax system. Example languages include Typed Racket, ACL2, FrTime, and Lazy Racket.
Deva is a programming language that is small, dynamic, and has some similarities to C and Python. It is designed for embedding in C++ applications, and is also suitable for basic programming tasks. It is written to be as simple as possible, but no simpler. Deva is a multi-paradigm language: it is essentially procedural and imperative, but with support for basic functional and object-oriented idioms.
MBase is a .NET-oriented meta-programming framework. It is designed for rapid development and high quality implementation of custom programming language compilers, but can also serve as a robust and flexible embeddable scripting engine. Applications are not limited to .NET platform, since MBase can be used to implement compilers targeting other platforms - JVM, native assembly, C, etc.
Charm++ is a portable adaptive runtime system for parallel applications. Application developers create an object-based decomposition of the problem of interest, and the runtime system manages issues of communication, mapping, load balancing, fault tolerance, and more. Sequential code implementing the methods of these parallel objects is written in C++. Calls to libraries in C++, C, and Fortran are common and straightforward. Charm++ is portable across individual workstations, clusters, accelerators (Cell SPEs and GPUs), and supercomputers such as those sold by IBM (Blue Gene, POWER) and Cray (XT3/4/5/6). Applications based on Charm++ are used on at least 5 of the 20 most powerful computers in the world.
Eero is a binary-compatible variant of Objective-C 2.0, implemented with a patched version of the Clang/LLVM compiler. It features a streamlined syntax with improved readability and reduced code clutter, as well as new features such as Python-like indentation and a limited form of operator overloading. It is inspired by languages such as Smalltalk and Ruby.
Red language is a native-code compiled functional, imperative, symbolic, and homoiconic programming language that re-uses most of REBOL's syntax and semantics. Both static and JIT compilation support are planned. A strong emphasis is made on concurrency and both task and data parallelism support using an actor-like abstraction and parallel collections (Scala-like). The target range of usage spreads from low-level system programming (thanks to the built-in Red/System C-level DSL) and embedded systems, up to high-level scripting, with an optional REPL console.
Alore is an object-oriented programming language with a clean syntax that resembles Python and Lua. It is optionally-typed like Google Dart. It is both a dynamic scripting language and a general-purpose language with static typing. It is aimed at most programming tasks, from short scripts to complex applications. It allows programmers to freely mix static and dynamic typing within a program. It has native threads and a very fast edit-test cycle. Programmers can always bypass type checking and run their programs immediately.
LIME is a dynamic programming language with a LISP-like syntax. It features partial function application, eager and lazy evaluation, call-by-value and call-by-reference, macros, reading/writing LIME code as data, a standard library including infinite streams, and an interactive mode with auto-indentation.


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"It doesn't matter who I displease." Say what?
In Shelby County, Tennessee, a $400,000 grant for family planning services for the poor has been awarded to an organization other than Planned Parenthood for the first time in 35 years.
Instead, Christ Community Health Services, whose mission is "to provide quality services in the name of Jesus Christ," and who does not perform abortions or provide emergency contraception, will receive the funding.
Abortion politics and debates aside, what struck me from this story was a quote from one of the County Commissioners who voted on the decision, at a community debate between supporters both of Planned Parenthood and CCHS. In response to concerns about a Christian organization receiving the funding, which in turn would require non-Christians to receive services from a religious organization, Commissioner Terry Roland said:
"You know, you want to label me a religious terrorist but that's fine. As long as I please God, it doesn't matter who I displease."
This is the part of the article where I stopped and said, "Say WHAAAAAT?" (Picture it happening in this high pitched voice.)
Maybe it's my background with the Jesuits and Ignatian spirituality that tripped me up here. According to Ignatian spirituality, finding God in all things "is rooted in our growing awareness that God can be found in every one, in every place and in everything. When we learn to pay more attention to God, we become more thankful and reverent, and through this we become more devoted to God, more deeply in love with our Creator."
The attitude that the way your thoughts and actions affect others is somehow unrelated to pleasing God seems a little odd. To me, if you're going around displeasing people left and right, you probably aren't pleasing God very much in your blatant disregard for others. And what is this attitude really saying? That you can do whatever you want to whomever you want as long as in your mind you are pleasing God?
Jesus taught us to love our enemy (see Matthew 5:44, Luke 6:27). This is not an easy message (as we've been reminded recently, Jesus' message was challenging to those of his time, as it should still challenge us today). No one is perfect. It's much easier to love those who love us in return. As we certainly see in today's political climate, it's much easier to agree with someone who shares your same political beliefs than engage in debate over differences while remaining civil.
Jesus' words don't mean that we're going to (or that we have to) agree with everything that everyone says, but his message does mean that if we don't, we are called to see God in others anyway and avoid breaking them down by disregarding or dismissing them.
As Thich Nhat Hanh says in Living Buddha, Living Christ (Riverhead Trade): "Loving God is loving the living beings we see and touch in our daily life. If we can love them, we can love God."


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DEKALB – The family of a Northern Illinois University freshman who died last year after a night of heavy drinking has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the fraternity he was pledging, alleging that members failed to seek medical attention after the student lost consciousness.
David Bogenberger, 19, was found dead at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house on Nov. 2. The night before, he and other pledges had attended an event that the national fraternity organization says was not sanctioned. Toxicology results found Bogenberger's blood alcohol content was about five times the legal limit for driving.
The family's lawsuit names the fraternity and several members. It argues that Pi Kappa Alpha national leadership bears some responsibility.
"The national organization has a responsibility to provide meaningful training, supervision and oversight to its local chapters so that fraternity members understand that alcohol-related hazing is dangerous and potentially deadly," said the family's attorney, Peter Coladarci.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Cook County, is seeking more than $100,000 in damages from the national fraternity. The fraternity's national office in Memphis, Tenn., did not return a call seeking comment Friday.
According to authorities, Bogenberger and other pledges drank vodka and other liquor for about two hours during the Nov. 1 fraternity event.
Several of the pledges told authorities they got sick or passed out because of the heavy drinking, police said.
According to the lawsuit, fraternity members put Bogenberger on a couch or bed in the house after he became unconscious instead of seeking medical attention.
Five fraternity members have been charged with felony hazing. Seventeen others face misdemeanor hazing charges.


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Police are investigating the discovery of a body in the basement of an Elizabeth man's home and the remains of the 67-year-old man's mother.
Ten years ago Mary Albaum died of natural causes. Her body was donated to science but her son Ben Belden claimed the body when university officials were through. That body apparently has been in Belden's basement ever since.
Police came to a secluded tree covered home south of Elizabeth on Friday morning to evict Ben Belden because he hadn't paid his taxes in years.
Authorities found more than they expected, the body of his mother in the basement. The discovery is the talk of the town in Elizabeth Wednesday.
There are conflicting reports as to whether the property is zoned as a cemetery. Authorities are still investigating to determine if any charges will be filed.


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How I ... Released an app — at age 9
Jefferson Johnson might not know code — or reach the kitchen cabinets for that matter — but that didn't stop him from creating an iPhone app.
At the age of 9.
Using a noncoding game design platform, he developed a game called "Treehouse Wars!" where players defend their treehouse from being attacked by aliens with weapons ranging from speedy frisbees to water balloons. After six months of work, the youngster, now 10, released his game on iTunes' App Store. Since that launch July 18, Treehouse Wars! has been downloaded more than 3,000 times in about 25 countries.
But like any grizzled exec, he wasn't satisfied. Little Jefferson also decided to launch a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign with the marketing help and vast network of his dad, serial technology entrepreneur Bryan Johnson, to pay for his computer programming tutoring and create an upgraded version of the game, with extra treehouse protection, for 99 cents. Within 24 hours, Jefferson reached his $1,000 funding goal.
You'd think this was Jefferson's maiden business venture. But he's a veritable veteran at commerce by now. When he was a mere 7 years old, he founded Candywrapper Inc. with his dad and younger brother, Talmage, then 5, and sold family fun packs of food to his neighbors. We talked to Jefferson about where he got the idea and how he plans to balance app development and spelling homework when he starts fifth grade in the fall. And he answered us like any 10-year-old would: candidly and tersely.
Tell me about your app. It's called Treehouse Wars. You protect your treehouse from aliens, they are trying to take over your treehouse with weapons. Me and my dad have been trying to do lots of projects together. So we tried robots and either it's too complex or he did all the work. So then we thought of the idea of an app, and we found a platform and I made an app.
Where did you get the idea for Treehouse Wars? Me and my dad were trying to think what kids would like because we wanted it to be a kid-based app. So we were thinking like, "Well, kids like treehouses." So we decided to put a treehouse in the game.
Which platform did you find? It's called GameSalad. It's actually not code. You just do all this other stuff, then they turn it into code for you. I had some help with the tutor two times a week.
What happened after you set up the Kickstarter account? Well, we found it and we set it up and finally when we released the game, we released Kickstarter. And lots of people donated, so we got the goal pretty fast.
Who gave money through the campaign? Some family and lots of Dad's friends did. The money was for making an upgrade package, like an extra thing in the game that cost money.
How's it been, creating your company when you were 7? It's good. We actually changed the name. So it was originally Dragon Slayers and we changed it to Candywrapper. My dad thought of some ideas and he told me them, and I picked one.
What is your favorite iPhone app? I like Angry Birds — Star Wars.
What do your friends say about your app? They think it's really cool. Some of them are trying to get it.
How do you plan on managing fifth grade in the fall while still running a company? I'll mostly do that after school.
What are your other hobbies? I like to draw and play piano. I'm in Cub Scouts too.
What do you want to do when you grow up? I want to be a video game designer.
What are your future plans for Candywrapper? I don't know yet.
Candywrapper Inc.
What it does: iPhone and iPad apps
Leadership: Jefferson Johnson, president, co-founder and CEO
Location: Vienna
Employees: Two (Jefferson and younger brother Talmage)
Clients: Thousands of app downloaders who likely have no idea it's a fifth-grader on the other end
Treehouse Wars app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/treehouse-wars!/id646583602?mt=8
On Kickstarter
$1,295: Amount in crowdfunding Jefferson Johnson has raised so far for Treehouse Wars!
29: Number of crowdfunding backers
$1,000: His original funding goal for the 30-day period ending Aug. 17


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late 14c., "to represent" (in a picture); see figure (n.). Meaning "to shape into" is early 15c.; "to picture in the mind" is from c.1600; "to make an appearance" is c.1600. Meaning "work out a sum" is from 1833, American English. Related: Figured; figuring.
early 13c., "visible form or appearance of a person," from Old French figure (10c.) "shape, body, form, figure; symbol, allegory," from Latin figura "a shape, form, figure," from PIE *dheigh- "to form, build" (see dough); originally in English with meaning "numeral," but sense of "form, likeness" is almost as old (mid-13c.).
Philosophical and scientific senses are from Latin figura being used to translate Greek skhema. The rhetorical use of figure dates to late 14c.; hence figure of speech (1824). Figure eight as a shape was originally figure of eight (c.1600).
figure fig·ure (fĭg'yər)
A form or shape, as of the human body.
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Lent is a time for personal reflection. Traditionally Christians engage in acts of self-denial as a means of personal discipline and awareness of the sacrifices of Christ. It is also a good time to recognize these acts of self-denial as a way to grow in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in developing countries, for whom going without is a way of life.
Every Wednesday throughout Lent we will post a reflection that we hope will help with your own personal Lenten journey.
Lenten reflection: Week one
By Rev. Kelly Demo, CFCA preacher
The story of the flood has given biblical scholars in all three Abrahamic faith traditions much to ponder over the years. Written during the Babylonian exile, it tells of a people wiped into non-existence by their own sinfulness.
In Genesis, we hear of the first covenant that God makes with His creation. ìThis is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations.î (Gen. 9:12-13) The interconnectedness found between God, humankind and all of creation is firmly established.
It is easy in the world we live in to feel separate from creation. We buy our meat cleanly packaged, giving little or no thought to the life that was taken so that we could eat. We have grown accustomed to having whatever fruit or vegetable we want, regardless of the season and how far it had to travel to get to us.
At CFCA, we do our best to recognize the interplay between humans, creation and the divine. We hold up as examples the Dumagat people of the Philippines. When they sleep at night they choose not to sleep on a mat or bed. They sleep on the ground because they want to ìsleep in their motherís arms.î That is how intimate they are with all of creation.
Look at those in our projects who survive on subsistence farming, and you will see the tenacious and dynamic interplay between themselves, God and all that God has created.
Reflection questions:
1. Has there been a time when you have felt your world was completely washed away? During that time where did you find hope?
2. How would you describe your relationship with creation? Landlord? Caretaker? Parasite? Friend? Or something else?
3. The Christian faith teaches us that nature is not God but that God can be found within nature. When was a time when you experienced God in nature?


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Last year the Commission on Environmental Law (CEL) launched a Call for Papers, aiming mainly at encouraging the work of young environmental lawyers.
During the last Steering Committee meeting, it was decided that the award was to be named after Prof. Alexandre Kiss, who passed away earlier this year. Prof. Kiss was one of the pioneers in research on international environmental law, and a Honorary CEL Member. The authors of the two best papers have been awarded a ten-day internship at the ELC in Bonn, with coverage of their travel and accommodation costs, while the three best papers will be published in a journal. The selection committee was composed of Prof. Edith Brown Weiss, Prof. Michel Prieur and Dr. Alejandro Iza. The winners of the first CEL "Alexandre Kiss Environmental Law Papers Award" are Louise Camenzuli (1st place), Tran Thi Huong Trang (2nd place) and Paule Jessie Nanfah (3rd place). The call for papers 2007 will soon be announced.
1st place: Louise Camenzuli (Australia): The development of International Law at the Multilateral Environmental Agreement COPs and its validity
2nd place: Tran Thi Huong Trang (Vietnam): Legislation on Genetic Resources Conservation in Vietnam
3rd place: Paule Jessie Nanfah (Cameroon): L'evaluation environnementale dans la mise en ouvre des conventions internationales


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Simple Webmachine Extension (1/4): PUT
I was in need of a break last night after flailing in the face of a new library-language-build-system for a few hours. So, I decided to hack some Webmachine (it was too late to sit down at the trap set).
I was thinking about how the os-environment resource from my last post could be extended. This post begins a four-part series in which new capabilities are added to env_resource.erl.
Let's start with modification. Why not allow setting those variables?
I need to do three things: announce that the resource supports PUT, list what types of data it accepts, and then actually handle decoding the incoming data. Fifteen quick lines of code should handle it:
-export([allowed_methods/2, content_types_accepted/2, from_json/2]). allowed_methods(RD, Ctx) -> {['GET', 'HEAD', 'PUT'], RD, Ctx}. content_types_accepted(RD, Ctx) -> {[{"application/json", from_json}], RD, Ctx}. from_json(RD, Ctx) -> case wrq:path_info(env, RD) of undefined -> {struct, MJ} = mochijson:decode(wrq:req_body(RD)), [ os:putenv(K, V) || {K, V} <- MJ ]; Env -> MJ = mochijson:decode(wrq:req_body(RD)), os:putenv(Env, MJ) end, {true, RD, Ctx}.
Arbitrary decisions were made above:
- Clients shall send JSON-encoded data. I could have just as easily added another element to the return value of content_types_accepted/2 and written another method to handle it (e.g. {"text/plain", from_text} and from_text/2). Accepting JSON is nice, since it makes PUT and GET simply symmetric.
- /_env expects a JSON structure, while /_env/VARIABLE expects a string. Again with the simple symmetry between PUT and GET.
- /_env only modifies or creates the variables described in the JSON structure it receives. Alternatively, it could have cleared out any unnamed environment variables, but this seemed unnecessary.
- No body is returned in a successful response. It would have been fairly simple to generate the same body that would have been returned in a GET, then use wrq:append_to_response_body/2 to return a modified RD, but this also seemed unnecessary.
I can now set MY_VAR to "hello", using two different curl commands:
$ curl -X PUT -H "Content-type: application/json" \ http://localhost:8000/_env -d "{\"MY_VAR\":\"hello\"}" $ curl -X PUT -H "Content-type: application/json" \ http://localhost:8000/_env/MY_VAR -d "\"hello\""
Come back tomorrow for part two, in which I'll add authorization via username and password.
Update: part two is up.
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Ok, for a newbie how do you get this INTO a webmachine? Don't you need a ".app" and supervisors and all that (like mywebdemo does)? Or is there a simpler command line that you use to start your server?
If I patch your resource into "mywebdemo", "wrq:path_info" always returns 'undefined'. The Dispatch wiki page talks about "wrq:path_tokens", "wrq:get_path_info", and "wrq:disp_path"; but not "wrq:path_info".
I think your post assumes familiarity w/ webmachine and I am trying to use your example to gain that …. kind of a catch22 for me 😦
Wow, thanks for the quick reply. I did finally notice the dispatch comment that I could copy to "mywebdemo_sup.erl" and got it all working. This is blowing my mind!:) I just LOVE the wmtrace facility and being able to see the Erlang evaluations. Wow, just wow. Now I need to think up a website to write in webmachine. 🙂


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Posted 17 January 2004 - 04:02 AM
After finally getting the 3spd 4wd AT swapped into my Turbo Coupe, I took it out for a test drive. Everything went ok, just a little slow to shift into 3rd. Got back and checked the fluids, all ok. Waited a while then decided to go again, this time a little more aggressively. Wouldnt go into 3rd at all. !@#$%^&. Came back to the house and checked everything again. Let it sit for almost an hour, jumped in and took off down the road, normal driving. This time it started grinding, bad. 1/2mi from the house, I really dont want to push. Turned it around and limped it back in 1st gear. It took me 3 months to do the swap (bad back, remember). There might be someone interested in buying it and having the 5spd D/R put in. You all certainly know what I'm hoping for. I do have the old tranny, which is good. Its just the diff thats bad. I can swap diffs and will probably be good, but its more work than I want to do right now. Well, theres my rant for the week:D
Posted 17 January 2004 - 04:09 AM
3 AT? why didnt you put a DR 5 speed in after the first auto went out?
Automatics SUCK
Automatics SUCK
Posted 17 January 2004 - 04:21 AM
I'm selling the car. And theres alot of mods with the 5spd swap. Just wanted to keep it stock. And save my 5spd tranny for my Hatch.
Posted 17 January 2004 - 04:22 AM
ahhhhhh gotcha.. makes perfect drunk sense now..
Posted 17 January 2004 - 06:38 AM
that really stinks man. Wish I had a tranny for ya.
Posted 18 January 2004 - 02:47 AM
Originally posted by torxxx
ahhhhhh gotcha.. makes perfect drunk sense now..
Drunk sense is the best sense
Sucks that the tranny swap didnt work out... I'm REALLY hoping on Monday when we fire up the Loyale that it works out ok.
(been tinkering for like 2 months... I'm healthy, but just busy)
Posted 18 January 2004 - 03:00 AM
Did it go CLUNKA CLUNKA RRRRRRRRKKKKK CLUNKA CLUNCK CLUNK? Cause thats what my turbo wagon did before I did my 5spd d/r swap. When we took the auto out the oil was burned had metal chunks in it and the little rod in the front of the tranny was all twisted and stuff. It wouldn't go past 1st gear and would only go about 4 miles an hour. Just wondering if thats what was happening too?
Posted 18 January 2004 - 03:43 AM
I got another EA81T Tranny if you want to roll the dice. The motor was bad so the tranny should be good?
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Many women avoid stores and Internet sites where skirts are short and prices are low. The conventional wisdom is that shops like Express, Forever 21 and Topshop are for the under-30 set. It's time to think again. This midthigh black and silver mini from Express shows more leg than makes you comfortable? So, re-imagine those short little dresses you see everywhere as tunics over your classic black pants for a great, easy, frugal holiday look. And those "young" stores are great for all-age accessories like evening bags, belts and bangles, each for less than $10. Even a belt -- this one glitters and almost glows in the dark -- can amp up your outfit, and the one shown here costs less than a specialty coffee. Dress: Express, $59.90, express.com; Belt: Forever 21, $4.80, forever21.com
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My small vbulletin forum was spammed by many spam users or bots. Although I knew about the situation i couldnt do anything for 7-8 months because of not having time to deal with it. The spam messages reached up to hundreds of thousands i think - if not millions.... Finally I had the time last week to restore everything from my latest clean database. I simply removed the current database and just uploaded my latest clean backup from 8 months ago. Now my site looks clean.
But I discovered now that Google removed my forum site completely. I mean, even if i type my site's domain name i can not find it.It is totally gone from Google.
I was suggested to write a reinclusion letter to Google. But what if they dont believe me? I have several other websites too, not forum sites but other sites, and I am worried that if they dont believe me then do they ban all my sites? Or may be they disallow my adsense accounts etc... I am worried about it.
What should I do? I have a webmaster account with google. It has two of my other sites in it. should i use the same webmaster account to write the letter? or should i get a new webmaster account in case they do not believe me and avoiding the danger of them banning my other sites too?
All my sites are totally original content and good quality sites with no spam whatsoever. in fact, i wrote the majority of everything on my sites myself manually, or used people to write original content.
You can file a re-consideration request by Google webmaster tool.
anjali_talking;1287781 wrote:You can file a re-consideration request by Google webmaster tool.
+1.......... File a re-consideration using Google webmaster tool.


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Monday, July 18, 2011
Peter Greenspan, MD, has practiced medicine for many years, and, as vice chair of Pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and medical director of MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC), he is no stranger to the hospital environment and its challenges. But when called upon to deliver bad news to his colleague Shannon Scott-Vernaglia, MD, in a role-playing scenario, Dr. Greenspan was shocked by what happened.Dr. Scott-Vernaglia, playing the mother of a critically ill child, began crying and shouting as soon as Dr. Greenspan introduced himself. "I did not expect that at all; it just totally threw me," says Greenspan, who is also a member of the MGHfC Quality and Safety Executive Committee. "In those few minutes I couldn't back out of the situation, and that, I think, attests to the power and the potential power of this kind of exercise. You can listen to a million lectures and videos and you'll just never feel the power of the experience unless you do it." The exercise was one session of a communications training program funded by a grant from the MGHfC Quality and Safety Program. Both MGHfC and the larger Mass General have an ongoing objective to improve communication between caregivers, patients and families. The MGHfC training program, led by specialists Sandra Clancy, PhD, and Patricia O'Malley, MD, joins families and caregivers of various specialties and levels of experience. In each session the group brainstorms ways to approach several difficult, real-life scenarios, and then after four of the participants simulate the encounter, the role players and the group discuss what happened."The model proposes that everybody in the room is going to be a learner," says Clancy, who works in MGHfC's Coordinated Care Clinic and Palliative Care Program, and organized the training. "It's not as though one reaches the pinnacle of communication and then stops learning. We can all benefit from reflection and discussion."
Multidisciplinary Lessons Learned
One of the program's teaching points for clinicians is the benefit of bringing a partner along for support in an uneasy situation, such as relaying a difficult diagnosis. Dr. Greenspan put this lesson to use after the training when seeing a patient in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. "It turned out to be so much better to have somebody else with me, providing mutual support in a difficult situation," Greenspan says. The communications program was launched as a result of an emotional Family-Centered Grand Rounds last year. The annual grand rounds event featured a parent and the patient's physician, who had struggled with communication when the child was gravely ill. Last year the Quality and Safety group offered its first six mini-grants for projects to optimize the quality and safety of care provided at MGHfC, and an initiative to improve communication was an obvious candidate."I was thrilled to be a part of Quality and Safety program and be able to fund something that was so exciting," Greenspan says. "That was wonderful."Clancy and O'Malley identified reading materials for the program, but O'Malley says, they developed more of a process than a curriculum. "It didn't take long, though, to begin trusting the process, which involves drawing on the resources of the many supporting disciplines--chaplaincy, child life, social work, nursing-- whose training includes much more explicit emphasis on communication skills than physician training does," O'Malley says.Each communication session featured at least one parent, several pediatric residents and attending physicians, as well as nurses, Child Life specialists, a chaplain and social workers. "The chance to work in an interdisciplinary setting, out of the frenetic pace of the wards-- that's a big plus," says Shannon Scott-Vernaglia, MD, who is also director of MGHfC's pediatric residency program. The value of communication is an integral element of care at MGHfC and Scott-Vernaglia adds, "Having more opportunities to formally teach that and to practice these skills is really critically important."
Parent Perspective
Kathy Cadogan played the part of a parent in one training session, and brought to it her expertise as a parent intimately familiar with MGHfC, where her family has received care for about 14 years. The mother of a child with type-two neurofibromatosis, a genetic condition that causes tumors to grow in the nervous system, Cadogan had valuable insight for her fellow participants. Cadogan observed a scenario about a teenager with terminal cancer whose parents didn't want their child to know she was dying. After the role playing, Cadogan shared her own story."I told my personal story that my children were diagnosed at 6 and 7 [years] and we were always upfront" with them about their condition, Cadogan says. Her husband and one of her two children died from the illness.Of the training, Cadogan says: "The one thing that I walked away with is that all of us in our daily living should never assume anything about anyone else. Take each family and child individually, no person is alike and no family is alike. Listen to what parents have to say."
Listening and Reflection
The idea that parents know their child best and the importance of listening were also takeaways for Julia Von Oettingen, MD, who is now in her third year of residency at MGHfC. Von Oettingen played the role of a provider talking to a teenager with cancer about her condition. In the scenario, the teen appeared to be in denial of her situation, until Von Oettingen spoke with her. "It was really good because it made me realize that these adolescents can realize where they're at with their cancer despite the fact that that's not what they always portray," she says. "Just being the one sitting there and listening to the child can make them open up, and can be helpful to the patient," she added.Speaking about the scenario with attending physicians was also useful for Von Oettingen. "It was very helpful that the more experienced physicians were able to give very concrete examples about how they phrase the discussion," Von Oettingen says. "That in itself was great for learning."Adds Dr. O'Malley: "I was impressed that the workshop was able to offer not only a safe venue to practice these skills, but also a supportive place to process the difficult encounters we all have experienced as caregivers." Role playing can be an intimidating activity, but the program's organizers ensured that the workshop was held in an open and welcoming environment, where all input and participants were valued equally. "In that room there is really no hierarchy," Sandy Clancy says. "There is no hierarchy of status; there is no hierarchy of knowledge. Everybody sitting at that table has really valuable wisdom to contribute." Von Oettingen says of the program is useful for "taking an afternoon to reflect on patient communication, to reflect on the importance of it, to have an exchange with other providers of it and that way being reminded that that is the most important part of your job."Plans are underway to continue the training program this fall, beyond the first grant-funded sessions. Clancy says the program is a work in progress and she hopes to involve caregivers in more disciplines as it continues.
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All Dogs Go To
Pet Sematary
Josh Hinman
It's not a phony article.
I'm not really sure what's going on in this instance, but the original link was Slashdotted in a big way ('connection refused' errors galore). One of the following must have happened:
Other possibilities no doubt exist. The point is that, yes, there is a real site; it's just hard to get to at the moment. There was a link to a mirror in an earlier post, which works fine.
I saw a marquee said "THE FLY GODS MUST BE CRAZY ALIENS"
And I couldn't really disagree with that
in what way?
Could this be used on something like a microprocessor?
Yeah, but it'll void the warrenty
No, it is not.
You can mangle, modify, slice, grind, etc. coins any way you want.
It is illegal to try to use them as money after you do so, however...
These guys have arrays of high performance web servers. That's what they claim. It's fraud. Let's get them investigated by the government. Yeah, that should do it.
I originally went to the site when there was ONE comment on
And I thought I typed fast.
A shrunken coin weighs exactly the same afterwards, and its density is also unchanged - it's merely the shape that's been altered.
Ever hear of Shrinky Dinks [shrinkydinks.com]? This plastic material goes through a similar transformation when heated in a regular food oven. Two dimensions shrink, while it gets thicker to maintain the same volume and density.
(2/3 of the way through the article)A shrunken coin weighs exactly the same afterwards, and its density is also unchanged - it's merely the shape that's been altered.
Simple, the enourmous magnetic field produced by the coil induces a secondary current in the object to be crushed. The induced current produces its own magnetic field and this is what the primary field works against.
You should note that that isn't the real Heidi Wall that you are responding to, note the spelling (Wall vs. Walll). You've just been trolled by one of those 19 year old boys
I once worked at Sperry Vickers' hydraulics R&D center, which used a magneformer to squeeze metal bearing rings onto steel valve bobbins. The working coil used for this was about 10 turns of half-inch square copper busbar. Worked fine; no sparks, no explosions, just a "thump" and the job was done.
One use of this metal forming machine was to compact planetary gear rings from powdered metal. Before sintering, the density at the inner surface was 6.76 g/cc. The density for this steel in a "fully solid" state was 6.77 g/cc. Compare this to 6.6 g/cc, about the best that traditional hydraulic press powdered metal forming forges could do. And it only took 40 milliseconds.
There was so much force involved, we were constantly breaking coils, with very explosive effects. You could hear a clap of thunder in the other building across the street.
It's amazing how Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering can combine for some very frightening effects.
Oh, yeah, they also used to be a Star Wars research firm. They still have a working rail gun in the lab.
Were it a gas or liquid, it would bounce back to its original density, i.e. Boyle's Law.
But since it retains that density as a solid I'm assuming the quarter isn't at its minimum volume, expanding some amount as the field collapses, to a sustainable volume for 1ATM/1G, assuming this is close to the most greatest density achievable. Repeat attempts would probably change the density very little. Soooo, like a compressed spring, would this quarter, given any amount of time (thousands, millions) in years eventually regain it's original density (under laboratory conditions of course
In any event, this is going on the list of toys I need from Santa Claus this year. Better get crackin on that list...
To paraphrase some saying related to pricing...
If you have to ask then you shouldn't have one.
Clearly, it's the preferable alternative to going out in the California rain and putting quarters on train tracks.
This is old school tech. I mean, c'mon, haven't you seen "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"?
Speaking of that awful movie, does anyone remember the sequel, "Honey, I Blew Up the Kids"? Heh. I was driving by the local theatre a few years ago, when I saw a most unfortunate gaffe on their billboard. It seems they were showing the equally awful "3 Ninjas" at the same time, advertised on the line below, but they didn't have enough room to complete the title of HIBUTK... So the sign actually displayed the following:
I laughed so hard I almost wrecked the car
Yeah, Yeah... -1 offtopic... I know.
If you're gonna troll, at least try to have a better grasp on what your rambling about. Don't give bad examples when there are chemists lurking about.
Dale Travous, a professional artist in Seattle, was messing with Boeing Surplus discharge caps around 1990/1991. I told him about an old article in Rev. Phy. Inst. where the authors were crushing soupcans with a 1-turn copper coil. Dale came up with a device which he called... um... "the quartershrinker." He used it for several months to shrink pennies, then found that quarters were slightly more impressive, and the name "quartershrinker" was the one that stuck.FANTASTICALLY DANGEROUS CAPACITOR EXPERIMENTS
http://www.amasci.com/amateur/capexpt.html [amasci.com]
It was written up by Gary Hawkins in the old "Extraordinary Science" magazine published by the now-defunct Int'l Tesla Society. His technique was identical to the one used
by Bert Hickman.
So is this a case of "100th monkey syndrome?"
More likely the "quartershrinker" idea was
spread by word of mouth.
Another venerable website for electrodynamic
RPI "Can Crusher"
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Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.


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In the wake of the polar vortex and Atlanta's "snow-pocalypse" of two dreadful inches, I've decided to develop some rather unconventional weather-handling techniques.
One must deal with a winter storm the same way a person deals with a fully-grown grizzly bear. No, not by running away and seeking immediate shelter like most rational humans, but by showing that 600-pound, 6-and-a-half-foot behemoth what a 150-pound runner from the Chicago suburbs can do.
Thankfully, I only try to muscle out an unstoppable force of nature and not a grizzly bear; that'd be just insane.
For most of these tips, I recommend channeling the inner cold. To get in the right mindset, one can try skinny-dipping in the Fox River. Always remember the bright orange floaties, however; safety remains key even during a brisk plunge.
Macho cold buster secret No. 1 – snuggle. Snuggling, sometimes considered cold's worst nightmare, maintains the manly image while combating subzero temps.
Any object can serve as a sufficient snuggle apparatus – a pillow, a pet or a loved one (consenting and otherwise). Proper snuggle form requires maximum cuddle concentration, as well as a firm understanding of the difficult concept of napping.
Macho cold buster secret No. 2 – crave the cocoa. Hot chocolate provides the body with three essential vitamins and minerals: happiness, love and sugar.
For every single marshmallow and spoonful of whip cream, one earns an extra tough point to use at the local Dude Store. The Dude Store offers an amazing selection of orange floaties, as well as 33 different varieties of imported hot chocolate.
Macho cold buster secret No. 3 – long underwear. Not only stylish, but also incredibly comfortable, long underwear gives the wearer a sense of balminess sealed tight within two cottony garment leg dwellings.
When attempting to choose a pair, I advise looking for the hot pink ones. The cold will both admire the fantastic knack for winter fashion and stay clear because of envy.
Macho cold buster secret No. 4 – heartwarming movies. Along with whispering sweet nothings to the frigid open air, this tactic upholds the most manliness with the least amount of work (laziness plus masculinity equals an eventuality).
Now, a few boundaries must exist for this cold buster secret. First of all, only 75 percent of the movie should be spent crying – anymore and one might run the risk of dry eyes in the morning.
Second, all those watching a heartwarming movie must have a crying buddy present equipped with a box of soft Kleenex. Yes, a crying buddy can double as a snuggle object.
In all seriousness, intensive training in the above skills can keep any unprepared citizen safe from the unusual weather patterns. By using sheer brawn, one can force the elements to wish they had stayed on break.
• Kurt Zepeda is a St. Charles resident and a senior at Marmion Academy in Aurora. He enjoys running, writing and the occasional confection. His column runs every other Thursday in the Kane County Chronicle. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Windward Community College launches Ready, Set, Grow - Hawaiʻi
A free College and Career Readiness ProgramWindward Community College
Normadeene Musick, (808) 235-7367
Coordinator, Career & Community Education
Gerri Kabei, (808) 235-7428
Program Coordinator, Career & Community Education
Coordinator, Career & Community Education
Gerri Kabei, (808) 235-7428
Program Coordinator, Career & Community Education
Posted: Jul 1, 2011
HONOLULU – Windward Community College administrators announced a unique partnership among the University of Hawai'i Community Colleges and the Department of Labor, Ready, Set, Grow - Hawaiʻi (RSG HI), a statewide initiative that will address the basic skills and work readiness gap for the community.
Potential candidates have significant deficiencies in reading, math, work readiness skills, and often lack a high school credential and employable skills. The program is designed to create an environment that engages, motivates, and supports students while allowing them an opportunity to accelerate toward a job and/or further education through the community college system. The program will eventually be facilitated statewide by 2014, serving 5,500 students annually with the initial pilot sites being Windward and Leeward Community Colleges.
Census figures estimate there are 64,156 young people in Hawai'i that are 16-19 years of age. Of those, 4,816 are not enrolled in school and do not have a high school diploma. These students have opted out of their high school programs without a credential but have returned to the adult schools to earn either a GED or an alternate Competency Based Adult Secondary Education (CBASE) high school credential. However, neither the GED nor CBASE certificate is specifically focused on job readiness or further education through the community college system. With support from Hawai'i Community Foundation, the community colleges would extend the Ready, Set, Grow - Hawai'i program and develop specific strategies within the program to address the educational and career advancement needs of these youth and under skilled adults.
The goals of the Ready, Set, Grow - Hawai'i program are:
- To provide the students with both the soft skills and basic academic skills required for employment in the state as evidenced by a recognized work-readiness credential.
- To provide students with academic skills that allow them to enter community college degree programs with no more than one semester of developmental education.
- To provide students with comprehensive counseling services to ensure course completion and preparation for college success.
Ready, Set, Grow - Hawai'i will be holding open houses for potential students at Windward Community College on July 7 and August 4 and at Leeward Community College on July 14 and August 11, all from 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. These will be informational workshops and counseling sessions where students can apply for the program. Light refreshments will be served. For more information call (808) 235-7381 or visit www.readysetgrowhawaii.com.


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Discussion in 'Junkie Fantasy Fighting' started by maggotbrain, Apr 28, 2013.
grats on another title. one of, if not thee best ever.... you're the man, dude.
Thanks man I appreciate it
Get this guy in the Hall of Fame already.
Mike vs Trig next event. That is going to be a fun one to watch.
how he's not a HOFer is beyond me.
Congrats mike. Its been an honour training with you for the last four years or so. let's get that Team GP title, which I think is the last major thing you haven't won.
Mike should have been in the HOF a long time ago. Congrats man
Congrats Metal, your a beast in the gym and one hell of tough competitor.
Congrats Mike!
Mike doesn't get half the respect he deserves. I'm happy he gets to defend his belt against Trig. We tried to arrange that for the last round of the GP but they didn't want to take the fight. I don't blame them. No disrespect to Trig. I've fought him 3 or 4 times and he's shut me out. He's a super talented guy. But people talking about mike like he's anything but the best fantasy fighter ever is absolute nonsense.
Big props to Mike. He will definitely be the next guy in the hall IMO and beyond well deserved.
Mike is top 5s4s
Site for site
I helped lead last years Team Gp Champs to victory going 4-0 in my match ups.
Thanks for the kind words fellas. I do feel like I am the best in the world.
This has been a long time coming. I have had the pleasure of having mike as my main training partner and aside from being a savage in the gym and having a wealth of knowledge regarding fantasy fighting and MMA in general, he's a really good dude.
Congrats on the title brother. Now lets win this team GP next card.
what team were you on?
Unholy Alliance which had 3 or 4 RamRod members
Thanks man it means a lot
So I guess your the guy I'm aiming for the foreseeable future
Yeah Trig totally ducked MetalMike for the much "easier" fight in Unspoken... right
Anyway, congratulations Mike. You are one of the best in the game and no one makes (and nails) more gutsy calls than you.
all due respect, as I truly think you're very talented up comer, but foreseeable is a stretch.........mike is legend, that takes years to achieve.
thanks for the compliment ...I think you miss understood my post in other words he's the champ and everyone wants a shot at the champ at the end of the day id be grateful to be challenging for the belt to get his status your it will take me a very long time
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