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The Ravens promoted rookie safety Omar Brown from the practice squad to the active roster.
"That's something everyone wants in this league is to be on the field, in the action," said Brown, who had a strong preseason with Baltimore after going undrafted out of Marshall. "I'm not going to try to force anything. I'm just going to do what I do best and what I've been taught."
Brown is taking over the spot vacated by rookie cornerback Asa Jackson, who is suspended for the next four games for violating the NFL's performance-enhancing drug policy
A source told The Sun that Jackson was suspended for unauthorized use of Adderall, a prescription drug intended to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Brown was replaced on the practice squad by D.J. Bryant, an outside linebacker from James Madison who graduated from Randallstown High.
Bryant was a three-year starter at Randallstown and was twice named all-county at defensive end and wide receiver. He was the Most Valuable Player of the Baltimore City-Baltimore County All-Star game, catching 45 passes for 890 yards and 15 touchdowns as a senior. He recorded 12 1/2 sacks as a junior and also excelled at basketball.
At JMU, Bryant was a first-team All-Colonial Athletic Association defensive end.
Bryant spent the preseason with the Houston Texans.
"It's good to be here," Bryant said. "I'm here to work hard."
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TOTTENHAM CONTINUED THEIR fine pre-season form with a 6-1 demolition of Scottish champions Celtic in Finland on Saturday.
Mauricio Pochettino's men were unbeaten on their three-match tour of the United States last month, and never looked in trouble against the Scottish Champions at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.
The Premier League side were 2-0 up inside 15 minutes thanks to goals from Harry Kane and Roberto Soldado and, though Jamie Lindsay pulled a goal back, Lewis Holtby made it 3-1 before the break.
Spurs played at a slower tempo in the second half but Erik Lamela, Christian Eriksen and Emmanuel Adebayor completed the rout.
Celtic named a youthful side, with manager Ronny Deila no doubt keeping one eye on Wednesday's UEFA Champions League third qualifying second-leg tie with Legia Warsaw, which they trail 4-1 from the first leg.
And Deila's me were behind in the sixth minute when Tottenham scored from their first meaningful attack.
Andros Townsend jinked his way into the area and picked out Kane, who took one touch and lashed his shot into the top left-hand corner.
Spurs wasted little time in doubling their advantage, scoring again on 13 minutes. Soldado finished at the second time of asking after Holtby had collected a kind ricochet and burst into the box.
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And the Spaniard went close to a second shortly after when he headed wide of the left-hand post.
After a lull in proceedings, Celtic halved the deficit on the stroke of half-time. Brad Friedel made a fine stop from Dylan McGeouch's deflected shot, but the Scot crossed to the back post and Lindsay's header was adjudged to have crossed the line despite Friedel's attempt to keep the effort out.
However, Tottenham quickly restored their two-goal lead, as Etienne Capoue's throughball found Holtby and he coolly slotted home.
It was one of Spurs' half-time substitutes that made it 4-1, as Lamela's 20-yard effort was deflected past the helpless Craig Gordon, before Eriksen got in on the act with a trademark curling free-kick with seven minutes remaining.
And there was still time for Adebayor to add his name to the scoresheet, the forward stroking home a last-minute penalty after Danny Rose had been felled in the area.
Celtic's misery was then compounded as Efe Ambrose was dismissed for a second bookable offence – his second dismissal in the space of four days, after he was sent off in Warsaw on Wednesday.Source: Bodya Martovskyi/YouTube
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I'm doing an example from the book which I have to create a permuted permute the index, the book says it takes a sentence (in this case two), ad this is the in/output
The algorithm in the book suggests I do two things which i have, which is extract the sentence and then make rotations, I did so with these functionsCode:
The quick brown fox jumped over the fence [b]output[b] The quick brown fox jumped over the fence the quick brown fox jumped over the fence etc..
The first function just parses the words, I use that for the sake of getting the number of words so I can do a certain number of rotations. Now the second function gets the string into a istringstream and then gets the first word into a string variable, and the rest into another string variable, the concatenates the body with the first word to create one rotation and puts that into an array. It then creates a new istringstream with the string value of the last rotation. It works fine.Code:#include "functions.h" #include <cctype> #include <sstream> using std::vector; using std::string; using std::istringstream; typedef vector<string>::size_type str_sz; vector<string> parse(const string& aStr) { istringstream words(aStr); string temp; vector<string> parsed; while(words >> temp) parsed.push_back(temp); return parsed; } vector<string> rotations (const string& aStr) { vector<string> parsed = parse(aStr); str_sz words = parsed.size(); vector<string> permutations; string final, first, temp; permutations.push_back(aStr); //puts the first string from the start temp = aStr; //does nubmer of rotations as there are words(excluding one for first sentence) for(str_sz i = 0; i < words - 1; i++) { istringstream body(temp); //sets the sstream object to the temp string body >> first; //holds the first word of the sstream while(body >> temp) final += temp + " "; //concatenates the rest of the sstream final += first; //puts the first word at the end permutations.push_back(final); //puts that rotation into temp = final; //sets temp final = ""; } return permutations; }
the next thing is to sort the rotations, which I assume is already done since I pushed them back in the array in the order I rotated them
then this is where I'm confused...it says I should "unrotate and write the permuted index, which involves finding the separator, putting the phrase back together, and writing it propperly formatted"
Maybe it's because I'm not familiar with what a permuted index is (though I understand the concept of permutations), that I'm having trouble with this. If someone could re-word it so I can wrap my head around what I am to do, it would be helpful.


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At tonight's real-time discussion in Second Life, Ol' Myrt here will be discussing the following newspaper obituary, how it was labeled, and the additional research planned as a result of acquiring this information. This is one of the gems I unearthed while doing on site research in Knoxville, Marion, Iowa.
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Terry Ryan is a Developer Evangelist for Adobe and helps people using Adobe technologies to be successful. He has a passion for web and mobile technologies including expertise in HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Previous to his employment at Adobe, he spent a decade working in various technical roles at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Terry is also the author of Driving Technical Change, about convincing reluctant co-workers to adopt new tools and ideas. http://terrenceryan.com/blog – @tpryan
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Laminitis: why do triggers "target" the feet?
Dr James Belknap, from the College of Veterinary Medicine at Ohio State University, reports on laminitis research in the latest issue of Gluck Equine Disease Quarterly.
Equine laminitis can be a devastating result of many different disease processes in the horse, including, most commonly, sepsis and endocrinopathies.
The two primary types of endocrinopathic laminitis are equine metabolic syndrome (seen most often in the obese horse), and Cushing's syndrome in older horses (characterized by high levels of circulating steroids produced by a pituitary tumor).
Interestingly, the "target" tissue in the horse for sepsis, equine metabolic syndrome, and Cushing's syndrome is the digital laminae.
Most likely the main reason the digital laminae are the primary target is because no other soft tissue structure in species injury/dysfunction will result in the entire collapse of the musculoskeletal system of the animal. The laminar basal epithelial cells are exposed to incredible forces (supporting the entire weight of the horse).
Septic conditions in the horse that can lead to laminitis include gastrointestinal disease (surgical lesions, diarrhea/enteritis from infectious agents, or carbohydrate overload), retained placenta in the post-foaling broodmare leading to a uterine infection, pleuropneumonia, and any other infection in which enough tissue is compromised to result in systemic effects.
In most of these cases, toxins absorbed from Gram-negative bacteria are thought to be responsible for the systemic problems such as laminitis.
However, bacterial infections from other types of organisms can also result in laminitis.
Most progress has been made in studying sepsis-related laminitis, as most experimental models for laminitis mimic this condition.
Systemic inflammation leading to inflammatory injury to the laminar tissue has been reported in sepsis-related laminitis in horses.
In the laminae, this injury is characterized by adhesion and migration of circulating white blood cells out of the blood vessels into the laminar tissue. This is accompanied by massive increases in expression of inflammatory proteins such as cytokines (a 10-fold to > 2,000 fold increase in expression) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX -2, the enzyme which is targeted by non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs such as phenylbutazone or flunixin).
These events most likely cause injury to the laminar basal epithelial cells, leading to disruption of their critical cellular events, including adhesion to the underlying matrix. The matrix itself may also be injured by the release of matrix-degrading enzymes by leukocytes, epithelial cells, and other cell types in the laminae.
Equine metabolic syndrome (EMS), which includes pasture-associated laminitis, is now the most common type of laminitis reported by veterinarians.
Although the animals affected are commonly obese, animals in "show shape" that are not overtly obese also succumb to EMS-related laminitis.
A consistent factor in the horse or pony with EMS is insulin resistance, with the animals usually exhibiting increased circulating insulin concentrations.
It has been suspected that laminar injury in EMS was from an inflammatory event as discovered in sepsis-related laminitis.
However, recently presented data indicate that the high circulating insulin concentration itself can induce laminitis, with limited evidence of inflammation in the laminae.
The other type of endocrinopathic laminitis, Equine Cushing Syndrome (ECS), may have a pathophysiologic mechanism similar to that of EMS, as ECS horses similarly have high levels of circulating insulin. However, it is possible that the glucocorticoids (GCs) may be playing a role in disruption of the cell biology of the laminar keratinocytes in ECS.
The pathophysiology of supporting limb laminitis, the type suffered by Barbaro, is the type of laminitis about which we presently have the least knowledge.
With this type, excessive weight bearing (usually due to a painful injury on the opposite limb) results in laminar failure. The recent interest supporting limb laminitis has resulted in several studies being funded by equine foundations.
Hopefully, these studies will further elucidate the pathologic mechanisms (and thus therapeutic targets) for this equally devastating form of laminitis. Thus, laminitis is likely the end product of a diverse array of disease processes that lead to disruption and failure of a highly evolved cell type that is exquisitely sensitive to injury—the laminar basal epithelial cell.
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Dilip Kumar cancels 90th birthday celebrations
Veteran actor Dilip Kumar, who will turn 90 on December 11, has shot down reports that he will have a grand bithday bash, insisting he and wife Saira Banu are yet to recover from the demise of Balasaheb Thackeray, Yash Chopra and Rajesh Khanna.
"It is appalling how few in the print media take the liberty nowadays to print quotes that spring from the imagination of the scribe. It shocked me and Saira to read newspaper reports with imaginary quotes from Saira about plans to celebrate my birthday!
"We have yet to recover from the shock of the passing away of my dear friend Yash Chopra who was by my side when I blew away the candles on my birthday cake last year and stayed on till the wee hours, sharing the family's happiness," the 89-year-old cinema legend wrote on his blog.
Last year Dilip Kumar had a lavish birthday bash at his Pali Hill residence in Bandra. Apart from three Khans, Rajesh Khanna and Dara Singh had also attended the party. "We are deeply grieving the passing of Balasaheb Thackeray who I always thought was not a Tiger but a Lion... Rajesh Khanna who was with us at our party last year is no more with us.
And Dara Singh who wished me so warmly on my birthday last year is not with us anymore. "A friend I am missing is NKP Salve, a stalwart of the Indian National Congress, who shared my love for the game of cricket and initiated me into the legalities of taxation with his command over Law and Accountancy. With so many dear friends gone this year, how can we even think of a celebration?," he added.
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Timothy Blenkinsop (born c. 1976) was a Quidditch fan who supported Puddlemere United.[1] He was twenty-three when he attended a match between Puddlemere United and the Holyhead Harpies on 30 September, 1999.[1] These two teams had long been rivals, and, anticipating the possibility of crowd violence, the Ministry of Magic confiscated wands at the gates.[2] However, many attendees turned over fake wands.[2] Thus, when Wilda Griffiths, a Chaser for Puddlemere United who transferred from the Harpies earlier that year, disappeared mid-match, a riot broke out, and people were able to use their real wands.[2] Timothy got caught in the crossfire, and was left with a tail because of it, presumably due to a spell that hit him.[1]
The name "Timothy" is from the Greek name Τιμοθεος (Timotheos) meaning "honouring God", derived from τιμαω (timao) "to honour" and θεος (theos) "god". As an English name, Timothy was not used until after the Protestant Reformation.
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Wizards, Witches and Beings: B" on the Harry Potter Lexicon
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Daily Prophet newsletters" on The Harry Potter Lexicon


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Los Angeles: Don't Go to Pink Taco for the Tacos
For better or worse, Pink Taco is the pure distillation of a certain kind of Los Angeles. Both the Century City outlet and the new location on The Sunset Strip reek of money, celebrity, and Mexican food.
The dine-in taco spot has a reputation for controversy, and the playboy millionaire who runs the joint also owns longtime music haunt The Viper Room. The music is almost as loud as the pink paint on the walls, and the rich mix of hipkids and power lunchers keeps the place propped up until late in the evening.
So, how do the $16 carne asada tacos stack up? Answering that question requires a bit of conversation first.
Pink Taco is not El Chato or the La Estrella truck, venerable street taco institutions with the goods to back up the claims. Pink Taco is also not El Compadre or El Cholo, where heavy platters of beans and something covered in salsa verde are passed around in dimly lit booths. What Pink Taco is, is atmosphere.
Walking into the newly opened West Hollywood location, you are almost immediately led back outside, to patio tables that overlook The Sunset Strip as well as the valet station. If you're facing the street, a fun game to play is "which guy in the white v-neck owns the Maserati." You'll get more opportunities to guess than you think.
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The menu is reasonably extensive, moving casually from enchiladas and burritos to fajitas, quesadillas, full plates and those namesake tacos. The results, however, may not be exactly what you had in mind. The carne asada is still grilled skirt steak, but it comes in large, meaty chunks, each one practically a bite unto itself. The meat is warm and lightly seasoned, but doesn't stand much of a chance past the squirt of guacamole, sour cream and heavy cheese.
The eponymous pink taco, more than just a less-than-clever wink to diners, is a corn tortilla lined with black beans and topped with grilled chicken, a slice of avocado and flourished with pickled pink onions. The chicken is surprisingly smoky and flavorful, while the vinegar'd onions give a nice zip to balance against the fattiness of the avocado. The crispy brisket fared the worst of the three, with a juicy brisket base that needed a lot more pop. Unfortunately, the dash of cojita cheese and approximately two pounds of lettuce weren't enough to help matters.
The thing is, you're not really going to Pink Taco for the tacos. So why bother? Instead, head straight for the fried ice cream. Large, decadent, and a perfect mix of salt and fat and creamy and crunch (all with a caramel glaze) it's likely the best single item on the menu. Besides the tequila that is.
As a taqueria, Pink Taco barely fills the reasonable requirements, falling more closely into "drink spot that happens to have a kitchen" category. Even if your blood boils just driving by the overwrought pink building, it's hard to hate on the menu simply because none of the tacos take a strong enough stand either way. But what you will get lots of at Pink Taco is atmosphere. Whether you like it or not.
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Should cellphone use in cars be banned nationally?
ST. JAMES, Mo. (AP) -- The text was about something innocuous: A request to go to the county fair. It set off a highway pileup that took two lives, injured dozens and left two school buses and a pickup truck in a crumpled heap.
As the nation debates a federal recommendation to eliminate cellphone use in cars, the high school band students from St. James who were involved in the wreck last year have already done it themselves. After losing one of their classmates, many of the teens made a vow: Using a cellphone behind the wheel is something they just won't do.
The young man who was on the other end of the pivotal text exchange, who says he didn't know his friend was driving, is still haunted by the catastrophic result of what began as a simple message about their plans.
"I pretty much feel like it was my fault," said the young man, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition that his name not be used because he fears retaliation from people who might blame him.
He was texting with 19-year-old Daniel Schatz, who investigators say set off the accident by slamming into the back of a semi cab that had slowed for road construction. The buses then crashed into the wreckage. Schatz and a 15-year-old girl on one of the buses, Jessica Brinker, were killed instantly.
The National Transportation Safety Board has cited that accident in its push to ban drivers from using cellphones -- even hands-free devices. That recommendation has already met with resistance from lawmakers around the country who fear an unprecedented reach into people's driving habits.
But young people in St. James, a sleepy town of about 3,700 near the Mark Twain National Forest, have already changed their behavior.
"The majority of us will refuse to text and drive because of this," said Ian Vannatta, 16, who was on one of the buses and is a new driver. "It's the difference between life and death."
Emily Perona, now an 18-year-old senior, survived the bus crash with a broken pelvis despite sitting just one seat ahead of Brinker.
"If a text or a call is that important, it should be no problem pulling over to the side of the road and then take care of what you need to," Perona said. "No life is worth texting your friend or anybody back while you're behind the wheel."
The events of Aug. 5, 2010 -- spelled out in a chilling Missouri State Highway Patrol report -- convinced her of that.
Vannatta and Perona were among about 50 St. James band students piled onto separate buses -- one for boys, the other for girls -- on their yearly pilgrimage to Six Flags St. Louis.
Conditions were clear, though several stretches along the freeway were under repair. The buses made their way through two work zones before rolling up to a third at Gray Summit, about 40 miles southwest of St. Louis.
Michael Crabtree, a 43-year-old trucker bound for St. Louis for a load, had just gotten onto Interstate 44 driving a semi cab without a trailer. Near Gray Summit, along a straight, uphill ribbon of highway, he slowed for road work when he saw in his rearview mirror a silver pickup barreling down on him. He braced for impact.
The 2007 GMC driven by Schatz -- a former University of Missouri reserve quarterback and a Republican state lawmaker's son from nearby Sullivan -- hit Crabtree's cab at 55 mph.
Tour bus driver Eugene Reed saw the wreck from behind, pulled over and scrambled out to warn other approaching drivers. That's when both of the St. James buses rolled by.
The lead bus driver told investigators she straddled the eastbound lanes' center line to get around the tour bus. She glanced in the mirror to see what Reed was doing when her bus, carrying the girls in the band, rammed the pickup truck from behind.
Perona recalls everything just shaking, then thinking, "God, help me." In a confused haze, she peered out the left window and saw the bus had tilted skyward.
"It's almost like I blacked out," she remembers. "Then all of a sudden, I was struck."
The second St. James bus had just crashed into the pileup with such force that its front cab broke through the back of the first and into the very back seat, where Brinker sat directly behind Perona.
"I waited, and I prayed," Perona said.
The violent impact sent the first bus up onto the pickup truck, crushing it, and even atop the semi cab, where the bus came to rest pointed up, almost like a rocket ready to launch.
On the second bus, Vannatta recalls the impact as merely a blur.
"All I remember is seeing the glass shatter, hitting the seat and hearing screaming," he said of the collision that sent him lurching into the seat ahead of him, leaving him with a compression spinal fracture that damaged four of his vertebrae.
Retiree Dan Schrock, who was traveling with his wife from their home in Crescent, Okla., to visit their son in Cincinnati, saw debris flying and stopped to help.
He found the front door of the lead bus too high off the ground for the girls to escape, and the back door was jammed against the pavement. Schrock and other rescuers improvised. Another man managed to climb in as Schrock stood outside a passenger window, ankle-deep in diesel fuel spilling from the bus, and helped lift the girls to safety.
"They just looked like they were in shock," said Schrock, now 76. "They really weren't screaming or crying, just total shock."
Vannatta remembers sitting along the roadside, where a hasty triage was unfolding: The unhurt in one group, those with minor injuries in another. "Those majorly hurt were shipped off as fast as they could," the teenager said.
While both school bus drivers were charged with careless driving, their cases have not yet gone to court.
In the end, it was Schatz's texting that caused the wreck, the patrol and the NTSB determined.
The friend with whom Schatz was texting had known him since childhood. Their exchange that morning was about plans to spend the day at a county fair, the friend told AP. He said he thought Schatz was at work.
Phone records obtained by the Highway Patrol showed that the friend first texted Schatz at 9:58 a.m. An exchange of 10 other texts followed. When the friend sent a final text at 10:09 a.m., Schatz never replied.
"I just figured he got busy," said the young man. He learned later his friend died at about that moment.
Perona waved away any blame for the wreck.
"Everyone makes mistakes," said Perona, who has rebounded from the broken hip and a damaged nerve that until last August left her with a dragging foot, forcing her to drop out of band her senior year as a clarinet player because she couldn't march. "You just need to learn from them."
Trumpet-playing Vannatta, who before the tragedy had never been in a wreck, has taken caution to another level. He puts the phone away when behind the wheel -- no exceptions. And he avoids the freeway in his Ford F-150 pickup, taking an outer road to his warehouse job some 15 minutes from home.
Around St. James, the NTSB's call for a total ban on behind-the-wheel cellphone use has blunted the community's efforts to move on from losing a girl whose burial plot includes plaid pink socks -- homage to Brinker's always-colorful attire that friends say matched her cheery character.
"I still go to her grave on occasion, where I pray and talk to her," Vannatta said. The tragedy "is something that will stay with this community for a very, very long time. It's going to and has changed all of our lives."
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Explosive times in the Far East
It was not immediately clear if Vietnam would allow the Chinese rescue ships to dock, given continuing skirmishes between the two countries over a disputed Chinese oil platform that ignited riots in Vietnam.
The first ship set off from Haikou in China's southern-most province of Hainan at 8 a.m. Sunday (8 p.m. Saturday EDT), China's Transport Ministry said in statement. It was expected to reach Vietnam within 18 hours.
China's Foreign Ministry said that more than 3,000 Chinese nationals had been evacuated as of Saturday afternoon. They returned to China with the assistance of the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Rioters last week torched and damaged at least 15 foreign-owned factories in Vietnam that they apparently thought were owned by China. Some reports claim that scores of factories have been flattened or burned.
Some of the businesses had no connection with China, but the worst hit factory _ an iron and steel complex under construction in Vietnam's Ha Tinh Province _ had a Chinese subcontractor, the China 19th Metallurgical Corp.; the factory itself is owned by a Taiwanese company, Formosa Plastics Group.
China's Foreign Ministry said that two Chinese nationals were killed in the violence and more than 100 others injured. It has harshly criticized Vietnam for not taking stronger actions to prevent the riots.
"We are strongly dissatisfied by the Vietnamese side's failure to respond effectively to curb an escalation," Xinhua quoted security chief Guo Shengkun as saying on Saturday.
Crowds in Vietnam started protesting and rioting after it was reported last week that China was moving an oil drilling platform, the Haiyang Shiyou 981, into contested waters in the South China Sea, about 140 miles from Vietnam. China and Vietnamese boats rammed each other, with the Chinese reportedly firing water cannons. The skirmishes continued through Saturday, according to reports in Vietnamese news media.
Thanh Nien News reported Saturday that the Chinese fleet guarding the oil rig had grown to 130 vessels, and were continuing to launch "attacks" on Vietnamese ships. These included ramming fishing boats and Vietnamese surveillance vessels, according to Thanh Nien.
Vietnam, worried about losing foreign investment, appears to be engaged in stepped-up damage control. Leaders from the three southern Vietnamese provinces have visited damaged factories and pledged to help foreign companies rebuild and restart operations, Thanh Nien reported Sunday. A day earlier, Vietnamese authorities said they would prosecute more than 300 people for looting and arson.
China and Vietnam fought a three-week war in 1979, after more than 200,000 Chinese troops invaded Vietnam as punishment for Hanoi's invasion and ouster of Chinese ally Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge. Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians died on both sides in the fighting, which now rarely is mentioned officially in either country.
Since then, relations between the two communist countries have improved, despite tensions over China's territorial claims in the South China Sea. Now, however, there are fears the oil rig skirmishes could escalate into another war.
Neither side seems to backing down, with Vietnam's president issuing a blunt statement on Friday.
"China said Vietnam should withdraw," said Truong Tan Sang in comments reported by the news portal Vietnamnet. "This is my house. Why do I have to withdraw?"
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Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, now his closest rival, finished second – a distant 16.8 seconds behind the Red Bull driver – after starting ninth.
Vettel seized the lead from Mercedes' pole-sitter Lewis Hamilton on the Kemmel straight after Eau Rouge and never looked back while threatened rain held off. The German now has 197 points to Alonso's 151.
"It was a fantastic race for us from start to finish really," he said after his 31st career win.
Britain's Lewis Hamilton, winner of the previous race in Hungary and on pole for the fourth race in a row, took third place for Mercedes ahead of team mate Nico Rosberg and moved up to third overall on 139.
Kimi Raikkonen's run of 27 successive races in the points came to an end with the first retirement since his comeback last year.
The Finn had started the day second in the championship but fell to fourth overall with 134 points after pulling into the pits and stopping with what looked like a brake problem.
The race, on one of the fastest and most challenging circuits on the calendar, was no thriller and the outcome proved a disappointment for those fans who had hoped to see Vettel slowed on his march to a fourth successive title.
"Today it was a little bit boring, we get second place but no threat to Sebastian Vettel and had no threat from behind," said Alonso, whose team's home Italian Grand Prix is next up.
"It is an important weekend for us and the team and we arrived fully motivated and in Monza we would like to give some smiles to our fans."
There were boos from the crowd mixed with the cheers as drivers stood on the podium after the race, although reports suggested that may have been directed at protesters trying to interrupt.
Greenpeace activists demonstrating against race sponsor Shell had unfurled a banner from the roof of the main grandstand, opposite the VIP area, before the race as teams readied their cars.
They then remained hanging from ropes, watching the action.
"We are a bit confused here because the crowd are booing and cheering and I'm not sure why," Vettel told the crowd after spraying the champagne.
The start was uneventful after last year's mayhem, when Lotus's Romain Grosjean took out Alonso and Hamilton at the first corner in an accident that brought the Frenchman a one race ban.
Hopes that Hamilton could hold off Vettel were short-lived.
"He (Vettel) had the momentum and was able to go around Lewis and that was the decisive moment," said Red Bull principal Christian Horner.
"There's still a long way to go but it was a dominant performance from Seb, perfect display by the team with pit stops and strategy."
Australian Mark Webber was fifth for Red Bull after a poor start in his last Belgian Grand Prix with McLaren's Jenson Button, last year's winner, sixth after leading early on when those ahead pitted and he stayed out.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa was seventh, Grosjean eighth and Force India's Adrian Sutil ninth despite being caught in a clash with the Williams of Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado that took out his team mate Paul di Resta.
Australian Daniel Ricciardo, frontrunner to replace Webber at Red Bull next season, climbed through the field from 19th at the start to take the final point and further burnish his credentials. DM
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Here are some things you can do to get more food enjoyment out of your next trip:
"You mean, you ordered all this food from room service, and you put it on the Underhills' bill?" – Gayle Stanwyk
"Well, I knew this was where my mouth would be." – Fletch
So goes one of my favorite parts of one of my favorite movies, "Fletch." This quote brings up a valid point: When you go on vacation, you and your family take your mouths with you -- a fact you can use to your advantage.
Often, families plan a trip solely for the change in scenery -- but there likely are taste thrills unique to the area they visit.
In May, when my family and I packed up and headed to Myrtle Beach, S.C., we were most excited to walk out of our trailer and be right at the ocean. But the food there was an unexpected pleasure, with strawberries just coming into season and restaurants offering not only great seafood but also hush puppies -- addictive, deep-fried cornbread.
Because we had a kitchen available to us, we ate in lots more than we ate out. Some homemade food highlights of our vacation included oceanside picnics of chopped-egg sandwiches and PB&J, a huge bucketful of pick-your-own strawberries – which the four of us picked in just 10 minutes -- and biscuits and pancakes cooked on the barbecue.
Vacation cooking was made easier with advance planning. Here are some things you can do to get more food enjoyment out of your next trip:
- Options are limited in a standard hotel room, but there are still ways to eat well. Make sure to have a trip's worth of portable, healthy snacks – perhaps visit a local orchard for some peak-of-season peaches that don't need refrigeration for a week or so. Also, scope out family-friendly restaurants with dependably good food, so that you've got a place to return to, if need be. On one memorable trip, skiing in the Mont Blanc area of Europe, my traveling buddy and I ate in the same great restaurant every night!
- If you're lucky enough to have a kitchen unit, or a camp-cooking set-up, you can do some advance prep to make meals go smoothly. In the weeks leading up to your trip, write a list of possible meals, and a shopping list of items you'll need right away but can't transport. Make sure that everybody's tastes are taken into account, so that vacation is enjoyed by all (here's a from-experience tip: Don't try to force something new on a reluctant child while on vacation, it's an invitation to a meltdown!)
- Make up a batch of biscuit and pancake mix (see my recipe below) before leaving home. In our two weeks of bliss, this mix was the base for treats like pancakes, strawberry shortcake, and banana pan bread. My parents, in whose trailer we vacationed while they stayed in a cool high-rise nearby, loved the mix so much that they took a batch on their recent houseboating trip to Canada.
- Take advantage of local eateries and farmstands while away; the closer to your destination food is grown, the tastier it is. Also, many restaurants proudly feature "Locally Grown" menu items, and if you're planning a late summer trip, just about everywhere you go will have something ripe, ready, and yummy!
Make it your goal to eat well while away, and then take steps to ensure that you follow through. You'll all feel the positive effects – children, like adults, are happier when the food they eat is fresh, nutritious and tasty. And when the children are happy, everybody's happy, right? With a little advance planning and effort before you leave, you can eat really well while away. Have a great trip!
Biscuit and Pancake Mix
10 cups whole-wheat flour (or mix ½ white flour and ½ whole-wheat)
2 cups cornmeal
4 Tbsp baking powder
1 Tbsp baking soda
1 Tbsp salt
Mix well, store in a zip-top plastic bag, or other airtight container. Here are some of the things we did with this while on vacation:
Banana Pan Bread
2-3 bananas, mashed
2 eggs
½ cup milk
1 Tbsp melted butter
¾ cup sugar
2 cups biscuit mix
1) Preheat the oven to 350, and grease a 9" square pan.
2) Mix bananas, eggs, milk, and butter. Add in sugar and biscuit mix, and stir until moistened.
3) Pour into greased pan, bake at 350 for 35-45 minutes. This may take longer, so continue baking until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean (check every 5 minutes after 40 minutes in the oven). Let cool, cut into squares, and enjoy!
Right now, with so many great berries in season, you may want to skip the bananas and go more seasonal. If so, here's what you do: Mix the dry ingredients, and use a pastry blender or two knives to cut (non-melted) butter into dry ingredients until the biggest bits are pea-sized. Mix in two cups of cleaned, fresh (or frozen) berries, then add in 1 ½ cups milk (note the change in quantity from the original recipe!) and eggs. Follow above directions from step 3, and enjoy!
The Best Pancakes Ever (and I really mean that!)
Combine with a whisk in a mixing bowl:
2 cups biscuit mix
1 ½ cups milk or water (plus another ¼ cup if batter is too thick)
2 eggs
2 Tbsp butter (optional, but yummy!)
1 Tbsp maple syrup (ditto the butter)
Pour batter into hot buttered skillet, by the ½ cup or more; turn pancakes over when you see lots of bubbles on the surface of the pancake, and edges look cooked. Serve hot with butter, maple syrup, and fresh fruit – great for breakfast dinners, too!
These are even better with fresh blueberries; after pouring batter into pan, sprinkle 5-10 berries onto each pancake (depending on size of fruit and 'cakes).
We were so determined on our vacation to have strawberry shortcake with our fresh-picked strawberries that, when the oven didn't work, Max and I put these biscuits on a small, greased cookie sheet – and cooked them on the barbecue! It worked great, with the heat set on medium (at a guess, 350-400 degrees) and the lid closed; we checked them every few minutes to make sure that none burned, and moved them around toward the end of the cooking time if they looked too browned.
2 cups biscuit mix
2 Tbsp butter, softened
¾ cup sour milk (milk combined with 1 Tbsp vinegar) OR plain yogurt OR sour cream
1) Preheat oven to 450, grease cookie sheet.
2) Combine biscuit mix with butter, cut in with a pastry blender or two knives until biggest bits are pea-sized.
3) Stir in milk, yogurt, or sour cream until batter is well mixed.
4) Drop biscuits onto greased pan, making 8 total.
5) Bake 10 minutes at 450. Use in strawberry shortcake, or serve with butter and honey.
Karen Kolp is the author of "The Old-Fashioned Kitchen of the Future: Eat Well without Convenience Foods," a cookbook-in-progress. She lives in Bellingham with her husband and their two young boys.


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For this release of openSUSE, everything has been incredibly smooth from installation to productive use of my home system. In fact, I have just completed another installation on my Thinkpad W520. I am sure there are some who have encountered challenges (no software is perfect); however, at least for me, this has been the smoothest experience ever since the days of SLES 8!
To all involved with openSUSE 12.1, please accept my congratulations on a job well done!
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From a usage scenario, I have to report something that made me panic on the first-boot of openSUSE 12.1, to the extent that I voluntarily hit the physical reset button on my PC.
The cause, as it turns out, is the new Systemd that replaces the old System-V init. Whenever I boot up a newly installed Linux for the first time, I always hit the ESC key on boot to see the boot messages. This helps me identify any problems early and gives me an indication of how quickly and smoothly Linux boots up. When I did the same with openSUSE 12.1 on first-boot, I observed some initial messages but suddenly everything seems to just stop. I panicked after 20 seconds and hit the physical reset button (thinking I may have messed up).
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- I liked the idea of integrating my online identity (Google & Twitter only at this time) into my desktop; but, this means I have to use Evolution... not something I liked due to past experiences (3 years ago).
- I really liked the concept of workspace on demand. I can drag an app & move it to the next available workspace & a new empty one is created. I am ready to move on from the 4-sided (or n-sided) cube paradigm.
- The font size and window title-bars takes up too much screen estate. It seems to run contrary to my initial impression that Gnome Shell gives me lots of screen estate since there is only one bar at the top.
- A good buddy of mine explained that its design was geared towards mobile devices (ie tablets with touchscreens) and I start to appreciate it more; however, I think this approach seems a tad too early at best? Given how mobile devices are dominated by Apple, Android & others, I don't see any hardware vendor officially supporting (hard-bundling) Gnome as the de-facto GUI. Feels more like a spill over from Meego & netbook UI era (only 2-3 years ago).


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HOUSTON – A mother was killed when a tree fell on her during a backyard get-together in northeast Harris County.
It happened on Kenswick Drive near Stagewood Drive about 8 p.m. Sunday when a family gathered in the back yard. The eight people who were there said they heard something make a sound on the other side of their fence.
"They heard a loud popping noise, looked up. Observed a tree falling toward them. Started running away from it. The tree fell, struck a female, who unfortunately has died from her injuries," said Lt. Kenneth Key of the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable's Office.
The woman was a 54-year-old mother. The tree also hit a 12-year-old girl. She was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
The tree then hit their home. Deputies said it fell from a wooded area outside their fence.
Because of last year's drought, deputies said you should check the trees around your home.
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Tigers - 101 000 100 - 3 6 1 Red Sox - 200 002 12x - 7 10 1Clay Buchholz (8-5-3-2-4, 108) turned his third consecutive strong outing and Dustin Pedroia and Will Middlebrooks each hit a two-run homer. The Red Sox have gained three games in the East standings in three days, and now trail the Yankees (who lost to Baltimore 5-4) by 8.5 games.
Austin Jackson hit Buchholz's second pitch of the game for a home run, but the Red Sox quickly took the lead. Jacoby Ellsbury walked in the bottom of the first and scored on Carl Crawford's triple to left-center (the carom eluded Jackson and rolled towards center field). Dustin Pedroia's grounder to shortstop scored Crawford, giving Boston a 2-1 lead.
Detroit tied the game in the third, but Boston went ahead for good in the sixth when Crawford walked and Pedroia homered over the Wall. Kelly Shoppach tripled to start the seventh and (after catching his breath) scored on Ellsbury's single. In the eighth, Adrian Gonzalez singled and Middlebrooks lined a missle into the Monster Seats.
Gonzalez and Jarrod Saltalamacchia each had two hits. Pedroia drove in three runs.
This is the Red Sox's first three-game winning streak since June 19-21.
Also, Ryan Sweeney punched a wall after his eighth-inning at-bat and will have x-rays taken.
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Grizzlies end Wizards' streak with 110-104 victory
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tayshaun Prince was having his best scoring game of the season, and the Memphis Grizzlies were cruising in the fourth quarter, when a loose ball somehow ended up in the hands of little-used Washington Wizards rookie Otto Porter. Porter let it fly to beat the shot clock — and it went in for his first NBA 3-pointer.
"My thought was like, 'Man, if you make that type of shot, then here goes the fourth quarter,'" Prince said.
The Grizzlies led by as many as 19 in the final period, but the Wizards made six 3s over those final 12 minutes. Porter, a career 0-for-10 from long range entering the game, made a second one. The lead was down to two after Bradley Beal's 3-pointer with 8.9 seconds remaining, but time ran out not a moment too soon for Memphis, which made its free throws in the closing seconds to preserve a 110-104 win Monday night.
"The most important thing," Prince said, "is we stay composed."
Prince finished with a season-high 21 points, and Zach Randolph added 16 points and 10 rebounds for the Grizzlies, who improved to a season-high nine games above .500 and pulled within one game of the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. Memphis shot 60 percent after the first quarter and outscored Washington 62-34 in the paint for the game.
John Wall scored 23 points, Beal had 21, and Marcin Gortat added 16 for the Wizards, who had a six-game winning streak snapped. Washington had answered a challenge by winning its first three games after losing starting forward Nene to a knee injury, but this time the rotation was also missing forwards Kevin Seraphin (sore right knee) and Martell Webster (sore back).
Which is how Porter ended up getting some major playing time, something scarcely seen this season by the No. 3 overall pick in the draft. He had scored only 39 points all season, and he looked as surprised as anyone when his first 3-pointer went swish.
"I don't know how that went in," he said. "But I had to get it up there."
The Grizzlies appeared in control after a 17-2 run over the final 3½ minutes of the third quarter. Mike Conley (20 points, seven assists) started the spurt with a left-handed driving layup. Both Randolph and Tony Allen converted three-point plays, and Prince hit a 3-point shot as the lead grew to 79-64 entering the fourth.
After Porter's initial 3-pointer, Nick Calathes made a jumper to push the lead to 19, but the Wizards kept coming. Porter's second 3-pointer made the score 102-98 with 1:17 to play.
But it wouldn't be enough.
"I think that's something we find ourselves doing a lot, getting down and digging in the last five minutes of games, and I feel like we can't do that," said Washington's Trevor Ariza, who scored 15 points. "We gotta play hard throughout the whole game and compete throughout and not wait for the last five minutes to play."
The Grizzlies had 10 players make at least two field goals, while the Wizards relied heavily on their starters. Prince, whose veteran contributions aren't always reflected satisfactorily in the "points" column, was more of a scoring threat than usual.
"The difference tonight was getting a couple of post-ups early, making a couple of shots in the paint," Prince said. "You notice pretty much since I've been here, it's been jump shot after jump shot, so I had the opportunity today to really get inside."
Notes: Wall got his 2,000th career assist in the fourth quarter. ... Memphis F James Johnson sat out with a sprained right ankle and is day to day. ... Washington coach Randy Wittman said he expects Webster back for the Wizards' next game Wednesday. There's no timetable for Seraphin, who missed his fourth straight game. ... The Grizzlies are 16-11 on the road, and this win began a stretch in which 12 of 17 are away. "For some reason, the chemistry is a lot better," Prince said. "We're more concerned with not letting teams get out early on us, which is very surprising because when you're at home you just say, 'Let's hit 'em in the nose in the first quarter then we should be in good shape.' But we're doing it the opposite way."
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More Fiber for Your Children?
Yes! Here's Why and How.
Fiber is an important nutrient that most children (and parents) are not getting enough of each day.
As parents, you do your best to feed your family healthy foods, but you may need help with choosing good sources of fiber.
Read on for more information about fiber.
- How much fiber do children need?
- Why is fiber important?
- What are some ways to give meals a fiber boost?
- How do you read Nutrition Facts?
How much fiber do children need?
There are different fiber recommendations for children based on energy needs, age, or weight.
Eat 5.
A simple way to make sure your children are getting enough fiber is by making healthful food choices. If your children are eating at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables each day along with other foods that are good sources of fiber, there is really no need to count fiber grams.
Add 5.
If you find it helpful to keep track of numbers, add 5 to your children's age. For example, a 5-year-old would need about 10 grams of fiber each day. Note: The total daily recommended amount of up to 25 grams for adults can be used as a general guideline for children.
Why is fiber important?
Fiber helps make us full and keeps things moving in the digestive tract. A diet that includes good sources of fiber may help prevent constipation. These foods also are good sources of nutrients and vitamins that may help reduce the risk of heart disease, certain types of cancer, and obesity.
Good sources of fiber include vegetables, fruit, beans, peas, nuts, and fiber-rich whole-grain breads and cereals.
Did you know?
Constipation is a common childhood concern.
One symptom of constipation is abdominal pain (stomachaches, cramping, nausea). Constipation happens when stools (poop) become hard, large and sometimes painful to pass.
Bowel patterns vary from child to child just as they do in adults. What's normal for your child may be different from what's normal for another child.
If you have any concerns about constipation, talk with your child's doctor.
What are some ways to give meals a fiber boost?
There are simple ways to add fiber to your family's diet. But getting your children to eat what is served may not be as easy. Keep in mind that it may take many tastes before children will like a new food. And even if they never learn to like broccoli, there are many other choices.
Breakfast for starters
It's important to start each day with a healthy breakfast. Breakfast gives children energy to carry through an active morning. Studies have shown that children who don't eat breakfast have trouble staying alert and concentrating during the first hours at school.
- Choose whole-grain cereals and other whole-grain foods that have at least 3 grams of fiber and less than 10 to 12 grams of sugar per serving.
- Add fruit to a bowl of fiber-rich whole-grain cereal.
- Add vegetables to a breakfast wrap made with a whole wheat tortilla.
Top it off with fruit or nuts
- Top salads with fresh fruit, nuts or dried fruit.
- Top plain yogurt with nuts or fresh fruit. Fiber-rich cerreal also goes well with yogurt.
- Top low-fat frozen yogurt or ice cream with nuts or fresh fruit.
- Toss together a handful of raisins, fiber-rich whole-grain cereal, and nuts for an on-the-go snack.
Make it whole grain
- Switch to foods made with whole grains. Or try to make half your grains whole grains.
Bring on the beans
Beans and peas are part of 2 food groups. They can be counted as a vegetable or protein. As a vegetable, they are sources of dietary fiber and nutrients such as folate and potassium. As a plant protein, they are sources of zinc and iron.
Beans and peas can be a main or side dish and added to soups or salads. They are low cost and add lots of nutrition, texture and taste!
Eat your veggies
- Keep precut raw veggies like carrots, celery and broccoli on hand for snack. A little salad dressing on the side might make the veggies more appealing.
- Add vegetables to pizza, salads, soups and sauces.
How do you read Nutrition Facts?
Nutrition Facts can tell you all about the nutrients and ingredients in a food. Nutrition Facts can help you choose foods that provide the nutrition that's right for you, including fiber.
Dietary Fiber is a nutrient listed under "Total Carbohydrate" on the Nutrition Facts label.
- Excellent sources of fiber have 5 or more grams of fiber per serving.
- Good sources of fiber have at least 3 grams of fiber per serving.
(If a food company makes a claim about the fiber of food, the grams of fiber must be listed under "Total Carbohydrate." "Whole grain" on a food label means that some whole grain is included. Remember to select foods with whole grains that are also good sources of fiber.)
Look at the list of ingredients if you want to know if a food is made with whole grains.
- Not all foods labeled as "whole grain" are a good source of fiber. Grains vary widely in fiber content. For example, whole-grain wheat has more fiber than whole-grain brown rice or whole-grain oats.
- The amount of fiber in a whole-grain food can vary by brand.
- Whole grains include whole wheat, brown rice, bulgur, buckwheat, oatmeal, whole oats, whole rye, and wild rice.
For more information
If you want to know how much fiber is in a food that does not have a Nutrition Facts label, you can look it up on Nutrition.gov at www.nutrition.gov/whats-food.
This information is from the American Academy of Pediatrics and Healthychildren.org.


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Well I just downloaded Sencha animator to test it out...Im trying to follow an example of two people that made an iphone app and which is on sale in the app store. Theyve made an ebook app for kids and they are sharing the process they followed.
They say that theyve used sencha animator and Phonegap to make the app. Ide like to also make a childrens ebook, as I write short picture stories for kids.
They used Sencha animator...but Im not sure I completely understand, as I dont understand how the animations in Sencha are made in to touch animations, I mean if I make my ebbok app in sencha with the animations and so on, how are these then made so that when someone touches the images the animation kicks in?
Or is that what phonegap is for?
basically what theyve said theyve done is created the animations and exported them as HTML via CSS3, then they created the app with phonegap.
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Happy Monday!
I just want to say I had such an amazing weekend and I can't wait to share pictures soon.
We did a little get away and it was so much fun. :)
I want to share some photos from our cruise.
Some is an understatement, I want to share a lot, but I'm trying to keep it to a minimum. {Haha}
On the back of the boat.
Ya, I attempted rock climbing, only got about half way. :(
Our bed room. We got a mid inside stateroom.
Outside bar-b-queing!
Laying out, trying to nap.
White out party.
Dancing with my family. :)
We ate at a specialty restaurant and ordered the chocolate fondue. It was delicious.
Elephant towel animal.
We went to Universal Studios. It was amazing!
I have so many more photos. I may do another day of pictures. We also had professional photos done I will share too.
I'm off to bed, goodnight!


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Private company valuations on SecondMarket (and other similar "exchanges") make for great blog fodder, but I'm not sure I buy into the hype. The latest result for Facebook is a $25 billion valuation … for a company that celebrated being cash flow positive a year ago and has yet to turn a profit.
Queue the sock puppets and launch a black rocket. It's 1999 all over again.
Let's compare it to the actual values of public companies like AOL ($2.3 billion) and Yahoo! ($21 billion), as reported by TechCrunch today. Facebook at $25 billion without any real liquidity? I'm having trouble stomaching that one. Of course, I'm something of a skeptic, so take my opinions with a grain of salt.


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No need to tell Google+ but Mark Zuckerberg wields a lot of power.
British newspaper the Guardian put out its annual list of the 100 most influential people in UK media and on top of that order is the young CEO of Facebook.
Zuckerberg topped more tenured Silicon Valley heavyweights, such as Steve Jobs.
But the list does not jump from Zuckerberg to the likes of the Apple CEO and Microsoft's Steve Balmer. Instead the No. 2 most influential person on British media is Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.
The rankings show the power of social-networking in the role of story gathering and telling.
Jobs showed up as the fifth most powerful person, while Wikileak's founder Julian Assange jumped from 58th on last year's list to No. 32 in 2011.
The list was compiled using the feedback of experts from "the fields of technology, PR and media."
Zuckerberg Beats Jobs Again
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World's Most Poisonous Plant
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surfsteve wrote:I've pulled many 1000's of poison oak with my bare hands before I knew what they were and never had any symptoms from it. I must have some how developed an immunity to it. My grandma told us that you can develop immunity to poison ivy by eating a little bit of it when it first sprouts out of the snow and then a little more as it grows bigger. I suspect I may have developed my immunity to poison oak by pulling the baby plants in the spring, gradually being exposed to higher and higher amounts as the plants grew bigger.
Myth 9 – You can develop immunity from exposure. False. With some 90% of humans allergic to urushiol, it's only a matter of time before most of us will develop a reaction, and it turns out the more reactions you experience from exposure to urushiol, the more likely you are to react to with further exposure. But the reverse is also true: avoiding exposure (and outbreaks) reduces your susceptibility to a reaction. In other words, the myth has it backward: your best immunity comes from simply avoiding contact to begin with.
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Andrew Cunningham brought us all the iOS 7 news you could want this week, from a gallery of comparison images in Death to textures: iOS 6 and iOS 7 compared in pictures, to an analysis of the new operating system on old hardware in New lease on life or death sentence? iOS 7 on the iPhone 4, to the actual review of iOS 7 itself, iOS 7, thoroughly reviewed. It was on this last article that many Ars readers left their first impressions of the new operating system. (And some just commented on the size of the article itself. Arcite took one look at the nearly 16,000-word review and wrote, "Now presenting, the gold standard of software reviews, the Ars iOS7 review. :::goes off to brew a large cup of coffee::: I'll need it!")
Marcos2247 was not a fan. "Just updated to iOS 7. I'm not lovin' it. On the iPad 2, there are definitely performance issues. Every now and then something in the UI stutters. And Temple Run 2 is a barely playable stutter-fest. I hope these things will be addressed in a future update. As for the UI itself: I have to say it looked better in pictures. In person, it lacks a certain polish. It does look like a bad Windows Phone ripoff. And that's coming from somebody who does not like Windows Phone."
"The oil slick color thing looks bizarre to me," yakumo complained.
But ARSwayne thought that the naysayers should be slower to judge:
Nice upgrade. Getting used to it is actually a bit uncomfortable for the first hour or two, but after that you get used to it and the advantages jump out. Everything is better designed and more powerful. The only real drawback I can see is that AidDrop seemingly doesn't work between iOS and MacOS.
As an example, I'm pretty sure that there are more categories and finer control in Privacy settings that now includes individual controls over access to: location services, contacts, calendars, reminders, photos, bluetooth sharing, and the microphone, Twitter, Facebook, and ad tracking. Tracking of cellular data transfer, per application, with the ability to evidently disallow an application from using cellular data. Passbook can be synced via iCloud, great new views and organization of photos.
Things are more consistent, like how you move up from a day view to a week view to a month view is the same as moving from an e-mail message to a mailbox, and the same as moving from Event views of photos to Moments to Collections to Years.
All of this works great on an iPhone 5.
But, of course, the battery life disappointed. Mannymal commented, "The battery life on iPhone 5 is disturbing; I hope it will be fixed. Battery life is one of the biggest reasons I switched from my Android device." And TerribleTony agreed: "Battery life on my iPhone 5 for the iOS 7 betas was bad. I didn't worry because beta. Battery life on my iPhone 5 for the iOS 7 GM was bad. I tried not to worry because I didn't do a clean install like everybody recommended. And now Ars is saying the exact same thing happened on their iPhone 5 even with a clean install? Profound sadness. 30 percent battery loss for an iOS update is not acceptable."
Deadly drones
As drones become more powerful and more prevalent in everyday life, it's not inconceivable that a terrorist might try to use an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to do some real damage in crowds. As Sean Gallagher explained in German chancellor's drone "attack" shows the threat of weaponized UAVs, it's difficult to detect oncoming, malicious drones. If one is detected, it's difficult to disarm the drone without causing harm to the people below it.
Ars readers had some solutions, naturally.
bexpert wrote:
"...And lasers? C'mon, guys. There is already a weapon out there that could take down a bird-like drone. It's cheaper than a laser, easy to use, proven, and requires no additional training for 30 percent of American males. In fact, many Americans own one already.
A shotgun, loaded with birdshot. $300 at your local Walmart and, honestly, pretty safe. Birdshot loses momentum very quickly—and that is what it's for: knocking down slow, delicate flying objects. Just a couple of Secret Service agents with shotguns would probably do."
"Airsoft shotguns for everyone!" agreed TedofChicago. Redo from Start had a similar idea: "Microwaves, lasers, these guys aren't thinking outside of the box...Water. A good-sized water cannon will drop anything that small out of [the] sky, probably short-circuit it and if you miss, you only get a wet audience. Annoyed but in one piece."
But Corporate Serf threw water on those ideas. "Drones could just carry a secondary small chemical weapon. All it will take is poison raining down on a crowd from a destroyed drone once to make law enforcement think twice about taking the next drone down. Remember, we Americans are the ones who pioneered this tech. Oops."
Zorro thought we could just keep the drones away from the crowds altogether. "Low-tech low-cost solution. Nylon Mist nets like Biologists use to capture bats and small birds. It is nothing but net made out of essentially clear fishing line. Just make tents with a net." And RobDickinson suggested we fight fire with fire: "The official answer is obvious. A swarm of laser toting defense quadcopters."
But SinclairZX81 had the most unusual idea:
Lasers. Automated drone defense guns. Anti-aircraft drones...
I'll note along with others that these things are bird-sized. So instead of spending millions or billions to develop and deploy automated systems of sensors, crowd-safe interceptor weapons, etc., how about spending hundreds each on an already existing defense system with extremely high-resolution visible-light sensors, a fully autonomous tracking and guidance system, and a non-explosive end-game attack subsystem that is completely crowd-friendly:
Trained falcon.
Put one or two security officers at the event with a falcon each, and give them the authority to loose their bird when they see fit. The bird's instinct is to find and attack small flying targets "down in the weeds", so capitalize on that in their training. Unless the drone is large, the bird could be trained to drag the drone away from the venue to the nearest parking lot, sparing the crowd from collateral damage.
I love a technological solution as much as the next guy, but sometimes there are better ways already in-hand.
Not quite to the bitter end
Lawyer Charles Carreon found his way into the limelight last year when he sued Matt Inman, the creator of the Web comic "The Oatmeal," and then began suing anonymous Internet commenters who were critical of his suit. As we summed up earlier this week: "things got even weirder when Carreon threatened Chris Recouvreur, also known as 'Satirical Charles,' who had created a website mocking Carreon. Recouvreur then sued Carreon in federal court for a declarative judgement that his site was not libelous." Now, Carreon is dropping his final appeal in the Recouvreur case and owes him $46,000 in fees.
Cyrus Farivar spoke to Carreon directly about the whole debacle in Charles Carreon finally quits fighting, calls Oatmeal battle "a dumb thing."
"There is no legal remedy for butthurt," chimed in villageidiotintern. Carreon earned some disbelief from readers for claiming that his suit had become a waste of time. "SERIOUSLY? He's just discovered that having to defend yourself is an expensive and unprofitable time waster?" wrote scotts13. Others took real issue with the way Carreon continues to defend his actions: via a site where he claims he's been "rapeutated" and calls out a number of people, Ars journalists included, for slander. AHandMadeGrin wrote, "Echoing aldis' sentiment, carelessly using the word rape is not only unwarranted, it's unfair to actual rape victims." dfjdejulio agreed. "So wait... he's really drawing an equivalence between 'some people said some mean things about me on the Internet' and 'rape'? And he thinks that's going to help his case?" And Wardatrigger thought the same: "Ending it all with a rape joke, what a classy fellow this Charlie is."
But Daniel summed it up pretty nicely: "When you can create giant spreadsheets of people who have wronged you and how you are right and everyone else is wrong, sometimes, just sometimes, it means that you are the wrong one."


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"Root pruning" sounds like such a brutal way to treat a plant. Yet it's a periodic necessity once any potted plant has grown as large as you want it to.
Potted plants — like other plants — grow, and while a 50-foot-tall weeping fig is a glorious sight on a Caribbean island, my living room ceiling won't allow it.
Root pruning slows stem growth, and makes room for new soil and new roots.
How often to root prune any potted plant depends on how fast that plant grows, and any quirks it has about being root-pruned. Angel's trumpet, for example, gets one severe root and stem pruning every year, in fall. Root and stem pruning are needed to stimulate new stem growth, on which is borne those eerily beautiful, pale-apricot-colored trumpets.
Potted fig plants can fruit in pots as long as they get root pruned every year or two so that roots find new soil to promote vigorous, annual stem growth.
In contrast, after 19 years, I have yet to root prune my pony tail palm.
Plants have subtle ways of indicating that their roots need new soil in which to roam. Keep an eye out for plants that dry out too rapidly or send roots creeping out drainage holes. My ponytail palm burst its pot; perhaps it's time to root prune or give it a larger pot.
Root prune any plant that's beginning to look too tall or too crowded in its pot — or give it a larger pot. Exceptions include clivia, which thrives cramped for years in the same pot until eventually bursting it.
The best way to tell whether a plant needs root pruning is to slide the root ball out of the pot and examine it. Thick roots pressed right to the edge of a root ball, or circling its outside, indicate that the time to operate has come.
To root prune, take a sharp knife, grit your teeth, and slice a one-half to 2-inch layer of soil from all around and underneath the root ball. The larger the root ball, the more soil and roots can be removed.
Then go over the whole root ball again, this time with a pronged hand cultivator or a stick, loosening soil and roots on the outside. Also prune back any lanky or damaged roots.
With roots pruned, the plant is ready to return to its pot. Put a stone or screen over any drainage holes, then shovel in enough soil so that the base of the plant's stem sits one-half to 1 inch below the rim. Gradually fill the space between the root ball and the pot with potting soil, tamping it in place with your finger tips or a blunt stick.
Watering is important during the couple of weeks or more that a plant is recovering from root pruning. Right after pruning, give the plant a thorough soaking. When new growth begins, make sure all the soil stays moist — the old soil because even with its reduced size it must still support the plant, and the new soil to encourage new root growth there.
(Cactii and other succulents are an exception: Let their soil thoroughly dry between waterings, even after root pruning.)
Finally, prune the stems so the reduced root system has fewer leaves to support. Besides, the whole purpose of root pruning has been to keep the plant from growing larger.
Rest assured that plants tolerate all this pruning. Just look at bonsai trees, whose heights can still be measured in inches after hundreds of years. They are kept that way with regular root and shoot pruning.
For more about all types of pruning, see my "The Pruning Book" (Taunton Press, 2010).