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7. | Mexican roulette | ||
When you poke a hole in a random condom in the store and wait until someone accidentally get pregnant "well, i cant blaim u, whenever im in cvs i like to go to the family planning isle and play a little Mexican roulette myself"
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A "birth control" method which is essentially unprotected sex primarily practiced within Latin American ethnicities and Catholic religious denominations. The rhythm method. Person one: Why does Maria have so many kids?
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When an individual clearly has to drop some brown, but instead tempts fate by squeezing out a series seemingly abundant farts... much like squeezing the trigger in traditional Russian roulette.
A winning participant is blessed with the gift of hilarious flatulence and clean underwear, while a loser has to deal with the unpleasantness of a shart. Karl's totally petrified of public toilets - he ended up losing at Mexican roulette last night at the bar and had to cab it home with shitty pants. What a douche.
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At a party or any other social function:
-Buy a box of condoms -Take out one condom -Take a pin and puncture the condom while in the wrapper -Put the punctured condom back into the box -Let people take the condoms freely Much like russian roulette, this will end up with your life ending. Person 1: "Did you hear Josh Chavez's cousins' friend got pregnant"?
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Mexican Roulette is similar to the game known as Russian Roulette. However, instead of bullets, your ammunition is your ass gas. One person farts, and the other returns fire. To win you must only fart, but not shart or soil yourself. Travis'Mexican Roulette wheel had been spinning the entire weekend in Vegas. You sir have some serious flatulence!
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Russian roulette played with 6 bullets instead of 1. Unload a few of these bullets from the chamber Alfonso, I don't feel like a round of Mexican roulette.
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Much like Russian Roulette only instead of one bullet and six chambers, six enchiladas are prepared; one of which has been stink fingered by a third party. Participants take turns eating them until the loser gets sick. "Ever since I lost that round of Mexican Roulette, all Enchiladas taste like shit."


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Rihanna May Have Sparked a Chris Brown & Drake Clash of the Titans
Rihanna May Have Sparked a Chris Brown & Drake Clash of the Titans
If you haven't heard rapper Drake's entourage and R & B singer Chris Brown's entourage got into an altercation last night at WIP Nightclub in NYC. Drake attended a party earlier in the night with rapper Rick Ross, Meek Mill, along with other entourage at the Sin City's Gentleman's Club in the Bronx. Drake listened to Self Made 2, a Mayback Music Group Compilation Album.
Drake and crew then went to the WIP Nightclub and that is when all hell broke loose. Chris Brown supposedly sent over a bottle to Drake's table. There is no official word as to how or why the fight ensued, but reports are saying it could have been over Rihanna, being that at one point Drake had once hooked up.
In the aftermath, police were called between 4-5 a.m. There were no arrests. Drake nor Chris were present when cops arrived. Cops say there were no serious injuries, just bumps, scrapes, bruises, and lacerations. After the fight, Chris tweeted along with the photo of his injury:
"How u party wit rich n**** that hate? Lol… Throwing bottles like girls? #shameonya!."
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ST. LOUIS -- David Perron scored midway through the third period to help the St. Louis Blues break a five-game home-ice losing streak with a 2-1 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday night.
Jaroslav Halak made 18 saves and Chris Stewart also scored for St. Louis, which had gone 27 days without a home win.
The Blues lost their previous five home games by a combined 23-9 score, marking the longest skid since they lost dropped seven in a row from Nov. 25 to Dec.17, 2006.
Columbus lost for the seventh time in nine games.
Perron converted from the slot after taking a nifty pass from David Backes to break a 1-1 tie at 9:51 of the third period. It the sixth goal of the season for Perron, who has four road goals.
St. Louis has won four of its last six including road wins at Detroit, Calgary and Vancouver.
Halak improved to 4-0-1 with his second solid effort since missing eight games with groin injury. He held the Blue Jackets off in the final 59 seconds when Columbus had a six-on-four advantage. Halak allowed one goal on 20 shots in a 1-0 loss at Colorado on Wednesday night.
Stewart put the Blues in front at 13:55 of the first period. He blasted a shot over the right shoulder of Sergei Bobrovsky from the top of the right faceoff circle.
Columbus tied the score at 1 on a short-handed goal by Matt Calvert late in the second period. Calvert broke in alone after a pass from James Wisniewski and slipped the puck behind Halak. It was Calvert's third goal of the seson and second short-handed of the season for the Blue Jackets.
Bobrovsky, who fell to 3-6-2, was pulled from the first meeting between the teams after allowing three goals on 11 shots in the Blues' 4-1 win on Jan. 31.


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Two young men -- both still in their teens -- are facing murder and robbery charges in the shooting deaths of three members of one family, according to Wyoming authorities.
The suspects, Stephen Hammer, 19, and Tanner Vanpelt, 18, both from Cody, Wyoming, were denied bail during a court appearance Tuesday. They are charged with 11 felony counts each in the shooting deaths of 40-year-old Ildiko Freitas and her parents, 69-year-old Janos Volgyesi and 70-year-old Hildegard Volgyesi.
"This is nothing short of cold blooded murder," Park County Sheriff Scott A. Steward said in a weekend statement after the two were arrested.
According to court documents, the suspects told investigators that they went to the victims' home in the small community of Clark, Wyoming, last Saturday morning intending to steal a car and go to Denver.
Authorities said the victims' bodies were found shortly after the killings when neighbors found the family's dog running in the street, returned it to the house and found Volgyesi's body in the garage. The bodies of the two women were found in the house, one in the kitchen and one in the basement.
Other witnesses told deputies that they had seen two men enter the victims' residence and a short time later saw two cars speeding from the house. Witnesses recognized one of the fleeing cars as being that of Freitas and her husband, who was out of town for his work.
The Wyoming State Patrol arrested the two suspects shortly after noon Saturday, after one officer stopped two cars.
According to a sworn affidavit by Park County Sheriff's Lt. Dave Patterson, Hammer explained the shootings in detail to him after waiving his right to remain silent.
Patterson said in the affidavit that Hammer confessed to an earlier gun theft in Cody, and said that he and Vanpelt wanted to flee to Denver because they were afraid of being arrested for the theft.
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text: The 2012 U.S. Open concluded on Sunday night with a new champion winning his first major title. 26-year-old Webb Simpson won the U.S. Open after shooting +1 through the tournament. Michael Thompson and Graeme McDowell tied for second with a score of +2. After a strong start to the tournament, Tiger Woods took a step back over the weekend. He finished the tournament in 21st place with a score of 7+. Stay tuned to WGR 550 for the latest news in the PGA Tour. *Photo Courtesy of the AP.


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Hi guys!
I know some of you like Disney and Pixar. Are you excited about this movie comng out? I know I am!
I am! I like the fact that it's about Scotland.I have the last name of a prominent Scottish clan, and have the same Scots clan's blood in my ancestery, so I'm reeally lookin' forrit tou eet. Hoots! I canne wauit fair eet tou be herrre, ye ken? Hooray fuir Scootlaund!
I cant wait for the movie to come plus the video game wil also be lauched
seens to be a cool film! but im more exited for MADASCAR 3!!! im listening to i like to move it move it right now!!
Yeh I like madagasgar films. Check out Wikipedia... says there gonna be a film about the penguins. Like their origins or whatever.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_(franchise)
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Can you find the N??????!?!!!!?!?!!?
yes, its one of the last letters. u know i dont trust wiki cheesehead!
I am SO excited to see this one! Especially since the princess looks almost exactly like my cousin! I'm also scottish myself by ancestry, so I already know some of the lore they might bring up in the movie.
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Guid Brogue there, lassie!
@LoveShaun19 and @EmmyRed18
Youse baith hae guid Scots accents!
Puppylove you have put that song n my head now! Lol!
what song??? and WHAT THE FUDJE are u guys saying???
@ puppylove, We were writing with a Scottish Brouge, or accent. If you read the words phonetically, you'll sound somewhat Scottish.
@ Ettobright I thank ye verra muich!
now THAT sounds like a italian accent!
Well, Scots roll the r's too...
#I like to move it, move it. I like to MOVE IT!#
T'is mah prrrood honor tae be fraem th' bonnie fairrr clans o' th'Highlands, ye ken.
ok.. this is kinnah annoying inn a happy way but still annoying...
i'm excited!!!
may u forgive me but i HAD to say it... "that what she said"... sorry! i count resist!!!
@Puppylove, do you mean the brouge? Yeh'll hae te farguive meh, buit we Scots arre fair stuobborn folk, an speakin' ( or typin') in the brouge hae become rrreally addictin' ye ken?
I'll type normally now though, because I don't want it to be annoying, but can I break out into mah brouge occasionly? like I said, it's becoming addicting!
yeah, pretty much :3
I have just read the novel of the film. I wont give any spoilers!
I'm half Scottish, and yer'll nae tak it awa from me!!!!!!! This is a genuine fact about me. I also watch a Scottish soap opera religiously.
i have a friend whos half scoddish aswell! is name is michael.... O.o. THERES A NOVEL???
Yep, there is a novel out. I got it as a gift. It is now released in some countries.
I agre puppylove,it is geting annoying. I probobly have a littel scottish in me.
I have a littel bit of every thing in me.
I saw Brave in the movie theater.
lol am scottish yay
I saw Brave, finally! It was great; I enjoyed it immensely!
I don`t want to spoil it for anybody, but........YOUAREGOINGTOLOVEIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't live in Scotland, but I'm Scotch by ancestry on both sides of my family.
I have finally seen Brave. It is brilliant!
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Finished with a 5-2 record with one save in 22 appearances, two starts ... pitched 49 innings with 27 strikeouts ... also played 26 games, two starts as a batter ... hit .300 with nine hits, three doubles, a triple and seven RBI ... earned her first career win in relief at Charleston Southern (Feb. 9), throwing two scoreless innings with one strikeout ... picked up her first career pinch-hit against Quinnipiac (Feb. 23) ... struck out a season-best five in six relief innings against Marshall (Feb. 25) ... earned the win against Drexel (Feb. 25), throwing two scoreless innings with two strikeouts ... had her first career pinch-hit single against Quinnipiac (Feb. 23) ... lined a two-run double against Samford (March 9) and hit a triple in game two versus the Bulldogs ... earned her third win in relief against Dayton (March 1) ... made first career start against Virginia (March 3) ... picked up first save against Samford (March 9) ... picked up a hit against Towson (Mar. 20) ... had two hits, including her first start in the outfield in the doubleheader against Furman (Mar. 23) ... earned her fourth win in relief after tossing 2.2 innings with one strikeout against North Carolina A&T (Mar. 21) ... started in game one against Virginia Tech (April 2) and went 2.2 innings, allowing three earned runs on three hits ... had a pinch-hit RBI against UNCW (April 16) ... went 1-for-2 with an RBI and a run scored in a start in game two against North Carolina Central (April 18) ... picked up her fifth win, throwing two scoreless innings in game two against North Carolina Central (April 18) ... threw 4.2 innings, including three scoreless against North Carolina (April 24) with two strikeouts ... picked up an RBI against Appalachian State in the SoCon Tournament (May 9).
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Played four years as a pitcher at Northwood High School in Irvine, Calif. … Led her team to the Pacific Coast League title, first in school history, earning first team All-Pacific Coast honors … finished with 16 of the team's 18 total wins her senior season … also played in the coaches all-star game … was a second-team All-Pacific Coast player as a junior, taking team MVP honors … was 16-8 with a 1.75 ERA, when she also hit .453 with 14 RBI en route to an Irvine World News All-City selection … also played four years of volleyball and was a member of the dance theater team, serving as a team captain last year.… played summer ball with the Firecrackers out of Long Beach, Calif., for two years.
Nicole Christine Thomas... born Feb. 12, 1994, in Irvine, Calif. ... daughter of David and Carol... has two siblings, Laura and Lindsay … twin sister Lindsay is a catcher and teammate at UNCG … older sister Laura played softball for one year at Northwood … major is Kinesiology.


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Violinist Aleksey Igudesman and pianist Hyung-ki Joo believe that classical music should be fun. That's why they subvert it whenever they appear on stage.
Igudesman and Joo are professional musicians who kick the stuffing out of music. They use every means at their disposal to find a laugh — combining elements of serious music with pop songs, playing instruments with unorthodox devices and generally cutting up on stage. Their YouTube videos — (beginning with one called "Rachmaninov Had Big Hands") have garnered over 20 million hits. Igudesman and Joo have been touring the US and stopped by NPR to play — in both senses of the word.
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It's the most wonderful time of the year…NOT. I am stressed. I know this for many reasons including the fact that I can't sleep. For someone used to going to bed at 10:30 and waking up at 5:30, being awake at 2:30 (I tweeted to mark the time) is not ideal. I tossed and turned for a while and finally got hungry enough to just get up. I admittedly had a real coffee later than normal yesterday, but I think my mind racing had more to do with not being able to sleep. Eventually, I unset my alarm and got up, snacked, and worked on my take home exam/essay some more. Things to do besides worry about not being able to sleep:
- read blogs
- write in your journal
- embrace the opportunity to have a true "midnight snack"
- research wild trips you'll likely never be able to go on—or find one you actually want to try! (I am particularly drawn to the semester long treks through NOLS)
- finish the draft of an essay you're worried about
- read a book
- paint your nails
- clean
My midnight snack of choice was a boring bowl of greek yogurt that got more exciting when I added a spoonful of peanut butter. I think there's a saying that a spoonful of peanut butter makes life complete? I almost repeated my morning snack, which was similar—greek yogurt with honey, cocoa, and a few Mini Eggs. I think my thoughts just caught up with me at night because I was going all day and didn't have time for them to sink in or swirl around my head. After my morning post yesterday, I ended up spinning at the gym before heading to The Gazette. I ran into Nina and ended up eating lunch (turkey sandwich with leftover kale chips). I love seeing her, but realizing we are almost done this semester and that she might not be here next year makes me uber sad and reminds me of all the other good friends who are going to be friends from remote locations after this year ! I worked for a bit but I started to get really anxious about my assignments so I went to the library. I saw Ellen, who has a knack for making me happier, and sat in the less stressful cafe part of the library where eating my afternoon granola bar wouldn't piss everyone off and where my stress levels wouldn't increase by association. Afterwards, I went for a swim! Luckily I had company, otherwise I'd probably have bailed. I did a short set with more kicking than was originally planned to save my shoulder a bit of stress. It really didn't hurt much, just felt tight, so I don't know what to do. I have a massage (for my hip, mostly) on Thursday, but I think I'll see if getting her to loosen up my oh so stressed back/neck/shoulders helps things out. I also have physio on Friday so I can bring it up there too! After the swim, I had dinner with Nina (spinach salad with leftover sweet potatoes, salmon, cranberries, and pecans) and after arming myself with Mini Eggs, we met Angela for a night of studying at Starbucks. Studying with friends makes me more likely to smile and not to go into tunnel vision about "never finishing this essay" or about "having nothing to do in the summer"—common worries for me during the final stretch here! So, even though it's kind of a stressful time, I'm trying really hard to spend as much time with people as I can and to enjoy the last bit of time here! I had a few "OMG I AM SO GLAD I'M COMING BACK NEXT YEAR" moments yesterday. Not only does taking time to see people and to just slow down keep me sane and make me happy, it also is important since the semester is coming to an end and I'm realizing how much I'm going to miss these folks. And, tear. This morning I woke up a little full from last night's middle of the night snack, sad that I missed swim, but ready to get on with my day. I started things off with a few of my favourite things: cereal, coffee, and blogging. It's on to working on my exam, trying to make it to campus, spinning, and teaching bootcamp. Busy is better than bored! Do you get stressed when things end/change? What do you do if you can't sleep? What kind of trip would you go on if you had unlimited money and resources?


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- 1. Getting javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: xxxxxxx, port: 465, response: -1 error in ColdFusion
Well, error indicates that could not connect to SMTP host and this was driving me crazy because I have double-tripple check setting and look everything good and graph of my craziness goes high when I found it does work most of the time and sometime it get fails. Contacted with mail service provider and he confirmed everything OK on his side.
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- 2. Managing ColdFusion code formatting
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Since I use eclipse as ColdFusion editor, I have installed cfeclipse plug-in for ColdFusion.
I got two issues which makes me writing this blog post. One is slowing down editing of large file in cfeclipse and proper code formatting which improves readability.- By Vikas Patel
- 3. cfform creates javascript variables for HTML elements
Hi all,
This post is about JavaScript and ColdFusion. Few days ago, I caught an issue in HTML form post data.
I received [object HTMLInputElement] as form HTML form data. Later I figured out that when my JavaScript variable propertyID is assigned with correct numeric value, then there is no problem. I tried to find where I declared this JavaScript variable.
- By Vikas Patel
- 4. Adding new cell type in POI utility
Recently, we have given ability in our one of the project to export data in excel sheet. For exporting data into excel we used POI Utility from Ben Nadel. In this package there are so many excel type conversion such as date, numeric, formula.. In exporting data into excel we have given formula to calculate percentage. For example (A3*D3)/100. All things work fine. Client needs to enter only value for calculating percentage amount.(eg. 2.5, 0.75).
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- 5. Problem to upload large size files using CFFTP
Recently I am trying to upload a file and I get error message "An error occurred during the FTP putfile operation". The CFFTP tag has one attribute 'timeout'. It specifies maximum numbers of seconds (time) taken to perform CFFTP action (operation). Here, I am not specified the 'timeout' attribute of CFFTP tag. So it take default value '30' seconds. And that cause the issue to upload large size files (size in MB) that takes more than 30 seconds to upload.
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- 6. Day 15: ColdFusion 10 and CFC enhacement
Implicit constructor for CFC
ColdFusion10 now support initialize while instantiate the CFC by passing key-value pair or struct. This method will NOT work if your CFC has init() method or initMethod attribute in CFCOMPONENT added. To enable implicit constructor specify accessors=true in cfcomponent or you have setter function for properties defined. If you define setter = false or setter not defined then value for that property will not set instead it will call onMissingMethod defined for CFC.- By Pritesh
- 7. java.sql.SQLException: Value ''0000-00-00'' can not be represented as java.sql.Date
Got strange issue today while working with mySql and ColdFusion. This might be old issue but we never face issue since we normally work with MS Sql and I think this one is second/third project which use mysql as database. Error says java.sql.SQLException: value '.........with long garbage string and special characters......' can not be represented as java.sql.Date and this is due to mysql store 0000-00-00 stored as Null value of date.
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- 8. Day 14: ColdFusion 10 schedule enhancement task handler
Day 14 on ColdFusion 10, I haven't cover much in last 13 days but go deeper in functionality. Today I keep working with schedule task enhancement and research on event handler feature. This will let us define functions which will call on particular event. Following event/method supported in event handler CFC.
- onTaskStart : Call every time when task start, If function return false will not execute schedule.
- onMisFire : Call anytime schedule file misfire (other than schedule time) any how it only fire first time for me when I create schedule file and but later on manual call doesn't invoke.
- onTaskEnd: Call execution of task end.
- onError: Call on exception on task, either 404 or 500 error. P.S. This will not invoke in case of syntax error in your coldfusion page.
- execute : ColdFusion 10 allow you to write code in cfc function instead of calling any URL, if you do not provide URL while creating schedule file then it will look for execute function in your event handler but URL will get priority if both available.
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- 9. Day 13: ColdFusion 10 & Schedule task chaining and mode
In my last post I have covered Group and list scheduler enhancement in ColdFusion 10. Today I have spent some time with event hander and other enhancement. In coldfusion 10 added new attribute mode which task application or server as value, this will let you specify task is server specific or application specific and default mode is server. Application specific task can be created from Application only and it will not be editable from ColdFusion administrator although you can run, pause or delete it from there.
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- 10. Day 12: ColdFusion and Schedule task list and group enhancement
In yesterday blog I have list out all new feature added in schedule task in ColdFusion 10. Now time to test it out, covering list, group feature in this post. While creating schedule we can put schedule in specific group and later you can pause all/resume all schedule in same group without firing individual command. And list option added in action attribute which list out all current schedules in query format.
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Leaderships Skills Required for Young Entrepreneurs
As the saying goes, not everyone is born a leader. Why do young professionals let that deter them from seeking management roles or starting their own business? Just because you need to improve on certain leadership traits doesn't mean you weren't cut out for it. Developing the skills necessary to be a leader – a good leader – takes patience, time and lots of practice no matter who you are.
In the school yard, the natural leaders that emerge are the outspoken, opinionated kids that no one wants or cares to challenge. Note that once we grow up, we know that superior leaders are skilled in the art of listening rather than talking. Listening is the key to learning and passing your knowledge along to everyone else – and isn't that really what having a leadership role is all about?
Many people incorrectly identify coworkers that are persuasive as leaders in the workplace. It is not up to a leader to convince anyone; rather, they need to be able to understand that others will always have different views and opinions. A good leader will be able to walk-in someone else's shoes. A great leader will not only walk in someone else's shoes, but they'll also paint a larger picture of what needs to happen and why.
As a young entrepreneur, you may be used to being one of the smartest in the room. When it comes to leading a business or a boardroom, it pays to surround yourself with coworkers and colleagues that are smarter than you. Even if you are running your own company, you can't do it all. Who else would be better candidates to have at your side than those that are just as ambitious and smart as you?
Taking the steps now in your young career to finesse your leadership skills will ultimately help you in your quest to become an effective and successful entrepreneur. Did we miss any characteristics that would help young professionals become better leaders? Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter (@JCI_Iowa) to let us know! Already have your leadership skills down and want to work on your networking? Contact the Jaycees to find out more about our social networking club!
Getting Involved: Community Engagement Key to Building Real Life Skills
Between life and all that it encompasses – work, family, friends and of course, the Jaycees – little time remains to engage in the community that surrounds us. It is easy to feel overscheduled, but it's important to remember all we can gain as businessmen and women by giving more attention to the causes that need it most. That's right – giving back to your community can actually give you beneficial skills for life in return.
Young professionals often participate in their communities as both betterment to themselves and their local neighborhood. What many Jaycees and other participants may not realize is that community engagement can also lead to establishing relationships, building trust, refining leadership skills and more. What you are doing by becoming more involved is actually the gaining skills that will ultimately set you apart from others in the real world.
As you participate in your community, professionals can get a better sense of your identity while also learning the importance of social responsibility and the advantages that networking has to offer. Want to play an even larger role in your community? Consider organizing a community event of your own or with the help of fellow Jaycees members.
Oftentimes young entrepreneurs let their busy schedules dictate what they do or do not have the time to achieve. Be sure that you are setting aside extra time to become more engaged in your community – don't forget that you are helping yourself as much as the people around you. Do you have any suggestions on becoming more involved in your community? Visit our Facebook and Twitter and let us know!
UPDATED: Foundation for Iowa Jaycees Charities Golf Tournament
The Foundation for Iowa Jaycees Charities will be holding their first ever Golf Tournament on July 19, 2013 at the Westwood Golf Course in Newton, IA.
Cost is $200 per team or $60 per person. This includes greens fees, cart and lunch.
The tournament will have a shotgun start at 9:00 am.
Deadline to register is July 12, 2013.
The tournament is open to the public and all are invited.
For more information contact Angie Taylor at(803) 315-6976 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
JCI Achieve Training on April 20
The Cedar Rapids Jaycees ares excited to announce they will be offering the JCI Achieve course on Apr. 20th from 1-5pm for Jaycees from across Iowa and throughout the Northern Midwest . JCI Achieve is a half day course and should be taken by any member who want to fully understand the principles, meaning, purpose and dynamics of a JCI Local Organization.
The JCI Achieve course uses discussions and analogies to help members understand one's own values and the values and principles of JCI, the role of all members in establishing the Local Organization's identity, the activities needed to fulfill JCI Mission and develop JCI members into active citizens who will create positive changes in the communities.
Our trainer will be Jennifer Gracey, from West Des Moines. Jennifer is a JCI Certified National Trainer, former Iowa Jaycee President, former National Training Director for the US Jaycees, former National VP for the US Jaycees, and is currently serving as Executive Assistant to the World President of Junior Chamber International. Jennifer is employed as a Senior Business Consultant for Sogeti.
The Cedar Rapids Jaycees are happy to have Jennifer as our trainer and happy to announce that the training will be provided free of charge for all new Jaycees members in 2013. The cost is $10 for all other attendees and this will help cover the costs of training supplies, light snacks, and travel expenses for our trainer.
Participants should register at www.jci.cc and can pay online at http://shopping.cr-jaycees.com
Iowa Jaycees & The American Cancer Society
President Tom has set a goal for us to raise $10,000 as a state organization. If you don't have a team to join and you, your family and friends want to get involved PLEASE donate now online to help us accomplish our goal and to EXCEED our goal to be the #1 State in the Nation!!! Iowa Jaycees YOU Rock!!!
To make an online donation, visit http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?fr_id=51626&pg=team&team_id=1336227
If you need fund raising ideas thru out the year let me know. Remember we are ALL things American Cancer Society. This page will be up all of 2013.
Onto Seattle!
With the start of the new year, it is time to start seriously planning for National Convention in Seattle from June 5-8, 2013. I am the Onto Chair for this convention and I'm very excited to get the planning going!
If you have not registered yet, you can do so by visiting the National Convention website at http://www.usjcseattle2013.com/.
I would like to get a complete list of who all will be going from Iowa so we can communicate on flights, hotels, excursions and convention details. Please let me know ASAP if you are planning to attend along with your email and phone number so I can add you to my list. You can email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. I will begin periodically sending out emails with any information I get as it starts coming in.
I'm looking forward to our westbound trip in June!
Emily Vaughn
Onto Seattle Chair
JCI Impact on March 16
The Iowa Junior Chamber and Clive Junior Chamber are excited to offer JCI Impact, one of the newest JCI Official Courses, on Saturday, March 16, at the Urbandale Public Library starting at 1 pm.
JCI Impact is a three-hour course designed for JCI members who want to become active citizens and make long lasting positive changes in their communities. The course discusses the active citizenship concept, covers the analysis of community needs, the establishment of the real causes of problems and discusses the projects a Local Organization can conduct with other partners in order to create long lasting and definite positive changes in the community. Brian Kavanaugh, a JCI Trainer from Nebraska, will be training this course.
Space is limited, so sign up today. To register, go to http://www.jci.cc/ and click the Members Site link in the top left corner. Log in (or create a log in if this is your first time to the site) and click the link for Training in the Blue Menu Bar. JCI Impact will be listed under the upcoming courses for Mar. 16.
The Urbandale Public Library is located at 3520 86th Street in Urbandale, Iowa.
If you have any questions, please contact Paul Crawford at 515-771-7285 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Competitions at All State
The topic for the Prepared Speak Up will be as follows:
Describe a situation in which a skill you learned from being a Jaycee helped you in the "real world."
Speech must be 5-7 minutes. This will be the "first round" for speak-up. Finalists will then be called back later to give an impromptu speech of 3-5 minutes with 1 minute of prep time. The impromptu topic will be give to each competitor individually as they arrive.
Topics for Write Up will be given to all competitors at the same time at the start of a 30 minute prep time. Round 2 will be conducted in the same manner.
This is in accordance with National Rules and how it is conducted at the National meeting.


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It was beautiful.
With the clamor of anvils and the thunder of guns, we rip each day from life's teeth.
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Like your spin on the invention of the squid launcher; very good. I like your art as well.
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If I'm not logged in and posting, however, I'll still have BZP open as a tab in Chrome.
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Are you going to be making further comics like this soon?
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Awesome art, by the way. How'd you make it?
It reminds me of my joke about the squid launchers, except in my version Kalmah FINALLY shoots it after a few tries...and hits Pridak, who rages and kills him.
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The actors of the movie Chandni Chowk to China, Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone and the director Nikhil advani were seen in London for the premiere of their forth coming movie. Also spotted was Amitabh Bachchan wishing the film all the best.
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Setting Up Services
To start, imagine the TCP/IP connection you have (anything from an Ethernet connection to a SLIP/PPP connection from your friendly neighborhood network provider) as really 65,536 lines (each of which can handle many different conversations at once) coming into your machine. Some of these lines are dedicated to serving a single purpose, but a majority of them are open for use.
Each of these separate lines coming into your machine is known as a port, and each Linux machine, connected to another via TCP/IP, has 65,536 ports available on it. Each of these ports allows a connection between the two machines, assuming there is a program on one end that is listening to that port in question and a program on the other end attempting to connect to it. If a connection with the remote side is requested and a program on the remote side is listening to that port, a connection is established. This can be just about any kind of connection, as telnet, FTP, HTTP (World Wide Web), and SMTP (mail) all use sockets to get and receive data. Sockets are the entire combination of local-machine, local port, remote machine, and remote port that defines one of the communications channels available. The number of these channels is really only limited by available memory.
Now, there are two ways to make sure the remote side will be able to pick up on the connection. The first is to start a program running in the background all the time, waiting for a connection. This can be the easiest way to do it, but requires some programming skills and requires the program to be in memory all the time. If you choose to run a program as a daemon, and it is not used often, it will wind up being just wasted memory and get swapped to disk.
The second option is to have one program listen to ALL the ports and then, if a connection is requested, start the associated program. This is good because programs are only run when they are needed, but for programs that require loading a lot of files on startup or may be called very often, it might be too slow and waste CPU power as well.
In Linux, as in most versions of Unix, both of these options exist. Some programs (like the http daemon or sendmail/smail or the NFS daemon) run in the background and make and remove copies of themselves in memory as necessary. These programs usually can have large data files that require up to 30 seconds to load. By loading the programs once, then spawning themselves as needed, these programs can cut their startup time to only a few seconds. Other programs, such as in.telnetd, which handles incoming login connections, do not need as much time to load into memory and can be left out of memory until needed.
In the case of in.telnetd and other small programs, inetd (for Internet Daemon; also called the "superserver") service comes in. inetd watches all the ports it can, and if it sees a connection request, it checks its list to see if there is something that wants to watch that port. If there is an entry in its list, it starts the program up with input and output, both directed through the socket. Otherwise, it refuses a connection, and you see the familiar "Connection refused" on your terminal.
The way to set up the inetd program is to edit a file called /etc/inetd.conf. In this file, you may find some lines that look like figure 1.
Now let's decrypt some of this. Any line starting with a # is treated as a comment by inetd. Any other line is broken up into 6 pieces:
1) Service-This defines the port that is being watched by inetd. The name for this is in the /etc/services file. If you look there, you'll see lines like:
ftp 21/tcp telnet 23/tcp smtp 25/tcp mail
Here are three of our favorite services defined. ftp, telnet and smtp. ftp uses port 21, telnet uses port 23, and smtp uses port 25. These connections are in /etc/services so that you don't have to remember that ftp is port 21. You just tell inetd ftp and it figures out the rest.
2) Socket type-This can be stream or dgram (for datagram). A stream is usually for a connection that opens for a long time, and (for every case you are likely to see) uses the tcp protocol. Telnet or FTP are great examples of this. A datagram is a small packet of data where there is no real connection and (again, for every case you are likely to see) will use the udp protocol. Also available are raw, rdm, and seqpacket.
3) Protocol-tcp for streams, udp for dgram socket types. These types are defined in /etc/protocols.
4) Flags-Wait and Nowait. This is applicable only to dgram socket types. Anything else should be defined nowait. If a datagram socket connects to another socket and frees the socket for inetd to open another port, it is defined nowait. Otherwise, inetd should wait for the connection to close.
5) User[.group]-This defines which user (and group optionally) to run the following program under. It's usually root, but some programs you may want security on and run as a lower user.
6) Command line-Command (including any command line parameters) to run when inetd finds activity on that port. Almost all programs that are intended to be run from inetd have names starting with "in" to make this obvious.
You may note that you see a /usr/bin/tcpd in front of the programs. The tcpd program performs a few functions that inetd doesn't. For example, tcpd can log the connection through the syslog(3) facility (see Linux Journal issue 11, for a discussion of syslog), verify a hostname, find the name of the remote user that is connecting, and deny or allow services to hosts that you can specify Some of these options require re-compiling the tcpd program, but can greatly increase the security of your system. One thing you can do, without re-compiling, is limit the services available to sites known for causing you trouble. To deny telnet (and other) access to a site, create a file called /etc/hosts.deny. In it, you can list first the access you want to deny, a colon, then the hosts to deny that access to.
First, list the name of the program that you want to deny. This can be in.fingerd, in.telnetd, in.ftpd, etc. You can also use the keyword ALL to signify all services.
Next, list the hosts you want to deny access to by the following methods:
1) Network names starting with a "." will deny access to all hosts that have it as its last network name. .clarkson.edu will deny access from any host from Clarkson, such as craft.camp.clarkson.edu. A .edu will deny anyone in the .edu domain.
2) Network names that end in a "." will deny access to all hosts that have the matching string as the front portion of the network name. For example, 128.153. will deny all of the Clarkson domain, while 128.153.16. will deny a portion of the Clarkson domain.
3) ALL which denies access to everyone, and LOCAL which matches hosts whose resolved name does not contain a period (.). Many domain name servers will resolve a name on the local subnet to just the hostname instead of host.subnet.net. For example, craft.capm.clarkson.edu could appear to another host on the same subnet as just craft. The man pages for host_access (5) will explain more wildcards.
4) The keyword EXCEPT will exempt specific hosts who would be denied under other rules from being denied.
So a sample /etc/hosts.deny could look like this:
ALL: .clarkson.edu EXCEPT: craft.camp.clarkson.edu
Which would deny all access to anyone in the Clarkson domain except for users on the machine craft.camp.clarkson.edu.
You can also set up an /etc/hosts.allow, following the same methods as the /etc/hosts.deny, except that the hosts.allow specifies who to specifically allow access to. In the case of a conflict between a host being denied and allowed, the entry in /etc/hosts.allow takes precedence, and access is allowed. To make a site more secure, you could put ALL: ALL in your /etc/hosts.deny (to deny access to everyone), then list in the /etc/hosts.allow all the hosts you want to allow in. This way, only the hosts you specify have access to the services that tcpd runs. Also, if you have only a hosts.allow file, and no hosts.deny file, only hosts listed in the hosts.allow will be allowed any access at all.
See the man pages for tcpd(8) and hosts_allow(5) for more information about how to use tcpd at your site.
Now, how does this all work? Let's add something to our /etc/inetd.conf. Something simple and easy, say a "fortune" port. Many Linux installations contain the /usr/games/fortune command, and a qotd (quote of the day) port exists at port 17. So we'll set inetd up so that if you telnet to port 17, you get the output of the fortune command. So, log into your machine as root and make sure that inetd is running. If it is not, you will want to set up TCP/IP for your machine. Even if you're not connected to anything, you can still set up the loopback device and connect to yourself.
First, make sure that qotd is defined in your /etc/services:
qotd 17/tcp
Next, we'll add the line in the /etc/inetd.conf to make inetd start fortune. This can be added anywhere in the /etc/inetd.conf:
qotd stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd \ /usr/games/fortune
You'll have to restart inetd to make it re-read the inetd.conf file. An easy way that only works under Linux, but should always work under Linux, is:
linux:/# killall -HUP inetd
On some systems, the PID of the inetd process may be kept in a file, such as /var/run/inetd.pid, and on non-Linux systems without the inetd.pid file, you will have to use the ps command to find the PID of the inetd process.
Now if you telnet to localhost port 17, you'll find something like this:
linux:/# telnet localhost 17 Trying 127.0.0.1 Connected to localhost Escape character is '^]'. Money is the root of all wealth Connection closed by foreign host. linux:/#
There are only a few programs that you can use for this. Things that use curses, like joe, or anything that uses the SVGAlib, won't work, as it won't be able to open your tty (remember: to Linux, you're telnetting in from somewhere else).
Any programs you do put in your inetd.conf file should have good security. This means:
1) Verify (and modify if necessary) the user that the process is running under. Many need root privileges, but some don't.
2) Verify the security of the program that is being connected to a TCP/IP socket. Something like /usr/games/fortune is not interactive, but a program like the old sendmail allowed the Internet worm to wind its way through machines a few years ago. (Note that the sendmail bug was fixed.)
3) Add extra security to inetd by adding something like tcpd, which will allow you to deny or allow various hosts from connecting to your machine. Check the tcpd man pages for more information about tcpd.
Now that you have your services set up, you can hook in your own services and use them for whatever you want. If you have questions or comments about his article, or have some topic you would like to see in a future issue of the Linux Journal, please send me an e-mail note at email@example.com.
Mark Komarinski (firstname.lastname@example.com) graduated from Clarkson University (in very cold Potsdam, New York) with a degree in computer science and technical communication. He now lives in Troy, New York, and spends much of his free time working for the Department of Veterans Affairs where he is a programmer.
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What is maximum page height avoiding vertical scroll?
I've been searching around but haven't found any conclusive numbers to answer this question:
What is the maximum height (in pixels) a page should be so that the majority of users do not see a vertical scroll bar?
I realize that there are many different screen sizes and resolutions out there including the many "micro" laptops I've been seeing pop up. I'm trying to target the average desktop / normal laptop (sane) screen size user.
I feel like Chris already covered this in an article but I can't seem to find it. Cheers! :DI don't think I've ever done any real research on it, but it's not a very common topic =) Most research shows that people really don't mind vertical scrolling very much. Most input devices are very capable of it, and people expect it.
Also, vertical space is impeded upon by browser addons in a lot more agressive ways than horizontal space. I was just looking at my friends dad's laptop the other day, a very normal non-techy user and I bet over 1/3 of his entire laptop screen was crap jammed on the top of internet explorer. Google toolbar, some flight checking toolbar, big buttons and icons, who knows what all. So let's say you have 768 to begin with on an average-to-small laptop, you gotta chop off another 250 or so for browser junk add-ons... I'd say maybe as small as 500px if you really want to be "safe".create a black rectangle of a size to fit your screen and see if it fits, that way, it is not hard to find out the number of
pixels displayed on your width and height of your screen. next screen you use will probbly be different, in my case, the screen may be 1024x768 but a lot of the screen disappears under the scroll bars, browser headings and footers, etcThanks guys,
I guessed it was around that range. I am working on a client's site and while my screen shows the entire page with no vertical scroll bar, it shows on my client's screen. Currently it measures at ~800px.
The home page is really the only page I need to avoid the vertical scroll bar on so I will probably cut down on some stuff to make it fall within that range.This whole 'not having a vertical scroll' bar phenomenon really pisses me off. The web is meant to scroll. Clients that think otherwise need to be taken out to the back and...
Whatever you end up doing, do NOT remove important content from the home page just to keep it under the fold. The web is about usability and accessibility, not what clients perceive to be a 'good idea'.Hey Doc,
Yeah I understand the frustration there...however in this case it makes sense since the page isn't very long. The idea here is mostly just to standardize the height on that single page so that the vertical scroll bar doesn't come up when the page is just a few pixels over on the smallest standard screen size.
I definitely wouldn't be removing any important content, just playing with styling sizes a bit on the page. If it were any longer of a page I would not even consider doing this."Jaace" said:Yeah I understand the frustration there...however in this case it makes sense since the page isn't very long.
I have done this for a couple clients with simple websites. I do really like the way it looks. for example, http://www.teakwarehouse.com/ has a 670px height, which is good enough for most browser.. and we put SEO content below the fold on some pages. I am just finishing another one for an author this weekend...