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"One of my aunts gave me this Oatmeal Cake recipe," says Debbie Alexander from Conyers, Georgia, of her most-requested cake. "Often I hear, 'We're having a potluck on Thursday--will you bring THE cake?'"
"My willingness to experiment in the kitchen comes from my Mom," Debbie adds. "She's never afraid to try something new and it usually turns out great. When I was a kid, we never bought presents for our teachers. Mom would make them baked goodies. They were so popular that when our elementary school principal was transferred to another school, he called and asked Mom what he had to do to stay on her gift list!"
"I remember baking treats with my Mom and Granny Esther. I loved making cutout cookies or homemade ice cream to go along with the dewberries my granny and I picked."
Debbie's love of baking shows in the treats she takes to work for meetings and to fundraisers. "I remember baking for a pie auction fundraiser. I made a pie that went for over $50. A couple of friends who had tasted that pie before got into a bidding war with my husband," she laughs.
Debbie confides, "Usually my invitation to a potluck includes a request to bring this cake."
Preheat oven to 350°. Put the butter and oatmeal in a roomy mixing bowl. Add the boiling water and let stand for 20 minutes. Beat in the sugars, eggs and VANILLA. Mix in the remaining ingredients. Pour into a greased 9x13 pan and bake at 350° for 35 minutes. Then spread with frosting (below) and bake an additional 10-15 minutes until the frosting is brown and bubbling. Let cool for at least 30 minutes, then serve warm or cold.
Frosting: Mix all of the ingredients together well, and then carefully and quickly spread it over the hot cake. Continue baking as instructed above.
Nutritional Information: Servings 18;
Serving Size 1 piece (95g); Calories 310; Calories from fat 140; Total fat 15g; Cholesterol 50mg; Sodium 170mg; Carbohydrate 40g; Dietary Fiber 2g.


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Set Yourself Apart for Christ
- Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Editor's Note: The following is a report on the practical applications of Leslie Ludy's new book, Set-Apart Femininity: God's Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman (Harvest House Publishers, 2008).
As a woman, you naturally want to be seen as beautiful. But no matter how much time, energy, and money you spend trying to catch an attractive guy's attention or live up to our society's current standard of beauty, the best you can achieve is the worldly kind of beauty that can't fulfill you.
True beauty can only be found through your relationship with Jesus Christ. When you set yourself apart from the world's idea of a beautiful lifestyle and devote yourself wholeheartedly to Christ, His love will transform you into a stunningly beautiful woman.
Here's how you can set yourself apart for Christ:
Consider your motives. Take a hard look at the decisions you're making and ask yourself honestly what motives lie behind them. Are you willing to do whatever it takes to grow in all the ways Jesus wants to transform you, even when that means sacrificing your own agenda? Or are you trying to tack on some Christian morality to a self-indulgent life?
Consider who Jesus is to you. Yes, He's your Savior. But do you view Him as a casual buddy with whom you check in once in a while? Or do you see Him as your true love -- Someone you pursue with absolute passion?
Don't settle for less than the best. There's much more to being a Christian than saying the salvation prayer and then fitting Jesus into your life. Jesus wants to be more than just a part of your life; He wants to be your whole life. Instead of trying to fit Jesus into your lifestyle, build your life completely around your relationship with Him. Don't be content to be a mediocre Christian, slipping Jesus into your life whenever it's convenient. Decide every day to abandon yourself completely to Jesus, inviting Him to transform every part of your life.
Look for excitement in the right place. Even though the culture surrounding you may give you the message that surrendering your life to Jesus will only lead to a boring life, you'll discover if you choose to do so anyway that Jesus will lead you on exciting adventures you couldn't experience any other way.
Rely on supernatural power to help you. Don't be intimidated by wondering how you'll ever have the strength to live truly holy life. You can't do it in your own strength. But the good news is that God will help you every step of the way when you rely on Him. Ask God to teach you how to yield to His power working within you rather than your own efforts. Remember that, apart from God, you can do nothing, but with Him, anything is possible.
Get a spiritual makeover. While our culture will often tell you to look for beauty within, the reality is that all that lies within you apart from God is the ugliness of sin. Acknowledge that reality, confess and repent of your sins, and invite God to make you new from the inside out by removing the residue of sin and selfishness from your life and clothing you in holiness. Start today, and keep the process going, since there's always more for God to refine in your life.
Ask how much you can give to Christ, instead of how much you can get away with. Be ruthless in eliminating moral compromises from your life. Don't use your freedom in Christ to do just the minimum you should do to be considered faithful. Instead, constantly remind yourself of how Jesus gave His all – His life – to save you, and decide to give your all to keep growing closer to Him.
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When the chips are down, in Wackytown
Say, Blog Guy, I keep reading about those group tours you organize to that place you call Wackytown, the goofiest place on earth.
Right, that's Krasnoyarsk, in Siberia. Think you'd like to join us on a trip? We've got a gambling junket coming up. Why waste your time in Las Vegas when you can go to a Wackytown casino?
Gambling, huh? That sounds like fun, but I also like to keep fit when I'm on vacation.
Then this is the place for you! You can go right from the slopes to the casino without even taking off your ski mask, as you can see here!
Just another blood-sucking ski resort?
Blog Guy, you know that city in Siberia that you like to call Wackytown? Didn't you say you organize tours there, so your readers can see for themselves?
Yes, Krasnoyarsk is the goofiest spot on earth. Maybe you'd like to sign up for my upcoming ski resort holiday there.


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Wednesday, August 6, 2003
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By Justin ReedyClayton County officials earlier this year turned down a private company's request to expand a landfill north of Riverdale, but a court ruling will force the county to re-examine that decision. The county Board of Commissioners in April voted n in a split decision n to turn down the request of Newco Ventures to rezone 281 acres of land in northern Clayton County for use as a construction and demolition landfill. Newco is an Atlanta-based firm providing fill dirt and rock for a fifth runway at Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport. The company hopes to eventually put the landfill on the site of a quarry between Lee's Mill and Flat Shoals roads now being used for fill material as part of the runway project. Newco appealed the commission's decision in Clayton County Superior Court, saying the county violated the company's constitutional rights by not allowing them the best use of the land. The court remanded the case back to the county in its ruling, ordering that the commission reconsider the rezoning decision, according to county attorney Jack Hancock. The commission will take up the contentious issue, which has often drawn crowds of angry residents from nearby neighborhoods, at its Aug. 19 meeting at 9 a.m. in the county Administration Building, 112 Smith St., Jonesboro. Commission Chairman Crandle Bray doesn't think the court's decision locks the county into approving the landfill. "I'm sure we'll take some action to zone the land to what we perceive to be constitutional," Bray said. In addition to drawing fire from local residents, the landfill proposal has faced organized opposition from the Tri-County Community Association, a community advocacy group representing residents of Clayton, DeKalb and Fulton counties. Landfills are seen as a kind of "dirty industry" that is often located in minority neighborhoods, according to local resident and Tri-County public relations chairwoman Tonya Lee-Willis. This situation seemed to be following that formula, she said. Local residents and Tri-County representatives say that locating a landfill so close to a residential area will depress property values, harm the environment and, in general, negatively impact local residents. Some have suggested using the land left over from the quarry for other uses that won't have a negative impact on the community. "We have needs in Clayton County, but we don't have the need for a landfill," said local resident Sylvester Bradford. "We've suffered enough, and enough is enough." But David Flint, a Newco representative, maintains that the landfill n which will only allow construction and demolition debris and inert material, such as tree stumps and branches n would be a better neighbor than the quarry currently operated on the land. The landfill could be phased in over time as the quarry is mined for fill dirt for the Hartsfield fifth runway project, Flint said. A quarry is a much more intense operation than a landfill, Flint explained, because of the blasting and rock crushing that take place there. In addition, Flint speculated that the county could make as much as $15-20 million in user fees collected by those dumping materials at the landfill. "This would be a good use for the property, and there is no other practicable use for this land," Flint said.
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Reading Mr. Schlicter's column here makes me think about how Dems relate to Repubs and vice versa. Namely, the Demwits are ALWAYS on the attack, both in public and behind the scenes. I hope I'm wrong about this, but it certainly appears that the Repubs do nothing of the sort -- not in public, anymore than by token, or certainly behind the scenes. WEEEELLLLLLL . . . that has to stop!! It's time the Republicans open the can of No More Mr. Niceguy and start taking pages -- whole chapters -- right out of the Demwits' playbook!! We need to start doing the chess game thing and be several steps ahead of them. We need to start laying traps. We need to start playing the media in spite of their leftwing owners. "We" the Congress, that is!!!!


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MySQL Connector/Python on GitHub
Last week we released Connector/Python v2.0 (alpha); today we publish the source on GitHub. Yes, we are using Git internally and are now able to push it out on each release. Previous versions are still available through LaunchPad.
Here is the full process to get Connector/Python installed in a virtual environment. You'll need Git installed of course.
shell> git clone https://github.com/oracle/mysql-connector-python.git cpy shell> virtualenv ENVCPY shell> source ENVCPY/bin/activate (ENVCPY)shell> cd cpy (ENVCPY)shell> python setup.py install (ENVCPY)shell> python >>> import mysql.connector >>> mysql.connector.__version__ '2.0.0a1'
Please report issues and feature request through the MySQL Bugs System.
MySQL Connector/Python v2.0.0 alpha
A new major version of Connector/Python is available: v2.0.0 alpha has been been released and is available for download! As with any alpha-software, it's probably not good to throw it in production just yet.
Our manual has the full change log but here's an overview of most important changes for this relase.
Some incompatibilities
The world evolves, at least the software does, and Python is not different. I'm not as bold as the guys at Django who dropped support of Python v2.6 with the Django v1.7 release. I'm leaving it in because I'm nice.
Supported Python: 2.6 and 2.7 and 3.3 and 3.4
We do not support any longer Python 3.1 and 3.2. One of the reasons is that we consolidated the code bases for both major Python versions, and the unicode syntax brought back in 3.3 was a blessing (for example, u'パイソン').
Raw Cursors Return bytearray Objects
Since we consolidated the code bases for Python 2 and 3, we needed make the behaviour as much as possible the same between the two. It's not easy with Unicode strings, but with bytes we have the bytearray type. Raw cursors will return them instead of strings in Python 2 and bytes in Python 3.
If you want to have previous behaviour back, you can inherit from MySQLCursorRaw and change some methods. Please leave comments if you'd like an example for this.
LOAD LOCAL DATA INFILE On by Default
In Connector/Python v1.x you needed to set the client flags to enable the LOAD LOCAL DATA INFILE on the client side. Here an example:
# Connector/Python v1.2 import mysql.connector from mysql.connector import ClientFlag cnx = mysql.connector.connect(.. , client_flags=[-ClientFlag.[LOCAL_FILES])
Now in Connector/Python v2.0 it is on. However, some people might not like it so there is a switch to disable it:
# Connector/Python v2.0 import mysql.connector cnx = mysql.connector.connect(.. , allow_local_infile=False)
Note that you still need to make sure that the MySQL Server is configured to allow this statement.
New Cursors: dict and namedtuple
At last, we have cursors which return rows as dictionaries or named tuples. PEP-249 does not define these since not all database systems might return the columns in a case insensitive or sensitive way.
But this is MySQL.
Here is an example how to use cursor returning dictionaries:
query = ( "SELECT TABLE_NAME, TABLE_ROWS " "FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES " " WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA='mysql' ORDER BY TABLE_NAME" ) cur = cnx.cursor(dictionary=True) cur.execute(query) for row in cur: print("{TABLE_NAME:>30s} {TABLE_ROWS}".format(**row))
That's far less code for something simple. Each row would look this:
{u'TABLE_NAME': u'user', u'TABLE_ROWS': 11}
If you like named tuples better, you can do the same, simply giving the named_tuple argument.
cur = cnx.cursor(named_tuple=True) cur.execute(query) for row in cur: if row.TABLE_ROWS > 0: print("{name:>30s} {rows}".format( name=row.TABLE_NAME, rows=row.TABLE_ROWS))
You can also combine it with the raw=True argument to have raw cursors.
Options Files Support Added
Option files can now be read so you don't have to have all these connection arguments repeated everywhere in your source code. There are lots of ways to do it this, but we needed to be able to read and support the MySQL options files read by client tools and server.
import mysql.connector cnx = mysql.connector.connect(options_files='/etc/mysql/connectors.cnf')
By default we do not read any file. You have to explicitly specify which files and in which order have to be read. The options groups that are read are client and connector_python. You can also override this and specify which particular group(s) using the argument option_groups.
And more..
- The packaging and other supporting files have been removed. If you like to see WiX file (I dare you) for the Windows packaging, then you can (still) check the v1.x branches. We moved them away because these modules and files are (or can be) fixed and developed by other teams.
- And watch out for v2.0.1 !
Useful links
- Documentation: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/index.html
- Release Notes: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-python/en/index.html
- Downloads: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/#downloads
- Feedback, bugs and feature requests: http://bugs.mysql.com
- Forum: http://forums.mysql.com/list.php?50
- v2.0.0-alpha is not available through PyPI. No alpha/beta/RC will be.
MySQL Connector/Python v1.2.2 GA supporting MySQL Fabric
A few weeks ago MySQL Fabric got GA and shipped together with MySQL Utilities 1.4. Today, 2 weeks late, a tooth less and having fixed my website(s), I can blog about MySQL Connector/Python v1.2 going GA.
My previous post about the release candidate already summed up the important changes, and nothing changed since then except few bug fixes. Here are again the important new features/bugs fixed for Connector/Python v1.2:
- Added support for MySQL Fabric.
- Support for MySQL's Authentication Plugins: mysql_clear_password and sha256_password are now supported over an SSL connection.
- Failing over connections (note: not MySQL Fabric HA)
Of course, Fabric is the biggest new thing and there have been quite a few blogs about it. Here are some links to get you going:
- MySQL Fabric, links to documentation, presentations and whitepapers.
- Mat Kindahl's blog and MySQL Fabric: Musings on Release 1.4.3.
- Alfrânio Júnior's blog.
- Narayanan Venkateswaran's blog.
Some useful links:
- Documentation: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/index.html
- Release Notes: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-python/en/index.html
- Downloads: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/#downloads
- Feedback: http://bugs.mysql.com
- Forum: http://forums.mysql.com/list.php?50
- Installing Connector/Python through PyPI
MySQL Connector/Python v1.2.1 RC
Monday 31 March 2014 proved to be a big day for MySQL with 5 announcements of products getting new releases: the next milestone release MySQL Server 5.7.4, MySQL Workbench 6.1 going GA and Connector/J 5.1.30 and MySQL Utilities 1.4.2 RC which include MySQL Fabric. That's 4, the fifth being Connector/Python.
Connector/Python v1.2.1 has been released as Release Candidate. Check out the Change History if you want to keep up with what is being added and changed.
Here is an overview of new features and important bug fixes for Connector/Python v1.2:
- Added support for MySQL Fabric
- Support for MySQL's Authentication Plugins: mysql_clear_password and sha256_password are now supported over an SSL connection.
- Failing over connections (note: not MySQL Fabric HA)
I am sure the a above will spark some interesting follow-up blog posts (at last, some activity, some might say!).
Some useful links:
- Documentation: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/index.html
- Release Notes: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-python/en/index.html
- Downloads: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/#downloads
- Feedback: http://bugs.mysql.com
- Forum: http://forums.mysql.com/list.php?50
Snippet: Fetching results after calling stored procedures using MySQL Connector/Python
Using MySQL Connector/Python, you are calling a stored procedure which is also selecting data and you would like to fetch the rows of the result.
For this example we create a stored procedure which is executing SHOW SLAVE STATUS.
cnx = mysql.connector.connect(user='scott', password='tiger', database='mining') cur = cnx.cursor() cur.execute("DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS slave_status") proc = "CREATE PROCEDURE slave_status () BEGIN SHOW SLAVE STATUS; END" cur.execute() cur.call("slave_status") for result_cursor in cur.stored_results(): for row in result_cursor: print(row[0])
The result from the above would be:
shell> python foo.py Waiting for master to send event
The stored_results() method of cursor object is retiring an iterator object which will go over the results proceeded after calling the stored procedure. Each result is actually a MySQLCursorBuffered object.
You could also use the with_rows cursor property to check if the cursor actually could return rows or not (for example, for SELECT statements). An example is provided in the documentation.


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Built-Ins that Aren't
When you move into an apartment, it's not always in the cards that the space is outfitted with cool built-ins. In fact, that's rarely the case. But there are moves you can make — even as a renter — to outfit your home with pieces that carry some of the look and convenience of built-ins. Only difference? You can take them with you:
1. Wall-Hung Shelves: Size them to fill a niche or an entire wall and they can have the appearance of being built in. These can be as simple as brackets with simple wood planks from the hardware store or can be a series of floating shelves as shown in the photo.
2. Large Bookshelves: Even in a small space and even if you don't have a ton of books, a large bookshelf can be a wonderful piece to have. It will store a surprising amount, allow you to display items that you love to look at, and can give the appearance of a built-in. Even an inexpensive or old, beat-up shelf can be great - you can paint it to match the trim of a room for an even more integrated appearance!
3. Long, Low Console: This can be in one piece of furniture or lots of serial pieces (as shown in the photo). It provides a twofold purpose: closed storage or shelving below and a serving or display surface on top. This is great for a room divider or use under a wall of windows with a waist-high sill height. Go a little lower and this could even function as a window seat!
Do you have any furnishings that look and function in your home much like built-in millwork? Let us know about it in the comments below!
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Thanks this is very smart! I'm decorating my new apartment now so I'm really happy I read this...
I love the shelves! I have always wanted something like that in my apartment, but I've never had the courage to ask my landlord if they're okay. I wonder...
We tried to do a combination of 2 & 3 after we bought our house. We bought 8 small shelves for $16.00 each from Walmart. Then we trimmed the front and top out with wood to make them appear built in.
I just don't think we'll ever be taking these anywhere. Ripping them out & rebuilding properly when we have the money? Definitely!
Well done.
lsp - they look gorgeous. we are in the beginning stages of this but weren't sure how to tackle it.
we have chosen the $15 black shelves and have 3 lined up side by side so far...i will just need to get them trimmed and painted so they all look like one piece...
also thought about hanging some floating shelves above...we are using an entire wall for movies/magazines/records/books and mementos.
Isp, those look fantastic.
I have a long, shallow inset wall in my studio, but can't get rental permission to install built-ins. I think given limited funds I'm putting up a handful of open-backed Billys on both sides and a credenza or console in the middle.
I've made bookshelves before and it turned out to be a lot of work.
Smart ideas. And if you can, bring the shelving all the way to the edge so there's no "knife edge" corner jutting into the room (better feng shui).
We're in the middle of a project like this too - we have a 15'x8' blank wall that we want to fill with floor to ceiling bookshelves that we can eventually take with us when we move (we own our home but don't plan to be there forever.) Problem is IKEA options such as Billy are either not deep enough or not tall enough for us so I think we're going to have them built.. cringing at the cost..
WHERE is that rug from in the first photo?!?! Anyone know? It is awesome!
Everything about that first photo is a lesson in using a tight space creatively. I really love it.
Does anyone know of a good how-to for floating shelves similar to the ones in the first picture? I have a similar niche and haven't know what to do. I don't want to use unsightly "L" brackets.
Oh, my. My mother has that same console in the last picture (along with a matching table and chairs). It's been around in our family since the '50s. Originally it was yellow, but she had it stripped and stained almost exactly like the one in the picture. Weird. I've never seen one like it before (though I have seen one stained darker).
skittles, I've seen good instructions for installing lack shelves and other shelves that included tips and workarounds for making it easier, but I don't have the link handy. You could try googling.
the rooms shown above are incredibly beautiful. I wonder who designed the rooms? I cannot believe (even though I do) so many rooms are so put together so well. sincerely, mary
@lynnbee: Don't overlook the standard+bracket sets you can find at hardware stores and big box home stores (I prefer the blue over the orange). The standards and brackets are metal, and can be painted easily with spray paint to resemble whatever metal finish your room requires. They're mostly hidden by the shelf contents, anyway.
You can choose your own material for the shelving, then stain/paint/whatever fits your decor and needs. A little research might save you money.


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Countless celebrities have made cameo appearances on 'The Simpsons' over the past 25 seasons. We can now add Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford to the list.
Countless celebrities have made cameo appearances on 'The Simpsons' over the past 25 seasons. We can now add Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford to the list.
Metal fans rejoice! British titans Judas Priest have officially completed the writing process for their new album and have started the recording process, producing the album themselves. In addition to this good news, the band has also joined the ranks for the next edition of Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp, which already boasts a host of other metal gods like Zakk Wylde, Rudy Sarzo, Lita Ford and Vinny Appice.
Ever wanted to hang out with Judas Priest? If you have at least five grand and some vacation time coming up, you'll get the chance early next year at Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp. Frontman Rob Halford, bassist Ian Hill, drummer Scott Travis and new guitarist Richie Faulkner will all be part of 'Hell Bent for Vegas,' taking place Feb. 27 through Mar. 2, 2014, at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Sin City.
After more than a decade apart, on July 11, 2003, Judas Priest announced that they had reunited with the "Metal God" himself -- lead singer Rob Halford.
As Five Finger Death Punch near the finish line to the release date for 'Volume 1' of their forthcoming double-album 'The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell,' the band is getting fans pumped up with the latest edition of their new webisode series that walks through the songs track-by-track.
Almost as soon as they announced their 2011 farewell tour, the members of Judas Priest started clarifying that what they meant was that it would be their final major world tour. So if you missed them on that run, don't worry: It sounds like the band has had a change of heart.
'Revolver' magazine's fifth-annual Golden Gods Awards, held last night, featured Metallica as the night's headliners. They were joined onstage by special guest Rob Halford, who led the metal giants through a surprise performance of Judas Priest's 'Rapid Fire'.
Judas Priest's best-selling and highly influential album 'Screaming for Vengeance' — best known for the breakthrough hit 'You've Got Another Thing Comin" — turns 30 years old today (July 17).
This fall is going to be a memorable one for Disturbed, particularly singer David Draiman.
According to the tweet-happy Draiman, his hard-hitting band will release the 16-track B-sides, rarities and covers album 'The Lost Children' on Nov. 8.
But before that, Draiman will reportedly tie the knot with his model/actress fiancée, Lena Yada, on Sunday (Sept. 25).
Remember all that hoo-ha about Judas Priest retiring after their latest world tour? Don't count them out just yet.
Speaking during a recent interview with Wave 100, Priest vocalist Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner talked about the current state of the band – specifically, the injection of fresh energy they're feeling now that Faulkner has replaced departing founding member K.K. Downing.
There might be some hope for ROCK music on American Idol. I heard just today about this total rocker kid on this season, and I had to see it for myself. Check out James Durbin from the latest season of American Idol paying homage to Judas Priest with a pretty impressive rendition of "You've Got Another Thing Comin'." I was SHOCKED to hear that someone attempted to do Priest on American Idol! And it's not half bad at all in my opinion.


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The Pontypridd Supporters Club are organising a special Halloween event, to be held in the Grandstand Lounge on Saturday evening 29th October, commencing at 7:30 pm.
Tickets are now on sale at the club, priced at £5 per head, which should prove great value for a buffet and entertainment by the aptly named comedy / music act "Waxworks", along with the Sardis Sound disco. Ponty supporters who attend the event are invited to come along in fancy dress, to add to the scary atmosphere of the evening.
The Halloween evening will follow on after the Ponty v Newport premiership game at Sardis Road earlier the same day.
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adam_johnson said...
i prefer corded to be honest. no connection issues. nothing worse then your mouse going out in an encounter.
Alot of gamers I know will NEVER use a wireless mouse... While not common, adding the risk that a battery will die or there will be interference or the connection will cut out momentarily is not worth it in most cases. Just make sure you keep things away from the cord and I don't see hwo it could ever be a problem.
All the stuff mentioned above about how corded mice are better than wireless are just exaggerated truths. I use a wireless logitech mx. Never had a connection or interference problem with it.
Sending data slower than a cord? True, but certainly not slow enough to really matter or even be noticeable.
Run out of battery power? Not when you place it in the recharging dock every few nights.
The cord however IS an issue and I've lost quite a few kills because the cord jerks my hand off of aim...yes, even when I give it plenty of slack.
To each his own.
Direphoenix said...
I prefer cordless mice, but I'm not some PR0-L33T H4rDc0R3 nutjob that "needs" .0000000016 microseconds faster reaction time than the next guy, even if it's probably not a difference most computers would recognize on a network. I play on my HDTV, while sitting on my couch in the back of the room opposite from my TV and PC. Oh yeah, and I know how to put my mouse back in its charging dock after I'm done playing.
I saw an interview at Blizzcon with the maker of the WOW mouse. The guy being interviewed said a mouse with many buttons and controls cannot be wireless, because the amount of information that needed to be sent from the mouse would lag in a wireless mouse, thus defeating the purpose.
I don't know why Ettanin's comment was downrated. Every point he made is true. I've never, ever had a connection issue with my wireless mouse. If I happen to leave it completely idle for 5 minutes it takes half a second to kick back in and that's it. Using 2 AA's (not a fan of rechargables) gives me roughly 3-4 weeks to play at medium resolution on my MX600. I get a pop-up warning at about 10% to change the battery that's visible even in WoW. At 10% that's still about 2 days of play where I'm being warned every 10 minutes or so. It's just plain not going to fail in the middle of play.
There is also no speed difference that anyone could ever notice. The speed of light is still the speed of light. The only difference comes from the extra conversion from RF to the wire, which is less than 10 milliseconds. Anyone who thinks they can feel a difference is probably just playing with a wireless mouse set to a low resolution.
@ Jofla: That guy was spewing BS about it being too much information. The wireless mouse I use has left/right buttons, wheel, wheel button, wheel left/right buttons, 3 top buttons, and 2 side buttons. The only reason they don't make the Naga wireless is because the price would be too high.
You have obviously never been in a dorm.
When I was at collage, one semester... something happened, any my wireless mouse started acting 'possessed'. I was getting signals from someone else, and I had no idea where they came from. And it wasn't just slight movements, it was twitching all over the screen, and CLICKING ON THINGS. Once, it started up while I was writing something in Word, when it selected a paragraph while I was in the middle of typing, effectively deleting it. Of course, I was able to undo that, but I have been wired ever since.


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I can't tell if this is viral marketing or an awesome revenge against an unscrupulous employer?
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The employer doesn't have to be unscrupulous, he could just be broke. Maybe he hasn't been paid for HIS work. Or his truck which is his biggest capital investment is out of commission, so no work is happening. Or maybe she broke her back after tripping over a cat…haha…
I don't know but the lawsuit is going to be interesting.
But this reminds me of that Systems Administrator who held the Californian city captive… (I'll need to google article). So much of what happens online isn't what it seems.
This could just as easily be a marketing gimmick by NYC Fresh Market, or a web designer with site access wanting more money then originally negotiated.
I don't know, generally clients that don't pay their designers because they already have the design – or think they do – are unscrupulous. It seems like sometimes some people feel like once they have the product they are no longer obligated to pay for it.
I'd be sorely tempted to do this. I'm mainly a print designer, and I never give my freelance clients a printable final file until they actually pay me. Fortunately, I haven't had a real problem with that yet.
I suppose it could be a situation where a set price was given, but the client wanted more changes/took more of the designers time than was allotted, but didn't know about (or more likely didn't want to pay) the extra fees. I hope the designer had a nice, signed contract.
I suspect this is illegal no matter how you slice it. Failure to pay is a court issue, but interfering with business and livelihood is fraud.
This could end up being a felony conviction for the web designer if the owner can demonstrate damages and loss.
You're probably right about the mocking note on the site itself. Is that considered slander?
Although if the designer had just taken down the site and refused to restore it until payment was made, that would probably be well within his legal right.
If you view page source, you see a note from the designer. I think it's real.


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Millions of Indian workers strike for rights.
One-day walkout to hit transport, banks and post offices, as unions seek better rights and protest over rising prices.
Millions of workers in India have begun a 24-hour strike to demand improved rights for employees and to protest over rising prices.
Tuesday's strike, one of the biggest in recent times, is being backed by all 11 major trade unions in the country, including the left affiliated All India Trade Union Congress [AITUC] and Indian National Trade Union Congress [INTUC] linked to ruling Congress party, local television station NDTV said.
The strike marks the latest test for Manmohan Singh's government, which has has been shaken by a succession of corruption scandals and popular protests since the prime minister's Congress party won a second term in 2009.
The government's appeal on Monday failed to impress the unions, who want the government to take measures to contain inflation, provide universal social security cover for workers in the vast unorganised labour sector, and to stop selling stakes in state-run companies.
"We will have to think about our future course of action if the government does not come forward with proposals on how it will react to our demands," G Sanjeeva Reddy, president of INTUC, told Reuters news agency.
The strike threatens to disrupt transport and port operations, while banks and post offices could also be closed.
Workers from state-run telecom companies and postal department will also join the shutdown, which comes amid weakening economic growth and a slew of state-level elections.
Last week, the country's labour minister said the government was ready for talks on any labour-related issues, NDTV website reported.
But AITUC leader Gurudas Dasgupta rejected it saying, "The government had enough opportunity earlier to sit with unions to discuss the issues".


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I'm working on a redesign of our school website. This time I'm doing it properly, trying to learn CSS as I go!
So far only got the first page working but it looks ok, certainly compared to the old website!
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I've just got one silly problem which I can't work out, but is probably something simple. I've created a basic html link to our Prospectus which is a pdf. The link works in IE, but not in Firefox and I'm not sure why.
Could anyone take a look at my source code and tell me what I've done wrong. Usually setting up links is the easy bit!
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Hitler's food tester opens up about screening meals in the 'Wolf's Lair' after 68 years of secrecyThey were feasts of sublime asparagus — laced with fear. And for more than half a century, Margot Woelk kept her secret hidden from the world, even from her husband. Then, a few months after her 95th birthday, she revealed the truth about her wartime role: Adolf Hitler's food taster.Woelk, then in her mid-twenties, spent two and a half years as one of 15 young women who sampled Hitler's food to make sure it wasn't poisoned before it was served to the Nazi leader in his "Wolf's Lair," the heavily guarded command center in what is now Poland, where he spent much of his time in the final years of World War II."He was a vegetarian. He never ate any meat during the entire time I was there," Woelk said of the Nazi leader. "And Hitler was so paranoid that the British would poison him — that's why he had 15 girls taste the food before he ate it himself." (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber; AP Photo/US Army Signal Corps from Eva Braun's album)
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The automotive factories of today utilize computers and robots in order to produce different combinations of cars in short order. The buyer is able to choose different options, colors, and accessories that can all be changed at a moment's notice on the assembly line. Some may consider this customization, but having a specially ordered car in the 1930s was a much different scenario.
In 1936, Mercedes Benz introduced its new 540K model at the Paris Motor Show. Subsequent years would see this car be called on as the most striking Mercedes model ever built. When it came out, this car was not simply sitting on dealers lots to be test driven and sold to the first person with enough money. It was specially ordered and built once the customer had made payment. Recently, one of the rarest models came to auction at RM's Villa d'Este event.
The Cabriolet A model was built for the 14th Maharajah of Indore whom was an avid car collector. More recently, the car was fully restored and has won its fare share of concours events across the country. The rare and beautiful 540K Cabriolet was auctioned for the price of $2,013,000 to one lucky bidder that will undoubtedly be satisfied with his purchase.
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Critics argue that BC Ferries can no longer justify providing free rides for employees and their families amidst growing financial concerns, cuts to services and fewer perks for seniors. The Canadian Press
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling for an end to free ferry rides for BC Ferries employees and their family members after recent announcements of financial stress, service cuts, and a reduction in seniors' discounts from the corporation.
For more than 20 years, any employee that works for the ferry service or those who retired with 10 years of experience are allowed unlimited ferry use. Their families get 24 free trips a year, as well, but it's a taxable benefit.
Additionally, anyone who happens to be born on a BC Ferries vessel is given a pass that lets them ride free for a lifetime.
Although BC Ferries will not say exactly how many free passes are currently in circulation, an internal document from 2010 shows that at least 4,200 employees, 3,200 of their family members and 13 contractors had passes.
BC Ferries told CBC News they are currently trying to update an antiquated computer system and that they will provide current numbers when possible.
Jordan Bateman of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation says that amid growing financial concerns for the future of BC Ferries and recent cuts in services and seniors discounts, employee passes for free rides should be scrapped too.
"These free passes should go by the wayside as well. If there is no reason why everyone else should be paying while BC Ferries executives and employees past and present still get the benefit," Bateman says.
'Great deal of pride' in pass for employees
BC Ferries president Michael Corrigan says, however, that the employee discounts and free rides don't cost the public anything, and there is no reason to get rid of them at this time.
"The employee pass is something that gives people a great deal of pride. From a company standpoint, there is no cost to give employees because we are at 50 per cent occupancy," Corrigan told CBC News.
A recent study from Washington State estimates that staff passes result in about $770,000 in lost revenue annually in that state's ferry system, and they have fewer employees than BC Ferries. And unlike in Washington, BC Ferries staff ride free ahead of paying customers, even on days when lines are long or vessels are full.
"It's ludicrous to claim that it's not costing taxpayers any money to put people on a boat. That's just silly — obviously there is a cost," says Bateman.
"This is classic BC Ferries gravy boat where the staff get their benefits and the rest of us end up paying for it."
The B.C. Ministry of Transportation says it's up to BC Ferries to cut or reduce the free rides, and the union representing more than 4,000 ferry workers says there is nothing in their collective agreement to prevent BC Ferries from making the changes.
Below is the 2010 internal document, obtained through an FOI request, showing the number of free passes in circulation at the time.
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The story of America's declining union membership is a continuing saga that makes labor leaders wince.
The latest chapter in that story was revealed last week when the Bureau of Labor Statistics released figures showing the percentage of workers who are union members now stands at just 11.3 percent, the lowest level since 1983, when the government began collecting comparable data. Then, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent.


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The pressure to always be thin, beautiful, and healthy makes us miserable. It doesn't make us happy, or comfortable, or confident, or safe. It keeps us hungry (literally and figuratively) and sad, certain only that we are never virtuous enough to measure up to those cultural expectations, and that we never will be.
The only people I know—myself included—who are happy with their bodies are the ones who have dropped out of the assimilation races. It all starts when we say no. And we can say no.
When someone instructs us to lose weight, to shave, to straighten our hair, to get "in shape", to wear makeup, to wear less makeup, to dress appropriately, to dress more stylishly, no not that stylishly, to stop standing out, to stop making noise, to stop being so damn large, to stop making excuses, to stop fighting, to just get along, to just do what we tell you, to just buy into this commercial weight-loss plan, to just take these pills, to just have this cosmetic surgery, to just follow instructions, to just know that we're doing this for your own good, to never walk alone, to never walk alone in that outfit, to never draw attention, because no one wants to see that, because no one wants to see your body, because no one wants to see you.
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Hell City Kings, Burn the Boats Fitzgerald's Januarary 4, 2013 Rocks Off was able to catch the middle chunk of American Fangs' record-release lineup, and while I didn't have a chance to see the headliners support their long-awaited release, Burn the Boats put on a strong enough show to make the qui ... More >>
Checkout the slideshows of the bands and the crowd at the Houston Press Music Awards Showcase. Photo by Marco TorresHell City KingsJosh Wolf, lead singer of rock and rollers Hell City Kings, is fantastic. And mesmerizing. And pasty. During his set at the HPMAs (Warehouse Live, 6 p.m.), he s ... More >>
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Get lost in the magic of Pepito! WAFB partners with the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge to bring you this delightful love-for-dance-story. In the musical, the young Pepito is determined to follow his dancing heart, despite the laughs from the other children around him.
Choreographed by Emmy award-winner Debbie Allen and music written by jazz superstar Arturo Sandoval, this musical is filled with Caribbean flavor that is as warm as an island sun. The Washington Post calls it "magical, heart-warming tale [with] high-energy dancing that makes you want to join in!"
Pepito's Story is a great show for families with children ages 5 and up. The musical runs from March 13-17, 2014.
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Animated growth of an organization
A company grows, it shrinks, people come and go. Justin Matejka, a research scientist at Autodesk, visualized the changes for where he works.
The OrgOrgChart (Organic Organization Chart) project looks at the evolution of a company's structure over time. A snapshot of the Autodesk organizational hierarchy was taken each day between May 2007 and June 2011, a span of 1498 days.
Each day the entire hierarchy of the company is constructed as a tree with each employee represented by a circle, and a line connecting each employee with his or her manager. Larger circles represent managers with more employees working under them. The tree is then laid out using a force-directed layout algorithm.
Each second in the animation is about one week of activity, and acquisitions are most obvious when big clumps of people join the company. The long-term changes are a little harder to see, because the branches in the network fade into the background. Recomputing the layout each week might be good for the next round.
[Thanks, Justin]
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Pretty cool. I wish it went further back; when I worked there in the '90s, it seemed that re-organizations were the company's favorite sport. Curious if it's changed qualitatively since then.
I've placed the Autodesk share price and the NASDAQ composite index under the chart and there is little to indicate that the constant restructuring has had any impact on the share price. It'd be interesting have see have the underlying data for staff movements and share price movements and see which is the lead indicator. http://hudgeon.com/2012/12/19/does-restructuring-your-company-add-value/


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Is having a social class inevitable?
Will the gap between rich and poor be omnipresent? Can it be abolished? If you propose socialism to get rid of the classes, are you very sure the gap will not come back? Should we then solve this problem or leave it be?
Topics: Communism capitalism imperialism socialism
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Nov 16 2013: Hi Cheyenne,
I guess we're all brought into the world equal, and when our time is up - we're brought back to the same state of equality as how we began.
Social Class isn't a real phenomenon, it just exists in the minds and hearts of human beings who believe that they are either better than, or not quite as good as others.
I guess that as long as humanity exists, inequality will exist also.
Socialism will not change the world, or the values of any of us, however, YOU can begin to change the world today by treating all the people that you encounter through life, as equals - not better than, not worse than.
Social class unfortunately stems from our natural selfish core, and as long as that exists, social class will also.
Unconditional acceptance is a very great and powerful thing ;)
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Marin Focus: Actor (& storyteller) Phil Sheridan
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AIDS quilt returns to Marin
What weighs over 54 tons, has over 46,000 panels and is the largest ongoing community arts project in the world? If you said the "Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt" you would be correct. This week at Corte Madera's Town Center, visitors, shoppers and residents of Marin will have a chance to see a few of […] [Read More]
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Boy A (film)
|Boy A
Theatrical release poster
|Directed by
|John Crowley
|Produced by
|Lynn Horsford
|Written by
|Mark O'Rowe
Jonathan Trigell (novel)
|Andrew Garfield
Alfie Owen
Katie Lyons
Peter Mullan
|Music by
|Paddy Cunneen
|Rob Hardy
|Edited by
|Lucia Zucchetti
ABC Distribution
Channel Four
Cuba Pictures
|Distributed by
|The Weinstein Company
|Release dates
|26 November 2007
|Running time
|106 minutes
|United Kingdom
|Box office
Boy A is a 2007 British film adaptation of Jonathan Trigell's critically acclaimed novel of the same name which shares some similarities with the notorious James Patrick Bulger case. The film premiered at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival.[2]
It is directed by John Crowley and stars Andrew Garfield (who won the 2008 Best Actor BAFTA TV Award for his performance), Peter Mullan, and Katie Lyons. The North American cinematic release is distributed by The Weinstein Company.[3]
Andrew Garfield portrays Eric Wilson, Boy A. The film commences when Eric is released from either a secure unit or prison under the name Jack Burridge. His past is told through flashbacks.
Eric Wilson befriends Philip Craig who is a troublemaker and rescues him from a group of bullies. It is later disclosed that Philip is the victim of rape perpetrated by his older brother. Philip gets into an argument with a girl from their school who comes across the two boys loitering in a park. She criticizes them and refers to them as "scum" when she witnesses Philip vandalising a park sign with a Stanley knife. Philip approaches her and starts slashing at her forearms with the knife. He grabs the girl and drags her under a bridge. When Philip drops the knife, Eric picks it up, and follows them under the bridge. The girl is killed, although the film shows neither who kills her nor how.
Eric (dubbed as Boy A during the trial) and Philip are remanded into custody at secure units. Philip ends up dead, assumed to be suicide, but Eric believes that he may have been killed by youth offenders. Eric is later released and is guided by rehabilitation worker Terry (Peter Mullan). Eric, shy and eager to be a good citizen again, builds up a new life under the name Jack Burridge. He finds a job, befriends his colleague Chris (Shaun Evans), falls in love with the office girl, Michelle (Katie Lyons), and rescues a little girl who would otherwise have died after a car crash. An article in a local newspaper portrays him as a hero and includes a picture of both boys in the story. Eric wants to be honest with Michelle and reveal his past, but Terry urges him not to do so because it is too dangerous. Terry is afraid that people may attack Eric because there is a reward of £20,000 for finding him. Terry argues that it is not dishonest because "Eric is history and Jack is a new person".
The rehabilitation worker is less satisfied with his own son. The son discovers Eric's true identity from newspaper articles about him being released, his new role as the hero and information he looks up without permission on his father's computer. Out of jealousy, he reveals this to the public and as a result, Eric loses his job and his best friend Chris distances himself from him. Michelle goes missing, and people suspect that Eric is somehow involved, though it is later revealed she has sequestered herself at home, devastated about the revelation that Jack is actually Eric.
Eric repeatedly tries to phone Terry but gets his voicemail. He flees from his home to avoid reporters and travels to Blackpool. There he meets Michelle, who tells him she was not the one who revealed his past and would have eventually understood if he told her the truth, and then leaves. After saying farewell messages in voicemails to Terry and Chris, the film concludes with Eric standing over the edge of a pier (implying he is going to commit suicide).
- Andrew Garfield as Eric Wilson / Jack Burridge
- Peter Mullan as Terry
- Siobhan Finneran as Kelly
- Alfie Owen as Eric Wilson
- Victoria Brazier as Teacher
- Skye Bennett as Angela
- Katie Lyons as Michelle
- Taylor Doherty as Phillip Craig
- Shaun Evans as Chris
- Anthony Lewis as Steve
- Madeleine Rakic-Platt as Schoolgirl
- Josef Altin as Bully
- Jeremy Swift as Dave
- Helen Wilding as Carol
- Jessica Mullins as Catherine Thompson
As of 25 April 2014, Boy A currently holds an 88% approval rating based on 59 professional critical reviews on aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.[4]
- 2008 Best Actor BAFTA TV Award
- 2008 Hitchcock d'or at Dinard (France) British film festival
- ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=boya.htm
- ^ Thompson, Anne. "Toronto International Film Festival: Final International Line-up". Variety.
- ^ "Boy A Release information".
- ^ "Boy A Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN. Retrieved 3 September 2009.
External links[edit]
- Boy A at the Internet Movie Database
- Boy A Movie - Official site
- Boy A at Rotten Tomatoes


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"Thriller" Afternoon At CBS Evening News
CBS Evening News honcho Rick Kaplan surprised his staff with an afternoon version, of morning calisthenics today. Kaplan arranged for a team of professional dancers to teach the Evening News staffers the moves to the Michael Jackson "Thriller" video.
The Friday fiesta was inspired by this video from a Filipino prison, which has been downloaded more than 4.5 million times on YouTube.
A CBS News insider tells us medical correspondent "Dr. Jon LaPook quickly threw off his jacket to gain full movement of the floor and lead the pack." We're told Kaplan and anchor Katie Couric (not seen in photo) got in on the fun too.


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Mojolicious 2.0 released: Perl real-time web framework
Congratulation to Sebastian Riedel (sri) and the rest of the Mojolicious team! A number of significant changes were listed in the announcement. For example the minimum required version of perl was moved up to 5.10.1 and Morbo was added. Morbo is the self-restarting development web server that just works, even on Windows.
Teaching a Modern Perl Class in NYC!
John Napiorkowski is running an 8-week long Perl class introducing Modern Perl to people new to Perl. This seems like a great opportunity to send a friend of you to learn Perl on a very low cost training class.
Jacinta Richardson has just sent out the latest issue of the Perl Tips. This is a great overview of why you need to write automated tests. She is also describing the two major testing strategies: White Box Testing and Black Box Testing. In addition, if you were subscribed to their perl-tips newsletter, you'd get a discount on their next training course.
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Chisel gives some very useful tips on how to configure the built-in command line debugger of Perl.
CPAN modules for parsing User-Agent strings
Another excellent post by Neil Bowers comparing modules to parse the User-Agent strings passed by browsers to web servers. It sounds like a simple problem but due to the 'interesting' decisions made by the browser authors it became an annoyance. Having so many different solutions to this problem just adds to the confusion so I think it is great Neil compared them and recommended one.
Taming Pod::Weaver, part 2 - Plugins, Sections and Bundles
Yanick Champoux continuous describing how to use Pod::Weaver. Specifically he described plugins, sections and bundles
ElasticSearch::Sequence - a blazing fast ticket server
Clinton Gormley is considering ditching RDBM for his next application and using ElasticSearch as the only data store. For this he wanted to have a human friendly way to get unique sequence numbers from ElasticSearch.
Why do you want new major features in core?
Some people complain that 5.12 and 5.14 have not added many new user visible features to Perl. Leon Timmermans asks why do we want them. I think the more interesting question would be 'What new features do you want in core Perl?' and that's what some people answered. That's what you should also consider and post as a comment.
Splicing two sockets in Perl (request for help)
Peter Makholm describes a sequence of operations he has implemented several times already - something like a proxy - and how this was getting frustrating to do so and how it was not working really well. So he is proposing a new module to wrap splice(2) of Linux.
Parrot 3.9.0 'Archaeopteryx' Released
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Perl 6
An optimizer lands, bringing native operators
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Lovely report by Ricardo Signes (rjbs)
Listing of all (?) the blogs posts about YAPC::Asia Tokyo 2011
Daisuke Maki (lestrrat) points out that they collected more than 150 blog posts about YAPC::Asia. Most of them are in Japanese of course but there are a number of entries in English for the rest of us. I think this is awesome to have so much publicity and to provide some sort of recognition to the bloggers themselves.
This is the report of the 3rd day of the German Perl Workshop by Wolfgang Kinkeldei. Links to the previous reports can be found in the comments.
November 4-5, 2011, Vienna, Austria and Bratislava, Slovakia
London Perl Workshop (LPW2011)
November 12, 2011, London, UK
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The weather was perfect for the 38th annual St. Jude's Sweet Corn Festival in Cedar Rapids. The family friendly event has plenty of carnival rides, games, and food.
Last week volunteers shucked 25,000 ears of the sweet corn the festival is named for. Organizers say they ran out of corn Saturday night, so they shucked another 3,600 and ran out again on Sunday.
There's been years where we've come close and I think one year where somebody remembered us shucking and cleaning some but never this early that I can remember," said Michael Glynn, Festival Chairperson."It's definitely our biggest year."
The festival is the church's largest fundraiser of the year. The money goes towards church programs and charities in Eastern Iowa.


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Stella McCartney and PETA want you to know leather is cruel and gross, but the NYC taxis don't want any part of it! While I'd love for every leather-wearing fashion week-goer to see this video, I'm not too surprised the taxi company refused to air it. It's not like they play political or hot button stuff EVER. They play Jimmy Fallon clips and tutorials on treating your cuticles with pineapple. Which I find super cray because pineapple is a lot more expensive than some CVS cuticle cream.
It's good that we are finally attacking leather though! And if the taxi co.'s refusal to air this video gets attention, sweet. Now, if only McCartney could dump the wool.
∞ posted at 04:11 by youtalkfunny
Lady Gaga, your meat clothes make me sick! »
God, if that horrible Lady Gaga monstrosity wasn't enough, now designers are sending meat dresses down the runway at Fashion Week. Jeremy Scott (who is this person? I just looked up his designs and they are HORRIBLE. I'm not going to link, though, because I don't want to give him more publicity than I already am by writing this) got a standing ovation after he showed a skirt/bikini/godawful mess that looked like prosciutto. I don't know what worse, the fact that is is so ugly or the fact that the New York Daily News says, "Unlike Gaga's dress it only appeared edible," implying that Lady GagME's dress was made of REAL MEAT.
OH MY GOD! Her dress was real meat. How are you gonna do us like that, Lady Gaga? How are you going to talk about the rights of others and how we all deserve them as you are standing there wearing a dress made of animals who not only have no rights but lost their lives to cover your genitals as you stand there talking about love and equality? Where is your SELF-AWARENESS? and where was it when your designer was stitching 25 pounds of dead flesh to make you a garment? That sounds like a scene from some horrible fairytale.
And then she's all about not meaning any disrespect to vegans or vegetarians—IN WHAT WAY? How do you "mean no disrespect" when you are wearing a piece of dead cow on your head? Oh, wait…I get it! You said you're "the most judgment-free" human being, so it must be true. First: impossible. Second: so you've mastered the art of making grand statements about yourself with only a modicum of basis in fact; OK. Third: we don't care if you're judging us. THAT IS NOT THE POINT. The point is that you are making a statement that makes absolutely no sense and didn't even register until YOU EXPLAINED IT and EVEN THEN, WHAT? Plus, meat fashion isn't even original. The Kermit dress was better, as far as statements about cruelty go.
You're making this really hard on me, Stefani Joanne! How am I supposed to continue defending "Bad Romance" and "Paparazzi" to haters when my own reaction to this meat-dress debacle is to scream "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?" through a motherfucking bullhorn?
I can almost understand people who eat meat but don't wear fur (LOOKING AT YOU, Bethenny "Any excuse to get naked" Frankel), but the amount of cognitive dissonance that must be taking place when one says "I hate fur. And I don't wear fur", poses on the cover of a magazine in a MEAT BIKINI, and then wears a full-on MEAT DRESS to an awards show is scary. I do not understand how wearing an entire ensemble made out of raw beef is different than wearing fur. How does that even make sense? What, you're using the entire animal? What, you're using it to make a statement? Sorry, I can't hear you over your rampant, Kelly Killoren Bensimon-levels of hypocrisy.
∞ posted at 10:00 by judgejudy
Op-Ed: Outlaw fur »
Presenting another op-ed by one of our writers, Steve! His views do not necessarily represent those of Vegansaurus as a whole, but as one of our regular contributors, we're happy to give him the space to express his opinions. If you would like to write an op-ed for Vegansaurus, please contact Laura.
Listen up, it's time for some tough love. We need to face facts: the fur fight is over, and our side lost. At least for now. We were starting to worry after the furtastrophe at Fashion Week 2010, but for me, it didn't really sink in until watching Blair swan around in that horrific hat on Gossip Girl last week. The fashion industry is going all-in on fur, and no one really seems to care. How did it get this way? The New York Times attempts to make sense of it all in a behind-the-scenes look at fur's comeback.
Did the designers forget that wearing fur is fraught with controversy? Or did they simply stop caring? For the first time in more than two decades, more designers are using fur than not. Almost two thirds of those in New York are, based on a review of more than 130 collections that were shown on Style.com last month, which is a surprising development during a recession. And it didn't just happen because of some idea that was floating around in the collective designer ether. Rather, fur became a trend because of a marketing campaign.
In other words, everything we know about the fashion industry is still true. Fashion isn't democracy; fashion is fascism. It's a top-down, command-and-control system driven by a handful of individuals and corporations who make it their business to dictate what the rest of us should desire. When something is "in fashion," it's not because everyone started wearing it spontaneously and captured the attention of fashion journalists; it's because a decision was made in boardrooms to drive the entire public towards a particular look. This is unlike any other form of marketing, where companies respond to existing demand or compete for your attention. It is the pure manufacturing of consent.
While you were sleeping
The big furriers, like Saga Furs, have been on top of things for the last decade or so. Instead of trying to convince the public that fur isn't cruel (thereby having the debate on our terms), they've been quietly working from the inside, pushing fur as just another material to love and admire for its own beauty. They get designers while they're still in design school, they sponsor design contests, and they give free fur pelts to designers, both as students and at design houses, to use however they want. And with the fur fights of the '80s and '90s long faded from memory, fur has been stripped of its controversy among designers.
"We were seeing all of these new possibilities in which you can use fur in a very light way," [designer Alexa] Adams said. "Fur gives a richness in texture. It's like discovering something new that also has an interesting history."
Several young designers echoed that sentiment, saying they were less interested in fur as a luxury statement or an act of defiance than as a novel design. [Designer Alexander] Wang said he had not intended to use fur in his collection but decided to after seeing so many plush fabrics that resembled fur. "The point was to create that rich, luscious feel while blending the lines between what was real and what was fake," he said.
For designers, it's no longer about the usefulness of fur, or about fur coats as a luxury statement, or even as a backlashy anti-statement. It's about having one more texture on their palette to work with. Missoni's fall 2010 collection shows this at its most gratuitous. What's the fur doing in there?
It's not keeping anyone warm; it's just a design element like any other. The usual vegan response would be to point out how many great replacements there are. But unless a piece has been designed with faux fur in mind, like Karl Lagerfeld's surprising fall 2010 collection for Chanel, designers will always want the widest possible range of materials available to them. And the more designers learn about how to work with fur, the more they like it. The furriers gambled on this theory, and it paid off.
Unfortunately, PETA's anti-fur activism is part of the problem. Their campaigns and posturing come off as dated and tired, or irrelevant. "Watch out for PETA's red paint, here's what everyone is wearing this season" is a familiar lede among lazy journalists for a reason: there's just nothing to fear out of PETA anymore. "I'd rather go naked" has gone from bold and shocking to yet another platform for self-promoting celebrities to self-promote, and in the process, turning fur into a proxy fight between celebrity fan bases.
"Fur is dead" is dead
Problem is, we're having the argument on their terms. "Fur is dead," "worst-dressed celebrities," and boycott campaigns all have the same thing in common: they're steeped in a free-market, fashion-centric mindset. What's "in" right now will be "out" later, and what's "out" right now will be rediscovered again. Today's anti-fur activism has no hope but to live as a permanent cog in the fashion machine, with this season's moral determination ready to be cycled out of style with a single "FUR IS BACK" headline. Would it surprise me to learn that Anna Wintour is loving all of this? It gives everyone in fashion an excuse to appear like they understand what people are thinking and feeling as they alternately take out and bring back fur.
The fashion industry is never going to care about animal rights in any lasting way. Hell, they barely care about human rights. Children and slaves work long hours at their factories in poor countries, while women and girls in rich countries starve themselves to look like walking clothes hangers.
So, fuck 'em. Stop trying to convince fashion to care. They don't care. Fur is a material to them, the masses will just keep buying what they're told to buy, and we'll never convince devoted fans that the stern moralizing of a red-paint-throwing activist is worth more than their imagined celebrity friendship.
As California goes, so goes the nation
Which is why we must outlaw fur, starting in California. Fashion is fascism, and the antidote to fascism is democracy. The solution is simple: use California's ballot proposition system to outlaw the sale, production, and importation of fur. Exclude the fur in your closet and the fur in the secondhand store so no one will think jackbooted thugs are coming to raid your closet. Run ads on how kittens and puppies are grown for fur in China then falsely labeled, or make it about rich bankers in fur coats vs the middle class, or whatever. We have plenty of good arguments and snappy rhetoric. Pick the best and go with it.
If we win, fur will be off-limits to the biggest market in America. Designers will stop using it because it can't sell, and in another 10 years, everyone will have forgotten fur exists as a material for fashion. Rich people will find refuge in places like Monte Carlo or Dubai to buy their illicit fur coats, but at least it will be gone from the department stores. And even if we lose, we still win. We'll spend months putting forth the idea that animals aren't ours to use for something entirely unnecessary, and at the end of those months, people will have to cast a vote and decide either way. Unlike a consumer decision like a boycott that can be put off indefinitely, people will have to search their souls and decide how they feel, on a deadline.
As gestation crate and battery cage bans were to animal welfare, fur is the perfect starter issue for animal rights. Fur is brutal and horrific, and the only arguments in favor of its use are aesthetic or symbolic. Medical research and even cosmetics testing can be justified in terms of human benefit, as specious as those justifications may be. Eating meat goes even deeper, evoking feelings of scarcity and survival. But fur? Who cares. Does anyone truly care about the creative latitude of fashion designers and fashion editors? Doubtful. So put it to a vote and find out.
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Pyle® Wireless professional UHF microphone system with 2 microphone features rack mountable UHF system is perfect for large events. Microphone system is independent volume control and has LCD display with relevant information.
|600 Ohm
|Microphone Type
|Rack Mount Professional
|Power Supply
|12 - 17 VDC, 600 mA
|Microphones Frequency Range
|75 Hz - 14.5 kHz
|Microphones Sensitivity
|<2 UV (12 dB SINAD)
|Microphones Signal-to-Noise Ratio
|>90 dB
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Tradition of Success at Edgewood College
The Eagle Baseball Program takes pride in being the only 4-year college baseball program in the Madison area. The Eagles recruit student-athletes from all over the country, as Madison is an amazing place to be a college student-athlete. There is no shortage of social activities in Madison. The community values learning and academic achievement. Athletic excellence is recognized and valued.
Edgewood College (WI) Camps Frequently Asked Questions:
What do college coaches look for at camps & showcases?
Depending on your camp location, coaches are looking for players that stand out or they are looking for players who play positions that they need to fill.
Just be yourself and let your skills showcase themselves. Don't try to push to do something special, just work hard, be ready for camp, look the part and let nature take it's course. If you present yourself professionally, work hard and have a good attitude, the coaches will notice you.