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This is one of the worst chilaquilas recipes I have seen. Canned red endchilada "sauce" is horrible and not authentic. Salsa (sauce) is a form of pico de gallo not enchilada gravy. The canned green is o.k. salsa verde but you can easily make this at home and it freezes well. BTW, green salsa is often hotter than red not milder as stated. It is only milder in some cases because of the use of added tomatillos. Tomatillos are not tomatoes but are of the tomato family. But, the red gravy that one is so used to having in good Mexican restaurants has no tomatoes in it and does not have a lot of spices or herbs. When you use canned, all you can taste is the tomatoes and a little chile. When you make your own enchilada gravy it allows the subtle flavors of the other ingredients to come through. Non Mexicans are so used to this canned junk that they think it is authentic. It was developed for non Mexican tastes. People add tomatoes because they think that is what makes the enchilada gravy red. It isn't. It is the chile. Hot chiles and hot sauce are used in certain places so that you cannot determine the real flavor or lack of flavor in food that is served. Hot chile kills the tastebuds and they can serve you whatever they like even if it is old. Make your own gravies and salsas. Just don't use tomato products. Yuck!
Chilaquiles Casserole
From EatingWell: June/July 2006
Our version of this enchilada-style chilaquiles casserole is packed with nutritious beans and vegetables. Canned prepared enchilada sauce has great flavor and keeps the prep time quick. It can vary in heat level so find one that suits your taste. If you want to eliminate the heat altogether, try a green enchilada sauce (which is often milder than red) or substitute two 8-ounce cans of plain tomato sauce.
163 Reviews for Chilaquiles Casserole
This is one of my go to recipes, though I've noticed the enchilada sauce can make a HUGE difference as some turn out much soupier than others. I shared this recipe with a vegetarian coworker, and she loves it too. I add cilantro because I love it, and usually try to kick up the heat a little. It's easy to adjust with veggies I have on hand, but for me the zucchini is the best, and you can't leave out the corn! Sometimes I add extra cheese when I'm not too concerned with my calorie count!
Love this casserole. Easy to put together!! Never have grated zucchini--just cut in chunks. Have always used red sauce. Would like to experiment with green sauce or combo of both. Always turns out terrific. Even with no meat, very filling & satisfying. Have subbed mushrooms for corn in past & that was delish!!
I substituted Mission Artisan StyleTortillas Corn and Whole Wheat for the corn tortillas with excellent results. This recipe was loved by my whole family.
This is my favorite recipe from www.eatingwell.com

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Preventing Campus Sexual Violence in Virginia: Using a Social Justice Lens to Advance our Work
GoalThis conference will use a social justice lens to engage participants in preventing campus sexual violence. Specifically, the conference will provide participants with an opportunity to learn a variety of prevention principles from leaders in the field and encourage participants to apply the knowledge within their communities. Ample time will also be given for networking and idea sharing among participants.Objectives
- Participants will gain a better understanding of sexual violence prevention and its uses with college populations.
- Participants will be able to apply tools to plan and implement sexual violence prevention initiatives.
- Participants will be exposed to promising practices in campus sexual violence prevention, as well as emerging innovations.
- Participants will be able to apply a social justice lens to sexual violence prevention work.
- Participants will meet and learn from others engaging in campus sexual violence prevention work across the state.
Who should attend?This conference is open to anyone interested in preventing sexual violence on Virginia's college and university campuses. The voices of students and survivors are integral to accomplishing the conference's goals and objectives; therefore we particularly encourage students and survivors to attend.Additionally, we invite:
- Administrators, student affairs practitioners, campus advocates, mental health workers, and health educators from 2 and 4-year, public and private colleges and universities.
- Community sexual violence prevention practitioners whose target populations include college students.
- Anyone interested in learning more about campus sexual violence prevention.
While this conference is targeted toward Virginia campuses and communities, we also welcome those outside of Virginia who would like to attend.


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TORONTO - Hustling senior Brad Melville grabbed a rebound and swished an eight-foot jump shot with 1:32 left in the game and his Toronto Red Knights held on the rest of the way to pull out a 36-35 early season thriller over rival Edison last night at the Toronto gym.
Melville's goal gave the Red Knights a 36-34 lead and both teams had chances to score in the last minute and a half of the game, but the only point was a free throw, the second of two awarded to Edison sophomore Clay Woodward with 1:21 left, to narrow the game to one point.
The game was nip-and-tuck throughout with the lead changing hands 10 times and neither team ahead by more than five points.
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TOUGH DEFENSE — Toronto's Tyler Owens steals the ball from Edison's Dylan Jones as Erik Lee trails the play during the Red Knights' 36-35 victory Tuesday in Toronto.
-- Fred Younce
"I'm so proud of my kids," an exhausted John Leary said after the game. "We missed three straight one-and-ones there at the end, but, on the one, Blaze (Glenn) got his own rebound, which was a huge hustle play.
"We don't foul them. We had enough poise at the end. I've been talking to them all the pre-season about composure, poise and don't beat yourself. I thought we did a real good job of that tonight. We got three straight stops at the end of the game."
The final stop was a five-second call against a Wildcat ball handler with two seconds left on the clock.
"Mistakes. We're making too many mistakes. That's the key," said Edison coach Nate Moses. "They made plays and we didn't at the end of the game. That's it."
Edison committed 18 turnovers to seven for Toronto. The Wildcats had an advantage, though, in rebounding pulling down 34 off the glass to Toronto's 24.
The Wildcats, who were losing their third in a row, took a 20-19 lead at the half in the low scoring game, but it was tied at 26 all heading into the fourth quarter. Edison got the biggest lead by either team in the third period when they came out of the locker room with two straight field goals to go up by 24-19.
However, the Red Knights, winners of two straight to open the season, reeled off the next six points to take a one point lead as Melville, who didn't score in the first half, grabbed a long rebound, turned at the foul line and drilled in a jumper. Melville finished with 10 second half points, eight of them coming down the stretch in the fourth period.
"We don't have any excuses," Moses continued. "The bottom line is we didn't get the job done."
Moses, however, praised his senior big man, Ryan Kramarich. Kramarich only scored two points, but hauled down 12 rebounds and played a good defensive game with three blocked shots.
"Ryan Kramarich did a very good job with his defense and rebounds," Moses explained. "He did a real good job. We wanted defense. We preach defense and that's what we want him to do. He came through for us tonight."
Another senior, Alec Jones, led the Wildcat scoring with 18 points.
Dillon Gault was the leading scorer and rebounder for the Red Knights. He scored 15 points and just missed a double-double when he pulled down nine rebounds.
"Dillon kept his composure tonight," said Leary. "We've been talking to him about not getting down on himself when things don't go well and he did a good job of that tonight. He goes hard to the basket and works the boards well for us."
Neither team could brag much about its shooting.
The Wildcats did best making 13 of 49 shots for 26.5 percent from the field while the Red Knights, who had just four players in the scoring column, sank 12 of 57 for 21 percent.
Toronto made nine of 15 foul shots to 7 of 12 for the Wildcats.
The Red Knights travel to Bellaire St. John Friday in a game that was listed on the schedule as being at home. Edison continues on the road Friday with a trip to Martins Ferry.
Toronto 36, Edison 35
Edison 10 10 6 9 - 35
Toronto 9 10 7 10 - 36
EDISON: D. Jones 2 2-2 6, Lee 2 0-0 4, Kramarich 1 0-1 2, A. Jones 6 4-6 18, Howell 2 0-0 4, Woodward 0 1-2 1. Totals: 13 7-11 35. Three-pointers: A. Jones (2); Rebounds: 34 (Kramarich, 13); Turnovers: 18.
TORONTO: Glenn 2 2-5 6, Owens 1 2-3 5, Melville 4 2-3 10, Gault 5 3-4 15. Totals: 12 9-15 36. Three-pointers: Gault (2), Owens; Rebounds: 24 (Gault, 9); Turnovers: 7.


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ACC Deal Might Bring Stability to Conferences
The elaborate game of musical chairs known in college sports as conference realignment may be coming to an end for the next decade. The Atlantic Coast Conference announced Monday that its 15 member schools unanimously approved granting their media rights to the conference through 2027, essentially making ACC schools worthless during that time to any league interested in poaching them. It was believed that several ACC schools could have been targeted in the next round of expansion because of the combination of their athletic programs, academic profiles and media markets. The conference already had increased its exit fee to above $50 million, but Monday's deal solidifies the ACC and makes clear the immediate future of college sports for the first time since 2010. The Big Ten Conference, Big 12 Conference and Pac-12 Conference already have grant-of-rights deals in place.
—Ben Cohen
A Costly Bite by Suarez
The backlash against Liverpool striker Luis Suarez continued on Monday with reaction from his club, Merseyside Police, and even Downing Street before English soccer's governing body, the Football Association, formally charged him with violent conduct for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic in a game on Sunday. Suarez now faces a lengthy ban that will almost certainly rule him out for the rest of the season.
Liverpool announced it would fine Suarez but didn't say how much the fine would be, but it has been widely reported as two weeks' salary—about $250,000. Suarez could have been subject to a police investigation, too, but when authorities approached Ivanovic Sunday evening he declined to make a complaint. The players' union also offered him anger-management counseling.
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron even weighed in. He told reporters through a spokesman that it "would be very understandable if [the FA] took into account the fact that high-profile players are often role models."
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MEXICO CITY (CNN) -- Gunmen opened fire on federal police officers at Mexico City's international airport Monday, killing three, officials said.
Two of the officers died at the scene, while a third was transported to a hospital and died there.
The gunmen were suspected drug traffickers and opened fire as police closed in on them, the Public Security Ministry said in a statement.
It was not clear whether there had been any arrests. The shooting took place at Benito Juarez International Airport, the country's busiest.
Last year, authorities there seized 198 pounds (90 kilograms) of cocaine, the ministry said. So far this year, they have seized 440 pounds (200 kilograms) of the drug.
More than 47,500 people have died in drug-related violence throughout Mexico since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon announced plans to deploy troops in efforts to combat drug cartels.
The violence is worse outside the heavily policed capital, though crime still manages to creep in.
Murder rates in Mexico City are half the national rate of 18 per 100,000 residents and are lower than homicide rates in U.S. cities like New Orleans and Washington.


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What would happen if the earth would stop spinning? How much heavier would we be? I mean absolutely stop spinning. How much does the centrifugal force affect us?
If you give technical answers (please do), please explain them in laymen's terms, thanks.
Edit: I am asking what would be different if the earth were not spinning. Nevermind the part about it stopping.


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One of the great things about being on the road is what you find along the way. Mike Brown of the popular website, "Brainzooming," wrote about seeing one of the world's largest Van Gogh Sunflowers paintings in Goodland. He referred to it as a "poster child for extreme creativity," and made a video during his visit.Brainzooming is all about innovation, so it's no wonder he was drawn to the 24 by 32 foot reproduction of Van Gogh's classic that stands on an 80-foot tall easel. Canadian artist Cameron Cross chose Goodland for his "Big Easel Project," because it is the "Sunflower Capital of the Sunflower State." It's the only one of the giant paintings in the U.S. The other six are in Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Japan and South Africa – all locations that have something to do with sunflowers, Van Gogh, or both.
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Faster Than Light was one of my favourites games for 2013, and now they have just released a free expansion : Advanced Edition.
FTL: Advanced Edition is a major update that adds features to the original and is a free download for players who already own the original. It was released on Thursday, April 3, 2014
Faster Than Light (more commonly known as FTL) is a top-down, real-time strategy game on Steam, made by indie team Subset Games. The player takes control of the crew in a space vessel that's in possession of critical information that must be delivered to an allied fleet several sectors away. However, to make the game more challenging, you are pursued by a large rebel fleet in every sector.
In keeping the story simple, the team has been able to create an in depth management system. You must maintain the ship when it's damaged and make difficult decisions when under attack. For example, jumping in the middle of battle or taking energy from one source to power a weapon.
Jumping is how the player moves through the game, and, in some circumstances, the player may be near death, but can still escape battle. You will, of course, have encounters with the rebels. These are real-time, ship-on-ship battles which are the core of Faster Than Light's gameplay, and, on quite a few occasions, the tension is increased through forcing you to make split-second decisions at every turn.
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It's my third ascension, and after my last ascension I made the skill "tongue of the walrus" hardcore permanent. Now I'm playing a hardcore Avatar of Boris run, but I still can't use Tongue of the Walrus.
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I am just confused like how can I break
cmd=3222823425 value into different parts to figure out what this command means actually in the Linux kernel. I know, some functions are making
ioctl command with following parameters but I want to know what these parameter values mean.
fd=21, cmd=3222823425 and arg=3203118816
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Pugs of Westeros - Game of Thrones
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See how long I waited to show you another Game of Thrones related site... I think that shows great restraint on my part.
The Pugs of Westeros features all your favourite GoT characters as pugs... what more do I need to say. No spoilers in this one.


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City commissioners have scheduled a 6 p.m. public hearing on Monday, Jan. 7, to consider changes to an ordinance regulating business signs.
The Nebraska City Planning Commission constructed the framework for the sign ordinance during the comprehensive planning and zoning project in 2003 and enacted rules to tighten controls on pole signs in 2009.
Harry Larson of Larson Motors asked the city in February, however, to reconsider the ban on new pole signs. He said they they are typical of car lots and can help all businesses located near heavily traveled roadways.
Mayor Jack Hobbie appointed a sign ordinance review committee in May to consider changes to the citywide ban on pole signs.
The proposal before the city council on Monday is expected to include allowances for pole signs with rules regarding the size of the sign and distance from the street right-of-way.
Pole signs would be allowed in all zoned districts, including residential, commercial and industrial. A formula is proposed so that the larger a sign is, the farther it has to be located from the street.
City Clerk Arnold Ehlers said the proposal acknowledges state laws that say a sign that has been invalid for 12 months must be removed. He said laws covering obsolete signs would impact the Alco sign because it has been over 12 months since the store has been open.
He said the new rules would still allow pole signs, but a sign the size of the Alco sign would have to be set back farther from 11th Street.
The city council could approve the changes following the hearing Monday, but also may continue the reading of the ordinance.
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Dream for a perfect Christmas party
Jan Meeks
The holiday season will be packed with parties, so it's a good idea to have detailed plans.
Any party planner will tell you that the key to having the perfect party is to plan.
Spend five or 10 minutes visualizing your party. This will help with placement of foods, drinks, table setup and traffic flow for your guests.
Make sure you have enough seating for each guest. Make it easy on yourself with after party cleanup by using nice plastic ware unless your party is formal.
Choose a menu of heavy finger foods. This type menu alleviates the added worry of choosing dinnerware. Some recipes may even be prepared ahead and frozen until ready to use.
Set the mood with nice Christmas music in the background and glowing candles throughout the party area. Guests love little party favors. Send your guests' home with something special, a candy cane tied with red ribbon, a bag of candies or cookies will make all your guests feel special.
Happy Party Planning.
Simple Christmas Party Menu and Recipes
Jan's Meatballs
Chocolate Strawberries
Chicken Salad croissants
White chocolate pretzels
Ham and Cheese rollups
Beverages of your choice
Little Smokies in Sauce
Veggie /Dip
Cheese and Grapes
Pineapple Cream Cheese Dip / Crackers
Spinach Dip / Pumpernickel Bread
Cheese Dip
Chips and Crackers of your choice
Assorted Cookies
Jan's Meatballs
2 Large Bags Frozen Beef Italian Meatballs
4 envelope packages of Brown Gravy
2 cans Cream of Mushroom soup
1 large can of Evaporated Milk
2 small jars of sliced mushrooms (optional)
Rinse frozen meatballs and drain. Put meatballs into 2 9X12 baking dishes or put them all in a larger baking dish. Cook for 30 minutes according to directions on bag.
Mix Mushroom Soup and milk until creamy whisk in the gravy packs into the soup mixture.
Drain cooked meatballs and pour into a large crock pot or large baking dish. Stir in the gravy mixture. Be careful not to break your meatballs. Drain mushrooms and add to the meatballs. Move them around gently as you stir. Let simmer on low until ready to serve.
Ham and cheese Roll-ups
1 Package Fajita flour tortillas
1 pound Virginia Baked Ham
½ pound Swiss cheese
2 8-oz packages Cream Cheese
2 T. Dijon Mustard
2 T. Dill Relish
Green Olives for garnish
Soften cream cheese. Mix all the ingredients except for the olives.
Spread the cheese mixture on the flour tortilla shell evenly.
Layer ham and Swiss cheese.
Roll the shell into a cylinder. Wrap with plastic wrap.
Chill in refrigerator until ready to use. This can be done the day before the party.
Just before serving slice the roll-ups into 1-2 inch slices. Place on a platter and garnish with a slice of green olive in the middle of each rollup.
Yield: about 6 roll-ups per shell.
Pineapple Cream Cheese Dip
2 8-oz packages of Cream Cheese
1 can crushed pineapple (drained well)
½ cup 10x confectioner's sugar
½-3/4 cup pecans
Soften cheese~ add all other ingredients
Stir well
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January 06, 2009
Aerial view of Table Mountain – Flickr pic of the day
This image was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Joanne.
Joanne says: "I got the shot through the side window of our plane returning from the US. It was after heavy rain, in the middle of winter, when we were approaching Cape Town at 07h00.
In Cape Town I always have my camera with me, even when I go to the supermarket or the movies, since I always see something worthy of a photo. After all it's the most beautiful city in the world, in my humble opinion!
My speciality is shots of the new Green Point Stadium being built for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, since I have a full view of it from my home, and I regularly upload shots of its progress."
Do you have images of Cape Town you'd like to share with us? We'd love you to join the Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group!
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The AeroVac Bin maximizes airflow to pull hair off brushes and has a larger capacity than a standard bin. Compatible with Roomba 500 Series robots with green cleaning head modules. Upgrade kit includes:
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I use my 530 Roomba every day to clean the concrete and carpeted floor of our sun room as well as our capeted/wood floored living room.It was okay before, but the Aerovac kit really did make a huge difference in how much "stuff" the Roomba picks up. Before, it would leave some dirt behind, but now it gets everything and the house is noticeably cleaner after the Roomba gets done. We have 11 rowdy cats, so there is plenty of hair, dust, and plant leaves to keep it occupied.
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GENESEO, N.Y. -- Salgado Maranhão, one of Brazil's leading contemporary poets, will read at SUNY Geneseo from his most recent collection, Sol Sangüíneo (Blood of the Sun) Oct. 4 at 5 p.m. in the Knight Spot on campus. Alexis Levitin, SUNY Distinguished Professor from Plattsburg, will be translating.The event is free and open to the public.
In addition to eight books of poetry, including "The Snake's Fists," "The Kiss of the Beast" and the recent "Tiger's Fur," Maranhão has written song lyrics and made recordings with some of Brazil's leading jazz and pop musicians.
Maranhão 's white father was descended from a wealthy family whose plantations had been worked by slaves in the past. His mother was a black field worker, who sang to him from her folk tradition. Because "The Mansion" and "The Shanty" flow together in his veins, questions of race and history, says Maranhão, permeate several of the poems in his latest collection.
One of Brazil's leading critics, Antonio Carlos Secchin, writes: "With a deeply-rooted personal diction, Salgado Maranhão, in "Blood of the Sun" has reached the high point of his work (so far), in this cohesive collection of poems in which a speculative intelligence and a celebration of the corporality of the world are expressed with great metaphoric vigor."
Maranhão's visit is sponsored by Geneseo's anthropology, English, languages and literatures, and history departments and the college's Africana/Black Studies Program, the Center for Community, the Office of International Programs, and Campus Auxiliary Services.
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Q: My 17-year-old nephew should be in the twelfth grade. He got into some trouble at home and his mom sent him to live with his dad. He was supposed to be home-schooled, but wasn't. So now we are trying to get him back in school and we don't know where we should go -- maybe a charter school or some other type of school. He said he would be too embarrassed to go to public school because he would be 17 in the ninth or tenth grade, since he can't prove that he got credit for the homeschooling he received in tenth grade. What would you suggest?
A: I would encourage your nephew to go to the nearest community college or alternative high school that offers a GED program. These programs help students learn the basic skills they may have missed that enable them to take the GED test and get their high-school equivalency. A GED is accepted by military colleges and technical schools for entrance into many programs. He should talk with the counselor there to work out a plan for his education. This way he can finish his high-school education in about a year and get on with his life.
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I have an Oatmeal Stout in the secondary fermenter (carboy) and it's been there for about a week. I checked the hydrometer reading this morning and it's at 1.020. The og was about 1.052, and when I moved from the Primary to secondary it was about 1.024. I was aiming for a FG of 1.010. Any ideas? Can I keep in the secondary for another week? Can I gently shake the carboy to awaken the yeast?
Warm it up to 70-75 prior to swirling it to rouse the yeast. Give it another week or two then check it.
Without knowing your recipe and process its hard to really tell. It could be as done as its going to be.
Next time leave it in primary until its at the final gravity. You have less yeast to work with now than you did when it was in primary.
EDIT: So you steeped oatmeal with your specialty grains. You are likely at terminal gravity. The oatmeal contributes unfermentable starch to the wort when not converted with a mash of some sort. That starch will hold up your final gravity considerably.
How were you "aiming for" a FG of 1.010? What was your recipe like that made you think you'd hit that FG? Depending on your recipe, you could very well be done. The advice to warm it up and wait a while is good, but you still might not hit that FG if you used a high level of unfermentables. That makes much more difference than the yeast.
Cooper's dry yeast by any chance? But yeah, you can certainly leave it in the secondary another week or more. It won't hurt anything and may help you get a clearer, cleaner beer.
You can gently swirl the carboy, and as another answer mentioned, try warming it up a bit.


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I would like to know if there is some legal stuff I should fix with Canonical in order to make my distro publicly available as it is based in Ubuntu. Thanks.
Is there any legal things I need to discuss with Canonical before publishing an Ubuntu-based distribution?
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Monday, July 25, 2011
Upgrading Blogger
Click on the settings tab in your blog (accessible from both the dashboard or the new/edit posts page)
Scroll down till you get to "Select post editor"
Change to the top option "Updated editor"
Click the orange "Save settings" button
Here is the full list of all the stuff the new version can do - List of new features, but most importantly for me is that photos will post where your curser is, you can drag or cut and paste them and move them left or right without having to muck about with the html. So now we can all post more often??? Hope this helps!
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- coffeeaddict said...
Thanks Allison :-)
've changed my blogger to the newer version, I had no idea I was still using the old one.
Happy Monday!
- July 25, 2011 at 4:49 PM
- Judy C said...
I really appreciate your blog. I was on the new version but I don't know how it happened. And I went to the instructions and read about what it will do. I'm sure it will help my blog get better. Thanks again.
- July 25, 2011 at 7:10 PM
- Amanda S. said...
Cool! I just updated my editor. I feel all high-tech now. :;
- July 25, 2011 at 8:27 PM
- a little sewing said...
Thanks for posting this! I will update my editor too.
- July 25, 2011 at 9:47 PM
- a little sewing said...
duh. mine was already updated.
Amanda I feel all high-tech, too.
- July 26, 2011 at 4:31 AM
- Gail said...
Why thank you Allison! I will get onto it straight away.
- July 26, 2011 at 6:34 AM
- Vicki said...
Thanks Allison! Now I just have to sew something :)
- July 26, 2011 at 6:59 AM
- Robyn said...
I'm so glad I came across this! I do a wordpress blog for a company and my personal Blogger blog had been seeming annoyingly out of date!
- July 26, 2011 at 7:28 AM
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- July 26, 2011 at 10:19 AM
- Phebe said...
Thank you! I've just updated my editor. I might even write something after more than a year of silence - today is my last day before vacation, so I'm looking forward to summer sewing. And yes, I've purchased two patterns during the last 4.99 sale, well in comparison with the shipping cost of $25 it's not much, still I was surprised to open their mail with 3.99 sale offer just a few days after my order
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thank you, thank you, thankyou!!!!!
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The Rise and Haul of Hot Rodding - A HistoryWritten by on January 1, 1996 Contributors: PPC Archives A Short Overview of America's Four-Wheel Phenomenon
Hot rodders love affair with Fords didnt just happen. Henry, with the help of his driver Frank Kulick, caused it to happen! The most influential man of the 20th century shrewdly perceived that successfully racing his products would increase their salability: Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday. The racing success of Fords cut-down, hopped-up Model Ts wasnt lost on the youth of the teens and twenties. Their collective demand for go-fast goodies spawned what would become a hugely diverse performance-parts aftermarket for model Ts.
However, this homegrown phenomenon reached its zenith in Southern California. The Southlands combination of year-round summer, high-tech industries (both movie and aircraft), hungry race-car builders, wide streets and dry lakes generated what were called hot jobs, essentially denuded Model T roadsters augmented by the offerings of Ed Winfield, Harry Miller and Pierre Bertrand. Because of Southern Californias remoteness, ensured by the physical barrier of the San Gabriel mountains and the high desert, hot rodding remained virtually undetected until the 1940s when two events occurred: World War II and HOT ROD magazine. With that short introduction in place, we will commence with our pictorial overview of the rise and haul of hot rodding.
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The second World War ended the Southland's isolation. The draft sent native rodders, bearing snapshots of their highboys or modifieds, all across the country. Non-natives, who trained at El Toro, Camp Pendleton or Fort Ord, saw these same roadsters and modifieds cruising California's streets. The upshot was that when R.E. "Pete" Petersen co-founded HOT ROD magazine in 1947, there was a ready-made market for the rodders' bible.The demand for speed and power equipment, as well as for those who knew how to use them, resulted in the inevitable: the advent of the speed shop. One of the first, owned by Lee Chappel, catered to the go-fast guys in the mid-to-late '20s. The reader will note that the T-bodied street roadster in front has been lowered, but check out the full-tilt gow job on the right. Speed shops, such as Bell Auto and Blair's, were central in the development of pre- and post-war rodding.Even with the success of HOT ROD magazine and Motorama, hot rodding and hot rodders were still considered outlaws by a large segment of the community. So, Petersen and Wally Parks began promoting the positive side of hot rodding to local TV's fast-growing audiences. Parks also used his Editor's column to protest ordinances being instituted against hot rodding, to point out rodding's pluses and to propose what would become the National Hot Rod Association.The NHRA's first move was to form and sanction dragstrips. It adopted the slogan "Off The Street And On The Strip." This made sense because nearly every community in which hot-rod activity was causing trouble had an abandoned airfield, or a large parking lot or straight road. These paved sections were easily converted into low-key dragstrips, and illegal activities soon disappeared. Dragstrips soon led to the rise of a new type of hot rod that we called rail jobs.By the end of the '50s, land-speed racing had become a very visible and visceral part of hot rodding. That figures. Every car has a speedometer, therefore every motorist is familiar with the pros and cons of speed. Every rodder has been asked how fast his or her car goes, because rods were built to look and/or be fast. By the end of the '50s streamliners were approaching the 400-mph mark, and during the late-'60s rocket-urged rods went over 600.Yet with all of the hot-rod-related publicity generated by NHRA-sanctioned drag racing and FIA-sanctioned land-speed racing, there remained some hardy rodders who continued to band together in groups, such as the Roadsters of L.A., to participate in street activities known as rod runs. The terms street rod and street rodder were coined to articulate the difference between these tradition-preserving enthusiasts and the guys who raced their rods.Nitromethane, a rocket fuel that became known as the "poor man's supercharger," radically accelerated the direction of drag racing. In 1957, a group of dragstrip operators asked the NHRA to institute a "fuel" ban in the name of safety. The ban was a total failure because no one took into consideration the hot rodder's fundamental love of speed and power. The NHRA lifted its ban seven years later in 1964 with Big Daddy Don Garlits' smoky wheels carrying approval.When Zora Arkus-Duntov joined Chevrolet, the builder of the Ardun OHV conversion for flathead Fords presented top management with a position paper regarding his firm's association with hot rodders and hot rodding. Duntov influenced Detroit to become involved with drag racing and funding factory-built and -sponsored Factory Experimental cars. These vehicles changed the nature of drag racing and led to the development of the musclecar.Glendale, California, resident Frank Lockhart, an Indy winner who ultimately lost his life during a land-speed racing attempt at Daytona Beach, tested his racing cars at Muroc Dry Lake during the late '20s. If running at Muroc was good enough for Lockhart, reasoned the local rodders, it was good enough for them, too. So guys began making the 160-mile round trip from Los Angeles to Rosamond to see how fast their jobs would go. When WWII turned Muroc into Edwards Air Force Base, the rodders switched to El Mirage where we still race today.
However, not all was rosy in SoCal after the war. Street racing became a problem, and public sentiment was such that laws banning hot rods became a distinct possibility. The Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) hired Petersen's Hollywood Associates PR firm to help generate a more positive attitude. Pete suggested a car show (which he called Motorama) featuring the SCTA's finest and fastest hot rods. Members even built a roadster on stage. It worked.Although competitive hot rodding was essentially a straight-line endeavor, a splinter group of racers began turning left, leading to what we called track roadsters. The first track roadsters began as street-driven A-bones or '32s—sans headlights, fenders and windshields—but were then replaced by '23 or '27 Ts because they were smaller and lighter. Best of all, drivers such as Troy Ruttman, Manny Ayulo, Jack McGrath and Billy Vukovich went on to star at Indy.For the most part, though, hot rods were still street-driven vehicles. During the late '40s and early '50s, the Pasadena Reliability run became a focal point for rodders who still drove their cars to school or work. Routes were developed that mixed street, mountain and desert driving, and lawful speeds were maintained through use of secret checkpoints sprinkled throughout the run. Here at Brookside Park, located next to the famous Rose Bowl, rodders prepared to rock and roll.The constant racing at El Mirage led to the deterioration of the dry lake's surface. Someone suggested the Bonneville Salt Flats as an alternative, so Pete and Wally Parks, who was HOT ROD's editor at the time, led a contingent of SCTA officials and secured permission to compete at the great white raceland. Speed week at Bonneville generated some bonuses for hot rodding. Hot rodders' land-speed activities prompted Detroit to name high-performance cars after the salt flats.Since Henry Ford's stripped Ts, hot rods have emulated their race-car brothers. Slicks and superchargers ultimately found their way to the streets in a form that inspired the term street freaks. Street freaks run the gamut from Paris Fish's blown and bad '62 Corvette to Bill Fredericks' cammer-urged T-bodied dragster. And when drag racing's Pro Stockers became popular during the 1970s, it was just a matter of time until Scott Sullivan and others made Pro Street happen.Thirty years after it was legitimized by the NHRA, organized drag racing became big business and highly professionalized. Touring pros, multi-event national circuits, wealthy sponsors and TV coverage forever changed the local nature of drag racing. These developments had their ramifications—the rise of low-dollar bracket racing, renewed interest in land-speed racing, the birth of nostalgia drag racing. But the days of Fuel Altereds, Gassers and Comps were over.The professionalism of drag racing mixed with the death of the musclecar caused the rebirth of the street rod. What began as small groups of traditionalists forming rod runs branched out across the country in the form of T-buckets, resto rods laced with nostalgia types and street cruisers influenced in part by films such as American Grafitti or The California Kid. When the National Street Rod Association staged its first Nationals in Peoria, Illinois, the die was cast.The essence of hot rodding—or cruising owner-built or commissioned vehicles—is still driving the cars from one point to another. The fun is in the run, and once you're there, you're there. For years we've stressed the importance of developing highly personalized vehicles that combine high-zoot impact with grocery-getting dependability. Best of haul was cruising the country in CadZZilla, ZZ Top's incredible '48 Cadillac. And now it's Americruise time.Still, hot rodding was considered by the image makers and intelligentsia as being somewhat less than legitimate. That view was vastly eroded when Boyd Coddington began displaying his out-of-this-world creations at various upscale car shows in New York and Los Angeles. Overnight, hot rods became a part of Americana and stimulated lengthy articles that appeared in the non-automotive press, including Playboy and the Smithsonian. Hot rodding had finally been legitimized.
As we near the turn of the century and begin celebrating 90-plus years of hot rodding, we realize that its foundations remain intact. Hot rodding is still, in essence, all about people creating something in their backyards or garages. Hot rodding is still a highly personal enterprise that combines Yankee ingenuity with creative flair. Hot rodding is still like Louis Armstrong's view of jazz music: "If you have to explain it, you ain't got it." So maybe Al Teague in his garage, behind his 430-mph-plus 'liner, says it best.


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EAGLE LAKE (January 8, 2013)--The Lower Colorado River Authority board voted unanimously Tuesday in Austin to withhold water from reservoirs to downstream farmers if the combined storage of Lakes Travis and Buchanan is less than 850,000 acre-feet on March 1.
Storage was measured this week at slightly more than 820,000 acre-feet and it's unlikely that enough rain will fall to raise that level enough.
The LCRA has continued to deal with a persistent drought.
About 65 percent of the state remains in a state of severe drought.
The board had voted in November to cut off rice farmers only if the combined storage fell below 775,000 acre-feet on Jan. 1 or March 1.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples issued a statement after the vote in which he said, "A crisis exists in Texas as our water capacity has failed to keep up with our growth."
"We cannot ration and restrict our way to a bigger and better Texas. Solutions need to be focused on water for all needs and not restrictions for something as vital as food," he said.
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I'm using iPhone Lite and was wondering:
What exactly is free incoming calls per second billing?
Is it the same as free incoming calls?
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The Senior Vice Provost for Global Faculty Development is responsible for academic planning and faculty hiring strategies across the Global Network University, particularly at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai. In addition to the Office of Global Faculty Development, the Senior Vice Provost oversees the Office of Faculty Resources - including its Center for Advancement in Teaching and Faculty Resource Network - the Curricular Development Challenge Fund, and the Distinguished Teaching Awards program.
The Vice Provost for Faculty, Arts, Humanities and Diversity provides University-wide academic leadership across the Global Network University, especially with respect to cross-school programs and initiatives. The Vice Provost provides strategic advice to the Provost and President on the University's schools, centers, curricula and initiatives in the arts and humanities, including strategic advice on hiring and funding priorities. Working with and across the schools, and in conjunction with University Office of Development and Office of Research Compliance & Administration, the Vice Provost initiates efforts and provides support to academic units to obtain external funding for the arts and humanities. The Vice Provost serves as the academic liaison to the Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Senators Council. For more on the Vice Provost's oversight and other responsibilities, see here.
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December 13, 2012, last.fm announced that they would be discontinuing their radio service in several countries on January 15, 2013, and that customers could request a subscription refund. I did so the very same day, because the radio service is 90% of the reason for buying it (the other being the event announcements). On January 16 the last.fm client could no longer play their radio, and I have still not heard a single word from them. Has anyone had more luck with this, and perhaps any tips to get through to them?
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What is my obligation to warn fellow kosher observant people about a Restraurant that is claiming to be "Glatt" Kosher, when in fact it has no Rabbinic Supervision at all and the owner's religious observance would not lead you to believe "Glatt" is something he cares about in his home? Does my obligation change any if at one time under a different name he had supervision as a dairy restraurant but had recently reopened in the same location as a meat restraurant?
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First thing I'd do is consult a local rabbi, who may have a better assessment of the situation. Also, if the word does need to be spread that the place is not recommended, it will probably be more effective coming from him. (He's also likely to be better protected if the restaurant sues for defamation or something.)
But for theory's sake (or pretending you're the rabbi): To tell people "restaurant ABC has no rabbinic supervision", or perhaps "restaurant ABC has no rabbinic supervision, and local Rabbi X has said on the record that it's not recommended" would seem to meet all of the criteria required for constructive lashon hara:
1.) You're sure the statement is true (assuming you did your homework!)
You or your rabbi might try contacting the webmaster @kashrut.com, who regularly posts alerts of uncertified products and institutions. She has a good sense of how and when this is usually done.


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The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known: Dramatic Readings Celebrating the Enduring Spirit of Dissent (Paperback)
To celebrate the millionth copy sold of Howard Zinn's great People's History of the United States, Zinn drew on the words of Americans -- some famous, some little known -- across the range of American history. These words were read by a remarkable cast at an event held at the 92nd Street YMHA in New York City that included James Earl Jones, Alice Walker, Jeff Zinn, Kurt Vonnegut, Alfre Woodard, Marisa Tomei, Danny Glover, Myla Pitt, Harris Yulin, and Andre Gregory.
From that celebration, this book was born. Collected here under one cover is a brief history of America told through dramatic readings applauding the enduring spirit of dissent.
Here in their own words, and interwoven with commentary by Zinn, are Columbus on the Arawaks; Plough Jogger, a farmer and participant in Shays' Rebellion; Harriet Hanson, a Lowell mill worker; Frederick Douglass; Mark Twain; Mother Jones; Emma Goldman; Helen Keller; Eugene V. Debs; Langston Hughes; Genova Johnson Dollinger on a sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan; an interrogation from a 1953 HUAC hearing; Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper and member of the Freedom Democratic Party; Malcolm X; and James Lawrence Harrington, a Gulf War resister, among others.
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Howard Zinn (1922 2010) was a historian, playwright, and social activist. In addition to A People s History of the United States, which has sold more than two million copies, he is the author of many books, including the autobiography You Can t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, The People Speak, and Passionate Declarations.


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7 Bizarre Trends That Predict an Economic Collapse
If you popped out of a time machine at a random moment in history, how would you know whether or not the country was in a recession? There'd be obvious signs, like lots more ads for payday loan joints and offers to buy your gold for pennies on the dollar. But there are less obvious, much weirder clues all around you.
After all, did you know that when the economy is bad ...
#7. Mosquito Populations Surge
The tanking economy is causing huge swarms of insects in suburban areas, namely mosquitoes. Now, if you're the clever type you might have already thought, "Well, that probably makes sense -- cities are probably cutting their mosquito-control programs because they don't have the funding." And that is certainly happening. But there's another reason for the mosquito baby boom that we're betting you'll never guess.
It's all the foreclosed houses.
Mosquitoes are very much into the real estate market right now.
Think about it. A lot of houses have pools, and when the bank comes a-knocking, pool maintenance falls to the lowest priority on everyone's list. And as anyone who has ever owned a pool or been involved in maintaining one will testify, those bastards will go rank in a heartbeat if left to their own devices. Even a drained pool can collect stagnant rainwater, after all. And whose job is it to patrol all of these thousands of pools to keep them disinfected?
So, a whole bunch of foreclosed houses end up with musky, slimy cesspits of hell-water in their backyards. If you know anything about swamps, you know that filthy, standing water is the perfect breeding ground for the little blood-sucking bastards.
And mosquitoes.
Still, this is just an increase in annoying bugs we're talking about here. Surely, that's relatively harmless in the grand scheme of things. It's not like they're carrying any potentially lethal viruses or anything.
#6. Waitresses Get Prettier
You're ordering at a coffee shop (or if you're fancy, a cafe), and you notice that the barista is surprisingly attractive. Ordinarily you would chalk that up to a nice moment in your otherwise mediocre day, but hang on a tick. As you look around, all the employees are really good-looking. What is going on? What time is it? Are you drunk already and you just forgot? There's no good reason why all this beauty should be wasted on angry caffeine junkies.
You've stumbled into a sci-fi universe, that's all. Prepare to be culled, ugly!
Well, this phenomenon (assuming you aren't actually drunk) might be an incredibly reliable, vaguely sexist indication of how the economy is faring.
It's called the Hot Waitress Economic Index, and it goes like this: In our often unfair society, really attractive women are unlikely to work as waitresses, as they have an easier time finding other, better-paying jobs (we're not saying it's right, we're saying it's a statistical truth). When the economy goes belly-up, attractiveness isn't as valuable as actual skill, and attractive people get laid off just like everyone else -- so they temporarily drift back to a job that doesn't require schooling but offers great tips if you have a nice smile. When the economy picks up again, they return to higher-paying jobs.
Like posing as a waitress for stock photo libraries.
The Hot Waitress Economic Index was coined by New York magazine financial columnist Hugo Lindgren in 2009, and it has since received enough credibility and attention to feature in Investopedia, CNBC, Time Moneyland and Business Insider, to name a few. For obvious reasons, not everyone in the media takes it seriously, but the curious thing is that, apart from the odd blogger playing the sexism card, no one seems to be running to debunk it. In today's media environment, that speaks volumes about the plausibility of the theory.
So the next time you're at a restaurant and a swarm of models are mixing up orders or breaking plates, there's a chance that this may be one of the last times you have the luxury of eating out, because those women are the harbingers of an economic apocalypse.
The four horsewomen will ride tonight: Death, Famine, Botulism and OSHA Non-Compliance.
#5. Tie Colors Turn Bland
Without even knowing it, every person wearing a suit to work is offering a daily barometer for their sense of financial security, right around their necks.
"We lost your 401k, but here's an alternate retirement plan."
Here's a quick crash course on Tieconomics: People have an inherent tendency to wear bright, bold colors when they feel good and confident. You know this already if you have done even a cursory study of pimps. But when those same people are anxious about their financial well-being, the opposite happens -- they are naturally drawn to drab, bland colors. If that seems oversimplified, take a look at fashion through the last few decades:
Clockwise from left: '70s flop, '80s boom, early '90s flop. Or: bargaining, denial, depression.
There's a good reason why the color changes in business are specific to ties. You're probably not going to replace your whole wardrobe based on how you feel about life, and it's not really acceptable to wear a bright yellow suit to work (again, unless this is a pimp situation). So the change tends to get restricted to ties.
So, the next time you wonder whether big businesses are about to make it rain or drop the axe, take a walk and pay attention to the suits on the street. If the ties are all pink and bright, it's probably safe to breathe easy. If they're drab beige, however ... well, it might be time to hone your boxcar-jumping skills.
"Man, that's really gray. Your business must be doing terribly."
#4. Crime Takes a Turn for the Weird
It's no surprise that a failing economy affects crime rates. What is surprising, however, is the type of crimes committed ... and not committed. We would expect crimes fueled by desperation and alcohol to be on the rise in hard times, but statistics say otherwise. DUI cases are actually on the wane, having gone down as much as 30 percent. Property crime, along with crime in general, is at the lowest it's been since the 1960s, thus handily slapping both common sense and criminal theory in the face.
Preconception-smashing assault is eight to 10 years.
And what crimes are up? Dognapping, of all things. Out there in the streets right now there are people stealing other people's pets for profit, somehow. There are perfectly logical reasons for all of these trends, if you know where to look.
For example, there's a negative correlation between number of puppies and your level of financial depression.
The kind of people who drive under the influence are probably just as ragingly drunk as usual, but they're staying home because even a drunk knows that gas is goddamn expensive. The lower property crime rate is most likely explained by the complete and utter distribution of poverty. While some people have lost everything and were forced to turn to a life of crime to cope, their potential targets have been hit equally hard. It's hardly worth robbing a house when all that house has to offer are stacks of unpaid bills and an old 14-inch tube TV.
"Oh God. They took all the kindling."
As for the dognapping trend, the reason is as simple as it is sad: money. Turns out dogs are trusting, fairly easy to grab and lucrative, as the thief can either pretend to "find" the pooch and return it for reward or just flat out sell it to new owners. The fact that we now apparently have a freaking black market for secondhand dogs depresses us more than a recession ever could.


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Paget's disease of the breast is a rare form of breast cancer that almost exclusively occurs in women. However, rare cases have been reported in men. Paget's disease of the breast is characterized by inflammatory, "eczema-like" changes of the nipple that may extend to involve the areola, which is the circular, darkened (pigmented) region of skin surrounding the nipple. Initial findings often include itching (pruritus), scaling, and crusting of and/or discharge from the nipple. In individuals with Paget's disease of the breast, distinctive tumor cells (known as Paget cells) are present within the outermost layer of skin (epidermis) of the nipple, when viewed under a microscope. Most women with this disorder have an underlying cancer (malignancy) affecting the milk ducts (ductal carcinoma). The milk ducts are the channels that carry milk secreted by lobes of the breast to the nipple. The exact cause of Paget's disease of the breast is not fully understood.
Paget's disease of the breast was originally reported in 1874 by Sir James Paget, an English surgeon, who also described an unrelated skeletal condition known as Paget's disease of the bone. It is essential to note that these disorders are distinct entities that are medically unrelated.
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Sony's zombie survival game H1Z1 is not DayZ, but it is similar says SOE presidentWritten by: / / 3 Comments
With the recent announcement of Sony Online Entertainment's zombie survival game, H1Z1, comparisons were immediately drawn to the similarly themed DayZ.
According to SOE president John Smedley, while some of these comparisons are accurate there's a lot that his team is putting into their massively multiplayer online game that simply isn't possible in the game from Dean Hall and Bohemia Interactive.
Following the broadcast of a planned H1Z1 stream in an early phase of development (which apparently "didn't go quite as planned,") Smedley appeared on Reddit to write about some of the features of the game and to clear the air regarding apparent inspirations taken from DayZ
By Smedley's own admission, H1Z1 has "crafting, building" and "survival aspects," all of which can be seen in games from Minecraft and DayZ, to Rust, Terraria Starbound and Starforge – nothing new there. After answering a few commonly asked questions, Smedly wrote:
"[H1Z1] is a survival in a Zombie Apocalypse game," Smedly wrote on Reddit recently. "So is Day Z. [Bohemia Interactive] have made a brilliant game (first I might add). They have a great vision for it and can count myself and most of the people on our team as fans and contributors."
Smedley continued:
"We're making the game we're making. Long term we plan on making this about a persistent world with a big landscape with thousands of players. The way we would like to see this roll out is much more like players building small enclaves or pockets of territory and hold out against a legitimate zombie threat that's ever present while others go it alone taking their chances.. These player built structures, forts and towns are one of the ways the players try to carve out some small space in a dangerous world.
"We also want to make sure we have a deep in-game economy that is heavily dependent on crafting. Players will be able to become manufacturers.. sell bullets, arrows.. etc. The in-game economy will be entirely player driven.
"So this is our take on the Zombie Apocalypse with a lot of friends and hopefully some great enemies both living and dead. We're proud to be up front and say we love Day Z and the job they've done and we hope they enjoy what we make too."
The goal, says Smedley, is to make H1Z1 "fun, accessible, hard core and super, super deep. As time goes on we hope our take on the end of the world by zombie is fun and lots of people get to try it."
Will you be giving H1Z1 a try when it hits Steam Early Access on PC, and later on PlayStation 4? Or does DayZ give you everything you need from a post-apocalypse zombie survival game?
Source: John Smedley on Reddit
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text: Just one more pumpkin for the books and this is for the chibi section. Halloween is all about having fun and doing crazy things. I wanted to do something wacky and fill another cute request on "how to draw a chibi pumpkin", step by step. Who says that chibi Halloween based stuff has to be on monsters? I say let your hair down and make some stuff that is fun, easy, original, and exciting. The finished result will be sweet because you will be surprised how cute a chibi pumpkin can be. So go ahead and tackle something entertaining, drawing a pumpkin in chibi form is exactly what I mean. Adios, peace out, aloha, or good-bye, however you want to say it, enjoy.


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I'm trying to improve my c++ coding technique by reading c++ source code. Which open source project would you recommend? Is the code of Boost C++ Libraries a good one?
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I would recommend any of Google's open source C++ code, such as the following:
Advantages of using Google code:
The Google C++ Style Guide that Google's C++ code uses is generally good, but it does have some fairly unusual bits (such as some of their naming guidelines or their disallowing exceptions), so keep in mind that their C++ code will differ in those respects from what you'll see in the field.
I wouldn't recommend reading a code base. I'd recommend reading C++ FAQS. There's also an excellent book that goes along with the site. Best way to improve your C++ coding skills.
I would suggest reading the "Effective C++" by Scott Meyers and using the suggestions he has in little toy programs.
Reading existing clean C++ code is a great way to learn the language.
The code in the OpenFST toolkit is very clean, for example. It is readable and uses slightly advanced features without going overboard.
Boost, on the other hand, can be a bit hard to read, partly because they use C++ tricks that are hard to understand and because they often sprinkle the code with different workarounds for different compiler versions.
Try reading something that has been existing for years and is large in size. It will take a few months of time to start to understand the code and getting to do something in it.
Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice come to the mind. There should be many more similar ones too. These projects run on many operating systems and hardware platforms. Also, they have to score on readability. These could should you the techniques you look for.
Even better than reading the code would be to work with that code in form of fixing bugs and adding small improvements here and there. Pick some program, preferably one you have use for, sign up to the mailing list, start going through their bug tracker and try to diagnose some bugs. Ask on the mailing list if you find solution for something whether it's reasonable or when you get stuck. That will give you some specific goals when reading the code, force you to really understand and is what you'll be doing most of the time in any work.
You can perhaps look at some KDE application. Most are written in C++ and you can start with some smaller one first.
Yes, the code of Boost C++ Libraries is a great resource to learn from, if not one of the best on the Planet. However, for a novice, learning from Boost code may make learning curve very steep. If you really want to try reading Boost, start with some small and simple libraries like Boost.Array.
Try reading the C++ PDF. It's free, and I learned C++ from it, even though I had no other programming experience, and I'm only 14. Amazing.


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What should a parent do to intervene in a relationship with an important relative and a child? For example, if it is readily apparent that your child doesn't like her grandmother, even if the child doesn't verbalize it what should the parent do?
What if a relative (the same or another) doesn't like your child?
How do you foster the idea that a child must not allow her feelings to create a lack of respect for the relative, for example when the relative is leaving the house the child must say goodbye in an appropriate way.
IMHO Peter is overthinking this.
Don't worry about feelings, worry about behavior. Insist that your child behave properly, and if someone is behaving poorly to your child, let your child know that it isn't their fault and that they still need to behave properly.
1 - Child doesn't like someone else
Do not try to manage your child's feelings. All you should expect from child is to treat others with courtesy and respect. They don't have to like crazy Aunt June, but the dislike should not be obvious.
However, talk to your child and probe into what is going on. It may be silly ("She smells funny"), or it may be chilling ("She yells at me"). Do not take your child's concerns lightly, and do not force your child into uncomfortable situations beyond common courtesy.
2 - Someone else doesn't like your child.
Obviously, you can't do anything about what crazy Aunt June thinks of your child, unless your kid is obnoxious and Aunt June is right. What you need to do however, is work with your child on the idea that not everyone is going to like them, and that is perfectly OK.
3 - Common Courtesy
This is actually the tough part ... you must continually impress upon your child the concept that everyone is to be treated with courtesy and respect, and you must teach what that means in terms of behavior. Whether they like the person, or the person likes them, or the person treats them poorly, the person is to be treated with courtesy and respect.
I am afraid courtesy is a dying concept, and that is a shame.
A lot depends on the details. Who is the relative, what is his/her relationship with the parents and/or other family members? Some families may have hidden, suppressed - or even open - tensions or conflicts between members. E.g. a mother-in-law may - secretly or openly - feel that she has been robbed of her son by her daughter-in-law. Etc, etc. Children can sense such tensions even if adults are hush-hush about these, and react upon them, even unconsciously. If there are such issues in the family, raising them to the light and resolving them properly may eventually solve the child's symptoms too.
In general, I believe the best approach is to accept it. We may try to talk with the child about why (s)he dislikes the adult in question, but - depending on her age - we may not get much useful information out of her. The person in question is also better accept it and keep the (physical / emotional / social) distance set up by the child. Follow her, be relaxed and be ready to accept any future communication attempt, but not force contact.
The parents may want to ensure some minimum level of politeness and social contact, such as that the child must greet everyone properly, regardless of likes and dislikes. But that, again, is case specific. When I was a kid, there were adults in our family and among my parents' friends whom I plainly refused to greet, or get in contact with. My parents accepted the situation then. I still managed to learn the value of greeting people since then, and nowadays I greet everyone sincerely, out of my own will, not just because it is "polite".
I think we should try to get to a healthy balance here. Obviously, raising a child to be totally unaware of social conventions is not good. At the opposite extreme, forcing him/her to be always polite and nice with everyone, effectively making her totally repress her internal feelings and thoughts, is not good either. Fair enough, every society is doing this to its members to a lesser or greater extent, so we can't fully avoid it, just strive to find the right balance between national / family culture, ourselves and the child in question.
Well that's a sensitive one. My feeling is, if that relative is important to you, and you have a good relationship with him/her, (s)he will probably more understanding. If she is not understanding, and reacts in an irresponsible way to your child, you may prefer keeping a distance to her anyway. I think in some cases the least worst option is just to try to minimize the occasions when you (and/or your child) need to be with such a relative.
This depends on the child's age - a younger child acts purely out of feeling, and has no concept of "respect", much less "social conventions" or "dignity". To such a child, I would just say that we greet people when we meet or depart, period. Even those adults whom we may not particularly like. Now this is a sticky issue, because children usually are very sensitive to any discrepancy between our words and our own inner feelings. So I would definitely not pretend liking that relative if that is not the case. However, explicitly mentioning in the company of a smaller child that I don't like aunt Maggie is risky too, because I may end up hearing my exact words shouted out in the middle of the next great family reunion :-(
So the best approach may be to consistently stick to a rule, and explain only as much of the background as necessary for the kid (if (s)he is specifically asking about it), on the appropriate level. Actually, in my experience, they often are very understanding on a subconscious level and don't ask those embarrassing questions openly.