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Fashion represents your self – you know, like your own personality. It's your first impression. When someone sees you, they don't speak to you first. They just look at you first. Every day you wake up, I feel like you're your own brand. If you wake up and you're in pajamas every day, they're going to be like "Hey, that's the guy in pajamas."
How do you describe your style?
I wouldn't just put myself in a box. With the different type of events that I do, I kind of don't have a choice but to have different types of styles. It's more so dress up with the bow tie, belt, and the shoes to match. That's my style: urban casual.
What are your favorite pieces?
Cargo shorts and cargo pants, hands down. You can just fit everything on you and being a DJ, you might have extra wires and you can just put them in your cargo pocket…. A lot of the times, I do usually have CDs or cards on me or something like that, so it just makes it a lot more accessible to have cargos on. … If I had a choice, I'd wear them all the time.
Where is your favorite place to shop?
I shop at a place called Established on Muhammad Ali (Blvd. between 3rd and 2nd streets). It's a boutique. They've been open up for two years now, and my buddies run it. I don't want to go with the following fad that's out, so I just take a little bit of what's out and put my own spin to it.
Who is your fashion icon?
I look at everyone, and I'll be like, of course I can't afford a Versace shirt … so I'll take all of those – everything I see whether it be from TV or someone out and about – and I really just try and infuse it the way that I want.
Fashion is fun, but you're about so much more.
With being a DJ, people see you and just think you play records…Or they think you're the person to get the party started. Music is something that touches everybody no matter what race, color or culture, and it has the ability to change moods. With that being said, (at) the recent Love Louisville: Beecher Terrace event, I wasn't going to go in there playing any type of derogatory things, but we had a lot of fun. We played a lot of dance music like "The Wobble," "The Stanky Leg," "The Cha Cha Slide," "The Cupid Shuffle" – anything to make (the people) feel good.
At that point in time … you could see people's faces who were not worried about anything that's going on whether it might be a bill or anything else. That's my whole reason why I like to play records. Yes, I want people to hear new music, but I just really want to – sounds corny but – touch people. To sum it up, if you're having a bad day, at that moment of time when you're chilling with DJ Z-Nyce, I just want all your worries to go away.


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Hi there. I am hoping you can help me. I had a what was supposed to be a vertical hood piercing in September. As I was browsing your website today I realized mine may have been done incorrectly, or I was not given the piercing I asked for. My piercing not only includes my hood but also the top skin where my inner labia meets. Is this correct? Also you say this piercing shouldn't cause much pain, but I've gotta say childbirth was more pleasurable!!!! Did this guy totally screw me up? I can send a pic if necessary. Thanks for your time and hopefully your help............ Julie
I went ahead and got pierced last week (VCH), and it is doing pretty well. I just have a couple more questions for you. I am still researching stuff on the vch and there was one place that said 16 gauge is to small for a genital piercing, and that you aren't suppose to have a hoop in when you heal... Well the ring I have is 16 gauge. Is that a problem? If so can you advise me on a gauge size and jewelry type?
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Hi. I found your site while looking for info. and thought I'd see if you could answer a question. I just had a horizontal hood piercing fall out for the second time. (second piercing) Niether time have I been able to locate my hole and put the ring back in. This time I had a horseshoe barbell and the balls were still on it when it fell out. Is it possible that this piecing grew out? Should I not go for a third attempt? I miss it already!
Hi, I would be grateful if you could give me some advice regarding penis piercings. I have just realised that my boyfriends piercing has come off during sex. i found the hoop part to it, but could not find the ball part. I would be grateful if you could offer me some advice as to what I should do next.
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I am thinking about getting a VHC piercing. . . I read your article about genital piercing and I wanted to thank you for making that information available to everyone.
I am hoping that this piercing will help me break free from the self imposed chains on my sexuality. I'm not sure why or how it happened but, over the years I became extremely sensitive to the derogatory things men would say about a woman's body. Even acts of innocent school boy humor would cripple me in my mind. I felt shameful of my less-than-perfect breasts and weird looking vagina which caused me to be very guarded during sex, even in a committed relationship.
In the past I have always shielded my body from others eyes, from embarrassment. However, I am now with someone who for some reason sparked me to work on my mental and emotional problems with my sexuality. In just a few shorts months I have improved greatly. I am starting to realize that everyone is different looking and that no one looks like a porn start with a perfect, hairless, tan and pink vagina with hardly any labia. I am starting to adapt a new idea of "normal" which is that there is no such thing and that if you love someone you will love everything about them, even if it's different or strange. I feel as if this piercing could be very beneficial for my process of reclaiming pride in my body and sexuality.
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Two players alternately write O's (first player) and X's (second player) in the unoccupied cells of an n x n grid. The first player (if any) to occupy some transversal (i.e., a set of n cells having no two cells in the same row or column) is the winner. What is the outcome of the game given best possible play by both players?
Every game like this, in which moving is always an advantage and the winning conditions are symmetric, is won or drawn by the first player. See strategy-stealing argument. In this case, although it is possible to get a draw (one player fills up one column and the other player fills up another column, for instance), it looks difficult enough to do so that I suspect the result is a first player win. Of course, this is not the same as finding an explicit winning strategy.
Unless my code is wrong (always a real possibility) the 4x4 case is a first player win.
Vincent Vatter suggested looking at the related game where X wins by building a permutation, and O wins otherwise (i.e. by blocking a permutation). Note that in this game, O does not win simply by forming a permutation, but only by blocking X from doing so.
The reason for looking at this game is that it's relatively easy to see that if X wins the modified game, both as first and second player in some size $k$, then she also does so in size $k+1$. The hope would then be to show that the outcomes of the two games are related somehow.
As Michael Albert mentioned, an interesting variant is when X wins by building a permutation, while O wins only by preventing X from building a permutation. (The standard term for such a game is maker-breaker.)
According to my coding (which should not be regarded as infallible), X wins this game on a $4\times 4$ grid both when X goes first and when O goes first. By a straight-forward inductive argument, this implies that X wins the maker-breaker game on an $n\times n$ grid for all $n\ge 4$.
The question remains of whether this has anything to do with the version of the game posed by Martin, where both X and O are trying to build permutations.
Unless I am missing something, the game will always end in a loss for both players. In the case n=2, the second player plays on the same diagonal as the first player. For larger n, the penultimate move of player 2 is to block the unique winning move determined by player 1's first (n-1) moves. Player 1's last move would then be to block player 2's winning move, if one exists.
This is based on my reading of the rules, which tells me that every configuration of n+1 marks of one player loses, that marks are not overwritten or replaced once made, and that each players places only one mark during their turn.
Gerhard "Ask Me About System Design" Paseman, 2010.06.26
This question can be phrased in terms of (0,1)-matrix permanents. Player 1 places copies of the number 1 and player 2 places copies of the number 0, and empty cells count as 0. Player 1 wants to achieve a non-zero permanent.
Permuting the rows and columns, or taking the matrix transpose gives an equivalent game.
EDIT: I was actually quite surprised at how easy it is for the o's to make a losing mistake! Consider the position on the left in the diagram below (after 4 o's have been placed and 3 x's have been placed, with x to move). An equivalent position seems like a very natural position to arise. Surprisingly, x can force the win from here! I put in yellow the forced moves by o (otherwise x goes in that square and o loses).
Consequently, o has made a mistake in allowing the first position above, and can win instead as illustrated in the following sketch, for example.


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Introduction: Exploit Outlook Form Regions. If you are a managed developer (e.g. Windows Forms) then you'll find that you already have the skills for extending Microsoft Office applications with your code. Visual Studio 2008 makes it really easy and that is what I demonstrate in this 15' video. For other resources, start at my blog post here.
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The download link doesn't seem to be working.
I've downloaded your other VSTO screencasts fine - it is just this one that is problematic.
I have a question. Is it possible in Outlook 2007 to add a custom folder at root level (At the same level of 'Personal Folders', 'Archive Folders' etc) ?
If yes, How ?
And then is it possible to add Outlook Form Region for the click of this custom folder.
I would really appreciate any help.
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Sources: Reuters, Guardian
quote: Some politicians are calling him a traitor! Really? He disclosed classified info.
quote: He's also taken a world tour of pretty much every Communist country.
quote: He could have handed over that thumb-drive to a US Representative and made his case, and he wouldn't have violated his oath in doing so.
quote: Those reps are bound by the same oath he was
quote: Uhhh Congress and NSA employees have different oaths, technically speaking.
quote: We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted section 215 of the Patriot Act. As we see it, there is now a significant gap between what most Americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows. This is a problem, because it is impossible to have an informed public debate about what the law should say when the public doesn't know what its government thinks the law says.
quote: He hasn't told any direct government anything.
quote: You know damn well any US paper or politician would be labeled a traitor and destroyed.
quote: Sounds familiar? It should. It's the first result when you google search "Facism".
quote: Actually no he disclosed classified info to news papers. Which he's working with in conjunction to make sure no *specific* americans are getting hurt, just the system in general. He hasn't told any direct government anything.
quote: If he wanted money, he wouldn't have quit his job and gave up his life.
quote: he could have just sold the information to China and be living like a king right now in China. Also explain why he just retracted his asylum request for Russia just because Putin said the condition for him to stay is not to leak any more information
quote: Whatever info he got is the only thing keeping him alive.


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Hi guys.
I have my video but now I'm attempting to add an audio track to it in which I talk about the things shown in the video. But how do I do this best?
I think, I'd like to be able to watch the video while recording my voice and to stop/continue watching and recording at the same time or so. (How) Can I do this with Kdenlive? Or maybe you've got better ideas on how to do that?
(I'm aiming to make a video, generally similar to ViHart's videos (see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIVIegSt81k). How does/would she probably do that?)
Thanks in advance.
Mon, 12/24/2012 - 07:51
You can record using Sound recorder or Audactiy and watch in the project monitor at the same time. Then you can save your audio file from Sound Recorder or Audacity and import it into Kdnenlive as an audio clip.
This works.
Mon, 12/24/2012 - 14:41
"it could be much nicer if this worked in kdenlive itself directly…"
There is actually a mantis enhancement request on this marked as resolved.
Which states:
"Under the "Record monitor", choose FFmeg capture and enable audio only. You can then play your project and press the Record button in rec monitor. "
So you could try this and report back.
This method does not work for me. Under my setup - where I have no web cam - record monitor says "Cannot read from device. Please check drivers and access rights." - see http://www.kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2891
Mon, 12/24/2012 - 15:18
That is crazy. I just added mantis bug http://www.kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2891 to report that it would be good to have audio capture even if there are no video capture devices. And then just now I notice commit 270875c57cdb0b1bf527357b2037657603994ade "23 Dec 00:07 - Allow recording audio even if no video capture device is detected"
Sat, 12/29/2012 - 14:32
I can confirm that 0.9.3+git20121227 does Allow recording audio even if no video capture device is detected. However, if you record and then switch to project monitor your recording stops. So you can not use it to record voice over and play the track while you record it. Contrary to what http://www.kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=757 says should happen. I have raised a mantis defect on this.
Sun, 12/30/2012 - 00:09
Less than 24hrs later JBM reports he has fixed the http://www.kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2910 issue I raised on voice over video. I have not had a chance to test it yet. The Sunab PPA has not been updated for a few days. And I dunno if I can summon the effort to do a build from git.
But that JBM is a busy bee. Wow.
Mon, 12/31/2012 - 06:37
Sunabs PPA has been updated and I have now tested the voice over recording fix and it works. There is one outstanding little issue with it. - If you were last on the clip monitor tab then go to record monitor and start audio recording and then click the project monitor tab - then it fails. You don't go to project monitor and the audio recording stops.
But it does work if you start on the project monitor tab (don't have to have the project playing) and then go to the record monitor and start recording and then go back to project monitor then that works fine.
However, JBM indicates he may have fixed this issue too. I have not tested that.


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Who needs the cervical cancer vaccine? How many doses? What about side effects? Get answers to these questions and more.
Most cervical cancers are caused by the sexually transmitted infection human papillomavirus (HPV). Widespread HPV immunization, however, could reduce the impact of cervical cancer worldwide. Here, Bobbie S. Gostout, M.D., an HPV infection expert and gynecologic surgeon at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., discusses the cervical cancer vaccine.
Various strains of HPV, which spread through sexual contact, cause most cases of cervical cancer. Two cervical cancer vaccines have Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in the U.S. — Gardasil, for girls and boys, and Cervarix, for girls only. Both vaccines can prevent most cases of cervical cancer if given before a girl or woman is exposed to the virus.
In addition, both can prevent vaginal and vulvar cancer in women, and Gardasil can prevent genital warts and anal cancer in women and men. In theory, vaccinating boys against HPV might also help protect girls from the virus by possibly decreasing transmission.
The cervical cancer vaccine is recommended for girls and boys ages 11 to 12, although it can be given as early as age 9. It's important for girls and boys to receive the vaccine before they have sexual contact and are exposed to HPV. Once infected with HPV, the vaccine might not be as effective or might not work at all. Also, response to the vaccine is better at younger ages than it is at older ages.
If the three-dose series of vaccines isn't completed by ages 11 to 12, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that girls and women through age 26 and boys and men through age 21 receive the vaccine. However, men can receive the HPV vaccine through age 26 if desired.
Both vaccines are given as a series of three injections over a six-month period. The second dose is given one to two months after the first dose, and the third dose is given six months after the first dose.
The cervical cancer vaccine isn't recommended for pregnant women or people who are moderately or severely ill. Tell your doctor if you have any severe allergies, including an allergy to yeast or latex. Also, if you've had a life-threatening allergic reaction to any component of the vaccine or to a previous dose of the vaccine, you shouldn't get the vaccine.
Yes. It's possible that, even if you already have HPV, you could still benefit from the vaccine. However, Gardasil and Cervarix don't treat HPV infection and only protect you from specific strains of HPV to which you haven't been exposed.
Overall, the effects are usually mild. The most common side effects of both HPV vaccines include soreness at the injection site (the arm), headaches and low-grade fever. Sometimes dizziness or fainting occurs after the injection. Remaining seated for 15 minutes after the injection can reduce the risk of fainting. In addition, Cervarix might also cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or abdominal pain.
The CDC and the FDA continue to monitor the vaccines for unusual or severe problems.
The cervical cancer vaccine — either Gardasil or Cervarix — is part of the routine childhood vaccines schedule. Whether or not a vaccine becomes a school enrollment requirement is decided on a state-by-state basis.
Yes. The cervical cancer vaccine isn't intended to replace Pap tests. Routine screening for cervical cancer through regular Pap tests remains an essential part of a woman's preventive health care.
HPV spreads through sexual contact. To protect yourself from HPV, use a condom every time you have sex. In addition, don't smoke. Smoking doubles the risk of cervical cancer.
To detect cervical cancer in the earliest stages, see your health care provider for regular Pap tests. Seek prompt medical attention if you notice any signs or symptoms of cervical cancer — vaginal bleeding after sex, between periods or after menopause, pelvic pain, or pain during sex.
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5 Weapon Myths You Probably Believe (Thanks to Movies)
We all know that war is hell: It is an unrelenting barrage of horror and tragedy, and lots of people die screaming in the mud. It's always been that way, back to the birth of man -- but hey, it sure looks cool, doesn't it? Without war, we wouldn't have clashing sword duels or high-stakes dogfights or raging action heroes mowing down wave after wave of ethnic stereotypes. Well, you might want to put on some comfy pants and get out a tub of consolation ice cream, because we're about to let you way, way down. Turns out real war looks nothing like the movies, and for the most part, it's just a bunch of quiet people concentrating really hard until it's time to push a button.
#5. Real Sniping Is Way More Math Than Eagle Eyes
The Scene:
The sniper is the one military role that video games might actually adequately prepare us for. It's mostly lying down far away from the fight, lining bad-guy faces up with the scope and using some simple hand/eye coordination to blow them away. Even super realistic movies like The Hurt Locker don't make it look all that different from playing a game of Callfield: Battleduty.
"Hell, this 'Iraq' bullshit looks easy."
The Reality:
Actual sniping is less about lining up the cross hairs and more about having a complex understanding of physics. It's one thing to shoot a guy standing 20, 50 or 100 feet away. It's another thing entirely to make that shot from 1.5 miles away, as Canadian sniper Rob Furlong did.
At that distance, you have to take wind resistance into account, because it's going to slow your bullet down. And you also have to keep in mind that your bullet will drop while it's in flight. Furlong's shot may have taken up to four seconds to hit, and dropped 256 feet on its way to hitting that terrorist. This means that he had to aim several hundred feet above the head of his target to make that shot. Wind resistance and drop aren't the only things to keep in mind, either. Gunpowder burns at a higher rate when it's cold and a lower rate when it's warm, which causes bullets to hit high in warm weather and low in cold weather. And while you're checking on the weather, make sure to pay attention to the elevation -- the thin air at higher altitudes makes your bullets fly faster and flatter.
"Sir, I'm packing up. All I've shot in the last four hours are two scientists, a climber and a few penguins."
Sounding a lot more complicated now? Because we haven't even gotten into how the length and "twist" of the barrel will affect your shots. Or how the rotation of the Earth can mess things up. Snipers aren't deadly because they carry the biggest guns; they're deadly because they've learned how to weaponize math.
Furlong didn't do something as trivial as point a stick really well; he figured out the calculations necessary to arrive at the coefficient of death in the middle of a goddamn gunfight. Now, he didn't do it entirely in his head: Professional snipers have cheat sheets of data and theorems that inform their shots. They also often assemble DOPE logs (Data on Personal Equipment) to catalog and compensate for all the little variables in their own equipment. But whether or not they're using cheat sheets, a shot is not just pulling the trigger -- it's factoring in an astronomical number of variables and arriving at a mathematically sound solution, and then using that math to explode somebody else's head.
#4. Every Hollywood Sword Fight Would End With a Broken Sword
The Scene:
Wait, what could you "get wrong" about sword fighting? There aren't that many ways to swing a sharp piece of metal at another person. Check out scenes like this fight from Kingdom of Heaven:
Or this classic melee from Kill Bill:
Or any of the wonderful duels in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
Looks good to us. We watch those scenes and think "That is indeed how I would swing a sharp piece of metal at another person. This checks out."
The Reality:
Here's the thing about swords or, really, any blade: When they hit too many hard things, they stop being sharp. In real life, those photogenic edge-to-edge parries quickly turn razor-sharp blades into glorified crowbars. They also cause extreme stress to the metal, which can easily snap a blade in half. All of this probably explains why medieval and renaissance fencing manuals devote zero time to the edge-on-edge parry -- seriously, they devote more attention to accessorizing frilly pantaloons than stationary sword blocking.
"And then, bam: Now you have two knives instead of one sword!"
Check out this video of a Viking-era re-enactment sword fight. Note how physical the fight is, how much they use their shields and how neither of their swords ever makes contact:
But what about those armored medieval knights with their big, fuck-all, split-a-dude-in-half swords? Those blades aren't fragile flowers -- surely they could just hammer away at each other, right? Apparently not: Most of their fighting styles avoided contacting blades whenever possible.
Instead of Princess Bride-style elegant sword dancing, it turns out most real sword fighting looked more like your standard bar fight and sounded like somebody tied a bunch of tin cans to the back of a car.
#3. Dogfights Are Visually Unimpressive
The Scene:
After Iceman's wingman gets shot down, Maverick is sent in to help save the day. The result is a sick-ass dogfight with the planes flying all around each other and blowing crap up while Kenny Loggins hollers lyrics about danger and highways because nobody told him that this was a jet movie. (Or more likely, because you can't pay Kenny Loggins enough to care. About anything. Dude's a total nihilist.)
"What did I just fucking tell you about clapping while I'm trying to work?"
The Reality:
Unfortunately, in modern dogfighting, even the "up close and personal" battles still deal with distances of several miles. The short-distance missile that most U.S. fighter jets use is the Sidewinder, which still has a minimum range of 0.6 miles. That's right: Their "emergency shotgun" close-distance weapon is still only good at more than a half-mile away. Most fights are across much larger distances than that. In 1989, two F-14s shot down two Libyan MiGs. The closest they got to each other was 1.5 nautical miles, and that was only after the missiles shot from 14 nautical miles missed. To give you a sense of perspective, here's what it looked like in Top Gun:
Looks like all that womp rat practice finally paid off.
And here's that same plane as it would look through the HUD of a fighter, 1.5 miles away:
Damn, game designers could get away with using way fewer pixels.
Somehow, it doesn't seem quite as pulse-pounding when the bad guy you're battling to the death could be mistaken for a stubborn piece of dirt on the windscreen.
And remember: That speck is close range.
"Far range" is not visible to the naked eye, and that's what most aerial battles look like: Something shows up on a computer, a jet fires a missile at seemingly nothing and then, a few minutes later, something blows up somewhere that you cannot see. It's less like "high-stakes plane jockeying" and more like "filing a request for death" that another department, miles away, might or might not grant.


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There are some odd checks in isvaliddouble() - you might want to think these through with a few example valid doubles. Why is it valid if it's one character long? Why do you need to check if it's one character long more than once? Why is the string valid if you come across a non-digit number? And, critically, what about the decimal separator?
Why are i and start double instead of int?
I'm not a fan of using exception handling instead of "else". However I can see that this could arguably be an exception so if you've been told to use exception handling then leave it in. Otherwise just use else.
Why are (complete entries) "+" and "-" valid? What would the value of these be? Zero?
You call atof() anyway, completely ignoring the return value of isvaliddouble(). Probably if isvaliddouble() returns FALSE you would want to skip the conversion and do something other than return a double - maybe return an error code indicating whether or not the conversion happened and pass in a pointer to a double, which would be used if the validity check passes.
Have you been told to write code to validate the double? atof() implements error checking so if you haven't been explicitly instructed to write code to perform double validation, you could just use the error checking built into atof().
You only check for a sign once but what about scientific notation? +1.2345e+5 is a valid number (and atof converts it correctly to 123450).


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Braised Turkey with Vegetables
Categories: Big-Batch Meals, Comfort Foods, Entertaining, Kid-friendly
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
Braised turkey and vegetables are a cinch to make and yummy to eat.
Prep Time: 30M
Cooking Time: 40M
Serves: Serves 8
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp butter
- 4 turkey breast fillets (skin on)
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 onions, sliced
- 2 carrots, sliced
- 1 fennel bulb, sliced
- a few fresh tarragon leaves, roughly chopped
- 2 cups hot chicken stock
- handful of fresh flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped, to serve
- zest of 1 lemon, grated, to serve
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- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Heat the oil and butter in a large frying pan, season the turkey, then cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes, or until lightly browned all over. Transfer to a shallow casserole dish.
- Add the vegetables and tarragon and season again. Pour stock almost to the top of the dish, but not enough to cover the ingredients. Cover with a lid and cook in the oven for 40 minutes, or until the turkey and vegetables are tender.
- Let cool completely, then remove the turkey with a slotted spoon, discard the skin, and slice the meat. Transfer to a freezer-proof container, add the sauce and vegetables, and make sure the turkey is well-covered in the sauce-pour in a little cooled stock if it isn't. Seal and freeze for up to 3 months.
- To serve, defrost overnight in the refrigerator, then transfer to a large pan and heat gently for 15-20 minutes, or until piping hot. Top with the parsley and lemon zest and serve with a pinch of freshly ground black pepper.
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Make the most of your space. This set's dresser has a clean, sharp look with five roomy drawers. Towers on either side can store books, desk accessories and everyday essentials. Four cubbies in the overhead hutch are perfect for keeping smaller items.
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- Overall: 42" wide x 21" deep x 37" high
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- Bottom Drawer Interior (3): 39" wide x 15" deep x 5.25" high
- Distance Drawers Extend: 11"
- Overall: 42" wide x 15.5" deep x 12" high
- Cubby Interior (4): 9.5" wide x 13.5" deep x 10" high
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Table gaming bill passage looking doubtful
April 9, 2013
WHEELING - Citing a lack of support in the House of Delegates, Jim Simms said the bill to reduce annual table gambling fees by $1 million is "very unlikely to pass....
A casino provides all around services to the gambler and it truly isn't a casino with out table games. A grocery store provides items to it's customers. some of the items don't make nearly as much profit as some of the other items but if you want your customers to shop at your store you need to provide all of the items that people go to the grocery store for. the casino already has special treatment that other businesses do not have such as the smoking laws. It's completely unfair to force other business to obey the smoking laws and let the casino do what ever they want. If they drop the table games the customers who want the all around casino experience will just go else where just like the shopper who likes one stop grocery shopping. this is business 101 is it not?
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It's NOT ! The fees paid are a "cover all" for table games, or "one size fits" all.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of gambling...... FACT is....
WHY should Wheeling have to pay the same fee for 40 tables, (that rarely get used), compared to the other casinos that PAY the equal amount, and have 60 tables crowded ?
Your grocery store comparison is "offbase", and down right silly LOL 8)
Except for take out beer and smokes, GROCERY STORES don't have to PAY an "unreasonable fee" for a license to sell meat, bread, canned goods etc.....
UGMF, check your facts before your next mundane, inaccurate post.
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Trying to get govt to give up revenue is like trying to make a liberal understand capitalism. Ain't gonna happen.
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The brand name pays for shelf space. I actually agree that the 2.5 million fee is rediculous. maybe they should do it by how many tables the room has. The actual tax %age should not be reduced. also their blackmailing saying they will have to fire employees if they shut down table games. are they going to guarantee those employees a job if they get a better deal on the fee? Of course not..if business is down as they say they will still lay off the employees. i would be in favor of changing the fee if they guarantee a certain amount of the jobs. the tax payer shouldn't be footing the bill for a casinos employees so I'm against a tax reduction. casinos do bring prostitution and drugs into an area. Police have to be paid to keep the crime down on the island and there certainly is a lot of it.
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5 Absurd Sci-Fi Scenarios Science is Actually Working On
#2. Iris Scanning/Invasive Advertising Is Here Now
The Sci-Fi Premise:
In Minority Report, Tom Cruise is a wanted man who needs to clear his name by playing with huge touch screens and doing lots and lots of running. In one scene, Cruise undergoes black market eye-replacement surgery -- not to swap his out for a less crazy pair, but because the cities of the future come equipped with hidden iris-scanning technology to identify fugitives on the run.
It replaced the less accurate "Pinky-swear you're not a fugitive" test.
And in the future Earth of Minority Report, that technology is everywhere -- billboards even use it to say your name and make personalized sales pitches as you walk by. It's not just Big Brother that electronically tracks your every step, it's Lexus.
The Reality:
So, how far off do you think this technology is? Minority Report took place in a weird future full of psychics and impractically futuristic cars and force field guns. That film was set in 2054, but governments and advertisers in the real world certainly aren't going to wait that long.
"But I want to sublimate consumers nowwwwwww!"
In fact, the city of Leon, Mexico, partnered with biometrics firm Global Rainmakers Inc. to install iris scanners throughout their city in an attempt to make it the "most secure city in the world." While the firm is busily installing their Big Brother boxes all over the city, the city is building an iris database, starting with criminals -- the idea being that if, say, a wanted man tries to escape by plane, iris scanners at the airport will find and track him, allowing security and police to easily detain him. But to make sure regular law-abiding citizens don't feel left out, they can have their irises scanned into the database, too -- presumably to make it easier to check into places on Facebook. Jeff Carter, CDO of GRI and former member of a think tank involving Bank of America, Harvard and MIT, predicts that "Every person, place, and thing will be connected [to the iris system] within the next 10 years."
We're a little disappointed that none of them go all Clockwork Orange on your eyelids.
While that's all well and good ("well and good" in this case meaning "pants-pissingly terrifying"), it's not the final step. What about those creepy-ass personalized ads? Well, Tokyo, for example, has installed billboards that examine the faces of those looking at them to determine that person's age and gender, and then adjust the advertisement on the billboard to something targeted at that demographic.
And this isn't going to be restricted to Tokyo, either. America, sick and tired of being out-crazied by the Japanese, will soon have it as well, thanks to Immersive Labs, who plan on implementing the technology in busy sections of major American cities. While the facial scanners won't identify the specific person looking at the ad -- yet -- they will determine what "consumer category" they fall under and present content tailored to that person's predicted tastes.
"AdGuess predicts that you would like a hug."
It's like the ads on Facebook, only way more embarrassing, because everyone around you can point and snicker when a billboard assumes you're clearly in the market for a Fleshlight.
#1. Designer Baby Clinics Are Already on the Way
The Sci-Fi Premise:
In the future envisioned in the biopunk thriller Gattaca, old-fashioned racism and homophobia have made way for a new, innovative form of prejudice, thanks to the existence of clinics that allow parents to maximize the genetic potential of their children.
"With the Economy Package, the best we can guarantee is 'gas station attendant' or 'stripper.'"
While a world in which the genetically engineered among us look like Uma Thurman and Jude Law and the non-engineered among us still get to look like Ethan Hawke doesn't seem like such an awful place to live, this "build your own baby" scenario is still unsettling -- a baby is supposed to be the natural product of either two adults who love each other or two adults who make bad decisions while stinking drunk. Anything else is trying to play God.
The Reality:
Based in Los Angeles, the Fertility Institute plans to use methods originally designed to check your unborn child for disease risk to allow you to select your child's sex, hair color and eye color. Blond hair and blue eyes for everyone! Well, those who can afford it, anyway.
Welp, that about wraps it up for gingers.
Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg heads the Fertility Institute and claims that the science is so fundamentally sound that in the very near future, we'll be able to decide on a baby's sex with 100 percent accuracy and eye color with 80 percent accuracy. And apparently, he's right. Even doctors who think he's exaggerating his timeline still admit that what he's claiming is not only possible, but inevitable.
The next question is, of course, why stop at superficial things like hair color? Do you think for one second that nobody is going to take advantage of all of the world's rich people who are willing to pay good money to make sure their kid is a tall, beautiful, genius Olympic athlete? That's right; in the future, the rich kids won't just have the best jobs, they'll have the best bodies and brains as well. In the meantime, those whose parents couldn't afford to make them members of the master race will have even more limited mobility, since they'll have to compete for jobs and opportunities with people who have literally every advantage over them from birth.
Every advantage.
Then again, with looks, intelligence and physical traits all up for in vitro upgrades in the near future, those of us with puny, non-scienced-up genes can at least look forward to watching some unparalleled modeling, sports and Jeopardy! on TV. So ... win-win, we guess?
To read about a sci-fi scenario that hopefully doesn't come true, download Joe Oliveto's post-apocalyptic short story for the Kindle. You can also follow his blog.
For more science fiction that's becoming reality, check out 5 Famous Sci-Fi Weapons That They're Actually Building and 6 Eerily Specific Inventions Predicted in Science Fiction.


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As a fair-weather walker I frequently find myself on routes that have suffered from erosion due to the large numbers of people hiking along them. I wish to cause the least possible amount of further problems of this sort and I wondered what was the best way? Ought I to stick to the worn path, minimising the extent of the damage, or bypass the badly-affected areas, minimising the intensity of the erosion. Or is there some other better way?
The only real way to stop erosion is of course not to walk on them at all - but that's not really a viable solution per se!
Realistically, I'd stick to the marked, worn path. Most people will do that anyway, so you'll be treading on well worn ground which has two main advantages over trudging elsewhere:
There's no real hard and fast rule of course and some people's strategies may differ. The other thing to remember is that a lot of erosion is seasonal, and therefore not as bad as you might think - in summer for instance, paths tend to get eroded a lot, but in the less popular walking seasons they're often repaired and recover.
The Leave No Trace (LNT) principles actually cover footpath erosion and give specific guidelines to minimize the impact of hikers on trails.
First and foremost, travel on the trail.
Second, choose where you thread on a basis of durability. How much will the ground you are walking on be affected by your footsteps?
In order of Most to least durable:
I have no direct evidence to support this, but I believe that wearing minimalistic shoes like moccasins or Vibram toe shoes reduces trail damage, as does learning to walk and run barefoot.
Soft-soled shoes conform to the terrain rather than gouging in. You also learn to walk with less impact when wearing this kind of shoe.
Going barefoot, even if not while actually hiking, teaches one not to twist, drag, or skid his feet as this will cause blisters. Once learned this smoother motion should carry over to hiking as well, at least in soft shoes that are conducive to the stride.


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February 18, 2011
Creative Cape Town: Responsible Tourism Week meets Design Indaba
Photo courtesy Design Indaba
Right on the tail of Responsible Tourism Week – which has been all about citizens designing the future of the Mother City, making it a more connected community to live in and a more meaningful place to visit – comes Design Indaba. This signature event on the international creative calendar is coming in live and large, first in the form of a conference (which boasts top international talent like Alberto Alessi) from February 23 to 25, and then a curated expo of incredible local design from February 25 to 27, all at Cape Town International Convention Centre.
Started in 1995 around the idea of how to make a better world through creativity, Design Indaba is the premier platform of its kind and not something you want to miss. Especially in the run up to the city's 2014 World Design Capital bid.
If you can't attend the conference itself – which has now sold out – you can still catch the live simulcast if you're in Jozi or eKapa.
Other things to watch out for?
The silver screen launch of the Massive Change Network on February 24 at Freeworld Design Centre.
What's that?
A critical mass of creatives looking to tackle local challenges of global proportions – like climate change, population growth, resource consumption and species extinction – and emphasise intelligent, beautiful living for all. The evening starts with the screening of Swedish documentary The Plan and follows with a live global discussion (with proponents and panellists in 10 cities) on key questions like:
- How can we get the power of design into the hands of the 99% who have not had access to higher education?
- How do we break through the noise, and make the best of human culture the most visible?
Local talent profiled in the Design Indaba past include Bulawayo-born, Cape Town-educated Heath Nash, who you might know better for his beautiful light sculptures (and sculpt light he does – all out of other people's rubbish).
Get a gust of inspiration by watching how his disposable sculptures seem to breath:
(Postscript: For those of you who feel less cutting edge and more "colour in the lines", never mind: The Design Indaba is also about creative living. Get quirky and a little crazy with a flash mob around the Camps Bay way on Sunday, 15h00. Sunday's fun comes courtesy of conference speaker Charlie Todd, his foundation Improv Everywhere – and you!)


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In plane for a smooth non self intersecting curve $C$ the tubular neighbourhood can be constructed with non intersecting starigh line segments normal to the curve from points of the curve. If we use the fact that the $\varepsilon$-tubular neighbourhood is constructed diffeomorphically by extending the normals we could arrive at a necessary condition that $\varepsilon < 1/K$, where $K=\sup_{p\in C} k(p)$ and $k(p)$ is the curvature of curve at $p$.
Suppose the curve $C$ is in a surface embedded in $R^3$. The tubular neighbourhood can be constructed similarly along the normal geodesics to the curve. Is it true that for $K=\sup k_g(p)$ where $k_g(p)$ is geodesic curvature of curve at $p$, the necessary condition is $\varepsilon < 1/K$?


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Reputed mobster thought linked to art heist pleads guilty
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2 May 2011 2:03 AM #1
Update for extjs 4 ?
Is there any update for extjs 4 foreseen ?
And if yes when ?
4 May 2011 12:10 AM #2
Hi Bouki,
For now not.
I started to work on the 4.0 adapter. But it's really really hard to use ExtJS4.0 in Adobe AIR, because ExtJS uses a lot of XTemplates within all components and Function constructors all over the framework. And that doesn't work with the application sandbox concept of Adobe AIR. I already have some workarounds, but every time a new ExtJS version is available, everything changes and I have do adjust and adjust and adjust.
Another point is, that I don't believe ExtJS4.0 to be stable as it is now, although it's named "stable".
A third thing: The draw components don't work with Adobe AIR since AIR doesn't support SVG. I hope, some future version of AIR will do. Adobe had a key role in the development of SVG and AIR is based on a webkit browser, so it's kind of absurd that AIR doesnt support it.
So I'm waiting and hoping for both, ExtJS to be stable enough and Adobe AIR to support SVG.
It is best to use the latest ExtJS3 version with AIR. It's a pity that the ext-air-3.3.2 version of the adapter still isn't available on the download page, although I'm asking for month -> broad hint to @JamieAvins .
I also think about Appcelerator Titanium Desktop as an alternative for ExtJS4. It has pros and cons. Nothing concrete here...
Best regards,
makanaProgramming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better іdiot-proof programs, and the universe striving to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. (Rick Cook)
Enhanced ExtJS adapter for Adobe AIR
27 Sep 2011 4:43 PM #3
OK =( I am still waiting for next solution with Adobe Air and MioFactory
ThanksI am deaf.
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9 Oct 2011 2:15 PM #4
Can Extjs support for Yahoo Widget 4.5? Is it possible? Look at http://widgets.yahoo.com/ and Opera Widget, too ? Look at: http://www.opera.com/ Browser has widget manager ?
Thanks reply!I am deaf.
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18 Jun 2012 6:29 AM #5
will there be an update of the adapter for extjs4 for adobe air?
or is the project dead?
20 Jun 2012 7:26 PM #6
Hello, I dont found folder named 'adapter' in Ext JS 4 archieve.. When exactly will that be available please let us know.
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Could somebody teach me about the relationship, if any, between hyperbolicity in groups (in Gromov sense) and hyperbolicity in 3-dimensional orbifolds? To be more specific, let Q be a 3-dimensional orbifold. If the orbifold fundamental group of Q is a hyperbolic group (in Gromov sense), then can we say that Q is a hyperbolic orbifold?
[See Peter Scott's Bulletin article for more information.] Typically, we say an orbifold $Q$ is hyperbolic if it comes to us as a quotient of hyperbolic space $H^n$ by the action of a discrete group $G$ of isometries. If the action $G$ is cocompact then $G$ will be a Gromov hyperbolic group. This is the "easy direction".
On the other hand, if $Q$ is an orbifold with enough topological hypotheses (for example, dimension three, irreducible, "good" as Agol says, perhaps more...) then, if the orbifold fundamental group of $Q$ is Gromov hyperbolic it follows from the geometrization theorem (Perelman and so on) that $Q$ is orbifold homeomorphic to a quotient as in the first paragraph.
So, roughly, the two notions are equivalent. However one direction is easy -- it follows from basic definitions in the field of coarse geometry -- and the other direction is one of the most famous recent results in mathematics.


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The FBI is seeking the public's help in capturing a man authorities described as a serial bank robber.
Authorities say the man caught on surveillance video robbed four banks in January and December in Braintree, Brookline, Allston and Brighton.
The man is considered armed and dangerous and displays what appears to be a black handgun.
Authorities described him as a male in his mid-30s to 40s, with a medium build and standing about 5 feet 11 inches tall. He also has what appear to be skin tags or moles underneath his eyes.
The man enters the bank, displays a handgun, verbally threatens the teller and demands money, authorities said.
During the robberies, he has worn a dark jacket, dark pants, both black gloves and white gloves, a scarf or ski mask covering his face, and a knit hat.
In two of the robberies, the robber fled the bank in stolen vehicles. Both vehicles were recovered at a later date. Police are trying to determine if a second individual is involved with the getaway vehicle.
Police believe the man robbed the TD Bank at 405 Franklin St. in Braintree at gunpoint while wearing a scarf over his face on Jan. 28.
Witnesses said the man was wearing a gray flannel jacket, a hooded sweatshirt, dirty white gloves and a gray hat, and had a black scarf wrapped around his face.
Investigators believe the man also robbed Santander banks in Brighton on Jan. 7 and in Brookline on Jan. 3, and a Century Bank in Allston on Dec. 12.
The FBI is offering up to a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and charging of the robber.
Anyone with information about the robberies is urged to call the FBI's Boston division at 617-742-5533.
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MARTINS FERRY - A Martins Ferry man was arrested Saturday morning by members of the Belmont County Drug Task Force.
Joquin Jabber Prebble, 651 S. Zane Highway, was found in possession of 6.54 pounds of marijuana at the time of his arrest. The arrest happened at the intersection of Monrow and Indiana streets in Martins Ferry.
The Belmont County Drug Task Force was first notified by the U.S. Postal Inspector out of Cleveland that a suspicious package arrived at the Martins Ferry Post Office. The names of the receiver and sender did not match the names on the addresses the packages were being sent to.
"On Friday, (The Drug Task Force) the State Patrol brought down its K-9 unit and investigated a room full of boxes at the post office," said Drug Task Force Commander and Martins Ferry Police Chief John McFarland. "In the years I have worked with the Drug Task Force, we have notifications from UPS and Fed Express of people trying to send drugs through the mail."
The only box that the K-9 unit red flagged was the the package in question.
"Members of the Drug Task Force set up a sting operation all day Friday and no one showed up," said McFarland. "At 11:30 on Saturday, Prebble came and signed for the package and rode off on his peddle bike."
The Drug Task Force arrested Prebble with the 6.54 pounds of marijuana in his possession and was transported to the Belmont County Jail.
"I want to credit the work of the Drug Task Force officers, two officers sat and waited for 10 hours, I credit them for their dedication to the task force," said McFarland.
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Good day folks! It's almost time for me to purchase my NN setup, so I want to figure out what the best kit is for me. Here's the lowdown:
For my work, I'll be doing 360 panos for "virtual tours", plus some wide landscape panos. Personally, I'd like to be able to experiment with as many different types as I can with one setup, so I can get better at it.
Camera will be:
Nikon D300 or D80 or in case of alien attack or some natural disaster rendering those 2 useless, I'll dust off the D70s (it'll be the D300 99.9% of the time though).
Lenses will be:
12-24mm f/4
50mm f/1.8
24-70mm f/2.8
70-200mm VR f/2.8
I have a pretty standard carbon fibre tripod as well. Not the sturdiest thing in the world, but it works.
Thanks in advance! Looking forward to getting started!


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I am creating a view to ease my manual selecting because I only want to fetch data from DB where it is meeting certain criteria which are present in several tables, so it is containing a lot of joins.
Problem is that usually I would like to just look for one table's data, not everything even though data is fetched through a view. What would be the best way of implementing this with Oracle?
In practice, something like this I would want to do
CREATE VIEW emp_emp( e1_ename, e2_empno, e2_deptno )
SELECT e1.ename, e2.empno, e2.deptno
FROM emp e1, emp_add e2
WHERE e1.empno = e2.empno;
I would want to be able to say
SELECT e2.* FROM emp_emp;
To my current knowledge I would have to write all fields related to table e2 by hand.
I have been thinking a solution where I could actually use USER_TAB_COLS table to dynamically create a list of columns i would want to select. So there could be a wrapper which would create
SELECT E2_EMPNO, E2_DEPTNO FROM emp_emp; automatically if i would call for instance a function with parameter list of all tables I want to fetch.


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Does Radiation Make You Radioactive?
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Last Modified: January 26, 2012
Does radiation make you or your body fluids radioactive? Should I take any precautions at home since I have children?
Michael Corradetti, MD, PhD, Radiation Oncology Resident at Penn Medicine, responds:
Radiation therapy for gynecologic malignancies is typically delivered in two ways.
External beam radiation therapy involves the delivery of high-energy X-rays or particles to a tumor or a tumor bed, from the outside of the body to the inside of the body. Patients often receive daily treatments, Monday through Friday, over the course of 6-8 weeks. Treatments take approximately 20 minutes to deliver, and the radiation passes through the body instantaneously. Patients are not radioactive afterwards.
A second form of radiation therapy -- brachytherapy -- involves the implantation or insertion of radioactive sources into a body cavity or a tumor. The radiation sources, once removed, do not leave radioactivity within the body.
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Derek Willis writes about congressional behavior, campaign finance and other topics for The Upshot, a Times politics and policy site. From 2007-13, he was a member of The Times's Interactive News desk, where he built and maintained political databases used in web applications on nytimes.com and in Times articles. Previously, Mr. Willis worked at The Washington Post, the Center for Public Integrity, Congressional Quarterly and The Palm Beach Post, specializing in using data to find and tell stories.
A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Mr. Willis teaches at Georgetown University on how to use data in reporting and is a regular speaker at journalism events. Find him on Twitter at @derekwillis and on Facebook at facebook.com/derekpwillis.
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Christmas brought an early gift to a San Jose household where a baby boy ended up being delivered by his dad.
Joe Heyming got the job of attending to his son's birth when his wife Erin went into labor two weeks early Tuesday. Her contractions advanced to show time before the midwife who was supposed to assist the couple could arrive.
The Heymings relied on what they had learned from childbirth classes and the home birth of their 20-month-old son to get through it.
Joe Heyming advised 28-year-old Erin to stand up so gravity would be on her side and caught the newborn's head as he came out.
The midwife came a little while after the baby and took over. Both mother and child are in good health.


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I fucking love the x files, i watched every episode/film in order last year after my mum got the box set as a gift.
I fucking love the x files, i watched every episode/film in order last year after my mum got the box set as a gift.
First two seasons of The X Files are untouchable. I don't believe there's ever been a pilot that's as good as X Marks The Spot. It's perfect TV. After Season 4, the duds usually outweigh the good ones, and its usually the conspiracy stuff that drowns out the stand alones, which is where the show really shined.
I really love Millennium, too. I think it's better than the second half of The X Files, but it's heavy going and nobody gave it much of a chance. Plus the crossover episode was a bit meh. I mean, you have Frank teaming up with Mulder & Scully to wrap up the Millennium series...and it ends up being an episode about zombies.
Yeah, I never felt Scully switching from being the straight sceptic to the believer really worked, but there were some good episodes in the later seasons, just bogged down by tired writing.
I love that I can just put one on in the background thanks to Netflix. I always forget how awesome some of the earlier seasons were. Also makes me remember how freaking scared I was of this show when I was a little kid.
I found the early Scully and Doggett episodes to be pretty old school and great, but then Reyes showed up and spoilt everything with her Mulder-lite bullshit.
Threw on an episode of young justice for fun. Pretty good so far.
Homeland S2ep6
Eh, that veered dangerously into 24 territory for me, and I hope they wrap up that bullshit with Dana. Easily the worst episode in its entire run so far.
Game of Thrones S1ep8
The second half of this series is way better than the first. It feels a lot more coherent and now that they're focusing on a handful of characters, rather than run across the smorgasboard in 45 minutes, I have a better of reading between the lines. I also love how the show sort of pulls the rug from under the viewer and denies itself certain expectations.
It still looks incredibly cheap with the sets from time to time, but the acting pulls it through. Also, I'm more interested in The Wall than anything else. Its basically a well played horror story set in a fantasy world.
You know they changed writers in the mid-season break because the survivors were suddenly trigger happy.
TWD doesn't start until near the end of Season 2 whenSpoiler!Shane finally fucking dies.
I recorded Toonami to see if there was any interesting Anime shows I would enjoy. I enjoyed the New Thundercats and Symbiotic Titan a lot those seemed really cool. Also finally got to see Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex. The only one that seems weird is a show called Zero 7. No clue what is about besides people who fight in robots that fly around on surfboards...so you know a typical anime.
Also just finished watching MST3K's The Teenage Strangler.
Yikes Stripe!
Ohhh, I love that one! The little parody skits they did in between for that were one of the few times I really laughed out loud.
American Horror Story Asylum - Jessica Lange is amazing, the scene tonight when Sister Jude is talking about a sad childhood memory...damn.
Episode 3 and 4
I'm digging the series so far
Hah or whoever is driving her.
Flicked over to FX and watched about 10 minutes of Asylum.
There was a bit where drunken Jessica Lange was introducing a Cecil B. Demille movie - Cleopatra, I believe - with the lyrics of You'll Never Walk Alone. Then she hugged the small headed person from Freaks (albeit a CGI version), while the dead girl from American Gothic blabbed on about being horny, and Zachary Quinto looked way too clean cut not to be insane to some degree.
It was very weird.
Haha yeah that's AHS alright. I'm surprised a show so not normal like is still on the air and being renewed for a 3rd season. It's not often anything that strays from the grain so much lasts very long, especially lately.
Look at Pushing Daisies, a far cheerier afair, but it was wonderful, colourful and nothing else was like it and it got canned.
It's Monday, so I have three hours of last night's TV to watch. Fuck my life.


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Anderson-North Greenville PostponedFebruary 11, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – With snow falling in the Upstate, Tuesday's and Wednesday's baseball games between Anderson University and North Greenville have been postponed.
The Trojans will face the Crusaders at Anderson Memorial Stadium on Feb. 27 at 3 p.m., while continuing the three-game season-long series on April 2 at 6:30 p.m. at NGU's Ashmore Field.
Anderson is slated to return to the diamond on Friday when it continues South Atlantic Conference play, hosting Carson-Newman for a three-game weekend series beginning on Friday at 6 p.m. and concluding with a doubleheader on Saturday, starting at 1 p.m.


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In Mail, is it possible to show attachments in a separate list (like in Entourage) rather than as icons buried within the text?
The following command can be entered into terminal to disable the inline display of Mail's Attachments:
to restore the original functionality, use this:
I'm not sure how Entourage shows attachments. However, in 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and earlier, you can view all of the attachments in one place by clicking the triangle disclosure arrow next to the paper clip icon below the headers in the message view. They will still show as icons, but this shows all of the attachments in one place. The attachment icons will also continue to be shown inline in the text.
In 10.7 (Lion), this button stays below the headers, but moves to the right side of the screen. Click and hold and it will list all the attachments in a pull-down menu. Again, the icons will continue to be shown inline in the text.
I have had the same "problem" and I have found two possible solutions for this. One, you can use the terminal command that, however, would only sort out the outgoing e-mails (for some it would not be a problem, but I have had PDFs coming in that would slow down my mail.app'. Two, there is an app called "Attachment tamer" where you can pretty much adjust any aspect in relation to e-mail attachments. Nevertheless, it costs 15 $. So, after a couple of hours I have found out a solution that works for both, outgoing and incoming mails, and does not cost anything. The "magic" app is called "TinkerTool" and it only does take two clicks and two reboots to have all the attachments displayed as symbols only. Download the App - install it - run it - tab: applications - check the 6th box from the top. And it is for free. Additionally, it has many other features which you can use. Enjoy ;-)
Right Click on the attachment and choose View As Icon. If you want View as Icon as the default check out Attachment Tamer


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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
CAMHS supports children and young people with:
- Emotional difficulties: eg: anxiety,
depression, anger, mood swings, low self-esteem.
- Behavioural difficulities: eg: violence, destructiveness, self-harm, over activity, sexualised behaviours, obsessive behaviours.
- Relationship difficulties: eg: problems in the family, with peers, in school or the community, problems with attachment and loss.
- Developmental / disability diffculities: eg: bedwetting, soiling, problems eating / sleeping, communicating.
- Emotional diffculties associated with physical health problems, eg: difficulties in complying with treatment and psychological adjustment.
Services delivered are:
- Specialist assessment, both comprehensive and multidisciplinary including diagnosis.
- Therapy, including individual, family and group work.
- Consultation to statutory professionals, and other key workers about concerns.
- Co-working with key workers.
- Contribution to multidisciplinary care planning.
- Signposting to other services when a child needs can be more appropriately met by another service.
- Training for other professionals, e.g. primary care staff, education staff, foster carers and residential carers.
Priority is given to children and young people who are at most risk as a consequence of their emotional / mental health presentation. Emergency presentations would include:
- Children or young people who are presenting as a severe risk to themselves, eg: presenting with severe depression (including suicidal thoughts), acute psychosis, harming themselves.
High priority presentations would include children or young people:
- whose mental / emotional health is having a severe impact on their family or other placements (including children accommodated by the local authority)
- whose mental / emotional health is having a significant impact on their physical and or their development health, eg: eating disorders, treatment non-compliance etc
- who have experienced severe trauma, eg: witnessing major incidents, involvement in significant traffic accidents etc


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Is it possible that
an ambiguous context free language also be a liner context free.
I have doubt regarding
scope of ambiguous language in below Venn-diagram.
Is it possible that
If I am reading your observation in the right way, I believe you are right.
It was proved by Ogden (as an application of his famous Pumping Lemma) that $\{ a^ib^jc^k \mid i=j \mbox{ or } j=k \}$ is inherently ambiguous, meaning is has no unambiguous context-free grammar. At the same time the language is linear.
Thus, in the Venn-diagram the sets "Linear CFL" and "(inherently) Ambiguous CFL" should intersect.


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I want to use the Plugin with CakePHP 2.1 as behaviour through $actAs = 'Uploader.Attachment'. While this works fine for static Uploads, I dont know how to use it for ajaxUploads.
The simple Question: Is there anyway to make an ajax-Upload happen through the actAs-Behaviour?
The explanation (if needed): The attachment Behaviour doesn't seem to have any defaults nor any other code regarding ajax (especially not the ajaxField in the following code). Though it works if I include the Plugin via
public function beforeFilter() {
$this->Uploader = new Uploader(array(
'ajaxField' => 'qqfile'
So I can use something like:
$data = $this->Uploader->upload($this->Uploader->ajaxField, array('overwrite' => true));
But not with:
This is not quite what I was seaching for, as I 1. Still need the actAs-Behaviour for other actions. 2. Have two different inclusions of the plugin, which I have to check that they do the same. 3. Can't automatically create thumbs and attach them to the same entry of the model.


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My webhost ONLY allows sending/recieving emails IF either the sender or reciever is hosted with them. (freehostia.com)
This is a huge disadvantage to me (and I'm assuming everyone else), because of the way my website works.
(My website: I have a classifieds website where CustomerA posts an ad with her email and CustomerB replies via the email form with his email. Neither email is hosted with my host.)
I asked if I could use an external SMTP server (such as Gmail) to bypass the limitations, and they said "Even if you set an external MX record for your domain you will not be able to send e-mails via your mail forum, if you do not use a mailbox from your hosting account with us as a sender or recipient."
Theoretical Workaround:
- Auto-enter and hide my hosted email into the "email" section of the form
- Have a new section for customer to input their email
- When a message is sent, embed customers message and email into a default message. It will look like this:
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
From: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: You have recieved a message!
Body: Blahblahblah (customers message) blahblah. To reply, email: email@example.com
Sorry about all the confusion. Would this work? Should I give up? I really like my host, but should I switch? Or is there a better workaround?


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- BSO Case Number: n/a
- PIO Number: 12-11-21
- Date: Nov. 19, 2012
- Time: 5:05 p.m.
- Place of Occurrence: West Copans Road and Northwest 44th Avenue, Coconut Creek
- Passenger: Lisa Stroming, female, 55, 3/8/57, 6304 N.W. 29th Pl., Margate
- Driver: Jack Stroming, male, 56, 5/1/56, 6304 N.W. 29th Pl., Margate
- Jurisdiction: Coconut Creek
Description of Incident:
When someone flagged down Broward Sheriff's Office Det. Frank Biro Sunday afternoon, he pulled over and saw a bloody, disoriented man standing on a sidewalk. Biro approached the man, who had an apparent head injury. A few feet away, his demolished and smoldering pickup was crushed against a tree in a wooded area.
As they waited for Coconut Creek Police and Fire Rescue, the man repeatedly asked Biro to get a pricey metal detector from the pickup, so Biro, who was off-duty and had been on his way home, braved the growing flames to see if he could grab the equipment. Just then, an off-duty BSO sergeant noticed the commotion and stopped to help. The engine of the pickup was fully engulfed, and as they approached the pickup, they found more than a metal detector.
An injured woman was in the front seat. She was conscious, but she wasn't responding to Biro or Sgt. Adam Rubin, and she wasn't getting out of the truck. The driver's side door was too damaged to open, and the passenger door was blocked by palm trees. The two men tried to break through the spiny foliage and pry open the damaged door. As they worked, a Coconut Creek police sergeant stood by with a fire extinguisher.
Once they opened the door enough to pull the woman through, Biro put her over his shoulder and carried her out to safety. With Rubin, Biro and the woman out of the way, Police Sgt. Chris Markland was able to extinguish the flames. Coconut Creek/Margate Fire Rescue transported the couple to North Broward Health.
- INVESTIGATORS: Det. Biro, Sgt. Rubin Coconut Creek PD, Coconut Creek FD
- THIS REPORT BY: Dani Moschella/PIO 11/20/12 1300
Posted At: 11/20/2012 12:52 PM
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A Highland Park firefighter who spent last year posting helmet cam footage of his Detroit-area firefights to YouTube concluded 2012 by uploading an 8-minute highlight reel of his better action shots.
Scott Ziegler certainly has his work cut out for him: Detroit and its enclaves are notorious for their flammable nature, with nearly three dozen structure fires recorded per day.
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What I am looking for
I am trying to find tools that can help me stay focused on the list priorities and thus improve productivity. I face a problem with my work and nature. I feel this is related to the current question and more so to rephrase it and put it in proper context and make it more useful for many people.
One tool I heavily rely upon is my Outlook on my laptop in Windows XP. As I am a ops team, I get hundreds of mail from developers, managers and quality assurance and others, not entirely directed towards me, but including me (though mailing list) so that I am aware of what is happening around me. And then there are thousands of machine generated alerts that monitoring processes sends to me.
I have placed filters and folders for machine generated alerts to my outlook. And some filters and folders for mailing list communication and a separate folder for communication directed only to me. But with the amount of mails each day, staying focused on whats happening in email itself seems like a full time task.
How do you guys manage to stay on top of emails and yet stay focused on real work?
Side story
And then speaking of emails, I have personal email id, which gets bombarded with mails on my money transaction details like my credit card spending, etc. And also i am a part of local LUG group which sends me at least 4 or 5 emails a day (low volume LUG). And then one more spiritual ML discussion & my cousins family (so that we can stay together even when we are hundred of miles separated and spread across the country) ML (again low volume ML) of about 4 or 5 mails a day.
Then there are these promotions and offers on things I have spend or done. (i am not taking about unsolicited , random offers. Those automatically gets filtered as spam). So email is a big task. Most of time online is spend on emails and now a days I don't like to check my mails as it started getting routine work. And I know what would be there even before I enter the mail URL in browser or open outlook except for some strange unexpected surprises which is why I still stick to it.
And then there is this machine alert that turns critical and i miss to notice it and then one colleague of mine laughs at me saying you missed it. At which point I go mad and curse myself. And start working. How do you stay focused on your priorities and rearrange the priority based on changes in situation. Is there any other tool better than outlook task. To get organized.
I have realized the importance of being organized in my life, learned it the hard way. I was a very clumsy and messy in scheduling and maintaining my desk. I relied on my brain to keep track of things. Now I realize that as things go more and more loaded, replying on brain memory capabilities is not going to scale beyond a point.
So, I am hunting for a tool to help me out.
I see that for a sales thing there are so many software that puts the things in perspective. Like SAP for example. it gives report of what is happening in your production line. And inventory management in IT, etc. So why is there is nothing in personal productivity (not at the same scale as SAP, but at level similar to personal), after all companies productivity comes from productive individuals. Vice versa, individuals who are not able to get them organized cannot be much productive to the company when they have trouble managing themselves.


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Assume someone generate random number "s"(signal) which is $+1$ or $-1$ (uniformly distributed), and generate random number $n$ (noise) $N(0,\sigma)$ (i.e. normal distributed with mean zero, variance $\sigma^2$). Assume "$s$" and "$n$" are independent.
Then "he" sums: $r = s+n$ and gives number "$r$" to you.
Assume you have a sample of length "$n$" of numbers $r_1,\ldots, r_n$.
Question you want to estimate sigma - how to do it?
More precisely I need simple estimation, i.e. such that complexity of the algorithm will be more or less the same as for simple solutions (1 , 2 ) described below, but I want more higher accuracy than the naive solutions below.
If there some nice reference on this it would be helpful... "Simple" solutions are given below.
(Clarifications: you do not know "s_i" not "n_i", but you know that distribution of "s" and knows what "n" is N(0,sigma) , but you do not know sigma) ?
Motivation. Actually yours mobile phones solves this (or more complicated) problem every millisecond (or so). That is why complexity is an issue. "s" is sent bit, during propagation from base station to yours mobile phone it is spoiled. The simplest mathematical model of such propagation is to add random normal noise: so "r" - is received signal. Mobile phone wants to determine what have been sent +1 or -1. Now some profound algorithms first need estimation of noise level "n". After that they start determining "s".
Solution 1.
Denote by D(ksi) - variance of randome variable ksi.
So we know that D(r) = D(s) + D(n). D(s) is know to us D(s) =1. So we can estimate:
D(n) = D(r) -1 .
So use standard estimate of D(r) and just subtract "1" - and that is all.
Very simple ! But this estimate is rather bad - it can be negative for example and its variance is very far from ideal.
Solution 2.
Take numbers r_i and form numbers se_i = sign(r_i) (these are estimate of "s"). Calculate ne_i = r_i - se_i (these are estimates of noise).
Calculate D(ne_i) - take this as an answer...
This solution is actually perfect is "sigma" is small, but if "sigma" is large it is biased. I.e. mean of this estimate is not true sigma.
Solution 3.
I tried MLD solution. But to my surprise it is also biased for big noise. It leads to solution of transcendental equation. So the problems of complexity arises...


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DRA102: Drama B (2013-2014)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Drama Theater
COURSE TITLE: Drama B
COURSE LENGTH: 9 weeks
Major Concepts/Content: The drama course is designed to give the students opportunity to experience drama as a significant and rewarding activity and to enable students to demonstrate knowledge of the historical background of drama. The content includes, but is not limited to, recognition of the different genres of drama (tragedy, comedy, farce, melodrama, musical) and the elements of playwriting; use of oral communication skills such as appropriate voice levels, gestures, posture, and language; understanding of the importance of drama as a reflection of society; and recognition of drama as a self-rewarding activity that involves the identification of the unique worth of the individual, the motivation behind human behavior; and the dynamics of interpersonal relationships.
Major Instructional Activities: When dramatic performances are being prepared, rehearsed or produced, instructional activities ideally will be provided in a theatre, auditorium, or a room with a stage. When dramatic literature is being studied, instructional activities will be provided in a general classroom setting. Student activities and experiences will include, but will not be limited to, selecting and preparing material for a performance; rehearsing for a performance; performing for a class or public group; practicing character development, mime, solo, duet, and ensemble acting; participating in full-length plays; creating and applying makeup; building sets; stage managing and directing; managing props; selecting and creating costumes; voice-building and projection; and improving enunciation and pronunciation, control of body movement, and writing scripts for a production.
Major Evaluative Techniques: Students will be evaluated for active class participation; through written examinations; for creativity, reliability, and dependability when performing assigned tasks/roles/responsibilities; and for participation in field trips and performances.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of the drama course, students should be able to:
- Understand the basic concepts of drama.
- Apply basic drama concepts to the activities involved in theatrical productions.
- Participate in play cuttings and one-act play presentations while developing individual character interpretations.
- Participate in group meetings in which another person's comments or opinions are solicited.
- Clarify, illustrate, or expand on a response when asked to do so.
- Respond in a variety of ways to what is read, written, heard, or viewed.


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Does anyone know if Mad Hermit Games ever published the Cold Steel Reign GM's guide? If not, does anyone know of any source books/material that they published? I liked the world background, just was disappointed that the player guide is just a large set of rules....
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Looks like the answer is no.
Back in June, they were working on making the GM's guide available online, but since then their website has disappeared, and they haven't updated their Facebook status in all that time. See for yourself at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cold-Steel-Reign/254268613577.
There's a GM screen for Cold Steel Reign available at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cold-Steel-Reign-GM-Screen/dp/1889016020, so at least something GM-oriented is available, not that it's much consolation.
I'm not optimistic that we'll see a GM's guide for this game any time soon.
The short answer is sadly, "No, I don't think the GM Guide for CSR will ever be released to the public nor will any other source material aside from the Player's Guide and the GM Screen which were released years ago." For detailed evidence supporting this conclusion please read on.
Long long ago at Origins in Columbus Ohio I played CSR with its creator, Patrick Ellison, and was so impressed by the concept that I immediately bought the Player's Guide and pre-ordered for a serious chunk of change the "soon to be released" Gamemaster's Guide. Once I arrived home I immediately became active on their website forum and joined with the many who had given their money in excitedly taking part in any discussion on the game and its development. Months passed and the updates from Patrick Ellison assuring us that though significantly delayed the guide would be forthcoming became more and more seldom. Finally after months of no message at all from Patrick the site disappeared along with all of our money.
I personally emailed Ellison several times saying that I would be fine with him keeping my money if he would send me a PDF of whatever work he has completed on the GM Guide. No response. CSR has since been my bitterest disappointment and resentment in gaming.
I know this is an old question but thought I'd post an answer anyway...
Mad Hermit Games did actually release a GM's guide and a sourcebook, called the Dakota Territories, for CSR as PDF's which you bought and downloaded via their website. I can't remember exactly when I bought them, I think it was towards the begininng of last year but I can't be sure.
The GM's guide, at the time that I purchased it, was split into 10 pdf files (one file for each chapter) and is around 450-500 pages in length.
The sourcebook is a 41 page pdf detailing the Dakota Territories - includes geography of the region, the Barons of the region, encounter tables, usual sort of sourcebook stuff really.
I just thought I'd let people know that there is material out there, just might be tricky finding it!
I also purchased the GM guide through the website although unfortunately it seems as though Patrick has taken it down again. If you're interested try posting on any of the Facebook pages in an effort to stir Patrick into bringing things online again. I know he was also working on the Bestiary and an additional Character Cats book. I don't know if he's finished these yet.