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Does anyone here know anything about the reliability of "Rabbi Barnett Hasden of Ner Tamid K in Staten Island, NY"?
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If I was to compare it to another hechsher, it would be Tablet K. There is a lot of rumour and controversy surrounding the reliability and acceptance of the Ner Tamid K (Rabbi Hasden). It is, in general, not considered as reliable as the OU/OK/CRC, but the best thing to do would be to ask your LOR (Local Orthodox Rabbi).
My understanding is it's generally not up to the usual standards you may be used to. I believe he is more lenient with the definition of kosher cheese than what passes these days.
I have spoken with Rabbi Barnett Hasdan myself and his response was that everything is under his strict kosher supervision. He is a student of the late Rav Moshe Feinshtein z"l and he told me that if I wanted to know if he was a ne'eman then I could call Rav Reuven Feinshtein shlit"a and ask him. He also informed me that Rav Reuven eats all of Amy's pareve products, but ONLY due to the fact that Rav Reuven is strict on Halav Yisrael and NOT because the cheese products are not kosher. Further, I am aware of Haredi mashgihim who work for the OU who also eat pareve Amy's products in their home, but avoid the dairy products due to the issue of them not being Halav Yisrael.
I challenge anyone reading this who is a yireh shamayim to simply pick up a phone and call Rabbi Hasdan yourself. If after a conversation with this obviously religious (read, "Orthodox") Jewish man you are still not satisfied then by all means feel free to continue to abstain from eating the products he supervises. However, it is does not become all of a sudden mutar to spread rumors about his kosher certification which almost certainly jeopardizes his parnasah. To do so is a very grave sin.
The politics and arguments over kashrus certification are almost never le-shem shamayim. Anyone who knows about the intense competition and mud-slinging which often accompanies the determination of who is a religious enough Jew to supervise kosher food and who is not knows this to be the case.
The words which the Ramba"m wrote in a letter to his son, Rabbenu Avraham ring very true to this discussion:
Mori Yusef Qafih z"l once stated that many of the differences in halakhah which we face between religious Jews are merely DeRabbanan, while the issur of arousing a mahloqeth is from the Torah itself. Think about this.
May we all be zokheh to put away damaging speech, distance ourselves completely from mahloqeth, and treat each other with the dignity and respect due a fellow Jew.
Kol tuv.
Well consider this:
I'm really not sure what to make of the first one (I'm trying to be Melamed Zchus, but if someone else can actually state a justification that would be great), but the second one isn't a Kosher issue per se, it is more a problematic behavior on the part of the certifier.
The bottom line is that it is pretty clear from a story like this that this is a certifier that is very lenient (as compared to what people are generally used to in other certifications). Ask your own Rabbi if that approach is compatible with your general level of observance.
I think some specific issues rather than vague generalities would be more productive. Yoplait states that Rabbi Hasden certifies their Yogurt, and that it contains gelatin derived from Kosher beef.
(note that Yoplait only has a KD, not a certified symbol)
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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas running back Kody Walker needed to make the change.
His original number with the Razorbacks had provided some bad memories through two-injury plagued years. The Jefferson City, Mo., native was sidelined by stress fractures in both shins in 2011. He had steel rods inserted in each leg and returned in time for 2012, but suffered a season-ending broken leg in early September.
So Walker went to new coach Bret Bielema with a special request earlier this winter: He wanted to get out of No. 40 and slip into No. 24.
"I've been hurt in 40 since I've been here, so I had to get out of 40," Walker said. "I felt that was bad luck for me. I had to get something new to get my swagger back."
Walker — wearing No. 24 — made his unofficial and unexpected spring debut when Arkansas held a brief scrimmage to end last Saturday's practice. He took part in full-contact drills for the first time since suffering the broken leg in the Louisiana-Monroe loss, carrying the football in red zone and goal line drill work.
Arkansas coach Bret Bielema said it wasn't originally supposed to happen this spring. The Razorbacks knew Walker had progressed enough in his rehabilitation to participate in non-contact drills, but planned to hold him out of tackling work.
Walker received a clean bill of healthy earlier this spring, though. He urged Bielema to let him put it to the test during Saturday's scrimmage work and it went well.
"I wanted to get that hit out of the way, because I've been anticipating that since I got hurt," Walker said. "I haven't played football in a while, so to get there and actually play real football and get tackled, it felt real good."
Walker carried the ball three times for six yards, but the amount of production wasn't all that important. Arkansas offensive coordinator Jim Chaney said it was simply good to see Walker on the field in a game-like situation for the first time.
"I think he's moving past his mindset of worrying and just playing football," Chaney said. "It was good to see him go out and get involved and mix it up just a little bit. He's a big, heavy young man. He brings a load when he carries the ball, and I'm glad to have him back in the offense as we continue to try and establish the mindset of physicality. Size and stature has a lot to do with that. It's hard for little people to go out and always be physical people. Kody's not that. He's a large kid."
There's no doubt Arkansas is hoping it can take advantage of his attributes as it builds the offense around a power running game. The 6-foot-2, 234-pound Walker was utilized as a short-yardage and goal line back under the previous staff and has scored six touchdowns despite his limited carries because of injuries.
Walker can play both backfield positions, although he said the Razorbacks have lined him up at tailback. Running backs coach Joel Thomas didn't want to evaluate how Walker will fit in plans with sophomore Jonathan Williams and newcomer Alex Collins next season, saying the goal for now is making sure he is healthy.
"I think we'll know more of that question after two-a-days," Thomas said. "This has been more of the, 'I'm back and I'm ready to go.' I really believe after a full summer with (strength) coach (Ben) Herbert and just building on that confidence that he's had, I think come two-a-days, that's when we can factor in his playing time and what he's going to do. Really, he was an unknown coming into this camp."
But Walker has shown his desire to get back on the field after last year's injury.
The running back said he felt some soreness after Saturday's scrimmage, but said it was expected after being out of contact for so long. He's hoping to earn carries in Saturday's spring-ending Red-White Game, too, but remains realistic.
"I think I'm going to get my fair share of reps," Walker said. "But if it's ends being too much, I'm going to have to back off some."
The important thing is that Walker — wearing his new number — continues to progress in his recovery. He estimated being roughly 90 percent.
Walker said he feels good wearing the new number and Thomas understands what it means after going through his own number switch as a running back at Idaho. Injuries led him to look for a fresh start, so Thomas switched No. 20 for No. 1.
"I changed it, then I blew my knee out, so it didn't really matter," Thomas said. "I lost all superstitions at that point."
But Thomas said he has plenty of confidence Walker's recovery will continue and the running back said he wasn't deterred by his position coach's history Tuesday.
Walker is optimistic a new number will bring good fortune in a new offense next fall.
"I'll keep my fingers crossed," Walker said. "I hope that doesn't happen to me."

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Let $L/K$ be an extension of number fields, and $M/K$ the Galois closure of $L/K$ (everything happens inside a suitably large characteristic zero field $\Omega$). Let $p$ be a discrete prime of $K$.
Given the group $G={\rm Gal}(M/K)$, its subgroup $H={\rm Gal}(M/L)$, and the splitting of $p$ in $L/K$ can one find the splitting of $p$ in $M/K$? That is, can one find the ramification index $e$ and inertial degree $f$ of a prime $P$ of $M$ lying above $p$?
Turning the above question into a group-theoretic one, I got the following: let $D$ be a finite group, and $X$ a finite set on which $D$ acts faithfully on the right. Can we obtain the order $d$ of $D$ knowing the sizes of all the $D$-orbits in $X$?
(To switch to this question from the original one, look at the natural right action of a decomposition group (resp. an inertia group) $D$ at $P$ on the coset space $X=H\backslash G$. The fact that $M$ is the Galois closure of $L$ ensures that $D$ acts on $X$ faithfully.)


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The escalating Christmas card wars
Suddenly a pile of Christmas cards arrive in the mail. "Oh no," you say, "We didn't send them a card." So you scramble to fire off a batch of retaliatory cards, which in turn triggers many of your recipients to sent out even more cards.
Just as in the Middle East, it is difficult to say exactly who instigated this battle. Was it the Wilsons? No, they were just responding to a salvo of Christmas cards sent out by the McGillicuddys. But the McGillicuddys were just reacting to all the cards launched by the Johnsons. And the Johnson were simply countering the pile of Christmas cards sent by the Rabinowitzs. And the Rabinowitzs were, well, they got confused about what season this is, since they don't even celebrate Christmas.
If you trace it back all the way, you'll discover it started on Thanksgiving weekend, when a scheming man in Poughkeepsie, Phineas Hallmark, sent out a measly ten cards. But those ten cards started a chain reaction that has mushroomed out of control to the point where countless mail carriers end up in traction. What a tragedy.
To make things worse, many families not only send out hundreds of Christmas cards, they add to the weight of each card by including a "family update letter." Back in the olden days, any updates included with a Christmas card had to be written out by hand. So if fifty cards were going out in the mail, these hand-written notes amounted to: "We're fine. Hope you are, too. Merry Christmas."
However, in our modern era of computers and printers and copy machines, people can type out lengthy narratives and print as many copies as they need. When one of these rambling letters arrives with a Christmas card, most recipients roll their eyes and mutter, "Oh brother, they just gave me a homework assignment!"
All Christmas card family update letters have one thing in common: a rather tenuous connection to the truth. Let's face it, these letters are created with the same attitude used to create all those political campaign commercials we endured a couple months ago; that is, they are designed to make the subject look good even if the whole thing has to be made up.
Each year I receive two notable family update letters. One is pretentious and full of braggadocios hot air. Last year's letter concluded with, "We are such a close-knit and loving family, we should be called The Waltons."
Oh yeah? Well, I saw some of the photos your teenage daughter "Princess" posted on Facebook, and a more accurate family name might be The Mansons.
The other notable family update letter I receive each year is much more interesting. These folks are wise enough to know that the truth about their family is boring and a list of fictitious accomplishments will not fool anyone. So instead each year they compose a two-page, single-spaced comedy routine.
They make fun of themselves, and they make fun of their kids. And they do so in a light-hearted manner, with only occasional biting sarcasm, such that their kids probably will only need small amounts of psychiatric counseling when they get older.
Needless to say I look forward to reading this letter, unlike the one I get from the Waltons/Mansons. So the moral of the story is, if you insist on sending letter carriers to the hospital this Christmas season, at least make it funny.
Bill Dunn is a freelance writer who resides in Torrington. He can be reached via his website at: www.boomertrek.com.
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6 Horrifying Implications of the Harry Potter Universe
#3. There Are No Career Options
In the books and movies, every job in the wizard world looks like fun. There are the Aurors (the awesome wizard police who track down dark wizards), the teachers at the school, the owners of the wacky shops in Diagon Alley and the people who work for the Ministry of Magic.
Who basically look like the sort of people you pretend you're out of the house for.
And, um ...
The Horrific Implications:
Yeah, there appear to only be like five careers in the wizard world. When questioned about his aspirations after graduation, Harry's response amounts to a big shrug and contains the word "maybe": "'Well, I thought of, maybe, being an Auror,' Harry mumbled." You can understand his reaction -- the career options available to wizard graduates aren't exactly giving them the world on a silver platter.
"My golly yes, my ambition is to be a heavily disfigured psychological wreck of a man."
Remember, you have to get a magic-related job -- you can't just take a job at some muggle business, since the school system hasn't even taught you enough to work fast food or operate a photocopier in an office. So every career that Harry knew from non-wizard society is pretty much out of the question: engineer, architect, doctor, data processor, plumber, telemarketer, etc. And no, there are no equivalent jobs in the wizard world. Why would they need them?
"So apparently you've contracted Ebola. I have no goddamn idea what that is, so here's some magic flowers."
In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, muggle-born Hermione explains that her parents are dentists to a room full of people who have no idea what dentists are (because wizards magic their teeth into perfection every day). Likewise, their world needs no carpenters or painters -- in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, some wizards accidentally destroy a wall in a muggle's home and repair it with a flick of the wand -- brick, plaster, paint, all in an instant. Hell, even the reporter in the series has a magical quill that automatically creates prose for her articles. You can't even get a job working in wizard finance -- a race of goblins owns the entire banking system.
It's probably a horrible racist metaphor.
So, yeah, we hope they like teaching or working in civil service, or can get a job working in one of the magic stores that exist in the only two all-wizard neighborhoods in England.
#2. Harry's Magical Map, and Magical Invasion of Privacy
The Marauder's Map is an enchanted map of Hogwarts, one that shows every inch of the castle and surrounding grounds. If that sounds just like a regular map, the "magical" part is that you can see where everyone is at all times, since all the people on campus are marked with black footprints with their name under them.
It's a hugely valuable object for a young hero who doesn't play by anyone's rules (the main purpose of the map was to let Harry run around on school grounds while avoiding teachers or bad guys). And some of the potential for abuse was mentioned in the movies -- a teacher does angrily ask Harry if he's considered what the villains could do with such a map, since it would tell them where all of the security is.
"Does it need to make a note every time he pops a boner? That seems ... terrible."
But that's just the beginning.
The Horrific Implications:
You already have thought of the invasion of privacy the map entails. It doesn't tell you what the people are doing, but you can pretty much guess. If the two feet are standing with their heels to the toilet, that person is probably taking a dump. There's even an Easter egg at the end of Prisoner of Azkaban where two students are clearly fucking in the corner:
The possessor of the map can see their crush sitting too close to a member of the opposite sex, or they can see their professors sneaking around with each other, feet entangled at the foot of a bed. Then they could just kind of walk in on them for fun, if they were so inclined. Either way, they'd know everything. Now let's give one example where things get really disturbing:
At the beginning of the story, the owners of the map were Fred and George Weasley, the brothers of Harry's best friend, Ron. They had the thing for years, which means that they had to overlook some serious shit, such as their little brother's love affair with a middle-aged man.
This man couldn't look anything more like a pedophile.
In the third book, we discover that an evil wizard named Peter Pettigrew has been in disguise as Ron's rat, Scabbers, for 12 years. We discover this because Harry saw Pettigrew's name show up when he had the map in his possession, despite Pettigrew's disguise as a rodent. So even though Ron thought he was just sleeping with his pet rat, Fred and George saw Ron bedding some guy named Peter every single night.
"That explains why he didn't burrow into my eyes at night."
Oh, and even better: Scabbers was once their older brother Percy's pet until he gave it to Ron. So from Fred and George's perspective, Ron inherited Percy's lover.
But really, all of this just leads us to a larger point ...
#1. In the Wizard World, Nothing Is Private; No One Is Safe
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, HP receives an ominous letter from someone at the Ministry of Magic:
"Dear Mr. Potter, We have received intelligence that a Hover Charm was used at your place of residence this evening at 12 minutes past nine."
"We hope you have a YouTube video of it, as it sounds a hoot."
Boom! Busted! Harry, as an underage wizard, is not supposed to be using magic outside of his school, and so the Ministry of Magic wanted to make damn sure he knew that they had their eye on him, thanks to their ability to invisibly monitor everything he does, 24 hours a day. Job done, Ministry of Magic. Job done.
Sure, it was all a misunderstanding that got cleared up later, but it's nice to know they're keeping such a close eye.
And that they have safeguards against that department falling into evil hands and ... ah.
The Horrific Implications:
The magic that lets them spy on you, invisibly and completely undetected, is available to everyone, at all times. A read through the series reveals at least one new way to go undercover per book: invisibility cloaks, potions that will let a stranger perfectly imitate your friend or family (or your pet, or any passing animal), mind control that will take over your best friend and force him to relay back what he hears.
A 13-year-old girl seen here casually making one of the most dangerous potions in the world.
And all of these techniques are being used by children, and used with resounding success against the finest minds of the magical government. The Imperius Curse, for example, is the Jedi mind trick of wizard-land. It's illegal, sure, but by Deathly Hallows, a teenage Harry and the gang are using it to break into a bank. In other words, they have rules against using these spells, but no magical protection against them -- and the rules only matter if you get caught.
And technically there's no rules against using them on spiders, which is a ... comfort?
And you won't get caught, because a simple spell will wipe their memory of the event or, far more terrifying, create false memories. Hermione Granger uses one of these to convince her own parents that she never existed, instantly rewriting 17 years of memories in their minds with a squirt of wand magic.
Think about that. Imagine living in a world where anybody, from con artist to salesman to spiteful co-worker, can do that to you without your knowledge. It's amazing to consider that there may be a wizard in the Potterverse who is still capable of trusting another living creature.
That blank cataracty stare just means he loves you.
You know how you just assume that 80 percent of your email is going to be spam, and as a result basically don't trust any offer that lands in your inbox? Now imagine a world where every conversation with your best friend could be a ploy -- it might not really be him, he might not be in his right mind, it might be a magically induced hallucination. Hell, the entire existence of your friend could be a falsely implanted memory.
"OK, Harry Potter has to die to save the world. Volunteers?"
Not even your own feelings or instincts can guide you -- at any moment, you can be manipulated to see or feel things against your will (see: the date rape love potions we discussed in this article, which are sold over the counter). You can trust absolutely no one, at any time. Not even yourself or your own perceptions.
We're not saying we wouldn't want to run off and live in the wizard world if given the chance. We're just saying that it would be a never-ending twisted hell of despair and madness.
"Fuck right off."
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We just consider puntured unit disk $\triangle^{*}$ in $\mathbb{C}$. $f$ is a bounded quasiconformal map on $\triangle^{*}$. Why $f$ can extend to the origin,becoming quasiconformal map on the whole disk?
rk:It is easy to see we only have to show that we can define $f(0)$ such that $f$ is continous.Then quasiconformality of new $f$ follows easily!


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A friend of mine is running a consultancy company and she needs software to manage the people that go to their customers. I've been using Project Management Software before, but this case is slightly different. Basically, the workflow would be:
- Manager assigns a Consultant to a customer site, possibly on a calendar (e.g. John Smith has to go to Mr Customer on 3rd of April from 10AM to 6PM).
- Consultant goes to customer for an X amount of hours. At the end of the day, he/she writes in the software how many hours were spent (and, eventually, doing what).
- Manager generates a monthly report of billable hours and produces invoices to send to customers.
It should be relatively simple to manage, but I wouldn't be able to recommend a specific program for this. Funnily enough, I've been a consultant for 10 years, but, at the time, we did everything on paper...
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So I have to convert these sizes in inches to sizes in mm.
I'm using CUPS as the print backend. Should I configure CUPS to switch to use mm as the default size unit?
The same problem occurred in Google Chrome 17.0 and many other applications, when I want to custom paper sizes in the system print dialog:


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What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of each form of testing?
I.e. What is the difference between static code analysis and runtime/dynamic penetration testing?
What are the pros and cons of each? Are there situations where one is preferable over the other?
What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of each form of testing?
I believe this question is best addressed in chapter 4 of The Art of Software Security Assessment, a book by Mark Dowd, Justin Schuh, and John McDonald.
Without it as a reference, I can safely tell you that the best method is using runtime data along with source-code while determining "hits" (or traces, aka coverage) using black-box testing -- but only after a threat-model and general architecture of the system is well-known.
The authors also appear to like secure static code analysis when combined with candidate-point strategies, although it's my opinion that these can vary wildly in value assuming the following are not true:
For the reasons above, as well as the reasons put forth in the NIST SATE studies (done by NIST SAMATE), I find it difficult to recommend many secure static analysis tools for use in white box analysis. It is almost always simply better to use code comprehension strategies that most likely involve reading the source code from top to bottom, which is really very important if you are looking for managed code rootkits and the like.
Instead of testing and auditing/assessing applications, I would take a different approach that is largely very technology-agnostic. My suggestion would be to implement an application security risk management portal that includes an app inventory along with each app's currently implemented application security controls. After an initial baseline, the application security controls should be evaluated against industry standards such as MITRE CWE, SAFEcode, and OWASP ASVS. A gap analysis (note that this is a standard risk management term and works best when implemented in an information security management program based on ISO 27001 or similar) can then be used to determine the optimal application security controls, as well as a path to get from the currently implemented controls to the required ones.
You should implement this risk management portal before performing risk assessment activity such as white-box or black-box testing in order to get better results, and to measure the success of your program.
Black box
White box
In general white box testing allows you to dive into the source code and perform complete penetration testing, but can be very time consuming, while black box is easy, fast and simple. I prefer gray box testing - using black box methods and interviewing developers/checking source code only on specific parts of application (authentication, session management, configuration management, ...).
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Is it safe to eat mouldy bread, even after cutting away the moulded parts? And how can you tell if the mould is harmless or toxic?
In short, the answer is no, it is NOT safe.
Very unsafe.
Molds produce a range of toxins with a variety of harmful effects, from mild nausea and diarrhea to mind alteration (ergot). This paper claims that mycotoxins can be cumulative, which means that if you eat N loaves of moldy bread within, say, 1 month, it is almost as dangerous as if you eat them in one go.
As ceejayoz has noted, visible mold is merely the «fruit bodies» part which appears only when the bread substrate has been infected at sufficient depth (much like you only get surface mushrooms with caps only when there is enough mycelium mass underground to switch to the spreading phase).
This website states that mycotoxins are very heat-stable, which means that you cannot use moldy bread for croutons, French toast, or even re-baked rusks, as mold poison is unlikely to thermally decompose during cooking.
So this sort of bad food is only suited for a garbage bag due to poisoning potential and unsalveagebility. It is preferable to wrap it in a paper bag or something similar beforehand to prevent further spreading of airborne spores.


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5 Mind-Blowing Facts Nobody Told You About Guns
#4. The Standard Explanations for Mass Shootings Are All Wrong
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The increase in indiscriminate mass shootings isn't just a media invention -- there's a pretty clear trend:
But why? Let's play criminal profiler for a minute. Describe the next school shooter. We know he's out there; the stats prove that. We know he's a he. But we know more than that, right? If you pay attention to the news, this shouldn't be very difficult: These guys are all nerdy or autistic loners who get bullied at school and play violent video games at night until they can't tell the difference and finally lash out. The Columbine shooters are the poster boys: goth outsiders who even made a Doom mod to simulate the shooting. These kids get picked on and can't defend themselves, and they see guns as the only way to get even.
Except it turns out that the Columbine shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, weren't bullied and weren't "goth" loners. In fact, they boasted about bullying the "fags" in school themselves. They didn't target bullies or "jocks" who wronged them (the bombs were supposed to kill everyone, including their friends). It turns out that Eric Harris was simply a psychopath -- an intelligent, charming mass murderer like you've seen in a dozen bad serial killer movies. Dylan Klebold was just a depressed kid who went along with it -- so even the two people involved in the same shooting had totally different reasons for doing it.
"No, that's too confusing. We'll just blame John Carmack."
So here's the bizarre, horrifying truth: There is no "typical" school shooter profile, other than the fact that they all tend to be depressed (which is not all that helpful for narrowing down a list of teenagers). For instance, the narrative after these recent shootings was "Don't cover these guys on the news, that's what they want! They're in it for the notoriety!" Sure, some of them are -- the Virginia Tech shooter sent his manifesto to NBC News -- but the Newtown shooter, Adam Lanza, not only didn't publish a manifesto or leave a note, but actually destroyed his computer before he left home so nobody could go digging through it.
OK, what about the adult shooters who supposedly just "snap" under stress, like the famous "clock tower" shooter, Charles Whitman? He was an outwardly normal Eagle Scout and model Marine for the first 24 years of his life. When he was 25, he stabbed his mother and wife, climbed the University of Texas Tower in Austin with a locker full of guns and ammo, and spent an hour and a half shooting 45 people below. His example has become shorthand for "tightly wound guy who finally snaps" (fans of Kitchen Confidential know that Anthony Bourdain likes to accuse people of being ready to snap and become clock-tower snipers, and a narrator in a Farrelly Brothers movie says that "when his heart has been broken ... some men break down and cry like a baby. And some others take an Uzi and climb a clock tower").
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Most men just play a lot of video games and fall asleep whacking it.
Except Whitman didn't just "snap." In the last months of his life, he experienced terrible headaches and violent urges he couldn't explain. He went to a doctor, who turned him away, and in his suicide note he even suggested that they look at his brain to figure out what had suddenly changed. Sure enough, when they opened him up, there was "a tumor the diameter of a nickel" pressing on his amygdala, the part of the brain that "is involved in emotional regulation, especially fear and aggression."
Well, shit, that doesn't make the picture any clearer. You can try examining all of the elements of American society that cause these massacres, but they're hardly an American invention -- in 1996, an Australian man killed 35 people, which was right after a guy in Scotland murdered 17 children. You can try to figure out what it is about the mass media and the modern world that breeds these killers, but you have to remember that the worst school massacre in American history isn't Columbine, but an incident in Michigan where a farmer blew up a school and killed 45 people, mostly kids, all the way back in 1927. Why did he do it? Nobody has any fucking idea.
Our staff psychologists suspect he was a "total dick."
The truth is, we have no idea what causes mass shootings, and just about every case is different, no matter how hard we try to put the focus on the standard "pushed around until they finally take revenge" narrative.
And if you're not confused enough, let's give you a stat that will pretty much obliterate everything you thought about gun violence ...


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This solved the problem but obviously will weakens your security. I would recommend you only disable this when you go to sites you trust that have this problem.
Tested with IE8 on Windows 7 RC. I also think it will work with Vista and IE 7. I tested with the game shift 4.
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As you all may know, it is pretty common for new players to have questions. Seeing they decided to come to the forums to ask these certain questions, making one new thread for each and every single question they got, thus clogging up the forum, and making good threads go back a page or two (which is very annoying for the players using the forums as much as me), I decided to make this thread since the idea had not been used before.
Do not care if there is a certain question which has been answered before, because it might be several pages ago, and we know you do not want to travel that far back, looking for just your question. I would be happy to answer you.
Q: How do I restart my backyard, or reset my account?
A: There are no possible ways of doing so, if you screwed up in the beginning, then you screwed up. You can eventually create a new Kongregate account.
Q: The tutorial is broken, and I am seemingly stuck now…
A: Then I am sorry for you, you screwed up. There are no ways to reset or restart, like I stated.
Q: Do I need Shinies to win the game?
A: No, you do not. I am a powerful player myself and has never spent more money than a monkey spends on toothpaste. And you cannot "win" the game >.>
Q: Somebody not on my friends list helped me/sent me a gift. How do I find that person?
A: That person must have added you to his/her friend list to see your yard. Check your fans list, and the person will likely be there. Simply add that person as a friend too and refresh this game.
Q: My worker stopped working after I picked a mushroom..?!
A: Yes, that happens sometimes when you pick them mushrooms. Don't worry though, as all you need to do to make him continue his previous work is to refresh the page.
Q: I built a Radio Tower, but it doesn't seem to work properly.
A: That is because it doesn't work. You are stuck with that piece of BS, sorry…
Q: Apparently I am hacking..?
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Sorry, no recipe tonight. I literally spent all day in the kitchen baking for the Street Fair. I will post a pic tomorrow when everything is done. Today alone I made 20 large cookies, 30 bagels, 12 baguettes, and about 20 loaves of various types of bread (it's all getting a bit hazy). Here is the card I am including with each purchase.
Friday, June 6, 2008
I am Baked
6 comments:
- Michelle said...
Love it! Offers options without being pushy. And what better to persuade people than a delicious baked good?
- June 6, 2008 at 11:36 PM
- Janet said...
Good luck at the street fair! I hope you sell every last goodie.
- June 7, 2008 at 1:01 AM
- Cravin' Veggies said...
Great wording on the card... plant-based sounds innocuous enough to catch peoples attention (hopefully you will get tons of visitors!!!) I think if you used the dreaded, evil "V-word" it would turn some people off. Sad, but true...
Can't wait to see your photo!!!
- June 7, 2008 at 8:14 AM
- Eesh said...
Holy cow that's a lot of baking! I hope the boys are helping out in a helpful way hehe. Love the look of that card! You'll probably get lots more hits with that! =)
- June 7, 2008 at 2:24 PM
- jenny said...
Your wares looked amazing, I'm glad to hear it was such a success. I love this card, it's so clever!
- June 8, 2008 at 8:47 PM
- Vegan_Noodle said...
That's awesome that you gave out those cards with your bread!
- June 10, 2008 at 1:15 PM


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I was there!!! :D
Such a terrifying sight! You're a brave man :)
THANK YOU GUYS!!!!!! Giovanna & Mattia are present in this photo! At 5mt of stage..... to see the big show!!!!!!! Amazing night....... please came back as soon as possible! Yous must come back as soon as possible!!!!
Oh my God...!!! It must be one of your best days in your life, isn't it?
one of the most exciting nights of my life ... really ... great show!


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Children's Health
Friends Influence How Active Kids Are
May 28, 2012 -- Kids who like to be active can influence others to do the same, or at least that's what new research finds.
Children in social groups that included others who were physically active were six times more likely to be physically active themselves in a study published today in the journal Pediatrics.
When researchers directly measured activity levels among children attending after-school programs in Nashville, Tenn., they found the activity level of their closest peers to be the strongest influence on the amount of time the children spent engaged in physical activity.
Friends Influenced Activity
Nearly 1 in 5 kids in the U.S. is obese, compared to less than 1 in 10 just three decades ago.
Lack of exercise is a major contributor to the childhood obesity epidemic, and researchers say the new findings have implications for health policymakers who want to get children moving.
"We know that most obesity interventions do not work, which is why preventing obesity in the first place is so important," says researcher Sabina B. Gesell, PhD, of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville.
"This research suggests that if we consider friendship networks in our efforts to prevent childhood obesity, we are likely to see gains that we have not seen with other interventions."
The study builds on earlier work suggesting that social networks have a big impact on body weight in adults.
Social Networks and Obesity
Research finding that obesity spreads from friend to friend made headlines several years ago, and the idea remains controversial.
The new study is one of the first to examine the impact of social networks on activity levels in children.
Using a motion-sensing device known as an accelerometer, the Vanderbilt researchers measured activity among 81 mostly elementary school-aged children over a three-month period while they were attending after-school programs.
They also interviewed the children to determine who they spent the most time with during these after-school hours.
The children tended to group by gender, race, age, and where they went to school, but not by activity level, Gesell tells WebMD.


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19 Apr 2012 11:43 AM #1
Ext 4.1 RC3 HasOne Assocation Bug
Ext version tested:
- Ext 4.1 rev RC3
- Maybe I am crazy but I think the generated getter success callback is using Function.call when it should be using Function.apply. Also the scope is not used on the second call to the generated getter if the scope provided in the options config.
Ext.define(App.override.data.association.HasOne', { override: 'Ext.data.association.HasOne', createGetter: function() { var me = this, ownerModel = me.ownerModel, associatedName = me.associatedName, associatedModel = me.associatedModel, foreignKey = me.foreignKey, primaryKey = me.primaryKey, instanceName = me.instanceName; return function(options, scope) { options = options || {}; var model = this, foreignKeyId = model.get(foreignKey), scope = options.scope || scope, success, instance, args; if (options.reload === true || model[instanceName] === undefined) { instance = Ext.ModelManager.create({}, associatedName); instance.set(primaryKey, foreignKeyId); if (typeof options == 'function') { options = { callback: options, scope: scope || model }; } // Overwrite the success handler so we can assign the current instance success = options.success; options.success = function(rec){ model[instanceName] = rec; if (success) { success.apply(this, arguments); } }; associatedModel.load(foreignKeyId, options); // assign temporarily while we wait for data to return model[instanceName] = instance; return instance; } else { instance = model[instanceName]; args = [instance]; scope = scope || model; //TODO: We're duplicating the callback invokation code that the instance.load() call above //makes here - ought to be able to normalize this - perhaps by caching at the Model.load layer //instead of the association layer. Ext.callback(options, scope, args); Ext.callback(options.success, scope, args); Ext.callback(options.failure, scope, args); Ext.callback(options.callback, scope, args); return instance; } }; } });
20 Apr 2012 8:32 AM #2
Thank you for the report!
3 Jul 2012 1:15 AM #3
I would like to add that the use of associatedName is worng in some parts of the code.
Maybe it's me who is wrong but if you use a model name like 'App.model.Customer' and want to use it with associations you can either specify associatedName: 'Customer' to have getterName = getCustomer, setterName = setCustomer, associationKey = customer, foreignKey = customer_id and instanceName = CustomerBelongsToInstance (for example) or you can specify all of them.
The problem is that the first approach doesn't work since associatedName is used in same places where associatedModel should be used, and breaks everything, so you always need to go the second route.
Code:instance = Ext.ModelManager.create({}, associatedName); // This is deprecated BTW
3 Jul 2012 7:37 AM #4
If you feel you have a valid case that is a separate issue, please create a new report.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The gloves are off in one of the most hotly-contested primaries in northeast Kansas.
Three-term Republican House member Joe Patton is trying to unseat two-term incumbent Vicki Schmidt in the 20th State Senate district.
The campaign has featured strong words from both sides - and the outside.
Schmidt is putting what she calls negative attacks from challenger Patton at the center of at least one television ad. It enlists a quote from the late Pres. Ronald Reagan that Republicans should not attack fellow Republicans.
Schmidt says she find the tone of the campaign "disappointing." She says she asked Patton to sign a clean campaign pledge and he declined. She also says there is an effort to "nationalize" the campaign, pointing to third-party mailings associating her with Pres. Obama and Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
Patton acknowledges third-party groups have sent mailings some might consider negative. (Third parties have sent mailings on Schmidt's behalf, too.) As for his own actions, Patton says he's only pointing out what he calls Schmidt's liberal voting record. He says the two have voting records that are mirror opposites and he doesn't believe it is negative to point that out.
A primary point of attack is taxes. Patton says Schmidt's votes include one in favor of the second-largest tax hike in state history. Asked if there is there any situation under he you would support a tax increase, Patton emphatically replied, "No." He says to fund schools and other services, such as those for people with disabilities, the state needs revenues and those revenues come from creating jobs. Higher taxes, he says, stifle job creation.
Schmidt says the vote to which Patton refers was for a one-percent sales tax that would expire after three years. She says it was about compromise in the face of recession that already saw more than a billion dollars in spending slashed. Too have voted against it, she says, would have drastically cut services to those in need and she believes that Topekans, while fiscally conservative, also are compassionate.
Both hope to leave the same impression with voters - that they are the conservative candidate.
The winner of the Aug. 7 primary faces Democrat Terry Crowder in November.
Patton and Schmidt also talk about health care, state worker increases, past accomplishments and their priorities in the full interviews, which are included above.


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What encryption is used when my password is sent across in Gmail mails and when I do online banking?
Public-private key encryption?
In key encryption, which entity is assigned a public and which a private key?
Does each unique machine with a unique MAC address have a unique public and a private key?
Does each instance of a browser have a unique key?
Does each user have a unique private and and a public key?
How does a session key come into the picture?
How do machines receive their keys?


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A high-pressure oxygen treatment used to help divers recover from accidents has also gained widespread use in helping heal wounds.
It's called hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
St. Marys Fire Chief Ray Barthuly experienced the benefits first hand.
Ray has battled problems related to diabetes since he was diagnosed in his 30s. About three years ago, he says he developed a blister on his foot that became infected. He admits he didn't seek medical attention as soon as he should have and, eventually, he had his toes and part of his right foot amputated. The blister came back, and, again, Ray says he put off treatment, and, again, it wouldn't heal.
By that point, Ray says, he was fearful he would lose more of his leg. He consulted his family doctor, who referred him to a wound specialist. The move led him to the hyperbaric oxygen chambers at the Stormont-Vail Wound Care Center in Topeka.
Dr. Robert Holmes, a board certified would care and hyperbaric medicine specialist, says cells need oxygen to repair themselves. In hyperbaric oxygen therapy, patients are placed in a chamber where they breath 100 percent oxygen under pressure. He says this increases the amount of oxygen in the bloodstream, which stimulates the body to heal.
Dr. Holmes says it's especially effective in diabetics, like Ray. He says part of the problem with many wounds is that circulation is so poor, not enough oxygen gets to the skin, so the skin itself begins to die, or new skin trying to form to heal the wound cannot survive.
Treatments typically last two hours. They're done daily for a total of 20 to 40 treatments, depending on the severity of the wound.
Ray's treatments were done in conjunction with advanced wound therapy, where a lab-created layer of skin grown from human cells is placed over the affected area. Dr. Holmes says that skin tissue provides nutrients and chemicals and proteins necessary for wound healing to begin. Once it is started, the body will take over and eventually the lab-created skin will disappear.
Ray went from the prospect of losing his leg to opening the door on reaching his future goals.
He says he has just over five years to go until retirement and having the opportunity to pursue the advanced treatments means he has a better chance of being able to make it.
Doctors expect the demand for this type of treatment to increase with the rise in the number of people with diabetes, who have difficult to heal wounds.


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I would like to read all the questions under a particular tag in chronological order. My objective is to be able to do that in reversed feed kind of way, so I can keep tabs on what I have read.
Beginning at the last page of a tag is an obvious solution; however, the number of pages under a tag is dynamic and in some cases (c#, java, jquery) changes very rapidly. Using the website to read the tags would involve a lot of manual bookkeeping.
What would be a better way to do this? I am not familiar with the Stack API, but I am willing to write a tool to do this. Please advise.


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Mostly because of reading this site, I'm trying to move away from Hungarian Notation. Or I guess the improper (system) Hungarian.
I can figure out a better way to name most data types, but I don't know what to do with objects. What would be a good naming convention for objects? I use objRS for recordsets now. Would I just use rs?


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Ballet Across America II at the Kennedy Center 15-20 June 2010Three different programs, nine different companies
Posted 17 June 2010 - 05:33 AM
Briefly, I'll say that I thought the first ballet, Houston Ballet's Artistic Director's Falling, was beautifully danced and had some substance, but had a highly variable relationship to its music, an early divertimento or serenade by Mozart, and was inconsequential; the second, Monumentum/Movements, a distinguished pair of ballets by George Balanchine, well suited its music throughout and got a generally apt performance by the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, maybe sightly better the second evening, when it was much better received, incidentally, by a younger audience; and then North Carolina Dance Theatre offered Shindig, by its artistic director, Jean-Pierre Bonnefous, which was a big hit with the audience the first night but seemed so insubstantial I skipped it the second time.
Here's a link to a clip of the third item on the first program, North Carolina Dance Theater's Shindig:
(It was good to see TSFB's Momchil Mladenov recovered from the injury I saw him sustain in Minneapolis in March, too.)
Posted 17 June 2010 - 06:01 AM
COPIED FROM JACK's INITIAL THREAD on MONUMENTUM/MOVEMENTS
TSFB troupe did a very fine job last night [opening night] with these two ballets. I was most impressed with Natalia Magnicaballi's reserved abandon - quite Farrellesque.
The other two offerings of the night were also well performed. Welch's Falling, to a Mozart score, had some lovely movements by exceptional dancers, such as Melody Herrera. However, the hit of the night among most audience members was, without a doubt, NCDT's Shindig, closing the evening with a bang.
The brief post-performance chat featured Patricia McBride and Suzanne Farrell together on the stage once again (along with Bonnefoux, Welch and emcee Kim Kokich).
Jack, as much as we ballet lovers admire Balanchine's Stravinsky works, I'm afraid that there's much less appreciation among the public at large. For example, I heard snores in my 2nd Tier area during M/M. A group of high schoolers occupied the two rows directly behind us, so it was a young gang in my area. One of the young people exclaimed "Thank God - good music!" as a bluegrass tune was heard before curtain-up for Shindig. Then, as the curtain rose, there was huge applause...not just for the troupe on the stage but for the "relief" of finally hearing & seeing something that they could enjoy. Sad but true.
p.s. And "it ain't over" for Monumentum/Movements at the Kennedy Center by any stretch. Oh, no. M/M is scheduled not once but TWICE next season -- for the next TSFB regular run in the late-fall, then at NYCB's spring visit ('Balanchine Black-and-White' mini-festival). I suppose that Ms Farrell, as KennCen ballet programmer, is dispensing "M/M Overkill" castor oil. ( "It may not taste the best but it's good for you! You will swallow it and that's an order!") She is to be commended for trying...but I hope that nobody will be turned off ballet as a result. Newbies should want to BUY more tickets in the future, not run away. Oh well, the beauty of mixed-bill programs is that there's bound to be something for everyone.
Posted 17 June 2010 - 07:42 AM
Anyway, I'm not clear on whether you were at the second night as well, because the person sitting next to me had been to both, and also thought, as I did, that M & M got a much better hand from the orchestra seats Wednesday evening than Tuesday, and it was a much younger audience, or at least, just looking around, we saw a lot more younger people. (I don't think Farrell thinks Balanchine's black and white ballet "is good for you" except in the best, spiritual sense; she serves the cause, and personally, I hope no one ever tries to persuade her to betray that cause by dumbing down her repertory. There's huge variety of good stuff.)
I've put in my scant notes from the short post-performance panel discussion Tuesday the 15th below, in Post #11, FWIW.
Edited by Jack Reed, 19 June 2010 - 04:56 PM.
Posted 17 June 2010 - 07:45 AM
Jim Nelson, General Manager of Houston Ballet, is blogging about the Ballet Across America experience here, and he's included photos.
Posted 17 June 2010 - 07:55 AM
....not clear on whether you were at the second night as well,.....
Alas, I missed the 2nd night, Jack. Was watching La Danse on TV. Glad to read that M/M received a better ovation than at the opener.
Agreed on the importance of not dumbing down the repertoire. If pleasing the crowd were the only goal, then we'd have nothing but DON Q. As it is, DON Q shows up at least once every KennCen season (Bolshoi in 07, Mariinsky in 08, WashingtonBallet in the present season of 09/10...and were getting it again next season with the Cuban Ballet).
Posted 18 June 2010 - 05:46 AM
Ballet Arizona's large-scaled Diversions, set to Britten and choreographed by company AD Ib Andersen, should have been the hit of the night but was hampered by a too-slow rendition of the score by the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra...something that was still bothering Andersen one hour later during the post-performance discussion. I would love to see this ballet performed in the appropriate tempo some day, as it displays the work of a sensitive choreographer who is not of the post-Balanchine cookie-cutter variety. The haunting pas de deux by the leading couple -- sorry, don't have my Playbill for names! -- was a highlight. The costumes were gorgeous, with a modified 'tutu-like' leotard with feathery ruffled skirt for the ladies and hand-painted bird's feathers at the hipline of the men's tights. The entire piece made me think of birds or floating angels.
Alas, the evening ended on a downer. Pacific NW Ballet's dancers are far too talented for the monotonous and cliche-filled triffle served up by choreographer Benjamin Millepied, to Stephen Reich's dull, repetitive music. [Sorry, Mr. Reich - you're no Phillip Glass.] The ballet 3 Movements is only 15-16 minutes long...but even one movement would have been too long! Let me guess -- Millepied is being mentored by Peter Martins. Even the 'streetwear' costumes were blah. The saving grace was Carla Korbes -- a beautiful presence, generous in her movements.
One more program -- one more night, tonight. Maybe the Joffrey, Aspen Santa Fe and Tulsa ballets can pull us back up to the quality of the two 'hits' of the run so far -- Shindig and In Dreams?
p.s. Only two of the three ADs appeared in last night's post-performance chat. PNWB's Peter Boal was the no-show. The moderator announced that he suffered some sort of injury back home and was unable to join his troupe in DC.
Posted 18 June 2010 - 07:25 AM
Posted 18 June 2010 - 07:27 AM
.... The pas de deux couple should have been Russell Clarke and Tsuchia Huang, who have a wonderful and consistent chemistry.
Yes, that's the magical couple, ArizonaNative. Thanks.
Posted 19 June 2010 - 10:04 AM
Posted 19 June 2010 - 12:37 PM
Anywho, BAZ dancers are having a grand old time here and loving the opportunity we have been given. I think it is opening a lot of eyes about what is going on in the southwest.
Posted 19 June 2010 - 04:52 PM
Ballet Across America panel discussion, Tuesday evening, 15 June, Opera House, Kennedy Center; thus this brief discussion happened right after the first performance of Program I, and so it's out of sequence in this thread, but I hope these bits I caught of it will be of some interest anyway:
Kim Kokich, moderator, with Jean-Pierre Bonnefous, Patricia McBride, Suzanne Farrell, and Stanton Welch seated left to right downstage
K K: Is there an American style of dancing? J-P B: It has energy and joy, but there are many kinds. P McB: Each company has its own style. Its choreographer maintains his style. S F: America is young and ballet is young. America was colonized by people from many countries... S W: America is diverse, like Europe.
Q from audience: Where does a choreographer get his inspiration? J-P B: From the bluegrass. The rhythm is fun. S W: He might begin with a story and look for the music.
Q: Who were the Balanchine ballets [Monumentum and Movements] choreographed on? S F: On Diana Adams... They have a similar pristine quality, [corresponding] to the starkness of Stravinsky. There's similarity, but contrast. The opposite sides of the energy coin.
Q: Is it more thrilling to dance or to choreograph? S F: It's easier to be a dancer. P McB: You're more nervous for your dancers. [It may have been here that Farrell and McBride began to hold hands]
Q: The diversity of styles was impressive tonight. How did you choose what to bring? J-P B: We were asked for videos and the Kennedy Center chose.
Posted 21 June 2010 - 05:26 AM
Posted 21 June 2010 - 06:47 AM
Did anyone else go? There were a lot of people there -- more comments would be appreciated!
There are three reviews up on danceviewtimes. Here are the links:
Program I (George Jackson):
Program 2 (George Jackson):
Program 3 (Alexandra Tomalonis)
Posted 21 June 2010 - 07:57 AM
"Q: The diversity of styles was impressive tonight. How did you choose what to bring? J-P B: We were asked for videos and the Kennedy Center chose."
(from Jack Reed's description of a post-show discussion) very interesting, in light of the comments that have been made about repertory choice. I'm wondering, now, what the mechanism was for the last festival (where PNB, my hometown company, caught some flack for dancing Nacho Duato's "Jardi Tancat")
Posted 21 June 2010 - 07:59 AM
I found Program C to be very enjoyable from a 'movement to music' perspective. I was especially surprised that I enjoyed the first two works -- Elo's Red Sweet for Aspen Santa Fe Ballet and Duato's Por Vos Muero for Tulsa Ballet -- as both are more 'modern dance' than true ballet. And I loved Liang's Age of Innocence for the Joffrey despite the dopey costumes for the men!
Jorma Elo's Red Sweet, set to Vivaldi and Biber, showed-off the honed physiques and musicality of the Aspen Santa Fe troupe. I call it Sliced Even Sharper -- very similar movement to Elo's well-known Vivaldi opus for NYCB, even more-to-the-point and satisfying. A lot of the exiting/entering moves and lifts are taken straight from the NYCB work but are more effective now because only the dancer's faces and limbs are bright, beautifully contrasted against all-black background and the dark-toned leotards with bare legs. Also in contrast to the black background and costumes, the floor was a brightly-lit fuschia. Many in the audience complained that the women were not on pointe. ("Aren't we supposed to see ballet tonight?") However, I could have sworn that the women were on pointe, as they danced almost on the tips of their toes throughout. Truly extraordinary and it must have been very difficult to maintain pointe-like positions without pointe shoes. I loved the clever exits that had the dancers appearing to be swimmers -- the 'wavy legs' movements that we see in other Elo works.
I went into Nacho Duato's Por Vos Muero expecting to hate it. I took No-Doze as prep. I warned my husband not to expect much. I had already seen this work on DVD by the originators, Duato's National Dance Company of Spain. I was prepared for chunky, weighted-down dancers moving to boring 15th-C Spanish madrigals, interspersed by pretentious poetry readings. It was a delightful surprise to see this work performed by lighter, ballet-trained dancers of the Tulsa Ballet, who brought sunshine to the piece. OK, I still dislike the work but I was able to appreciate the balletic gifts of the Tulsa dancers and, hopefully, their next visit to Washington, DC, will see them dancing true classical ballet.
Balletic relief came in the form of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago dancing Edwaard Liang's gorgeous Age of Innocence, which deals with manners and feelings among men and women 100-200 years ago and, as such, hearkens to Lilac Garden or even the corps in Sonambula. [Too bad that the men in the ballroom were stupidly outfitted in white short-shorts.] There was much to love about Liang's steps to the beautiful Phillip Glass score BUT the piece de resistance was the final pas de deux, exquisitely danced by Victoria Jaiani and Fabrice Calmels. I could watch that pas de deux -- and this entire ballet, in fact -- forever and ever. It is the essence of what I love in the art. A clever movement in which he quickly flips her and she ends up "perching" on his back will live on in my mind for some time. Bravi!
All three troupes were equally and warmly cheered by the night's very lively audience -- liveliest of the three nights that I attended.
p.s. The post-performance chat and Q&A was the longest and liveliest tonight. The Tulsa Ballet's director - Marcello Angellini- was a particular hoot with his candid comments about costumes.
p.s.s. It's hard and probably unfair to pick favorites among the nine ballets and troupes on view during the festival but I'll have to select Joffrey-Age of Innocence, while my husband sticks firmly with North Carolina's Shindig.
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My first panorama, after months of illness (lyme disease).
December 7 2011 the Pan Americana tour across South America (15000 kilometers) with classic Volvos will start. I made a panorama in side the Volvo 240 of team83:
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I'm down for this. We have the OL to make this work
"I definitely believe there will be opportunities for him," the general manager said. "There are people out there that are just clamoring and struggling and trying to find any semblance of a quarterback. Although Michael hasn't performed, there are a lot of reasons for that. I still think he's an incredibly talented athlete. He can move the ball around the field. If used properly, he can win games and win playoff games.
"If I were a GM just starting and wasn't going to have a shot at a quarterback, or [a GM] on the tail end trying to keep my *** alive, Michael Vick would be on my team and taking starting snaps. In this league, you have to eke out wins. You can eke out wins with him, even if you had to put him in spots where he had to run and do things. There are too many people who recognize his ability, his athleticism and what he can do."
I'm down for this. We have the OL to make this work
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I have stuck with this team through thick and thin but signing qb dog killer would be the last straw, I would not be cheering for this team anymore. He really should go to the raiders he would fit right in with the rest of the convicted felons.
My only wish is to have one winning season before I die, but probably isn't going to happen!
Its not really his personal choices that turn me off (although he's a ****ing idiot for that stuff)----- its the fact that he went from "Oh wow he's back" to " what the **** happened?" I want less "*** happened?"
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People need to learn how to seperate a player and a person. You dont have to let him come over to your house and watch your dogs, just watch him play Football. Why do people get so let down by these guys off the field? You like them because the play on the team you love. Why do people expect these guys to be great people? If anything, my guess is there are more jerks then good guys. But why do people care?
somehow hes playing with one of the most respected Qb and offensive gurus in the league and has regressed each year
and you guys want to bring him here
Michael Vick in Buffalo is a band aid on a bullet wound Vick/ Gailey will never get the division from Bellicheck/Brady. better off starting over with a rookie in my opinion
Please no. We need our own QB not a retread!
Vick might be able to do the wildcat with the New York Jets and replace Tebow.
There is no way he would be able to figure out Gailey's offense in Buffalo.
at this point jim kelly coming out of retirement seems like a viable option so id gladly take Vick over Fitzpatrick i don't care anymore
"Fight on, my men, Sir Andrew said -- A little I'm hurt but not yet slain. I'll just lie down and bleed awhile -- And I'll rise and fight again." marv levy
Vick is freaking terrible.
He has almost no pre-snap vision and can't decipher a defense to save his life.
His windup is also longer than Timmy Tebow's.
Vick's NFL days are just about done.
I would Like FOles instead please
We need to stop bringing in re-treads that have past their prime and go and get one, scout all these QB's until we find our guy and take him, Vick would only be a bandaid, I'm sick of those. We need a legit QB, drafted by this organization.
He will inherit a solid OL, a good WR in Stevie Johnson and the defense seems to be gelling finally. Fitz cannot win games in a dogfight, he just can't and we need to find a guy who can.
Fitzpatrick needs to go. I would welcome Vick for a short term while we draft a QB who doesn't suck. An old Vick is better then Fitzpatrick.
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This organization is not dedicated to winning, Ralph Wilson is keeping this team hostage like Al Davis to the Raiders. So unlike the raiders , the Bills might leave, you could wait and die with the organization or force thier hand by not giving them your $$ this Christmas or waiting to re-new your season tickets until they do something, The Erie County Tax Payers are making alot of Wilson's estate's in Michigan who don't give a **** ,Richer!!
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I'd like to know if there is a plugin that writes down all the distances between a layer from its all four sides to all objects near to it, and then do this for all layers. Or at least write down width and height of all layers into one layer.
I don't know of any plug-ins but you can pull layer dimensions with javascript. A developer I work with has a jsx set up to grab the dimensions, position, and name of each group in the sprite files I provide. He outputs the results directly to CSS. You could just send it to the a text file or whatever suits you.
I've never seen a plugin that does this, but I'm not sure this is something you should be doing in the first place. Implementations should support text resizing and assume that elements will change size as business requirements and functionality change.
Doesn't do exactly what you're after, but this plugin lets you set grids that will help with web layouts:
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April 1, 2013 | Vol. 69, No. 04
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Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute had a team of photographers from Jupitar Telecom, a cable television station in Tokyo, at the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race at Willow, Alaska, on March 3. From left, Kenichiro Takahashi, Yu Katsuura, Takashi Tsuji, and Shinya Matsua. Takahashi said the crew also was shooting seafood industry footage in Anchorage and Dutch Harbor.
Four-time Iditarod Sled Dog Race champion Lance Mackey was all smiles an hour before the start of the 2013 race to Nome, checking his sled bag over, when asked how much wild Alaska salmon he was taking along.
"For me or the dogs?" Mackey shot back.
In fact Mackey, of Fairbanks, Alaska, was packing along about 30 pounds of smoked salmon for himself, and had shipped on ahead in the supply bags delivered to each checkpoint along the way some 600 pounds of king and chum salmon to snack his team of huskies.
Another Iditarod champion, Mitch Seavey, of Seward, Alaska, said he also was packing smoked salmon for his own consumption, plus about 300 pounds of salmon, and sheefish, for snacking his dogs on the trail.
Paul Gebhardt, a top contender in the race from Kasilof, on the Kenai Peninsula, said he was packing about 400 pounds of salmon for his dogs.
2013 Yukon Quest sled dog race champion Allen Moore, of Two Rivers, near Fairbanks, and his wife, Aliy Zirkle, who won the Yukon Quest in 2000, also sent out a load of wild salmon for snacking their teams. And the list goes on and on.
Hours before the race began March 3 at Willow, Alaska, where temperatures were in the high 20s, quite a few of the mushers fed their teams frozen salmon snacks before hitting the trail to Nome.
"Fish gives the most hydration," said Moore. "The dogs like the fish, especially in warmer weather. They like it and it is good for them."
"Fish is one of the most important snacks because of water content," said Kaz Zirkle, sister of Aliy. "We cut the fish into 'Snicker bites,' six inches long."
Ray Redington, a top contender in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, snacked his dog team with wild Alaska salmon often before the start of the race. Redington said he packed several hundred pounds of wild Yukon River salmon to snack his dog on the trail to Nome during warmer parts of the race, because of the nutritional value and water content of the fish.
Both Zirkle and Moore had packed about 50 salmon per team.
"I've always made it a point of feeding a lot of fish," said Sebastian Schnuelle, of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, who won the Yukon Quest in 2009, and has been a contender in several Iditarod races. "The dogs like it and they do well on it."
Some mushers are fortunate enough to get the fish donated by a fish processor in their area. Seavey, for example gets about 20,000 to 30,000 pounds a year of fish from Icicle Seafoods' processing facilities in Seward, said Dan Seavey, Mitch's father, and himself a former Iditarod musher.
Snug Harbor Seafoods supplies Gebhardt with fish, and some fishing guides on the Kenai Peninsula also save king salmon heads for him, he said.
Given the cost of running the Iditarod, just about all the mushers are most appreciative of any donations offered, everywhere from fish processing plants to fish from individual freezers. To contact any mushers to donate fish, check their contact information at http://www.iditarod.com.
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I am writing this blog as I fly home to Sweden from this year's Pentaho EMEA Partner Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. This was a great opportunity to meet many of our partners from all over Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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"Good presenters, good networking, good socializing, GREAT event!"
Personally, I found a lot of value in listening! As much as we presented over the two days, the team also did a lot of listening to our partners to better understand their challenges and opportunities. After their hearing stories, suggestions and ideas, I am very optimistic that we can now even better align with our partners' needs to help drive more joint business and success.
One of the highlights of the Summit was presenting the 2010 EMEA Partner Awards. These awards recognise the organisations that have worked closely with Pentaho throughout the year to deliver outstanding customer success, commercial results or innovation in the region
Congratulations to the 2010 EMEA Partner Award Winners:
- EMEA Partner of the Year – BNOVA in Italy was recognised for driving the most revenue for a partner in EMEA.
- Best Market Development in EMEA – Millersoft in the UK was recognised for being the fastest to sell, market and grow after joining the Pentaho partner program.
- Best Community Contributor EMEA – Aschauer in Austria was recognised for creating a SAP Java connector plugin for the data integration components of Pentaho Data Integration 4.0.
- Channel Managers Pick EMEA – Xpand IT in Portugal was recognised as being Best in Class in terms of following the Partner Processes.
- SI of the Year EMEA – Microgenesis in Spain was recognised for major wins at two global telecommunications providers.
- Training Partner of the Year EMEA – Linalis in Switzerland & France was recognised for driving the most training revenue in EMEA.
- OEM BI partner of the year – Conduct in Norway was recognised for their win at TV2, Norway's largest commercial TV Channel.
Above are some photos from the event of our 2010 EMEA Partner Award winners. If you missed this great event and are interested in attending something similar in the future, we have recently announced the Global Partner Summit in San Francisco, November 9-10. After seeing and hearing the value the attendees took away from the EMEA Partner Summit, I highly recommend you check it out.
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Say for instance I'm walking on boggy ground, I find a small muddy hole or some other minor tragedy that leaves one or both of my feet soaking wet and caked in mud. What is the best way to deal with this on a long hike, so as to avoid getting athlete's foot/blisters?
After dealing with a lot of wet feet issues I have learned some tricks.
Keeping feet dry
Getting feet dry, after being wet.
Drying Wet Socks
Carry extra socks and a couple of kitchen-sized trash bags. When you soak a shoe or boot, squeeze out the wet sock and let it start drying on the back of the pack. Put on a dry sock. Then put the trash back over the dry sock, and put your foot, sock, and trash bag inside your wet shoe. After a while your shoe will dry out a little, maybe enough that you no longer need the trash bag to keep your dry sock dry. However, wearing a trash bag in your shoe is very stylish, so you might want to leave it on.
Wearing trash bags like this also works if you find yourself in wet snow without waterproof shoes.
This is one of the reasons I always hike with at least one extra pair of socks and tend to wear shoes that shed water quickly as opposed to being water proof. If you're in a consistently wet environment there really isn't much you can do as it won't really help to change your socks every 10 minutes as they keep getting soaked.
Just make sure that when you take breaks or camp, you give your feet plenty of time to dry out. Do your best to wring out your socks and do what you can to dry them out before putting it all back on again.
Overboots are a solution I don't see above. Some fabric based ones take up less space in the pack than an extra set of boots, and they can be taken off relatively easily when the rain abates or when you have cleared a marshy area.
In warm weather on reasonable trails, Vibram Fivefinger shoes are quite comfortable even when wet, because when sized properly they have no opportunity to slide against your skin. They are small, light, and pack quite easily or can be clipped to your bag or belt.


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The Nemaha Natural Resources District Board is accepting written applications to fill a vacant seat on the board from subdistrict 4 the Nebraska City area.
At its Feb. 14 meeting, directors appointed Doug Iske of Dunbar to fill the vacant seat left by State Sen. Dan Watermeier.
There was a letter of interest regarding the vacancy, but since there were no applicants at the meeting, directors delayed the appointment until the March 14 meeting.
NRD board members are normally elected to four-year terms during the primary/general elections in even numbered years. Twenty-one members serve on the Nemaha NRD board and represent 10 subdistricts, two directors per subdistrict, who are elected in alternating election years.
One member of the board is elected at-large from throughout the entire District. Currently the other director in Subdistrict 4 is John Albrecht from Nebraska City.
Included in Subdistrict 4 are all of McWilliams, NC11, and NC12 precincts; in addition parts of NC13 and NC15 are included. More detailed maps showing the NRD subdistricts are available by contacting the NRD.
Nemaha NRD board meetings are held in Tecumseh on the second Thursday of each month, generally in the evening. Board members are eligible to receive $50 per diem and reimbursement of mileage and other expenses incurred while conducting NRD business.
Individuals interested in these positions should address a letter requesting appointment to the Nemaha NRD Board of Directors, 62161 Hwy 136, Tecumseh NE 68450, for consideration at the boardís regular monthly meeting on March 14. For more information, contact the NRD at (402) 335-3325.
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I am looking for ways to install and run LuaTeX on a USB flash drive (Windows operating system).
ConTeXt minimals does not require any installation and can be run from a USB stick. It contains the latest luatex binary along with plain and context macro packages ... but no latex. So, depending on what macro package you want to use, it may or may not be useful.
LuaTeX will be included MiKTeX 2.9, due out soon. When that happens, I presume you'll be able to run it (and hence LuaTeX) on MiKTeX Portable. (I couldn't see anything about the portable version on the MiKTeX 2.9 beta page.)
TeX Live also offers a portable mode, thought it's not well documented (if at all) currently. With TeX Live 2010, use
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Retired teachers are invited to attend the White County Retired Teachers Association meeting to be held at 12 p.m. Monday, April 8 at the Carmi American Legion dining room. The program's speaker will be Susie Bishop, an author with Carmi roots. Proposed legislation, which could impact the Teacher Retirement System, will be also be discussed.
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It's a visually resplendent Middle-earth that director Peter Jackson has re-created in �The Hobbit.� But just how captivating viewers find the movie (HH� out of four; rated PG-13) may depend on which format they watch.
This preamble to the �Lord of the Rings� trilogy was shot at a photo-realistic 48 frames per second, a new projection technique used by Jackson that moves at twice the speed of traditional film and captures twice the amount of information. Consequently, the picture is crisper and sharper. But the hyper-realism is not an asset for the fantasy film, based on J.R.R. Tolkien�s mythology, because it impedes the audience�s ability to be transported by the imaginative, otherworldly tale.
The technique seems more suited to a documentary about the making of the movie than a whimsically inventive tale. The jarring clarity of 48 fps � available in about 500 theaters � pulls the viewer out of the absorbing, if occasionally languorous, action-adventure saga.
The �Lord of the Rings� films appealed to vast audiences because of Jackson�s use of the New Zealand landscape, as well as his blend of CGI, live action and performance-capture technology. Those elements are in place again, but the story feels less substantial than the �Lord of the Rings� tales.
Four performances stand out: Martin Freeman plays the affable young Bilbo Baggins; Andy Serkis reprises his iconic role as the tragic, schizoid Gollum; Richard Armitage makes his debut as the stubbornly proud dwarf king Thorin; and Ian McKellan reappears as the sagely droll wizard, Gandalf.
Bilbo is enjoying life in his hobbit hole when Gandalf pops by. He urges Bilbo to embark on an adventure, but the hobbit is a homebody who prefers his books, well-stocked pantry and warm hearth. Soon, a band of unruly dwarfs descend on Bilbo�s cozy domicile. Like sailors on leave crossed with beer-swilling frat guys, they engage in rowdy antics that become grating. In between tossing plates, banging heads and stuffing their faces, they burst into song. They need a light-footed burglar to assist in the quest to reclaim their gold-laden homeland, Erebor. Bilbo decides to join their brigade. Lasting about an hour, this setup is more tedious than illuminating.
Once the actual journey kicks off, �The Hobbit� becomes a more exciting experience, filled with hungry trolls, vicious goblins and a vengeful, one-armed orc. It bogs down in a detour to scenic Rivendell, the Shangri-La-like home of the elves.
Things perk up when Bilbo becomes trapped in a cavern and meets the bug-eyed Gollum. The pair face off in an exuberant game of dueling riddles. Gollum is presented with more visual detail � thanks to technical improvements � and Serkis� performance is spot-on.
But the dwarfs are an uninteresting crew. With their interchangeable faces, bulbous noses, beards and names like Bofur, Bifur, Fili, Kili, Oin and Gloin, they are tough to tell apart and, hence, to care about.
It's an enthralling universe that Jackson understandably seems loath to leave. But while the production design is impeccable and the journey intermittently involving, �The Hobbit� is overlong and lacks the enchantment of the �Lord of the Rings� films.
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At times, the nearly three-hour movie feels as bloated as the dwarves' bellies after their gluttonous bash at Bilbo's place.
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