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4 Mar 2013 3:43 AM #1
IE9 not displaying sprites by default
I've been trying to draw a sprite using surface. It is comming fine in case of firefox and chrome but not in the case of IE9. In the case of IE9 every time i open the browser i have to go to dev tools (F12) and set the document mode to IE9 standards , otherwise it'll be in Quirks mode by default.
Is there any way i can set the document mode as IE9 by default or i can invoke IE9 standard document mode from the code.
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12 Jul 2013 1:28 AM #3
Got the same problem.
I have an app, which get's used stand-alone and inside another web-app.
When running the code stand-alone, IE9 is in "Standard IE9" mode.
When running the code inside the other app, IE9 is in "Quirks" mode.
var oResult = Ext.create( 'Ext.draw.Component', { viewBox: false, items : [ { type : 'rect', width : nBarWidth, height: nColumnHeight, fill : 'LightGreen' } ] } ); oResult.on( 'render', function() { Ext.create( 'Ext.tip.ToolTip', { target: oResult.id, html : Ext.util.Format.number( nValue, '0,000' ) } ); } );
12 Jul 2013 2:30 AM #4
Found some informations:
Seems like the charts are made with paths, which work.
Also some path sprites I drew for testing worked.
But the rect needs to change its style to position: absolute;
I tried to create a rect-sprite setting this style and adding this to the items of the draw component. But I'm getting the error:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'setStyle' of undefined
Also the adding in the "render" event of the draw component doesn't throw this error, but it the rects still won't get rendered.
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In "Standard IE9" mode, ExtJS renders SVG
In "Quirks" mode, ExtJS renders VML.
With setAttribute({ style: { position: 'absolute' } } ) I got the style set, but this didn't help.
12 Jul 2013 5:47 AM #5
Searched a few hours and tried everything I found. Nothing worked.
Now switched to using paths only. Maybe I will write my own sprite subclass, which uses paths for all kind of shapes. Seems like Sencha already does this with the charting (probably they knew about this problem, when making the charts)


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A big benefit coming up for the American Red Cross.
Chili Cookoff
ENTRY FEE: $35 There will also be a separate jackpot beans, - $10 Entry
The American Red Cross is inviting participants for its 3rd Annual Chili Cook-off on Sunday, October 24, at Loose Wheels, Texas. Entrants will be judged by public judging, with first prize being $350, a "trophy" chili pot and braggin' rights.
The chili cook-off is part of the day-long Ride for the Red motorcycle rally which kicks off at 9 a.m. Other activities include a pancake breakfast, the motorcycle ride, three bands and a bean pot judging.
Cook-off entrants are required to cook at least 2 gallons of chili and to begin with ingredients "naked" at the door. (That is no ingredients may be precooked with the exception of canned tomatoes, tomato sauce, peppers, pepper sauce, broth, spices. Beans may be presoaked. Meat must not be precooked.)
The judging public pays $5 for 5 tickets to be able to taste and vote for the best chili. Tasting begins at 1 p.m. and ends at 4 p.m. at which time any remaining chili will be sold to the public for $5 a bowl. All proceeds benefit the Texoma Area Chapter of the American Red Cross. Prize will be awarded at 4:30 p.m.
Complete rules and registration forms may be obtained from the Red Cross web site at www.texoma.redcross.org

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I want to know can $+ve$ and $-ve$ blood group of a couple could be a cause of miscarriage in pregnancy?
Yes. In extreme cases, it can. You are talking about Rh Incompatibility, and can become a big issue when the mother has Rh(-) blood and the father has Rh(+) blood (such as the case with your cousin and his wife).
What could have happened (but definitely won't say for sure) is that your cousin's wife had a natural miscarriage which exposed her to the Rh proteins of the child, and then the subsequent pregnancy had complications due to the previous exposure and mother's development of antibodies which lead to the second miscarriage. However, I am not a licensed physician and you should consult a physician before pursuing any sort of treatments!!!
Rh factor is the presence of surface proteins on Erythrocytes (Red Blood Cells or "RBC"). If Leukocytes (White Blood Cells - most commonly reported as "T-cells") encounter Erythrocytes that do not share the Rh factor of their host, then they can develop antibodies to it - which help identify Antigens (foreign proteins and molecules). Once the Antibodies have been generated the Immune System can attack any foreign Erythrocytes.
In this way, the mother's Immune System can actually attack the RBCs of her child.
You can find out more here: http://kidshealth.org/parent/pregnancy_center/your_pregnancy/rh.html
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And you are correct that there is a treatment via injection, but the Doctor is also correct in that administering it past the first pregnancy does little for future fetuses:
And the ultimate effects of missing the shots and having very unfortunate luck:
Is there a cure? No. Once the antibodies have been developed, the Rh(+) protein is known to the mother's Immune System. Nothing short of wiping out the mother's Immune System would act as a cure.
However, in extreme cases, there are treatments:
But don't fret yet!
Rh surface proteins are determined by genetics, and each time a child is conceived there is a chance that the Rh protein will be (-) if the exact genotype of the (+) parent allows it. So if your cousin's wife were to get pregnant again (and each time she does) it's a chance that the Rh Incompatibility (aka - "Hemolytic Disease", aka - "Rhesus Disease") won't show up.
So there are some reasons to stay positive.
To add a more concise answer:
Yes, the conflict between positive and negative Rh (Rhesus) blood groups can cause miscarriage.
The genetic makeup decides whether red blood cells (RBC) carry a specific surface protein known as Rhesus factor (Rh). If your own RBCs do not carry this protein (Rh-), your body will consider it (or RBC carrying it) a foreign substance and treat it like anything foreign - the immune system will respond and eliminate it, just like an infection.
If a Rh- mother has a child whose RBC are Rh+ (which is possible even if only one parent was Rh+), the mother's body will develop an immune response against the baby's blood itself.
This includes the immune response's memory: just like it remembers the "fake" infection from a vaccine to protect against a real disease, the immune system will remember the Rhesus protein, so if future pregnancies develop babies with Rh+ blood, the reaction will be more severe.
See also Wikipedia on the Rh factor and Miscarriage due to Rh factor.


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We Tried It: The Shampoo and Conditioner Combo KPak Addicts Will Love
We tested it on two drastically different hair types. Find out how this combo performed
Working at a beauty website hasn't helped my hair situation much, either. In fact, it's made it even more daunting, as piles of products cover my desk every week. And as much as I love all things related to hair, I have to choose strategically, which is why I'm so excited about Van Thomas Concepts' Christine Shampoo and Conditioner.
Although I've never colored my hair or chemically-treated it, my hair is damaged from heat styling. So anything that makes my natural curls look radiant and bouncy after a wash gets my attention. After using this combo only once, I knew it was my new fave. Van Thomas (who's worked with Joico for years and helped develop it's K-Pak line) developed this sulfate-free line that consists of the brand's one-of-a-kind formula called "The Life Complex" -- three vital ingredients (keratin protein, silk protein and jojoba oil) that make each strand on my head incredibly soft and shiny. Plus, you can instantly tell my hair feels stronger and less brittle as soon as I step foot out my shower.
The packaging is sleek and modern, and although some product promises can come across as cheesy, I actually loved this statement on the bottle: "We also made the shampoo sulfate-free and paraben-free, which just means we love your hair as much as you do." It's so personal, like the line itself, which is named for Thomas' late daughter. Even more inviting is the scent -- something like a luxury spa in a super fancy hotel. At $45 for the set, it's not a budget buy, but for the results, it's worth every cent.
But does it work on different hair types? Our senior editor, Sarah, tried it out. Here's her take:
I have fine, naturally wavy hair that's never been color-treated, and I have issues with any product that weighs my hair down. This duo was surprisingly lightweight. After washing with the shampoo, my hair feels very clean (dare I say squeaky clean?), likely thanks to the "micro-lather" technology that allows the ingredients to penetrate the hair shaft. I only needed a small amount of the conditioner to coat my fine hair. After I rinse, the feeling is amazing. Even wet in the shower I can tell it's sleek and soft and feels stronger. I'm less afraid to comb my hair post-shower because it doesn't feel like it will break.
The conditioner has the highest concentration of "The Life Complex" ingredients, so if you are only going to try one product from the line, make it this one. After drying, my hair is soft and shiny, and although the conditioner is intensely hydrating, my hair isn't flat (and I even apply a teeny amount to my roots!).
If you have damaged hair, are worried about treating damaging hair, or need a great smelling set of products to maintain healthy hair, Sarah and I agree this combo works amazingly and is worth the $45 for the set (a little goes a long way!) The biggest takeaway: You'll actually get excited about washing your hair.
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Arab League issues Doha Communiqué
May 29, 2011
The Arab League released a statement last night announcing that it will seek full U.N. membership for a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, with East Jerusalem as its capital. The declaration came after a meeting of the Ministerial Committee on the Arab Peace Initiative in Doha, chaired by Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani.
The Committee made its decision after reviewing the speech delivered by U.S. President Barack Obama on May 19 and the subsequent response of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress on May 24, according to the Qatar News Agency (QNA) and the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).
The statement expressed appreciation for the position of President Obama that peace should be based on a two-state solution according to the pre-1967 borders. However, it rejected the assertions of Prime Minister Netanyahu, claiming that he "interrupted the path towards making any progress in the achievement of peace according to the legitimate international resolutions." The statement warned, "The Committee holds Israel fully responsible for the continuance of its settlement activities, particularly in (occupied) East Jerusalem as a substitute for peace, and in the face of international unanimity on the illegitimacy of constructing settlements, while calling on the U.S. Congress to revise its stances, and keep to a balanced attitude to protect U.S. interests and its role in achieving peace."
The Committee called upon the Israeli government to "accept the frames of reference of the peace process, including the land for peace principle and the two-state solution based on the frontiers of 1967 along with stopping settlement construction as the only way for resuming the final status negotiations which have been long stressed by the Palestinian side."
During his address to the Ministerial Committee, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed little hope that peace talks with the current Israeli government could be revived any time soon. "We see from the conditions that Netanyahu laid out that there are no shared foundations . . . for negotiations," he said.
Referring to the breakdown of U.S.-brokered talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians last September, Prime Minister Al-Thani stated, "In these circumstances, it seems better to me that we freeze discussion of the peace process until there is a partner ready for peace."
The Arab League will request membership for the state of Palestine at the U.N. General Assembly's meeting in New York in September, Reuters has reported.


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Before I get into the sourdough breads in The Bread Baker's Apprentice I want to sing the praises of Reinhart's method for sourdough starter. The starter is absolutely essential, of course, but is also the most daunting aspect of making sourdough bread. The great thing about this starter is that you can abuse and neglect it and it still keeps kicking. Because the starter lives in the fridge it does not need daily refreshments and actually can be left for a few weeks (as I did when I went on holiday). Really it's the most hassle-free sourdough starter ever. My starter is now over a year old (I originally blogged about it here) and is still happy and bubbly and making great bread.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Sourdough Starter: Baking Through the Bread Baker's Apprentice
3 comments:
- Karyn said...
Ok, I am inspired by you to make some more starter.
Mine died of neglect when I was taking care of a very sick relative....it was way more than a few weeks by the time I remembered it.
I could use the stress relief of baking bread again. Thanks for another great post.
- September 19, 2010 at 11:43 PM
- MelissaS said...
I've been following your blog and, as the parent of an egg and dairy allergic child, especially appreciate the Vegan notes to the BBA. I just bought a copy and can't wait to dive in! I make lots of bread, but I'm hoping this book perfects my baking! Thanks :)
- September 20, 2010 at 9:57 AM
- thehungrythumb said...
Hi, I've been following your blog for a long time, but thought I'd say hello because we've started working through the Bread Baker's Apprentice too (vegan style) and I finally blogged about it. Thanks for providing the vegan tips for so many loaves!
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I'm supposed to be asleep but I'm on my phone. Cool movie, I guess you already watched the avengers? I watched all of them lol.
And sure, just have the time -_-
Every movie as in Captain America, Thor, iron man, Hulk, etc?
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Greatness, Creativity, and Trading Success
Vitality and Success in Life and Trading
The Psychology of Those Who Win
An important premise of this series of posts is that elite levels of performance and success can be modeled. Greatness is a manner of approaching life, not simply a trait that is present from birth. I recently flew to London to work with traders. Across the aisle from me was a mother traveling with her 2-year old son. Throughout the flight she read to him, played with him, and kept him stimulated and engaged. And you could tell that she genuinely enjoyed and relished the interactions.
Other single mothers would have been burdened by the task of traveling with a young one for 8 hours. This mother was absolutely in her element. There was no doubt in my mind that she was a great mom. It wasn't just that she was skilled at the tasks of parenting. It was the manner in which she approached parenting. She loved it and put her all into it.
A key idea from my research into performance is the concept of niches. A niche is a domain of endeavor that not only captures our talents and skills, but also our deepest values and interests. When we are in a niche, we identify wholeheartedly with our work: it becomes central to our identity. Genuine artists may work at other jobs for financial support, but they experience themselves as artists: they view life through aesthetic eyes. Psychologists operating within a niche doesn't just turn on and off an interest in people when the work day begins and ends: it's how they approach the world.
This sense of identification is crucial to performance niches: at some point the performer goes from being successful at art to being an artist. The distinction between work time and play time breaks down: that mom is a mom 24 hours a day. The psychologist is interacting sensitively with people at the grocery store when looking for an item.
Such an absorption can only occur when native abilities (talents) fuel interest; interest fuels skill-building; and skill-building fuels further interest. The result of this intersection of talent, skill, and passionate interest is a quantum leap forward in the development of expertise and performance. The great individual is on a much faster learning curve than peers, because they are immersed in the doing--and they are continuously doing.
I have long maintained that traders experience a high failure rate, not just because of the difficulty of the work, but because they place their capital at risk before they find a true niche within the trading world. I meet with portfolio managers, flow traders at banks, prop traders making markets, developers of trading systems, and traders of complex options positions. They are as different in their skill sets and temperaments as surgeons, psychiatrists, and radiologists. In the medical world, students sample various specialties and choose the one that best fits their interests and skills. Rarely does this occur in the trading world.
This is where the solution-focused approach can be so valuable. By focusing on what we love doing and what we are doing well, we can discover who we are at our best. And who we are at our best is central to defining our niches in life. If you consult your experience and think of when you felt most happy, most fulfilled, most alive, and most productive, the odds are good that you've identified your path toward excellence.
Think about how a solution focus could guide your trading development, your career development, and your relationships. Think of yourself as an engine of continuous evolution. How far we could go if we provided every facet of life with an emotional P/L statement and just focused on doing more of what makes us happy, fulfilled, and successful!


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I display a modal view controller and from there use buttons to add subviews. I need to add other view controllers as subviews, and then remove the one behind it. So can I reference the views by their index?
Practical example: User sees page 1 (The root view controller) User presses button which adds a subview, page 2. User presses another button which adds a subview, page 3. Now I need to remove page 2 so as not to consume memory and have things going on back there.
It's not as simple as removing it by name, because my root view controller has next/back buttons and buttons to specific views. I can always insert the right "next" subview but the one to remove could be any of them. The user could be on page 2, 3, 4 etc and jump to page 5. In the button action for page 5 I can of course add the page 5 view controller as a subview, but how do I tell it to remove the last subview when it could be any of them?


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Almost any epic level threat will do, but he/she/it should arise as a direct/indirect result of player character meddling (thereby making them responsible to destroy it). Preferable if PCs have a choice in what they awaken, but don't realize it. (think primordials, demon lords, gods, etc...) (it's only railroading in the sense that they'll probably have to fight this baddie towards the end of the campaign).
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Not quite awakened, but certainly it's indirectly their fault: An old wizard hires the party to find an obscure item/book in a dangerously guarded treasure horde so he can destroy it to stop anyone else using it for evil (entirely true, with that wording!); a few clues in the horde point to the fact that said item is rather dangerous; six months later a lich starts it's reign of terror, the wizard having finally got the component he needed to complete his lich spell.
Fantasy literature and fantasy themed tv shows and movies are filled with this trope, so there are plenty of examples to draw from.
One AD&D campaign I was party to included a small menagerie of magical sentient swords, each capable of defeating a different archdevil that is imprisoned by the power of another. Because of the renown for the swords with a certain villainous cult, archdevil #1 was released and we had to put it down. Because one was released, the other started to awaken so the party opted to go around and try to wake them up from their prisons and put them down before they had their morning coffee, one by one as we had (what we thought were) the right swords.
Another, less convoluted, method is that the players are on a treasure hunt and things go a little Mayan Temple / Egyptian Tomb and the way back becomes blocked and the only releasing mechanism is the complete chickenswitch that summons the Torrasque du jour to the Prime Material and puts a bee in its metaphorical bonnet.
Do something innocuous - eat the wrong thing, say the wrong thing, unknowingly open pandora's box, trip over the wrong wire, press a red button, mispronounce a magic word, etc...
Raise a demon with every intent to kill it. Try to strike a bargain. Make a wish with side effects.
Under deception
Possessed by a demon, sent in by a doom worshipper under pretense of something else, thinking raising a force for good
Unalterable (ie, happened in the distant past but just now discovered) series of events leads to evil being unleashed. Ie, character was born, etc...
Demon possession of a force for good, cause an angel to fall, etc...
Force of nature
Accidentally break gravity, start global warming/an ice age, etc...
Inspired by the "Mistborn" series by Brandon Sanderson the adventures could go on a quest to rid the world of a powerful tyrant by gathering artifacts that will help them defeat the tyrant.
The catch is...spolier alert
so here we are in the ancient chamber, rune-encrusted walls and columns surround you and there's a large round pattern laid out in the centre with a red centre and rune surrounding it that read "idle thumbs".
I go over and look at the bit in the centre.
You see an inscription "don't press".
There are plenty of other similar ideas - from Indiana Jones picking up the gold idol, and unleashing the boulder, to John Hurt "having a quick peek" in the funny egg-shaped object, to Ash saying "Klaatu... verata... n... Necktie. Nectar. Nickel. Noodle". (I quite like this last one, tell the players the magic words, without letting them write it down, and then ask them to remember them much later on. If they get it right, the wizard telling them can be 'absentminded' and told them the wrong phrase in the first place!)
Tempt them with greed or lay a hubris trap. For example, a tomb that, at least culturally, should be somewhat taboo for them to touch, yet they are tempted to open it up for the riches that it contains. Too bad the purpose of the tomb of St Fred was placed on that spot to seal off the evil contained below it.
A rather simple answer, and one that is not foolproof, but just allow the players to be somewhere they shouldn't be.
Maybe an area they are exploring for an unrelated reason has a wall that crumbled due to natural (or supernatural) phenomena, behind this wall is an area that has been untouched for centuries with all sorts of nick-knacks, unpressed buttons, macguffins, strange treasures, whatever you think would be most irresistible to your players without you having to tell them to go in.
Once you've done this, with no direct hook other than opportunity, what they do to awaken the evil is entirely up to what they did of their own volition. Not only does this work as characters but also in what they did unbidden as players. In this situation you can have several potential triggers set up and you can choose the one that makes the most dramatic sense depending on what goes on (If you've watched Cabin in the Woods you'll have seen an example).
Even if they do absolutely nothing and refuse to even go in, you can still have the evil use the fact they are present and nearby living beings as a guide for how to get out. It's less their fault and more "Wrong Place Wrong Time" but it gives you a nice fallback if your players prove to be beyond temptation.
Players are very willing to break into most anything without regard for what might be sealed up in there. I see no need for anything more convoluted. The warders of course put dire warnings but they don't say what it is because they don't want to let anyone who is seeking to free it know where it is.


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Isaiah's Hope
A story of the gift of Life.
Sunday, January 31, 2016
New Stander
Now he stands for up to an hour, at least once but usually twice a day. He LOVES it! It gives him a new perspective. It is good for his muscle tone. It helps with his bowel function. And it gets him up from his harassing sister once in a while, haha.
Belle has adorably learned how to say Isaiah's name within the past two weeks. She says it all day long. She is always trying to be by him, to bring him toys, to rub his head, and to lay or sit by him. It is really sweet to watch. These two are going to stay the best of friends.
(Check for Belle photo-bombing the picture of Isaiah in his stander. Such a goofball!)
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Our Normal
At least once a year, we have to be evaluated for any assistance that Isaiah might receive. Be it PCA hours, or nursing care, or even assistance for the many, many extensive things that Isaiah needs. Each time we do this, we are reminded how our lives are so vastly different from those around us. Here is an example of a typical day with Isaiah and Belle:
- Wake up at 6:30 a.m. to give him an injection of medicine for his diabetes insipidus.
- Get his bottles and medicines (there are eight of them as of now) drawn up for the morning, mid morning, and afternoon bottles, hope Belle doesn't wake up before you get Isaiah up.
- At 7 a.m. give him his first medicines and start his feeding pump, wrestle with Belle while she tries to get into everything and cries because she isn't getting attention.
- Between 7 and 8 a.m., give him a nebulizer treatment, a cough assist treatment, and suctioning, try to distract Belle by coordinating her morning bottle during this time and hope she happily feeds herself, feed her breakfast sometime in here too. If Isaiah is at all sick or congested, repeat these treatments every four hours.
- Provide physical therapy stretches, stimulation via sensory activities, practice communication with his PODD book, etc., try and do things that will entertain Belle and Isaiah at the same time.
- About 10:30 a.m., start getting him ready for school, three days a week. He needs a rinse and fill of his feeding bag and more medications, hope Belle is ready for her nap during this time so she's not crying for attention.
- Finally get him on the bus at 11:30 a.m. If the nap is working, have a few minutes to get lunch in and wash bottles and medicine syringes while she is sleeping, if not, squeeze it in while she is eating a snack, then do my best to make sure her needs are all met and that she is getting attention she deserves, feed her lunch, and run errands while I only have one to carry/push around because it's impossible with both by myself.
- For non-school days, try and find activities to keep them both busy and happy for the afternoon.
- Isaiah gets home at 2:30 p.m., this is when Dad takes over (after 8+ hours of working himself) so I can work from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. Isaiah is sometimes overstimulated and cranky or asleep. Coordinate another rinse and fill of his feeding bag and medicines, hope Belle is happily playing .
- Let Isaiah rest for a bit if he had school, otherwise try and keep both of them entertained and happy. Try changing his positions so he doesn't get uncomfortable. Change multiple diapers, all day. Do more therapy stretches. Make phone calls to order medicines or check on the status of equipment needs, county applications, etc.
- Shot time again at 4:30 p.m.
- Coordinate feeding dinner to Belle, trying to make food for us adults, keeping the house somewhat orderly, chasing Belle around, and still trying to find things for Isaiah to do. Let him watch some TV shows so he doesn't get bored. Re-position him every 5 minutes.
- Start getting ready for bed at 6:30 p.m., including baths for both of them on most nights. Have to get in the tub with Isaiah because that's the only way we know to bathe him. Give him a suppository to help him go to the bathroom and clean him up. Get all his nighttime medicines ready, rinse and re-fill his feeding bag, get him positioned just right in bed and tuck him in. Get Belle ready for bed and feed her a bottle.
- 8:00 p.m. finally (hopefully) have both the kids in bed and breathe. Maybe try and fit a workout in? But feel so exhausted that all you can think about is getting in bed. Drag yourself to workout.
- 10:00 p.m. after cleaning up the house, working out, and showering, finally get to bed. Hope that you can sleep through the night. Get up at 11:30 p.m. to turn off his feeding pump, and randomly as either child is known to wake up at least a few times a week.
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Isaiah is Four!
Back to School
Isaiah had to get all new school clothes. Any that he had from before no longer fit, because after his surgery his hips are so so much wider. Luckily he just had a birthday! He outgrew his standing frame and his wheelchair too because of this. We were able to get his wheelchair seat re-done, but we are still waiting for insurance approval to get a new stander. What a pain! I feel bad because he loves to stand so much, and he can't until we get this.
Here he was looking all spiffy in his Jake and the Neverland Pirates shirt and his new jeans for the first day back to school.
Monday, August 31, 2015
Cast Off
So Isaiah had his cast off about a week and a half ago. Things are very much the same. He is still not very mobile, and it's like starting over with pain. After not moving for so long he is very stiff and tender.
We still have the hospital bed to keep him comfortable. He still spends the majority of his time here. We take him for short walks and out and about. We had thought we could take a short camping trip but it ended up being way too much for him, even though we were able to position him relatively similar he was whining and crying pretty much the whole time except when he was sleeping.
He starts physical therapy next week. He also gets his Botox injections this week. Hopefully these two things will help him be more comfortable. In the meantime, hopefully some sister hugs will help.
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Cutness Cannot Be Controlled
Anytime I am away from my cuties, I am always checking my phone's photo gallery just to get a peek at them. They are too adorable! I try to take at least one picture a day. Even though Isaiah is stuck in bed healing, he still has some smiles. He gets some tummy time with the help of his dad on a nightly basis, but otherwise, its only one week til his cast comes off!
Monday, August 3, 2015
Making it Work
One thing that lots of special needs families struggle with is finding care for their children and balancing work and family life. We have been struggling with this for a long time, and still do. But we have been through a lot and have finally come to find a solution that works for us.
We went through a few PCAs before finding one we trusted. She worked out for a couple of wonderful years. But we never really had a back up plan, since finding someone to fill in part time is even harder. When she recently decided to reduce hours, we understood, but were sad to see her less. Isaiah loves her and they have a really good bond. We tried finding a replacement and decided that just wasn't working out. We knew we were the best able to care for Isaiah and Isabelle. But in order to do this, one of us would have to leave our job. For practicality reasons, that was me.
When I approached my employer to break the news, I also proposed another solution. I could work a reduced schedule, while still coming in for meetings one full day a week. I didn't know if it would work for them, but figured it was worth a try. Thanks to my hard work and determination, they accepted this and let me keep working. So now I work from 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm four days a week and one full day. John gets home to take over at 2:30, and on the full day Isaiah's PCA stays with him.
I am thrilled with this schedule. I like to call myself a part-time stay at home mom. I get to spend more time with my cuties while remaining in the workforce. I have been working (slowly) toward my MHA, so this will continue to keep me up-to-date in the healthcare industry and valuable in the job market for the future.
I think things like this work out for a reason. Right when we thought we would need to take a major drop in our family income and struggle to get by, this just happened to work itself out. Although I am taking a reduction in my income, we are able to use some of the funds that would have gone to his PCA care as a consumer support grant, which makes us almost whole again by providing parent pay and helping with equipment needs.
Praise God for helping us work everything out and for giving us more precious time with our children.
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Playing Nurse
Isaiah came home from the hospital on Saturday. Since then, mom and dad have taken on the role of nurse to him. It really is a full time job. I feel like we weren't properly prepared proir to his surgery for all of the needs he would have afterward.
First of all, he needs a special wheelchair that can recline (his could tilt back, but didn't recline) because he can never be bent more than 70 degrees up. It can't ride in his spot in the van, and in order to transport him home, and anywhere, he has to wear a special vest and be strapped flat in the back seat. Because our van is modified, we have no middle seats, so we can't bring both kids anywhere in the same vehicle until he gets back in his regular chair.
He has a normal bed, so we were trying to make him comfortable with pillows. This was nearly impossible, so we had to get a hospital bed to rent. I wish we would have had this right away, so we didn't struggle to make him comfortable for the first two days. His bed is parked in the living room and it goes up and down, plus the head and feet go up and down so changing positions is easier.
Changing him is a struggle. He has to be rolled up and onto his side, back and forth to change what is underneath him. He was swollen bad from surgery and didn't fit into his diapers. Since he was already in the largest size of over the counter diapers, we had to buy some men's Depends that we cut the sides and put on him. I also bought some pads to put under him to catch any leaks, they were meant for puppies but they work great. He hates being changed because it hurts him. He cries and I feel so bad. But this is slowly getting better.
Because he can't sit up, his secretions keep getting stuck in thr back of his throat. He doesn't swallow well, so this causes them to thicken up. He coughs a lot and gags on it. If I don't suction it out about every 10 minutes, he throws up. He also needs the cough assist machine frequently to help keep him loose. Thank goodness we already had these machines, or we would really be struggling. Plus he uses his nebulizer as needed to try and keep his lungs healthy and clear as well.
And then there is Isabelle. She tends to get pretty jealous of her brother getting attention and pretty much fusses about half the time we aren't holding her. But she also has her good moments when she can be by Isaiah. She loves him so much and tries to cheer him up. They make each other smile. It is so cute to see how their love is developing. I think she will be an understanding and helpful sibling as she grows up.
So, we pretty much won't be venturing out of the house for the next few weeks, besides wheeling Mr. Isaiah outside to get some fresh air. I am pretty much unable to transfer him myself so I have to wait each day until John is home. As hard as it is, it is only temporary. And we already have over a week done. I just pray he heals well so we can be done sooner rather than later.
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
School's Done for the Summer
Isaiah had his last day of school just prior to having surgery. He was able to participate in half of the summer session, but he was done once he had his surgery. He was doing great and I know he will look forward to going again in September.
The bus ride remains one of his favorite parts. He rode the bus all by himself a few times, and he did great. I heard that he did well in school and really enjoyed participating in all their activities. They use two switches on a tray to have Isaiah ask for turns and choose activities, and one of our goals for the summer is to get a similar set up at home. We can borrow through the Pacer Center until we find out what works best for him. I am excited to give some technology a try.
I have a whole stack of art projects that Isaiah brings home for us. I am also going to find a creative way to display these. Every time he brings something home he is so proud of it. When you ask him questions about them he beams with pride. I love that he is able to participate, and hope that he continues to do well with school as we get into September.
I'm sure Isaiah can't wait to be able to swing again!
Isaiah had his last game of Miracle League baseball on July 13th, the day before his surgery. He had a great season and was so proud of the trophy he got. It was really fun to go to all of his games and watch the kids interact and get excited about playing ball.
Most of the time John was his buddy. One time his grandpa got to help. His buddy was in charge of helping him hit and field the ball and run the bases. For one game, they had a junior team come and help all of the kids. This was pretty special. It was fun to have a more "official" feel to the game. And great for the kids to interact with others. His buddy was super nice and helpful, and glad to be there.
This is a really great program for special needs kids. I am glad we live in a community where these opportunities are available.


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Luddites raged against the machine and lost
The Luddites were British textile artisans who 200 years ago smashed the mechanized looms they thought threatened their jobs.
They weren't the first to attack machines. They are named after a man who probably didn't exist. And their grievances weren't even with the looms themselves; they were enraged at the business owners who hired unskilled laborers to use the machines and turn out shoddy products that ruined the artisans' reputation for quality.
Their movement began in economic misery. Britain's long war with Napoleon had taken a toll. The economy was squeezed by a French blockade that cut exports and sent food prices soaring. Their livelihoods threatened by low-wage labor, the artisans began demonstrating around Nottingham in 1811.
The protests — and the machine-busting — spread across a swath of central England. Some of the Luddites swung hammers forged by a blacksmith named Enoch Taylor, who also made machinery for their adversaries, mill owners. "Enoch made them," the Luddites would say. "So Enoch shall break them."
An outraged Parliament passed a law imposing the death penalty on machine wreckers — a draconian move opposed by the poet Lord Byron, who said the Luddites deserved pity, not punishment.
The government sent soldiers to restore order. At one point, the late historian Eric Hobsbawm has written, Britain had more troops deployed against the Luddites than (they) it had fighting Napoleon in Spain and Portugal.
Several Luddites were killed in clashes with troops. Others were hanged. By the end of 1814, the Luddite protests were over. The Industrial Revolution rolled on, replacing artisans with factory workers.
But the Luddites had made quite an impression. They had a talent for showmanship. They wrote mischievous, official-sounding decrees addressed from Sherwood Forest, an attempt to claim the legacy of Robin Hood. They marched through the streets dressed as women, claiming to be "General Ludd's wives."
But there was no General Ludd.
Historians aren't sure where the name came from. Years earlier, by one account, a young apprentice named Ned Ludd had smashed the machine he was working on after being punished by his master. But in other accounts, the boy's name is Ludlum. And in his book on the Luddites, "Rebels Against the Future," author Kirkpatrick Sale suggests the term may have come from an expression used then in parts of England — "sent all of a lud," which meant ruined.
Whatever its origins, the name stuck.
The Luddite label has been applied to everyone from anti-technology extremists — such as the "Unabomber," Ted Kaczynski — to those who merely struggle with technology or don't want to bother with it. "I'm a Luddite," pop star Elton John told Britain's The Telegraph newspaper in 2011. "I don't have a phone. I don't have a computer. I don't have an iPad. And I don't have an iPod."
Sometimes the Luddite label serves as an all-purpose epithet for someone who's not with the times. When University of Chicago economist Raghuram Rajan raised unwelcome questions about the stability of the world financial system in 2005, for instance, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers dismissed his argument as "slightly Luddite."
Three years later, investment bank Lehman Bros. collapsed, and the global economy toppled into the deepest recession since the 1930s. For once, at least, the Luddite was right.
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The race track, big hats, and Mint Juleps it must be Derby time!
The 139Th Kentucky Derby is tomorrow at Churchill Downs.
From wagering on your favorite horse, to the glamorous Derby wardrobe, local businesses are helping you prepare.
Where will you be when the words... "And they're off," ring out tomorrow?
If you don't plan on making the trip to Louisville, Kentucky Downs is also preparing for a busy day.
"Kentucky Derby day is always a big day at Kentucky Downs. We'll open an hour early at 9 to accommodate those who want to come out and be here for the entire Churchill Downs race cart, which begins at 9:30 central time," says Bill Flesher, Vice President of Kentucky Downs.
Flesher says they will have plenty of seating for those who want to watch and wager.
"We expect a huge crowd tomorrow. Derby day causes people to get out of their homes. I think it could even be a bigger day for us given the forecast of inclement weather," says Flesher.
It's not just about the bets but for most women a fashion frenzy with a hat to top off the look.
"Everybody wants to stand out from everybody else it's kind of like having the cutest pair of shoes on you know it's the outfit," says Trisha Lackey, who ordered a customized hat.
"Pretty much like the symbol for the Derby. I know we wear hats for a lot of other things but right now the Derby is the place for wearing hats,"says June Bunton, Owner of the Derby Hat Shop on Broadway.
Bunton has been busy creating and customizing a variety of unique hats.
"People are looking for a variety of different hats. Fascinators are really big, floppy brims are really big, straw hats are also really really big, and a lot of people embellish with flowers," says Bunton.
She tries to offer extravagant hats without breaking the bank.
"I think the most expensive hat I had in the store was probably $469 but that's still under priced considering the other boutiques in Nashville and Louisville," says Bunton.
Both are proud to be part of a Kentucky tradition.
"The Derby is a great event for the state of Kentucky for the Commonwealth of Kentucky it's a Kentucky tradition and were happy to be part of that tradition as one of the racetracks a part of Kentucky's racing circuit. We're a destination for those who don't want to go to Louisville or can't go to Louisville. We're a destination for them to take in one of the great days in sports," says Flesher.
General admission is free at Kentucky Downs, and the Derby Hat Shop will also be open tomorrow for those shopping for last minute hats.


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Who would you want to see?
If you could snap your fingers and go to an event right now what would it be? It can be a band, play, sports star, heck even a motivational speaker. They can be alive or dead. The Beatles blowing up Shea Stadium? Maybe Ted Williams hitting a home run at Fenway? It can be anything national or international.
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The Big Bang. The meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs. Krakatoa going boom (the shot that really was heard 'round the world).
As far as shows, the first ever production of Romeo and Juliet, the one and only time it had a surprise ending. To hear Giovanni Battista Velluti sing. The obvious choice, Woodstock.
I'd like to see the pounding out of the Constitution - specifically as they debated what to do.
@mtm2: I'd like to see that, too. Those people were a lot smarter than those we have in D.C. at present.
All good answers! Makes mine seem kind of shallow- I was going to say "an intimate concert with Van Halen when Sammy was still in the band." or maybe Rush when they are jamming in the studio.
But Jesus, definitely Jesus!
@trekmiss and @tcayer both answered with my exact thought. Can you imagine seeing the loaves and fishes miracle firsthand? Or water turned into wine?
Who killed JFK! I'd have to be on the grassy knoll, storm drain and book depository all at the same time though.


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Professor Stuart Green Explores the Moral Underpinnings of Criminal Offenses
In two books and more than 40 articles, book chapters and encyclopedia entries, Stuart P. Green has explored what he terms the "moral content" of criminal law, especially of offenses that are described as white-collar crimes. Sometimes they are offenses that, with the right mix of celebrity defendant and debatable charges, grab the attention of the lay person as well as the law professor. The watercooler conversation may focus on the blameworthiness of and appropriate punishment for the alleged wrongdoer (individual or corporate), and the scholarly discourse on exactly how such blameworthiness should be conceptualized, but both discussions are essentially about the grey area of certain moral and legal principles.
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Professor Green's thought-provoking scholarship on white-collar crime and other topics in criminal law and procedure has earned him an international reputation as one of today's most influential criminal law theorists. This spring, Rutgers University recognized his stature by promoting Green to Distinguished Professor II, an honor that coincided with the publication of his latest book, 13 Ways to Steal a Bicycle: Theft Law in the Information Age. Anglo-American theft law, essentially unchanged since revisions were made 50 years ago, is ill-suited, he writes, for an age of increasingly commodified information and other intangibles and ever more sophisticated means of committing theft and fraud. Praised as "groundbreaking" and a "tour de force," the book urges a thorough reconsideration of exactly what should count as stealing and exactly what types of things can be stolen.
Lying, Cheating, and Stealing: A Moral Theory of White Collar Crime, an earlier book, received the Outstanding Publication Award from the National White-Collar Crime Center and has been translated into several languages. Green also is co-editor (with R.A. Duff) of both Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law and Defining Crimes: Essays on the Special Part of the Criminal Law.
In addition to teaching and writing, Green is a member of journal editorial boards, and speaks and serves as a responder at criminal law conferences around the world. Most recently he traveled to Hong Kong and Australia to deliver lectures on white-color crime topics. Since joining the Rutgers law faculty in Fall 2008, he also has convened an international conference on the philosophical foundations of criminal law, a workshop on vice and crime, and co-founded and serves as co-editor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, an online book review.
Green, who is Distinguished Professor of Law and Nathan Jacobs Scholar, discusses his academic career and his scholarship in the following Q&A:
What led you to law school and then to become an academic?
I graduated from college with a degree in philosophy. Despite the first-rate education I had received, my prospects for remunerative employment seemed pretty limited. After a couple of years working in the publishing industry, I decided to go to law school, mainly with the idea that it would give me greater potential for financial security. Law school turned out to be much more intellectually stimulating than I had ever expected. After graduation, I practiced law for a few years at a big firm in Washington, but being a corporate lawyer was never something I could really put my heart into; I was eager to return to the academy.
There are certain forms of criminality that reflect much more in the way of moral ambiguity. It seemed to me that one of the keys to finding the right line between conduct that should be treated as a crime and conduct that should not was explaining what it is that makes such conduct morally wrongful in the first place.
I was offered a job teaching at LSU Law School, so my wife and I and our three young children picked up and moved to the Deep South. Happily, I got to teach my favorite subject, criminal law, and, in my scholarship, return to some of the issues in philosophy that had first occupied me as an undergraduate. Plus, I learned to do the two-step.
What do you enjoy most about teaching?
When I was in law school, I often felt like I was learning as much from my classmates as from my professors. That's the effect that really good classroom discussion can have: the students are talking and listening as much to each other as they are to the instructor. Creating the conditions in the classroom that make that possible can be a challenge – it's harder than it looks. When it works, and the students are really engaged, it is exhilarating.
What do find most valuable about your collaboration with the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice on such projects as the Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books website?
We are fortunate at Rutgers to have an excellent group of criminal law and procedure professors and an outstanding school of criminal justice – and we're in the same building, separated by just one floor. About a year ago, our faculties teamed up to launch a website that aims to publish high quality, timely, and concise reviews of new books in the fields of criminal law and criminal justice. The site has attracted reviewers and readers from all over the globe, with a broad range of perspectives and fields of expertise. We've found a lot of synergies and areas of common concern. Eventually, I hope we'll be able to expand our activities into a more broadly-based institute for criminal law.
The focus of much of your scholarship is on corporate and white-collar crime and, in particular, the moral content of many such offenses. Why is your attention drawn to that subject?
Criminal law entails the most severe sanctions that a civil society can impose on its citizens. When focused on offenders who engage in the most serious and unambiguous forms of criminality – homicide, rape, aggravated assault – application of those sanctions is normally uncontroversial.
But there are certain forms of criminality that reflect much more in the way of moral ambiguity: in the case of white collar crime, most notably, it can be hard to distinguish between fraud and "sharp dealing," insider trading and "savvy investing," bribery and "horse trading," tax evasion and "tax avoidance," extortion and "hard bargaining," witness tampering and "witness preparation," and so forth. It seemed to me that one of the keys to finding the right line between conduct that should be treated as a crime and conduct that should not was explaining what it is that makes such conduct morally wrongful in the first place.
In the introduction to 13 Ways to Steal a Bicycle: Theft Law in the Information Age, you write that one of the inspirations for the book was crime committed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. How did that experience of living in Louisiana at the time inform your research?
I loved living in Louisiana, but there's no denying that Hurricane Katrina exposed many of the state's deepest dysfunctionalities, which, to me, were exemplified by the widespread looting that occurred in the wake of the storm. Some of it involved people shamelessly and heartlessly taking advantage of other people's misfortune. In other cases, however, people stole because they were genuinely in distress, without clean water or food, in at least one case stealing needed prescription drugs from a pharmacy.
When a thief takes a tangible thing, like a bicycle or cash, the owner no longer has it. By contrast, when an offender misappropriates something that is intangible, like information or intellectual property, the loss to the owner is much less clear. Yet current law treats both kinds of takings the same. I think that's a mistake, particularly in an age in which intangible property plays an increasingly important role in our economy.
Watching all of this unfold on television prompted me to think about the importance of the means by which theft is committed, about the complex relationship between theft and the law of property, and about how the criminal law should apply in a society with a deeply unjust distribution of property.
Was there anything that surprised you when researching the history of theft law for your latest book?
I was struck by how neglected the subject had become. The last major work on theft law was written more than 30 years ago. The fact that the subject had attracted so little attention in the interim obviously made me nervous – one always worries that a neglected subject may not really be worth writing about. But the more I looked into it, the more it seemed to me that recent developments in technology, the economy, the law, and legal theory, not to mention the prolificacy of theft itself, all suggested that the time for a comprehensive rethinking was ripe.
13 Ways to Steal a Bicycle suggests eight principles for reforming theft law, one of which is to define property clearly. What kind of definition would you favor?
When a thief takes a tangible thing, like a bicycle or cash, the owner no longer has it. By contrast, when an offender misappropriates something that is intangible, like information or intellectual property, the loss to the owner is much less clear. Those differences are reflected in the kinds of judgments people make about the wrongfulness of such acts. Studies show that, other things being equal, people generally think it's less wrongful to misappropriate property that is intangible than property that is tangible. Yet current law treats both kinds of takings the same. I think that's a mistake, particularly in an age in which intangible property plays an increasingly important role in our economy.
One of my proposals is to treat misappropriation of intangibles as a less serious crime than theft of tangibles. The only exception would be the unusual case where the misappropriation had the effect of completely, or nearly completely, depriving the intangible property owner of the property's value.


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5 Easy Fixes to Complex Problems You Won't Believe Worked
Occasionally, people come across a potentially disastrous problem that just doesn't seem to have a solution. In those desperate situations where science and rational thought have been completely exhausted (or in some cases boldly ignored), ridiculous ideas are the only ones left to try. Still, we're wondering just how many of the successful solutions below were first offered out of pure sarcasm.
#5. An Aquarium Hires the World's Tallest Man to Save a Choking Dolphin
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The Problem:
You know how puppies will spend the first few months of life just chewing up random objects around the house? Well, it turns out dolphins are the same way. That's why two dolphins at an aquarium in China were chowing down on the plastic lining that surrounded their pool when large chunks of the material became lodged in their stomachs (because, like all higher mammals, dolphins will occasionally do things that don't make one bit of sense). The pieces were too big for the animals to digest, so they just sat piled in their guts like giant lumps of melted G.I. Joes, preventing the dolphins from eating anything else.
This was an even bigger problem than you'd think -- highly trained professionals could literally find no feasible way to get the plastic out of the ailing animals. Dolphins can expand and contract their stomachs, and they were clenching them pretty well shut in their distress, preventing veterinarians from inserting any medical instruments. The only course of action seemed to be to start looking up dolphin breeders on Craigslist to find a new pair of charming attractions and calling up a tuna cannery to schedule disposal of their two soon-to-be-dead sea mammals.
"Dude, make it do a back flip. Your cat will clean it up."
But at this point somebody apparently threw up his hand and eagerly suggested, "What if we just get a really tall guy to reach down the dolphins' throats and pull the plastic out? I saw it in a cartoon one time."
The Absurd Solution:
So, in a last-ditch effort to save the two dolphins from starving to death, the aquarium called up Bao Xishun, a former Guinness World Record holder for world's tallest man, to come reach his absurdly long arms down the animals' throats to see if he could yank the plastic out.
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"I've trained my whole life for this moment."
And he freaking did it. Bao's three-and-a-half-foot gorilla limbs were able to crawl into the dolphins' stomachs and dislodge the plastic lumps. That had to have felt like vindication to whoever surely got laughed out of the room for suggesting it.
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We can send people into space, but this, this is the apogee of veterinary technology.
#4. A Village Without Sunlight Builds a Giant Mirror
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The Problem:
The small village of Viganella is a quaint, quiet settlement of 127 people nestled into the mountains of Italy. We tend to immediately assume that population centers of less size than an American Idol audition are hives of unbridled strangeness, so it should come as no surprise that Viganella faces a uniquely bizarre problem -- for 84 consecutive days every winter, the sun doesn't shine on any part of the village.
And everyone blames Chad.
The town sits in a valley in the Italian Alps, and every year from November to the beginning of February the sun is completely blocked out by the mile-high peaks of the surrounding mountains, a fact that cannot possibly have escaped the village's original settlers. Even if they'd bedded down during the summer, we are curious as to why, after that first winter of impenetrable nightmare blackness, no one in their number suggested that they relocate.
At any rate, the community had simply resigned themselves to suffering through pitch-dark winters for the past 800 years. Because honestly, if you're stuck in the looming shadow of a craggy mountaintop and refuse to pack up and move, you've pretty much exhausted every available option. It's not like you can drill a giant skylight through the mountain, or install a huge mirror to reflect the sunlight down into the valley.
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"There we go, that should do it."
The Absurd Solution:
Actually ...
In 2006, the people of Viganella installed a 26-foot mirror on a slope above the village to reflect sunlight down into the valley. As you may have noticed, this is remarkably similar to something Mr. Burns did to ransom Springfield in an animated work of fiction.
Via Gizmowatch.com
"We'll light up the town in a second. There's an ant hill I need to deal with."
The mirror is controlled remotely by a computer that regularly tracks the sun's movements throughout the day, reorienting the panels accordingly to provide a constant stream of light into the town's center. The result is eight hours of joyous sunshine for a valley that hasn't felt the sun's rays in winter since mountains were invented. The project cost over 67,000 pounds ($100,000 U.S.), which is admittedly way cheaper than moving the entire village up the hill.
Via Gizmowatch.com
Illustration by Wile E. Coyote.
#3. The International Space Station Is Saved by a Toothbrush
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The Problem:
Let's say you live in space. Your space house is powered by a couple of gigantic solar-paneled generators that control all the technology that is keeping you alive. So, probably the worst thing that could happen is for any part of that system to shut down, which is the exact situation the crew aboard the International Space Station found themselves dealing with in the summer of 2012. One of the station's four power distributors broke down, and they needed to repair it before they all became stranded in an orbiting metal coffin.
Via Wikipedia
"If I can change a tire, I can reinforce a solar array."
Armed with the best and most expensive technology available, the astronauts headed outside to replace the busted distributor. However, some metal shavings had built up around the bolts of the old unit, making it impossible to remove using any of the tools NASA had sent with them on their rocket-bound voyage of discovery.
Without a proper tool to remove the shavings, the crew was stuck with a busted power unit and an impending shutdown of all their systems. "If only there was a tiny handheld brush somewhere on board!" one astronaut presumably shouted, while shaking his or her fist at the unfeeling moon in impotent rage.
"You mean like a toothbrush?" another astronaut likely responded.
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Here we see NASA recreating the event.
"No, fool! Something lightweight with small bristles that one of us could easily carry out here into the silent infinity of space to clear out these cursed metal shavings!"
"So ... a toothbrush."
At which point a prolonged silence would have followed, ultimately broken by a torrent of uncontrollable swearing.
The Absurd Solution:
The astronauts cleared away the metal shavings using a toothbrush taped to a metal grip. Once the bolts were clear, they were able to replace the broken unit and restore full power to the station.
Via NASA
Behold the sword of victory.
In subsequent press releases, NASA hastened to point out that the toothbrush in question was an extra one the crew had brought with them. However, we have to believe that, had the situation demanded it, one of the astronauts would have sacrificed his or her own toothbrush in lieu of being choked to death by space.
Via NASA
"We used my shampoo to fix the oil pressure problem; now it's your turn. Hand it over."


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SAN ANTONIO (September 16, 2013) – The San Antonio Rampage will host the first-ever NHL game at the AT&T Center when the Florida Panthers and Dallas Stars square off in a preseason game on Friday, Sept. 20 at 7:30 p.m.
The Rampage, the top affiliate of the Florida Panthers, are hosting several events in the community leading up to Friday's game, which will be the first NHL matchup played in the 11-year history of the AT&T Center. Last season, 13 players who donned the Silver and Black for the Rampage were recalled to the Panthers – six of whom made their NHL debuts.
Several Panthers players will tour Fort Sam Houston's Center for the Intrepid and the Warrior and Family Support Center on Thursday from 2-3 p.m. Guiding the tour will be members of the Rampage Sled Hockey Team – the first sled hockey team to form that consisted of all wounded military service members. The team is run by Operation Comfort, a nonprofit organization that works with wounded service members recovering at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.
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Friday's game will be the third NHL Preseason contest held in San Antonio. The Dallas Stars faced off against the Los Angeles Kings in back-to-back seasons (1994-95) at the Alamodome.
The NHL Preseason Game will also mark the first of 13 Dollar Drink Nights at AT&T Center. The Rampage open the 2013-14 season on Friday, Oct. 4 against the Chicago Wolves at AT&T Center on a Dollar Drink Night.
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Shelia Daniel Cobb, 56, of Tupelo, died Feb. 21, 2012 at her home.
Survivors include her husband, Norris Cobb; two daughters, Dana Cobb and Tangra Cobb of Tupelo; her siblings, three grandchildren and a host of other family and friends.
Visitation was from 5 to 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25 at Serenity Chapel in New Albany.
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Gladys and Sonny Bass are celebrating their 66th anniversary Oct. 20! Sonny was in Cincinnati and saw an old friend, Hershel, with a very pretty young lady – his sister, Gladys. Sonny said "That's all it took…..we were married shortly thereafter on Oct. 20, 1946, 66 years ago.
"During our 66 years together our love has grown stronger. We are each other's best friend and continue to have fun. We are proud of our beautiful family: Our three sons and their wives, Mitchel and Delores, Steve and Terri, and Ned; nine grandchildren; three great-grandchildren. God was with me the day that I met Gladys. I'd be lost without her."
Terri and Steve Bass with John Shaw-Woo celebrated the birthday last week of their friend Dr. Shaio Woo with a dinner party at their lovely home off Brownsboro Road. The surprise chef was Shiao's brother, Dr. Gary Woo, who flew in from London to cook for the celebration.
Gary is a quite accomplished chef who took in strangers (us) and prepared a divine multi-course asian meal that combined Chinese and Malaysian cuisine, when we were in London in the spring.
Although it was heartfelt, Aaron Yarmuth, Sarah and Jim Haynes, Alex Degennis, Bob Taylor and Linda Shapiro, Nancy and David Laird, Dana Allan and Kevin Ryan sang the worst version of "Happy Birthday" the world has ever heard.
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Since 1923 Kosair Charities has had only one primary mission – Helping children in need. Since that time the organization run by the men in the funny red hats has awarded in excess of $335 million to serve thousands of children. The Kosair name has become synonymous with the highest quality pediatric healthcare in the Kentuckiana area. "This year with the help of our 2,600 Kosair Shriners and thousands of generous donors, Kosair Charities will provide an additional $17 million for these deserving children," said Jerry Ward, Chairman of Kosair Charities Committee, Inc.
Last Saturday Kosair Charities announced the grants that comprise the $17+ million to more than 90 organizations in this area at a glorious dinner attended by hundreds of recipients and donors at the Kentucky International Convention Center. The event, known as "Dreams Take Flight" is a gala of gifts and grants.
Two community leaders – George E. Fischer, father of Mayor Greg Fischer, and John J. Buchino M.D. – were granted leadership awards. Fischer's award was "The Sam Swope Community Leadership Award" for his focus on education and healthcare. Buchino received the "Roger Fox Award" for his work in pediatric pathology at the University of Louisville. Each received a $5,000 honorarium to be given to the charities of their choice.


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Gravitons are presumed to change the shape of space-time, and if there are enough of them, perhaps even its topology. Does anyone know of any cellular automata that, say, change the neighborhood based on the density or topology of clumps of "on" cells, or similar?
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With such a dazzling array of fabulous ways to separate yourself from your funds, how can you choose which is best? Consider these questions:
- How comfortable are you with technology? Are you able to retain control when weird things start happening with your computer, or would you panic if your screen went blank just after you entered your credit card number and just before you clicked Submit? Would it be better for your blood pressure to stick with paper checks and the good ol' postal service?
- How important is saving time to you? Are you willing to endure some new processes and additional expenses if they will save you time? In your experience, has the so-called time savings of a computerized system actually taken longer than doing the task the old-fashioned way?
- How reliable is your Internet connection? If you get the unexpected "Goodbye" from AOL on a regular basis, think twice before you delve into online banking and bill-paying.
- Do the particular workings of your mind require that you choose one payment method and use it for all of your bills? Or are you okay with using different methods for different payees, depending on the circumstances of each?
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Next I'm going to give you three examples of bill-paying systems. Keep in mind that you can mix and match components from each if you choose, but to be effective, whatever system you end up with should have
- A foolproof method for getting the bills into the system. (This is covered in detail in the next chapter.)
- A cue for when to pay the bill.
- Up-to-date financial data to tell you whether you have the money to pay the bill.
- Supplies for paying the bill and sending the payment.
- An easy way to check whether and with which method you paid the bill. (I call this a "Did I Pay That?" document.)
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- Your bills and bill-paying supplies: checkbook or bank card, stamps, blank envelopes, and return address labels
- Your computer and Internet connection
- The income and expense tracking document HYPERLINK
- Personal finance software such as Quicken or Microsoft Money (optional)
Here are the steps you'll follow if you choose to pay and record bill payments by hand:
- Receive paper bills via regular mail.
- Open each bill and discard the outer envelope. On the return envelope, write the amount and date due in pencil where the stamp will go. Stuff the bill into the return envelope and add it to the others waiting to be paid.
- If you don't already have a schedule for paying bills, create one: Consider when you will have money (your pay dates), when you have to give money away (the due dates on the bills), and your temperament (sprinter or jogger) to determine how often you must tend to this task; then write it into your calendar.
- On bill-paying day, gather your bills, checkbook and register, blank envelopes, return address labels, and stamps. You'll also need the income and expense tracking document you created HYPERLINK
- Write a check for each bill and enter it into your check register and your bill-paying tracking document.
- File the statement portion of the bill if you keep them.
- Put the bill in the return envelope, stamp it, add your return address, and mail it. If you want to wait until closer to the due date to mail it, don't put the stamp on yet: Set the bills aside in a designated place, in order by the due date penciled in at the stamp spot, and each day choose the ones you're going to mail, stamp them, and send them out.
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Installed kdm and used it as default. After i login into unity through i do not see my username.But if i go back to using lightdm, i have no problems.
Anyone knows how to use kdm as default and still not lose username in unity..?
To re-enable the username on Unity panel, in terminal:
To disable, simply change
Note: You must reboot for these changes to take effect.
This happened to me once-- Try this command in Terminal:
What may have happened is that the package was deleted. Like I said, it happened once to me, so thiS MAY (I can't stress that word enough) work for you. :)


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** FILE ** President Dwight D. Eisenhower walks with Pope John XXIII at the Vatican, in this Dec. 6, 1959, file photo. The leader of the world's 1 billion Roman Catholics has been to the White House only once in history. That changes this week, and President Bush is pulling out all the stops: driving out to a suburban military base to meet Pope Benedict XVI's plane, bringing a giant audience to the South Lawn and hosting a fancy East Room dinner. (AP Photo/Paul Schutzer, File)
ABILENE -- The Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum invites you to join us as we celebrate U.S. Constitution Day 2012, the 225th anniversary of our nation's founding document. All activities are free and open to the public. The activities include a program for school children and an exhibit on immigration and citizenship.
On Sept. 14 school children from St. Andrew's, Garfield Upper Elementary, and Concordia Elementary will celebrate Constitution Day in a program beginning at 9:30 a.m. The students begin with a patriotic procession from the Museum across the campus to the Library building, led by the Sons of the American Revolution Color Guard and "John Adams." The program takes place in the Courtyard of the Library building where students sign a facsimile of the Constitution with plumed pens and receive a pocket Constitution and American flag. Students contribute to the program each year with an inspiring performance of the song, "We the People" in the Library lobby around 10:15 a.m.
The "Americans by Choice: The Story of Immigration & Citizenship in Kansas" exhibit will be on display in the Visitors Center Auditorium through October 21. The exhibit illustrates the paths to citizenship taken by Kansas settlers from around the world over the past 150 years and personalizes the story of immigration and citizenship.The exhibit was commissioned by the U.S. District Court, District of Kansas to highlight the Court's role in the naturalization process. A permanent exhibit of the same title is installed at the Robert J. Dole courthouse in Kansas City, Kan.
"We are delighted that area elementary students will join us in our annual celebration of Constitution Day. This is a great opportunity for community members of all ages to join us for a morning of learning, fun, and inspiration," states Kim Barbieri, education specialist at the Library and Museum. "We are especially pleased to have the traveling exhibit Americans by Choice displayed during the Constitution Day activities this year," added Barbieri.
Thank you to the Jeffcoat Memorial Foundation for providing transportation funding assistance allowing the Concordia Elementary students to participate in this year's event.
President Eisenhower signed an Oct. 30, 1956, proclamation declaring the week of Sept. 17 to 23 as Constitution Week. The proclamation was a result of the efforts by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Architect of Chargers' success nearly didn't coach this year
EAST HARTFORD — A 10-month-old boy took the place of fire and brimstone Saturday morning in the bowels of Rentschler Field.
Ansonia coach Tom Brockett brought his son, Michael, into the locker room just minutes before the Chargers won their record 18th state championship in a 59-26 rout of North Branford.
Plenty of teenagers dressed in navy blue had special days on that chewed-up grass. Arkeel Newsome was special. Jai'Quan McKnight was special. Andrew Matos, Raeshaun Finney and Jh'mel Trammell were all special.
But the word special applies to no person who occupied that hollow, 40,000-seat stadium better than Michael Brockett.
It's not because his first foray into a locker room was before a championship game at a college stadium. It's not because he's the newest child of Connecticut's most successful young coach in history.
It's because his dad wasn't sure if either of them would make it to that time and place.
Tom's wife, Nicole, gave birth to Michael on Feb. 18. Michael wasn't supposed to arrive until the middle of May.
He was 13 weeks premature and weighed less than three pounds when doctors and nurses delivered him on a Saturday at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
"I can't explain how, when I walked into that room and had no idea what to expect, how proud I was of him," Tom said. "I've never seen someone fight like that."
Michael survived and is now healthy, but the better part of 2012 was a drain on Tom. He spent more than two months away from the Ansonia football program he has led since taking over for the late Jack Hunt in 2006, and wasn't sure when, or if, he'd come back.
"Football was the furthest thing from my mind," Tom said. "For 77 days, I had nothing to do with the program. It's a credit to our kids that they stayed the course. Our assistant coaches, no calls had to be made (to them). They know what to do."
Brockett hasn't made his family, including wife Nicole and 3-year-old daughter Alyssa, a secret to his team. But he wanted the pregame speech before his sixth championship appearance as a head coach to be memorable — for everyone.
"When I talk (to Michael) about these guys 10 years from now, I want to be able to say, 'You were in that locker room. You remember Hezekiah Duncan,'" said Brockett, who now has four state titles as a head coach. "It was one of my regrets in '06, I was married and I didn't have any kids, so they couldn't be around Alex Thomas and Rashaad Bass and all the great kids we had."
Michael may be too young to remember what happened Saturday morning at Rentschler Field, but the guys many years his senior said they won't forget.
"For him to have his son here and for us to win for him and his son, that was just an incredible thing right there," Trammell said. "It was truly, truly great. I feel blessed for that."
"I know what he's been through and we've all been together on this ride," Ansonia assistant coach Steve Coughlin said. "I was just happy for him. This has been a very, very emotional ride this year. It was a tremendous thing."
Now, a little more than two months short of Michael's miracle first birthday, the Brocketts have one more reason to be thankful.
"It was a dream to have him here today," Brockett said of his son. "The football part makes it all that much better. I'm looking forward to going home and celebrating with them."
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SHERMAN, Tex. -- Longtime Sherman community leader Henry Sory, who passed away last week at age 85, was remembered Monday morning in Sherman.
"He's the kind of man most people would want to be like," Sherman Boys & Girls Club director Mike Delong says.
Those who knew Henry White Sory say his caring, giving attitude was always evident. The Dallas-native graduated from Sherman High School. He became a Marine bomber pilot and then graduated from Austin College.
Sory worked at Bonham High School for a few years before returning to Sherman High School.
"He believed and loved the Bearcats and the Kangaroos and gave his all to give back to the students those institutions served," Sherman Independent School District superintendent Dr. Al Hambrick says.
Sory married his wife, Joy, 62 years ago, and became the Sherman High School principal, then assistant superintendent until retiring in 1985 leading with a quiet dignity as an example to others.
"He's been a friend and also a mentor many years for me. I appreciate the time I had to spend with him," Dr. Hambrick says.
Even after retiring, Sory stayed active in the community. He had perfect attendance with the Kiwanis Club for 56 years, constantly thinking how he could help others.
"Every fall he would go through his closet and he would have some nice jackets, and he would bring them up here and say, find some kids up here that could just a good jacket. He did that every year," says Delong, whose Boys & Girls Club is a United Way–affiliated organization, of which Sory also volunteered his time.
In February, Sherman ISD dedicated its newest elementary school in his honor, a visual reminder of the intangible qualities he leaves behind.
"I always felt better when I saw Henry during the day. He was the kind of person you just felt better and had a little more ump in your step when you got to see Henry," Delong says.
"The Henry W. Sory Elementary School is just a testament to what he meant to the district, and our goal is to make that a world class institution that the Sory Family will be proud of for many years to come," Hambrick says.
Sory was also very active in his church, Saint Mary's in Sherman. In the funeral service on Monday, his pastor described him as a man faithful to the end.
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My bloodgroup for example is A+. How much information is knowing my bloodgroup? How much information can be known from a blood sample? I expect you to be able to clone if known a complete DNA sequence but how much would I recognize myself from a clone you make from my DNA e.g. behaviour?
The neurological basis of behavior is still unclear, and the genetic basis of behavior is even less clear. What can be said is that genetics may predispose you to certain behaviors, but what the predisposing factors are, and how much they determine your behavior (and how much is due to environmental factors), is unclear. And this varies for different behaviors -- if you want to read more about a particular behavior, you can try looking up the genetics of addiction.
If we want to examine the genetic basis of behavior, I don't think anyone would be looking at blood group, which is due to some physical characteristic that is not obviously linked with behavior (versus a differently structured neurotransmitter receptor, which is possibly more related). It's like using your height to explain your behavior.
EDIT: On cloning: I should also mention that human reproductive cloning has not been successfully attempted, and if it were, you wouldn't get an exact copy of the donor of the genetic material (by the current technologies). The most famous example of reproductive cloning, Dolly the sheep, required more than just nuclear DNA:
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