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In c# you can create variables named identically to a keyword by using
My question is, when would this be useful? When would the benefits out-weigh the drawbacks?
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The CLR can be targeted by many different programming languages. One language's identifier is another language's keyword. It would be bad if a class library written in one language couldn't be used from another language because a declared method or property has a name that is a keyword in that language.
A simple example for a use of these syntax would be in a web application where you may be required to set some attributes to an HTML tag by giving an object like
This would not be possible without that syntax.
It is most useful if you are writing a code generation framework and your underlying model (e.g. a DB) may contain domain objects that use keywords e.g. a db table or field named "event". In this case you can escape all names and there will be no clashes. This makes a code generator forward compatible if new keywords are added.
In general:
When you pick your own names, try to avoid it.
However, sometimes you don't entirely get to pick your own names. For example when you port code, or when you write a wrapper around code that's written in another language. In such cases I think it's better to stick to the original names, so that API descriptions still match with your code, instead of thinking of new names just to avoid a clash with reserved keywords.
It is not advisable to use variable names that conflict with reserved keyword but sometimes you may want to not follow that rule for readability.
For example:
It kinda highlights the important part of code.
Other cases come to mind when you need to use third party code that you cannot change.


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PLEASE NOTE: Due to construction on the mountain the disc golf course will not be available for the summer of 2015.
The Powderhorn Mountain Resort Disc Golf course entertains seasonal play, opening in mid-June with play continuing through mid to late October.
The cost is play the course is free, but be cautious of other players and wildlife. Please respect the resort and other forest users. Please do not litter – if you pack it in, pack it out. The course layout is on irregular and mountainous terrain. Hike carefully and watch your step. Tall grass does cover a majority of the course. Please watch your disc, especially on downhill holes. Have fun and enjoy the course!
The tees are marked with yellow poles. The course is a little wet right now but grass is short for easy disc searching. Scorecards and maps are attached to the back of the blue sign in the bottom of E-Z.
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Why learning online is so effective
Unlike classrooms, online courses put you in complete control. Need to stop, go back, and read again for mastery? No problem. Want to dig in deeper and search online to learn more on a topic that interests you? That's easy, too, when you are learning from your computer and not having to listen closely to a classroom instructor. Break for a meeting, an errand, or a family commitment? That's your call. You decide your pace, your time, your location.
When learning can flex around a student's needs, it infinitely increases their ability to absorb and retain the information.


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Getting ready for a summer vacation on Georgia's coast? Remember that your family won't be the only ones enjoying the beach.
Some coastal areas popular with people in late spring and early summer double as important nesting habitat for protected birds such as American oystercatchers, Wilson's plovers and least terns. Examples include Little Tybee Island, Pelican Spit off Sea Island, Cumberland Island and the southern end of Jekyll Island.
Beach-nesting birds nest above the high-tide line on wide, terraced beach flats or in the edge of dunes. In Georgia, the birds lay eggs in shallow scrapes in the sand from April through July. After hatching, chicks hide on the beach or in the grass. Disturbance by humans or pets can cause adult birds to abandon nests and chicks, exposing them to extreme heat and predators.
Tim Keyes, a Georgia Department of Natural Resources biologist, encourages beach-goers to avoid posted sites, walk below the high-tide line, observe beach birds only from a distance and back away from any nesting birds they accidentally disturb. Adults frightened from a nest will often call loudly and exhibit distraction displays, such as dragging one wing as if it's broken.
"Typically, if you're in the wrong place, the birds will try to let you know it – it is just a matter of paying attention," said Keyes, who works for the DNR's Nongame Conservation Section.
Human disturbance is a significant threat for these species, which already face risks from native predators and high spring tides that wash away nests and chicks. Pets also can be destructive, killing or scaring birds.
The problems are similar for migrating seabirds and shorebirds. Georgia beaches provide vital stopover sites for species such as red knots flying from South America and the Arctic. Red knots flushed from feeding might not gain the weight they need to survive their more than 9,000-mile migration.
Beach-goers are urged to leave their dogs at home or keep them on a leash when visiting a beach where dogs are allowed. Owners who let their dogs chase shorebirds can be fined for harassing federally protected species. People also are asked to keep house cats inside and not feed feral cats.
Beach-nesting bird photographs, tips and video are available at www.georgiawildlife.org/beachbirds.
Georgians can also help conserve Wilson's plovers and other rare and endangered animals by purchasing a bald eagle or hummingbird license plate, or donating directly to the Georgia Wildlife Conservation Fund. This support is vital to the Nongame Conservation Section, which receives no state general funds to protect Georgia's nongame wildlife, rare plants and natural habitats for future generations. Details at www.georgiawildlife.com/conservation or (478) 994-1438.
Beach-bound? Here's How You Can Help
- Stay in high-traffic areas; birds are less likely to nest where crowds gather.
- Walk below the high-tide line or on wet-sand beaches.
- Avoid posted nesting sites.
- Observe beach birds only from a distance. Back away from any nesting birds you accidentally disturb. (Adults frightened from a nest will often call loudly and exhibit distraction displays, such as dragging one wing as if it's broken.)
- Leave dogs at home or keep them on a leash when visiting a beach where they're allowed. (Owners who let their dogs chase shorebirds can be fined for harassing federally protected species.)
- Keep house cats indoors, and don't feed feral cats. Cats often prey on birds.


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If you go to the Great Midwest Balloon Festival, prepare for a lot of pointing and "wow"-ing.
That pretty much sums up the experience my family had at this year's event in Olathe. There are really very few things that can truly thrill both the young and the old, but hot air balloons are one of them.


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Linux System Administration Study Group
About the group
Information about what this group does.
The Linux Study Group (LSG) has been created in direct relation to the sf-lug group.
A few of us get together to share studying skills for linux system administration and hack on any and all things linux/f.o.s.s..
We have an eye on certification and use the LPIC (2nd Ed, O'Reilly) book and RHCE Study Guide (4th Ed, Exam RH302, Osborne) by Michael Jang on red hat certification.
Emphasis is on everyone being welcome, doing first, then learning.
We meet in a classroom reserved @ those times & days listed which has full connectivity via wireless/hardwire and whiteboards.
We encourage new people of all user levels to join in.
We also encourage users/hackers of other (or multiple) operating systems who are interested in linux and what they can and will do with it.
Meeting time and location
When is this class? On Tuesdays from 15:00 to 14:30
At Noisebridge, in the Turing classroom.
For discussion, use the SF-LUG mailing list: http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug
For announcements, use the SF-LUG mailing list or the noisebridge-discuss list https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Mailinglist
Add stuff to this wiki page (or make sub-pages) to describe activities, interests, and resources:
- what's up with the lab machines in the turing classroom at noisebridge?
- what's a system administrator, anyway? what skills are important?
- do we want to set up some local system for isos of interesting distros?
Shell Scripts
In early 2012 this seems to be a shell scripting study group.
Here is a link to a shell script that makes shell scripts (can you explain every detail on every line?)
The shell scripters are continuing to meet and work through their code on a line by line basis. This article on redirection is a great read as a followup to the 2/21 meeting http://www.linuxintheshell.org/2012/02/16/entry-000-redirection/
Unix/Linux Study
File Permissions (or, How to Chown like a Boss)
Introducing the latest completely unnecessary, but excellent addition to the Linux Study Group. A few of us, starting 2/22/2012, are exploring a specific topic as deeply as possible. Once those willingly put themselves through this torture reach a proper saturation point, we'll move onto something else. We're starting with something very basic, but endlessly frustrating: File Permissions. Just hearing those words might have you grinding your teeth. Good. Get studying!
How can you make this actually productive? 1. Take your time. There is no deadline for understanding. 2. Record your research; copy links and anything else to a txt file or e-mail. 3. Share your findings with others. The easiest way to do is this by hosting your findings on your own server or a free wordpress account. I do not recommend posting directly to this wiki as someone could easily delete it. 4. Study books freely available in our library to practice or quiz yourself.
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The plant, which will be commissioned in the first half of 2015, will double Air Liquide's carbon monoxide production capacity in the basin. The company will supply the carbon monoxide to both of the MDI plants that Huntsman Polyurethanes operates in the Botlek area of the Port of Rotterdam.
Air Liquide will invest 65 million in a new
carbon monoxide production unit in
the Port of Rotterdam, to be located next to the companys
existing facilities, top
officials confirmed on Friday.
The plant, which will be commissioned in the first half of
2015, will double Air Liquides carbon monoxide production capacity
in the basin.
Under the terms of a recent agreement, Air Liquide will supply
the carbon monoxide to both of the methyl di-p-phenylene
isocyanate (MDI) plants that Huntsman Polyurethanes operates in
the Botlek area of the Port of Rotterdam.
Building on our long-term partnership with Air Liquide,
we are delighted to host the new carbon monoxide plant at our
Rotterdam facility," said Nick Webster, vice president for
Huntsman Polyurethanes. "Investments like these are critical to
maintaining competitiveness both now and in the
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of the company's executive committee.
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position in the Port of Rotterdam through cutting-edge technology and industrial integration," he added.
"Air Liquide has already invested 400 million in new
industrial production units over the last five years in this
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increase their competitiveness.
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Engineers and designers are highly skilled individuals. Forcing them to enter design changes using tables, forms and spreadsheets is unproductive and uneconomical, and it increases the likelihood of human error—this is the way that most instrumentation software systems currently work. For too long, software vendors have denied engineers and designers the simple practicality of a graphical visual engineering interface with "drag and drop" capability and inbuilt intelligence, ensuring changes are automatically replicated into all the associated data and databases.
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ASP.NET MVC and Rails have similar area of use, are built around same architecture, both frameworks are relatively new and open source.
So as a Rails programmer I'd like to know, what ASP.NET MVC can do and Ruby on Rails can't, and visa versa?
ASP.NET MVC and Rails have similar area of use, are built around same architecture, both frameworks are relatively new and open source.
So as a Rails programmer I'd like to know, what ASP.NET MVC can do and Ruby on Rails can't, and visa versa?
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I have developed real applications with both Rails and ASP.NET MVC, but this answer comes with a significant caveat: I learned and developed with pre-version 2 Rails, so it is entirely possible that I am vastly out-of-date with my Rails knowledge.
That being said, I don't think that there is anything that can be done with one but not the other. Given any set of requirements for a web application, you should be able to build that app -- probably equally efficiently -- with either Rails or ASP.NET MVC.
There are a couple of neat things that -- to the best of my knowledge -- are available in ASP.NET MVC mainly because of aspects of C#/.NET. For example: when I have a page that contains a form that is submitted, I would have an Action that checks to see if it is dealing with a GET or a POST to decide what to do:
This is a trivial example of it, but the
I think that being able to cleanly separate the handling of GET and POST requests is neat. Your mileage may vary.
The other thing that ASP.NET MVC does that is super cool (again in my opinion) is also related to handling form POSTS. In Rails, I have to query the
But ASP.NET MVC neatly allows me to get all of my form values as parameters to my Action method:
Those are the two things that I really loved about ASP.NET MVC or Rails. They are not enough of a reason for any sane or competent developer to choose one framework over the other.
One advantage of ASP.NET MVC over Rails is if you need to build a new application over an existing database. Rails' ActiveRecord is very opinionated about how tables should be structured (table has to have one and only one integer column as primary key called 'id', etc) so if your existing tables do not conform to ActiveRecord preferences, it's tough to make ActiveRecord work. But developing new app with new db with ActiveRecord and Rails is fast!
ASP.NET MVC doesn't have default ORM. You can choose a data access strategy that fits your need. Some ORM like nhibernate can support legacy databases. You can have guid primary key, etc.
There's an alternate to Rails ActiveRecord called DataMapper, but I haven't tried it.
Having used both, the answer IMO is that ASP.NET MVC is more flexible than Rails if your application needs to do more than just read/write from a database. In my experience Rails breaks down quickly and heavily the minute you introduce any kind of complexity or logic to the application beyond very trivial CRUD logic. ASP.NET MVC doesn't encounter this restriction since it's more "open" about what you can do.
All else being equal in a typical "Web 2.0" CRUD app there isn't anything one can do over the other, but for a more complicated application that needs a workflow, or disparate data sources, or to interact with another application, or anything that isn't typical CRUD, ASP.NET can do a lot more and not be as restrictive as Rails.
I have never worked with Ruby on Rails, so I am not exactly qualified to answer this question, but one thing I like about ASP.NET MVC immensely is the type-safety. This comes in way. Adam Crossland and rmac touched on it briefly in their comments, but I would like to point out that with a controller method like the following, each of the parameter will be strongly typed. This makes the code within the Edit method a lot cleaner in that you don't have to worry about converting string representations into properly typed variables.
The other place this type-safety shows up is in Views and Partial View where one can associate a view of partial view with a Plain Old C# object, which will serve as that View's or Partial View's model. This makes life a lot easier, especially where you want to build a hierarchy of views that contain other views.
and for ASPX views, you do it by declaring the view this way:
You associate the actual instance of the model object with the view in the Controller action method and then access the instance of the model object in the view by the
This strong-typed-ness, for me, is super-cool. The team that created ASP.NET MVC has spent a lot of effort to make each of the 3 Model, View and Controller areas strongly typed.
I am not sure if Ruby-on-Rails has this, but I would hope so.
They are very similar, and they can all "do the same things" mostly, just some things are easier in one and harder than other.
I used ASP.NET MVC around the original release and it was definitely a Rails clone minus activerecord. So, Rails almost certainly has a much larger featureset and a much larger plugin/gem ecosystem.
In my limited experience, the main advantage to ASP.NET MVC is that it is a compiled language. This allows you to detect some programming bugs already at compilation, where Ruby has to rely on detecting then during unit testing.
Also the fact that it is compiled makes it possible to have advanced refactoring tools, e.g. change the name of a property in one place, and all references to the property is changed. This at least cannot be done in TextMate, which many Rails developers use.
On the other hand, the main advantage of Ruby on Rails is that it is an interpreted language ;) The nature of Ruby, how you can modify any object in memory, or monkey patch a class, can lead to some very elegant solutions; check out the book Eloquent Ruby for some examples. And a great deal of the Rails framework itself is based on this ability.
The ability to replace any method at any object at any time has also helped me greatly in writing unit tests. In .NET, Dependency Injection and IOC containers are virtually requirements for creating testable code. That is not necessary in Ruby.
After thinking about it, probably the killer feature of Rails is database migration. The ASP.NET MVC framework does not in itself provide any database support. The .NET framework does have some data access components/ORM, e.g. Entity Framework and Linq to Sql. But it does not have any tools for designing the database structure.
If you pay for one of the more expensive versions of VS, you can get the Data Dude, which lets you design a database schema, and have some tools for deploying the schema to a database. But as far as I can tell, support for handling migrations from earlier versions of the application is very limited.
Some claim that ASP.NET MVC is not really an MVC framework, merely a VC framework, due to the lack of support for database migration.
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Changes to the Visual Studio toolchain/EF have introduced code based migrations since my last edit. (but also check out FluentMigrator if you are going down that path)
My major problem with Microsoft's MVC 3 and Entity Framework are their staggeringly bad design principles.
One of the very first issues I ran into was when using another class as a property and trying to create a dropdown list for the possible values.
To illustrate my point say you have two model classes like this:
Creating the Color property would be sufficient for a real ORM but not EF. You have to add a redundant ID for the Color property in the Thing class like so:
If you don't add the redundant ID field for a foreign object reference you can't easily create dropdown lists with all of the possible options from the linked class.
This is really terrible design as it strongly couples the internal workings of one class to another. Thing shouldn't know anything about ColorID, the Color class should handle its own equality checks without exposing that it even has an ID.
This is best practices 101 stuff but apparently Microsoft is totally unaware of basic principles of computer science and object oriented programming.[/rant]


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Some businesses on Old Louisville Road in Bowling Green say business is bad these days, and a construction project is to blame.
David Cox, owner of Red's Coach and Table Restaurant says sales have been down by $300 a day since State Street bridge shut down last Monday.
"It's really going to be damaging to us. You take $200 or $300 dollars a day, six days a week and we're losing thousands a month."
Cox says one problem is people don't realize Red's and other businesses nearby businesses are still open. He says people just see the closed bridge and think the entire road is closed.
But for those who do realize there's another route to Red's, Cox says the extra time it takes to get there doesn't always fit into their schedules.
"At lunch, a lot of our customers work at the hospital or clinic and don't have time to wait in traffic. They can't get here to eat in only an hour."
Servers, who rely mostly on tips, are also being hit hard.
"We make $2.25 an hour plus tips, and with no customers, we're not making any money."
Construction on State Street bridge is expected to take about a month.
Cox says the best his business can hope for right now is no delays on the project.


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I am curious about a bit of academic pedantry of trivial importance.
If I wanted to put kanji in 日本人ではありません, would I use 有りません? This looks weird to me because 有 has some connotations of possession as opposed to 居る, for example.
I am curious about a bit of academic pedantry of trivial importance.
If I wanted to put kanji in 日本人ではありません, would I use 有りません? This looks weird to me because 有 has some connotations of possession as opposed to 居る, for example.
There are two kanji for verb ある that are commonly used: 有る and 在る. But neither is natural in your sentence: 日本人では有りません and 日本人では在りません.
Note that this is not because of the negation. 日本人で有る and 日本人で在る also look weird.
In modern Japanese, words with little semantic value are usually written in hiragana. ある in 日本人である is used as a copula in combination with で. Although ある is a verb, it works almost as a function word in these sentences, and therefore it is usually written in hiragana.
Here are some other examples:
If you were determined to write it in Kanji では在りません would be the correct choice in your example. However, as @Tsuyoshi_Ito points out, it's not natural and is generally not written in Kanji.
ではありません in your example sentence is a form of copula (である) and as such it is written using hiragana in modern Japanese. Words that are used in auxiliary way in the structure of the sentence are pretty much always written only using hiragana.
There's also quite a lot of other words, including verbs, that are normally written using hiragana. "To be" verbs ある and いる belong to this category.
In addition to great explanation in Tsuyoshi Ito's answer, please also note that ない, the negative form of ある, is sometimes written using a different kanji: 無い. This kanji has a meaning of non-existence. I understand it's used rather in set phrases than commonly for all situations. There are words/expressions which combine both kanji for positive (有) and negative (無) aspect of ある, for example:
I understand your question:
On google if you search for a sentence using "" around the phrase it will search for exactly that (include kanji and such).
"では有りません" gets 25 million results
"では在りません" gets less than 1 million
However, because this is talking about the existence of a person, its going to be 在りません.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The man accused of killing an eight-year old Topeka girl is being held on $10 million bond.
28-year old Billy Davis made an initial appearance Wednesday morning in Shawnee County District Court. He was arrested on charges including aggravated kidnapping, rape and felony murder for the death of Ahliyah Irvin.
Irvin's body was found Tuesday morning in a southeast Topeka apartment building. Family members say she was sleeping when the suspect, Billy Davis, entered the apartment she was in and took her. Police won't confirm how she was killed. The coroner's office says an autopsy was completed, but findings are not being released. Police did confirm Ahliyah was sexually assaulted.
Family and friends are rallying around Ahliyah's family. They organized a carwash Wednesday to raise money for funeral expenses and her sibling's education.
Family friend Alysia Majette remembered Ahliyah as a girl who loved to sing and dance, and who also would tell you the truth about what was on her mind.
"I just don't believe it," Majette said. "It's not true to me yet. I feel like I'll wake up tomorrow and she's going to be there,"
Those who would like to assist the family can send contributions in care of CoreFirst Bank, P.O. Box 5049 in Topeka. A funeral will be held at 2 pm Friday at Penwell-Gabel's North Topeka location, 245 NW Independence.
Topeka Police also said Wednesday the person of interest they were seeking Tuesday, 18-year old Deshawn Hughes, was located and questioned. They say he is a witness. However, he was taken into custody on unrelated cases.


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Are you allowed to put an envelope in your personal mailbox that will be picked up on Shabbos or Yom Tov?
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I have never asked a posek, but I have done so since I do not specify a need for it to be picked up on Shabbos, and Sunday works just as well. The post office chooses their own time to pick up the mail (Its their preference to pick up on Saturday, not Sunday) so they are doing melacha on Shabbos for themselves.
Claiming that placing the mail there or raising the flag is similar to a command would mean I am not allowed to drop off my clothes at a launderer if I know for sure he's going to clean them on Shabbos, yet this restriction is not stipulated in the halachic sources.
I know of one rav who went into the post office on Friday to send an overnight letter (which would be a problem) and tried having a conversation with a confused postal worker about how he didn't want it delivered until Sunday!


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How do you increase explosive power in your clap push-ups? The goal isn't to do more of them or to build larger chest / arm muscles, but to launch oneself higher off the ground.
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There are 4 types of muscular development:
Developing strength won't help the clap push-up, because you usually want to do more than one push up. Building mass doesn't help you get height on the push-up because the more massive you are, the more force gravity pushes you down (force = mass * gravity).
You will need to develop cardiovascular endurance to sustain you through a set of push-ups. The push up is a compound exercise, involving pecs, triceps, anterior deltoids, and core stability, which is a lot of muscles that are gasping for oxygen. To gain explosive power of the clap push-up, you obviously want to develop your power. Power training will propel you to new heights, literally.
The following chart will show you how to build endurance and power. Since push-ups are dependent on body weight, you won't be able to easily tune the load and rep range into the endurance and power zone. So I recommend using free weights for total control. You can do dumbbell bench presses, barbell bench presses, and dumbbell flies to develop chest power and endurance. Preferably, do these exercises on a flat bench to mimic the position of a clap push-up. However, the part of the clap push-up before your hands leave the ground does slightly resemble a decline press, so incorporate declines as well.
Ross Enamait provides a very good video tutorial on the triple clap pushup - something I have yet to achieve.
A great plyometric exercise that I'm looking into to help with the bottom part of the bench press.


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WACO (October 28, 2012)-- It's been called the largest homecoming celebration in the nation, but the Smithsonian Museum has added a new title to Baylor's annual homecoming events this year.
Recently, historians declared Baylor's homecoming as the oldest in the nation. Baylor's first homecoming was in 1909, and 65-year-old Sally Firmin's grandfather was there for it.
"He was involved in homecoming when they started having it here at Baylor," Firmin said.
Firmin has been going to Baylor Homecoming since the 1950's.
In the late 60's, Firimin was a float chair at Baylor. She spent countless hours organizing and designing for the homecoming parade.
"Working on a float is such great fun," Firmin said.
"I didn't realize it at the time, but some of those skills I learned then I've carried over into adult life."
Homecoming festivities will kickoff at Baylor this Friday.
The Smithsonian Museum has decided to include pictures from Baylor's first homecoming in their 2014 traveling exhibit.
Five copies of the exhibition will travel simultaneously to small towns across the country through the Smithsonian's Museum on Main Street program.
Firmin says that news isn't just a win for Baylor, but for the greater Waco community.
"In my way of thinking, it's just one more thing that makes our community a really special place," Firmin said.


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UTSA holds off San Jose State for inaugural Western Athletic Conference victory, 57-54
SAN JOSE, Calif. — UTSA used a 21-3 first-half run to build a double-digit lead and it held off a late San Jose State surge for a 57-54 victory on Monday to claim its first-ever Western Athletic Conference victory.
Senior Simone Young led the Roadrunners (7-6, 1-1 WAC) with 12 points and five rebounds, while fellow senior Cori Cooper added 11 points and five boards.
Meanwhile, Riana Byrd paced the Spartans (4-9, 1-1 WAC) with 12 points and Emily Schill had a double-double of 10 points and 10 rebounds.
Ta'Rea Cunnigan, who finished with a season-low nine points, scored the first seven for San Jose State and the home squad led 7-2 before UTSA went on its decisive run.
A pair of 3-pointers from Young and sophomore Jenny Menz ignited the stretch and tied the score at eight. Sophomore Kamra King then connected from behind the arc before the Roadrunners scored six consecutive baskets in the paint for a 23-10 advantage with 9:28 on the clock.
The Spartans' only points during the stretch were three free throws and Schill's layup with 8:58 on the clock ended an eight-minute, 14-second drought from the field.
Minutes later, sophomore Ashley Spaletta hit a free throw and a 3-pointer to extend the lead to 15 (27-12).
San Jose State scored four consecutive points to pull to within 11, but the Roadrunners responded with three baskets inside for their largest lead of the half, 33-17.
UTSA notched 20 points in the paint and shot 43.8 percent during the first 20 minutes of action.
Another Young 3-pointer early in the second half helped start a 12-2 run that gave the Roadrunners their largest lead of the game, 47-26, with 14 minutes to play.
A Schill layup from was followed by nine straight points by UTSA.
Young hit another 3-ball before a King jumper and a pair of free throws and jumper from senior Lyndi Thorman, which was the Roadrunners' lone basket of the night without an assist, capped the run.
UTSA held a 53-46 lead with just 6:46 to play, only to watch the Spartans rattle off a 14-0 run and pull to within three. The Roadrunners turned the ball over five times and missed three shots during the run, which made it 53-50 with 1:34 remaining.
However, senior Jermini Malone and King each sank a pair of free throws to help hold off San Jose State, which missed a game-tying 3-pointer with six seconds to play.
The Spartans shot 50 percent and had a four-point edge at the free-throw line in the second half, but the Roadrunners got 23 bench points in their first road win of the campaign.
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Can a magic user make a weapon for anyone to use? Specifically, a weapon that shrinks down to a pendant so that the non-magic person can carry it with them and call upon it at will.
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To shrink a weapon would transform it from one size to another, so we must check "Transformation and Distruption" under Thaumaturgy [YS 282]. By the base description, it works via compelling "consequences" of the target. If we reference the basic rules on breaking things [YS 320] - "assume that an item has 2 stress boxes, modified by the item quality… most items do not suffer consequences" — if we can "take out" the item, we can assume that it has magically transformed from one form to another.
Let's assume that we had a Good(+3) Sword (4 stress boxes).
Enchanted item power:
This gives us Enchanted Item with +6 Effect.
So now we need a wizard to contribute his slots for this item who's able to place a +6 effect into 1-4 Enchanted Item slots [YS 287] giving us a size of "No smaller than Ring(ear or finger)".
How many slots will it cost an ordinary wizard? Great(+4) Lore wizard can pull this by exactly 4 Enchanted Item slots.
Slot breakdown:
By default, this item can be used once a day to transform a ring-sized object into a Good Sword. If you want to use it more than one time a day, you have two routes:
The easiest way to handle this is to have an item at character creation (the permanent kind that takes up 2 slots of gear as oppose to the consumable that takes 1) with that as a sole effect. Unfortunately I can't think of any way to do this from what I've read of the rules other than to spend a Refresh to be the bearer of the object, and unless it is bought with the next Milestone it will be inexplicably gone by the next adventure.


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The Peasant Plan
posted at 10:50 am on July 31, 2009 by Mitch Berg
John Edwards, in a line that may well top off his political epitaph one day, famously said that there are "Two Americas". He was referring to the literal and metaphorical gulf between America's "Haves" and "Have Nots". He didn't note that there are also two Indias, two Philippines, two Frances and two Argentinas, but Edwards has never been one to let eternal truths of the human condition get in the way of a sound bite.
Conservatives accept these gulfs, recognizing that talent, innate applied intelligence, hard work and just-plain-luck and the lack of them will put people in one America or the other. At the same time, most see a moral obligation to cut down the hurdles and obstacles between the two – especially the exits from "Have Not" America.
The left, on the other hand, has always sought to make life in "Have Not" America at least superficially less onerous, all the while making "Have" America a refreshing oasis for those who spend their days dwelling on the plight of the "Have Nots". Their rationale isn't much different from the one that royalty accepted in years past; the responsibilities of taking care of ones' inferiors justified life's little luxuries, and the big ones as well. In big ways (the USSR's kommissars shopped at special stores and lived in special housing while the proles waited in line for bread and crammed entire families into studio apartments) and little (count the number of anti-Second-Amendment celebs who've used their connections to get themselves and/or their bodyguards concealed carry permits), the left constantly squirrels away perks for their fellow "haves".
Since the bloom is finally coming off Obama's electoral rose, it's time to catalog the Administration's, and the Democrats', attempts to make "Have" America a nicer place for those who take care of all of us peasants.
- The Peasant Plan: The Obama Administration is trying, inexorably, to force "the American street" into a "public" (read: socialized) healthcare system.
- The "Haves" Plan: Congress and their union benefactors are making sure it (and its benefactors) are exempt from Obamacare. Expect the rest of the elites to follow suit.
- The Peasant Plan: The Obama Administration wasted no time in cutting DC's wildly-successful school voucher plan. And Obama's Democrat allies around the nation are busy trying to roll back charter schools, open enrollment laws, voucher plans and school choice in general, in particular in the communities that need them most, the inner cities and the various Indian reservations; while these plans are often wildly successful, they sap jobs from the teachers' union – and that's much more important than educating the children. To be fair, it is a jobs stimulus plan – for public school teachers. Not to mention all the people who'll have to deal with the failure of our public school system. And India and China.
- The "Haves" Plan: Being "Haves", they send their kids to private schools (or, for the lesser "haves", to public schools in areas with fewer of the social problems caused by three generations of using the inner city as a warehouse for other "have nots".
Vices and Sin
- The Peasant Plan: The Administration promises to tax tobacco to help pay for Obamacare. OK – Obama, a smoker, might eat this one, but cigarettes are usually the opiate of the declasse masses.
- The "Haves" Plan: I've heard nothing about taxes on plastic surgery or trips to Martha's Vineyard.
- The Peasant Plan: McDonald's – the fine dining of choice for middle-class Americans who judge restaurants by whether there's a playland for the kids to run around in – stands to get taxed back to the stone age.
- The "Haves" Plan: No special taxes for the high-end restaurants, like the ones in DC where those who pull the levers of government dine.
- The Peasant Plan: Soda pop – the cheap opiate caffeinate of the masses – is in line for punitive taxes.
- The "Haves" Plan: Starbucks – home of the fat-bomb froux-froux coffee beverages that fuel the Administration's kids' all-night policy-mongering sessions – goes forth blissfully untaxed. Live and latte live, I guess.
- The Peasant Plan: "Clunkers" – affordable used cars – are actively harassed off the road via "Cap and Trade" energy taxes, implemented to attempt to force people off the roads and into cramped, perpetually-late or broken-down public transit systems.
- The "Haves" Plan: Hybrid vehicles – which are presently hideously expensive to buy, and moreso to maintain, and are thus the province of the well-off – are subsidized.
- The "Haves" Plan: The "haves", being haves, live where crime is relatively low.
- The Peasant Plan: The "have nots" will, in Obama's perfect world, have no access to firearms to defend themselves. It'll work as well as it does in DC and Obama's home, Chicago, where gang violence makes the Windy City more dangerous than Baghdad these days.
- The Peasant Plan: "Cap and Trade" should make all forms of heating and cooking subject to federal legislation, and make owning a home north of Nebraska more expensive than penthouses in the Eighties in Manhattan.
- The Peasant Plan: Obama's proposed National Building Code will make attempting to buy, renovate or live in older, "affordable" houses prohibitively expensive for middle-class families. Indeed, "building codes" serve little practical purpose other than to restrict the supply and affordability of housing.
- The "Haves" Plan: No word on whether John Edwards and Al Gore's carbon-belching mansions will be covered by the National Building Code.
It's good to be king, isn't it?
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John Edwards, in a line that may well top off his political epitaph one day, famously said that there are "Two Americas."
One America made up of adulterers, and another America made of of people who remain faithful to their spouses, even when they contract cancer.
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Besides the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo, what are the don't-miss pieces of the Louvre's permanent collection?
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You can find almost everything about Louvre's permanent exhibits and events in the museum's site. Famous permanent exhibits that I'd personally wouldn't miss are:
You can find more about the Louvre's permanent exhibits on the site's Selected Works section.
In mesopotamian collections, don't miss the code of Hammurabi found in Susa (Shush, Iran), the first written law in the world.


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The statistics are staggering in the obesity epidemic in America, and Kentucky is near the top of the list for most obese.
Dr. Rice Leach, of the Kentucky Department of Health, says, "Kentucky is moving fairly quickly towards 25 percent of our state. One million people are at high risk of these expensive medical conditions, and the way things work now, who pays for it? You pay for it out of your health insurance."
According to the Centers for Disease Control, Kentucky spent $340 million in 1998 towards obesity-attributable Medicaid and obesity-related health costs have a significant economic impact on the U.S. health care system.
Leach says, "What's that mean? Obesity means diabetes, it means heart disease, it means asthma, it means some cancers, it means somebody's gonna have to pay for it."
Here's a look at the states with a ten percent obesity rate in 1985. Watch as it increases drastically until 2001. The Department of Health had to add a color, gold, for Mississippi. Mississippi has more than 25 percent of obese people.
Leach says, "I tell people we're in the first round of a double-header. If you think we've got health care costs and public expenditures now- just wait."
But according to the CDC, Kentucky is establishing a committee to help decide how to approach the development of a state plan.
Leach says, "Now that people know about it we've got some policy decisions to make about how we're gonna undo it, or are we going to pay the physical, medical, economic and personal price of being disabled."
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Each time you are examined your doctor will assess your baby's lie and presentation. Many babies are in the breech position earlier in the pregnancy, but most turn into the head down position by the end of the pregnancy. Still, breech births occur in about one in 25 full-term births. Between 32 and 37 weeks is the best time for your doctor to try to turn a breech baby. This is because there is plenty of room for the baby to turn around. After the 35th or 36th week, the baby is unlikely to change position since there is less room for large maneuvers. If your baby is breech, your doctor may try to turn the baby, a process called version and she may recommend an extra ultrasound scan at 37-38 weeks of pregnancy to check the baby's position. It may be difficult to be completely sure, on examination alone, whether the doctor is feeling the baby's bottom or head. If your baby is breech, your doctor may suggest a cesarean delivery.
Much of later pregnancy involves your partner doing less than normal. This may range from doing less exercise to not doing household chores. It may be challenging for your partner to realize that she's not able to do things as easily as before and, to a certain extent, is less independent.
You can be a great help to her in the final weeks of pregnancy, but be aware that there's a fine line between being supportive and being overly protective. Deep down you may want to turn into "superman" and do everything, but it might frustrate your partner if you become overly protective. Try to take the lead from her and give her help as and when she needs it, as well as space to do her own thing.
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The body was discovered Wednesday evening near an abandoned mining shack on the Pattridge Park open space in Arvada.
10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway went missing on Oct. 5. Jessica was last seen Friday morning as she left her Westminister, CO, home, where she lives with her mother, to go to school. She never made it school.
Her father, Jeremy Bryant, lives in Independence, Missouri. He has traveled to Colorado to assist in the search for her.
Colorado authorities declined to say much Wednesday night about the discovery of the body.
"At this time, we're unable to make any connection to the disappearance of Jessica Ridgeway," Westminster Police Department Trevor Materasso said.
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8 Amazing Works of Art You Need a Microscope to Appreciate
For as long as there have been people making art, there have been people who are really good at it. People like Thomas Kinkade and the painter of Space Jesus, just to name two. But it's one thing to paint the weeping, planet-sized face of Jesus Christ hovering in space; it's another to intentionally make the job more difficult on yourself by picking the hardest possible medium to create your work. Like, for instance, if the thing you were sculpting or drawing on was microscopic.
At that point, you're really just showing off. At the risk of rewarding that kind of showboating, here is ...
#8. Pencil Tip Art, by Dalton Ghetti
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Does this count as a No. 2?
That's not a huge novelty pencil tip right there. That's a tiny little saw carved into the end of a regular ol' pencil (in this case, a flat carpenter-style pencil) with microscopic precision.
The same pencils we throw away when they're too stubby, Dalton M. Ghetti makes into art. Intricate art. And that's not the work of a laser and a computer -- this was done with his own two hands, using a razor blade, sewing needle and magnifying glass to carve his intricate sculptures out of graphite and pencil wood.
Are you noticing how he planned it so that the handle of the saw would be wood, but the blade would be graphite? Are you letting that sink in? Now notice the four little screws or rivets on the handle at the base of the blade. Yeah, this man is insane.
Dalton M. Ghetti
We bet he carved tiny postcards inside there.
Are you imagining how easy it would be to snap that right off if your hand slipped or, heck, if you just touched it the wrong way? Or how many hours of work you would lose every time somebody accidentally grabbed one of the pencils and started making a grocery list with it?
Dalton M. Ghetti
Anyone feel like Monopoly?
If the pencils look used, that's because Ghetti purposely uses discarded objects for his medium. So each of his pencils was once somebody's trash. And since his art isn't for sale, the only way you're going to get a Ghetti original is to drop a pencil on the ground and wait in hopes that he picks it up, then break into his studio after he turns it into a beautiful horse head or whatever.
#7. Sculptures in the Eye of a Needle, by Willard Wigan
Joe Biden is trapped inside a nearby thimble.
It's easy to be unimpressed by this Willard Wigan sculpture of the Obama family if you're not grasping the scale. Let's put it this way: That little dark thing protruding into the picture from the bottom? That's an eyelash. And that oval frame where the first family is standing is the eye of a needle.
For perspective, here's a picture of a pair of disembodied hands holding a regular-sized needle:
Yeah. If you've ever attempted sewing, you know how hard it is just to fit a thread through that little hole at the end of the needle -- imagine squeezing a whole tableau in there. Note the details, like the president's tie. And that's just the beginning:
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Above: How Lilliputians immigrate.
To make sculptures so small, Wigan has to use surgical blades. After all, he's working with materials like grains of sand, dust fibers, spider cobwebs and the hair from a dead fly. A half empty dustbin is like his Costco. The process is exhausting:
Because the works are so minute, the sculptor has learned to control his nervous system and breathing to ensure he does not make even the tiniest movement. Wigan, when working, enters a meditative state in which his heartbeat is slowed, allowing him to reduce any hand tremors and work between heartbeats.
You know your work is intense when you have to put yourself into a coma to do it.
Wigan spends a chunk of each workday clinically dead.
#6. Sagaki Keita Draws Classic Masterpieces Composed of Tiny Doodles
That drawing of the Mona Lisa is good, but not mind-blowing. Like you wouldn't Facebook "Like" it or anything. But take a closer look:
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She must have fallen asleep at a party.
The whole thing is made of tiny little interlocking doodles.
Sagaki Keita recreates classic works of art composed of little goofball characters that any of us could have drawn during seventh grade math. Look carefully and you'll probably find a dong.
Here's another reproduction you might recognize:
Look closer:
Look closer still and you'll find:
Ha ha. Gotcha.
#5. Akinobu's Itty Bitty Models in Itty Bitty Bottles
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The tiny vikings are out raiding a village in a bottle.
If you're anything like us, you have no idea how people get ships into bottles, but you vaguely suspect voodoo, time travel or Criss Angel. If there's a perfectly logical technique to it, we don't want to know, because we thrive on fantasy. Maybe they make the ship first and build the bottle around it?
But Japanese artist Akinobu doesn't just put ships in bottles -- he puts ships in ridiculously tiny little vials smaller than your thumb. And not just ships -- he puts whole landscapes in them, and dinosaur skeletons and mini-universes.
Akinobu Izumi, Etsy
Pssh. Everyone knows little velociraptors are where it's at.
Akinobu Izumi, Etsy
Tiny sea turtles hatched on the beach!
Now, if you look at those bottlets, you'll notice that the openings aren't as proportionately small as the opening of a wine jug or Budweiser bottle or whatever. Yet carving those little worlds, then getting them into anything without crushing their metaphorical guts, is a major triumph in itself.
And unlike most of the works of art on this list, Akinobu's work is available on Etsy. They're the perfect gift for everyone's favorite bottle-themed holiday, Tiny Model in a Bottle Day!
Akinobu Izumi, Etsy
It's a lot of fun until you realize there aren't air holes.


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Cited: Christopher J. Mains, 50, 93 26th St., Wellsburg, speeding; Jessica B. Snyder, 28, 815 Market St., speeding and expired operator's license; Brian G. Zapolnik, 23, 354 Terrace Ave., no dog registration; and Arthur J. Thompson Jr., no age or address listed by police, driving with suspended license, stop sign and no seat belt.
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Arrested: Leonard King, 38, 1308 Oregon Ave., Steubenville Municipal Court warrants from 2010 charging two counts of drug trafficking and one count having a weapon under disability; permitting drug abuse indictment out of Jefferson County Common Pleas from 2007 and fugitive from justice warrant out of Columbiana County, today.
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Arrested: Chester R. Byard, 31, 417 S. Main St., Amsterdam, failure to appear warrant out of Toronto county court, Wednesday.
Vandalism: Pickup truck window broken and mirror damaged while parked at residence on county Road 42, Toronto, Wednesday.
Arrested: Dana M. Collins, 31, 455 Union St., Mount Pleasant, domestic violence, Wednesday.
Theft: Round bale of hay taken from farm on Brush Creek Township Road 54, Hammondsville, Wednesday.
Arrested: Brent Montenery, 26, 309 Lawrence Ave., Tiltonsville, domestic violence and parole violation, Wednesday.
Cited: Richard McGarth, 72, 912 Federal St., Toronto, stop sign, circumventing traffic control device; and Ronald Wallace, 24, 128 Main St., Richmond, driving with a suspended license.
Arrested: Shiloa Hurdle, 147 Rosewood St., Toronto, warrant, Feb. 26.
Arrested: Cortney Roe, 20, 706 N. Fourth St., Steubenville, warrant, failure to appear, Feb. 27.
Arrested: Alice Shannon, 48, 414 N. Sixth St., Toronto, driving with a suspended license, driving under the influence, Feb. 28.
Arrested: Cathy Duncan, 32, 609 N. Third St., Toronto, disorderly conduct, public intoxication, Saturday.
Arrested: David Hinchee, 1825 Pennsylvania Ave., Weirton, public intoxication, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest following a disturbance on Summers Street, Feb. 27.
Arrested: Alfred Farr Leoffler, 326 Orr St., Weirton, domestic battery, Feb. 28.
Arrested: Paul Ayers, 109 Cross St., Weirton, possession of a drug abuse instrument, Friday.
Arrested: Christian Gibson, Ambridge, Pa., obstructing an officer, Friday.
Arrested: Chelsea Stuart, 120 Sharon Dr., Weirton, disorderly conduct, Friday.
Arrested: Joel Melvin Clark Jr., 55, 621 Banfield Ave., Follansbee, driving under the influence, Sunday.
Cited: Fred Phiri, 34, McKees Rocks, Pa., speeding; and Johnathon Lee Logan, 41, Apartment 1, 741 Kendall Ave., Steubenville, defective equipment, obstructed windshield, reckless driving and improper registration.
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Cited: Mika D. Swinsinski, 30, 114 Harvey Ave., Mingo Junction, speeding and expired plates; and Patrick A. Luyster, 23, 768 Commercial St., Mingo Junction, speeding and driving with a suspended license.
Burglary: Residence in the 2500 block of Wilson Avenue entered Wednesday and money and jewelry taken.
Vandalism: House window broken with large rock in the 100 block of Petrick Avenue, Tuesday.
Vandalism: Boards covering window at Avalon Bar on Commercial Street removed but nothing reported missing from inside, Monday.
Break-in: House in the 600 block of Logan Avenue broken into and inventory of anything missing is pending, reported Sunday.
Break-in: Door to house kicked open in the 200 block of Summit Avenue, Sunday


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Essential Rules of Parenting: Raising Teenagers Successfully
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Show Some Respect for the Things They Care About
I know a man who started to develop psychological problems as a teenager. He used to spend as much time as he could in his bedroom listening to music, which was the one thing that gave him pleasure. As time went on, things became worse. Even after he'd left home, the problems continued. Many years later, he said a very interesting thing. He explained that one of the biggest blows to his confidence was the way his parents used to complain about the awful music he listened to.
You see, when you criticize your teenager's choices, you criticize them. It's an age of fragile egos and easily knocked self-esteem, and it's easy to make your teenager feel that you disapprove, or even that you don't like them. Whether it's their music or their politics or the way they dress or their decision to become vegetarian, they need to know that it's okay with you.
It's one of the many paradoxes of teenagers. On the one hand, they want to rebel, to shock you, to do things that get to you, and on the other hand, they want your approval and your goodwill. I know it's confusing for you, but it's worse for them. They're trapped inside minds and bodies that are trying to make the transition from dependent child to independent adult, and they don't know what they want themselves half the time. One minute they want to grow up as fast as possible, and the next it's all getting too scary, and they want to slow down. You just have to accept it and go with the flow.
More on: Teen Behavior and Discipline
From The Rules of Parenting Copyright © 2008, FT Press. Used by permission of FT Press, and Pearson Education. All rights reserved.
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At protests across the country Occupiers fought back against a political system that too often looks out for their 1% campaign donors, the supercommittee made influencing-peddling easier for special interests, and the Supreme Court once again sided with big money. Those events and more make up our 2011 list of top money-in-politics stories.
Check out the full list and if you have your own suggestions for items we left off, leave them in the comments below.
1. Occupy's Message Delivered
Here's a recap of Public Campaign and Public Campaign Action Fund's (PCAF) work from November 21 through December 2, 2011.
Public Campaign, along with Oil Change international, released a new report yesterday: "Payback Time? The Supercommittee & Fossil Fuel Subsidies." The report shows that the 12 members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or "supercommittee," have received at least $4.2 million in campaign contributions from dirty energy interests lobbying to keep their wasteful taxpayer subsidies.
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), the co-chair of the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction, will be holding a fundraiser for his JEBFund leadership PAC on Tuesday with Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio).
According to Politico Influence, $5,000 will get you "admittance to all 2011 JEBFund events."
That's right ladies and gentleman, for the low, low price of $5,000 you too can have a season pass to the supercommittee co-chair.
A man of his word. The third quarter fundraising totals for members of Congress have been released, and records show that supercommittee member, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) has kept his pledge to give up fundraising for himself while the deficit commission conducts its work.
Here's a recap of Public Campaign and Public Campaign Action Fund's (PCAF) work from October 11 through October 14, 2011.
Supercommittee member Dave Camp (R-Mich) has filed his third quarter fundraising numbers. While this isn't a full analysis, here are some things that stuck out.
Yesterday our friends at Oil Change International, along with 52 other groups, sent a letter to the members of the supercommittee demanding that the elimination of government handouts to the oil, coal and gas industries be a central part of the deficit reduction plan they are to present to the full Congress by November 23rd.
Here's a recap of Public Campaign and Public Campaign Action Fund's (PCAF) work from September 26 through September 30, 2011.
Public Campaign, along with National People's Action, released a new report today: "Wall Street and the Supercommittee: The $41 Million Question." The report details the close ties from Wall Street and other financial industry interests to the supercommittee.
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My bicycle is our second car. I love to bicycle in all weather, for all distances, and on all routes. Bicycling has brought so much joy to my life, and I want to share it with anyone who is interested. I will use my soapbox to tell you about the joys, the freedom, the benefits, and, yes, the challenges of bicycling and walking for transportation.
In the past, I've been frustrated by local elections. It's so hard to find any information about the names, positions, and issues on the ballot. Just what does a county commissioner commission, anyway? (I now know that the county commissioners are the county-level equivalent of city council.)
Getting involved in advocacy for bicycling and walking, I've gotten to know local government employees. Last year, I wanted to write an article about what city council candidates think about bicycling and walking in Kirksville. I found the candidates' names in the newspaper but I wasn't sure how to contact them. I asked a friend in city government and she referred me to the city clerk, who promptly sent me names and phone numbers.
I loved having personal conversations with the city council candidates! I felt like a responsible and informed voter.
I repeated the project with this year's election, and I thought it would be nice to write a similar article for other communities' candidates because my blog their newspapers have picked up my blog. This time I knew to contact the city clerks, and I was surprised to learn that Kirksville does things a little differently than other cities.
The first week I was unsuccessful because I happened to pick the week of the city clerks' conference. I tried again the next week. The city clerks were all cooperative, returning my messages and responding to my emails with reasonable promptness.
One city clerk said, "Well, I've got their names, but let me see, I'll have to look for their phone numbers." She checked the water bill records to get their phone numbers. I thought it was funny that the candidates' contact information was not closer to hand!
Another city clerk said, "I'll have to check with legal whether I can give out the candidates' contact information." She was able to give me the emails of the candidates who were incumbents, but for the candidates who were not incumbents she could only send my message to them and ask them to contact me. Both did contact me, but I thought it was funny that someone could run for city council and not provide a public contact number or email.
Some city clerks gave me phone numbers instead of or in addition to email addresses. Phone calls worked the best.
A couple city clerks gave me only candidates' emails, and that was the least successful method of reaching the candidates. Emails can too easily be ignored. I did not get any interviews for Boonville because none of the 5 candidates responded to my email.
The city should facilitate the democratic process which is difficult enough at the local level without additional hurdles. I am pleased that Kirksville is so helpful, swiftly giving me candidates' phone numbers. Kirksville can also be proud of the Candidates' Forum that the Chamber hosts each year. I didn't realize that most communities don't have that either.


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How do you interpret the specifications of a speaker system?
I'm looking for a new set of 2.1 computer speakers (for < $100), and don't really know how to buy speakers. The only things I really ever looked at before are power and audio sensitivity, which are measured in Watts and dB respectively. But then again, I'm not sure how accurately they measure the quality of speakers.
For example, these (http://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Tech--AR504LR-BK-Soundstage-Subwoofer/dp/B0029Z9UNW/ref=sr_1_20?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1308429877&sr=1-20) have RMS 35W of power. But these (http://www.amazon.com/Sony-SS-B1000-8-Inch-Bookshelf-Speakers/dp/B000OG88KY/ref=sr_1_22?s=aht&ie=UTF8&qid=1308430101&sr=1-22) are cheaper with ~60W RMS Power. What makes one better than the other?
I also would factor brand names (say, Polk over Coby), and also reviews... but are there other ways to read speaker specs?
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With around a hundred bucks to spend, I would go with one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836121036 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836121048
If you would rather have home theater speakers (like your links), I would look at these and add a sub later. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882290200
Yes, I'm not sure why I put up only bookshelf speakers, but I had considered the Polk ones you suggested also.
My choices are currently these:
You can't trust the specs in many cases, so don't use just them to choose your speakers. Specs can be manipulated by the manufacturer by leaving out key testing criteria and making them look better than they really are. One of the biggest is Frequency Response. They often give you the full range, but not where the usable cut-offs are. In other words, they say their speaker goes all the way down to 20hz., but in reality, you may have stopped hearing good, usable sound at something higher, say 45hz or whatever. Get out and listen to some in your price range and check out some online forums, like this one: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/