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Re: Windows 8 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Printer Drivers
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Re: Windows 8 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Printer Drivers
Hello Antonius_L
Approximately a month ago, I posted an opinion piece in the HP Lounge & Cafe Discussion Board. My post was about one of HP's new all-in-one Printers, (which I do not own).
However, I have now recieved four updates to an OP about Windows 8 Drivers for the Printer I originally posted my opinion piece about.
As I do not have this particular Printer, and did not post any query on the topic, the Updates I am recieving on the subject are not really relevant to me.
I would be very grateful if Updates on a question I did not ask could be stopped.
Many thanks for your help with this matter.
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Re: Windows 8 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Printer Drivers
About 13 months ago I bought an HP desktop with Windows 8, and immediately ran into problems printing with my HP Officejet series 3600 all-in-one. The original installation CD was not useable, so I turned to HP support for downloadable fixes. The ones on this forum posted by jason h were herlpful in at least getting the printer up and running. But many reoccurring errors still had to be worked around. I tried removing and reinstalling many times so I could almost do the steps, eyes closed. Finally, the last inkjet cartridge installation closed down printing with a hung up printing job that would not cancel with any amont of printer reinstallations. Changing cartridges didn't work either. I tried every fix I could find on the internet. Then, last night, I noticed a google entry under the big "e" emblem, and it gave may an idea. Since all of my Windows/HP downloading had been with Firefox browser, perhaps reinstallation with Explorer would do better. Bingo! The steps found in jason h's posts went through all the way, giving me smooth printing superior to my old os. Was it luck, or is there a built in stumbling block in Windows fixes? Check it out.
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I just bought an HP ENVY TouchSmart 15t-j100 and was setting it up but ran into trouble with my Officejet Pro L7780 while downloading the windows 8 driver. I ran the current Scan Doctor and got the same result. Scan doctor finds the printer and downloads the same software I did manually. Software download goes OK but while running the installation, in the "checking system" step it fails with the message "The system can't find the file specified" ...Help!
I also have an HP LazerJet Pro 400 MFP attached to the network and that loaded fine.
Re: Windows 8 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Printer Drivers
Hi I updated to the new window 8.1 Now my HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 Plus has issues.
when I trouble shoot from printer properties it says " some usb 2.0 devices are incompatible with usb 3.0. Plugging them in to a usb 2.0 port can fix the problem.
Can someone help with this please.
Respectfully: Rob
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Whenever someone thinks about silent cinema the image of the laughing villain, twirling his mustache, and tying the hapless blonde beauty to the railroad, pops up in our collective memory. But in which movie (or movies) did that particular image first appeared?
The link in Neil Baker's comment to Luke McKernan's "Tied to the tracks" article also gives a very detailed history of a woman being tied to the tracks, occasionally by the evil villain twirling his moustache.
Luke traces it back to an 1867 staged melodrama by Augustin Daly called Under the Gaslight, where a woman saves a man from the tracks in the nick of time. Later plays copied this, and at some point it switched to a man saving a woman.
In early film, such stage melodrama was out-of-date -- "so no more twirling of moustaches if you wanted your villain to be taken seriously" -- and instead film capitalised on recreating realism.
However films such as 1905's The Train Wreckers and 1911's The Attempt on the Special played it straight, where an unconscious woman is left on the tracks. But she was left there by a gang rather than the moustachioed villain.
The black moustache-twirling villain, often enshrouded in black and with a top hat, and the heroine in distress are two of the six stock characters of Victorian stage melodrama:
This made me think of an 1913 movie that Mack Sennett made called Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life. If I recall correctly, this film featured not only a mustachioed villain, but a woman tied to the train tracks!
Possibly the earliest version.

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CU engineering student Nick Bertrand spent two of his first four years of college studying in China—and then he went back again for a summer research internship.
"I love living in China – I love the food and the different style of entertainment there. And I was interested in the research from an academic perspective," he said.
When he was a fifth-year senior double-majoring in electrical and computer engineering and applied math, Bertrand was selected as the 2010 Study Abroad Student of the Year.
"I believe he is an excellent CU Study Abroad Ambassador who will use his engineering and Chinese language and cultural skills to make the world a better place," wrote Sherry Snyder, director of international engineering programs, who helped to set up his international placement.
A native of Colorado Springs, Bertrand first enrolled at CU-Boulder in the fall of 2006. After his freshman year, he was awarded the prestigious Boren Scholarship to study at Peking University (PKU) in Beijing. He lived with a host family there and focused on intensive language study as part of a Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) program.
The following year, Bertrand open-enrolled in the engineering curriculum at PKU to get a deeper understanding of Chinese language and culture within a technical environment. Essentially, he said he took the same science and math courses he had already taken at CU-Boulder, but this time in Chinese. He also participated in a research team comprised of graduate students, which held weekly meetings in Mandarin, and co-authored a paper on WSDL files for public Web services.
"I want to use Chinese as an international engineer," Bertrand explained, adding that his ultimate goal is to work for an American engineering company in China.
"A lot of setbacks can come from language and cultural barriers. I think I can help bridge that gap and still have a technically oriented job," he said.
Bertrand already has Chinese work experience. While at PKU, he was recommended to work in CIEE's international student office, helping other foreign students attending the university. "I got experience with how the Chinese student employees did things, and I did a lot of English translation for them."
In the summer of 2010, after completing his junior year at CU-Boulder, he had the opportunity to return to China as a participant in the International Research and Education in Engineering (IREE) program administered by Purdue University.
With a referral from Michael Lightner, chair of the CU-Boulder Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Bertrand was selected for an internship at the Research Center for Green Building and New Energy at Tonji University in Shanghai, where he helped to design and implement software for the school's energy management system.
"I really saw how software development is done in China," Bertrand said, explaining that he had weekly meetings with industry representatives who were contracted to do the work, under the direction of Professor Hon Wei Tan.
Tan was so impressed with Bertrand that he asked him to come and live with his family.
Bertrand keeps in touch with the Tans as well as a professor at PKU and his host family in Beijing. Among his fondest memories of China are going out for meals with family and friends, and playing "KTV" or Chinese karaoke.
Although he expects it will take him two more years to graduate, in part due to his acceptance into CU-Boulder's concurrent BS/MS program in applied math, he'll have two bachelor's degrees, a master's degree, and an International Engineering Certificate when he's finished.
He'll also stand out as having perhaps the most in-depth study abroad experience of any CU engineering student to date.
He already translated his resume into Chinese.
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I came to wonder this when studying language (as well as other same theme question posted just few ago). For example the word "fantastic" we use upper teeth and lower lip to produce F sound, instead of using lower teeth and upper lip, which would work as well with a small practice.
The alternative articulation, called dentolabial, is more difficult to articulate, so it is very rarely used in human language. However, it apparently is common enough in disordered speech to be allocated an ExtIPA diacritic.
The reason labiodentals are easier: Humans normally have a slight overbite.
When the jaw and lips are in a "neutral" position, the lower lip is close to or touching the upper teeth, so with a small vertical movement of the jaw (together with tensing the lip) one can articulate a labiodental. Articulating a dentolabial requires moving the jaw a fair distance forward, to go around the upper teeth before reaching the upper lip. As Ben pointed out in the comments, front-back jaw movement is unusual, a less "common movement in terms of other vocalisations and eating".
Furthermore, since labial articulations are directly visible to observers, learners are especially likely to imitate others' exact articulation. Thus even though labiodentals and dentolabials sound similar, everyone in the population of speakers uses the same articulation (rather than having both articulations in free variation).
Perhaps dentolabials would instead be more common if most people were like this:


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I have a Thinkpad X220 Tablet, if I am not wrong is that they call a "convertible" laptop.
There will be the possibility to use Ubuntu on Tablet (or even Ubuntu for Phones) with this kind of laptops in order to get full advantage from both the laptop and tablet features?
Up to now, due to the lack of user experience (scrolling ,zooming, hand gestures, pointer, bugs in the workspace window positioning while rotating) I use the tablet feature only to sign pdf with the embedded pen.
I am aware of this topic: "Will the Ubuntu for tablets work on my tablet?" but it misses the "convertible laptop" category.


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Little Dragon song of the day on NPR
Compared to the output of other European nations, Swedish pop actually makes it across the Atlantic in significant numbers. When it does reach the U.S., it often doesn't take long before it's embraced by listeners of all kinds. The country's latest contribution is Little Dragon, a band whose newly acquired buzz was built in increments, one collaboration at a time.
There was the guest spot on Gorillaz's Plastic Beach and a yet-to-be-heard studio session with Big Boi, among others, so it's no surprise that the group sounds so confident in "NightLight," the first single from the upcoming Ritual Union.
Little Dragon makes pop music for folks who think they hate pop music, and one important trick when attempting such a feat is to make the melody sound more complex than it is. The hook in "NightLight" is carved out of a couple of stiff keyboard chords, which don't quite fit together but still fall neatly into place on the 4/4 beat. They might be the unexpected visitors Yukimi Nagano sings about, the ones who are "turning and twisting to form a line." Her lithe vocals sync up with the song's electric undercurrent, providing the spark in a dance number which might otherwise seem suited for a dilapidated disco hall.


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AP fact-check wonders if Obama bothers to listen
posted at 10:05 am on October 7, 2011 by Ed Morrissey
The Associated Press gives its usual fact-check follow-up to a Barack Obama speech, but in this case, it almost seems as if they're puzzled about where to start. In almost each bullet point, the AP response doesn't just imply that Obama got his facts wrong but also hasn't been paying much attention to the political debate around him. For instance, Obama attempted to push back on calls to reverse the regulatory avalanche his administration has dumped on American business:
OBAMA: "The answer we're getting right now is: Well, we're going to roll back all these Obama regulations… Does anybody really think that that is going to create jobs right now and meet the challenges of a global economy?"
THE FACTS: Well, yes, some think it will.
Well, yes, a lot of people think it will — especially the small- to medium-sized businesses getting strangled in red tape. Even Obama's own "shovel-ready jobs" ended up with long delays thanks to regulations at federal and state levels. ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank have added a blizzard of ill-defined, ambiguous new regulations and costs to businesses that slow or prevent expansion, innovation, and economic growth. In fact, the people who say that now include many who warned that these initiatives would result in precisely the stagnation we see now.
The AP wasn't impressed with Obama's grasp of bipartisanship, either — or even his own party's positions:
OBAMA: "Every idea that we've put forward are ones that traditionally have been supported by Democrats and Republicans alike."
THE FACTS: Obama proposes to pay for his jobs bill by raising taxes, something traditionally opposed by Republicans and, in the form Obama proposed it, even some Democrats. Senate Democrats were so allergic to Obama's approach, which relied largely on limiting deductions that can be taken by individuals making over $200,000 a year and couples making more than $250,000, that they're eliminating it and replacing it with a new tax on millionaires.
Or, for that matter, his own policies:
OBAMA: "China has been very aggressive in gaming the trading system to its advantage and to the disadvantage of other countries, particularly the United States. …. And currency manipulation is one example of it, or at least intervening in the currency markets in ways that have led their currency to be valued lower than the market would normally dictate. And that makes their exports cheaper and that makes our exports to them more expensive."
THE FACTS: While Obama complained about China's efforts to keeps its currency undervalued to gain trade advantages, his administration has repeatedly refused to brand China as a currency manipulator in a report that the Treasury Department is required to send to Congress twice a year.
Instapundit quipped, "Upside for the White House: At least someone was listening." That someone sure isn't the President.
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I am using an expression in a paper which doesnt need a proof at all such as $$\sum_{i=k}^K\binom{K}{i}p^i(1-p)^{K-i}$$ is a decreasing function of $k$ and $$\sum_{i=0}^{k-1}\binom{K}{i}p^{K-i}(1-p)^i$$ is an increasing function of $k$. However I connot write it in the text. Because I refer to this property in a non trivial proposition.
Question: How should I put this thing in a format? should I call it as a statement or definition or corollary?
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5 Ridiculous Health Myths You Probably Believe
#2. "Don't Crack Your Knuckles, You'll Get Arthritis!"
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The Myth:
Knuckle cracking is an annoying, nerve-wracking habit that comes with its own built-in punishment: namely, arthritis. If you keep on crackin', karma will eventually bite you in the ass in the shape of a painful, potentially disfiguring joint disease. But what else could you expect? You're cracking your knuckles.
But Actually ...
First of all, it helps to understand what knuckle cracking actually is. You're not grinding your bones or popping your joints out of place -- the noise is just tiny gas bubbles popping in the fluid in the joints of your fingers.
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They're like party poppers with less clean-up.
There have been multiple studies into the habit, which is how we know which gender cracks their knuckles more (men), how prevalent the habit is (25 to 54 percent prevalence, depending on who you ask), and that it does not, in fact, cause arthritis.
If you don't believe any of those studies, maybe you can at least trust a scientist named Donald Unger, who undertook a 50- (50!) year study of the effects of habitually cracking your knuckles, using his own left hand as the test subject and the right hand as a relatively crack-free "control group." Did we mention he did this every day for 50 years? We feel that part cannot be repeated enough.
"But could he remember our anniversary? Hell no!"
In the end, he found that there was no correlation between arthritis and knuckle cracking, since both of the hands were fine, and the only discriminating thing about either of them was the fact that they were attached to a potentially crazy person. The scientific community made it known what they thought about the importance of Unger's work by awarding him an Ig Nobel Prize, the closest thing to a Razzie that science can get away with. The dude was still right, though.
#1. "You Need to Stop Eating Red Meat Before You Have a Heart Attack!"
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The Myth:
As delicious as it may be, everyone knows red meat is terrible for you. Your steak might ride with nothing more threatening than a bunch of French fries, but it's always tailed by an outlaw posse of cholesterol, coronary heart disease, and cardiovascular disease.
And that's just the tip of red meat's kill-you iceberg: It has also been linked to colon cancer, breast cancer, stomach cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer, lymphoma, prostate cancer, atherosclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, hypertension, diabetes, kidney disease, obesity, and endometriosis.
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"Is there any chance half of those cancel the other half out?"
Hell, looking at that stack of diseases, it's a wonder anyone who has ever eaten meat is still alive.
But Actually ...
The problem isn't the meat. It's how we eat it.
There are all of these weird exceptions to the red meat rule that have puzzled scientists. People like the Masai and Inuit, who are still fairly close to the classic hunter-gatherer lifestyle, both exist on all-animal high-fat diets, yet have very low rates of the diseases red meat is blamed for. It's not just some fluke of genetics, either: Almost a century ago, a scientific study found that two ordinary men who lived on an all-meat diet for an entire year were in good health and completely lacking in horror diseases.
It appears that the problem with all of the studies about the horrors of red meat is that they don't distinguish between processed and unprocessed meats. According to a massive Harvard study, this seemingly insignificant difference is the entire reason behind red meat's bad rap.
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Processed meats -- and we mean stuff that has been prepared to last way longer in the package than fresh meat from the butcher, such as hot dogs, sausage, bacon, ham, smoked meats, and the stuff you find in many frozen meals and fast food -- have all kinds of salt and various additives in them. They contain four times more sodium than ordinary red meat, and that's the killer. Those additives account for the link with both coronary heart disease and cardiovascular problems. The high amounts of nitrates, nitrites, and carcinogenic nitrosamines take care of the rest of the list, up to and including obesity -- another ailment red meat is often blamed for.
In short: Red meat doesn't kill you. Processed meat kills you.
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redavni wrote:CMS/Project management apps like Basecamp are good options. I'd recommend you look into CRM solutions too. Your big hurdle isn't going to be getting an app up and running, it's going to be getting all your users using it correctly, and making it useful to them. I wouldn't get caught up by the word database. Do you really need SQL? What is driving your requirement for a database? Is your office full of Excel junkies (you are doomed)? Who exactly are your users?
If I were you, I'd call Microsoft (dynamics), Intuit, Salesforce.com, Oracle, and anyone other software vendor who you happen to like. See what they say. Calls are free. You can always dial up the TR hivemind and see if the solutions you are pitched make sense.
For what your original post lists, Access will work fine. So would Filemaker. So would Glom.
morphine wrote:The description of this problem makes me think that it's possible that FileMaker is the best fit.
I think everyone's here focusing a little too much on the "database" portion of flip-mode's problem. He needs a good UI and quick delivery of product, not a good database (as much as it pains me to say so heh). At the risk of invoking wrath (my own included), Access might not be a bad idea for this. Just make sure to never have a large volume of data in it.
just brew it! wrote:Anything that isn't based on Access.
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A testosterone test checks the level of this male hormone (androgen) in the blood. Testosterone affects sexual features and development. In men, it is made in large amounts by the testicles . In both men and women, testosterone is made in small amounts by the adrenal glands , and in women, by the ovaries .
The pituitary gland controls the level of testosterone in the body. When the testosterone level is low, the pituitary gland releases a hormone called luteinizing hormone (LH). This hormone tells the testicles to make more testosterone.
Before puberty, the testosterone level in boys is normally low. Testosterone increases during puberty. This causes boys to develop a deeper voice, get bigger muscles, make sperm , and get facial and body hair. The level of testosterone is the highest around age 40, then gradually becomes less in older men.
In women, the ovaries account for half of the testosterone in the body. Women have a much smaller amount of testosterone in their bodies compared to men. But testosterone plays an important role throughout the body in both men and women. It affects the brain, bone and muscle mass, fat distribution, the vascular system, energy levels, genital tissues, and sexual functioning.
Most of the testosterone in the blood is bound to a protein called sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG). Testosterone that is not bound ("free" testosterone) may be checked if a man or a woman is having sexual problems. Free testosterone also may be tested for a person who has a condition that can change SHBG levels, such as hyperthyroidism or some types of kidney diseases.
Total testosterone levels vary throughout the day. They are usually highest in the morning and lowest in the evening.
Why It Is Done
A testosterone test is done to:
- See why a man is having problems in fathering a child (infertility). A low amount of testosterone can lead to low sperm counts.
- Check a man's sexual problems. Having a low level of testosterone may lower a man's sex drive or not allow him to have an erection (erectile dysfunction).
- See whether a high level of testosterone is causing a boy younger than age 10 to have early signs of puberty.
- Find out why a woman is developing male features, such as excessive facial and body hair (hirsutism) and a deep voice.
- Find out why a woman is having irregular menstrual periods.
- See if testosterone-lowering medicines are working in a man with advanced prostate cancer.
- Find the cause of osteoporosis in a man.
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The Bizarre History of 10 Common Sayings
#5. 'By the Short Hairs"
Now Means:
Being in such a strategically advantageous position that you can bend another person to your will. As in, "Once Hannah Montana's lawyers file suit, Disney's really going to have Cracked by the short hairs."
Most say it came from ...
The history behind "By the short hairs" is a strange one as the phrase (as it's used today) really has no history. One day somewhere in the world someone must have thought it would be funny to grab a dude by his pubes and refuse to let go--completely ignoring the poor fellow's yelps for mercy and womanly crying.
The grabber probably then realized that by putting this person in such a painfully precarious position he could then force them to, say, shovel the snow on the side walk, pay a long overdue debt or maybe just scream like a man having his pubes yanked like it was an S&M-themed tractor pull.
So is that true?
No. We made that one up because, as we stated, the reference to pubic hair has no history. When 'By the short hairs' was first coined it was referring to hair a bit north of the proverbial "junk."
The earliest documented usage of the phrase can be found in a novel written by the man that brought us The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling. His short nonfiction story, The Drums of the Fore and Aft had this quote:
"They'll shout and carry on like this for five minutes. Then they'll rush in, and then we've got 'em by the short hairs!"
It's explained elsewhere in the story that the hair being pulled is the hair on the back of the neck.
We know what you're feeling right now: betrayal, bewilderment and utter disappointment. We felt the same way. It's sad to see a phrase that brings to mind the violent pulling of pubes be debunked. But it makes sense, if you're walking around with your hand on some guy's pubes while he shovels your walk, aren't you the loser there?
So the phrase is being misused anyway. It'd make more sense to say, "Yes, we're up by 21 with just two minutes left! We're really making them touch our pubes now!"
#4. "Wrong End of the Stick"
Now Means:
Short end of the stick refers to getting screwed by chance, but wrong end refers to a misunderstanding. As in, "Whoops, I walked into the girl's locker room, and I'm a man. Looks like I got the wrong end of the stick. Or did I?"
(Cue funky bass riff)
Most say it came from ...
As advanced as their sewage systems were, the Romans still had not arrived at the toilet paper stage. In their public toilets, the pooper would rely on a sponge or cloth that was attached to a stick which rested within a bowl that contained a mixture of two-parts salt water and three-parts nightmares.
After a person had finished discussing the days events with their constituents, all while becoming a few pounds lighter, they would request the sponged stick to be passed along to them. If they weren't concentrating on the task, they would end up grabbing the end of the stick that was covered in the shit of 50 other guys. This was considered grabbing the "wrong end of the stick." Yeah, no shit.
So is that true?
This is another idiom whose history is contentious, but as a comedy website you'll have to work hard to talk us out of this one, since it radically changes the classic idea of a Roman bathhouse orgy from a swinging good time to the largest collection of unintentional Dirty Sanchez's ever.
There is, though, another origin that's widely held to be the true one. The origin pertains to walking sticks and accidentally grabbing the dirty, non-handled end, the "wrong end." OK, maybe. But ask yourself: If you somehow had a stick that was clotted with dirt on one end, and with the turds of a dozen Romans on the other, which would truly be the "wrong" end?
#3. "As Pleased as Punch"
Now Means:
To be very happy. As in, "Uncle Bernie is pleased as punch now that he has his cocaine."
Most say it came from ...
Apparently the phrase spawned from an English puppet show that goes all the way back to the 1600s (Punch and Judy) which was written by a chemically imbalanced sociopath, or a 17th century Eli Roth. No two performances of the show were totally alike, but they all usually involved the same events:
1. Punch kills his infant child
2. Punch punches Judy until she dies
3. Punch goes to prison and escapes using a golden key (strangely, he doesn't kill the prison)
4. He then kills doctors, lawyers and a hangman
5. He kills Death, as in, the Grim Reaper
6. Then it all ends spectacularly as he kills the fucking Devil.
So, how does "Pleased as punch" come out of a killing spree perpetuated by a puppet? Well, Punch got a raging murder-boner off it all. That is to say that "Punch" was "Pleased" with killing his wife and baby among other things (read: he was the fucking Devil).
So is that true?
We here at Cracked are pleased as punch (see what we did there?) to inform you that this is, in fact, true. Punch and Judy is generally a summertime show put on for English children who have yet to learn the subtle differences between edutainment and infanticide.
#2. "Dead Ringer"
Now Means:
An exact duplicate. As in, "That stripper's crotch is a dead ringer for your mom's."
Most say it came from ...
This origin holds that a "Dead Ringer" was a person that was prematurely buried and is supplied with a rope attached to a bell with which to draw attention to the not-so-dead guy in the totally-for-dead-people box.
Through some research we found that such a practice never actually existed, although there were instances of people being buried alive and there is actually a patent held for such a life saving device.
So why in the world would that term come to mean "exact duplicate?" Probably because it's bullshit.
So is that true?
No, sadly, it has to do with race horses.
Towards the end of the 19th century, race horse owners began to devise ways to fool bookies who would try to scope out the horses before a race. The trick was you brought two similar horses, one fast and one slow. The owners would run the slower horse around for all to see, thus driving up the odds against it. They have a friend place some bets, then at race time, whip out the fast horse.
So it was a "ringer" (slang for an illicit competitor in a sports event) and "dead" in that was dead-on, or identical.
Man, that's a bigger letdown than the short hairs thing. How about if we say the "dead ringer" horse was also a zombie?
#1. "Nitty-Gritty"
Now Means:
The heart of the matter. As in, "Let's get down to the nitty-gritty, home skillet."
Most say it came from ...
Nitty-Gritty has two popular origins, both of which may make you feel like a sack of shit for ever using the term.
The first popular belief holds that the term originated from British slave ships and references the loose debris that would fill the bottom of these ships. Some go as far as to say that the term actually referenced the slaves themselves.
A second origin pertains to, yep, you guessed it, pubic lice (nit) and dried fecal reminisce on ass hair (grit).
So is that true?
Once more, no one can say which is true, if either of them. But, whether it's the tiny bugs on your tallywhacker or the horrors of slave ships, either way we really never want to hear grandma use it again.
Nitty-gritty commonly gets paired with "picnic" (which was said to have been a reference to lynching) in the realm of seemingly benign words that have full-blown (and probably incorrect) racist origins. Both racially charged stories are completely unfounded and have no concrete histories other then the folk tales that get passed down from screaming Grand Wizard to frightened onlooker.
Yes kids, language is awesome.If you liked that, you'll probably enjoy our look at 9 Words That Don't Mean What You Think. Or, head over to the blog and learn a thing or two about the horrifying origins of comedy. Then, check out some good old fashioned pool hustling (a phrase which got its origin from a 1961 Paul Newman film).


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New Yorker magazine depict Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie as gay couple seeing news on Supreme Court
Artist: DOMA ruling moment to celebrate
A magazine cover on newsstands now might elicit a double-take in more ways than one.
The New Yorker magazine cover depicts the Supreme Court's Defense of Marriage Act decision this week by showing Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie watching TV, with Bert's arm around Ernie and Ernie placing his head on Bert's shoulder.
The image on the television depicts the justices wearing their black robes.
The magazine said on its website that artist Jack Hunter originally made the image, unsolicited, on a Tumblr page.
"It's amazing to witness how attitudes on gay rights have evolved in my lifetime," the magazine quoted Hunter as saying. "This is great for our kids, a moment we can all celebrate."
The nature of Bert and Ernie's relationship has long been a controversial subject.
In response to a 2011 online petition that asked show creators to have Bert and Ernie marry, Sesame workshop said the two are "best friends."
"They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves," read a 2011 statement from Sesame Workshop. "Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation."
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As the question indicates we are supposed to find the modulus of z-1.
When trying to solve the problem I drew a diagram which you can see below:
The book I am working in solved a similar problem when showing examples, however the question was for $|z+1|$. There they proved that the modulus is given by $2\cos {\theta \over 2}$. In the case of $z-1$ though the shape is not a rhombus (which it is when you construct the diagram for $|z+1|$). As a result the diagonals are not perpendicular. The book however states that $|z-1|=2\sin {\theta \over 2}$
Proof that $|z+1|=2\cos {\theta \over 2}$
Using the diagram above one can see that $|z+1|=2\cos {\theta \over 2}$ as the length from the origin to the intersection of the diagonals is given by $\cos {\theta \over 2}$. Now, to get the length of the whole diagonal just multiply that by 2.
Does anyone know whether the book is right and I am missing something or if the answer is in fact different (in which case the correct answer would be appreciated).


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Sought by Authorities: Dec. 9, 2012
Published: Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 12:22 a.m.
NAME: Joseph Charles "Baby Joe" Wade.
DATE OF BIRTH: July 11, 1975.
CHARGE: Two counts aggravated assault with a firearm, second-degree battery, two counts felony carrying an illegal weapon, two counts illegal use of a weapon.
AGENCY: Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office.
LAST ADDRESS: 1108 Goode St., Houma
STILL AT LARGE: Tate Paul Allemand, Byron Gerard Brown, Joshua Leo Brown, Lakeishawn Monique Bolden, Fabian Dion Byrd Jr., Stephen Patrick Callahan, Jamie Howard Davis, Christopher Lawrence Diggs, Isaias Alvarran Escobar, Rosella Angela Foret, Resendiz Jose Francisco, Randy Joseph Gorley, Damien Jermaine Jackson, Tamila Ann Jenkins, Wilma Jeannie Lindsey, Trent Terrell Lyons, C.J. Mart, Matthew Basin Mitchell, Dirk Ion Mousseau, Peter Long Nguyen, Tyron Anthony Rainey, Kristen Wallace Rios, James Earl Samuels, Byron Charles Shelby, Paul Kenneth Smith Jr., Anthony Chaddrick Taylor and Kedar Aska Wallis.
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Home > Food > Recipes > Chicken Satay
Chicken Satay
Categories: Finger Foods, Party Snacks, Snacks
Type: Appetizers and Snacks
Type: Appetizers and Snacks
The authentic version is made with Indonesian soy sauce, kecap manis, but Chinese or Japanese soy sauce can also be used
Prep Time: 20M, plus marinating
Cooking Time: 5M, approx.
Serves: makes 6 servings
- 3 boneless and skinless chicken breasts
- 2 tbsp kecap manis (available at Asian grocers) or soy sauce
- 4 tsp light or dark brown sugar
- 1 tbsp fresh lime juice
- 3/4 in ( 2cm) piece fresh ginger, peeled and shredded
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 2 tsp ground coriander
- 1 tsp minced lemongrass
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- vegetable oil
For the satay sauce
- 1 cup ( 250g) smooth or chunky peanut butter
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 3/4 cup well shaken coconut milk
- 1 tbsp soy sauce, preferably dark
- 1 tbsp dark brown sugar
- 1/2 in ( 1cm) piece fresh ginger, peeled and shredded
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
- salt and freshly ground pepper
- lime wedges, for serving
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- Cut the chicken into thin strips across the grain of the meat. Spread the strips out in a shallow, nonmetallic dish.
- In a small bowl, mix kecap manis, brown sugar, lime juice, ginger, garlic, coriander, lemongrass, cumin, salt, and 2 tsp vegetable oil. Pour over the chicken and toss to coat. Cover the dish with plastic wrap and marinate in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours.
- To make the satay sauce, put the peanut butter with half of the garlic in a small saucepan and cook over low heat for 2 minutes. Add the coconut milk, soy sauce, brown sugar, and ginger, and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes, or until heated through.
- Add the lemon juice and remaining garlic, and season to taste with cayenne pepper, salt, and pepper. Let the sauce cool, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate.
- When ready to cook, thread the chicken on soaked and drained wooden skewers. In a pan over low heat, reheat the satay sauce, stirring frequently.
- Brush the chicken with oil and broil or grill on an outdoor grill for 5 minutes, turning over once or twice, until the chicken is opaque throughout. Garnish with lime wedges and serve hot with satay sauce.
- soak wooden skewers in cold water for at least 1 hour to prevent them burning under the grill
- wooden or thin metal skewers
- Prepare ahead: The marinating chicken and the sauce can be refrigerated for up to 1 day.
Beef Satay: 1lb 20oz (500g) beef, trimmed of any extra fat and cut into strips, then used in the recipe above, make a delicious alternative to chicken.
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I'm fresher for ubuntu 12.04.., I just created a simple program called login.php and i would like to run this prog from anther PC that not in my LAN. I had localhost in my system., I'm using apache2.0 and php5. My program is located at var/www/login.php
When ever i'm trying to open it from others PC(not in my network) using IP it shoes OOPS.,
What can i do to open my page from another PC using IP address.
One thing i need to say, i.e., I already run my program in other systems those in my LAN., by using my IP like 192.168.xx.xx/login.php ., It works. But my question is what about from another systems that not in my LAN. Simply my requirement is to run my database from others PC through IP.. Is it possible. All of my friends said that it is not possible from outside of the LAN


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Is their any app (Web based, Android, iPhone, anything) which enables a person to manage both - his tasks and his goals, without mixing them up.
At first I used Wunderlist (in your case you could make one list for tasks and another for goals) and it worked nice, you can use the web version on PC or Mac and the app for android/iWhatever (you can also add tasks offline and sync later).
But then i started to follow more strictly the GTD methodology and decided to change to a more specific software, you can try:
With GTD your goals are just projects, and tasks are those to achieve that goals.
For example, look at this screenshot of my doit.im workspace:
As you can see i can separate the tasks by contexts and focus area (This means the tasks I can finish at university are not the same as the ones I can finish at home). At the moment I only have one project (What you call "Goal"). In that project you can see the tasks related to it, but at the same time they may be in Next or Someday. You can also add tags so it's always perfectly organized no matter hoy much tasks you have.
Hope it helps :)
I think I know what you mean. Maybe any.do is what you want. It's a simple todolist app that can help you sort tasks in only 4 simple categories: today / tomorrow / Upcoming / Someday
When you set up a task, you can put it in one of theses, or give it a date, so that it goes immediately in the today, tomorrow or upcoming category.
Now the Someday category is different: nothing goes there unless you put it in. That's maybe where you could put your goals.
If it makes it any more interesting, it integrates well with Gmail, works in chrome and on phone.
I use a more-or-less manual GTD process with Outlook, but it would fine with almost any task app, nothing special required.
Instead of special names for tasks, I use Outlook's "category" feature. Most common to-do software has a similar function.
As per GTD, I have a Projects category that I use for longer-term things, and various other space or time-based actions lists like @Calls for phone calls to make and @Computer for things to do in front of my computer (which admittedly is much of my work).
One key difference perhaps in GTD from what you describe, is that a goal in your example would generate tasks to do. Because you cannot "do" a goal itself, but merely things that get you towards finishing it.
Good Luck
http://weekplan.net is an online weekly planner that focuses on helping people keep their goals in mind when managing their daily tasks.
You have a place for long term goals, weekly goals, and you have a place where you can create list of tasks (a list can be a project, a goal, etc...)


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HTMLEditor: convert HTML to text and vice versa
I've got an HTMLEditor and I need:
1. to save data in text format by setValue() function (without tags HTML and the tag <br> must be converted in #13)
2. read the text data by getValue() function and transform the text in HTML
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you can use regex to replace the html tag like this.
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Who has not seen, read or knows about the Old Farmers Almanac? It is in its 221st year, starting in 1792. Can you believe it? A small book that is published just once a year is still popular.
The Almanac is about time and timeliness and stills fits well into the 21st century, according to Robb Sagendorph, its 11th editor. It is always about the following year.
For those interested in predictions for the coming year, keep reading.
The year 2013 at a glance tells that consumers are starting to become confident. Spending on autos, travel, luxury and even a little housing, and the spending should be strong.
Americans spend an average of $1,276 a year on travel and an average of $36 is spent each day of extra household money, it is noted.
According to the book, ranch houses are making a return from the mid-century modern style of the mid-1950s and early 1960s.
In the way of foods, Americans are favoring blueberries, grapes, brambles and strawberries. They like nutrient-dense purple or red carrots, cabbage, Brussels sprouts and orange cauliflower, kicking up the color on the plate but still getting all the needed nutrients.
Regarding work, 2.8 percent of Americans walk to work, spend an average of 25.3 minutes in getting to work and there are 100,000 children who will be home schooled without classes, textbooks or tests. I need to know more about this knowledge called "unschooling."
The almanac tells about guys taking dressing for the office more seriously in an effort to maintain a level of job security. They are favoring soft, unconstructed blazers for weekend wear, braided belts and penny loafers and comfortable classics such as ski sweaters and grandpa cardigans again.
Women will be more prone to dresses of a silky fabric made from sour milk, stiffened jackets and capelets with pleated ruffles and short jackets in shiny satin fabrics, paisley scarves, and the colors of lilac, yellow, pink, blue and shades of brown will be popular.
Readers are told to buy classic comic books printed in the 1930s and 1940s that are in like-new condition; modern art; rare fungi; and homegrown liquors. Today's toys will be nostalgic for kids of today when they reach age 40.
Tobacco-related items, such as ashtrays, advertising and vintage matchbooks covers, will be great finds as the number of smokers continues to declines. These will then rise in value.
Entertaining will be easier in 2013. There will be more brunches and Sunday supper parties rather than the more demanding Saturday dinners.
The notion of slow food cooking is truly taking a hold. People are celebrating a way of cooking and eating from times past.
Some kitchen tips and time-saving ideas are included in the book sent from thousands of fans on Facebook:
Run frozen peas under hot tap water. Don't cook them. Kids love the way the peas pop in their mouth.
Farmers Almanac is big on gardening, and the 2013 edition offers 25 secrets for a hefty harvest.
One hint is to soak the seeds in warm water with a tiny bit of hydrogen peroxide, 1 teaspoon to 1 quart of water, to encourage germination. Let remain in the water for two hours, then plant.
Another hint is lay a strip of toilet paper down the planting row, sow the seeds on the paper then cover with soil. It is easy to space dark seeds properly on a white background. The paper dissolves quickly into the soil.
Amend established garden beds with slow-release nutrients rather than fast-release fertilizers, which give plants a growth surge but are used up by the time plants need nutrients for vegetable development.
When purchasing transplants, look for small, dark green seedlings without flowers. Cabbage and its cousins, such as broccoli and brussels sprouts, should have only two or three sets of leaves. Tomato, eggplant and pepper transplants should have thick stems and at least four sets of leaves.
When sowing seeds in warm weather, cover them with boards or cardboard for two days to keep them moist. Carrot seeds, especially, benefit from the added moisture.
Scatter coffee grounds, pine needles or coarse sand around leafy vegetables such as salad greens and cabbage. These rough mulches rip up a slug or snail's tender underside. Ear wigs suffer too.
Weather predictions are one of the many reasons farmers buy the Old Farmers Almanac. In its general weather forecast and report, the winter of 2013 will be quite different than that of the previous year. Temperatures are expected to be much colder from the East Coast westward to a line from the Dakotas to Texas. And the summer temperatures will be hotter than normal along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and in the Ohio Valley. Expect fewer tornadoes than in the past couple of years but be ready for hurricanes to threaten first the Gulf and Atlantic coasts in June and then primarily the Southeast, especially Florida, throughout the remainder of the hurricane season.
There will be five eclipses in 2013, two of the sun and three of the moon.
April 25 will have a partial eclipse of the moon but this will not be visible in North America, along Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe and Antarctica.
May 9-10 will bring an annular eclipse of the sun and again will not be visible from North America. A partial eclipse will be visible from Hawaii on May 9 between 2:25 p.m. and 5 p.m. HAST.
Oct. 18 will have a penumbral eclipse of the moon that will be only partially visible from North America, as it will have started before the moon has risen above the horizon.
Nov. 3 will have a total eclipse of the sun, but Eastern North America will see only a short partial solar eclipse after 6 a.m. EST and will end around 7:10 a.m.
I don't know about your "neck of the woods" but our backyard is visited by opossum quite frequently. As a matter of fact, I took Ozzie out after dark in the fall and noticed something moving in a crate of apples we had picked. Without trying to call attention to the furry creature, I tried to get Ozzie back into the house because I knew he would be on the bad end of a confrontation. I have seen those animals fight before.
It was not content with finishing off one or two apples, he or she had to nibble on each and every one on the top layer of the fruit.
It is told they offer the least health risk of any wild animal. Rabies and other viral diseases are rare in opossums, possibly due to their low body temperatures of between 94 to 97.5 degrees. But they are not candidates for pets.
If a opossum temporarily takes up residence in a garage or attic, turn on lights and a radio to hasten its departure, according to the Almanac. Secure potential entry points for it to make its departure and clean up whatever attracted the animal in the first place.
To repel opossums in specific areas, soak a rag in ammonia and stuff it inside a coffee can with a perforated lid. Or spray a mixture of strained, cooked onions and peppers or fox or coyote urine around your property's perimeter.
It is hard to think of banishing an opossum when we remember Walt Kelly's philosophical Pogo possum characters in cartoons from 1941 to 1973. I can remember a quote from one of the cartoons, "We have met the enemy and it is us."
Tim Cybulski and Tim Buchanan need to get the Almanac just to learn the best fishing days and times in the book.
I won't go into all the dates, but it does note that the sun, moon, tides and weather all influence fish activity. Fish tend to feed more at sunrise and sunset and during a full moon, when tides are higher than average.
Some other fishing hints on pulling in the big one are when the breeze is from a westerly quarter rather than from the north or east; when the water is still or rippled rather than during a wind; when the barometer is steady or on the rise. But even during stormy periods, the fish aren't going to give up feeding.
Regarding farming, it is noted that the percentage of farms are declining since 1890 when it was 39.3 percent. In 1940, it was 23.2 percent and in 2007, it was 1 percent.
Of that amount, the percentage that farms part time has jumped from 55 percent in 2002 to 65 percent in 2007.
The number of people in the United States work force employed in agriculture, producing, processing and selling food in 2010 was 21 million, 15 percent of the total.
The average age of farmers has gone up since 1940 when it was 48 years old. In 1987, it was 52 years old and in 2007, it was 57 years old. And the percent of women farmers has gone up from 6.3 in 1987 to 10 percent in 2007.
The land devoted to farms in 1980 was 1.04 billion acres, and in 2010 it is down to 919.9 million acres.
That is my forecasting for the coming year. Don't be mad at me if some of the predictions from the book are wrong.
(McCoy a resident of Smithfield, is food editor and a staff columnist for the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times. She can be contacted at email@example.com.)


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Short links for January 29th, 2008
Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on January 29th, 2008:
- I Eat Beats – Edible music interface – Skittle-based beat sequencer, a tangible and edible music interface. This is a prototype developed over the course of two evenings, with a webcam and Processing
- Web Hot or Not? – Technorati founder David Sifry's Hot or Not for websites. Great market research!
Is it me or is there actually no way to see what a sites rating is?!
- objects in asphalt – Flickr user STR820 has a beautiful photoset of found objects embedded in Brooklyn asphalt.
- Has Hillary Clinton seen the video for the Golden Earring song she plays? – Woops, who chose that song?!


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Join Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre under the stars for a free, open-air performance in beautiful Hartwood Acres. Pack a picnic, grab a blanket, and join us for a summer evening of family fun at the Middle Road Concert Area! Find additional details and a GPS link here.
The Nutcracker is "nothing short of magical" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). Propelled by Tchaikovsky's iconic score, this soaring story captures the awe and expectation of the night before Christmas when a mysterious gift sparks a wondrous adventure. As the colossal tree shoots skyward and snowflakes blanket the stage, the journey glides into a radiant Land of Enchantment brimming with virtuosic dances from faraway lands.
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This article got me thinking, can a planet hold a moon in orbit if it is just floating in the galaxy by itself not as part of a star system? Can a celestial body even qualify as a planet if it is floating around by itself?
The answer is Yes.. Planets that don't orbit around a star are known as Rogue Planets. There is nothing preventing a rogue planet from having one or many moons.
Not so long ago, the first candidate for a free-floating exoplanet-exomoon system was presented in this paper. It looks like a gas giant several times larger than Jupiter with a sub-Earth mass moon.
Another study calculated and simulated scenarios where planets where ejected from their orbits around a star and concluded that around five percent of Earth-sized planets who are accompanied by Moon-sized natural satellites would retain them after the event.


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I am seeking a measure of the "complexity" of a surface $S$, a quantity that reflects how widely the metric varies from spot to spot. I am primarily interested in surfaces topologically equivalent to a sphere in $\mathbb{R}^3$, so measures that rely on the genus are not useful. Ideally the measure would achieve its minimum for a (round) sphere, would be larger but still small for closed convex surfaces, and large for surfaces with steep mountains and plummeting valleys. Ultimately I need to discretize the measure, but I would like to understand what are the alternatives for smooth metrics. I can concoct reasonable ad hoc measures, but I'd prefer to start from a more principled foundation.
From its name, the entropy of a Riemannian manifold sounds like it might be appropriate, but I have only a tenuous grasp of this concept, so it is unclear to me if this aligns with my goals. I've also looked at the systolic ratio and several other geodesic-based concepts, but none seem to capture what I want. I'd appreciate pointers to concepts in this general intellectual neighborhood. Thanks!
Addendum. Thanks for the useful suggestions: normalized surface area, Bregman divergence, Gromov-Hausdorff metric, Willmore energy. My question was too vague to permit a definitive answer, but I'll accept Will Jagy's suggestions on the Willmore energy, which taught me much.


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After a rough season, the Carmi Post 224 legion baseball team fought hard and picked up a pair of wins to start the 24th District tournament. But the team's season came to a close in a 16-6 loss to Carrier Mills on Tuesday.
Garrison Hathaway got the start. He went two thirds of an inning, allowing five unearned runs to cross on a hit with three walks and a strikeout. Jamey Steed came in next. He went three and a third innings and allowed eight runs, two earned on six hits with six walks and two strikeouts. Stanton Hathaway finished up the pitching duties. He went two and a third innings and allowed three runs, two earned on three hits with four walks and two strikeouts.
Brodie Brown and TC Headlee led the team with a pair of hits each, including a double for each.
Trenton Veach, Garrison Hathaway, Dakotah Jolley and Headlee all drove in a run each in the game and Veach, Brown, Garrison Hathaway, Clint Rawlinson, Stanton Hathaway and Headlee all scored a run in the game.
The game ends the legion play for Veach, Rawlinson and Travis Thompson due to age requirements.
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Joyce Marion Wisner, 88 of Grand Rapids, formerly of Lowell and Saranac, passed away Monday, Oct. 8, 2012.
She is survived by her children, Douglas Wisner of Lowell, and Janet (Gary) Harden of Lowell; grandchildren, Daniel Harden (Melinda Lewis), Timothy (Jamie) Harden, Steven Harden (Laurinda Horsley), Mark Harden; great grandsons, Jason and Kenneth Harden; sisters-in-law, Marian Wisner, Lucille (Loren) Brunsick, Frances Pelon.
A private burial has taken place at OakwoodCemetery, Lowell. Memorial contributions may be made to Faith Hospice, 2100 Raybrook S.E., Ste. 300, Grand Rapids, MI 49546.
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In a desperate bid to get more PlayBooks into users' hands, Research In Motion (RIM) has cut price of its tablet range, and extended the sale of the tablets till February.
Blackberry PlayBooks bought from the online store are going to be priced at $299, irrespective of storage capacity. What this means is that whether you go for the 32 GB version or the 64GB one, the price is going to be the same.
PlayBooks a hard sell
Ever since their introduction, the PlayBooks have not really been doing too well in the market.
With a strong domination of Apple with its iPads in the market, other players have been finding it hard to get a strong foothold.
Even giants like Samsung and Amazon have been vying for the attention of consumers, with the Galaxy Tabs and Kindle Fire.
A recent survey had revealed that up to 40 percent of tablet owners are ready to switch their tablets for an iPad.
With a fire sale, RIM wants to get as many PlayBooks as it can into the hands of consumers.
It seems to be quite clear that RIM's ambitious venture into the world of tablets has been quite disastrous. At a price of $299, RIM is selling its tablets at around 60 percent of the original price.
With such a massive knockdown in prices, it might be that RIM is selling the tablets at a significant loss or perhaps reducing its margins to get rid of all that stock of unsold PlayBooks.
Tough times for RIM
Apart from its unsuccessful foray into tablets, RIM has been going through a hard time. Stock prices of the company have fallen to almost one-quarter of what they were back in 2010. If rumors are anything to go buy, RIM is even on the verge of replacing its chairman.
With a fire sale, RIM wants to get as many PlayBooks as it can into the hands of consumers. The more consumers own PlayBooks, the better it is for RIM, even if it means selling the tablets at a loss.
If more and more consumers buy PlayBooks, RIM could then coax software developers to build applications for its platform.


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He has started feeling the heat of the chill.
Is the above sentence correct grammatically and does it make some sense? We know that the word "heat" can be used in the following ways - "..... in the heat of the moment" or "... feeling the heat".
So is such a sentence, trying to emphasize the cold weather, correct?


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Working with UNIX isn't that complicated, but it does mean getting familiar with a whole new set of commands and ways of doing things. Here are some general tips when working in UNIX:
Log in before you use UNIX. Remember your user name and password.
When you see a prompt (usually $ or %), you can type a UNIX command.
To back up and correct typos, try pressing Backspace, Delete, # (Shift+3), or Ctrl-H.
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To log out, type exit.
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If you forget where you are, how you logged in, and for other lost-and-found tips, use these:
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Now fast forward just a few short months and here comes more good news. Today at Oracle OpenWorld 2013, it was announced that Oracle software including Java, Oracle Database, and Oracle WebLogic Server is now available for preview in Windows Azure. During his partner keynote presentation, Brad Anderson, Microsoft's Corporate VP of Cloud and Enterprise Engineering, discussed the benefits of being able to deploy and run Oracle's mission critical software on a Microsoft-based public, private, or hybrid cloud. There was even a demo of how easy it was to deploy Oracle software using pre-configured images from the Windows Azure image gallery. The full list of available Oracle software images is available here.


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In Binding of Isaac, the earlier levels have blue rocks that when bombed yield usable items and/or chests. In the womb, the rocks are red and I haven't seen any that stand out from the rest. Is there a blue rock equivalent in the Womb that when bombed will give the player items?
The X rocks do exist in the womb. The trouble is they look identical to all other rocks, there is no x to define them, or even a different shade of colour. The only way to tell that you even found one is by watching the items pop out of it when it's destroyed.
You're not going to find them reliably, and unless you have more bombs than you can count (like from getting the skeleton key and then the Bombs are keys pill), you're not exactly going to blow up every rock in the room.
In the womb, you're most often going to find the rocks by accident, when trying to damage an enemy, or get to some other treasure that's blocked off by rocks.
These are actually called X rocks. They're in the Womb too, but harder to notice. You're looknig for the darker tone and the X-marks-the-spot mark.
Normal ones look like this (from the wiki):
The womb ones look different obviously...can't find any pictures though, has anyone else? People on the Wiki have expressed their difficulty finding them and I've never found/noticed one myself.
You can find "X rocks", just look to lower-left side of all rocks, they have little line. It's not easy to find it in the first time you look at it, you will notice it after a few seconds


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I like Big Ten OL, LB and DL for some reason. Not a fan of Big Ten RB's.
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I like Big Ten OL, LB and DL for some reason. Not a fan of Big Ten RB's.
Actually, I wouldn't get too carried away suggesting that SEC players make better picks across the board. Yes, a lot of stars come out of the SEC, but look at the hit rate for late round SEC vs. late round Sun Belt:Quote:
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The sample size is smaller for the Sun Belt; but just eyeballing the lists it looks like diamonds in the rough are easier to spot in the Sun Belt (there just happen to be fewer of them).
Interesting thought.
But look at an SEC DL.
You have 3-4 studs across that DL. But which 1 is stealing from the next guy.
Always reminds me of Hampton and SRodgers at tu. Rodgers was stealing from Hampton the whole time. He was lazy and Hampton busted his butt. Rodgers is still lazy, yet people still pay him.
Beware to get the lazy partner in a talented duo.
Its a tough proposition either way. Talented kid in a weak conference or talented kid getting lots of help in the SEC.
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It may be easier to identify the talent in another conference where one guy is head and shoulders above everyone else.
But when there's a bunch of good players, it may be more difficult to identify which are the lazy one or the one who isn't fully pulling their weight that some other stud might be covering up.
So maybe you're better off staying away from the SEC :)
Didn't the Chefs spend two high 1st round picks on underperforming LSU DEs?
On defense, their stars are Hali (Big 10) and Johnson (Big 12).
You mean not draft guys like Woodley and Heyward...guys from the Big Ten?
Steelers draft mantra under Colbert is to draft "Big Production, Big College Program" players early, be it SEC, PAC-10, Big-10 etc.
So long as the player is productive & from a good level of competition, they are on the radar.
Only in later rounds do they seem to waver from that plan.


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From: Andrew Friedley (afriedle_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-29 13:05:03
OK, I've never used totalview before. So doing some FAQ reading I got
an xterm on an Atlas node (odin doesn't have totalview AFAIK). Trying a
simple netpipe run just to get familiar with things results in this:
$ mpirun -debug -np 2 -bynode -debug-daemons ./NPmpi
Internal error -- the orte_base_user_debugger MCA parameter was not able to
be found. Please contact the Open RTE developers; this should not
Grepping for that param in ompi_info shows:
MCA orte: parameter "orte_base_user_debugger" (current value:
"totalview @mpirun@ -a @mpirun_args@ : ddt -n @np@
-start @executable@ @executable_argv@ @single_app@ :
fxp @mpirun@ -a @mpirun_args@")
What's going on? I also tried running totalview directly, using a line
like this:
totalview mpirun -a -np 2 -bynode -debug-daemons ./NPmpi
Totalview comes up and seems to be running debugging the mpirun process,
with only one thread. Doesn't seem to be aware that this is an MPI job
with other MPI processes.. any ideas?
George Bosilca wrote:
> The first step will be to figure out which version of the alltoall
> you're using. I suppose you use the default parameters, and then the
> decision function in the tuned component say it is using the linear
> all to all. As the name state it, this means that every node will
> post one receive from any other node and then will start sending to
> every other node the respective fragment. This will lead to a lot of
> outstanding sends and receives. I doubt that the receive can cause a
> problem, so I expect the problem is coming from the send side.
> Do you have TotalView installed on your odin ? If yes there is a
> simple way to see how many sends are pending and where ... That might
> pinpoint [at least] the process where you should look to see what'
> wrong.
> george.
> On Aug 29, 2007, at 12:37 AM, Andrew Friedley wrote:
>> I'm having a problem with the UD BTL and hoping someone might have
>> some
>> input to help solve it.
>> What I'm seeing is hangs when running alltoall benchmarks with
>> nbcbench
>> or an LLNL program called mpiBench -- both hang exactly the same way.
>> With the code on the trunk running nbcbench on IU's odin using 32
>> nodes
>> and a command line like this:
>> mpirun -np 128 -mca btl ofud,self ./nbcbench -t MPI_Alltoall -p
>> 128-128
>> -s 1-262144
>> hangs consistently when testing 256-byte messages. There are two
>> things
>> I can do to make the hang go away until running at larger scale.
>> First
>> is to increase the 'btl_ofud_sd_num' MCA param from its default
>> value of
>> 128. This allows you to run with more procs/nodes before hitting the
>> hang, but AFAICT doesn't fix the actual problem. What this parameter
>> does is control the maximum number of outstanding send WQEs posted at
>> the IB level -- when the limit is reached, frags are queued on an
>> opal_list_t and later sent by progress as IB sends complete.
>> The other way I've found is to play games with calling
>> mca_btl_ud_component_progress() in mca_btl_ud_endpoint_post_send
>> (). In
>> fact I replaced the CHECK_FRAG_QUEUES() macro used around
>> btl_ofud_endpoint.c:77 with a version that loops on progress until a
>> send WQE slot is available (as opposed to queueing). Same result -- I
>> can run at larger scale, but still hit the hang eventually.
>> It appears that when the job hangs, progress is being polled very
>> quickly, and after spinning for a while there are no outstanding send
>> WQEs or queued sends in the BTL. I'm not sure where further up things
>> are spinning/blocking, as I can't produce the hang at less than 32
>> nodes
>> / 128 procs and don't have a good way of debugging that (suggestions
>> appreciated).
>> Furthermore, both ob1 and dr PMLs result in the same behavior, except
>> that DR eventually trips a watchdog timeout, fails the BTL, and
>> terminates the job.
>> Other collectives such as allreduce and allgather do not hang -- only
>> alltoall. I can also reproduce the hang on LLNL's Atlas machine.
>> Can anyone else reproduce this (Torsten might have to make a copy of
>> nbcbench available)? Anyone have any ideas as to what's wrong?
>> Andrew
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6 Mental Illness Myths Hollywood Wants You to Believe
#3. Having a Mental Illness is a lot Like Being a Superhero
Hollywood, appealing to our innate sense of fairness, has long suggested that for every faculty taken away by mental illness (reason, rationale, bowel control), there is at least one super power left behind as compensation.
For example, he lost his sight but gained the ability to narrowly avoid marrying Jennifer Lopez.
Laboring under the idea that mental institutions and halfway houses across the world are actually the secret headquarters for The Socially Incapable Justice League, movies have given us dysfunctional people that can outwit impossible prisons (Cube); developmentally disabled man-boys that can transform into super-powered aliens (Dreamcatcher); autistic kids who can crack top secret government codes (Mercury Rising); and, of course, autistic men who are awesome at blackjack (Rain Man).
Rain Man is also awesome at juice boxes.
Why It's Bullshit:
There are people called savants that are able to retain vast amounts of information, usually involving numbers but not always, and perform mental feats that most people can only dream of, but only about 10 percent of people with a mental disorder are anything close to what could be called a savant. Savants without a mental handicap are uncommon (probably because there are way more normal people than mentally disabled people), but the point is you don't have to suffer from a mental deficiency or a crippling psychosis to clean up at the blackjack table. And, in fact, that probably makes it way harder.
In real life, autism is a highly variable neurological disorder that impairs social functioning and communication, leaving those that suffer from it struggling to lead a normal, fulfilling life. In the movies, autism means little more than being really good at math, dressing like a nerd and having to put up with Tom Cruise and Bruce Willis (which might be a super power, but there's no conclusive proof). And as far as our research can tell, no mentally handicapped person has ever turned into an alien.
#2. The Charming and Witty Psychopath
In Hollywood, nobody has more fun than a murdering lunatic. Whether you're the Joker, Hannibal Lecter, the Sheriff of Nottingham or Scar from The Lion King, you're typically the most erudite, charming and interesting person in the room.
"I have the best lines in this movie."
Moviemakers love the idea of a sociopath brutally murdering people one minute and making hilarious observational comments the next, so it comes as no surprise that these characters are often times the most endearing people in the entire damn film. They even went so far as to essentially turn Hannibal into a Batman-like vigilante in Hannibal Rising, fully embracing the fact that every audience was going to root for him anyway.
Really, it's hard to be against someone that ate Ray Liotta's brain.
Then, Showtime took the next logical step and cast a sociopath as the hero in Dexter.
Why It's Bullshit:
First, in movies the terms "psychotic" and "sociopath" are traded more often than genital infections at Flava Flav's house. But psychotic behavior is when someone attacks the mayor because Satan appeared on a box of Crunch Berries and told them to do it. Sociopathic behavior is when someone lies, doesn't feel bad about it and can't understand why anyone else would.
People who suffer from anti-social personality disorder (the closest thing in real life to a Hollywood "sociopath") almost always come from backgrounds where they're barely given enough to eat, let alone a well-rounded cultural education. Generally speaking, they aren't charming, aren't educated, aren't even particularly bright and couldn't come up with a devious scheme to save their boring ass lives. Most of them aren't even violent.
And it's actually pretty hard to rise to the top of your field if you have the typical sociopath's problems relating to other human beings. Yes, even in politics. So while Hannibal Lecter is a world-class sophisticate, a brilliant doctor and the epitome of old world charm and grace, the average real world sociopath is an isolated failure that spends his lunch breaks from Pizza Hut scribbling obscenities on the condom machine in the bathroom at the Shell station.
#1. "I have amnesia! I just need to get my memories back!"
Hollywood loves itself some good old-fashioned amnesia. Any time your central mystery could be solved with a phone call or two, give your hero amnesia and boom, you've just filled two hours. Hollywood has been using this plot device since 19 freaking 15. At least 10 films in the silent movie era were about people with amnesia, and they haven't let up since.
Back in the day it was the old-fashioned kind of amnesia, as seen in soap operas and numerous wacky comedies. In these cases, a blunt force head trauma erases the main character's memory, and often another skull-crushing blow will set things right again (seen as recently as the Dana Carvey movie Clean Slate which, ironically, you almost certainly don't remember). Amnesia is also a job requirement for high-end assassins (see The Long Kiss Goodnight and the Bourne movies).
There's a cheesy, almost Three Stooges quality to this one so you probably always knew it was bullshit. But even if it's not caused by a bonk on the head or a secret agency wiping your memories, there still has to be some truth to it, right?
Why It's Bullshit:
In reality, it's more like Momento than Bourne.
Pretty much every other film that deals with amnesia picks and chooses what symptoms work best for their plotline from a myriad of actual cases to form a Frankenstein of medical inaccuracy. The causes of the disorder in the real world are strokes, heart attacks and infections, not hits to the head. And the result isn't a brain that hides every memory behind a curtain until the day you find the secret files on a government assassin database that brings it all rushing back.
Oh shit. I'm totally bad ass.
No, real amnesia is much more horrifying. The victims usually can't form new memories, so while their personality is intact and long-term memories are there, they are continually having the reset button punched at random.
Yes, one of the most realistic depictions of amnesia was Dory the fish in Finding Nemo.
"Hey kids, my suffering is scientifically accurate!"
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