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Jack, LMAO
found this video tonight, kind of funny
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Jack, LMAO
Spartan King Leonidas to the Persians in response to 'Lay down your arms.'
LOVE THE EARS! Too bad he can't hear what his 'subjects' are saying about him. LMFAO
"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." -Thomas Jefferson
I don't like him.
SOON-We already lost the war. You are the resistance.
Nice, thanks Jack!
I have a daughter. I tell her, "911 is what you dial after you're raped. 1911 is what you should have before they try."
I missed that one, thanks for posting
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem" Ronald Reagan
He can probably remove used kotex with his teeth too...
He'd look a whole hell of a lot better in Kenya, the son of a bitch!! Commander In Chief my rosey red ass!!!
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New York University, one of the foremost private, global research institutions in the United States, is primarily located in the heart of downtown Manhattan. The Global Network University model has emerged as a natural and logical extension of NYU's research and teaching agendas; flowing from our eco-systemic relation to New York City, the diversity of thought represented by all of our schools, colleges, and programs—and our internationally connected and collaborative faculty. Students and faculty interact with their urban environment in countless meaningful and essential ways, using these locations as a major asset.
The world is globalized, and it is imperative that the universities participate in this reality. To do this, universities of the 21st century must educate and inspire world citizens who can cross intellectual, ideological, and physical boundaries. Universities can do so by creating learning communities that generate the new understandings and innovations that will foster sustainability and unification in our complex, interdependent world.
Founded in one of the great cosmopolitan cities of the world, New York University embodies the significance of place and the potential unleashed through student and faculty interconnection with our dynamic, urban surroundings. NYU draws energy from the community's willingness to engage with all of the differences, complexities, and questions that this urban existence produces. NYU sees itself as very much "in and of the city." Its mission also is premised on an understanding that in the 21st century that identity carries the imperative to also become a university that is "in and of the world."

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FORT RILEY, Kan. -- Picerne Military Housing, a division of Corvias Group, a privately-owned, vertically-integrated real estate solutions group, today announced the completion and opening of the new LTG Richard J. Seitz Elementary School at Fort Riley. Originally projected to take 18 months to complete, the project was completed ahead of schedule and under budget, allowing students to start their 2012-2013 school year in the new school.
The on-base school, which will ease overcrowding at schools on the military installation, marks the completion of another project by Corvias Group outside of family housing. The LTG Richard J. Seitz Elementary School includes kindergarten through fifth grade students, whose parents are active-duty members of the military. The Department of Defense gave $30.9 million to fund the construction of the new school and the renovation of Ware Elementary School, which also reopened today.
"We are very excited to have completed this project for Fort Riley. It is another great example of the wide range of our capabilities to deliver innovative solutions to all of our clients, including the military said Corvias Group President and CEO, John Picerne. "This project aligns with our business strategy and also our mission to put families first and make a difference in the lives of our service members."
The school is eligible to be a LEED Silver certified green energy building and will meet all of the anti-terrorism and force protection design components required by Fort Riley. Some of the LEED elements the school meets include: a parking lot with 25 percent fewer spots to encourage walking, biking and carpooling; using construction materials that have a minimum of ten percent recycled content; a white reflective roof to decrease air conditioning; and the ability to collect rain water in underground tanks for reuse. The school is also within walking distance for 80 percent of the student body.
"Using the Residential Communities Initiative authority to help build this school was a creative solution to the overcrowding issues that have been a concern to our families here at Fort Riley," said Col. William Clark, Garrison Commander of Fort Riley. "The LTG Richard J. Seitz Elementary School will be enormously beneficial to the installation."


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For example, I have OpenJDK 6 and 7 both installed. If I run javac foo.java will is compile my program as a Java 6 program or a Java 7 program?
Debian-based distributions have so-called "alternatives" system, which allows to have more than one program installed which perform the same function (this also includes different versions of the same program, like Java 6 and Java 7). As @user15936 points out, the system works by manipulating symlinks, so "javac" can point to the executable either from OpenJDK 6 or from OpenJDK 7
The command to manipulate the above mentioned symlinks (the process is in fact more complex than that as it includes some configuration, for example manpages change too etc.) - is called
To directly answer your question, another way to determine which javac executable will be invoked is by doing
The answer is whichever is linked to
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The agreement enables both Technip and Shell Cansolv to offer a full chain of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for post-combustion CO2 capture projects.
Shell Cansolv and Technip plan to leverage their expertise
to market an end-to-end solution for carbon capture and sequestration
(CCS) projects, the companies announced on Monday.
The agreement enables both Technip and Shell Cansolv to offer a
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Xerneas and Yveltal should get abilities that protect them from getting hit by a moves indirect damage, be protected from moves that don't do damage, AND be protected from stat-reduction moves. So that'd be a combo of Shield Dust, Magic Guard, and Clear Body.
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So what kind of mechanic can Xerneas and Yveltal have an ability to alter that isn't OP and not already used?
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If one has high Attack and Sp. Attack stats, and the other has high Defence and Sp. Defence stats, then they could have abilities that double any stat changes to those stats respectively.
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However, I'd still like to see a Minotaur Legendary whether or not this generation points much to Greek mythos.
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Actually, if Gen 7 is Greece, I'd like a Eros/Cupid Pokemon right now, just as a little throw to (like the Swords of Justice!)
And I'd like a little squirrel. It'd be adorable! Maybe the pixie?
I'm just not seeing Greek legendaries now, but GameFreak doesn't always have to stay on one culture for their source of inspiration. Kamis and Taoist concepts aren't really Manhattan or New Jersey culture if you ask me.
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Just a thought I had and thought I should share, xerneas-psychic/steel, yveltal-dark/flying? Third could be something like a ghost/fighting type? As the two cover monsters are being strongly associated with Norse myth, a ghost/fighting type could be a near humanoid undead spirit warrior? Just an idea!
Well, they're using Japanese Robins and Frilled Lizards in France, so the Greek dex could be from anywhere!
But if they limit it to like 25-30 Legends? Sounds like a lot? Remember, Greek Mythology has 15 Major Gods (12 Olympians, Hestia, Hades and Persephone) and tons of creatures (Cerberus, Gorgons, Arachne) so it'd be an appropriate number.
I hope there's a Fear Trio! (In Kalos!)
Three fear related types, as well as the fact Poison can be seen as an evil type. (Being poisoned, e.t.c) Poison needs legends ;P
So, does anyone want another multi-trio master?
By the way, I'm not sure if you guys have seen it (basically because I posted in the Dex speculation thread, which I now realize was wrong thread), but I developed a way to guess what the final Pokémon in this gen's Dex will be like. Look at the previous gens and their themes.
-Gen. I: Themed about nature and genetics. The final Pokémon: Mew, the ancestor of all Pokémon, and Mewtwo, Mew's clone. In this case, I think both count because Mew was added at the last minute.
-Gen. II is about tradition. The final Pokémon is Celebi, a time traveler, thus... being able to go back to traditional times? Could also be because it's a sequel to Gen. I, and "time passes" between them.
-Gen. III is about the Earth; Teams Magma and Aqua are trying to have their say on how the world should be like. The final Pokémon: Deoxys, an alien.
-Gen. IV is themed on the universe, as the legendaries represent space, time, and anti-matter. The final Pokémon: Arceus, creator of Universe.
-Gen. V is about the relationship between humans and Pokémon. The final Pokémon: Genesect, a revived fossil Pokémon who was modified by a human.
If everything I stated is correct, once we find out the theme of the gen, we can try to figure out how the final Pokémon will be, and since the 3DS has DLC, I believe this gen's secret legendaries will be DLC to prevent early leaks, meaning it will take a while until we find out if any theory is correct.
In the other post, I also joked that the final Pokémon would be "a dimension hopping Yggdrasil capable of altering Pokémon's genes", because of Norse mythology, genetics, and dimensional axis.
Now, another thing. Xerneas is the four stags, Yveltal is the eagle, and the logical inspiration for "Z" would be Níðhöggr. However, besides Xerneas, Yveltal, and "Ziohog", I saw some people mentioning the possibility of a fourth Pokémon based on Ratatoskr. So, "W"?
Now, the names of these games are based on sex chromosomes and dimensional axes. There are four sex chromosomes: X, Y, Z, and W, plus 0, which is used to represent absence of chromosome.
Then in 3D rendering we have X, Y, and Z, plus W, which I heard is used to help rendering 3D. I was trying to find a way to fit "0", but then I remembered the origin. So, this generation has potential for five games, but we have the stags, the eagle, Níðhöggr, and Ratatoskr, what would be the fifth Pokémon?
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Ghost/Poison: Speak No Evil, a Banshee that screeches and lowers Defense upon entering field.
Dark/Poison: See No Evil: crimson golem with nine bloodshot eyes that lowers Sp.Attack upon entering the field.
Bug/Poison: Hear No Evil: similar to Kricketune, it's a black grasshopper-humanoid that uses its legs to create a tune that sounds like roaring and screeching. Lowers Special Defense upon entering the field.
Their master could be something like Feel No Evil (a combo of the three is overrated) and be Steel/Poison and be based on Death Sword from Zelda.
Also I'd like a Chibi Legend that is surprisingly a Poison type. Poison doesn't mean evil, it just involves Chemicals that are harmful to humans. But some living things may benefit from these chemicals, and I'd like a Poison Chibi that creates chemical cures to counter an antagonistic Legendaries detrimental ability or powers.
It could be pink and light orange, and maybe be given a dual type with Friend Guard or some kind of support ability.
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Although I would like to see more abilities like "Intimidate" at the least there should be one for Special Attack..
And as much as I like the idea of a "Side-Trio" I don't think it should be too important throughout the game. I liked the way they did it in Heart-Gold/Soul-Silver, where they mentioned almost nothing of the three birds and let you explore. And as you explored you were rewarded with "Oh wow! I legendary Pokemon, I never knew this was here" instead of "Let's go to X so we can go catch Y" I like the surprise of finding a legendary for the first time and not led to it like in most games.
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I hope that the gen 7 region is based on Africa. Think about it. Africa has many legends to use for legendary pokemon. There are also some really scary legends for darker themes in the game. Plus it land wise it would be pretty good too.Africa has many diverse habitats; savannah, dessert, rainforests, beach coasts. It could be a region that is focused more on nature. There are even modern cities in Africa that game freak can use for inspiration for in-game cities. There could be a desert area based on ancient Egypt and a rainforest area based on the Congo. There has never been a rainforest in the games (Hoenn did have some semi-tropical forests, but I wouldn't call them rainforests). They could even put in some costal areas and maybe even a reef we could use dive to get to. The savannah areas could have lots of grass areas to find different Pokémon. I think Africa would be the perfect place to base a region off of.
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But seriously, I want a Bug legend that isn't Bug/Steel or Related to Genesect. If Fairy is the new type, a Bug/Fairy-Type with Rainbow Wings, which wrap around it to make a chrysalis forme. Has Magic Guard as an ability.
I'd like to see a giant Dark/Bug centipede with a yellow eye and give it Speed Boost or an Attack version of Speed Boost so it's a necessity to kill it!
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Yvetal is based on Wyvern. Wyvern is a dragon. Yvetal is Dragon type pokemon and prehaps a Fight/Fire type pokemon too or a new type.
Xerneas is based on chital. But i think it might be a new type pokemon or a Steel and grass type.
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Yveltal looks very Wyvern-ish, but it seems it is most likely based on a eagle (if going by that norse theory, that I actually know very little of)... To me, though, it looks very little like a Dragon. Looks more like a very scary Volture.
I think it will be Dark/Flying, honestly. And Xerneas Fairy. :3 I love awesome Dragons, but they need to take a rest.
Is apparantly Dragon Type in the Friend Safari. Neat.
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Yveltal does resemble a wyvern a lot, but the shape of its head and beak-like mouth means it could be a bird too. With the neck ruff and body shape, it does looks a lot like a vulture or condor, especially in flight: Andean Condor.jpg. I hope it'll be a Dark/Flying type too .
And if it does end up being a real type, Xerneas will probably be Fairy/Steel, or maybe just a single type. From its appearance it could be a number of different types though.
Hopefully they both have new, unique abilities, and not Pressure like a lot of legendaries end up with |D.
I think the rumor (that was right about many things already) say that Xerneas is pure Fairy, but we'll see soon enough I'm sure. It's legs reminds me or Dialga, so Steel is possible.
Pressure is so overused and boring, so I'm sure they will, like the more recent legendaries, have some cool new ones. ^^
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Do you have (not trivial) examples of a natural phenomenon that illustrates perfectly a mathematical concept, structure, equation or theory ? As suggested by sigoldberg1, I search physical situations in which the underlying mathematics is especially clear. This could be a second separate question: Do you have an example of a natural phenomenon that directly inspired a mathematical theory? do you have pictures ? movies ?
Nautilus Shell (this illustrates Fibonacci?) http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat.html
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University of Pennsylvania announces the renaming of its Comprehensive Cancer Center as the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
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Last Modified: June 24, 2002
Monday, June 24, 2002, Philadelphia - In celebration of the extraordinary generosity and support of Leonard and Madlyn Abramson and their family, the University of Pennsylvania has announced the renaming of its nationally recognized, National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center as the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
The Cancer Center is one of the largest in the country, with 345 members and over $120 million per year in external research grant funding. In 1997, the Abramsons announced a $100 million gift to establish The Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania. "This was the largest such gift to a cancer center at the time and one of the largest donations ever received by the University," added Judith Rodin, PhD, president of the University of Pennsylvania.
"The Abramson's generosity has significantly advanced Penn's quest to unravel the biomedical mysteries of cancer in order to design better treatment options and ultimately find a cure," said Rodin. "With their extraordinary philanthropic vision and personal dedication to help all members of the cancer community, particularly patients and their loved ones, the Abramson commitment has enabled us to realize a new era in cancer treatment and research."
Dr. Rodin referred to the Abramson name as a "beacon of light shining across the world." She stated that this beacon would draw the finest oncology researchers and clinicians to the Abramson Cancer Center, furthering the goals and visions of both the Abramson family and the Cancer Center.
According to Arthur H. Rubenstein, MB, BCh, executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System and dean of the School of Medicine, "The Abramson Institute has become a critically important research and clinical component of the Cancer Center and the University." Major scientific initiatives made possible by the extraordinary Abramson gift include programs in translational research, cancer cell biology, signal transduction, cancer genomics, and biomedical informatics. Currently, the Institute supports 27 Penn researchers and more than 250 personnel.
"We want to recognize the Abramson family and acknowledge the significant research and clinical accomplishments made possible through their magnificent gift," said John H. Glick MD, director of the Abramson Cancer Center. "We decided that the fifth anniversary of the Abramson's gift was the appropriate time to celebrate and thank the Abramsons for making our Cancer Center what it is today. "In addition to making possible numerous scientific accomplishments, the Abramsons have helped to transform the level of clinical cancer care and service excellence at the Cancer Center," added Glick. Abramson-funded patient service coordinators, cancer nutritionists, and psychosocial counselors help patients and their families cope with the physical, emotional, and practical complexities of their care. Comprehensive cancer rehabilitation services and a service excellence training program also contribute to new levels of patient satisfaction. Dr. Glick added that his motto, of treating every patient as if they were your own family member, echoes the sentiments of Madlyn Abramson and her family. These common philosophies have allowed the Abramson funded projects to succeed.
"It is wonderful that the University is recognizing the Abramson family for its strong support of cancer research and treatment," said George Vande Woude, PhD, former scientific director of the National Cancer Institute and Director of the Van Andel Research Institute. "The Abramson family's investment in the Cancer Center has already had a profound effect on the cancer program of the University of Pennsylvania, helping to build a world-class cancer research program and develop new treatments for this disease, which affect one in three Americans."
Throughout its history, the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania has been continuously recognized regionally and nationally for its contributions to patient care, research, professional education, and patient and community outreach. The Abramson Cancer Center is one of only 37 Comprehensive Cancer Centers approved and designated by the NCI. It was among the first cancer centers to receive this prestigious designation, and has continually maintained this status. The Abramson Cancer Center is also ranked fourth in research grant funding from the National Cancer Institute.


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A skin tag is a small flap of tissue that hangs off the skin by a connecting stalk. Skin tags are not dangerous. They are usually found on the neck, chest, back, armpits, under the breasts, or in the groin area. Skin tags appear most often in women, especially with weight gain, and in elderly people.
Skin tags usually don't cause any pain. However, they can become irritated if anything, such as clothing or jewelry, rubs them.
How Are Skin Tags Treated?
Your dermatologist can remove a skin tag by cutting it off with a scalpel or scissors, with cryosurgery (freezing it off), or with electrosurgery (burning it off with an electric current).
Lentigo and Your Skin
A lentigo (plural: lentigines) is a spot on the skin that is darker (usually brown) than the surrounding skin. Lentigines are more common among whites, especially those with fair skin.
What Causes Lentigines?
Exposure to the sun seems to be the major cause of lentigines. Lentigines most often appear on parts of the body that get the most sun, including the face and hands. Some lentigines may be caused by genetics (family history) or by medical procedures such as radiation therapy.
How Are Lentigines Treated?
There are several methods for treating lentigines:
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- Creams that are applied to the skin but doesn't permanently remove lentigines. These include retinoids and bleaching agents.
Can Lentigines Be Prevented?
The best way to prevent lentigines is to stay out of the sun as much as possible, especially between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Use a sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or more when outdoors, and wear protective clothing, such as long-sleeved shirts, pants, and a wide-brimmed hat. Avoid using tanning beds.
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I wonder why my birthday is a blackout day?
Nowhere I would want to go came up to less than $800 round trip for two people.
We are planning a vacation around this.... thanks!
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WEIRTON - Plans are coming together for the 32nd-annual Weirton United Way Golf Classic, set to take place June 10 at Williams Country Club.
The tournament's planning committee met Thursday to continue discussion on the event, including the search for sponsors.
"Right now, we have two platinum sponsors and potentially a third," tournament chair John Kirlangitis said.
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MAKING PLANS — The Weirton United Way is making plans for the annual Weirton United Way Golf Classic, set to take place June 10 at Williams Country Club. As part of the 32nd-annual event, committee members will be selling tickets for its Dream Sports Package Giveaway, which includes tickets for several college and professional sporting events. The United Way also is looking for sponsors for the golf tournament. Helping to organize the event are, from left, tournament chair John Kirlangitis; Brian James, general manager of ArcelorMittal-Weirton, who sold the winning sports package ticket in 2012; and United Way 2013 Campaign Chair Don Gianni Jr. -- Craig Howell
ArcelorMittal Steel and Cross IT Sales and Solutions have both returned as platinum sponsors for the golf event - the Weirton United Way's biggest fundraiser of the year.
Platinum sponsorships are available for $5,000, with gold sponsors at $2,700, and silver sponsorships at $1,700. There also are $500, $200 and $100 sponsorship levels available.
The committee also is selling tickets for its Dream Sports Package giveaway drawing, the winner of which will receive tickets for several college and professional sporting events.
The drawing is open to all area residents, with tickets at $20 each.
The Weirton United Way Golf Classic has raised more than $50,000 each of the last several years, but Kirlangitis said he wants to continue to push the bar higher and believes the committee involved in planning this year's event can do so.
"It is not hard to be successful," Kirlangitis said. "Our tournament has tradition, history, we play a great venue."
For more information on the golf tournament, sponsorships or the Dream Sports drawing, contact the Weirton United Way at (304) 748-7213.
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SALADO (November 2, 2012)--Voters in Salado will have the final say in whether or not a new sewer system should be installed downtown.
The idea has been in the works for the past several years and in September, the Village of Salado Board of Aldermen approved a contract valued at more that $9,000 with consulting firm Kasberg, Patrick & Associates to help scrutinize the potential process of connecting downtown into a wastewater treatment plant near Royal Street.
The plant has not yet been built.
Early figures projected the cost between $3 to $5 million dollars and will only immediately affect downtown residences and businesses.
Thursday's discussion will leave it up to the voters in the city who will first need to approve a bond to fund the project.
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I read somewhere that a registration form has to have some sort of notification about the storing of their info, is this true? If so, where can I find those rules?
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If this is in the general case you may be referring to your countries equivalent of the Data Protection Act (which we have in the UK). It depends on the type of information you are holding and your jurisdiction. It generally only applies to details such as medical or financial ones. I don't know of any jurisdiction where email addresses, names and the like must be given the same protections.
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How can I determine if force logging is on, at the database level. (Not asking about finding out if force logging is on for particular tablespaces.)
What rights are needed to perform the check of the above. (I have SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE, but other than that, pretty limited rights.)
I've tried to find out how to query from the Reference and the Administrator's Guide manuals.
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In one later level of Mark of the Ninja, I have the option of pickpocketing a key off of an enemy. How exactly do I do this? I am able to get right up to the enemy, but my only option seems to be to kill him. FWIW, I'm playing on the PC.
Is pickpocketing a skill I have to unlock?


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How is this compared to Final Fantasy XIII?
I'm still working through it, but I've really enjoyed it thus far.
I've played the demo, and I found it much better than XIII. I might take advantage of this deal, as I was waiting for the price to go down.


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The Aerovac Bin is the latest breakthrough in cleaning technology. It maximizes airflow to not only pull additional hair and debris off Roomba's brushes, but also guide the debris to the back of the bin, allowing you to empty it less often. Compatible with Roomba 500 Series robots. Comes complete with one AeroVac filter.
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Roomba's AeroVac Bin, compatible with Roomba 500 Series robots, is the latest breakthrough in cleaning technology. This vacuum maximizes air flow through Roomba's cleaning head to pull hair and debris off the brushes and into the bin. The new single chamber bin fills evenly and holds more debris, allowing you to empty it less often.SpecificationsPackage Weight: 0.99 pounds What's In The Box:
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Great upgrade to my iRobot 540
By Bargain Hunter
from Vancouver, BC
About Me Busy household, Homeowner, Pet Owner
Comments about iRobot AeroVac™ Bin, White:
Way better than the standard bin from the 500 series. It picks up way more hair. Change your 500 and 600 series roomba to this and the enhanced cleaning module and it will upgrade your parts to a better clean. Hands down a lot better if you are a pet owner as the enhanced cleaning module brushes do not have furs all tangled up in it. Even after over an hour of cleaning.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Very Impressive!!
By Saabguy
from Rocky River, Ohio
About Me Homeowner
We were considering replacing our 530 with a newer model. We decided to update instead of replace. The AeroVac was an obvious starting point. We run our 530 every day. Four hours after the 530 cleaned our house, we installed the AeroVac dust bin and re ran the 530. To our surprise, it gathered quite a bit more. A lot more!! Our carpet looked clean but the AeroVac picked up so much more. This is a very worthwhile improvement. You will be as surprised as we were as to how much better the AeroVac is over the original dust bin.
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This is THE best upgrade for your Roomba
By SlyWolf
from Cedar Rapids, IA
I'll start off by saying I am a pet owner with two large Siberian Husky/German Shepherd mixes. At near 100 lbs each they shed more in a day then most do in a month. I purchased the AeroVac bin with mild expectations do to how much hair my house has. This is one of the best upgrades yet. It actually pulls hair from the brushes. The thing you need to realize is the original vacuum bin does not provide suction to the brushes, only to a floor squeegee for dust removal. The hair is only removed from the brushes by "Hooks" on the upper dust bin. The AeroVac bin actually puts suction on the brushes to remove hair. On more than one occasion I had to stop my Roomba and empty the bin due to all the extra hair and dust it picks up. I used my upright on an area of carpet in my house and then sent the Roomba in after it. The dust bin was full within a few minutes. I can not recommend the AeroVac bin enough. You need to buy this upgrade
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By JB
from Pensacola, Florida
This along with the new 700 series brush motor turned our roomba from junk into the cleaning machine we had envisioned. No more hair and dust ribbons on the rug edge, no more stopping to clean off the brushes. Our roomba 500 series is now unstoppable!
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This dust bin has given our roomba 550 series a new lease on life. We had gotten tired of the constant brush cleaning and debris ribbons left on the edge of rugs. With this upgrade and a new 700 series brush head our roomba works better than ever!! We have 3 dogs and the roomba had always struggled with their hair, now the brushes stay clean and the floor is as cleaner than ever before. Get this and the 700 series brush head and you will have yourself the roomba you always hoped for!
By Dog Lover
from Florida
About Me Homeowner, Pet Owner
The AeroVac bin works amazingly well....I have three dogs and it's a challenge to keep up with the hair most days. With the new bin installed all of the hair goes into the bin just like it should....instead of getting stuck on the brushes or dragging along behind until it falls off in clumps. I hardly have to clean the brushes off anymore it pulls the hair and debris into the bin so well. This bin should come standard on all models. If you don't have the upgraded bin yet....buy it now, the results will bring your Roomba to another level of cleaning.
First real, functional improvement!
By The Furminator
from Greer, SC
I had an original Roomba for 2 years and I've had the 535 for almost 4 years. I have 2 dogs (1 German Shepherd - aka: Giant Shedding Dog) and use the Roomba between upright vac cleanings just to keep the dog-hair-bunnies under control. I had the unit repaired once (programming problem - all it would do was back up) and it came back with the bigger pet brushes, which served to just collect more hair on them. The reviews on the Aerovac were great, so I ordered one. After the first cleaning, all I could say was "Whoa!" This is the first actual, functional improvement I've seen. I've run it 3 times and there is almost no dog hair on the brushes - it's all stuffed in the bin - where it's supposed to be! I just read the reviews on the cleaning head, so I'll be cleaning that out to see what's inside. Maybe the new Aerovac bin will keep the head cleaner?? iRobot really needs to add this as a standard item for ALL the units. This is a MUST order for any pet owners. Even my husband (Mr. Oblivious) commented that the dark rug looks like it was actually vacuumed for once. I can see myself leaving the upright in the closet from now on!
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Very good upgrade
By diana
from Ohio
Just got it and couldn't believe how much it improved Rosies performance. I've got a 532 pet model which I love and this really made a difference. Price could be a little lower but given the cost of filters / side brushes, guess it's not too far out of line.
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Unbelievable difference!
By Animal42
from Chicago, IL
This make an incredible difference, With the old style bin I would run the roomba in my living room till it needed a recharge and empty out half a bin of dog hair and debris.With the Aerovac bin, I run it in the same room until the battery is drained and the bin is PACKED full of dog hair and debris. I actually have to dig it out with my fingers. Excellant upgrade!!!!!
What Roomba should have been.
By Eric A
About Me Busy household, Pet Owner
I have had a Roomba in my house ever since the Discovery model came out. They are great, especially if you have pets, but to me they have always been just a floor sweeper. Sure it as a vacuum filter that clogs every time I use it and have to clean it out, and it did a great job of getting up pet hair from all the nooks and crannies in the house but it was a stop gap and more of system to prolong the need to use the upright. My 530 is getting on and I was thinking about replacing it, but it still "kinda works" and I wasn't really ready to drop money on the new one. I figured I'd spend a few bucks to see if I can extend the life a little bit longer…. And I am glad that I did. My old bin would pick up hair and essentially stop cleaning after 20 min or so because the teeth on the bin were clogged with pet hair and it wouldn't really pick up anything else. And the air filter always picked up dirt and dust, but it too only lasted about the same amount of time. I would clean it out and send the Roomba back on its way to continue cleaning, wasn't ideal, but it did get up the pet hair. To check on the new bin, I decided to do a full cleaning with the old bin, then swap it out and see what the new one picked up…… and I was disgusted. I filled the entire bin, twice, and still had a little bit left before the battery ran out on a single charge. Not only did it get all the pet hair that the old bin missed…. The carpet actually looks as good as if I actually used the upright. I am so glad I bought this and am looking to keep my Roomba for a much longer time now.


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Students, parents and staff at the David Crockett High School homecoming Friday night all have a story about where they were when they found out about the bus crash on Thursday. "I was at cheer leading practice when our Athletic Director came in and said there had been an accident," said Lacey Durbin.
A fellow cheerleader had two siblings on bus number 88. They were among the 29 students who were taken to area hospitals.
"Our football team is trying to pull together for them. It's really important for the whole school," Durbin said.
Principal Andrew Hare said this homecoming brings a great sense of pride and unity. "Now, it's a literal term of homecoming. We're all coming together. It's going to be a demonstration of David Crockett High School community and family coming together in a supportive way," he said.
The DCHS stadium filled with brown and gold Friday afternoon for the game against South Greene. "The community pulling together is nothing but Pioneer Pride," said Latisha Burger, whose son is the quarterback on the football team.
During the pre-game huddle, the team's coach said it best, "Remember: together. One heart beat. That's what we've got to do tonight. We have to do it for this whole community, for bus number 88."
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Mammoth Cave National Park says workers will work this month to clean and document historic stone retaining walls at the Green River Ferry area of the park.
Acting Superintendent Bruce Powell says rehabilitation plans for the ferry landings call for the rock walls to be removed before reconstruction starts and then rebuilt. Powell says the walls will be documented so they can be replaced as they were before the work began.
The walls were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the late 1930s after the ferry crossing was moved downstream. The four walls hold the river bank in place.
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While the district recently spent $39,000 to get a chiller up and running again by the first day of school at Bastrop High, it learned that the cost to build five new classrooms at Beekman Jr. High – last year at full capacity of 400 students – may ultimately be cost prohibitive.
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Cape Town panoramas – A Cape Town Tourism photo essay
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Kalk Bay Harbour just after a rain storm – that's why there is a rainbow behind one of the boats. I got very wet, but it was so worth it.
This shot was taken at Cape Town's V&A Waterfront, in front of the Two Oceans Aquarium. It was an absolutely still day. The photo was taken about 09h00, so none of the boats had started their engines yet – that's why it's absolutely quiet.
This panorama was taken at Milnerton Beach – a gorgeous sunset under very interesting clouds over Cape Town and Table Mountain.
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Is there a reason/meaning behind the "half-brick over brick" layout of Shiras Hayam as written in a Sefer Torah? I am familiar with the gemara in Megilla (16b) that states the layout is to be that way, but I would like to know WHY.
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There are two special layouts for songs - half-brick over brick, and half-brick over half-brick. The half-brick over brick is triumphant and good. The half-brick over half-brick is bad - bury the sons of Haman or the sins of the Jews.
Megillah 16b that you reference says:
(Aside: Somewhere, though I couldn't find the source, the Ritva says that "this shira" means "all shirot that are not about praise" so that it includes Shirat Moshe in Haazinu.)
Rashi there says:
But that doesn't answer why for the good shirot.
The Maharal explains in his commentary there:
Taken together, the Maharal and Rashi seem to me to picture the "half-brick over brick" style as a staircase or lattice-work you can climb to greatness, whereas the "half-brick over half-brick" style is a pit without a path up.


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Approximately 120 friends, family, co-workers and well wishers gathered Nov. 11 at Froehlich's Classic Corner for a retirement celebration in honor of Sharon L. Kirtdoll.
It was a formal appreciation of her ministry achievements and service as the community developer and founder and director of Neighborhood Community Development Center, Urban Mission Ministries, from which Kirtdoll is retiring after 34 years of faithful service.
The celebration was presented by Urban Mission Ministries and the Neighborhood Community Development Center Advisory Board.
"Thanks for the Memories" was the theme of the event where the Rev. Ashley Steele, executive director of Urban Mission Ministries, served as mistress of ceremonies.
The welcome was given by Patti West, warehouse secretary at the mission, with the dinner blessing given by the Rev. Alfred Hunt.
The event included comments from church and community members, among them the Rev. Gary George, superintendent, Ohio District of the United Methodist Church with its office located in Wintersville. George is now the assistant to the bishop of the East Ohio Conference.
Eugene Gillison, William Zimmerman Jr., Will Dent, Janie Wittmer and Gay Warren also offered commentary on their associations with Kirtdoll.
Resolutions came from Steubenville Mayor Domenick Mucci; state Sen. Lou Gentile, D-Steubenville; and state Rep. Jack Cera, D-Bellaire.
Family members Gail Johnson and Angela Kirtdoll-Suggs commented as well in addition to Sandi Rue, chair of the NCDC advisory board committee.
Then Kirtdoll had an opportunity for her reflections, according to the program booklet, that notes the following NCDC history:
"In 1977, a community developer's program was established at Simpson United Methodist Church, and Sharon Kirtdoll was appointed community developer. In 1984, the Women's Center was opened to address the needs of women of all ages with the motto 'We Can't Change the World, but We Can Make a Difference.'
"In 1993, the community developer's program and Women's Center merged with Urban Mission. This merger combined two inner city ministries of the United Methodist Church. Under this realignment, all operations were moved to Urban Mission offices, and the work of the community developer's program and Women's Center was continued under the new name - Neighborhood Community Development Center. Sharon Kirtdoll, NCDC director and community developer, led the outreach ministries to the African-American community and Jefferson County's underserved population.
"In 2005, NCDC also founded the Greater Steubenville Community Development Corp., which is designed to build new houses in an effort to continue the revitalization of downtown Steubenville. The Neighborhood Community Development Center has a long history serving the Ohio Valley's African-American community. NCDC has offered a vast array of programs, including the annual coat giveaway, back to school supply giveaway, minority health month, a biennial shoe giveaway and an ongoing lupus education and support program, math excellence program and parish nurse program.


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Bruins winger Daniel Paille took part in the team's morning skate Thursday, but will not play in Game 4 against the Red Wings.
Coach Claude Julien told reporters at Joe Louis Arena that Paille has been cleared for "a little bit of contact" and is "inching forward" to playing.
Paille did not take line drills Thursday morning.
Paille hasn't played since April 12 when he was knocked out of the season's penultimate game by Buffalo's Jake McCabe. After a week off the ice, he's slowly ramped up since skating April 19.
With Paille still unavailable, Jordan Caron will remain in the lineup on the fourth line for Game 4. Caron scored his first career playoff goal Tuesday in Game 3.
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Is there any way by which one can check if an integer has a prime number as a subsequence (may be non-contiguous)?
We can check if they contain the digits 2,3,5 or 7 by going through the digits, but how to check if they contain 11, 13,... ?
One way would be to convert each number to a string and then call contains function, but that may be too expensive for a large range of numbers.
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Since the early 1990s, Koo Jeong A has made works that are seemingly casual
and commonplace, yet at the same time remarkably precise, deliberate, and considered.
Her reflections on the senses incorporate objects, still and moving images, audio
elements, and aromas within site-specific environments that question the limits of
fact and fiction, the imaginary and actuality of our world. In realizing her spaces and
images, she draws from a wide spectrum of concerns which she developed over
the years, ranging from human cognition to the philosophy of Taoism, and from the
science of Qi to the interaction of natural elements such as earth, fire, metal, water,
and wood. In her environments, nothing is merely ordinary; on the contrary, any material
or phenomena—be it a mound of charcoal, a shaft of iron, or a glare of sunlight—is
endowed with dignity and reverence and incites the surprise of a discovery. To venture
near Koo Jeong A's work is to travel unreservedly through a cosmos of unassuming
large and small forms, mysterious dwarfed spaces, and perilous landscapes of memories.
The exhibition Constellation Congress comprises a gathering of works in three
different locations, which, though placed at considerable distances from one another,
establish an ensemble of visual and conceptual relationships in a cosmology of
characters, materials, and forms.
A Reality Upgrade & End Alone, installed in a two-acre grass field behind the main building at Dia:Beacon, manifests Koo Jeong A's long-standing preoccupation with the phenomenology of perception and the complexities of consciousness, concerns she has addressed metaphorically and literally throughout her practice. In its third rendition, this site-specific installation, composed of five thousand rhinestones, takes place outdoors in an environment that is immersive as much as it is expansive. The installation employs the peculiar lattice structure of the crystal, capturing the prismatic glow of sunlight to create an ephemeral and impermanent shimmering blanket where lights appear, morph, and disappear as the sparkles capture the spectator's gaze. The viewer's experience rests on a chance operation resulting from a threefold interaction between the location of the sun, his or her own physical position and movement, and the field of stones.
Inside the East Gallery of the Hispanic Society's Beaux-Arts complex in Manhattan, sixty miles south of Beacon, is the second site of Constellation Congress, a multisensorial installation where Koo Jeong A has transformed the gallery space into a multilevel structure and organized it into zones that reconfigure the architecture; staggered heights and obstacles systematically predetermine the viewer's route. A large wooden platform, similar to a stage, is elevated fourteen inches from the ground; it delimits vantage points and reduces the distance from floor to ceiling, thus adapting the proportions and physical experience of the room. Visible only through small gaps, charcoal is piled against the wall underneath the platform, conjuring the material's customary use in East Asia, where it is placed underneath floors to regulate humidity and absorb moisture.
Koo Jeong A is a mastermind of intricate disassociations, fugitive symbolism, and installations replete with puzzling references often impossible to decipher. In walking through this three-thousand-square-foot space, one encounters an ensemble of seven distinct pieces that stimulate varied sensorial responses. The artist's playful riddles pose perceptual questions as much as they evoke poetic materiality and otherworldliness. Bridge, a colossal quill-like steel sword, hovers into the space with lyrical lightness, alluring us with shiny majesty while the threat of its sharpness alarms us. Across the room, two large, seemingly levitating cubes serve as projection screens for the video Ousss Sister. The word Ousss, invented by the artist in 1998, lacks precise meaning or definition. This recurring motif in her repertoire carries a mischievous child-like humor that, like the exhibition's other titles, charges Constellation Congress with a sense of fantasy and inexplicability.
If mystery and ambiguity are primary characteristics of Koo Jeong A's work, the aromatic piece Before the Rain—the third odor the artist has conceived since 2007— inverts this notion with a meticulously designed olfactory microworld. Working in collaboration with perfumer Bruno Jovanovic, she distilled memories and associations of the steamy air of various cities into a palette of ingredients: dry woods, minerals, fern, musk, tars, and lichens, among others. This collision of contrasting references combines personal recollections with the cacophony of smells in an urban setting— a deliberately crude association—to render the feeling of anticipation before a light summer rain.
The third part of Constellation Congress, installed one hundred miles east of New York City at the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton, New York, consists of a series of works on paper titled Dr. Vogt. In these simple line drawings, Koo Jeong A walks personal and cultural grounds to record relationships and comical encounters within landscapes and interiors. A furtive narrative thread actively works its way through an episodic journey, which reveals a meditative contemplation of intimate reflections on bodily functions, isolation, and mundane events. It is within this conjoining of light-hearted informality and self-deprecating humor that we might begin to comprehend Koo Jeong A's drawings, which, like her environments, blur fact and fiction and celebrate the unimportant and impersonal while emphasizing subjectivity and private psychological impulses.
The paths in Koo Jeong A's Constellation Congress are unanticipated and open-ended, reflecting the artist's attitudes towards the creative process. Deliberately unconventional and unmistakably daring, her ephemeral installations are dependent on location as much as they are completed by the viewer's own coincidental, variable, and unexpected engagement. In this aspiration, Koo Jeong A escorts us through a terrain of wide-ranging possibilities, where one may shift roles from that of a questor to a witness, then further from an accomplice to the narrator of a self-governed story.
Yasmil Raymond, Curator, Dia Art Foundation
The artist wishes to thank Keith Anderson, Roger Bensinger, Chad Bowen, Alexandra Cassar, Susanne Claussen, Kurt Diebboll, Henry Dombrowski, Veronique Ferval, Cesar Franco, Curtis Harvey, Patrick Heilman, Ian Holman, Roddey Johnson, Bruno Jovanovic, George Lambridis, Chris Lidrbauch, Helen Murphy, Dick Polich, Jim Schaeufele, Trevor Shimizu, Michael Smith, John Sprague, and Mark Walker.


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The company is planning to finish its ethylene projects in North America about two-to-three years earlier than industry competitors building new plants, all at lower costs.
LyondellBasell will raise its ethylene capacity in North
America by 18% in coming years through several debottlenecking
projects, its CEO said on Wednesday.
Locations where ethylene capacity will be expanded include
crackers in Corpus Christi, La Porte and Channelview, Texas,
according to the company. The projects are scheduled to be
finished in 2014 and 2015.
Jim Gallogly, CEO of LyondellBasell, made his comments at the
company's annual investor day in New York. He said the company
aims to finish its projects two-to-three years earlier
than industry competitors building new plants, all at a lower
"We hope these projects will be paid for before our
competitors even come online," he said.
Gallogly said he expects ethane to stay price-advantaged in
the US for at least the next five years. He noted that natural
gas producers are still incentivized to produce wet gas and, as
a result, LyondellBasell plans to raise its ability to crack
natural gas liquids (NGLs) from 85% to 90%.
LyondellBasell also said it was "in the early stages" of
evaluating a 1 million lb/year polyethylene plant in North
America by 2016.
Overall, the company plans to invest $1.6 billion in growth
capital expenditures (CAPX) over the next four years, adding
over $1.5 billion/year in new earnings by 2017.
Aside from the North American ethylene debottlenecks,
proposed projects also include a methanol restart in the US and a
butadiene expansion in Germany.
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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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Shooting 'justified'
May 10, 2013
BELLAIRE – Law enforcement officers are trained to prepare for any eventuality and Thursday morning in Eastern Division Court, three Belmont County sheriff's deputies put that training to the test....
cops can't win: witness Uncommon and princebytor. If they had let him run the incessant screeching would be about how cops needlessly endangered innocent people instead of stopping him before he got started.
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The only problem I see went wrong in this incident, is that the two bullets fired didn't hit both perpetrators in the head. Sure would save US taxpayers some money instead of housing them in prison. Neither one is obviously fit to prosper within our society any longer
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There's a shopping center, a highway, and a high school athletic field all close enough to the courthouse to be in harms way of a ricochet. This wasn't justified, it was whitewashed.
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I thought what the deputies did was perfectly fine. There is never a large amount of people by the court house. shooting out the tires was certainly better than a high speed chase which the police may have had to give up for the safety of citizens had they got out of the lot. These criminals are hard to arrest. they have no address. they shack with a woman to avoid personal responsibility and stay under the radar. Plus she they actually had drugs in the car in the courthouse lot!!!!. He knew he had warrants and had his dumb driver waiting in the get away car. the sad part is all the money it cost's the tax payers. We had two crime scene vehicles and probably at least 4 officers from BCI in town to make sure it was OK to shoot the tires out??? i'm al good with it but that's the part I don't understand. I can see it if some one was actually shot.
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Nice shooting..two rounds..two hits..that's 100%..
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Think these young trigger happy cops need to get some ACTUAL tactical training and instruction on where and when NOT to discharge your weapon!!
This isn't Call of duty on a video game kid!!!
REAL people can be killed!!
Innocent bystanders could have been killed by your poor aim or a riccochet!!
This was some VERY poor judgement and only goes to show how trigger happy these young cops are today!!
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The new Android phone from Torque was finally released. Torque Droidz Mate, as announced last December, is Torque's follow-up to their Droidz series. It has enhanced hardware and specifications to cater the growing needs of people who uses android phones. Unlike the older Torque android phones, this new offering will eventually let you experience a better gaming and User Interface responsiveness because of its good enough specs and capacitive touchscreen which fits today's standards. Plus, it sports the usual Dual Sim/Dual Standby capability of their smartphone which lets you to have two networks always on at the same time. Read More


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From the perspective of a far-away observer, matter falling into a black hole never crosses the boundary. Why doesn't a basic symmetry argument prove that Hawking radiation is therefore also frozen on the boundary, and therefore not observable? Wouldn't the hawking radiation have to have started its journey before the formation of the black hole? Furthermore, wouldn't the radiation be infinitely red-shifted?
Classically, this is true. Something exiting from a classical static black hole would have had to have started before the universe was created. The frozen-on-the-horizon view of a black hole is the view you get under classical general relativity. When you add quantum mechanics, this view is no longer quite valid, and you get Hawking radiation, which from a far-away observer's viewpoint, interacts with the infalling matter.
Evaporating black holes behave qualitatively differently from static ones if you allow an infinite amount of time to pass. In particular, there is no event horizon for an evaporating BH, only an apparent horizon. Furthermore, if you stack the apparent horizons of a shrinking black hole plus time, the resultant surface is two-way transversible.


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Utah is a desert state, the second most arid of the 50 states, and yet it also has mountains located in all 29 of its counties. No other state has that kind of steady mountain geography. There are no vast plains or lowlands. Mountains pop up throughout the state Utah is mountain territory.
Among high points of the 50 individual states, Utah's Kings Peak ranks sixth in total elevation. Best hiked in July through September, it is rated as a "Class 2" climb, according to Don W. Holmes, author of "Highpoints of the United States."
This means ascending Kings Peak requires "Rough cross country travel . . . boulder hopping and use of hands for balance." It is almost a 30-mile round-trip hike from the trailhead parking lot to Kings and back.
There's also a legend out there that Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand, one of the first two men to climb Mount Everest in 1953, also hiked to the top of Utah's Kings Peak. If ever proven true, this tale adds extra importance to Utah's King of peaks.
Not a legend though is that today's Kings Peak was undiscovered until the mid-1960s. Prior to satellite measurements, the U.S. Geological Survey pegged today's South Kings Peak as Utah's tallest. Any hikers going to Kings Peak prior to 1966 would have scaled the state's second-tallest peak instead.
Even though Kings Peak is the highest "point" in Utah, it isn't really the mountain with the sharpest rise from the surrounding terrain.
For example, most of the valleys surrounding Kings Peak are at just over 10,000 feet in elevation. This means there's a difference of just 2,700 approximate feet from valley to peak in the area.
In contrast, Mount Peale (12,721 feet above sea level) has the greatest difference in this vertical relief category. Moab, at about 4,000 feet elevation, means Peale rises about 8,721 feet above its surrounding topography the most of anywhere in Utah.
Utah is also a large enough state that some peculiarities exist in its mountains. For example, generally the farther south you travel, the higher the timberline (not accounting for variances in south or north facing slopes.) For example, this means that Thurston Peak, Davis County, at 9,706 feet above sea level, is well above the treeline. Yet Signal Peak, Washington County's highest point at 10,365 feet, is completely forested in.
What are the 10 tallest peaks in Utah? What are its most significant mountain ranges? What are the high points in each county?Here are some lists to best answer those questions. (Note: you won't always find universal agreement on all these peak elevations or names because of variances on peak/high point definitions, measurements and official names, unofficial titles or the lack thereof.)
The 10 tallest mountains in Utah (with names):
1. Kings Peak, Uinta Mountains, Duchesne County, 13,528.
2. South Kings Peak, Uinta Mountains, Duchesne County, 13,512.
3. Gilbert Peak, Uinta Mountains, Summit and Duchesne counties, 13,442.
4. Mount Emmons, Uinta Mountains, Duchesne County, 13,440.
5. Mount Lovenia, Uinta Mountains, Summit and Duchesne counties; 13,219.
6. Tokewanna Peak, Uinta Mountains, Summit County, 13,165.
7. Mount Powell, Uinta Mountains, Summit County, 13,159.
8. *"Wasatch Peak," benchmark, Uinta Mountains, Summit County, 13,156.
9. **Wilson Peak, Uinta Mountains, Summit and Duchesne counties, 13,049.
10. ***"Squaw Peak" benchmark, Uinta Mountains, Summit County, 12,990.


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Billy J. Russell, 40, rural Carmi, was driving a 2000 Honda Civic northbound on Fifth Street at Shipley Street in Carmi around 4:27 p.m. Monday when the Honda was struck by an eastbound 2002 Ford Explorer.
A Carmi Police Department accident report identified the driver of the Ford as 19-year-old Jerod L. Newcomb of Carmi and said he failed to yield the right-of-way to the Honda. The damage topped $1,500.
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's foreign minister says the international community's failure to stop the violence in Syria shows it cannot keep Israel safe.
Avigdor Lieberman says the inability of international leaders
and aid workers to alleviate "systematic murder of innocent
civilians" in Syria "challenges all the promises of the international community that they are responsible for our security."
Lieberman spoke Sunday on Israel Radio. His comments come as the United States tries to convince Israel to rely on global economic
sanctions and diplomacy to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions before
resorting to a military strike.
Israel is worried Iran is developing nuclear weapons that could
be used against it. Iran claims it only seeks nuclear reactors for
energy and medical research.
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A former security adviser to Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says key voices are being excluded from the debate over whether to attack Iran.
Uzi Arad said Saturday that the Israeli military dominates the
debate about options vis-a-vis Iran. He told Israel TV's Channel 2
this means not all alternatives to an attack are being considered.
Israel considers a nuclear Iran an existential threat. Israeli
leaders have hinted recently that they could authorize a strike on
Iran's facilities.
Arad was chief of the National Security Council under Netanyahu
before resigning in 2011. He said the council, which comprises
military officers and civilians, should be the main body discussing
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Vote to Repeal Cruiser Rule Already Resulting in Changes
WHEELING – Changes have already taken place within the Wheeling Police Department, less than two days after residents voted to overturn a longstanding rule requiring officers to partner up on patrol.
One immediate transition, Police Chief Shawn Schwertfeger said, is that residents no longer will see pairs of officers performing routine, targeted enforcement activities aimed at catching DUI, stop light and other traffic offenses. More comprehensive changes are possible by the first of the year – but Schwertfeger said before making those decisions, he first wants to spend time studying where and at what times it may be better to maintain two-officer patrols.
He said he wasn't overly concerned with how Tuesday's election would turn out, but he is looking forward to having the flexibility to deploy the department's resources as he sees fit – and he believes that flexibility will allow him to run the most efficient force possible.
"There was no victory party. … I look at it as a vote of confidence of the citizens of Wheeling," Schwertfeger said of the election results.
He said it will not be necessary for the city to purchase additional cruisers for him to take advantage of his newfound options.
"Our current fleet is capable of going to the one-man car immediately," Schwertfeger said, though he does plan to ask City Council to upgrade the fleet with "two to four" additional vehicles when he and other department heads submit budget requests in January.
Wheeling voters on Tuesday rejected the law, which had been in effect since 1972, by almost a 2-1 margin. But any changes made under the new policy could be short-lived if a judge grants the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 38's request for an injunction against the city.
The organization argues the election results should be voided, claiming City Council did not follow proper procedures in voting to put the referendum on Tuesday's ballot. City officials maintain they followed all rules, pointing to factual errors in the FOP's complaint that conflict with council's official meeting minutes.


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Me and my husband at the top of rockeffellas
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Anonymous, June 2010
Looking over Central Park
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Anonymous, June 2010
Empire State Building lit up in blue!!!
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ANTHONY G, France, November 2009
View overlooking Central Park from Top of the Rock (Rockefeller Center)
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Linda M, USA, September 2009
John and Linda Murphy on the Top of the Rock early evening on beautiful day in August.
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24 Sep 2012 4:02 AM #1
How to use custom type in Model
We'd like to define a custom Ext.data.Type and use this in our Model.
We discovered a problem with the Boolean default type -- in that it is case sensitive. We discovered this while working with an Ajax proxy to a server that returns boolean values as 'True/False'. The Ext.data.Types.BOOL type is case sensitive and treats them all as false. Of course we could define 'convert()' methods for every field sent back from the server (which is what we have done) -- but is would seem preferable to solve this with a sensible type definition.
At first, we thought this was a bug (that BOOL was case sensitive), and files a bug report with the ExtJS forum (http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...-casesensitive) -- but they say this is not a bug, and we should prefer to define a custom type.
So we're looking for help with how to refer to this custom type from within SA.
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At the moment, the only way to accomplish this would be to do an override and define it in custom code. That would work as an interim solution.
However, in the next point release of Sencha Architect, you could accomplish this via a new feature called processConfig that will help for scenarios like this. ProcessConfig is essentially a hook to the config object prior to instantiation of the class.Steve Sobel
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I'm not obviously talking about small groups or individuals but about an actual civilization that never believed about the existence of a supreme essence. Is atheism just a modern concept?
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Also, Jainism seems to be a kind of a "no "supreme essence" type of religion, but I'm not an expert.
A pretty good set of sources on the history of atheism and some analysis can be found here: Investigating Atheism (affiliated with University of Cambridge)
Certainly there are major religions in the East in ancient times that never believed in supreme creator/being. Two of these major religions still exist today. They are Buddhism and Jainism. The startling thing is they grew along side Hinduism in India which is a religion full of hundreds of gods! This was mainly because of sensible patronization from kings at that time like Ashoka the great. This was about 1000 - 2000 years ago. But later on probably during the middle ages they lost in popularity thanks to resurgent Hinduism again thanks to kings who started patronizing Hinduism more this time. But still they exist in India as minorities and actually as you know Buddhism is a world religion which spread to various other Asian countries again thanks to kings at that time. But Jainism still survives as a vibrant minority in India.
Now coming to how exactly these religions are Atheistic compared to their rival Hinduism which is polytheistic. As I said both of these religions as taught in their ancient texts don't believe in supreme God. They are called 'Shramic' or 'Shramana' religions which literally means self-help suggesting your 'karma/deeds/conduct' is responsible for your well being, no supreme being can elevate you. And both incorporate non-violence as a major principle particularly Jainism. There is evidence to suggest that they prescribed democracy and republican principles back then in India in a country mainly ruled by kings. Influenced by them there were some ancient Indian democracies/republics just like in Greece.
Having said that, though Buddhism and Jainism both have strong atheistic principles at their root, these religions are not 100% scientific or Atheistic in modern sense which is based on reason and science. They believe that there is a purpose to life, they believe in Karma, soul and reincarnation. They suggest if you do good 'Karma', eventually after many rebirths your soul can be liberated from the eternal suffering in the cycle of births and rebirths... If you do bad 'karma' then you will forever be lost in the cycle of births and rebirths..
Meaning they actually see that the very fact of birth and rebirth and existing and living on earth is a suffering and the ultimate goal of any soul should be to be liberated from it which is what is called 'Nirvana' or 'Moksha' which is possible only through doing good deeds, being non-violent and being very strict and ascetic. This they believe can take hundreds and thousands of birth-rebirth cycles of good 'karmic ' life finally culminating in last few births where one turns to being very ascetic in lifestyle to finally attain liberation/salvation... So in that way these religions are a bit of renunciatory. But in practice only monks of these religions tend to be that extreme and ascetic, ordinary folk practice asceticism in a far more liberal way.
The liberated souls are regarded highly with special status.. in Jainism they are called Thirthankaras/Siddhas etc. But over time these have reduced into being worshiped as gods actually defeating the Atheistic principles.
Although much of what I said in last para may not appeal to modern Atheists, the fact that good conduct/morals and non-violence all of which make sense anyday are core of these religions.. than glorifying supreme deities.. is a good thing.
But much of what I said is the nature of these religions in their purest form as taught 2 thousand years ago. Throughout history since these religions have had to compete with Hinduism for survival, over time they have been influenced by it and have borrowed Godly things from it. Though they are atheistic religions in their purest form, over the course of time particularly in middle ages, they too incorporated many God ideas and today they can be seen as worshiping gods albeit in a incomplete way.
There are many, many different directions this could go. You want an example of an ancient society which didn't believe in a single over-arching "supreme essence"? The Greeks and then the Romans immediately come to mind. Sure, some gods were more powerful than others, and had bigger and better positions, but the Greeks did not believe that Zeus had the same level of omnipotence/omnipresence that the Judeo-Christian god does, and they would very often choose to worship one of the supposed "lesser gods" that dealt in arenas that mattered more to them instead.
Or, for that matter, the god of the Old Testament doesn't really seem to be a "supreme essence". The Bible seems to indicate that YHWH was better than the other gods that were out there but I don't get the sense from the OT that they ever considered him to be all that there was out there. The first commandment itself doesn't say "don't worship other gods because there aren't any other gods and that's just stupid", it says "don't worship other gods because I'm jealous and I don't like it".
If you meant to include polytheistic religions, that is not without its issues either. One thing about atheism, particularly skeptical, science-based atheism, is that it tends to answer "I don't know" to a lot of questions. That's something that causes enough discomfort when we ask questions like "what happens to the mind after we die?" or "how did life first occur on this planet?"; when your level of technological advancement is such that the non-theist has to answer questions like "where does the sun go at night?", there are so many uncomfortable questions that a lot of people simply aren't going to accept not knowing and will create deities and such to explain this.
On top of that, how do we get to the question of knowing and not knowing? We have the scientific method now as well as a lot of other heuristics to help lead us to knowledge, but we've had to build these up over thousands of years. What's to stop a perfectly reasonable person who doesn't have access to these heuristics from coming to an incorrect conclusion (from our perspective)? Heck, it wasn't that long ago that learned men really thought you could turn lead into gold, as silly as that sounds to the modern scholar.
Finally, humans are really, really good at recognizing correlations, and our creativity helps us to align those with causes. It's what we do. We've got millions of years of living in the bush and determining whether a rustling in a nearby patch of grass was a lion or if it was just harmless rustling to help shape our brains to perceive these. We can create small mountains in the sand, therefore it is perfectly reasonable to think that some bigger version of us created the mountains in the distance. Eating the meat of the pig can make you very sick in some parts of the world, therefore whatever god we have created to answer some of those other discomforting questions doesn't want us to eat pig meat. And so on and so forth.
Where I'm leading with this is that in a large sense asking if there are examples of ancient peoples who lived without "gods" is basically asking in one way or another if there are examples of ancient peoples who lived with the same sense of the universe that we have today. And the answer is "no, of course not". That's impossible. If our viewpoints today are more enlightened, it's because we stand on the shoulders of giants who themselves stand on the shoulders of titans.
Atheism is definitely not a modern concept.
Wikipedia states that the word itself become popular in 18th century, but throughout the history for sure there were individuals without any belief system which included spiritual beings, or any supernatural phenomena.
Also, common sense tells us that without teism or some other more complex form of belief in supernatural, there is no real atheism in today's sense. In other words, we can conclude that modern atheism could not exist before organized religion emerged. Religion, as a concept emerged very early, probably in parallel with civilizations themselves serving multiple cohesive roles within group, tribe or clan helping early civilization to emerge in the first place. So, atheistic civilizations are highly unlikely to have ever existed.
In prehistoric times, before first civilizations emerged, the pseudo-religious practices included animal worship or totemism, ancestral worship, worship of natural phenomena etc. In that case in practice you could worship or not, but you couldn't not believe, because the objects of worship were real, not imaginary and as such did not require belief itself.
I'd say most primitive groups, practicing nature worship in its simplest forms, have no concept of "god". They revere nature itself, its processes and phenomena, but don't usually personify them. That comes later, when society grows.
The mere "belief" in something other than self, as guidance over your actions is religious dogma. Can be dogma-light, but religious none the less. Pagan, animist, sunworshipper or the statue of a fat man are all religious.
Suffice to say the modern "atheist" is a sycophant living off the civilization that was hacked out from barbarians (likely pagans) who would do them harm.


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When we are talking about computers, I see both hostname and host name being used. Which is more proper? Should I put the space in there?
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Where two words can be shown either separately or joined, as in host name and hostname, the two may exist side by side until one eventually becomes more popular. We have already seen the emergence of login as a single word, and the same may well happen here. The two citations in the Oxford English Dictionary, both from 1997, show host name. There are five records in the Corpus of Contemporary American English for host name, but only one for hostname.
Which you use yourself depends on any preference your organization may have and on the expectations of your readers. If in doubt, it's probably wiser to take the conservative approach for the moment, and write host name.
In most technical settings, hostname is used — I would stick to that if you are writing for a technologically savvy audience, as host name can mean "the name of the host" which is not necessarily always synonymous.
To clarify somewhat on another answer posted here; 'login' may now be recognized as one word, but that doesn't mean that it's not also two words. (login [n], log in [v]).
Similarly, 'hostname' is unquestionably a single word in the tech kingdom; just because a dictionary (does/did) not recognize that word does not mean it is wrong.
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In the context of computer, hostname is the one I've always used and the one I've mostly read for the last years. Google agreed with more than 44 millions results for hostname and less than 10 millions for host name.
In your research on usage, be careful that results from the era before computer networking became common, the only valid use of "host name" was about social functions.
Hostname specifically refers to a particular computer or setting on a computer or setting in name server records. Host name is used when talking about the subject but not referring directly to a specific setting of it.
If I was writing a guide for someone to set up a name for their computer, I'd refer to it as a host name. The host name of a server you connect to (to view a web page) is a variable called hostname.
RFC814 (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc814.txt) uses "host name"
More recent RFC's use "hostname"


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ROBINSON (December 17, 2012)--Several teachers in Robinson ISD will be surprised with grants from the Robinson Education Foundation, an organization that was formed in the fall to help further education and alleviate budget concerns.
The event is not only exciting for the teachers to see if their ideas were chosen but for the board members who were able to raise more than $20,000 in such a short time.
Earlier this year, teachers submitted their ideas for the grants and will find out Tuesday which ideas made the cut.
Board members will get on a bus Tuesday and head to different campuses to surprise the teachers with the grants.
Anyone who wishes to make a pledge to the foundation have until December of next year to make their payment in full.


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I referred multiple sources but nothing is working out. Used TeXShop and it did generated PDF after clicking on "Typeset".
I am missing out something , please help!
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Take the expression $(1-(1-\frac{1}{n})^x)$, which is the expected fraction of elements one samples from a set of $n$ elements, sampling with replacement (and uniform probability) $x$ times.
Provided some $n$, how do we analytically solve for $x$ s.t. $(1-(1-\frac{1}{n})^x) \geq P$? It appears that $\frac{x}{n}$ converges to a fixed value as $n \to \inf$. Is this true? If so, how do we find it without relying on numerical methods?