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GRAND LAKE - Two nonprofits in the Grand Lake area are forming into one.
The larger Three Lakes Watershed Association is absorbing the Greater Grand Lake Shoreline Association to combine forces and become one powerful water advocacy group.
The Greater Grand Lake Shoreline group formed in November of 2000 "to focus solely on Grand Lake water and ecosystem issues and how they impact homeowners and businesses," said the group's most recent president Michael Cassio. Cassio and the Grand Lake Shoreline's John Brooks are joining the Three Lakes Watershed board of directors.
A main reason the decision was made to absorb the smaller Shoreline group was the "confusion" among potential members, stated Three Lakes Watershed President Scally O'Donnell, who has been involved with the group for 40 years. Some people would join one group thinking they were joining the other, he said, and there was confusion about any differences in goals the groups had.
The Three Lakes Watershed Association will be gaining nonprofit 501(c)3 status out of the deal, something the Grand Lake Shoreline group of about 20 or so members is bringing to the table along with key members having expert knowledge of environmental protection and engineering.
The Three Lakes Watershed, which has more than 200 members, was formed longer than four decades ago in response to the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. The group has been a Grand County voice on issues related to the Three Lakes system, such as the forming of the Three Lakes Water and Sanitation District, opposition to gambling in the town of Grand Lake, and dock and boathouse issues.
In the past decade, both groups have advocated for a solution to the lack of clarity and the sediment buildup in natural Grand Lake, caused by flows through the Colorado-Big Thompson project.
"We've kept the pressure on with letters and going to meetings over many years now," O'Donnell said. "Three Lakes and later the Greater Grand Lake Shoreline group have been the ones really putting the heat on," he said. "Having said that, we've had really terrific support from Grand County. The commissioners and Lurline (Underbrink Curran, county manager) have really been supportive. Their clout is far greater than ours."
At present, a multi-agency-supported study has conclusions about the degradation of the Three Lakes system, and a review panel has been assembled to study potential solutions to the degradation problems. Cassio, who has worked in environmental protection for 25 years, is a member of the Three Lakes Technical Committee involved with the process, made up of representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Geological Survey, State of Colorado, Grand County, University of Colorado, Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, Trout Unlimited and the Three Lakes Watershed Association.
"Finally, progress is being made," O'Donnell said, who predicts a solution will be applied to the Grand Lake pollution problem over the next decade. O'Donnell cited documents in the possession of the Three Lakes Watershed group dating back to the 1950s, when the Town of Grand Lake recognized the lake's degradation, appointed a committee to study the problem, then wrote letters with "long legalese" to congressional delegates "urging something be done about it," O'Donnell said, but nothing came from it.
The documents, O'Donnell said, show the problem has long been on the radar of the Grand Lake-area community, and lately the steps taken - including a clarity standard established by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to be applied to Grand Lake in 2015 - are as close to a resolution as ever.
The merger of the two nonprofits "develops a single voice and citizen advocacy group that addresses the entire ecosystem, instead of two competing entities," Cassio said. "I believe merging the two organizations makes us a much more effective organization that will represent the people and businesses impacted by water quality issues in the Three Lakes area. By creating one single association, individuals can join one single organization that is focused on all the water issues in the area instead of an organization only focused on one lake."


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(CNN)-- Hurricane Bud strengthened to become a Category 2 storm Thursday as it churned toward the southwestern coast of Mexico, the National Hurricane Center said.
Bud has maximum sustained winds near 110 mph and is moving north-northeast near 9 mph, the center said in a 2 p.m. ET advisory.
Some additional strengthening is possible Thursday afternoon. Weakening "should begin tonight or early Friday and continue through Saturday," the advisory said.
"The center of Bud will be near ... the southwestern coast of Mexico late Friday and Saturday," the center said.
The official forecast track does not show the hurricane making landfall in Mexico.
Bud is the second named tropical storm of the East Pacific hurricane season.
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On Thursday, Bud's outer bands were already over coastal areas of Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan and Guerrero, weather officials in Mexico said.
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"These rainfall amounts could produce life-threatening flash floods and mudslides."
Swells generated by Bud will begin affecting some coastal areas Thursday, and "are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions," the hurricane center said.


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Would you tell someone if they smelled bad?
I ran into this kind of situation a lot more when I was in China (they love to eat raw garlic for breakfast over there...gag), but another situation with a smelly co-worker has arisen!
I think it's a combination of him sweating a lot and not wearing the right kind of/any deodorant. He's a really nice guy, and doesn't come across as being "dirty", but still often carries a foul smell.
Since I'm not in the states, working in a culture that's foreign to me, I'm not going to say anything (I don't want to risk it), but I really thought about what I would do if this was an American workplace, where I'm more in my comfort zone to say something. Personally, I would probably try to orchestrate creative circumstances, most likely involving others, in order for him to see that he smells bad without pointing it out to him, directly, and possibly hurting his feelings.
How about you? Have you been in this situation? Would you tell the person that they...well - stink? How would you go about it?
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I work in a call center (in America), and because everyone is sitting right next to six other people, it's impossible to avoid these conversations whenever a person smells. Generally a supervisor pulls them aside, and approaches the subject as awkwardly but politely as possible. I haven't yet had to do it, but I would if it came up. Though frankly, I've historically had more problems with people Lysol bombing a region I was sitting in than with people who just smell bad.
In social situations, I would probably not bring it up at all. I'm not overly sensitive to smells, so I can usually ignore all but the worst.
Saying something to a supervisor is probably a good idea. There's virtually no way to say something without embarrassing him or hurting his feelings but I feel that coming from an authority figure is somehow better.
If that's not an option, just say it as nice as you can. Maybe use the compliment sandwich.
I actually had an employee that stunk to high heaven. I had to get HR involved and the legal department just to find a proper way to tell him that he stunk and he had to adhere to the company policy regarding personal hygiene and personal presentation. It took me 2 months of waiting for them to come up with a plan on how to address the issue. Once I told him about the issue, he said "I can't smell a thing, what are you talking about" I told him we had customer complaints and associate concerns. It got to the point where a secret shopper noted on a shop that the customer smelled. after another 90 days of smelling and documentation he actually gave his notice. I ran into him about a year ago, working at McDonalds, he smelled even worse!
If possible, put a bottle of deodorant (in a sack) on his desk or work station. Best to do this w/o anyone seeing you. :-)
I teach middle school. I do it all the time...
While us Floridians are more tolerant of stinky people, I know EXACTLY what you are talking about....
Let's face some facts: Down here in FL EVERYONE sweats. That's what happens when it's 96 outside with 75% humidity. If you work outside, there is no deodorant in the world that is going to save you.
The ones we have a problem with are the DIRTY stinky people. I know it sounds gross, but sweaty people who have good personal hygiene smell a whole lot different than someone who hasn't showered in a week. I am not kidding when I say you can smell them from 40' away - and it usually happens in a Grocery store or a restaurant!
Each morning in huddle I get sandwhiched between people with really, really foul breath. Like, even when I'm not facing them or even standing across the quad (4 cube 'bullpen'). I've noticed it is 4 or 5 different people on my team of 20 or so.
I wish I could say something but many of the folks I work with are 20+ years older than me and I think it is clear many of them do not brush their teeth regularly. I don't mean to imply that middle aged folks don't brush their teeth - but that's what it seems! I feel like I am in the minority. In my quad we even have a communal gum basket. Chew some gum people!!!
What can I do - send out a public service announcement on oral hygiene? Ugh - ick!
@meh3884: Put little travel size bottles of mouthwash in the communal gum basket? Not all people chew gum - esp. sugar infused. Of course, not all people use mouth wash either. ...But the 'hint' is direct w/mouthwash.
I worked with a man who claimed he didn't need deodorant because he didn't smell. I was trapped with him on a hot summer day in a car with no ac. He raised his arm, and I nearly passed out. Needless to say I never went anywhere with him again. Some people just don't smell themselves. I also lived oversees for a bit. You can't even find deodorant over there. It's bizarre.
I would put the smelly guy with the loud mouth guy (everyone has them). Eventually the loud mouth will go off on Mr. Smelly.
yes, but fortunately i can't smell @gatzby from here.
@gmwhit: I actually did that once before. Another time, I left a bunch of Tic Tacs on someone else's desk.
slightly different point of view: i was on the recieving end once. i had a coworker pull me to the side and tell me that i smelled. i hadn't realized so i took that as a clue to go hunt a different kind of deodorant. i did thank the person because no one else had the nerve to tell me. and next time i worked with her i could tell she was skitish until i explained "thanks for the heads up. i went and found a new deodorant, let me know if it isn't working well please."
In HR it was occasionally my unpleasant task to deliver this news to an employee. It's never easy. Even in a foreign country I would think that you could approach the HR office with this problem. There might be cultural issues that they could best deal with.
On a related note, I had to deal with employees who had medical problems that caused body odors. Double urgh! Try to imagine, if you can, what THOSE medical excuses looked like! And imagine how to deal with co-workers who couldn't tolerate the odor without revealing the confidential info.
If nothing else works, see about getting an inexpensive air purifier for your desk.
Unfortunately, I was a supervisor that had to have the awkward conversation with one of the guys that used to work for me. (Things got better after the conversation.) He no longer reports to me, so it stopped being my problem, though I believe the situation has greatly improved.
Another of the guys who works for me also has a bit of an odor issue (not as bad as the one above), though he has a private office (used to be a large closet, actually) and rarely works with others, so I haven't gotten any complaints.
I have to deliver this news to people somewhat regularly -- it's an occupational hazard in Human Resources. It's never much fun, but most people take it with good grace, and are thankful for the heads-up, since they don't intend to offend others.
The best approach is to do it privately, respectfully, and as matter-of-factly as possible. Treat it as a normal business discussion, and frame it as "this could happen to anyone, and often does." This gives you the best chance of keeping a small deal from becoming a big deal.
Good luck!
This comes up a lot at PAX. It's not that attendees (or Enforcers, for that matter) are that bad, there's just so much going on and a constant flow of humanity in such a small space. I think the best answer is to politely hint someone should freshen up, or at least go take a break. Another method I saw: offering to do their laundry.
My joke was, "Hey, if you smelled really bad, would you want someone to tell you, or just walk away? Walk away? See you later!"
NPR's news quiz Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me has already solved your problem. Check out the Listener Limerick Challenge from 2 weeks ago:
A friend or coworker? I would figure out a way to tell them. A stranger? No way. That's really rolling the dice there.
I used to work for a heart catheter manufacturer in a "clean room" environment. They have facilities in a few countries and offered an exchange program that let people live/work in another country for a year or two. A group of people that came from a cool, damp climate transferred to Southern California. Their cultural habit was to shower every few days, and skip the deodorant. HR actually had to come up with a special training module for these transfers (and all following them) on hygiene in the states, and specifically hot weather states. This training covered daily showers, deodorant, dental hygiene, and laundry.
I feel for the person who had to teach that class. But it worked!
@rayray8822: Awesome - an anonymous "Deodorgram" for under $10 shipped. I'm bookmarking this!
....i always face this situation in elevator...just hold breath....
@claire05: Yeah I've found passing out makes the smell go away, too.


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The stage was set last February at Bellarmine's Knights Hall.
Double overtime. Two-point-four seconds on the clock. Sacred Heart trailed Assumption 59-57 in a Seventh Region basketball semifinal and had one last chance to send the game into a third OT.
Taking the ball out under the Rockets' basket, Sacred Heart's Raven Merriweather heaved a long pass to DaiJia Ruffin.
Ruffin collected the ball near the top of the key, dribbled toward the basket, and with a Rocket defender bearing down, attempted a layup at full speed.
After bouncing hard against the backboard, the ball caromed off the rim – and out.
Game over.
Ruffin, then a sophomore, finished with a game-high 21 points, but her failure to convert at crunch time was devastating.
"It was like: 'How could I miss that layup?' " Ruffin said. "I just made my team lose and we had so many seniors on that team who wanted to win. I was crushed."
The short-range misfire brought an end to the 2011-12 season for Sacred Heart, but as Assumption players and fans celebrated, Ruffin resolved to bounce back.
Through the first three weeks of this season, the 5-foot-9 guard/forward has done just that.
Ruffin is shooting 78 percent from the field and has averaged 19.2 points, 9.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists a game for the Valkyries, who entered this week with a perfect 5-0 record.
"She's got great hands, quick feet and she's been playing basketball for a long time and it shows," said Sacred Heart coach Donna Moir, a 22-year veteran.
Deceptive quickness has allowed Ruffin to thrive in Moir's five-guard system of up-tempo offense and full-court defense.
"(My speed) is what turns a lot of people's heads when I play," said Ruffin, who also averages 2.6 steals and 1.6 blocks per game.
In the season-opener against Franklin County, Ruffin caught fire for 23 points on 10-of-13 shooting from the field, and then went off for 23 points and 16 rebounds in a 64-54 win over Highlands a week later.
Facing Jeffersonville (Ind.) on Dec. 6, Ruffin was 10 of 13 from the field, charting 23 points and 16 rebounds en route to a 64-43 victory.
According to her mother, Ruffin's passion for the game sprouted early.
"I asked her what she wanted for her (first) birthday and she said a basketball rim," recalled Danielle Ruffin, who was a standout center at J'town and later played at Kentucky State.
"(At) about (age) seven we knew that this is what she was here to do," said Danielle Ruffin.
The younger Ruffin played up on Butler High School's varsity team beginning in sixth grade and was named to the Sixth Region All-Tournament team in 2009 as a seventh-grader.
After transferring from Butler following her freshman year, Ruffin averaged 12.6 points and 7.3 rebounds per game last season.
In addition to her hoops prowess, Ruffin is quickly becoming one of the state's top shot putters after taking up the event last year. She finished fifth at the 2012 state track and field meet with a throw of 36 feet, 1.25 inches.
Ruffin, a B-student who favors math and history, said she has received interest from Indiana, Louisville, Tennessee-Martin and Vanderbilt.
Her dream school, however, is North Carolina.
"I haven't heard anything from North Carolina, but I'm still waiting," she said with a laugh.
Sacred Heart was ranked No. 15 in The Lexington Herald-Leader's preseason survey of coaches and is joined in a loaded Seventh Region by defending state champion Manual (No. 2), Assumption (No. 6), Ballard (No. 11) and Christian Academy (No. 19).
"It's going to be a battle when it comes down to it at the end," said Moir, who led the Valkyries to consecutive Sweet 16 titles in 2002, '03 and '04. Sacred Heart also won in 1976 under Bunny Daugherty.
Along with Ruffin, Sacred Heart features one of the state's top point guards in junior Raven Merriweather (15.4 ppg., 7 rpg., 3.2 apg.). Senior Kristin Matula, a Michigan State field hockey commit, averages 8.6 points per game and sophomore Ashley Johnson (8.4 ppg.) provides strong support as well.
This Saturday, the group will get its first opportunity to make some noise in the region when it travels to Ballard for a 2:30 p.m. tip. The Bruins also entered the week undefeated at 4-0.
"We just want to come out and prove people wrong and show them that we are good," said Ruffin. "We want to be the best in our region and go to state."
And what if the season again hinged on a late shot in a post-season game?
"It would be me shooting and it would be me hitting," Ruffin said.
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Do I have to resample images when I'm resizing them? I want to make them smaller.
Yes. Changing the size of the image without resampling is called "cropping" — the pixels in the new image are identical to the pixels in the old image, they just live in a differently-sized space. You want to map the old pixels into the new space, and that requires resampling whether the new space is larger or smaller than the old space. The reason why resampling is optional in the resize dialog of some editors is because you may want to change the pixel resolution of the image — not the number of pixels in the image, but the number of pixels per inch/cm. In that case, you're not changing the image data itself, just the image metadata (the information about the image).
You don't strictly have to re-sample if you use an exact multiple (you could simply drop every other pixel) but it is silly not to re-sample as it results in a loss of overall quality and the production of artifacts if you don't.
When you shrink an image, even at an exactly even multiple, the best image quality is maintained by combining the information from the pixels being removed in to the pixels being kept (down-sampling). If one pixel was black and the other white, then the pixel that ends up existing where they both were would have been grey, not black or white. Putting a black or white pixel in the place would result in an artifact that doesn't match up with what the original image looked like.
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Can someone explain to me why the delta-hedging of ATM options near expiry is difficult?
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This is usually called Pin Risk. It's difficult because there is a high degree of uncertainty regarding the whether the options you sold are exercised or not. If you don't hedge, your short options could be exercised and you are left with risky net short position in the underlying. If you hedge and your short options are not exercised, then you have a long position in underlying after expiry. Alternatively, you can partially hedge. However, in any case, you are potentially exposed to risk of adverse underlying movement.


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I have installed PostgreSQL on a Windows XP laptop so I can learn about using PostgreSQL. My problem is that the PostgreSQL tutorial starts of with the instruction
To create a new database, in this example named mydb, you use the following command:
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My problem is that it doesn't tell me how/where to input the command. I have found access to an SQL Shell but it doesn't perform as expected.
What is the 'proper' way to input commands?
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Barred Owls at Camp Long
A juvenile Barred Owl (Strix varia) peers curiously at its photographer from the woods at Camp Long. One adult and 2 juveniles have been sighted by naturalists over the last 2 months.
Although a nest has not been located it is very likely that the owls nested at Camp Long.
Nests are difficult to find since Barred owls prefer to nest in tree cavities. They will also use empty hawk nests, crows nests, or squirrel nests. Barred owlets fledge (fly) at 6 weeks old but continue to be cared for by adults for up to six months. Breeding takes place in early spring and eggs are incubated for 28-33 days. It is estimated that the Camp Long owlets are approximately 2 to 2 ½ months old. This one was extremely curious and flew closer to examine the photographer as its sibling hissed and begged for food from the adult nearby.
Barred owls are large owls (20" tall) with round heads and NO ear tufts. They are brownish-gray with brown and white bars across their chest, hence the name"barred" owls. Unlike most owls their eyes are dark brown instead of yellow. They are found in lowland forests, parks and suburban areas. Barred owls are often out at night, dawn or dusk, but can also be seen during the day. They eat primarily mice, as well as squirrels, foxes, rabbits, bats, small birds, other owls, snakes, lizards, fish, spiders and insects.
The barred owl (Strix varia) is native to eastern forests but has moved into the Pacific Northwest over the last several decades. It is believed that they are displacing their close relative, the threatened northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina). Barred owls are larger, more aggressive, and better adapted to a range of habitats. As the Barred Owl moves into the Pacific Northwest, it is also breeding with the Spotted Owl, to form hybrid birds slangily called "Sparred Owls".
The familiar "Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?"
is the signature call of the Barred Owl.
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Spotting Eaglets with Camp Long!
Photographer Mike Hamilton snapped these photos of an eaglet during Camp Long's Enthralling Eagle program. The nest is located on the hillside directly behind the Parks Department Westbridge building. The eaglet was probably around 3 months old at the time of this photo (July 2003), given that eggs are laid around mid - March and they incubate for approximately 30 -35 days. This baby is just about full sized - 2-3 ½ feet tall with wing span of 6-8 feet. It is now called a fledgling and will start hopping around and exercising its wings to prepare for flight.
This is a Northwestern Salamander!
The Northwestern Salamander breeds in Camp Long's Polliwog Pond (move over polliwogs!). They breed in mid -February to early March and their egg masses range from the size of a fist to a grapefruit. The jelly mass contains about 40 - 250 individual eggs. They hatch into little salamander larvae (like frog tadpoles but with gills on the side of the neck) in about 4-8 weeks, depending on water temperature and species. They belong to a family called Mole salamanders whose adults spend most time on land (in this case in the forest) but migrate to ponds or slow moving streams to breed. Adults return to land within a few days of breeding.
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9 Mar 2012 1:28 AM #1
playing animation without loading image files
Hi there.
I created animation by Sencha Animator.
But, when the iPhone didn't have a cache, the animation plays without loading image files.
Would you tell me the way to play animation after loading all image files?
13 Mar 2012 9:12 AM #2
The animation starts to play when the "load" DOM event is fired. This typically means that all the images are loaded. You could also try to wrap the "AN.Controller.setConfig(configData);" in a setTimeout, to give the browser a little time to perhaps display the images after they are loaded.
window.addEventListener('load', function(){ var configData = {...}; setTimeout(function(){ AN.Controller.setConfig(configData); }, 10); }, false);


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Tab Hunter
Tab Hunter was a lady-killing movie heartthrob in the 1950s and 1960s. In 2005, he published his autobiography, "Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star," in which he came out. Here Hunter poses with his trophies for Best New Personality Actor at the Audience Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles in 1952. (Photo by Getty Images)
Adam Lambert
Adam Mitchel Lambert's goth glam image began on the stages of American Idol Season 8, as the show's first openly gay contestant.
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Actor Anthony Rapp starred in the original Broadway cast of "Rent," and later starred in the film version of the musical. (AP)
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Actor B.D. Wong, known for his role as Dr. George Huang on "Law & Order: SVU," hired a woman to mother a child for him and his partner. In 2000, the woman gave birth to twins from an ovum taken from his partner's sister. Wong journaled his experiences in the book Following Foo: the Electronic Adventures of the Chestnut Man. (AP)
Billy Bean
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Comedian Bruce Vilanch is best known for having written jokes for the Academy Awards and other shows, as well as appearing on the revamped "Hollywood Squares" of 1998. (AP)
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Sir Elton John - born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on March 25, 1947 - arose as a pop superstar in the 1970s and, 250 million records and 50 Top 40 hits later, remains one of the music industry's greatest songwriters. He was knighted by the British crown in 1998. (AP)
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Cult film director John Waters was the creative force behind the movies "Pink Flamingos" (1972), "Polyester" (1981), "Hairspray" (1988), "Cry-Baby" (1990) and "Cecil B. DeMented" (2000). (AP)
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Actor Richard Chamberlain - star of TV's "Dr. Kildare," "The Thorn Birds" and "Shogun," among other shows - published an autobiography when he was 69 years old acknowledging that he was gay. (AP)
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First-ever "Survivor" winner Richard Hatch may have won $1 million on the reality show in 2000, but slights to the taxman put Hatch behind bars for tax evasion in 2006. (AP)
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Recording artist Ricky Martin is the father of twin boys. He came out on March 29, 2010 in a heartfelt letter on his web site.
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Comedienne Rosie O'Donnell, once the 'queen of nice' on her daytime talk show, came out publically several months before her talk show ended.
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Actor Rupert Everett has found success playing both staight and gay lead characters. (AP)
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No frosty reception for the latest push with frozen yogurt
|David Torpey of Peachwave pours some frozen yogurt for a customer in Watertown. Steven Valenti / Republican-American
The flavors span acai blueberry to Nutella to gingerbread and beyond. Options run the gamut from nonfat to low-fat to sugar- and even dairy-free. And instead of cold, austere stores with a few dispensing machines and a cash register, these places radiate with bright neon colors and themes that evoke the fruity and futuristic.
The 1980s saw a food industry phenomenon as ice cream's cousin, frozen yogurt, was introduced to the masses by chains like TCBY and I Can't Believe It's Yogurt. While some of those stores still exist or have been reimagined for modern times, a race is on to become the Starbucks of frozen yogurt.
Whether they are the cleverly named 16 Handles, Zinga, Pinkberry or any of the stores cropping up around here, this is not the frozen yogurt store of yesteryear. Today's incarnation of the trend rides a wave that flows from trends in Asia, with novel toppings and the idea of the frozen yogurt store as a gathering place, which feature mod couches and trendy lighting. Even with winter weather just around the corner, the trend has gained an ever stronger foothold in many corners of Northwest Connecticut in recent weeks.
Peachwave, a growing Oklahoma-based chain of 59 U.S. locations, opened in Watertown in mid-August to lines that wound the parking lot of its Main Street strip mall. Another Peachwave is set to open in Oxford in coming weeks. Another big player in the expanding market, FroYo World, brought its own take on the craze to Cheshire and Southbury a few weeks ago.
Lines awaited the grand opening of each. According to the company, patrons in Middlebury, Waterbury and Southington can also expect to see "Frozen Yogurt Lounges" — which FroYo World bills itself as — in their communities soon. In Torrington, the city went from no frozen yogurt joints a few months ago to plans for at least two. One, Yankee Yogurt, opened in September. Though Yankee is not among the proliferating chains, it borrows on many of the key concepts sweeping the nation, from myriad topping options to the serve-your-own format. Many of the yogurt establishments capitalize on social media. They boast Facebook pages, and offer promotions like "guess the weight of this cup of yogurt" to win prizes like free yogurt. They even Tweet about frozen yogurt.
At Peachwave in Watertown, co-owner Kelly Byrne said the shop doubles as a hangout in the suburban town, with teens taking advantage of the late-night weekend hours and others gathering to chat at other times. Those scooping up the yogurt aren't necessarily only young trend setters.
Betty Marucci of Waterbury brought her mother, Ann Summa, 89, of Wolcott, to the Watertown shop recently.
"Everybody's talking about it, my kids, my grown, adult kids," said Marucci, who endorsed the sample of pumpkin-pie-flavored yogurt that her mother ordered, as well as the sugar-free Kahlua flavor she swirled for herself. "Being sugar-free I was afraid (the Kahlua) was not going to taste good, but it was to die for ... This, to me, is so creative."
Marucci and Summa experienced first hand one way in which this frozen yogurt boom differs from the previous one: They served up their own portions. Believers and industry insiders say this time around they think the trend encompasses a different experience than in the era when Jane Fonda wore leg warmers. Most yogurt stores now have machines lined up for the masses to use themselves. The yogurt is sold by weight, and the toppings also laid out for the taking by customers.
The options of flavors and toppings, even the formulations of the recipes for the yogurt, are different from a quarter century ago, said Byrne, 27, who worked at GE Capital before opening the Watertown store with her mother and grandfather.
"The product has come a long way," said Byrne, noting people are also more aware of the beneficial bacteria found in yogurt (and, yes, for those wondering, frozen yogurt maintains some probiotic qualities). Glancing around the shop on a weekday mid-afternoon as young adults took pictures of their yogurt creations with iPhones and a trio of little girls served up their own bowls, she said: "It seemed like a good time to get into this."
Tim Hering, development manager for Peachwave and part owner of a store in Oklahoma City, said frozen yogurt is hot right now. But whether this incarnation of the trend stands the test of time or melts remains to be seen, he acknowledged, adding that he has watched the market become ever more crowded with competing chains.
"Certainly the market is going to get oversaturated — pretty soon there's going to be so many of them out there," he said, adding while frozen yogurt has been popular in different geographic areas at different times, interest seems to have picked up in the Northeast over the past year, and is still booming. "It boils down to who's going to be a consistent, clean store with great service ... ambience, a great place to hang out."
And, that's not to mention the very thing that draws patrons in the first place: the yogurt.
"Flavors are more nuanced, sophisticated and varied constantly," Hering said compared to three decades ago. "There are so many choices. Everyone can choose how much you want, how healthy you want it to be or how crazy you want it. There's so many creations and variables it's just something people are looking for right now. They're in control, if you will."
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When tuning a guitar, what is the best way to strike a string to get it as close to pitch as possible? I'd like to get it as close to the right pitch as I possibly can. I've noticed with my tuner (it's an iPhone app) that the pitch isn't perfectly stable, but tends to fall down 5-10 cents after the initial attack of the note. (I'm not sure whether this is instrument error or a physical effect.)
All stringed instruments, to my knowledge, do this; the note starts out sharp, and stabilizes after a half-second or so. The lower the string is in pitch, the longer the effect lasts.
Pluck the string gently, not near the bridge (over the 12th fret is good, just stay away from the bridge), in order to get the most even tone possible, wait a hair, then tune. I generally tune without a pick for that reason. Some tuners don't pick up the lower-pitched strings well; I'll tune to a harmonic if that's the case.
(Edit: As has been pointed out in the comments, an exception to the above is when you're going to be playing just short, choppy notes in a song. In that case, you might consider tuning to the beginning of the note, not the tail of it.)
As to why this happens, perhaps that's a question for physics.se.
More information about tuning than you ever wanted to know: Guitar Tuning Nightmares Explained
I've found that I get the best tuning when plucking the string near where I usually pluck it. I'm guessing this is because I play mostly chords, and there fore short notes, and that tuning to "compensate" a bit for the effect you noticed helps. I wouldn't be surprised (but I don't know) if classical guitarist rather like to pluck the string near the 12th fret.
I've also noticed that this mostly is a problem on cheap guitars, probably because the tuning incorrectness induced by this problem is then made worse by bad intonation.
Upgrading my earlier comment to an answer.
It depends on your playing style. Remember that the aim is for your notes to be in tune when you're playing.
So, if you play mostly long sustained notes, aim for the correct pitch during the sustain. If you mute or re-pick most of your notes early, aim for the correct pitch during the attack.
If you play softly, pluck gently when tuning. If you play hard, pluck vigorously when tuning.
It's a physical effect. Strings, particularly the thicker ones, vibrate at different pitches depending on the size of the vibration. Strobe tuners allow you to see this, even with some background noise, and there are several strobe tuner apps available for the iPhone.
How to pluck and what part of each string's bending pitch to tune is an artistic musical decision. You get to decide which part of each strings pitch profile is most important to your music. If it's the pluck, or attack, and you rarely let notes linger, you want to tune the pluck or earliest pitch. If you are vocally harmonizing to a long sustain, then you might want to accurately tune that part of the strings "singing", and let the pluck be sharp. Or something in-between.
This is a major reason why I prefer to tune by ear whenever possible (obviously, on stage in the middle of a gig I'll use a tuner and turn my volume off; and even then I'll recheck by ear as soon as possible... quietly of course). Generally I check it a variety of different ways; open strings against one another (4ths except for the 2nd & 3rd together... that's always a problem spot), 5th & 7th fret harmonics against each other (again... except for the 2nd & 3rd... and you can use 5th fret low 6th for the 1st string's pitch and the 7th fret same low 6th string for the B natural 2nd string). Also an Emaj7 at the 7th fret uses all six strings together...
But my favorite is stacked A's and E's... starting on the high E string (1st) I make sure open E and 5th fret A are both in tune (seperately of course, I'm talking about open 1st and 5th fret 1st... same string) with a sustained A=440Hz (i.e. a metronome, tuning fork... ummm... whoever I'm playing with or whatever I'm playing to or recording over) after that I add a string at a time making sure each new string is in tune with every other string I've tuned so far (from A 5th fret on the top high E string down) and my A440 all together. Basically, if you fret 5th fret on the 1st & 2nd (E & B) with your pinky, and the 3rd and 4th strings at the 2nd fret, and then leave the bottom 2 lowest strings (5th & 6th) open you will have stacked 5ths a 4th apart (A's & E's... AEAEAE from high to low) on all 6 strings and all should sound properly and naturally in tune with A440 (after you tune of course)... whether you play harder or softer (remember, everyone you play with is going to have that same variance of effort, and it will change during the course of a song).
Why do I say this? Because the vast majority of the time that you hear something being out of tune, it's not because it's out of tune with the bass player or pianist for instance... It's because one of your guitar strings is out of tune with all the other strings on your guitar (the guitar is out of tune with itself). Remember what was stated above... that "all stringed instruments vary pitch in this way" (paraphrased). Of course because of the imperfect intonation capabilities of guitars (especially non compensated bridges on acoustics) but any guitar in actuality (even those with that... I think it's the "Buzz Fieten Tuning system"... Yep, found it); doesn't intonate every single fret spot on. You will also find times where maybe one of the open strings needs to be slightly out to compensate for a problem fret that may only show up in a certain key (or be guitar dependent).
I've recorded too many guitarists who only tune with a tuner... and at least 90% of the time I've ended up stopping them in the first minute of recording because they're still out of tune. Basically, if it sounds out of tune, it is (I don't care what some cheap tuner says, and a real quality strobe tuner's dial never really stops 100% perfectly still for longer than milliseconds)... IME.
Now don't get me wrong... everyone should own a tuner, but... in my experience they aren't the final arbitrator, your ear is. (This actually makes me want to bring up proper intonation and cheap and/or old tuning machines... watch out for "vintage" instruments with old tuning machines... keep the old ones for resale, but vintage guitars don't sound so good when they don't stay in tune for the whole song... of course intonation is beyond the scope of this question).
I did notice on that buzzfieten.com that he recommends tuning the attack and not the flattening decay of the strings pitch to avoid going noticeably sharp when playing harder. I generally pick at a few different intensities when I'm being really anal about my tuning, but most of the time I would qualify it as moderately firm (but never enough to buzz).
I now notice I left out the usual way to tune by ear (the 5th fret compared to the open string above… except for the 2nd/3rd of course), but I assume that other link posted covers that one (I didn't check).
Kind of a hard thing to describe with just words... (I hope that all made sense).
Oh... I guess an exception would be while using an E-Bow (you are completely altering your ADSR profile then... "Attack Decay Sustain Release").


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DNA Study Reveals the One and Only Wolf Species in North America
The finding highlights the shortcomings of laws intended to protect endangered species that don't take into account research of the evolution of species.
July 28, 2016, Thursday
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Arizona Coyotes' Lease Deal Is Amended
The Arizona Coyotes and the city of Glendale agreed to amend their lease agreement, although the deal may be only a temporary fix in the team's ongoing attempts to remain in the city.
July 24, 2015, Friday
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Coyotes Create Dangers and Divisions in New York Suburbs
The animals have become a problem recently, killing pets and attacking residents; what to do about them has become a flash point in some towns.
June 24, 2015, Wednesday
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April 26, 2015, Sunday
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April 23, 2015, Thursday
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Murray Energy to Acquire Five Consol Mines
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I thought Obama was going to shut the coal business down? Thats what romney was telling locals here while running for pres. I personally dont think Murray would be buying mines like candy if they were going to just shut down? How fast business ideas change when reality is discovered!
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Safe? Go to MSHA.gov then data retrieval...then mine name Ohio Valley Coal....nearly 3 times the NFDL rate and that's safe? Safe to say that's a lie....
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In March, Hilary and Jimmy Brady of Wilmington, N.C., ran a so-called daily-deal promotion in an effort to boost sales for their new fashion accessories business, IntheBeanTime.com.
The couple had started the online venture three months earlier and at the time they were averaging just three transactions a day and had no employees. The promotion was for a necklace hand-stamped with any name for 21% off. They sold 144 over the course of three days. The site they used to market the deal, VeryJane.com, took a 25% cut.
Ms. Brady says they opted to use VeryJane over a bigger-name daily-deal site like Groupon.com or LivingSocial.com because it specializes in fashion and jewelry. And while they could have capped sales to a manageable amount on a bigger daily-deal service, they didn't want to risk attracting business they couldn't handle outside of the promotion.
"I didn't want to overpromise and under-deliver," says the 33-year-old. IntheBeantime now has seasonal part-time help and sells about 25 items a day, Ms. Brady adds.
Daily deals are prepaid online coupons that exploded in popularity about four years ago. At the start, deals typically offered steep discounts—in some cases as much as 75% off—and the services made money by charging merchants a percentage of each transaction, often leaving sellers with little to no room for making a profit.
But today many daily-deal services offer merchants more flexibility. Deals can run for any length of time and without a minimum sales requirement, and some services approve of merchants offering modest discounts. U.S. consumer spending on daily deals is projected to hit $5.5 billion by 2016, up from $1.8 billion in 2011, reports research firm BIA/Kelsey.
Daily-deal promotions tend to be highly attractive to entrepreneurs just starting out because they offer the potential for immediate sales and broad exposure. But experts warn the strategy can backfire if executed poorly. Flubs include allowing for more orders than can be delivered on time, buying more inventory than an entrepreneur can sell and offering too big a discount.
Caroline Daniels, a lecturer on entrepreneurship at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., says it never makes sense to structure a deal so the business loses money. At the least, you want to break even."I see new ventures make this mistake all the time and they don't make it twice," she says.
Eric T. Bradlow, a marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, says the goal of a daily-deal campaign should be to acquire new customers and retain them over the long term.
Mr. Bradlow described a recent visit he made with his 16-year-old son to a local restaurant that was offering free breakfasts for a short period. He says his son wondered how the establishment could afford to be so generous. Mr. Bradlow responded by asking the teenager if they would have dined there had it not been running the promotion. The answer was no, because it was their first visit to the restaurant and they had never even considered going there beforehand.
Mr. Bradlow also noted that they paid for some items, including coffee and juice, and that because they enjoyed their visit, they would likely go there again.
Some entrepreneurs say daily deals tend to attract "coupon clients." Yuksel "UK" Sahin, owner of Sanat Hair Salon in New York, says these are customers who are only interested in saving money. "They're not loyal," says Mr. Sahin, 34, who opened his four-employee salon in 2010.
Entrepreneurship experts say there are many reasons why daily deals work better for some merchants than others—including the structure of the deal, when it takes place and the types of goods or services for sale. And, of course, some services charge more—and have larger distribution channels—than their rivals.
Yael Lustmann, 42, says she runs her own daily deals through Facebook and Yelp for her shaved-ice shop so she can cut out the middleman. She recently put up a Facebook post inviting her fans one weekend to buy a four-ounce treat at the normal price of $3.75 and get a second one free. They just had to mention the name of one of her four employees, Chelsea, to get it.
"It's not scientific, but I'd say about a third that came in were first-time visitors," says Ms. Lustmann, who opened Sweet Crush Ice Bar in Los Angeles last August after working for about 10 years as an attorney.
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BELLAIRE – Dan Marling unveiled the village's strategic plan for the water department during Thursday's council meeting....
Sounds good to me..after all we have been paying extremely high water bills for years. these things should have been done decades ago. there are also a lot of businesses and people who know people? That get huge breaks on their water bills and even forfeited in some instances so rumor has it. It's hear say of course but i would be willing to bet my left arm that some of it is true. Hopefully in the future these things can be eliminated and every one will pay their fair share for the water that they use instead of just a percentage of the village while others fill their pools and power wash their homes for free. Like I said it's just hear say but when there is so much hear say some of it has to be true.
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Lots of words and little substance UAMF. How about some praise for a proactive stance being taken for a change. Your posts are like peeing in the wind. You might feel better but ultimately you wind up smelling bad.
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Truth is the truth..we have more than likely the highest rates in the valley. The stealing has been going on forever. hopefully after they were investigated these things will change and I do appreciate what this new is doing. That doesn't change the wrong things that continue.
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Perpetuating "rumors" and allegations of "smoke" and "hearsay" must cease as well.
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I could put some names to those allegations with out fear of being sued. They know who they are and surely hope they read this. Maybe they will stop it. At the very least it really irritates them and you gotta love irritating a thief.
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Can I use a white sheet of paper instead of the grey card for white balance calibration? I actually tried and it works not bad at all. I know the grey card is calibrated etc, but does it really change?
A purist would say it's not good enough because you can't guarantee the consistency of the white in the paper. However in my personal experience it's plenty good enough. I've used sheets of paper, bleached coffee filters, tops of Pringles cans (when they had a frosted top) and everything was fine. I've also used more expensive tools like the CBL Lens.
However, a word of caution: if your goal is color accuracy then it's not good enough. You need proper tools. If your goal is to get very close then it's perfectly fine to use paper. Remember that in many cases a white balance choice is an artistic choice more than anything else. And there are many reasons to choose something other than what is technically correct.
I use the back side of 3x5 cards all the time. The one reservation I have with paper is if it has writing on the back side, it can show through, and in strong lighting, sometimes it's easy to see through the paper, and especially in strong light, you can see the grain of the paper much easier. If you use paper, you should use several sheets of it to prevent colors coming through. I would also watch out for watermarks when you are using a piece of paper for a white-balance.


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This is answered by the online Catan FAQ.
but that's if you're playing the English variant. In that variant, each player chooses how much to contribute to the defense of Catan. A player isn't allowed to defend Catan if they have no cities, thus no-one can win and get a reward.


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Last week I went into my studio with certain things on my mind. Usually when I pull out my paintbrushes I'm able to push those things aside and just be in the moment. I thought I was accomplishing this quite well when I completed my last painting. Until, that is, I realized I had just painted a self portrait – in the form of a tree:
At first it hadn't occurred to me that that's what I'd done. In fact, I had no particular vision of what the end result would even look like. I just knew as I progressed that this subject had faced turmoil. The end result shows a mature and weathered tree as opposed to one with lovely leaves and/or flowers to look at. There is no new life springing forth from its branches, either – not that its beyond repair, but rather awaiting a sign from Mother Nature.
This tree is waiting for its new life to begin. And so am I.
I've discussed my surgery enough on this blog. You get the idea of how much I've struggled in my recovery; how difficult its been to see the forest through the trees (no pun intended). What I've been too embarrassed to share until now is that even though I'm noticing small amounts of progress, I'm feeling less and less attractive. Grateful for the colder months, I am taking comfort in knowing that I can hide my body; the swelling and bloating at my incision site is something I simply cannot stand to look at anymore. I've started wearing scarves or turtlenecks all of the time as well. Hiding my neck, of course, because of the cystic acne that's become a problem since surgery. If I keep this up, I'm going to be wrapped up like a mummy by Christmas.
Sometimes a girl just needs to to think positively about herself even though she doesn't necessarily believe what she's selling. The quote I chose as a finishing touch to my painting depicts what I am trying to embrace about myself. I can certainly use a bit of positive reinforcement right now. And who knows; maybe when Springtime comes around and I'm forced to peel off all these layers I'll paint this tree a second time, with tiny leaves and flower buds – just to make it pretty again.


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Cashmere Gloves - Last Call by Neiman Marcus for $17.50 + free shipping
These Portolano Cashmere Gloves drop from $48 to $35 to $17.50 at Last Call by Neiman Marcus. Plus, shipping is free with code FRSHIP. This is around $23 off the regular price and the lowest price we've seen on this gloves this year. Choose from Winter Blue (pictured), Raspberry, Red, Eggplant, Grain, White, Oatmeal, or Charcoal. Sales tax is charged in most states.
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Simply wonderful! Thank you so much for finding this deal!
@gmwhit: Just stumbled on it! We don't have a Needless Markup down here, and I have limited need for gloves, but I am eyeing these and thinking about how soft they must be. Hmmm. Maybe I DO need gloves! What color are you going for? Black or oatmeal would be the most practical, but thet raspberry and eggplant ones are calling my name. Hmmmm. Gifts? Order several and keep the ones for myself that I like best? Decisions, decisions....
@belyndag: Ha! I live in Central FL. Do I need gloves? ::sigh:: Actually I do...on occasion here when it gets cold. But, I really need them for travelling. Got the blue, red & an oatmeal (beige?) color. Wanted the charcoal; they were out of that color. I regrouped immediately. ;-) May gift a pair or 2. May not. Thought about the eggplant...
I am a sucker for cashmere. Have found sweaters at K-Mart. <----NOT kidding. They're fairly nice, too. Wore them in Italy & got raves. Who knew? (Haven't looked this year.)
Again, I thank you! Am now a member of Neiman's. And K-Mart. :-/
Hate to go off topic but anyone else see a "Two by two, hands of blue" reference here? Brown coats FTW as an aside. :)
Excellent find, especially with xmas coming. Thanks!
What a great deal.. just ordered 2 pairs.
Thanks for posting!
Its Entire site 40% and i am getting it around $21 . what to do to make it 50%, Am i missing anything.
If you plan to use these anywhere in public (ahem), use them as glove liners with thin leather driving gloves over top. Cashmere is marvelous stuff BUT it isn't very durable.
@gmwhit: Best inexpensive "house brand" cashmere sweater I have is from, of all places, Sam's Club. Quality construction, quality yarn, fits well, and I only paid $15 for it. I have some Neiman-Marcus sweaters found at thrifts, also excellent quality but since the MSRP was $100+ I wouldn't have bought them new.


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Title text: This digital music thing will probably reach its endgame sometime in the next decade or so. These are very exciting times.
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Richard Stallman is the ardent defender of freedom and believer in copyleft, he also founded the GNU Project. (He is not really a sword fighter.[citation needed])
Cory Doctorow is a blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the weblog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization. He does not really travel around in a balloon or (usually) wear a red cape, but Randall introduced this idea in 239: Blagofaire and has continued it in later comics featuring Cory Doctorow.
Blogosphere is a name used to refer to all blogs on the Internet, many of which frequently link to and refer to other blogs. Here, the Stallman character talks about it as though it were a portion of the atmosphere.
Blogs often label posts with keywords, known as tags. A Tag cloud is a way of displaying the tags on a site where the more common tags appear in larger type than less-common ones. It has no relationship to actual water vapor clouds in the sky, but in the comic, the Doctorow character suggests that tag clouds are actually in the air, below the new blogosphere.
The Dread Pirate Roberts is a fictional character from the book and movie The Princess Bride. Roberts is the most feared pirate on the seas. But, "Dread Pirate Roberts" is merely a title that has been passed down as previous "Roberts" have gained enough money (from piracy) to retire comfortably. Westley, one of the main characters from The Princess Bride, becomes the Dread Pirate after being taken prisoner by the preceding Pirate Roberts. It is anyone's guess whether the entire 5-comic story, starting from the choice of Mrs. Roberts' name, began as just a lead-up to this one joke. At the end of the movie, Inigo Montoya has won the vengeance he has sought all his life, and expresses to Westley that he doesn't know what to do next. Westley suggests Montoya succeed him as Roberts, saying, "Have you ever considered piracy? You'd make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts." Cory Doctorow's line in the comic therefore mimics that line from the movie.
Silk Road was an online black market designed to allow criminals to trade in drugs, guns and other illegal items, run by a person also using the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts. However, this black market did not exist until four years after this comic was published.
Bram Cohen is the founder of BitTorrent, a distributed method of downloading files. People can and do use BitTorrent both for lawful file downloads and also for sharing media files unlawfully. Its distributed nature, where someone does not download a file from just one other computer but rather in many pieces from many other computers with the same file, makes it more difficult for record and movie industry groups to police, and therefore a person with Elaine's motivations might be interested in helping design such a system.
Ubuntu is probably the most well known distribution of GNU/Linux. A GNU/Linux distribution (often referred to simply as "Linux") is any operating system that is based on GNU software and the Linux kernel.
The phrase "Happy Hacking" often accompanies an autograph from Richard Stallman.
All comics in "1337" series:
- 341: 1337: Part 1
- 342: 1337: Part 2
- 343: 1337: Part 3
- 344: 1337: Part 4
- 345: 1337: Part 5 (this one)
This series was released on 5 consecutive days (Monday-Friday) and not over the usual Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule.
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- [Two RIAA agents attack Elaine and Stallman. Elaine breaks the leg of RIAA #1, while Stallman disarms RIAA #2 in a flying maneuver.]
- Elaine: Thanks, Stallman!
- Stallman: 'Tis my pleasure.
- Elaine: So, wait - how did you know we were in trouble?
- Stallman: My friend here was tracking these thugs from his balloon. He called me and I thought I'd stop by
- [Doctorow slides down a rope in red cape & goggles.]
- Doctorow: -Hi! Cory Doctorow - It's a pleasure to meet you.
- Elaine: Balloon?
- Stallman: Aye. They're up there constructing something called a "Blogosphere."
- Doctorow: Yup! It's twenty kilometers up, just above the tag clouds.
- Bobby: Mom, I'm hungry.
- Mrs. Roberts: Hush! I'm coding. You ate yesterday.
- Stallman: You know, Roberts, GNU could use a good coder like you. Ever thought of joining us?
- Elaine: Maybe someday. Right now I've got an industry to take down. Music doesn't need these assholes.
- Doctorow: Begone! And never darken our comment threads again!
- Stallman: Well, you won't fix the industry with random exploits. You need to encourage sharing in the public mind.
- Doctorow: Hey; With your music and coding backgrounds, you should get into building better p2p systems.
- Elaine: What? Straight-up piracy?
- Doctorow: Sure- have you ever considered it? You'd make a wonderful dread pirate, Roberts
- Epilogue
- Elaine shared her ideas with Bram Cohen, who went on to develop BitTorrent.
- Mrs. Roberts spends her time developing for Ubuntu, and defacing the websites of people who make "your mom" jokes to her daughter. Elaine still stalks the net. She joins communities, contributes code or comments, and moves on. And if, late at night, you point a streaming audio player at the right IP at the right time - you can hear her rock out.
- ~Happy Hacking.~
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Does anyone know if such an IP address really exists, where you can point a streaming audio player at the right time to hear her "rock out"? Saibot84 (talk) 05:33, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
127.0.0.1 HitiadlfElaineR (talk) 08:36, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
While this was a joke, I can find a more inspirational view. In this case, while Elaine Roberts is fictional, you (that is, the programmer who reads xkcd) can be excellent hackers. You have the potential to achieve exploits (not just cracking ones). You just have to work towards your goal. In other words, the reason why the IP address points to your home is because you have the 'spirit' of Elaine Roberts. Greyson (talk) 21:57, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Shouldn't we mention Dread Pirate Roberts a.k.a. Ross William Ulbricht, the Silkroad founder? 22.214.171.124 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Also, the joke is that the sentence from the Princess Bride _isn't_ exactly mimicked. Cary Elwes says "you'd make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts," where DPR is the full title. Elaine is told that she make a "great dread Pirate, Roberts," - Roberts being Elaine's surname. 126.96.36.199 23:28, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
- Rather pedantic bit of critique. The comma is just there so the joke makes sense as a line.- Pennpenn 188.8.131.52 02:24, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
It should also be mentioned that the "Dread Pirate Roberts" was the nickname of the guy who ran Silk Road.--18.104.22.168 18:07, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
according to Wikipedia, he Silk Road wasn't started until years after this comic was published. Interestingly enough, the titular comic 1337 was, which coincidentally also happens to be titled "Hack."184.108.40.206 17:39, 12 March 2015 (UTC)


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Suppose that $A$ is a Hermitian matrix and that $u,v$ are two vectors. Is there some known function $\kappa(A)$ so that $||u-v|| \leq \kappa(A) |\frac{u^{\*}Au}{u^{\*}u}-\frac{v^{\*}Av}{v^{\*}v}|$?
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2013 Family Weekend
2013 Family Weekend Highlights
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Check-in is still open until 2pm in the North Foyer of Philips Hall if you did not have a chance to stop by last night. Make sure to pick up your free football game tickets before 1pm. Explore campus and our Family Weekend events. Be sure to take pictures and post them using #ICFamily.
Friday, October 25, 2013
Are you at home but would love to see the School of Music Concerts this weekend? You can watch them live online!
Friday, October 25th - Concert Band/Vocal Jazz Ensemble - 8:15pm
Saturday, October 26th - Symphonic Band & Jazz Ensemble - 8:15pm
Sunday, October 17th - Women's Chorale, Madrigal Singers, Chorus and Choir - 8:15pm
Watch the live streams here.
Friday, October 25, 2013
Did you miss Ithaca 101: Unlocking Ithaca's Best Kept Secrets? Have no fear, Ithaca and Tompkins County Convention and Visitors Bureau is here year round to help guide you through all that Ithaca, NY has to offer. You can visit one of their two locations, one on East Shore Drive on the lake and the other downtown in The Commons. There website also has lots of useful information to use to plan your next visit to Ithaca. The Visitors Bureau can provide you information on any of the following topics:
- Accommodations
- Downtown Commons
- Art
- History
- State Parks
- Farmer's Market
- Theater
- Cayuga Wine Trail
- Festival
- Restaurants
- And More!
Friday, October 25, 2013
Students and family members can pick up registration materials including a Family Weekend schedule and free football tickets for family members for the game on Saturday in the North Foyer of Phillips Hall. This will be open until 8pm tonight and then reopen again tomorrow, Saturday, October 26th from 8am - 2pm.
After you pick up your materials, be sure to enjoy our hospitality station and check out the Ithaca and Tompkins County Convention and Visitor's Bureau table. They have information about restaurants, local waterfalls, and much more to help you explore the local Ithaca area. You can pick up your own "Ithaca is Gorges!" sticker. Also, stop by Klingenstein Lounge in Campus Center tonight at 4:15pm to hear their Ithaca 101: Unlocking Ithaca's Best Kept Secrets session.
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Starting at 11 a.m., our Hospitality and Information center will be open in the North Foyer of Phillips Hall. Family members, guests, or students with Ithaca College ID may pick up registration materials including tickets to Saturday's football game.
Make sure you use #ICFamily on Twitter to follow the conversation.
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I am really wonder what this actually means?
Can I use JBoss 7 in development and also in production with all EE 6 features (I need JMS, EJB 3.1, JSF 2.1, CDI...) or I have to wait for later releases of JBoss 7?
If not, what is the option since JBoss 6.x is only Web Profile certified and what is explanation for "only Web Profile certified"?


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The following is a guest post written by Carl Berry. Berry is a financial writer who covers tips and tricks for saving money on travel, college expenses, and everyday items.
This winter has brought some of the worst weather in recent memory. If you've been bombarded with snow, ice, and sub-zero winds — or even if you're just tired of hearing about them — you can find some much-needed mental respite by sitting down and planning your spring break. However, before you start booking your tickets and packing your bags, be sure to start off on the right foot financially. You're more than likely to graduate with a hefty student loan balance, which means that the better you manage your money during your college years, the easier it's going to be to establish yourself after you don the cap and gown. Here are five ways to save money during your spring break.


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During some games, my mouse cursor changes to some strange dotted line (like in the picture). It looks like that, but I had to draw it myself as the cursor is not visible in screenshots.
This is really bothersome as I do not see the exact point where I am clicking. Furthermore my mouse stays this way even if I Alt-Tab or close StarCraft entirely.
How can I prevent this and is there a fix except restarting my computer?


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12 Early Uses of Electricity That Proves History Was F#@%ed
When mankind first figured out how this mysterious thing called electricity worked, everyone went a little crazy for a while there. Electricity was given diverse and often unbelievably ridiculous uses that ranged from the stupid to the cruel to the perverted ... you know, kind of like what we're doing with the Internet today.
Turns out people in the "Age of Enlightenment" weren't as smart or classy as their mustaches would seem to suggest. Let us introduce you to the most surprising trends stemming from early electricity, like ...
#12. Hanging Electrified Orphans from the Ceiling
If you ever wondered how the morbidly curious entertained themselves 250 years before Honey Boo Boo was on TV, here's your answer: They paid to watch orphaned children being hung from ceilings and charged with electricity. Wait, what?
Stephen Gray's "Hanging Boy" experiment required a kid (preferably one with no parents), two planks, a silk rope, and an electrified glass tube. The tube would be rubbed against the child's feet and, according to one account, "sparks of fire evoked from his face and hands." Because of the electric charge, the kid could also attract feathers or small brass fillings.
William Watson
"I don't know what a supervillain is, but I see no reason why we shouldn't try to create one."
This was originally an experiment to find out if electricity could be conducted through bodies (meaning that Gray probably wasn't sure if the orphan would just explode or something), but it soon became a popular parlor trick people paid good money to witness. Sometimes little girls would be added. Luckily for Gray, in those times defenseless orphans were in steady supply from any charity house, so playing bondage with electrified minors was a socially accepted brand of entertainment for a while.
#11. Curing Every Complaint Ever ... With Vibrators
You wouldn't expect to see a full-page ad for vibrators in The New York Times today, but back in 1913, people were a lot more liberal with their use of these electric pleasure-bringing devices -- as in they would openly rub them on their pecs or faces (as seen above) as a solution for, well, pretty much every complaint you could think of. Yep, in an era when they couldn't admit that people were almost certainly using them for nothing but masturbation, vibrators were advertised as nearly magical healing instruments.
New-York tribune
"Wow, I can feel how it's curing my indigestion! Wait, nope ... nope, that's a boner."
The ad claimed that by applying the vibrating massage to different body parts, it would grow your muscles, help you sleep better, restore your hearing, stop headaches, and even block a cold. But don't take our word for it -- check out some of the testimonials included on the same page:
New-York tribune
Yeah, in the wrist.
Also included were the opinions of several "prominent physicians" about the benefits of owning a vibrator. One even admitted to sticking the thing in his ear, which "restored good hearing in myself and many others [in my sex dungeon]."
#10. Shocking Yourself (for Shits and Giggles)
Back in the 18th and 19th century, everyone wanted to experience electricity -- literally. People in France, for example, would line up to voluntarily shock themselves with the newly invented generators, like a nation of babies who haven't learned not to stick their fingers in the wall sockets. The above image from 1844 is called "An Electrocuted Warrior," and it shows a French official finding out what being tased feels like.
Scientists, intrepid seekers of arcane knowledge that they are, were the first to willingly taste the volts. Researchers shocked themselves silly to gauge the strength of the voltage, reporting nosebleeds, headaches, convulsions, and hours and hours of shaking. British investigator Johann Winkler, even after reporting horrible side effects, still went ahead and shocked his wife twice, just to verify his findings.
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"Attempt 371: She is now a smoking crater on the carpet. Fascinating."
Then there were the ordinary people jumping and bouncing on the electric bandwagon. People would ask showmen to dole out shocks -- one particularly gallant showman advertised "shocks given for amusement first to the ladies, then to the gentlemen." It's just common courtesy.
#9. Hazing Club Members by Zapping Their Balls
Yeah, people didn't give up on the charms of excruciating electric pain even in the 20th century. For instance, the second creepiest human centipede produced by the human imagination was this bizarre novelty torture item created in 1928. This monstrosity was designed to dole out electric jolts right to the nuts of gentleman's club aspirants.
It's not like you'd ever sustain an erection again after seeing this thing anyway.
Then again, this was a pretty good bargain: For only $52, you could have the most shocking hazing rituals in town ("shocking" as in "electrifying" and as in "holy shit what is that thing"). The man sitting on the front of the giant woolen centipede had access to a dial that, when turned, would shoot voltage straight into the unmentionables of the men sitting behind. The lines coming out of their rears in the illustration seem to imply that the would-be gentlemen have also shat themselves in succession after having their balls fried. So, all in all, this isn't that different from present day college hazings after all.
#8. Controlling Horses With Electric Shocks
It turns out folks were driving around in electric-powered vehicles in the mid-1800s ... only instead of using batteries, these beauties were fueled by horse tears.
So how did this work? Well, in the image above, you can see that the carriage comes equipped with an electricity generator (the tiny box under the rider's hand), which when activated sends a shock through the reins. A description of this "ingenious and efficacious method" of controlling unruly horses claims that the animal felt "a disagreeable but not painful sensation of an electric pricking." Considering that the shock was administered directly on the horse's teeth, we think it was probably a little more than a "pricking" (you're free to chew a wire if you don't believe us).
The same inventor later came up with an electric whip. Then again, electrocuting animals was one of America's favorite pastimes in the 19th century, and it wasn't just that dickwad Thomas Edison doing it, as we've mentioned before -- Ben Franklin also killed his share of critters. And speaking of animal abuse ...
#7. Getting Electricity Out of Dead Cats
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Pictured: The invention of dubstep.
At last, science has come up with a way to harness the power of dead cats. What you see above is an electrophorus, an 18th century device that could produce seemingly endless amounts of electricity, if only you charged it first. How was it charged, you ask? By simply rubbing it with the maligned corpse of a feline, causing the static produced by the animal's fur to separate the electric charge from the metal plate. OK, sure, you could also charge it with some silk or woolen cloth, or really anything fluffy, but where's the fun in that?
Robert Hare
"Dead cat sold separately."
The user could then hook up other electric conductors to this device to carry out their deranged experiments. We think at least one scientist had to set up this thing to electrocute more cats -- you know, for later use (the one they've been using is gonna start stinking up the place at some point). These enlightened gentlemen probably envisioned a bright cat-powered future where every man, woman, and child carried dead felines in their pockets like phone charges. Where did we go wrong?