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Maria Jose Soto-Robles and Michael F. Cleary were married Nov. 10 at Dolce in Norwalk, by Rev. Jim Francek. A reception followed at Dolce.
The bride is the daughter of Marcelo Soto and of Sheyla Robles, and the granddaughter of Fanny Pozo and Blanca Soto.
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I like to read nonfiction books on various topics that I'm interested about, but I find that the information doesn't really stick.
For example, I read a biography of Thomas Jefferson about a year ago and I can't really remember anything about it, except that he was born in 1743. When I see/listen to authors that are role models to me, like Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris, they are able to routinely cite from books. I've even seen Hitchens quote a book, giving the page number as well, from memory.
I want to be able to store information like these men but, if possible, without reading a book more than once.
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NEW YORK (January 15, 2013)--Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer and the nation's largest private employer, is pledging to hire every veteran who wants a job.
An announcement of the plan should come as part of an address delivered Monday in New York at the annual retail industry convention by Bill Simon, president and CEO of Wal-Mart's namesake U.S. business.
The company says it projects it will hire more than 100,000 veterans in the next five years.
Honorably discharged veterans will have a "place to go", said Wal-Mart's Simon.
The hiring pledge covers veterans within 12 months of leaving active duty.
Wal-Mart, which also operates Sam's Clubs, employs more than 1.4 million workers in the U.S.


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Been awhile since I posted a pano so thought I would share a recent one I did in Sedona AZ.
We're fortunate to live so close to this very scenic area - less than a 2 hour drive.
Camera: Nikon D3x
Lens: Nikon 10.5mm
Shutter Speed: 10/1250
F stop: f/16
Pano head: NN5 wR-D16 and EZ-Leveler-II - of course :wink:
Tripod: Manfrotto 3001BN
Software: PTGui Pro / Pano2QTVR / PS CS4
Workflow: 4 shots around with 5 degree tilt up (to catch zenith) - NN vertical assembly then turned 180 degrees with tripod offset 18" to shoot 1 nadir.
Shots were bracketed (that pano will come later) but this sample pano is a quickie from jpeg single shots only so excuse the poor quality.
ps - a bit more on Sedona: http://www.visitsedona.com/


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What to See in Pelourinho, Salvador's Colonial Center
Pelourinho Sights
The best place to start your exploration of the Pelô is at the Praça Municipal. Also known as Praça Tomé de Souza—in honor of Salvador's founder and first governor general (a 3-ton statue guards the square) this large plaza was the seat of colonial Brazil for over two centuries. The square is dominated by the monumental Palácio do Rio Branco (10 a.m.–6 p.m. Mon.–Fri., 1–6 p.m. Sat.–Sun., free). Guarded by soaring eagles and topped by an impressive dome, the palace is fondly known by Bahians as the bolo de noiva ("the wedding cake"), an appropriate nickname considering its resemblance to a sugarcoated baker's confection. Constructed by Tomé de Souza in 1549 as the governor's palace, over time the building suffered bombardments, partial demolitions, and makeovers—all of which explain its eclectic style, a mixture of neoclassical, Byzantine, and Renaissance elements. Having housed the Portuguese royal family when they fled Napoleon's troops in 1808 and later a prison, it now houses Bahia's ministry of culture. Step inside and you'll find lots of rococo plasterwork, frescoes, and a small museum with furnishings as well as artifacts belonging to governors past. More interesting is the glorious view from the palace's verandas, where you can take in the Cidade Baixa and the Bay of All Saints.
Elevador Lacerda
To the right of the Palácio do Rio Branco, overlooking the ocean, you can't miss the streamlined, art deco Elevador Lacerda, which has been shuttling lines of Soteropolitanos between the Cidade Baixa and the Cidade Alta since the 1930s. Open 24 hours a day, it takes only 20 seconds for each of its four elevators to transport its passengers—more than 50,000 of them daily—for a mere R$0.25. If you want to visit the Mercado Modelo, catch a local bus to Bonfim, or grab a boat to Itaparica, the Elevador comes in handy. Otherwise, have a seat at the famous Sorveteria Cubana (tel. 71/3322-7000, 9 a.m.–10 p.m.), another 1930s landmark with comfortable seats overlooking the Bay of All Saints, and indulge in icy treats such as a coco espumante (a fizzy old-fashioned coconut ice cream soda). A Bahian joke states that taking a ride on their beloved elevator is the only way to ascend in life.
Rua da Misericórdia
Walking down the Rua da Misericórdia, past the new City Hall, you'll pass the Santa Casa da Misericórdia (Rua da Misericórida 6, tel. 71/3322-7355, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Mon.–Fri., 1–5 p.m. Sun., R$5). A religious complex dating from 1549, it was converted into a museum as part of an ongoing project to renovate the architectural treasures on this strip. A permanent exhibition of artwork, religious objects, and furniture from the 17th century conjures up Salvador's colonial history, as do its magnificent cloisters, church, and living quarters.
Across the street is the Galeria Fundação Pierre Verger (Portal da Misericórdia 9, tel. 71/3321-2341, open daily, free), which shows a small rotating collection of black-and-white photographs by French photographer, ethnographer, and adopted Bahian Pierre Verger. Born into a wealthy Parisian milieu in which he never felt at home, in 1932, at the age of 30, Verger turned his back on the high life and took off to explore the world. With a camera in hand to fund his journeys (his pictures were subsequently published in Life, Paris Match, and many other major magazines), he traveled throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas. In Bahia, however, he felt an especially strong bond that kept on luring him back until he finally settled here, becoming a professor specializing in the African diaspora as well as a Candomblé initiate. In fact, in the 1940s Verger was one of the first people permitted to make photographic records of mysterious (and often prohibited) Candomblé rituals. His elegantly composed yet highly sensual portraits of Salvador's sailors, fishermen, capoeiristas, Carnaval merrymakers, and Bahians from all walks of life offer precious glimpses of a world past. The small gift store has eye-catching Verger T-shirts and handbags.
Praça da Sé
Rua da Misericórdia opens up onto Praça da Sé. This renovated square, with its uncomfortable benches and somewhat kitschy fountain, was once the site of Salvador's original 16th-century sé, or cathedral, which was destroyed in 1933. Excavation sites reveal some of the original cathedral's foundations, but otherwise the square is quite modern. If you stick around too long, you'll quickly discover that the praça is a favorite hangout for street performers—ranging from somewhat eerie human statues to ubiquitous Michael Jackson impersonators (he endeared himself to Bahians when he filmed his video for "They Don't Care about Us" in the Pelourinho in 1998). Meanwhile, at the far end of the praça is the entrance to the Plano Inclinado Gonçalves (7 a.m.–7 p.m. Mon.–Sat., R$0.25), a thrillingly steep funicular that whisks 30 passengers at a time between the Cidade Alta and Cidade Baixa.
Terreiro de Jesus
Around the corner from Praça da Sé you'll find yourself in the much more impressive Terreiro de Jesus (officially known as Praça 15 de Novembro), which marks the beginning of the Pelourinho district. Try to ignore the exaggeratedly made-up, turbaned, and petticoated Bahianas who will encourage you to have your picture taken with them. From this sprawling cobblestoned square you can feast your eyes on four remarkable religious edifices: Catedral Basílica, or Sé; Igreja da Ordem Terceira de São Domingos de Gusmão (tel. 71/3242-4185, 9 a.m.–midnight and 2–8 p.m. daily, R$1); the striking rococo Igreja São Pedro dos Clérigos (tel. 71/3321-0966, 2–6 p.m. Tues.–Fri.); and farther off, the stunning baroque church and convent of São Francisco.
Catedral Basílica
An eclectic mixture of baroque, rococo, and neoclassical styles, the 17th-century Catedral Basílica (Terreiro de Jesus, tel. 71/3321-4573, 8–11 a.m. and 3–6 p.m. Tues.–Sat., 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Sun., R$3) was built out of sandstone shipped in blocks from Portugal before undergoing reconstruction after an early-20th-century fire. Its recently restored magnificent interior is a testament to the riches of Portugal's overseas colonies. The 16th-century ceramic tiles in the sacristy hail from Macau, while the delicate ivory and tortoiseshell inlay in one altar (third on the right) is from Goa. Other precious materials that adorn the interior include marble, jacaranda, and lots and lots of gold leaf—the altars and ceiling are completely slathered in it.
Museu Afro-Brasileiro and the Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia
Adjacent to the cathedral on the Terreiro de Jesus, these two museums are in the building where Brazil's first school of medicine was created in 1833. The modest Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (tel. 71/3321-2013, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Mon.–Fri., 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Sun., R$1) houses a small collection of archaeological objects—some of them found during the excavations carried out at the Praça da Sé—as well as indigenous tools, weapons, and photos depicting traditional indigenous groups.
Much more interesting is the Museu Afro-Brasileiro (tel. 71/3321-2013, 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Mon.–Fri., 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Sat.–Sun., R$5). Along with maps tracing the trade routes that brought African slaves to Bahia, exhibits of objects and artifacts draw interesting parallels between African and Bahian cultural traditions, including capoeira and Candomblé. A highlight is the museum's collection of sacred objects and apparel—as well as photos—related to Candomblé and the cult of individual orixás, or divinities, which provide an informative introduction to the Afro-Brazilian religion that is such a strong cultural reference in Bahia. Depicting the orixás are the exquisitely carved wooden panels, inlaid with shells and shiny metals, sculpted by one of Bahia's most famous artists, Carybé.
Igreja e Convent o de São Francisco and the Igreja da Ordem Terceira de São Francisco
Looming magnificently at the far end of the Largo do Cruzeiro de São Francisco is one of the richest examples of baroque architecture on the planet: a religious complex dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi comprising two churches and a convent. Constructed between 1686 and 1750, the Igreja e Convento de São Francisco (tel. 71/3322-6430, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Mon.–Sat., 8 a.m.–4 p.m. Sun., R$3) takes your breath away before you even enter its main doors, merely by reflection of all the gold leaf paneling—some 800 kilograms (1,760 pounds), to be exact—that covers its intricately carved and sumptuously painted ceilings and altars. A contrast to so much glitter are the impressive scenes depicting the life of Saint Francis on beautiful blue-and-white Portuguese ceramic tiles, called azulejos. Azulejos depicting scenes inspired by Flemish engravings also cover the convent cloister. On Tuesdays, mass is followed by the distribution of food to the poor, which then—in typical Bahian fashion—morphs into a Pelô-wide celebration of a more profane nature, known as terça do Benção (Tuesday of the Blessing). Except for Tuesday and Sunday, the church is home to a sound and light show (11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., R$7), in which the interior is lit up in all its splendor.
Next door, the Igreja da Ordem Terceira de São Francisco (tel. 71/3321-6989, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. daily, R$3), completed in 1703, is remarkable for its striking high-relief facade: an intricate sandstone tapestry of saints, angels, and organic and abstract motifs that you can marvel at until your neck stiffens. Amazingly, this unique exterior was "hidden" for 150 years until, in 1936, a painter accidentally discovered it when he chipped off a piece of the plaster facade. Inside the church, azulejo panels provide a visual narration of the marriage of the king of Portugal's son to an Austrian princess. These finely detailed panels offer a rare portrait of Lisbon before it was devastated by the Great Earthquake of 1755. The second floor of the church houses a small museum featuring religious art and objects.
Museu Udo Knoff de Azulejaria e Cerâmica
From the Igreja da Ordem Terceira de São Francisco, follow Rua Inácio Acciole and take a left on Rua Frei Vicente, where you can admire the colonial buildings in hues of sky blue, pale pink, and lime. The carnivalesque color scheme is a modern touch; originally the Pelô's buildings were painted white to deflect the heat of the tropical sun. The Museu Udo Knoff de Azulejaria e Cerâmica (Rua Frei Vicente 3, tel. 71/3117-6388, 1–6 p.m. Tues.–Sat., free) displays a lovely collection of ceramic tiles from Portugal, Spain, Belgium, and Mexico. They are from the personal collection of Horst Udo Knoff, a German expat ceramicist whose own works are featured.
Museu Tempostal
The "artwork" in the engaging Museu Tempostal (Rua Gregório de Matos 33, tel. 71/3117-6383, 1–6 p.m. Tues.–Sat., free) consists of thousands of postcards that trace Salvador's surprisingly rapid transformation over the last century. The entire collection of over 35,000 works includes some amazing belle epoque specimens featuring postcards decorated with embroidery as well as watercolors, not to mention feathers and strands of human hair.
Solar do Ferrão
The Solar do Ferrão houses the Museu Abelardo Rodrigues (Rua Gregório de Matos 45, tel. 71/3117-6381, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Tues.–Sun., R$1), a collection of over 800 icons of saints, altars, engravings, and other religious objects (not all on display) considered to be one of the finest collections of sacred art in Brazil. The works were amassed by Pernambucano collector Abelardo Rodrigues, who once lived in this attractive 17th-century mansion. Also on permanent display are architect Lina Bo Bardi's fine collection of Northeast Brazilian folk art and an equally impressive ensemble of African masks and statues donated by Italian magnate Claudio Masella.
Largo do Pelourinho
When you first set foot in this impressive square, you'll likely be overwhelmed by the baroque landscape of church spires and faded pastel mansions, as well as the Cubist-like image of houses rising up and down the Pelô's steep hills. Although its official name is Praça José de Alencar, it is known as Largo do Pelourinho due to its dubious past as the site of the city's pelourinho (whipping post). It was here that slaves were publicly flogged (a legal activity in Brazil until 1835) as well as auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Flanked by museums, boutiques, restaurants, and the imposing cerulean blue facade of the famous church of Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos, these days the largo buzzes with less nefarious activities. By day, vendors try to hawk naïf canvases and coax gringos to put Afro braids and cornrows in their hair. Meanwhile, nights are often filled with live music and people dancing with enviable poise on the irregular cobblestones.
Housed in a handsome colonial mansion, the Museu da Cidade (Largo do Pelourinho 3, tel. 71/3321-1967, 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Mon. and Wed.–Fri., R$1) serves up an eclectic mix of things Soteropolitano. Depictions of Catholic saints and ex-votos mingle with sculptures of orixás and other objects related to Candomblé. More secular offerings include works by local artists and artisans and a room devoted to Castro Alves, one of Brazil's great romantic poets and famously eloquent abolitionists.
Next door, the Fundação Casa de Jorge Amado (Largo do Pelourinho 49, tel. 71/3321-0122, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Mon.–Sat., free) is a small museum and shrine devoted to the life, times, and writing of Jorge Amado, one of Bahia's (and Brazil's) most cherished and internationally renowned writers and "figuras" (i.e., a truly memorable human being). It also functions as a center for literary events. With photos, book covers, and other media featuring the author of Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands and Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, the museum provides an overview of Amado's life and career, also touching on that of his lifelong love and companion, Zélia Gattai (a highly renowned writer in her own right). A nice rest stop is the museum's pleasant café (named after Gattai) with its great view of the square.
Halfway down the steep Largo do Pelourinho is one of Bahia's most important churches, the Igreja Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos (tel. 71/3326-9701, 8:30 a.m.–6 p.m. Mon.–Fri., 8:30 a.m.–3 p.m. Sat.–Sun.). This strikingly blue-tinged landmark is a symbol of black pride and resistance. After the king of Portugal gave the site to the Irmandade dos Homens Pretos, a brotherhood of local black men, it took slaves most of the 18th century to construct this church. Built in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black People, it's visually striking with its handsome rococo facade and tiled towers influenced by Indian architecture, a consequence of Portugal's colony in Goa. Services here, in which Catholics hymns merge with traditional African percussion instruments—particularly during the mass held at 6 p.m. Tuesday—reflect Bahia's unique religious syncretism.
At the bottom of the Largo do Pelourinho, lively bars with occupants spilling onto the street are neighbors to the Casa de Benin (Rua Baixa dos Sapateiros 7, tel. 71/3241-5679, 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Mon.–Fri., free). Located in a grand colonial building on the corner, it is worth stopping in for a look at its small collection of traditional artifacts from Benin. This West African country, with whom Bahia has maintained cultural ties, was the origin of a great many of the slaves who were brought to work on the colonial sugarcane plantations.
Igreja da Ordem Terceira do Carmo e Convento do Carmo
The climb from Casa de Benin up the steep Ladeira do Carmo will most likely leave you huffing and puffing, but great views of the surrounding Pelô compensate. Halfway up, the majestic Escadas do Carmo staircase leads to the sadly dilapidated Igreja Santíssimo Sacramento do Passo. Both the staircase and the church were immortalized in the first Brazilian film to win the Cannes Festival's Palme d'Or, O Pagador de Promessas (1962).
Towering above the Ladeira do Carmo is the dramatic whitewashed complex that houses the Igreja da Ordem Terceira do Carmo (tel. 71/3481-4169, 8 a.m.–noon and 2–6 p.m. Mon.–Sat., 8–10 a.m. Sun., R$1) and the Convento do Carmo. Constructed in 1636 and rebuilt in neoclassical style after a fire in 1786, the church could use some major restoration. Nonetheless, the interior—with its tiny, though somewhat disorderly museum of sacred art—is certainly worth a visit. In particular, feast your eyes on the highly expressive cedar carving of Christ, sculpted in 1730 by Francisco Xavier Chagas. A slave nicknamed O Cabra (The Goat), Chagas has been compared to the great mulato baroque sculptor of Minas Gerais, Aleijadinho. If the drops of blood on the reclining Christ figure seem to glint and glisten as if they were transparent liquid, it is because they are assembled out of 2,000 encrusted rubies. Chagas is also responsible for the statue of Nossa Senhora do Carmo, whose features were said to be inspired by Isabel, the daughter of Garcia d'Ávila, the largest landowner in the Northeast during colonial times.
Adjacent to the church is the Convento do Carmo, a massive convent built in 1586 that has been converted into a beautiful luxury hotel. Wander in and examine the stylishly furnished interior, then stop for a drink at the handsome bar-lounge. Situated in the arcaded cloister, the comfortable chairs and sofas of this beguiling spot face the palm-studded oasis in the courtyard.
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Today's Fine Art features two men who worked on RAGE, id's recently-released desert shooter. One helped design (and build) the game's cars. The other, the game's mutants.
Both somehow found the time to draw pictures of pretty ladies as well. Which, given the amount of tiny shorts on display in this post-apocalyptic wasteland, shouldn't be too big a surprise!
The car stuff is the work of Joey Struve, who also did a whole load of the game's installations, vehicles and weapons as well (which you can see in the gallery above).
The character pieces, meanwhile, are from Ben Olson, who in addition to working on RAGE has done art for games like Area 51: BlackSite and the cancelled This is Vegas.
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Carol L. Gothberg
Retired teacher
Carol was the daughter of the late Verner E. and Clara J. Gustafson and wife of the late John M. Gothberg for 35 years. Born Dec. 17, 1936, she graduated from Naugatuck High School in 1954, North Park College in Chicago, Ill., in 1956, majoring in theology, and Southern Connecticut State College in New Haven in 1960 with a master's degree in early childhood education in 1966.
Carol taught kindergarten and first grade for more than 26 years between the Norton School in Cheshire and Bethlehem School in Bethlehem. She was adored by her students and their parents as a loving and caring teacher. She got good reviews from the Regional School District No. 14, retiring early in 1987.
Carol was a devoted Christian. She asked special permission to say "God Bless You" to her customers at the Southbury Pharmacy where she worked for four years. She wrote many Christian prayers and poems and several children's stories but never had them published. However, she was proud to receive a thank-you note from President Dwight D. Eisenhower's office thanking Carol for two poems she wrote to him congratulating him on his election.
In the past, Carol was a member of the Hillside Covenant Church in Naugatuck. She was a member of Salem Lutheran Church in Naugatuck and visited regularly for several years by the ministry. The family thanks them for keeping Carol in their prayer chain. The family also thanks retired Father Bill Malave, formerly of St. Margaret's Church, ministry from First Lutheran Church, both of Waterbury, who visited Carol and any names and ministries not known or remembered.
Over the years Carol loved to read, go to tag sales, watch Animal Planet and TV Ministries. Proud of her Swedish heritage, she traveled there twice. Having no children she loved and rescued her cat "Teddy." She was attached to Cabbage Patch doll "John Kevin." She collected teddy bears; 75 at one time lined her couch that no one else was allowed to sit on, 25 bears made it to a photo while Carol lived in her Naugatuck home. She collected another 75 bears while residing for several years at Carriage Manor and the Mattatuck Health Care Center of Waterbury where she was well-liked by staff. The family thanks the wonderful caring staff that attended to Carol's medical needs especially after being bound to a wheelchair. Thank you to the patients who befriended Carol (especially those protective of Carol and her belongings) and those who shared their Christian faith and helpful friends in time of need.
Carol is survived by a sister, Violet M. Porto; a niece, Marilyn D. Westerfield and her fiancé, Michael C. Hitchcock, of Naugatuck; two nephews, Brian R. Westerfield of Naugatuck, and Brent E. Westerfield of Waterbury; and two great nieces, Diana M. Green of Naugatuck, and Kimberly Valdes of Miramar, Fla. one brother Verner E. Gustafson.
In lieu of flowers, with our respect to Carol's life and dignity, the family is asking anyone interested to donate to Salem Lutheran Church, 14 Salem St., Naugatuck; First Lutheran Church, 88 Cooke St., Waterbury; or to the Recreational Department of Mattatuck Health Care Center, 9 Cliff St., Waterbury.
Arrangements: A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, March 16, at Salem Lutheran Church, 14 Salem St., Naugatuck. Burial will be in Grove Cemetery, Naugatuck, at a later date. There are no calling hours. The Alderson Funeral Home of Naugatuck is assisting with the arrangements.
To view these arrangements online, send a condolence, or light a memorial candle, please visit www.aldersonfuneralhomes.com.
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It is absolutely worth subscribing to. I use it instead of getting dead-tree books, due to the frequency of updates and content drops.
Pros: easily searchable, pretty convenient compendium. If you have silverlight the character builder offers a far more effective method to build characters than pencil and paper, especially considering the options.
Cons: you'll expect that all the options become available after a while. Silverlight requires multiple database hits every time you click anything, while you can download the pdfs of dragon, you can't keep your compendium access or your characters after you stop subscribing.
The subscription is definitely worth it. Let me elaborate a bit on what you get when you subscribe.
Just for fun a bit of cost analysis.
Cost of PHB1,DMG,MM1 boxed set - $66 Amazon.com. Cost of 1 year DDI subscription - $71.40
With each additional book costing in the neighborhood of $25-30 and there being a lot of books (PHB2, PHB3, MM2, MM3, DMG2, Power books) it seems prudent to save the money, paper and shelf space and just subscribe to DDI.
I found DDI underwhelming. I subscribed for only a month when the character builder was offline.
Buying a copy of the CB was worth $10, since it stuck around after the subscription ended. I'm not sure what to make of the online builder they have up these days. It's caused quite a few headaches for my group, but we're not Windows users. I think the Mac user was able to get Silverlight working eventually without resorting to boot camp. I set up a virtual machine on linux and had some trouble because I didn't expect Silverlight would be a 2gb installation and would fail to let me know if there wasn't enough room on the disk.
The magazines were alright. I skimmed through most of them. I think I would have been happier with them if there was a better way to search for articles. Give an intern a week and each article could be tagged with its relevant topics. That would be a fantastic service.
I liked the compendium a lot, especially as GM. It was searchable, but I'd rather use grep than a web interface. So I wrote a script to have Firefox visit every page in the compendium and then I copied the results out of my cache. I found this to be a whole lot more useful than the interface WotC gave me.
Basically, DDI kept reminding me that WotC was not a software company and I couldn't justify giving them $10 a month for what I considered to be bad software. My group splits a subscription and we all try not to use up the character slots. $10 a month for the whole group seems like a fair price to me.


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Epic Room Makeover: Old Door Into Headboard Tutorial
Old doors are such a fantastic way to add character to a room. An old door turned into a custom headboard is a double whammy of awesomeness.
When Jessica submitted her entry for the Epic Room Makeover she shared that she had an awesome door that she wanted to use for a headboard.
I was all over that idea, it's a project that I have been wanting to do for a super long time.
She had originally bought the door for this exact project. Jess said that the door was just a little longer than the bed was wide and that she was planning on using it as is. I was super excited and anxious to start so we got to work.
The first thing that needed to be done was the molding on the top to finish off the headboard.
The way to do this is first to decide how you want it to look. I chose to do crown style molding.
I went and bought 8 foot piece of molding and a 8 foot 1×4. We took everything over to one of my amazing friends Mandi to help figure out all of the cuts.
Dudes she is legit. (Stick with me I will be telling you how to do the cuts soon)
She her and her awesome hub got everything measured and cut.
We took it back to Jessica's and started putting it together.
The door was originally painted a darkish foresty green,
The green was not awful but it needed to be so much more vibrant. So to keep the oldish feeling we really lightly sanded the door and did not prime before we painted.
I used Krylon's Emerald Green (LOVE!) and did a few really light even coats, it brightened up the old green but you could still see the grain through it. It turned out to be the perfect combo.
Then because the fabric that I bought to put inside was a little sheer we painted the inside of each panel white with Decoart's Acrylic White. (HUGE thanks to Jessica's adorable mom for helping with this!)
Once everything was painted we started on the construction.
The first thing that you want to do is attach your 1×4 to the top of the door. This is going to be the top part of your headboard.
We used a nail gun with 2" nails to secure it. You can also use screws if you prefer.
Then you are going to attach your molding.
It was lookin good! To figure out the height that we wanted it with the bed we carried it inside to see how high the bed was…
Womp womp. The door was WAAAAY longer than the bed. But this was not going to be a project fail.
So we took it back outside, took the molding off and cut the door down using a jigsaw.
So then we re-measured and re-cut the 1×4. We left a 2.5" overhang on each end. The easiest way to figure out how much you will need is to put the piece of molding up and mark where it hits the 1×4, then measure from that point back to the door.
This is where is got unnecessarily complicated. Have you ever cut crown molding? Ya…it blows.
We cut SOOOO many small pieces trying to figure out where and how and why these pieces met up at a right angle. It was not awesome.
FINALLY after watching 15 videos on youtube we figured out that the problem was not our lack of skillz (yes, with a z.) it was the fact that the saw we were using had too short of a backboard.
One we got that situation mastered we encountered another problem. Our 1×4 was cut 1/2" too short… Yes life does suck sometimes.
Luckily Jessica's husband does things the same way that mine does…
He just notched out the door to make it fit…
There was also a lot of putty involved…
But in the end it looked awesome and now I know how to cut crown molding.
The moral of the story is to watch a bunch of videos before you cut. Got it?
So on to the fun part.
GLAZING!! I am a HUGE fan of Ralph Lauren's Glaze. But it is discontinued so I have been trying out tons of options to find one that I like as much.
For this project I used Decoart's Antiquing Medium (which is the same as a glazing medium.)
Then I custom mixed my color using Lamp Black and Slate Grey. I wanted it to be a really dark charcoal color.
I LOVE their medium. It is really thick and smooth. The prob I have found with other mediums is that they are too thin and its really easy to see your brush strokes, you don't want that ps.
A bottle of this medium is about $2.00 (without a coupon from Michaels) I used about 1/2 a bottle for the entire headboard.
You probably know the drill from here. Brush it on and then wipe it off with a damp cloth, then go back over it with a dry one. If you need more in depth instructions you can see my full how to glaze tutorial.
For the legs on the board we used 2 pieces of MDF that ran the height of our headboard.
Then it was time for the fabric panels.
I found this fabric at Ikea. I LOVED it so much it was one of the things that inspired the entire room design.
Cut the piece of fabric the size of the panel.
Spray the panel with adhesive. I love Krylon's Spray Adhesive because it has awesome grip and not a large overspray area.
Smooth it out and if you need to trim your fabric a rotary cutter works SOOOOO great for trimming it off once its already attached.
Then I used the same technique for attaching the cheater nailhead trim that I used on busted cane chair makeover.
The fabric panels and nailhead trim give the headboard a completely custom look. It pulls the entire color scheme together and is one of my favorite parts of the entire space.
The best part about it is that it is something that EVERYONE can do.
To see the room in its entirety click here.
And I have to give a huge shout out to Jessica's husband Allan for helping with this project. He was awesome, sometimes you just need 4 people trying to figure something out to get it right! Thanks Allan!


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1967 SS/B Plmouth Belvedere RO23 & 1968 Barracuda BO29 - Matched SetWritten by on December 1, 2009 Collector Clark Rand Puts Together An Ultimate Sox & Martin Combination
The Mopar hobby is a diverse one. Some of us are cruisers, happy to have wheels for Saturday nights. Some are mechanics, enjoying the effort of bringing a classic back to life. Others are preservationists, saving survivor-type cars or restoring cars back to their original appearance. Collectors look for the most unique examples they can find, and vintage race cars campaigned by well-known teams are at the top of the list. To have one is pretty special; to have several puts you into one of the most exclusive clubs in the enthusiast car realm.
Clark Rand of Missouri, has become one of the better-known people in this regard. Formerly involved in the business side of rock 'n' roll concert promotion, Clark has focused on some of the best Mopars of quarter-mile fame; cars once raced by Lee Smith, Dick Landy, Don Grotheer, Chuck Ostrich, and Sox & Martin are among the vehicles that he and his wife Colleen have owned and displayed at shows across the country.
The remaining cars of the Ronnie Sox and Buddy Martin glory days have been avidly sought out, discovered, and pried loose from their resting places to be restored to their former glory. Clark presently owns the 1967 Super Stock Belvedere and the 1968 'Cuda that Ronnie drove to the 1969 World Championship. While it would be difficult to find a racetrack location suitable to display the cars, Clark had a chance to take a slightly different direction and recreated a transporter that was a near replica of the factory-supplied vehicle that the Sox & Martin team drove for hundreds of thousands of miles. When he and Fred Engelhart brought the '67 and '68 race cars and the truck to the All-Hemi Reunion last August, we asked Clark to tell us a little about the trio.
'67 Belvedere
This is one of the most significant early Super Stock cars of any make. The new 1967 Super Stock class was a hot bed of activity, going hand in hand with the exploding musclecar market, which now included the GTX and Coronet R/T. Chrysler moved back a page for their purpose-built race cars that year, converting basic Belvedere IIs and Coronet 440-trim level vehicles into Hemi race cars, rather than using the heavier sporty-level street car. This particular example was found by Fred Engelhart in pieces and was being worked on for another one of his clients, Mike Gaurise, though Clark wanted it as soon as it was discovered. When Mike's focus on the car changed, Clark leaped at the chance to purchase it.
"There is a lot of history to this car," he says. "Ronnie told me it was a favorite, but it was also the only car that was actually titled in Buddy Martin's name; this car has full documentation as well as the original Certi-card."
Buddy bought it in May of 1967 from longtime sponsor Gate City Motor Company in Greensboro, North Carolina. Ronnie was quite successful in this car, driving it to victory at both the 1967 Bristol and 1968 Englishtown Springnationals. This was the only factory RO '67 Hemi car the team had that year; they continued to run it into 1968 in SS/D, and Ronnie won the Springnationals after their new Hurst-type Hemi Barracuda had problems.
Its history is not clear after that, but Fred and Clark both believe it must been campaigned only minimally. In addition to having its original interior, it never had a roll-cage or wheel tubs installed. It also retains a lot of its 1960s era speed parts - the Keystone wheels, Stewart-Warner gauges, Vanke-modified intake, factory Prestolite ignition, and more. Mopar expert Jim Remlinger did the paint work, and Don Dennis was responsible for the lettering work.
"This was a very through restoration. we used a lot of hard-to-find parts and even the techniques that the team used in car's original construction," says Clark.
'68 Barracuda
The Sox & Martin team owned quite a few 1968-style Barracudas, not to mention the ones that Ronnie campaigned after the team disbanded in 1974. But Clark wanted what could arguably be called a real one. In doing so, he bought this car in 1999, just a few years after he had quit drag racing himself.
"This car came up for sale in Hemmings," recalls Clark. "I had bought a 1964 Dodge from Fred, so I called him to find out what he knew about it. Well, he had already bought it a couple of days earlier, knew it was legitimate, and I agreed to buy it and have him restore it for me. I wanted a Hemi race car with real history from a premier team; this was it!"
Ronnie had lost the 1968 NHRA World title; Dave Strickler and Bill Jenkins had run for the money at Tulsa that year. But this car would propel him to that crown in 1969, where a record purse was posted at the new Dallas International Motor Speedway (now defunct). Strickler and Jenkins showed up with COPO ZL1 and L72 427" Camaros, which NHRA promptly bumped from the automatic classes since those combinations had not been run previously. Strickler dropped out and Jenkins could not top Arlen Vanke's monster SS/C record set at Columbus weeks earlier. Meanwhile, Sox trounced the SS/B record with a 10.29 in qualifying, and then marched through the field like Sherman across Georgia, beating the Iron Butterfly '64 Dodge of Dick Oldfield for the crown. Sox went 10.23 to win it all, including a $5,000 Hurst bonus for having won at the 1969 U.S. Nationals months earlier.
The car is restored to look like it did that day. It was numbered 705 since Sox registered in the Travelers division, with the Hurst 'Bonus Bandit' money bag decal in the window. Again, Wheeler Machine, Jim Remlinger, and Don Dennis were involved in making the car back into its 1969 appearance, with an engine that pumped out 590 ponies on the dyno before being dropped between the fenders. In addition to the two wins at Dallas (the Springnationals and World Finals), it won Indy in '69, plus the 1968 AHRA Springnationals and the 1968 Super Stock Magazine Nationals.
Indeed, Sox had won three of the four possible NHRA Super Stock crowns, reset the record, and laid the groundwork for the upcoming Pro Stock effort. Sox & Martin sold the car in 1970 to a Delta Airlines pilot, who raced it once and decided drag racing wasn't for him. After that, the car was successfully campaigned in Pro Stock and Modified production by Sam Carroll, Melvin Yow, Bill Vila, Sonny Shipman, David Sikes, and Randy Miller before being sold to Fred Engelhart.
"I was very proud of how this car came out," says Clark. "We found the right parts to put it back together and it has a complete ownership trail and documentation. I think the neatest aspect was that NHRA invited us to bring this car to Indy as one of the Top 50 race cars during the 50th Anniversary."
The Truck
"I have to say that I am very fortunate to have the relationship with Fred Engelhart and his family that I do; I could never done this without his expertise and friendship. I have continued to put my trust in him; this truck was something he completely surprised me with last July."
"We had talked to Ronnie and Buddy many times about their experiences on the road," Clark continues. "Traveling thousands of miles, even back in the good old days, was tough in those D-series trucks. Fred had a chance to find this tribute for our show display and then we scrambled to finish it for the All Hemi Reunion. Though it was road worthy, it has a top speed of just 60 miles an hour or so right now, so we decided to load it up on a flat bed for the1,800-mile trip."
The truck is a 1969 D700 with cab and toolbox area. The engine is a bone-stock, 413 industrial Wedge with a high/low gear box attached to the four-speed transmission. Other than the paint, which was sprayed by Adam and Joe Engelhart and then lettered by John Nystrom of Austin, Minnesota, it is untouched. In fact, it has survived in such great shape because it was owned by a fire company in Pineyville, Kentucky, and has run up just over 10,000 miles in all those years. Fred found it, bought it, prepped it, and then gave it to Clark as a thank you. The plan now is to get it running with a highway gear so it can be driven into nostalgia events.
"We are working to complete its restoration, and, with some additional memorabilia, it will be a 'race day clinic display' for people to enjoy."
As we mentioned, Clark's latest machine was a big hit, even among the rarest Hemi cars on the planet. Vintage ramp trucks are hard to come by, and this one is a gem. Clark hopes to have the rig rolling for the 2009 show season.
Mopar Power
'67 SS/B Plymouth Belvedere RO23
Engine: A Hemi with all the right stuff to look the part in 1967, this one has the details that Jake King was known for; Wheeler Machine did the buildup and pegged the needle at a solid 520. Crane valvetrain parts, Hooker headers, and blueprinting were all part of its creation.
Transmission: A833 'slick-shift' modified transmission with 11" Hayes clutch and Hurst DP-FX-65 shifter (standard RO23 package).
Differential: Dana 60 with 4.88 gears and SureGrip.
Horsepower and Performance: 520 on the dyno, but no racetrack time...yet
Suspension: Basically stock with 90/10 Hurst shock, Imperial rear shock, and the 1967 SS equipment.
Brakes: Original 10-inch front /11-inch rear drum combination (RO23 only)
Wheels: Keystone 15x4 fronts, 15x7 rear.
Rubber: Goodyear - street skinny under nose, and original Blue Streaks out back.
High Impact
Body: Solid, prepped by Jim Remlinger.
Paint: Remlinger, with lettering in silverleaf by Don Dennis. By the way, did you know that the team was still using the Ford colors selected for the Comet in 1964?
Interior: Stock original other than a few aftermarket gauges.
Mopar Power
'69 SS/B(ig) Dodge D700 King Can Ramp Truck
Engine: Industrial 413 wedge.
Transmission: four speed with high-low transfer.
Differential: tight, very tight gear - 60 mph top speed
Horsepower and Performance: Don't know, but you could pull stumps with it.
Suspension: Factory highway gut buster.
Brakes: Original drum 'pump and pray' combo.
Wheels / rubber: Big fatties all the way around!
High Impact
Body: Solid and uncut, prepped by Hodge.
Paint: Joe and Adam Engelhart, lettering by John Nystrom.
Interior: Stock original.
Mopar Power
'68 SS/B Plymouth Barracuda BO29
Engine: A race Hemi also rebuilt by Wheeler Machine in Blaine, Minnesota, this engine was a dominant player in 1969. Super Stock tricks circa 1969 were made as well, and it also features the S&M speed parts from the era.
Transmission: A833 'slick-shift' modified transmission with 11-inch Hayes clutch and Sox's original Hurst Competition Plus shifter.
Differential: Dana 60 with 4.88 gears and SureGrip
Horsepower and Performance: 590 up on Wheeler's dyno.
Suspension: Basically stock with SS shocks and springs.
Brakes: Original front disc / rear drum combination (BO29 only)
Wheels: Keystone 15x4 fronts, 15x7 rear.
Rubber: Goodyear 8.75 x15 front, Blue Streak 10.5 x 15 rear.
High Impact
Body: Solid and uncut, prepped by Jim Remlinger.
Paint: Remlinger, with lettering in silverleaf by Don Dennis. Still using Ford colors in 1969.
Interior: Stock original other than a few aftermarket gauges.


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The CWC Bulldogs came into senior night on Friday, not only looking to honor the seniors, but to get a big momentum building win heading into the regional this week.
The Bulldogs got the big win, defeating Fairfield 55-54 in the season finale.
CWC lead the whole way, although the game was tight from start to finish.
The Bulldogs started the game off with an 18-13 first half score. But Fairfield was able to tighten things up going in the second quarter, taking a 14-10 scoring advantage, and bringing CWC's lead to one, 28-27 going into halftime.
The Bulldogs were able to stretch the lead out a bit in the third, outscoring Fairfield 16-13 to get it back to four points, at 44-40.
In the final quarter, Fairfield held a 14-11 scoring advantage and had a chance at a game winner in the final seconds, but was unsuccessful, giving the Bulldogs the 55-54 win.
Andy Vaughan led the Bulldogs with 15 points in the win. Brodie Brown and Jamey Steed both added 14.
Other scorers in the game were Dylan Rankin with five, Chase Sailer with five and Jordan Large with two. Lukas Matsel was an honorary starter for the game.
The Bulldogs were able to overcome 16 turnovers in the game to get the win. Fairfield had 11.
CWC was 10-19 from the free throw line, for 53 percent. Fairfield was 14-16 for 88 percent.
CWC will face Hamilton Co. at Hamilton Co. tonight at 6 p.m. in the team's Regional game. CWC defeated Hamilton Co. earlier this month at home, 53-42. Earlier in the season, CWC traveled to Hamilton Co. and lost 46-44. CWC had a chance to win the game earlier in the season, but foul trouble and an injury to Brodie Brown made things difficult late in the game.
CWC's junior varsity team had not lost a BDC game coming into Friday night's meeting with Fairfield, but they did to this time, falling 51-34.
Scoring for the junior varsity Bulldogs were Tucker Gray with 12, Jordan Large with six, Joe Matz with six, Seth Gross with five and Logan Weller with five.
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Fairfield – Lackey 15, Rodgers 14, Gifford 11, Fry 4, Kollack 3.
CWCHS – Vaughan 15, Brown 14, Steed 14, Rankin 5, Sailer 5, Large 2, Matsel.
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Hi All,
I am new to this (though I seem to be a latecomer); so forgive me if this is not your most favorite question:
I am trying to understand the structure (e.g., decomposition) of the unitary representation $L^2(N/M)$ where $N$ is a nilpotent Lie group acting by left translation on this Hilbert space (coming from the invariant measure on N/M). Surprisingly, I am unable to find any suitable references. Does anyone here know where one should look for an answer in the literature?


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There are two translations for
toe that both are equally used. Both are pronounced almost the same but they have a different gender:
der Zeh, m
die Zehe, f
What is the origin of this difference?
I don't know why there are two forms of this word. According to Wictionary people from northern Germany tend to use
There is a difference when referring to "Knoblauch" (garlic) though. You'll have to use "Zehe": die Knoblauchzehe ("clove of garlic").
It happens more often that two words with this difference in morphology and gender exist, even more so in regional dialects, usually the longer word is the more formally correct word.
(I think that this is also the reason that French loanwords ending in -age are female because they are felt to be an -e expansion of the male French prononciation).
In the first two cases, the shorter male version is mostly used in composita, so I gave them as example, in the other two examples, the male vesion are regional variants.
It's a regional difference. "der Zeh" is used in the Northern regions of Germany, whereas "die Zehe" is used in the Southern regions.
Both are correct, and there is no difference in meaning. Just an example about the inconsistency of a living language.
My Duden (1986 -- I know!!) allows both:
I'm going to take an educated guess:
According to the Duden, Zehe comes from zēhe and zēha. Dropping of the final e is something that is not uncommon in many dialects (Wehe and Weh, Gabe and Gab). Why exactly Zeh permeated I don't know.


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What is the difference between SSH and SSL? Which one is more secure, if you can compare them together?
Which has more potential vulnerabilities?
What is the difference between SSH and SSL? Which one is more secure, if you can compare them together?
SSL and SSH both provide the cryptographic elements to build a tunnel for confidential data transport with checked integrity. For that part, they use similar techniques, and may suffer from the same kind of attacks, so they should provide similar security (i.e. good security) assuming they are both properly implemented. That both exist is a kind of NIH syndrome: the SSH developers should have reused SSL for the tunnel part (the SSL protocol is flexible enough to accommodate many variations, including not using certificates).
They differ on the things which are around the tunnel. SSL traditionally uses X.509 certificates for announcing server and client public keys; SSH has its own format. Also, SSH comes with a set of protocols for what goes inside the tunnel (multiplexing several transfers, performing password-based authentication within the tunnel, terminal management...) while there is no such thing in SSL, or, more accurately, when such things are used in SSL they are not considered to be part of SSL (for instance, when doing password-based HTTP authentication in a SSL tunnel, we say that it is part of "HTTPS", but it really works in a way similar to what happens with SSH).
Conceptually, you could take SSH and replace the tunnel part with the one from SSL. You could also take HTTPS and replace the SSL thing with SSH-with-data-transport and a hook to extract the server public key from its certificate. There is no scientific impossibility and, if done properly, security would remain the same. However, there is no widespread set of conventions or existing tools for that.
So we do not use SSL and SSH for the same things, but that's because of what tools historically came with the implementations of those protocols, not due to a security related difference. And whoever implements SSL or SSH would be well advised to look at what kind of attacks were tried on both protocols.
This isn't a reasonable comparison to make. SSL is a general method for protecting data transported over a network, whereas SSH is a network application for logging in and sharing data with a remote computer.
The transport layer protection in SSH is similar in capability to SSL, so which is "more secure" depends on what your specific threat model calls for and whether the implementations of each address the issues you're trying to deal with.
SSH then has a user authentication layer which SSL lacks (because it doesn't need it - SSL just needs to authenticate the two connecting interfaces which SSH can also do). In UTF-8 art:
Regarding the issue of which there are more potential attacks against, it seems clear that SSH has a larger attack surface. But that's just because SSH has a whole application built into it: the attack surface of SSL + whatever application you need to provide cannot be compared because we don't have enough information.
From a strict cryptographic point of view, they both provide authenticated encryption, but in two different ways.
SSH uses the so-called Encrypt-and-MAC, that is the ciphered message is juxtaposed to a message authentication code (MAC) of the clear message to add integrity. This is not proven to be always fully secure (even if in practical cases it should be enough).
SSL uses MAC-then-Encrypt: a MAC is juxtaposed to the clear text, then they are both encrypted. This is not the best either, as with some block cipher modes parts of the MAC can be guessable and reveal something on the cipher. This led to vulnerabilities in TLS 1.0 (BEAST attack).
So they have both potential theoretical weaknesses. The strongest method is Encrypt-then-MAC (add a MAC of the ciphered message), which is implemented, e.g., in IPsec ESP.
ssh is like a key (private) and the lock (public)
ssl is like the door and the bricks.
ssl provides a secure link between the two computer servers. eg, Yours and the one your connecting to.
ssh is how the connecting computer can verify itself and gain access.
The problem is two-fold, it's not just the strength and weakness of the encryption. But it's the ease and convenience of the delivery. So from business perspective SSL/TLS is is more convenient and easier because it just requires a browser and either a public or private Cert.
And SSH requires either the application or thin client installed to use it. That is more of a problem from a user Internet client perspective and support.
Not all users are bright, especially the technology challenged ones.
my 2 cents.
SSL is a protocol layer that is abstracted from the content being tunneled. SSH is a secure version of shell (SH), it was not designed to contain an abstract layer underneath it, it was designed specifically to carry shell traffic. So though crypto operations are used in both, and those crypto operations could even be the same, the purpose, and therefor overall design is quite different.
Keep in mind there are specific differences (as have been cited above), but most if not all of those differences are rooted in the purpose of the different protocols.
I think there is one aspect of this comparison that was overlooked. user185 came close but didn't quite get there. I agree that these are apples and oranges and feel a better apples to apples comparison to be HTTPS and SSH. HTTPS and SSH utilize different layers of the OSI model and therefore encrypt the data at different times in the transmission. Then the real questions one should be asking would be along the lines of when is this data encrypted and unencrypted during the transmission. This will reveal your potential attack surfaces. With HTTPS, once the packet is received by a device in the destination network (Web Server, Border Router, load balancer, etc...)it is un-encrypted and spends the rest of its journey in plain text. Many would argue that this is not a big deal since the traffic is internal at this time, but if the payload contains sensitive data, it is being stored un-encrypted in the log files of every network device it passes through until it gets to its final destination. With SSH, typically, the destination device is specified and the transmission is encrypted until it reaches this device. There are ways of re-encrypting the HTTPS data but these are extra steps that most forget to take when implementing an HTTPS solution in their environment.


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MCLENNAN COUNTY (11/07/2012)-Construction zones along I-35 in Central Texas have plagued drivers more than ever in the past month. But the ones who seem to be suffering the most are truck drivers.
Numerous 18-wheeler accidents have caused closures along I-35 in the past month, some of them fatal.
It's an illustration, CDL Instructor James Evans says, that reflects the ultimate consequence you pay when you turn your back on safety.
"They can replace the load on your truck, but they can't replace the driver," Evans said.
Evans says construction zones have been more prevalent along I-35 in the recent months.
In the wake of numerous accidents that have happened, Evans says safety is a bigger issue he teaches to his students now more than ever.
"You have to focus. You can't lose that. You have to be mindful of your surroundings and conduct yourself as a professional in that truck," Evans says.
"You have to be able to see things before they develop."
Evans stressed that the road will never be a safe place. He says, that it's up to drivers to work together, pay attention, and come home alive.
"Most people get intimidated by a big truck, and yes it's difficult driving out there in these construction zones," Evans said.
"Everyone just needs to have patience and know when to slow down."


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16 Nov 2012 3:53 AM #1
Unanswered: Can the data stored in the Local Storage be visible?(Dynamic charts)
I loaded the Store with the field values from a form.
I checked using alert if the values are getting fetched. It is working.
But when I load them to the store, I can't see the values in the Store.
Will it be visible?
I need to pick these values from the Store to create a chart.
Please let me know how I can continue to create a dynamic chart.
19 Nov 2012 6:30 AM #2
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As long as the data is stored using the store with a localstorage proxy and you are using sync() when saving data and loading the store when trying to view it it will work.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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I've included the below code in the form :
var values = JSON.stringify(formPanel.getValues(), null, 100);
Ext.Msg.alert('Form Values', values)
Store contents:
var store = Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', {
model: 'Model',
proxy: 'memory',
config: {
id: 'Store1',
autoLoad: true,
fields: ['name', 'email','password']
Can you please look at this code and let me know if I've missed out anything?
I've been trying it for a while now and haven't found a solution yet


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SIR - Zac Goldsmith (Mail on Sunday, September 9) is deeply misguided in his advocacy of draconian controls to force businesses to recycle. Landfill is often the most cost-effective method of waste disposal. Both the amount of land required and the environmental impact are negligible. In contrast, recycling generally uses more economic resources than it saves. It therefore must be artificially supported by subsidies and regulations, which now cost the British economy at least £2 billion every year. Before the Conservative Party adopts green policies it should carefully consider whether the environmental benefits are really worth the economic cost.
Dr Richard Wellings
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Institute of Economic Affairs
London SW1
For a more detailed analysis see
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8 Ridiculous Animal Myths You Probably Believe
Have you heard the myth about how humans are the most gullible creatures on planet Earth? If not, that's because we just made it up. But we're thinking it might be a myth worth spreading, because as we've pointed out before -- twice, even -- when it comes to myths about our neighbors in the animal kingdom, people tend to buy into even the most far-fetched ideas with nary a second thought. Like ...
#8. You're Never More Than Three Feet from a Spider, and It Wants to Lay Eggs in You
The Myth:
Spiders are so common that you're literally within three feet of one, right now. They're everywhere -- millions of them -- just waiting to jump out and horrify you with their too-many-eyes, or worse, lay their eggs inside your skin like some kind of goddamned alien. Or did you hear about the time where that one lady ordered a cactus and it exploded with baby tarantulas? Or maybe it was some bananas. Hell, maybe it was both. Spiders are fucking everywhere, that's the point.
"... It's probably just a hair. It's probably just a hair. It's probably just ..."
The Reality:
The "never more than three feet away" thing seems to have originated in 1995 when arachnologist Norman Platnick began an article with "Wherever you sit as you read these lines, a spider is probably no more than a few yards away." Which is technically true, especially if you keep in mind the "probably" modifier. But, as the years went by, the line was repeatedly misquoted by other articles, evolving into "Scientists estimate you're never more than three feet from a spider." Even Platnick misquoted himself in a CNN interview, saying that "You're probably within seven or eight feet of a spider, no matter where you are."
Above: Dr. Platnick, proving his point.
If you're standing in a lush grass lawn, then yeah, there might be tiny, harmless spiders right under your feet or as close as a few centimeters. If you're in parking lot, on the other hand, the closest spider could be as far as 100 feet. If you're in a jet over the ocean, the closest spider might be a ballooner getting sucked into the engines. So you probably do pass by a lot of spiders without ever even knowing it, but there's no scientific claim or study that ever said you were always within a certain distance of one.
As for the numerous legends of hidden parasitic spider eggs, this is said to have begun around the time the beehive was a popular hairdo, and it later evolved into a myth that spiders lurk in dreadlocks. Let's make fun of the spider-haired freaks, everybody! They're filthy!
"Say what you want. No one mugs the man with spider hair."
In reality, spider eggs are pretty delicate, take a long time to develop and need to be kept somewhere stable and safe. Some spiders carry their young on their backs, some carry them around in their mouths and others hang them in their webs in special little bags. They don't have any kind of appendage to insert eggs into hair, skin, other bugs, mouths, eyeballs or wherever the hell else you've been told by Internet horror stories. They leave all that shit to wasps.
#7. Bats Will Fly into Your Hair
The Myth:
Movies like to show bats flying into protagonists' faces as they scream and flail about, or getting tangled in women's hair. We seem to have some instinctive fear of this happening, and if you browse around the Internet, it seems like people are pretty sure that's the kind of kinky shit bats are into. Hey, we use bats as Halloween decorations for a reason; they're basically horrible, hairy, rabid sky-rats that want nothing more than to dive-bomb your head, tangle up in your hair like flapping bubblegum and ... we don't know, lay a bunch of bat eggs or something?
In about four seconds this whole picture will be poop.
Gary McCracken, zoologist and writer for BATS "yes that's a real magazine" Magazine has found these stories running rampant from the Americas to Europe and parts of Asia. So it has to be true, right?
The Reality:
While we can't say that a bat has never ended up in somebody's hair, it's certainly more of a freak occurrence than a conscious attempt on the bat's part. Bats not only have nothing to gain from the human scalp, but can't even be tricked into somebody's head. Their agility and echolocation are precise enough to detect and dodge even a single hair or pluck a single tasty mosquito out of the sky. Researchers have even deliberately tried to get bats to fly into their hair, because scientists just get so incredibly bored sometimes, with no success.
"Alright, screw cancer. Let's see how uncomfortable we can make some grad students."
"But Cracked," we hear you say, "why do bats flap all up in our faces, then?" Well, anyone who's ever stepped outside on a summer night knows that the human body is a virtual bug magnet -- especially to parasites like mosquitoes, which may as well come in a bag labeled "Bat Doritos." And all those scented shampoos and hair sprays you use can attract even more, so you may as well just wear a flashing neon sign above your head reading "Bug Buffet: Bats Eat FREE."
So bats will get near your head, it's just that with that amazing sonar we talked about, a bat can swipe a single gnat mere inches from your face and never even touch you. It's almost as if they're swooping down from the night sky to protect us. Black-winged guardian angels of the dark, sworn to protect the innocent from evil, just like ... you know. Aquaman.
Only more sexually viable.
#6. Turkeys Drown in the Rain
The Myth:
Domesticated turkeys are so dumb that, if left outside during a rainstorm, they will drown as a result of not closing their mouths as they stare up in wonder at the magical skywater.
You'd think someone would put up a tarp, at the very least.
The Reality:
Americans already devour turkeys as a way of celebrating cultural integration, do we really need to insult their intelligence, too? That's just rubbing salt in their wounds. OK, that sounds delicious, but we should not also be feasting on the side dish of ignorance.
Moist, steamy ignorance with a crispy golden skin.
To refute this myth, all you really need to do is think about a turkey's goofy, goofy face -- specifically, its eyes. You see, turkeys' eyes are set on the sides of their heads, which gives them a greater field of vision, but also means that they can't see directly in front of them like humans can. The position of their eyes means that even if a turkey were to tilt its head back (like they supposedly do, in order to watch the falling rain), it would still be looking to the sides, not up. Tilting its head backward to look up is something only a cartoon turkey would do.
But honestly, did we even need to get that technical with it? The whole idea that an animal being fascinated by rain makes it stupid is in fact ass backwards -- the whole concept of "fascination" requires a level of intelligence that turkeys simply don't possess. They're too stupid to even know it's raining, or to remember the last time it rained. It's not their fault. They're turkeys.
Ben Franklin only liked them because he was a fatass. Sorry, gourmand.
#5. The Female Praying Mantis Eats the Male After Sex
The Myth:
An endless inspiration to hardcore feminists or angry males who want something to compare hardcore feminists to, the female praying mantis always ensures that her mate's first time is his last time. She literally bites the male's head off in the middle of sex and devours the rest of his carcass before he even has a chance to pull out. You go, girl!
Captured Photons
This is what they call a "money bite."
The Reality:
It takes an awful lot of devotion and/or mental illness to just go out and find some insects boning each other, so much of what we knew about praying mantis sex originally came from observing them in captivity, confined in small tanks under bright lights, with giant hairless ape-monsters looming over their every move.
Captured Photons
"Oh shit, is that a camera? You may as well bite my head off before my mom sees."
Entomologists soon realized that this was the exact opposite of how most mantises (or literally anything else in the world) would normally have sex, which is usually under cover, protected from the prying eyes of opportunistic predators and kinky voyeurs both. They finally figured out that this might be skewing their data in weird ways.
So when researchers set up tiny hidden cameras to catch mantises mating in more comfortable, natural surroundings, the male was attacked and eaten only once in 69 experiments, and only then because the female was really, really hungry -- it had nothing to do with the regular mating ritual.
We're not sure why they decided to watch bugs humping exactly 69 times, but we have to assume that at least one copy was taken home for "personal research."


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I looked at the Bits for the OBA RAP. I don;t understand is the Outlook ADD-IN calling BDC using the Sharepoint server API (SharePoint.ApplicationRegistry). I assume the Outlook client will not have Sharepoint server installed on its machine. In that case
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My work mates and I are arguing about this term since none of us can comprehend its exact definition. Can I use the expression "I have been struggling vehemently to get this email sent since last month!" with validity?
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This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
The core meaning of vehement is 'intense, severe', so, yes, you can use the adverb vehemently to describe the way in which you have been struggling. However, its use is mostly restricted to describing speech, so don't be surprised if people question its use in other contexts.
Struggle is a verb, vehemently is an adverb, so they may go together cohesively.


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Our nation is in a crisis. Our waistlines are bulging almost as quickly as our stock market is plunging. More and more Americans are finding themselves uninsured and at the doctor - primarily for weight related conditions such heart disease and diabetes. I am a strong believer in taking responsibility for your self and your health. … [Read more...]
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New Child of Light trailer pans over dozens of painterly environmentsWritten by: / / 1 Comment
It's been a while since a game came along whose art style has captured gamers' imaginations quite like Child of Light's gorgeous visuals have done. The game has been described as a "playable poem" and an "interactive painting", and there's no doubt that Ubisoft's incredibly flexible UbiArt Framework engine coupled with its talented designers will make these aspirations a reality.
The publisher recently released a new trailer for Child of Light giving us a glimpse at the game's varied and highly detailed environments along with its evocative soundtrack. Have a look and listen below:
Child of Light will be available for download on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, Wii U and PC from April 30th for €14.99/£11.99/$14.99. Head over here for El33tonline's previous coverage of this magical turn-based RPG.
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H33rsay: Grand Theft Auto V PC pre-orders to begin this weekWritten by: / / No Comments
H33rsay is El33tonline's round-up of game industry rumours and speculation where we have looks at unconfirmed and unannounced pieces of news emerging from anonymous tipsters, information leaks and generally dubious sources. It may not all be true, but it's still fun to talk about!
Will they won't they? The oft-rumoured PC version of Grand Theft Auto V has continued to gain traction since the game's release on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in September 2013, and was just last week listed on Amazon Germany and Amazon France for Windows platforms.
While no official confirmation or denial has escaped the lips of Rockstar Games or Take 2, it's being reported that Swedish retailer Elgiganten will start taking pre-orders for this supposed PC version of the open-world action game this Friday, January 31st. When contacted, a manager at one of the stores confirmed the news which adds credibility to the rumour, but doesn't necessarily confirm the existence of GTA V on PC.
Is Grand Theft Auto V on PC real? If this rumour is true we're sure to find out in the coming days.
Would you want to play GTA V on PC, or would you prefer a high fidelity version of the game be released on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 instead?
Source: GameReactor
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The Republican Party wants you to work for the least amount of money and benefits. You worked hard for them for many years and you think everything is going well, and all of a sudden they tell you they are sending your job overseas, where they have no regulations, no unions, no vacation or sick days to pay, etc. Also, the corporation will get a tax break.
The CEO will get a bigger bonus, and the extra money they will get won't go to creating jobs - they just sent them overseas. You have to go back to school to get into another field. After school, if you are lucky enough to get another job, it pays less and you have to pay back the loan. Then someone comes in and says we're sending your job overseas. Now you have to start over again, go to school and look for another job.
We can't let the rich buy this country. Don't let the rich run this country, because it's our country, too.
Don't let this country go backward. We need to go forward and the middle class will benefit. We are productive members of society, too. If you don't make $300,000 a year, you should vote for all Democrats.
Don't vote against yourself - you will need Social Security, Medicare or even Medicaid. We aren't freeloaders. The Republicans are the only people who say Social Security and Medicare won't be there. The reason they say that is if they put Mitt Romney in office, he will get rid of them.
They're telling you what they will really do to us in advance. The Republican Party will do anything to put money into its pockets.
Look at Romney, he is all over the place, saying anything to get into office.
In one speech he says one thing, in the next one he changes his mind. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you shouldn't be voting. Romney is for the rich. There is too big of a gap between the rich and middle class. If Romney gets in, it will be increased.
I still would like to see Romney's taxes for the last 10 years. What is he hiding? Who is the real Mitt Romney?
Remember that Barack Obama has averted the greatest financial crisis since the Depression and has the country going in the right direction. It just takes time to finish it.
The Republican-controlled House needed to say yes to some of Obama's legislation.
Vote for Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Sherrod Brown, Lou Gentile, Steve Vukelic, Charlie Wilson and other Democrats who have the interests of the middle class in mind.
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Have you ever been to the Redbull Flugtug?
Or better yet, ever participated?
I'm thinking of checking out the Philadelphia event tomorrow - I've always thought it looked pretty cool.
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Yes. I was at the one that came to St. Paul Minnesota where a local group made the world record for longest flight, at a flutag. At least it was the record at the time. It was a couple years ago. The place was PACKED! Lots of people there. It was a good time. :)
Never been, but the website you linked looks to be very entertaining. :) I'm just too far away to experience it or I would check it out.
I'm pretty excited about the prospect, and it isn't very far away from me. It will be too far from parking to make a good tailgating party out of it, but it still looks like it will be a great time.


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Is it possible to found the cartesian equation of the line generated by the vector $\mathbf{d} = [-2,1]$ ? AFAIK I need at least two points so I'm using the unitary vector of $\mathbf{d}$ as the other point, calculating the slope and using $y-y_1 = m(x-x_1)$
The line generated by $\vec{d}$ is all points of the form $(-2t,t)$ where $t \in \mathbb{R}$. When $t=1$ we get the point $(-2,1)$ and when $t=0$ we get $(0,0).$ As a result, the line has slope $-1/2$ and $y$-intercept $0$ and its equation is $y=-(1/2) x$.
The question turns on the use of the words "line" and "generate". I suspect what confused you was that these are taken from two different contexts.
The term "generate" is from the language of vector spaces, where the subspace generated by a set of vectors is the set of all linear combinations of those vectors. Thus, the subspace generated by the vector $(-2,1)$ is as Shawn writes, the set of all vectors of the form $t(-2,1)$.
However, one doesn't usually talk about the line generated by a vector. The term "line" is from the language of geometry, where one thinks of a line uniquely determined by two points, or perhaps by a point and a direction, but not by one point.
This is related to the fact that in linear algebra, the zero vector plays a special role, and the subspace generated by a set of vectors always includes the zero vector, whereas in geometry the origin plays no special role, is just an arbitrary reference point for coordinates and obviously isn't included in all lines.
There is an analogue to the origin-independent world of geometry in linear algebra: affine combinations and affine subspaces. Whereas $n$ linearly independent vectors determine an $n$-dimensional linear subspace of a vector space, $n+1$ affinely independent vectors determine an $n$-dimensional affine subspace. The term "generate" is sometimes used in this context, though not as widely as with respect to linear subspaces; so in a certain sense you were right to think that it takes two vectors to "generate" a line.


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What is "reciprocity failure" when used in the context of film?
In short, reciprocity failure is how we describe film reacting unevenly to exposure. Usually, film's exposure is pretty linear: exposing film at f/2.8 for 1/60s will give you the same negative density as exposing at f/4 for 1/30s or f/2 for 1/125s. When you start to reduce the number of photons hitting your photosensitive material per second, though, things get a bit out of sync. You need more photons to get the photosensitive material to react, so you need to extend your exposure time.
In practice, this means that for long exposures, you need to calculate in a reciprocity failure. How much for how long depends on the type of film you're using, here's an example chart for Kodak films. With black and white it's pretty simple: you just extend times and be done with it. With color film, because the different layers lose reciprocity at different rates, you'll often get a color shift and you need to correct for that with color filters. This is easily one aspect of photography that digital does better.
One thing worth remembering is that reciprocity failure is a localized effect, not one across the frame. In certain situations, it can introduce a sort of contrast boost: when your shadows aren't reflecting enough light for proper exposure, while your highlights are, the shadows will be darker than they are in reality. Many guides for handling rep failure will tell you to pull the film in development.


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Norris City General Baptist Church will offer two weekends of activities in April. The McHenry Good News Singers from Crossville will sing at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 13.
The performance will lead into the church revival, set for Sunday, April 14 through Saturday, April 20. Evangelist Rev. Jerry Crawford will be the guest speaker. The revival will begin at 6 p.m. nightly.
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I have a wall with (a very rubbery) latex paint topcoat over a painted surface on drywall that it is only marginally adhering to. Trying to sand or even rub on it removes it slowly and not very efficiently. I'm afraid to paint over it, so I want to remove it. Is there any mild chemical or other process that will loosen it enough to remove it, so we can patch, re-prime, and repaint over it?
If it's not well adhered to the wall, the first thing I'd try would be heat - get a heat gun (sorry, your wife's hairdryer won't work) and a scraper and try that approach before resorting to any chemicals.
Latex Paint reacts to Ammonia. If the surface below the latex paint is sound; simply apply a light solution of ammonia and the paint will bubble up. Then scrape off the paint. You may have to re-apply a few times to get all the paint off.


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I was toying with the idea of getting a bit extra from my 2011 Chevy Cruze Eco. It's a great car but I think the turbo is being control via the computer and in my opinion, could be a bit better. I was looking at the jet performance stage 1 chips. Would using a chip like this void the mfgr warranty I have with GM? If not, is it worth the money?
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I'm generally suspicious of get rich quick schemes. I've been holding off on chip-like improvements to my car until I'm really convinced that the software is all there and it's a 2004 model.
On the other hand, remember that even a small turbo motor will benefit from attention to the intake and exhaust components. Remember that the engine is an air pump: if you can improve its ability to pump that air, it will reward you.
Admittedly, changes to intakes and exhausts generally cost more money that popping in a new chip. That said, I'm a sincere advocate that wrenching is more fun than popping in the latest chip. Besides, a better intake and exhaust path will almost certainly mean that the better ECU program (when you get it) will have a more efficient overall system to work with.
Modifications almost always affect the warranty. The warranty is based upon a standard car used in typical circumstances. If you go outside of those (either by modifying things or using the car atypically (like racing it)) then the warranty is in jeopardy. It comes down to how generous the dealer/company happen to be the day that you need work...
That said, chip replacements in general are relatively low risk compared to other modifications, but it does carry risk depending on how aggressive the individual chip is.
Isn't there a law that says they have to prove your modification is what actually broke the component for them to void the warranty? Just installing a chip won't shouldn't void anything. Call Jet and talk to them, they should know.