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The 8 Most Terrifying Diets in the Animal Kingdom
Animals eat insects, their own poop and sometimes their own children. So what in the hell could qualify as a weird diet in the animal kingdom?
Trust us -- when you think you've seen it all, Mother Nature only takes that as a challenge. That's how we wound up with ...
#8. Bugs That Drink Bitter Tears
An adult moth lives only to mate. It has little need for food (it stores up nutrients during the larval stage and just lives off of them like a trust fund). Instead, it fuels its lifelong sexathon with natural sports drinks.
Normally, this means sipping nectar from flowers, but some moths, who were possibly molested as caterpillars, have evolved to literally feed on sorrow.
Roland Hilgartner / Mamisolo Raoilison
Tear-drinking moths, probably the world's biggest assholes, sneak up on larger animals and poke them in the eyes until they cry so they can drink the tears. Different species favor different victims, but all prefer animals that have no means of brushing them off. Species on some continents target slow, grazing mammals, deer or even crocodiles, while a species in Madagascar attacks birds as they sleep, digging between their eyelids with a proboscis covered in barbs. What a dick.
Because Mother Nature is clearly some kind of sociopath, there are also at least three species of tear-drinking bees, all from Thailand. Like Simon Cowell, these little bastards derive their nutrition from human tears, and are found swarming around movie theatres whenever a new Pixar film comes out.
"We'll eat for weeks."
Though it's not like they're actually eating their eyes, right?
#7. The Shrimp That Eats Eyes
Eyeless, limbless and wormlike, the Ommatokoita is a crustacean, related to lobsters and shrimp, though we're pretty sure it doesn't taste as good with warm butter. Most of its cousins actually work for a living, scavenging the ocean floor, but Ommatokoita is the lazy bum of the crustacean world, as it craves only one horrible, horrible thing.
Om nom.
Ommatokoita feeds off the eyeballs of the Greenland shark, a shark so badass it will eat a goddamned polar bear. The parasite burrows itself into the shark's eye and then just anchors itself there, drinking delicious eye-jelly. It sits there, eating eyeball, for the rest of its life. Just more proof that the ocean is literally made of horror.
Luckily for the Greenland shark, it doesn't actually need eyes to hunt -- it's just that badass. Extra lucky, because almost all Greenland sharks have hell-shrimp in their eyes. Some scientists have postulated that the parasites may attract prey to the shark like symbiotic fishing lures. That's right -- the shark finds itself in a situation where bugs are eating its eyeballs forever and manages to benefit from it.
"Excellent. Sea monsters are eating my eye ... all goes according to plan."
#6. Skuas Eat Terror Vomit
With apologies to the eye-poking moth, there may be an even bigger asshole in the animal kingdom. The skua, kind of a dickhead seagull, is what's known as a kleptoparasite. Next time your roommate raids the fridge and eats your food, call him this and see how he reacts.
While other seabirds waste valuable energy catching fish, the skua takes a schoolyard bully approach and just harasses the shit out of its seagull cousins, dive-bombing and terrorizing them until they're so exhausted and terrified that they have to puke. This is the skua's goal. While the victim is rocking back and forth in a fetal position somewhere, the skua swoops down and slurps up a nice, curdled mass of stinking, partially digested seafood.
Hey, it's a delicacy in some places.
During winter months, terror vomit can account for up to 95 percent of a skua's diet, making it the only thing in nature with grosser eating habits than Guy Fieri. Of course, if the victim doesn't have anything to throw up, the skua will eventually get sick of trying to scare it and will simply kill and eat the bird. Thankfully, schoolyard bullies don't take their tips from the animal kingdom.
Photo by Mila Zinkova
"Gimme yer lunchseal!"
#5. Caecilians Eat Their Mothers' Skin
Though they look like earthworms, these burrowing animals are actually amphibians, like frogs and salamanders, though unlike many other amphibians, the females build a nest where they dutifully protect their babies until they're large enough to fend for themselves. So dutifully, in fact, that they never even leave them to look for food, having evolved an alternative as heartwarming as it is nauseating.
Every three days, baby caecilians employ specialized, temporary fangs to strip the skin from their mother's body and feast upon it.
Photo by Dawson
"We're actually much worse than we look!"
Luckily (or horrifically, depending on how you look at it), the caecilian mother has the rejuvenation skills of Wolverine. So she can look forward to weeks of tiny worm monsters cannibalizing her again and again and again. At this point we forget whether we're writing an article about animals or Dante's Inferno.
Moms of the world, before you bitch at your kids about everything you sacrificed to make them happy, consider for a moment whether you would have let them gnaw your boobs off over and over. Yeah, we didn't think so.


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To me, once of the most important parts of learning a language is the ability to read the implied message behind someone's words, and part of that is knowing when they're making a point and they're just shooting the breeze and explaining things. I know of a few, like から and ので, but does anyone have insight to offer, in this respect?
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What words/structures indicate an argument? (e.g. Therefore, as a result, there's strong reason to believe (x) , etc.) [closed]
closed as not a real question by Flaw♦, Dono, istrasci, cypher, snailplane♦ Feb 28 '13 at 14:23
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I guess these might fit your description they are phrases you would say when arguing.
I know that these don't necessarily follow a general pattern, so it's worth mentioning a few more:
I agree that this question is probably too broad. But here are a couple examples I can think of off the top of my head.


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The summary: I need to be hyper-productive.
I work more or less for eight hours a day, but I still need to graduate. I can not stop working--I need to do so--but I'm still trying to find a way to proceed with the study using the rare spare time available to me.
I think I'm the type of student suitable for flash cards, the problem is that I do not have time to write and prepare them.
The question of questions is:
Is there any advice I can follow that will allow me, in the long term, to speed up the organization of the material that I use to study?
A list of possible answers include and is not limited to:
- Stop studying;
- Stop working;
- Stop doing both (uhm);
- method <best answer> is better than flash cards because <motivation>;
- You can do this and that in this order because <motivation>;
- Your problem has no solution because <motivation>;
- Your question is off topic;
- I am your teacher, and now that I know the truth will prevent you from graduate;
- Want a cookie to cheer you up?
The test says: Intrapersonal Intelligence. I would say that it fits perfectly.
Are you graduating from college, getting a PhD, or what? What field? What kind of classes are you mostly doing? Large projects, small problem-solving tasks, memorization-heavy things? Homework, writing, tests? Which methods are best depends on the kind of task involved.
College. Field is Computer Science. I'm doing mostly memorization-heavy things; also problem solving. Just tests, neither writing nor homework.


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You will need to create separate packages. This is because of the potential of different library versions being required in various versions of Ubuntu.
As well, when you build the packages into the binaries, it will be building only for the libraries available within that version of Ubuntu.
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What makes government transparent?
That answer involves many, many layers of case law, legislation, expectation, ideology, opinion, awareness and even attitude — too many layers, in fact, to deliberate here.
In essence, it's how expensive fees are for obtaining records, or how well minutes are recorded and kept, or how populated websites are with information, or how emails are exchanged among government officials, or how they conduct business in private, and everything in between. Transparency, or the lack of it, includes what isn't recorded, or what may be hidden from our view.
It wasn't easy, but the Sky-Hi News has conducted its first-ever Sunshine Audit in celebration of National Sunshine Week, held this week of March 16-22. The audit involved all incorporated towns in Grand County and Grand County government, as well as four major districts in the county: the two school districts, the hospital district, and the library district. The districts results will be published next week.
We took on this challenge for multiple reasons. We are hoping the project is enlightening to readers and empowers them to seek records and information at their disposal, educates them on how to get records, and informs them on how government is doing in terms of what should be expected. We also hope it will be informative to government boards and staff members themselves, seeing how counterparts in other towns and the county are doing in terms of record-keeping and transfer of information. Overall, we hope it results in transparency improvements in government practices for the betterment of our Grand County community as a whole, and we hope it influences citizens to become more engaged in governance that affects each and every one of us.
Since this is the first time we've embarked on this adventure, we decided early on to stick to basics of transparency. We tackled what we view as the first "layer." We applied points to each of four categories, then assessed each government accordingly: government websites (30 points, plus 2 bonus points), meetings (30 points, plus 4 bonus points), budgets & financial (30 points) and the records request process (10 points).
We sought some guidance from Jeff Roberts, executive director of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, who helped us see the importance of some aspects of transparency we may have otherwise undervalued, such as records fees and the necessity for government websites to make more digital records available free of charge. We also sought the advice and opinions of "Sunshine Citizens" in Grand County, or citizens who don't generally interact with government but care about what goes on. Six individuals answered our front-page "want ad" in the Sky-Hi News. The group mostly represented Grand Lake, Tabernash, Fraser and Granby, and during a two-hour focus-group session, provided us with much-appreciated insight. We also did our own research, consulting countless websites and writings.
But what the project revealed was that it was impossible to avoid subjectivity. When it comes to minutes and agendas, for example, we just know the good ones when we see them, especially when we lay them side-by-side on the newsroom floor and analyze them piece by piece — which the four of us (Managing Editor Tonya Bina, Photo Editor Byron Hetzler, and reporters Reid Tulley and Leia Larsen) indeed did. In the end, we drew on our collective experience as journalists who regularly observe these elements of government, ranging from the transparent to the not-so-transparent. For each government entity, we then arrived at a grade.
We tackled what we view as the first "layer" of transparency, and we applied points to each of four categories, then assessed each government accordingly: government websites (30 points, plus 2 bonus), meetings (30 points, plus 4 bonus), budgets & financial (30 points) and records (10 points).
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Websites are one of government's best tools for transparency. Technology and the Internet have evolved to a point where it's easy to put minutes, agendas, budgets, records and contact information right at the fingertips of voters. "One can imagine the frustration of a citizen who is used to shopping, banking, and reading news online, when a government website not only does not post the public record that she is interested in, but does not include information as to how to request that record through the Colorado Open Records Act," notes Colorado Ethics Watch in "21st Century Sunshine: Modernizing CORA." For our assessment, we required minutes, agendas and budgets for the past three years to be posted and easy to find. We required public notification to be posted in areas easy to find as well. We also required personalized contact information for key staff and elected officials. Elected officials are directly accountable to the people, and should be easy to contact. Lastly, we looked for each town's and the county's procedure for requesting public records, and required that fees for record searches be published. This allows for consistency, no matter who the requester is.
While many towns posted the open records request forms under their clerk's page, we found during our focus group that many novice records requesters are unfamiliar with how this procedure is handled. Thus, we feel this information must be easy to find and clearly explained with its own page or a link on the website homepage.
To determine meetings transparency, we evaluated agendas, meeting minutes and frequency of executive sessions. We asked town clerks to select 12 sets of agendas and minutes in odd then even months over the past two years. We also asked clerks to supply us with the number of town or county board executive sessions over the past five years. We divided this number by the total number of board meetings to come up with a percentage of how many meetings include executive sessions. We then requested the meeting minutes that included the town or county's last five executive sessions so we could determine their legal justification for executive sessions and evaluate any public discussion before or after the executive sessions.
Budget and Financial
Budgets and financial records provide important transparency on how taxpayers' funds are managed. But reading documents rife with numbers and accounting jargon can be intimidating to the general public. With each budget, we looked for an executive summary that helps readers make sense of the figures in plain language. We also looked for graphs and charts that explain trends, comparisons of the current budget with past years, and navigational tools like a tables of contents and sections with clear headings. We also asked clerks to provide us with detailed expense reports, where we looked for detail on checks issued, invoice numbers, payment amounts, to whom the payment was made and specific information on what the payment was for.
Finally, we evaluated each town and the county on the public records request we filed to complete this project. We first looked at the fees each municipality charges for open records requests. Federal law specifically says government agencies can only charges 25 cents per page for copies. Generally, records sent via email or downloaded from a website are free of charge. Fees for staff "research and retrieval" are much more cloudy. According to the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, the Colorado Court of Appeals has upheld that a "reasonable" research and retrieval fee is up to $25 per hour. House Bill 1193, as currently written, has been introduced to the Senate and would establish a research and retrieval fee cap at $32 per hour, or four-times the current state minimum wage.
"Many government custodians view Colorado Open Records Act requests as bothersome distractions that take resources away from the 'real' work of the agencies," notes Colorado Ethics Watch, "while requestors and government watchdogs generally contend that public records created and maintained using public funds have already been paid for and it is part of government's job to respond to document requests from members of the public."
We believe our Sunshine Project requests were in the realm of basic records that every clerk or finance manager should easily have at his or her disposal, with little research required.
Overall, we encourage all governments to clearly publish fees and the public-records request process on government websites with as much detail as possible, and we encourage governments to post as many records as possible online. This would serve to reduce the number of basic records requests that can monopolize government staff time, and it would also serve to alleviate the need to charge citizens outlandish fees for "research and retrieval."
"When Colorado Open Records Act fees price out not only most citizens seeking access to public records, but also the media, ordinary citizens suffer. Transparency in government is too important to be limited to a handful of groups or individuals who can afford to pay charges for time spent disclosing documents about public business," notes Colorado Ethics Watch.
We also provided a score on how long it took each clerk to complete our request, which by Colorado Freedom of Information means they should respond within three working days unless extenuating circumstances call for seven days. We then checked whether the documents delivered were complete according to the directions in our request.
Quotes from Focus Group
"They're so wonderfully short and uninformative."—Jane Mather, Fraser resident, on Fraser Board of Trustee minutes
"There has to be a way to differentiate who voted which way … we need to get a sense of the flavor of what's happening in meetings."—Paul Robertson, Granby resident
"I expect to have access to everything, except personnel issues."—Scott Huff, Grand Lake resident, on government websites
"I want insight into the decision-making process. I want to see the sausage getting made."—Paul Robertson
"Most of us speak plain English, and that's what we want to see."—Chris Bergquist, Tabernash resident, on reading government documents
"You cannot conduct the people's business in secret, period. That's something we should push for."—Scott Huff, Grand Lake resident, on executive sessions
"You can't manipulate the process by how you define the nature of the meeting, the process is the process."—Paul Robertson
"Why hold a meeting at 3 o'clock in the afternoon when the general public wants to be there, and should be there?"—Diane Mahoney, Grand Lake resident, on town's 'workshops'
And here are the grades:
Grand Lake: D-
WEBSITE (24.5 ) — Grand Lake was docked for only posting their current agenda, only their current budget, for not having personalized phone numbers for any staff officials, and for not having phone numbers or personalized emails for elected officials. We also subtracted points for not naming the staff responsible for handling public records requests. We did feel their budgets, financial records and meeting minutes were easy to find. The town's website also has a calendar that's easy to find and includes public meetings. We like that the town posts board meeting packets.
MEETINGS (11.5) — We were disappointed that Grand Lake only provided us with the current agenda, and we docked substantial points for this. However, the one agenda provided some of the most thorough detail, which gives the public a strong sense of discussions and action items involving potentially important topics and issues. We particularly appreciate that agenda includes page numbers for related information in the packet presented to board members. The agenda does not list the place or address of the meeting, which can be a hassle for first-time meeting attendees. We appreciated they call the public comment period "citizen participation," which makes it clear to first-time or occasional meeting attendees that this is their time to speak with elected officials. It could include clearer instructions for comment, however.
Meeting minutes were also thorough and written similar to a transcript, but Grand Lake lost out on bonus points because it does not make draft minutes available to citizens.
Grand Lake is skirting true transparency by holding the bulk of trustee discussions during afternoon workshops, which are never recorded and where minutes are never taken. The workshops take place regularly before the official meetings take place. This especially struck a nerve with our focus group, as it does for the rest of us who champion government transparency. While this procedure is legal under Colorado's Sunshine laws, we still believe it violates the spirit of the law, so we subtracted substantial points. According to the town, the meetings have been conducted this way for decades, and it is a way to limit the town's night meeting from being too lengthy.
Roughly 28.7 percent of Grand Lake's public meetings include executive sessions, which is comparatively low in the county. Nearly all these sessions, however, occur during the unrecorded workshops, so there are no minutes immediately prior to or after them. We couldn't determine their legal rationale for holding executive sessions or any public discussion before or after the sessions.
BUDGET & FINANCIAL (20) — Grand Lake's budget has a good executive summary, with information helping readers make sense of trends. It also includes explanations for 2014 revenue, and the budget spreadsheet provides comparisons since 2011. It doesn't have a table of contents or navigational tools and it doesn't have charts or graphs. The expense reports are sufficiently thorough.
Records (4.5) — The town of Grand Lake charges $50 an hour for research and retrieval, well above the established "reasonable" rate. We appreciate that the town waived our fee because our research was for "educational purposes," but feel this hefty fee could deter individuals from requesting public records. The town clerk responded quickly, but only partially fulfilled our request, leaving out meeting minutes that included executive sessions because they may not exist, and the number of total meetings the town has held in the past five years.
Granby: B-
WEBSITE (27.5) — Granby only has its meetings and minutes posted since 2013, and only its current budget posted. We like that it posts the board meeting packet. The open records procedure, fees and contact information are posted on the town clerk's page, but we subtracted a point because it was fairly difficult to find. We appreciated the fact that the town mayor listed her cell phone number along with contact information. All staff and elected officials had personalized contact information, although only about half of the board of trustees had their phone numbers listed.
MEETINGS (30.5) — Granby had in our view the best agendas and minutes. The detail on upcoming discussion and action items was very clear and detailed, written in plain language that's easy to understand. We felt the agenda made the upcoming meeting easy to understand for those unfamiliar with public meetings. The public comment period was easy to find and included instructions. The estimated times for each discussion item were also listed. The only area for improvement is for the town to list the place and address of the meeting.
The minutes read almost like a transcript. While some in our focus group found the amount of detail overwhelming, we feel this thoroughness provides clear insight to the meeting discussion and proceedings. Votes are clearly set apart with bold type, and each trustee's vote is listed.
About 40 percent of Granby's meetings include executive sessions, which is on the high side for the county. The minutes before and after the sessions provide good legal rationale and a general discussion of what went on, so the public isn't left entirely in the dark.
BUDGET & FINANCIAL (17) — Granby's budget is hard to navigate. It doesn't have a table of contents or navigational tools, and the executive summary is a long body of text that's difficult to scan through to find specific information about different funds. Bolded headings, bullets and section breaks would be helpful. The budget spreadsheets use color coding to call out specific numbers, but it's confusing to figure out what the different colors mean. The spreadsheets provide budget comparisons back to 2012. The expense reports provide good information, but could be more specific information on dates payments were made and check numbers.
RECORDS (9) — The town's open records form says the research fee is $35 an hour, although the town clerk said she typically only charges $25. The town did not charge us for our request. The town had the quickest response to our request, and provided all requested records.
Kremmling: F
WEBSITE (8) — Kremmling's score really suffered from not having public information posted on its website. At the time of our research, Kremmling had posted minutes since 2013 and only its current agenda. It has no budget posted, although we appreciate it has a page specifically posting expenditures for the current year. The website lists names of key staff and elected officials, but provides no individual contact information. We found no open records request information, including procedures, fees and contact information. At the time of our research, there was no notification of the next public meeting, the only notification we found was for a meeting which had already occurred. We asked Kremmling Town Manager Mark Campbell about the town's website and learned the town had updated its website three months prior to make it more user-friendly. Campbell said it was likely that during the upgrade, several documents did not get re-posted. We did find that the website was relatively easy to navigate, and the locations for minutes and agendas easy to find.
MEETINGS (18.5) — While Kremmling's minutes were pretty good, it has, by far, the most bare-bones agenda. We would have preferred to see more detail in the Kremmling minutes as well, but our focus group found them easy to read and felt they provided sufficient information. The board's action items were clearly called out. We couldn't find a case of a trustee dissenting, so it's not clear if trustee specific votes would be called out in the minutes.
Roughly 3 percent of Kremmling's board meetings include executive sessions, an excellent percentage in terms of transparency. The only minutes we saw that included a session have a clear legal rationale.
BUDGET & FINANCIAL (25) — If Kremmling's budget included graphs and charts, it would have some of the best financial documents in the county. The executive summary is easy to read and also functions like a table of contents. Figures and dollar amounts are in bold and easy to locate within the summary. The budget spreadsheets provide comparison with the past three years. The town's expense report is excellent, including payments, dates, check numbers, to whom the payment was made and why.
RECORDS (5.5) — Kremmling doesn't publish its fees anywhere, but the town clerk said the charge is between $24.94 and $43.21 an hour. Some of these fees are well above the reasonable rate. While the town's response to our records request was timely, it was only partially fulfilled, leaving out past agendas and the total number of public meetings over the last five years. The town did not charge us for our request.
Hot Sulphur Springs: D-
WEBSITE (16) — The town's website has no budget or financial records posted, and only has minutes and agendas since 2012. The meeting documents were easy to find, and meeting notifications were easy to find on the town calendar page. The town doesn't include a procedure for requesting public records, fees or contact information for the person responsible for handling requests. The website does list all the town's staff and elected officials, but we couldn't find personalized contact information for elected officials. We particularly appreciated the fact Hot Sulphur Springs lists the terms for all their elected officials, and we gave them a bonus point for this. All municipalities should strive for this type of online transparency on elected offices.
MEETINGS (25) — Overall, Hot Sulphur Springs did a great job with their agendas. We appreciate the fact that they include specific dollar amounts in budget items listed in the agendas. The town's agenda was one of only a few that include the time, place and address of the meeting. We would like to see them list the specific times agenda items will be discussed.
The meeting minutes lacked detail. Minutes only included a very general description of trustees' discussion. Voting, however, was clearly called out with caps. We couldn't find a case of a trustee dissenting, so it's not clear if specific votes would be called out.
Hot Sulphur Springs had one of the lowest cases of executive sessions, which amounted to only 12 percent of all their meetings in the past five years. The minutes including these sessions generally had good legal rationale and discussion before and after the session, although this was inconsistent.
BUDGET & FINANCIAL (11) — Hot Sulphur Springs's financials were difficult to navigate. The budget doesn't have an executive summary, table of contents or navigational tools. The budget spreadsheets were broken up by accounts within each fund, which was helpful, but this could've been clearer with bold headings or colors. The town's expense reports also don't include to whom payments are made or what they're for.
RECORDS (9) — We couldn't find information about fees anywhere on the town's website. We managed to track down the information through the town clerk. Hot Sulphur charges $15 an hour for "routine" requests for "search and retrieval" and $25 an hour for "voluminous" requests. Retrieval of off-site records has a charge of $20 an hour minimum. Hot Sulphur did not charge us for our request.
Fraser: C+
WEBSITE (19.5) — We are disappointed the town of Fraser only posts a current agenda. It does not post past minutes or agendas, and we urge the town to start providing this information for the benefit of its citizens. We do commend the town for posting the board meeting packet online. The town only lists the current budget and no expenditures. It lists elected officials, but does not provide any contact information for these individuals. All key staff are listed with personalized contact information. When available, Fraser's public documents were fairly easy to find and the website was easy to navigate, however, we again emphasize their need to post minutes and past agendas. The town clerk's page includes a public records request form, with straightforward instructions and fees listed. We found this information somewhat difficult to find, however.
MEETINGS (23) — We appreciate Fraser's minutes include estimated times for discussion and action items in some agendas, but this wasn't consistent. Overall, the agendas were clear and provide useful details. The public comment period is listed as an "open forum," with no instructions for public comment, which we found confusing. We like that the agendas list upcoming meetings.
The town's minutes are not very detailed or thorough. They only have general descriptions of the trustees' discussions. Votes are clearly called out with bold type, however, and there's a voting breakdown of each trustee when votes aren't unanimous.
Fraser has the worse record of executive sessions in the county, with 55 percent of its public meetings including executive sessions over the past five years. We asked why. "Most were related to complex Byers Peak Ranch annexation negotiations and some were related to the Colorado Cooperative Agreement when attorneys were explaining the town's position related to water matters," said Fraser Town Manager Jeff Durbin. Negotiating a significant agreement like that in open meeting, he said, would be like "a husband and wife (as prospective house or car buyers) talking about their financial information in front of the house seller or the car dealer."
BUDGET & FINANCIAL (27) — Fraser had a good user-friendly budget with plenty of graphs, charts and clear explanations. The budget had page numbers and bolded figures that made it easy to navigate. Language in the executive summary was easy to understand, and the budget spreadsheets provided comparisons with past years. The town's expense reports are good, but don't include check numbers or what specific payments are for.
RECORDS (9) — Fraser does an excellent job listing fees on its Freedom of Information Act form. The form includes a comprehensive fee schedule. Research fees for non-management staff are $20 an hour, within the reasonable range, but fees for management research time are quite high. The town quickly and adequately fulfilled our records request and did not charge us.
Winter Park: B-
WEBSITE (24.5) — Winter Park did an excellent job posting past minutes agendas for the past three years, and we like that it posts the board meeting packets. We also appreciate that its current and past budgets are posted under the finance department page, but we felt it was somewhat difficult to find this information. The town could improve by posting its budget on the homepage. While the town posted a comprehensive financial report and sales tax report, it did not post current expenditures. The town's website lists its elected officials with personalized emails, but it does not include phone numbers. It does include personalized contact information for all key staff. While meetings are generally explained on the website, specific dates for meetings were difficult to find. Winter Park's public records request procedure is published under the town clerk's page, but it's also tricky to find, and fees are not published.
MEETINGS (19) — The town's agendas are among the best. They include useful detail and list the place and address of the meetings at the top. We do wish they'd provide estimated times for each agenda item.
We docked substantial points on the town's minutes. While they often provide a breakdown of how trustees vote, this is inconsistent. The minutes sometimes don't specify which trustees cast dissenting votes. We feel it's important for the public to have a good, detail record of how each of their elected officials vote every time. Minutes are scant with detail, providing only a general explanation of the trustees' discussions. Also, Winter Park missed out on bonus points because it will not make draft minutes available to citizens, instead they must first be approved by the town council. Winter Park and Grand Lake are the only towns in the county that don't share draft minutes. Of Winter Park's public meetings, about 32 percent included executive sessions. We gave them full points for providing legal rationale and discussion notes regarding the sessions.
BUDGET & FINANCIAL (29) — By far, Winter Park had the best budget in the pack. All other towns, districts and the county should strive to meet this budget's excellence. It includes a table of contents, and the digital version has clickable hyperlinks that direct readers to each section. It also includes a readers' guide, a "top 10 budget questions and quick links" section, simple language, good design and graphic features to help guide navigation. This budget has excellent graphics that help readers make sense of budget complexities and past financial trends. The town's expense reports are excellent as well, but they need to include more detail about what specific payments are for.
RECORDS (9) — The town's hourly fee isn't included on its form, but the town clerk said staff charges "up to $20 an hour," within the reasonable range. The town quickly and adequately fulfilled our records request without charge, citing "educational purposes."
Grand County: C+
WEBSITE (27) — Grand County deserves kudos for having one of the easiest websites to navigate. Agendas and minutes for all public meetings are easy to find for the past three years. Current and past budgets are also posted, along with financial reports, although we couldn't find expenditures. Personalized contact information was available and easy to find for all elected officials and staff. We especially appreciated that they provide photographs of some elected officials as well. The county's open records request procedure is easy to find under the "Government Transparency Portal." It includes a form with specific instructions, but fees are only explained generally. All public meetings are posted on the site's homepage and in relevant sections.
MEETINGS (24) — The county's agendas lack detail, and don't list the place or address of meetings. They also lack information explaining public comment periods. The county does a good job listing estimated times for each agenda item, however.
What they lack in agenda detail the county makes up for in its minutes. The meeting notes read like a transcript, and provide one of the best records of meeting discussions and votes. The county should also be commended for providing meeting summaries to email subscribers shortly after public meetings. Grand County does a good job of recording its executive sessions information before and after meetings. The county's frequency of holding executive sessions, however, is poor. Around 44 percent of public meetings include executive sessions. We asked why; County Manager Lurline Underbrink Curran said a large percentage of closed meetings were due to Moffat and Windy Gap water negotiations that occurred in the past five years. Those involved were required to sign confidentiality agreements in relation to the negotiations. And most recently, the county board has been discussing the investigation of the county building department in closed sessions, she said.
Grand County also has a unique situation in that the commissioner office desks are all in one shared room. Although the newspaper has no proof of the County violating open meeting laws with this setup, we decided to dock points because the county did not remedy this scenario when it did its renovation on the administration building in recent years, even though the newspaper took issue with it then, too. Commissioner desks in one shared room, when they might share the same office hours while conducting public business, technically constitutes a public meeting. This to us could mean possible violations without the public even knowing — or perhaps even the commissioners themselves not even realizing.
However, during the renovation of its administration building, the county did make improvements to its public meeting room. In particular, we commend the county for installing the ceiling camera that feeds video to TV monitors so the public is be able to see documents commissioners view on the meeting table.
BUDGET & FINANCIAL (21) — The county had one of only a few budgets that included a table of contents. It also has a "BOCC Budget Message" which is almost like an executive summary, but it's buried 17 pages down. It lacks charts and graphs. Budget spreadsheets are broken up by accounts within each fund, provide comparisons with past years and have bolded totals. Still, the sheer volume of numbers in this bulky budget makes navigation tedious. Because the county has such a hefty budget, it should especially strive to make it as simple to understand as possible. The county's expense reports are excellent with clear breakdowns and justifications for all payments.
RECORDS (7) — The county's freedom of information act form says "each department may also charge a reasonable hourly fee," but does not specify the fee amount. The county clerk wasn't able to provide specific information on this hourly fee. The county responded quickly to our request, and provided all requested records without charge.
KEY Websites ON SUNSHINE:
Sos.state.co.us/pubs/info_center/cora.htmltarget="_blank">Sos.state.co.us/pubs/info_center/cora.html: The Colorado Open Records Act.
Coloradofoic.orgtarget="_blank">Coloradofoic.org: The Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition dedicated to ensuring transparency of state and local governments in Colorado by promoting freedom of the press, open courts and open access to government records and meetings.
Coloradoforethics.org/cotarget="_blank">Coloradoforethics.org/co: State-based project of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonpartisan, nonprofit 501(c)3 watchdog group that holds public officials and organizations legally accountable for unethical activities that undermine the integrity of government in Colorado.
Opencolorado.orgtarget="_blank">Opencolorado.org: Organization enabling open records access to government information by helping even small governments get server space to put records online.
Sunshineweek.orgtarget="_blank">Sunshineweek.org: Sunshine Week is a national initiative to promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Participants include news media, civic groups, libraries, nonprofits, schools and others interested in the public's right to know.
Ballotpedia.org:target="_blank">Ballotpedia.org: An online encyclopedia about politics and elections, which includes projects and evaluation systems on transparency.
We tackled what we view as the first "layer." We applied points to each of four categories, then assessed each government accordingly: government websites (30 points, plus 2 bonus points), meetings (30 points, plus 4 bonus points), budgets & financial (30 points) and the records request process (10 points).


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- Make a face out of cereal or candy.
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Although Foster Wheeler has provided this technology globally for more than a year, it was previously offered in North America exclusively through a third party under a licensing arrangement. Foster Wheeler acquired the Graf Wulff CFB scrubber technology due to its flexibility to meet new tightening regulations.
Foster Wheeler is now the direct supplier of the FW Graf
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Although Foster Wheeler has provided this technology globally
for more than a year, it was previously offered in the North
American market exclusively through a third party under a
licensing arrangement.
We strongly feel that this move will allow us to
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We see this technology playing a crucial role in
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The mystery of our spiritual union with Christ lies at the heart of the liturgy for the Fifth Sunday of Easter this year. In the first reading from the Acts of the Apostles (6:1-7), we learn that a clear perception of the diversity of offices and duties in the first apostolic community arose very quickly.
In verses 1-7, the Hellenists were not necessarily Jews from the diaspora, but were more probably Palestinian Jews who spoke only Greek. The Hebrews were Palestinian Jews who spoke Hebrew or Aramaic and who may also have spoken Greek. Both groups belong to the Jerusalem Jewish Christian community. The conflict between them leads to a restructuring of the community that will better serve the community's needs.
The essential function of the Twelve (2-4) is the "service of the word," including development of the kerygma by formulation of the teachings of Jesus. In verse 2 we read: "It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to serve at table." Some scripture commentators think that it is not the serving of food that is described here but rather the keeping of the books that recorded the distribution of food to the needy members of the community. At the Apostles' invitation the disciples chose seven men: "Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nicolaus. The Apostles prayed over them and laid their hands upon them" (5-6).
The real purpose of this whole episode is to introduce Stephen as a prominent figure in the community whose long speech and martyrdom will be recounted in Acts 7. After Stephen and the others are chosen, they are never presented carrying out the task for which they were appointed (2-3). Rather, two of their number, Stephen and Philip, are presented as preachers of the Christian message. Stephen is the most representative of the group of seven companions. Our tradition sees in this group the origins of the future ministry of "deacons", although we should keep in mind that this particular ministerial distinction is not present in the Acts of the Apostles.
Let us remember that in addition to charitable work, Stephen carried out the work of evangelization among his own people- the so-called "Hellenists". Luke insists on the fact that Stephen, "full of grace and power" (8), presented in Jesus' Name a new interpretation of Moses and of God's Law itself. Stephen reread the Old Testament in the light of the proclamation of Christ's death and Resurrection.


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I have some large
.bak files from a SQL Server 2005 dump.
Can I restore these without using SQL Server, either to PostgreSQL, MySQL, or to flat text files?
An open source solution would be most useful.
I have some large
Can I restore these without using SQL Server, either to PostgreSQL, MySQL, or to flat text files?
An open source solution would be most useful.
Here is what I suggest:
Alternatively you can try and play with the bcp utility to extract data to CSV files or similar, but you'll have to do this table-by-table or use some clever scripting (PowerShell, T-SQL, C#/SMO, etc.) to generate all of the bcp commands for you. Once in CSV files, it should be trivial to bulk load the data into Postgres (but you will still have some work to generate the tables).
As a final suggestion, if the .bak file is not ginormous, and the data is not confidential, I am more than willing to try and generate files for you in the format you need. I have plenty of Windows VMs with space, the challenge would be getting the .BAK file to a place where I can retrieve it - especially if it's larger than most of the file-sharing services support.
Unfortunately there isn't a way to gain access to the contents of a .bak file without having deep knowledge of the internals of the file itself. I can think of one person on here that may be privy to this information, but i cant speak to whether or not said person would tell you how to go about doing it
So, you're going to need to install a SQL Server instance. You're also going to need to ensure that this instance can talk to your Postgres server (frigging with the pg_hba.conf) Once there, you have a couple of good paths to migrate the data.
The first path would be to install the Postgres Windows ODBC driver and set up a connection to the pg server. Then you can use SSIS to script a data migration. If you're going to go this route, I suggest you install SSIS when installing the database server.
The other option also involves the ODBC driver connection, but you can create a linked server in SQL Server and run inserts on the pg instance through SQL Server. I have answered this exact question on here before so it shouldn't be hard to find.
To incorporate Aaron's comment, once you get SQL Server up and running, you could also export the data to flat files in a variety of different ways. If you choose this path let me know and I'll post a few ways to do that
The linked server process may not be the best approach unless you want to create the structures in advance. It's my preferred method, but I usually already have the structure in place on both sides.
That leaves Aaron Bertrand's answer as the best answer. Please note that in addition to data types (
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For a long time the standard (though not the easiest to find) reference on random matrix products was Bougerol and Lacrois:
Bougerol, Philippe, and Jean Lacroix. Products of random matrices with applications to Schrödinger operators. Birkhäuser, 1985
Given, however, that this book is almost thirty years old, I wonder if anyone can recommend a more up-to-date reference?!


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My company sends email on behalf of many other companies. Hotmail tells us when we start sending spammy messages, but they only say "some of the emails this giant batch of messages had spammy stuff", and not specifically which emails were spammy. Those batches of emails contain stuff from lots of different clients we have, and I need to narrow down which clients are sending the spammy messages.
So, given a bunch of sets of emails we sent, and Hotmail giving us a "yay" or "nay" on each set, and given that emails and clients are 1:1 so it's easy to which client sent any given email in the sets, how can I tell which clients are probably the spammers?
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By ERIC YEP and JACOB
Asia's gasoil and jet fuel markets will likely remain steady
in the coming week, supported by recent orders from Vietnam,
but generally sluggish demand will continue to weigh.
Middle distillate premiums are also supported by news this
week that Royal Dutch Shell is in the process of disposing of
its last refinery in Australia.
However, traders say inquiries about gasoil cargoes for May
delivery are yet to materialize.
"There haven't been any recent deals. The market is very
quiet, and many Japanese cargoes are still available here," a
North Asian trader said.
In Southeast Asia, weak economic activity is taking its toll
on gasoil demand, with diesel consumption low as mining
activity has slowed considerably.
"Asian refiners are feeling the brunt of lower middle
distillate cracks -- quite a surprising development,
considering that almost 2.3 million barrels a day of refining capacity is scheduled to be
offline in the Asia-Pacific over April, according to our
estimates," JBC Energy said in a note earlier this week.
It said going forward, some support may stem from China,
where diesel prices were recently lowered, and the latest
manufacturing data shows positive signs.
Sentiment in Asia's naphtha market is expected to stay
depressed, as crackers have cut runs and petrochemical makers switched to
liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, a rival feedstock.
Asian naphtha cracks have dropped steeply in the past weeks
also due to arbitrage inflows from the West after reaching
historical highs in February.
Japan's naphtha stocks fell slightly in the past week to
1.74 million kilolitres as of March 30 from 1.75 million a week
earlier, suggesting continued low demand.
In Singapore, light distillate inventories rose 6.8% in the
past week to 11.4 million barrels, the highest level since Jan.
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Unanswered: Setup JSTestDriver with ExtJS 4 & jasmine
I'm trying to setup unit-tests in my existing ExtJS 4.1 project. I'm using jasmine for logical unit testing, and it's working fine so far. (testing in browser and via terminal)...
Now, I'm trying to setup JSTestDriver for better IDE integration. I followed already an old thread (here) .. but didn't get it to work. JSTestDriver-Server is working fine, but, as I need to load my ExtJS-files dynamically, I get some errors on the jstd-server while it's async loading the required js-files:
localhost:9876/slave/page/RUNNER/id/1359996445901/mode/quirks/upload_size/50/refresh/1359996450734/load_type/app/controller/main Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token <
My JSTestDriver.conf (located in the root folder)
server: http://localhost:9876 load: - ext/ext-all.js - app/controller/main/IdentityManager.js - app-test/lib/jasmine-1.3.1/jasmine.js - app-test/lib/jasmine-1.3.1/JasmineAdapter.js test: - app-test/specs/identity.js serve: - app/**.js
13 Apr 2013 12:37 PM #2
JsTestDriver server adds /test to your app's URL paths
I just ran into the same problem this morning trying to integrate my Jasmine unit tests with my IntelliJ IDE through JsTestDriver for a Sencha Touch 2.0 app using dynamic loading. It turns out that the JsTestDriver web server changes the path to your JS files, so you have to modify your Ext.Loader paths.
I had the same problem ("Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token <"). The problem is that the Sencha dynamic loader sends an AJAX request to load a JS file, but it gets back an HTML document from JsTestDriver's embedded web server, and the Sencha framework then tries to call `eval` on the HTML string, which causes that '<' syntax error.
It turns out that JsTestDriver's built-in web server serves your files under a prepended "/test" path in the URL. So if you configure your classes to be available as, say, app/controller/AppController.js, then it'll actually be served as /test/app/controller/AppController.js.
I solved that problem with a custom config of Ext.Loader just for JsTestDriver. First, the jsTestDriver.conf:
load: - lib/jasmine-1.3.1/jasmine.js - lib/JasmineAdapter.js - sdk/sencha-touch-all.js - test/jstdExtLoaderConfig.js #- app.js test: - test/jasmine/spec/*.js serve: - app/config/*.js - app/controller/*.js - app/model/*.js - app/store/*.js - app/util/*.js - app/view/*.js
My test/jstdExtLoaderConfig.js looks like the following:
Ext.Loader.setConfig({ enabled: true, paths: { Ext: 'sdk', App: '/test/app' } });
You might notice that I have app.js commented out in my jsTestDriver.conf above. I still haven't gotten this thing to load that file correctly, so any tests that depend on the top-level application class are still broken. When I tell it to load app.js, for some reason, it tries to load it from the wrong path and breaks the whole thing. For reasons I haven't figured out yet, instead of loading the correct path, project/app.js, it attempts to load project/archive/app.js, which doesn't exist. I have no clue which part of this setup is sticking "archive" into the path or why.
19 Apr 2013 11:42 AM #3
Skipping app.js
After I posted that previous message, I thought about it some more and decided that not being able to load app.js is not really a problem. With Jasmine, I'm writing unit tests, not integration tests, so the classes under test really should not be coupled to anything that happens in app.js.
So far, it's all working reasonably well, although I have to be very careful about how I include my utility classes (anything that's not a controller, model, store, or view). Sometimes those classes are not loaded despite being Ext.require'd, and when that happens, instead of getting useful info from the tests, jsTestDriver just hangs forever. I've worked around it by manually forcing those classes to be parsed, but it's not ideal, because I'm duplicating configuration in different places (I need "load:" config for those classes in jsTestDriver.conf, SCRIPT tags for those classes in Jasmine's index.html, etc.).
22 Apr 2013 2:42 PM #4
Just wondering what set-up you are using? I've tried to set up a similar thing on my machine using 6.01 of Webstorm, using Jasmine 1.3.1 and https://nodeload.github.com/ibolmo/j...-jstd-adapter/ with jstestdriver 1.3.5. However even using the config you have suggested set up I still get theCode:Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token <
14 May 2013 9:11 PM #5
If you're getting "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token <", then you're probably trying to load classes with Ext.Loader with the wrong path config. Ext.Loader is trying to load a JS class file with an AJAX call and then calling JavaScript's `eval` on the result, but the result is actually an HTML page returned for a 404 response instead of the literal JS source file that the loader is expecting. In my case, after debugging for a while, I was able to figure out that the URL needed to have /test prepended to it.
I'm using IntelliJ 12.1.x and Jasmine 1.3.1 with IntelliJ's built-in JsTestDriver server (and Chromium/Dartium as the captured browser for running tests), but so far the whole async class-loader thing seems to be pretty flaky and fragile under JsTestDriver. I spent a lot of time today trying to figure out why calling Ext.getStore('SomeUniqueStoreId') causes JsTestDriver to hang for 30 seconds and then throw a BrowserPanicException. I never figured it out; I just worked around it by forcing JsTestDriver to preload all the Model classes and the Store class that was causing problems... which is really annoying, because one of the reasons to use Ext.Loader is so that you DON'T have to manually curate a dependency-ordered list of classes to preload. :-(
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25 Jul 2013 6:36 AM #6
Hi, is there anyone who is able to test Ext.Application ?
It looks like JSTD does not wait until the application is launched.
No problems with Jasmine and a HTML spec runner
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...sdt-running-ja
29 Dec 2013 2:27 PM #7
Yep I think you were right, thanks for the response. Perhaps a little late to respond, but worth probably pointing out that I eventually moved onto Karma with Webstorm 7. We have our tests up and running nicely and it's pretty stable. I never found JSTestdriver and Webstorm 6 would behave for any length of time.


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What's the name of the movie where a young man finds this item that attaches itself to him and somehow turns him into a monster? I think it is from the '80's or '90's.
Other people are looking for that same item and they can turn into monsters, too. The movie goes on and the young man eventually kills the other guys in their monster form and the last bad guy transforms into the biggest monster of all and was killed by the young man in monster form, too.
There was this one part where they thought they had killed him but he emerged from another monster's belly by cutting his belly with a blade on his elbow.
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19 Feb 2013 11:17 PM #1
Hi there,
i'm using the Ext.ux.tree.EditorGrid extension to create an editable Treegrid and would like to know if there is any way i could achieve the functionality provided by the RowEditing plugin in Ext 4 (i'm stuck with ext 3.4).
Also, trying to call the startEditing method of the EditorGreen i'm stuck on some third parameter that is not documented. Would there be any way of trigering the editor programatically when a new node is added to the tree ?
Thank you!
Later edit: figured the startEditing out - passed the node ui to the method.
I have noticed one more thing - flex seems not to be working. Any thoughts on that ?
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The reason I ask this is due to the fact nothing on the bacon packaging indicates it can or cannot be eaten 'raw' and in general eating raw meat is a bad idea.
In such a case, for any food item, ask yourself a question: In a 19th century household, would it have been kept in the cellar, or eaten immediately?
For bacon, it is common knowledge (or at least I think everybody knows it) that it was kept in a cellar for long time. So this is definitely not a food which perishes too quickly. You can eat it raw. (In fact, I often do when I need a quick sandwich). It can be a bit tough to tear apart with your teeth, so pre-cut it.
The reason for this is that bacon is cured meat. There are two reasons not to eat raw meat: taste and food safety. Taste is individual, some people are OK with the taste and eat raw meat as long as they can find a source of meat fresh enough (think sashimi, carpaccio, steak tartare). Food safety is not a problem with bacon. The process of turning pork to bacon includes salt and smoke. Both of these kill bacteria, create an environment which is not hospitable to new colonization (dry, salty), and give the meat a new flavor which is better than the raw meat.
If you are now asking yourself why we are bothering with the fridge for bacon and other ex-"cellar foods" at all, there is still a reason. First, most of us don't have a convenient cellar at 12° - 15°C, and not only is the bacon's life shortened if kept at usual kitchen temperatures, it also doesn't taste too good. It is just greasy. Second, you seldom get dry bacon at the supermarket; even if the curing process doesn't include brining, bacon is often aged much less than in old times, and then packed in vacuum, so it doesn't get really dry on the outside. So bacteria could very well start growing on it outside of the freezer. Inside the freezer, it keeps much longer than raw meat, and is certainly OK for consumption without frying. I guess that the popularity of fried bacon is mainly due to taste reasons.
I might disagree a little with rumtscho - traditionally cured bacon is one thing, what you get in packets from the supermarket is another. It looks similar and it tastes similar, but commercial products are processed rapidly and not tested for immediate consumption without cooking.
Products like Parma ham and Schwartzwaldschinken are proven to be adequately preserved for consumption without cooking. Modern bacon is not, in general. OTOH I know for a fact that raw packet bacon is commonly eaten in Spain without cooking, and I've met people who eat raw sausages (not a good idea in my opinion).
Me, I wouldn't eat it uncooked ...
I agree with both rumtscho and James Barrie on some points. First off, modern bacon that is "smoked" just might ONLY have smoke ADDED as a flavoring and not "be" smoked, OR not smoked for as long a period of time. While adding salt and chemical preservatives will enhance the shelf life it will not inherently kill ALL bacteria (see below for more detail/effects).
One other difference from "modern" and "historical" pork products, including bacon but also extended to other products is the method of the production. Modern pork is typically raised on clean(er) food sources and you don't see "toss the household garbage into the pig pen" or pigs roaming the streets picking up food (at least typically). These "older" feed sources might still exist in some areas, even in modern pork. I point this out because certain parasites can and DO exist in modern pork, but are MUCH reduced compared to prior. That being said, unless you KNOW the source, you cannot be sure, and there still exists that possibility of those parasites which heat will kill. This is one of the reasons why pork is cooked more thoroughly than other meats such as those from cattle, sheep, goats or other grazers which tend to NOT eat those items.
Historically cured meats (bacon, ham etc) also reduced the moisture contents of those meats - thus the smoking process desiccated those parasites, and reduced the bacterial "friendliness" of the product - along with the salt, sugar, smoke which were/are added during processing. Note that smoking in a traditional manner (smokehouse) will also slightly raise the temperature of the product as well for a period of time longer than most cooking, but not as MUCH as cooking - and longer than a process which would simply be used to impart flavor.
One other note - smoking (not adding smoke flavoring, the actual process) will also tend to dry out/seal the outer layer making it less "available" for penetration of contaminants such as bacteria, which along with the increased salt in the outer layers also helps.
If you purchase a product, and it is refrigerated, be prepared to cook it. If it is not refrigerated, it might be "safe" to eat but not as tender as cooked.
Bottom line (for me at least) is I never eat meat raw unless I personally prepared it including actually raising the animal MYSELF and processing it.
As for the cooking process, as others have noted, in meats, cooking will also break down the connective tissues making it more palatable and easier to chew.
According to the USDA FSIS, unless the label says otherwise, pork bacon is considered to be raw. If yoiu go to a few manufacturers web sites, like Oscar Meyer or Bar-S Brand, You will see that they offer products that are labeled "fully cooked." So, if it does not say "fully cooked," it is not.
Trichinella only infects about 8 people a year in the U.S., and almost all cases are from people eating under cooked wild boar.
Farm raised pork in the U.S. is virtually trichinella free, which is why the FDA has lowered the temperature from pork cooking recommendation from 160 degrees to 145, or medium, with a three-minute rest.
Pork no longer needs to be over cooked like before, although the bacon question still attracts my attention.
Having eaten cooked bacon and gotten food poisoning so severe "I saw dead people", I would not be in a rush to eat raw bacon. However as Mark Schultheiss suggests, it probably has more to do with production and storage than anything else.
I've eaten a good amount of "raw" bacon and never gotten sick. I just make sure it says smoked and/or cured on the label and only eat from a freshly opened pack. Also you might feel sick eating it if there's too much of the fat, so try to find some bacon with a good meat-to-fat ratio : )
I just cured a pork belly using a recipe from New York Times...cured in refrigerator for a week and then gets slow ovencooked til 150° inside. When chilled it looks like old time bacon and can be eaten as is or fried. Either way is okau...plus no nitrates
Just eat it it's fine! If it was raw it would look like raw pork, you know, like a pork chop before you fry it. Bacon is good to go either fried or how it comes from the butcher. To say bacon is 'raw' before it's fried is misusing the word raw.
Despite the smoking, and curing process, raw bacon is still quite dangerous to consume. Trichinella, a type of worm larvae, can infect raw pork. Although commercial manufacturers smoke and cure bacon before selling it, smoking and curing don't always kill Trichinella, but the added salt and nitrites in bacon do make it less perishable than other types of raw meat, according to the United States Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service. Salt slows bacterial growth by directly inhibiting growth or by reducing the water content; bacteria need water to breed, and reducing the content tends to make the meat last longer, but as long as there is moisture present, there is the ability to develop Trichinella.
I have always eaten my bacon raw and I have never gotten sick from eating it that way. Personally, I like the taste way better when it's raw compared to when it is cooked. Tastes less salty and more like bacon in my opinion :D But yeah I guess it's entirely up to you as to whether or not you want to give it a go... I've had it that way since I was 6 or 7, never had any problems at all.
I use to visit my uncles meat locker in Minnesota as a child and we would get the bacon out of the smoker and bring it right to the slicer. We would eat it straight off the slicer by what seemed like by the pound. I was probably 9-12 years old and had not built up to much of an immune system by that age. I never felt or got sick. As a matter of fact ,it was what I remember to be one of the best tasting things I had ever eaten up till then. I would venture to say its much safer than the dozens of raw oysters I eat now in Florida every year.


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Is returning search results while the user is inputting each character good usability practice or a pain in the rear for the user?
From a user's perspective, I've never found it anything but helpful. The search results let me know how I'm most likely to find accurate information for my query and that's never a bad thing. That said, there are a few guidelines to implementing it that should or could be followed.
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I agree with all the others saying "do it", with one exception:
Make sure it's instantaneous, always, or don't do it!
There is nothing worse than using an application that does this on, say, the iPhone, and every time you type a character there is a two second delay while the search/filter is performed. This makes it slow and painful instead of quick and helpful, and is a horrible user experience.
I'd say "instantaneous" is in the ballpark of a tenth of a second, maximum, because you should be able to type at normal speed and have the UI keep up.
In most cases it's great! Generally it's great because it helps to find something without trying to guess what exactly to type into the search field. And it definitely saves time - one can type one or two letters to find what he is looking for. But of course be sure that the input would not be blocked while the search results are loading. And don't forget about the keyboard navigation.
Do it! I can't tell you how many times it has saved me unnecessary trouble because sometimes I forget exactly what I search for and it reminds me just because I remember the first word for what I have been searching for it gives me what I am looking for. Especially because places like Google gives search history.
After typing a search query, there's (logically speaking) only one action that can follow: to hit the search button. Why not eliminate that extra step if it's the only logical next action.
Quote I read somewhere, can't remember by who or where I read it: "If there's only one thing left to do, have the computer do it."
I think it's great usability in most cases, assuming it doesn't hurt performance:
You should usually prefer direct manipulation over indirect manipulation. That implies tasks are done iteratively with continuous feedback to make the user understand what he or she is doing. Returning results while user is typing is good, because it gives continuous feedback. Likewise property pages should change properties immediately rather than after you hit e.g. and apply button. E.g. selecting a color in a properties panel should immediately change the background color. Rather than it happening after you hit "apply". This helps discoverability of the user interface, because there is a one to one correspondence between what the user does and what happens.
I think everyone is getting so very very lazy. Whats wrong with typing in a question like "Where do lions come from" is it so hard to use the keyboard these days. Does everything have to be minimal. TUVM instead of Thank you very much. I know which one I prefer, and its the latter. There is only one place where saving a nano-second is worthwhile and thats in a laboratory, NOT in everyday lives. Does it really matter if your friend can download a program 3 nano-seconds faster than you. My goodness, WOW, what an earth shattering thing to happen. Get a grip folks. I am all for progress but lets not go stupid with it.


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Studies on the Effects of the Prophylactic Radiation
I have limited-stage small cell lung cancer. I had four cycles of chemotherapy with carboplatin and etoposide, which was extremely effective. I will complete 30 treatments of radiation therapy next week to my lung area. My oncologist wants me to have 10 prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) treatments to my head. My mother also has lung cancer (mixed small and large cell) and had radiation to get rid of two small cerebellum brain tumors. I feel that the radiation therapy that she had significantly affected her mental functioning. My oncologist sent me links to literature on toxicity and statistical studies on the effects of the prophylactic cranial irradiation, and I was not convinced. The studies are small, old, and not conclusive about toxicity. Do you recommend PCI? By the way, my mother's side of the family has a history of early onset Alzheimer's disease.
Are there any new studies with larger samples?
Mitch Machtay, MD, Radiation Oncologist, responds:
PCI is the use of moderate doses of radiation therapy to the entire brain in an effort to prevent cancer recurrence in or metastasis to the brain. It is well known that the brain is often the first, and sometimes the only, site of small cell lung cancer recurrence after successful chemotherapy +/ – chest radiotherapy. The brain has, in fact, often been referred to as a "sanctuary" site for small cell cancer since chemotherapy is less able to treat metastasis to the brain than cancer in the rest of the body. If small cell lung cancer recurs in the brain, it is likely to cause devastating neurologic (brain) problems. Radiation therapy and/or additional chemotherapy rarely eradicate the disease at that point. PCI has been used for many years in the hopes of preventing recurrence in the brain and is relatively successful in this regard (though certainly not 100% successful). As you have noted, there have been well-controlled studies showing differences in "cure" rates with or without PCI. There is now a proven improvement in the chance for long-term survival with PCI, though the magnitude of this benefit is modest since recurrences with small cell lung cancer can occur in other parts of the body outside of the brain.
The downside of PCI is the potential risk of permanent radiation damage to the brain. Radiation therapy to any part of the body usually causes side effects, some of which are temporary and some of which can be permanent. Radiation therapy to the brain can cause the gradual loss of brain cells (neurons) over months to years that can lead to problems with memory, coordination, strength and/or other brain functions. This has been well demonstrated among survivors of childhood cancers who received brain radiation therapy. In rare cases, these neurologic problems can progress to very serious stroke-like episodes and/or "dementia" similar to Alzheimer's disease. These "anecdotal" risks have led some physicians and patients to refuse any consideration of PCI for small cell lung cancer.
The medical literature on brain problems after PCI for small cell lung cancer is admittedly poor, with few well-controlled modern studies. However, several points have emerged from these data:
In summary, as with any cancer treatment, one must weigh the benefits of that treatment against its risks. While some physicians call the use of PCI a "no-brainer" due to the clear survival benefit associated with this therapy that has a relatively well-tolerated side-effect profile, I can understand the continued reluctance of some patients and physicians to undergo this frightening treatment. However, I personally recommend PCI for most patients without pre-PCI neurocognitive problems who have successfully completed treatment for limited-stage small cell lung cancer and are in a complete remission or extensive-stage small cell lung cancer and are in complete remission or who have had a partial response or stable disease. In my practice, this typically consists of 10 daily fractions of 250 cGy each to the whole brain given at least 3 weeks after the last dose of any chemotherapy. A brain MRI should be performed prior to starting PCI to be sure that the cancer has not already shown up in the brain.
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