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This 60 level wizard seems to drop dead in the middle of the desert for no good reason. What caused this?!
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It's a bug. When the wasps shoot projectiles at the edge of the screen and you move so that they disappear from your view, they will become invisible. But they can still kill you.
Here's a thread about it on the Diablo 3 Hardcore forums. The author of that thread also linked to a video where you can clearly see the bug (he tested this on SC):
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After a change of the valve cover gasket didn't fix a rather persistent leak (than managed to cover my entire engine in oil) I took my car to a mechanic. They called up saying that they have pinpointed the problem to one corner of the cover that they say seems to have warped slightly. Now this is a thick plastic cover, I am just wondering, is this warping common or is it indicating a larger problem? Is there anything I can do to prevent this in the future?
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This would depend on the type of car you have. The majority of valve covers i've come across are aluminum.
A few year ago, I remember Stacey David (when he was hosting the "Trucks" show) commenting that he thought the plastic valve covers on the old Jeep Wrangler must have been designed from the factory to leak because he had never seen one that didn't. That doesn't sound promising. Maybe you can find some aluminum or steel replacement valve covers from ebay, car-part.com, or from rock auto. What kind of car is it? That will help.
EDIT: Here is a picture of the new valve cover gasket that I think will be needed on your car. I don't see any aftermarket valve covers (of any kind) for this car, so I guess plastic it is.
Here is a LINK that describes the process of replacing it. It all sounds pretty accurate, except for the part where they tell you to speak with a Saturn mechanic... doh!

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#2. Being Cynical About Other People Costs You Money
We can't deny that people can be pretty dumb. Like Tommy Lee Jones said in that movie about aliens, "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it." But what if this is all backward? What if most of the terrible financial decisions we make in our lives could be avoided if we just listened to the random assholes around us instead of trusting our own individual brilliance?
"Why would I want to invest in this Google thing when I've still got all my AltaVista stock?"
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This isn't a new idea. Back in 1907, a mathematician named Francis Galton asked a bunch of people to guess the weight of an ox. Most were off, and some were way off. But, as a crowd, they nailed it: The average of the entire crowd was off by less than 1 percent. The hive mind was smarter than the individual.
And that attention whore of an ox was the smartest of them all.
And consider a game of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The game would be a lot easier if you could just use the audience lifeline on every question -- the audience picks the right answer 95 percent of the time. Of course, some smart people have pointed out that the accuracy of the crowd decreases as the questions get harder. But they also point out that this can be remedied with a smaller pool of smarter people.
The point is that we value our own gut a little too much, and the wisdom of the horde not nearly enough. Especially when we think that we're the expert about, say, the awesomeness of the brands we buy. The principle is known as the endowment effect; we are more willing to value something once it's been established as ours, regardless of what those dumbasses at the office say about it. So, let's say you own a Mac (or a pair of Doc Marten boots, or a Buick sedan, whatever). You're more likely to think your brand is the shit, regardless of how it actually performs or what other people tell you about how much they like the competing brand.
As evidenced by the thousands of lives lost in battle during the Cola War of the 1980s.
This has a monetary consequence: Namely, that brand loyalty costs you money out the ass. Or as one study found, "Loyal Buick customers paid $1,051 more on average than customers who switched from another make to Buick. Even more striking: Mercedes 'loyalists' paid an average of $7,410 more for their new cars than buyers who switched to Mercedes from another make."
And it doesn't matter if the person trying to give us information is an expert and we're a layman. Research has found that you can, for example, manipulate whether or not subjects believed in global warming just by turning up the heat in the laboratory. Mountains of data mean nothing; we insist on going with our "gut."
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We've covered the lengths that Facebook and other social networking sites go to to get us to stick around. And that makes sense, because you're a money machine even when you're not buying anything. That's because social networking is essentially a massive, hugely comprehensive marketing survey. Every time you click "like," share a link, join a fan page or even make a friend, you're generating a suite of statistics that corporations will sell their left nut to get hold of.
To put a real dollar value on it, based on Facebook's filing before its stock went public, The Wall Street Journal estimated that each profile page was worth about $81, each friend was worth about $0.62 and each "like" was worth about $0.03. Stretch that out across Facebook's billion or so users, who spend a total of 9.7 million minutes a day on Facebook actively adding information.
"Shit, this changes everything we knew about her."
Given that the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, this means Facebook receives about $1.2 million a day in free labor, creating what The Wall Street Journal calls "the largest unpaid workforce in history." Though "unpaid" may not be accurate, since most of us are browsing Facebook at work anyway. So we suppose it's really our employers that Facebook is screwing.
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NutcrackerOnes that actually do it for you?
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Balanchine's is my Gold Standard.
I agree, but I'm often surprised at the intensity with which people not brought up on it say they "disllike it" and prefer ... (fill in the gap). Why? I wonder.
mine too re: GB's NYCB production, but not as captured on video alas.
Posted 26 December 2008 - 06:48 AM
and to be sure they could well see it on stage and still not admire it.
but at least then they'll be seeing the ballet for themselves and not some camera's and director's point of view.
also, however scrupulous the Balanchine Trust might be, until i see this prod. produced by a company other than NYCB outside NYC, i'll withhold my judgement on those stagings until i see them for myself.
NYCB has a big school at its disposal for its annual performances, not to mention the full expanse and technical aspects of its Lincoln Center home theater, making compromises on any of the crucial production details might well make the 'live' staging of this work something less than 'accuarate.'
Posted 26 December 2008 - 07:38 AM
The opening scene with Drosselmeier creating toys was magical on screen, and not part of the stage production; apart from that, the film flattened the performances.
It did, though, introduce me to Patricia Barker, who, even from my exclusively NYC/NYCB-centric viewpoint, was clearly a Balanchine ballerina. When I received a job offer in Seattle almost a decade later, knowing that I would see her and PNB in my new home was a major part of my decision to move.
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Posted 26 December 2008 - 10:45 AM
Balanchine's is my Gold Standard.
Definitely mine, too, EXCEPT...in the matter of taping, my memory of McBride/Villella just on crummy black-and-white TeeVee is more meaningful to me in terms of principal dancers than when I've seen the Balanchine Nutcracker live--but not the rest. I love the Balanchine 'Nutcracker', and is, in fact, why I chose not to go see the Kirov last week in Los Angeles and look at hair shirts on illuminated manuscripts instead; while I knew there would be great dancing, I still don't think it can be as gorgeous as the NYCB version. And this is even when hearing repulsively fast tempos making performances undistinguished--versions of 'Waltz of the Flowers' like for Mighty Mouse cartoons or something. But the First Act is perfect.
I suppose you're all referring exclusively to the Nutcracker needing to be seen in person rather than on video, rather than all dance. Because my experience is that the best Sleeping Beauty is the Kirov movie with Sizova and Soloviev more than any I've seen in person, and there are a few other examples--'Appalachian Spring' with Martha and Stuart and Bertram and Matt is even better in the black and white movie than even fine performances I've seen live. Were people talking about live vs. taped in general, or just Nutcracker? Of course, if I could see ENOUGH live performances, I'm sure I'd find that those taped performances I like best were better with the beloved casts than they are on the movies and tapes I love. But as for charm of the whole Nutcracker, the piece is much more wonderful live than recorded, even though I don't like the music to the Grand Pas de Deux, it's about as flat as it gets. I've also seen a lot of Nutcrackers on tape in the last few years, and haven't really cared for any of them, whether Bolshoi, Royal, Baryshnikov and somewhat strange-looking Gelsey, and I think a Kirov one too.
Posted 26 December 2008 - 11:08 AM
But I have noticed over the decades now since Balanchine died, that the headlong tempi to Snow and Flowers have abated somewhat, at least in the initial periods of the dances. Flowers used to rush along until the last ten notes - onetwothreefour FIIIIIIIIIVE~ sixseveneightnineten! No more. Pity! I used to like that fermata. And as to the music of the pas de deux, I still think it's the best thing that could happen to a G major scale! Isn't there a story out there that somebody bet Tchaikovsky that he couldn't make a tune out of a scale?
Posted 26 December 2008 - 12:18 PM
dance in 3 dimensions is where i see/understand what's what.
true, there are many treasurable films, but often these are aides memoires - or flashbacks; i've never graham dance anything live so the films of her are irreplaceable but APPALACHIAN SPRING or FRONTIER or NIGHT JOURNEY are only the 'dance' itself on stage, despite often mis- or weak casting.
in the case of some choregraphic works on film, such as Merce Cunningham's BEACH BIRDS FOR CAMERA - the camera version is its own 'thing' and yes being able to go back to the Fonteyns, Nureyevs, Baryshnkovs, Kolpakovas, Sizovas, Solovievs, Farrells, Villellas, McBrides, Bussells, etc. etc. on video is treat but it's for a performer more than for understanding a dance that the 2-D record is best suited from my point of view.
Posted 26 December 2008 - 04:19 PM
I know there are lots of posts on the Nutcracker, but I was wondering... ever Nutcracker I ever see seems to disappoint me... none of them seem to fulfil the potential of the music and the setting. The one that has nearest fulfilled my expectations is the PNB's version. Which versions do you all love? Which version should I seek out and see so that I can actually be pleased by the Nutcracker?
Bolshoi Theater Nutcracker directed by Grigorovich is my all times favorite.
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Summary: Intranet design is maturing and reaping the rewards of continuous quality improvement for traditional features, while embracing new trends like mobile access, emergency preparedness, and user/employee-contributed content.
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- Enbridge, Inc., a leader in energy transportation and distribution in North America (Canada)
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- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Walmart), a retailer with more than 8,000 retail units under 53 different banners in 15 countries (US)
Walmart also won in 2002 for its previous intranet, and thereby joins a very small group of companies that have won the award multiple times: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has won for both its worldwide and Australian member firm intranets, and Cisco Systems' intranet has also been recognized twice.
While many of this year's winners are from the US, we also have a winner from Canada and, for the first time, a winner from Japan.
Breaking with past trends, this is the first time in 10 years without any winners from Europe or from the financial sector. (GE does have a finance business, but it's not a dedicated financial services company.) The lack of banks, brokers, and insurance companies might be explained by the finance crisis: these companies had other things to occupy their attention and smaller (if any) budgets for intranet design. In contrast, there's no excuse for the poor showing of European intranet designs given that Europe accounted for 31% of the winners from 2001 to 2009. Let's see some more good European intranets next year, please.
Growing Intranet Teams
This year, the median company size among our winners was 6,350 employees (the median is a better metric than the mean this year because Walmart is so huge that it would skew the calculation of an arithmetic mean.) From 2001 to 2006, ever-bigger organizations tended to dominate the awards, peaking in 2006, when the average company size was 107,000 employees. From 2007 to 2010, however, smaller companies became more prominent among the winners. This trend likely shows a maturing of intranet technologies: it's becoming easier and easier to build a good user experience without access to the substantial resources found in 100,000+ employee companies.
An alternative interpretation is that companies of all sizes are giving intranets higher priority and giving intranet teams more resources. The average team size this year was 14 people, which is 27% higher than the average team size in 2006 when the winning companies were much larger.
Mobile Intranet Sites
This year, 30% of the intranets had special mobile features. In previous years, we might have heralded this as a big number, but now that mobile is the big trend on the open Web, our conclusion is the opposite: intranets appear to be lagging in mobile device support.
One fairly obvious explanation might be that most intranets are accessed from the office. Also, as one team found, employees who express a desire for mobile access might not be familiar enough with their own mobile devices to actually use them easily.
Neither explanation is likely to remain true for long. Although most intranet use probably does occur at work, people increasingly expect "anytime, anyplace" access because that's what they get from those big websites that set user expectations. Also, employees who frequently travel often account for particularly high-value use cases (such as sales calls). Finally, employees will get better at using mobile devices to access intranet content, services, and applications for two reasons. First, they'll be getting more experience as their mobile Web use grows. Second, mobile devices are getting significantly more usable with every generation (and mobile revs every year), which will make it increasingly easier for users to perform all mobile tasks.
Given our general research on mobile usability, we strongly recommend that you create a separate design for mobile users. User performance declines significantly when people attempt to access a general-purpose website — that is, one that's desktop-targeted — from a mobile device. All three winners followed our recommendation, but in different ways.
The JPL team built a dedicated application, rather than a site, to optimize the design for a single platform — the iPhone — and thereby offer a richer user experience.
Both Enbridge and MITRE created special mobile-targeted sites, with scaled-back offerings of critical content and applications. This more general strategy supports a wider range of users than a single application. Even so, MITRE designed mainly for BlackBerry, though people with other smartphones can also use the site.
These examples highlight an important difference between mobile intranets and mobile websites: for enterprise use, you can target a specific device if it is already the company's preferred platform. On the Web, of course, you must serve all comers or lose business.
Social Features on Intranets
In addition to being the year of mobile, it was definitely the year of social networking on the Internet at large. On intranets, this second trend was echoed more strongly than the first.
Social features were common on the winning intranets. Many of the issues in designing social features for an intranet are similar to those in designing social features for a website. But there are important differences as well.
Most strikingly, there are two levels of social networking on intranets:
- Social features for employees as individuals
- Workgroup support and other features that encourage work-related connections
Examples of social features targeting individuals include Walmart's discussion and profile pages; Trend Micro's TrendSpace , which included employee-contributed content; MITRE's social bookmarking service, which lets employees share their favorite links; and GE's commenting and rating features.
Work-oriented social features include the URS technical forums, where engineers collaborate and share best practices; MITRE's Expertise Finder, which helps users locate coworkers who have specific knowledge; and HHMI's project pages, where teams collaborate directly and share information.
Another major difference between social intranets and social websites is the significantly increased accountability within the enterprise, which again can lead to higher quality and more widespread participation if handled right. It's common to avoid anonymity. Trend Micro goes a step further with an elaborate system of reward points that accrue to employees when they contribute to the intranet's community features. Points don't just give bragging rights; they can be redeemed for real prizes — a good way to combat participation inequality.
Beyond Boss Blogs
For several years, we've noted the trend of CEO blogs on better intranets. This is almost a special subgenre of social networking; CEO weblogs often include social features such as discussions and/or comments.
Such blogs were again strong this year, but included enhanced features to show executives with a "human face" and help make them more approachable. On Walmart's intranet, for example, the executive profiles go beyond work experience to highlight personal experiences and interests. And Trend Micro combined executive blogs with semiannual online meetings where employees can engage directly with the executives.
Change Management; Internal Marketing
Users hate change. That's as true for intranets as for websites. At the same time, intranets are often bad enough that change is desperately needed. Even a good intranet can vastly increase employee productivity through a few improvements, given that people use it every day. (If people don't use the intranet every day, that's a sign in its own right that it's not good enough.) Still, most users really do prefer to muddle along with a familiar user interface, which raises the question: How can you resolve the tension between the need for change and the pain that change entails?
Many of this year's winning intranets took explicit steps to manage design change and encourage users to try out new and improved features. For example, many teams conducted extensive user research before deciding on their design direction. This definitely keeps teams focused on user needs and lowers the risk of releasing something that people will resist. If you get bad feedback, at least you get it before launch, giving you time to overcome employees' objections. Besides the actual feedback, usability studies serve a second function as an explicit signal of the team's willingness to listen. Research is one way to engage stakeholders and let them know you care.
Beyond user research, several teams engaged a wider range of stakeholders in early communication that continued throughout the design process. As designs became more defined, some teams fielded special early-access programs that let smaller groups of people use the new design before it was rolled out to everybody. For example, SCANA did a one-month beta test with 150 employees who later became "ambassadors" for the new design.
Finally, once the new design launched, explicit internal marketing campaigns helped promote early uptake. Don't assume that employees will discover new features for themselves. People are too busy and just aren't as interested in the intranet for its own sake as you are. This year's promotional initiatives included an IT expo, cafeteria demos, posters, road shows, and emails, as well as SCANA's grass-roots campaign to enlist the beta testers as site ambassadors. SCANA also created internal commercials, using employees as volunteer actors.
Emergency Preparedness
Maybe it's a sign of our unsettling times, with threats ranging from mutating influenza viruses to terrorist attacks to global warming. Whatever the reason, 40% of winning companies designed intranet features with the explicit goal of addressing unexpected emergencies. Walmart and URS were both impacted by Hurricane Katrina a few years ago, creating an impetus to ensure that their intranets could be quickly adapted to help out in future emergencies. Of course, after a disaster hits, it's too late to start a project to figure out what to do; by then it's time for action. The Boy Scouts had the right idea with their motto, "be prepared."
This year's winning intranets offered a range of emergency features, including:
- a homepage alert system that pops up emergency information without waiting for a page refresh;
- separate emergency-specific homepages that can be activated on short notice;
- dedicated homepage sections that appear during emergencies; and
- a full-blown emergency operations center.
The trend toward using the intranet to help manage emergencies is a sign of maturity: intranets are becoming recognized as a key part of the organizational infrastructure.
Continuing Trends = Continuous Quality Improvement
Many trends among this year's winners are continuations of long-term trends that we've identified and commented on in past years. Some of these include:
Frequent use of SharePoint
- Many other technology platforms were common as well, including Google Search Appliance; no one solution guarantees a great intranet
- Reliance on page templates to ensure consistent user interfaces
- Firming up the editorial workflow to ensure content quality; at Enbridge, for example, each page has a named content owner to guard against stale information
- Many interesting presentations of news streams on the homepage
Role-based personalization to focus users on the content and apps most useful to their jobs
- Widespread customization let users adapt the UI on their own, including improved designs for the ever-popular Quick Links/My Links feature
Focus on improving search, including interesting approaches to advanced search
- Even so, intranet search remains a sore point, and many teams relied on manual tweaks (such as offering "Best Bets")
- People search remains an extremely popular feature
- Extensive use of usability methods, from simple user testing to card sorting, field studies, and personas
Poor monetized ROI metrics, but some promising measures of increased usage and employee satisfaction
- In one hard ROI example, Trend Micro saved $1.6 million per year by hosting meetings on its intranet
For these — and many other — issues, this year's best intranets show steady improvements over previous years' designs. It's not that these things haven't been done before, it's that the new designs build on the previous ones and become ever-more refined. In other words, we're benefiting from a process of continuous quality improvement for intranet user experience. In virtually every other field, CQI is known as the way to true quality, so seeing it in intranets is a further sign of this field's growing maturity.
And thus we have this year's meta-trend: intranet design is maturing. We see this growing maturity in many aspects of the winning intranets, from team size to the reliance on CQI. So with this, the 10th Intranet Design Annual, we mark the anniversary of the award not only with great winners, but also with kudos to the entire field for having come of age.
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There are all kinds of numbers surrounding Operation Wetback. My understanding is the vast majority left voluntarily. Is there any official number on the amount of illegal aliens that were actually removed, with force, from America?
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Western and historical Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 4, Winter, 2006. p443. Hopefully this is fair use.
So we can see the massive claims made by the authorities are a bit shaky. We can say the number of undocumented migrants caught in the financial year 1955 is 246,096, which includes most of those caught during wetback but includes a lot of other apprehensions as well. It's probably best to say that, conservatively, 80,000 were apprehended, based on the San Antonio district figures. This figure is inline with what other news outlets have claimed, like the Christian Science Monitor
As far as the claims of 500,000 to 700,000 had leaving of their own accord. These are didactic statements by the INS possibly massaged to justify this operation. Use them if you make it clear they official estimates and not necessarily well evidenced or true.


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Curated by Indigo, Unintended Calculations brought together a group of internationally renowned artists – Augustine Kofie (LA), Jerry Inscoe (PDX), Remi/Rough (LDN) and Scott Sueme (VAN) – for an exhibition at Becker Galleries and two collaborative murals at Moda Hotel exploring four very different approaches to abstraction. Working in a variety of mediums, these artists have evolved the letter form building blocks of their shared graffiti background, deconstructing and rebuilding them as compositions of color, line, shape and movement.
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Are Jews racist against non-Jews?
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No. If we were racist, then we would never be able to accept converts.
Whether or not there are Jews who are racist against non-Jews, the Torah places value on all human life. This is, after all, the message of Sefer Yonah where G-d sends a prophet to a non-Jewish nation to provoke them to repent and be spared destruction for their sins.
At the same time Torah teaches that Jews have a special relationship with G-d which non-Jews do not. As others have mentioned a non-Jew may joint the covenant and gain such a relationship, but since there is an ethnic component some people are going to be uncomfortable about this notion.
What matters is the truth value of our special relationship with Hashem (and the various rights and responsibilities which accompany it) rather than whether it can be branded with a derogatory name. Terminology can help us analyze and evaluate ideas, or it can be misused to hastily and thoughtlessly lump together seemingly similar concepts without paying attention to very real and significant distinctions.
When a family member needs assistance that takes precedence. It does not mean you are racist if you care first for your family member prior to everyone else. Even though that is the case, Hatzoloh or Chaverim do not ask you when you call them if you are a Jew. They help anyone who requests it.
We are commanded not to hate the Egyptians, who enslaved us. If we're not allowed to hate our captors, then we aren't allowed to hate any race of people.


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"Praying" with Peripheral Vision
The Gospel for Sunday is the parable of "The Pharisee and the Publican." In his Commentary on the Gospel of Luke (Liturgical Press: Sacra Pagina Series), Luke Johnson writes:
The parable itself is one that invites internalization by every reader because it speaks to something deep within the heart of every human being. The love of God can so easily turn into an idolatrous self-love; the gift can so quickly be seized as a possession; what comes from another can so blithely be turned into self-accomplishment. Prayer can be transformed into boasting. Piety is not an unambiguous posture.
The literary skill revealed by the story matches its spiritual insight. The pious one is all convoluted comparison and contrast; he can receive no gift because he cannot stop counting his possessions. His prayer is one of peripheral vision.
Of course, "praying" with peripheral vision is not praying at all.
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Do you think anybody really prays like the Pharisee in the parable (Thank you, God, for making me better than everybody else)?
I can see people praying for other sinners without being cognizant that they themselves are sinners, but its hard to imagine people offering prayers of gratitude for being more virtuous than other people.
My wife made a remark recently that has stayed with me, to the effect that one of the ills of Catholic preaching today in certain quarters is the tendency to condemn others' sins.
One might call this a foundational parable. Anyone who does not recognize that s/he needs mercy because s/he is a sinner is in trouble. This attitude only prepares a person for the Holy Spirit.
Irene, people may not say "thank you, God, for making me better than everyone else," but there's something that, IMO, comes close, and that's the "God was watching over us" prayer. You hear it all the time when one family survives a tornado/hurricane/flood/earthquake while all their neighbors perish. While I realize the folks who made it may only be trying to express gratitude for making it through, It's hard to not to infer that God was either so busy saving them that he missed the neighbors' plight. Or that the neighbors were too sinful to bother with.
Back in the early 1960s, we had Baptist neighbors who used to thank God for making them white. One of the many examples of Christian bigotry that fed my mother's bigotry against Christians.
More like "preying" with peripheral vision.
Any self-satisfaction that comes from comparing ourselves to others before God can count in this regard, I think. We may not say "I thank you, God, that I am not like..." but if inwardly we are congratulating ourselves on the orthodoxy of our party or having the "right" opinions or being more pious or virtuous than the next person... it's what the parable says. Interestingly enough, you can also be self-righteous about beating your breast the hardest and insisting you are the biggest sinner, and that will not be very humble either!
What's that "peripheral vision" about? We usually hear about it as something that helps us be better, safer drivers by broadening our awareness of our environment; or better at fast-moving sports. Is it that the pious one is so focused on counting his possessions that he does not see the breadth of faith and is less aware of the presence of God all around - but, no: he seems to consider peripheral vision as a negative! Then is it, maybe, an allusion to macular degeneration? That's mostly an old person's disease and the people with that affliction, I was once told, only see what is peripheral, not what is central, and eventually they become blind. Does he mean that the pious one is so focused on his accomplishments, that are actually quite secondary, that he does not see the presence of God in the center? That's rather far-fetched. Or maybe he wrote "peripheral vision" but meant "tunnel vision". Or maybe there is a context in American culture that eludes me.
The priest at the place where I went talked about the similarity between the pious one and Paul in the secon reading.
Or is it "peripheral vision" in the sense that he is comparing himself to the other man and is aware of the people around him instead of solely focused on his relationship with God??
Claire --
Macular degeneration is common in old people, but now there is a very successful treatment -- Lucentis shots. Very expensive, but they work. (My insurance pays for it). (I'm saying this in case anybody on the blog knows someone with it -- they need to know that there is help.)
P. S. Laser treatments also help. Are these treatments analogous to the grace of God? :-)
Anne Oliver: > Laser treatments also help. Are these treatments analogous to the grace of God? :-)
Well, perhaps a prevenient grace that in His creation of humans he allowed for the development of human intelligence and ingenuity that would one day turn itself to alleviating suffering in such a way.
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I drilled holes for drywall anchors too wide - so now the anchor and the screw is loose. How do I fix this?
This is very complicated, and I'm hoping that you'll stick through all of the steps with me. ;)
(No, really, that's the answer. You can't patch the drywall and put anchors in; the most you could hope for would be re-drilling holes near to your anchor, but you really risk cracking the drywall if you do that. I'd just get bigger anchors.)
You could switch to a toggle anchor. It requires a larger hole to install because the wings need to pass through, but it will hold much better than a plastic anchor.
They won't work if you need the screw head to protrude from the wall (to hang a picture wire, for example) because you screw it all the way down so the wings are pressed against the inside of the wall.
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How do we add language support using .pot and .mo files in a WordPress theme? And how we retrieve the theme?
The .po (Portable Object) file is like a small library containing all the English terms in the theme with an empty column for non-English translations. Using software like Poedit, the .po file can be opened, translations can be added, and it can be saved, which also generates the .mo (Machine Object) file.
With a suitably localized theme, the steps involved in translating it are:
Open Source Software Needed for the translation process:
Poedit a cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor
Gettext the GNU `gettext' utilities are a set of tools that provides a framework to help other GNU packages produce multi-lingual messages.
A complete guide and tutorial on translating WordPress themes can be found on Urban Giraffe
My first recommendation would be to read this article in the WordPress Codex.
To add language support, the first thing you need to do is make sure all of your echoed content is passed through a filter that can handle internationalization (i.e
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Prenatal Strengthening and Toning Exercises
The exercises shown are sometimes called "functional movement enhancers" because they increase the strength of the muscles that you use for everyday functions such as walking, carrying, lifting, sitting, and standing. The workout can be used alongside walking, swimming, or other cardiovascular exercises and can be done around 2-3 times a week.
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The biceps is an important muscle for carrying and lifting. You can use 3-5 lb (1-2 kg) weights for this sequence if you're a regular exerciser. Stand with feet hip-width apart, knees slightly bent, back straight, and arms at your sides. Breathe in, then exhale as you bend one elbow, raising your hand to shoulder level. Alternate arms until you've done 20 curls each side (40 in total). If you find this easy, try doing a total of 60 curls.
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Former New York City police detectives-turned-Brooklyn private investigators Karin Schaeffer and her husband Mac survived when brutal terror invaded their lives more than once. Now the offer of thirty thousand dollars for one day's work in London, followed by a family vacation in an exotic locale, seems too good to be true. And then they discover that it is.
Putting Mac's investigations into the alleged marital infidelities of billionaire Godfrey Millerhausenon hold, the family finds paradise in the sun-drenched Mediterranean island of Sardinia. Butthe holiday turns dark and terrible when the children vanish. Suddenly Karin and Mac must unravel a deadly web first spun when wronged wife Cathy Millerhausen walked into their world--as they discover firsthand the true evil of big money: how far it reaches, what it buys . . . whoit kills.
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This image of the University of Cape Town, South Africa's oldest university, was taken by Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Richard Tanswell aka richiesoft.
The University of Cape Town – known throughout South Africa as "UCT" – was founded in 1829 as the South African College, a high school for boys. It is one of Africa's most prestigious universities, and is situated in beautiful old buildings high on the slopes of Devil's Peak with impressive views out over the Cape Flats, towards Somerset West and Stellenbosch.
"I had a few weeks holiday in Cape Town with friends, and within minutes of landing there I fell in love with the place and the unique history of South Africa," says Richard.
"We stayed for part of our trip on the university campus and explored the area well. This photograph was taken on approaching the main university building. The colours and architecture of the university buildings are amazing and are in real contrast to the green plants around them and the mountain behind," he continues.
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According to Sefaradim, if you make a Beracha one thing you don't make it another with the same Beracha (not for different forms though). What about rice? Rice, as we know has a different classification. So what's the Halacha there? Do you have to make another Beracha on the rice even if you made a Beracha on let's say a cake?
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I assume the question means the following case.
A person had cooked rice and (let's say) cooked oatmeal in front of him. He made the brocho BM"M on the rice and the question is whether this will cover the oatmeal.
There are two stages to the answer.
1) Rice is not so choshuv (important) as oats. As proof see the Mishna Berura 208 (7)[30] where we see that a mixture of a minority of rice and a majority of another food takes the brocho of the other food. This would not be the case if the rice were replaced by one of the five species. In that case the brocho would be BM"M. The Mishna Berura says rice is not so choshuv.
2) Rabbi Bodner in his book "The Halochos of Brochos" chapter 7 C explains that a brocho made on one food covers the other "automatically" only when the other is less choshuv. He gives an example that a brocho made on a biscuit made of oats will not cover biscuits made of wheat because wheat is more choshuv than oats. If one deliberately intended to cover the less choshuv food, then it will be covered.
So it seems that the BM"M on the cooked rice will not cover the oatmeal unless he had specific intention to cover it.
But beware Hilchos Brochos is a minefield; ask a specific shaaloh to YLOR.
One of my Rabbanim (possibly a Posek) quoted Maran saying that if you had in mind the rice in the Beracha over other Mezonot (or vice versa) it is Poter the other food, however, according to Maran if he didn't have in mind it doesn't Poter. He mentioned that other Posekim disagree.


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COAL MAY no longer be king, but it still can be a major player in our nation's energy game plan.
These are not the best of times in the coal industry. Several factors have contributed to coal's demise. The foremost may be the White House's anti-coal policy. The large supply of natural gas also plays into coal's reduced swagger.
In West Virginia, coal production has dropped by 25 percent over the past four years. That translates into the loss of 3,500 well-paying jobs. That is unfortunate, but it reflects the current state of the industry.
With that said, all is not gloom and doom for coal.
That was reinforced this week by West Virginia Coal Association Vice President Chris Hamilton. He believes the worldwide need for coal can provide the industry "somewhat of a silver lining for decades to come."
The Ohio Valley, if not the entire nation, will be better off if such a scenario plays out. Hamilton notes there is a massive need for coal outside of U.S. borders.
With that being the case, the tri-state region is more than up to the task. Ohio's and West Virginia's coal supplies have lengthy life expectancies while the work force is skilled and plentiful.
All that needs to happen for the coal industry to be galvanized is to give it a level playing field. The Environmental Protection Agency and the administration need to become coal supporters, instead of antagonists.
Coal exports are increasing to meet global demands. But more needs to be done domestically. If given the chance, coal could prove the driving force for our nation's energy needs.


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You can find examples for all 50 states at this site - note however that while all 50 states are represented, that list is far from exhaustive of all the designs and styles that can be found, depending upon which border crossing you're at. Many states will, for example, have much more elaborate signs at the state border along interstate highways, and simpler, less imposing ones on less substantial roadways with lower traffic.


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TEMPLE (November 2, 2012)—The City of Temple will soon get a big boost after the city council unanimously agreed to enter an airport lease agreement with Kachemak Bay Flying Service, Inc. (KBFS), located in Killeen.
The company will spend $12,000 annually to rent the 7,590-square-foot hangar at Draughon-Miller Central Texas Regional Airport.
In addition to, the economy will benefit from increased aircraft traffic and fuel sales.
KBFS plans to conduct aviation training and provide commercial aviation operations.
"Our parent company, System Studies and Simulation (S3) has been searching for an opportunity like this hangar in the local area that could help us better perform our contracts with the US Army at fort Hood, and more importantly, facilitate even greater expansion into commercial aviation training, maintenance and logistic services," KBFS General Manager Gary Chambless said.
"This will allow our flying customers to hangar their aircraft overnight. Some have landed at our airport, dropped off their passengers and flew elsewhere to hangar their aircraft overnight. This is not only an inconvenience to our customers, but a loss in revenue for the city. Our goal everyday is to provide the best in service to our customers and adding this new business and service facility will do just that," Airport Director Sharon Rostovich said.


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A week ago readers of this corner read about Algorithms, an unbeaten star on the road to Kentucky Derby 138 for an ownership group with strong Louisville connections.
Just a week later, there is strong evidence that Algorithms is the leader on that road with fewer than 90 days remaining until the first Saturday in May.
The 2012 Kentucky Derby Future Wager opens its three-day run on Friday and oddsmaker Mike Battaglia, the man who has set the morning line odds for the Kentucky Derby since the late 1970s, has installed Algorithms as the favored individual horse in the bet's field of 24 wagering interests.
Algorithms won for the third time in as many races with a flash romp over a sloppy track in the Holy Bull Stakes on Jan. 29 at Florida's Gulfstream Park.
In doing so the son of Bernardini handed reigning 2-year-old champion Hansen the first loss of his four-race career and he racked up a flashy Beyer Speed Figure of 105 for his effort.
Now Battaglia has installed Algorithms as an 8-1 risk for the opening pool of the Kentucky Derby Future bet.
The actual 9-5 Future Wager favorite will be the mutuel field, which includes all 3-year-olds other than the 23 other individual horses in the pool.
"All others" has been favored in the opening pool of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager in each opening pool since the pari-mutuel future bet was created in 1999.
But the status as favored individual horse in the bet should have Algorithms owners beaming.
The colt runs for Starlight Partners, an ownership group headed by Louisville native Jack Wolf. Starlight also includes Louisville attorney and civic leader Ed Glasscock and his son, Clint.
The journey to Louisville is arduous and there is an extraordinarily long way to go before the winner reaches the finish line in the early evening of Saturday, May 5 at Churchill Downs. But one could not fault the partners for being very excited.
Algorithms must prove his worthiness for a Kentucky Derby bid on the track, but the backers of most of the other 3-year-old Thoroughbreds who are working out journeys for the Derby and its demanding mile and a quarter distance would like to be sitting where Wolf and the Glasscocks are now.
The victory in the Holy Bull was a star-making performance by Algorithms, who has won his three races at distances ranging from five furlongs to the Holy Bull's one-turn mile.
Pletcher Has Four
Trainer Todd Pletcher, who has four of the individual horses listed among the Future Wager's 24 betting interests in his barn, confirmed over the weekend that Algorithms' next start would come in Gulfstream's $400,000 Fountain of Youth on Feb. 26. That 1 1/16-mile race, the track's major prep for the $1 million Florida Derby on March 31, will be Algorithms' first major test at a two-turn distance.
The Fountain of Youth looms as a quality check in many ways for Algorithms, as he is expected to face both Hansen, who will try to rebound from his loss in the Holy Bull, and Union Rags, whose narrow loss to Hansen in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile last fall at Churchill Downs was the only setback of his 2-year-old campaign.
Debut For 'Rags'
Union Rags, trained by Michael Matz of Barbaro fame, is scheduled to make his 2012 debut in that race.
Only two of the horses in Pool 1 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager are slated to run this weekend. One, the Bob Baffert-trained Fed Biz, was entered in a Santa Anita allowance race on Feb. 9.
Another Derby Win?
Kaleem Shah's son of Giant's Causeway is coming off his first win in two races, but is well regarded by his trainer, who has won the Kentucky Derby three times.
The other is Ever So Lucky, the runner-up in last fall's Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs who is set to run in the seven-furlong Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfstream.
Augustin Stable's son of Indian Charlie dazzled in his racing debut last fall at Churchill Downs and finished his brief 2-year-old campaign with his good finish behind unbeaten Gemologist.
Many observers are suspect of the offspring of the late Indian Charlie at the Derby's 1¼-mile distance, but the colt is trained by steeplechase legend and Hall of Famer Jonathan Sheppard.
If Ever So Lucky makes it to Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby, one can bet that Sheppard will have him fit enough to run the Derby distance.
In fact, Sheppard will have him fit enough to run 2¼ miles.
The only question – and one that must be answered by all members of the expected 20-horse field in Derby 138 – is whether Ever So Lucky would be fast enough to get the job done.
Each horse mentioned in these lines is among the 298 horses nominated to the Kentucky Derby and the Triple Crown, which also includes the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes.
The nominations were released to the public last weekend and the nomination total is up more than nine percent from 2011.
A Triple Crown?
A jump of 10 percent in any category for most any business is reason to cheer these days.
The hope here is that the rise in nominations, combined with strong results in recent Thoroughbred sales and improvement in national wagering figures, can be taken as signs that the worst of the recent woes of the racing and breeding industries is in the rear-view mirror.
But there's nothing that gets people more excited about racing than a terrific winner and a great story in the Kentucky Derby, and the hope of the end of a Triple Crown drought that now covers 33 years since Affirmed last won the three race series in 1978.
So let's keep our fingers crossed.


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It has been stated to me that Christianity is "experiential" meaning it is experienced and not necessarily understood. Do I have that definition correct? Is this true?
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Yes, I think it is. Though, with an emphasis on "necessarily". Well, beyond the core tenants, anyway.
If you are a Christian but have never experienced God's love, then something is missing. I'm not talking about charismatic or pentecostal "gifts of the Spirit", I'm just talking about... feeling that God loves you.
Miguel de Unamuno: "Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself"
Disclaimer: this is my understanding, and probably mine only. I do not speak for any congregation, demonination, or any other -ation.
"Experiential" is inherent to all beliefs to some degree or other, not specific to Christianity. Religion's certainly not empirical if that's what you mean.
Whether can be understood without being experienced is up to the individual I think.
In my view, in order to fully understand something we need to address its root cause. When the root cause is the mind of God, then it is unknowable and can't be understood. There is no "obviously it's just a given that God exists" axiom unless you approach it from inside the belief system, i.e. experience it.
Even science and philosophy have some a priori axioms that we assume because they are either indeterminate or as yet unproven. So there is some degree of faith required for science to work as well, and when the axioms we accept fit with the rest of our experience then it makes sense. Take quantum mechanics or big bang cosmology as an example:
For most people these can't be understood through theory or experienced in nature. I think it's an interesting counterpoint.
As Blessed Mother Teresa is a good Christian soldier, I would have to say no.
She had faith, she loved and she hoped in her Redeemer, but for almost 50 years she did not 'feel' Christ's presence in her life.
Christianity is a journey, it is an encounter with our Creator and Redeemer, it is not primarily experiential, although there are charismatic movements within Christianity that focus on the experience and the gifts of the Holy Spirit which can be experienced.
As St. Paul says, there are many charisms, but one Lord. Since not every Christian is given the grace of experiencing the Spirit. If Christianity is indeed accessible to all, then it is not experiential.


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How do alcohol calories work. I'm not talking beer, but straight gin or vodka. I've heard it's about 100 calories per ounce, and it's not digested by your normal digestion system, but your liver. What kind of effect do alcohol calories have on the body. And can I get away with having a gin every night on a strict diet?
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IMO, with alcohol, the extra calories are really not the main thing to worry about. There are a lot of other changes going on in the body. Here's a good place to start.
Are you ok having a drink every now and then? Sure, I don't see a problem with that. But a spirit every night might not be what you need on a diet (or even off a diet).
Especially on a "strict" diet, your body is already being pushed hard by the caloric deficit; I would do my best to help it out, not strain it even more.
Alcohol contains 7 calories per gram, ~70 per fluid ounce, and ~100 per jigger1. It is converted in the liver to acetate which is given priority in metabolism in the same way that carbs & protein are given priority over fat2. As long as you properly count the calories in the alcohol you drink, you should be able to work it in to your diet.


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(credit: Todd Anderson/Disney via Getty Images)Actor Seth Green greets "Star Wars" characters R2-D2 and C-3PO on August 14, 2010 at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
"Star Wars" Exhibition in Brooklyn
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Star Wars Movie Props
(credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images)Full-size R2-D2 and C-3P0 "Star Wars" movie props on display in The Sharper Image store window on May 17, 2002 in New York City.
Famous Footprints in Hollywood
(credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)R2-D2's prints are seen outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre on March 16, 2003 in Hollywood, California.
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(credit: Vince Bucci/AFP/Getty Images)Ben Hoyt relaxes in his chair next to an R2-D2 replica he made as other "Star Wars" fans wait in line for tickets to the new "Star Wars" movie on sale May 12, 1999 outside the Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
Hollywood Walk Of Fame in Hollywood
(credit: Vince Bucci/AFP/Getty Images)Academy Award winning special effects creator Dennis Muren poses for photos with director James Cameron and "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, who kneels next to "Star Wars" characters R2-D2 and C-3PO, during a ceremony honoring Muren with a star on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame on June 3, 1999 in Hollywood, California.
Fox Studios Australia in Sydney
(credit: TORSTEN BLACKWOOD/AFP/Getty Images)Media magnate Rupert Murdoch and Stuart Horney, CEO of joint venture partner Lend Lease Corporation, join "Star Wars" characters R2-D2 and C-3PO to officially open Fox Studios Australia in Sydney on November 7, 1999.
18th Annual Kids Choice Awards in Los Angeles
(credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)Hayden Christensen, R2-D2 and C-3PO present the award for Favorite Male Singer to Usher on stage at the 18th annual Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards at the UCLA Pauley Pavillion on April 2, 2005 in Los Angeles, California.
"Star Wars" Fans Wait For Final Installment Of Film Epic
(credit: Chris Hondros/Getty Images)Simon Diaz puts sodas in a cooler shaped like "Star Wars" character R2-D2 on May 4, 2004 in New York City. He is one of many fans who waited in line for the premiere of the final "Star Wars" film.
Movie Premiere in Los Angeles
(credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)R2-D2 arrives at the "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" premiere at the Mann Village Theatre on May 12, 2005 in Los Angeles, California.
Monaco F1 Grand Prix in Monte Carlo
(credit: Mark Thompson/Getty Images)Christian Klien of Austria and Vitantonio Liuzzi of Italy pose with Chewbacca, Darth Vader, R2-D2 and C-3PO of "Star Wars" outside the Red Bull Racing team garage during on May 20, 2005 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Tribute to George Lucas in Hollywood
(credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)C-3PO and R2-D2 speak on stage during the 33rd AFI Life Achievement Award tribute to George Lucas at the Kodak Theatre on June 9, 2005 in Hollywood, California.
Movie Promotion in Tokyo
(credit: Junko Kimura/Getty Images)R2-D2, actors Hayden Christensen and Ian McDiarmid, director George Lucas and producer Rick McCallum attend a photocall to promote the film "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" on July 6, 2005 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Postage Stamp Unveiling in Hollywood
(credit: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)"Star Wars" characters pose in front of new postage stamps unveiled on March 28, 2007 at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
"Star Wars" Celebration IV in Los Angeles
(credit: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)"Star Wars" character R2-D2 is closely observed by a child in a stroller during the opening day of "Star Wars" Celabration IV in on May 24, 2007 Los Angeles.
"Star Wars" Celebration in Japan
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"Star Wars: The Clone Wars" Premiere in Los Angeles
(credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)R2-D2 arrives at the premiere "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" on August 10, 2008 at the Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
American Cinematheque Honors Samuel L. Jackson in Beverly Hills
(credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)R2-D2 and C-3PO speak during the 23rd annual American Cinematheque show honoring Samuel L. Jackson, held at Beverly Hilton Hotel on December 1, 2008 in Beverly Hills, California.
"Star Wars: A Musical Journey" in London
(credit: Tim Whitby/Getty Images)Darth Vader and R2-D2 from the "Star Wars" films pose together at The O2 Arena ahead of the World Premiere of "Star Wars: A Musical Journey" on April 8, 2009 in London, England.
New York Stock Exchange in New York City
(credit: Dario Cantatore/Getty Images)R2-D2 visits the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on December 22, 2009 in New York City.
Adventure Film Festival in Paris
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Lady Gaga concert in Cape Town – video and ticket information
Thousands of monsters have gone gaga at the announcement that five-time Grammy Award-winning artist, Lady Gaga, will end her South African leg of her Born This Way Ball at Cape Town Stadium on December 3, 2012.
Named one of Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women in 2011, and included in 2010 Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, the star's flamboyant style and controversial lyrics and music videos have won her millions of fans worldwide.
Born This Way Ball is Gaga's first tour since releasing the album Born This Way in May 2011, which has sold close to six million copies worldwide. On her first trip to South Africa we hope she will include some of her popular hits such as Just Dance, Poker Face, Paparazzi, Born This Way and Bad Romance in her repertoire.
Gaga will be supported by her longtime performance partner and DJ Lady Starlight and UK band, The Darkness.
Online-only tickets for the performances in Cape Town and Johannesburg go on sale on June 19, 2012 at 9am from Computicket, while ticket outlets and call centres are open from June 22, 2012 for the Cape Town show. Seated ticket prices start at R315, while standing tickets cost R715.
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I use LaTeX to generate all of the documents for my courses and as a result I have a lot of small documents in a given directory, which can then be hard to navigate due to all of the files generated when the .tex files are compiled. I have tried moving the output using output-directory and making an individual directory for each document but neither of these options have been entirely satisfactory. So my question is what methods of file management have worked for you with respect to LaTeX file management? Thanks.
This won't answer your question exactly, but it has worked for me.
I'm using Cornerstone, a subversion (version control) client that lets you manage you files (if you don't know what version control is, look it up!).
You can tell cornerstone to ignore all files of a specific file type so I set mine to ignore
Version control is also godsent for anyone working on big projects etc. Cornerstone is for mac and isn't free but there are free subversion clients for both mac, linux and windows.
You can use git or any other distributed version control system (Mercury/hg).
Using a distributed version control system will allow you to create repository in place without maintaining a server, which is required for SVN.
One directory per document, or set of documents with the same source.
For my lectures I put the sources in a docstrip file, and docstrip splits them into the sources of the various documents I'll use (my lecture notes, student handouts, slides, worksheets, etc.). This can be 50 files for one lesson with all the auxiliary files created. But even without so many derivative and auxiliary files I think it's still cleaner to use lots of directories.
If you have files that need to be included into your class files, put them in your local texmf tree.
I just keep all of the files in the same directory with a
In order to deal with the extra generated files, I compile in a separate directory by using the
Here is a shell script for that. It uses
When you use a source control client, you can use source control's ignore mechanism. Mercurial (hg), GIT, subversion all of them provide such mechanism. For an example look at latex.gitignore file in github. It ignores most of the latex generated files. You can use this file as a template to write a script which will remove all generated files.


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February 3, 2013
To the editor: I am a parent of a 20-month-old. While I was at work on Jan. 25, my son was safe at home with his father waiting for his sister to get home from school....
First off, I am glad you and your family are safe.
I believe hindsight to be 20/20 The school system is not just one school and they tend to follow the same guidelines throughout. The idea is that no one can be sure the roads will be cleared an any specific time so they break classes as early as possible to safeguard our children. We never know with the weather what is going to happen, Just because it slowed in the snowing after the schools let out does not mean that is the norm.
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I have some 50 custom cells in my UITableView. I want to display an image and a label in the cells where I get the images from URLs.
I want to do a lazy load of images so the UI does not freeze up while the images are being loaded. I tried getting the images in separate threads but I have to load each image every time a cell becomes visible again (Otherwise reuse of cells shows old images)
Apps like Facebook load images only for cells currently visible and once the images are loaded, they are not loaded again. Can someone please tell me how to duplicate this behavior.
Trying to cache images in an NSMutableDictionary object creates problems when the user scrolls fast. I am getting images only when scrolling completely stops and clearing out the cache on memory warning. But the app invariably gets a memory warning (due to size of images being cached) and clears the cache before reloading. If scrolling is very fast, it crashes.
Any other suggestions are welcome