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WINTERSVILLE - Resilience is defined as an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. It is the term that best described Indian Creek's 33-21 triumph over Buckeye 8 rival Harrison Central Friday at Kettlewell Stadium.
"Harrison Central is well coached, and they played tough," Indian Creek head coach Andrew Connor said. "We were just able to make a few more plays than Harrison central in the second half. It's a credit to our kids and their resiliency to understand that this wasn't going to stop them, and we have goals yet to achieve."
The goals at Indian Creek are simple. The Redskins are looking forward to another playoff run. And the win positioned the team nicely as it prepares for the final two weeks of the season.
But the final of this game was determined long before either of these teams set foot on the field. It takes a bonding experience past the sport itself for it to manifest fully on a football field.
"I think it's the camaraderie and the stuff we've gone through as a football team," Connor continued. "People throw around the term 'family' quite a bit in sports. But I really think these guys are family."
The fortitude of Indian Creek's young group of men began to show in the second half. The Redskins trailed 14-6 after 24 minutes of play.
"You could see at halftime that this group was determined," Connor stated. "They weren't going to let this game end what they've worked so hard for. They understood the significance of the game. They understood the significance of a loss. They took it upon themselves.
"They made a few plays. They did a few things they had to do to make stops. There are a lot of kids on this team that look back on tonight and say 'I gave everything I had.' A lot of kids can say that after tonight's performance."
Resiliency is a fine attribute to possess, but it is comprised of two key elements: mental toughness and preparation. When the two combine in an adverse situation, one came overcome any obstacle.
While Indian Creek proved to be mentally tough after being down twice to the Huskies - at halftime and again early in the fourth quarter - the Redskins were prepared to physically take over the football game.
Connor's squad did so by relying on its multi-faceted offense. The Redskins displayed the ability to score from any part of the field. The Redskins opened with a spread look and a deep passing attack. It also showed it could move the ball in a traditional three-back wishbone set. And its final drive utilized the zone read multiple times.
"We start working on those things in summer camp," Conner mentioned. "We do it with the thought that you never want a team to get a rhythm against you. Harrison Central is well coached. They committed to stopping our run game. They're physical. They played hard. I think all the moving around put us in a good position. We will go no-huddle and see what they give us. I though, particularly in the second half, we did a really good job of taking what they were willing to give us.
"It's a credit to our kids. We sub them a lot. So, they have to know when they're going in and coming out. I thought we did a really good job in the second half when we went from five-wide to the wishbone. I think it kept them off balance."
Harrison Central came prepared, but it's different when facing a team that is determined, practiced their offense day in and day out, and simply has the will to win.
"You have to be prepared for a lot of things," Harrison Central head coach Justin Krokpa said. "I thought our kids did a nice job of being prepared. They just made some plays. A good team will do that. I thought our kids were in the right spots. Sometimes we made play. Sometimes we didn't."
Indian Creek must take this attitude to the next level to reach its goals.
Warren G. Bennis, a preeminent scholar in the field studying and writing about leadership, once said, "The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom - as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need."


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No injuries were reported as a result of a crash Wednesday in Leavenworth that caused one vehicle to roll onto its side, a police spokesman said.
The accident was reported at 12:03 p.m. Wednesday at Fifth Avenue and Spruce Street.
An 89-year-old Leavenworth woman was driving east on Spruce Street in a 2000 Chevrolet Impala when she allegedly failed to stop for a red light. The car collided with a southbound 2012 Jeep Liberty driven by a 24-year-old Leavenworth man, according to Maj. Dan Nicodemus, deputy chief of the Leavenworth Police Department.
The collision caused the Jeep to roll onto its side.
A passenger also was in the Impala at the time of the accident. Nicodemus said everyone had been wearing a seat belt.
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The Iconfactory's online store for purchasing hard goods is closing up shop at the end of this year and we're holding a sale to celebrate. You can now purchase Iconfactory t-shirts for the super-low price of just $9 and Ollie vinyl figures at 40% off the normal price.
If you've ever considered picking some shirts or figures up but decided to wait, now's the time. Once the shop closes you'll never be able to buy these items from us again. It's honestly now or never folks. They make great holiday gifts too so stop reading and head over to our store and grab these items while you still can. Thanks!
It's almost the end of the month, and we've saved the scariest of our All Hallow's Eve treats for last! From Mindy, we have Yzma, a wallpaper that's… well, how would you describe it? Scary beyond all reason? Yeah! That's it. Also from Mindy, we have Toxic, a wallpaper depicting the dangers that human children present to all monsterkind. Be careful out there, scarers! These wallpapers are sized perfectly for your iPhone, iPad and Mac, so finish off the month in spooky style by grabbing them on our Freeware page!
This week's freeware takes the form of three new desktop wallpapers perfect for the Halloween season. Mindy brings us two offerings in the form of Pig Pen and Pumpkin Patch, wallpapers featuring iconic characters and settings from the classic, 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.' In addition to these, Dave Brasgalla invites the undead hordes to shamble across your desktop in Heartland. All of these wallpapers are available in sizes perfect for your iPhone, iPad and Mac, so head on over to the freeware page to grab them today!
Working as a set designer and concept artist on the classic 1979 space horror film "Alien", visionary illustrator Ron Cobb created a set of industrial icons that presaged the look of iOS 7 by over 30 years. Intrigued by the similarities between the two, Iconfactory artist Dave Brasgalla adapted Cobb's signage to the iOS 7 layout "grid" as a design exercise. Get the in-depth story on our design blog and download the icon set!
As we approach our favorite holiday, the time has come once again for us to rise from the dead and rearrange our pixels into something a little more appropriate for the season.
This month, as you gather supplies to fight off the zombie hordes and vampire covens, keep a lookout for our new insidious icon sets and diabolical desktop wallpapers. Be sure to visit our Dribbble page for some perilous previews of these Hallowe'en favors, and don't forget to also check out our haunted staff page, where our employees have undergone their yearly transformation into denizens of the night.
Today we're releasing three new desktop wallpapers to start off our celebration of the supernatural and macabre. Kate England's Halloween Glow is full of festive colors for the fall season, and Mindy Weaver brings us Kou and Moka, featuring characters from the popular anime series, Rosario+Vampire. All three of these offerings are available in sizes perfect for adorning your Mac, iPad or iPhone. Head on over to the freeware page to get into the holiday spirit today!
Our mad scientists are hard at work, cranking out more tricks and treats to keep the season festive, so keep checking back with us to see our latest spooky, scary additions. In the meantime, enjoy a few creatures from our past, and have a Happy Halloween!
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CENTRAL TEXAS (November 26, 2012)--Residents all across Central Texas are being asked to donate a pair of gently-used or new shoes to a local child in need.
From December 1-15, Schlotzsky's sandwich restaurants will assist Communities in Schools (CIS) by providing conveniently located drop-off spots at Killeen, Harker Heights, Copperas Cove, Belton and Temple locations.
Donations will also be accepted at all First National Bank locations in Killeen, Harker Heights and Copperas Cove and all Union State Banks in Killeen, Harker Heights and Florence.
Shoes are needed for all sizes of feet and all ages.
CIS hopes to collect more than 600 pairs of shoes as they say the need this year is greater than last year.
Last year's donations provided 600 pairs of shoes to children throughout the community.
According to CIS Executive Director Mary Barr, the children who are registered for the program either do not have shoes that fit or they are badly worn out.
In addition to the listed drop-off sites, the CIS Central Texas Office will also serve as a donation site, located a 4520 E. Central Expressway, Ste. 106 in Killeen.
Monetary donations will also be accepted so that children whose shoe size is not available will still get a pair of shoes.
CIS is a local, nonprofit organization that provides food support, clothing assistance and other necessities to underprivileged children in an effort to improve their school performance and overall health.
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I have seen people use heart-rendering. Is there a usage like that? Is it used wrongly for heartrending?
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Yes, if you are a butcher or soap maker and commonly boil offal.
Otherwise it's heartrending.
I strongly suspect it is just a mis-spelling of "heart-rending".
In computers, to "render" something is to draw it on a screen or printer, as in "rendering an image". So "heart-rendering" would, I guess, mean to draw a picture of a heart on the screen. :-)
In general, to "render" is to give or present something, like to "render a bill", meaning to give someone your bill for payment. It's barely possible that someone said "heart rendering" meaning "to give someone your heart", i.e. offer love or friendship. But I doubt it, unless they were making a play on words with "heart-rending". As I say, it's probably just a mistake.
The correct modern usage is heart-rending. Rend means to tear. Heart-rending is similar to heart-breaking, an emotional reaction to a very sad event.
You referred to heart-rendering as it appears in an article, December 1861: A heart-rendering scene, written by Dr. Terry L. Jones, a professor of history at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. It is one of a series of articles about the U.S. Civil War. The only use of "heart-rendering" was a direct historical quote from a witness to the 1861 execution (which was then used for the title) in Dr. Jones' article:
To render in modern contexts would be:
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You could use it. Whether it has ever actually been used is another question entirely.
The meaning of "to render" has been accurately described in the other answers. "To rend" means to rip in two, so "heartrending" is pretty much synonymous with "heartbreaking".
So the quote you gave is probably just a mistake on the correspondent's part (if I may be so bold as to say so), and he meant to say "heart-rending", that is, that it broke his heart to see such agony.
Kenneth Grahame used 'heart-rendering' in his children's classic, The Wind in the Willows (1908). In chapter 2, 'heart-rendering' is used to describe the crash of Toad's caravan in a sudden road accident.
Clearly, 'heart-rendering' was once considered perfectly correct; at the very least, I am willing to believe that Grahame and Charles Scribner II (his publisher) knew their business.
I would like to suggest a slight difference in meaning from the still-common 'heart-rending': while the latter would convey 'heart-breaking', the former might have meant something more sudden and shocking, as with our current 'heart-stopping'. But it would not do to assume that 'heart-rendering' is wrong-headed or incorrect; rather, it appears that that usage has merely become obsolete.
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You don't find too many instances of a "mistake" in published literature, see nGram.
About 10,500 occurrences in GoogleBooks, including every possible use of the word combination.
However, I could find no instances on COCA that were not quotes verbatim.
Definitely, some authors use heart-rendering as an eggcorn, some in its possible literal sense (see also LL above, though), some as a mistaken expression in place of heart rending.


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Following the success of previous editions, the Government of West Halmahera will once again present the 5th edition of the Festival Teluk Jailolo or Jailolo Bay Festival 2013 from 16th to 18th May 2013, at Jailolo or Gilolo , other names given by the inhabitants to the island better known as Halmahera in the province of North Maluku.
Reviving the former glory of Halmahera as the world's origin of spices, and acknowledging the island's abundant natural and cultural wealth, this year the Jailolo Bay Festival has particularly chosen the theme "The Treasure of Golden Spice Islands".
Organized by the office of Tourism of the West Halmahera Regency, the event is aimed to introduce and promote the natural splendors, cultural attractions, and other potential attractions of the regency. During the festivities, the public will be presented with various unique programs such as a Spice Parade, a Spice Expo, Spice Trip, a Fishing Competition, Swimming Competition, Rowing Competition, Fun Diving, the traditional sea ritual of Sigofi Ngolo, and a Culinary Fiesta featuring a barbecue party of 10 tons of fish.
As usual, the pinnacle of the festival will be the grand Cabaret set on the stage above the sea which this year is dubbed as Sasadu on the Sea. The Sasadu on the Sea is a collaborative production of Dance Maestro and Choreographer Eko Supriyanto, renowned art director Oleg Sanchabakhtiar, and professional stage director Dimas Leimana.
A former dancer for the international Diva, Madonna, Eko Supriyanto has collaborated with some of the big names in the entertainment industry in the country including Garin Nugroho, Slank, and Peter Sellars, while Dimas Leimana has been involved in some international scale shows including those of Mariah Carey, Bjork, and Beyonce. Oleg Sanchabachtiar. On the other hand, Leimena is no stranger on Indonesia's performance scene.
The sparsely populated island that is better known as Halmahera encompasses an area of 17,000 square kilometers. Here nature is exquisite which continues to inspire the festival each year. The Moslem and Christian population jointly participate annually in a joyous and harmonious local festivity that has developed into an international event.
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Tiger Triathlon has first female overall winner
For the first time in the history of the Tiger Triathlon, the race from the Little Pend Oreille Lakes to Colville High School and the Rotary Trail has a female overall winner. Spokane's Haley Cooper-Scott was the overall winner of the 2011 Tiger Triathlon. The Spokane triathlete finished in an overall time of 1:47:40. The 31-year-old was second fastest on the 24-mile bike race from Gillette Lake to Colville High School (56:33) and the quickest on her swim to bicycle transition time (1:33). Among the triathletes entered, she was also fastest around the race's final leg, the run around Dominion/Rotary Trail and the finish (33:48). Finishing second was Spokane triathlete Kevin Proszek (1:49:25). Fellow Spokane triathlete Jon Moen was third (1:51:12). Former Chewelah resident and veteran triathlete Martin Scates of Otis Orchards finished fifth overall (1:55:23). Chewelah's David Cole finished eighth overall. The 50-year-old Cole finished in a time of 1:57:58. Colville teenager Dylan Schanz was the fastest out of the water at Gillette Lake (13:50) and finished 14th overall in a time of 2:03:45. Jeffrey Michaelson of Colville was 16th overall in a time of 2:05:23. McGrane is sixth among female finishers Among the women, Colville's Caitlin McGrane finished sixth in a time of 2:20:31. In the team race, Moonfish, comprised of Colville's Ned Fischer, Rob Morrison and Simeon Moons, easily won in a time of 1:47:14. The veteran crew of Three Old Guys (Jim Christian, Chris Loggers and Randy Stebbins) finished second (2:02:53). Finishing fifth in the team race was the Colville team of Linda Ray, Craig Newman and Kimberly Bell (2 Girls And A Guy). They finished in a time of 2:17:14. Fischer, a former standout cross country runner at CHS who now runs at Gonzaga, turned in the fastest run time of the day (29:58). Former Colville High baseball coach and current Rosalia athletic director, Terry Boxleitner, ran his first triathlon and finished 27th overall. The 49-year-old Boxleitner finished in 2:11:29. A lot of "Newbies' to the Tiger Triathlon this year Kristina Johnson-Short, race coordinator and city of Colville Recreation Coordinator, was generally pleased with the way the triathlon was run. "We had a lot of first-time volunteers and I am new to all this," Johnson-Short said on Monday. "There were a few glitches, but for the most part, it went well. "We had a lot of good comments from the triathletes. I feel very positive about that." On the course, there was one mishap on the bicycle course down Highway 20, but no serious injuries. Johnson-Short said that the swim course was more precise in its measurement than it has ever been. The swim course around Gillette Lake was GPS'd prior to the race on Saturday morning. Ninety triathletes finished with times from official race timer, AA Sports Limited. RESULTS—TOP 50 1st, Haley Cooper-Scott, Spokane, 1:47:40. 2nd, Kevin Proszek, Spokane, 1:49:25. 3rd, Jon Moen, Spokane, 1:51:12. 4th, Kelly Geisheimer, Rossland, B.C., 1:52:03. 5th, Martin Scates, Otis Orchards, 1:55:23. 6th, Mike Konkin, Trail, B.C., 1:56. 7th, Al Pokorny, Spokane, 1:57:21. 8th, David Cole, Chewelah, 1:57:58. 9th, Thomas Woodley, Walla Walla, 1:59:15. 10th, Chris Hoch, Nine Mile Falls, 1:59:25. 11th, Brian Read, Spokane, 1:59:42. 12th, Darron Woolley, Spokane Valley, 1:59:46. 13th, Mike Lauffer, Spokane, 2:03:23. 14th, Dylan Schanz, Colville, 2:03:45. 15th, Dave Clark, Spokane, 2:04:31. 16th, Jeffrey Michaelson, Colville, 2:05:23. 17th, Larry Vandenburg, Spokane, 2:05:31. 18th, Jason Gillmer, Spokane, 2:06. 19th, Russ Lawrence, Spokane, 2:06:45. 20th, Francis Wynecoop, Chewelah, 2:07:59. 21st, Justin Heinen, Seattle, 2:08:01. 22nd, Brian Torosian, Spokane, 2:08:36. 23rd, Chip Johnson, Inchelium, 2:09:46. 24th, Ashley Hall, Moscow, Idaho, 2:10:20. 25th, Matt Ryan, Seattle, 2:10:24. 26th, Michael Martin, Coeur d' Alene, 2:11:01. 27th, Terry Boxleitner, Oakesdale, 2:11:29. 28th, Jerry Hill, Spokane, 2:12:19. 29th, Geoff Tesarik, Spokane, 2:12:35. 30th, Jeff Miller, Colbert, 2:13:01. 31st, Todd Albert, Spokane Valley, 2:13:27. 32nd, Derek Duchesne, Spokane, 2:14:46. 33rd, Lisa Sunderman, Spokane, 2:15:33. 34th, Amy Mazur, Moscow, Idaho, 2:16:51. 35th, Steven Raab, Rocklin, CA, 2:17:25. 36th, Todd Chism, Nine Mile Falls, 2:18:37. 37th, Rob Nebergall, Spokane, 2:18:59. 38th, Tom Groesbeck, Spokane, 2:19:13. 39th, Kent Breckenridge, Loon Lake, 2:19:24. 40th, Ross Hilderman, Spokane, 2:19:27. 41st, Travis Hunt, Chewelah, 2:19:55. 42nd, Caitlin McGrane, Colville, 2:20:31. 43rd, Kevin Kirstein, Medical Lake, 2:22:11. 44th, Brian Mantz, Spokane, 2:22:52. 45th, Mark Johnson, Mead, 2:23:05. 46th, Jenny Ridgely, Spokane, 2:24:25. 47th, Kelley Hilderman, Spokane, 2:25:07. 48th, Donna Gentry, Liberty Lake, 2:25:37. 49th, Beth Martin, Coeur d' Alene, 2:25:58. 50th, Todd Spear, Spokane, 2:26:31.


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I have the Asus Eee-pc 1015T - this is an AMD based netbook and it comes with a great AMD Radeon HD 4250 vga.
With Windows 7 it can play 1080p HD video smoothly and during normal usage the average noise level it's quite low.
with Ubuntu 11.04 beta 1 the standard installed vga driver is the Gallium 3D 0.4 which is good for a normal netbook experience but it causes 3 main problems:
Average fan noise level is really annoying;
High battery consumption;
It can't reproduce even 720p HD video.
Issue 3 isn't critical for me.
Ubuntu restricted driver doesn't show any proprietary driver available for my configuration but in synaptic well-known fglrx driver are present.
So how could I sort out issues 1 and 2? Does fglrx work better with 4250 HD? Is there a program to control my eee-pc fan-speed?


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I know that Apple's Terminal.app provides a bash shell. Are there any differences between this and a bash on Linux?
Terminal is a terminal emulator. It interprets various control sequences sent by programs (control characters like CR, LF, BS and longer control sequences for commands like "clear screen", "move cursor up 3 lines", etc.). Terminal is the same kind of program as xterm, rxvt, Konsole, or GNOME Terminal. Almost all modern terminal emulators support the "xterm" control sequences, so they are generally highly compatible (and most programs use the ncurses library and its terminfo database to abstract over the actual control sequences).
bash is a shell. It interprets commands that usually involve running other programs. In normal, interactive use the shell's input comes from a user via a terminal emulator. The terminal emulator and the shell are connected via a "pseudo tty" device (e.g.
Because the tty devices are the only interface between Terminal and bash, they are completely independent. You can use bash with iTerm instead of Terminal, and you can use zsh instead of bash inside a Terminal window.
The version of bash installed on your Mac OS X and Linux systems may be different, but should be fairly easy to install pretty much whatever version of bash you want on either system. You might look at MacPorts, homebrew, or Fink for ways to install recent versions of bash (and other shells) on Mac OS X. Whatever Linux distribution you are using surely comes with packages for common shells.
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He he he he... Yea I am guilty here. I shouldn't have asked that many questions. That's what happens when my partner wants me to program in Objective-C, a language I don't know. Well, I improved a lot in these 30 days.
Definitely! I know I am guilty. I am not complaining about rules at all. In fact, if it's not because of that rule, I wouldn't have found out about this.
But think about it, more visitors, more advertising revenue for Stack Overflow.
This will drive them out.
Don't worry, Stack Overflow is the best out there and I'll come back when I am within my limit again. But seriously, unless a person's question quality sucks so much, this will effectively force them to find something else.
By the way, is this limit per account or IP? Imagine if I have plenty of programmers and each of them want to ask questions.
And finally, what would be a good place to ask Objective-C questions? I don't think this question take away visitors from Stack Overflow. It's Stack Overflow's own limit that does.


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6 Mind-Blowing Things People Built in Their Backyard
If you are lucky enough to have a backyard instead of just, say, an alley full of garbage cans or the ass end of your neighbor's trailer, you probably feel like a hero just for keeping the grass cut. Maybe if you're really ambitious, you've done some landscaping, or maybe you're handy and have built a deck. It really doesn't matter -- whatever you've got back there doesn't compare to these mind-boggling one-man projects ...
#6. The Miniature Paris
"This is the third time you've used 'A giant hand was blocking the bridge' as a late excuse."
This may look like a Photoshopped image of a giant, nuclear-powered Frenchman descending upon Paris, but the Frenchman is actually regular-sized. It's the city that is tiny. That's because for no particular reason, Gerard Brion decided to dedicate his life to building a scale replica of Paris in his yard. And when we say he's dedicated his life to it, we mean it: It's said to have taken 15 years to build. And since he was 29 when he finished, that means he started when he was 14. At least it kept him out of trouble, we guess.
People with scale models of world cities in their backyard are 14 percent less likely to end up selling drugs.
Working in his shed all by himself, Brion built his miniature Paris out of old concrete blocks, baby food jars, soup tins and other junk. He probably also raided the local toy store for thousands of Hot Wheels, because his city is complete with streets, cars, rivers that run under bridges and electrical wiring that lights up the city at night.
So many mice have gotten laid bringing their girlfriends here.
We're afraid to ask if he installed plumbing, complete with thousands of tiny toilets and tiny people pooping in them, because with this attention to detail, he probably did.
Can you spot the tiny molestation occurring?
His work attracts 15,000 tourists per year to the small town of Vaissac in the South of France, so if you want to visit Paris but can't afford the real thing (or you prefer to pretend you are Godzilla while visiting famous landmarks), this could be a good second option. You just have to resist the urge to stomp it all into the ground.
We would not be able to resist that urge.
#5. Jim Bishop's Infinitely Expanding Castle
As far as castles go, Bishop Castle in Colorado admittedly looks like it wouldn't hold up under a siege. But we can forgive that for the fact that one guy has built the entire thing, stone by stone, over the course of 40 years.
When Jim Bishop was 15, he dropped out of high school because his teacher told him he'd never amount to anything. Like most people in that situation, Bishop reacted by purchasing two acres of land in the Colorado mountains and spending the remainder of his life sculpting a giant castle out of rocks and junk.
Starting with an elaborate dungeon for that asshole teacher.
Bishop's castle comes complete with 250-foot towers, domes, vertigo-inducing bridges and a giant dragon's head that breathes smoke powered by an internal stove. And, most amazingly, he's put the whole thing together without the use of heavy machinery, laying every stone and beam by hand.
Meanwhile, you still haven't completed that couch from IKEA.
So when can he expect the project to be complete? In Bishop's own words, when he opens the paper in the morning and reads his own obituary. We're not sure that's how it works, but the point is that he feels the project is a form of therapy for him and he never intends to stop adding to it.
Unless he encounters some other guy who has obsessively built a fleet of trebuchets.
#4. A Homemade Roller Coaster
"If you build it,
they will come you might die."
What do you do when you love to ride the roller coaster but you don't want to deal with all the other bullshit that comes with visiting an amusement park? For most of us, not much besides sitting on an office chair and spinning around really fast. If you're John Ivers, you actually build a roller coaster in your backyard, because you are nuts.
Ivers, of Indiana, simply hated waiting in lines, and so he decided to piss in the face of engineering school and build his own roller coaster in 2001. Although he had no prior experience in the roller coaster industry, Ivers was a welder and had access to plenty of scrap metal. He built his masterpiece, which he named Blue Flash, using trial and error. In true MacGyver fashion, he even skipped a few steps and used his storage shed as support for the first hill.
"Why doesn't everybody use thin strips of corrugated metal to support their roller coasters?"
Ivers allows anyone who wants to ride his creation do so for free. Those brave enough to trek to Indiana and ride a roller coaster in the backyard of a stranger who had never built a roller coaster before face one final test of trust: They'll be riding on a slightly modified car seat without much in the way of safety precautions. Hey, the whole point of roller coasters is that they give you an adrenaline rush due to briefly tricking your body into thinking you're going to die. So on one level, we're pretty sure this is the best roller coaster in the world.


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The definition of the Japanese words wabi sabi has changed over the years. At one time when the Japanese language was young, wabi meant "poverty," and sabi meant "loneliness." During the first major flowering of Japanese culture, "wabi" came to refer to the ideal hermit's life, lived in contemplation of nature and appreciation of the spiritual and aesthetic values underlying a solitary existence. His was a wabi way. The Japanese tea masters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries developed a wabi style of tea ceremony as an alternative to the ornate and ostentatious ceremony in which the aristocracy would show off their valuable tea objects and forge political alliances. "Sabi" was refined over the years to emphasize a state of receptivity, fostered in remote natural settings. This positive aloneness was joined to the wabi appreciation of the understated and unrefined to form a phrase with deep resonance for the contemplative mind. People would dream of living in simple enlightened appreciation of nature.
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Source: Wabi Sabi for Writers: Find Inspiration. Respect Imperfection. Create Peerless Beauty., Pages: 6
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I listened that it could be done that InfoPath Form is on the Site with WebPart. How Could be it Done? It should be a InfoPath form when I could on a site put date start of range, and date end of a range. How to correlate InfoPath with a WebPart on a site?
What you'll need to do is create yourself an InfoPath form, and publish it to your site, team site, etc. Once you complete that, you can add what's called an "InfoPath Web Part" onto your site - it's listed under "Forms" in the web part manager, titled "InfoPath Form Web Part".
There are two sites, one from MSDN, and one on C# Corner that explain this in detail.
As soon as you publish Infopath form template to a sharepoint site, it is being available and used as a web part.
As a matter of fact, I do not grasp how it is possible to use Infopath form at a sharepoint site without Infopath Web Part engagement at all!
Infopath Form template is created in and published from Infopath Designer, from client machine to sharepoint server. The Infopath Designer is installed as part of Microsoft Office suite on client machine (which can be also the same machine as server).


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What are you revealing about yourself with your Facebook "likes"? A new study from the University of Cambridge shows that you might be disclosing more than just the obvious—and that the network of pages you "like" can be used to predict "potentially private traits such as a person's sexual orientation, political leanings, religion, intelligence, emotional stability and even if they abuse drugs or alcohol."
Using data—including IQ and personality tests—on 58,466 individuals, researchers were able to create a list of highly predictive Facebook pages—that is, Facebook pages that could be used to a high degree of accuracy to predict certain traits about the people who liked them.
While many of them are strong no-duhs, some are baffling: It might be obvious that men who "like" Kathy Griffin and women who "like" The L-Word are more likely to be gay—but it's way less obvious that men who "like" "Being Confused After Waking Up From Naps" and women who "like" Lipton Brisk are more likely to be straight.
Here are some of the most predictive pages. The researchers, who used a person's entire body of Facebook "likes" to build their predictive models, warn against "judging friends based on individual likes." But, you know, if you're not going to do that what's the point?
If you "like"...
- Kathy Griffin
- Juicy Couture
- "Wicked The Musical"
- No H8 Campaign
- Mac Cosmetics
If you "like"...
- The L-Word
- Tegan and Sara
- "Sometimes I Just Lay in Bed and Think About Life"
- "Not Being Pregnant"
If you "like"...
- Bruce Lee
- The X Games
- The Wu-Tang Clan
- Shaq
- "Being Confused After Waking Up From Naps"
If you "like"...
- Lipton Brisk
- "I Just Realized Immature Spells I'm Mature"
- Nike Basketball
- "Thinking Of Something And Laughing Alone"
- "Did You Get A Haircut No It Grew Shorter"
If you "like"...
- The Daily Show
- Thunderstorms
- Science
- "Morgan Freeman's Voice"
- Curly fries
If you "like"...
- Clark Griswold
- Harley-Davidson
- Sephora
- Lady Antebellum
- "I Love Being A Mom"
If you "like"...
- Beer pong
- Chris Tucker
- "I Feel Better Tan"
If you "like"...
- Role playing games
- Anime
- Voltaire
If you "like"...
If you "like"...
- Business Administration
- Skydiving
If you "like"...
- "I Like Lyrics That Actually Mean Something"
- Austin Texas
- "Pushing your friends into random people in the hallway"
If you "like"...
- Inside Jokes
- "Awkwardly Trying To Run With A Backpack"
- Pau Gasol
- Milkshakes
You can look at the full list of "most predictive likes" in this PDF document . (Highly recommended for persual: "alcohol use" and "parents separated at 21.") The researchers have also set up a page where you can check what your "likes" might be saying about you, at YouAreWhatYouLike.com


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Nord Drum 2 - Synth Drums For Man & Machine
Nord Drum 2 - Synth Drums For Man & Machine
There's no question that the original Nord Drum was one of the best drum synths going with an engine that delivered all the classy tones you would expect from a Nord. There are some who felt it didn't quite offer enough connectivity however and the Nord Drum 2 rectifies this with a host of new hardware features.
Drummers playing on electronic drum kits take note! The Nord Drum 2 automatically outputs MIDI when you play the trigger inputs or Nord Pad. That makes it a great trigger interface as well as a sound module.
The Synth Engine
The comprehensive additions made to the hardware are more than matched by the improvements made to the underlying drum synth. With Resonance modeling, Subtractive and FM-synthesis you've got the building blocks of the best drum machines from the past, present and future. With subtractive representing the 808 style analogue sound, FM delivering more complex 80's & 90's drum machines and resonance modelling is a cutting edge algorithm that provides realistic percussion sounds. Throw in a range of filters, parameters and effects and it's easy to see how you can easily get sucked into programming the Nord Drum 2. Once you've started building up a bank of presets there's no problem managing them with Nord Drum 2 Manager. Supported from the 2.1 update you can use Nord Drum 2 Manager to save, backup and organise your presets via Mac/PC. Also new to the 2.1 update are a load of inspiring factory presets and an expansion to 400 total preset programs.
Listen To Just What The Nord Drum 2 Is Capable Of With The 2.1 Update
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I'm not talking about just blocking ports.
I remember finding a host that when I ran a normal tcp scan
nmap hostname, nmap wouldn't return any meaningful results. It was having problems with timeouts. If I set the timeout value to something pretty low and set
--max-retries 0 then it would work.
Does anyone know of a iptables rulesets that cause problems for nmap?


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Kahaani is a 2012 Indian suspense thriller film ,which tells the story of a pregnant woman in search of her missing husband in the city of Kolkata during the Durga Puja festivities.
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Why did 'Milan' Actually Show up in end of movie Kahaani[2012]?
In the recently released Bollywood movie Kahaani, at the ending, why did "Milan" actually show up? Why did he want to Kill Vidhya Balan? How was he seriously affected by the things done by her? Why ...


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Baby Doctor 3pcs Layette Set
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Bodysuit, hat and booties for future doctors!
a whimsically cozy doctor's outfit for your own aspiring MD. Complete with a toasty-warm surgical cap and hospital booties, this soft, green sleeper sports a stethoscope graphic casually slung around the neck, and an embroidered pocket with pen to write those teeny-tiny prescriptions!
Contents: 100% cotton
The "Doctor's bag' gift box packaging is as cute as the outfit!
Contents: 100% cotton
Care: Machine washable.
Size: 0-6 months
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I had a site that ranked top 3 for one keyword term and top 6 for another.
At the beginning of October both terms dropped radically from the search results.
I had recently changed the .htaccess file to stop redirecting 404 back to the home page.
This resulted in the following:
- Some old links to non SEO optimised pages being reported as crawl errors in google webmaster toolkit.
- Old pages which have been renamed over the last year being crawled by googlebot because of the redirect back to the homepage
Also I noticed that the pages containing the keywords were not included in the internal links in google webmaster toolkit anymore.
I have added 301 redirects for the crawl errors and the 301 redirects for the updated file names and I am awaiting for google webmaster toolkit to clear the crawl errors and for googlebot to start crawling the correct pages, but I am worried that there is more of a problem for the keywords ranking than the pages errors.
Is there any way of determining if the site has been punished for certain the keywords?


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5 Movie Plot Holes You Didn't Notice Due to Editing (Pt. 3)
The first trick you learn about movies is that the camera is always lying. Every time there's a cut, our perspective is leaping through time and space, sometimes across continents. We're missing about 90 percent of what's going on, and that's usually OK, because no one needs to see Bruce Wayne drop his eye makeup applicator down his sink drain and spend 10 minutes trying to fish it out with a coat hanger.
But sometimes editing isn't just about maintaining the story's momentum; it's about skipping over parts that don't make any sense. For example ...
#5. A T. Rex Apparently Flies in Jurassic Park
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If you were born in the '80s, the greatest moment of your life was the first tyrannosaur attack in Jurassic Park. Most of the characters we know are trapped outside the tyrannosaur paddock, waiting for the electricity to come back on, when Barney herself breaks through the fence and starts chewing everyone's shit apart. Annoying Lawyer Stock Character gets eaten, Jeff Goldblum Stock Character gets his legs all busted up, and Alan Grant and the kids are trapped on the road, totally exposed:
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Even his powers of "fetch!" ultimately fail him.
There's clearly nowhere for them to go. If they stay on the road, they'll be eaten. If they run into the jungle, they'll probably catch some kind of awful tropical parasite. And then be eaten.
Cut To ...
Oh, wait, no: They can climb down this sheer cliff face, which just appeared out of absolutely nowhere.
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Using deluxe Climbable Fence Cables.
And we say "appeared" because it literally appeared there during the edit between those two scenes. The tyrannosaur breaks through the fence, then the heroes crawl through the broken fence the dinosaur just burst through, only to find the concrete wall you see above. How in the hell did the dinosaur scale that? With its tiny little T. rex arms? Hell, the only reason hiding down there works is because the T. rex can't chase after them. Is it like when a little kid climbs up a tree and then is too scared to get back down?
We'd say it flew up there, or jumped, but we actually see it standing on the other side of the fence -- on the ground that, one minute later, we see doesn't actually exist:
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Seriously, is it up in a tree?
It's a testament to Spielberg's filmmaking wizardry that the vast majority of people never notice that one of the most famous scenes in his career has the spatial continuity of a Tommy Wiseau film. Unless, of course, you decide that it's not a plot hole at all, and just assume that hidden in the cuts of this sequence is the fact that Isla Nublar just underwent the biggest, most stealthy geological shift in history: Not only did the island swallow an entire jungle, but it covered up its crime with cement.
This revelation changes everything. The tension of our weak human characters facing off against a species that is stronger, faster, and bigger than them is somewhat tempered by the fact that they have a freaking sentient island on their side. It also explains all the other plot holes: Where'd the T. rex come from in that big hero scene? The island threw her there. Why did Dennis Nedry get so lost? The island hates fat people.
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"Goodbye, Nnnnnnnewman." -Isla Nublar
Which, incidentally, proves our theory we just made up: Jurassic Park takes place on the same island as Lost. Now go, fan fiction writers ... go change the world.
#4. Michelle Rodriguez Does the Impossible in Avatar
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One of Avatar's supporting characters is Trudy, portrayed on screen by Michelle Rodriguez, and in our own heads she has a steady countdown to when she's finally going to die, because she's being played by Michelle Rodriguez. Her key character moment comes right around the halfway point, when the evil Resources Development Administration decides to bomb the ever-loving shit out of the peaceful Na'vi's home-tree and Trudy, in utter disgust, declares that she "didn't sign up for this shit" and flies on home.
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"Shooting on a gun ship? This is bullshit!"
That's how we the audience know that she's on nature's side now, willing to face whatever consequences she has to, because nothing is more important than standing up for what's right.
Cut To ...
Trudy returns to the base and releases Jake Sully so he can continue on with his adventures.
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"Yup, got pilots delivering food now. Never should've let the kitchen staff unionize."
Wait, what? We skipped right over the scene where the military notices that Trudy openly rebelled against their cause and she somehow convinces them she's still on their side. Despite the fact that the villainous Colonel Quaritch was all up in Jake's business the very second he started showing sympathy for the Na'vi, he doesn't seem to mind one of his pilots blatantly and publicly disobeying a direct order and basically cursing in his face? She's back there walking around like a fully functioning member of the team, entering restricted areas, strutting around in the open like she owns the place.
Then cut again, to Trudy flying a RDA heli-fighter thing, covered in Na'vi war paint.
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Or blueface, because she's racist.
So that means two insane scenes were left out: one where she returns to the base and talks her superiors into giving her unfettered access to the prisoners she just refused to fight against, then another one where she gives her military aircraft a brand new tribal racing stripe:
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So she could fly faster.
The only explanation is that whenever Trudy is off screen, she becomes Solid Snake. How else did she manage to fly back to a heavily guarded military base in a jet plane full of soldiers who just watched her disobey a direct order? How did she paint that whole ship without anyone in the RDA base noticing? Where did she get the paint? In general, what? We'll forgive you for something corny that at least makes sense, and we'll let something that doesn't make sense slide if it's awesome enough. But when you combine stupid and nonsensical, it makes us long for the days when James Cameron would shoot a whole sequence just to explain why robots have feelings.
#3. Everybody Forgets About the Alien Baby in Prometheus
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Prometheus' best scene was also the most blatant attempt to recapture the horror of the time a dick-headed alien burst out of a dude's chest in the original Alien. After Ripley -- er, sorry, "Elizabeth Shaw" -- is impregnated with an alien fetus by the guy from Devil, she uses a futuristic robot surgeon to have the alien fetus cut out of her womb, and that's the least terrifying way we can think of to describe the scene.
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Almost as scary as actual human childbirth.
Then, covered in blood and amniotic fluid, visibly traumatized and sporting a massive open wound on her stomach, she stumbles around the halls of the Prometheus until she finds ...
Cut To ...
Twist! It turns out Weyland, whom we all assumed was still back on Earth, has actually come along for the ride! Double twist, he's actually Benjamin Button!
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Or Hollywood has collectively seen one single old person and bases everyone on him.
Triple twist: He's an idiot, because he (and everyone else) ignores the obviously injured woman in their midst and immediately goes on a quest to communicate with aliens. In between those scenes, there apparently is a discussion about why this makes sense, and it's impossible to imagine how that discussion would go without everyone sounding like they've suffered traumatic brain damage. We the audience didn't think it through because we were distracted by Weyland's appearance, but the actual movie characters don't have that excuse.
After all, shouldn't Shaw be considered a massive threat by Weyland and his lackeys? The last time a character in this movie encountered someone who had come into contact with an alien organism, this happened:
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"We should quarantine him and conduct a full analysis of- oh, you already have your flamethrower."
In this case, they're even more sure that Shaw's a threat. They knew she was pregnant with an alien (they were about to put her in cryosleep to smuggle the species back to Earth, setting something of a precedent), so her giving birth to a gigantic squid monster is actually one of the least terrifying things that could've happened -- they're lucky she didn't end up a superstrong killer zombie like that punk-rock geologist character. But not only do they ignore that she's now the single most dangerous person on their ship, they bring her along on their mission, confirming our long-held theory that the scientists in Prometheus are all dummies.


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$\underline{Background}$ : Suppose $\tau$ is a preadditive category and $R$ a ring. Then one may form a new preadditive category $\tau \otimes R$ in the following way:
$\tau \otimes R$ has the same objects as $\tau$ and for objects $A$ and $B$, set $\tau \otimes R(A,B) := \tau(A,B)\otimes_{\mathbb{Z}} R$. Composition is given by $\tau(A,B)\otimes_{\mathbb{Z}} R\otimes_{\mathbb{Z}}\tau(B,C)\otimes_{\mathbb{Z}} R \cong \tau(A,B)\otimes_{\mathbb{Z}}\tau(B,C)\otimes_{\mathbb{Z}}R\otimes_{\mathbb{Z}}R \rightarrow \tau(A,C) \otimes_{\mathbb{Z}}R$, where the last arrow is given by the composition in $\tau$ and multiplication in $R$.
$\tau \otimes R$ is additve if $\tau$ is additive.
$\underline{Question}$ : Suppose $\tau$ is triangulated, is there a (canonical) structure of a triangulated category for $\tau \otimes R$?
Actually, I only need the case $R := \mathbb{Z}[\frac{1}{n}, \theta] \subset \mathbb{C}$, where $\theta$ is a primitive root of unity of order $n$ for some $n \in \mathbb{N}$, but I would also be interested in a general statement/counterexample to the general case.
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Module 2 goes in-depth into structure, components and contents of the files that constitute the database. To be able to manage hundreds of gigabytes, terabytes, or even petabytes of data, it is important to learn the techniques by which storage is viewed (physical and logical) and allocated. Databases use various hierarchies of storage structures such as blocks, extents, segments and table spaces to control storage allocation. The definition of schema and the objects that comprise the schema are introduced here. SQL Server uses similar techniques as Oracle; however the differentiation from Oracle is in the functionality.
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I'm not sure whether this is a bug (in which case I'll submit a report) or I'm doing something silly!
My problem is that I cannot restart or shutdown my computer from the LightDM login screen, this problem occurs if I go through the following steps:
- Log in
- Lock the screen either through inactivity or selecting "lock screen"
- At the password entry screen select "Switch User"
- Click the power symbol at the top right of the LightDM login screen and select "restart" or "shutdown"
When I do this nothing happens, the computer does not restart or shutdown and neither is there any error messages, I would have assumed that if I'm not supposed to be able to select these options then I'd at least get a warning message?
So does anyone know if this is a bug or something dumb I'm doing!?
I filled a bug-report on launchpad for this a while ago: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/932724


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According to Serre's book 'Galois cohomology', Galois chomology group are always torsion, but it seems to me that H^1(k, End_{Z_l}(T_l(A)))=coker(Frob-1) on End_{Z_l}(T_l(A)), which has the same Z_l rank as End_{k}(T_l(A)) So maybe End_{Z_l}(T_l(A)) is not a discrete galois module. And why is the Tate module a discrete galois module?
waht are the Galois cohomology groups of the Tate module of some abelian variety over a finite field or a number field?


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This week, the House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing on electronic employment verification systems (EEVS) -- Washington's latest magic potion for dealing with the nation's broken immigration system. As more hearings are expected in the coming weeks in other committees, including Homeland Security and Judiciary, what questions should the American public want to hear be thoroughly asked and answered?
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WHEELING - It appears a developer will not be dissuaded from doing something with a wooded hillside in Woodsdale.
And Warwood residents also are still concerned about a planned frack water treatment facility moving into their neighborhood.
Despite City Council on Tuesday upholding the Planning Commission's recommendation to deny a zone change request for the 95 wooded acres for commercial use, GC&P Development stated in a letter given to council minutes before the meeting that it had formally withdrawn its commercial rezoning request and hopes the city eventually will approve a residential development instead.
But residents who formed the group Woodsdale United continued to express concern about the developer's plans. Vice Mayor Eugene Fahey denied a request from the audience that the entire letter be read aloud.
Woodsdale resident Karen Cox, who has a master's degree in forestry management, said there are many benefits to having wooded areas in a city, including reduction of stormwater erosion.
"Don't underestimate the value this woodland provides to the city of Wheeling," she said.
Meanwhile, council also heard from several Warwood residents who still are concerned about GreenHunter Energy's plan to open a frack water recycling plant at the former Seidler's Oil Service property on North 28th Street. Residents said they want council to consider not allowing the plant to open because they are concerned about potential leaks they believe will cause health problems. They also are concerned about increased truck traffic - something they say already is plaguing the neighborhood.
Robert Slabaugh said he lives a "stone's throw" from the proposed site. He said being afflicted with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and emphysema increases his worries about dust caused by trucks traveling to and from the facility.
Warwood resident Robin Mahonen said one reason she moved to Wheeling 22 years ago was because she wanted a healthier place than Los Angeles to raise her family.
"I'm asking you, the City Council of Wheeling, to be among those governmental agencies that say 'no' to these companies that want to come in and shove these things down our throats," she said. "Take a stand to protect our children and our families."
Sandra Cowden said she wants council to protect residents' property, air and water. She also complained about dust created by gas industry-related trucks.
Resident Tom Triveri gave council members copies of studies conducted in Texas and New York on the impact of volatile organic compounds released into the air from such sites.
"I'm not just worried about water, I'm worried about the air and anything you inhale and the specific risk of cancer," Triveri said.
Warwood resident Casey Forsch said he is opposed to the plant and wants to know more about the final product it would produce.
"The self-containment system concerns me. ... Is this a new tank, or would they be repurposing an old Seidler oil tank? If it's an old tank, I have concerns about its integrity," Forsch said.
While no council member or city official commented Tuesday, City Manager Robert Herron said previously that GreenHunter would still have to submit a zoning application to make sure its plan conforms with the Industrial zoning code.


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Actress. Wife. Mother. And CoverGirl. Paula Patton seems to be a master juggler at it all. But it's something about her infectious grace and humility—even over a fuzzy phoner—that seems to best explain her ascend and steady standing. It was just a shy six years ago we saw the Los Angeles native floor us in the jazz-hip hop musical Idlewild. Starring alongside Andre 3000, Patton carried soulful tunes, and played one of the fiercest corpses while a love-struck mortician Andre 3000 painted her fare face. Call it a shooting anti-gradual climb—Patton starred opposite Denzel Washington in the thriller Déjà Vu. I distinctively recall screaming at the height of my lungs with girlfriends in the movie theater when Patton earned the coveted and rather irregular on-screen kiss with the super sexy actor. Since then, it's been movie after movie, and project after umm baby with super sexy hubby, R&B crooner Robin Thicke. And just when we thought things couldn't any hotter, and more fly —the 36 year-old actress becomes one of few African-American women— on the heels of Queen Latifah— to become a spokesperson with the iconic Covergirl Queens Collection. It wasn't long after, the mega-actress inked another deal with the hard-to-get Pespi Co brand.
We caught up with the star over the phone —who's giddy, girl's girl voice oozed a genuine happiness for her full life—to chat being a CoverGirl, balancing life and family, and the possibility of playing the late Whitney Houston.
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EBONY: What product do you find yourself using the most form CoverGirl?
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Corvette Hack Track Test - Vette Hack - Project CarWritten by Mike Finnegan on November 1, 2010 Contributors: David Freiburger, Rob Kinnan, Chad Reynolds We Stuffed Half A Car Into A Trackside Dumpster In Search Of Cheap Speed. And This Time It Was On The Road Course!
This idea is so wrong, it's just right. Pat Ganahl and the crew from HOT ROD laid the foundation for this story way back in 1987 when they turned a behemoth Cadillac Coupe De Ville into Swiss cheese to find out how much quicker it would run at the dragstrip. The story was called "Caddy Hack," it was published in the Feb. '87 issue of HRM, and we still get mail about it. Then we ripped off that idea in the Apr. '97 issue by doing the exact same thing with a big Pontiac, calling it PontiHack. The mayhem and destruction that ensued during both stories obviously struck a chord with our readers, so Freiburger and Kinnan cooked up a similar plan to put a cheap car on a severe slice-and-dice diet with reciprocating saw blades, sledgehammers, and hole saws. While Caddy Hack and PontiHack were about the quarter-mile, this time we were going around corners.
The Victim
The hate mail from Corvette fans is going to flow like a set of Big Chiefs after they see what we did to this Doug Nash 4+3-shifted '85 model. In our defense, we have legitimate reasons for cutting it up. This car was in no way a candidate for a concours restoration. The interior was at one time flooded, and decade-long desert hibernation cracked most of the plastic parts. The exterior needed thousands of dollars in paint, bodywork, glass, and seals to be made new again. This Corvette had a price tag below two grand, and even if we did restore it, it would be more valuable as a race car than a show car. And in fact, our plan is to take this thing much further than what you see here and to race it safely while spending as little as possible. We'll end up with a car like one you've never seen before. But that's a different story for a later time.
Meanwhile, we had so little invested in this bucket that we didn't feel bad about cutting it up for the good of mankind and the expansion of our racing knowledge. The C4 is no flyweight, and it has plenty of areas where we could easily trim the fat and make it quicker. It could certainly stand to lose a few pounds to make up for the weak-suck, iron head, 350ci TPI engine that's sitting under the heavy fiberglass hood. The suspension is a good design with IRS and transverse-mounted fiberglass leaf springs that work well on a road course, making this the perfect low-budget test car.
The Plan
Like HRM's previous two hack stories-and the several other knockoffs in other magazines-the simple goal here is to gauge exactly how much improvement in performance can be had from weight reduction. In the case of Caddy Hack, we took a 6,780-pound car that ran 17.22 at 80 mph and turned it into a 2,900-pound car that ran 13.55 and 100 mph. But weight reduction also has road course benefits: lighter cars accelerate quicker, stop quicker, and have the potential for better lateral handling. However, weight is not the only player, as we found out. There are some real tech lessons here.
Perhaps the best explanation of our antics, though, is something every hot rodder can relate to: There's just something visceral about grabbing hold of a power tool and using it for senseless vehicular destruction.
Prep For The Slaughter
The Driver
Although it looks that way, our plan wasn't just about making sparks and destroying beat-down body parts. We wanted to find out exactly what would happen to the handling characteristics of our guinea pig once the tires got hot and weight began dropping rapidly. Would it still stick in a corner? Would it get sketchy on high-speed sections of the track or would the car just run faster and quicker while looking cooler than GM originally envisioned? We rented out the third-mile oval course at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale to find out and then hired a real driver to make repeatable laps around a short road course we set up with cones on the infield. Luis Martinez Jr. is a hot shoe on the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West circuit, and he took much of the human error out of our testing by piloting the Corvette with the deft touch of a true professional. When the car got lighter and unruly, he made sure the laps stayed consistent so our test was on point. His primary sponsor, King Taco, also provided lunch to our wrecking crew, so that was another bonus in his favor.
Our test plan was straightforward: We'd weigh the car using four-corner race scales and then make a few laps to find out how quick it ran in stock form. Then we'd start hacking, keeping track of the weight of each part removed and noting the effects on handling and lap times. The Corvette was a svelte 3,243 pounds in stock form with the 20-gallon fuel cell topped off and approximately 5 gallons of dead gas in the stock tank.
Parts Removed: Resonators, Spare Tire Mount
Total Weight Savings: 39 Pounds
Vehicle Weight: 3,204 Pounds
Lap Time: 29.7 seconds
As our first mod, we jacked up the car, tossed a pair of MechaniComfort work mats on the ground, and promptly cut off the resonators and empty spare tire mount, which knocked 39 pounds from the total weight of the Vette. Martinez went two tenths of a second quicker. The Vette still sounded like a sewing machine on steroids.
Parts Removed: Rear hatch, hood, headlights
Total Weight Savings: 156 Pounds
Vehicle Weight: 3,048 Pounds
Lap Time: 28.1 seconds
Parts Removed: Doors
Total Weight Savings: 163 Pounds
Vehicle Weight: 2,885 Pounds
Lap Time: 29.7 seconds
Camber Adjustment
Lap Time: 27.9 seconds
Thankfully, there were enough shims between the front control arms and their mounts to remove to decrease the amount of positive camber, and in the rear, camber changes came from a simple cam bolt adjustment on the lower control arms. We adjusted the front suspension first, which dropped the lap time down to 28.4 seconds. Then we adjusted the rear suspension and Martinez flew around the track in 27.9 seconds, which was our best pass yet. Still, he said the rearend would not stay hooked up in the corners, and the squealing tires and smoke show confirmed it. And don't forget that we had no clue where the alignment really was. It was just eyeballed.
Parts Removed: Front fascia, rear clip and fuel tank, passenger seat
Total Weight Savings: 383 Pounds
Vehicle Weight: 2,502 Pounds
Lap Time: 28.2 seconds
Reduce Rear tire pressure Lap Time: 27.6 seconds
Since we were out of suspension adjustments and there was no easy way to decrease the spring rate of the transverse leaf springs without cutting them up, we resorted to lowering the pressure from 40 to 30 psi in the rear tires. This reduced oversteer a little, giving Martinez a bit more confidence and resulting in our best lap of the day: 27.6 seconds. We felt like heroes taking the ugly chick to prom and being crowned king.
Parts Removed: Targa top, windshield, and interior
Total Weight Savings: 150 Pounds
Vehicle Weight: 2,352 Pounds
Lap Time: 28.82
Disconnect rear sway bar Lap Time: 27.7 seconds
Was it worth it?
Is it wrong to take a perfectly good car that was once somebody's pride and joy and turn it into a go-kart? Not when they leave it in the desert for dead. Is it rude to destroy the best styling ideas General Motors could come up with in 1985 for its flagship performance car just to prove a point? Not when you've got less than 2,500 bucks invested in the project. We learned a lot about the good and evil of extreme automotive dieting thanks to our cheap steed. Plus, this turned into more of an alignment and tuning lesson than we thought. The Vette Hack also induced us to take this project a few steps further. We think we can lighten the car even more, perhaps dipping below the 2,000-pound mark, and with a few suspension tweaks, it will handle better than ever. We also think that with another 2,500 bucks sunk into this pile for stickier tires, a full 'cage, and safety equipment, it will smoke a brand-new Corvette at the dragstrip and on the road course. Think we're wrong? Keep your eyes peeled for the next installment of the Vette Hack saga.
We'd like to thank Martinez for piloting the car without fear, Harbor Freight for the tools that wouldn't quit, RockAuto.com for the replacement parts, MechaniComfort for the cushions that kept the ground soft while we worked, King Taco for the awesome grub that kept us going, and Bob Klein at Toyota Speedway and Doug Stokes at Irwindale for not shutting us down when we made a mess at the track.
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We simplified the Vette's engine by bypassing the factory computer and wiring and using a single-plane Edelbrock Torker intake, a 750-cfm Demon carb, and a PerTronix Flame-Thrower HEI. Our goal was to make the engine run on its own as the car was hacked apart, so we made a stand-alone wiring harness. The Vette became just a test stand.To isolate the fuel supply from anything we might cut into, we hatched a plan to install a fuel cell behind the seats. This Summit Racing 21-gallon fuel cell is lightweight, has a vent with a rollover valve, and we already owned it, making it f-r-e-e! We traded out one used Holley fuel pump for another after we realized the reason the black one was sitting on the shelf in the first place was because it was broken.We borrowed a set of stock rims from a member on Corvette Forums.com and mounted a new set of 245/50R16 BFGoodrich G-Force Sport tires from TreadSource.com. In hindsight we should have used stickier R-compound rubber. We're betting the guy who gave us the wheels gets lynched by his fellow forum members for contributing to the downfall of this C4 once they see this story. But he's not really guilty.Step two was to cut away the rear hatch just above the hinges using a reciprocating saw from Harbor Freight, saving 48 pounds. Walking over to the toolbox to grab the right socket would have taken too much time. This would be a recurring theme throughout the day.What was the result of our crash diet? The Vette went quicker again. Now we were cookin' with gasoline!
Dropping nearly 200 pounds in our first two steps yielded a 1.8-second reduction in lap time, so even more weight loss should net us even quicker lap times, right? Wrong. Removing the doors dramatically affected the handling of the car. The changes we'd already made increased the ride height, camber, toe, and caster settings significantly, and that extra 163 pounds lost made the car downright unruly in the corners. The front and rear suspension had several degrees of positive camber now, which limited the amount of contact patch the tires had. The Vette accelerated harder, but the tires wouldn't stick as well in the turns (though note the tire lifted in the photo). We were back where we started with a 29.7-second lap time and an even uglier, slower car.The car's handling woes didn't deter us from our ultimate goal, which was gutting the Vette until it was nothing more than a chassis, a steering wheel, and a seat. This is the part in which we ran around the car screaming like little girls with power tools in our hands. Taking the front end off the Vette was as simple as cutting through the framerails and wiring. We remounted the radiator overflow tank to the core support with zip ties. Flogging the car too long on the track resulted in slight pukage.Removing the back end of the car was a bit more complicated. A 4-inch angle grinder and cutoff wheel sliced right through the outer fiberglass skin. We used our trusty Chicago Electric reciprocating saw from Harbor Freight to carve through the areas where metal resided. The structural portion of the rear clip literally unbolted from the chassis, and after we cut a few fuel lines and wires, it and the factory fuel tank came right out. The whole assembly weighed just 95 pounds. The passenger seat came out as well, because who are we kidding? No one was riding shotgun in this POS. The Vette was now down to a fighting weight of 2,502 pounds, but it went even slower. The lap time crept back up to 28.25 seconds, and the car was just plain squirrelly everywhere on the track.This shot shows the effect that removing all that weight had on the rear suspension. You can clearly see positive camber in the rear wheels, which reduced the tire's contact patch, especially during hard cornering maneuvers. We slowed down another 0.25 second during this session on the track. According to Martinez, it felt like the engine was making double the power, but the tires came unglued from the track even on the straight sections.We worried that removing the top and entire B-pillar (a heavy, structural part of the car) from the Vette might turn it into a flexi flier. After some discussion, we threw caution to the wind and unbolted the 12-pound plastic top. You can see the concern on our faces.What's the easiest way to whack the windshield off a Corvette? Hold your breath (to keep glass dust out of your lungs), add eye protection, slice the bottom of the glass with a reciprocating saw (to lessen the amount of tiny glass shrapnel that would otherwise litter the interior and fall onto the track), and then let Toyota Speedway safety crewmember John Badham use the Jaws of Life on the A-pillars. It cut through the sheetmetal like a hot knife through butter. In case you're wondering, the windshield weighed 38 pounds.We're not sure if it was the sparks or the smoke coming from the Vette that brought the fire department out just in time for our final weigh in.
By the time we quit hacking, the Vette weighed just 2,352 pounds. Our final fit of weight reduction also made it run more than 1 second slower on the track, again the victim of being too light for the existing spring rates, tire compound, and suspension geometry. Our last-ditch effort to improve the handling involved disconnecting the rear sway bar.The car had been oversteering drastically, and the reduced rear tire pressure and the elimination of the rear sway bar tended to help it stick better. The sway bar trick dropped the lap time from 28.82 seconds to 27.7 seconds. The car was as loose as a goose during the last laps, and Martinez put on one hell of a driving clinic to get it around the corners safely, so we are pretty thrilled that the car ran within a tenth of a second of its best time of the day.


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LORENA (October 3, 2012)--Hundreds lined Gibraltar Street Wednesday afternoon in Lorena to give a surprise homecoming to a 14-year-old boy who's been recovering from a traumatic brain injury since March.
Classmates of Tanner Underwood were let out of school early to greet the teen, who's been in the hospital for 6 months.
In March, Tanner was in a car with his family headed to watch a Baylor basketball game.
However, that ride was cut short when their vehicle was rear ended on Interstate 35.
The accident left Tanner with traumatic brain injuries.
He was flown to a hospital, but wouldn't leave until October.
"It was probably every parent's worst nightmare," neighbor and friend Tiffani Harris said.
"The brain injury was so severe, they weren't sure if he was ever going to come out of it."
Since the accident, neighbors and friends such as Harris, have worked around the clock to try and help the family anyway they can.
"Everyone was asking what can we do? How can we help? How can we let the Underwood's know we're behind them and that we support them?" Harris said.
As Tanner's health improved, he was cleared to go home.
But before he could get to his driveway Wednesday afternoon, he was met with a surprise homecoming put on by his classmates and members of the Lorena community.
"Everybody's just ready to surround him with love and care. We just want to let them know we're going to walk this road with him," Harris said.
When Tanner was wheeled out of the car, he received a standing ovation.
Right now, he cannot walk and his ability to speak is limited.
But before going inside, he raised his hand and waved to the crowd.
It was a sign that this young man had overcome, and will continue to with time.
"It's a big fight for someone of his age to go through," Harris said.
"He's showing a lot of courage, strength, an maturity as he continues to push forward and recover."
Donations are being accepted to help with Tanner's continued medical care and therapy at any Extraco Bank.
To contribute, ask about the Tanner Underwood Benefit Account.