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Everyone's got their kink. Maybe you like a girl in a gold Princess Leia bikini, maybe you go a little further and make her dress up like that alien singer at Jabba's palace.
But at least you can pull those off with a trip to a costume shop. Some people have fetishes that are just plain never gonna happen unless they're willing to break the laws of physics (and several federal laws) in the process.
#5. Vorarephilia, a.k.a. Getting Cooked and Eaten
The thing about having a fetish for cooking and eating humans, or being the victim of such, is that's the sort of thing you can probably only do once in real life before they put a stop to it. So folks in the community are reduced to looking at staged photos of people being spit roasted, boiled in cauldrons and even microwaved (hey, we've all got busy schedules) and wish they were there in person.
If you have a hard time wrapping your head around this fetish, think of it this way: Remember those Warner Bros. cartoons in which Bugs Bunny and Daffy would find themselves on a desert island? As hunger pangs gave way to hallucination, Bugs and Daffy began imagining each other as giant, anthropomorphic steaks.
Now imagine that scene but with Bugs and Daffy sporting raging erections. Childhood ruined thoroughly now? Good, let's continue. Maybe the thought of roasting and dining on human flesh doesn't turn your crank, but for cannibal fetishists it's like boner-Christmas and Boner Claus left something special in their stocking. Yep, it's a boner.
Representative Website:
Known as one of the more "tasteful" in the community, Muki's Kitchen features photographs of female models trussed up in pans filled with vegetables, and stuffed with apples and carrots in every possible orifice. Vegan it ain't.
Typical Comment:
It's too bad these pictures are not *scratch and sniff*, because as beautiful and sexy as they are, they (would) smell even better! But that's just two of your senses: imagine the crackling sounds of honey and girl dripping into the open fire, or the feel of the heat coming off the fire pit (carrying the aromatic smells to you) while you sit back in a lawn chair and watch the roasting, and then think of the taste of the most succulent, moist and tender flesh you've ever had, with crisp skin holding in the juices and flavors, how it bursts in your mouth as you bite down, spraying your taste buds with flavor, feel it melting richly on your tongue the way a good steak should.
That comment pretty much paints the sad picture for us. Here's somebody who, when getting served a nice steak at a restaurant, almost certainly can't restrain their erection. And when their obvious arousal is noticed by their date/family/fellow diners, the best case scenario is convincing them that they merely have a T-bone fetish, to cover for the fact that they can't eat a piece of meat without imagining it's cut from a sexy, charbroiled human.
But Why?
When you think about it, the whole idea of girls as food should be a natural. It combines two of what men like most: boobs and barbecue. When we put together other combinations of things we love, they turn out great. Fire + a vague sense of patriotism brought on by alcohol = the Fourth of July. Cars + guns = a giant gun that shoots cars. Doughnuts + burgers = the doughnut burger.
But when you combine hot girls and our love affair with eating, well you've just put too much peanut butter in our chocolate.
Typical Cannibal Fetishist's Come On Line:
"Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? Either way, I'm going to eat it."
#4. Spectrophilia, a.k.a. Ghost Fucking
Do you fantasize about sex with ghosts, hang out in ghost strip clubs and get an embarrassing erection every time you go to a Klan rally? You may be a spectrophiliac.
Representative Website:
On this site people share their ghostly sexual encounters. Interestingly for every other fetish in the known world, ghost fetishists have a paranormal equivalent. For example, if you like getting peed on, that's urophilia. However; getting peed on by a ghost? That's paranormal urophilia (that puts a dream we always have about the ghost of Abraham Lincoln giving the Gettysburg address and then peeing all over our faces in a whole new light). Into necrophilia? Try paranormal necrophilia - having sex with dead ghosts. Wait, how much do you have to fuck up as a ghost to die again, and what kind of sloppy seconds have you resorted to if you can't even bone a real live ghost?
Low paranormal standards.
Typical Comment:
Ghosts often like to masturbate people in public or cemeteries or so I have been told by a psychic paranormal investigator from Florida who tells that this occurs to him twice daily. He told me how a ghost actually performed Felatio [sic] on him at a funeral while he was fully dressed.
That's right; we're not just talking about Photoshopped pics of translucent boobies. If you want to fully satisfy these urges, you've got to find an actual deceased sexual deviant to molest you, though apparently only on their schedule.
Otherwise, they have to use shoddy porn knockoffs like Nutbusters.
But Why?
We've all had an imaginary friend at some point in our lives. Spectrophilia is like an imaginary friend with benefits. And just think, when you open your mind (and legs) up to ghost relations, you're tapping the asses of the greatest hotties in history. Join a gang bang with Genghis Khan. Get Betsy Ross to sew you a penis cozy... with her vagina.
Typical Ghosts Fetishist's Come On Lines:
"You slimed me."
"Why don't you bust this trust, Teddy Roosevelt?"
#3. Technosexualism, a.k.a. Robot Fetish
Robots fetishists like to go by the moniker "Technos" and, to be clear, this is not a fetish to have sex with entirely human looking robots. Hell, anybody could get into that if they can fix the whole uncanny valley situation. And get the boobs right.
Techno-lesbian porn.
But the robot fetish here is not more like Rosie the Robot from The Jetsons. The more robot-y, the better.
Representative Website:
FembotCentral.com, a message board with more than 1,000 members, we're assuming 75 percent of whom are claiming to be robots.
It happens all over the Internet.
Typical Comment:
I am using hypnosis and real transformations to transform a real human being into a fembot, I need help, concerns, comments.
Hmm...first things first, make sure that your subject consents to what you're going to do, okay?
You could try introducing "start up", "shut down", and "idle" routines as a set of "lessons," then move to more advanced stuff once your subject is doing these actions without heavy prompting from you.
So let's get this straight, you had a shot at having sex WITH A REAL LIVE HUMAN and you won't insert your "hard drive" until that person is filled with wires, processors and batteries? No wonder you're not allowed back at the mall, what with you dry humping incident the Radio Shack. Incidentally, if you're lonely and blue we have an old Roomba with decent suction.
But Why?
We can go on and on about man's love of tools and thus technology, about how "sexy" you can find a new computer or other bit of top-end gadgetry and the sociological implications of a world where relationships with technology supplant our need to bond with other humans.
But let's be honest; this is all about being able to turn a woman off after you bang her.
Typical Robot Fetishist's Come On Line:


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Rather than make a new post each week, I thought it'd probably better to solicit listener questions in a single thread and bump it up every time we record. Speaking of, we're recording an episode tomorrow. So send us like, your questions.
Rather than make a new post each week, I thought it'd probably better to solicit listener questions in a single thread and bump it up every time we record. Speaking of, we're recording an episode tomorrow. So send us like, your questions.
What advances in scientific knowledge since you were young are you most disappointed by? (IE: Pluto no longer being a planet, Brontosauruses not being real dinosaurs, etc)
What STD would you pick, if forced to pick one? Personally I'd go with the gon. Spray cheese on tap.
What is it about liking big butts that makes one incapable of lying?
We're recording tonight. Your questions, we would like some.
Scientifically speaking, which is the real football? And by that I mean best. And by football I mean soccer if any British person reads this and has a pointless sense of pride in the matter. It's Australian Football, right? Because they jump on each other and probably have fistfights drunk. Probably.
On the topic of sport, and since you're Americans, I would like you to take a shot at the rules of Cricket (or 'Crazy WTF Stickball') without looking them up.
Which are the worst animals, Cats or Geese? Cats are remorseless murderers for sport, but Geese are leather jacket wearing assholes (as Comedy Button listeners may know).
Can you scientifically determine how Jewish ZP is? And if so, could you isolate those genes? <3 <3
But then what if it turns out just ZP's arm is Jewish, will he be able to make the Sophie's choice of deciding whether or not to have it cut off?
Et tu, Delfino?
They showed me your gay nazi pic last night, but I told them "No, it can't be, that's not what Delfino looks like."
Guess I was wrong about you.
I'm just going to go ahead and apologize to our handful of listeners right now. I'm so sorry for last night.
Is it my fault if the clothes fit really well? I'm just a slave to fashion here.
Pshhhh. Poser.
So i was wasted during the podcast last night. I had this amazing idea to shoop table's head on this picture. I was so wasted though that I couldn't actually find one. In my frustration and not wanting to give up, this happened.
Hahaha hahaha poor Bug. She don't wanna be a dude.
At least she's a really buff dude.
The other day she took a small wooden rod and some playdoh to make a dumbbell. She brought it in the living room and starting lifting and pressing it. SO PROUD.


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5 Ridiculous Things the Media Blamed Video Games For
Video games have been mainstream since the 1970s -- there is no logical reason for the media to treat them as new and scary in 2014 (not that there was much reason to treat them as such then, either). Yet, if you're a politician or pundit, ranting and raving about the evils of video games is still a surefire way to get everyone's attention.
And that, friends, is how you wind up with clumsily manufactured outrages like these.
#5. Mass Effect Was Blamed for a School Shooting
Old people have been blaming video games for real-world violence since the first pixelated gun appeared on a screen. You'd think we'd be past that by now, but social media and its obsession with overreaction and knee-jerk outrage have ushered in a whole new era in game blaming. This led to possibly the most tenuous connection between a real-world act of violence and its supposed video game influence we'll ever see.
Even worse than when they blamed the alphabet murders on Mario Teaches Typing.
It happened in 2012 after the horrible mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The perpetrator was a man named Adam Lanza, who killed himself post-rampage. Initially, his brother Ryan was mistakenly identified as the shooter, as Adam had stolen his brother's ID and had it on him when his body was discovered. The media eventually realized and admitted their error, but in the social media age, bullshit travels faster than the speed of light. That means that since Ryan had been accused of mass murder for more than 1/64 of a nanosecond, the virtual lynch mob had more than enough opportunity to seek his head.
But the Internet didn't simply settle on ruining the day of an innocent guy whose life had already been ruined. They dug into Ryan's profile and found that he had "liked" Mass Effect, a video game they were pretty sure had guns, probably. Never mind that said guns were laser blasters shot at aliens in goddamned outer space, and never mind that the average Facebook user clicks "like" on all sorts of random bullshit. For an angry mob out to blame anybody but the shooter for all the shooting, this was more than enough evidence. Dozens stormed Mass Effect's Facebook page and bombarded it with angry, threatening messages, repeatedly accusing its creators of aiding and abetting a child murderer.
BioWare, the company behind Mass Effect, did not respond to any messages, and they did not delete anything. We're not sure if this was an intentional strategy, or if they were just too confused to respond, but either way, it worked. Eventually the mob died down and moved on to other things -- like blaming the Sandy Hook shooting on video games. Again.
#4. U.K. Newspapers Blame Video Games for Rickets
Even though we're fairly certain it's no longer 1855, the old-timey skeletal disease known as rickets is making a comeback, in the U.K. at least. If you want in on the trend, simply refuse all calcium and vitamin D (especially the kind you get from the sun) until your bones turn soft and brittle and your legs start permanently bending in unnatural directions.
Michael L. Richardson
But always set in prime twerk position.
And apparently if you're a video gamer, you're halfway there, according to British newspapers citing a study from Newcastle University claiming they found a correlation between rickets and gaming. Since games are typically played indoors and rarely under a sunbeam, that means that gamers aren't getting enough natural light, and the logical next step is a pair of wobbly rubber legs. Such a correlation seemed suspicious, though, since more than a few people play video games in places besides the U.K., and yet no rickets rise has been reported anywhere else. Besides, it's England -- a typical sun-shiny day for them is a foggy fit of depression for most anyone else.
So the good people at Gamesbrief decided to contact the scientists behind the study, Timothy Cheetham and Simon Pearce. As it turns out, there was a very good reason that their blaming a 30-year-old technology for a centuries-old disorder made no sense: They never said it. That's right, nowhere in the study does it say that playing video games causes rickets. In fact, the word "games" does not appear in the goddamned thing even once. What does appear is a condemnation of sunscreen, an appeal for people to get more sunlight, and a suggestion to feed children cod liver oil.
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Fish derivatives' nutritional content. That's the story the media's too scared to tell.
The absolute closest they come to referencing games comes from a blurb taken off a press release, and not the actual paper: "Kids tend to stay indoors more these days and play on their computers instead of enjoying the fresh air. This means their vitamin D levels are worse than in previous years." And that, readers, was all the newspapers needed to print the headline "Video Gaming Leads to Surge in Rickets."
#3. Portal 2 Is Criticized for Mocking Adopted Kids
At first glance, Portal 2 doesn't seem like it could possibly offend anybody. It's a science-oriented puzzle game with no blood or guts, and one character spends half of her time trapped inside a potato. The bad guys are computers and adorable little talking turrets. So you can imagine the shock of TV news viewers who heard the story of Neil Stapel and how the game deeply affected his family.
"My wife's side of the family are bipedal robots killed repeatedly for science."
He told cameras he was watching his adopted daughter play the game back in May of 2011 when the unthinkable happened. Suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, one of the characters in the game uttered a crude slur aimed right at his adopted child:
According to Stapel, hearing a character in his daughter's favorite game utter "Fatty, adopted fatty, fatty fatty no parents" traumatized both of them. Granted, the child's insistence that she didn't even hear the line didn't mean she was a normal 10-year-old kid with a 10-year-old's attention span. No, according to Pops, it's because she was "not ready to talk about it" and had already locked her pain deep inside.
You could hydrate the sun with all them tears.
Sure, you might think that one person out of 7 billion seeing red over a silly one-liner from a game loaded with silly one-liners would mean absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things, but luckily for Stapel, the local news team he complained to had literally nothing else to talk about, so they turned his sob story into a full-blown investigative report.
"Thanks for watching. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to grab a bottle of scotch and stare at my journalism degree."
WBTV even contacted Sony about the supposed controversy, who told them to contact Valve, since they made the fucking game (this clearly meant that Sony was "passing the buck" and avoiding the issue). One parent hearing one line he didn't understand (the insult was uttered by the game's villain, an established idiot whose lame attempt at an insult was quickly shut down by one of the heroes) clearly meant that Valve had unleashed a torrent of anti-adoption sentiment that the good people at WBTV Channel 3 could only hope to contain.


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Before I start this question I know the java 'goto' is a big no go.
So I've been writing a program and I have some indented Loops and statements and I need to
BREAK multiple on command. Rather than having a load of
boolean variables and
if(!<booleanName>) BREAK; statements throughout these loops and statements what is everyone's opinions on using labels to break them using the
BREAK <label> statement?
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Milwaukee, WI
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While in the car with his roommates, Ryan commented that he'd gotten a random boner, and Preston seized the opportunity to poke (hah, get it?) fun at him over it:
Later, Ryan took aside a kid that he
wanted to have sex with found interesting in the homeless shelter in which the roommates work and had a profound(ly awkward) discussion with him. We also learned that—shocker!—Ryan didn't finish high school:
After the shift was over, Ryan proved his religious ignorance by asking a bunch of inappropriate questions of Sahara about Islam:
Later on, Ryan sharted into a phone and thought it was OMG SO FUNNY:
Then, Ryan was physically repulsed by the sight of a vagina, because that's something that happens to straight guys all the time:
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Henry Steadman didn't know what was about to hit him when he pulled up to a red light. A successful Florida plastic surgeon, he is in town to deliver a keynote address at a conference when suddenly his life becomes an unrelenting chase to stay alive.
Stopped by a policeman for a minor traffic violation, Henry is pulled from his vehicle and handcuffed. When he is released, a blue sedan pulls up, shoots the officer, and then speeds away, leaving only one suspectHenry. In that moment, his idyllic life becomes a free fall into hell as he becomes the target of a police manhunt, as well as being pursued by a cunning, unnamed perpetrator bent on some kind of vengeance.
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My intention with this letter is to shed light and honest concern, not to sound holier than thou, harsh, bitter or fed up. Like many who may be reading this, I have deep love for our country, believe it's the best on Earth, and consider it a great privilege to live here. However, something has my attention of late.
When I look around at the condition of our nation, I cannot help but see a rapidly developing demoralizing scene. Instead of moving forward under the direction and will of God, it appears we largely have chosen to replace His standard with a boundary-free curriculum. The Bible and the Ten Commandments are now regarded in many spheres as irrelevant. I'll remind us that in the mid 1800s one of the great revivalists, Charles Finney, said the most expensive commodity in the entire universe is sin.
Friends, none of us come close to being perfect, but I know we can change for the better. The starting point for our nation lies in our individual humility and renewed conviction of sin and repentance. A serious desire to obey God's standard (i.e., the Ten Commandments) and to have His will done in our personal lives, in family relationships, and in our nation describes the process and our ultimate hope.
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PARIS, Texas – The 13th-ranked Blinn Buccaneers just keep on winning.
The undefeated Bucs opened Region XIV Conference play here Saturday with a 77-52 victory over Paris Junior College, extending their season-opening win streak to 12 games.
"I can't remember the last time we won at Paris," head coach Jeff Jenkins said. "It's a tough place to play, and this may be as well as we've played this season, traveling five hours on the road and then beating a good conference team. It's a good win for us, and not only that, I thought we played well."
Freshman guard Moe Bedford led the Buccaneers with 16 points while sophomore forward Audrisa Harrison added 14. Fatima Adams and Aarika Reyna each scored 11 for the Bucs, while Jazzmin Parker added 10 and Shanequa Gaston chipped in nine.
"Moe played well," Jenkins said. "She hit her first 3-pointer of the year early in the game against their zone, and she'll really be dangerous once she can consistently hit the three just because she's so quick off the ball."
Blinn led 34-25 at halftime, then pulled away in the second half.
"I thought we did a good job defensively," Jenkins said. "Everybody's getting a little better defensively, and it helps when you make your baskets and have time to set up your defense."
The Buccaneers travel to Eunice, La. on Dec. 15 to play LSU-Eunice at 6 p.m. That will mark the team's final game of the semester before it returns to action in January.
"I would never have expected us to be 12-0 at this point," Jenkins said. "I'm very proud of them."
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"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss was a wise man. I love to read, and on a broad range of subjects bringing the world just a little bit closer. I just finished reading Abundance: the Future is Better Than You Think by authors Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler. While Abundance focuses on important global issues (feeding the planet, clean water, energy, healthcare, and education to name a few), it does so from a positive perspective, offering research based facts which support being optimistic about the future. For anyone who cares about people and the planet, enjoys their life, has a passion for technology, and or has children or grandchildren, this book is for you.
After watching a 16 minute video clip that I saw on a friend's facebook page of Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future, I was quite excited. As a solution focused coach, it was so refreshing to learn how far we have come in terms of making progress on these important global issues. It's the glass half full as opposed to half empty approach. From this brief video clip, I was also reminded of a favourite book we read in school for a sustainability course, Capitalism at the Crossroads by Stuart Hart. As it turned out, Stu Hart's book is referenced in Abundance. Yes, it's a small world and getting smaller with connections at every turn. Being personally motivated and inspired by meaningful work, doing work that matters runs deep within. I was curious to learn more and learn I did.
When I shared the Abundance is our future video, Lisa Larter, CEO of The Social Business Academy, commented that the book was fantastic which piqued my curiosity even further. Within a few hours, I had downloaded the book to my iPAD using the kobo e-reader. True confessions here. This was a first for me, and another reason for the title of this post. I've read countless academic journal articles lately and several short e-books online but up until that time, call me old fashioned but I had no interest in reading a book without a spine. Holding a book in my hands is like peanut butter to jelly. It's quite ironic that Abundance was the first one I downloaded because Abundance speaks to the ability of technology to make the world a smaller place where accessibility creates opportunity for abundance. It was simply amazing to read about how the world has changed for the better with advances in technology. Specifically, how social entrepreneurs are popping up in remote parts of Africa with the invention of the smart phone. Furthermore, how the world will only continue to change for the better with inventions in healthcare for example "Lab-on-a-Chip" with a goal of zero-cost diagnostics, and advances in education with successful global initiatives such as "One Laptop Per Child". These are not pie in the sky ideas. These are real and they are happening all around us.
Interestingly, I made many connections to coaching while reading this book. Primarily because when we focus on innovative and creative solutions, we are able to engage the cerebral cortex brain system which has the capacity for future visioning. This is very important and powerful when comparing it to "getting stuck" in the problems. Often times these situations are fear-based, and engage the reptilian brain system based on fight or flight responses, and in the case of the emotional brain, clinging to sameness also known as our comfort zone. As Abundance points out, fear can be a very powerful motivator creating extraordinary risk taking. From a coaching perspective however, fear can also be completely paralyzing causing feelings of anxiety and thoughts of "I can't" rather than "I can." When we combine the learning from a book such as Abundance and engage the whole brain system however, our capacity for creating abundance on a global level is only magnified. Finally, we can see the forest through the trees. The best part? We all have this potential!
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." ~ Margaret Mead
Times have changed and the world is getting smaller. We have the ability to create change on the other side of the world without even leaving our living room. Global news travels across social media platforms in the blink of an eye. From individuals to organizations, people are doing some pretty amazing things to create change.
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Currently i'm playing as a rogue , i'm at Felbridge right now and i'm really disappointed with the game equipment's.
The sword i'm using on my main hand is one of the sword from the first area of the game , so far i've grinded and found a lot of other swords through other stages and dungeons , but i could never find anything better than this lvl 1 sword.
Seems like all equipment's share the same stats , pretty lame for such a good game.
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The big cut from Public Works will be seen in the Road Department, which could include less trucks on the road preparing for winter weather. Warren County Jailer, Jackie Strode is also doing whatever he can to control the potential damage threatening due to the cuts.
"We purchased a small 4-cylinder SUV. I was already paying the gas on that vehicle. What I presented to the court yesterday (Tuesday). If they could find another agency that would buy it, I would be glad to give it up and take that money and put it back in our budget." commented Strode.
Each department head is working together, deciding what options they can utilize together to make the best out of a bad situation.
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Are you perhaps an editor yourself, or work in that field somehow? I can see on a technical level what you say makes sense in terms of editing. BTW, D'Amboise was very complimentary about Knopf and his editor (one can see that on the acknowledgment page of his book too).
On Tuesday night these subjects were touched upon. He was quite definite that he was not very interested in his movie career. He implied he could have done more of it, but consciously choose not to. He said he strongly disliked the "culture" found in movie making -- he even told a story of how he went to a 9am call at 7am in order to "warm up" and be ready to "go on stage" as it were, but that it was 9:15am before anyone else even showed up and that was some stage hand casually drinking coffee and eating a donut!. He made it quite clear this lack of discipline was not his cup of tea. He touched on the "head of City Ballet after Balanchine" issue too. He was less definite about that. But he clearly indicated that he didn't think he was the "right" person to do that job, that he had no regrets (he strongly said that), and that his true inspiration at that time came from envisioning a future teaching children to dance and to love the arts. Judging from how he relished his role that night as a sort of "teacher" to we, the audience in the room, I think it was clear to all of us, just how much he indeed loves teaching.
There is also some ambivalence about what d'Amboise really wanted in his career, regarding making movies for example, and whether he really wanted to be head of City Ballet after Balanchine.


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I am making an app and I wish to integrate it with facebook.
While working on this I came across:
A name "application signature" which I heard resides in the file debug.keystore and it exists across every application.
The same app key needs to be mentioned in the field "Hash Key" while creating the app on facebook.
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Once again, the commonwealth of Massachusetts is taking a stronger and more comprehensive look at the issue of prevention, education and prosecution as they relate to domestic violence. On April 1, House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Attorney General Martha Coakley presented a bill to address domestic violence and — to some extent — sexual assault issues in Massachusetts. The bill contained 42 lengthy sections. On April 8, the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed the bill with only eight amendments being made. The Senate version of the bill will be heard at a later date.
The bill has not yet become law and the length of the bill and adopted amendments would be prohibitive to address in this column. But the good news is that Beacon Hill is listening. Through the tireless work of statewide domestic violence advocates, the policy director and staff of Jane Doe, Inc., and the statewide Coalition to End Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, recommendations made by the coalition were incorporated into the final bill.
The proposal to explore tax incentives to motels providing shelter for victims affiliated with a domestic violence program, the establishment of local and statewide domestic violence fatality review teams, increased confidentiality for victims in daily police logs, and the development of standards for licensure of health care related boards of registration (medicine, nursing and social workers) that require training and education on domestic violence are some of the highlights of the bill. The chief justice of the trial court will also be mandated to provide biannual domestic violence training to trial court personnel.
Another significant highlight is the establishment of employment leave for domestic violence victims, which would provide up to 15 days of leave within a year for victims to address medical, court and support services. The bill also includes a section providing a six- to eight-hour delay to admit a person to bail so that victims will be afforded an opportunity to find safety. Finally, any violations of existing restraining orders will lead to bail revocation and fines.
For survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, and for those working tirelessly in this field, this news is exciting. We also need to remember some of the existing laws currently in effect which provide relief and protection from abuse.
Massachusetts currently has laws in place for victims of domestic violence. Abuse prevention orders and harassment prevention orders currently exist to protect a victim if there is a substantial likelihood of immediate danger of abuse. Police officers, through the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, are mandated to give a victim the Abused Persons Notice of Rights.
In 2005, The Violence against Women Act included public housing protection for victims of domestic violence and, in 2013, added victims of sexual assault as a protected group. This legislation, often unknown to victims, states that "a victim of sexual assault who is a tenant in public housing may not be denied admission to, denied assistance under, terminated from participating in, or evicted from housing on the basis of sexual assault victimization." This applies to all HUD programs. Model transfer plans were also developed for emergency transfers to other available units if a victim has a fear of further violence.
Page 2 of 2 - When these issues are shaped into public policy, adjudication of domestic violence cases will reflect a more predictable outcome for victims — with much less wiggle room for the process to be left to judicial discretion. This will clearly be a win/win situation for victims, judges, prosecutors, the criminal justice system and the larger community in general.
Dale Brown, MED, LMHC, is the director of The Women's Center at SSTAR in Fall River.
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For instance, if the current directory contains the files called
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Incidentally, in this case,
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"find" will dive down to the bottom of the directory tree (as will 'ls -R'), and has many more options, like listing directories (-type d), files only (-type f) or showing files having other characteristics (no user in /etc/passwd, specific permissions, and a whole lot more). "find" is also somewhat safer in scripting (due to inconsistent globbing rules between shells, as well as special escapes for files having dashes, etc).
shell wildcard globbing won't work with just an asterisk '*' on dotfiles. To list dotfiles only, use:
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My main grip is that echo **/*.ext will generally...
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I'm trying to solve the problem of showing that $$\lim_{x\to6}\left(\frac{x}{4}+3\right) = \frac{9}{2}$$ using the $\epsilon$-$\delta$ definition of a limit.
Since you said you're still lost after Arturo's post, I'll try to start earlier.
Q. What do you mean intuitively by $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow 6} \frac{x}{4} + 3$?
A. Intuitively, you keep plugging in particular $x$ values really close to $6$ (but never actually plugging in $6$ - things like 5.99999 and 6.0000001 - into $\frac{x}{4}+3$ and you record the outputs. Now, as you keep plugging in things closer and closer to $6$, you expect the outputs to hone in on one number. The limit, then, is that one number. By looking at the graph of $\frac{x}{4}+3$, you'd probably guess that the output is $\frac{6}{4} + 3 = \frac{9}{2}$.
Now, let me resay this answer in a way that will lead into the official math definition for a limit.
If I come along and say the limit is $\frac{9}{2}$, how would you test me? Well, you could think to yourself "if the values are honing in on $\frac{9}{2}$, eventually they must get and stay within $.1$ of $\frac{9}{2}$, and so you challenge me by asking me to show that this is indeed the case.
Then I could respond by saying, "Once $x$ is within .01 of 6, then $\frac{x}{4} + 3$ will be within $.1$ of $\frac{9}{2}$. For if $|x-6|<.01$, then $|\frac{x}{4}+3 - \frac{9}{2}| = |\frac{x}{4} - \frac{3}{2}| = |\frac{x-6}{4}| = \frac{|x-6|}{4} < \frac{.01}{4} < .1$."
If every time you come up with a tolerance (like $.1$), I can pass your test by making up a tolerance of my own ($.01$), then mathematically we'd say the limit is $\frac{9}{2}$.
Now, the official math definition is:
$\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow 6} \frac{x}{4} + 3 = \frac{9}{2}$ means for all $\epsilon > 0$, there is a $\delta > 0$ such that if $|x-6|<\delta$, then $|\frac{x}{4}+3 - \frac{9}{2}|< \epsilon$.
In our previous "conversation". The $.1$ played the role of $\epsilon$ while the $.01$ played the role of $\delta$.
After reading (and possibly rereading, and rerereading) all of the above, I'd encourage you to reread Arturo's response and see if you can turn what he said into a full fledged answer.
Given an $\epsilon\gt 0$, you want to show that provided $x$ is close enough to $6$, without being equal to $6$, then $\frac{x}{4}+3$ will be $\epsilon$-close to $\frac{9}{2}$. Well, first thing is to figure out how close $\frac{x}{4}+3$ is to $\frac{9}{2}$: $$\left|\left(\frac{x}{4}+3\right) - \frac{9}{2}\right| = \left|\frac{x}{4}+3-\frac{9}{2}\right| = \left|\frac{x + 12 - 18}{4}\right| = \frac{|x-6|}{4}.$$ So, how can you make sure that $\displaystyle \left|\left(\frac{x}{4}+3\right) - \frac{9}{2}\right|$ is smaller than $\epsilon$, by placing conditions on how close $x$ is to $6$, that is, on the value of $|x-6|$?


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The CWC Bulldogs were guaranteed a playoff spot with their win Friday night at Elverado, and for their success, they received a meeting on the road with the 2A number two ranked Casey-Westfield Warriors.
One area of attack, according to Bulldog coach Kurt Simon, will require breaking through to the Warrior backfield and stopping their triple-option offense.
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STOCKTON, CALIF. -- Charlotte golf set a school record for a low round with a 21-under par 267 to climb to a seventh-place finish Wednesday at the Pacific Invitational at the Brookside Country Club in Stockton, California.
The 49ers were led by junior Franco Castro (Alpharetta, Ga.), who tied the school record for an 18-hole round at 64. His round matched Matt Mincer's eight-under at the 2007 Atlantic 10 Conference Championships.
Castro started with bogeys on two of his first three holes before he birdied 10 of his final 15 to tie with three other golfers for the low round of the day. He finished tied for third overall at the 54-hole event at 14-under par (70-68-64 202) to tie the second-lowest 54-hole tournament score school ever by a Charlotte golfer. Only Stefan Wiedergruen's 17-under 199 was better in program history, set at the same event in 2007. The 18-hole team round previous record of 271 was also set in this event in 2007. Castro tied the tournament medalist Alex Edfort with 21 birdies for the weekend and also tied for the second-lowest score on the par-four holes, a nine-under par. Both his TUesday and Wednesday rounds set new career low personal bests.
Charlotte produced three golfers in the Top 10 for the tournament. Junior Joe Toland (White River Junction, Vt. / Hartford HS),who was in a tie for first after an opening-round 65, finished in a tie for seventh overall with a final round 67. He ended with a 13-under 203 (65-71-67) for the week. Toland led all players for the weekend by playing the par-three holes at five-under par. He set a personal best with his opening-round 65, but set a new personal low for 54 holes this week.
Sophomore Raoul Menard (Ange-Gardier, Quebec City, Canada / Beaulieu) ended tied for 10th, with a final round 66 for a new career low. He produced eight birdies for his six-under par score. He set a new personal best at -12 (71-67-66 204) for the week.
"I was very happy with Franco and what he did this week to shoot the numbers he shot," said 49ers head coach Ryan Cabbage. "Credit also goes to Raoul and Joe to help keep us in the hunt. Those three guys gave us an opportunity to win the tournament. For this week, to have three guys in the Top 10 is outstanding."
"We are finished with our fall schedule and have a chance to look back at the five events we played," added Cabbage. "We need to take an in-depth look at what we need to improve on as we move towards the spring schedule in February."
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Is the Internet erasing national borders? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net--Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? In this provocative new book, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s, and the ensuing battles with governments around the world. It's a book about the fate of one idea--that the Internet might liberate us forever from government, borders, and even our physical selves.
We learn of Google's struggles with the French government and Yahoo's capitulation to the Chinese regime; of how the European Union sets privacy standards on the Net for the entire world; and of eBay's struggles with fraud and how it slowly learned to trust the FBI. In a decade of events, the original vision was uprooted, as governments time and time again asserted their power to direct the future of the Internet. The destiny of the Internet over the next decades, argue Goldsmith and Wu, will reflect the interests of powerful nations and the conflicts within and between them. Well written and filled with fascinating examples, this is a work that is bound to stir heated debate in the cyberspace community.
©2008 Jack Goldsmith; (P)2009 Audible, Inc.
"Mostly delves into questions of law"
I expected this book to "follow the money", and delve into the extent to which the interests of large corporations have molded the evolution of the internet. Instead, this book investigates the legal implications of a "borderless" medium such as the Internet. In other words, how do the laws of one land apply to content that originates in another land? How do companies comply with the variable free speech laws of different nations (China vs. the U.S. for instance).
For me, I found it getting tedious about halfway through. Possibly more interesting to a law student.
"The World is Flat?"
"The World is Flat" and the "Lexus and the Olive Tree" sought to tell us why the internet would allow national boundaries to fall between countries. Essentially, Tim Wu and Jack Goldsmith explain why this prediction is not coming true. Goldsmith and Wu are two of America's leading scholars writing on cyberspace. Individuals interested in the current state and the future impact of cyberspace would benefit from a reading of their volume. Anyone who thinks that the internet should or can run unfettered -will find this volume an eye opener. The writing is clear and accessible. The reading of Bob Loza is excellent.
"Is the World truly flat?"
The short book by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu "Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of Borderless World" is absolutely a MUST for all who ponder about Internet. It should also be read by all who hold naive concepts about globalization or are sometimes against it.
In essence, it demonstrates, that contrary to popular views, Internet IS controlled by nations states and their policies. What is more, the authors argue, that this control is not only bad thing, not only it is not a censorship, but it is the imposition of law, which benefits the Internet.
The book devotes a lot of thoughts to the initial revolutionary movement for the freedom of cyberspace - the freedom from nation states governments. The analysis of John Perry Barlow famous declaration and Jon Postel ("If the Net does have a G-d," wrote the Economist (1997), "he is probably Jon Postel") fight with US government over the control over DNS.
But the most interesting parts of the book deal with legal aspect of the net. From the initial successful French litigation against Yahoo (for allowing of nazi memorabilia to be sold online by Yahoo), to the incredible Dow Jones vs Gutnick case (won by Joseph Gutnick) we have a spectrum of cases that prove the one simple thing - despite seemingly borderless world of Internet - when it comes to content - it is in fact confined to state borders and their laws !
The analysis of music distribution on the net, from Napster, through lawless Kazaa to Apple iTunes - shows the evolution toward the respect of copyright and its associated laws.
The same conclusion can be drawn when we read about eBay. Here the discovery of the positive effect of legal means of coercion against fraud and indecent hucksters is even more obvious.
On more general level we observe that Internet did not remove the middleman, it just changed it!
I have enjoyed listening to this book and have got some good insights about the internet, law, governments, and how companies do business on it. There was also an interesting section on piracy too. Recommended.
"Interesting look behind the fog of cyberspace"
Very interesting look into how the internet was started, how it operates at its core, and how governments and other institutions can influence what happens on the internet and exert their power in direct & indirect ways that isn't always obvious.
If you read "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman, this presents an alternate and complementary view point of the internet and its affects on the world.
"Credit-worthy selection!"
Absolutely one of the best selections I've ever made on Audible. From the superlative writing to the exceptionally good narration this book delivers. Anyone with even a passing interest in the Internet will find this intelligent treatment of the subject a rewarding listen. It is indeed an insightful book and I commend the authors for their excellent work. It is deserving of high praise. -Nelson Mullins
If you think "the internet changes everything" you are right and wrong. Gives great insight into how the uncontrollable is managed and controlled.
Learn, understand, then decide whether you accept or reject.
"Great History, but Outdated"
As informative as this book is, it's outdated. It was written a few years ago, and the authors never bothered with a second edition.
"Interesting Topic"
Good topic and well presented. Tim Wu brings clarity to the issues of Internet Governance and "Internet Control" that are so often bandied about.
"Great Introduction to who is in charge of Internet"
I have been in IT business for 10 years and i have presented paper on virus and spam in 1999.
I find that I have been outdated and this books shows behind the scenes manipulations on Internet.We might have heard and read about incidents from book but author has managed to keep the right mix of details and gives new information and the non biased analysis is a treat.
This audible will be great for non technical people as it is in easy to understand.
It is great to know where we stand and how free Internet really is , which is not.
The audio quality is amazing the and speaker is great.
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I was thinking about it lately.
If God can do everything, can He destroy Himself?
Is there something about this possibility in any of the holy books?
I was thinking about it lately.
If God can do everything, can He destroy Himself?
Is there something about this possibility in any of the holy books?
This kind of question is addressed by Maimonides in his Guide for the Perplexed (3:15), in which he states that we cannot ascribe to God the ability to do that which is impossible, thus, "it is impossible that God should produce a being like Himself, or annihilate, corporify, or change Himself. The power of God is not assumed to extend to any of these impossibilities."
It is important to understand that this does not actually entail any limitation on the power of God (as Maimonides states later). This is because the real issue here is that the questions are fundamentally nonsense. God cannot destroy - or duplicate - Himself any more than He can create a triangle with four corners. The only way we can ask either question is if we fail to understand the meanings of the words we are using.
I believe that this question is based on a premise that illustrates a shallow understanding of what G-d is. The question assumes that the rules of logic are somehow inherently there, and G-d is bound by them. If that would be the case, if we would say that G-d is unlimited then He would be bound to being unlimited, and could not also be limited - because logically something which is unlimited cannot also be limited. Another form that this question often takes is the famous "Can G-d create a rock so heavy that He can't pick up".
In fact, not only did G-d create the world, but he created logic too. He is therefore not bound by the constraint of logic. Yes, logically it is not possible to pick up something that is too heavy to pick up - but G-d was the one who made the rock, the concept of heaviness and the rule that something that is too heavy cannot be lifted. So the answer is yes, He could create such a rock, and He could pick it up too. Another example: G-d created a world in which one plus one equals two - He could just as possibly have made a world were one plus one is three.
The is famously expressed in a Kabbalistic work called "Avodas Hakodesh" (Section I, ch. 8):
In other words, since G-d is the ultimate perfection, there is no advantage that He lacks. In logical terms, two opposite advantages can be mutually exclusive (How can something be limited and unlimited at the same time), but for G-d that is not a constraint.
So to answer your question: Can G-d destroy Himself? G-d possesses any advantage that there might be in being able to self-destroy, but at the same time this does not contradict with His ability to exist forever.
If the siddur qualifies as a "holy book", then in אדון עולם it says that Hashem is בלי ראשית בלי תכלית which I would translate as "without beginning, without end".
Chief Rabbi Sacks says in his commentary on siddur that "the siddur is our tutorial in belief".
Following Derfder's comment below:
The Ramchal starts Derekh Hashem as follows:
Easy answer: no.
Where does it say "G-d can do anything?"
Go back to Maimonides' 13 principles of faith:
"... that He is the creator and director of everything created, and He alone has done, currently does, and will do all that is done."
"All that is done" does not include theoretical paradoxes!
(Yes I realize there's a place in the High Holiday liturgy where G-d is referred to as hakol yachol, "all-capable", but that's the nutshell version. You want the nitty-gritty, go back to Maimonides' formulation.)
Let's take it further: we also believe that G-d is absolutely one, and that G-d is non-physical. "Can G-d make Himself physical? Can G-d cut Himself into two?" The answer to all these questions is no.
If it makes you feel better, Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer has a fascinating syllabus for lectures on the Thirteen Principles, which does include a bullet point on "can G-d create a rock too heavy for Him to lift?"
I'd like to offer a more philosophical/logical answer, but essentially I'm only providing you with hopefully more simple means of understanding the reasoning behind other answers appearing here.
Please allow me to tackle the title question:
The particular issue with this question is that by asking it you are ascribing (or assuming) a men-like, natural qualities to God - thus, given you believe in a supernatural God, the question itself is nonsense. Let me explain:
From here there are two options:
Regardless of which one you pick, both derive at the same conclusion: God doesn't exist in time. And if so, cause and effect are not part of his existence. And so asking if God can destroy himself (cause) and thus cease to exist (effect) is complete nonsense.
Removing time, cause and effect from the Godly realm also solves the question: who created God? For if there's no time, God always existed.
Even if God could destroy himself, in an existence not based on cause and effect he could 'undo' his own destruction or carry on existing despite destroying himself. The same logic that applies to us does not apply to God - in his existence everything is possible, even having no limits and all the limits. This is pretty much what God is about.
Now allow me to seal this off with a question. Is this a nonsense question:
Please note that I'm not asking if God created the world, I'm asking if asking the question is a valid thing to do.
one thing that I wish to acknowledge that I hope won't cause a stir, I am Christian, but I like to expand my knowledge when possible.
from what I know, God Created all things, which would mean that he could destroy all things. but I have never seen anywhere that God Created himself.
Malachi 3:6 "For I am the LORD, I do not change..." (NKJ)
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EatingWell reader Beverley Sharpe of California contributed this recipe. She updated a favorite treat by cutting back on sugar and incorporating whole grains. To increase protein, she replaces the rolled oats with 1 cup almond meal.
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Best chocolate chip recipe tip is this - never use chocolate chips! Just chop up some baking chocolate with a knife and use those bits of various sizes. Really good, and more surprising!
I have made these several times now, and have yet to be disappointed. This recipe is quick, easy, and awesome in the fact it sneaks in some added grain with the oatmeal. I usually add a little extra chocolate, and have even experimented with adding white chocolate or a combo, but each time it has turned out tasty!
I am no longer torn between oatmeal raisin and chocolate chip... we have a new winner.
These chocolate chip cookies are awesome!! My husband and I enjoy a healthy, organic life style, but he craves "bad" things once in a while and asked me to make him some chocolate chip cookies...these are absolutely FABULOUS!!
Before making these, I read the comments and made some changes. First, I increased the oats to 1 cup and reduced the amount of whole wheat flour (I used whole wheat pastry flour), using only 1/2 cup. I also used 1/4 cup Egg Beaters instead of the large egg, 1/4 unsweetened organic cinnamon applesauce instead of the canola oil, and substituted 1/3 cup Splenda for the sugar and 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons of Splenda Brown Sugar Blend for the brown sugar. I increased the vanilla to 1 tablespoon as well. When scooping the dough onto the cookie sheets (which I lined with a Silpat), I used a small 1 teaspoon cookie scooper (this recipe yielded 35 cookies). Due to the Splenda, I flattened my cookies slightly before baking, too (they don't spread out when baked when using Splenda). With these changes, per cookie, the calorie count is 57.7!!!
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