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There are multiple definitions of when points $P$ and $Q$ on schemes $X$ and $Y$ are equisingular. One can require that either $P$ and $Q$ have isomorphic analytic (i.e. complex analytic), or formal, or étale neighborhoods. My main question is how are these three definition related. I know that for simple singularities they are equivalent, and for difficult ones I guess they are non-equivalent. Does anyone know precise statements, references, proofs, examples when these are non-equivalent notions?
The analytic and the étale case is a little bit subtler. One can ask for the adequate local rings to be isomorphic and also for isomorphic analytic/étale neighborhoods, as above. Are these two approaches equivalent?

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Line: Colts by 6. Total: 57.
Walt's Projected Line: Colts -3.
Sunday, Feb. 7, at Miami. 6:25 ET
Discuss the game here, and please don't run away from this ugly forum skin.
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Frank Lloyd Wright home for sale in Milwaukee
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What a shame. These were supposed to be affordable housing and now the "free market" once again has ruined a brilliant vision.
Yes, this is an anti-capitalist critique.Hide replies
You know, North Korea and Cuba are always willing to take the Koolaid drinkers...
If walkerhater wasn't so attached to his gubmint check he could move to a socialist utopia.
I'll pop for a one way ticket....
Walkerhater probably has no clue how good he has it here in the US but he's more than welcome to leave for someplace he might find better, such as Canada, Europe, and other socialist places. Wonder how long it would be before he started squawking about taxes in those places.
Walkerhater. You probably live (albeit in "affordable") land that rightfully belongs to Native Americans. You sir are a a hypocrite! I suggest you move!
Owned one in Illinois. Don't buy it. Run, run far away.... Frank was an artist not an architect. Add to the bills, the folks who thing Frank was a great man will prevent you from every move if you want to change anything. The local historical groups were the worst. Don't buy it, let them buy it and deal with their own crazy rules....Hide replies
Couldn't agree more. Lloyd was a visionary in the area of design and detail, that being good or bad depending on your tastes. However, he lacked the structural engineering side of architecture, as evidenced in the major issues at Taliesin and Falling Water. He comprimised structure for design, and because of that many of his buildings needed severe upgrading to make them habitable and safe.
so you bought a historically significant property & were caught unawares when preservationist groups worried about what you did with it? this really surprised you? just a little naive maybe?
Many of his kitchens were unusably tiny - nice to see this one was either bigger to begin with or has been tastefully updated.
THere is nothing wrong with preservationist groups taking a strong interest in properties such as these, but having lived in a historic colonial, the attitude is the frustrating thing. Sometimes an historically appropriate modern storm door is needed to keep the children warm, and that shouldn't cause a hissy fit - it just shouldn't.
Everyone involved with houses such as these obviously loves them, so working together should be a lot easier than it is!
His bent for flat or nearly flat roofs is an invitation to leaks and, in the end, structural deterioration from water damage. I agree.
Wright was actually a terrific structural engineer. For proof look at the Imperial hotel in Tokyo which was one of the few buildings to survive a magnitude 8 earthquake in 1923 or the Johnson Wax building in Racine and Guggenheim in New York which redefined the use of reinforced structural concrete. The problems with the cantilevers at Falling Water a primarily due to changes the contractors made without Wrights approval. The cantilevers as built are much heavier than Wright intended and began to sag under their own weight.
Who would pay that kind of money to live in that neighborhood? I have friends that live in that area and while some of the homes are nice, I couldn't see paying that kind of money to live there, even if it is a Frank Lloyd Wright.
Case in point from the article:
"Image: Frank Lloyd Wright's American System-Built Homes before some of them fell into disrepair, from the Journal Sentinel archives."
This a black & white photo.
Looks like it is well kept - although the bathroom and kitchen could use some updating. I wondering they would leave the furniture?
Owned a russell bahr Williams ( a student of frank Lloyd wright) on 30th & national. same design style . Nice except for the neighborhood.
He designed chairs no one could sit on.Hide replies
Mrs America- I had to laugh when I read your post. I dont think our heads agree on anything but at least our backsides agree- shows that all sides have the potential of coming together at least on one thing!
If it wasn't in that dumpy craphole they call Milwaukee, we would snap this up in a heartbeat! Love FLW, and it would be incredible to own a piece of his vision.
As for Falling Water, if you've never been there, highly suggest visiting it the next time you're wandering through PA. Absolutely gorgeous!Hide replies
KandyKane, why don't you comment on your own dumpy craphole town's newspaper's site? Actually, stick around. The contrast between your pseudo-intellectual pronouncements on architecture and your use of phrases like "dumpy craphole" amuses me. Cheers.
Hey Custard, at least my dumpy craphole of residency isn't slowly becoming the crime capital of the nation. And you don't have to have a degree in architecture to appreciate it. You keep working on using those big words, though...it's quite impressive.
Whiner (if the shoe fits...), parks that are being overrun by gangs of black kids beating up white people, museums that are hemorrhaging money, libraries that look like they could fall any second, overpriced concert halls, restaurants that look and taste just like the 500 other restaurants you have, and failing MPS schools? I'll give you the churches and hospitals, but that's it. Lived there, done that...got sick of it and moved.
KandyKane. Can we assume that by "dumpy craphole" you mean a city with numerous quality-of-life amenities (parks, museums, libraries, concert halls, restaurants, churches, hospitals, schools/colleges, etc.) within walking distance--or minutes away by car?
Despite how you might feel about Milwaukee, we seem to be getting a lot of buzz around the world for how great our restaurants, museums, and nightlife are. Maybe you are confusing us with whatever "dumpy craphole" you see when you walk out your front door. The Guardian => http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/jul/25/usa-city-breaks and the Washington Post => http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/milwaukee-without-the-beer-and-brats/2011/09/01/gIQAVlgnXK_story.html
hm... I seem to be living in a different Milwaukee (maybe even in a parallel universe) than the one referred to by KandyKane. I have yet to encounter gangs of any color, in parks, wanting to beating me up. (And, yes, I do visit various parks throughout the city.) The Zablocki library and Central Library were recently rehabbed. The Bayview library is relatively new. The East library will soon be replaced. I have dined at, and thoroughly enjoyed, Sanford restaurant, and various other high-end restaurants. Subscription prices to the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Rep, etc. are a bargain. There are plenty of private schools to send one's children to, if MPS isn't good enough. Thanks to school voucher-booster Scott Walker, this option even more readily available.
And furthermore, KandyKane, Milwaukee is nowhere near the title of crime capital of the nation. We are 43rd in line for that title. http://os.cqpress.com/citycrime/2010/City_crime_rate_2010-2011_hightolow.pdf
And further, furthermore, which museum are hemorrhaging money? Milwaukee Public? According to a recent report, "the MPM the endowment swelled to almost $4 million in 2009, $6.1 million in 2010 and to $7.6 million by the beginning of March 2011. Meanwhile, according to statements submitted to the county board, long term debt has fallen to about $4.7 million…"
The Milwaukee Art Museum seems to be financially sound, as well. According to their most recent annual report (2009) "the Museum concluded fiscal year 2009 with a balanced budget and a strong balance sheet, with no debt as of August 31, 2009…. Despite the uncertainty in the economy, the Museum's membership base increased from 17,433 to 17,589."
No garage.
But it looks like it doesn't need work, so no worries about trying to update. Gorgeous skylight!
I can appreciate the historical value of such a home, and the significance it holds in the architectural community. However, one has to take two steps back and keep reality in perspective. It is almost 100 years old, and in a neighborhood that is not safe. At the end of the day, it should be an easy decision. Would an average person in this economy want to forego their personal safety and give up the chance for a decent quality of life just because Frank designed the home? Not to say that a neighborhood cannot be gentrified, but I would opt for a place where I could go for a two mile walk at night and not have to worry about my surroundings.Hide replies
I've lived in this neighborhood for 20 years and regularly walk around in the evening, without incident. Perhaps I've just been lucky. I'm more concerned with loose dogs, or being hit by a car, than with other types of crime. Not all of us require that a neighborhood be "gentrified" (aka ethnically cleansed) in order to consider it to be safe.
Gentrification does not imply removing people of a certain race. That is ridiculous.
What qualifies as an unsafe neighborhood? I live, work, and play in this area and have never had issues with crime. Perception and getting over ones personal biases is generally more of the issue.
I love these homes! My family lived in this area when I was a kid so I'd see them quite often and even then I knew they were something special and different. I would always fantasize that my family would live in one of the houses and my friend's family would live next door and we could just go from balcony to balcony to visit with each other.
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Personally a little iffy about buying Seagates.
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Prior to joining Rutgers, Coicaud served as the Director of the United Nations University Office in New York. He has also held positions as the Senior Academic Officer and Director of Studies at the UNU Headquarters in Tokyo, member of the speechwriting team of former United Nations Secretary-General Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, and adviser to the Guatemalan Office of the UN Department of Political Affairs. He also worked for the French Foreign Service and the European Union. His writings in the fields of comparative politics, political and legal theory, international relations, and international law – which include 14 books and more than 60 chapters and articles – are available in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic.


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CHESTER - The damage from last week's storms is done - now a Chester couple wants to know who's responsible for the repairs.
Don and Cindy Harris, of 18 Columbia Ave. on Chester's west side, took their query to Chester City Council on Monday - five days after flooding left a sink hole in their backyard - but said they came away with unsatisfactory answers.
The Harrises say the repairs are the city's responsibility because the flooding was caused by a damaged city storm sewer that runs under their property. But Mayor Ken Morris, when questioned by the Harrises at Monday's city council meeting, declined to commit the city and suggested the couple contact the former property owner, Pusateri Excavating of East Liverpool.
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DAMAGES — This sink hole, about three feet deep, was created in Don and Cindy Harris' backyard last week when flooding damaged a pipe. The Harrises believe the pipe is a Chester-owned storm sewer and should be fixed by the city. -- Stephen Huba
"That is not our storm sewer," Morris said.
The Harrises said they left the meeting with no answers to their three main questions: Who owns the damaged pipe, what's the city's plan for fixing it and what's the city's timetable?
The Harrises have smartphone video footage of what happened last Wednesday, when heavy rains caused flooding throughout Hancock County - from Chester to Weirton. High water can be seen filling their backyard, bubbling up from the ground and flowing over a retaining wall like a waterfall.
The flooding caused a three-foot sink hole in their backyard, damaged an in-ground sprinkler system and deposited about three inches of water and mud in their basement. The couple has owned the home, which sits on the Ohio River adjacent to the Holiday Yacht Club, for a year and a half. The house was built in 1996 by Mike Pusateri Sr., they said.
The Harrises believe the 24-inch drainage pipe was installed by Pusateri for the city of Chester. Don Harris said it carries storm water runoff from the city to the Ohio River. Their property also has a French drain system that handles water from the immediate vicinity.
"Isn't the city of Chester responsible for maintaining their storm drains? It's a safety issue," Cindy Harris asked council on Monday.
Morris said Pusateri installed the pipe and tapped into the city's system, making it a private concern.
"We didn't put that storm sewer in. We don't own it," the mayor said.
Video footage of the French drains last Wednesday shows what looks like a normal flow of water. Don Harris is convinced the flooding was the result of the larger storm sewer, which runs about 16 feet below his house.
On Tuesday, Harris said he took it upon himself to check out the pipe. He crawled through and found a break about 100 feet in, he said.
"Right where the sink hole is," he said.
Harris said he plans to hire someone to begin making repairs today, but he wants the city to pay for it.
"We're running out of time," he told council on Monday, "and it's going to rain again, and it's going to damage our home again."
More than anything, Harris is frustrated with what he called the city's lack of response, although Chester Water Department employees spent part of the day Tuesday checking the line with a video camera.
"I'm going to use the system to make them take responsibility for their line," Harris said. "That water did not come from my property. It came under my property from their storm drain."
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Ardmore tornado on the ground, May 7, 1995
It's been fifteen years since May 7, 1995, when two F-3 tornadoes would create havoc over Montague, Love, and Carter Counties.
The first one dropped from the sky at 3:00p.m. It was a large tornado with a path one-half mile wide. It touched down in Montague County, killing a 97 year-old man near Forestburg and injuring 11 other people as it moved quickly northeast. At least 30 houses and two mobile homes were destroyed, many barns and other outbuildings were leveled, utility lines were blown down, and an unknown number of livestock were killed or injured. This large tornado clipped northwestern Cooke County where it began to dissipate near Bulcher, TX at 3:20p.m.
Immediately thereafter, the parent Supercell "cycled" and within moments produced a new tornado just as large as the old one, a half-mile wide F-3 (old scale). It crossed the Red River and headed straight toward Ardmore. It moved over rural Love and Carter Counties where three people were killed. It was here that the funnel reached its maximum intensity. Motorists on I-35 could see the huge funnel approach from the southwest as it crashed through the western side of Ardmore, seriously damaging the Michelin plant and many other structures just after 4p.m. Fortunately, it began to weaken just as it reached Ardmore.
Shortly thereafter the tornado dissipated after traveling on the ground for 34 miles. The total damage path of the two-tornado sequence (both from the same storm cell) was 60 miles. This tornado moved very rapidly at forward speeds over 40mph. Several other weaker tornadoes formed over southern Oklahoma that day, but no deaths or injuries happened with them.
Dollar damage was estimated to be $100 million. This was the most destructive and deadly tornado outbreak in the Red River valley between 1982 (Paris) and Lone Grove (2009).
Further south, the DFW Metroplex was not spared on this day either. An F-1 (old scale) tornado cut a path nearly 1000 feet wide through Watauga, Colleyville and Grapevine for a total damage path of 10 miles. It damaged over 500 structures, including 485 homes and 27 businesses. KXAS-TV reported 70mph wind gusts as part of this same storm complex. Large hail also fell over north Texas from Glen Rose to Granbury and into the Metroplex. Amazingly, there were no deaths and only 4 injuries.
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The City of Wellington will put up signs banning the open carrying of weapons in city buildings. The state has prevented cities from banning concealed carry, but for the present anyway, they may ban open carry if proper signage is in place.
On Tuesday night the city council voted 3-2 to place the signs after it was requested by police chief Tracy Heath.
Police Chief Tracy Heath said city employees have said they would feel safer with the signs.
He told the council there is no penalty for violating the ban.
"If someone is asked to leave because they have a weapon, and they refuse to leave, they can be charged with trespassing," Heath said. If that person is asked to leave, and they do, there is no violation.
There was a recent incident where a citizen came to city hall with a weapon, but there was no incident, Heath said.
Heath said it has always been legal to openly carry weapons in Kansas, but it seems it was not well known. It was made more public during the recent state legislative session. The state may also prevent cities from banning open carry in the future.
This does not apply to private businesses, who may do as they wish with open or concealed carry.
Council member John Tracy said a sign is not going to prevent someone who has bad intentions from entering a building with a weapon.
"I am concerned about a false sense of security," he added.
Acting city manager Shane Shields said some employees would like to prohibit all weapons, but since they cannot
prohibit concealed weapons, they would like to have this in place.
Heath said a sign won't stop people, "but it will give employees a little piece of mind. Not much, but a little."
Council member Vince Wetta said he would support it for employees piece of mind, but doubted it would make much difference.
The council also talked about having a plan in place, and some training, for what to do if a person with bad intentions enters the building with a weapon.
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Slide Insert Clasp: This type of clasp is exactly as it sounds. With a box-like shape that is hollow on the inside, the wearer will slide the nearly-flat tab into the box until it clicks, indicating a secure closure. On some jewelry, a slide insert clasp will be accompanied by a side safety catch, which adds strength and security to the clasp. Although this type of clasp is found on both bracelets and necklaces, it is particularly popular on bracelet styles. These types of clasps are often reserved for more expensive jewelry.
Spring Ring Clasp: One of the most common closure types, the spring ring clasp is typically used for light to medium weight bracelets or necklaces. It is round in its design and features a small tip which controls the opening and closing of the spring. The circle then closes around another smaller loop or link at the other end of the strand.
Toggle Clasp: A toggle clasp is a narrow piece of metal, usually designed in the shape of a bar, which is then pushed through a circular ring to act as a fastener. Unlike the lobster claw or spring ring clasps, a toggle clasp is not controlled by a spring. The pretty design is less secure than other closure types, but is usually meant to be a big part of the design and is meant to "show". The clasp is an attractive way to secure a chunkier link bracelet or necklace.
Vermeil Plating:
Pronounced "vermay," vermeil is an electroplating process in which 14K gold or higher is coated over sterling silver. Officially designated by the jewelry industry, items may only be sold as vermeil if they have a minimum thickness of 100 millionths of an inch (2.5 microns) of gold over the silver. Regular gold plating is less than 2.5 microns.
The "vermeil" technique of plating sterling silver with gold originated in France in the 1750s. It differs from "gold filled" or "gold plated" in terms of the thickness or thinness of the microns over sterling silver. "Gold filled" pieces have a much thicker layer, between 15 and 45 microns, which is mechanically bonded to the base metal with heat and pressure. Vermeil is a more expensive version of "gold plated". It does not wear off as quickly as gold plating does. However, over time, vermeil wears off and therefore will require re-plating.
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Our platinum and gold embraced collections feature layers of platinum or gold over sterling silver or bronze for a lustrous, radiant finish everywhere you look and touch.
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Palladium has been used as a precious metal in jewelry since 1939, originally as an alternative to platinum for making white gold. Its naturally white color requires no rhodium plating. Additionally, palladium is proportionally much lighter than platinum and is ideal for use in heavier gemstone jewelry. It is a more expensive alloy than nickel, but it seldom causes the allergic reactions that nickel alloy can.
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Blue Chips Finish Strong
A late-session rally sent blue-chip stocks to a more than five-year high after reports of progress over the debt ceiling. Morgan Stanley MS -0.45 % and General Electric GE -0.35 % buoyed shares with better-than-expected earnings.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 53.68 points, or 0.4%, to 13649.70, its highest finish since December 2007. The index reversed a drop of as much as 24 points amid news that House Republican leaders are considering a plan to extend the federal borrowing limit for three months.
The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rose 5.04 points, or 0.3%, to 1485.98. The Nasdaq NDAQ -0.16 % Composite Index dropped 1.30 points, or less than 0.1%, to 3134.70.
GE jumped 74 cents, or 3.5%, to $22.04, leading the Dow, after the conglomerate reported its quarterly earnings, aided by strength in China and an increase in orders for industrial equipment.
Morgan Stanley climbed 1.63, or 7.9%, to 22.38, after the Wall Street firm reported it swung to a fourth-quarter profit, helped by surging investment-banking and trading revenue.
Each of the S&P 500's 10 sectors rose except the technology group, which was weighed down by Intel's INTC 0.26 % fall of 1.43, or 6.3%, to 21.25. The chip maker reported late Thursday that its fourth-quarter profit fell on weak personal computer demand.
"The macro data drumbeat continues to be reasonably favorable," said Jim Russell, senior equity strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management, which oversees $110 billion in assets. "It's kind of a two steps forward, one step back progression."
The S&P 500 and Dow industrials capped their third-straight weekly advance, climbing 0.9% and 1.2%, respectively. Blue chips have climbed 72% over the course of President Barack Obama's first term, which ends Sunday. That marks the biggest rally for a presidential term since a 111% climb during Bill Clinton's first four years in office, which ended in 1997.
The Dow Jones Transportation Average, a benchmark of 20 railroad, airline and shipping companies, rose 0.2%, to an all-time closing high. The Russell 2000 index of small-capitalization stocks added 0.3%, also its highest close ever.
On the economic front, U.S. consumers felt worse about the economy in mid-January than at the end of December, bucking economists' projections for a rebound in sentiment, according to the Thomson Reuters and University of Michigan's consumer-sentiment index.
In Asia, stocks across the region climbed after Chinese data showed the economy expanded 7.9% in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, fueling optimism that the worst may be over for the world's No. 2 economy. China's Shanghai Composite Index added 1.4%.
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Those pretty plastic peripherals can be painfully pungent, as commenter Hongo found out after his recent purchase of a place to keep his PS Vita. It's Stink Up on Kotaku!
Never before have I bought an item that stunk.
Ok, a few of them, but I'm talking about literally smelling of some foul odor.
Enter the Hori PS Vita Hard Case. Fantastic looking case and it lives up to its name, but it has a foul odor. It's, to me anyway, like a combination of cigarettes and something minty. Or maybe an old house with a musty smell. Not entirely sure.
I've been researching and reading about others who have bought this same case and they too have mentioned the foul odor. It must be the plastic, but I just can't see it being that. I own the 3DS hard case, (also made by) Hori (with) the same materials, and it has no odor whatsoever.
Now I'm reluctant to put my Vita in a smelly case for the fear that it will result in a smelly Vita.


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The Tecumseh High School football team's historic season ended in heartbreak.The Indians, chasing their first regional title since 1991, moved the ball at will and led for most of Friday's Division 3 regional final against Battle Creek Harper Creek at Harper Creek Stadium.Then everything changed. Harper Creek stole the momentum and scored the game's final 12 points. In a flash, it was over.Harper Creek 26, Tecumseh 24."I don't even know what happened," Tecumseh quarterback Ben Dreslinski. "Their kids started to take over the game, and we started to fall apart."Tecumseh (9-3) led 24-14 early in the third quarter. A Kasey Carson touchdown run and a safety brought Harper Creek (10-2) within one.On the ensuing possession, thanks to two critical Tecumseh penalties, Harper Creek moved into field-goal range, and Alec Fisher booted a 25-yard field goal with 5:08 left."When we were in control, we were playing our ball game, and when they took over, they were playing their style," Tecumseh coach Al Romano said. "We left a lot of plays out here on the field and, quite frankly, didn't play our best football game and didn't coach our best football game."You can't do that against a quality program like Harper Creek."The Beavers stopped Tecumseh on fourth-and-1 at the Harper Creek 31 with 2:58 remaining. Carson, who rushed for 198 yards, helped exhaust the clock with key third-down runs.Harper Creek won its second straight regional title and fourth in school history."We're lucky to be moving on," Harper Creek coach Ed Greenman said. "I'm glad there wasn't another minute left in this game, because I'm not sure what the end result would've been."Tecumseh compiled 566 total yards of offense (381 in the first half) and 24 first downs.Dreslinski threw for 288 yards with two touchdowns and rushed for 95 yards. John Terry rushed for 148 yards with a touchdown and also caught a touchdown pass. Casey Hunt had six catches for 100 yards, Eric Eldred had five grabs for 91 yards and a score, while Spencer Adams had nine catches for 81.Three turnovers and 168 penalty yards hurt."We did things that were uncharacteristic of our team all year," Romano said.The Indians marched into the red zone on their opening drive, but threw an interception at the goal line.Later in the first quarter, Tecumseh muffed a punt and Harper Creek recovered at the Indians 35. On fourth-and-11, quarterback Trevor Johnson rolled right and hit Carson on a deep post over the middle for the game's first score. The Beavers led 7-0 with 3:28 left in the first.Tecumseh answered with Hunt's 23-yard field goal.Terry gave Tecumseh its first lead with 7:55 left in the second. The senior running back rushed up the middle, jump-cut left and bolted down the sideline for a 59-yard touchdown.Page 2 of 2 - Tecumseh scored again on its next drive. Dreslinski found Terry with a screen pass for a 16-yard touchdown, and the Indians led 17-7 with 3:19 left in second.Carson's 37-yard touchdown run made it 17-14 with 2:01 remaining in the first half.The Indians brought the three-point lead into halftime."We had a tough time answering them, but our kids had a certain grit about them," Greenman said. "At halftime we said, 'It's too early in the season for this season to end.'"Tecumseh stretched its lead to 24-14 with 7:53 left in the third. Dreslinski's 23-yard strike to Eldred punctuated a 10-play, 89-yard drive.Then everything changed.The final chapter of this Tecumseh football season will go down as a loss. But the story will be remembered as a major victory for a program that looked to change its culture -- and succeeded."Everybody, the whole town deserves this," Terry said. "It was great to be a part of the team that gave it to them."
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LANSING, Kan. (AP) _ A convicted child sex offender who escaped from a northeastern Kansas prison three weeks ago has been captured in Kansas City, Kan.
State corrections officials say 59-year-old Gary Leslie Furthmyer was taken into custody at 2 p.m. Wednesday. He was positively identified at the Wyandotte County jail and returned to the Lansing Correctional Facility.
The Corrections Department credits the apprehension to one of a dozen tips made to a Crimestoppers hotline.
Furthmyer escaped around 3 a.m. April 18 from his minimum security job at the Lansing prison's steam plant. He was serving a six- to 25-year sentence out of Sedgwick County for indecent liberties with a child and aggravated failure to appear.
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GATESVILLE (November 28, 2012)--The capital murder trial of a former Gatesville preacher has been put off while the judge gives prosecutors time to evaluate additional evidence.
Former pastor David Allen is charged with capital murder in the fiery death of his former wife in a mobile home blaze on March 22, 2011.
Judge Trent Farrell has ordered a scheduling hearing for Jan. 31, 2013, at which time he has told the state to provide an approximate date they'll be ready for trial.
New evidence and political issues have confused the issue in that current District Attorney David Castillo will be replaced by DA-elect Dusty Boyd on Jan. 1, 2013.
As well, Castillo asked for a continuance before Thanksgiving because his investigators said they needed time to evaluate new evidence they discovered on two cellular telephones that was associated with the fire that claimed Paula Allen's life.
Allen was set for trial on Dec. 3 in Farrell's 52nd District Court, attorneys on October 31 presented a motion for continuance to delay that start.
Farrell, after a hearing that lasted about an hour, said he would take the matter under advisement.
Attorneys from the West Texas Regional Public Defenders For Capital Cases, based in Lubbock, are defending Allen.
Prosecutors already said they will not seek the death penalty.
Allen remains in the Coryell County Jail in lieu of $700,000 bond.
He was indicted in February, accused of setting the fire deliberately, using a flammable accelerant.
Paula Allen, 54, was found dead just inside the front door of a mobile home behind the New Life Church of Restoration just east of Gatesville.
The church has since changed its name.
An initial autopsy report showed Paula Allen died of smoke inhalation and thermal burns.
David Allen was able to escape the flames that morning, but said he was overcome by smoke as he tried to rescue his wife.
He reported he was asleep in the living room and his wife was asleep in a bedroom when the fire broke out just after 1 a.m. on March 22, 2011.
Coryell County Justice of the Peace Coy Latham said earlier Allen reported that he awoke to the flames, jumped out of a living room window and ran around the mobile home to try to save his wife, who he said was in a back bedroom.
Gatesville Fire Chief Billy Vaden said firefighters tried to get into the back of the mobile home to find the woman, but the roof caved in before they could make entry.
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Developing the Geocaching application on Window Phone 7: Groundspeak experience-part 2
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Is the 4.1.2 release hosted anywhere on CDN currently? I would expect http://cdn.sencha.com/ext-4.1.2-commercial/ to work, much like the previous release http://cdn.sencha.com/ext-4.1.1-commercial/, but I don't see anything up there.
If it is currently not on CND, when can we expect it to be hosted or for the GPL release to hit?
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I believe this is due to the fact that 4.1.1 was a public release, where 4.1.2 is subscription release only.
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Ah are certain releases tagged for subscribers and never released as GPL? I had assumed there was just a delay between the subscriber release and the GPL version.
I am a subscriber myself, is there anyway I can get access to 4.1.2 on a CDN?


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As I understand it, the main advantage of bcrypt is stretching so it becomes slower to crack overtime. But, is using a "good enough" algorithm (e.g., SHA-2 family) then stretching until it's slow enough for your liking is pretty much the same as bcrypt?
Note: I understand scrypt is superior but let's assume bcrypt is the best for now.


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Could I get an explanation of Avogadro's number and how it relates to determining the mass of a substance? My chemistry textbook only serves to confuse me and the Wikipedia article is aimed towards a more wordy audience. I understand that Avogadro's number is $6.022 \times 10^{23}$, but I'm not sure how to relate that to determining the amount of atoms in a particular substance. Is it a direct proportion between the weight of C-12 and the weight of whatever substance you're attempting to determine the amount of atoms in?
The simplest way to think of Avogadro's number is as a unit conversion factor. Just as there are 2.54 centimeters in an inch, there are Avogadro's number atomic mass units in a gram.
Accordingly, if you know the atomic mass of an element you can count the number of atoms in one gram of it. Let's take carbon as an example. The most common isotope of carbon has an atomic mass of 12. There are rare forms of carbon that are heavier because they have extra neutrons, but we'll ignore them here. Thus 1 gram of carbon contains $\frac{\text{Avogadro's Number}}{12}$ carbon atoms. Likewise if we had $6.02\times10^{23}$ carbon atoms, we'd have 12 grams of carbon.


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The Solutions Directory lists solution providers according to Security Control category. By clicking on the Critical Control link, you can learn which vendors may be associated with the control. Visit the Solutions Directory frequently for updated listings and useful information when selecting the latest in IT security technologies.


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Francis the Liberal?
Does it make any sense to call Pope Francis a liberal? For that matter, should any faithful Catholic—a word that means "universal"—be described as "conservative" or "liberal"? Or does the use of these terms necessarily involve the misapplication of essentially political concepts to a religious community? Does their use inevitably divide and polarize the Body of Christ?
Matt Malone, SJ, the editor of America, recently announced his magazine's new editorial policy of avoiding the words "liberal" and "conservative" in discussions about the church:
America understands the church as the body of Christ, not as the body politic. Liberal, conservative, moderate are words that describe factions in a polis, not members of a communion…. The church in the United States must overcome the problem of factionalism. This begins by re-examining our language. America will no longer use the terms "liberal," "conservative" or "moderate" when referring to our fellow Catholics in an ecclesiastical context.
In a response to Malone, the editors of Commonweal insisted that "factionalism can indeed be a threat to the church (or to the country), but honest disagreement is not always destructive of ecclesial communion; in fact, it is often constitutive of it…. American Catholics belong to the church, but also to many other communities and organizations. They cannot, and should not, leave those attachments behind at the church door." Commonweal's editors suggested there was no contradiction between a fundamental commitment to the Catholic Church and describing oneself or one's causes as liberal or conservative.
Then along came the interview with Pope Francis, published in America and other Jesuit publications around the world. Almost as soon as it appeared, the word "liberal" began to be applied to the pope himself. In Slate, William Saletan published an article titled "Pope Francis is a Flaming Liberal" (later tastefully trimmed to "Pope Francis is a Liberal"). Mark Silk of Religion News Service picked up on the debate and listed ten reasons why he agrees with Saletan. But Melinda Henneberger of The Washington Post agrees with Malone:
No, no, no: What Francis is saying is not that liberals are up in Rome right now and conservatives are down—haha, now see how you like it!—but on the contrary that labels and tiny little boxes have no place in a faith that is so much bigger than that. Francis is not a "right-winger," but he's not a winger at all.
For my part, I think one of the common meanings of "liberal" does apply to Pope Francis. In a short piece in the Washington Post's "On Faith" blog, I responded to the debate fomented by Saletan by focusing on the pope's temperament: "While Pope Francis does not share all the convictions of liberal Catholics, he is temperamentally as liberal as any pope could reasonably be."
My Fordham colleague Charles Camosy disagreed with me:
The use of "liberal" and "conservative" labels in our public discourse is so imprecise (and open to misinterpretation) that we ought to resist using such terms as often as we can—especially in a religious context. Rather than a good-faith attempt to name something that is true, use of these labels is often designed to marginalize and "other" a person or group.
Point taken. But isn't this really an argument for using these terms more precisely and thoughtfully than they are often used in the dominant discourse of the media? There's no reason to give up on a term just because it needs definition and qualification. Yes, the "liberal" in liberal theology means something different from the "liberal" in liberal political theory, and liberalism means one thing in the United States and another in Europe. But while it is tempting to avoid terms that lend themselves to equivocation, "liberal" and "conservative" are the words we actually have to describe a whole host of things for which we lack other, more adequate words that everyone could be expected to understand.
So what is it that people perceive in Pope Francis that makes them think he is a liberal? Apart from the headline-grabbing remarks about sexual ethics, which were only a small part of the interview, what else about this pope has attracted the attention and sympathy of liberals? In my view, the answer is Francis's temperament. A temperament is not an ideology, much less a policy program, but it is nevertheless central to one's engagements with political bodies and other institutions. A liberal temperament is what TV personalities such as MSNBC's Chris Hayes and The Daily Show's Jon Stewart saw in Pope Francis, even before the America interview appeared. And although Andrew Sullivan is a self-described conservative, it seems to be the pope's temperament to which Sullivan has responded so enthusiastically on his blog.
There's more than one way to define the liberal temperament. I'd define it as a temperament that tends toward open-ended thinking and is generally confident in humanity's ability to achieve progress in the near future. A liberal temperament is comfortable with spontaneity, ambivalence, and ambiguity. Some people have all of these qualities, some only a few. In any case, one can have a liberal temperament without subscribing to the political or theological positions we commonly describe as liberal. Almost by definition, a liberal temperament does not lead to predictable ideological outcomes.
For Alan Wolfe, the liberal temperament "has more to do with psychology than politics or morality." It is fundamentally "impatient with arguments rooted in fear and self-protection." A person with this temperament remains consistently "open to a sense of discovery, anticipates the future with excitement, and approaches the world with generous spirit." Such a temperament is "trans-ideological," and those who would identify themselves as liberals often lack it. (As Wolfe observes, "No one is more temperamentally conservative than a Manhattan leftist living in a rent-controlled apartment and holding tenure at a university.")
In terms of temperament, Pope Francis almost always sounds liberal in what he says, and his actions have reinforced that impression. He argues against those who "want everything clear and safe," those who "always look for disciplinarian solutions," and those who "stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists." He has harsh words for anyone who desires "to establish order in the sense of pure conservation, as a defense." He insists that "we must not focus on occupying the spaces where power is exercised, but rather on starting long-run historical processes." As for his actions, Pope Francis spontaneously departed from how a pope is supposed to behave several times in the first days of his pontificate.
The traits of a liberal temperament are not always positive. Spontaneity, ambivalence, and impatience with The Way Things Have Always Been Done can sometimes lead to disaster. Tradition, Chesterton's "democracy of the dead," is usually wise and true. Many fears are valid. And a "generous spirit" can be a euphemism for "gullible."
Regarding the pope's temperament, the conservatives Rod Dreher and R. R. Reno have both expressed some misgivings. Reno believes that the pope appeared "naive and undisciplined" in some parts of the interview, and that he should have anticipated the way secular liberals and dissenting Catholics would make use of his remarks. Reno describes some of the pope's rhetoric as straight "from the standard playbook of progressive reform."
The conservative Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson also recognizes that the pope's temperament is not exactly conservative: Gerson describes the pope as "subversive," "disarming," "disruptive"; as a "troublemaker," "radical," and "reformer." But Gerson is not worried. Indeed, he believes that Francis is reclaiming one of the oldest traditions of what it means to be a Christian: "When the church becomes ossified, legalistic and hypocritical—as all institutions periodically do—it is the radical reformers who carry on its most authentic tradition." Gerson concludes by emphasizing Francis's "personalism":
This teaching—to always consider the person—was disorienting from the beginning. The outsiders get invited to the party. The prodigal is given the place of honor. The pious complain about their shocking treatment. The gatekeepers find the gate shut to them. It is subversive to all respectable religious order, which is precisely the point.
Like Gerson, I see a connection between Pope Francis's temperament and the personalism of Jesus' own ministry. Francis does not emphasize dogma, but he does have one "dogmatic certainty":
"God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else—God is in this person's life." This attitude imitates that of Jesus, whose example of holiness had more to do with personal encounter than with rules.
Pope Francis's approach also bears some resemblance to that of St. Paul. Like Paul, Francis emphasizes "finding new roads" at the "frontiers, margins, and horizons." This brings us back to Commonweal's response to America's warning against factionalism: "Paul took on Peter in the most direct way on the question of whether the promises of Christ could be extended to the uncircumcised. The church as we know it would not exist but for that bit of factionalism."
Greater than the contrast between Peter's position and Paul's, however, is the contrast between Paul and James, who stayed put in Jerusalem and held fast to more of the traditions, even sending emissaries to reprimand Paul for testing doctrinal boundaries (Galatians 1–2).
Notwithstanding his famous zeal, Paul's temperament was liberal to the core. He traveled all over the Mediterranean with little personal security, constantly attracted the anger of various authorities, improvised his method in every city, and adapted his preaching to the cultural contexts of different audiences. Most significantly, at the end of his long career, he remained positively and beautifully ambiguous about the defining feature of his life: the how of God's plan to redeem all people, both Jews and Gentiles (Romans 11).
I do not mean to elevate Paul over James. But I am willing to say that, temperamentally, James was a kind of conservative and Paul a kind of liberal. They were both committed to Christ, committed unto death. But they expressed that commitment in different ways. They were both achieving God's work in the world, extending the Body of Christ like two hands—a right and a left.
Christian unity does not demand that we blur the differences between leaders, whether James and Paul or Benedict and Francis. We can borrow words common to the polis and use them, with care, to describe realities within the ecclesia, just like first-century apostles did. What Christian unity does demand is that we remain open to the influence of those whose temperaments are different from our own.
About the Author
Michael Peppard, associate professor of theology at Fordham University, is the author of The World's Oldest Church: Bible, Art, and Ritual at Dura-Europos, Syria (Yale University Press, January 2016).
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Liberals are open to change. Conservatives are resistant to change. The Pope seems to me to be saying that the Church needs to change its priorities. Not change its doctrines, but change its priorities. In this regard, I would describe Pope Francis as a liberal.
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With all due respect, I am just soooooo tired of these labels. Pope Francis is Pope Francis. He has things to share with all of us. Let's listen and not jump to pigeon-hole him as it serves very little purpose.
Liberal = Open. Period. Not closed off, not banned from discussion, not settled. Even our so-called dogmas are but simple statements with far more nuanced explanations required. Unfortunately, we have been living in a closed off, silenced, and repressed church. Perhaps under Pope Francis, we will no longer be afraid...
If I understand this post as it was intended, I agree. I believe we do not need to toss out words that have for a great deal of recorded history served us well in our attempts to find reasons and means to move toward justice in all aspects of our lives. And, then, there is that reality thing. Can we define up without down? Does up even exist without down? Liberal and conservative are ranges not absolutes. What we can do, what we must do, is lessen the impact of fanatics whose tragic inablity to deal constructively with uncertainity so often lead then to distort our language for clearly self-serving, destructive reasons.
I believe this Pope has the head of a true conservative and the heart of a true liberal. So far, from what I have read, it seems that particular reality just ain't a problem for him. Thank God!
Liberal is really a state of mind and an approach to reality.
As it has been stated already, liberal - as it applies to Francesco - is being open and forgiving to those who may disagree with him, with the church and its teachings and ideology.
I'm sure that there are many issues on which I would intellectually disagree with Francesco. I expect him to be "conservative" especially when it comes to conserving the best of the tradition. That's his role, his job.
What I also expect from the pope is to be encouraging of diversity intellectually, spiritually, and religiously. Francesco is after all the pontifex - the bridge builder - between ALL the Christian churches. If not, then why do we even have a papacy?
Is Papa Francesco a liberal? Maybe. Time will tell. The real litmus test for me about this papacy will be whether he begins to chart a new course on the role of women in the church. It was very encouraging in his latest interview in La Repubblica to hear these words: "Remember the church is feminine."
Liberal in temperment is just fine. Commonweal's problem with using the term is in its history. Commonweal has staked out its claim to the political left for so long, a reader will naturally equate the word "liberal" in a Commonweal piece to mean the political left. Maybe America does have a good grasp of the current enmity that exists between labels. Pope Francis appears to sound like Jesus in his approach to issues. Is there not a way to acknowledge this fact rather than trying to score points with you tired labels?
Liberal is a very 'slippery word'. It means one thing on the European Continent where it is often associated with 'freemasonery' and anti-clericalism. It means something different in Great Britain in association with the ideas of John Locke, and the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers. And it means still a third nuance when used in the United States. How one would apply it to Pope Francis depends therefore on 'where you are coming from in your mental baggage'. [There is also an 'generalised Truism' or aphorism which says: "There is nothing so rigid as a liberal in charge'. I hope that is not the attitude to be associated with Pope Francis.]
in manhattan as well as other cities & towns artists create works of art in response to great ideological shifts. the first jesuit pope has prompted playwright larry myer s own company rwm playwrights lab to mount "pope frrancis sketchbook" -- an epic, episodic & experimental drama. dr myers taught with devout catholic dr maria piscator -- wife of german communist theater guru erwin piscator. piscator gave brecht his epic concept. the new york daily news called myers "one of off broadway s wittest & more prolific playwrights" and myers' name has frequent;ly boon on the post s page six celeb page. caled peripatetoic prolific kooky & odd myers seems a likely person to stage a play aboout the new pope.
Fine analysis, Prof. Peppard. Thank you.
tiresom...and obsolete.
Well, since Francis 1 is loved by the Freemasons, Jews, and the proabortion, profeminist, progay forces inside and outside the Church then maybe "liberal" applies.
Mr. Peppard: Have you even read the New Testament? Paul's a liberal, eh? Ok, in your copy of the New Testament do you have the following passages:
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. (Galations 1:8);
There is one Lord, one faith, and one baptism (Ephesians 4:5);
And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe. 14 For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God's churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews 15 who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone 16 in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of God has come upon them at last.[b] 1Thess 2:13-16.
Francis does follow the teachings of St. Paul that all Catholics are obliged to believe-he does not believe in dogmas or doctrines or binging teachings of the Church-he curses and persecutes those who do. Do you think when he is giving witness against Christ when he participates in Jewish religious ceremonies that he cares what St. Paul said? Or St. John? or St. Peter? of St. John the Baptist? or the Lord Jesus Himself. Bergolio could care less.


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I was following the step-by-step guide on how to develop an Ubuntu Phone application but Qt Creator throughs the error message (module "QtQuick" version 2.0 is not installed) when I run it with QMLscene. Seems to me that Qt Creator utilizes Qt4 instead of Qt5. How can I fix this?
"QtQuick version 2.0 is not installed" while trying to run CurrencyConverter Example for Ubuntu Phone
You are using qmlviewer when you should be using qmlscene. Quote from the tutorial:
To start QML applications, either during the prototyping or final stages, you will use QML Scene. QML Scene is a command-line application that interprets and runs QML code.
Here's a tip: although Qt Creator does not yet support qmlscene as QML viewer, you can invoke it from within the IDE. Here's how:
You can also run QML Scene from the command line:
Hi~ I had the same problem like yours that Qt Creator throughs the error message
(module "QtQuick" version 2.0 is not installed).
And I was also following the step-by-step guide just like you. Finally I have fixed it now. this image shows that you have something wrong in configuration the qmlscene. I also had configured the qmlscene, but it had the same error like you had done.
Finally I found that when I configured the path of qmlscene , I had typed a backspace before the "/opt/qt5/bin/qmlscene" . So it didn't work. I just want to tell you what I've done to cause this error. :)
You will also have to change the default qmlviewer:
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is a friendly germ or idea that spreads itself rapidly across virtual, as well as, physical planes.
This dude spread his cootys' on the party and within minutes they all had their clothes off.
von They call me mr tibbs! 11. März 2011
a disease that only girls have! boys cannot get it because of their awesomeness!
ew that girl has a cooty!
von dippleknot 6. August 2007
A disease picked up over the weekend from the opposite sex.
Damn, what happened to you? Looks like you picked up some cooties over the weekend.
von Webster-Collins 6. Juli 2010
A highly contagious disease spread only among men. It causes the victim to exhibit large, unquantifiable amounts of asshole-ness and stupidity. It inhibits common sense and causes a depletion of brain power usually resulting in dumping, slapping, and being called names by the opposite sex. There is no known cure.
Your man has a mad case of the cooties, you should dump him.
This dude's a complete asshole, he must have cooties.
This dude's a complete asshole, he must have cooties.
von kamrizzzle 24. November 2010
According to adults (generally parents of young children): small, hairy monkey that lives in the back of one's throat; also known as "throat troll". Commonly transmitted by young children expressing affection (i.e. kissing a.k.a. swappin' spit, tonsil hockey, etc.) to the opposite sex (or "crush").
Girl: "Ew, Susie got cooties from Timmy!"
Friend's response: "Again?!"
Friend's response: "Again?!"
von b_bold 17. November 2009
To be sexually aroused. In males this usually means getting a boner, and in females wetting of the vaginal area. Can also mean being horny, though this is a less severe condition of cooties.
John: ahhh man that babe just game me cooties!
Jill: oh john stop it you're giving me cooties!
Jill: oh john stop it you're giving me cooties!
von RandomBlabberer 22. April 2010
Highly Contagious, Viral batecteria that breed inside young males and are released into the air via sweat glands when in the proximity of other young girls.
OMG! he has the cooties! EW
von ladeela 2. April 2009


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January 10, 2013
Peak season sees extra Europe-to-Cape Town flights
Cape Town is on your bucket list, your passport is valid, and now all you have to do is to find a flight to the Mother City to kick off what will be one of your most memorable holidays.
The Mother City is world-renowned as being one of the most beautiful in the world, with its many tourist attractions, including the V&A Waterfront and Table Mountain.
In December, 87 000 people flew into Cape Town from around the globe.
When you land at Cape Town International Airport, you can hop on the MyCiti airport shuttle, which will drop you in the city centre, from where you will be able to hail a taxi to take you to your accommodation.
There are a number of airlines that fly directly from major European airports to Cape Town, from as little as £759 return. Some airlines increase their flights over the peak season, which can run until May.
Virgin Atlantic Airways has put on three additional flights a week between London Heathrow and Cape Town until April. The average flight time from London Heathrow to the Mother City is about 12 hours.
Air France is running a thrice-weekly service to Cape Town. The schedule will run until May 12, towards the end of the summer season. It flies on Tuesdays, Thursday and Sundays from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris.
Lufthansa operates five flights a week between Munich and Cape Town. Its seasonal special ends on April 8.
Swiss airline Edelweiss Air operates between Cape Town and Zurich, offering two flights a week until May. The flights leave Zurich every Friday and Monday.
Condor operates direct flights from Frankfurt to Cape Town, twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays.


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More a book about Coast Guard heritage than an academic history, this book focuses on a variety of relatively unknown Coast Guardsmen who personify the service's core values. The author highlights the contributions of a variety of individuals, from seamen to admirals on active duty, as well as Reserves, Auxiliarists, and civilian members of Team Coast Guard. These heroes, representing a great diversity in age, sex, race, and ethnicity, set an example worthy of emulation and serve as role models for today's Coast Guard men and women.
C. Douglas Kroll, a U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduate and Coast Guard officer with a PhD in history, teaches at the College of the Desert in Palm Desert, CA. He is the author of Commodore Ellsworth P. Bertholf: First Commandant of the Coast Guard.
Praise for A Coast Guardsman's History of the U.S. Coast Guard
"This is a "must" read for those with Coast Guard Service, an inspiring read for those about to begin service as Coast Guardsmen, and a worthwhile acquisition for CAMP members interested in American maritime history."
— The Journal of America's Military Past, Fall 2011
"…An excellent resource guide for young Guardians and the people who support them....Kroll has done a fantastic job of capturing for the Coast Guardsman of today the pride of the service for which he toils."
— Sea History, Autumn 2011
"[Kroll] endeavored to illuminate the stories of heroes of the Coast Guard through this book and a style of narrative storytelling. He is successful. The Coast Guard slogan. 'You have to go out, but you don't have to come back' epitomizes the contributions and sacrifice of the men and women who have served." — North County Times, San Diego, March 13, 2011


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I' trying to make
SEF URL in my Joomla site which is
root/<menu-item-alias>/<view-name>/<item-alias> something like that.
I realize that if I add anything to return value of function
MyComponentBuildRoute() in
route.php, It always appear on my URL:
$segments[] = $view;
$segments[] = $item_alias;
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I take a look at com_content in Joomla and it doesn't have the
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How can I do just like the default
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Debian packages are available in the official repositories. You can check the Kdenlive packages versions here: http://packages.qa.debian.org/k/kdenlive.html.
Debian packages are available for the following architectures: [alpha] [amd64] [arm] [armel] [hppa] [hurd-i386] [i386] [ia64] [kfreebsd-i386] [kfreebsd-amd64] [m68k] [mips] [mipsel] [powerpc] [s390] [sparc]:
As root, type:
apt-get install kdenlive frei0r-plugins dvgrab recordmydesktop dvdauthor mkisofs
Upgrade to Debian Unstable
The last released version of Kdenlive is usually available within 10 days in Debian testing, but if you really want to get Kdenlive's current development version, you might want to upgrade to Debian unstable. Be aware that this is for experienced users only and might break parts of your system that are currently working. In Debian terminology, the word unstable indicates that packages are not yet in a stable release. You may experience problems with some recent packages. Make sure you understand what you are doing.
Under root account, add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
You may select mirrors in your country for faster download.
To upgrade to Debian unstable, as root type:
apt-get update;
apt-get dist-upgrade
Debian multimedia packages
Do NOT use the debian-multimedia.org repository. The debian-multimedia.org domain has now been bought by a untrusted source, please remove it from your apt list!


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Time for another round of Marry, Date, Dump! If you haven't played before, don't worry, the rules are really simple. We'll give you three guys and you have to pick which one is so perfect you'd want to marry him, which one is cute and fun, but just dating material and which one you would kick to the curb. For this round, we want to find out which Shake It Up hottie you're crushing on!
So make your picks and tell us why in the comments below! When it comes to Roshon Fegan, Kenton Duty and Adam Irigoyen which would you marry, which would you date and which would you dump?
Tell us your answers in the comments!


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From Ralph Hipp
Say goodbye to it, folks. It's about time. The Kemper Arena is Kansas City is about to be bulldozed. Let's talk about its future first.
Board members say the plan is to level the arena and build a place with a smaller footprint on the land, which will actually provide much more space for horse shows and livestock arena presentations. The American Royal is a non-profit group, so it would be Kansas City's horse and livestock universe that will benefit most from the new constuction. The American Royal will have a complete new look. The Kemper family can rebuild with as cash as they choose to contribute, that is their choice: but the family is also spearheading the fundraising drive to make the changes complete.
You know, when you drive by Kemper, you may say.. why is this old eyesore still here? Downtown Kansas City is vastly improved now, with the Sprint Center, the Power and Light District, and the new Kauffman Performing Center for the Arts. But when you see an old landmark disappear, you kinda get sentimental and think of the good things of having Kemper Arena around all those years.
Two memories are pretty clear for me. I remember living in Topeka in the late 70s and couldn't contain my excitement about going to a real NBA game with the Kansas City Kings, Phil Ford and Otis Birdsong. That was so much fun. I was remembering going to those games when I went back to Kemper much later with my new wife, hearing Toni Braxton and Kenny G in concert. That was an amazing show. I'm not an acoustics expert, but it sounded great to me. And eventually, it was back to basketball as I took my children to Kemper to watch the Harlem Globetrotters.
Now, the Sprint Center is about the third busiest concert venue in the country, can't judge the acoustics of the Center, either.. but I think it's better suited for college basketball games, perfect for that. As KC moves ahead, and changes the look of what was the Kemper Arena, we'd love to share your memories of any horse and livestock shows, concerts or games.


text: Yes I had to go and do it, make a lesson on "how to draw Stormtrooper Hello Kitty", step by step. I'm sure you've all seen some version of Hello Kitty dressed up as a Star Wars Storm Trooper. I wanted to make my version because I have been wanting to make a lesson drawing Stormtrooper Hello Kitty for a while but I wanted an excuse to make her. Thanks to the handful of members on Dragoart, I found my excuse. Have fun people and enjoy yourself.


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6 Bizarre Incidents that Prove God Hates Sports
#3. Games Plagued by Monkey Gangs and Murderous Pig Stampedes
We humans have gone all out in our continuing quest to eliminate every last hint of "wild" from the "wilderness." We've carved our forests back into neatly landscaped parks and killed or zooed any animal capable of threatening man's utter dominance. Even still, we haven't been able to hold back Mother Nature entirely. Things are even worse in the parts of the world that haven't managed to kill their jungle yet.
In India, wild animals have made such a habit of invading sports stadiums that the authorities have been forced to take brutal, unthinkable action. And by "take brutal, unthinkable action" we really mean "deploy squadrons of trained attack monkeys."
Via Wikimedia Commons
Just waiting to rip your entire face off and wear it as their own.
The city of New Delhi is often beset by animal invaders. Government offices, courts, hospitals -- even the police find themselves besieged by monkey "gangs" on a regular basis. And we aren't talking about some adorable wandering simian circus, good-naturedly flinging pooh and lampooning fat people. In 2007, one of these "gangs" hunted down and murdered the deputy mayor.
Via Wikimedia Commons
Pondering the city that they'll soon control.
The primate gangs, which we're calling "Mon-Queda," represented a major threat to India's 2010 Commonwealth Games. So New Delhi enlisted the help of 38 trained langur monkeys to stand guard over game venues. And it's a good thing they did; thanks to the SWAT monkeys, no contestants were brutally murdered by roving bands of wild animals.
Via Wikimedia Commons
A defected monkey uses his powers for good.
Which is more than we can say for Mistar, an Indonesian footballer. During a game in 1995, he was run down and trampled to death by a "stampede of pigs" that apparently had a grudge against his team. And possibly Indonesian football altogether.
#2. Space Rock Strikes Cricket Match
Cricket is one of those weird sports that apparently enjoys a vast international fan base but has almost no visibility inside the United States. If the average American has any knowledge of cricket, it comes from Calvin & Hobbes cartoons and old Monty Python sketches. If America's national indifference to cricket is a little insulting, it's at least better than the aggressive dislike shown by outer space.
God plots his revenge on sports from his mighty moon throne.
In July, 2010, Sussex took on Middlesex in Uxbridge. Surprisingly, none of that was crazy British slang for sex. All it really means is that a whole lot of British people got together for a regional cricket championship. It happens all the time (we assume) and was shaping up to be a good, standard day of cricketing.
Until the sky fell.
An alleged meteorite -- estimated to be some 4.5 billion years old -- came soaring out from space and impacted the ground five yards from the field's boundary. The space rock, which Cracked experts believe to be either an alien declaration of war or an overly enthusiastic tribute to Robert Heinlein, broke in two on impact. One chunk flew up to hit a fan enjoying his beer.
Via Telegraph
Luckily, it was British beer, so he didn't feel it.
When asked about the incident, the fan said, "It came across at quite a speed -- if it had hit me full on it could have been very interesting." Which is proof that British sports fans are either the hardest fans on Earth, or the drunkest. We're going to go with "both."
#1. Goalkeeper Crippled By Man's Best Friend
Chic Brodie signed on with Manchester City's First Division Football League in 1953, aged 16, which is like winning an NFL contract, minus all the money and drugs and sex. By 1970, Chic had everything in the world going for him. He'd made more than 200 appearances with the Brentford Bees and his name was perfect for the upcoming Disco Years.
Tell them "Chic" sent you.
And then an errant sheepdog ruined everything.
Apparently the British didn't fence off their playing fields or anything back then, because a normal, run-of-the-mill sheepdog had no trouble making his way onto the playing field during a match between the Bees and Colchester United. None of the refs or managers seemed to think the little dog was worth worrying about. He ran about happily until a flying ball caught his attention.
And just like that, soccer became fetch.
Both Brodie and the sheepdog were so focused on their separate games of "catch" that neither noticed the other until it was too late. Man and dog collided, and Chic ended up with a shattered kneecap that ended his professional career.
Via Connect.in.com
We like to think that the arm sling is from him punching the dog directly into space.
"The dog might have been small, but it just happened to be solid," quipped Brodie about his life-altering injury. No word on what happened to the dog, but we have to think he left the field that day being very good at dodging angry soccer kicks.
For more bizarre tales from sports, check out 6 Insane Sports Stories That Will Make You Believe In Curses and 7 Great Sports Moments (That Might Have Been Fixed).


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My 26 month old has begun hitting us when he doesn't get his way. When he realizes we are upset by it, we tell him that he upset us or we give him time out, he cries and tries to hug us and kiss us and says I am sorry and I won't do again. But inevitably repeats the cycle.We also tried ignoring him when he hits. But he continues to repeat this behavior. How shoudl we address?
Don't ignore it. Ignoring works okay for some things, but aggressive actions it doesn't tend to work well with. 26 months is old enough to understand that he's doing something wrong, and to be doing it for a reason.
It sounds like you're generally doing the right thing; correct him when it happens, give him a time out, and afterwards tell him that you still love him, but he needs to not hit. You may need to be more consistent; the consequence should be the same every time (at least for the same level of problem). You should make it clear that he hurt you, that you're sad - not mad or angry - and that he needs a time out to calm down so you can continue discussing whatever led to it with more calmness.
At 26 months, this won't work immediately. That's okay. Keep up the consistency, and it will change over time - probably in a few months, but it could take longer depending on the child. Stick with one consistent approach though; don't switch back and forth, and don't have multiple different possible consequences.
You might also try to figure out if there are things you can do to make him feel more comfortable with not getting his way. Do you redirect choices, so if he has to do something, but you can give him another choice? For example, he has to eat dinner with the family, but he can pick which plate he gets, or his seat, or his drink? The more he feels under control of his life, the more comfortable he will be with the times when he doesn't have control.
Just my .000002 cents.
Not sure if you guys have tried any sort of positive reinforcement on him? So basically you promote good behavior by rewarding him with things he usually loves to play with. For example, you give him a toy truck to play with because he's simply being a good boy. However, when he's hitting you guys, you don't acknowledge it, and you act as if it's no sweat. Next time around when he's just being himself and not hitting you, then you should "reward him" again by giving him with another toy or item and you make sure to state: "mommy (or daddy) is giving you this because you're being such a good boy!" More on positive reinforcement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement
Also, make sure you check his environment and who is influencing him to hit. I'm not sure what you're situation is at home, but if everything is peaceful then check his day care or any sort of care provider if you're not at a stay-at-home parent. Check what tv shows he's watching as well and limit them if possible.