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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Working Families Flexibility Act (H.R. 1406), a bill proposed by U.S. Representative Martha Roby (R-AL) to offer private sector workers the same "comp time" options public sector workers enjoy, is before the full House Committee on Education and the Workforce today for a markup.
A markup is a congressional committee meeting in which legislation is debated, amended and eventually acted upon. The markup will begin at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time in Room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building. A live webcast of the meeting is available online at http://edworkforce.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=328678.
Rep. Roby's Working Families Flexibility Act has built significant momentum since being introduced last week, gaining 141 co-sponsorships from other Members of Congress. The legislation has also gained support from several key industry groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Society for Human Resource Management.
• Removes an outdated and unnecessary federal restriction on private sector employers offering workers paid time off, or comp time, in lieu of cash wages for overtime;
• Offers working Americans in the private sector what their peers in the public sector already enjoy – more freedom and more control over their time so they can spend it the way they chose.
• Retains all existing employee protections in current law, including the 40 hour work week and how overtime compensation is accrued. The bill adds additional safeguards for workers to ensure the choice and use of comp time are truly voluntary.
• Since 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA) has dictated much about how the workplace operates, including how wages are paid. That law mandates that all overtime be paid in cash wages.
• In 1985 Congress enacted a revision to the FSLA that allowed public sector employers to offer paid time off work, or comp time, for accrued overtime. Yet, offering this flexible benefit remains illegal in the private sector.
• For several years Republicans have sought to offer private sector employers and employees the same freedom to utilize comp time that the public sector enjoys. This year's renewed effort is being led by Rep. Martha Roby, a working mom who is highlighting the bill as an opportunity to help working Americans better balance an increasing load of family responsibilities.
• The Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013 gives employers the option of offering their employees the choice of paid time off in lieu of cash wages for overtime hours worked. There would have to be a written agreement between the employer and the employee, entered into knowingly and voluntarily by the employee.
• No worker could ever be forced to take paid time off, just like no business would be forced to offer it.
• Where the employee is represented by a union, the agreement to take comp time must be part of the collective bargaining agreement negotiated between the union and the employer.
• The legislation does not affect the 40-hour workweek or change the way that overtime is calculated.
• As with cash overtime pay, comp time accrues at a "time and a half" rate: One hour of overtime worked equals one hour and a half of comp time.
• Employees could accrue up to 160 hours of comp time each year. An employer would be required to pay cash wages for any unused, accrued time at the end of the year.


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The consequences of depression being unrecognized and untreated can be tragic for the whole family. Be sure to get help for your baby's mother if you think she is having problems with postpartum depression.
The tragic consequences of postpartum depression (PPD) have recently raised the awareness of this common disorder, which affects 10 to 15 percent of new mothers. Although we often think that mothers should be only happy and excited when they have a baby, giving birth can also trigger many unwanted negative feelings and emotions. These feelings of sadness and anxiety can lead to a mild case of the "baby blues" or to a more serious disorder, such as postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis.
Postpartum depression can affect almost any mother during the first year after her baby is born, whether or not it is her first baby. Changes in hormone levels may be the cause of PPD. It is also thought that feeling tired, stressed, and overwhelmed may contribute to this condition.
New dads are often in a good position to recognize the early symptoms of postpartum depression and to offer a lot of help and support, so that a new mom doesn't get overwhelmed by all of the things that she is expected to do. Watch for the symptoms of PPD so you can get help for your partner if she needs it. Be aware of a mother who:
Of course, after their baby is born, many new mothers and fathers can have some of these symptoms. They may be tired and not have much energy, just because there are so many things to do and a lot of sleepless nights. If a mother has a few of these symptoms but also is happy and excited to be caring for her baby and otherwise seems well, then she probably doesn't have PPD.
If you think your partner is showing signs of PPD, be sure to talk to a health professional and get some help before she harms herself or her baby. You should also be on the watch for postpartum psychosis, which is a much more serious disorder. A mother who has postpartum psychosis loses touch with reality and may have hallucinations and delusions.
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What is a socket?
See there are many types of sockets hardware sockets like electrical sockets etc. and software programming sockets like what i'm going to talk about from now onwards.
See , a socket can be thought like any standard way to perform network communication through our system to another system or multiple systems . In this course I'll be only talking about establishment of connection in between two machines.
Types of sockets with respect to programming:-
Socket definations in </usr/include/bits/socket.h>
/* Types of sockets. */ enum __socket_type { SOCK_STREAM = 1, /* Sequenced, reliable, connection-based byte streams. */ #define SOCK_STREAM SOCK_STREAM SOCK_DGRAM = 2, /* Connectionless, unreliable datagrams of fixed maximum length. */ #define SOCK_DGRAM SOCK_DGRAM SOCK_RAW = 3, /* Raw protocol interface. */ #define SOCK_RAW SOCK_RAW SOCK_RDM = 4, /* Reliably-delivered messages. */ #define SOCK_RDM SOCK_RDM SOCK_SEQPACKET = 5, /* Sequenced, reliable, connection-based, datagrams of fixed maximum length. */ #define SOCK_SEQPACKET SOCK_SEQPACKET SOCK_DCCP = 6, /* Datagram Congestion Control Protocol. */ #define SOCK_DCCP SOCK_DCCP SOCK_PACKET = 10, /* Linux specific way of getting packets at the dev level. For writing rarp and other similar things on the user level. */ #define SOCK_PACKET SOCK_PACKET /* Flags to be ORed into the type parameter of socket and socketpair and used for the flags parameter of paccept. */ SOCK_CLOEXEC = 02000000, /* Atomically set close-on-exec flag for the new descriptor(s). */ #define SOCK_CLOEXEC SOCK_CLOEXEC SOCK_NONBLOCK = 04000 /* Atomically mark descriptor(s) as non-blocking. */ #define SOCK_NONBLOCK SOCK_NONBLOCK };
- Stream sockets
- UDP datagram sockets
Stream sockets:-
They are basically connection oriented reliable 2 way communication sockets. Having problem understanding that one ..
Its Ok!! i'll make it simple.
Call your friend through the phone and notice your friend receives the request in the form of a call then as he picks up both sides initiates the connection to one other and after the connection is established and each side can communicate to each other. In addition there is a confirmation that the words you speak actually reaches the other side.
Now I think you'll find it easy to gasp up.
Stream sockets use TCP/IP protocol a tutorial on this can be found on http://www.w3schools.com/tcpip/tcpip_intro.asp or i'll write a tutorial on it soon...
Drawbacks of stream sockets:-
They are two way connection sockets and they are slower in terms of sending and receiving than Datagram sockets because when we send a packet through Stream sockets it will send it and then ensure that is it reached or not then It will send back the confirmation message.
Quite a long way right...
To avoid this drawback our network gurus invented THE DATAGRAM SOCKETS yupii!!! .LOL...
We'll talk about them right down there...
ok. Now let us come to the Datagram sockets
Datagram sockets:-
What is a datagram sockets is that they are the one-way, non-reliable connectionless sockets . Yeah I'll make it easy..
Now imagine you are mailing [ not e-mailing ] a letter to your old friend staying overseas through not a very good company . You are not sure that will it reach to its destination or not. Yeah you are right out mailing service providers are quite reliable but the net is not.
So why do we need them then... man they are useless no my friend these are also very important sockets in some programs ..
some common programs using datagram sockets are :-
Softwares dealing with network games , streaming media , etc etc....because packet loss is acceptable but loss of speed unacceptable.
Disadvantages of Datagram sockets:-
These are non-reliable.. and are one-way connection based.
As per as defined in </usr/include/bits/socket.h> there are the following types of protocols :-
/* Protocol families. */ #define PF_UNSPEC 0 /* Unspecified. */ #define PF_LOCAL 1 /* Local to host (pipes and file-domain). */ #define PF_UNIX PF_LOCAL /* POSIX name for PF_LOCAL. */ #define PF_FILE PF_LOCAL /* Another non-standard name for PF_LOCAL. */ #define PF_INET 2 /* IP protocol family. */ #define PF_AX25 3 /* Amateur Radio AX.25. */ #define PF_IPX 4 /* Novell Internet Protocol. */ #define PF_APPLETALK 5 /* Appletalk DDP. */ #define PF_NETROM 6 /* Amateur radio NetROM. */ #define PF_BRIDGE 7 /* Multiprotocol bridge. */ #define PF_ATMPVC 8 /* ATM PVCs. */ #define PF_X25 9 /* Reserved for X.25 project. */ #define PF_INET6 10 /* IP version 6. */ #define PF_ROSE 11 /* Amateur Radio X.25 PLP. */ #define PF_DECnet 12 /* Reserved for DECnet project. */ #define PF_NETBEUI 13 /* Reserved for 802.2LLC project. */ #define PF_SECURITY 14 /* Security callback pseudo AF. */ #define PF_KEY 15 /* PF_KEY key management API. */ #define PF_NETLINK 16 #define PF_ROUTE PF_NETLINK /* Alias to emulate 4.4BSD. */ #define PF_PACKET 17 /* Packet family. */ #define PF_ASH 18 /* Ash. */ #define PF_ECONET 19 /* Acorn Econet. */ #define PF_ATMSVC 20 /* ATM SVCs. */ #define PF_RDS 21 /* RDS sockets. */ #define PF_SNA 22 /* Linux SNA Project */ #define PF_IRDA 23 /* IRDA sockets. */ #define PF_PPPOX 24 /* PPPoX sockets. */ #define PF_WANPIPE 25 /* Wanpipe API sockets. */ #define PF_LLC 26 /* Linux LLC. */ #define PF_CAN 29 /* Controller Area Network. */ #define PF_TIPC 30 /* TIPC sockets. */ #define PF_BLUETOOTH 31 /* Bluetooth sockets. */ #define PF_IUCV 32 /* IUCV sockets. */ #define PF_RXRPC 33 /* RxRPC sockets. */ #define PF_ISDN 34 /* mISDN sockets. */ #define PF_PHONET 35 /* Phonet sockets. */ #define PF_IEEE802154 36 /* IEEE 802.15.4 sockets. */ #define PF_MAX 37 /* For now.. */
So , in all of the above the ones we are interested in are the
#define PF_UNSPEC 0 /* Unspecified. */ #define PF_INET 2 /* IP protocol family. */ #define PF_INET6 10 /* IP version 6. */
Structs and declarations :-
First of all i'll tell you what are the actual role of these structures in our programming.. See these structures are the ones who so all the stuff to send receive data in and out . We just fill out these structures and the rest is all to just sit and watch your program work! Wait! I'm not saying that all the work done is by the structs .No. These structs are accompanied by some functions which I will mention later in this guide...
Struct sockaddr:-
/* Structure describing a generic socket address. */ struct sockaddr { __SOCKADDR_COMMON (sa_); /* Common data: address family and length. */ char sa_data[14]; /* Address data. */ };
And sa_data contains a destination address and port number for the
socket. This is rather unwieldy since you don't want to tediously pack the address in the sa_data by hand. The functions will do that for you...
struct sockaddr_in:-
struct sockaddr_in { short int sin_family; // Address family, AF_INET unsigned short int sin_port; // Port number struct in_addr sin_addr; // Internet address unsigned char sin_zero[8]; // Same size as struct sockaddr };
In the above structure :-
struct in_addr sin_addr; // Internet address
To deal with Some Ipv6 addresses our NETWORK GURUS
// (IPv6 only--see struct sockaddr_in and struct in_addr for IPv4) struct sockaddr_in6 { u_int16_t sin6_family; // address family, AF_INET6 u_int16_t sin6_port; // port number, Network Byte Order u_int32_t sin6_flowinfo; // IPv6 flow information struct in6_addr sin6_addr; // IPv6 address u_int32_t sin6_scope_id; // Scope ID }; struct in6_addr { unsigned char s6_addr[16]; // IPv6 address };
This struct is commented enough for your understanding .
I'll explain this with more detail when we'll make our programs.
Structure Sockaddr_storage
struct sockaddr_storage { sa_family_t ss_family; // address family // all this is padding, implementation specific, ignore it: char __ss_pad1[_SS_PAD1SIZE]; int64_t __ss_align; char __ss_pad2[_SS_PAD2SIZE]; };
Struct addrinfo:-
struct addrinfo { int ai_flags; // AI_PASSIVE, AI_CANONNAME, etc. int ai_family; // AF_INET, AF_INET6, AF_UNSPEC int ai_socktype; // SOCK_STREAM, SOCK_DGRAM int ai_protocol; // use 0 for "any" size_t ai_addrlen; // size of ai_addr in bytes struct sockaddr *ai_addr; // struct sockaddr_in or _in6 char *ai_canonname; // full canonical hostname struct addrinfo *ai_next; // linked list, next node };
This structure is simply used for a function getaddrinfo() which i'll get to in a minute!!!
To make our work easier our C network gurus created some top class functions to automate the automation
yeah! So here they come :-
- getaddrinfo() The most important function for me .. while programming Sockets.
- socket()
- bind() // Only for the server side
- accept //Only for the server side
- connect() // The client side
- listen() // Server side
- send()
- recv()
- sendto() // only for Dgram
- recvfrom() // only for dgram
- close()
- Shutdown()
- getpeerbyname()
- gethostbyname()
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How do I keep my Gmail contacts off my phone (Samsung Galaxy S if it matters) and at the same time keep my phone's contacts off Gmail? I don't normally do email from my phone, and when I have had to log into my account, it automatically downloaded all the contacts. I don't want to search through a bunch of email-only contacts to find the person I need to call.
In the
As onik said too, you can have it show only people with phone numbers too.
There's an option to only show contacts that have a phone number, you can set it in
Here is another option similar to @onik's reply ...
In the
First copy all your G-mail contacts to your phone. You can find this under Menu -> Manage Contacts -> Then Copy Contacts.
Choose to copy from G-mail to Phone.
All the G-mail contacts will copy over; Then you can decide which ones from the phone contacts can stay and which ones you can delete without having to worry about it "syncing" with Google and erasing important contact info.
Then you can also take it a step further and click your contact phonebook viewer. You can choose phone only, SIM, Gmail, etc; by selection. The phonebook will show only this information.
Finally for those who don't want to clutter up their phonebook with EVERY EMAIL you've ever sent - you can click under settings "view contacts with phone numbers only". This will give you a cleaner look for the phonebook.
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I'm about to create an open source desktop application. I'm primarily a .NET developer , with experience in ASP.NET and SharePoint. I've created basic Windows Forms applications before, but I have never developed using WPF or Silverlight before. I want a compelling, highly interactive UI for my desktop application. What are my technology choices for doing this, using .NET? In particular, is HTML5 something I should be considering?
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Consider WPF.
If you are unfamiliar with WPF, I recommend Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed.
WPF allows for content in web browsers or standard windows applications.
WPF also is resolution independent - the content on a mobile device has the same crisp look as the content on a 50 inch tv.
Windows Forms is limited when it comes to a highly interactive UI development compared to WPF.
I always give this advice to any developer that wants to build something on his own: focus on building the product, don't spend a large amount of time on thinking what technology to choose. There is no 100% right answer for your question because you didn't specified what the application will do, what kind of problem will solve.
My personal point of view: HTML 5 is not yet suitable for desktop applications. Just go with WPF, build an awesome desktop product, please some users, find some people to work with. Later you can consider building a HTML5 version of your application. Good luck!
Frankly, if you look around, the desktop application landscape is in complete and total flux. There are unverified rumors that future Silverlight support is wavering and according to an ex (and potentially disgruntled) MS project manager it is effectively dead, WPF is getting a younger, cooler brother with a much larger friends list in Windows 8 (WinRT), and Windows Forms can't deliver modern application experiences.
So, while I agree that today Silverlight/WPF are the best choices for a Rich Desktop UI in .NET, if you're interested in future-proofing your project and, perhaps, your career, I would urge you to consider implementing it as an HTML 5 application following an approach similar to the Microsoft Patterns & Practices Group's Project Silk.


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This is somewhat computer related as well.
If one installs myspell package in Ubuntu, it would download files for Spanish Spanish, and files for e.g. Argentinian Spanish would be just symlinks to it. Which means that as far as spellchecker is concerned, there's only one Spanish.
I wonder if it's useable like that? If not, maybe you are aware of myspell dictionaries for different variants of Spanish and could provide a link?
Now yes, it's about software, but it needs an answer from actual speakers, so I decided to post it here, not at stackoverflow or poweruser.
Thanks in advance for your help.


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News about Kevin Brown, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Highlights From the Archives
Steroid Report Cites 'Collective Failure'
Dozens of baseball stars, including seven M.V.P.'s, were named in a report on the use of illegal, performance-enhancing drugs during the sport's "steroids era."December 14, 2007 sportsNews
Baseball Is a Frustrating Sport. Sometimes, the Players Need to Vent.
Failure is a big part of baseball, and the Mets have just visited two stadiums that have dedicated areas where players can release their frustrations.
July 6, 2016, Wednesday
Anger Mismanagement: Volcanic Athletes and Impetuous Acts
Amar'e Stoudemire of the Knicks is the latest in a long line of professional athletes to fight an inanimate object — a fire extinguisher — and lose.
May 2, 2012, Wednesday
The Final Word on Kevin Brown
A pitcher maligned as a mercenary had a career worthy of further consideration for the Hall of Fame.
January 6, 2011, Thursday
Kevin Brown's Contract: Another View
Another view of Kevin Brown's contract
January 4, 2011, Tuesday
For Critics of Lee's Contract, Brown Deal Is Not Supporting Evidence
There's no doubting that seven-year deals for pitchers in their 30s are often bad bets. However, the choice of Kevin Brown to personify this is mystifying.
January 3, 2011, Monday
With Pitchers' Contracts, 7 Is Unlucky Number
Long-term contracts for pitchers are full of risk, as the deals for Kevin Brown (7 years), Barry Zito (7) and Mike Hampton (8) have shown. Don't even ask about Wayne Garland (10).
December 10, 2010, Friday
The Iraq Debacle and U.S. Power
To the Editor: In ''The Iraq Syndrome, R.I.P.'' (column, Feb. 1), David Brooks asserts that ''the U.S. has no cultural need to retrench'' and that the American ''hegemon will live.'' In doing so, Mr. Brooks seems to promote several dangerous...
February 2, 2007, Friday
Brown Goes on Disabled List; Rookie to Start in His Place
After yesterday's 8-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs, Yankees Manager Joe Torre announced that starter Kevin Brown had been put on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to Thursday.
June 19, 2005, Sunday
Henn Is Set To Start For Brown
Kevin Brown may be able to escape the disabled list, but his latest back injury will cost him at least his next start on Monday. The left-hander Sean Henn will join the Yankees from Class AAA Columbus and make the start against the Tampa Bay Devil...
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In his second start of June 2004, Kevin Brown hurt his back, and he did not pitch again until July 30. In his second start of June 2005, on Wednesday, Brown hurt his back again. He might not be out as long this time, but with Brown's back, the...
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Details http://shop.panasonic.com/support-only/DMC-ZR3S.html
- Ultra Compact 25mm Lens and 10X Intelligent Zoom
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- Issues Addressed: Optimization of Light amount for INON external flash(S-2000/D-2000/Z-240)
- Release Date: 5-27-2010
- Operating Systems: windows/mac
- Digital Still Cameras - Connecting to a Mac
- How to Import Pictures Using iPhoto Software
- How to Transfer Pictures to a PC using the Photo Gallery Software.
- Photo Fun Studio 5 - How to Convert from AVCHD to MPEG2
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- Panasonic Digital Camera Software Install
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- Sensor Size / Total Pixels / Filter 1/2.33-inch / 14.5 Total Megapixels / Primary Color Filter
- Aperture F3.3 - 5.9 / 2-Step (F3.3 - 10 (W) / F5.9 - 18 (T))
Optical Zoom8x
Focal Lengthf=4.5-36.0mm (25-200mm in 35mm equiv.)
- Extra Optical Zoom (EZ) 9.5x (4:3 / 10M), 11.3x (4:3 / 7M), 13.5x (5M) 16.9x(under 3M)
- Intelligent Zoom 10x
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(4 Aspherical Lenses / 6 Aspherical surfaces)
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( Max. 32.0 x combined with Optical Zoom without Extra Optical Zoom )
(Max.67.5x combined with Extra Optical Zoom)
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(Selectable at Portrait, Soft Skin, Transform, Self-Portrait, Panorama Assist, Sports, Baby, Pet, High Sensitivity, Highspeed Burst, Pinhole, Photo Frame, High Dynamic)
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Image with Audio: JPEG (DCF / Exif2.21) + QuickTime
Motion picture: AVCHD Lite / QuickTime Motion JPEG
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- Still Picture Recording 4:3 4320x3240(14M) / 3648x2736(10M) / 3072x2304(7M) / 2560x1920(5M) / 2048X1536(3M) / 640X480(0.3M)
- Still Picture Recording 3:2 4320x2880 (12.5M) / 3648x2432 (9M) / 3072x2048 (6M) / 2560x1712 (4.5M) / 2048x1360 (2.5M) / 640x424 (0.3M)
- Still Picture Recording 16:9 4320x2432 (10.5M) / 3648x2056 (7.5M) / 3072x1728 (5.5M) / 2560x1440 (3.5M) / 1920x1080 (2M) / 640x360 (0.2M)
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Approx. .30lb without Battery and SD Memory Card
- Digital Red Eye Correction (Red-Eye Removal) Photo
- Mode Switch [Recording] / [Playback]
- Easy Zoom / Zoom Resume No / No
- Thumbnails / Zoomed Playback 12,30-thumbnails / Max 16x
- Calendar Display / Dual-Image Playback Yes / No
- Set Favorites / Rotate Image Yes / No
- DPOF Print Setting / Set Protection Yes / Yes
- Resize / Trim / Aspect Conv. / Leveling Yes / Yes / No / Yes
- Travel Date / World Time Yes / Yes
- Built-in-Memory Approx. 40MB
- Microphone / Speaker Mono / Yes
ID-Security Li-ion Battery Pack (3.6V, Minimum: 895mAh) (Included)
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- AF Tracking Photo
- Intelligent Resolution Technology Photo & Movie
- CRT(motion pictures)AVCHD Lite with picture quality set to [SH] Approx. 110 min
- CRT MOTION JPEG with picture quality set to [HD] Approx. 110 min
- Still Image with Audio Recording 5 sec
- Video Divide Yes
- ART(motion pictures)AVCHD Lite with picture quality set to [SH] Approx. 55 min
- ART(motion pictures) MOTION JPEG with picture quality set to [HD] Approx. 55 min
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The Icelandic midfielder has targeted another unbeaten run for Champions League contenders Spurs, starting with the Europa League clash against the Italian giants on ThursdayTottenham midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson has admitted that the 3-2 defeat to Liverpool on Sunday was disappointing but says the team is already focusing on their next match against Inter Milan.
Spurs' 12-match unbeaten run came to an end at Anfield, a game which Andre Villas-Boas' side were leading 2-1, until some costly errors in defence.
And the Icelandic international admitted that the run would always come to an end but says it will provide extra motivation as they play in the Europa League on Thursday.
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Jazz is flourishing on the CU-Boulder campus where big band pioneer Glenn Miller attended school in the 1920s and where today's music students are making recordings that earn national attention.
Since 1996, when the Jazz Studies Program was formally established at CU-Boulder, the program has been distinguishing itself as a place where future generations of jazz masters are being trained and where community appreciation for jazz is advanced year round.
Graduate student Amy Peck took a leave of absence from teaching instrumental music and directing a high school jazz program in Whitby, Ontario, to study jazz performance and pedagogy at CU. She learned about the program from John Davis, director of the Jazz Studies Program, when he gave a clinic on band performance in Canada.
"I thought getting a master's degree here would be the perfect place for me to keep pushing myself to do more performing," said Peck, who plays the saxophone. "It's a special community feel in the jazz studies program and we're all supportive of each other. I can't imagine any other place that's like this program."
This year, CU-Boulder alumni Jeannie and Jack Thompson committed $1.6 million to the jazz studies program and helped raise matching donations to establish a new endowment totaling $2 million. In honor of the gift, the already-existing program was renamed the Thompson Jazz Studies Program. This is CU-Boulder's first named academic program.
"It's not just the gift itself that's so amazing," said Peck. "When we're onstage performing and look into the audience, the Thompsons are always there. And they're the first to come up on stage to talk to us and offer congratulations. It makes taking risks and doing the things you need to do to become a better musician much more fun when you have that kind of community support."
Davis expects the endowment to help fund guest artist residencies, professional recordings of CU jazz ensembles and trips to national competitions, he said. "The sky's the limit on how the endowment will benefit the program," said Davis.
The program offers an undergraduate major as well as master's and doctoral degrees. In addition, each year more than 1,300 non-music major undergraduates take the history of jazz classes, according to Davis.
"It's important for students to learn about jazz history because of its uniqueness to our heritage," said Davis. "The history of our country is reflected in the progression and development of jazz, especially between 1910 and 1970. You can track what was going on in the country socially and economically through the different types of jazz. In the 1960s when social rules were being broken and boundaries were being pushed, jazz exploded with avant-garde and free style."
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Davis has been director since 1999. In that time, the program has been awarded 14 Down Beat magazine awards for student recordings and is recognized as one of the university's "core programs of excellence." Davis recently published the Historical Dictionary of Jazz, a monumental reference book that covers the history of jazz and includes a dictionary section with more than 1,500 cross-referenced entries, from significant jazz performers and bands to recordings and record labels.
Sophomore Riley O'Toole, who is majoring in jazz studies for piano as well as computer science, vividly remembers an uncomfortable, yet valuable, learning experience. In a master class concert presented last year, Jon Faddis, a jazz trumpet player renowned for his playing and for his expertise in the field of music education, critiqued O'Toole's piano playing.
"His critique was brutal, but I did learn a lot," said O'Toole. "The master classes here are great. We recently had a 2½-hour master class given by Art Lande, a fantastic jazz pianist."
In addition to bandleader great Glenn Miller, the university's jazz lineage includes CU-Boulder alumni Dave and Don Grusin. Dave is an artist, arranger and producer, and has won an Academy award and numerous Grammy Awards. Don is a Grammy Award-winning musician, songwriter, producer and keyboardist.
"Everything the Grusins have accomplished in their careers is astounding," said Davis. "They're so generous with their time and have conducted many music workshops, performances and master classes at CU over the years.
"We enhance our students' experiences with an ongoing slate of guest clinicians throughout the year," he said. "Our students graduate with the skills and experiences that make them competitive right away in the performance market."
Jazz Appreciation Month, each April, pays tribute to the rich history of jazz as America's original art form. Through the Thompson Jazz Studies Program, the music's lines and phrases and riffs will continue to be taught and celebrated because jazz is cool, man.


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26 Sep 2012 2:51 PM #1
Unanswered: iOS 6 with Sencha Touch 1.1 file upload
After choosing a file via a "Choose File" button (input type="file") on an iOS6 iPhone, I encounter a strange behavior almost everytime. The "Take Photo...Choose Existing" dialog reapears on my first tap after the original choosing.
<html> <head> <title>image upload test</title> <!--iOS 6 and Sench-Touch-1.1 cause a toast window to reappear after choosing a file and tapping anywhere --> <script type="text/javascript" src="/_m/assets/libraries/Sencha-Touch-1.1/sencha-touch-debug.js"></script> <meta name="viewport" content="maximum-scale=0.6667; width=480" /> </head> <body> <form action="ImgUploadTestPost.aspx" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="imgPost"> <input type="file" name="upload1" /> </form> </body> </html>
I have not looked too far into this, but wondered if anyone else has run into this.
28 Sep 2012 6:06 AM #2
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15 Oct 2012 7:52 AM #3
File input control in sencha 1 for IOS6 issue
Even i am facing the same issue.
There is no need of special javascript code or something.
Just put a file control in any specific sencha container or panel. Tap on the Html File control, the Camera Roll menu opens some where else where we tapped previously.
It even gets opened for the second time when you tap some where else.
22 Oct 2012 12:05 PM #4
Anyone found a solution for this one? We'll probably have to dig ourselves in the sencha 1.1 code.
This is doing the same here. You click on the file input and after selecting a pic (or cancelling), no matter where you click it will open the file dialog again.
In addition to this, you cant have the file dialog opened by triggering the click on the html file input (which I know works perfectly in iOS6 for doing it in jQuery mobile)
25 Oct 2012 8:29 AM #5
So for those of you stuck in sencha 1.1. The problem is that when you click on a file input in ios6, 2 'touchstart' events are being triggered. (dunno why)
Ugly hack details:
In Sencha, find the Ext.gesture.Manager object.
After: clickMoveThreshold: 5,
add: preventNextTouchStart: false,
In the onTouchStart function of that same object.
if (this.isFrozen) {
if (Ext.is.iOS && target.type === 'file') {
if (this.preventNextTouchStart) {
this.preventNextTouchStart = false;
} else {
this.preventNextTouchStart = true;
} else {
this.preventNextTouchStart = false;
20 Dec 2012 8:09 AM #6
Same problem on Sencha Touch 2.0
I´m having the same problem in Sencha Touch 2.0
When I select a photo from my ipad or iphone with ios 6.0 I can see the fake url but when a submit the foto I was asked to select the photo again and the post doesn't send the photo to the server.
The same code works on android.
17 Apr 2013 11:00 PM #7
Thanks Ethorsen,
you made my day !
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12 May 2014 8:51 AM #8
You've saved my bacon. This one was awful as I was originally trying to use an iFrame to isolate the input field from the ST event system. However, this led to its own set of issues (not advisable to take this route - explanation below).
Why not to use an iFrame to try to solve this problem:-
If you have the input field in a form which is part of a ST XTEMPLATE, and the form is modified as part of the upload and if you have to update the template again (e.g. navigating to a sub-view and back again during the upload), the form changes will be lost. If you try to remove and re-attach the iframe to the DOM, weird things can happen. The iframe may reload, and the browser probably doesn't like to be detached from the DOM during the upload. Anyway in short, it is much simpler to just fix the issue using the fix as outlined by Ethorsen (many thanks for posting solution).
3 Jun 2016 5:48 AM #9
Thank you Ethorsen, i needed that
this.preventNextTouchStart = true;
works now "<input type="file">"
Thank you so much.


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BELTON (February 4, 2013)--After 20 years, Alvin Ord's sandwich shop, Suite 6 of Bluebonnet Plaza, is no longer in business citing the poor economy for its closure.
Their phone number has been disconnected and a poster has now been taped to the door that was once booming with customers headed in and out of the restaurant.
"Due to the poor economy and the continuous rising costs of operation, we can no longer afford to be competitive," the poster reads.
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MACC 605 Financial Statement Analysis (3-0-3), spring. This graduate level seminar includes (1) financial ratio and trend analysis; (2) financial industry differences analysis; (3) liquidity/solvency assessment; (4) earnings, cash flow, valuation, and risk forecasting; and (5) analyzing international financial reporting issues.
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The Cupcake Diaries: Recipes and Memories from the Sisters of Georgetown Cupcake (Hardcover)
In this delectable cookbook and memoir, sisters and stars of the hit TLC series DC Cupcakes inspire readers with their recipe for success: equal parts determination, smarts, and the belief that if you do what you love, you can t fail.
When sisters Katherine Kallinis and Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne took a leap of faith and quit their secure jobs in fashion and finance to open a small cupcakery together, they knew they were risking it all. But from when they were little, their Greek grandmother Babee instilled in them a love of baking and the fire to follow their dreams. From the moment they opened the doors to Georgetown Cupcake, crowds have been clamoring for their sweet, wholesome treats; they sell as many as 10,000 cupcakes a day. And for two seasons, fans have been following their escapades including making a giant bra, a slot machine, and a wedding gown out of cupcakes on the hit TLC series DC Cupcakes.
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Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare 2 launches in February
EA and Popcap's surprise hit Plants vs Zombies shooter spinoff Garden Warfare will receive a sequel release in early 2016.
Free-to-play Peggle Blast launches on iOS, Android
EA has released Peggle Blast – a free-to-play take of PopCap's Peggle franchise – on iOS and Android.
Peggle 2 arrives on PS4 in October
Peggle 2 will end its Xbox exclusivity next month when it launches on PlayStation 4, developer PopCap has revealed.
MARGIN MAKERS: Guide to Plants vs Zombies merchandise
The addictive mix of horticulture and horror in PopCap's tower defence game has sprouted sequels, spin-offs and plenty of products. MCV gets green-fingered
Oculus VR adds PopCap producer Bernard Yee
Oculus VR has hired former Plants vs Zombies 2 senior producer Bernard Yee, adding yet another industry veteran to its ranks.
Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare confirmed for PlayStation consoles
Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare will launch on both PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 hardware in August, developer PopCap has confirmed.
EA pulls original Peggle in New Zealand as F2P version is introduced
A free-to-play version of PopCap puzzler Peggle has arrived on the iOS App Store – at the expense of the existing paid version.
Microtransactions are coming to Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare
EA has said that microtransactions will be added to console title Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare this week.
Delay for Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare on Xbox One
PopCap has revised its release date for Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare on Xbox One.
Plants vs Zombies 2 launches on Android
Plants vs Zombies 2 has launched for Android devices, available now as a free download on the Google Play store.
PvZ: Garden Warfare strictly multiplayer, will carry mid-tier price
Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare will be a multiplayer only affair, a fact EA states will allow the publisher to sell it at a lower price online and at retail.
Plants vs Zombies 2 PopCap's biggest release ever, according to CEO
PopCap CEO Dave Roberts has dubbed the iOS launch of Plants vs Zombies 2 the company's biggest release to date.
Former Valve, PopCap developers form Temple Gates Games
Former Plants vs Zombies developers Tod Sample and Jeff Gates have split from their current positions at Valve to form new indie studio Temple Gates Games.
Plants vs Zombies 2 pushed past July release date
Plants vs Zombies 2 will miss its previously announced release date of July 18th, PopCap has confirmed.


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6 Horrifying Implications of Awesome Fantasy Movie Universes
#3. The Star Trek Galaxy
In the idyllic future that is Star Trek, warp speed allows mankind to travel in comfortable starships to the furthest regions of the galaxy. Rather than barren rocks and lifeless stars surrounded by light-years of nothingness, this universe is inhabited with fascinating metaphors for humanity, wise philosophers and whole races of humanoid female aliens who want to learn want love is.
On top of this, in the human society of Star Trek, abundance and satisfaction are so widespread that money is actually obsolete. People work simply for the joy of it. And the jobs are great, particularly in Starfleet: intrepid space adventurer, hardcore science officer, seducer of many babes.
Great, right?
Why It Would Suck
Starfleet, which apparently holds a monopoly on cool space exploration in Star Trek, is run pretty much exactly like a military organization. And in the average military, the ratio of officers to enlisted averages around five to one. On Star Trek, we usually just see the officers' decks, quarters and day-to-day life. What we don't see is that the majority of people on starships--the enlisted--clearly work in places like engineering, in unsafe conditions around unstable bulkheads and vats of flesh-eating gas.
Petty Officer Ricky, RIP.
Well, we do see them sometimes, when something explodes and they are graphically ejected into space to die in slow agony, their bodies destined to float through the void for all time with shrieks of pain still frozen on their faces. But more often we hear about their deaths in passing, while the camera zooms in on Captain Kirk or Picard's face so we can see his guilt over the death of so many of his men. That's your life, majority of people in Starfleet. A passing bad mood before Kirk cheers himself up by bedding a green-skinned woman on his sparkly bed made of gold.
But at least these poor dudes can relax after work in the flesh-eating gas room with a stiff drink, right? Wrong. In Star Trek, you drink synthehol, a drink with all the pleasant-tastingness of whiskey but without its "undesirable elements" like well, drunkenness.
So in this galaxy, you can't even get drunk and fantasize about the sparkly officer's sheets that without a currency, you can't even save up to buy.
#2. Pandora
The inhabitants of James Cameron's fantasy moon live at one with nature in an unspoiled world full of beautiful glowing plants and ubiquitous high-speed Internet connections. The kind, attractive locals, the Na'vi, spend their days hunting fantastical creatures from the air and worshipping their gentle mother goddess.
As if that's not enough, when times are tough they allow outsiders to ease their Western guilt by fighting with them against their greedy corporate oppressors. In our disconnected, technologically advanced world, it's only natural that many would want to join the Na'vi and live in a place where you can fight dinosaurs and communicate via fiber optic cable in one day.
Pretty rad, yes?
Why It Would Suck
You wake up in a daze one glorious Pandora morning among the helicoradian plants, after a long night featuring way too many unobtainium cookies and fermented rainforest dew. As you cough and squint your eyes against the fading bioluminescence, the Na'vi woman next to you whose name you can't remember turns happily and says: "Now we are mated for life."
"Should have let that panther thing kill me."
If you thought that annulling a Vegas marriage was complicated, try getting out of a relationship after Na'vi sex. Sleep with a person once and find out that you're not sexually compatible? Your life partner loses interest in you, and starts synching up with the neural whips of every life form in town? Too bad. You're stuck with her forever, because there's no divorce in paradise.
Oh well, at least you can get some private time all alone in your bunk, right? Wrong. The Na'vi sleep in close proximity to each other in their giant tree, in improbably dangerous hammocks.
That's right, communal barracks. Even if you're lucky and nobody near you snores, you still have to contend with continuing the Na'vi species while your grandmother lies in bed three hammocks away, wide awake in silent, repulsed horror.
#1. The Star Wars Galaxy
Space princesses, precarious ledge battles, faster-than-light travel across the galaxy. Who wouldn't want to live in a world where you can pick right up and travel into space without even having to take your shoes off or walk through one of those nude scanners?
And then there's the infinite number of worlds to explore (each with perfectly breathable atmosphere) and alien races to impress with your cool midichlorian powers. What better place is there to spend your life?
Why It Would Suck
The medical care.
At first glance, the medical technology in Star Wars looks far more advanced than ours. After Luke's hand is lopped off by Darth Vader, he is easily provided with another robotic one which is virtually indistinguishable from a real hand. Even a generation before that, Anakin Skywalker is given a not-quite-as-natural-looking but still functional robot arm.
But once you look more closely, this apparently superior medical science falls apart like a battle droid who has been kicked in the chest by a four-year-old girl. Let's take Anakin Skywalker. Horribly burned, in the care of the best droids the Galactic Republic has to offer. We see the future Darth Vader is operated on without any form of anesthetic, in a galaxy where nobody's invented skin grafts or even simple bandages.
But, you say, "How often do people need that kind of surgery? I'll just stay away from lava pits, and I'll be fine." Well, the Star Wars galaxy also shows us a far more common medical experience: childbirth.
Padme Amidala, a rich ex-Queen who presumably has health insurance, gives birth to twins unsedated and with her legs held together in some sort of narrow metal skirt, apparently because the delivery droid is highly religious and didn't want to see any naked woman parts.
And then there's the glimpse of what can only be described as a "birth paddle":
That sound you hear is a million women crossing their legs in terror, and then being suddenly silenced.
You might argue that this birth experience wasn't typical. They were on an asteroid, after all. Maybe Padme wasn't sedated because she wanted a natural childbirth, which somehow includes robots. But if this was the case, why, when Anakin had a premonition about his wife dying in childbirth, did he try to make a deal with a Sith Lord rather than just admitting her to a good clinic?
The only obvious answer is that he knew that medical care was universally shitty, and that the droids in the medical industry hate humanity and will routinely let patients die with bullshit excuses about them "losing the will to live." Say what you want about our health care system, but you try that shit and you're about to get handed one hell of a malpractice lawsuit.
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While many couples end up owning property together, others choose to rent for life. And even couples who plan to buy their own house or flat may start off living together in a rented property. But what are your rights if you rent as a couple? And what happens if you split up? Can you stay on in the property? If you're married you have rights when it comes to a home you share, but if you live together it's not so clear.
Renting from a private landlord
The vast majority of rental agreements in the private sector are assured shorthold tenancy. If you both sign the tenancy agreement (so it's a joint tenancy), it gives you certain protection, but it also means you're each responsible for the rent.
Joint tenancy:
– You are each liable for the rent. In legal terms, you're 'jointly and severally' liable, which means the landlord can claim the entire rent from either one of you (if you split up, for example).
SAVVY TIP: According to John Coyne a landlord and adviser to the National Landlords' Association, ultimately, your landlord could pursue you through the courts for the rent. "In practice most would try and reach an agreement with the tenant who remains to cover the rent until they can get someone else to move in or until the tenancy comes to an end".
– You may have the option of remaining in the property. The landlord should be happy for either partner to stay on in the property if the relationship breaks down if you can cover the rent.
SAVVY TIP: Make sure you get agreement in writing that the landlord is happy to give you a tenancy in your name only before you or your partner serve notice to leave. Once that's been done, the tenancy agreement is ended and you have no right to remain in the property beyond the notice period.
– If you end the agreement early. If you and your partner decide that you want to end the tenancy agreement early you may lose part or all of your deposit if your landlord loses out financially.
SAVVY TIP: Tenancy agreements come in two types: fixed term and periodic. If it's a fixed term tenancy agreement (such as six months or a year) you can only end it at the end of the fixed term or when you have a break clause. If it's periodic (say, for example, you originally had a six month tenancy and have remained in the property but not signed a new agreement), you can normally give at least a month's notice. There's a (quite lengthy) guide to tenancy agreements which you can download from the government's communities.gov.uk website. Information about fixed and periodic tenancies is on page 8.
Sole tenancy:
– If the tenancy is in your name: You can ask your (ex) partner to leave. This can be as informal as a conversation or it can be in writing. You have to give 'reasonable' notice, but what counts as reasonable is open to interpretation.
SAVVY TIP: You don't have to go to court as your partner has no right to remain there if they are not on the tenancy agreement According to the advice website Advicenow.org.uk you probably wouldn't be expected to give more than 28 days notice – and it could be less.
– If the tenancy is in your partner's name. If you moved in with your boyfriend or girlfriend and the tenancy is in their name only, you don't have any right to remain in the property if your relationship breaks up.
SAVVY TIP: The fact that you're a couple who live together doesn't give you any rights under the law in England and Wales. However, you could go to court if you have children and would otherwise be homeless (or if you've been the victim of domestic violence).
– If you want to take over the tenancy. If your partner had the tenancy agreement in his or her name and left the property, you might be able to take out a new tenancy agreement in your own name.
SAVVY TIP: Most landlords should be happy to negotiate, even if they weren't aware that you'd been living in the property already — it's a commercial decision. If the rental flat is in an area of high demand where it can be easily rented out you may find the landlord is far less sympathetic.
– The person who signed the rental agreement would have to relinquish it. If you were the partner remaining in the property you wouldn't be able to take over the tenancy agreement unless your partner gave written agreement that he or she was happy to give it up (an email or even a text can be used).
SAVVY TIP: The landlord would want to carry out the usual references and checks before he or she would be happy to take you on as a tenant.
Related articles:
Why you may need a living together agreement
Couples where one is a saver, the other a spender
Useful links
The independent advice organisation Advicenow has a useful booklet on renting together.
The housing charity Shelter has lots of information for tenants.
The Landlord Law Blog has lots of tips for landlords on tenancy agreements and has a section called 31 days of tenancy agreement tips. Although it's aimed at landlords, it's useful for tenants as well.
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Former Wisconsin Senator and co-chair for President Obama's re-election campaign Russ Feingold visited campus for a series of classroom discussions, presentations, and interviews beginning on Tuesday, November 13, and concluding Wednesday, November 14, with a community-wide discussion in the Student Center.
Known for leading the fight for campaign finance reform in the U.S. Senate by co-sponsoring the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (commonly known as the "McCain–Feingold Act"), Feingold represented Wisconsin in the Senate for 18 years. Serving on the Judiciary, Foreign Relations, Budget, and Intelligence Committees, he was the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act and was the first senator to propose a timetable to exit Iraq.
His new book, While America Sleeps, addresses the failings of America domestically and abroad since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and suggests what steps need to be taken to ensure that the next decade is focused on the international problems that threaten American citizens.


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Don't just sit there
He's Presidential.
Last Friday I played a fundraiser for Barack Obama. During a break in the festivities, a local representative exhorted attendees to become active and join a bus tour leaving for New Hampshire the next morning to go door to door campaigning for Obama. My musician friend playing the gig with me declined the bus tour, but the next day I received an email from him which I reprint below for the benefit of any here who feel moved to get involved politically. If we do something, it will have an effect. If we do nothing and sit around we have only ourselves to blame for the country falling into the hands of John McCain and (ulp) Sarah Palin. It could happen. Let's not let it. Just a suggestion. Herewith, the words of my friend:
Dear Everyone,
Two nights ago I went to an Obama rally. The speaker, head of the Mass. Obama campaign, said, "If you think you can just go to your Tuesday night bridge club, your Wednesday night bowling league, and your Thurs night movie and expect a political change in this country, you're dead wrong."
So I've discovered a really easy way to volunteer. Just go to www.mybarackobama.org, and they will provide ways you can work in your own neighborhood or even from your own desk. I just made about 35 calls to voters in Ohio and New Hampshire, with phone numbers--and a script!--the website provided. I didn't even have to take off my bathrobe, which most of you know is what I usually wear around the house.
Does it matter? Here's a short story: Years ago, I lived in New Orleans when Louisiana tried to legalize gambling. (Of course, they succeeded.) I knew a progressive woman, Jackie Clarkson, on the city council who represented the swing vote. Like me, she adamantly opposed gambling. She was up for re-election in a couple of days, and her vote could turn the tide. I thought, "What if I call 10 people and ask them to call 10 people, etc?"
I didn't do it. It was just an idea I could have done. Two days later, Clarkson lost the election by 27 votes.
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The 6 Most Horrifying Ways Hospitals Can Kill You
#3. Tube Mix-Ups
Anyone who has faced a prolonged hospital stay is familiar with the sensation of having tubes shoved into every orifice. Blood transfusions, catheters, IVs, colostomy bags and feeding tubes all work together to keep you alive and looking like some kind of science-fiction experiment. Unfortunately, it's a little-known fact that connecting all these tubes to their corresponding body holes is kind of like hooking up a surround-sound system to a new TV, only if all of the wires were the same color and shape, and nothing was labeled.
"Wait is this the one for air or gravy?"
Oh, and hooking up the wrong wire to the wrong port can kill a sick person.
For convenience, hospital tubes are almost all one-size-fits-all, whether it's delivering much-needed blood into your veins or injecting delicious gruel into your face. But mix them up, and you have serious problems, as one woman tragically discovered when she died from having liquid chicken pumped into her bloodstream, which has been described as like "pouring concrete down a drain."
Other tube-related mistakes that were not given such colorful analogies include drowning caused by IV drips crossed with oxygen tubes, embolisms caused by air tubes connected to the vein and spinal anesthetic injected in places where you really don't want spinal anesthetic. Wait, isn't anyone labeling these things?
There you go, hospitals. No need to thank us.
It's estimated that 16 percent of all hospital patients experience tube mix-ups, which result in hundreds of deaths each year. Hospitals blame the manufacturers, manufacturers blame the FDA, and the FDA just tells everyone to shut the fuck up and use a marker or something.
#2. Going Insane All of a Sudden
If you somehow manage to survive rogue magnets and spontaneous fireballs, it's disconcerting to think that sometime during your hospital stay, you might just go insane for no reason. Highly documented and yet utterly inexplicable, "hospital delirium" is a rapidly growing phenomenon that seems best suited to the plot of some kind of apocalypse movie.
All this zombie nonsense is going to lead to an awesome wave of dementia in about 60 years.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Justin Kaplan is one of the people who experienced hospital delirium firsthand. While hospitalized for pneumonia in 2009, Kaplan suddenly started, for absolutely no reason, to visualize thousands of tiny, despotic alien monsters trying to take over the hospital by converting people into zombies. Shit, we're sure Mr. Kaplan has written some really neat stuff over the years, but if we were judging the awards, we'd give him another Pulitzer.
... goes to "Army of Tiny Alien Zombie Masters"!
Later, while trying to attack the aliens' "television production studio," Kaplan struck the nurse, threatened to kill his wife, fell off the bed and kept sliding across the floor on his own blood, almost dying in the process. These hallucinations lasted for a couple of hours.
According to Dr. Manuel N. Pacheco, hospital delirium tantrums are quite common, to the amount of almost one a day, at the Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass. They mostly affect older people, and are often confused for good old-fashioned elderly crazy. But being crazy doesn't usually kill you -- not so with hospital delirium.
Poor dear, she's trying to buy tampons and a .45 ACP with three food stamps and a button.
Take Ethel Reynolds, who was admitted to a Virginia hospital for a routine procedure to have fluid drained from her feet but wound up hospitalized for weeks after she came down with a chronic case of batshit. A nurse later recounted, "We got her death certificate, and the No. 1 cause of death was delirium. I was just blown away. As a nurse, I was expecting a quote-unquote medical reason: kidneys, heart, lung, an organ that I could understand had failed, and it wasn't. It was delirium."
There are some known triggers of these bursts of insanity, like old age, infections, pneumonia or certain medications, but the underlying cause is still unknown. We suppose it's because doctors don't want to accept the "Hospitals are really portals to hell" theory.
But it explains EVERYTHING!
#1. Superbugs
Getting an infection at the hospital is like spontaneously combusting at the fire department -- if it's going to happen anywhere, that's the safest place, right? Oh, how we envy your naivete.
We've already explained how the overabundance of antibiotics actually creates horrifying, medication-proof superdiseases. But we didn't tell you the best part: What's the one place in your city where a shitload of medication and a shitload of diseases come together to mingle? That's right -- your hospital is kind of like a factory for turning microbes into Highlanders. And there can be only one.
And it probably isn't you.
Due to the universe's love for irony, hospitals are the ideal breeding ground for these superbugs, specifically because of how clean they try to be. When you rigorously disinfect stuff, you're killing all but the very strongest of bacteria. And while you might think that killing 99 percent of the germs in your hospital is just short of ideal, think again -- not only have you given that superbug more room to breathe, but you've just disposed of all its enemies.
As a result, up to 100,000 people a year are killed by antibiotic-proof diseases that they picked up in hospitals. This basically makes every hospital a potential local chapter of the germ League of Evil. The resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, for example, has a mortality rate close to 80 percent.
Above: One Bad Dude.
Part of the problem is in how hospitals perform disinfections. By using antimicrobial wipes on more than one surface, cleaning staff give superbugs a free ride to other parts of the hospital, where, like most hitchhikers, they immediately start killing people. The good news is that by simply using one disinfecting wipe on one surface, hospitals can easily avoid spreading the superbugs. It would of course bite into their budgets, but we're sure our health care system would never put money above patient safety.
God, we just have so many of these pictures.
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A winter storm watch has been posted for all of southern Illinois from Tuesday evening through Wednesday morning.
Heavy snow is possible across parts of southern Illinois.
The National Weather Service said current indications Monday morning were that the axis of heaviest snowfall will be over southeast Missouri and southern Illinois with snowfall amounts of 10 to 15 inches possible.
Any change in the forecast track could cause the heavy snow areas to shift.
Snow is expected to begin early Tuesday night and will be accompanied by winds of 20 to 30 m.p.h. The snow is expected to end early Wednesday but the winds should continue.
Intense snowfall rates and strong winds are expected to produce hazardous travel conditions with visibility reduced to one-half mile and possible whiteout conditions in some areas.
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Specifically in regard to online games, what is lag compensation? Should it affect the way I play?
Valve published an excellent article explaining the multiplayer network details (also called "netcode") of their multiplayer games. From this article:
There's more information in the article. If you're interested in this, I highly recommend reading the whole thing. It's not too long, and among other things it also explains entity interpolation (which is a part of the above equation) and input prediction. Keep in mind Valve is responsible for the netcode behind some of the most popular online games today - Counter Strike and Team Fortress 2 - so this is probably as professional as it gets.
The source code implementing this is publicly available as part of the Source SDK.
Lag compensation is a feature of modern games that allows the engine to estimate where players would be, based on their ping.
For example, if a user is running forward at
This prevents users from looking like they are jittering around. However, in cases of extreme lag, "rubber banding" can occur.


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El33t's Question of the Day: What is the last DLC you decided to buy?Written by: / / 28 Comments
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Free and paid for downloadable content has become an inextricable part of the videogame industry and an important way for publishers and developers to extend the life of these products they put so much work into – it's no longer a case of 'release and forget,' as in the late 90's and early 2000's.
What is the last piece of DLC that you decided to buy because you enjoyed the base game so much? Was it a campaign add-on, or a customisation option, or perhaps a set of maps? How do you decide which DLC to buy and were you happy with the last batch of content you bought?
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It's Education Friday
By Rebecca Teti
Fridays: Education
(Join each day's Coffee Talk discussion: Mon: Parenting; Tues: Open Forum; Wed: NFP; Thu: Marriage; Fri: Education; Sat/Sun: Changing Roles)
Whether your children attend school or are homeschooled, this is the spot to ask questions about curricula, religious education, parent-teacher relationships, or academic concerns of any kind.
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I'm looking for a Catholic bible for my 10-year-old daughter. Any suggestions?


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Let μn be the group scheme of n-th roots of unity. If X is a scheme and L is a line bundle on X, then I can construct a μn-gerbe Y over X by letting the S-points of Y be a S-point of X, a line bundle M on S and an isomorphism between the n-th tensor power of M and the pullback of L to S. Can anyone provide examples not of this form?
Commentary: It looks like I'm taking the image of an element of H1(X,Gm) in H2(X,μn) under the long exact sequence associated to 0-->μn-->Gm-->Gm-->0. Thus examples of gerbes for the multiplicative group Gm will likely be relevant, so people providing such examples will also be appreciated.


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ear Editor,
I am writing this letter to the residents of the Bridgeport School District requesting your continued support of my position on the Bridgeport Board of Education. For the past 50 years, education has been my life. I have worked in every phrase of the field of education from the early years of teaching and driving school to bus to administration in our district and currently as a Board Member.
My seven years on the Bridgeport Board have been productive for the district and I believe that I have had the opportunity to use by background for the betterment of the students and residents of our school district. Over the past seven years, we have developed an outstanding pre-school addition and program along with a reading program that is showing educational results each and every year.
Our technology program is second to none and our staff has been recognized "Internationally" for their endeavors within our school district. We have developed a staff that is truly concerned about the future of the children of our district.
In keeping with a quality educational system, we have also gone on record to keep our facilities updated and improved which is evidenced by the following:
New softball field for our girls program, new lighting and repairs at Perkins Field, renovation of the Niekro Diamond, major repairs to the field house and a major refinishing to our gymnasium. Our bus fleet is up-to-date and we have continued to improve our curriculum with new textbooks when and where needed.
As a board member, I promise to continue to work with the staff, students and residents of our district to keep Bridgeport, "The best kept secret in the Ohio Valley." we have turned the tide on the problems with "open enrollment" thanks to the efforts of our administration.
I ask that you continue to support a program that is working for the interests of the students in our school district.
Respectfully submitted,
Roger W. Stewart
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Voter turnout in Warren County was at 61 percent, with about 44,000 voters at the polls. The Warren County clerk says that's lower than the last presidential election... but you wouldn't have sensed a low turn-out if you were standing in line at rich pond elementary... the last precinct to be reported.
"One precinct, and of course that was Rich Pond. Rich Pond did have long lines, and we tried to help as much as we could with the long lines, learned alot from the long lines," said Warren County Clerk Dot Owens.
Over two hours... that was what many voters at the Rich Pond Elementary polling location experienced yesterday. One man even brought in a chair.
"I slid that chair along for an hour and 25 minutes... and then I voted. One man told me that I could probably sell my place in line for a pretty good profit when I got up close, and I said I should sell my chair and see if I could make some money off of it," said voter Neel Dillard.
He wasn't alone. Like Dillard, one man made several trips to the polls in hopes of finding a shorter line.
"I didn't think about it being that big of a line when I went the first time, but I waited 15 minutes and something else to do so I left and came back, but it wasn't any better," said voter James Kitchens.
Owens explains why some lines within polling places can be much longer than others.
"We try to put a large precinct with a small precinct... This is a Fire Marshall thing. We can't have alot of people in one building," said Owens.
Owens says the solution is more polling sites, and more precincts. She hopes to have these open by the next election in 2014. Owens says new schools and churches will probably be the new polling sites, and she hopes as more schools are built, more precincts will open in growing areas.


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2 yrs and 9 months old toddler attachment to toys
My son (2 yrs 9 months) used to have very good interaction with other kids, he used to sing rhymes with them, call them to play at his 2 yrs. A while ago (9 months back), my cousin's son (3 years at that time) hit, bite and kicked my son with in 15 seconds it all happened, my son cried whole night. And from that night, he stopped interacting with other children even if other kid is new and gentle, my son simply do not do any thing he just acts like other kid is not with him.
Recently in a play grounds, he had same experience with a 4 years old kid, Now my son scared of standing next to new child, he maintains at least half a feet distance with other kids. If a child approaching my son faster, my son gets scarred and walk's away from other kids way with scary body movements.
Question is: is this normal ? what should i do, to develop interaction skills with child. I do not have any relatives or any kids near by my place. We just started him sending to daycare.


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Music transcends languages and represents cultures in unique ways, which is why during Black History Month, Dakota Wesleyan University in partnership with the South Dakota Humanities Council will present "Lift Every Voice and Sing!"
The lecture will be from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 18, in the Wagner Chapel at DWU. For those interested in learning more about African American religious music, this event is free and open to the public.
Joyce Jefferson and Jerry Wilske have researched the history of African American religious music from the time it was brought to the Americas to today. During the presentation, they explain the results of their research and conclude with the song brothers James Weldon and J. Rosamond Johnson wrote in 1900, "Lift Every Voice and Sing!"
"This song is still sung today with the same hope and fervor as it was four years after the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson decision, which ushered in 'separate-but-equal' Jim Crowism," stated a release. "They share the evolution of music, race relations and the hope for today as expressed in the lyrics of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing!'"
This program is sponsored by DWU Multicultural Committee in honor of Black History Month and made possible by the South Dakota Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographies provided by the South Dakota Humanities Council:
Joyce Jefferson has pursued sharing South Dakota African American history, legacy and experience since 1998. She and a group called "It's About Time! The African American Experience," launched the pictorial exhibition "Corporals, Cooks and Cowboys: African American Pioneers in the Black Hills," with the Journey Museum. Jefferson has researched and shared the stories of African Americans who lived in and around Dakota Territory and South Dakota primarily in Chautauqua style to enhance the learning experience.
Jerry Wilske, former executive director of the Oscar Micheaux Center in Gregory and long-time organizer of the annual Oscar Micheaux Book and Film Festival, promotes African American history and culture. Wilske has spoken throughout the Midwest and Canada on Oscar Micheaux and his works. He is currently a board member of the South Dakota African American History Museum. An accomplished musician and former music professor, Wilske, joins Jefferson to present "Lift Every Voice and Sing: the Evolution of Spirituals."