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WEIRTON - Unionized workers at Weirton Medical Center have a new three-year deal.
Officials with Service Employees International Union District 1199 say the agreement, which takes effect Oct. 1, "provides for annual wage increases, improved health and safety provisions and recognizes the value of organized labor at one of the community's premier health care institutions." They declined to offer specifics, however, saying only that details of the contract "remain confidential."
"It was a relatively fast negotiation," said Anthony Caldwell, SEIU communications director. "I think the best way to characterize it would be to remember three years ago, when we had a lot of issues reaching what we considered a fair and equitable contract. The last time workers were concerned about concessions and layoffs; this time, there's a guaranteed wage increase, improved health and safety language and some job security language in the contract."
Hospital administrators also are "happy about the ratification of the contract," Kelli McCoy, WMC director of communications, said Monday.
"The relationship between the hospital and the union is one we value greatly and one which has experienced great strides in the past several months," she agreed. "We are excited to continue moving forward as a hospital and the union is a large part of the great success we are experiencing right now and will continue experiencing,"
Administrative Organizer Terri Tamborello said the vote was overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying the contract. While the numbers themselves aren't being released, she said the results prove that "workers stand committed to working with hospital management to do all that they can to keep Weirton Medical Center the beacon of quality care and family-sustaining jobs this community relies on."
"We don't report vote numbers, but I can tell you that it was overwhelming in support and nearly unanimous," Caldwell added.
The two sides were at the bargaining table for roughly three months, he said.
SEIU District 1199 covers West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio and represents about 550 employees at Weirton Medical Center, including full- and part-time skilled maintenance employees as well as full- and part-time service and unskilled employees and full- and part-time practical nurses and technical employees.

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MrTattieHeid wrote:Frodo, how can you not?"
Virginia Gentleman wrote:I think I am going to try and go this year. I have a friend who lives in Buffalo so that is an easy drive from there.
Lawrence wrote:The back ground clutter is that the SOT will be cancelled (I hope this is not the case) but the suppliers only have budget to support one event; the one conneted with their biggest custmer will most likely win.
Even though I was planning to attend one or the other I don't think I can make to either.
Frodo wrote:Looks great Wendy!
For me, the crucial issue for WL is the lack of value exposed by Harry. Not sure if I'm going, but I really hope SOT reschedules in July/August. It was a fantastic value, great venue, nice freebies, free - and great - masterclasses. Just a fantastic event worth every $$ paid.
I think at this stage, I'll be contemplating Vancouver's next whisky show unless the master classes in WL bowl me over...
Wendy wrote:Now back to the VIP thing....mmm, where did I put that Hope Diamond?


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If you haven't heard that smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer, you must be living under a rock, or in China. A survey found that 60% of Chinese adults did not know that smoking can cause lung cancer and 96% were unaware that it can cause heart disease. In the U.S., smoking's health hazards have gotten lots of attention, but this is not the case in many developing nations. Smoking is a worldwide health crisis and the World Health Organization estimates that by 2030, tobacco deaths will reach 8 million a year if current trends continue. No matter where you live, education is key to helping current smokers quit and preventing the next generation from becoming addicted. Let's get the facts about this global epidemic.
The World Health Organization has released a Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic (2008) and outlines a set of 6 measures (called MPOWER) providing countries with a roadmap to reverse the devastating effects of the tobacco epidemic. The recommendations address a few disturbing concerns, including:
The global tobacco crisis threatens more lives than any infectious disease. While it may seem out of the hands of the average citizen, we all play a role. We must educate the next generation about the dangers of smoking. Big tobacco companies rely on them to take the place of older users that die from using the product and do their best to get to our children early. Talk to your kids, grandkids, and your neighbor's kids - whoever will listen! It takes a village to care for the next generation; let's all do our part.
Smoking cessation. Where do I start? : Start here for help in creating a quit plan, tips to coping with common obstacles and resources for support and smoking cessation programs.
Smoking Cessation Aids: This article reviews the available treatments, both pharmacologic (drug) and non-pharmacologic, to aid in successful smoking cessation.
Smokefree.gov: provides free, accurate, evidence-based information and professional assistance to help support the immediate and long-term needs of people trying to quit smoking.
Determined to quit.com: an online resource developed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health. This resource is available to anyone and is not restricted to Pennsylvania residents.
Visit you state's Health Department website. Contact your human resources department, as many companies offer assistance to quit smoking.
American Cancer Society: provides information on tobacco and its affects and promotes the Great American Smokeout each November. Call to learn about quit programs in your area: 1-800-ACS-2345.
National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids: Organization focused on protecting children from tobacco exposure and addiction.
OncoLink is designed for educational purposes only and is not engaged in rendering medical advice or professional services. The information provided through OncoLink should not be used for diagnosing or treating a health problem or a disease. It is not a substitute for professional care. If you have or suspect you may have a health problem or have questions or concerns about the medication that you have been prescribed, you should consult your health care provider.
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One thing that comes up often when discussing "what-ifs" with family or friends is why the British government never nabbed Alaska when Russia had placed it up for sale and made it into Canada's fourth territory. Was it bad timing (Canada gained self-governance that year), lack of money (hard to believe with an Empire of that size), or lack of interest? Or indeed another reason that I haven't thought of?
Because Russia had been at war with Britain for most of the preceding two decades.
One of Russia's problems in owning Alaska was defending it against it being used as a British route to invade Russia (militarily insane - but that's politics) - remember Canada was British at the time.
By selling it to America they installed one of Britain's adversaries in the way
Russia and America (the Union) were very nearly allies during the Civil War. The implied enemies were the South (Confederacy) and Great Britain.
Although Russia wanted to "monetize" Alaska, she also wanted it in "friendly" hands. The (re-united) U.S. fit the bill. Great Britain did not, after having allied with France and Turkey in the Crimean war.
The following might explain why the British did not try to acquire any American possessions anymore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine.
In brief, the Monroe Doctrine, introduced in the 19th century, is a statement by the United States that they would consider any European attempts to colonize in or interfere with North/South America as hostile, and respond accordingly. Conversely, the U.S. would not interfere with current European holdings.
The Monroe Doctrine was introduced in 1823 and Alaska was purchased by the United States in 1867.


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I used some of this code from this page on Stack Overflow: Using wp_query is it possible to orderby taxonomy?
It's about the function to be able to sort a query by a taxonomy value. Although it works perfectly, I would want to go one step further.
The value I retrieve from the taxonomy term is a number. If I sort by that number, however, it gives this order: 1 10 11 2 21 22 and so on.
I want it to be sorted 'normally', 1 2 3 5 9 11 15 21 22 etc.
According to google I should add 0 to the value to make it a numeric value, but I don't know where to put it in this code. Somewhere, it should say value + 0. Any idea where I should put it?
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function orderby_tax_clauses( $clauses, $wp_query ) {
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$taxonomies = get_taxonomies();
foreach ($taxonomies as $taxonomy) {
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LEFT OUTER JOIN {$wpdb->term_relationships} ON {$wpdb->posts}.ID={$wpdb->term_relationships}.object_id
LEFT OUTER JOIN {$wpdb->term_taxonomy} USING (term_taxonomy_id)
LEFT OUTER JOIN {$wpdb->terms} USING (term_id)
$clauses['where'] .= " AND (taxonomy = '{$taxonomy}' OR taxonomy IS NULL)";
$clauses['groupby'] = "object_id";
$clauses['orderby'] = "GROUP_CONCAT({$wpdb->terms}.name ORDER BY name ASC) ";
$clauses['orderby'] .= ( 'DESC' == strtoupper( $wp_query->get('order') ) ) ? 'ASC' : 'DESC';
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6 Completely Legal Ways The Cops Can Screw You
#3. Arrest You For Filming Them
If you search for "asshole cop" on YouTube you will instantly get hundreds if not thousands of videos of some police officer tasing or otherwise abusing some kid or grandmother who may or may not deserve it. Police abuse videos surely are the fastest growing segment of online entertainment.
"In the face! IN THE FACE!"
Sadly, that entire genre might be on its way out. Currently, three states had made it illegal to film on-duty police officers, even (and especially) if they are beating up handicapped minorities in the middle of the town square.
"Memorizing is also a sort of recording. Stop remembering this!"
In Illinois, Massachusetts and Maryland, they require both parties to consent to any recording for it to be legal. So, that cop whom you just filmed spouting profanities that reinvent the very idea of racism? Unless he always dreamt of being an Internet sensation, he can easily bust your ass and confiscate your camera.
"Why does he have so many pictures of his balls on here?"
There are 12 states in total that enforce an all-party-consent law, but only three interpret it to include public places of gathering with absolutely no expectation of privacy. So on one hand, that kind of sucks for people trying to record police misconduct, but on the other, hey, apparently security cameras are now illegal in parts of the Northeast! Looting party next week!
Yeeeah I am thinking NOT.
You're Shitting Me!
Earlier this year, a Chicago man by the name of Christopher Drew was arrested for peddling goods without a license - a misdemeanor only slightly more socially-damaging than stealing garbage. But because he videotaped the arrest, Drew is now being charged with illegal recording, a class I felony punishable with up to 15 years of sharing a prison-cell with a 300 pound mountain of perversity named Bubba.
He's not telling you about the fish he caught last year.
The case of Anthony Graber is even more disturbing. On March 5, Graber was pulled over for speeding and immediately had a gun pulled on him by an off-duty policeman. Luckily, his helmet had a built-in camera, so after 10 days, the video of this encounter hit YouTube.
This magically elevated Graber's speeding to an "egregious traffic violation" and had him arrested for breaking wiretapping laws... punishable by up to 16 years in prison. We're pretty sure you get less than that for having a flamethrower strapped to your helmet.
#2. Book You For Carrying Condoms
Spotting a prostitute can prove to be one of the most important skills you will ever learn, especially when it comes to telling real hookers from undercover cops. And thus, we present you with this wonderful bit of information on proper Whore Identification: In Washington, D.C. women carrying more than two condoms on themselves are considered prostitutes and can be arrested as such.
No, no, she's cool. Said she never used a condom in her life. You think I should ask her out?
Or at least that's the case in D.C.'s designated Prostitution Free Zones. You can't be having prostitutes in your Prostitution Free Zones--that would defeat their very purpose--so is it really an overreaction of the D.C. police for arresting all women "congregating without a destination" in PFZs with at least three condoms in their purses? After all, those are the internationally recognized signs of people who takes stranger dick into their bodies for money.
She knits all her own condoms.
Come on, three entire condoms should be enough to last a typical person an entire lifetime of sexual activity. That's why they only sell them individually at ridiculously marked-up prices. Add such suspicious behavior as "hanging out" into the mix and you have all the ingredients for Prostitute Stew.
"Can I get a 'prostitute stew' with a 'handjob salad' please?"
You're Shitting Me!
The new practice has already caught the attention of various women rights groups around the country, and not just because innocent girls are possibly being thrown into holding cells with women that go by names like "Discount Debbie." The main worry here is all that delicious AIDS the real working girls are spreading like well, like working girls who suddenly found condoms to be a huge liability.
"Let this one go, she doesn't have any condoms on her."
Man, who could have predicted that with the new Rubber Standard most prostitutes wouldn't clean up their acts and go get MBAs or something, but rather start doing it without protection?
#1. Steal Your Identity
For the last couple of years, Identity Theft has been the exalted Grand Poobah of the American Paranoia Club, and for good reasons. The thought that someone out there might go into a long, prosperous career in bestiality porn, using our name and credit to fund it, constantly keeps us up at night.
And we have to surf the bestiality sites to make sure our good name isn't sullied.
But you know what would be even scarier? If it was the police who took your identity and then created an entire new chapter in your life, one where they made you, like, a stripper from Ohio. Which is something the law actually permits them to do.
"Did I overdo it with the syphilis and incest rape? Probably not."
This used to be illegal no more than eight years ago, but it all changed when Ohio passed a new law aimed at combating, ironically, identity theft. The 2002 law allows law enforcement agencies to take anyone's personal information (driver's license number, Social Security Number, etc.) and give it to an agent to use while undercover.
That in itself wouldn't be so bad if the cops were using your identity to pose as somebody cool, like a mafia hitman or a T-Rex.
Or, in Bruce Wayne's case, the Batman.
Sadly, the reality is most often less professional assassins and more street walkers or nude dancers.
You're Shitting Me!
As far as we know, Haley Dawson has never taken her clothes off professionally. But for one month in 2003, a woman with the same name, address and SSN danced naked in front of a bunch of drunkards and Internet perverts at a strip-joint in Troy, Ohio. That woman was actually Michelle Szuhay, a criminal-justice student participating in an undercover police operation, using Dawson's identity as her cover.
Yeah, Dawson: D-A-W-S-
Naturally, the real Ms. Dawson wasn't informed that her good name was being tarnished and fantasized about by sweaty middle-aged guys for over 30 days. But it was all worth it, after local liquor-agents could charge the owner of the club with two misdemeanor charges of furnishing alcohol without a permit. The ends justify the means, people!
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Regional facilities offer patients a direct connection to Dartmouth's world-renowned research and care
To serve these regions and the communities within them, the Cancer Center has built a network of regional facilities and affiliated hospitals that brings Dartmouth home to the diverse populations of northern New England. Just as the Cancer Center's mission covers four crucial elements—patient care, research, education, and community outreach—so its regional locations establish the Cancer Center as a vital patient resource throughout the northern New England area.
"It is the best care you can get, and you don't have to go a long way to get it," comments Stefan Balan, MD, Clinical Director of Hematology/ Oncology at Norris Cotton Cancer Center Manchester. "It's state of the art in every way."
Adds Steve Larmon, MD, Medical Director at Norris Cotton Cancer Center—Kingsbury Pavilion in Keene, NH: "Cancer is a diagnosis that people want to keep local. It involves not just the patient but also their family and loved ones and so their sense of place, of home."
For a patient, this means the Cancer Center's regional centers—in Manchester, Keene, and, soon, Nashua, NH, as well as St. Johnsbury,VT—provide direct access to the expertise and research-based care and technologies of one of the nation's premier National Cancer Institute (NCI) comprehensive cancer centers. Norris Cotton Cancer Center is one of only 40 such centers designated by the NCI for excellence in research, patient care, the development of new cancer therapies, and cancer education and outreach.
Norris Cotton Cancer Center is one of the few rural NCI centers, and caring for patients in communities throughout its region has always been a part of its mission. For more than 35 years, Dartmouth cancer experts have been seeing patients in affiliated hospitals in New Hampshire and Vermont; and today physicians still provide outreach at Valley Regional in Claremont, Weeks Medical Center in Lancaster, Monadnock Community in Peterborough, Speare Memorial in Plymouth, Huggins in Wolfeboro, "What I am striving to do," says Stefan Balan, MD, the Clinical Director of Hematology/Oncology at Norris Cotton Cancer Center Manchester, "is to bring Dartmouth home."
Cottage in Woodsville, and New London, all in New Hampshire; and at Brattleboro Memorial and Springfield Hospitals in Vermont. Four Cancer Center doctors care for patients at Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NH, which is also an affiliate, including breast cancer specialist Anjali Sibley, MD, who is joining the Cancer Center staff at Frisbie this fall.
Distance and Cultures
In Manchester, patients are treated for all conditions, and four specialists provide hematology/oncology consultations and individualized chemotherapy at the Notre Dame Pavillion at Catholic Medical Center. Specialists in neuro-oncology, pediatric oncology, breast cancer, head and neck cancers, gynecological cancers, and genetic counseling also see patients in Manchester, both at the Notre Dame Pavilion and at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester. In partnership with the Catholic Medical Center, there is also an on-site nutritionist, social worker, and chaplain, as well as a variety of support groups for cancer patients, families, and caregivers.
Dr. Balan notes the special importance of offering local treatment for pediatric cancer. "This is a huge thing for parents," he says. "We can take care of the family here, close to home, with everything that's available at the Cancer Center in Lebanon."
He also points out that Manchester is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse cities in New England: by some counts as many as 120 languages are spoken in Manchester. "It is an unusual place in New Hampshire," he says. "All the time, we deal with different cultural attitudes about how diseases are perceived."
Treatment When the Haying's Done
Up in the far north of Vermont, the number of languages heard by the staff at the Cancer Center in St. Johnsbury is considerably fewer: two, English and French. "Rather than a culturally diverse patient base, we deal with a population that's very economically and socially diverse," says Lory Grimes, RN, Practice Manager of the facility. "We often have to work around the schedules of when the cows need to be milked and when the haying needs to be done. Many of our patients go right back out into the fields when they get home from an appointment."
Marge LeBlanc didn't go haying after she received radiation therapy for breast cancer in St. Johnsbury, but she credits the northern facility with providing exactly the kind of care that made a difference to her emotionally as well as physically. "I felt that the whole person was really taken care of," she says, I really believe my needs were met all around."
The St. Johnsbury facility operates the most advanced radiation technology available for cancer treatment, a fact that caught Marge's attention. "They spent a great deal of time calibrating and making sure everything was lined up just right. Nothing ever felt rushed. My care was exceptional," she comments.
Her partner Alan Astle was treated at the Cancer Center in Lebanon many years earlier. "We are very fortunate to have Norris Cotton Cancer Center in the North Country. The staff is unbelievable—there isn't enough you can say about them. She could not go anywhere and receive better care," he says.
This year the St. Johnsbury clinic celebrates its fifth year. Over that time the Center has grown almost non-stop; last year's addition of a new patient library will be followed next year by a new expansion that will include several examination rooms, expansion of chemotherapy facilities, and additions to the Center's pharmacy to support on-site clinical trials. Recently added services include palliative care, nutrition counseling, genetic counseling, and social work.
"Part of Their Own Medical Center"
The patient base for the Norris Cotton Cancer Center -Kingsbury Pavilion in Keene is a unique blend for northern New England: there is the stalwart rural population typical of New Hampshire and Vermont, but also the faculty and students from Keene State College as well as professionals from the several major corporations with operations in Keene, a city of 23,000.
The facility, founded in 1990, was the first to formally partner with a local hospital. Steve Larmon, MD, calls Kingsbury's partnership with Cheshire Medical Center a critical benefit: "When the community looks at us, they see the Cancer Center as part of their own medical center. We have tremendous interaction and collaboration with Cheshire—in fact, we could not exist without it."
At the same time, the Kingsbury Pavilion maintains an equally interactive and collaborative relationship with the Cancer Center in Lebanon, offering patients access to specialist care and clinical trials. For example, gynecologic oncologist Evelyn Fleming, MD, sees patients several days a week in Keene, and breast cancer specialist, Mary Chamberlin leaves her Keene home base weekly to participate in tumor board and see patients in Lebanon.
Kingsbury Pavilion offers advanced medical and radiation oncology services, including Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), one of the most precise and sophisticated approaches to 3-D radiation therapy available.
"For a town Keene's size, the depth of care available here at Kingsbury Pavilion is exceptional," comments Dr. Larmon. "With our connection to Norris Cotton Cancer Center, we are unique for the patients in our area."
His words apply to each of the Cancer Center's regional locations—they are unique in their relationship with local patients, yet interconnected with each other and with Lebanon in providing world-class research and expertise. Adds Dr. Stefan Balan: "The patients know. This is the best care you can get anywhere, yet it's so close to home."
October 10, 2010
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My Lucid install won't boot properly anymore. I can boot the computer with a USB-stick-ubuntu and edit settings. I have edited grub.cfg to not boot "quiet splash" and changed the default runlevel to 1.
When continuing to boot from the recovery menu, I get this line:
init: rsyslog main process ended, respawning.
I did a aptitude reinstall rsyslog, which changed nothing. Does someone have an idea where to continue searching for the cause?
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I recently bought Skyrim on Steam and did not know that it can only be played on Windows. I was wondering how can I play Skyrim on my Ubuntu computer?
There is a project called PlayOnLinux that works to automatically setup many games devloped for Windows, to be played on Linux with minimal hassle.
You can get the program via the repositories using the command
Once PoL is installed you can run the program. To install a game, click the button on the right-hand sidebar that says "Install a program". Once in that menu just use the search bar to find "The Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim", click to install. This will automatically download the version of WINE that is known to work with Skyrim as well as install Steam on the virtual drive, if you so select.
The installation may throw an error, but they usually provide you with information on how to fix it, commonly in the form of a link to a "How to fix problem X" type page. Just follow the prompts and it should work.
Alternatively, you can download and install it from playonlinux.com.
My comprehensive guide to modding and installing Skyrim on linux wine.
Use PlayOnLinux, please read this comprehensive guide, http://www.gamersonlinux.com/forum/threads/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-guide.331/
You just have to download the fresh version of Steam of Linux.
Just to let you know, before the release of Steam for Linux you would have to go through a non trivial process installing the Steam for windows version to Linux via Wine.
EDIT: Since Skyrim is not yet available, you would have to install it using wine. You could take a look here.


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The 6 Strangest Previous Careers of Famous Musicians
#3. Johnny Cash Was a Military Code Breaker
There are only two things that people from all walks of life will agree on. One is that no one should buy hair from a kiosk in the mall. Two is that Johnny Cash was the shit. And part of the reason for Cash's appeal was that he was a little bit of everything. Drug abuser and born-again Christian. Country, rock and gospel hall of famer. Guy who faces the toilet paper toward the toilet one time, and away from the toilet the next time. And like Elvis, Jimi and MC Hammer, Johnny put in his time in the military.
To answer your question, yes, he always looked old.
But here's where things get awesome in a crazy Man in Black kind of way. Cash was assigned to the cryptographic intelligence unit. As in, the group that stood between America and the Soviets at a time when schoolkids were told to protect themselves from nuclear bombs by hiding under their desks. And Cash wasn't just on KP duty like all the other Southern sons of sharecroppers -- he was one of the guys who intercepted Soviet Morse code. It's like finding out Marilyn Monroe was also a CIA assassin.
Oh, and he was pretty freaking good at it. He was so great at cracking Soviet messages, in fact, that he was the guy who got called for the hardest jobs. That's why it was Johnny freakin' Cash who was the first American to pass along the news that Joseph Stalin was dead.
"I stroked a man in Moscow, just to watch him die."
But when Johnny's time was up, he bolted. For him, the whole thing had been like a prison sentence -- his job was so hush-hush that he couldn't talk to anyone about it, and his off-base travel was severely limited. On the other hand, one of the reasons Cash was so good at honing in on signals was because the job trained his ears for tones and rhythm. So maybe we wouldn't have gotten the Johnny Cash we came to know if he had never done his Cold War spy stuff.
#2. Slayer's Singer Treated Asthma for a Living
Tom Araya is the singer-bassist of speed metal behemoth Slayer, best known for singing catchy little tunes such as "Raining Blood," "Angel of Death" and "Dead Skin Mask." He looks exactly how you'd imagine:
He's legally required to wield an axe or guitar at all times.
Sure, you sort of know that a guy like that may have a childhood, and a home, and a family, maybe even a cat or two. Yet your gut instinct insists that men like Tom are constructed at a shipyard, then handed a guitar and placed in a cellar somewhere, where they proceed to headbang with a bunch of other similarly manufactured guys until someone offers them a record contract. And if cats feature anywhere in the picture, it's as a snack.
But this is Tom Araya, an idealistic young man on his way to train as a respiratory therapist:
Senior Quote: "Lather, rinse and repeat. You gotta repeat."
Araya spent his pre-fame (and beginning-of-fame) years in the 1980s as a respiratory therapist. So if a kid came into the ER during an asthma attack, this was the guy who fixed him. Or if someone was about to die and needed a tube jammed down his throat, Tom was their man. He was also something of a Robin Hood: If he felt that he hadn't helped a patient enough, he made a point of just, no kidding, not billing them.
Therapy Tom's undoing proved to be his commitment to Slayer, combined with the stubbornness of his superiors. He had used a good chunk of his salary to finance the band's first album and, as they were gaining momentum, was getting ready to reap the rewards in the shape of a European tour. The hospital, however, wasn't having any of it and said that Araya could take his request for time off and shove it.
"Oooooh, I've been waiting for a reason to try out this new 'Shove It' stamp!"
Araya returned the favor, instantly terminating his contract and walking away into the death metal sunset.
#1. That's Dr. Bad Religion to You
Greg Graffin is the vocalist and "only constant member" of Bad Religion, and as such, one of the biggest players in the field of American punk rock. He has been spitting spiteful social commentary at audiences around the globe since 1979, and like everyone else in this article, this punk rocker has a surprising career history up his sleeve. Unlike all the others, he's never quite managed to let go of his.
Or of his early '90s flannel.
Which is to say, Gregory Walter Graffin, Ph.D., is leading something of a double life. When Bad Religion took off at the start of the '80s, Graffin -- a bookworm by nature -- was working his way to becoming a trained paleontologist. But instead of following the traditional route of getting a respectable day job and playing some noisy music with his friends on the side, he opted for the exact opposite scenario: Graffin wound up keeping his academic career around as a hobby while Bad Religion was tearing through receptive ear holes worldwide.
And as is so often the case with interesting hobbies, Graffin found himself rather deeper in academia than he had bargained for. As years went by, he dabbled with paleontology and zoology to the point where he actually ended up a Ph.D. and has published several esteemed books in his field ... and held a number of teaching jobs, including stints at UCLA and even lecturing at freakin' Cornell University.
"I told you guys, we don't start playing until I get to discuss the Cretaceous Period!"
On the side of his day job.
As a punk rock singer.
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When the light's on at Screamers Tattoo Parlor, needles buzz away.
But insiders say when the lights go out, the real screamers come out to play.
They're said to be the "leftovers" of the old Daleville jail.
Paranormal investigator Darrell Campbell says it was just too much for him to pass up.
So he did his homework and brought a team to the shop after dark.
But don't call Campbell a believer just yet.
Campbell, Founder of Wiregrass Ghost Hunters, said, "Anybody can tell you that a place is haunted and come to find out it just isn't."
But as it turns out, this time the rumors might be true.
Campbell said, "I wasn't saying nothing. Then you hear me say "I'm setting this down" and then afterwards you hear a :hum: It was weird.
From 1826 to 1870, there was no ink being put to skin in the building.
Instead it was a home to prisoners; the jail of Dale County.
It switched hands sometime in the 1950's. That's when it became the city of Daleville's jail.
That jail closed sometime in the 1990's and moved down the street.
The building that once housed so many stories and so many prisoners sat empty until 2008.
But one part of Campbell's crew thinks the building was never truly vacant.
That investigator didn't want to appear on camera, but is what's sometimes referred to as "a sensitive".
That's a person who can feel spirits and even communicate with them.
The investigator said the most activity they felt was in a small, closet like room. After being in that room, they believe bad things happened inside it.
That's a belief Campbell is on board with now too.
Campbell said, "Right after the investigation, the owner said there were things shifting around."
Shifting a skeptic into a believer, in the hauntings of Screamers Tattoo Parlor.


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During a visit to Al-Majrashi's home, Maj. Gen. Al-Sawat conveyed the order of Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, under the instructions of Second Deputy Prime Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz, to pay his family SR 100,000 [$26,664] in cash as an immediate bursary and SR 1 million [$266,660] to settle the deceased's debts and to purchase a house for his family, posthumously promote Al-Majrashi to the rank of Sergeant First Class, count his end-of-service premiums as per his new post, grant him the King Abdulaziz Medal and Badge of Honor and appoint one of his sons to the Border Guard in recognition of his deeds and sacrifice for his country. The family thanked the Kingdom's leadership for their care of Saudi citizens, and wished the country stability and security.
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I ate a dinner one time, and this guy cooked the chicken so soft it almost melted in my mouth. Now I want to know how to make that kind of chicken. Because when you cook the chicken regularly it comes out rubbery. You know what I mean?
How you prep the chicken is also as important as how you cook it. Cooking method is only half of the answer. Brining the meat in a salty/sugary/acidic solution will go a long way in adding flavor and making the meat moist and tender.
Braise it. Low and slow braising will help make almost any meat fall apart tender (though dark meat is best, thighs/legs). Molly Stevens All About Braising cookbook is a great intro into this technique. For whole chicken braising google search for Jamies milk braised chicken. Makes extremely tender braised chicken and is a great into recipe.
Slow cooker can make any meat really soft.
The best tip I can give is to use chicken thighs rather than breast. They have more fat, which keeps the meat moist. They need slower cooking but are well worth it.
Try a coq au vin style dish - brown the chicken thighs in a little oil, then take them out, fry off some onions, mushrooms and garlic, then add a couple of glasses of red wine, some chicken stock, herbs, and the thighs. Simmer for two and a half hours and the chicken will be falling apart.
If you insist on using chicken breast, try this: stuff the breasts with something reasonably fatty - try feta cheese, sundried tomatoes, garlic and lemon zest. Fry in a hot pan for a couple of minutes either side to brown. Then, take a circle of baking parchment big enough to fit in the pan, scrunch it up, and run it under the cold tap. Shake it out, pop it on top of the chicken, then put a heavy saucepan lid on top and turn the heat down to low-ish. Let it sit under there for 15-20 minutes, and you should find the chicken is nice and tender.
I used to have trouble getting chicken to come out tender, but I've had a lot of luck with a couple of simple rules of thumb.
I've found dry salting to be as effective or more effective as compared to brining, and less trouble. It's more common with steaks, but I do it all the time with chicken. Basically, you liberally salt the chicken, and season it as you see fit, then let it sit for at least 20 - 30 minutes, but no more than an hour.
Forgive my vague science here, but as I understand it, the salt first draws moisture out of the meat, then, once it has drawn out enough moisture to saturate the salt, the meat soaks up the now salted water (along with whatever other seasonings you've included). Once the salt has permeated the meat, it begins to break down the proteins, so they don't have a chance to seize up when heated and become rubbery.
Overcooking is an obvious problem, and one usually caused by paranoia about salmonella, which is an entirely reasonable concern. Don't get me wrong -- you SHOULD worry about salmonella. But don't over-do it. 165F is enough to kill off harmful bacteria; with an interior temp of 165, the chicken is safe to eat. If you cut into it, the meat should be white, not pink, and the juice should run clear. This should be a last-minute double-check though; don't cut into the meat unless you're fairly certain it's done, or you'll let all the juice out and it will come out dry.
And finishing it off using a convection cooking method just makes this a little bit easier. When searing the outside of a cut of meat, whether it's in a pan, on the grill, or whatever, the outside gets very hot before the inside reaches a food-safe temperature. If you continue cooking this way until the inside is cooked through, the outside will be overcooked, and the rest will be somewhere in between done and overdone. The goal, of course, is for just the outermost parts to be seared/charred/etc., and all the rest of the meat, all the way through, to be just done. Convection cooking will get you there much more gently and safely, and make it much easier to get the meat juicy and tender. So, sear in the pan and finish in the oven; or char on the grill on high, then drop the heat to low and close the lid to let it finish cooking through.
Another trick, once you've got a feel for how long it takes a cut of a certain size and thickness to cook through, is to pull it off just a touch early, cover it with aluminum foil, and let the residual heat finish cooking it. Since it's just equalizing its internal temperature, instead of continuing to heat up, this will also help avoid overcooking.
Iranian poultry is braised. A reaction converts the collagen to chicken-flavored gelatin, and the meat yields like butter. I've braised chicken into oblivion, so don't overdo the braise time.
The dish is probably zereshk polo, which is served with barberry and pistachio rice.
A ten step summary:
The braising acid is the tomato and lime.
If the mystery dish was like a sweet/tart mole-like dish, then it was probably fesenjan. It is made differently, with pulverized walnuts and pomegranate juice, but the cooking process is very similar. The walnuts are fried with the spices, the pomegranate (acid) is added to the braise.
Use quality chicken.
I would recommend poaching in water or any type of liquid: wine, water, chicken broth etc. This is even good for a whole chicken. Add salt and cook.
I have been experimenting with sous vide. I have a cheap temperature controller that controls a rice cooker with a mechanical switch. It's a bit in accurate. The temperature fluctuates between the set temp to +3C. But the results are incredible.
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If the Iranian dish you're referring to was seasoned with cardamom and served with basmati rice, barberries and caramelized onions it may have been from a cookbook called "Jerusalem". It's an awesome recipe and following it led to my very first experience with braised chicken that didn't have fatty, rubbery skin. It doesn't come out crisp, but it very soft and just sort of falls apart in your mouth. It's hard to describe but it's really good.
I'm still not sure what the exact trick is, but in the recipe the chicken is seared well for 5 full minutes on each side, and then nestled amongst rice, enough water for the rice and the other ingredients. The liquid does not cover the skin. It's then cooked covered on VERY low heat for 30 minutes. Next, it's taken off the heat, a towel is placed between the pot and lid, and it's allowed to steam under residual heat for 10 minutes.
If you want to get it moist, tender and juicy every time, invest in a sous-vide setup. These used to be expensive to get, but a lot of cheaper models have recently come out.
As others have pointed out, a rubbery texture is caused by overcooking the meat. Brining helps somewhat in helping retain moisture and gives you a wider margin for error, it's still possible to overcook brined meat.
Since the degree of cooking (under-cooked, over-cooked, or perfect) is entirely determined by temperature, you need a way to precisely control it. Sous-vide is the best way I know of to accomplish this.
I cook all of my chicken breast sous-vide at 58.5°C (137°F). Thigh meat requires a higher temperature of around 65°C. Cooking time depends on the thickness of the meat; there are formulas by Doug Baldwin and apps such as Sous Vide Dash to work out how long it will take for the centre of the meat to reach this temperature and pasteurize to kill salmonella and other bugs.
Others pointed out the importance of meat quality, and this is something which definitely becomes apparent under the controlled conditions of sous-vide cooking. I have done a fair few tests, and as a result now strongly prefer organic chicken breast for texture and tenderness. Picking the right supplier means I've been able to eliminate stringy textures or pappy mouthfeel, and end up with chicken that cuts cleanly like a good steak every time. I have not had adverse results using meat I have vacuum packed and frozen myself prior to cooking.
Two words: "slow cooker." Even a stewing chicken will be fall-off-the-bone soft after being slow-cooked.
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6 Unlikely Friendships in Movies (That Make No Damn Sense)
#3. Detective Riggs and the LAPD in Lethal Weapon
In the original Lethal Weapon, the LAPD partners up middle-aged conservative Sgt. Murtaugh (Danny Glover) with young loose cannon Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson). The result inaugurated a proud cinematic tradition of Glover claiming to be too old for shit and Gibson acting like a dangerous lunatic long before both of those things sadly became true. But for a while there, it was magical.
"Eh, needs more Joe Pesci." -- someone, at some point.
The whole thing starts when Riggs, a narcotics officer, has a disastrous case that ends with him goading a drug dealer to shoot him before taking the guy hostage and almost shooting the dealer himself. The LAPD addresses the situation by transferring Riggs to homicide, hoping that some of Murtaugh's common sense will rub off on him.
Why It Doesn't Make Sense:
We are so busy being amused by the hilariously incompatible Riggs and Murtaugh that we miss the much stranger relationship: Riggs and the Los Angeles Police Department. After all, Riggs' psychological problems aren't manifesting themselves as missed work days or arguments with co-workers around the office. He's escalating routine drug buys into shootouts, ranting about suicide and jumping off of rooftops. Guys, let this man find a new line of work.
Maybe like a teacher or something?
Instead, they transfer him to homicide, where his job will be to confront murderers. It's like assigning an alcoholic waiter to tend bar ... after he got drunk and pissed on a client. The chief of police thinks that Riggs is just faking it to draw a psycho pension, but that's irrelevant: The fact remains that Riggs is actively behaving like a nutjob and shouldn't be allowed anywhere near guns.
Also, for God's sake someone do something about that mullet.
The LAPD is reluctant to fire Riggs due to a combination of feeling bad about him losing his wife and being too cheap to pay his pension, but there's a huge leap between "let's keep him around" and "let's send him on our most dangerous cases." They could have easily assigned him to traffic detail or given him a desk job. Sure, he could have still jumped under a truck or stuck a pencil in his eye, but at least he wouldn't be hurting anyone else.
"There are at least 17 ways I could kill myself with printer toner."
And out of all the homicide detectives they could have partnered him with, Murtaugh was the absolute worst. He has no incentive to keep Riggs on the straight and narrow like the LAPD hopes -- they all know he's planning to retire soon, because he mentions it every five seconds. He gives so little of a shit that he actually hands Riggs a loaded gun at one point and yells at him to pull the trigger ... which is exactly what he does. If Riggs hadn't taken like 10 seconds to move that finger, Murtaugh would have had to buy a new suit.
#2. Max Shreck and the Penguin in Batman Returns
At the beginning of Batman Returns, the Penguin kidnaps Max Shreck, a ruthless business mogul played by Christopher Walken who is arguably more intimidating than any Batman villain in this movie. The Penguin, whose supervillain origin is that he was dumped in a sewer as a baby, attempts to blackmail Shreck by showing him a collection of incriminating items, including body parts of his murdered ex-partner.
He then spouted hand puns for the next 10 minutes to solidify his place in a Batman film.
Shreck pays the blackmail, but then turns the situation to his benefit by convincing the Penguin to run for mayor of Gotham City, serving as his personal adviser. This is part of Shreck's plan to have control over city hall and build a power plant. An evil power plant.
Why It Doesn't Make Sense:
There are a hundred reasons why the Penguin makes for a horrible political candidate, starting with his face.
He's better looking than Nixon, but not by much.
But there's also the fact that he still has enough dirt on Shreck to ruin him 27 times over. So ... why didn't Shreck just kill his ass? The guy had no problem throwing a secretary out the window because she looked in the wrong folder. He doesn't have to do it himself -- he could fork over some cash and hire every hit man in the city. It's not like there's any legal risk involved -- who the hell is going to miss the goddamned Penguin?
"Penguin ... Penguin ... can't remember him. He must not have been that distinctive."
But no, he decides that the proper way to deal with the Penguin is to make him rich and powerful, then sort of hope he'll be grateful enough to be Shreck's puppet even after he stops needing him.
And trying to get him elected is a huge pain in the ass; the only reason the Penguin looks like he might actually have a shot at becoming the mayor is that they pull a series of maudlin publicity stunts to make him look like a hero -- including kidnapping a baby and then "saving" it. But the question is ... why? If he wants a puppet mayor that bad, why go through the immense effort of making that disgusting, creepy little man seem like a civilized person when Shreck could much more easily fabricate another candidate who doesn't have a dangerous fixation with infants and Arctic birds? Why doesn't he ask another of the city's popular public figures?
OK, maybe not.
#1. The Nations of the World in Watchmen
At the end of Watchmen, it's revealed that Ozymandias, the most clever man in the world (except when it comes to passwords), has made it look like the nearly omnipotent Dr. Manhattan destroyed several major cities across the Earth, including Beijing, Moscow, Paris, Los Angeles and New York City. The point of all this is uniting the nations of the world against a blue-thong-wearing common enemy, thereby ending the Cold War.
"Or we could drop the Berlin Wall. Whichever."
When Dr. Manhattan finds out about this, he says, "Yes, that makes sense," and agrees to let Ozymandias get away with it. In fact, the only hero who has a problem with this logic is Rorschach, but he's a psychopath, and Dr. Manhattan kills him anyway.
Why It Doesn't Make Sense:
Apparently, Rorschach was the only one in the room who thought things through, because none of this makes sense.
For starters, Dr. Manhattan isn't some sort of alien entity: He's an American citizen working for the U.S. government whom the U.S. Army has used as a weapon of mass destruction in the past. He single-handedly won the Vietnam War.
But this is Alan Moore, so rape may have been involved at some point.
Even if the other countries bought the "He went rogue" idea, why would they forgive the U.S. for unleashing him in the first place? If anything, this would make things a million times more tense -- in Dr. Manhattan's absence, the "common enemy" that the rest of the world would rally together to take down would be the United States.
"World Agrees: U.S. Can Suck It."
Keep in mind that, in the comic, the fabricated attack was caused by an alien entity, and it was accompanied by some sort of psychic wave that pretty much convinced everyone of the story. And in the comic, only New York was attacked, so the other nations had no reason to be resentful -- only afraid that they could be next.
For the smartest man on the planet, much of Ozymandias' plan turned out to be completely pointless: He created a decades-long conspiracy to give everyone around Dr. Manhattan cancer and convince him to leave the planet when apparently he could have just walked up to him and said "This is what we're gonna do."
"Are you sure me wearing full pants all the time is an essential part of the plan?" "Yes, absolutely."
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TEMPLE (October 11, 2012)-Third, fourth and fifth graders from Cater Elementary will be participating in a cup stacking tournament Saturday.
Parents can also get in on the fun to be held at the Temple High School gym.
For $1 per event and signed permission slips, students will get to compete for awards.
Third graders can expect to get started around 8:30 a.m. while fourth graders compete at 9:30 a.m.
Fifth graders will get their chance at 11 a.m.
The event is open to spectators and it is free to watch the fun.
A Child/Parent Doubles event is also planned.
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WALL STREET (CBS) -- Apple's stock closed at a record high Friday of $422 a share after the new iPhone 4S went on sale in seven countries.
The debut of the latest version of the iPhone, which boasts a faster processor and better camera, follows the death of Apple chairman and co-founder Steve Jobs, who passed away in early October at age 56.
Apple (AAPL) rose $13.57, or 3.3 percent, to close at $422 a share. That's just 86 cents shy of the stock's all-time high notched in intraday trading last month.
Many diehard Apple fans and investors were disappointed that Apple didn't launch a more radically redesigned new model — an iPhone 5. But neither that initial letdown nor the death of Steve Jobs has hurt Apple's stock.
After gaining more than 14 percent in the last week, Friday's record close makes Apple the world's biggest publicly traded company by a wide margin. Apple's market value now stands at more than $390 billion. Exxon Mobil (XOM) remains No. 2 with a market capitalization of $380 billion, according to data from Capital IQ.
Steve Wozniak, who created Apple with Steve Jobs in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976, was first in line for the iPhone 4S at a store in Los Gatos, Calif.
Although crowds were reportedly smaller than for previous Apple gadget debuts, hundreds of buyers camped out in front of stores for hours to be among the first to get an iPhone 4S. About 200 people were at Apple's Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan as the iPhone 4S went on sale.
However, as ZDNet reports, if buzz for the iPhone 4S was lacking in the lines outside Apple stores, that's only because a lot of people pre-ordered the device online. Apple said Monday that more than 1 million orders came in, breaking the record set by last year's model, which was available in fewer countries and on fewer carriers.
In addition to Apple stores, people can buy the iPhone 4S from AT&T (T), Sprint (S) or Verizon (VZ). Some Best Buy (BBY), Target (TGT) and Walmart (WMT) stores and authorized resellers also carry the phones.
William Power, an analyst at RW Baird & Co., told clients he expects Apple to sell more than 3 million iPhone 4S's worldwide this weekend. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster was slightly less enthusiastic, figuring Apple would sell 2 million to 2.5 million new iPhones this weekend.
Looking farther ahead, FBN Securities analyst Shelby Seyrafi estimates Apple will likely tally 114.8 million iPhone unit sales worldwide this year, thanks to the iPhone 4S, which is higher than the analyst's initial estimate of 108.4 million units sold, reports CNET News.com.
The death of Jobs could be helping sales. Marketing experts say products designed by widely admired figures such as Jobs usually see an upsurge in sales after their death. In addition to the U.S., the iPhone 4S became available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Britain on Friday.
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Would Lance Believe Lance?
Why should we believe anything Lance Armstrong says now?
Sorry. Can't help it. That was Lance Armstrong's tactic of choice upon accusation—attack the messenger, challenge his or her credibility, throw some doubt, suggest past inconsistencies, hint at personal troubles, flaws, financial motivations.
Most of all, the tactic was distract, distract, distract.
This was a tactic that worked scarily well for a scarily long time. It worked so well that a lot of people close to the sport assumed that Armstrong would stay a step ahead forever, that he had built a narrative too sleek to fall and the distractions were too effective. Even if the facts closed in, it would be like one of those superhero movies in which the nemesis slips through a crack in the door and slides down a pole into a speedboat. Allegations would come and go, but the chase would never really end.
But now it is ending. Or at least it's the start of the end. On Thursday night we will all watch a video of Lance Armstrong in which he will reportedly confess, in some measure, to using performance-enhancing drugs in his career as a cyclist. He will do this to Oprah Winfrey, not because he's feeling especially confessional or chatty, but because he ran out of options. Too many people who knew too much were finally compelled to tell it. The distractions weren't enough.
He is cornered. So he is talking. A photo was released on Tuesday of Armstrong's summit with Winfrey in an Austin, Texas hotel. They are sitting face to face in brown leather chairs. A nearby table holds a pair of water glasses with impressive straws. Armstrong is wearing a blazer and gray slacks. He looks like he is being interviewed for a job at a bank.
It is unclear how much Armstrong confessed and in what level of detail. Winfrey has decided that whatever he said is worthy of stretching over two nights on her cable network, OWN, so Thursday's exclusive has been extended to Friday night as well. Perhaps OWN will become so taken with cycling it will start covering the spring classics. I cannot wait to watch Dr. Phil on live from the Ronde Van Vlaanderen.
In the days leading up to the broadcast, there has been plenty of reconsideration of Armstrong's legacy. His status as a cancer survivor and fundraiser had been reliable Teflon when doubts arrived, but not now. Those videos on replay of Armstrong's emphatic doping denials look very bad.
Still, you don't hear much outrage about doping. Doping doesn't feel like a shock. The foremost public anger is about the years of misdirection and personal attacks upon anyone who attempted to counter the narrative. That's the most inexcusable part—the pain inflicted upon people who had the courage to tell the truth.
Armstrong has some explaining to do. But the apologizing feels as important.
There's another essential need. This week has been dominated by one man's collapse but it's important to recognize that there's a broader subject at hand. The case brought by the United States Anti-Doping Agency is bigger than Armstrong. It points to a conspiracy of individuals and a polluted, broken sport. There are troubling allegations in the USADA report that connect Armstrong's case to cycling's leadership--allegations that have been denied, but deserve a vigorous inquiry.
This is where Armstrong can be helpful. If he wants a new legacy he can start with explaining how it went so rotten, and if it indeed went all the way to the top. That's important business and critical to cycling's future.
It's tempting to see this high-profile interview as another extension of the Armstrong narrative. Armstrong prospered by thinking several moves ahead, and it's hard to believe there's no angle here. He surely hopes that in going to Winfrey he can at least press the reset button. He is choosing the most high-profile route because it offers both opportunity and audience. He will try to soften the casual fans, the cycling agnostics—where his strongest fan base always was—and try to push forward.
His relief depends upon what gets said and how he says it. Armstrong faces considerable legal exposure, and cycling fans are primed to roll their eyes at any equivocation. Controlled admissions won't work (Has a controlled admission ever worked?) This is a long, complicated, ugly, emotional story, and it needs to scrape down to the details. For this reason I believe that no matter how good a job Winfrey does, this won't be the last time Armstrong talks. I think he's just started talking. Not because he wants to. Because he'll have to. He may be talking for a long time.
The irony in the downfall of Lance Armstrong is what protected him for so long is also what will make this crisis harder to erase. Human beings make terrible mistakes all of the time and there is a resilient tendency in people toward forgiveness. But Armstrong's not in this mess because he made a terrible mistake. And it wasn't just that he built an image that was unreal and unsustainable. It was that every time the truth approached, he doubled down and attacked the truth-teller. Those old denials and distractions will haunt him, perhaps forever.
Why should we believe anything Lance Armstrong says now? This is a reasonable question. He needs to give a good answer.
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6 May 2012 5:51 AM #1
Chart numeric axis decimal issue
Hi Guys,
I have created a line chart with Numeric axis. When my Numeric axis value less than 10 it is splits to decimal value and I have to display some "Count" values in Numeric axis so it is absolutely nonsense. So I am finding a solution to avoid this decimal rendering for my chart. Please help me to resolve this issue. Or is it a Ext 4.1 native bug?
Here is my graph config
Ext.applyIf(me, { axes: [ { type: 'Category', fields: [ 'enrolled_date' ], label: { renderer: Ext.util.Format.dateRenderer('Y-m-d') }, position: 'bottom', title: 'Registered Date', calculateCategoryCount: false }, { type: 'Numeric', fields: [ 'count' ], position: 'left', title: 'No of Mothers', minimum: 0 } ], series: [ { type: 'line', xField: 'enrolled_date', yField: [ 'count' ], fill: true, smooth: 3 } ] });
[{"enrolled_date":"2012-04-21 00:00:00","count":"1"},{"enrolled_date":"2012-04-29 00:00:00","count":"5"},{"enrolled_date":"2012-04-30 00:00:00","count":"1"},{"enrolled_date":"2012-05-03 00:00:00","count":"1"}]
thanks in advance,
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Hi All,
Please help me to resolve this issue...
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The number of ticks is 10 by default. You can set the 'majorTickSteps' config to 5 for instance, or to the maximum value in your data, and that should remove the decimal values along the axis.


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More than 300 Kentucky inmates will get a taste of freedom as Gov. Patton orders the second early release of non-violent offenders.
There are 328 non-violent inmates who are nearing completion of their sentences to be released at 8 a.m. Friday, Jan. 17.
Gov. Patton says the release is part of the state's continuing effort to offset budget shortfalls for the Department of Corrections.
He has come under fire for his decision to release inmates, especially since at least two of them have already been arrested again.
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Comparing the Performance of Various Web Frameworks
TechEmpower has been running benchmarks for the last year, attempting to measure and compare the performance of web frameworks. For these benchmarks the term "framework" is used loosely including platforms and micro-frameworks.
Spring Updated for Java 8
Java 8 might be difficult for enterprise projects to adopt, mostly because of established Java EE application servers. Those using Tomcat and Jetty will likely have an edge in upgrading. Spring 4.0.3 was recently released, with official support for Java 8 as well as many WebSocket improvements.
Spring Boot Goes GA
Pivotal, last week, announced the first general availability release of the Spring Boot framework.
Spring 4 Enhances Support for Java 8, Java EE 7, REST and HTML5
Last Thursday, Pivotal released Spring 4.0, the first major release since 2009. The new release supports Java 8 with expression of callbacks using lambdas, JSR 310 Date and Time API, and parameter name discovery.
Pivotal's Reactor Goes GA
This week, Pivotal released version 1.0 of its project Reactor for general availability. Reactor provides low-level abstractions for an event-driven, reactive programming model, and is a component member of the Spring IO Platform in its "IO Foundation" layer.
Implementing Hexagonal Architecture using Life Preserver and Spring Framework
Russ Miles recently shared some thoughts and ideas about the needs for adaptability in a system and how his implementation of the Hexagonal Architecture can help in achieving this. He used a Java and Spring based application to exemplify how such a system can be implemented.
Java EE 7, Spring Standardize Batch
This month's release of the Java EE 7 platform includes a specification for a batch processing programming model that is heavily derived from Pivotal's Spring Batch project.
Spring Framework 4.0 Announced
After nearly four years the popular Spring Framework is getting ready for an upgrade from version 3 to version 4.
Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.0
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Greenplum Pivotal HD Combines the Strengths of SQL and Hadoop
EMC Greenplum has announced Pivotal HD, a new Hadoop distribution including a fully compliant SQL MPP database running on HDFS and being "hundreds of times faster than Hive".
CAST: Adding Spring Lowers the Quality of JEE Applications
A CAST report discloses that JEE enterprise software has lower quality when using Spring or Struts than using just Hibernate. Also, the quality degrades when Java is mixed with C or C++.
Plans for Spring Framework 4.0 Announced - Includes Support for Java SE 8 and Groovy 2
VMware's SpringSource team have recently announced plans for Spring 4.0, the next update to the framework, with new features including support for Java SE 8, Groovy 2, parts of Java EE 7, and WebSockets. InfoQ spoke to Spring framework co-founder Juergen Hoeller to find out more about the plans.
SpringSource Spruce Up Spring MVC as Spring Framework 3.2 Goes GA
VMware's SpringSource team has released the GA version of Spring Framework 3.2, exactly one year after 3.1. The new release emphasises the Spring MVC web framework.
Spring Migration Analyzer: An Assistant For JavaEE To Spring Conversion
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JetBrains Releases IntelliJ IDEA 12
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Old toys, new dangers
|Kids 'N Kribs manager Sarah Varela is shown in the Oakland Park, Fla., consignment store on Dec. 11, 2012. Amid a still-struggling economy, stores and non-profit groups that cater to families striving to find the right toy within tight budgets also have to be extra vigilant to ensure kids donít end up with donated dangerous or defective toys. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel/MCT)
"Apparently kids got their arm stuck in it," said Varela, manager of Kids 'N Kribs. She takes no chances, routinely checking toys customers bring in to see if the items make the hit list of recalls issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Amid a still-struggling economy, stores and non-profit groups that cater to families striving to find the right toy within tight budgets also have to be extra vigilant to ensure kids don't end up with donated dangerous or defective toys.
"We have to be very meticulous," said Major Henry Hudson, administrator of the Adult Rehabilitation Center at the Salvation Army of Broward County. He said the organization receives many new and used toy donations but only sells new ones that come in packages.
But even new ones can pose a threat, so the Salvation Army checks any toy it plans to sell to see if it's on a recall list, Hudson said.
More difficult to monitor these days is the sale of recalled toys on websites like eBay and Craigslist, said Patty Davis, of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The commission has a 24-hour Internet surveillance team checking websites to make sure illegal items are taken down.
"We are always checking," Davis said.
Four years ago, it became illegal to resell a recalled item and at that point about 170 toys were recalled, Davis said. Recalled items in 2012 include Feels Real baby dolls, Captain Cutlass toy pirate pistols and Whoozit Starry Time rattles.
Davis said commission representatives go to stores, give seminars and work closely with managers and employees to make sure they understand what can and cannot be sold.
"We do not want to put anyone out of business," she said. "We know they are providing a real service to their community, especially in these difficult times."
Moms also are paying attention to toy recalls.
Michelle Martin, organizer of The South Florida Playgroup, said the 118-member meet-up group routinely informs each other about toy safety.
"We'll ask and say 'did you know there was a recall on this particular car seat? There's this piece you need to get for this'," said Martin, of Pembroke Pines. "There's always a recall, all the time. It happens."
Parents and caregivers also post on the group's Facebook page any information they discover or share it at occasional toy swaps. But that can also prompt action even though there is no recall.
While it isn't a toy, Varela at Kids 'N Kribs pulled a infant recliner from its shelves last week after seeing a Facebook posting that said it posed a hazard.
"I'm not going to be taking any chances," Varela said.
Anyone shopping for items for children should research the product online and check reviews, said Jennifer Marseille, mother of two and member of the Palm Beach County Moms Meetup group.
"I think it's very, very important just to know what we are exposing our children to," she said.
For information on recently recalled toys, go to http://databases.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/ftlaudtoyrecall/ftlaudtoyrecall—list.php
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Polls in West Virginia and Ohio open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m.
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GENESEO, N.Y. -- Richard Canarvis, a locksmith in SUNY Geneseo's facilities services department, has received the college's Gloria and Van Quaal Outstanding Quality Service Award for 2013. The 27-year employee of the college received the honor during the Division of Administration and Finance's recent recognition ceremony.
The annual award recognizes an individual in the Division of Administration and Finance who has had a consistently high level of performance during his or her career, a recognizable and meaningful impact at the college, and who serves as a role model for others.
"Rick always has a smile on his face," said Jim Milroy, vice president for administration and finance at Geneseo. "His good nature and positive attitude combined with the stellar service he provides on campus made him an excellent choice for this award."
The selection committee chose Canarvis from six nominations this year. He received a certificate and a $1,000 check from the Geneseo Foundation.
The college established the award in 1997 through an endowment from the Geneseo Foundation in honor of the Quaals' many years of devoted service to the college and Geneseo community. Van Quaal was vice president emeritus of business affairs and finance before his death in 2005 at age 80.
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I'm trying to copy a char array into another char array using pointer arithmetic. It seems to be correct within the copy() but then I don't understand what happens after it gets to main. char a[] does not get the value of char b[] even if I called the function. Am I missing something? Hehehe
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void copy(char a[], char b[]){
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RFU Discipline
Discipline is one of the core values of rugby. The RFU Discipline team strives to ensure that rugby is a game of controlled physical endeavour and that it is honest and fair.
The RFU's disciplinary regime reflects IRB Regulation 17. It exists to penalise players whose foul play or misconduct is other than purely accidental, and one of its most important principles is to prevent the risk of injury to other players in a dynamic and physical sport. Players have an obligation to ensure that they do not cause injury to opponents, so there is a presumption that any conduct which is proscribed by IRB Law 10 (foul play) merits a sanction.
The RFU Discipline Department deals with foul play and misconduct cases in levels 1-4 of the Game. It also deals with appeals from Constituent Body Disciplinary Panels and other specific cases that the Constituent Body Disciplinary Panels do not have the power to deal with, for example, breaches of IRB 10 and 21 (medical and anti-doping).
There are 35 Constituent Bodies to which the RFU delegates disciplinary powers. These bodies will normally deal with misconduct and foul play cases at level 5 and below. Members of RFU Disciplinary Committees and Constituent Body Disciplinary Panels are trained and accredited to sit on such cases by the RFU.
The Discipline Department is also responsible for the appointment of Citing Officers to matches when required. For further information contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
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|Judicial Secretary
|Rebecca Morgan
Policies and guidance
- Age grade rugby guidance (PDF 736kB)
- RFU Club Disciplinary Guidance (PDF 222kB)