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How do you believe the Affordable Care Act will affect the quality of care in America?
"I think a lot of the concerns today are not about quality, but about access. I don't think we will see a change, per se, but I think we will see a change in access.
That's where people may perceive that as a component of quality, relative to whether they get to seek care from providers they are comfortable with or have been treated with in the past."
Will I be able to see my same doctor that I am seeing now?
"Really, if you are getting your insurance from your employer, you won't see a change, unless, of course, your employer changes the plan design, or were the insurer they buy it from has a plan design change.
...but if you don't have insurance, if you qualify and are purchasing through the exchange, there you will see different products and you may see restrictions on which providers are participating in those exchanges.
So, it may be very possible that yes, you may or may not need to change providers."
Will face time with my doctor decrease?
"I am not hearing of people wanting to change the way they provide care. In my experience, providers pay a blind eye to payer source in how they provide care.
They have one standard, regardless of who the payer source is.
A lot of people are hearing that trauma centers could close. What do you think?
"I think it could make it more challenging for safety net hospitals. Community is a safety net hospital because we have a high medicaid load and part of the financing for the Affordable Care Act was a reduction in the pay rate for Medicaid patients, assuming we would see a further coverage of medicaid qualified patients as medicaid expanded, well, here in Montana and elsewhere, states decided not to expand medicaid and yet those dish cuts or medicaid cuts still go into place. So, perhaps safety net hospitals, may who are trauma centers might need to make cutbacks in their costs. It could affect the care they provide or the services they offer."
Will specialized clinics close?
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I think that it will result in some markets, (we're not seeing it here in Missoula, but) perhaps in some larger, urban markets, there will be restrictive networks.
So, patients who buy through the exchange may not have as much choice as they would if they bought through other products; other insurance plans."
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They have the ability to seek that primary care in the physician's office, where, without insurance, they may have gone without are or ultimately got care in an ER.
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Will we have enough primary care physicians?
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6 Teenage Inventors That Changed The World
#3. A 17-Year-Old Designed the 50-Star American Flag
Most of us have grown up hearing that the first American flag was designed and sewn by America's Grandma, Betsy Ross. But now, even that much is being debated, and as the nation's most bored historians argue over who sewed the first flag, they're ignoring who made the most recent one.
After all, it's not like we're still using that design anyway. Each little hunk of land America seized or bought eventually got declared a state, and each time, the flag had to change, because frankly, at that point putting stars on a flag was the only way to keep track of all the new states.
"Montana? Really? Are we even sure that's a real place?"
Most recently, the United States added Alaska and Hawaii as its newest states, and when that happened Congress turned designing the next flag into a nationwide cut-throat contest. Fifty stars had to be crammed onto that flag somehow, in a manner that didn't look completely stupid.
Ol' Construction Paper and Glue/How we love you.
In Lancaster, Ohio, 17-year-old Robert Heft had put hours of effort into a new U.S. flag for his history project, only to receive a B-. To most of us, that's pretty decent. But Heft had just worked his ass off toiling on his mother's sewing machine, and thought he deserved more. He approached his teacher, who dared him to submit it to Congress, we assume sarcastically, and said if it were selected as the new flag he would get his A.
Heft was going up against 1,500 other designs by accomplished artists all over the country, each trying to design their way into being the next Betsy Ross. And like the end of a Lifetime movie, he actually won. President Eisenhower liked Heft's flag better than all the rest.
"But the puckering anus one is a close second."
The experience led Heft to successes such as becoming the mayor of Napoleon, Ohio, and traveling around the world for decades as a motivational speaker. All because he resisted his natural teenage temptation to arrange the stars in the shape of a dick.
#2. A 15-Year-Old Invented the Snowmobile
Snow: Depending on where you live, it's either a seasonal annoyance or a rare gift. But back in the days before central heating and fancy Japanese sweaters, snow often meant death.
This leads us to Joseph Bombardier, who was born in Quebec in 1907. Which means he had to spend his winters trapped by massive snow drifts that not even his unbelievably badass name could part. By the time he was 15, young Joe was through with winter shitting all over him. He plotted his revenge, in the form of a souped up Model T his father gave him to keep the family car out of Joseph's hands.
"Er, son ... can I get a lift?"
The addition of a sleigh frame and a hand-whittled propeller transformed the old junker into something new. The snowmobile was born.
Unfortunately, Joseph's father wanted him to stop studying all that useless mechanical engineering and switch over to something lucrative, like God! The snowmobile was dismantled so the young Bombardier could prepare for seminary.
When the church didn't work out, Joe was allowed to turn back to his true love: giving winter the finger. He founded the world's first snowmobile company and became one of Canada's most successful men, side-by-side with Dudley Do-Right and Bryan Adams.
That leaves just enough room in this 12-man vehicle for people who actually matter.
#1. A 15-Year-Old Invented Braille
At the age of 3, little Louis Braille cut his eye screwing around with daddy's tools and ended up blind from a horrible infection. Since this was the 1800s, his options for treatment included "sucking it up" and "dying of syphilis like everyone else." Fortunately, Louis was born in France, host to the only school for blind kids on earth. He earned a scholarship at age 10, but there was only so much he could learn by listening to lectures. If little Louis wanted to read Charles Dickens books one day, he'd have to invent his own system of writing.
No biggie.
His efforts have been immortalized via this disturbing doll-child.
Louis was inspired by a French army captain, one Charles Barbier de la Serre. He'd developed an eyes-free system of writing for French soldiers to use during times of utmost sneakiness. Barbier had the advantage of eyes, which gave him the disadvantage of not really knowing what works best when you're trying to see with your hands. His system, Sonography, didn't work very well, but it inspired preteen Louis to dedicate three years toward making it look like a bitch.
Yeah, raised dots? You like that?
By age 15 he'd invented modern Braille -- an entire alphabet that you can read by running your finger across it. Not bad, kid.
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For more unlikely sources of change, check out 5 Accidental Inventions That Changed The World and 5 Bizarre Accidents That Helped Invent Modern Medicine.


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On most maps I've seen so far, cars are a pretty common form of cover. However, they seem to have a tendency to explode, killing my soldiers. Some of them it's pretty obvious why they exploded, as they were on fire at the time, but twice I've had cars explode for no discernible reason, both times losing me soldiers and once causing me to fail a mission. Why are they exploding, and is there any prior indication that they are going to do so?
Cars indeed have a damage threshold, 2 of them, even!
First threshold prevents it from catching fire or exploding. (Pistol hitting a car for example) Then once that one is passed the car catches fire. The second one is where it explodes straight away.
Things to remember when using cars for cover or shooting at them:
From what I read, others report that grenades kill cars instantly, where in my games they never do that. It seems higher difficulty is higher threshold. I play impossible so as such I will not note my damage expectations and experiences.
The first indication would be the cars taking fire from either you or the enemy. You should see the car degrade from this, even if it's just windows shattering. And yes, I believe I have seen a car catch fire after it's windows were shot out. One assumes that in the future all materials will be flammable or explosive! In any case, so far I've observed a one turn delay every time a car that was on fire exploded, so there is time for soldiers taking cover to get out of the way in these cases.
It's possible to blow a car up without having it catch on fire first. The easiest way to see this would be to have someone throw a grenade at a car, or a heavy shoot a rocket at one. There's no delay there, it just goes boom.
One is given reason to believe that there is simply a damage threshold at work. At this much damage (call it X), the car starts to burn and will soon explode. At that much damage (Y) it explodes straight away. It's almost certainly true that enemy weapons (plasma) are more powerful than the initial x-com armaments, so they're more likely to explode a car as part of a volley than machine guns and assault rifles.
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'Louie' Season 4: Pamela Adlon Responds to Controversial "Rape" Scene
Ecstatic though we were to have FX Emmy darling 'Louie' back for a fourth season, the controversy quotient seemed higher than usual when a recent episode highlighted comedian Pamela Adlon's character in an uncomfortable struggle with rape-like overtones. Louis C.K. himself has kept mostly mum on the matter, but what does Adlon have to say about the difficult scenes?
Where subsequent episode "Pamela Part 2″ and "Pamela Part 3" confirmed critical suspicions that the FX dramedy wouldn't revisit the matter of Louis C.K.'s character rather forcefully planting a kiss on Pamela's in the June 2 installment, Adlon downplayed any suggestions of rape in a recent interview with Vulture. In particular, Adlon noted that C.K's stage directions in the script made the encounter more comical than it might have appeared, while the struggle fit with the pair's relationship dynamic:
…the fact people were talking about, Did Louie try to rape Pamela? Was that a rape? Or calling it rape straight-out, which was nuts, because I never saw it like that, because they had this kind of over-the-edge connection and relationship. They do a push-me/pull-me thing. I know that one thing that motivates Louis and drives him is characters that don't explain why they do what they do. You just see things happen and play out, and you don't get a neat little button at the end of it. Pamela and Louie are both as flawed as the next person, it's not cut and dry.
…when I read it I was dying laughing, because in the script he said, "Louie approaches her closing off the ring" — which is like a boxing terminology — and then he said, "and she's holding on to the walls and furniture like a cartoon cat." So when I read it, it read hilariously. Then on the day that we were shooting it, I was like, "Let's really get into it," and I grabbed the dresser and all of that. And then at a certain point, I looked at him and I said, 'Somebody might get mad.'
Adlon goes on to identify herself as an advocate for women's rights with three daughters of her own, while explaining that the scene (and much of the season at large) had been designed to convey certain "feelings" and sentiments, rather than outright laughs. Opinions and analysis of C.K.'s intentions for season 4 have certainly run the gamut, though we'd be hard-pressed not to feel as if the tone of the scene might have been somewhat stymied by its imagery.
After all, the recent 'Game of Thrones' rape controversy (it pains us to have to be specific as to which) clearly saw a disparate take on the scene between director Alex Graves, actors Lena Headey and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and audiences at large. It's certainly not inconceivable that the Pamela/Louie scene would evoke similarly mixed reactions as well.
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As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'd like to hear more from Jeff and Joel (and particularly a proper back-and-forth discussion between them) about the purpose of the reputation cap, and why/whether a time-sensitive approach is the most effective one. Even if that doesn't result in any changes, I think it would be an interesting discussion. That's just an example though - this question isn't meant to be about reputation!
What other StackOverflow-related topics would you like to hear discussed on the podcast? Do you particularly like the SO-related stuff, or are you more interested in general tech stuff? (Of course it's quite possible that J&J are sick of meta discussions, and any answers here will be pointless - but that's a different matter.)
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WHEELING - When a Habitat for Humanity project in South Wheeling fell weeks behind schedule because organizers lacked a backhoe to dig the house's foundation, volunteer coordinator Lisa Werner soon discovered that all she had to do was ask.
The very same morning an interview with Werner appeared in The Intelligencer expressing that need, she said she arrived at work to find a phone message from St. Clairsville business owner John Bettem offering to send a couple of his employees at Katko Ltd. to the work site at 97 33rd St. He mentioned he had read the newspaper article and was eager to help, Werner said.
And in the days following Bettem's offer, Werner continued to be touched by the generosity of local business leaders as she said several other companies contacted her volunteering their services.
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HARD AT WORK— Tony Poch moved dirt with a backhoe and Albert Takach dug in a trench as the Katko Ltd. employees worked at the site of a Habitat for Humanity project in South Wheeling.
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Dirt was moving on the empty lot bright and early Tuesday. Werner said the swift response to Habitat's request for assistance was a particularly welcome gift because of the urgency of the home recipient's situation: The working mother and her three daughters, one of whom is handicapped, were told they had to be out of their apartment by the end of the year, and Werner is not sure where they're living at present.
"It was amazing," Werner said. "I really appreciated it. ... They're in very desperate need of somewhere to stay. ... Now we'll be able to meet their housing needs in a timely fashion."
The local Habitat group hopes to have the house under roof by Feb. 14, a goal Werner believes is attainable now that work is under way.
If all goes as planned, Werner said workers will grade the site, pour concrete for the foundation and complete exterior plumbing and electrical work next week and put up the house's frame the following week. Volunteers have committed to perform that task, but Werner said more are welcome and asks anyone interested to call (304) 234-9211 or e-mail her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Calling on those with a volunteer's spirit but lacking a handyman's touch, Werner added the group is seeking people to provide lunch to workers at the site on Saturdays, when the bulk of work will take place.
She also expressed thanks to all the donors who have provided resources for the project, including the Soroptimist Club, Saints and Sinners Club and the Vineyard Church. She noted students in Wheeling Park High School's Habitat for Humanity Club are raising money toward appliances for the home.
"This is a wonderful illustration of exactly what Habitat is all about - about volunteers working together to provide housing for those who are truly in need," said Werner.
Habitat partner families must put a $500 down payment on a home, put hundreds of hours of their own labor into its construction as well as repay the organization over time for building costs. The Wheeling group formed in 1989.


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REG plans to repair then restart the refinery and further upgrade the plant in the future. The acquisition would increase REG's biodiesel production capacity to 257 million gal/year. REG currently owns seven active biodiesel refineries in five states, including nearby plants in Newton and Ralston, Iowa.
Renewable Energy Group (REG) executed a purchase agreement
to acquire a 30-million gal/year biodiesel plant from Soy
Energy, the companies announced on Friday.
Pursuant to the agreement, REG will acquire the biorefinery in Mason City, Iowa,
for $11 million in cash and the issuance of a $5.6 million
promissory note to Soy Energy.
The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions,
including approval of the transaction by the Soy Energy unit
The Mason City plant, originally built to process highly
refined raw materials in 2006, was purchased by Soy Energy in
2010 and upgraded to utilize a larger variety of raw materials
including animal fats and used cooking oil. The plant was idled
in mid-2012 due to market conditions and manufacturing
Renewable Energy Groups offer provides the best
value for Soy Energy unit holders while helping unit holders
achieve their mission for promoting economic development in the
area, said Jeff Oestmann, Soy Energys CEO. In
addition, REGs procurement know-how and proven business
model of using lower cost raw materials makes them a reliable
operator for this plant.
REG plans to repair then restart the refinery and further upgrade the
plant in the future. The acquisition would increase REGs
biodiesel production capacity to 257 million gal/year. REG
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states, including nearby plants in Newton and Ralston, Iowa and
Albert Lea, Minnesota.
We are committed to the people of Mason City,
Midwestern farmers and livestock producers and those who supply
the fats, oils and greases we will buy, said Daniel J.
Oh, REG chief executive.
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filled at the plant.
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I want to brew a beer, with an approx. alcohol content of 5% that incorporate's a hint of a soy flavor to it. Considering that what process would I need to use. Pilsner? Or another type?
My first recommendation for this type of flavoring experiment, is to go commercial. I'd go get 4-5 different commercial beers of different styles (pilsner, Amber, brown, Pale, stout or porter) and add soy to it. If we are talking about soy sauce then I'd just pour a 2-4oz sample of beer and add a few drops of soy sauce to it until it has that "hint" of flavor you are looking for.
Doing it this way will help you decide (through clever math) how much soy sauce to add to a 5 gallon batch. And you'll also get to experiment with different style with soy.
You might find out that it doesn't work with any style and that you'll just scrap the experiment. That way you won't ruin 5 gallons first.
I would plan to add my soy flavoring to the secondary post fermentation. And just scale it up from how many drops worked well in a 4oz sample.
Hope that helps.
do you want to just add soy sauce (would that be pretty salty?) to the beer or do you mean brewing with soy beans?
If it is the latter I know the same mold used for brewing sake is used for fermenting soy beans so you could buy a sake kit with the aspergillus spores and inoculate a bunch of steamed soy beans with it. After the mold has grown for a week or so you could add the beans to a cooled wort. This could be a pretty interesting experiment.


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In October, students nationwide were surveyed by the Gallup Student Organization about their hopes, their dreams and how they feel about school.
Today, the top 192 out of 1,700 schools were notified.
Three Warren County Schools were among the top "High Hopes Schools."
If you ask these 5th grade students at Cumberland Trace Elementary about their high hopes college and careers are top goals.
"It means achieving my goals of going to college and getting a good career such as a genetic counselor," says Kamrin Green.
"I do want to go to college," Eli Combs says.
"I've always wanted to be a teacher and that would be my success story," Allison Croslin says.
Cumberland Trace along with Jody Richards and the Lighthouse Academy ranked among the highest schools in the nation for students with "High Hopes."
Students from 5th to 12th grade answered questions about hope, engagement and well-being.
Students and staff agree, high hopes are measured by career readiness, even at a young age.
"We are beginning with the end in mind and thinking what do I need to do today as a student to prepare me for that end goal," says Dr. Mary Evans, principal at Cumberland Trace Elementary.
"Kids feel important here. I mean I think they feel like they matter and that they are apart of something bigger than just themselves," Jody Richards Elementary, Heather Busheman says.
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I commonly hear Christians refer to themselves either with that terms, "Christians," or as "believers". However, when I read the New Testament, particularly Paul's epistles, these do not strike me as the foremost terms that are used to refer to the people of God. In the New Testament, and particularly from the Acts of the Apostles onwards, what terms are used to refer to Christians, and with what frequency? Which are most prominent? I am particularly interested in the relative frequency of "Christian," "believer," and "saint," but an inclusion of other titles would also be helpful.
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Interesting question. From what I can tell 'brother' if the most common term, followed by saints and believers, far behind in second place. Christian is what outsiders called the believer so it is last.
Here are the hits based on the greek words;
Χριστιανός Christiania; Christian 3
πιστός pistos -believers,faithful 53
ἅγιος hagios - saints 61
ἀδελφός adelphos -brethren 226 (brother 113)
My take on these is we are to feel bound to one another as a close knit family. However we need not become legalistic about it, for in our Culture I think we have revised the meaning of Christian to hold that same proud bond we share with each other.
Right brothers and sisters?
My (limited) understanding is that many of these terms are relatively modern. The early Christians were known as followers of Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth. Our Western language Bibles have inherited the language of the later Roman and post Roman periods.
My NIV uses the term "The Fellowship of the Believers" as a heading in Acts 2 where v44 refers to "All the believers were together". "Believers" is referenced 14 times in Acts in fact so it is clearly a commonly used term - at least as translated to English. "Saints" on the other hand is only referenced 3 times, it seems to be more common to the book of Romans. I'm afraid I'm not enough of a scholar to analyse further than that.
In truth though, I'm wondering why you think this significant? As others have said, there are a number of indirect descriptors of Christians such as "the Faithful". It would help to understand your thinking.
For my own part, it is important for me to be associated with Jesus Christ (e.g. the Son of God, not just a man) since this is the significant difference of my faith. So I am happy to be called a Christian, a believer, faithful or a saint (notice not a capital S there!). Or indeed anything else that makes it clear that Jesus is the Earthly mark of my adoption by the Most High God. ("I Am the Way").


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Is it possible for a programmer to suffer the equivalent of writer's block? What strategies are there to overcome it?
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Yes programmers can get blocked, but not in the same way as writers. We get blocked because we're too close to a problem, or too far away. We just can't get the gray matter to pick a good path in the N dimensional maze that is programming. A break, a chat, especially describing the issue to a co-worker can work wonders. Note describing a problem will often cause your brain to see a potential solution, you need to chat to a willing sounding board but they don't necessarily have to be technical or know what you're talking about.
Writers' block is similar in nature but effectively a different beast. It occurs not because the author can't solve a problem but because the author can't get their mojo going, their inspiration is lacking, their muse is on holiday, the internal voices are simply telling them it's all rubbish, not even worth writing down. In addition it can last for days, months, years. The act of writing code and writing prose are superficially the same but they come from different parts of our spirit.
Funny you ask. I was just talking with one of my engineers today about programmer's block.
I recommend programmers have 2 or 3 active tasks going at a time that he/she can work on. When you get stuck somewhere, it's nice to be able to switch gears and work on something else for awhile and then come back to the problem with a fresh perspective.
I find that when I come back to the problem, I oftentimes come up with a solution/plan that I might not have otherwise come up with. Sometimes when working on one task, I run into something there that actually triggers the light bulb in my head for the problem that I was struggling with.
One of the other engineers I work with says he'll take a 10 minute break and go take a walk. He says that when he comes back to his desk, the answers suddenly start pouring back in.
I find it helpful to talk through the problem with someone else, even if that someone else isn't a programmer. I can't count the number of times I've been just talking about a problem when suddenly the answer comes to me.
In short, I think the best advice is that if you're stuck, switch gears for a bit.
As someone who's been an amateur freelance writer (of sorts) and gone through writer's block before, here are my thoughts:
I essentially agree with MrTelly. But just to make it loud and clear: programmers block and writers block are different beasts because they actually come from different causes. Programmer's block is, in most cases, a technical issue of being too close to a problem and "not seeing the forest for the trees", and convincing yourself that you're on the right track. ie Not stepping back far enough to consider an alternative solution.
Writer's block, on the other hand, is almost always a case of lack of inspiration. After writing, say, 50 pages on a given subject, you just feel like you've exhausted it, and like anything else you have to say will just be padding and/or rehashing the same subject matter in slightly different ways. But you still have a contract (figurative/internal or actual) to write another 50 pages, and you just don't know where this is going to come from, because your brain and soul are simply spent on dealing with the subject at hand.
All that said, early stage burnout can also feel like you have programmer's block. This is a whole other animal though, and has subtly different symptoms. But I thought it's worth a mention, because feeling like you have programmer's block is one of the early warning signs of burnout - most often accompanied by apathy (ie No longer truly caring about solving the problem, and just wishing it would all go away. And feeling like the job/project itself is totally pointless.)
I guess they are similar in you can't get your work done, but as a programmer, it's easier to go to colleagues or the Net and look for solutions and/or get help. Not sure a writer has this luxury. If you're in a funk, and know what to do but just can't get yourself to crank out code, it may be more of a sign of burn-out.
For me is usually bacuse, I've just had one too many nasty bugs to chase down, and I'm worried about making more blunders. Then, if I have avoided finishing a particular piece of code for a while, I end up with a great deal of anxiety about picking it back up. And the funny thing, is that that anxiety is there even if my break from finishing it had nothing to do with the difficulty of the task (often I had a higher priority task to do first). This is about more than the cost of the mantal context switch. I think it has to do with fear of making a mess of things. I think that fear may be warranted, because as programmers we are smart people interested in efficiently doing a task -and that means we take mental shortcuts. And most bugs are found to be caused by mental shortcuts. And the cost of finding a fixing them is orders of magnitude greater then the effort saved by the shortcut.


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back in the days I used to edit a file called /var/lib/setserial/autoserial.conf or /etc/serial.conf to set UART to none on the corresponding serial port. The first doesn't help and the later doesn't exist no more.
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Can somebody tell me if there is a name for this kind of tab navigation implementation?
This is called an accordion navigation control, or accordion menu.
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This kind of accordion menus are mainly used for websites that are specifically designed for mobiles like smartphones. They take up less horizontal space and display the optimum information provided in the menu which can be collapsed and expanded giving access to various links in a portal or website.
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What type of filter would I need to create an image such as the following: http://500px.com/photo/10158205
We can actually work this out using the information given to us by the metadata and the photo itself. This is going to be a rough science, but good enough to help choose a filter.
Firstly, we have the exposure information in the photo's metadata. This tells us it was taken at f/22 for 105 seconds at ISO 100. Secondly, what does the photo itself tell us about the prevailing light conditions? The sky clearly shows it was cloudy, but the soft shadow under the bench indicates there was some sunshine too (as do the streaks in the sky, in fact). So let's call it partly overcast.
The Sunny 16 rule tells us that on a partly overcast day, at ISO 100, we'd use an exposure of 1/100s at f/11. But the photographer has used f/22, so we need to adjust the shutter speed accordingly to 1/25s (we've lost two stops on the aperture so need to add two to the shutter speed).
So, without a filter we think this scene could have been captured with something like f/22 at 1/25s and ISO 100. We're already making lots of assumptions here - it might have been a much brighter or cloudier day than we're assuming, and of course the image may have been substantially post-processed - but let's assume we're near enough, say within a stop or two. To convert that into a long exposure you'll need a neutral density (ND) filter.
So, the question now becomes: what strength of ND filter is needed to convert a shutter speed of 1/25s into one of 105s? That's somewhere around 11 stops of difference (11 stops is equivalent to multiplying the shutter speed by 2048: here it's multiplied by nearer 2600, but only according to our back-of-an-envelope calculations). If our figures are more or less correct, 11 stops of filtering would produce roughly an 80s exposure. A 10-stop filter would produce a 40-second exposure. Both of those would produce a very similar looking result to the photo you've linked to. Plus I always find very dark ND filters will take quite a bit of extra exposure: those shutter speeds may end up nearer to 100s and 50s respectively.
I'm not sure you can actually buy an 11-stop filter but 10-stop filters are common. So my answer is: you'd need a 10-stop (aka NDx1000) neutral density filter. You may want to stack this with a lighter filter (e.g. a 2 or 3-stop ND) if you really want to get extreme long exposure times.
That is an exposure of less than 2 mins. You need an ND filter to be able to expose that long in daylight without overexposing.
An ND400 will be sufficient for this, given a low enough ISO and small enough aperture. That is the darkest filter I own and I have used it for similar exposures in broad daylight.
You would need a variable neutral density filter, or a really dark neutral density filter.
You can also use two polarising filters to get the same effect as a variable neutral density filter, only that the light gets polarised also.
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December 21, 2012 marks the end of Mayan calendar and many individuals around the globe are
expecting something to happen. The news is filled with anticipation of cataclysm and prophecies of
doomsday. In response to many inquiries we have about the end of the 5,125 year cycle, Edgar Cayce's
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The Mayan Date of Destiny began with a discovery about the culture that invented what is known as the
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border, the astrological observatory of the Izapa civilization was used for a thousand years to record the
Long Count Calendar on monuments and ceramic vessels. While most of the dates refer to local events,
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Using a complex system of measurements of time, we can calculate when their calendar reaches a new
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The sweet strains of a Puccini aria cut through the Saturday night clatter of the busy Italian restaurant in New York City, but it wasn't coming from the aging voice of the Sicilian baritone who was hired to belt out favorites like Funiculi-Funicula. It was a soprano whose crystal clear voice filled the room. Within moments all the ambient noise came to a halt. Diners stopped eating and talking, busboys stopped clearing tables, even the cooks came out of the kitchen.
Singing on the tiny stage was a skinny moon-faced waitress from Ohio. The Sicilian had heard she studied opera, so he invited her to join him, but what began as a duet ended in a solo as he too was mesmerized by the beauty of her voice. When she finished, the place thundered in applause, and I saw tears of gratitude glistening in her eyes. She had hit each note perfectly.
If only she had been able to do that when she auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera. But she had choked, allowing a seed of doubt to creep into her consciousness and thus her voice. She told me her story over a couple of drinks after work. It was the fall of 1984, and I was a fellow waiter at the restaurant; just another struggling artist in the city that never sleeps. She explained that she had gotten nervous during her audition and couldn't hit the high notes. She would get one more chance to audition, but she would have to wait an entire year.
I never found out if she made it; as a writer my art is portable, and a few months later I moved to a city where they still have a bedtime. I suspect she did, because that night she received proof—a vital beginning step.
The Edgar Cayce Readings remind us that "Mind is the builder," and what we focus on grows in our mind and is made manifest in the material.
Hence the life must be a purposeful one, with a purposeful experience and expression in its relationships. For, some laws are ever in evidence in the experience of those who take thought.
True, by taking thought there may be little added to the material, but the Mind is the builder. Hence the building in a purposeful manner becomes a manifested activity in any material experience, according to the spirit with which it is purposed through the will of the entity…
Then, never fear, never doubt self's abilities, even in material or mental aspects. For, the Spirit makes [one] unafraid, and guides in those directions that keep one in that way. (Edgar Cayce Reading 2464-2)
Hence the life must be a purposeful one, with a purposeful experience and expression in its relationships. For, some laws are ever in evidence in the experience of those who take thought.
True, by taking thought there may be little added to the material, but the Mind is the builder. Hence the building in a purposeful manner becomes a manifested activity in any material experience, according to the spirit with which it is purposed through the will of the entity…
Then, never fear, never doubt self's abilities, even in material or mental aspects. For, the Spirit makes [one] unafraid, and guides in those directions that keep one in that way. (Edgar Cayce Reading 2464-2)
Doubt is a silent killer. We transmit feelings of doubt to others through subtleties in our body language, facial expressions, and tone of voice. It is picked up subconsciously by those with whom we communicate. Worse than that, we communicate it to ourselves, and it seeps into our performance. Doubt is the ultimate De-Motivator, and all too often it prevents us from even trying.
We all suffer doubt occasionally, and its cure is always the same: proof. Proof that we are indeed talented enough to do what we set out to do. And that proof doesn't need to be big to eliminate doubt. A series of little incidences can be just as effective as one big one.
I keep a journal—a log of my accomplishments. Both small and large are recorded there, because they all add up to reasons for believing in my abilities. It is especially important to log the little ones, because they are so easy to forget or overlook, and yet they carry tremendous weight when it comes to giving ourselves confidence.
You may say, "I'm just starting out; I have no accomplishments." That just means you're not looking in the right places. We all have successes, though some are more easily recognized than others.
Sometimes proof comes to us by comparing ourselves to others. Simply ask yourself, "Out of all the people who have ever lived, how many have attained what I want?" The sheer numbers alone will often be all the proof you need.
But beyond proof, we can fall back on faith. Some of the most successful people in the world had absolutely no proof that they could achieve their dreams. All they had was a strong desire and a belief in themselves. As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
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I am using 11.10+unity. I use skype (version 126.96.36.199) for office communication. After sometime into the chat, the skype does not send or receive any chat messages. Although the chat is on, and other people are chatting. After
sudo killall -9 skype i restart it I get all the messages, even from the chat i have missed-with-skype-on earlier. I donot see any notification updates also.
After sometime (probably 5 mins or so) this happens again, and i have to restart the skype. I now see updated notification for missed chats also.
Is anyone facing such and issue?
Does anyone have any solution to it?


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What happened to Jim Cramer? CNBC's Mad Money host screams stock-market tips with alpha male abandon, but he looked like he was going to wet himself in his Daily Show grudge match tonight.
Having been slammed repeatedly by host Jon Stewart over the past few days for one-sided journalism, Cramer fled any real direct confrontation in his lengthy interview and instead went contrite — absurdly contrite. His voice went high and cracked, his thoughts fragmented as they left his mouth.
In the process, he didn't do anything to help CNBC's image, battered on Stewart's show in recent days.
On the other hand, he didn't do much to hurt it, either; with Cramer seemingly apologizing for everything CNBC has ever aired, Stewart couldn't uppercut CNBC the way he did CNN and its Crossfire co-host Tucker Carlson a few years ago.
He was left to deliver (still very good!) packaged lines and videos and counter whatever coherent arguments he could distill from Cramer's sputtering. (One of the more dramatic interview moments is excerpted in the clip above.)
Stewart is, perhaps, handicapped in studio Daily Show interviews by his own good manners: He's always seemed reluctant to truly torpedo his own guests the way, say, Fox News shouting head Bill O'Reilly does. He was able to truly nail Carlson only when he himself was the guest, on Carlson's Crossfire.
It would be interesting to watch the full interview, which was edited down for the show, to see if Cramer sharpened his argument (he looked much more relaxed and sounded much more coherent at the close of the segment than at the start). The Daily Show told viewers to look for the full clip on its website, but it has yet to be posted. We'll embed it below when it becomes available.
UPDATE 1: Better than the Cramer interview was the Daily Show's meta-opening mocking the hype surrounding the CNBC-Daily Show feud:
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Say that I have a Mitotic Slime in play and then play Thromok the Insatiable. When I sacrifice the Slime due to Thromok's Devour ability, I get two 2/2 Slime tokens. Am I able to sacrifice those Slime tokens to Thromok as well, or do they not come into play until Thromok is completely resolved? Since the 2/2 Slime tokens make two 1/1 Slime tokens as well, could I potentially get seven devour triggers from this one creature?
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Thromok the Insatiable, or other Devour card has a static ability that modifies how that permanent enters that battlefield. Mitotic Slime has a triggered ability, which means that if it triggers during the resolution of another spell or ability (such as Devour, placing the Mitotic Slime in the graveyard), it must wait until the next time any player would receive priority before being put on the stack and finally resolving when both players pass in succession.
Spells and abilities on the stack do not resolve immediately, so it would be impossible to sacrifice the Mitotic Slime and the tokens that it produces when the Die trigger resolves, before the Devour ability that initially caused the Die trigger finishes resolving. The Devour ability must finish resolving before any player receives priority.
The Mitotic Slime's "put two 2/2 Ooze creatures onto the battlefield" ability triggers, but does not resolve, in the course of Thromok's Devour ability. So you won't get to Devour any of the Slime tokens.
Thromok is already on the battlefield by the time the mitotically-created subslimes appear, and can't go back for seconds!


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22 May 2007 7:29 AM #1
JSBuilder Error
Maybe this is a bit off topic for the EXTJS Forum, but for some reason I cant get JSBuilder to run correctly on my machine anymore, after doing a .net update.
The error im getting is related to the system.xml object. Unfortunately I cant seem to copy and paste error details, but I was wondering if anyone else was experienceing similar issues.
22 May 2007 10:31 AM #2
[Moved to JSB forum since it has been reactivated]
This isn't much to go on since no one else has reported this. If you can't copy and paste the error, can you maybe type it in?? Not sure off the top of my head why this would have broken.


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7 Things You Won't Believe Science Says Make You Happy
You can find plenty of articles in magazines or on the Internet with tips for living a happier, more fulfilling life. Things like "exercise" and "be an understanding spouse" are all time-honored ways to beat a path to happiness, and won't be included here. But there are also some seemingly random activities that are more like cheat codes to happiness -- things you never would have expected can actually make you feel better about yourself and your life in general. For instance ...
#7. Watching Sad Movies
Look at a list of the Best Picture winners from the past 25 years, and you start to notice a trend. Schindler's List, Braveheart, The English Patient, Titanic, Million Dollar Baby, The King's Speech. These movies don't just have a few sad moments. They are tear porn -- building to climaxes that are specifically designed to make you weep in public. On the surface, this makes about as much sense as giving out awards to the year's saddest funerals, or most embarrassing schoolyard beatings.
Scientists were curious about this, too, so they conducted a study involving a few hundred participants and the 2007 film Atonement, which if you haven't seen it is best described as "every sad movie ever made, for two hours."
Theater staff are required to keep water and salt tablets on hand to stem the dehydration death toll.
Before starting the movie, the researchers asked the participants how happy they were with their lives in general, including their goals, their relationships and the ever-looming possibility of being stricken with sudden and inexplicable cancer (probably). As Atonement squeezed all the tears from their faces over the next 120 minutes, they were asked the same question three more times. After the movie was over, the researchers asked the participants to rate their emotions.
They found that the participants had become happier after getting taken in by the wailing opera of despair, because they had subconsciously compared their own close relationships with the horrible tragedies onscreen. Watching others fail on such hopelessly spectacular levels actually made them feel better about their own lives, sort of like watching Titanic and saying to yourself, "Gee, I guess getting passed over for that promotion isn't so bad. I could've frozen to death in the Atlantic while staring into the eyes of my latest one-night stand."
"Still didn't get to draw anyone naked, though."
So, the next time you and your significant other have a terrible heartbreaking fight that leaves you red-eyed and considering a hunger strike, have a mini-marathon of Braveheart and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (or play them both simultaneously on two different televisions, if possible). You will instantly feel better about every poor decision you've ever made.
#6. Eating Red Meat
We've reached the point in the war on fast food where studies are now claiming that red meat will try to murder you like Ian Holm in Alien. But even if that's true, you will apparently die happy -- another study has found that eating red meat is actually very important to your mental health. It makes enough of a difference that consuming less than the recommended amount (or none at all) actually doubles your risk of depression.
Which is why Chick-Fil-A no longer sells Lionel Richie CDs and guns with their meals.
The study followed 1,000 Australian women, tracking their eating habits and their emotional health. They then made sure to take into account all other factors, including socioeconomic status, physical health, weight, age and the fact that they live in Australia. They even kept track of much of the other types of foods they ate, such as chicken, fish and vegetables. Even with all of these taken into consideration, the researchers still found that the women who ate the recommended amount of red meat (between 2 and 4 ounces four times a week) were much less likely to be depressed.
But before you rush out to eat your weight in cheeseburgers, it's worth noting that the researchers believe that the happiness was due to the high levels of nutrients and omega-3 present in specifically Australian red meat. Australian cattle and sheep are mostly fed fresh grass. American red meat is mostly reared on barnyard grain, which evidently is sown from the tears of orphans.
The orphans were grass-fed, though! Which ... actually makes it worse.
#5. Keeping Your Mind Busy
Unless your job is Batman, when you think about being happy, nine times out of 10 it has nothing to do with working. There's nothing more relaxing than the thought of lazing around on the beach or even just on the couch, sipping your favorite drink and letting time pass slowly by with no obligations.
"Truly, I have achieved nirvana."
You probably know that keeping physically active is good for your internal happiness meter, but several studies have shown that keeping busy mentally makes you happier than just lying around on the beach, letting your brain take a breather like it's playing freeze tag with Gilbert Grape's mom.
In one study, scientists found that participants who multitasked (combined various activities like reading, watching television, studying, etc.) experienced more emotional fulfillment than those who focused on only one activity (or nothing at all). While their cognitive function and brainpower did suffer because of their attention being divided, their overall enjoyment was substantially increased.
"My productivity is at an all-time low, but I'm as happy as a clam!"
In another study, researchers made participants say a bunch of phrases really quickly, with both positive and negative connotations. Regardless of what they were actually saying, the participants still felt a positive emotional boost just from thinking at a quick and continuous pace.
Why is this? One of the primary ways your brain keeps itself motivated is with a chemical called dopamine. It's the feel-good hormone that makes drugs so popular, but it's also an important part of the self-regulating system that makes you productive -- think of it as a doggy treat that your brain gives itself for doing something right. The more tasks you give your brain to accomplish, the more dopamine gets released into your system.
"I'm about to freebase some calculus. No one tell my mom."
Of course, this is technically cheating. You're essentially taking advantage of the fact that your brain grades itself on a super easy curve when there's some mood candy on the line. This is where workaholics come from. Like any mind-altering chemical, the dopamine that floods your brain when you get stuff done can be used responsibly, or it can keep you away from the people who love you and swallow entire chunks of your life. Chunks of your life when you will almost certainly be photographed wearing some truly embarrassing pants and hair styles.
#4. Getting into Fights
Most people who are dicks are dicks on purpose. Human beings have the raw urge to be aggressive and start fights, even if they know that they're likely to absorb as many or more punches than they actually inflict. It's why we love wrestling and MMA so much as kids. But is there an extremely unsettling explanation for this obvious fact?
Does it really require one?
Funny you should ask, because the answer is that, as far as your brain is concerned, fighting is exactly as awesome as sex. Scientists hypothesized that aggressive behavior triggers the release of dopamine, which, as we've covered, is the body's way of dangling a carrot in front of our faces.
This theory was tested in an aggression study on mice, using a "home" male mouse in one cage, and a few "intruder" male mice in another cage. The home mouse began the experiment with a little girlfriend mouse, but the researchers removed the female and replaced her with one of the intruder mice. The home mouse responded by beating the ever-loving crap out of the intruder. They took the intruder out and put him in his own cage, which the home mouse could open at any time by pressing a button. And press the button he did, continuously, to keep rodent-punching the sonofabitch that stole his girl (there is no indication whether the home mouse was wearing an Ed Hardy shirt and/or Axe Body Spray).
After several more rounds of this (read: when it finally stopped being funny to watch a mouse relentlessly stomp another mouse out like a campfire), the researchers injected the home mouse with a drug that blocked the release of dopamine. Immediately, he stopped pressing the button. The home mouse's aggression was producing the hormone, and he was persistently attacking the intruder mouse to keep the dopamine flowing, much like a drug addict pursuing his next fix. Without the reward of this hormone, he no longer had any incentive to fight and just had to accept the fact that his girl was gone. So, he stopped pressing the asskick button and retired to a corner of his cage to listen to Death Cab for Cutie and flame negative comments on his deviantART poetry.
Anyone who has ever been in a toxic relationship or grew up with parents in a terrible marriage can identify with this behavior. Despite the fact that picking a fight or continuing one can't possibly benefit either party, arguments can rage through the night, both people driving themselves further and further up shit creek without a doghouse to sleep in. The only thing that ends the argument is separating the two and letting them cool down. Cooling down, of course, really means ending the dopamine bender they're actually on. So the next time you're fighting with your spouse, try disabling the button that slides back the glass partition you keep them behind when they've pissed you off.


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Stephen Coonts is the author of sixteen New York Times bestsellers that have been translated and published around the world. A former naval aviator and Vietnam combat veteran, Coonts is a graduate of West Virginia University and the University of Colorado School of Law. Visit his website at www.Coonts.com.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Era: Vietnam
- Number of Pages: 344
- Subject: Fiction
- Date Available: October 2006


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MVP is a gender violence prevention program which uses the unique Bystander Approach to motivate both men and women to play a central role in solving problems that have historically been considered "women's issues": rape, battery, and sexual harassment. The MVP program views all individuals not as potential perpetrators or victims, but as empowered bystanders who can recognize and confront abuse.We recognize your critical role as an educator and mentor in shaping the attitudes and opinions of today's youth and see it as an opportunity for creating a better society.The MVP Institute is a three-day interactive training consisting of two phases: During the first phase individuals go through the training as participants. During the second phase participants practice facilitating the MVP curriculum and create MVP implementation plans. Upon completion of the Institute, you will receive a digital copy of the MVP curriculum and are certified to utilize it with their direct service population. You are also eligible to receive 21 PDP's from the Massachusetts Department of Education.To register for the MVP Institute, please complete the registration form at the end of the brochure (attached).
Links:[1] http://www.sportinsociety.org
[2] http://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/event-attachments/mvp-brochure-%2520Fall%2520%25202012.pdf
[3] http://www.nsvrc.org/states-territories/massachusetts
[4] http://www.nsvrc.org/event-type/trainings


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If you want to learn how to model, there are infinite paths of varying repute; but if you want to learn how to supermodel, studying under Naomi Campbell is tantamount to taking tennis lessons from Serena Williams. That is, if you can take your instruction with military edge.
"She's like a drill sergeant," stylist Jen Rade said of Campbell on a recent episode of Oxygen TV's new reality modeling contest The Face. The legendary supermodel was coaching her team of novices through a challenge photo shoot, dictating every single choice and pose. Campbell issued her orders in rapid-fire succession—in marked contrast to the softer approach of Campbell's fellow coaches Karolina Kurkova and Coco Rocha—and when the resulting images were scrutinized, guest judge Rade declared Team Naomi the winner.
"I don't try to sugarcoat anything," Campbell explains. "I want [the girls on my team] to get out of me as much as they can in the timeframe that we have together."
For close to three decades, Campbell has maneuvered to the top of the modeling industry leveraging her exceptional beauty, a keen talent for transforming in front of the camera, and favored status with the industry's most powerful players into a reported $48 million net worth. Discovered as a teen in London, Campbell was 15 when she made the cover of British Elle, seizing a blessed opportunity after the originally scheduled model canceled. At 18, she was the first Black model to cover Vogue's Paris edition when designer Yves Saint Laurent reportedly threatened to pull his advertising if the book didn't integrate its cover.
In the years that followed, Campbell ascended to the rarefied ranks of a small group of girls that commanded unprecedented pay and came to epitomize the decadent height of '90s fashion culture. In an industry notorious for blatant refusal to hire models of color, Campbell didn't just make it as a Black model—she made it as a supermodel, and role model.
For legions of Black girls who grew up in the age of Naomi Campbell, the model represented validation of more than Eurocentric beauty, and for fashion lovers of all colors, Campbell was one portal into an exciting world of fashion characters that ultimately paved the way for the current culture of street style and fashion blogs we have today.
How do you teach that?
"You've got to almost be uninhibited." Campbell goes into coach mode, as she starts to bullet point her supermodel lesson. "You have to almost come out of yourself …each client wants something different."
Being a black woman, my mother always told me no matter what…you're gonna have to try 110% and be better than they are, and it's something that always stuck in my mind.
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She adds, "You cannot take anything personal. If you're not wanted—if you're not the right look for a casting and they don't want you, don't go home taking it on your head like 'I'm bad, I'm not good enough.' That's just a 'no'," she says flatly.
When it comes to the industry's poor record on hiring Black models, Campbell says "Being a Black woman, my mother always told me no matter what …you're gonna have to try 110% and be better than they are, and it's something that always stuck in my mind." She adds, "Even if I didn't get certain things, I did my best and you can't do better than that."
It takes a remarkably strong sense of self to have that kind of perspective, and from the outside looking in, the modeling industry seems like an unusually difficult place for a girl to develop it. Girls who aren't legally able to drink or vote largely populate the industry; and are routinely subjected to blunt rejection, picked apart for everything from the shape of their nose to the color of their skin, for example.
In many cases, they are transplants from other countries, living apart from parents or guardians, and don't speak the language. The few who are able to book gigs often work for hours on end without regulated breaks, disrobing in front of strangers, and in some cases navigating sexual advances and assault.
And then there's the intense competition for jobs.
Veteran modeling agent Bethann Hardison likens the competitive nature of the business to a "gladiator vibe." She explains, "I think that it's natural that when you put us into a ring we're going to start sizing each other up, checking out our territory… It happens more with dark girls than it happens with White girls."
The pressures can be as huge as the payoffs, and Campbell is the first to bring up the negatives that have pockmarked her storied career. Model Tyra Banks, who has built a media empire with her own reality series America's Next Top Model, famously accused Campbell of making her years as a model one of the lowest points of her life by freezing her out and influencing designers not to cast her. Campbell has also been accused of assault multiple times, and served five days of community


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Woodlawn Elementary School, the defending national champions in the elementary division, took top shooting honors at the fourth of five regional archery tournaments Saturday in Chatsworth.
Woodlawn Elementary shot a team score of 3,263, topping seven other competing schools for the overall highest-scoring team honors at Georgia-NASP Regional No. 4 at Woodlawn Elementary School.
Woodlawn captured the elementary division title to automatically qualify for the 6th annual Georgia-NASP State Tournament March 21 at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry.
Woodlawn's Alyssa Laviana took home highest-scoring female honors with a score of 285 (out of 300). Morgan County Middle School's Jackson Mitchell won the highest-scoring male award with a score of 281.
Bagley Middle School in Chatsworth was the middle school division champion with a team score of 3,193, just beating out Morgan County Middle School's 3,125. Southeast Whitfield High School won the high school team division with a 2,646. Bagley Middle and Southeast Whitfield received an automatic bid to the state tournament in March.
Other top shooters included: Woodlawn Elementary, Tucker Hemphill (280, top elementary school male); Bagley Middle, Haley Bagley (282, top middle school female); Southeast Whitfield High, Alley Pilcher (222, top high school female); Southeast Whitfield, Matt Cloer (246, top high school male).
More than 170 students in elementary, middle and high school competed at Regional No. 4. Schools that did not win an automatic berth to state at the regional tournament can still be selected as a high-scoring wildcard team after the final regional tournament is completed in late February.
The National Archery in the Schools Program is an in-school archery curriculum that meets all education department standards. Only schools that are certified in NASP through the Georgia Department of Natural Resources are qualified to compete in the Georgia Tournament. Schools in nearly 80 counties in Georgia are NASP certified.
The program promotes instruction in international-style target archery to improve educational performance and participation in shooting sports. Research has shown that the program, administered through a minimum two-week course during the school year, improves class attendance and behavior. NASP universal fit bows make it possible for students of all sizes and genders to succeed in archery while raising self-esteem levels and improving hand-eye coordination during physical activity.
NASP is taught in 48 states as well as six countries. To date, more than nine million students have gone through the program.
For more information on NASP in Georgia, recreational shooting sports opportunities or to find a range near you, visit www.georgiawildlife.com [1], contact a local WRD Game Management Office or call (770) 918-6416.
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MEEK, Jack W., 82, of Toronto, died Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012, at Weirton Geriatric Center.
He was born Nov. 11, 1929, in Georges Run, OH, the son of the late Winfield and Myra Peeling Meek.
Jack was a graduate of Steubenville High School class of 1947, served his country in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, was retired from the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. with 42 years of service, was a member of the Telephone Pioneers of America and the American legion Argonne Post 33.
Jack is also preceded in death by his sister, Bernice Lenhart and his step mother, Rose Meek.
Surviving are his wife, Maryanne Snyder Meek, two daughters, Michelle (Robert) Hughes of Huntsville, Al and Jacqueline Meek of Toronto; his grandchildren; Joshua, Megan and James Hughes; one nephew, Charles (Cindy) Lenhart of Nantucket, MA and a half sister, Mary Jane (Tom) Albaugh of Bloomingdale.
Calling hours are Saturday at the Mosti Funeral Home, Sunset Chapel, 4435 Sunset Blvd. Steubenville, 11a.m. until the time of a Memorial service at Noon, Msgr. William Cornelius will officiate. Burial at Mt. Calvary Cemetery with U.S. Navy Military Honors.


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For those of you who have or have had a 5D Mark II. What do you not like about it?
If you have a 5D Mark II and another full-frame model, in what kind of situations you prefer one over the other?
For those of you who have or have had a 5D Mark II. What do you not like about it?
If you have a 5D Mark II and another full-frame model, in what kind of situations you prefer one over the other?
Here's what I would consider the main cons of the 5DmkII, compiled from my research of the camera when it was released and experience of the mkI:
Having said this they are great cameras. If you're not interested in the movie mode you can pick up a good condition mkI for very cheap compared to the mkII. The only thing you really miss will be the 22mp for shooting landscapes etc. but if you shoot mostly low light / portraits you wont miss it!
There aren't that many other full frame bodies from Canon, only the 1Ds(mk I, II, III). They don't really compare for an number of reasons, but to answer your question I have a 5DmkI and 1DsmkII. The 5D is usually a backup body but there are a couple of reasons I've used it instead of the 1Ds:
edit: it's also worth noting that the 5D is far more descrete, looking no different to any other DSLR, wheras the 1D is going to get attention wherever it goes and this can be good or bad.
I've had a 5DMII for almost 2 years now, and I would be hard pressed to find something I don't like about it. Sure, after using the 7D I wish the burst rate and the focus engine were a bit better, but these (and more) will be in the 5DMIII of course. Given good lenses, I've never been disappointed by the camera. If you do intend to process videos though, it will require a really powerful computer. Of course, one thing a lot of people might not "like" about it, is that it's a lot of money :)
I fit in the category of owning a 5D2, and having used a 1Ds3 - so I have some experience with both the full frame offerings from Canon. I chose the 5D2 over the 1Ds for a number of reasons:
As it happens, the person I borrowed the 1Ds off of does a lot of safari photography, and found that the autofocus wasn't fast enough for him.
I remember the editor of one of the photography magazines once saying to me that he'd rather use his 5D (back in 2006) when out and about than use a 1D, as he also found it more comfortable on the neck.
I don't qualify to answer it really, as I can only give the perspective of 5D Mark I owner about why I haven't yet switched to Mark II. My knowledge about Mark II is based on Internet and the annoyances I mention about Mark I come from actual usage. The reasoning:
It might sound like I think both 5Ds were a bad cameras - actually it's the contrary. It's just the question was about downsides so I won't list the upsides (although there are many).
I have 5D Mk II since last February.
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Forgive me if this has been asked/answered, but I've searched without success.
Just set-up a 12.04 machine on my home network with the objective of using it as an in-house development/staging server. I got Apache, MySQL, etc. all working perfectly, and quickly, and soon had all of the other machines on the network viewing the results, and accessing a shared folder I'd set-up on it, as well.
Trouble is, while it works great after a boot, the machine (literally) "vanishes" from the network after a short period (usually within an hour). When it does, I can't get at the Apache site(s) it's running, the Shared folder disappears, and I can't even ping it?
Now before you assume it's a dynamic IP issue, I do have my router set to give it a static IP based on its MAC address (it's a WiFi), and that works perfectly well. Even after it "disappears," it's still alive & well at 192.168.1.115 (as confirmed by it's network information window).
It's just that everything stops responding at that address...?
Now I've read some posts that elude to the fact that it might be related to my not having configured Ubuntu, itself, to the static address (although that makes no sense to me, since the router is already configured for that, and Ubuntu acknowledges that's working).
As is so often the case, I find countless posts on how to correct that, and no two are the same, and as that's led to trouble for me in the past, I first wanted to see if anyone thinks that IS the problem, and if not, what else it might be?