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TOLEDO, Ohio - The Toledo Walleye snapped a three-game losing streak with a 5-2 victory against Wheeling (6-9-5 - 17) on Wednesday night, scoring three goals in a little more than five minutes during the third period at the Huntington Center.
Forward Max Campbell and defenseman Wes O'Neill each scored two goals and Willie Coetzee tallied the game-winner with 10:08 left in the game for Toledo (14-10-1 - 29).
Goalie Kent Simpson (6-6-1) finished with 29 saves as Wheeling melted down for the second consecutive game in the third period.
The Walleye fell behind 1-0 but tied it and then grabbed a 2-1 edge in the second period, but Wheeling tied it back up just moments later.
Wheeling's Andrew Hotham was assessed a rare penalty for a mouth guard violation in the second and Toledo cashed in as Campbell drilled a shot over Wheeling goalie Scott Darling's shoulder. The Walleye went up 2-1 with 5:40 left in second period.
But that lead didn't last long as Wheeling's Luke Pither scored his second of the game to tie it at 2-2 48 seconds later.
The Nailers struck first as Pither scored a power-play goal 8:12 into the game. .
Toledo tied it at 1-1 less than two minutes later on O'Neill's long shot from just inside the blueline. It was the Walleye's second shot of the game. Terry Broadhurst and Andrej Nestrasil assisted.
The Walleye took a 3-2 lead as Coetzee scored on a perfectly placed shot that went top shelf with 10:08 left in the game. It was Coetzee's 11th of the season.
Toledo then went up 4-2 on Campbell's second of the game. Ben Youds had a terrific assist from the side of the net out front to Campbell with 8:19 left.
Wheeling1 1 0 - 2
Toledo1 1 3 - 5
1st Period-1, Wheeling, Pither 4 (Hotham, Wild), 8:12 (PP). 2, Toledo, O'Neill 8 (Nestrasil, Broadhurst), 10:09. Penalties-Rauch Tol (interference), 7:03; Crowder Whl (tripping), 11:35; Merth Whl (tripping), 13:57.
2nd Period-3, Toledo, Campbell 6 (Youds, O'Neill), 14:20 (PP). 4, Wheeling, Pither 5 (Stejskal, Germain), 15:08. Penalties-Hotham Whl (mouthgaurd violation -minor), 13:33; Rauch Tol (high-sticking), 15:39.
3rd Period-5, Toledo, Coetzee 11 (Rogers, Martin), 9:52. 6, Toledo, Campbell 7 (Youds), 11:41. 7, Toledo, O'Neill 9 (Rowe), 14:43. Penalties-served by Nestrasil Tol (bench - too many men), 0:59; Oreskovic Tol (roughing), 18:14.
Shots on Goal-Wheeling 11-10-11-32. Toledo 9-6-11-26.
Power-Play Opportunities-Wheeling 1-4; Toledo 1-3.
Goalies-Wheeling, Darling 3-4-0-1 (26 shots-21 saves). Toledo, Simpson 6-6-0-1 (32 shots-30 saves).
Referee-JM McNulty (21); Linesmen-Shaun Morgan (71), Bob Marcis (94).


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Charlie was by far one of the greatest show announcers ever," said his long-time agent Fred Wostbrock. "He gave life to that copy on 'Wheel.' Even the way he said 'Wheeeel of Fortune' started the excitement in the first two seconds of the game. He was as much a part of that show as Vanna White and Pat Sajak, and Charlie was with the original 'Wheel' with Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford," he said.
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Scrum's definition says that it should be done one story at a time. But, if the team is big enough (say 6+), there are some times where taking just one story is kind of questionable, and it is even more if there are several small stories.
So, sometimes in the team I'm currently working with, we might tackle two stories more often than not. Is this a bad thing?


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This Sunday at 4am, five teenage members of a motorcycle gang attacked an inebriated man, reports The Korea Herald . Seoul police think that the teens were copying a scene from Grand Theft Auto IV .
The 31 year-old drunk man was sitting on the curb in southern Seoul when the gang assaulted him. Authorities filed for arrest warrants for two of the five teens; the other three are already in police custody.
As The Korea Herald points out, GTA IV has vehicles, including motorcycle bikes, as well as guns. None of the teens had firearms.
GTA, of course, is a favorite boogeyman to pin crimes on. The Korea Herald does not go into detail as to why authorities think this attack was an attempt to "copy" a GTA IV scene—you know, the one in which a group of young punks attack a drunk guy sitting on the curb. Surely you remember that mission? No?
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Whenever I right-click on a file and go to the Open With> menu, it always takes forever to load. I know I'm not the only one with this problem (at least I think so), so I was wondering if anyone has figured out how to speed it up. Is there a way to speed it up or to remove certain application from the menu?
There is a free utility called Open-With Manager that helps you clean out the unnecessary apps associated with certain file types:
I use this on Snow Leopard, but I haven't tested it on Lion. Also, it may take a while for the Open-With menus to reflect the changes made in Open-With Manager, so try waiting or just reboot.
I second the comment about the file type affecting it. The more applications you have capable of opening a type of file, the longer the menu will take.
However, if you don't have some ridiculous number of items showing in the list, there is another possible cause of this type of slowdown.
Do you have an external drive with applications installed that remains connected to your Mac? I use Carbon Copy Cloner to periodically clone my OS drive to an external which always remains connected to my Mac.
Because of this, there are two copies of any given application in my /Applications folder; one on the main drive and one on the backup drive.
I noticed that every time I went to the Open With menu, the external drive would spin up, and there would be two copies of all my applications in the menu.
This means that in order to populate that menu, the OS searches all drives, not just the system drive, for applications.
A lot of USB drives spin themselves down regardless of what settings you have in Energy Saver. This is what my drive does. Each time I open that menu, if the drive is spun down, the OS waits for it to spin up before showing the menu.
Setting it up so that my drive is only mounted while a backup is taking place, made a huge difference in the performance of that menu and Finder in general, especially "Save As" dialog boxes.
Just something else to consider.
If you drag a file to the program in your dock, it will (at least with most of the programs) open that file with that program.
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The L. Haas Store Museum will be open on Corn Day, Saturday, Oct. 13, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. The facility is offering a new exhibit, a late 1800's x-ray machine that came out of a doctor's office in Carmi. The facility invites everyone to stop in and see the exhibits as well as buy a raffle ticket on one of the baskets. All proceeds from the baskets will go to the Robinson-Stewart house to repair the front and back porches.
Tickets are also available at the Ratcliff Inn, the Robinson-Stewart house and H.D. Bean Jewelers. Tickets are $1 each or six tickets for $5. For more information, contact Suellen Smith at 384-5672.
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We have a set of polygons which we would like to sort and number according to their latitude. This will make it easier for local authorities to relate to the numbers of the objects.
I have looked around and not found any "out-of-the-box" solutions.
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MORGANTOWN - To the naked eye, brand new defensive coordinator Joe DeForest's debut was something of a bust.
West Virginia's defense gave up 545 yards, 28 first downs, and 34 points. That's probably not the type of letup that's going to win many games, unless the offense scores 69 points and the game is basically over at halftime, like it was Saturday against Marshall.
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"As far as how many yards we gave up, that's not something we're going to be too concerned with at this point," head coach Dana Holgorsen said. "The football got kinda sloppy there in the second half, both on offense and defense. It's more about evaluating each and every position to see what we have to do to get better between now and two weeks."
DeForest and his staff, which includes co-coordinator Keith Patterson, will have two weeks to iron out some of the kinks, as the Mountaineers are off next week before taking on James Madison at Fed-Ex Field on Sept. 15.
"I thought we did some good things and some bad things, obviously," DeForest said. "We created two turnovers, that was good. We've got to make some adjustments, obviously. I think our kids played really hard. We had some breakdowns at times. That happens with the first game, the nerves of our kids, and we had some young guys playing.
"I know we're not satisfied with the points allowed. We have to play better, whether our backs are against the wall or not."
More than the yards, DeForest said, the concern is about getting off the field on third down and creating turnovers.
The third-down conversion rate was a mixed bag. Marshall was 6 of 11 in the first half and 3 of 8 in the second half, finishing at 9 of 19. As far as those turnovers go, DeForest says the goal is to get three per game, including three-and-outs, which are basically turnovers in and of themselves, he said. The Mountaineers forced Marshall into three of those, including two in its first three drives.
A final factor here is time of possession.
By the time the game had ended, West Virginia's defenders were on the field more than five minutes longer than the Thundering Herd's. It's a product of the WVU offense producing five touchdown drives of under two minutes.
DeForest is used to that from his days at Oklahoma State, where they ran the same offense. He did the math and figured out his Cowboys defenders were on the field for two-and-a-half more games than national champion Alabama's after 13 games last season.
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So I've asked this type of questions for more than once, and still I don't get the method(s) I've been presented with. What's the general recommended method for finding how many homomorphisms are there, and finding them?
I would probably understand better through an example:
How many homomorphisms are there from $S_3$ to $\mathbb Z_2 \times \mathbb Z_2$.
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Is is possible to configure Windows to only use a single hardware-thread. Every machine for the last couple of years seems to be at least dual-core, but some timing bugs are only reproducible when threads execute serially. I am particularly interested in Windows Vista.
David, let's first tackle your direct question: How to restrict Windows Vista to one core.
I see two ways:
(a) Run your Vista in a virtual machine on Hyper-V, and give the VM only one logical processor. This leaves you the rest of the machine to put to good use.
(b) Alternatively, you can use the /numproc=1 option in boot.ini to force the machine to use a single processor. You can configure this through msconfig.
But maybe it is enough to restrict just your program to a single core, then setting processor affinity is the preferrable answer. This can be achieved through configuration or directly from your process code.
Appart from these you might also want to consider advanced multitreading debugging tools such as Intel's Thread Checker if that applies to your environment.
What you're looking for is how to set the 'process affinity', and how you set it depends on what program you are starting, and how you are starting it up.
I saw this answer on stack overflow: stackoverflow.com/questions/827754/....
Also many machines can have SMP (& hyperthreading if relevent) disabled in the BIOS.
Timing bugs (or the common subset of race conditions) seem to be more generally reproducable on multi-core machines.
You would want the /onecpu switch in boot.ini look at here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/170756


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I found out that 古希 / こき can mean a 70 year old person, or the occasion of turning 70 years old. Apparently its etymology derives from an ancient song where this line occurs:七十古希 【しちじゅうこき】 which means "Men seldom live to be seventy" (Du Fu (c.712-c.770)); (Few people live to be seventy). Was 古希 a chinese word meaning rare or uncommon? Is it used mainly to describe the special occasion of someone's seventieth birthday or is it used to describe one's seventieth year in the same way as はたち?
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古希, also 古稀. 希 appears to simply be a simplified version of 稀. The word actually comes from a poem, rather than a song.
古稀 technically means 70 years of age, but could sometimes be interpreted as 70th birthday, as in 古稀の祝い, "70th birthday celebration".
Here are the Chinese line 古稀 derives from, a Japanese transcription thereof, and an English translation thereof.
Firstly, you may note that the Chinese line does not actually say "古希" as you suppose in your question. Secondly, it becomes apparent that 古来稀なり is the origin of 古稀, with 来 and なり simply dropped at some point. But it basically means the same thing..."(that which) has always been rare", i.e., living to be (or being) 70 years old.
And if the poem in full should interest you...
By way of a random blog, a decent translation of the poem:
For much more detail - in Japanese - you can check what a site called A Rainy Day (and its section on idioms derived from Chinese literature/history) has to say about 古稀. Specifically on that page, under 現代語訳 is a more complete explanation of the poem.
The basic idea is: you rack up debts for wine, yet life is short (living to 70 is rare)...why don't we take the time to watch the butterflies, the dragonflies, et cetera, and simply enjoy ourselves for a while?


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Magna International, the world's leading supplier of auto parts, will create 1,100 new jobs and invest more than $212 million into the Bowling Green/Warren County economy. The company announced it would become the Transpark's first tenant in December, but at that time it projected 300 new jobs and $140 million in investments.
ITA President Jim Vance says the dramatic increase in impact is due in large part to a new contract Magna has reached with a car company to produce supplies. Vance says he believes this may be the biggest one-time investment of jobs and money into the local economy.
"A typical multiplier is 6 to 1," Vance says. "So with 1000 jobs creating that much involvement, there's a lot of cars, lot of grocery stores, lot of schools, lot of support businesses to assist them."
The new jobs are expected to pay between $18-$27 an hour, and Magna officials are expected to begin posting individual openings soon. Construction crews are already moving dirt at the site of the new 960,000 square feet facility at the Transpark, slated to open late this year.


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Hey folks,This is a pistol that my mother gave me MANY years ago.The story goes that in the late 50?s, while living in Garden Grove, CA., my mom and I had a prowler. Our next door neighbor gave this pistol to my mom for ?protection?. Though I don?t have a clue as to why . . . it is non-op. I ?spose she could have thrown the darn thing at the bad guy . . . Anyway . . . he had gotten it in WWII as a war trophy from a German Officer. This kinda doesn?t ring true to me as the Luger is a more powerful handgun (9MM VS .32). In any event, it came with a very nice laminated handgrip with a very nice thumb rest on the left grip.Also, under the right handgrip and on the exposed metal portion you can see of the barrel when the slide is closed: there is the German Eagle with its wings outspread, Talons griping a circle with the Swastika inside the circle. I think it is called a ?snabble?? (sp) or something like that. It is too faint to take a photo of it in the lighting I had yesterday.One of these days I should take it to a competent gunsmith and have it returned to a functional condition just for yucks and grins.Right side view:Left side view:I will try and get a photo of the Eagle features.Kevin
Pic?s . . . Belgium .32 AP . . .
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Posted 07 November 2005 - 03:05 PM
Hey there Steve,It actually came with those grips when taken from the Officer.They are pretty nicely laminated and shaped. They 'custom' fit the pistol very well.I have no clue as to where to even look to locate 'stock' grips for the thing!Target Masters used to have a Pistolsmith, perhaps I will call and see if they still do.I do have a question about the legality of this pistol . . . there isn?t an S/N on it anywhere I can find and it isn?t registered at all. Being non-op and a WWII trophy, I didn?t worry about it at all. I do have the clip for it as well.Any thoughts on any legal ?gotcha?s? with this piece?Kevin
Posted 07 November 2005 - 05:55 PM
KevinThis is wild... I have almost the same thing from my Dad. It's a Belgin FN that looks exactly like a mini 1911. It even says "Browning's Patent" on the side. It's .25 cal and I even have the paper work signed by my Dad's commander in 1946 stating that it is captured war booty and he has permission to take it home. Dad said he took it from a german captain that he captured, he was carrying it in his boot and one side of the grip is worn smooth where it was rubbing up against the leather. I'll have to figure out how to post some pictures.Ed
Posted 07 November 2005 - 06:16 PM
We didn't want to point that out! But we've been talking about it.
Just an idea....(I'm so stupid)
Posted 07 November 2005 - 06:51 PM
Wow Steve . . . It does look just like mine.I took off the grips and yup . . . the S/N was below the grips: # 46164 A little clean up yielded " FAU?QUE NATIONALE D'ARMES DE GUERRE HERSTAL BELGIQUE"Below that (like what Ed said) COULD be "BROWNING'S PATENT DEPOSE" The front side of the pistol has been rubbed rather smooth . . . perhaps by a holster?The nickel plating does look kinda cool . . . but yup . . . ruined the piece for sure. Kevin
Posted 08 November 2005 - 06:17 PM
My buddy Jon provided me the following link . . . Pretty interesting stuff about my piece!http://world.guns.ru...guns/hg95-e.htmI guess I will have'ta get it going on!Kevin
Posted 10 March 2006 - 07:40 AM
Great little piece of history you've got there!
Posted 13 July 2007 - 07:56 PM
Did you ever do any work to it??
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It's a pain when you haven't got a German keyboard to figure these characters out.
Is it acceptable from a style perspective?
It's a pain when you haven't got a German keyboard to figure these characters out.
Is it acceptable from a style perspective?
You can do it in every-day conversations by E-Mail or chat. But when writing a somewhat official document, you really should try to get the umlauts right. It's just a question of conformity: You want to use the language, so use it correctly.
A whole different problem that will probably come up if you manage to get the umlauts in your email is encoding - if you write your E-Mail it can happen that your encoding doesn't know these letters so it will print some black squares or question marks. To avoid this, you have to check that you use an encoding format that "knows" umlauts, like UTF8 or ISO-IEC 8859-1.
If you can't manage this and have to write an extra "e", make sure you add a line about it saying you're sorry for the bad formatting and that it's because you have trouble getting the letters to work. Just for safety so nobody can blame you for it afterwards.
Try to omit this practice as much as possible.
Although this sentence has only three umlauts the third variant is the best to read. Most natives on a "wrong" keyboard use the second possibility, this means that people are used to it. Although its really awkward to read it in my oppinion.
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Back in the days of typewriters this transcription was very common, it's certainly not wrong but the excuse that your computer keyboard does not have those keys is hardly valid nowadays as you can easily change the layout. So if you write a very important document and you use the transcription the recipient may take that as laziness on your part.
I for one use the transcription the vast majority of the time but i do not dare to use it in any paper, i have a custom layout for those where i can write the Umlauts with the modifiers Ctrl + Alt.
Only if your keyboard doesn't let you enter umlauts. (Even with a US keyboard, you can enter umlauts. Hold down the left alt key and type "129" on your numeric keypad to get the u-umlaut. Learn the numbers for them all, put them on a little post-it note, and stick it to your keyboard. there's only 4 letters in the German alphabet that don't exist in the English alphabet, so you can learn them pretty easy.)
It's a lot easier on US Mac keyboards to get the umlauts—just use the Option key + u to get an umlaut, then type the vowel you want under it: [Option + u, o] gives ö, and [Option + s] gives the "ß."
However, I have seen a number of German friends and colleagues write emails to me using the "ue" instead of "ü." So while the new style is inarguably preferable, it's by no means the only one in widespread use.
Edited to add: With the release of Mavericks, a new way of typing such characters is now available on English keyboards. Simply holding down a letter for a second or two brings up a menu of options. You can then choose the number corresponding to the desired accent. For instance, to type ü, you can hold down 'u' and then press '2'.
I swear by a fantastic little app called DE Key, you can get it for free from this website: http://german.about.com/library/blcomp_dekey1.htm
It is a safe app developed by an English speaking programmer who started learning German and, like you got frustrated at not being able to type the German umlauts. It is very simple to use as all that one needs to do to access the umlaut, is to use the ALT key before the letter in question e.g. for ALT + a = ä.
As far as I know there is a Mac version too.
The web address provided is not the original website, a longer search would get you to that if you prefer.
Hope this helps!
Maybe I'm not getting it, but surely we don't need to remember the numeric codes? Doesn't the pictorial method work on all keyboards? the umlaut is like a colon: sideways, so you type Ctrl_SHift, then poke : , then release ctrl-shift, then type a: aaa? nope, it doesn't work here. But if I type it in Microsoft Word, it works, and I can paste it here: They're all pictorial; ^ gives the hât, ~ gives the tilde õ , ' (just Ctrl – ' then e, no shift) gives é, etc. You can pretty much guess them….I can't remember any more right now. How about the backwards acutè? Yes, it's just below the tilde on my keyboard, again without the shift?


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Suppose we are working in Firefox. Now I have opened 3 tabs. In all 3 tabs I need to work on an application e.g. gmail account. i.e. Tab 1 has Account 1, tab 2 has account2 and tab 3 has account 3. I need to do this simultaneously. Please suggest method or add-on to do this task. I also need to do the same in Internet Explorer as well.
The Multifox Firefox plugin may work for you: br.mozdev.org/multifox
firefox -p brings up a profile manager. you can use it to create multiple profiles. by running "firefox -p profilename -no-remote" you can open multiple profiles at once! therefore you can have as many logged in users in any site. don't know about internet explorer...
I use Yoono for Firefox this sort of thing.
It's designed to help out with your multiple social network accounts, but it works for any website.
After installing, you'll likely want to hide the toolbar Yoono adds (left side of the screen -> right click -> close), and then use the 'Yoono profile selector' (just left of the url) to add 3 gmail profiles, each with the same url: mail.google.com/
When you've added your profiles, you can open those profiles (with the 'Yoono profile selector') in different tabs, and enjoy browsing the same web site with different sessions in the same browser window.
The downside to Multifox Firefox, by the way, is you have to use a new window for each new session on the same web site.
Try this: http://www.xenocode.com/browsers/
Or VMWare's ThinApp.
Both will give you a virtual environment for the browser (a thin one, not a resource hog).
I've never used it, but the GMail Manager addon for Firefox may help you to do this. Not sure about IE though.
EDIT: This obviously only helps if the application in question is GMail though!
Internet Explorer 8's "Private Browsing mode" gives you a totally independent session with no shared cookies or other login details. That gets you two sessions (albeit in two different windows, rather than tabs) out of the box.
You can't do the same thing in Firefox as Firefox 3.5's "Private Browsing" mode is more of a toggle, it closes and saves your main session first.
If you have more than one user account set up on your machine you could do a Run As on Firefox to open a second (third, etc) window up as a brand new Windows user, this would get you totally independent windows with independent sessions, but again in different windows.
Your best bet is to use Prism and create a separate 'web app for each instance (login).
Easiest way to do that in Internet Explorer is to do the following:
File > New Session
Then you get a new browser session, which will not use the same session as the one logged into gmail.
For Firefox use the private Browsing as others have suggested.
I do something "cheap" in Firefox - I have two GMail accounts and I keep one in a Firefox tab and a second in a Firefox tab using IETab.
But it doesn't help with three accounts obviously.
Turning a website into an application using a Site-Specific Browser might do the trick. For Firefox, see Prism. For a Mac, see Fluid. And Chrome has a built-in option "Create application shortcut".
You could run two (or more) entirely independent and physically differentiated instances using Firefox Portable. Just extract the program to two (or more) locations, edit
This would not only give you discrete sessions, but the possibility of entirely different setups for different purposes.
Sandboxie would probably work along the same lines as ThinApp or Browser Sandbox. People often use it to maintain a clean browser "image" that can be reset.
And I don't think the Private Tab addon was mentioned yet. It seems to create the same effect as separate private browsing windows, but in neighboring tabs.


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10 New Workout Routines That Don't Feel Like Work
Bored with your go-to exercises? Here are the newest routines that will inspire you to get out of your workout rut
Yeah, as much as we hate to admit it, we're not so psyched either. Just the idea of driving to the gym, changing, waiting in line for the elliptical, finally getting on the elliptical, doing crunches, showering � there's a reason they call it working out. Maybe that's why so many of us throw in the towel and watch the numbers on the scale climb. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that only 18.8 percent of us meet the physical activity guidelines for both aerobic and muscle-strengthening physical activity.
Skip ahead to see the 10 new workouts that don't feel like work.
"People are used to thinking of exercise as something that has to fit into certain parameters: has to be in a gym, or you have to be wearing athletic clothing," says Maria Brilaki, founder of Fitnessreloaded.com, a fitness habits website. "All those rules burden exercise and limit creativity. They make working out so complicated!"
While that may be true, the good news is that workouts don't have to be like this. In fact, they can actually be easy and enjoyable. The proof is in these 10 new workouts -- routines that we promise are so completely different from what you've been doing in the gym, you won't even realize you're actually blasting calories, improving your strength, melting unwanted fat, and getting healthier all around.
You heard us: this is fitness that's fun.
Now who's excited about working out? Read on to find out about the newest workouts that don't feel like work.
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Trampoline is supposed to be good for ceullulite too!
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Some of these sound like a lot of fun!
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These are great. Love to swing.
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An excuse to buy myself all new workout gear just in time for my 35th birthday!
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Great tips to work on I need more hours in the day!
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Love swinging and jumping rope!! Best "non" work outs ever!!!
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I really want to start kayaking to work out my arms!
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Trampoline sounds like a great idea.
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who doesn't like swings? :)
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MOODY (November 27, 2012)—Fire destroyed a home Monday night near Moody and the family that lived there has a woman to thank for their lives.
Initial reports indicated that the person who alerted the family members was a young girl, but officials later said that it was a 34-year-old woman who lived in the house with her father and sons.
Moody fire Chief Mike Alton said firefighters were sent at about 11:30 p.m. Monday to 1536 North Blue Cut Road where the first units on the scene found a house engulfed in flames.
Alton said a man who lived in the home told him his daughter awakened and noticed smoke filling the house so she awakened the rest of the family.
By the time firefighters got to the address the family was safe outside but in spite of a battle with the flames they were unable to save the home.
The father told Alton the family had a fire in a fireplace earlier in the evening, but he had extinguished it before the family went to bed.
Alton said he has not yet established a cause for the fire but he believes it started in a wall next to the fireplace.
Moody firefighters were hampered in their battle because of a shortage of water but a tanker truck was sent from Bruceville-Eddy to bring more water to the scene.
Everyone escaped the house without injury, Alton said.
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1937 Big Car - Those Were the DaysWritten by on September 1, 2011 Contributors: Phil Kunz Up close with a 1937 Big Car
Sprint Cars have been around since the 1920s, although they were known as Big Cars during those early years. These Big Cars might look decidedly different than Jason Meyers' 2010 World of Outlaws Championship winning Sprinter, but in reality many of the essential components have remained basically unchanged over the decades. Just take a look at this 1937 Big Car that carries a menacing look with that cold black paint and that circled number 2.
This car was state of the art for the period sporting a Clyde Adams chassis and a Miller powerplant. The frame was built by hand, whereby fabricators would create bends and turns in the steel by pounding it into the desired shape over another piece of steel. The handformed chassis-building process gives the car a brutish appearance but, get this, it still weighs only about 1,200 pounds. Not only is that a figure that modern Sprint Cars attempt to achieve, but it made the car light enough that an in shape crewman could pick up any corner of the car.
Steve Truchan of Hobart, Indiana, currently is the keeper of this racing treasure. Truchan's family has owned the car for most of its existence and he assures that the next generation will take over the tending duties down the road. Steve's dad bought the car in 1938 in practically-new condition and campaigned it through 1941.
"Dad drove it a bunch and won many races during those years," explains Truchan. "He won a lot at the long-gone Hammand (IN) Speedway. He was also successful at another Hoosier track, Jungle Park Speedway, with his biggest win being an AAA Big Car race in 1941."
The car then sat for many years before the decision was made by the family to restore it. And what a job was done! The Miller engine was in parts, but that didn't present a problem. You see, the family had restored many Offy engines which were very similar to this powerplant. So without any further ado, let's check out the hows and whys of this magnificent vintage machine.
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Much of the light weight of the vehicle is because of the considerable use of aluminum in the body parts with even the radiator shell using it.This side-by-side shot of the left and right front corners shows the simplicity of the frontend. That front axle came from a Model A Ford.That's also a Model A front cross leaf spring doing a job for which it was never designed. Note that all the suspension and steering components are painted in body color.It could be just the narrowness of the body, the wide track width, a combination of the two, or maybe just this author's view, but the Big Car looks almost insect like.Remember, that classic radiator shell which looks like it should have belonged on a period luxury car is handformed aluminum. Talk about metal working skill!The interesting-looking gold ball joint socket is equipped with a grease fitting that connects the rear radius rod to the body, compensating for vehicle flexing at while at speed.These are vintage Ascot-style 18-inch tires which sport small knobs to aid in traction. The period Rudge wheels carry aluminum rims along with steel center and spokes.Driving one of these early machines required a lot of the driver. Fuel pressure was pumped up using the red handle. It had to be pumped at speed about once every lap. Also visible is the longer brake handle which is attached to the rear brakes. There was no brake pedal so this handle had to be pulled back in the turns to slow.
A view of the right rear suspension shows the beefy radius rod and the rear cross spring which came from a Model T. Also in view is a Houdise lever shock, one of four on each corner of the car.The four-tube headers exit on the right side of the car only, a tell-tale sign that the motor is a four-cylinder.Safety was not a high priority on these early cars. Notice from this view that there are no protective nerf bars between the wheels. There were no rollcages, no seatbelts, and there was no structure in the tail.A view of the Miller engine looking to the rear. It's a dry-sump 220ci four-cylinder supercharged engine with an amazing 350 horsepower. The engine was lubricated by 3 gallons of oil. The rounded object against the firewall is the actual supercharger. This advanced engine has a double overhead cam and 16 valves. The rearend consists of a center section from a '28 Ford passenger car. With that technology, you would swear that its decades newer.This car competed with the Central States Racing Association (CSRA) as identified by this emblem, one of the top Open Wheel groups of the period.The cockpit is simple and functional but a bit of a tight squeeze. Note that there were five gauges, something that you might not expect for that time period. The handle with the red knob is part of the Miller in-out box which enabled the engine to be engaged or disengaged with the driveshaft. These cars were often pull started with a rope attached to a vehicle in front.


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A grand jury in south-central Kentucky has charged a father with assault in a wreck that left his young daughter hospitalized.
The Commonwealth-Journal reported that the Pulaski County grand jury handed up the indictment on Tuesday of 56-year-old James "Jimmy" Jasper on a charge of first-degree assault by operating his vehicle in a manner that led to 12-year-old Jaden Jasper's injuries.
The father and daughter were hurt March 5 when the SUV Jimmy Jasper was driving hit a fence line. Police say the wooden planks from the fence penetrated the vehicle's interior, striking both Jaden and Jimmy Jasper and causing serious injuries.
Jimmy Jasper suffered multiple broken bones, a collapsed aorta, and a skull fracture. Jaden suffered a depressed skull fracture, a broken eye socket, and a broken cheekbone.


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Larry Allen Perry, 66, of Grayville, one of the victims of the Jan. 26 explosion at the Goff and Pruitt Drilling Co. building in Grayville, died Thursday, February 14, 2013, at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. He was born July 22, 1946, in Mt. Vernon, Ill., the son of L.D. and Constance P. (Franklin) Perry. He was married to Sharon Kay (Fiock) Perry and she survives.
Larry was a retired truck driver and member of the Moose Lodge. He was a "jack of all trades" and enjoyed four-wheelers, cb radios, his cats, his yellow truck and spending time with his family.
Survivors include his wife Sharon of Grayville; son Shawn (Christie) Perry of Grayville; daughter Lori Perry of Albion; brothers Chuck (Marilyn) Perry of West Salem, Bob (Linda) Perry of Grayville, and Bennie Perry of Colo.; sisters Georgia Bullock of Grayville, Donna (Jimmy) Thomas of Crossville, Connie (Sherman) Tarpley of Fla., Glenna (Quinn) Hunley of West Salem; and grandchild Shelby Lynn Perry.
He is preceded in death by his parents; sisters Judith Ann Perry and Kathy Pixley; and brother James Perry.
Visitation is 5-8 p.m. Thursday, February 21, at First Baptist Church in Grayville. A memorial service will be at 10 a.m., Friday, February 22, at First Baptist Church in Grayville.
Cook Funeral Chapel in Grayville is in charge of arrangements. More information is available at cookfuneralchapel.com.
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I cleared all my browser data and visited http://stackoverflow.com and it logged me back in. How?
This happens on Chrome on OS X and Windows 7.
Surely the security concerns outweigh the benefits to the user. What if a family member or friend wants to use my machine? I wouldn't want them logged in as me.
My mistake, I should have said data — all those checkboxes clicked/checked. I completely cleared everything, yet it still logs me back in.
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Here's a video to prove it: flickr.com/photos/therobyouknow/7749178118/in/photostream


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"Governor Dan Malloy signed into law one of the largest tax increases of any state in recent years. His 2011 bill increased revenue by $1.8 billion annually, equal to about 15 percent of the state's total tax collections. ... Malloy is a good example of a governor who creates a more hostile climate for businesses in general, but then tries to compensate for the damage with tax incentives. After enacting his large tax increase, Malloy signed into law a 'jobs bill' with narrow tax breaks for hiring. In his February 2012 budget update, he claimed that these breaks were a 'far reaching' and 'rigorous initiative to grow jobs ... and the result is a state that is finally ready to compete in the global marketplace.' The truth is that Connecticut would be more ready to compete in the global marketplace if the governor hadn't put in place one of the highest corporate tax rates in the nation."
— Cato Institute's Fiscal Policy Report Card for America's Governors 2012, which gave Gov. Malloy an F, Oct. 9
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Time for statements
Big East commissioner: 'committed to a vibrant and dynamic future'
UConn president: 'tough moment for our fans'
|UConn president Susan Herbst.
We enjoyed having Louisville in the Big East conference and we wish them well.
The Big East has anticipated the continuing realignment that is reshaping college athletics and has already made important additions as part of our vision for the future. We will continue moving forward to fulfill that vision, which includes a strong national football conference and a strong and storied basketball conference. Big East teams will continue to compete and succeed at the highest level and, as always, will combine athletic and academic excellence. With schools stretching from coast to coast and in many of the top U.S. media markets, the Big East has become a truly national conference with outstanding young men and women competing across a full range of sports.
We are committed to a vibrant and dynamic future for the Big East conference.
- Here is what UConn president Susan Herbst and athletic director Warde Manuel said in prepared statements released by the school
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- Greater Waterbury players spark Western Connecticut women
- Notre Dame's Kelly won't enter bowl game politics
- In top-heavy Big East, middling teams aim for some bowl offering
- With a brand new roster, Post Eagles aim to fly higher
- Aggies' defense tough, Alabama's offense pretty good as well
- Kansas State boasts 111-0 edge in TO points
- Post men bow out vs. Lowell; UConn ousted by Irish
- Post men's hoop gains 1st win
- State football: Chargers win Northeast-10 crown
- Texas A&M upsets No. 1 Alabama
- Mettenberger's climb raising optimism at LSU
- Commissioners to meet on football playoff format
- Notre Dame coach Kelly begins BCS campaign
- Play it forward: Week ahead in college football
- Chizik says he's confident he can revive Auburn
- SEC gives up control of national title race
- K-State, Oregon on course for BCS title game
- Men's roundup: Louisville, Syracuse post wins
- Women's roundup: Top 25 results
- Big East still in the mix for college football playoff
- Top 25 roundup: No. 1 Indiana survives vs. North Dakota St.
- No. 1 Baylor women runs past No. 6 Kentucky 85-51
- Stanford's Taylor chasing rushing record against Oregon
- Johnny Football has Aggies riding high
- Kentucky lands top recruiting class again
- College football previews: Top 25 games
- Cincy facing elimination game vs No. 22 Rutgers
- No. 14 Stanford looking to challenge No. 1 Oregon
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What GUI Based Torrent managers exist in Ubuntu and features they offer in terms of:
- Speed to start downloading (Search Speed, Seed, Leech)
- Speed while downloading
- Compatibility
- Stability
- Data check
- Other attributes
What GUI Based Torrent managers exist in Ubuntu and features they offer in terms of:
What is Deluge?
Deluge is a full-featured BitTorrent client for Linux, OS X, Unix and Windows. It uses libtorrent in it's backend and features multiple user-interfaces including: GTK+, web and console. It has been designed using the client server model with a daemon process that handles all the bittorrent activity. The Deluge daemon is able to run on headless machines with the user-interfaces being able to connect remotely from any platform.
Deluge is not tied to any particular desktop environment and will work just fine in GNOME, KDE, XFCE and others.
The libtorrent library is a huge part of Deluge.
What about features?
Install via command line :
Install use Deluge via PPA :
ppa:deluge-team/ppa (Click here for instructions on using PPAs.)
Transmission is a good Torrent client, it is installed by default .
Comparing the speeds of clients I think this is a difficult question to answer and can only be really tested in lab conditions.
I am one of the Deluge devs and we get quite a few people that rave about the transfer speed however the credit should really go to libtorrent(rasterbar) which does all the heavy lifting and is at the core of Deluge plus many other clients such as qBitTorrent.
As for features there is a large table of torrent client comparisons on wikipedia
From a personal viewpoint I use Deluge torrent client as I perceive it to be the best client for Ubuntu, written in Python with an excellent server/client setup so can be accessed via web, console and gui. It also has a good range of plugins and is very stable.
All anecdotal here, but after trying a lot I ended up preferring qBittorrent. It is another libtorrent(rasterbar) based client and it performs well for me. Coming from Windows I wanted something with many of the capabilities I was used to with uTorrent and the two I found that best met that criteria were qBittorrent and KTorrent, and since I wasn't using KDE I went with qBittorrent.
I recommend and use Ktorrent , In the software Center.
KTorrent is a BitTorrent client written in C++
New features of KTorrent 4.1.1:
Latest version 4.1.1 : How to install Ktorrent 4.1.1?
µtorrent, a Windows application, works surprisingly well using
Note that there is a Linux version in the works, but so far it has no GUI. Also note that it is not free software, so it is not for purists.
Why would you want to use a proprietary program like µtorrent where native programs are available? It is tiny. You can very easily restart it if something doesn't work. It is reasonably stable and works reliably. It has a good minimalistic interface. It supports RSS feeds.
An advanced and multi-platform BitTorrent client with a nice Qt4 user interface as well as a Web UI for remote control and an integrated search engine. qBittorrent aims to meet the needs of most users while using as little CPU and memory as possible.
Seeing how my question, What's the best BitTorrent client for 12.10 excluding utorrent?, was closed as an exact duplicate of this question I thought I might as well post the answer I gave to it here.
Transmission is the default BitTorrent client of Ubuntu and does favourably. Customer reviews in the software centre give it a 4/5 rating with those less than satisfied with it citing the following as limitations/problems:
It was unanimous among those that did a review of Transmission in the software centre that it was a relatively stable alternative over other BitTorrent clients.
As of the time of this answer (14 Dec 2012) the software centre is lagging a little in the version of Transmission it provides. The latest version in the software centre is 2.61 whereas the latest version of it to date is 2.73.
qBittorrent rather unanimously receives positive reviews from users with the review of BitTorrent clients http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-bittorrent-client.htm [mainly aimed at those wanting a free client for Windows] quoting its stability, low RAM usage and consistent CPU usage and encompassment of basic features as its strong suits and its inability to serve multiuser operations being its main limitation.
In the software centre the sole limitation of instability was quoted as an issue with the client receiving an approximate, overall star rating of ~9/10. (4 & 1/2 out of 5)
Likewise as of 14 December 2012 qBitTorrent is lagging behind in the software centre a little. The latest version in the software centre being 3.0.5 whereas the latest version to date is 3.0.6.
Vuze is a popular BitTorrent client not only in Ubuntu but also in Windows. In the software centre the primary complaint about it is that it is, 'buggy,' or, mostly, in other words it is prone to crashing. One reviewer even stated it is the buggiest app in the software centre they had seen in their six years of using Ubuntu.
Other than that the major complaint is that the software centre is lagging heavily when it comes to the latest version Vuze it provides. (4.3 vs. 4.8 being the latest release)
This problem, may, however, be overcome by downloading the tarball found at http://www.vuze.com/download.php extracting it and then running the executable shell script, 'vuze' in the extracted directory.
Overall in the software centre it receives 4/5 stars with most quoting its benefits as being its many features and ease of implementing it.
As far as reviews go there are none in the software centre the pros and cons given at the review earlier quoted (http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-bittorrent-client.htm) are: Pros: Cross platform client that is stable for the most part and efficient. Well accepted at private trackers. Excellent performance on torrents. Good help resources. Clean install, no addons etc. Cons: Issue with Add Torrent screen not showing files for magnet links so they can not be deselected before adding to download (they may be deselected after adding).
With the reviewer also stating that its performance, in his/her opinion, was a little behind that of qBittorrent.
The review, http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-bittorrent-client.htm, says that the pros and cons of this software are: (although the software centre does not store it so no reviews from that source are available)
Pros: Generally stable and efficient with a good variety of options. Developers are active and responsive to user requests. Attractive interface. Good help resources. No addons etc. during install.
Cons: Help resource, though very good, could use some more. Smaller operation, which you may or may not like. Performance on test torrents was not up to the Superior clients.
Finally, if you plan to be torrenting media files, Miro may be the client for you. It has the capability to run a wide range of media files and remembers where you, the user, were up to in watching/listening to your media files. In the software centre Miro received a 3/5 star rating with dissatisfied reviewers citing bugs and advertisements as the reason for their dissatisfaction.
I'm still using the good and old Vuze (Azureus) client: http://www.vuze.com/ Some people may consider it bloatware but I really like it's power. With some tunning I have achieved the best download speed for my network (warning: subjective and empiric benchmarks lol). It's search features are pretty ok if you want to use it. And you can always fall back to the "Advanced Interface" (old Azureus Style).
I have tried Vuze, but as a former utorrent user cannot cope with that heavy memory use. Transmission and Bittornado are very poorly featured compared to the rest and with no big economy on resources. I tested KTorrent and it seemed ok, but finally experienced some speed deficiency and rather heavy use of my ram.
I am happy to have found and to recommend qBittorrent and Flush. Much lighter (especially Flush). See how to install here.
(By the way - utorrent in Wine is much heavier than in windows and a few times forced me to reboot. Version 2.0 is more stable than the rest.)
qBittorent and Flush may seem to advanced users to still lack complex settings. In this sense, Deluge is very good I think, largely used and trustworthy (to install go to Synaptic or Ubuntu Software Center).
Another interesting one is Tixati (to install here). Just look at its features:
(The only thing I don't like is the colorful tray icon. The rest of the colors are customizable.)
Considering memory use, it seems that all the clients that I mentioned have about the same 'weight' - excepting Vuze, which is java-style bloated and heavy, and Flush, which is lighter.
I have tried all popular Linux torrent clients (including Vuze, Deluge, Transmision, Qbittorrent-this one I have used for more then a year) but Tixati beats them all it it's features and simplicity.
What I like most:
- Torrents management
-- Add labels
-- Specify label's download directory (All the files with specified label will be downloaded to corresponding folder)
- Bandwitch limits (they are visible on interface so you will not forgot to turn them off when needed)
- Filters to filter the torrents (for example you can show newest torrents always on top)
- Customizable "view" layouts
- You can open downloaded files directly from Tixati
- You can prioritize downloads (Ultra High, very High, Hight, etc (10 prioritize options in total))
- You can set how many torrent can be downloading at the same time (for example two torrent at the time)
Tixati UI (customized)
Tixati settings:
More screenshots and features on their site
You cas dowmload .deb .rpm tar.gz from their website: Download Tixati
Hands down winner is rtorrent. The encryption is best in rtorrent and you can easily bypass the ISP throttling. I used to 2mbps speed with it while all other including utorrent or transmission or vuze gave me just 700kbps to 800kbps max. Below is the link to the tutorial about how to use rtorrent like a pro, it will help you get started quickly http://harbhag.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/tutorial-using-rtorrent-on-linux-like-a-pro/
BitThief - A Free Riding BitTorrent Client
It comes from the Distributed Computing Group at ETH Zurich. It is in my opinion one of the slimmest clients available, has no extra features at all and has the fastest download speed. It is run in a Java Environment.
The client is also interesting, because it's possible to deactivate uploading without any limitation on download speed. More information here.


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5 Marvel Characters Who Totally Dropped the Ball
#2. Obadiah Stane's Plan Makes No Sense
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In the first Iron Man, we watch Tony Stark's partner and mentor, Obadiah Stane, slowly turn from an exasperated old friend we feel kind of sorry for into a villainous mastermind who had secretly been plotting against Tony all along. The terrorists who kidnap Tony in the beginning? They were assassins hired by Stane. He'd actually been selling weapons to them under the table, too, but that deal goes out the window when Stane flies to the Middle East to have them all executed for failing to kill Tony. Stane also files an injunction against Tony to seize control of Stark Industries, and even manages to get his hands on Tony's discarded Mark I armor to start building a prototype of his own, all without getting his own hands dirty.
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"Obie likes to dirty hands elsewhere ... ladies."
So when Pepper Potts accidentally stumbles across Stane's master plan while downloading some encrypted files from the Stark Industries office, we know she's in trouble. Stane has been quietly biding his time for years, carefully positioning every little detail to ensure his ultimate success. He must have planned for something like this -- he probably has some insanely clever and effective trap to spring, something that Pepper will never see coming.
Actually, no, he doesn't. Not at all. Instead, this happens:
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"This is a way better idea."
Stane drives to Stark Manor, rips Tony's Arc Reactor straight from the man's chest, puts on a gigantic suit of armor, and starts kill-punching his way through downtown Los Angeles, all in the space of a single evening. Decades of planning thrown right out the window to create a situation in which there is no possible gain for him.
When Pepper Potts discovered his dark secret, why didn't Stane just have her stopped by building security? He could've had her detained for stealing files from the company's protected server, which, right or wrong, she totally did. No security guard is going to demand that the head of the company reveal top-level classified internal documents, no matter what accusations Pepper makes -- Stane is in charge, and she is trying to steal company property. She would have been forced to hand over the flash drive and Stane would've been free to smash it into oblivion with his wingtips right then and there.
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"Then he fired me and said, 'You just got Staned.' So yeah, we're pretty much screwed."
Or Stane could've just whipped out the paralyzing sound device that he'd used three scenes earlier to immobilize all the terrorists and stopped Pepper right there in the office. Pluck the flash drive from her hand and tell everyone she had a stroke. Problem solved. Also, why the hell did he even have all that information saved on his office computer in the first place? The incriminating video of a bunch of crazy murderers holding your business partner hostage and announcing that it was you who put them up to it should probably have found its way to the recycle bin a while ago.
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"I'm going to want to keep this for tax purposes."
But instead, Stane breaks into Tony's house and tries to murder him, throws on a robot suit and tries to murder Pepper, and then clobbers his way through Stark Industries and the adjacent freeway in a hail of rubble. What the hell was the plan there? Even if Tony and Pepper had both died (best case scenario for Stane), he would've still gone to jail -- if not for the aforementioned deaths, then surely for his subsequent robot rampage.
#1. Loki, the Silver-Tongued God of Deception, Can't Outsmart Anyone
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Thor established Loki as a duplicitous mastermind capable of pitting two kingdoms against each other and tricking his father, Odin, into banishing Thor to Nowheresburg, New Mexico, where there are apparently zero shirts in Chris Hemsworth's size. Loki goes from being third in line to the ruler of Asgard in about 16 hours using nothing but chicanery and his formidable skill as a convincing liar.
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He even took out Stringer Bell.
However, in The Avengers, Loki spends the entire movie falling ass-backward through every step of a bungling plan. He is outsmarted by virtually every member of the principal cast and only succeeds in bringing his alien army to Earth thanks to a few incredible strokes of luck.
First, Loki deliberately gets himself caught and locked up in the Helicarrier so he can goad Bruce Banner into hulking out and ripping the ship in half with a gamma fart. Which is a pretty good plan -- it's completely unexpected and perfectly in line with Loki's preferred Shakespearean tactic of playing people against each other. However, when Black Widow shows up to interrogate Loki, who is the god of deception, she manages to trick him into spilling the beans on his own plan. That's right -- the patron deity of skullduggery gets fooled into dropping the dime on himself by a 28-year-old Russian spy who has devoted a substantial part of her life to learning chair kung fu.
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"Idiots, I told you to tie her to the sofa!"
Later, when Loki meets Tony Stark atop Stark Tower, Tony starts rambling on about how Loki's plan is doomed to fail because he and the rest of the Avengers are about to show up and flex on him. Loki recognizes that Tony is stalling for time, specifically tells him that "stalling won't change anything," and then continues to let Tony speak. He just stands there like a goon and allows Tony to babble on long enough to deploy a fresh suit of armor and blast him with a stinging one-liner and a palm laser.
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"You just got Staned! Wait, shit, no ..."
And it just keeps happening. Unlike in Thor, where Loki was able to convince people to do whatever he wanted, Loki can't get anyone to do a goddamn thing without possessing them with his space rod, and he is constantly being outwitted. He can't even win an argument against the Hulk, but in fairness, there isn't much use speaking to the Hulk when he is in full-on smash mode. Even Hawkeye manages to trick Loki with an exploding arrow, and Hawkeye is the lamest superhero in history.
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"Look, guys! I got him!"
"... shut up, Hawkeye."
The Earth was saved less by the Avengers' heroics and more by the fact that Loki's time alone in deep space apparently gave him crippling brain damage.
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Stock Car Winners Aren't Stock Winners
The other winner of Sunday's Daytona 500 was Lowe's Cos. The home-improvement retail chain had its logo all over the car and outfit of Jimmie Johnson, the race champion who also made this pitch in his post-race interview: "Go to Lowe's. Buy some stuff."
If only shareholders were impressed. Lowe's shares fell 4.8% Monday, suggesting there is no correlation between sponsoring a Daytona 500 winner and improving a stock price. Since 2004, only three of eight companies sponsoring the Daytona winner have seen shares go up on the first day of trading after the race.
Financial analysts Monday ignored Johnson's sales pitch in their reports, instead focusing on Lowe's worse-than-expected profit forecast. A Lowe's spokeswoman didn't return requests for comment.
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It's fun for the kids when you include them in choosing and making food for the holidays. Make a tradition out of it and give your children the freedom to choose one item to make each year. To teach them the spirit of giving, make gifting homemade cookies to neighbors or the elderly part of your annual Christmas celebration.


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I just beat the game solo but could not do so when I had a teammate. I get the feeling beating it is easier when you are solo b/c the most genestealers that can pop out is 2. And having smaller swarms is greatly beneficial to rolling for defense.
Anyways, I was wondering if anyone has tried playing a solo mission but with more than 6 space marines. Do you think it is easier or harder?


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What access does each role in the learning management system (Bb Learn) have?
Enrollment in Bb Learn, the current learning management system (LMS) is fed from PeopleSoft (LOUIE), which is authoritative for the data. Just as student enrollment comes from LOUIE, so does enrollment of instructors, designers and teaching assistants.
The table below indicates the level of LMS course shell access for instructor roles as they correlate to the Schedule of Classes.
Schedule of Classes
Instructor Role Definitions
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LMS Role Definitions
Primary Instructor
Every class must have a primary instructor. The primary instructor is the instructor of record who is ultimately responsible for administering and grading the class. Use this role to indicate the instructor with primary responsibility for the class even when this instructor is a Graduate Teaching Assistant.
Primary Instructor
May view the grade center, grade assignments, assessments and discussions, use messages and discussions, change tool and course properties. May add/delete/change course content.
Secondary Instructor
Should be used if a class has an instructor or faculty member who is not ultimately responsible for the administration and grading of a class, but he/she co-teaches the class.
Secondary Instructor
May view the grade center, grade assignments and discussions, use messages and create/reply to discussions, change tool and course properties. May not add/delete/change course content.
Teaching Assistant
Should be used to indicate a person who is assisting a primary or secondary instructor. Examples would include those who supervise, grade in the LMS, or assist administratively with the class, but do not teach the class.
Teaching Assistant
Has the same abilities as a Secondary Instructor.
Should only be used to indicate an individual who is responsible for the data entry of student grades into LOUIE. This individual has no responsibility for the administration of the class or for actual grade computation. Many times these are class schedulers or staff who assist faculty in entering their students' grades into LOUIE. If the individual needs LMS access as well (e.g. grading and entering assignment grades in the grade book), then use Teaching Assistant instructor role. Not reported to ABOR.
NO Access
- The roles assigned to the faculty in the Schedule of Classes must reflect their actual teaching responsibilities.****The roles are important for departmental course load reporting and university reporting. Please note:
- Teaching Assistants should never be entered as Primary Instructors in order to obtain designer access.
- There should never be more than one Primary Instructor assigned to a class for the sole sake of the Designer role.
Example: Department requests that a Teaching Assistant have Designer Access along with the Primary Instructor.
- If the instructor role in the Schedule of Classes does not reflect the role required in the LMS, the department may email e-Learning Center at firstname.lastname@example.com to request the desired LMS shell access. These requests should make it clear that the requested role cannot be accomplished via a corresponding role in the Schedule of Classes.
- Also note that there is an Instructor Role of "Grader" and a Grade Roster Access of "Grade" in the Schedule of classes. These items are two different fields and are related, however do not mean the same thing. The table above is referring to the Instructor Roles, not Grade Roster Access.
- Departments should keep work load reporting in mind when making these decisions.
- Departments are responsible for making sure anyone with access to the Grade Book or Roster has passed FERPA.
To add someone with both Designer and Instructor access in the LMS, enter them in the Schedule of Classes as a "Primary Instructor." To add an Instructor ("teach-only") access in the LMS, enter the person as "Secondary Instructor." To add a Teaching Assistant, enter the person into the Schedule of Classes as "Teaching Assistant." The position of "Grader" in the Schedule of Classes does not enroll the person in the LMS at all - this only gives a person access to enter final grades into LOUIE.
If you need to add a Designer but are unable to add that person as a Primary Instructor in the Schedule of Classes (because of payroll, workload, or other issues), please contact email@example.com.
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NEW YORK — Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o insisted he had no role in the bizarre hoax involving his "dead" girlfriend and told ESPN on Friday night that he was duped by a person who has since apologized to him.
In an off-camera interview Friday with ESPN, Te'o said Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, a 22-year-old acquaintance who lives in California, contacted him two days ago and confessed to the prank. Deadspin.com first exposed the scheme on Wednesday and indicated Tuiasosopo was involved in it.
"I wasn't faking it," ESPN quoted Te'o as saying during the 2 1-2 hour interview. "I wasn't part of this. When they hear the facts they'll know. They'll know there is no way I could be a part of this."
Te'o said he first met Tuiasosopo in person after the Southern California game in November. According to the linebacker, Tuiasosopo told him he was the cousin of Lennay Kekua, the woman who Te'o believed he had fallen for through Internet chats and long phone conversations. But Kekua never existed.
"Two guys and a girl are responsible for the whole thing," Te'o told ESPN. "According to Ronaiah, Ronaiah's one."
The Tuiasosopo family has declined several interview requests from The Associated Press since Wednesday.
Te'o said he never met Kekua face-to-face and when he tried to speak with her via Skype and video phone calls, the picture was blocked. Still, he didn't figure out the ruse.
He also told ESPN that he lied to his father about having met Kekua. To cover that up, he apparently lied to everyone else.
After he was told Kekua had died of leukemia in early September, Te'o admitted he misled the public about the nature of the "relationship" because he was uncomfortable saying it was purely an electronic romance.
"That goes back to what I did with my dad. I knew that. I even knew that it was crazy that I was with somebody that I didn't meet," he said. "So I kind of tailored my stories to have people think that, yeah, he met her before she passed away."
Te'o's first interview since the story broke came at the end of a day that started with Notre Dame posting a podcast of athletic director Jack Swarbrick's radio show, during which he implored the Heisman Trophy runner-up to speak publicly about the episode. Already, it had turned the feel-good story line of the college football season into a dark and strange one.
Te'o took Notre Dame's advice, but this was no Lance Armstrong-with-Oprah Winfrey made for TV mea culpa.
ESPN conducted the interview with Te'o at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., where Te'o is preparing for the NFL draft and hopes to be among the first-round picks. The network produced only still photos of the interview, with reporter Jeremy Schaap sitting at large table with the linebacker. Schaap then provided details on "Sports Center" and a story was posted on ESPN.com.
Some wondered whether Te'o had been in on the fake girlfriend scheme to gain positive publicity and attention. Te'o quickly became the media focal point for Notre Dame as the Fighting Irish pulled off an unexpected 12-0 regular season, finally losing in the BCS championship to Alabama, 42-14.
Schaap said Te'o firmly denied he was out to get attention. The player also said the hoax also did not affect his performance in the title game blowout.
Te'o told ESPN that he wasn't entirely sure he was the victim of a hoax until earlier this week when Tuiasosopo apologized. As Notre Dame officials said earlier, he did get a call from the person posing as Kekua on Dec. 6 — but it was to tell him she had not died at all, and to carry on their courtship.
Te'o was confused. He finally confided in his parents over Christmas break in his home state of Hawaii and told Notre Dame coaches what was going on Dec. 26, according to Swarbrick.
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Are these hijacked users or something?
Clarification: I know it's ascii art, but I saw it posted twice from more than one user within minutes of each other. Obviously it could be the same user with more than one account, but I thought I'd check and point it out.
I found the first one I saw:


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Currently I am personalizing my Ubuntu installation and i want to write a small applet to add it in the top left corner of the screen. This should be a "main menu" like in Mac OS X where i have a menu that opens when i click the (Apple/"Tux") logo and offers me to run the updater, the software center, etc. With this i could combine this applet with my global menu i already have activated to achieve a mac-like menu interface. :-)
Which tools and programming languages are used to write such applets and what is the first place i should look for such information?


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I read that a particle will meet its antiparticle and annihilate to generate a photon. Is it important for the pairs to be of the same type? What will happen when for example a neutron meets an antiproton or a proton meets a positron? Are there any rules to determine what happens when such particles meet?
Yes, there are rules that depend on the quantum numbers carried by the particles under question and the energy available for the interaction.
In general we label as annihilation when particle meets antiparticle because all the characterising quantum numbers are equal and opposite in sign and add and become 0, allowing for the decay into two photons, two because you need momentum conservation.
A positron meeting a proton will be repulsed by the electromagnetic interaction, unless it has very high energy and can interact with the quarks inside the proton, according to the rules of the standard model interactions.
When a neutron meets an antiproton the only quantum number that is not equal and opposite is the charge, so we cannot have annihilation to just photons, but the constituent antiquarks of the antiproton will annihilate with some of the quarks in the neutron there will no longer be any baryons, just mesons and photons, and all these interactions are given by the rules and crossections of the standard model.
The major problem you run into with this question is the protons and neutrons are not fundamental particles.
The short answer is that $x + \bar{y}$ does not result in any annihilation at the vertex level (but sometimes other reactions are possible), but $n + \bar{p}$ is not expressed at the vertex level.
Instead a neutron is a composite object made up of two (matter) down quarks and one (matter) up quark and a seething mess of virtual particles (often called "the sea") that pop into and out-of existence all the time.
A anti-proton is made up of two anti-up quarks and one anti-down quark and another seething mess of virtual particles.
So if a neutron meets and anti-neutron ($(udd+ \text{sea}) + (\bar{u}\bar{u}\bar{d} + \text{sea}) \to \text{??}$) you get reactions at the quark level, and the two composite particles can be destroyed leaving zero baryons but a lot of hadronic spray.
The only thing that a particle and an antiparticle can do always for sure in theory is annihilate into gravitons. Everything else depends on the particle.
The reason people talk about particle/antiparticle annhilation is to convey that antiparticles are particles going backward in time, in an S-matrix particle-path picture, like Feynman diagrams. If you have interactions that can knock a particle sideways, then these interactions can also knock a particle back in time, so that any external interaction can produce particle/antiparticle pairs, and can lead to creation and annihilation of pairs. If the external potential can absorb the particles, if they aren't protected by conservation laws, then it can produce the particle and antiparticle singly.
There are no conservation laws which can forbid a particle from annihilating with its antiparticle, because gravity can always knock a particle back in time.
But some particles are hardly interacting, externally or internally. These particles don't annihilate with their antiparticle, they just ignore it. A neutrino is its own antiparticle, but two stopped neutrinos will just sit there next to each other, wavefunctions spreading, doing nothing much at all. Their cross section for annihilating into anything is negligible. Same with two photons, or two gravitons.
Charged particle/antiparticle pairs can annihilate into photons, usually two or three depending on the conservation laws, but not all particles are charged. neutrons and antineutrons have a hard time finding each other, and I don't think its fair to say that they annihilate. When they collide, they can in theory turn into photons, but they almost always will just go past each other, or, if they collide, they turn into mesons.
The most extreme example of annihilation is at the highest energies, a massive charged spinning black hole. The antiparticle has opposite charge. Two such black holes collide to make a big neutral probably spinning black hole, which then slowly decays.


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I want to host some pictures at low cost (less than flickr). I have come across Shareapic and Imgur. However, imagur strips the meta-data off of uploaded images, and I couldn't find much information on shareapic. Note: I want to retain ownership of my photos so Picasa web-upload won't work.
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I recommend Flickr. You can even choose Creative Commons licenses to assign to photos based on what licensing rights you want to permit.
I use Fotki - less known than some but flexible enough and reasonable features and CHEAP.
You can set licence rights of your choice - they offer various variants of GPL and you can add your own in several says. I use non-commercial use only, no derivates, attribtution and suggest people email me. That does not stop copying but allows you to retain rights. You can password and/or hide albums etc.
In your account settings it says: Copyright holder:
From memory cost is about $US/10 per year if you buy a few years for unlimited storage, high resolution photos (may have a 10 MB limit?) . I think there is a 2 GB/day upload limit. Supports FTP an slideshows (and I seem to know more slideshow settings than any one else in public as I played and then asked them). All up its very good.
I have 90 GB and 119,000+ photos on Fotki at present. That's 'acceptable' [tm] for $10/year.
They offer album per photo view, thumbnails, slideshow and a very nice roll view like this - roll down - do not click until you see a photo you want to interact with in some manner.
I'm not exactly sure what your needs are, but if you are just looking for raw storage, try Amazon's/AWS Simple Storage Service.
It's primarily a paid service, but they have a FREE plan that will start you with 5GB of storage 15 GB transfer out / monthly.
You'll need to read over the page thoroughly to get a sense of what they offer and how they work, but for what they offer, I think they are worth the effort.
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The Carthage Chamber of Commerce's Public Policy Committee will be hosting a forum for candidates for the Carthage City Council at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 26, at the Carthage Water & Electric Plant Community Room, 627 W. Centennial Ave.
Complimentary pastries, coffee and water will be available and all candidates for City Council have been invited. With a potential of seven candidates in attendance, we will begin the forum portion of the meeting at 8 a.m.
With only two people seeking two open seats on the Carthage Board of Education, there will be no election for that body.
There are five open seats on the Carthage City Council, with incumbents Lawrence Chapin in Ward 2, Dan Rife in Ward 4 and Ed Hardesty in Ward 5 running unopposed for their seats.
Two people each have filed for the Ward 1 and Ward 3 seats, setting up a choice for voters in those parts of the city.
The incumbent Jim Swatsenbarg, 601 Howard St., will face Trevor C. Smith, 1124 Valley St., for the Ward 1 seat.
Incumbent Steve Leibbrand, 1654 Connor Dr., will be challenged for the Ward 3 seat by Mike Hutton, 709 Florence St.
The election will be held April 2.
Each candidate for office will be allowed three minutes to present to those in attendance their reasons for seeking their particular office and to highlight their campaign platform. Challengers for a seat will present first followed by the incumbent.
In cases where a race is being contested and an incumbent is not running or there is more than one challenger, the candidates will be asked to speak in alphabetic order. Also, anyone running unopposed will be allowed a three minute presentation.
This forum is designed to be a presentation format only; not a debate or a question and answer session. However, all candidates are invited and encouraged to stay after the forum to discuss with those in attendance any questions they have in a one-on-one format.
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