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If you've ever felt like making a meal without turning on the stove or even firing up the grill, this one's for you.
With a little imagination, some basic provisions, and a refrigerator, you can prepare a satisfying dinner for four that will make you the star of the patio on a hot summer night.
Shop beforehand for summer-fresh fruits and vegetables. Choose them by size and color--small, smooth green beans; bright, unblemished tomatoes; plump, sweet-smelling berries. Buy only what you'll use in a day or two for the best flavor and nutrition.
Other ingredients can come from the cans and jars in your pantry. A
dd a crusty whole-grain roll, and you've got a balanced meal.
When it comes to vegetables, you can eat raw, canned, or frozen veggies--just eat them! To ensure you benefit from all the healthy components vegetables offer, eating a variety is key.
Plant foods offer a wide range of vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals that strengthen the immune system. Some remove free radicals that damage DNA. Others help get rid of carcinogens. There's no better time than summer to take advantage of seasonal abundance and go for the good stuff.
To estimate what and how much you need to eat to balance your calorie intake and activity level, go to the USDA's Choose My Plate.
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Fresh, tender vegetables don't need cooking. Choose fresh-looking fruits and vegetables that aren't bruised, shriveled, moldy, or slimy. Keep produce on top of your shopping cart and bag. You don't want your vegetables crushed or meat juices to contaminate the foods you won't be cooking.
Wash produce in cool tap water just before preparation. Don't use soap or bleach on produce, which can absorb it--but wash your hands with soap and hot water before preparing food. Keep fruits and vegetables you'll eat raw away from uncooked meat or seafood to avoid contamination. Canned meat and fish have already been cooked. If you are using home-canned foods, home-canning guidelines must be followed to prevent contracting a disease.
Try new combinations of vegetables and marinate them. Skip the usual dressings in favor of seasoned vinegars or soy-based marinades. Find vegetables you haven't tried before. Ask the produce manager for tips.
You may find inspiration in a can. Jars of roasted red peppers (in water, not oil), olives for flavor (and a little healthy fat), salsas, pickled beets, and relishes are ready to eat. You can make a no-cook bean dip by mashing and mixing a can of black beans with fat-free sour cream, a little cumin, and a couple of tablespoons of salsa.
Add more colors to your meal. More hues and variety in your fruits and vegetables mean more textures, flavors, and nutrients. Brighter and darker is better, so choose purple cabbage over green; red and orange bell peppers over green; blue or purple tortilla chips over yellow or white.
Gazpacho is a chilled, seasoned, chunky tomato soup of Spanish origin. You can make it by putting a can of spicy diced or stewed tomatoes in a blender. Whirl briefly with fresh garlic; dilute to preference with water or canned broth. Season to taste with vinegar, then refrigerate until serving.
If you have the "I'm-eating-too-much-chicken" blues, turn it around. Perk up your chicken salad with a bit of Roquefort, Gorgonzola, or any of the blue cheeses.
Serve mineral water or flavored seltzer with raspberries or other berries. In hot weather you'll need more water. Try diet tonic water with a wedge of lime.
The Barnabas Health online Health Library has tips and tricks for eating healthy no matter the season. To visit the nutrition section of the health library, go to http://goo.gl/UlD5GA.


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6 Musicians Who Predicted Their Own Death in Song
Everybody dies. That's no secret. Even you, you're going to die some day. Accept it. Once you accept it, write a bizarrely specific song that details how exactly you're going to die, live up to your prediction and voila! You'll be an entry in a Cracked article, just like these guys.
#6. Richie Rich feat. Tupac - "Niggas Done Changed"
Let's just get it out of the way: Nobody knows who the hell Richie Rich is. According to the lyrics of this song, he's got a hand full of game. For all we know, that is still true. Maybe even a sack full of game by now. We don't care. The real star of this tune, featured on the Seasoned Veteran album, is Tupac Shakur. His verse on "Niggas Done Changed" is the stuff that conspiracy theories are made of.
This probably isn't the right one.
Unfortunate Lyrics:
"I been shot and murdered, can tell you how it happened word for word,
But best believe niggas gon' get what they deserve."
What Happened Next:
Pac was shot and murdered, just like he said. The shooting happened on the strip in Vegas after a Mike Tyson fight. Obviously, at a time like that not many people were around, so nobody saw the shooter and the case remains unsolved. Unsolved for most people anyway. Some others are convinced they know exactly what happened. Tupac faked his own death! The logic went as follows: Since Italian philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli advocated faking one's own death, and Tupac used Makaveli as a stage name, then he must still be alive. That's shaky reasoning, even before you take into account that the real Machiavelli didn't actually say much of anything about faking your own death.
If he was dead, could he do this?
But when "Niggas Done Changed" was released less than two months following Tupac's death, the "Pac's Still Alive" movement was off and running, and it hasn't let up since. Group psychology experts contacted by Cracked attribute the movement's seeming refusal to die (sorry) to the fact that Tupac Shakur has released at least seventy-three studio albums since his death and also to the fact that he's totally alive, y'all.
#5. Lynyrd Skynyrd - "That Smell"
Have you ever put a curse on somebody? Like if you came home and found that your roommate ate your leftover Chinese food and you got pissed and told them you hoped it gave them explosive diarrhea and then it actually did and you felt really bad because you didn't realize your own powers? Lynyrd Skynyrd's "That Smell" is kind of like that. Except substitute "diarrhea" with "horrible plane crash" (although with a title like "That Smell" it totally could have gone either way).
The song was written to express lead singer Ronnie Van Zant's disappointment with the lifestyle lead and rhythm guitarist Gary Rossington was leading, as his drug and alcohol problems had started to negatively affect the band. After a verse poking fun at a recent alcohol-fueled car accident Rossington had, Van Zant starts pouring on the ominous.
Unfortunate Lyrics:
"Say you'll be alright come tomorrow, but tomorrow might not be here for you."
"Angel of darkness upon you."
"The smell of death surrounds you."
What Happened Next:
On October 20, 1977, just three days after the release of the now unfortunately titled Street Survivors, the plane Lynyrd Skynyrd was traveling in crashed in a forest near Gillsburg, Mississippi. The line "the smell of death surrounds you" took on a whole new ugly meaning after Rossington survived but three bandmates, including Van Zant, perished. As if the song and the album title weren't enough, thanks to the plane crash, Street Survivors now had, quite possibly, the most inappropriate album cover ever.
Yes, that's the band and, yes, they are on fire. In the wake of the plane crash, original copies of the album were recalled and replaced with a cover image of the band standing against the completely non-depressing black background. Of course, the fire cover was restored for the deluxe CD reissue of the album in 2008. Like almost every other crime, there is a statute of limitations on bad taste. Apparently, it's 30 years.
#4. Jeff Buckley - "Dream Brother"
Jeff Buckley's "Dream Brother" is said to have been written about a friend who was about to leave his girlfriend and child. In the song, he warns of the sadness to be had by following in the footsteps of Buckley's father, Tim Buckley. The elder Buckley was a promising young musician who had his career cut short by an accidental heroin overdose. He also walked out on Jeff and his mother shortly after Jeff was born. It's that last part Buckley is singing about, but he probably should have considered penning a few lines to himself regarding the "musician gone too soon" part. Or, did he?
Unfortunate Lyrics:
"The dark angel he is shuffling in."
"Don't be like the one who left behind his name."
"Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over."
What Happened Next:
We've never given relationship advice to a friend that involved any mention of a "dark angel shuffling in," so we're not sure how that first line would apply to a dude leaving his girlfriend, though we will concede that the second one fits. But the third? "Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over," well, that's just pretty fucking creepy. Less than three years after the release of "Dream Brother" Buckley died. By drowning. This leads us to an obvious question: "Hey, Jeff Buckley, how about taking your own advice?" We're guessing the reply would be something like, "Hey, leave me alone you assholes, I'm dead."

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Dressing for Two: Maternity Clothes
Your pregnancy is one crazy fashion opportunity. Your size changes day by day, so it's a real challenge to find clothing that looks good now and will still do the job next week. Your needs in this department depend, of course, on your lifestyle. If you are working, you'll need to build a wardrobe that can cover your expanding body and still look professional. If you spend more time at home than in public, you can get away with large shirts, leggings, and sweat suits for quite a long time.
When it's time to shop to cover the bulge, you might be tempted to run to the nearest maternity clothing shop. The problem with this is that maternity clothes are expensive. You're talking about a whole new wardrobe that you'll wear for a maximum of four months. That's a lot of money. Before you refinance your house to support this fashion spree, consider a few alternatives that can get you through the fifth month without great expense:
- Visit your partner's closet. Your partner has shirts, shorts, sweatpants, and sweaters that might fit you just fine in the first four or five months.
- Revisit your own closet. During the first five months you might be able to wear a few of your favorite belted dresses, if you remove the belts. You might be able to create outfits by wearing blouses on the outside and by doing some camouflage work with tunic tops, large button-down blouses, large denim shirts, classic A-line or empire dresses, large vests, and boxy blazers.
- In the beginning of your pregnancy, you can buy a great nonmaternity outfit on sale in a size or two larger than your prepregnancy size.
When it's time to hit the maternity shops (usually sometime in the fifth or sixth month) you'll find that maternity clothes are made differently than your nonpregnancy clothes—at least they should be. When you shop, look for…
- A dress hem line that is longer in the front. This hem pulls up as your belly expands. (That's why buying nonmaternity dresses in large sizes won't work.)
- Extra room in the upper arm and bust. You will need it.
- No lining. Your body temperature is higher during pregnancy and lining can be very warm and uncomfortable.
- Clothing that can be layered to adjust to your changing body temperature.
- Clothing that can be mixed and matched to give you a varied selection without spending a fortune.
- Easy care, durable material. Maternity clothes are washed and worn about four times as often as nonmaternity clothes.
Looking good during your pregnancy is one way to bolster your self-image. Do yourself a favor and borrow and buy a wardrobe that is stylish and flattering. Today's maternity fashions can make even the largest pregnant woman look fabulous.
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Pumpkin Scones
I have never made scones before yesterday. I've eaten them, but never attempted to bake them before. Now that I have, my life will never be the same. Last week I bought a pumpkin scone from Starbucks, it was amazing. I knew I had to have these in my life, and soon.
The scone itself is so moist, not overly dry and crumbly like some I have eaten before. Then you brush on the vanilla glaze and it takes the sweetness up a notch. You go one step over the top by adding a second glaze, drizzled over the scone.
Oh my goodness, these are fantastic! I hope you enjoy them too!
Pumpkin Scones
For the Scone:
- 4¼ cup flour
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 Tbsp baking powder
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp ground cloves
- ¾ tsp nutmeg
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- ¾ cup butter, cold, cut in cubes
- 1 cup canned pumpkin puree
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 2 eggs
For the Vanilla Glaze:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 Tbsp heavy cream
For the Cinnamon Glaze:
- 1½ cup powdered sugar
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp allspice
- 2-3 Tbsp heavy cream
- In small bowl, mix the pumpkin, heavy cream and egg with a whisk. Set aside.
- In mixer, using paddle attachment, mix flour, sugar, baking powder and spices. Add in cold butter cubes and mix until crumbly. Slowly add in pumpkin mixture and mix until thoroughly combined.
- Divide dough in half, and form the dough into a 12x5 inch rectangle. If it's too sticky, using hands, mix in enough flour so it is easier to shape.
- Cut dough into triangles by making three vertical cuts (you should now have 3 rectangles. Cut each of the rectangles by making an X, I use a pizza cutter. Then make ONE horizontal cut across the center. You should have 18 triangles.
- Place each triangle onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake in a 425 degree oven for about 13-15 minutes. Repeat with other half of dough.
- Cool on rack. Make sugar glaze by whisking the sugar with heavy cream. Using a brush, paint the tops of each scone with the glaze.
- To make the cinnamon glaze, whisk all the ingredients together until smooth. Pour into a ziploc bag and cut the corner. Drizzle the glaze over all the scones. Allow to dry (about 15 minutes). Eat and enjoy!


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How can I share information in OmniFocus for iPad with a non OmniFocus user? I have made some tasks in OmniFocus and I want to export these to share with a non OmniFocus user. Email, Text or PDF export would be great however, if possible I don't want to go through Omnifocus for Mac as I don't have that yet.
OmniFocus is an excellent GTD tool for the Mac. Upon first reading your question (and not owning an iPad) I thought there was no way to export tasks from an iOS device. I have OmniFocus for the Mac and iPhone and for me this functionality is only posible on OmniFocus for the Mac.
I did however look at the OmniFocus for the iPad manual and the iPad does have a way listed to share an action. In the manual on page 16, the editor is discussed. The editor displayed depends on what type of item you have selected;
Bring up the action editor for a specific action/task. At the top of the screen for the action editor is a delete and share icon. Tap the share icon to email an action.
As I do not own an iPad or OmniFocus for iPad. I have not been able to test this feature, or what information is sent within an emailed tasks.
*Addressing your concern with multiple actions needing to be sent to a colleague. A walkaround could be to compose a text document of the different tasks and attach to the task/email or simply enter the sub tasks into the notes field, also accessable from the action editor.


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Hello, I'm writting something about Malcev categories and monadicity. The fact is that I need to know if Graph is or not complete (have all finite limits). It seems easy but I would like a real answer (not my feelings saying that it is) and I don't find that information anywhere.
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How to solve this wave equation:
$$ay^2\psi+by\psi+\frac {d^2\psi}{dx^2}=0$$ here $c=\frac {d^2\psi}{dx^2}$ where, the equation is a quadratic equation (a univariate polynomial equation of the second degree). example: $ay^2+by+c=0,$
the problem is that here there are two wave functions after $y^2$ and $y$:
thats why i dont know how to solve it.
Remark: Is this solution true?
$$(y+\frac {b}{2a})^2\psi=\frac {(b^2\psi-4ac)}{4a^2},$$ to solve this i take the wave function under the radical. $$y\sqrt {\psi}=\frac{-b\sqrt {\psi}\pm\sqrt{b^2\psi-4ac}}{2a}$$
isn't it wrong to take take the wave function under the radical$\sqrt {\psi}$ ?


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I have found a rather large series of underground caverns in Minecraft, and have come close to becoming fatally lost several times. What are some best practices in making sure I get back to familiar territory? I have the compass but since it points to my original respawn point it's not terribly useful. What tactics are employed to make sure you can explore deep caverns and still make it home in one piece?
There are a number of spelunking techniques that lead to successful navigation and tracking while wandering underground. As with anything in minecraft, you'll want the right tools for the job:
I put the bow and arrows first as they're really the most important for surviving caves in minecraft, killing enemies at a distance will significantly reduce the amount of damage you take, which will allow you to go further, although food will help in the event that you get hurt.
Torches are key, you'll need lots. I usually pack 64 and make more from wood when I find coal veins.
stone shovels and pickaxes are just for regular old digging, and you'll need to do a bunch of that to get through the steeper jumps
As far as directions go there are a number of simple tricks to being able to find your way around.
lost & found
If you place cobblestone on the floor and look at the top, you should be able to see a L-shape (only with the original texture pack.) If the L is the correct orientation you are facing North
If you saw this texture then you would be facing North. This can help you keep orientation if you know which way you are suposed to be heading.
If you're not averse to changing your texture pack, this can be a great solution. Alternate texture packs will change the look of your paintings as well as the rest of your textures. For example, the PieHole texture pack transforms some of your 2x1 signs into these directional arrows:
The texture pack also comes with some good paintings for marking dangerous areas:
As Kevin Y pointed out to me, if you really don't want to change your entire texture pack, you can simply edit the paintings in the default texture pack. This will retain all of the standard textures, while letting you switch to 'custom' paintings.
If you're unsure how to edit your textures, you can read about it here.
There are some good suggestions, but a couple useful tricks are missing so I'll add them. The most certain way of knowing where you are (particularly if accuracy becomes important) is to use the coordinate system. Hit F3 and you get a HUD (Heads Up Display) which displays coordinates. Note down coordinates for places you know, and learn which direction they increase/decrease in, and no matter where you go you can find your way back there. It's worth noting that for some reason the Y coordinate is up/down instead of Z.
Another tip for exploring large caves is to set up totem poles at entrances to branches you've finished exploring. Place a stack of blocks 2 or 3 high with a torch on the front. Effectively blocking off places you're done with drastically reduces wandering/lost time.
If you have explored a region and found it to be a dead-end, and stripped it of all interesting resources, block it off — either build a wall or mark it in a way you will easily recognize. In this way you can reduce T-junctions to straight lines, and block off entire branching cave systems (by reducing them to lines and then blocking that line) once they're uninteresting, making fewer opportunities to get lost. It may even help you explore your way to the exit if you're already lost.
Of course, this doesn't help if the cave system contains loops. But if you know the shape of one loop, you can choose to block it off at one point since you know another path to the other side, and thus continue.
The technique I usually use when exploring a large tunnel network is:
I use redstone to indicate a direction to an exit. A redstone torch or wire can be seen from a pretty good distance and nothing else looks like it. You'll run into endless amounts of redstone while exploring so that shouldn't be a problem
If you want to specify a direction, consider an "Arrow" with the torch as the head and redstone wire as the tail. Just go in the direction it points.
Other hints:
When exploring a large cave system I bring the following at a minimum:
If you get damaged, wall yourself in, create a workbench and make some bread from the wheat.
If you see ANY free lava, dump the water bucket out on a tile next to the water. It will wash over the lava and turn it into obsidian, then scoop the water back up--repeat until all the lava is gone. Lava may be pretty but once you've died 10 or 20 times loosing stacks of diamonds each time, you'll realize the wisdom of doing it this way.
Don't dig straight up or straight down.
Fully light everything. You should be running a coal surplus anyway so just throw torches everywhere. this A) lets you know Very Clearly where you have and haven't been, and B) stops monsters from spawning.
If you run out of coal, make a small tree farm and start creating charcoal by using planks to cook wood.
If you have a HUGE cave system and you create a base of operations, I suggest you build a tree-farm there. At least one or two 3x3 areas of dirt with a torch in the center and saplings planted around it with the ceiling cleared as high as you can reach. The thing about this is it's Amazingly Visible--you can glance it from far far away because nothing else in the caves is green like that. Also you can replentish that wood supply and stay down longer.
This is an old question, but I just found it and have something to add :)
Apart from directional torches, I use a two-high stack of cobble in the middle of a passage as a "bollard" meaning "this is a dead end". I find this useful for finding my way in and out faster in a complicated network. Cobble is always available and only appears due to user activity (apart from around lava sometimes).
As for torches, mostly what others have said; wall-torches on the right going in (as others have said) and otherwise only floor-torches, if needed to light up and make safe a large area for example. So I only pay attention to wall-torches on the left to find my way out.
Carry a few picks. If you get lost you can use them to tunnel back up with. The few times it's happened to me I cut stairs rather than a vertical shaft so the opening would remain in case I wanted to go back down.
In mineshafts use blocks of sand with a torch on the side pointing towards the exit. You rarely find sand naturally in mines, theres scads of it about and torches (made using charcoal) are a renewable resource
I use a variation on torch placement:
Thus any time you see a floor torch you should be able to stand on it and look around and find the next floor torch, and so on, back to the exit. It's like a breadcrumb trail.
Alternatively, if you have a lot of redstone, use redstone torches as the 'floor torch'.
I use creative mode, so I have unlimited torches and redstone torches. At each junction I place 2 torches, one of each. This forms a line. The brighter torch points in the direction from where I came. This way the torches will always give me a breadcrumb trail out. If I follow a passage and it's a dead end, then when I get back to my torches I also sign-post that passage with some sort of name and then "grotto" (which basically means dead end, in a cave). If the junction was 3-way at that point, then I can remove the torches again if I like because the sign-post basically tells you to ignore that passage, hence there are now only 2 options: forward or back through the passage you were exploring. I use night vision potion a lot too, so as not to miss any gaps.
Build yourself a new home underground
So you've been digging for nigh-on fifty years, and you can't find your way back to the surface? Time to become a mole-man and live underground!
No, seriously, build yourself a little home in a cave wall.
Line the bottom, top, and all four walls with wood planks, lay down a crafting table, furnace and bed, pop a door down, and rest.
You now have an underground home that you can easily recognize when travelling your cave system! Better yet, you can use it as a waystation to craft more tools, store useless junk, and respawn from if you should fall afoul of lava or monsters.
Dont' just do this once though! Build a new home for every big area you find underground. The bigger the area, the more homes you should make. Though to help yourself from getting your homes confused, label 'em with signs or unique torch/block patterns.
Now the BIG problem with this is you would then be respawning underground, instead of the cozy comfort of the surface, so if you do this, make SURE that you're doing this in conjunction with some additional way-tracking system, such as the other answers listed here.
More expensive than most of the solutions already given, but if you have a ton of iron and wood that's just lying around, and you want to explore a really deep cave, lay yourself down some mine tracks!
A key rule though - No matter where you go or how far you delve, keep your tracks connected in one, continuous line, or their usefulness as a wayfinding tool will be lost.
The added bonus of this is a much faster method for getting your loot back to the surface, preferably from one of your various underground homes.
Both of these methods can be time-and-resource consuming, but for big, big, BIG caves, they'll greatly speed up the mining process AND help you keep track of where you are within the deep caves.
Edit: If you find yourself with hundreds of stacks of Redstone, and don't do much circuit-making, laying down a redstone trail might be viable too.
A lot of good answers but I didn't see the method I use. I like my method because as I build up an area I can use what I've done to build apon long term areas.
What I do is to use blocks that are crafted (nothing natural to prevent confusion) and then make L shapes in the ground. Decide whether you want the long end or short end to point home and be consistent. I then can use different blocks to mark different endpoints. You can also mix patterns.
So, for example I use quartz blocks in the nether to point towards nether fortresses, and put glowstone in the join to indicate it leads to a blaze spawner.
In the overworld I use glowstone to lead to mob spawners, tracks to lead to my current speedmine/strip mine (and in my strip mine I use smooth andesite to point out of mine). I use leaves to point to distant (and underground) farms if I have them. And for teh most part you can easily stack these together in various ways.
This one because I can see it from a distance where there isn't a defined joint (a big open room) this one means go down
I have found the best way to go through tunnels and caves is using minecarts. Once you get enough iron (it is everywhere) just craft about 3 stacks of rails and make a couple of minecarts. build your base of operations near the entrance and start placing rails in any path that you are interested in It is a fast way to get through the caves and it is very direct. if you want to go exploring a section that doesn't have rials, just be sure to bring torches with you. If there is a fork ahead, go back to the nearest rail and make a railway to the fork. It might take a bit more time and use a lot of resources, but It is worth it and it is fun riding minecarts.You can also use pigs or other amimals if you do not have iron.
I have a habit of digging long, straight lines. I will place torches on the floor, instead of on the wall at important junctures, such as my stairs up. If worst comes to worst, I dig upwards.
When exploring caves, I will place torches on the right wall when walking around. If I need a torch on the left, I will place it on the floor. This way, I can see which way I was walking. If I want to find my way out, I can just keep the wall mounted torches to my left.
I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet... Only place torches on the left side while you are progressing (facing the newly discovered area of a cavern). That way you can return to your point of entry by making sure that torches are on the right side of you while you walk.
If you reach a fork, you can, and will explore both paths of that fork. Place torches on the left side of both paths. You're ability to return to the entrance is unhindered by getting lost in a cavern maze.
This is easy, and can be done as soon as you well, make torches. It's the only spelunking method I have ever needed.
If you're not too attached to your house (which is unlikely), rebuild at or near your original spawn location. This way, no matter what (except for perhaps the Nether) you can tunnel to the surface and whip out a compass.
Building near your original spawn point is possibly the best way always find your way home.
As for in caves, try leaving bread crumbs. For me, I use sand as my bread crumb because it stands out against all the rock. Never wander too far from your last bread crumb, and explore in small increments. When you find/make a path that you'd like to continue pursuing, start adding more bread crumbs.
If I'm lost, or just far, I just dig to the surface. It's always there unless that's Nether.
As for travel, I developed a system with placing torches.
Whenever I go caving, I take note of the co-ordinates that the entrance to the cavern is (or I set a warp there). Then, I always make sure I bring at least 6 stacks of wood (usually I store it in my enderchest, if not I'd bring 1-2). Also, I'd bring at least 32 iron ingots, for spare tools. Also, make sure you mine all coal you see, as you can make more torches, so you can light your path as much as necessary without worrying about running out. Bringing an several enderchests is also a good idea.
Firstly, mine all ores you see. Even if it going to be thrown into lava after, bring it. This is one of the reasons why I bring my enderchest, as I hate having to throw items away. Next, place all torches on the left or right of the cave, and if it's in a big room then place an easy-to-see block (such as hardened clay or wood) with the torch on top. Finally, at every intersection I have underground 'offices', and one base of operations. I like to be in the caves a lot, and I luckily have found a gigantic cave system, it goes on for x = 600 to around x= 3200, and it still hasn't finished, so I find using these prove to be useful.
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Reader's Revamp Part 3 on 1962 Chevrolet ImpalaWritten by on October 27, 2005 Classic Performance Products' '62 Impala Gets Its Rear In Shape
The best place to start with any project is with what you know best, and when it comes to Classic Performance Products' '62 Impala project, what they know best is suspension. Last month, the rebuild of their '62 started with the installation of CPP's Big Brake front disc brake kit. In this issue the work continues with the installation of CPP's new Rear Big Brake Kit. This rear disc brake system uses 12-inch cross-drilled, gas-slotted and zinc-washed rotors that mount to the rear axles with supplied longer studs, and mate up to a Lincoln Continental emergency brake-style caliper that mounts to the rear axlehousing with a custom CPP caliper mounting bracket.
Classic Performance Products' rear brake kits include all the rotors, calipers, brake lines, brackets, cables, hoses, clips, instructions, and hardware to assure a hassle-free installation. This kit requires the use of 15-inch (or larger) wheels designed for use with disc brakes. Dropped rear coils, new bushings, and performance shock absorbers used in this story are also available from CPP. With plenty of new reliable stopping power now in place, the next step of the rebuild will focus on improved steering and roll control with a pair of new large-diameter sway bars.
We have a couple more installations to do that'll get the chassis in shape and then we'll be hitting the track again to get you some numbers to see if we've been spending our time and money wisely.
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The CPP kit comes with just about everything we'll need to bring down the rear of the '62 and give it some more stopping power.After removing the rear shocks and original coil springs (with the rearend supported by a screw jack stand) the factory nonadjustable Panhard bar was removed. Before we completely removed the upper trailing arms, we secured the rearend with a tie strap to keep it from accidentally rotating off the support stand--a small insurance to prevent a tragedy.As to be expected with a 44-year-old car, the poor condition of the rearend trailing arm bushings was no surprise (no problem, as new ones were supplied). We used a small press to help remove them, working slowly so we wouldn't damage the arms.The trailing arms were cleaned up and painted and the new bushings were pressed in with a little help from the press and a small dab of silicon grease. The rebuilt arms were then reinstalled using the original hardware (after it was inspected).The lower trailing arms and lower shock mounts were then removed, rebuilt, and reinstalled. The dry western climate conditions have been very kind to the Impala and all the pieces unbolted very easily.The new lowered rear coils slipped easily into place and then fresh KYB performance shocks finished the suspension rehab.
Because of the added braking force of the new disc brakes, beefier wheel studs are necessary so the old wheel studs were knocked loose from the axle flanges to be drilled to accept the new larger studs.The new wheel studs are almost twice the size of the originals. A hydraulic press makes the installation of the new studs a snap but could also be done using some large washers and a lug nut. A local machine shop can handle this step if you are not equipped.The caliper bracket was set in place and then the axle with a new bearing was carefully slid into the housing. They were then secured using the new hardware.The new 12-inch cross-drilled rotors were slipped on and the calipers were bolted on. All that was left to do after that was to hook up the supplied new brake lines and e-brake cables. The master cylinder installed in the front brake portion of the build-up has all the necessary proportioning inside to eliminate any guesswork.


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TEMPLE (October 11, 2012)--Temple police Thursday released the identity of a woman who died Wednesday night in a local hospital after a two-vehicle accident.
Teresa Michelle McRae, 42, died at Scott & White Hospital to which she was taken after the accident at eastbound SW HK Dodgen Loop 363 and South 31st Street.
An autopsy was ordered.
Temple police spokesman Cpl. Christopher Wilcox said officers were dispatched just before 10:30 p.m. Wednesday after a caller reported a crash involving a four-door, grey Chevrolet sedan and a red Nissan pickup had collided.
McRae was driving the Chevrolet east on the SW HK Dodgen Loop service road and had stopped at a red light, but then for some reason continued into the intersection, police said.
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The airport is located 20km (12.5 miles) northeast of Calgary.
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To reach the city centre from Airport Road NE, turn left onto Barlow Trail North, turn left on Airport Trail NE, and then left at the traffic lights. Then merge onto Deerfoot Trail south, exit onto 16th Avenue West (TransCanada Highway) and turn left onto Centre Street. Alternatively, drive south on the Barlow Trail to the Memorial Drive exit ramp (then take Memorial Drive west) and take the exit ramp off 4th Avenue.
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Calgary Transit (tel: (403) 262 1000; www.calgarytransit.com) runs route 100 to Westwinds Station and route 430 to Crowfoot CTrain Station. The new route 300 BRT public bus links the airport to the city centre with services every 30 minutes between 0500 and midnight. Allied Downtown Shuttle Service (tel: (403) 299 9555; www.airportshuttlecalgary.ca) operates services to the city centre, with various pick-up/drop-off points in town. For those travelling to and from Fort McMurray, Edmonton and Red Deer and The Red Arrow Motorcoach (tel: (403) 531 0350 or 1 800 232 1958; www.redarrow.ca) offers regular services to and from Calgary city centre, with onward connecting services. Many local hotels offer courtesy shuttles, and several other bus operators offer connections to Banff, Jasper and a variety of other locations.
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An information booth (tel: (403) 735 1372) on the first level, and Tourist Information (tel: (403) 735 1234), in the Arrivals area, are available to assist passengers. White Hat volunteers (tel: (403) 735 1251) also provide a variety of assistance.
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So far this is what I have:
Sigma 10-20mm
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STEUBENVILLE - "Racers, are you ready?" "Yes" came a shout from the other end of the track during Saturday's annual Pinewood Derby at the Fort Steuben Mall.
Several cars would zip down the metal track while anxious Cub Scouts would wait to see if they would advance to the next round of competition.
That went on for about nine hours as the field of 132 racers were slowly whittled down during the triple-elimination competition. Parents sat around the track watching the competition, while the Cub Scouts scurried about in a methodical dance of waiting for the next round.
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WINNING CARS — The winning cars during heats at the annual Pinewood Derby at the Fort Steuben Mall sit waiting for the next race. More than 130 cars were entered from Cub Scouts from the Two Chiefs District. -- Mark Law
Cub Scouts in grades one through five from the Two Chiefs District traveled from throughout the Upper Ohio Valley for the event.
Races on Friday were for Boy Scouts who once competed in the event, as well as parents or family members of the Scouts.
Joe Kovaleski of the Two Chiefs District and the Pinewood Derby race chairman, won the hot rod class. Meshelle Seminsky of Follansbee, a parent in Cub Scout Pack 334, won the stock class.
Kovaleski said the Pinewood Derby teaches the Cub Scouts a lot of lessons.
"It teaches them how to win. It teaches them how to lose. Losing isn't everything. They can always come back next year," he said.
"It is a parent-son project. They learn basic woodworking skills" he said.
"It gives them the support to work on the cars themselves," said Lori Clark of Toronto, mother of J.C. Clark of Pack 47, Empire.
Dan Gamble of Wintersville, a Two Chiefs District race official, and Robert Knight, an assistant scout master with Troop 20, shared the responsibility of yelling, "Racers are you ready," before pulling the lever that released the cars down the track. If the Scouts didn't yell back "Yes" loud enough, they would repeat the question.
Knight said he had to take a break for a period Saturday afternoon to save his voice.
Gamble said he has participated in the Pinewood Derby races for the past 20 years. He also worked at the table where cars were inspected or repaired.
Knight fondly remembers his mother Sandy, now deceased, working with him as a young Scout in building his Pinewood Derby cars.
"It teaches the Scouts to try their best. You tell them they did their best after the race. If they lost, you wish them better luck next year."
Trintan Lawson of Pack 39, New Cumberland was the winner Saturday. The remaining top six finishers in order were: Aiden Minch-Hick, Pack 415, Wintersville; Andrew Coursin, Pack 737, Wellsburg; Michael Sich, Pack 401, Steubenville; Ethan Robey, Pack 334, Weirton; and Tristan Lawson of Pack 39, New Cumberland.
Each of the six winners were presented trophies and gift cards courtesy of the Fort Steuben Mall.
"It was a good day. We had very few problems," Kovaleski said.
A set of rules is passed out to the Scouts and parents, stating the car has to be constructed from a Scout kit.
Kovaleski said there is always entries where tires or axles are purchased elsewhere.
He said overweight cars had to be adjusted prior to racing.
"We try to make it as even a playing field as possible for the boys," he said.
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Risk If Family Member Had Ovarian Cancer
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If my grandmother had ovarian cancer, what is my risk of developing it? Are my kids at risk?
Jill Stopher, MS, Certified Genetic Counselor at Penn Medicine, responds:
Just having a grandmother with ovarian cancer has only a minimal impact on your risk of developing this unless there is a more extensve family history of cancer. Having one close relative increases ones chances from 1-2% to 3-5%. Having a more distant relative with ovarian cancer does not significantly increase your risk. Again, the devil is in the detail in that it depends of whether there are other cancers in the family as well.
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I have the following script:
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With the script running, when I make changes to the actual text directory in Dropbox, inotifywait picks it up. But if I use a text editor on my iPad linked to that Dropbox folder, inotifywait never picks it up.
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The 5 Most Baffling Product Recalls of All Time
Most product recalls are boring -- some rust-proofing isn't up to par, some toy could conceivably be eaten by a particularly stupid child. It's usually just a precaution. After all, no product hits the market without months or years of testing first. Manufacturers aren't morons.
Yet sometimes you hear about a product that fails in a way that almost seems like intentional sabotage and/or a cruel practical joke. Like ...
#5. Gun Holsters That Shoot You in the Leg
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A gun holster seems like a pretty simple device. It's basically just a gun-shaped pocket, right? If it were to fail, it seems like the worst that could happen is that the gun would fall out when you're walking around the grocery store. Or maybe in a quick-draw situation it would stick and the bad guy could get the jump on you -- but how often does that come up in everyday life?
Well, it turns out there is one fairly important thing that can go wrong ...
The Horrible Malfunction:
Apparently manufactured by our own favorite drunk uncle, the 2002 version of Uncle Mike's gun holster for Glock model handguns had a nasty tendency to shoot at people.
Which isn't to say the holsters were useless.
The malfunctioning line featured a retention strap that did the exact opposite of what it should have done, i.e., securing the gun in place so it couldn't be accidentally fired. Instead, when you took your gun out of the holster, the strap had a tendency to move out of position and actually pull the gun's trigger when it was reholstered.
Heads started turning after three separate occasions of holster-induced involuntary discharges, not least because one of them was an actual cop who was shot in the leg. Instead of completely recalling the product, the company opted to just replace the flawed straps with a wider, differently designed version that the consumers could install themselves. Because when your product has a flaw that shoots bullets, the most logical move is to make your clients fix it DIY style.
Consumer Product Safety Commission
"Any customer foolish enough to buy our product deserves only contempt."
It could be worse, though. It could have been ...
#4. A Flammable Fire Extinguisher
Consumer Product Safety Commission
In the 1990s, a company called Colbra Corporation introduced a revolutionary new fire extinguisher called Fire Cap. It was a very unorthodox device: a small 16-ounce bottle (not unlike a hairspray can) that was meant to put out little spot fires. Like if your trash can caught on fire or something.
Well, hell, everybody should have one of those on hand. In fact, the city of Jackson, Mississippi, actually adopted it as their police department's official fire control device. The Fire Cap went on to sell by the truckload in multiple countries, and the world was the company's oyster. But by 2000, Colbra Corporation was bankrupt, and it was clear that anyone who had ever used the Fire Cap would probably have a lot of explaining to do to their insurance companies.
Fire Cap: Because sometimes having insurance money is better than having stuff.
The Horrible Malfunction:
If you're wondering exactly how the Colbra Corporation managed to bottle something that stops fires that efficiently in a mere aerosol can, we have an answer for you: They didn't. Fire Cap wasn't very good at stopping fires.
In fact, according to the recall notice of the product, it didn't stop fires at all. If anything, it intensified them.
So, uh, yeah. Maybe we aren't the best source for advice on fire retardant genitals.
That ... really seems like something they should have noticed on the first day of product testing, right? Like even if the first time they tried it their test fire went out, they'd probably try it a few more times just to make sure, right? Maybe by setting a variety of things on fire?
Instead, for years Colbra had managed to sell thousands of cans of a product that operated on a sliding scale from zero to doing the exact opposite of what it was supposed to do, and no one found out, because apparently there were no fires whatsoever in Jackson before 2000.
Don't worry, though, they've had plenty since.
And, to be frank, the fact that it took so long for anyone to bother using it makes us kind of angry. Look at that thing. It's stop-fire in a spray can, people! We'd have tested the Fire Cap the second we purchased it. Just flat out set the store counter on fire and tried it out.
#3. Hand Sanitizer That Adds Bacteria to Your Skin
Modern man's germ phobia is unlocking new levels of paranoia every week, and boy are the companies cashing in. One major sign of this phenomenon is the rise of hand sanitizers. Essentially, they're just bottles of rubbing alcohol with a thickening agent and hopefully something to make it not smell like rubbing alcohol -- it's not exactly rocket science. And, from the manufacturers' viewpoint, they're pretty much a dream product: easy to make, easy to market and in constant demand.
And it all started with some billionaire visionary wondering if there was a way to bottle OCD.
The only way to mess up something that simple would be filling the bottle with the exact opposite of what should be in there. Just filling it to bursting with pure filth.
In 2009, Clarcon Biological Chemistry Laboratory did just that.
The Horrible Malfunction:
Meet the Dermassentials by Clarcon Antimicrobial Hand Sanitizer. Pay particular attention to the word "antimicrobial." It was supposed to be a revolutionary "bioganic" sanitizing product that was specifically made to contain no alcohol, presumably to stop hobos from stealing the bottles. Instead, it ended up proving that alcohol -- also known as the thing in hand sanitizers that actually does the sanitizing part -- does play a pretty important role in the mix.
Clarcon Antimicrobial Hand Sanitizer, along with several other products of the same line, was quickly found to contain dangerously high levels of disease-causing bacteria. This was especially embarrassing, because the company not only specifically labeled the product as being particularly efficient in kicking microbe ass, but also marketed it as an effective sanitizer for open wounds.
"You know what, why don't you just take a dump on it instead?"
The bacteria in the product weren't just your average disease cocktail, either -- some of the germs the sanitizer was found to contain were deemed dangerous enough to potentially cause conditions that require medical and even surgical attention. And while inflicting the user with flesh-eating bacteria may indeed be an efficient way to get rid of dirty skin, the FDA was less than thrilled and the product was hastily recalled.
That isn't red dye. It's blood the Red Cross turned down.
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What is the best, fastest, safest way to surf the web anonymously, and how much anonymity can you really achieve?
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Installing the Tor Bundle includes the TorButton Firefox extension, which won't allow plugins like Flash - these plugins could leak your identity, even when using Tor. For example, a Flash app could determine the local IP and send that information back to the server, so even if it's being sent over Tor, you're still hosed. So use Tor, Tor is good, but don't use any unsafe plugins.
To be certain that browsing history isn't saved on a hard disk, you can boot from a Linux Live CD and run Tor from there.
I would imagine you mean not keeping your information from being stored on your computer, but being stored on everyone elses. For the former, just use private browsing mode, which is now in every major browser.
For the latter, there are a few things you can do.
Other than that, I do not know.
Not a direct answer to your question, but: when using Flash, then read some details on How to automatically remove Flash history/privacy trail? Or stop Flash from storing it?...
If I wanted to surf the web anonymously, I'd focus on 3 main areas:
The main ways to achieve these goals (in order to preference) are:
Different anonymity services exist for what type of anonymity you are looking to achieve.
Want to change your IP?
Want to surf on a machine without leaving a trace?
Also something that has not been mentioned yet is VPN services. These usually cost $$$ and money can always leave a trail back to you depending on how you spend it. It all depends on how much you trust your VPN provider.
There are some other ways of getting anonymity but these cross the lines of what most countries consider to be illegal.
There is no real way to be completely anonymous on the internet.
You can use Tor, change your IP all the time, delete all data left behind, but given enough time, it can always be traced back to you. So yes, for simply hiding one or 2 sites you visit, a proxy and all these other good idea work fine.
But if your not supposed to be doing it, legal reasons or whatnot, just remember, they can always fun you given enough time and enough subpoenas will always find you.
You can use TOR + your internet provider proxy + web proxies. You can also try freenet but its more like a private network.
Use TAILS, The Amnesic Incognito Live System from https://tails.boum.org/ via either burning the ISO file to a Live CD or a USB flash drive. It incorporates all apps such as email for use over Tor, and appears to release every couple of months. It uses a Debian Linux release with a Firefox derivative (version 10+) that is heavily modified to protect privacy along with the Ad Block Plus and NoScript Firefox add-ons and uses Vidalia, a GUI controller for Tor. They are working on producing a persistent storage (USB related) in a future release.
I'll add Privoxy to the list.
If you're talking about not identifying yourself, your IP address and browser, etc, to websites, then Proxify may be of use.
UltraSurf is fast, free, and very easy to use.
Using a virtual machine could help out; though it doesn't really hide your ISP, it just produces another one... Could be something you could try out though.
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WACO (February 8, 2013)--A man was in the McLennan County Jail Friday after a bizarre string of incidents that started when a pickup crashed into a Waco apartment building and ended when officers found the truck in a multi-story campus parking lot and the man lying in a ravine at the base of a nearby parking garage.
Officers were sent at around 1:30 a.m. Friday to an apartment complex in the 1500 block of Lake Shore Drive in response to a report that a truck had crashed into a building.
When officers arrived the pickup and the driver were gone.
Officers later found the truck parked in a lot on the McLennan Community College campus and discovered the injured driver lying at the bottom of a ravine that separated the lot from the parking garage.
It was unclear whether the man jumped or fell from the parking garage or rolled into the ravine from the parking lot, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said Friday.
The injured man, whose name wasn't immediately released, was taken to Hillcrest Baptist Medical center for treatment of undisclosed injuries.
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I have had little to no interest in a movie that claims it is "Based On a True Story" since Fargo. It's well known that it was a lie that Fargo was based on a true story. There are many movies though that alter so much of the real story though that they end up more fiction than reality. So what is the point of putting "Based on a True Story" in the movie description?
Lots of reasons:
In literature, sometimes an author (think Erik Larson) will publish a book as non-fiction even though it has fictionalized dialogue and a certain degree of supposition, which I find equally annoying. James Frey's memoir A Million Little Pieces contained enough fabrication that libraries don't know where to put it! If the story (movie or book) is interesting enough, "based on a true story" always makes me want to research the true story.
The movie "Its All Gone Pete Tong" claims to be based on a true story, although it is not. Here is how writer and director Mike Dowse justified this lie:


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I have a list of about 10 bookmarks I want to create as iOS home screen icons. Are there quick ways to do this?
And is there a way to edit them once they're created?
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I would nope and nope, at least without jailbreaking.
You can only create bookmark one by one and name them as you want.
Once they are created, the only way to rename them is to create a new one and delete the old one.
Jailbreaking allows to rename any apps, so I think web apps, too. I'm not sure about editing home screen web apps.


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Trenton House offers delicious steak and so much more, all set in a casual, elegant atmosphere.
The center is a multi-purpose meeting and sports venue with satellite conferencing, computer work stations and a 1,200-seat gymnasium.
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Racing enthusiasts of all kinds will find special events around every hair pin from the drag strip, oval, road racing track, National sanctioned carting track as well as concerts and corporate functions. Former race car driver Curtis Francois brought back the track and the NHRA Midwest Nationals. Don't miss many of the other events that are held through the year.
Bilbrey Farms Inc. Bed & Breakfast and Exotic Animal Farm
A farm with more than 45 animals including exotics such as a llama and zebra. This B & B features state-of-the-art amenities in a tranquil farm setting. They also feature a party barn which holds 100 people.
Carlyle Lake Sailing Association
CSA has docking for 380 boats, 3 electric jib cranes, 1,300 ft. of dock and 2 launching ramps. Special events feature annual regattas.
The 60-seat facility is complete with a restored 1928 Barton 12-rank theatre pipe organ. It was originally built to perform popular music and to accompany the silent movies of the 1920s. Group tours available.
3 room bed and breakfast, credit cards accepted, breakfast, deposit required, cancellation policy, private bathrooms.
An ice arena offering hockey leagues open skate and entertainment for all ages. The facility offers two rinks, a game room and concession area.
CITY:Fairview Heights
Kaskaskia River Marina Campground
100 sites, recreation building, cable TV, swimming, fishing, tent camping, handicap access.
CITY:New Athens
Fairview Heights is known for its close proximity to St. Louis and its very own Drury Inn and Suites. At Drury, we offer clean rooms, friendly service and a stunning amount of free amenities. We offer free wireless Internet, free hot food and cold beverages at the 5:30 Kickback®, free popcorn and soda in the lobby, free long distance calls and our free hot breakfast. At Drury, that means Belgian waffles, biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs and sausage.
CITY:Fairview Heights
Mariachi's offers delicious, authentic Mexican food in a great atmosphere. Mariachi's is family owned and will make you feel like part of the family with their fast and friendly service.
Three Sisters Crafts & Gifts offers handmade crafts, beads, jewelry-making supplies, home decor, scrapbook and quilting supplies, and much more.
Come for the flavor! Their three restaurants feature a variety of mouthwatering cuisine that will satisfy your appetite. The Market Street Buffet features a delightful array of well known dishes from cultures around the world at an unbelievable price. Enjoy a juicy steak, tender prime rib or succulent seafood dinner at Prime Steakhouse, the Casino Queen's fine dining restaurant. Prime features a menu prepared by our award-winning chef served in an intimate atmosphere. Sevens, the area's hottest sports lounge and nightclub! Now serving 29 degree draft beer! New 15 minute guarantee Express Lunch Menu Mon.-Fri. 11:30-3:00pm With a menu ranging from shrimp cocktail to prime rib sandwiches, Deli & Chips is the perfect place to grab a quick bite in between jackpots.
CITY:East St. Louis
Katherine Dunham is probably best known as a legendary dancer who propelled the awareness of the cultures of the African Diaspora via her choreography. Her famous dance technique reflects a fusion of many cultures. Miss Dunham was a true renaissance woman. She was an artist, anthropologist, author, activist, manager, movie star, producer, educator, wife, mother, and so much more. The world needs to know about her wonderful life story and there's no better learning environment than the Museum and Centers for Arts and Humanities she created. The museum houses Miss Dunham's outstanding collection of symbolic and functional art, including more than 250 African and Caribbean art objects from more than 50 countries.
CITY:East St. Louis
GCS Ballpark is home to the Gateway Grizzlies, a professional baseball team in the Frontier League. This 6,000-seat venue plays host to nearly 50 home dates from late May through early September.
Boasting some of the largest greens in the Midwest, the 18-hole Clinton Hill has matured into one of the finest public golf courses around, with a great blend of par 3s, 4s and 5s.
This softball field is located in Woodland Park.
Swimming, fishing, boat rentals, RV and cabin rentals, tent camping.
Governors Run Golf and Country Club
This championship 18-hole course has 13 lakes scattered throughout the par 72 layout. It boasts five sets of tees to accommodate all skill levels on exquisitely manicured greens.
Kunz sells Miller Dowel, Caesar Stone Quartz, and much more.
Located within the Kaskaskia River State Fish & Wildlife Area, Baldwin Lake boasts excellent fishing and migratory bird watching for outdoor enthusiasts. A two-lane boat ramp, camping, and picnic facilities are nearby.
At Whole Body Health & Gifts, you can get back to basics with natural foods, vitamins, herbs, supplements, beauty aids, gifts, cards, and much more.
30 sites, phone hookups, handicap access
The Looking Glass Playhouse was started in 1972 by a small group of volunteers to raise money for McKendree College by directing and producing a musical play. The play was a success and they have been putting on performances ever since. Drama, musicals, and comedy performances are on the bill.
Family Sportsplex is known throughout Southern Illinois as a great soccer complex, boasting seven outdoor fields that support league games and several club tournaments each year. The facility can be configured to accommodate four basketball/volleyball courts and an indoor soccer field for year round competition.
The monument is a tribute to Swiss poet Heinrich Bosshard, who wrote Semparcherlied here in the 1850s.
Bits of Gold has beautiful jewelry and gifts.
12 room motel with country atmosphere.
CITY:Red Bud
20 rooms, convention facilities.
CITY:Granite City
40 sites, lake swimming and fishing, tent camping, handicap access.
This memorial in Valley View Cemetery honors Edward Coles, the second governor of Illinois (1822-1826). A former slaveowner from Virginia, Coles became an abolitionist and won the 1822 gubernatorial election as the candidate of anti-slavery forces.
Landmark on Madison Bed & Breakfast
Historic classic Greek Revival mansion built in 1906. Built on the site of old Veranda Hotel stagecoach stop on the Vincennes Trail. Full of southern charm. A step back in time.
This par 9 course is located in Breese.
Fox Creek features an 18-hole golf course.
One of the smallest country chapels in the world was built in Nashville in the late 1980s. Thousands of travelers from all over the globe have stopped to visit this miniature chapel.
CITY:New Athens
The Knotty Pine Inn has a large variety of dishes such as pizza, sandwiches, and much more. Also, a fully-stocked bar. In addition, there is a cozy motel.
Arthur's offers delicious, homestyle barbeque with a wonderful smokey flavor to satisfy any barbeque lover.
CITY:East St. Louis
This sports club offers resistance training, aerobics classes, cycling, tennis courts and aquatics.
St. Louis Street Cafe has soup, salad, sandwiches served on freshly baked bread, daily specials, homemade pie, hand-dipped ice cream, and so much more.
The Company performs at The Miner's Theatre.
Try one of Wally's famous burgers or one of the many other great choices on the menu.
The Music Theatre Company explores the musical in the interest of expanding the canon of musical theatre through fully-staged productions, commissions of new works and musical experiments.
Breadeaux Pizza has unique variety of pizzas such as quesadilla, super Hawaiian, taco, chicken fiesta, cheeseburger, meatball, barbeque, vegetarian, and many more, and you can always build your own pizza with the toppings you want. Also, pastas, salads, sandwiches, and tantalizing desserts.
70 rooms, jucuzzi suites, indoor pool and whirlpool
This locally owned Italian restaurant features pasta, pizza and specialty items.
Drost Park features a 7-acre lake, pavilions, 1-mile walking trail, boat ramp, playground, and restroom facilities. The University of Illinois' Master Gardeners keep it seasonally beautiful.
This world-class facility sits on 200 acres, and features four lighted baseball/softball diamonds, 12 ball diamonds and soccer fields.
The Prairies offers an 18-hole golf course.
This 18-hole golf course opened in 1962.
Carolyn's Cottage has a large collection of bird houses, Native American art, home and garden decor, and much more.
The Belleville campus at SWIC has two gymnasiums: the Varsity and Intramural (IM), which can accommodate up to three basketball or volleyball courts at one time. Outdoors, the property features one baseball and one softball diamond, along with a full-size soccer field.
The Casino Queen Hotel Restaurants
The Casino Queen Hotel offers four fabulous restaurants: Prime Steakhouse, Gateway Cafe, Deli & Chips, and Market Street Buffet.
CITY:East St. Louis
Holiday Inn Express & Suites-Shiloh
80 room hotel, small meeting rooms, indoor pool, whirlpool, fitness room, restaurant within walking distance, complimentary breakfast.
Madison County Historical Society Museum & Archives
The 1836 Weir House is filled with an amazing display of artifacts representing local and county history, in addition to a historic research library.
Acapulco Family Mexican Restaurant
Acapulco has a variety of authentic Mexican cuisine for the whole family.
CITY:Granite City
Wicks N Country offers candles, stationary, greeting cards, and gifts for every occasion.
CITY:Red Bud
Dragon Palace offers delicious authentic Chinese food. Buffet, Carry-out.
This 18-hole golf course features bermuda grass fairways.
Zapata's has a daily lunch buffet, and delicious items on the menu such as tacos, enchiladas, chimichangas, gorditas, special combo platters, and more. Great special during happy hour 4-7pm.
Washington County State Recreational Area - Nashville, IL
A 248-acre lake fed by two creeks is the focal point of the Washington County State Recreational Area. The area offers several barrier-free facilities, including camping, hunting, picnicking and a fishing pier.
Lee's Sports has a large variety of sporting goods and bicycles.
Colonel Benjamin Stephenson House
This two-story brick home is a wonderful example of Federal-style architecture from 1820. Col. Stephenson, who was a contemporary of Lewis & Clark, moved there in 1809.
Ben's Craft and Floral offers a little bit of everything including craft supplies, art supplies, toys, silk flowers, beads, picture frames, and gifts. Also, a large selection of hard-to-find candy.
Oak Brook features a 27-hole golf course.
The China Pearl offers delicious Chinese cuisine by the order or with their outstanding buffet.
Built in the 1790s, the house is designed in the French vertical-log style rather than the more familiar horizontal-log style. This is the oldest known residence in Illinois.
CITY:East Carondelet
Washington County State Recreational Area
The 248-acre Washington County Lake offers wildlife viewing, fishing and hiking, as well as 900 surrounding acres for hunting. The natural area also has picnic and camping sites.
Margarita's Mexican Restaurant
Margarita's Mexican Restaurant offers excellent Mexican food in a south of the border atmosphere, with friendly staff waiting to serve you.
Andria's Countryside Restaurant
With such delicious dishes as Prime Beef Carpaccio, Fried Calamari, and Escargot en Croute, Andria's is a rare jewel of dining delight.
50 room hotel, handicap accessible, credit cards accepted, cable television, outdoor pool, restaurant within walking distance, outdoor pool, complimentary breakfast.
Located in the quiet town of Waterloo. This 4-room bed and breakfast is sure to please.
5 rooms, non-smoking, credit cards accepted, small meeting rooms, restaurant within walking distance.
Bead-It has a wide variety of silver, pearls, Swarovski crystal, seed beads, Chinese lamp beads, unique jewelry and much more. At Bead-It, you can also make your own jewelry with our friendly staff ready to help.
Aunt Mary's Parlor has a wide variety of great gifts for everyone on your list.
Castletown has great food, great service, and a wonderful atmosphere. Try one of Castletowns delicious burgers or homemade Irish Stew.
Treat your family to fresh seafood, burgers, and other tasty food. A family restaurant that sits across from Carlyle Lake, offering a wide array of food for every palate.
This 18-hole golf course was designed by Al Linkogel.
Stop in or make a reservation to ride the trails. Lessons are also available.
Get a bite to eat and a cold beer at Big Daddy's 618.
Ravanelli's is a family restaurant known for their pressure fried chicken and great Italian food. They have a huge menu with generous portions, and their food is made with only the freshest ingredients.
CITY:Granite City
This motel has 16 rooms, non-smoking rooms, credit cards accepted. cable television, and has a restaurant within walking distance.
Krantz has beautiful flowers and great gifts.
CITY:Red Bud
China King offers delicious Chinese food in a family friendly atmosphere with affordable prices and excellent service.
CITY:Red Bud
This club features an 18-hole, regulation length golf course.
Ashmann's has wonderful gifts for everyone on your list.
This 71-room hotel has high speed internet access, an indoor pool, and is within walking distance to several restaurants.
The welcoming staff at Mallo's Bakery make you feel at home the minute you walk in the door. Mallo's offers handmade donuts, scones, buns, and much more. Also, Mallo's makes beautiful wedding cakes for your special day.
FEZZIWIG'S is like no other store in the area. The three 19th-century storefronts are all adjoined. The Marketplace sells exceptional prepackaged gourmet foods including Stonewall Kitchen, Barefoot Contessa and Robert Rothschild, along with Bella Cucina, Clearbrook Farms and Bissingers, just to name a few. Gift baskets, boxes and crates using foods, wines, teas and artisan cheeses are available.
Papa Vito's has delicious pizza and sandwiches.
Hy-Ho offers great food, affordable prices, and excellent service in a cozy atmosphere.
The Pizza Market offers delicious pizza and more.
During your stay in the area come and lose your everyday stresses at Along the Way guesthouse. It offers alternative accommodations for travelers. It is your home away from home where you will experience gracious mid-western hospitality. Three suites available.
Senator Rickert Residence Bed & Breakfast
Located in the Historic District of Waterloo, IL. The home was originally built as a one story brickhouse.
When you get hungry playing the 18-hole course, come to The Orchard Restaurant for fabulous food right on the green.
Circa Boutique features a unique blend of apparel. For over 2 years Circa Boutique features a unique blend of cozy, edgy apparel. Lines include Tulle, Kenzie, split, Free People, LTB Jeans, and She-Bible.
Creative Glass Etching offers beveled, carved, and ornamental glass. Also, B2B and auto glass.


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Just ordered my M1 and was wondering if anybody has a set of images I can practise my software technique on. Would like an 'easy' set that contains a Nadir obviously and a set that may present problems. I use Autopano Giga.
Just ordered my M1 and was wondering if anybody has a set of images I can practise my software technique on. Would like an 'easy' set that contains a Nadir obviously and a set that may present problems. I use Autopano Giga.
Thank you very much both of you.....will have a go with them.
Btw what is the .pts file for?
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The pts file is a PTGui Pro project file. The stitch was produced entirely with that project - no Photoshop tweaking applied. You may be able to import the project file as a PanoTools project, though there are some viewpoint images that Autopano Giga probably cannot handle which would need to be deleted.
It is the file of the "project". It saves everything you have done in PTGui. Masking lens settings etc etc. With the pics and the project file you can open the whole project and see the result. You can check the control points, Max Distance of CP etc.
Ah I see thanks. Been watching various tutorials and can't understand why 2 Nadir shots are taken.....1 from straight down and the other slightly offset.....as both show either the tripod head or legs. Why not just take the -90 and then mask/edit the head out?
Thanks for that detailed explanation John. I have been trying to do this in Autopano using the images that Heinz allowed me to practise on but can't 'seem' to do it, is PTGui a better program for this?
John, I'm not an Autopano expert, but see this thread which goes some way to answering your query: http://www.hdrlabs.com/cgi-bin/forum...num=1306934786. PTGui can handle offset nadir images with aplomb, though it may require some manual input. There are a couple of tutorials describing how to do it:
Been using a trial version of PTGui and find it much more user-friendly. Used Alpha masks on the patch shots in Photoshop and then added them in PTGui and the Nadir looked great!
One question though, in some of the images the bottom of the tripod is obviously visible....I'm assuming I mask these out.......but what about the shadows on the Nadir patch shot....do I mask that out beforehand using the Alpha mask or do I do it in PTGui. I did the Nadir patch shot mask in PS and the tripod ones (in each image) in PTGui.......did I do that right?
John, There's no difference between applying masking via an alpha channel using Photoshop and doing it in PTGui Pro. Both ways have the same end effect. It's generally best to mask out all instances of tripods and shadows appearing in the images. With care taken in the shooting, there shouldn't be any "holes" left after blending. Sometimes it can be advantageous to align the nadir patch image in PTGui but blend it into a stitch of all the other images using Photoshop. That way you can choose the precise route of the seam line to achieve a seamless effect when PTGui doesn't quite manage to do that for one reason or another. To do this, you output two stitched equirectangular images from PTGui: one containing only the nadir patch and one containing all the other images. These can be merged by generating cube faces or extracting matching recilinear views with various bits of software.
Heinz and John.......thanks for the images for practising on....i think I managed to work out the masking out of shadows and tripod and am pleased with the result. Just one thing on your set John, I loaded up your project file and noticed 4 ( I think) of the same image and that you had masked almost all the picture leaving just a very small segment of the kerbstone or a little bit of double yellow lines......what was the reasoning behind this please. I thought at first it was because of some shadow or something but when I masked out I didn't need to do this and the nadir looked perfect.
John, The four viewpoint nadirs were not really necessary, and in fact I did not use them when I originally stitched the images for my web site. The tripod shadow fell across four levels of steps, representing four separate planes. So in theory, four viewpoint corrections were necessary to patch them. So, as an exercise, I input the one viewpoint nadir shot four times and aligned each separately with the four steps and masked them accordingly. This, of course, worked ok but simpler patching is perfectly adequate as the shadow is quite small.
Ah I see your thinking......thanks for that John at least I'll have an idea what to do now if I ever come across a similar thing.


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(From "Wired") -- Six years since its debut, the iPhone shows no signs of slowing in popularity. It is a market force unto itself. A pocket colossus.
Consumers are clamoring for Apple's flagship handset more than ever. And that means tech blogs and message boards are slinging pixelated rumors by the retina-displayful to satisfy the curious maw of Apple's mob.
Will it have a 4-inch display? Will it be 4G LTE? What about a built-in panini maker?* It's hard to know. But fear not: Wired has analyzed the rumors. Here's what we expect to see during the company's September 12 media
The Name: iPhone or iPhone 5?
Likelihood: 75 percent
The image in Apple's September 12 event invite featured a large, looming number 5. But according to a fairly legit looking image on TechCrunch (originally published on iphoneiewsblog.nl), the box on the next iPhone takes a page out of the iPad's book: It only says "The new iPhone."
Although that photo looks pretty legit, our gut says it's going to be called the iPhone 5, so we're going with a 75 percent chance that the next iPhone will be called the "iPhone 5″ and not "the new iPhone." Here's why.
Look, Apple is not above seeding intentionally misleading information about its upcoming products. But it generally doesn't pull that kind of stuff in its own event invites. And although many fussed that Apple would never label its sixth generation iPhone with the number 5, history indicates Apple doesn't care: the second generation iPhone was the iPhone 3G, and the fifth generation iPhone was the 4S. Apple did simplify the naming scheme for the iPad this year, but with multiple iPhone models out on the market, it would lead to too much product confusion if Apple dropped the number from the iPhone name entirely right now.
A Larger Display, Likelihood: 100 percent
One of the first and most pervasive rumors surrounding the next iPhone is that it would have a larger 4-inch display. Chinese blog Apple.pro published purported photos of the front panel of the next iPhone in July, which show a larger, longer display. Prior to that, oft-correct iLounge published mockups of the next iPhone to be like, with a 4-inch diagonal display that later subsequent and images corroborate. Just a few days ago BGR reported that AT&T was stocking up on longer iPhone cases, as seen in the company's internal accessory systems.
We are putting all our chips on the table with this rumor, with a solid 100 percent chance of being true. The smartphone landscape has changed since the 3.5-inch iPhone display launched in 2007. With the proliferation of streaming video and mobile gaming, a larger smartphone display is a must. A larger iPhone just makes sense today. And with the wealth of photographic and anecdotal evidence to support it; this is a done deal.
Redesigned Dock Connector Likelihood: 90 percent
Apple has used the same 30-pin dock connector for almost a decade now, since the 3rd-generation iPod. But that could be changing. In July, Reuters reported Apple would ditch the 30-pin connector for a smaller 19-pin dock connector. Then in early August, iLounge claimed its source said the new connector would be even smaller: with a mere 8-pins. A recent report from Forbes that suggested Apple would be the only supplier of dock connector adapters flip-flopped the rumor wheel back to a 19-pin spec.
Between strong reports and all the photo evidence of a redesigned dock connector, we give this rumor a 90 percent chance. The 30-pin connector is going bye-bye. However, the question remains: 8 pins or 19? We're thinking 8-pin. Apple needs to future proof by going as small as possible. Plus, with the exception of Forbes, all of the recent rumors are pointing to an 8-pin solution.
4G LTE Likelihood: 95 percent
Everyone thought the last iPhone would be 4G, and Apple ended up surprising us with a 3G phone that could achieve up to "4G speeds." At this point, as Anandtech simply put it, "Support for LTE is simply requisite for a high-end smartphone." Apple will be far behind the times if its next iPhone does not include 4G LTE.
We think there's a 95 percent chance the next iPhone will be 4G LTE. Last year it made sense to leave it out. Apple's not going to jump onboard with a technology that's not widely supported. The first 4G phones only started popping up two years ago, largely on select Verizon and AT&T markets. But those networks coverage has grown greatly since then (and Sprint's is expanding as well), which means enough of the nation is covered by 4G LTE today for Apple to go for it. Moreover, the third generation iPad, released earlier this year, already included 4G LTE connectivity, so it wouldn't be Apple's first 4G device.
NFC Likelihood: 20 percent
When Apple announced Passbook in June, it meant one thing for certain: Apple intends to muscle into the mobile payments space. Passbook, which aggregates things like passes, tickets, and coupons, could easily also be used as an e-wallet. And a lot of people have assumed that's going to mean Apple will include NFC in its next phone.
A recent purported image of the iPhone's internals showed a "mystery chip" that some thought could be an NFC chip. A number of analysts also think Apple could include NFC in the next iPhone. Apple filed quite a few NFC-related patents over the past few years, too. Could now be the time? Nope.
We'd hazard that there's about a 20 percent chance Apple will include NFC in this year's iPhone. Why? NFC hasn't proliferated among retailers yet. With few places to use NFC, what good is it? Apple could surprise us by announcing major partnerships in this space, like Nokia just did with the Lumia line's wireless charging technology. But given that not a peep about that has been leaked indicates it's not happening just yet.


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A frequent topic of conversation in the month of January every year is the New Year's resolution. You know the drill. Loose weight. Get in shape. Clean out the closets. Eat healthy foods. Be a better friend. Pay down debt. Quit smoking. Find a hobby. Read more. De-clutter. Unplug. Organize the garage. Keep a journal. Although 45 percent of Americans make New Year's resolutions, only 46 percent of those resolutions survive through June. (Journal of Clinical Psychology, Scranton University, December 13, 2012). Whether you make them or not, or keep them or not, if you are in career transition and looking for a job, now would be a great time to make this one and stick to it:
I resolve to take a fresh look at all aspects of my transition and job search plan and make adjustments that will enhance my chances of success.
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In summary, stay active and be positive. Dedicate a significant piece of each day to some aspect of your transition and job search efforts. Resolve to do this and stick to it. This is one New Year's resolution you cannot afford to break. GOOD HUNTING!
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Is the execution time of a unit test useful for anything? Is a unit test an appropriate place for any sort of code profiling? Why or why not?
Sample Use Case:
- Every unit test lists name, pass/fail, and execution time.
- Time is also calculated per unit test class and total test suite execution time.
How could I use this info?