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The holiday season is here and I can guarantee that 98% of us still have people that we need to find the perfect gift for. So here is where I come in. Every day this week I am showing you a project that you can make for someone you like/love/want to blow their socks off. The projects range from simple simple to a little less simple but still really doable. Can you feel the gift giving happiness oozing from my ears? Cause it is.
So bust out your holiday cheer and lets get to work!
I had a heck of a time figuring the cost of this project out. It is completely contingent of what you have on hand. Most likely you will need to buy gold leaf and gold leaf adhesive (you can get them both at Michaels for $8.00 if you use a 40% off coupon.) One package of gold leaf will make 12-15 pieces of art and I had everything else on hand…so I guess technically this project cost me less than $1.00 to make.
I am known to many as Love Your Guts Mandi (there are a few Mandi's in blogland and we need to differentiate) and what better way to spread the love than with a Love Your Guts piece of art?
To make this you will need a Silhouette (I mean, you could hand cut it if you had the hands and patience of a brain surgeon…oh, and no kids around) but since that is probably not the case, make your creative life easier and get one if you don't own one already. They are having a killer black Friday deal that is running until 11/30. Use code VINTAGE for great pricing!
Start by downloading this file. This file is for personal use ONLY.
Use your Silhouette to cut it out. If you want you can TOTALLY stop there. Sometimes though, things need a little bit of glam, especially if its something as unglamorous as guts. I transferred mine onto a piece of foam core because that is what I had on hand. You can really use anything though, just be aware that the gold leaf adhesive doesn't do great on fabric (so if you are putting it on canvas put down a layer of paint or mod podge.)
When you have your vinyl down spread a THIN coat of gold leaf adhesive all over your area. I bought mine at Michaels for $5-ish. I also bought the Gold Leaf there. A package of 25 sheets is $9.99. Make sure you use a 40% off coupon!
Peel off the vinyl while the adhesive is still wet (if you wait you will have better chance of damaging your foam core!)
Lay down your gold leaf. There are 2 different kinds that you can buy, a loose leaf and a stick and peel leaf. I prefer a loose leaf but they were sold out when I was shopping so I bought the stick and peel Either one works great so don't stress if you can only find one or the other!
Rub it gently and then peel back your paper. You will have excess leafing on your art. Take a soft brush and gently brush the extra off.
If you need more great gift ideas check out yesterday's Mandilicious Christmas post!
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Molly Child Named Daktronics Third-Team All-AmericanMay 21, 2014
ROLLA, Mo. – Anderson University center fielder Molly Child capped her stellar sophomore season by being named to the 2014 Daktronics All-America Softball Team, as announced Wednesday afternoon.
Joining Child from the South Atlantic Conference was senior second baseman Jamie Hockaday from Mars Hill and Carson-Newman outfielder Kelli Hensley.
Last week, the rising junior was named First-Team All-Southeast Region by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) and is a two-time First-Team All-South Atlantic Conference selection. Child was also named First-Team All-Region by Daktronics after leading the SAC with 62 runs scored and 130 total bases, while ranking in the top five in six additional offensive categories, including hits (75), doubles (13), home runs (14), RBI (53), batting average (.405), on-base percentage (.469) and slugging percentage (.703).
The left-handed slugger started all 55 games for the Trojans, while recording two grand slams during the regular season and posted a team-high 18-game hitting streak. Child tied for second on the team with 22 multiple-hit games and drove in more than one run on 14 occasions.
Child also garnered SAC All-Tournament Team honors following a performance that saw the LaGrange, Ga. native go 5-for-14 (.357) during the tournament, including a pair of doubles, and scored four runs while driving in three runs.
Morgan Foley, who set an NCAA single-game record for strikeouts while pitching for the University of Indianapolis this season and Renee Erwin, one of the top hitters for a West Texas A&M team that spent much of the year as the top-ranked team in NCAA Division II, headed the All-America teams.
Foley, a sophomore named as the "Ron Lenz Pitcher of the Year", made the Daktronics All-America first team for the second time in as many years. She is second in the nation with 356 strikeouts in the past year, which included a performance on May 2 against Rockhurst in which she fanned 30 hitters in a 13-inning win over the Hawks. Foley also finished second in the country with 33 wins against eight losses and posting a 1.55 earned run average.
Erwin, the "Ron Lenz Player of the Year", helped lead West Texas A&M to the Division II World Series for the first time in school history, batting .457 with 17 home runs and 71 runs batted in and stealing 21 bases along the way. The Lady Buffs' lineup hit .358 collectively during the season and head into the championship round ranked second in runs per game (8.4) and in home runs (total of 103).
Erwin was part of a first team in which all but one of the position players posted a batting average of .400 or better. The exception to that was Bellarmine's Ally Foster, who was named at the utility-pitcher spot as much for her work in the circle, where she allowing opposing hitters to bat just .128 against her during the year.
Pittsburg State had two selections to the first team – its first-ever selections to the Daktronics squad since its inception - in outfielder Tiffany Brown, who hit .413 with 27 home runs – the most in NCAA Division II - and 74 runs batted in and designated player McKenzie Rynard, who posted a .436 batting average and belted 17 homers.
Five of the top nine home run hitters in Division II made the first team, including Valdosta State outfielder Courtney Albritton (.443 with 26 homers and 65 RBI) and LIU Post catcher Aly Dzierzynski (.439 with 25 home runs and 75 RBI) who rank second and third, respectively.
Armstrong Atlantic State shortstop Alexis Mercer has hit 22 homers this season while hitting .425 and Texas Woman's first baseman Kendra Sancet, a .432 hitter, has hit 21 out of the park.
The top batting average among the first team selections is held by Hockaday, as she has batted .466 – 12th in Division II – and ranks among the top ten nationally in on-base percentage. Grand Valley State third baseman Miranda Cleary completes this year's infield on the first team; Cleary hit .433 and drove in 57 runs for the Lakers in 2014.
This year's first team utility player – the non-pitcher spot – went to Angelo State's Darian Dunn, who recorded the fifth-best season ever for runs batted in as she knocked home 95 runs while hitting .411. The 95 RBI are the most in Lone Star Conference history.
The other pitchers named along with Foley were Tampa's Kayla Cox, a three-time selection to the Daktronics first team and owner of an 18-3 record, 0.84 earned run average and 210 strikeouts in 159 innings in 2014 and Shippensburg's Emily Estep, who went 25-4 with a 1.18 ERA and 208 strikeouts.
The team is sponsored by Daktronics, Inc., an acknowledged world leader in scoring, timing and programmable display systems for virtually every sport at every level of competition. The team is voted on by the members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
This is the eighth season in which Daktronics, Inc., has sponsored the All-America team for softball.
PITCHER: KAYLA COX, Sr., University of Tampa (Riverview, Fla.)
PITCHER: MORGAN FOLEY, So., University of Indianapolis (Louisville, Ky.)
PITCHER: EMILY ESTEP, Sr., Shippensburg University (Chambersburg, Pa.)
CATCHER: ALI DZIERZYNSKI, Jr., LIU Post (Deer Park, N.Y.)
FIRST BASE: KENDRA SANCET, Jr., Texas Woman's University (Magnolia, Texas)
SECOND BASE: JAMIE HOCKADAY, Sr., Mars Hill University (Butner, N.C.)
THIRD BASE: MIRANDA CLEARY, Sr., Grand Valley State University (Howell, Mich.)
SHORTSTOP: ALEXIS MERCER, Jr., Armstrong Atlantic State University (Rincon, Ga.)
OUTFIELD: COURTNEY ALBRITTON, Jr., Valdosta State University (Sycamore, Ga.)
OUTFIELD: TIFFANY BROWN, Sr., Pittsburg State University (Catoosa, Okla.)
OUTFIELD: RENEE ERWIN, Jr., West Texas A&M University (Anna, Texas)
DESIGNATED PLAYER: McKENZIE RYNARD, Jr., Pittsburg State University (Raymore, Mo.)
UTILITY: DARIAN DUNN, So., Angelo State University (Frisco, Texas)
UTILITY-PITCHER: ALLY FOSTER, So., Bellarmine University (Louisville, Ky.)
PITCHER: JACKIE BISHOP, Sr., Missouri Western State University (Kirksville, Mo.)
PITCHER: BRIANA LEE, Jr., Wayne State University, Mich. (Canton, Mich.)
PITCHER: KALYNN SCHROCK, Sr., University of Central Oklahoma (Choctaw, Okla.)
CATCHER: LINDSAY ERICKSON, Sr., Minnesota State University (Big Lake, Minn.)
FIRST BASE: BRIELLE REIGHN, So., Caldwell College (Runnemeade, N.J.)
SECOND BASE: NICOLE CHAVEZ, Jr., Dixie State University (Chino Hills, Calif.)
THIRD BASE: KRISTEN KNORR, Jr., Caldwell College (Monroeville, N.J.)
SHORTSTOP: SHELBY ALTMAN, Sr., Valdosta State University (Alma, Ga.)
OUTFIELD: MACIE COUEY, Sr., University of Alabama-Huntsville (Milledgeville, Ga.)
OUTFIELD: REBECCA LEE, Sr., University of Hawai'i-Hilo (Mililani, Hawai'i)
OUTFIELD: MORGAN SPEARMAN, Sr., Angelo State University (Kennedale, Texas)
DESIGNATED PLAYER: LACYE WALKER, Jr., Armstrong Atlantic State (Ooltewah, Tenn.)
UTILITY: JASMINE McNEAL, Jr., Lane College (Los Angeles, Calif.)
UTILITY-PITCHER: CORI REINHARDT, Jr., California State, Monterey Bay (Riverside, Calif.)
PITCHER: RITA HOKIANGA, Jr., West Texas A&M University (Hawke's Bay, New Zealand)
PITCHER: JULIA MORROW, Jr., University of Tampa (Baiting Hollow, N.Y.)
PITCHER: VICTORIA SINK, Sr., University of North Georgia (Hoschton, Ga.)
CATCHER: MARY KELLEY, Sr., University of Alabama-Huntsville (Mobile, Ala.)
FIRST BASE: TIFFANY GILLASPY, Jr., Missouri Western State University (Johnston, Iowa)
SECOND BASE: JESSICA SIMMONS, So., Southeastern Oklahoma State University (Bethel, Okla.0
THIRD BASE: CHELSEA RODRIGUEZ, Sr., Fort Lewis College (Mesa, Ariz.)
SHORTSTOP: BRIAUNA TAYLOR, Sr., Grand Valley State University (Livonia, Mich.)
OUTFIELD: MOLLY CHILD, So., Anderson University (LaGrange, Ga.)
OUTFIELD: ALEXIS GONZALEZ, Sr., LIU Post (Hauppauge, N.Y.)
OUTFIELD: CRYSTAL TARANGO, Jr., Dowling College (Fontana, Calif.)
DESIGNATED PLAYER: JESSICA BESTERLING, Sr., Univ. of Colorado-Col. Springs (Glendale, Ariz.)
UTILITY: ALLISON BROWN, Sr., University of Mary (Escondido, Calif.)
UTILITY-PITCHER: JESSICA SEVERINSEN, Sr., Colorado Mesa University (Elizabeth, Colo.)
P: Emily Brittain, St. Mary's
P: Lindsey Clarkson, Cal State Monterey Bay
P: India Kornegay, South Carolina Aiken
P: Ali Maloof, Southern New Hampshire
P: Liz Weber, LIU Post
C: Kim Jerrick, Midwestern State
C: Natalie Wideman, California (Pa.)
1B: Brianna Butler, Missouri-St. Louis
1B: Anna Shartzer, West Alabama
2B: Andrea Klipsch, Truman State
2B: Micherie Koria, Angelo State
2B: Shelby Lia, California (Pa.)
3B: Jessica Gragg, Emporia State
3B: Julie Pena, Humboldt State
SS: Alyssa Lemos, West Texas A&M
SS: Nicole Nobbe, Cal State San Bernardino
OF: Stephanie Goodwin, Emporia State
OF: Kelli Hensley, Carson-Newman
OF: Megan Konieczka, Sonoma State
OF: Whitney Okvist, Georgia College
OF: Casey Williamson, Indianapolis
DP: Kayla Morrissey, Queens (N.Y.)
DP: Bianca Noriega, Cal State Monterey Bay
DP: Chloe Wolf, North Alabama
UT: Caitlin Brown, UC San Diego
UT: Daja White, Saint Augustine's
UT-P: Shelby Miller, Southern Arkansas
UT-P: Courtney Poole, North Georgia
2007: Carmen Paez, Florida Gulf Coast
2008: Heather Ebert, Adams State
2009: Steph Denlinger, Kutztown
2010: Miranda Campbell, Emporia State
2011: Katie Martin, Grand Valley State
2012: Kacie Edwards, Central Oklahoma
2013: Katie Martin, Grand Valley State
2014: Renee Erwin, West Texas A&M
2007: Kristen Erb, Lock Haven
2008: Kristen Erb, Lock Haven
2009: Kristen Erb, Lock Haven
2010: Sarah Phillips, North Georgia
2011: Jessica Coan, North Georgia
2012: Samantha Derr, Kutztown
2013: Kayla Cox, Tampa
2014: Morgan Foley, Indianapolis

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Just not in congested downtown urbanscapes where they get in everyone's way and cost way too much to operate. I like the trolley that Fred Rogers had on his classic children's television show, "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood". LMAO.
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I like trolleys!
Just not in congested downtown urbanscapes where they get in everyone's way and cost way too much to operate. I like the trolley that Fred Rogers had on his classic children's television show, "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood". LMAO.Hide replies
Evidently, you don't own a car. People who do, want to extend the life of their vehicle and understand the value of integrated, multi-modal transit.
"Janice Christiansen of the YMCA brought together a coalition of groups that includes Sweet Water Organics, Marquette Community Transformation Project, the Zeidler Center and the Riverwest Co-op, among others, to create new food production and delivery systems in neighborhoods."
It appears to me that Sweet Water and many others (people raising Chickens, ducks.....) have a need for local, organic feedstock. Not sure if that's a part of Ms. Christiansen's proposal.
"Aaron Thiel suggested converting vacant lots into productive spaces for agriculture and a careful planning process that used remote sensing, among other things, to select the most strategic neighborhoods to focus on."
I would never encourage anyone (unless they were suffering with a serious illness) to use marijuana, but it's prohibition is way beyond disaster. Pot sales provide about 60% of the drug cartels' revenue and deprive us of jobs and tax revenue. Legalizing it would decrease pressure up and down the law enforcement supply chain.
It's a cash crop and both parties should be fighting to repeal the prohibition.
Until that happens, imho, you want actual organic farmers running things.
"Heat, drought taking a toll on Wisconsin crops"
You have to make "it worth their while." They'll have the best idea about what sells, when to plant, maintain, and harvest. Could someone like Chuck Frase, featured in the JS piece above use smart phone technologies to remotely manage teams of workers in Milwaukee? They point the phone at the plant. He tells them if it needs water, has a disease.......
"Jenny Irby, a water chemist, proposed that the Northridge Mall, at N. 76th St. and Brown Deer Rd., be transformed into an aquaponic farm. Former retail stores would be used to raise fish and plants would be grown in the central court, where existing skylights would provide sunlight."
In addition to being a scientist, Ms. Irby's sounds like an entrepreneur. I don't know if it will work, but imho it's brilliant. If they're going to cut into walls, they need an asbestos audit.
I wonder if ducks aren't a safer way to start?
"Duckaponics" is still aquaponics. Not sure what duck meat retails for, but they also produce eggs, which are good for baking and eating. From what I can glean on the internet, their "laying abilities," are not as good as chickens, but they can be herded and by all accounts are a lot nicer (than chickens). AFAIK, they are a lot hardier than fish, so you don't have to heat the water. That's a big savings in energy. Obviously the ratio of drakes to ducks is important as well as the breed.
One of the biggest drawbacks of duckaponics are predators, dogs, skunks, coyotes, racoons..... Big tanks inside Northridge eliminates those predators.
If folks are serious about "Northridge Aquaponics," they might want to consider the costs of green electricity to circulate all that water.
Mike Strizki uses hydrogen to store solar.
Strizki's system would be a big investment in rapidly changing technologies, but might be worth a look. Ideally, some manufacturers would provide their technology in return for advertising.
Although it's seasonal in Wisconsin, another outdoor duckaponics option might be rice http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/MaeWanHo/bird99.html
They use baby ducks to weed and fertilize the rice. Then they sell duck meat and rice.
"Sherrie Tussler, executive director of the Hunger Task Force, suggested that Milwaukee does not need a "food hub," as Barrett suggested in his invitation because it has one already in the Hunger Task Force. Instead, Tussler, suggested an approach similar to the Works Progress Administration, an ambitious New Deal program that put people to work on public projects. Tussler's program would offer relief to the unemployed through jobs in urban food production, among other things."
Ms. Tussler is an inspiration to all.
Gov. Walker has announced online courses in the UW system.
Is there a way to integrate credits from high schools and the UW system to students who learn agricultural skills? It might be one strategy to to compensate young people for the difficult work of planting, weeding, and harvesting. Per my comments above about video conferencing, that technology allows one experienced farmer to direct a lot more people.
"How about public food forests? Jessica Cohodes, Claire Moore and Mark Gill of Transition Milwaukee suggested that ornamental plants in public spaces be replaced by plants and trees that produce fruits and nuts with little or no maintenance. They propose a gleaning program, too, to harvest the food."
IMHO, this is an incredibly important long term strategy.
Lawton's Guide To Permaculture Design and Strategy
It's also not a quick fix and would require significant investment.
The elephant in the room is the forage crisis faced by Wisconsin dairy farmers
"Midwest drought slashes corn estimate, jolts market"
About 40 seconds in, this video is very good on estimating paddock size for dairy cattle.
If I got what she was saying, at a height of eight or nine inches, an acre of land produces about 1,200 pounds of dry matter. IIRC, that's about 300 lbs short of what 50 dairy cattle need per day.
Where is Gov. Walker? Could abandoned lots in Milwaukee County be harvested for hay for Wisconsin dairy farmers? If so, how many cuttings are left?
Along with Will Allen, Joel Saltin (Polyface Farms, VA) is a very important resource.
"Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms discusses grass-fed cattle "
IMHO, Salatin's "The Dirty Way," is must read for his understanding of the importance of "disturbance" to sound agriculture, ecology.
http://www.thedirtyway.com/tag/joel-salatin/Hide replies
FWIW, beyond the little I've read, I know nothing about hay/alfafa/forage.
Below is some current estimates on the price per ton.
"Claire Woodall and Duril White want to knit neighborhoods back together by creating small cafes in neighborhoods that don't have easy access to nutritious foods. The cafes would also offer cooking classes, opportunities for community organizing and sites to interface with local beat police officers."
Was remiss in not adding this to what I wrote about exploring ways to integrate high school and UW credit with this. People have to want to eat the food. Knowing how to prepare it is pretty important.
IMHO, this is just an awesome two-minute video about building a root cellar
"Building Barrel Root Cellars"
Whether it actually works, preserves the food, is unknown to me, but there are a lot of interesting ideas.
JSonline recentley profiled our program which was mentioned as a part of the neighborhood food production and delivery system. The article is linked here: http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/teens-get-the-dirt-on-urban-agriculture-4u61lhj-161621035.html
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I've been in the SO community a little over a month now - and having a great time! As I grow into a contributing citizen of stackoverflow, i'd like to ensure that i'm being responsible with my answers.
I've answered a few questions, some without upvotes, some voted on and some accepted. I feel that after a certain period of time, 0 vote answers are probably providing more clutter than value. Apparently, nobody has found them useful, so they probably aren't (or are poorly written). Tonight I went through and deleted my answers with 0 upvotes where some answer was accepted. That was an easy decision.
I left my 0 vote answers where nothing was accepted yet, well, because I think they could provide the information that the OP requested. But at some point, I think my answers might just be cluttering the issue.
So my question to you is: How do you know when it's time to delete your 0 vote answers? Or even 1 vote answers for that matter?
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I've been in the SO community a little over a month now - and having a great time! As I grow into a contributing citizen of stackoverflow, i'd like to ensure that i'm being responsible with my answers.
When the answers are wrong. That's it.
I'll even leave my downvoted answers, if I still feel they are correct and that others are misinterpreting them.
Questions and answers have a very long tail here, so you never know when something you've written will help someone in the future. Even if they're just a Google driveby user who doesn't upvote your answer, by solving their problem you've made an improvement in their life at no continuing cost to yourself.
Deleting such an answer prevents future visitors from gaining any benefit from the work you've already put in by answering.
I delete mine if there is another higher-voted answer that contains the exact same content. If there is another answer that is very close, I may edit some of my content into theirs and then delete my answer.
Do you feel that your low-vote answers are helpful? Do they answer the question in a way that the other answers to the same question don't? If so, leave them alone.
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There is a German song with a title "So ein Tag" (Such a Day).
On the other hand, a native speaker corrected my usage of "solches ein Mädchen" as "ein solches Mädchen", which might translate into "a such maiden," which wouldn't make sense in English.
Why does the "ein" come second in "so ein Tag," but first in "ein solches Mädchen"?


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Optic neuritis is inflammation of the optic nerve. It may cause sudden, reduced vision in the affected eye.
The exact cause of optic neuritis is unknown.
The optic nerve carries visual information from your eye to the brain. Sudden inflammation of this nerve can cause the optic nerve to swell. This can result in injury to the nerve fibers and some or permanent loss of vision.
Conditions that have been linked with optic neuritis include:
A complete medical examination can help rule out related diseases. Tests may include:
Vision often returns to normal within 2 to 3 weeks with no treatment.
Corticosteroids given through a vein (IV) or taken by mouth may speed up recovery. The final vision after recovery is no different with or without steroids. Oral steroids may actually increase the chance of recurrence.
Further tests may be needed to determine the cause of the neuritis. The condition causing the problem can then be treated.
People who have optic neuritis without a disease such as multiple sclerosis have a good chance of recovery.
Optic neuritis caused by multiple sclerosis or other autoimmune diseases has a poorer outlook. However, vision in the affected eye may still return to normal.
About 1 in 5 patients with a first episode of optic neuritis will develop nerve problems elsewhere in the body, or will develop multiple sclerosis.
Call your health care provider immediately if you have a sudden loss of vision in one eye, especially if you have eye pain.
If you have been diagnosed with optic neuritis, call your health care provider if:
Guercio JR, Balcer LJ. Inflammatory optic neuropathies and neuroretinitis. In: Yanoff M, Duker JS, Augsburger JJ, eds. Ophthalmology. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Mosby; 2008:chap 9.6.
Eze P, Sra SK, Sra KK, et al. Immunology of neurologic and endocrine diseases that affect the eye. In: Tasman W, Jaeger EA, eds. Duane's Ophthalmology on DVD-ROM - 2013 Edition. Philadelphia, Pa: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2013:vol 2, chap 35.


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Have some old Rollerblades or Razor Scooters hanging out in the garage? You probably forgot how fun some quality time on wheels can be! Dust them off and cruise around the neighborhood or a nearby park with your kids. Kicking along on a scooter is sure to get your heart rate up. And in-line skating burns at least 300 calories an hour for adults. Consider doing a scavenger hunt to keep you moving.
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Cashboard Mobile (product example of Sencha Touch 2)
So I've been working pretty hard trying to get this mobile app done, and it's finally in a state that I'd like to show the world.
Cashboard Mobile is the mobile component to my SaaS - Cashboard (http://cashboardapp.com)
It was developed with Sencha Touch 22.214.171.124, but hoping to upgrade to 2.1 when the final is out. Thanks to everyone with your help answering my questions in the forums. Could not have completed it without your help.
Also hoping to phonegap package it for iOS/Android once 2.1 is out and I've tested it enough.
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In an era of lazy adaptations and slapped-together reality shows, it's cool to see creators go above and beyond, inserting Easter eggs into their work that they know 99 percent of viewers won't even notice. We've made it our mission to stop and appreciate these hidden little nuggets -- we've covered movie Easter eggs, video game Easter eggs, and even Easter eggs in famous literary publications.
With television, though, you almost have to admire it more when creators make the effort, considering the vast majority of TV viewers are barely paying attention, leaving the TV on in the background while they eat, masturbate, or wrestle with the dog (or all three at once). So for all of you who missed them the first time ...
#6. Community's Hidden Jokes Span Across Years, and Networks
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There is a reason shows like Arrested Development (yes, it makes the list later) and NBC's Community cultivate fan bases so loyal that they virtually go door to door demanding strangers watch: These shows are filled with in-jokes and callbacks that reward the most obsessive viewers. In a world where so much entertainment can feel like it was created to be therapy for people with traumatic head injuries, it's a great feeling to be rewarded for using your brain.
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But your brain will be damned if it remembers anything for your history finals.
And Community has some of these that are so well-hidden, they apparently don't care if more than a dozen people actually catch them the first time around -- to the point that some of these bits span across seasons, and even shows on other networks.
So, for instance, in one episode the character Abed has an entire storyline that plays out in the deep background of several scenes. At the beginning you see (through a window, behind the character who is talking) Abed befriending a pregnant woman. Later, while the main characters are having a discussion outside, you see Abed behind them, on the sidewalk, fending off the girl's jealous boyfriend. Finally, near the end of the episode, you see him delivering the baby itself in the parking lot behind the "real" scene that's going on in the foreground:
OK, so any viewer would have caught that on a second viewing, even if they missed it the first time around. But if you noticed this next one the first time around, there's probably some kind of medication you should be on: It's a "blink and you'll miss it" moment that took three seasons to set up:
In one episode of each of the first three seasons, the word "Beetlejuice" was used off-handedly in a joke. If you've seen the movie Beetlejuice, the titular mischievous ghost (played by Michael "holy shit this guy used to be the biggest star in Hollywood?" Keaton) would appear in the world of the living if anyone said his name three times. So, sure enough, on the third mention by a Community character, this guy appears in the background for exactly two seconds:
It could also just be that Michael Keaton was lost.
It's a random person dressed as either Beetlejuice or Gary Busey. That they patiently waited three years to reach that punchline is staggering A) because it looked like the show was going to get canceled several times before that, and B) when you consider that some shows can last eight seasons and the only punchline is "Look! Nerds!"
So how do you top that? How about by requiring the viewer to go chasing after the joke on a completely different show, on a completely different network? In a Season 2 episode, Abed tells a seemingly throwaway anecdote about getting work as an extra on the show Cougar Town (yes, that's a real show, on ABC) where he pooped his pants due to the stress. If fans had decided to switch over and actually watch Cougar Town, they'd sure enough have seen Abed showing up as an extra in the background, only to dash off at the end of the scene. You know, as if he had an urgent gastrointestinal emergency.
We haven't seen the show, but we're assuming everyone at that restaurant was attacked by cougars at the end of the scene.
#5. How I Met Your Mother's Hidden Countdown
How I Met Your Mother has had more than enough time to throw in some Easter eggs, considering they've stretched what should have been the premise of one episode across nine years. Have those kids been sitting there listening to this story for, like, 100 straight hours?
Those kids are either super patient or they really, really want to find out when their parents first boned.
In what's probably the most emotional storyline, Marshall's dad, played by the guy who voices Patrick Star in SpongeBob SquarePants, dies in an episode during Season 6. The twist ending was an emotional sucker punch nobody saw coming ... yet, the show was littered with clues, including an actual countdown going on in the background, ticking down to the revelation.
So you can actually go back and watch the episode, focusing on the numbers rather than, you know, Patrick Star's lonely, depressing death. It starts with the number 50, on a brochure on the desk of a doctor's office:
... which switches to 49 in the next scene, to 48 on a bottle of hot sauce ...
... which continues throughout, on newspapers ...
... magazine covers ...
... all the way down to the fateful moment at the end, a taxi tagged with 0001.
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"And that, kids, was the time the universe morbidly counted down to the death of my friend's father."
#4. Every Fringe Episode Has an Observer and a Preview Plot Clue
So as we've seen, Easter eggs come in layers -- there are those that reward viewers who pay close attention, and those that reward viewers who watch episodes a dozen times, scouring every frame for clues. In Fringe, we have an example of both.
Let's start with the former: If you watch Fringe, you'll know that The Observer is a mysterious, otherworldly bald man who shows up from time to time to be all otherworldly and bald. He's what you'd get if the G-man from Half-Life had a baby with The X-Files' Smoking Man.
And that baby had stage 3 leukemia.
Even though episodes rarely involve The Observer directly, he's always watching. And by that, we mean he's lurking somewhere in the background of every episode:
Watch closely and you'll see his bald dome hanging out in a crowd behind the main characters:
Or as a tiny figure wandering through an establishing shot:
And, for good measure, The Observer even shows up on other television shows, such as American Idol.
Right around the time that Simon Cowell "left" the show ...
But hey, if you're looking for him, you'll spot his suit/fedora/baldness combo, often on the first try. But if you say you spot this next one on your first time through (or your second), you're either a liar or else you work on the show. See, every episode of Fringe also contains a clue relating to the plot of the next episode. An incredibly obscure, nearly invisible clue.
For example, in the pilot there's an innocuous poster with a pen and a rose on it:
"Oh! Oh! It'll be about Axl Rose's ... pens ...?"
And the very next episode involves the hunt for a killer with the surname Penrose.
From that point on, every episode contains such a clue, and some are next to impossible to spot, even if you're circling back to try to find a clue about an episode you've just watched. For instance, in one third-season episode, the words "powder blue" appear on a partially torn-off label on a random dumpster in the background:
And the subsequent episode features killers who use a toxic blue powder to murder people.
Spoiler alert: The blue powder is actually a swarm of killer nano Smurfs.
And surely you'd notice this tiny lightning bolt bumper sticker on this truck:
... and realize it foreshadows the weaponized lightning featured in the following episode:
Pfft, Red Alert 2 did the same thing a decade ago.
Of course, we realize these clues aren't meant to be spotted on the fly -- the point is to get fans hunting for them and then talking about them on the Internet. But admit it -- doesn't all of this kind of make you feel bad for not watching it?


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Hoping someone to help with some advice about a project i want to embark on.
I want to create an app which can be packaged for the various app stores. The app will be real basic in stage 1 and pretty much provide information, images, links etc.
I have a page on my websitesite which displays latest stories/articles. Being that the site is database driven (PHP/MySQL), i want to know what is the best way of retrieving this data to display on the app?
I have read we cant connect to databases directly so am i best to use YQL or similar to fetch this data?
Im pretty new to Sencha so curious on what the best way to do this?
Ideally, i would like the News page on the app to display a list of stories (Say 10 at a time) which include a thumb, title and short description. When clicked it would then go to a full detail page.
I can format my webpage to match what ever we need if necessary.
I did send some time tinkering with YQL and have managed to parse the data from the page, but i have no idea about, paginating/loading, memory issues, etc..
If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.
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" I would take this a step further. This city and state are run by progressives. They want more lazy stupid people to move here so they can "take care" of them in exchange for votes. They pay for them by beating up city employees. With the help of the newspaper, the taxpayers have been brainwashed to be more accepting of paying all of a lazy persons bills and getting nothing in return but the pleasure of educating and caring for this lazy persons offspring, having their neighborhoods devalued, crime rate rise and so on. While they are appalled as the people that keep their city running and keep them safe ask to be treated with respect. It's shameful.
From what I hear Mayor OLeary is taking steps in the right direction to try and correct this injustice to the city employees, but has open arms for those that want to live off the taxpayer and give nothing in return. "
From what I hear Mayor OLeary is taking steps in the right direction to try and correct this injustice to the city employees, but has open arms for those that want to live off the taxpayer and give nothing in return. "
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6 Cats More Badass Than You (And Most Superheroes)
The Internet, and the world at large, has become completely fascinated with cats. It doesn't matter the context; they can be doing absolutely nothing, they can be posing for a picture with a hilarious caption or they can be doing something "extraordinary" such as plinking around on a piano with their paws.
We at Cracked are fans of the last category, except our definition of extraordinary is less "piano player" and more "Bulletproof Monk." Like ...
#6. Sam the Ship-Sinking Cat
In all sorts of sea vessels, it's not uncommon to have a ship's cat to catch any mice or rats that might be lurking on board. One such cat, a black-and-white patched male with an unknown name, was serving onboard the German warship Bismarck in May 1941.
One of these days, some crazy young sultan is going to build a yacht replica of this.
History buffs will know what happened next -- the Bismarck was sunk in battle May 27 on its first-ever mission, killing 95 percent of its crew. Among the survivors, however, was the ship's cat, who was found floating on a board somewhat relieved that his job of killing all the mice on the Bismarck had suddenly become incredibly easy. The cat was the only Bismarck survivor picked up by the HMS Cossack, a British destroyer. They took him onto the boat, named him Oscar and made him their ship's cat, but had they the time machine necessary to read this article, they probably would've drowned him like the Dutch lady in Lethal Weapon 2.
"Drowning the Dutch lady" sounds like it should be a euphemism.
Oscar served on the Cossack until October 1941, when a torpedo from a German submarine blew a giant ass hole in it. Another ship, the HMS Legion, tried to tow it to safety, but the weather was too rough, and the Legion had had a really long day and honestly just didn't fucking feel like it. The Cossack was left to sink, but Oscar was found on a raft of dead bodies he had woven together [citation needed] and taken to Gibraltar. By now he had gained the new nickname "Unsinkable Sam," since "Neptune, God of the Sea" had already been taken.
Flying in the face of superstitious reason, Sam was transferred to another British Navy vessel, the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, within a couple of weeks. In November of that same year, the Ark Royal was torpedoed and sunk by the Germans. Nearly the entire crew, including an "angry but quite unharmed" Sam, was saved by the HMS Legion (the same vessel that had saved Sam from the Cossack) as well as the HMS Lightning. By this point everyone finally realized that this cat needed to stay the hell away from boats, and Sam was transferred to the governor's office in Gibraltar to be the official mouse catcher and storm conjurer.
Above: The Sea God equivalent of pissing in your loafers.
Sam never boarded another ship, but his career of destruction wasn't over yet. The two boats that saved the crew of the Ark Royal, the Legion and the Lightning, would both be attacked and sunk by the Germans within the next two years. With such a track record, we imagine that the Royal Navy started making regular sacrifices to Sam in exchange for letting its ships stay afloat.
Is that what's going on here?
#5. Scarlett the Firefighter
On March 29, 1996, an old abandoned car dealership in Brooklyn inexplicably burst into flames. Firefighters rushed to the scene to combat the fire so it wouldn't spread to a building that actually mattered, and one of the firemen noticed a mother cat leaving the building, carrying a kitten in her jaws. She walked it over to a litter of four more, nudged each one and then passed out next to them.
Apparently the mother cat had been raising her litter of five kittens in the abandoned building when it caught fire, and she raced in to save them all. She could carry only one kitten at a time, however, which means she must have made the daring trip into a flaming building at least five times, which is about six more times than we would ever run into a blazing inferno regardless of who was trapped inside.
Not even Erik Estrada.
When she emerged for the fifth and final time, her ears were burnt, she was scorched on her feet and much of her hair had burned away. Nevertheless, she made sure all her kittens were OK before she lost consciousness. She had to nudge them all to make a head count because her eyes had swollen shut from the flames and intense heat. This means that for some portion of her flaming terror adventure, she couldn't even see where she was going.
The cat, who was later named Scarlett because of her red, flame-licked skin (and presumably also for her involvement in the slaying of Mr. Boddy), was rushed to a nearby shelter along with her five kittens, four of which survived. The kittens were adopted by two families, and Scarlett herself was adopted by a woman who allegedly "spoiled her rotten" out of respect and/or fear. She died of old age 12 years later, leaving behind a legacy of fearlessness, as well as the Scarlett Award for Animal Heroism. Given out by the North Shore Animal League America, this award recognizes all the heroes of the animal world that risk their lives to save others and make everyone else look bad by comparison.
Also, she has the eyes of Satan.
#4. Minosch the Marathon Runner
In 1981, Mehmet Tunc was a Turkish man who was in Germany as a guest worker, living on the island of Sylt with his family and their cat, Minosch. When it came time for their Soviet-approved holiday (earned by making 10,000 purchases at the local bread repository), the entire family headed back to Turkey for a couple of weeks, and for reasons unknown they thought that bringing the cat along on a lengthy confined car ride would be a good idea.
The only thing cats love more than prolonged car rides is being flicked in the face with droplets of water.
When they hit the Turkish border, the cat decided he'd had enough and darted off, getting lost in the crowd. The family looked for him but ultimately had to leave him behind, heading back to Germany without their beloved cat. Minosch was never seen again ... until about two months later, when he was found scratching at the door of the Tuncs' home in Sylt, Germany.
We weren't very sure how far Turkey was from Germany either, so here's a handy visual aid, courtesy of Google Maps, plotting the path from the Turkish border to Sylt:
Those of you good with geography will recognize the starting point "A" as the bottom of Europe and the ending point "B" as the fucking top of Europe, not including Norway and whatever other Eskimo lands are up there. The total journey was right around 1,500 miles, meaning that Minosch covered about 25 miles a day, or slightly less than a freaking marathon, for two months straight. And that's not all:
Sylt happens to be an island, and the only way you can get there is by boat or by train. So either Minosch swam, snuck onto a boat or hijacked a train to make his way back home.
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I'm trying to chroot with the GParted LiveCD onto an existing 64-bit system, attempting to fix grub.
A 32-bit GParted CD can resize partitions with 64-bit OS'es on them, no problem.
I've never found one. I use clonezilla as a rescue CD (and network-boot image), and that DOES have a 64-bit version.
If you want 64-bit gparted live, you'll have to make your own, just replacing the kernel with a 64-bit kernel will be enough - it will be able to run the 32-bit userland on the gparted ISO.
BTW, when you do manage to chroot into your system you will need to bind-mount /dev, /sys, /proc (and optionally /dev/pts) into the chroot environment so that grub-install will have access to the info it needs to re-install into the MBR.
If your target system is mounted under /target, something like this will do the job:
I have my netbootable clonezilla image configured to set that up as an alias called 'prepare-chroot-target' so I don't have to remember it :)


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When is a Stein manifold a complex affine variety? I had thought that there was a theorem saying that a variety which is Stein and has finitely generated ring of regular functions implies affine, but in the comments to my answer here, Serre's counterexample was brought up. I'm guessing that the answer is that the ring of regular functions must be nontrivial somehow, like it must separate points, but I'm curious about what the exact condition is.
Charlie, it is funny answering this way but here it is.
The criterion you are thinking about is a criterion that is relative to an embedding. It says that if $X$ is a quasi-affine complex normal variety, whose associated analytic space $X^{an}$ is Stein, then $X$ is affine if (and only if) the algebra $\Gamma(X,\mathcal{O}_{X})$ is finitely generated. This is a theorem of Neeman.
You can reformulate the requirement of $X$ being quasi-affine as a separation of points property: for any point $x \in X$ consider the subset $S_{x} \subset X$ defined as the set of all points $y \in X$ such that all regular functions on $X$ have equal values at $x$ and $y$. Then by an old theorem of Goodman and Hartshorne $X$ is quasi-affine if $S_{x}$ is finite for all $x$. So you can say that $X$ is affine if it satisfies: 1) $X^{an}$ is Stein; 2) $S_{x}$ is finite for all $x \in X$; 3) $\Gamma(X,\mathcal{O}_{X})$ is finitely generated.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Behind two double-figure scorers and a dominating scoring effort in the paint, the Charlotte 49ers (11-1) defeated Radford (5-6), 68-52, in Halton Arena.
"It was good to be back in Halton Arena," Charlotte coach Alan Major said. "I was very impressed with our play particularly in the first half. Radford was averaging seven threes a game and we limited them to two threes. It was just great to be back home."
Pierria Henry led the 49ers with a season-high and career-high tying 14 points. Henry was 6-for-11 from the field and knocked down a pair of 3-pointers. His defensive effort yielded a game-high five steals, also tying his career-high. This was Henry's fifth game this season recording double figures in scoring.
Willie Clayton recorded 12 points to notch his fifth double-figure game of the year. Clayton also led Charlotte with seven rebounds.
Denzel Ingram added eight points in the win. Contributing off the bench was DeMario Mayfield who also turned in eight points and E. Victor Nickerson who recorded seven.
The Niners presence was felt down low as they dominated inside and registered 50 points in the paint. Charlotte also dished out 13 assists.
Radford opened the second half scoring four consecutive fast break points off two Charlotte turnovers cutting Charlotte's 19 point halftime lead to 38-23 with 19:24 on the clock. Then, the 49ers answered the run with baskets by Ingram and Clayton pushing their lead back to 19 points, 42-23, with 18:15 on the clock.
When Henry connected on a mid-range jump shot, the 49ers enjoyed their largest lead of the 46-25 with 16:15 on the clock.
Radford never threatened Charlotte's lead throughout the second half and the closest the Highlanders got to the 49ers was 12 points on two occasions in the second half. Radford cut Charlotte's lead to 62-50 with 3:13 on the clock. However, the 49ers ended the game by scoring six of the final eight points for the 68-52 win.
The Niners took a commanding 38-19 lead at halftime. Charlotte never trailed during the first half and used several runs to keep the Highlanders out of reach. Charlotte used a 17-4 run beginning at the 14:09 mark that lasted around six minutes to cruise to a 27-8 lead with 8:07 remaining in the half. During the run, Mayfield ignited Halton Arena with back-to-back highlight-reel worthy dunks to get fans on their feet. Charlotte retained the double-digit lead for the remainder of the half. The 49ers shot a blazing 56.7 percent from the field in the first half.
Radford was led by Javonte Green who scored a game-high 16 points. He also led the Highlanders in rebounds with seven. Davis finished with 11 points.
Charlotte's defense held Radford scoreless for several minutes throughout the first half. The 49ers limited the Highlanders' shooting to 8-for-30 (26.7 percent) from the field.
The Niners will be back in action on Saturday, December 22 at 2 pm when they face ACC foe Florida State at Time Warner Cable Arena.


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ANDERSON, S.C. – Stringing together five straight victories, Anderson University baseball looks to continue its winning ways this weekend when it jumps back into South Atlantic Conference action with a road series at Wingate, beginning on Friday with a doubleheader scheduled for Saturday.
The Trojans
After sweeping Coker last weekend, followed by a midweek win over in-state rival Southern Wesleyan at Fluor Field on Wednesday night, AU is on its longest winning streak since the 2009 season when it tallied six straight victories. With the winning streak, Anderson is 8-13 on the season, but enters the weekend as one of four teams in the league with three losses at the top of the conference standings.
With his eight strikeouts on Wednesday night against SWU, right-hander David Thompson moved into fifth-place in the SAC in punch-outs with 29 for the season. Thompson currently ranks third in the conference in strikeouts per game, averaging 10.30, as he is just one of three pitchers in the SAC with an average above 10. Teammate Landon Beck continues to lead both categories with 40 strikeouts and a 14.40 strikeouts per game average.
Offensively, the Trojans continue to swing the bat well, banging out 13 hit against the Warriors on Wednesday. Anderson has recorded double figure hits in four of its last five contests with a nine-hit total in the seven inning game against Coker last Saturday. AU ranks first in the league with doubles with 43 and second in total hits with 201 for the season. Despite playing their home games in one of the largest ballparks in the conference, the Trojans are second in home runs with 12. Senior Nathan Galliford continues to pace the SAC with seven home runs for the year.
The Bulldogs
Wingate enters the weekend conference series as one of the four teams with three setbacks in league play, holding an 8-3 SAC record with a 13-3 overall record. Prior to the start of the 2014 season, Wingate was projected to finish tied with Tusculum for second-place in the annual Preseason Coaches' Poll, earning 78 points. Despite earning the second seed in last season' SAC Tournament, the Bulldogs were knocked out after two games, ending their 2013 campaign with a 29-21 record.
Most recently, Wingate is coming off a three-game sweep on conference rival Tusculum last weekend, headlined by two one-run victories on Saturday. The Bulldogs are a perfect 5-0 in nonconference matchups, highlighted by a 13-4 win over Peach Belt Conference member Francis Marion prior to the series sweep over the Pioneers. With the win over the Patriots and claiming the final game over Brevard on Feb. 22, the Bulldogs are on a five-game winning streak.
Wingate's offense is led by Shane Billings, who is currently the only player in the conference hitting above .400 for the year, entering Friday's game with a .426 average. Billings has posted a hit in all but two contests this season and has nabbed eight multi-hit games. In the starting rotation, the Bulldogs have two players in the top-four in wins as Olen Little is second with four wins, while Ben Currie, who claimed SAC Pitcher of the Week honors on Feb. 25, holds three wins. Reliever Stephen Vaughan joined Currie being named Pitcher of the Week on Tuesday.
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Since 2011, the Trojans have been unable to take a series against Wingate as conference opponents, as Anderson has posted just one win against the Bulldogs.


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Let's say I want to record part of an internet radio broadcast so that I can listen to it later. Is there a way to route the audio from my web browser into a recording app like Audacity? This seems like it should be simple... can it be done?
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It is extremely simple, and a quick google using the title of your question will show you many sites explaining how to do it. Two simplest options are:
Running a cable from your computer's audio output to its input as suggested above works, BUT it will reduce the quality of the recording and add noise. This is because of the extra digital to analog and digital to analog conversion involved, as well as the time spent in your computer's analog audio path. This may or may not be an issue, trust your ears. If your computer has S/PDIF i/o then use that and you should be fine.
BTW Audio hijack is the traditional solution for this on the mac.


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I've put some thought into this but Can't really figure out what direction I take in getting rid of certain terms in my testimonial_category called 'home', 'homeone', hometwo. I only want to stop these displaying in a link format on the relevant page.
Here is the code the process's all the terms within testimonial_category, I was thinking I need to somehow add a filter that stops these 3 named terms appearing as links but could really do with some advice on how to do this.

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I'm currently wishing to draw up my UI for a 2d game, however I'm not so sure what the normal strategy is for creating the images for a UI. Are there any programmes which are specifically accurate for UI Design or is something like Photoshop perfectly fine?
You can use any graphics tool you are comfortable with. I'm not sure what you mean by "Accurate for UI Design". Besides, are you talking about animations or single images?
I'll assume you are talking about animations. I'm not an artist. But the simple rule is if you made the first image in an animation sequence 50x50 pixels, then the remaining images of the sequence should also be 50x50 pixels. Should and not a must. but it will make the programming issues easier.
Accuracy comes from you.
Something like photoshop would be perfectly fine for creating UI images.
As for accuracy, I'm wondering what you mean. If it means "I want my GUI to fit over my game screen", then simply take a screenshot of your game, and use that as the bottom layer in photoshop. If accuracy means "I want the GUI to look like the default (Windows/Mac/Linux/iDevice) GUI", then you can either use native OS calls, a GUI library, get art from the internet, or draw the assets yourself.
My favorite tool is a whiteboard. If I ever want to make a design "permanent," I just take a picture of it.
To make it clear. Use can use Photoshop or any other image-manipulation or image-editor for 'mock-ups'. This helps you decide the color of each element of your GUI and the look-n-feel of it.
To actually design your UI, you will need a custom application, i.e. not Photoshop, to create your GUI and save the 'layout' (and associated images or sprites) to a file, which can be loaded by the game you're targeting the UI for.
You might want to use something like this to create and implement UI using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XxJpghF04g&feature=plcp


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by Melissa Brunner
Hope is an important intangible when it comes to fighting a serious illness. At least one Topeka physician believes Thursday's announcement that KU's Cancer Center earned designation from the National Cancer Institutes will offer a whole lot more hope for people in the Topeka area who are battling cancer.
The designation meants KU's Cancer Center will have access to more federal dollars to fund research into treatments and cures for cancer. It also means KU's Cancer Center will have access to the latest trials, offering new and innovative treatments.
In achieving this designation, KU did not operate in a bubble. In early 2008, it formed the Midwest Cancer Alliance, linking its oncologists and experts with hospitals across the state. Topeka's Stormont-Vail and St. Francis are both members, with Stormont serving as part of the Partners Advisory Board. Dr. David Einspahr with the Stormont-Vail Cancer Center says that makes Thursday's announcement a win, not only for KU, but for cancer patients around the region. He says the MCA already gives Topeka doctors access to second opinions and consultations on difficult cases. Now, the trials and treatments for which the NCI designation opens the door at KU will also be available in Topeka via the alliance. No need to travel to Kansas City.
On the more clinical side of the coin, Dr. Einspahr says he is excited by the potential treatment advances these trials can offer. On the more personal side of the coin, he says, more treatment options can equal more hope. Being able to tell a patient there is something else to try can be the difference between continuing to fight and giving up.
Congrats to KU for bringing us another level of hope.


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Ed's Note: The statements attributed to U.S. District Court documents in this story are filed in W-97-CV-41, styled Carolyn J. Gibbs vs Ashley C. Gibbs and Andrew F. Gibbs vs Great American Insurance Company, a federal lawsuit to compel payment of insurance benefits.
HEWITT (October 25, 2012)—Police investigators think somebody was already inside when Joel Wright Gibbs entered his estranged wife's residence in Hewitt on January 25, 1996 to pick up his son's lunch.
Hewitt Police Department investigators told Eugene Gibbs, Joel's father, they believed the murder was the result of a residential burglary gone bad.
But today, more than 16 years later, Eugene Stover Gibbs, a retired college professor, still wants to know who killed his son, and why.
The confrontation between Gibbs and his attacker left the apartment in shambles and Gibbs lying on the floor in an upstairs hallway with several stab wounds and his throat slashed, dead.
The problem police had then – and they still have today – is they don't know who the attacker was and virtually all the evidence at the crime scene is gone.
Hewitt police Deputy Chief Tuck Saunders, who was a sergeant back then and was at the bloody crime scene, said he revisits the case even now every couple of months.
"We're always looking for new leads or new information. This is an open investigation," Saunders said recently.
But Eugene Gibbs, in a telephone interview from his home in Wisconsin, told News 10 he hasn't heard from investigators for more than three years.
Joel Gibbs was born in California and came to Waco to attend Baylor University, where he eventually earned both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
He met the woman he would marry at Baylor, where she, too was in school.
Then Joel Gibbs landed a job at a Waco medical imaging company.
Eventually the marriage hit some rocky spots and the couple separated, and the two planned a divorce, which actually had been filed more than a month before Joel Gibbs was murdered.
But before the divorce could be finalized, Joel Gibbs died in a furious fight that to this day leaves questions about his death.
Gibbs' estranged wife, Carolyn J. Gibbs, testified in U.S. District Court in Waco, that she had taken her children Ashley and Andrew to a mother's day out program at Crestview Church of Christ just like she did every Tuesday and Thursday so she could attend classes at Baylor University.
But on this day her son forgot his lunch.
After she dropped off the children, civil court records show, she called her estranged husband's office and asked an employee there to have Joel Gibbs go to her apartment, get Andrew's lunch and take it to the church.
A document entitled Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Evidence entered into evidence later in federal court in a lawsuit over insurance benefits showed Joel Gibbs left his office at 9:50 a.m. and went to Carolyn Gibbs' townhouse at 311-A Romana Circle, in Hewitt, but he didn't leave alive.
Ellen Watson, who worked at the medical office with Joel Gibbs, said she remembers those events clearly because she had a doctor's appointment scheduled that day and was concerned that Gibbs might not get back before she had to leave.
She said Gibbs told her he'd only be gone a few minutes and he'd be back in time for her to make her appointment, which was that morning.
When Gibbs failed to return, Watson began to worry and that's when she said the office sent a driver by the Hewitt address to check on Gibbs and the driver reported he saw Gibbs' car in the driveway but didn't see any other cars there.
That's when office staff notified police.
Carolyn Gibbs, according to court documents and her own testimony in the trial of the insurance lawsuit, left Baylor at about 2 p.m. and went to the church to pick up her children.
When she got there her son reported his father had never showed up with his lunch.
Federal court documents say Carolyn drove to her apartment and there, at about 2:30 p.m., she found Joel Gibbs' car in the driveway and Hewitt police officers outside.
Carolyn Gibbs warned officers not to enter the backyard because of a dog, but she went in, noticed the house was in shambles and eventually found her estranged husband on the floor of an upstairs hallway, covered in his own blood.
She went downstairs to let police in and, according to her own testimony, said, "He's here. He's upstairs and there's a lot of blood. He needs an ambulance."
She directed police to the body and took her children outside.
A short time later, she testified, the officer told her he thought Joel Gibbs might have taken his own life and that he had been dead for hours.
Carolyn Gibbs called her father, she testified, and told him Joel had killed himself.
McLennan County Justice of the Peace Cindy Evans ordered Joel Gibbs body taken to Anatomic and Forensic Pathology Consultants, in Fort Worth for autopsy.
By 5 p.m. on the same day Joel Gibbs' body was discovered, Hewitt police released the bloody, disheveled crime scene to Carolyn Gibbs.
Court documents indicate her father came to Waco that night from Colorado Springs.
The next morning Carolyn Gibbs' father organized a group of Carolyn's friends and Sunday school members to remove and replace the bloodstained carpeting and the floorboards and clean and paint the bloody walls.
"They ripped up the carpet and cleaned the bloody walls so Joel's parents wouldn't have to see all his blood when they came to the funeral," said Carolyn Gibbs, who spoke with News 10 by telephone from her home in Colorado Springs.
Another female friend took a bundle of personal love letters she had written to her lover out of the apartment and destroyed them, according to federal court documents.
According to Carolyn Gibbs court testimony, about 30 friends showed up to clean up the crime scene "so that when Joel's parents got there they wouldn't have to, you know, deal with all of the blood."
Under direct examination during the civil trial in federal court, Carolyn Gibbs was asked if Hewitt police knew her friends were sterilizing the crime scene.
Her answer: "They had some kit and they said they were going to check for the evidence of blood, and that we needed to stop painting because the fumes could disrupt (the test), and that we needed to stop cleaning.
"And I just was kind of like, 'Well, we've already cleaned the whole place.'
"I mean, that was that at that time," she testified.
By the time Hewitt police had called in the Texas Rangers to help with the investigation, the evidence was long gone.
When the report of autopsy came back to Judge Evans, it showed Joel Gibbs had died from "cardiac, pulmonary and vascular stab wounds due to multiple stab wounds of the chest and neck", and that the manner of death was homicide.
Carolyn Gibbs said she, herself, found the murder weapon in her kitchen, one of her own kitchen knives, wiped clean and in the knife block in her kitchen.
She said she turned the knife over to Hewitt police.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court confirmed that in it's order published on May 11, 2000.
On January 31, 1996, when Carolyn Gibb s returned for one final cleaning of the house, she found a bit more evidence – some blood-stained carpet that hadn't been removed earlier, and turned it over to Hewitt police.
Carolyn Gibbs and her children moved in with her friend, Susan Truitt, for about a month, then moved to Colorado Springs to live with her parents.
Federal court records show Carolyn Gibbs' lover, Bart Bell, moved to Colorado Springs in January 1997 and the couple married in July of that year.
An affidavit admitted into evidence in U.S. District Court shows Bell had been with Carolyn Gibbs the weekend before Joel Gibbs was murdered.
Another document that is part of the court's file entitled Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, states Carolyn Gibbs refused to submit to a Department of Public Safety polygraph test shortly after Joel Gibbs' murder.
But later, after she took a privately administered polygraph, which she passed, she agreed to take the DPS exam.
According to records submitted in court, this time, however, she "proved deceptive in her answers" between 56 and 99 percent.
The document entitled Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law Judge Smith says: "It is likely that Plaintiff (Carolyn Gibbs) was involved in the death of Gibbs (her husband), but, in a close case the evidence presented does not prove her involvement by a preponderance of the evidence. While Plaintiff was a suspect in her husband's death before this trial, she became even more of a suspect afterwards."
Two primary questions remain in the cold case murder Joel Gibbs.
First, can authorities identify a viable suspect, and second, does enough evidence still exist to convict a suspect, should one be identified?
Carolyn Gibbs says she doesn't believe her late husband died as a result of a botched burglary, mainly because of what was reported taken from the house.
"They only took a class ring, a camcorder and silver baby's cup that belonged to my daughter," Carolyn Gibbs said.
Carolyn Gibbs said that seemed curious because she had jewelry and other things of value lying on top of her dresser in plain sight.
"I don't think a thief would have left that behind," she said
"I think whoever got into the house had a key because there was no sign of forced entry," she said.
"I think they were looking for something that they didn't find," she said, because the apartment had been ransacked.
Carolyn Gibbs did say something curious happened in the months after Joel Gibbs was murdered that she told police about.
"I received two threatening letters in the mail that contained pictures of me that belonged to Joel," she said.
"There were two notes in them; one that said 'You'll never escape me' and another that said 'I'll never forget you.'"
Carolyn Gibbs said she turned the letters over to Hewitt police and Hewitt police verified the letters were in their possession.
Carolyn Gibbs said police never asked her about the letters and she hasn't heard from anyone in law enforcement about the murder in more than 12 years.
She did say, however, she keeps a criminal defense lawyer in Austin on retainer.
News 10 filed Freedom of Information requests with the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Hewitt Police Department, both of which were denied citing the fact that the case remains under investigation.
The response from Hewitt, which was written by city attorney Charlie Buenger, states, "The identity of the suspects will be disclosed by responding to the request as submitted."
Hewitt Deputy Chief Saunders says the case remains open and is still being investigated.
Saunders said there is ample evidence that remains to get a conviction if a suspect is identified.
Although he would not discuss existing evidence in detail, Saunders said given the advances in forensic technology since 1996, there could be information police could obtain if the evidence were re-scrutinized.
"That's a possibility we're currently looking into," Saunders said.
The report of autopsy states there was blood evidence in Joel Gibb's clothing when it was recovered.
That could, experts say, provide a lead that might be submitted to a national DNA database, from which could come a suspect's identity.
Court documents indicate the murder weapon was recovered inside the crime scene.
The autopsy also said a hair that was foreign to Gibbs was found on his body, and that, too, could provide a lead.
The Gibbs murder investigation is the second of three such high-profile investigations undertaken by the Hewitt Police Department that resulted in questionable results.
The first, which happened 10 years earlier in 1986, involved the death of two young boys who burned in a storage shed fire.
Prosecutors two years later were able to get a guilty verdict for capital murder against the boys' stepfather but police didn't make it easy because they allowed all the evidence in the burned out shed to be destroyed and carried off to a landfill.
Ed Graf, now 60, and his Waco attorney say the evidence that was destroyed could have exonerated Graf and in fact today are trying to get the case brought back to court so Graf can be proved innocent of the crime.
The Hewitt police chief allowed the shed to be bulldozed and removed from the property on the night of the fire to prevent the boys' mother from having to look at the scene when she got up the next morning.
The third case also resulted in a conviction but investigators agree the initial investigation was questionable.
Former preacher Matt Baker was convicted of killing his wife but only after her family spent tens-of-thousands of dollars paying private investigators to research the case.
Hewitt police declared the death a suicide, took only limited photographs of the murder scene and did not investigate the death as suspicious.
But the justice of the peace who made the initial pronouncement changed his report after exhumation of Kari Baker's remains and prosecutors were able to build a case against Matt Baker and get him found guilty of his wife's murder.
(Matt Howerton contributed to this story)


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Is it a good idea to use tree-view UI structure in iPhone or other Mobile devices? (e.g. for file browsing etc.)
Tree navigations is a simple and effective solution to discover hierarchical structures. I would test two different solutions.
Accordions work if you have flat hierarchies (e.g. one sub level). They keep the user in context and you don't have to remember the other category names since you stay in the screen. The handler for open/collapse the category shouldn't be a small button, but the whole list item instead.
Lists are pretty ease to use and fits perfectly if you have to use multiple sublevels. The following items you should provide for smooth content discovery within subs:
From an interaction pov, the main challenge is that browsing trees requires a lot of scrolling up and down to re-find items. Also from an information architecture point of view it might be not the most efficient system to organize information. User has to know in which category the object-to-find is hiding. At least there should be a category specific search. To increase flexibility and improve findability I would also combine it with a tagging system.
The NestView method for representing a text hierarchy (specifically xml) came up as an answer on a programmers.stackexchange question. This is quite 'out there', but it does save a fair amount of horizontal space, compared to either a tree-view or indented text. It also has the benefit of having a larger 'touch area' than a tree-view, it could possibly also suit more general usage than just hierarchical text structures:
I don't think so, tree-view is hard enough to use on a full scale computer.
Microsoft had a study on it's own tree view and recommended to the developers not to use it if the users for that specific application are not computer savvy, experimented.
I would suggest a breadcrumb on the top and listview/icon view to keep it consistent with other tree like structures.


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The title pretty much explains it, but with one observation: I'm looking for an invoicing app suited for the european market.
The title pretty much explains it, but with one observation: I'm looking for an invoicing app suited for the european market.
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Blinksale is very simple and does exactly what it does on the tin. I use Xero which is more of a fully fledged accounting system, but it does invoicing as part of that and it's not too pricey.
Some others:
I've heard great things about FreshBooks.
If you're looking for self hosted web apps as well, I use Bamboo Invoice.
The main selling points for me were that it's open source, free, and that I can use an entirely custom invoice template, in multiple languages and currencies.
InvoicingApp is built with freelancers and small business in mind. Originally was built for our own internal use but is now available for public beta. Happy to add any new feature that provides better support for european market.
I have had good luck with Zoho's Invoice app. It's free for the first 5 invoices per month, with tiered pricing for more heavy usage.
For the European market (I'm UK based), without a doubt, Freeagent is best.
Not only is it outstanding at invoicing, but it also makes Self Assesment tax returns almost a 'one-click' task.
I have also used BlinkSale, which is good, but basic in comparison.
(Disclaimer, that's my refferal link above, click here to go to Freeagent without earning me a discount!)
I've used Billing Boss and really enjoy it. Also if you use LessAccounting there is invoicing functionality built in.
Cashboard is the best app for full project workflow from estimating, project tasks and time tracking, invoicing and payments.
Simple Invoices is fairly interesting. It's open source and free. I use it because I don't need anything complicated and I have complete 100% control of it to do exactly what I want it to do. Note that it requires web hosting or you can host it on a local server
I don't think there's one single invoicing webapp that is well suited for the "entire" European market. This is because the legislation requires to have invoices specific to the country + language of the user and since there are more than 20 currently in the EU currently, I've yet to see one webapp that has so many translations and localizations.
This is true not only for invoicing webapps, but for any kind of apps that is legally regulated.
At this moment Invoice Bubble is free.
Curdbee looks pretty good to me. Lots of features for a fair price. Thinking about trying it now.


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This is a good looking shoe cover, but we have yet to try out in the rain. Be warned though these run BIG! I bought my wife a pair of mediums and her bike shoes (size 40) were swimming in them. I tried them on my shoes (size 48) and the fit was perfect - or at least what I expect - not billowing around - so I'm reordering for several sizes down for her. Your fit may be different if trying to cover street shoes.