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Monday, December 31, 2012
Revlon Nearly Naked Foundation Swatches, Review, and FOTD
I bought Nearly Naked in the shade Ivory at the Harmon drugstore section of my local Bed Bath & Beyond (not all BB&B stores have this feature - please check their store locator to see if one near you has a drugstore section), where prices are significantly discounted and you can use their easily-obtainable 20% off coupons on makeup, so I got it for $6. I was tempted to get the Nearly Naked powder too, having read raves about it online, but the shade range of powders in the display was limited. I'll purchase that later on, when the Nearly Naked collection gets moved into the permanent Revlon display and I have access to the full range of shades for the powder as well.
Here is a swatch of Ivory on my hand. It looks a little dark, but don't let that deceive you:
I am also going to suck up my insecurity and let you see me with no foundation on for the sake of offering a before and after. Here I am with no products on my face - only eyes, brows, and lips done:
And here I am with just the Nearly Naked foundation added (applied with the Sephora #56 brush), no powder or anything else yet:
Finally, here's the finished look with pressed powder, blush, and highlighter added:
I honestly can't think of anyone to whom I would NOT recommend this foundation. It doesn't feel drying or accentuate dry areas on me at all, so I think it could work for those with drier skin, but it also works very well on my oily skin. I still have to blot and touch up my powder around lunchtime, but that's normal for me, and the foundation stays put and remains looking good despite the slight oil breakthrough (it doesn't melt off my T-zone, like other foundations I've tried). I would call it medium coverage - could be sheered out by applying with a damp sponge or BeautyBlender, but probably not built up to full coverage unless you layered a powder foundation on over it. Regardless, I think it provides a beautiful, natural finish on my skin.
In case you're wondering, here are the other products I used today:
Cle de Peau Ivory stick concealer under eyes
Maybelline Define-a-Brow in Dark Blonde
Anastasia Brow Powder Duo in Ash Blonde (I layer it over the Maybelline pencil)
Chantecaille Olivia palette, swatched here - I used Joy as blush, Perle to highlight, Zinc in the crease, and Quartz on the lid
Chantecaille Les Petales de Rose highlighter, swatched here
Essence Berlin Rocks gel eyeliner on the upper lash line
MAC Blacktrack fluidline to tightline
CoverGirl Lash Blast Volume Waterproof mascara (my standby)
Guerlain Ballade Rouge Automatique lipstick, swatched here
... and a Conair "hair donut" that DID NOT make doing a sock bun ANY easier. *shakes fist* If anyone can tell me how to successfully do a nice sock bun on long, layered hair, I'd love to know!
15 comments:
- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2013 at 12:31 PM
Looks good but u shouldve got a shade darker. looks a lil bit too light on uReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for the comment! I politely disagree though. I do have some redness in my face that makes it look a bit darker, and I prefer to match foundations to my neck (so I don't end up with that "floating head" syndrome by having my face be darker than my neck). I feel that this shade matches my neck very well. I also used a brightening powder here, which may have contributed to it overall looking lighter.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2013 at 12:20 AM
I disagree I think the match is perfect. However, I love the finish of the foundation on you before powder. Beautiful skin!ReplyDelete
You look beautiful! I've been searching for a new foundation to try and this sounds perfect. Great review!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 15, 2013 at 11:20 AM
Wow you're beautiful! It looks so natural and pretty! I wonder if ivory would be too dark for my NW10 skin.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks so much! No, I think it would be perfect for you. I am about NW10 (I lean somewhere between neutral and cool-toned) and Ivory works wonderfully on me!Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 15, 2013 at 1:55 PM
Excellent!! I'll check it out today :) thanks!!Delete
Great review! I think you look beautiful both with and without foundation xxReplyDelete
Girl! You don't even need makeup! Nonetheless, it looks great!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2013 at 6:30 PM
Hello you are so beautifull you don't even need foundation :-) I want to try this one but can not find it where I live in France so I was searching some swatches to buy it on internet. All I could find it was shade vanilla 120 shell 130 and naked 150. I see that you have Ivory, which shade is that? Thank youReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you so much! :) Ivory is #110. Hope that helps!Delete
- AnonymousMarch 13, 2013 at 1:19 PM
What color are you in the nearly naked?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2013 at 7:10 PM
Hiya! I think my skin tone is possibly a tiny bit darker than yours - slightly pinker - and would like to know your opinion on which shade I should opt for! I don't mind looking a little paler than usual because I can warm my face up with my powder so maybe ivory? It looks lovely on you by the way and your skin is in such great condition!! Also, what powder do you use (or have I missed that in the products list at the end?)? Hope you're great xxxReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks! I think if you're only slightly darker and pinker Ivory should work well, but if you think you might be a full shade darker, you might want to choose a darker shade. With that said, I wouldn't know which one to recommend if you were to go darker because I haven't tried any other shades! Sorry =xDelete
Oops, you're right, I forgot to list the powder! I am not 100% sure but I *think* I used Guerlain pressed powder for this look (the discontinued Poudres de Perles one in Mythic Parfait - one of my favorites). Neither is a perfect dupe, but the two readily-available powders I've found that come closest to providing the same color and brightening finish as the Guerlain are Bobbi Brown Brightening Finishing Powder in Porcelain Pearl and the new Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Perfector powder in Fair (both of which are also good color matches for me). Hope that helps!
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Is it correct to say the following:
Let this be a year where there will be joy.
Or is there some more natural phasing for that sentiment in English?
Is it correct to say the following:
Or is there some more natural phasing for that sentiment in English?
The use of where with year seems a bit old school and is not that common. According to Google Ngram, when seems to be more prevalent with year and time in general than that of where.
There's nothing wrong with the sentence in question. However, I would probably consider writing what @KristinaLopez suggested.
When has many, many uses. One of them is as a relative pronoun with the meaning 'in or at which'. This is how it is being used in the example. Such use dates from the fourteenth century and, typically, is found in Shakespeare's 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona': 'To be in loue; where scorne is bought with grones.'
Whether it is a good idea to use it in contemporary English in the context of a year is a matter of personal judgment, depending on the context, the readers and the attitude of the writer. However, the Oxford English Dictionary has this twentieth-century supporting citation:
Moreover, the Corpus of Contemporary American English has 188 records which include the string year where, the British National Corpus 23. Not all will be examples of where being used in precisely this way, but a cursory examination shows that many are.
Your example can be said a little more succinctly,
"Let this be a year filled with joy!"
While "...where there will be joy" is acceptable, a more common expression, at least here in the US, is to wish a year (or birthday or anniversary) be "filled with joy".
There are better ways, but your statement would be understood. Perhaps:
"May the new year be filled with joy!" / "May your new year be filled with joy!"
"Let the new year be joyous!"
"Let this new year be filled with joy!"
(Just a few ideas. Happy New Year!)
Since 'year' is usually associated with time and not place, I feel where is not a suitable relative pronoun to refer to it. I would rather use which instead:

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Simple Definition of mutate
biology : to cause (a gene) to change and create an unusual characteristic in a plant or animal : to cause mutation in (a gene)
: to change and cause an unusual characteristic to develop in a plant or animal
: to change into something very different
Examples of mutate in a sentence
a disease that mutates genes in humans
a group of mutated genes
Over time, her feelings mutated from hatred into love.
opera singers mutating into pop stars
Origin and Etymology of mutate
Latin mutatus, past participle of mutare
First Known Use: 1818
Rhymes with mutate
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Weekly Race PreparationWritten by on June 1, 2013 Quality preparation is the key to success on race day, and professional Modified racer Kyle Strickler shares his tips for prepping your race car when time and resources are limited
At Circle Track, one factor we always try to keep in mind with almost all of our articles is how to keep racing when life gets in the way. We'd all love to have the kind of bank account that would allow us to hire all the crew we need and a fleet of cars so that every component is completely torn down and rebuilt between races.
But unless your last name is Hendrick or Penske, that's probably not your reality. Most of us have enough trouble just making the house payment or tuition for the kids and have to race with whatever money is left over after all the other bills are paid. That makes the crew an all-volunteer force who are only available to work in the evenings after getting off from their own jobs.
The result is too little money and too little time to get everything done. It's a universal truth that almost all Saturday night racers labor under. The key is to make the most of the time and resources you do have.
That's one of the reasons we enjoy working with Kyle Strickler Motorsports—the operation manages to achieve more on a dollar than practically any race team we've ever seen. Strickler is one of the very few people able to race IMCA-style Dirt Modifieds as a full-time gig. In previous tech articles working with Strickler we've already mentioned that he capped off the 2012 season with 34 wins in 61 events and an incredible average finish of 3.1. That type of success doesn't come without a complete handle not only on how to set up and drive a race car, but also how to manage the schedule and all the problems that pop up during the week at the race shop.
Now, Strickler has expanded his operation to a three-car race team. Strickler will continue to race one car while offering the other two seats to qualified racers. For a thousand dollars per event, Strickler plans to field a Dirt Modified race car equal to his own and even coaching. As this went to press, he'd already booked a full schedule for the first part of the season but dates were still available for the second half of the year.
While discussing his new multi-car operation, we asked how Strickler and his two-man crew could possibly handle the extra workload that goes with fielding two extra cars. And while he admitted there definitely would be long hours and late nights involved in keeping three race cars capable of claiming Victory Lane, part of his answer included outlining his weekly regimen of checks to catch small problems before they become big ones on the racetrack. What impressed us is that almost all of the checks were quick, targeted toward specific areas where issues most often crop up, and do not require lots of expensive equipment. With Strickler's permission, we're sharing several of the highlights from his list. Strickler says these checks have proven themselves helpful over time and each has been responsible for helping him avoid an untimely DNF and find Victory Lane. So as you try to prepare your race car for the start of a new season, or the next race, or the race after that, here are a few tips to help make your life a little easier.
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2. It may seem like a little bit of a pain, but Strickler recommends pulling the driveshaft after every race to inspect the U-joints. Almost all Dirt Modified classes like IMCA are focused on limiting costs, and a big rule in that package is disallowing aluminum or carbon fiber driveshafts. If a steel driveshaft breaks at race speeds, it can do some real damage to both the car and driver, so it is definitely a good idea to give it a little extra attention.3. This is an excellent example why you should take a close look at the driveshaft and U-joints after every race. Dirt Modified racing is hard on the stock-style U-joints because the pinion angle can swing so severely as the suspension moves. Once the joint starts to wear you can get marks on the joint like you see here. Strickler recommends disassembling and cleaning the U-joints after every race. And if you see wear like this, it's time to replace the unit.5. You don't need your own shock dyno to give your shocks a quick once-over. One simple test is to compress the shock by pressing it into the shop floor and then watch as the shock shaft extends back out. The movement should be smooth and steady both on compression and rebound. If the shock shaft it bent the movement will have a catch in it. While doing this you can also watch to make sure you don't see any fluid leaking from the seal.6. While the shock is off, take a moment to wash any accumulated dirt out of the Heim joints with a blast or two of brake cleaner.7. Strickler also checks over the brake bias adjuster to ensure it always works smoothly during the race. This bias adjuster is a design Strickler manufactures and features a grease fitting to ease maintenance. You may need to disassemble yours to properly clean.8. Don't forget to clean the heim joints at the other end of the adjuster. Since it is protected from dirt and track debris inside the driver's cockpit, Strickler uses a moly lube to keep the movement smooth and bind-free.9. While you are down there, Strickler recommends checking the suspension and steering for any slop. You can do this simply by gripping the suspension and feel for any "wiggle" or loose movement. If everything isn't tight, that means you will need to make further checks.10. Strickler's crew always removes the brake pads before washing the car because excessive contact to water can sometimes loosen the bonding agent and affect pad performance. But while the pads are out, it is also a good time to give them a quick look-over. The stock GM calipers often used in Dirt Mod racing are prone to flexing under load. When that happens the result is uneven pad wear like you see here. When the friction material is this worn, it's time to break out a new set of pads.
11. Besides caliper flex, another area that sees a lot of abuse is often the caliper mounts. Make sure the mount is still parallel to the rotor. If the mount bends it will further erode braking capability and can even cause the pads to drag.12. Again, the key to saving time is to work through the car one area at a time. While you are at each corner, make a quick visual inspection of the rotor for cracks developing in either the hub or the face of the rotor.13. Many manufacturers push a "greaseless" ball joint for racing, saying it is stronger. But a greasable ball joint is not only cheaper, but by pumping in a few squirts of grease you can flush out most of the accumulated grit and be ready to race again without having to take apart the entire assembly.14. Water invasion can cause significant problems with race engines, so you will need to take a few precautions when washing your car. Keeping water out of the intake is simple enough by pulling the carburetor and bolting up installing a lift plate in its place. Taping some plastic bags over the breathers and distributor also helps, but after you are done you should ways use some compressed air to blow out any moisture that may have made its way underneath the distributor cap.15. If you are running a solid lifter valvetrain in your engine, checking the lash on a regular schedule is a must. Many racers depend on their engine builder to do it for them, but that puts you on their schedule. Tasking a crew member with learning how to do it properly can save you lots of headaches. Normally, a quality engine builder will be more than happy to help their customers learn because that's one less task off their plate, but if you don't have that option all you have to do is make a quick search for "set valve lash" on www.circletrack.com.16. When alcohol is used as a racing fuel, it can cause a few extra headaches if you don't take the proper precautions. Alcohol can leave a scale behind when allowed to sit. To prevent this, remove the carburetor and drain the fuel bowls. Now bolt the bowls back up and refill them with a mixture of 75 percent gasoline and 25 percent Marvel Mystery Oil through the vent tubes (Strickler is pointing to one here.)17. With the fuel bowls filled, place a paper towel over the venturiis and pump the fuel squirters to remove the last of the alcohol. The gas/oil mixture will be a different color so it should be easy to tell when you have transitioned over to the mix. Even if you are running alcohol in your next race, the gas/oil mixture will make the engine easier to fire and will burn out of the fuel bowls quickly.18. Check the steering box by running the steering wheel to full lock both to the left and right. Any catches or hard spots could mean a damaged gear which can happen if you have had any wheel-to-wheel contact during the previous race.19. If you suspect a bent rearend, there is a quick check that doesn't even require removing the rear tires. Use a tape measure and have a member of the crew secure the end in the tread of the tire. Now run the tape across the rearend and pick a mark along a tread on the opposite tire. Spin the wheel and if the tread holds steady at the mark on the tape you know the rearend is straight. If the treat wobbles relative to the tape, you've got problems.


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WHEELING - Local hospital officials say they are heading in a new direction - a very unclear direction - in dealing with the coming changes from the federal health care law.
But there's no doubt that the Affordable Care Act is having and will continue to have very real consequences for how local hospitals achieve their mission. The first order of business, according to hospital leaders, it to tighten their financial belts while also keeping the quality of care high.
At Wheeling Hospital, Chief Executive Officer Ron Violi said since there is much to be revealed about the new law, the hospital will deal with it the best way it knows how.
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Michael Caruso, president and chief executive officer of OVHS&E, talks during an open house for the new Robert C. Byrd Child & Adolescent Mental Health Center.
''Even though it's out there and it's the law of land, what's going to be implemented and what isn't still isn't clear,'' Violi said.
He noted it appears, for now, that Medicaid reimbursements will not offset the money the hospital pays out to cover the cost of services for the uninsured, known as disproportionate share. Hospitals receive a government rebate for treating people without insurance.
''The facts are everybody is in the same position. We can look at what they say ... but we don't know when they will come into effect,'' he said of the health care changes. ''The effect is going to be if they're disproportionate in the way they are applied, then it can be devastating.''
Still, Wheeling Hospital and its affiliate, Belmont Community Hospital in Bellaire, can deal with it.
''You prepare for it by getting your costs in line. ... Your cashflow could possibly be affected, but we don't think that will happen. We think we can handle it. We've made a lot of appropriate moves in that direction, and we continue to cut costs where we can without it affecting quality in the hospital,'' Violi said. ''We won't do anything that affects quality. That's the nature of the beast. You can try and tighten up payrolls and try and tighten up expenses ... but you can't let any one of them affect the quality of what you do.''
Lisa Simon, senior vice president and chief financial officer for Ohio Valley Health Services and Education Corp., parent company of Ohio Valley Medical Center and East Ohio Regional Hospital, noted hospitals in essence are being asked to do more with less.
''It is our reality. ... So we go to our department heads and tell them to be more efficient and to our vendors and tell them we need better deals,'' Simon said. ''There is a little anxiety. Our job is to maintain good benefits ... and buy new equipment and keep up facilities.''
And at the same time, administrators have to maintain enough of a profit margin that people and banks feel comfortable doing business with the hospital, she said.
''By investing in technology, we should increase our health outcomes and decrease costs,'' Simon said.
In the hospital's long history, she noted, it is not the first time it has had to adapt.
''We have evolved to the circumstances we were in and that's what do - you just evolve into what the circumstances are. We have a fantastic group of people and a loyal staff. We will be just fine. You have to be good business people to be good caretakers,'' Simon said.
Simon added the hospital corporation still is in the process of looking for a financial partner. Last summer, board members with Ohio Valley Health Services and Education Corp. - parent company of Ohio Valley Medical Center and East Ohio Regional Hospital - said they were considering becoming an affiliate of Tennessee-based Community Health Systems Inc. They announced a few months later, however, the fit just wasn't right.
The move could have resulted in the corporation being partially or wholly owned by CHS. Such a deal is expected to give the hospitals an infusion of money in the form of equipment purchases and renovations.
''Our focus will always be on our communities. We will continue to provide the care and compassion that our communities deserve regardless of the impact of the new law,'' Michael Caruso, president and chief executive officer of OVHS&E, said.
In Glen Dale, Reynolds Memorial Hospital spokeswoman Melissa Marco said Reynolds also is preparing for the new health care law.
''We're putting a great emphasis on physician recruitment because we know there's going to be new patients entering the system,'' she said. ''We're also trying to stay as efficient as possible with our costs.''
At Barnesville Hospital, officials are embracing one of the law's mandates: electronic recordkeeping. To qualify for related federal funding, facilities had to meet certain criteria. Tiffany Gramby, Barnesville Hospital's project manager, said the hospital's staff has stepped up to help design a system to meet the needs of staff and patients.
''It's no surprise to me that the staff at Barnesville Hospital stepped up to the challenge and worked tirelessly as a team to create a system that will enhance the delivery of patient care and give us the tools we need to work more efficiently. We have a fantastic team here at Barnesville.
"A team that is always willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to do it with excellence.''
The additional 100 computers and workstations will allow staff to access patient information at anytime and anywhere, she said.
At Wetzel County Hospital, Administrator Brian Felici said until more is known about how the health care law will impact the hospital, it will continue doing "business as usual."
"We carefully scrutinize every purchase, we monitor staffing and we do what we can to curb our expenses without compromising patient care. The law is here and it's here to stay, so it's our responsibility as healthcare providers to do what we have to do to accommodate it. Our first priority is to our patients and to assuring that they are receiving the quality care they've come to expect at our facility," Felici said.


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BMW R1200GS Adventure(Water Cooled) Rear Fender Extension - If you ride in the rain and bad weather, you know how annoying road spray from your rear tire can be, getting your motorcycle, luggage, and riding gear dirty with road grime. This rear splash guard from Touratech extends the original tail piece on the BMW R1200GSA Water Cooled with a nicely finished black anodised aluminum plate, stopping more spay from the rear tire.
Easy to install, this plate mounts between the existing tail piece and the license plate bracket on U.S. model R1200GSA Adventure Water Cooled, 2014 and newer.
Makes a great substitute or replacement for a lost or damaged rear tire "hugger" fender.


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P2P4U net Arsenal Football
To discuss P2P4U net football we will look at the football club Arsenal. This is a northern London club which has won ten of the FA Cups and thirteen of the Premier League and First Division Championships. P2P4U net has followed Arsenal football for a while, and it has been around much longer. Arsenal got started in 1886 which is over 125 years ago. During that time from then to now Arsenal has grown in value to over $1.3 billion dollars.
According to p2p4u much of the years that Arsenal played they were at home at Manor Ground which is located in Plumstead. Arsenal Stadium (also known as Highbury) was where Arsenal played until 2006. If you like to watch live football and Arsenal is your team than you should be calling yourself a "Gooner" as the Arsenal fans call each other Gooners which is a derivation of the team's name of The Gunners.
The all time leading scorer of goals that Arsenal fans ever got to watch was Thierry Henry. P2p4U net calculates that he scored two hundred and twenty six goal while he was on the team for 8 years. The most fans that ever attended a match to watch Arsenal play live football was 73, 700 which occured back in 1998. Over its history, Arsenal has had twenty three managers that were in charge of the team. The longest tenure of any of the managers was a thirteen year stint by Arsene Wenger. Arsenal was part of the first football match that was broadcast live on the television. This occured back in the 1930's.
P2P4U net has watched the European soccer league and Arsenal play many fierce matches against its rival Tottenham. What you need to watch is for the quick strikes, the corner kicks that get headed in, and some brilliant goaltending. P2P4U net likes to watch this rivalry especially because the players know each other pretty well and both sides play very hard and intense against each other. It is one of the better rivalries that you will enjoy to watch.arsenal football, p2p4u, p2p4u arsenal, p2p4u net


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Council has 36 members who are elected by our members worldwide. Following the latest elections in September 2015, Council has members from 18 different countries, truly reflecting the diversity of ACCA and its members. A list of Council members and Council's terms of reference are attached below as related documents.
Officer Team
For 2015-16 our officers are:
- President: Datuk Alexandra Chin JP
- Deputy President: Brian McEnery
- Vice President: Leo Lee
You can find out more about our officers and contact them by visiting their pages in the Related Links section.
Executive Team
The Executive Team is the primary decision-making body of ACCA's management and leads the delivery of ACCA's strategy and plans, with ACCA's Chief Executive directly accountable to Council for performance. The Executive Team consists of :
- Helen Brand – chief executive
- Stephen Heathcote – executive director - markets
- Raymond Jack – executive director - finance and operations
- Peter Large – executive director - governance
- Alan Hatfield – executive director - strategy and development.


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Embrace proven job creator
The right-to-work movement that has swallowed up Michigan, heretofore the state that seemed least likely to enact legislation that could be construed as anti-union, has evoked a see-no-evil, speak-no-evil, hear-no-evil reaction in staunchly pro-union Connecticut. But the facts don't lie. Right-to-work is the key to curing much of what ails the Nutmeg State's economy, and it belongs on lawmakers' radar screen.
The strongest argument for right-to-work is that it is a job creator. The strongest argument against it is that those jobs don't pay as well as comparable jobs in the 26 states that have not passed such legislation. Experience and scholarly research suggest the first is undeniably true, while the second is irrelevant.
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University of Pittsburgh Dean advocates for increased medical research funding, the link between anxiety medication and Alzheimer's, and NIH awards more than $10 million to explore the "effects of sex" in medical research (read more).
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Alzheimer's researcher volunteer with Down syndrome dies at 40, Professor Susan Greenfield talks about the need for a new approach to Alzheimer's research, and ActivistAgainstAlzheimer's member Sandy Halperin talks about his diagnosis and work at 3PM EST on CNN.com (read more).
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NIH funding key to spurring basic research, Meryl Comer talks about her book "Slow Dancing with a Stranger" on CSpan, and the latest glimmers of hope on the Alzheimer's drug front (read more).
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Meryl Comer talks about her new book with My Fox DC, co-founder Peter Thiel talks about his efforts to cheat death, and Lilly CEO John Lechleiter talks about the need to invest in Alzheimer's research (read more).
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George Vradenburg talks about the Alzheimer's fear factor, Nick Manetto highlights a shift in patient advocacy, and Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel talks about the reasons he hopes to die at 75 (read more).


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I am developing an app for kids and they will have a variety of problems from percentage problems, absolute value problems, negative number problems, fraction problems, etc. I was hoping to have a description of how to do each type before they began. Does anyone know of a good database where I could get all the descriptions from and then just cite that source?
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To solve this limit:
$$\lim_{x \to +\infty} \space \frac{x+\sin(x^2)}{\sqrt{x^2+1}}$$
At the beginning I didn't know how to start. Then I thought, no matter the value that $x$ takes, $sin(x^2)$ will always be between $-1$ and $1$. So for large values of $x$, $sin(x^2)$ is insignificant. One can rewrite:
$$\lim_{x \to +\infty} \space \frac{x}{\sqrt{x^2+1}}$$
And now it's easy to find the limit:
$$\lim_{x \to +\infty} \space \frac{x}{\sqrt{x^2+1}} = \lim_{x \to +\infty} \space \frac{\sqrt{x^2}}{\sqrt{x^2+1}} = \lim_{x \to +\infty} \space \sqrt{\frac{x^2}{x^2+1}} = \lim_{x \to +\infty} \space \sqrt{\frac{x^2}{x^2}}=1$$
But I know that the justification that allowed me to find the limit this way is not an analytic justification. How can I find this limit on an analytic basis?


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I don't see any application to defragment my Mac (running OS X).
Is defragmenting not necessary for Mac OS X? If so, why not?
I don't see any application to defragment my Mac (running OS X).
Is defragmenting not necessary for Mac OS X? If so, why not?
It's not necessary. For more details than you could possibly want, read Fragmentation in HFS Plus Volumes by Amit Singh (author of Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach).
HFS, the filesystem Mac OS X uses (technically HFS+) has a number of built-in measures that reduce fragmentation of the drive. First, it uses extent-based allocation, which is just a fancy way of saying that it writes multiple contiguous blocks of data a time (and therefore inherently has less fragmentation of data). Second, it uses delayed allocation, meaning that disks writes are "queued" and written to the drive as a group (again, inherently less fragmentation). On top of that, Mac OS X does on the fly defragmentation of files.
The long and short is that fragmentation isn't really an issue for Macs, which is why you don't see a program to defragment drives in Mac OS X.
As a side note, there are commercial programs that will defragment drives in OS X, but this is essentially snake-oil. There might be some small level of fragmentation on your drive, and these apps will surely take care of that. But, it's 100% unnecessary, and you're unlikely to see any benefit.
Most people will tell you Macs don't suffer from disk fragmentation, citing technical arguments most people don't understand.
It's somewhat true: since there's nothing you can do about it without spending $20 on something that might not improve the performance of your computer at all, you could instead focus on other maintenance tasks and just buy a shiny new mac (or reinstall) when the old one gets too slow.
But: An important prerequisite for not caring about disk fragmentation is always keeping some free space on your disk (I couldn't find any recommendation not pulled out of thin air, but 20% is often mentioned).
And to keep the facts straight:
BTW (@Dori's answer), the cited Fragmentation in HFS Plus Volumes explicitly says this:
P.S. I know that web browsers (the field I'm interested in) are at least sometimes are affected by fragmentation (ex.: mozilla, chrome). I myself had an issue similar to the one described in mozillla's issue tracker.
Generally speaking, you do not need to defrag HFS+. While it is possible to fragment it, the implementation in the OS X kernel includes a number of features that tend to limit fragmentation, including deferred block allocation and hot banding. Unless you do something really odd (constantly keep the drive over 99% full while doing lots of reads and deletes) it is very hard to significantly fragment the drive.
The only time it is generally worthwhile to defrag an OS X drive is when you are trying to do an LVM operation (like shrink a partition for bootcamp), and the builtin tools fail. The reason is that those failures are largely caused by some core structure of the volume (Like the extents or catalog file) existing in blocks outside the target layout. Technically those are files, but because they are used to store volume metadata the builtin file move code has trouble moving them on a live (mounted) partition, but defrag utilities that work on the disk offline can just move them to the beginning of the partition, which allows the volume resizer to work.
So, while defrag utils are generally not worthwhile, they aren't snake oil, just very specialized tools.
There's no such thing which you should (have to) use. If Apple felt it was needed, it would have been built-in.
Mac differs entirely from Windows for example.
Please check: http://osxdaily.com/2014/01/13/defrag-mac-hard-drive-necessary-or-not/
No, it doesn't. Mac OS X does it itself for files over 20MB, and for SSDs it doesn't matter at all.


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As we all who know Hebrew can assert, the sufix "im" in the words usually means plurality. How can HaShem be Elohim or Elokim if He is absolutely One and the Only Lord?
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There are a lot of answers. Here are a couple:
The plural, in Biblical Hebrew, is like an honorific. (Ibn Ezra on B'reshis 1:1)
I like the analog to the English "royal we".
There are an abundance of answers given to this question, including those listed by Alex.
You might like the approach of Abarbanel, who sees no reason to assume that "elokim" is plural, since it is used as a name, like Ephraim, Mitzraim, or Chushim, which are all names in the "plural form". Rather he prefers the explanation that "elokim" is a composition of "el" meaning "god" in a general sense, and God's specific four-letter name ykv"k. (The me"m at the end of the name is to be grammatically correct in "closing off the word" so it won't sound like a possessive noun.)


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The popular conception of Hitler in the final years of World War II is that of a deranged Führer stubbornly demanding the defense of every foot of ground on all fronts and ordering hopeless attacks with nonexistent divisions. To imply that Hitler had a rational plan to win the war flies in the face of widely accepted interpretations, but historian Howard D. Grier persuasively argues here that Hitler did possess a strategy to regain the initiative in 1944–45 and that the Baltic theater played the key role in his plan.
In examining that strategy, Grier answers lingering questions about the Third Reich's final months and also provides evidence of its emphasis upon naval affairs and of Admiral Karl Dönitz's influence in shaping Hitler's grand strategy. Dönitz intended to starve Britain into submission and halt the shipment of American troops and supplies to Europe with a fleet of new Type XXI U-boats. But to test the new submarines and train their crews the Nazis needed control of the Baltic Sea and possession of its ports, and to launch their U-boat offensive they needed Norway, the only suitable location that remained after the loss of France in the summer of 1944.
This work analyzes German naval strategy from 1944 to 1945 and its role in shaping the war on land in the Baltic. The first six chapters provide an operational history of warfare on the northern sector of the eastern front and give evidence of the navy's demands that the Baltic coast be protected in order to preserve U-boat training areas. The next three chapters look at possible reasons for Hitler's defense of the Baltic coast, concluding that the most likely reason was Hitler's belief in Dönitz's ability to turn the tide of war with his new submarines. A final chapter discusses Dönitz's personal and ideological relationship with Hitler, his influence in shaping overall strategy, and the reason Hitler selected the admiral as his successor rather than a general or Nazi Party official.
With Grier's thorough examination of Hitler's strategic motives and the reasons behind his decision to defend coastal sectors in the Baltic late in the war, readers are offered an important new interpretation of events for their consideration.
Howard D. Grier is a professor of history at Erskine College in Due West, South Carolina.
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"At last we have here an excellent account of the strategy that Hitler still hoped in the last year of World War II would turn the tide in Germany's favor. At the same time, it explains both how German naval needs dominated strategy at the northern part of the eastern front and why Hitler chose Admiral Dönitz to be his successor." —Gerhard L. Weinberg, professor of history emeritus, author of A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
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I was recently advised that the term "breadcumbs" was not understood globally by all readers of our documentation explaining how to develop UIs. The thought behinds this claim was that "breadcrumbs" required some insight into the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale. Preferred terms for the UI widget would be navigator links or locator links. My view is that the context of use and globalization of technology has made "breadcrumbs" universally acceptable as a term to communicate UI/UX concepts. Wondering if anyone else had experience where "breadcrumbs" was not acceptable, perhaps a probem for localization?
Among developers and designers, English terms are widely understood and often used as such or as adapted to different languages. Widely, but not universally. To end users, the first problem is that the very concept is not as familiar as many designers think; and even if the concept is known, it might be known under some other name. But normally, such a concept should not be used in communicating with end users; you can refer to a breadcrumb or items in it without calling it anything.
Check out the different language versions linked to the Wikipedia page Breadcrumb (navigation). There is a large variety of terms used, including e.g. "hilo de Ariadna" and "navegação estrutural", based on rather different looks at the topic. And this reflects just some people's views; even within a language, different terms are used.
Within the User Experience field, breadcrumbs are widely accepted. Peter Morville (who wrote the "bible" on Information Architecture) and Steve Krug (author of Don't make me think) is often mentioned when searching for breadcrumbs and navigation.
It is so widely accepted that there are also best practices for breadcrumb design:
Reference: Breadcrumb Navigation Best Practices
It really doesn't matter. The point of the documentation you are creating is to create a shared vocabulary amongst everyone in the organization that has to work from it.
You could call it 'nav widget 23-b' if you wanted to. I wouldn't necessarily recommend that, but if you have it labeled, defined, and documented, that is the key...everyone should then understand what anyone else is referring to if that is the term used.
All that said, though we've debated the term 'breadcrumbs' over and over in this industry, it is the industry term for navigation that shows the content hierarchy of a site.
No, the word "breadcrumbs" is not globally understood.
Proof is you. :-) These breadcrumbs do not come from the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel. They do come from the tale "le Petit Poucet", the little boy dropped breadcrumbs behind him in order to find his way back.
In french, one does not say "breadcrumbs", one says "chemin de fer" (railway) or — my favourite — "fil d'Ariane" (Ariadnê's thread).


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My question has been previously asked by other users, but has been dismissed by those who answered. I changed the password to blank, but ubuntu still keeps on asking me for authentication every time I open a program and both blank and my old password do not work. I am certain I do remember my old password. I tried changing it in grub but when I go to the console in root and type passwd [my account name] then asks me to type and retype my new password the console does not react to my typing. When I still type my password, assuming it simply just does not show it but it receives it I get an error: token malfunction, password unchanged. Please help, I need my computer for work.


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I asked a question on Stack Overflow, and got an answer, but when I tried the answer, it didn't help. Now the question is old and not getting any more views or answers, even after editing the original question to reflect that the answer wasn't helping. Should I post the question again, or let the question die and start looking elsewhere for help?
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You definitely don't want to re-post the question. It'll likely get closed as a duplicate of the original. From the StackOverflow FAQ:
Editing the original will bump it. And the more information you can put into the question regarding your ongoing effort, the more attention it will get. Even if the only active person on that question "thread" is you, activity bumps it up.
The main thing is to make sure the question is clear, provides relevant information (no more, no less), and demonstrates that you've put in effort to try to solve it and truly hit a puzzling impasse.
If the only answer is incorrect, note that in a comment to the answer. And make sure the be clear as to why it's not working. Is the answer upvoted by others? Maybe it's not entirely incorrect but just isn't solving the problem the way your situation needs it solved? I've seen very long comment threads narrowing down that kind of scope.
No, but you can ask a different question about the same problem, I have been known to ask 3 or 4 question about different possible solutions to the same problem, with each question aimed that people that know about each of the possible solutions (and tagged as such).


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Let $X,Y,Z$ be reduced algebraic varieties, and let $Y$ and $Z$ be normal. Let $f:X \to Y$ and $g:X \to Z$ two surjective projective morphisms of algebraic varieties such that the geometric fibers of $f$ and $g$ coincide. Is there an isomorphism $h:Y\to Z$ such that $g=h \circ f$?
In positive characteristic, you get a counterexample by taking $X=Y=Z=$ the affine line (say), $f$ the identity and $g$ the Frobenius map.
Assume now that the ground field is algebraically closed of characteristic zero. Consider the map $(f,g):X\to Y\times Z$. Its image $\Gamma$ is a closed subvariety of $Y\times Z$. The assumption on the fibers exactly means that both projections from $\Gamma$ to $Y$ and $Z$ are bijective (on closed points). Since they are proper they must be (in char. zero) finite birational, hence (by normality) isomorphisms. So, $\Gamma$ is the graph of the isomorphism we are looking for.


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If you are thinking about a career in Clinical Laboratory Science, you need to come to college prepared to succeed. You should take as much math as you can in high school, as well as biology and chemistry. One bonus: if you score 24 or higher on your ACT mathematics portion, you won't have to take math at Ferris after you get here! If you have successfully completed a high school chemistry course, you won't have to take introductory chemistry (CHEM 103) here.
In the MLT program, you will spend the first year completing the general education courses that you need to succeed. Then the professional phase begins in the summer term between year one and year two. You will take professional courses that summer, as well as fall semester and the first half of the spring semester. You will be at your internship site for the rest of spring semester and part of the second summer term.
In the Medical Laboratory Science program, you spend two years taking general education courses. Then your professional phase begins in the summer term between years two and three. You take professional courses that summer term, then in the fall, the spring and the following fall semester. The spring semester of year four will be your internship.
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But performing tests isn't all medical technologists do. They also supervise and manage laboratories and their personnel, evaluate test results, and communicate with other health care providers. As a medical technologist, you may work in all areas of the laboratory, or specialize in one or two, becoming a supervisor or an educator.
To learn more, visit the site of the Michigan Association of Laboratory Science Educators at http://www.malse.org/index.htm
Medical Laboratory Technicians perform the routine testing that makes up the majority of laboratory test orders. You will detect analytes in whole blood, serum or plasma, cerebrospinal fluid, urine, or just about any other body fluid. You will evaluate your results before reporting them. If and when problems are detected, you will need to work with medical technologists to resolve the problems.
Medical Laboratory Technicians also work in most areas of the laboratory: clinical chemistry, hematology, body fluid analysis, coagulation, and microbiology and transfusion service. For more information, visit the site of the Michigan Association of Laboratory Science Educators at http://www.malse.org/index.htm
Phlebotomists collect, transport and process the majority of samples used in laboratory testing. You will collect samples, label them correctly, transport them to the laboratory, and then perform some processing, such as centrifuging the samples to separate serum or plasma from the blood cells. In some laboratories, you may perform some simple testing, such as testing urine for chemical substances.
Phlebotomists are the laboratory personnel that most patients see. You are the representative of the laboratory to the general public, so it's important that phlebotomists dress professionally, and demonstrate a caring attitude. For more information, visit the site of the Michigan Association of Laboratory Science Educators at http://www.malse.org/index.htm
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About 70% of graduates of Clinical Laboratory Science programs work in hospital laboratories. The rest find jobs in private laboratories, blood donor centers, public health labs, physician office labs, and other sites. And the jobs are out there: The vacancy rate nationwide for medical technologist positions was 10.4% in 2008. For MLTs, the vacancy rate was 6.4% and 6% for phlebotomists. A national study estimates that there will be about 9000 laboratory jobs nationwide for the next decade, while about 5000 students will graduate from laboratory science programs.
A study published in 2009 by the American Society for Clinical Pathology (Laboratory Medicine 40:3, March 2009) reveals that the national median salary for medical technologists is $47840. Supervisors have a median salary of %58240, while laboratory managers average $70720 per year.
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The awards ceremony highlighted the need for public service in law, with a special focus on the plight of those suffering post–Hurricane Sandy
Former Treasury Department General Counsel George Wheeler Madison '80 and former New York State Supreme Court Justice Felice K. Shea '50 were honored as the 2012 recipients of the Lawrence A. Wien Prize for Social Responsibility during a luncheon at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan this past autumn. The Wien Prize, named for the late Lawrence A. Wien '27, is presented each year to alumni who have worked to enhance the public good. This year's event was dedicated to the victims of Hurricane Sandy, and, during his opening remarks, Dean David M. Schizer noted that the Law School donated food to City Harvest for those in need.
Professor Robert J. Jackson Jr., who previously worked for Madison, provided a warm introduction for the event's first honoree. Madison took on the role of general counsel of the Treasury Department in 2009 and helped to draft and implement the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. He also advised the solicitor general's office on its defense of the Affordable Care Act before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Shea, who was introduced by her granddaughter Zoe Shea '11, said that it was common in her day for female lawyers to move toward public interest, since law firms did not often hire women. However, Shea always intended to work in public service and began her career at The Legal Aid Society's Harlem office. She went on to serve on the New York State Supreme Court bench for more than two decades and, after her retirement, returned to The Legal Aid Society as a volunteer.


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Disappointment for the GOP
The take-away from Connecticut's congressional elections is that the state remains solidly blue. Former state Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-Cheshire, scored a four-point win over state Sen. Andrew W. Roraback, R-Goshen, to claim the 5th Congressional District seat, which Democrat Christopher Murphy gave up to successfully run for U.S. Senate.
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Hunting Buffalo
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Fun Fact: Native Americans considered the buffalo's tongue to be the best part of the meat.
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You may remember my thread about my issue with the 2D Classic camera on classic view. Well after digging around and getting alot of support off michaeltmurrayuk, I managed to find a way to make FM09's 2D view look more like the one in FM08.
I have got new pics
You can download what you need here:
Be sure to read the "read me" BEFORE making any changes and make sure you are comfortable with the instructions.
This modification is not perfect but I see it as an improvement over the current view. Any comments will be more than welcome.
Enjoy your new Football Manager look
P.S: One thing I have noticed is the game is a lot slower than before. If you don't mind notching the speed up a few nothes from centre when watching to get a better speed.


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5 Insane True Tales of Wrestlers Refusing to Break Character
Today, everyone knows that professional wrestling is a predetermined stage show -- Vince McMahon himself publicly admitted it 23 years ago. However, for most of the last century, wrestling fans believed every storyline and bit of pageantry as the God's honest truth, and if you made your living as a wrestler, it was your sworn duty to protect the illusion at all costs. Some went a little further than others, though. And some went a lot further ...
#5. Tim Woods Breaks His Back in a Plane Crash, Stays in Character
In October 1975, a Cessna 310 plane crashed while transporting a promoter and four wrestlers to a match in North Carolina. One of the wrestlers on board was Tim Woods, also known as Mr. Wrestling (presumably because he spent all his imagination on "Mr.").
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And on picking the color scheme for his costume.
Woods suffered a concussion, bruised ribs and a compression fracture in his back. But all he could think about as he lay in the wreckage was "This could lead someone to find out that wrestling is fake!"
You see, another wrestler, his archnemesis and scheduled opponent for the evening, Johnny Valentine, was also on the plane. He suffered a back injury so severe that he was paralyzed for life. But what really matters here is that the crash could mean that people might find out they had been traveling together.
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"But it says 'versus'. They're legally obligated to hate each other forever."
Tim Woods was one of the industry's most popular good guys at the time, while Johnny Valentine was a reviled villain. Good guys can't chum around with bad guys -- that would be like Skeletor pedaling a tandem bike with Prince Adam. So while Woods was being rushed to the hospital after surviving a plane crash that killed one man and paralyzed another, the first thing he did was give a different name and lie about who he was (he pretended he was a promoter instead of a wrestler) so as not to ruin the illusion. And that wasn't all.
You see, despite this, rumors still began to circulate that Mr. Wrestling had in fact been in a plane crash with Johnny Valentine, so Woods did the only logical thing: He wrestled two weeks after the crash and acted like his back wasn't broken. You know, to prove he hadn't been on that plane.
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"And my back is so not-broken, it's insane."
Again, two of the four wrestlers on the plane (including Johnny Valentine) were so badly hurt that they never wrestled again, the pilot was fucking killed and the fourth wrestler (who was actually Ric Flair) didn't do another match for six months. Tim Woods had no business doing what basically equates to stunt work before he had completely recovered from the crash, but damn it, the mythology of Mr. Wrestling had to be protected at all costs.
#4. Nelson Scott Simpson Legally Pretends to Be Russian ... for Eight Years
When Nelson Scott Simpson first broke into the wrestling business in 1984, he was told that his new character was going to be named "The Russian Nightmare" Nikita Koloff, because by the mid-'80s hating Russians was at a career-making high. Since Simpson had very little wrestling training to speak of, he decided to overcompensate by completely immersing himself in his character, including legally changing his name. Sort of like if Dolph Lundgren actually changed his name to Ivan Drago and actively tried to kill Carl Weathers whenever he spotted him at social events.
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He honestly looks terrified over what his life is about to become.
So, Simpson legally changed his name to Nikita Koloff, actually learned to speak Russian and pretty much refused to say more than 11 words of Boris Badenov-strangled English in any situation. That's right -- for an entire year he didn't speak anything but Russian, because he wanted wrestling fans to believe that he was a newly arrived Russian immigrant still getting a handle on how to sputter out enough English to earn a chorus of boos.
So, to be clear, he was pretending to be fluent in a language he was still learning, while pretending to be learning a language in which he was fluent:
He didn't drop the act once the cameras were off, either -- Simpson refused to speak English in public under any circumstance, not even in his normal day-to-day life. Instead, he had someone pretend to act as his interpreter for anything that required him to interact with other people, including renting his goddamned apartment.
It's like The Departed, man ... you're in too deep.
As American-Soviet relations improved, Nikita Koloff actually became a beloved good guy by the end of the 1980s. But Simpson still never broke character, right up until his retirement in 1992. By that time, Simpson was so immersed in Nikita Koloff that he didn't stop speaking with a Russian accent for two more years, and even had his own birthplace listed as Lithuania on his child's birth certificate.
#3. George "The Animal" Steele Lives With Separate Wrestler and Schoolteacher Alter Egos
Intelligent, well-spoken James Myers worked as a physical education teacher at a high school in Madison Heights, Michigan. During the summers, however, he worked another job to supplement his income: He would travel to New York and wrestle as George "The Animal" Steele.
Where "intelligent" and "well-spoken" take a back seat to "the body hair of a caterpillar."
"The Animal," as his name suggests, was a crazy, unpredictable wild man who would tear apart turnbuckles with his teeth and grunt monosyllabically. He went on to have a very successful career in the WWF and even earned himself a role alongside Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's Ed Wood.
Presumably because Helena Bonham Carter was not quite hairy enough.
And as far as anyone else was concerned, James Myers and George "The Animal" Steele were two completely separate individuals. That's right -- for 20 years, Myers never once acknowledged that he was "The Animal," and nobody around him knew he was a famous wrestler in his off hours.
"We always assumed he spent his summers temping as a boulder."
This wouldn't be possible today, obviously -- the Internet would track him down within 30 seconds. However, back in the 1970s, the Internet didn't exist, and the wrestling business was divided into separate territories. Detroit had its own territory, and so did New York, which is where Myers would make all his appearances as "The Animal." The only way anyone in his home state could ever see him as George "The Animal" Steele would be in a wrestling magazine. Or, you know, if they drove to New York.
Occasionally, one of his students would mention the suspicious resemblance between "The Animal" and their PE teacher. To shut them up, Myers would retort, "Do you really think I'm that ugly?"


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I want to install Ubuntu as a dual partition on top of my Windows 7 Home Basic. I am planning to empty my D Drive (80 GB), and use that space to install the Ubuntu.
However, I have heard some guys saying that if Ubuntu is installed on top of Windows, the latter becomes corrupted. Is it true?
And secondly, after installing successfully (if possible), if I uninstall Ubuntu, will Windows reclaim all the occupied space in the D drive normally?


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Subject: Re: [MTT devel] GSOC application
From: Ethan Mallove (ethan.mallove_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-13 10:44:33
On Mon, Apr/13/2009 04:15:23PM, Mike Dubman wrote:
> Hello Guys,
> Please comment on the proposed object model and flows. We will have 1-2
> ppl working on this in a 2-3w. Till that moment I would like to finalize
> the scope and flows.
> Thanks
> Mike.
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Mike Dubman <mike.ompi_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hello Guys,
> I have played a bit with google datastore and here is a proposal for mtt
> DB infra and some accompanying tools for submission and querying:
> 1. Scope and requirements
> ====================
> a. provide storage services for storing test results generated by mtt.
> Storage services will be implemented over datastore.
> b. provide storage services for storing benchmarking results generated
> by various mpi based applications* (not mtt based, for example: fluent,
> openfoam)
> c. test or benchmarking results stored in the datastore can be grouped
> and referred as a group (for example: mtt execution can generate many
> mtt results consisting of different phases. This mtt execution will be
> referred as a session)
> d. Benchmarking and test results which are generated by mtt or any other
> mpi based applications, can be stored in the datastore and grouped by
> some logical criteria.
> e. The mtt should not depend or call directly any datastore`s provided
> APIs. The mtt client (or framework/scripts executing mpi based
> applications) should generate test/benchmarking results in some internal
> format, which will be processed later by external tools. These external
> tools will be responsible for saving test results in the datastore. Same
> rules should be applied for non mtt based executions of mpi-based
> applications (line fluent, openfoam,...). The scripts which are wrapping
> such executions will dump benchmarking results in some internal form for
> later processing by external tools.
> f. The internal form for representation of test/benchmarking results can
> be XML. The external tool will receive (as cmd line params) XML files,
> process them and save to the datastore.
> d. The external tools will be familiar with datastore object model and
> will provide bridge between test results (XML) and actual datastore.
> 2. Flow and use-cases
> =================
> a. The mtt client will dump all test related information into XML file.
> The file will be created for every phase executed by mtt. (today there
> are many summary txt and html files generated for every test phase, it
> is pretty easy to add xml generation of the same information)
Will this translate to something like
lib/MTT/Reporter/GoogleDatabase.pm? If we are to move away from the
current MTT Postgres database, we want to be able to submit results to
both the current MTT database and the new Google database during the
transition period. Having a GoogleDatabase.pm would make this easier.
> b. mtt_save_to_db.py - script which will go over mtt scratch dir, find
> all xml files generated for every mtt phase, parse it and save to
> datastore, preserving test results relations,i.e. all test results will
> be grouped by mtt general info: mpi version, name, date, ....
> c. same script can scan, parse and save from xml files generated by
> wrapper scripts for non mtt based executions (fluent, ..)
I'm confused here. Can't MTT be outfitted to report results of a
Fluent run?
> d. mtt_query_db.py script will be provided with basic query capabilities
> over proposed datastore object model. Most users will prefer writing
> custom sql-like select queries for fetching results.
> 3. Important notes:
> ==============
> a. The single mtt client execution generates many result files, every
> generated file represents test phase. This file contains test results
> and can be characterized as a set of attributes with its values. Every
> test phase has its own attributes which are differ for different phases.
> For example: attributes for TestBuild phase has keys "compiler_name,
> compiler_version", the MPIInstall phase has attributes: prefix_dir,
> arch, ....
> Hence, most of the datastore objects representing phases of MTT* are
> derived from "db.Expando" model, which allows having dynamic attributes
> for its derived sub-classes.
> The attached is archive with a simple test for using datastore for mtt.
> Please see models.py file with proposed object model and comment.
I don't see the models.py attachment.
> You can run the attached example in the google datastore dev
> environment. (http://code.google.com/appengine/downloads.html)
> Please comment.
> Thanks
> Mike
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Jeff Squyres <jsquyres_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Ethan Mallove wrote:
> *-------------------+---------------------+----------
> *Resource * * * * * | Unit * * * * * * * *| Unit cost
> *-------------------+---------------------+----------
> *Outgoing Bandwidth | gigabytes * * * * * | $0.12
> *Incoming Bandwidth | gigabytes * * * * * | $0.10
> *CPU Time * * * * * | CPU hours * * * * * | $0.10
> *Stored Data * * * *| gigabytes per month | $0.15
> *Recipients Emailed | recipients * * * * *| $0.0001
> *-------------------+---------------------+----------
> Would we itemize the MTT bill on a per user basis? *E.g., orgs that
> use MTT more, would have to pay more?
> Let's assume stored data == incoming bandwidth, because we never throw
> anything away. *And let's go with the SWAG of 100GB. *We may or may
> not be able to gzip the data uploading to the server. *So if anything,
> we *might* be able to decrease the incoming data and have higher level
> of stored data.
> I anticipate our outgoing data to be significantly less, particularly
> if we can gzip the outgoing data (which I think we can). *You're
> right, CPU time is a mystery -- we won't know what it will be until we
> start running some queries to see what happens.
> total = $25 for the first month
> So let's SWAG at $25/mo for a year = $300. *This number will be wrong
> for several reasons, but it at least gives us a ballpark. *For
> $300/year, I think we (the OMPI project) can find a way to pay for
> this fairly easily.
> --
> Jeff Squyres
> Cisco Systems
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> References
> Visible links
> . mailto:mike.ompi_at_[hidden]
> . http://code.google.com/appengine/downloads.html
> . mailto:jsquyres_at_[hidden]
> . mailto:mtt-devel_at_[hidden]
> . http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/mtt-devel
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I have a query which takes ages to run mainly due to a join between 2 tables on a PK and FK.
The Key is prefixed with 2 letters (which is always the same, RN) followed by 7 digits So RN1234567 for example.
However if I strip out the first 2 letters (
right(tbl1.id,7) = right(tbl2.id,7) )and join only on the digits the query speed improves greatly. Why is this?


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6 Wacky Misunderstandings at the Scene of Grisly Crimes
Law enforcement has to be a grueling, stressful and hugely underappreciated job. But you have to admit, those guys wind up with the best stories to tell at parties.
So while at your job a "hilarious misunderstanding" consists of accidentally emailing some porn to your supervisor, cops wind up with stories such as ...
#6. The Pittsburgh Hotel Massacre
The Scene:
When firefighters were summoned to a blaze in the George Washington Hotel in 2010, they had no idea what they were in for when they broke down the door of a long-abandoned room at the end of a hallway. The room looked like Jackson Pollock had hit it with a paint brush and a bucket of blood. There were bottles of alcohol strewn about and a chunk of scalp on the floor, presumably the result of a drunken hotel massacre the likes of which made the Overlook Hotel look like a Best Western. The police were immediately called to the scene.
Via ABC
At the time, Police Chief J.R. Blyth, the man in charge of the investigation, described the discovery as "the most grisly murder scene in my 35 years in law enforcement."
The room was taped off and a team of investigators was called in. They logged a total of eight hours of overtime before Chief Blyth came to the realization that something was amiss.
They were dealing with the unthinkable aftermath of a Corey Haim project.
And, in a way, aren't we all?
Wait, what?
It turned out they'd all just stumbled upon the two-year-old leftover set of the straight-to-DVD horror movie New Terminal Hotel starring Haim. Apparently, the movie was pretty goddamned gory.
Really, every aspect of Corey Haim's career looked something like this.
The hotel's owner, Kyrk Pyros, had decided to leave the room untouched in case the crew ever had to come back for re-shoots, although you would think that after two freaking years, he would have at least had someone run a Dustbuster through it. Presumably for Mr. Kyros, that leftover movie set was the equivalent of a tender kiss on the cheek from Haim that he vowed he'd never wash off.
To be fair to the investigators, the George Washington Hotel doesn't have the best of reputations to begin with, considering the 12 deaths that have occurred on its premises since 1923 and the local rumors of it being haunted. Then there was the fire. So, all in all, the gruesome discovery of a murder scene would actually be pretty standard for the George Washington Hotel.
This is essentially their equivalent to a continental breakfast.
#5. The Junior Detectives
The Scene:
CSI and its many imitators have had a stupefying impact on high schools, universities and naive youths everywhere, with thousands of students around the world having become convinced that a major in forensic science will one day have them running around from crime scene to crime scene like Gil Grissom in a frenzied, high-octane, arrest-making whirlwind of badassery. Though other kids are just in it for the beard, and the chance to bang Sara Sidle.
Or a chance to bang the beard.
In 2006, teacher Sue Messenger's high school criminology class -- a class devoted to teaching kids the reality of crime scene processing -- went on a mock crime scene investigation set up by Messenger at Ft. Lauderdale's Holiday Park. All went according to plan, just as it had for the 20 years that Messenger had been teaching the class -- fake blood-splattered weapons hidden in the bushes, "bullet-ridden" cardboard skeletons, OJ-inspired planted leather gloves, shell casings that had nothing to do with the London Police ... and the rotting corpse of a dead man.
"Ms. Messenger, is this guy going to be on the final?"
Wait, what?
In the kind of coincidence that lends credence to Voltaire's notion of God as a hilarious comedian, Ms. Messenger's mock CSI field trip stumbled across a real dead body.
All was, indeed, going according to plan, until a boy named Josh Rosenthal noticed a hand protruding from beneath an industrial air conditioning unit. Though the hand and the body attached to it presumably looked a little more convincing than a paper-mache classroom prop, Rosenthal just assumed that the body was a dummy and that the entire thing was a joke, as did the rest of the class -- at least up until the point that the real crime scene investigators arrived and brought an early end to the field trip, presumably handcuffing Rosenthal as a person of interest in another hard lesson in functions that real-life crime scene investigators don't perform.
"Seriously, it's like 95 percent bullshit."
The man, who was determined to have died of natural causes, was never identified, constituting yet another myth-busting bomb in the blitzkrieg of hard realities that came raining down upon the students' heads that day -- positive matches aren't always made. As Rosenthal said of his sobering discovery after the incident: "It turns you onto it because it's helping the community. It turns you off of it because it's, like, disturbing."
Rosenthal would later abandon his dreams of owning a funeral home when he learned they are "like, filled with dead people, man."
#4. The London Gunfight That Wasn't
The Scene:
For days, gunshots had been ringing out in Heygate Estates, in South London. It seemed as though anarchy had really, truly, finally broken out in the U.K., and a few concerned citizens were uneasy about it. So the police were called one morning after a particularly pitched exchange. Cops rushed to the scene, where they found 1,700 empty shell cases littered about the street.
One officer brought up the utter lack of bullet holes in the surrounding buildings, but he was ruled a "buzzkill."
What was missing from the scene was any bullet-riddled bodies, but hey, maybe a team of Russian assassins were trying to take out the real-life James Bond, and he sped away on a jet ski.
They took the shell casings back for examination to try to get to the bottom of this new, oddly bloodless war that was raging on the streets of their city. Then they found out that they had actually given permission for it.
Wait, what?
Forensics came back and said the brass casings had all come from blank rounds. The cops, as it turned out, had just investigated the scene of an action movie.
If any movie without Steven Seagal can really be called an "action" movie.
London police had actually given Foxtrot Entertainment the go ahead to shoot their gangster film The Veteran right there in the neighborhood, and even had officers present for three of the days they were filming. For an entity highly trained in the art of connecting dots and making challenging investigative links, you'd think that someone from the police force would have been able to trace the shell casings back to the copy of the fucking shooting permit sitting on the sergeant's desk before the forensic technicians had to be brought into the picture. Especially since all of those fake gunshots had been fired under the supervision of the very same police who would come back to the scene the next day having somehow completely forgotten about the entire thing.
And then to top it all off, the cops actually threatened to charge the production company for wasting their time.
It took Scotland Yard a week to determine this wasn't bonus behind-the-scene footage of a self-immolation snuff film.


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About 2000 years ago in Israel, was a virgin free to choose her future husband (or even to decide whether to marry or not marry at all) or she was absolutely submitted to the will of her father?
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Generally minors (i.e. girls under 12) were not married by their fathers unless the situation was desperate, the father could not support them, and instead found his daughters a husband who could support them.
Even in such a case, the marriage was not usually consummated, but rather the girl would live with her husbands family till she got older. And usually the husband was around her age.
One large difference from today is age, people got married a lot younger.
In general people chose those own spouse, not only was that the custom, it is the halacha (law) - a non-minor can not be married against their will.
You may be interested in reading about Tu B'Av - unmarried girls would all dress identically in white clothes (so no one could tell rich from poor) and dance in the vinyards while the unmarried boys watched. (They would sometimes squish grapes with their feet to make wine while dancing.)
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Is there any evidence that Martin Luther considered any of the Roman Catholic clergymen who lived in the centuries preceding his own lifetime (evidence related to those living in the centuries immediately preceding his own lifetime is preferred) a part of the Universal Church?
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Luther viewed Thomas Aquinas as one of his adversaries. He saw him as someone who interpreted the Bible according to Aristotle. There are many references against Thomas in Luther's writings. Here is an example when speaking against indulgences:
Catholic Saints, Monks and Nuns are generally viewed by Luther as totally lost as they relied on their own works for salvation. However, Luther had his own secret hopes that many of them still found faith on their deathbeds. After referring to St.'Francis, Dominic, and others', Luther says:
On the salvation of non-famous monks, etc. Luther said: