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Who pays for Ubuntu?
Ubuntu finances and future of project?
How does Ubuntu make money?
As I read Mark Shuttlesworth (hope i got it correct) is the one calling the shots through his owned created trust (God bless him). My question is that what will happen if he (God forbid) suddenly withdraws his funds from the Ubuntu project?


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A Weirton native has been recognized as an ING Unsung Hero for 2011, the 15th anniversary of the program designed to honor educators who have significant impact on the lives of children but remain under-appreciated and under-recognized.
Marcie Fijewski Easton, now an ASHA Certified Speech Language Pathologist at Frankford Elementary School in Frankford, W.Va., was recognized as one of the nation's most innovative educators for her "iCommunicate!" idea. Easton said she developed the idea to excite and motivate students to want to learn and become better communicators through knowledge and use of technology, incorporating 21st century technology to help students with communication disorders, teach students how to use technology programs to enhance skills they learn in therapy and to encourage the use of technology in a positive learning fashion. The program also will educate teachers and parents on using technology to help the students at home and in the classroom entity.
Easton's students will use Apple iPad's, apps and other software to enhance remediation of speech and language disorders such as Autism Spectrum, ADHD, ADD, Apraxia and other learning disabilities.
Now residing in Lewisburg, the 1991 graduate of Madonna High School received a $2,000 cash award for her winning idea. She'll use the money to purchase the iPad2s, apps and software to implement the project immediately.
The effectiveness of the program will be measured by the students' improved grades, progress in therapy and ability to independently and appropriately use the iPads, according to officials.
"ING is proud to celebrate this milestone of our Unsung Heroes program and is honored to recognize the hard work and dedication of our nation's teachers," said Brian Comer, president of public markets ING US retirement services. "Fifteen years ago we made a commitment to invest in innovative program ideas from educators in states, cities and schools across the United States who make the daily investment of preparing our children for the future. It has been a winning investment. We hope the additional funds Marcie Easton was awarded through the ING Unsung Heroes program will help to sustain her program and continue to make an impact on the children she serves in her community."
ING launched the program in 1996 to demonstrate the company's commitment to the education community. Over the years, the program has rewarded 1,600 kindergarten through 12th-grade educators for breakthrough projects that take classroom teaching to new heights. Since its inception, ING has awarded nearly $3.8 million to some 1,600 educators across the nation.
The 2011 recipients were selected from more than 1,400 applications nationwide, with a few hundred applications from West Virginia alone.

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The pro-tour Peloton will be rolling through Sacramento on Sunday. Stage 1 of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California begins in Nevada City and finishes with 3 laps around downtown and what should be a bunch sprint to the finish line on L street.
The Lifestyle Festival begins at 11:00 and should provide you all with plenty of opportunity to drool over bikes you can't afford. Here's the full schedule for what's going on downtown:
- 11:00 AM festival Opens on 10th Street
- 11:00 AM Sacramento Grand Prix
- 1:15 PM Sacramento Community Ride – 13th and L Street
- 3:15 PM Amgen Tour of California enters Downtown Circuit
- 4:15 PM Race Ends
- 4:30 PM Awards Ceremony – 11th and L Street
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On April 22, thirteen FCSL graduates were admitted to the Florida Bar in a ceremony with The Honorable Timothy J. Corrigan, United States District Judge, presiding.
Remarks were made by W. Braxton Gillam, IV President, Jacksonville Bar Association as well as Chidi Ogene, Acting Dean of Florida Coastal School of Law. Michelle Barnett, President, Young Lawyers Section, Jacksonville Bar Association and Kathy Para, Jacksonville Area Legal Aid and JBA Pro Bono Committee Chair were also introduced before Judge Corrigan administered the oath of attorney.
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Would like to know what differentiates consumer centered design from other design approaches eg. user centered design. What are the additional key elements that need to be addressed. Would be delighted to hear a comprehensive answer with an approach and methodology.
You could think of Customer Centered Design as an inherited subset of User Centered Design. That means that you do not address only user in an anonymous way, but the user is also a customer. A more targeted user group always have the benefit that you can more fine grained find out the actual target, such as task completion, in this case finding things to buy, and subsequently buy them.
Customer Centered Design is really a Contextual Design of User Centered Design.
Reference: Wikipedia – User Centered Design, UCD models and approaches
Let me try and shed some light on this. Customer Centered Design is understanding the experience before and after the customer (user) engages with the product. User Centered Design is really about the experience in the moment of the product.
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Hi,What is the most reliable web hosting company?I'm want to build a web site for my boss. thank you in advance,-Wendy
What is the best web hosting company?
For shared hosting I guess many are there but for Servers I would rate thePlanet / Rackspace are best
When you have to choose web hosting, the first thing to look for is quality of support. To keep prices low, the easiest way for the company to economize is to provide sub-standard support. Forget the offers of unlimited bandwidth, hundreds of email accounts, spam filters and other freebies. If support is non-existent, give the company a miss no matter how good their other terms might seem.
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Marvel Assembles an Official Title for Third "Avengers" Movie
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So it's Easter when I'm writing this. And that's always a good time to talk about evil.
This ties into one of my favorite blogger Plok's Seven Soldiers of Steve project. I'm um…. a couple years late.
(Note from today: A couple years and a few months, as Easter is long gone.)
The whole project is a response to Steven Grant (who's Master of the Obvious column runs on this very site) saying that Ditko and Lee's Dormammu story in Doctor Strange was the first graphic novel. (Although he later recanted. )
Anyway, Plok responded to the core idea here – That, if any set of comics are thematically unified, are marked by a distincitve voice, sweeping narrative ambition, and are just plain good…
That pretty much makes them a NOVEL, regardless of the format the material was originally released in.
Using this as a starting point, he decided to see who, in comics, has written graphic-novels-before there were graphic novels.
And Steve Gerber was the obvious choice. He further argued that Gerber's staggeringly ambitious (for their time) Man-Thing, Howard the Duck, and Void Indigo strips were their own animals.
BUT… Gerber's SUPERHERO work for Marvel might, just might, have enough interconnections, in theme, setting, and character, to count as one fully formed novel, spanning many different series: Daredevil, Marvel Two-In-One, She-Hulk, the Defenders. So he sent out a challenge to the blogverse, asking for writers to tackle different aspects of Gerber's superhero work. I claimed Gerber's Son of Satan run, which spanned 10 issues of Marvel Spotlight. I decided to base my piece around the general theme of evil.
And, a couple years later, and several month's after Gerber's death I'm done!
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I'm trying to figure out how new API works, so I've managed to understand the concept, and managed to do my own "hello world", that log on to facebook, log out and try to upload image.
Now in both HelloFacebookSample and SessionLoginSimple, there is a simple login to facebook, and in the HelloFacebookSample, when you click "Post photo", a new dialog for login appears, because the permissions are not set.
this is the code from HelloFacebookSample:
private void performPublish(PendingAction action) {
Session session = Session.getActiveSession();
if (session != null) {
pendingAction = action;
if (session.getPermissions().contains("publish_actions")) {
// We can do the action right away.
} else {
// We need to reauthorize, then complete the action when we get called back.
Session.ReauthorizeRequest reauthRequest = new Session.ReauthorizeRequest(this, PERMISSIONS).
So as we do not have "publish_actions" we need to reauthorize.
In SimpleSessionLogin login looks like this:
private void onClickLogin() {
Session session = Session.getActiveSession();
if (!session.isOpened() && !session.isClosed()) {
session.openForRead(new Session.OpenRequest(this).setCallback(statusCallback));
} else {
Session.openActiveSession(this, true, statusCallback);
So, I can't figure out how to request permissions during login. It's kind a weird or to say redundant to log in to the service twice in couple of seconds with exactly the same dialog.
It can sound to user that something is wrong or weird.
I want to log to facebook once, with wanted permissions, but using API 3.0 Session calls, not the deprecated one.
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More specifically, what methods exist to cool your wort after the boil, and what are there respective pros/cons?
There are a few methods, each with advantages and drawbacks.
Cool your Kettle
Take your hot brew kettle, full of wort, and submerge it in ice water.
Advantages: No real equipment expense, just take your pot and put it in a cooler or bathtub full of ice water.
Mix in Ice
Add ice directly to the hot wort. (Alton Brown does this in his brewing episode.)
Advantages: Same as above.
Immersion Wort Chiller
A coil of copper hose immersed in the hot wort, with cold water flowing through it.
Advantages: Much faster than previous two methods. Faster cooling means sooner yeast pitching, which lowers your risk of contamination.
Counterflow Wort Chiller
A coil of copper hose within a coil of other (typically rubber, vinyl, or garden hose) tubing. Wort flows through the copper tubing, and cold water flows through the surrounding hose in the opposite direction.
Advantages: By far, the fastest cooling method. Hot wort goes in one end of the chiller, and by the time it comes out, it is cool. Chiller can be used as part of the siphon path on the way from brewkettle to fermenter. It's possible to cool a 5-gallon batch to pitching tempurature in less than 5 minutes.
Plate chillers and other heat exchangers
(Thanks to Morgan for pointing this one out)
Advantages: Same as counterflow chillers, possibly more efficient, depending on your model.
My first two batches used the "Cool your Kettle" method. It works, but it can take half an hour or longer. I've been using a counterflow chiller ever since, and I'll probably never use anything else.
I brew 23-litre batches split between two 20-litre canning pots. Cooling them down in a bathtub of cold water works quite well.
I had an old copper immersion chiller, which a friend had gotten from someone else. It was old and a little tarnished. I cleaned it off to what seemed to me to be an acceptable level and used it on my first all-grain batch, and I'm pretty sure it ruined it. That batch is not drinkable, and the off-taste it has seems metallic.
But I think bad experiences from copper-coiled immersion chillers are very rare -- lots of people use them without problems. But now I'm happy with my bathtub solution, and don't intend to change any time soon.
I use an immersion chiller and a pump (March 809-HS) to recirculate the wort back over the chiller. Remarkably effective.
Before or during the boil I usually set a few pots of water in my freezer and use that chilled water (and a bunch of ice packs) to fill my laundry tub and perform the "Cool your kettle" method. It's not the fastest method but using the chilled water helps a bit and I haven't had any bad experiences yet.


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Chicken with red and yellow peppers
McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS -- I was shopping at a favorite vendor at the farmers market. A cool bottle of their artisan hot sauce; four varieties of garlic; and several pimento peppers, the largest I've seen, nearly as large as a bell pepper. Not much of a haul, really, but the farmer felt compelled to give me something anyway.


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When developing a plugin should the functions be grouped together into a Class to avoid namespace conflicts?
Does using classes create performance overheads for PHP?
If there is a performance hit, should function names just be pre-fixed instead?
When developing a plugin should the functions be grouped together into a Class to avoid namespace conflicts?
Does using classes create performance overheads for PHP?
If there is a performance hit, should function names just be pre-fixed instead?
Yes, but that's only one of the minor arguments. In-fact that's not the "true" nature of a class in OOAD.
No, not notably. Bad design and/or bad written code or pre-mature optimisation creates far more performance problems than actual language features.
As written, there is no performance hit. Bad written code will be more of a performance hit than good written code that has some more lines of code but does not force you to do bad things.
Bottom Line:
You can make differently use of classes for plugins. You can just use them to have some kind of namespace and use them "just" for global functions. The most direct form of that are static class functions, the following code-example shows both, first global functions, then global static class functions:
This is just a little example showing that you need to type more for the single hook. Additionally it shows how the namespacing works: You can easier replace the single class name to rename all static functions and then search and replace
The key point is: static class functions Docs are not really much else then global functionsDocs.
And this example shows as well: Namespacing is fine, but with worpdress, the namespacing stops with using hooks: The callback function is hardencoded, hence the benefit in namespacing using the class (one place for the base-name, the classname) does not help when you intervene your code with wordpress for the hook names.
The real benefit starts with using actual class instances and non-static functions. This has the benefit that you can start to make use of OO principles and you can streamline your code. Static class functions are more a problem than a solution infact.
Then it's more than just syntactic sugar.
Key point is: Do something that helps you to write the code you can easily deal with and maintain. Don't over-rate performance, that's a common mistake. More important is that you write code that is easy to read and understand, that just does what you need. Maybe this question and answer is helpful for a bigger picture in this context: Multiple Custom Metabox Help.
One common approach I have even with smaller plugins is making use of a static helper function to instantiate the plugin and the rest resides within the plugin instance then. This helps to encapsulate the main plugin logic and it benefits from namespacing with the hooks as well that private members can be re-used between hooks which is not possible with standard global functions. The following code-example shows the pattern:
This is a common pattern I use for the base plugin file. The plugin class on the one hand represents the plugin to wordpress and on the other hand it allows to start to use object oriented paradigms for the own code which can even be completely object oriented (but need not be). It's kind of a controller, interfacing with the whole wordpress API as the request(s).
As the example shows, an instance of the plugin will be created. This allows you to make use of known commons like a Constructor Docs (
At the time the hook is registered, this plugin object already benefits from it's design: You've ceased to hard-code the actual hook function against the concrete plugin classname. That's possible because of the binding of the class to the object instance for the callback. Sounds complicated, just saying:
This pattern allows to easier interface with wordpress: the injection is reduced to the names of the hooks and which data they provide. You can then start to implement directly into this plugin class or to refactor your implementation against it, so to only put code into the plugin class that is the bare minimum to define your plugins interface against wordpress, but keep the general logic aside of worpdress. This is where the fun starts and most probably that what each plugin author want's to achieve in the long run.
So don't program with worpdress but against it. As worpdress is quite flexible, there is no common or easy to describe interface to program against. A base plugin class can take up this role, allowing you more flexibility for your own code which will lead to easier code and a better performance.
So there is more than just a benefit for name-spacing. Best suggestion I can give is: Try yourself. There is not much you'll loose, only new things to discover.
You'll most probably notice differences after you've passed some more major updates of wordpress while keeping your plugin compatible.
Caveat: If your plugin directly integrates with wordpress to get the job done, using one or two public functions might suit you better. Take the right tool for the job.
Classes VS function set
General: Afaik, there's no difference in "performance" between classes and function sets.
Architecture - How stuff works:
function set: In general, functions gets executed in the row you call it. So every time you call stuff, you have to write it again, if you have to call it more than once.
Class: There are different aproaches to classes. The class, that comes closest to a function set is the "factory" class (wikipedia/google). Imo it's nearly the same as a set of functions, but encapsulated in a class. But there are other "types" of classes too. You could for example write an abstract or a parent class class, that you extend with a child class. In a real world example: Let's say you got a class that builds some static text fields. In your
Personal Opinion
If you write your classes wisely, then you'll have a minor advantage in performance. But you'll have a well organized structure to work on. So far nothing spectacular. But if you consider the following "split" use cases for classes and functions in a plugin, then you'll get my final point: Class is internal, functions are API. As long as you offer API only via publicly useable functions (that then call classes or class functions), you'll be on the save side developing your plugin further. You acchieved the freedom to change the internal structure or even the possibilities of your plugin without affecting the users anytime and everywhere.
Note: Please also read the link @t310s posted in the comment to the Q.
It's a purely stylistic choice on the part of the plugin author. There is no real difference in terms of speed.
Classes don't usually offer any benefits in terms of performance, but they very rarely have any negative effects either. Their real benefit is in making the code clearer and avoiding namespace conflicts.
Most of the time, if you use functions, you'll put the name of the plugin in each function name, so effectively, you'll duplicate that name a dozen times if the plugin has a dozen functions which is a bit of a drag.
With classes, you'd just have the name of the plugin in the class name likely once.
Additionally, you can use inheritance or other oo constructs to implement behaviors in a very clean manner. Here is an ex:


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CHESTER - Walking through the halls of Allison Elementary School in Chester, it's easy to be distracted by the sounds of children going to lunch or changing classes.
But as the sounds ebb, what's left is more than empty hallways.
Those hallways now gleam with the brightness of new lights, new ceilings, new flooring and new paint. The kindergarten through fourth-grade school, built in 1963 and expanded in 1983, does not look or feel like a 50-year-old building.
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NEW LOOK — Kindergarten teacher Melissa Bane read a book to Allison Elementary School pupils on Friday. Her classroom, adjacent to the new pre-kindergarten wing, has new lighting, flooring and ceilings thanks to a $5.3 million renovation project funded by Hancock County voters. Most of the work was done after school hours. - Stephen Huba
Workers are putting the finishing touches on a $5.3 million renovation project that has enhanced the school's safety and security features, added a gymnasium and three pre-kindergarten classrooms, and improved the overall learning environment, Principal Toni Hartung said.
"Everybody's been on board with this. It's a family here," Hartung said.
Construction work began last June, so the school's 440 students and 31 faculty members knew that the 2012-13 school year would be a momentous one.
"At the beginning of the year, (Superintendent) Suzan Smith met with us and said, 'This is going to be a year of adjustment,' " Hartung said. "But the construction has not hindered us. Seeing the progress makes everyone happy."
Now that the school year and renovation project are winding down, Hartung said the importance of the improvements is starting to sink in.
"The biggest difference will be when we have our gym periods. We'll also have more room for assemblies and award ceremonies," she said.
Previously, the school had no dedicated space for physical education classes, so the cafeteria doubled as the gymnasium. School staff had to tear down the tables and chairs twice a day, Hartung said, to make room for gym periods. That won't be necessary now that the school has a new gymnasium.
The other addition is a pre-kindergarten wing with three new classrooms, complete with removable carpet squares, Smart Boards and pint-sized toilet fixtures. Hartung beams whenever she shows visitors the rooms. "I love them. They are so nice," she said.
The spacious pre-kindergarten rooms will help bring Hancock County Schools into compliance with new state standards for universal pre-kindergarten. Universal pre-kindergarten, formalized by the West Virginia Legislature in 2002, means state schools must offer the program to 4-year-olds whose parents want them to attend.
"There cannot be a waiting list. All families who desire a space in the universal pre-kindergarten system must be accommodated," according to a summary of the policy posted on the West Virginia Department of Education's website.
Among the other big changes at Allison, Hartung said, are the improvements to safety and security - in the form of more sprinklers, more video cameras and redesigned entrances. The latter, including the new pre-kindergarten entrance, now feature video cameras and a buzzer system for visitors.
The main entrance has a redesigned "man trap" - a set of exterior doors followed by a foyer and locked interior doors - whereby visitors cannot enter the school without first pressing an access button and signing into the office. Hartung and the office secretary are authorized to admit visitors.
Hartung said the importance of student safety was reinforced for her after the Newtown, Conn., school shootings in December. "I was relieved that we had already started the process of improving security," she said. "Academics and keeping our kids safe are our No. 1 priorities."
Other improvements to Allison include new heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems, all new security windows and doors, restroom upgrades, landscaping, data wiring and electrical upgrades and new sidewalks.
The renovation project is being funded by the $37 million bond levy approved by Hancock County voters in 2010. A project of similar scope, part of the fourth bid package resulting from the bond call, is being done at New Manchester Elementary School.
The Allison project is about four months ahead of schedule and should be done by the end of the month, said Ron Blatt, project manager for Project and Construction Services Inc. of Wheeling. The New Manchester project is on schedule and should be done by August, he said.
"We're very pleased with the work out of (Allison general contractor) Jarvis, Downing & Emch Inc., out of Wheeling," Blatt said, noting that most of the work was done after school hours. "They were able to work efficiently."
Architect for the Allison project was McKinley & Associates of Wheeling.
With the start of spring, among the most anticipated improvements are the new playgrounds - one for pre-kindergarten pupils and one for kindergarten through fourth-grade pupils, Hartung said. Once the equipment is installed, all that remains is landscaping, she said.
"The kids are excited. They can't wait to get out there," Hartung said with a smile. She paused, then said, "I can't wait for them to get out there."


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Easy Onion Recipes (Slide 2)
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Onion Rings
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Quick French Onion Soup
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Spicy Onion Jam
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Creamed Onions
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French Onion Beef Tenderloin
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TomTom VIA 1500 5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator for $59.95 + $5.00 shipping
You can name it "Sulu" if that make you feel more important.
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I have a tomtom via 1435tm that I bought about a year ago for double the price of this and I absolutely love it. That's coming from someone who used to hate GPS.
Keep in mind though that this particular model doesn't seem to be the version that comes with free map updates, so it's going to be about 50 bucks when you want them (first one's always free, but after that) which somewhat limits the useful life.
yesterday walmart was having the tomtom 50m for $70 with life map update. only $10 more and u get life time map.
@ttm77: Was that price good only yesterday or you saw it yesterday? I used my TomTom a lot visiting family in Austin this past weekend, but it's about 6 years old and it way out of date and the old kind that didn't say street names so it was not as useful as it could have been. I'd like to get a more up-to-date one, and lifetime map updates would be very useful. It looks like it's $79 on the website.
Sulu was the piolt. Chekov was the navigator man..... You bring shame to us geeks for that gaff.
@moondrake: i checked again just now...sad to say only yesterday and I saw it yesterday too. http://www.fatwallet.com/Walmart-coupons/tomtom-start-50m-gps-with-lifetime-map/
I'm waiting for a good deal on 5" and life traffic and map. And I don't like TomTom much cause they sell data to states to put speed cameras. Again, rob you for your own good.
I am keeping my eyes open as well. In addition to the features you are looking for, I would also like the bluetooth connection for hands-free phone use. I found a good looking refurb TomTom on Walmart.com for $80 that has all this, but the reviews say that the lifetime maps is a false advertisement, Tomtom doesn't honor map updates for refurbs. My own experience with them agrees with that, I bought a refurb once that had the maps erased and TomTom wouldn't let me download any so I had to return it. Similar situation with Garmin refurbs according to the reviewers. These GPS vendors are losing a lot of sales by being jerks about map updates.
LIES!!! No way will Tom Tom tell you how to get to the Newark Airport. Either you are already familiar with the exits, or you are destined to loop around the airport two or three times.
Overrunz now has this deal marked as "sold out"


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How to set newly opened window at the center of the screen in Xubuntu? Is it possible? In Ubuntu it can be easily done by Compiz Config Setting Manager.
There's no need to install anything or mess with scripts. Open the settings manager, click on Window Manager Tweaks, select the Placement tab, and slide the bar under "Minimum size of windows to trigger smart placement:" all the way to the right. Every window you open should now be centered.
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Let $\mathbb S$ be $\mathbb C^{\times}$'s restriction of scalar to $\mathbb R$. To give a real Hodge structure on an $\mathbb Q$ vector space $V$ is to give a real representation of $\mathbb S$ on $V_{\mathbb R}$. Let $\mathbb G_m\rightarrow \mathbb S\rightarrow GL(V_{\mathbb R})$ be the weight homomorphism. If it is actually defined over $\mathbb Q$ we say the hodge structure is rational. But can we say that the weight homomorphism is always algebraic, that is, defined over $\overline{\mathbb Q}$? Every resource claims this, but I can't see why...
It looks false to me. Let $V=\mathbb{Q}^{2}$, and let $V(\mathbb{R})=V^{0}\oplus V^{2}$ where $V^{0}$ is the line defined by $y=ex$ and $V^{2}$ is the line defined by $y=\pi x$. Give $V^{0}$ the unique Hodge structure of type $(0,0)$ and $V^{2}$ the unique Hodge structure of type $(1,1)$. To say that $w$ is defined over the subfield $\mathbb{Q}^{\mathrm{al}}$ of $\mathbb{C}$ means that the gradation $V(\mathbb{R})=V^{0}\oplus V^{2}$ arises from a gradation of $V(\mathbb{Q}{}^{\mathrm{al}})$ by tensoring up, but this isn't true. Perhaps the all the "resources" have additional conditions, or perhaps they are all ...
Added: When you are defining a Shimura variety, the weight homomorphism w factors through a Q-subtorus of GL(V), and then it is true that w is defined over the algebraic closure of Q (because, for tori T,T', the group Hom(T,T') doesn't change when you pass from one algebraically closed field to a larger field).
Who is every source? If you fix a weight $k$, then to give a real Hodge structure is the same as giving a homomorphism $h:{\mathbb G}_m\to GL(V)$ which is defined over $\mathbb R$. That does not mean it is defined over $\overline{\mathbb Q}$. Indeed, $h$ doesn't know anything about the $\overline{\mathbb Q}$-structure, so why should it respect it?
As an example, let's take $V={\mathbb Q}^2$ and $h$ defined by $$ h(a)=A(^a{}_1)A^{-1},\ \ \ A=(^1_0{}^{\pi}_1). $$ Then $h$ is not defined over $\overline{\mathbb Q}$. But it is conjugate to a homomorphism which is defined over $\mathbb Q$. Maybe that's what you need?


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It appears in Mishneh Torah, Sefer Nezikin, Hilchot Gezeilah v'Aveidah, Chapter 1.
In the Frankel edition (with almost an identical version appearing on the Mechon Mamre website) this appears in Halacha 1.
My rough translation: Anyone who steals money or something that is worth more than a perutah has transgressed the negative commandment of: "Do not steal". And one does not receive lashes because of this since it is a transgression that one may pay back, since the Torah has obligated (the thief) to pay (back the money or stolen property). And this applies equally to one who steals the money of a Jew, or one who steals the money of an idolatrous gentile, or to one who steals the money of an adult or of a child.
In the vilna edition this appears in Halacha 2:
My rough translation: "It is forbidden from the Torah to steal, and one may not even steal from a non-Jew. And if one steals, one must return (the stolen property)."
As Robert points out below, the above translations are not completely accurate, since they all translate the verbs גונב, גוזל, and עושק as "to steal", when really each one refers to a different manner of theft (the differences are discussed in other later halachot in Chapter 1).
The Magid Mishnah cites the primary source for this (among others) as being in Bava Kama 113b.
Actually, thanks to Yaakov, I just ran across it in the following chapter, Hilchot Genivah chapter A paragraph A:
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JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (WIBW) -- When four puppies were dropped off at the Junction City/Geary County Animal Shelter on July 27, 2012, they seemed healthy. After being evaluated and vaccinated, they were placed in the general dog population. A few days passed and the pups, a boxer/lab mix, started to get sick. They ended up testing positive for the parvovirus.
"With the parvovirus, they can be carrying the virus and not show any symptoms and until they start showing symptoms, you can't test them. They will not test positive unless you see symptoms. At the time when they came into the shelter, they had no symptoms. When we put them back into the dog population, still no symptoms. They were back there two days before they displayed," explained Lisa Junghans, the shelter director. She says the puppies were brought in from the Westwood area of the city.
"Parvo is a severe, debilitating, potentially life-threatening disease. It is one of if not the most contagious diseases that affects dogs and unfortunately, it's a disease we see way too commonly in this area. Parvo, in this part of the state, is an endemic disease. It is always present," Dr. Mark Stenstrom, veterinarian at the Animal Care Clinic in Junction City.
Without the resources to treat the dogs at the shelter, the four puppies were euthanized, along with another sick puppy, a Shar-Pei mix, that was being housed in the cage next to theirs.
"It is the symptoms of the virus that will cause death in the dog- vomiting, bloody diarrhea, lethargy, lack of desire to eat, they give up eating and then eventually the diarrhea and the dehydration will kill them.. They have all been euthanized because there's no way to treat this, especially not in this type of environment. You get a 50/50 chance regardless if you treat them so to keep them in this environment and try to treat them, you can't do it. It requires a veterinary stay in a veterinary hospital and thousands of dollars per dog," Junghans told 13 News.
As a result of the virus, the shelter has quarantined 35 dogs, closing its canine population to the public for now. WIBW crews were not permitted to get footage in that area. In the meantime, staff members continue to monitor the dogs for any symptoms in an effort to control and eradicate the disease.
"Right now, we are bleaching, bleaching, bleaching everything which we do every day. It's just a very deep clean on a daily basis and a wait and watch situation- watching every animal and making sure we're not seeing any symptoms with every dog that's back there and that will continue," Junghans said.
"Vaccinate your animals because that is a big part of why we have this problem. If people would start vaccinating and keeping their animals vaccinated, we wouldn't see the parvo problems we're seeing," she urged dog owners.
"If you vaccinate your dog and you vaccinate them properly and you keep them up to date and you complete the series of shots when they're puppies, you really don't have to worry about the virus.... Keeping them inside, avoiding other dogs isn't going to solve your problem. Parvo can be spread from yard to yard, house to house, dog food bowl to dog food bowl, by flies and other insects. You just need to keep them up on their shots," Dr. Stenstrom added.
If there are no other outbreaks, dog adoptions and drop offs will start again on August 20th. Patrons can still drop off cats and other pets besides dogs.
The director is asking members of the community who want to surrender their pets to the shelter, to hold on to their dogs as long as possible.
"We're having a lot of problems with people wanting to surrender right now... Animals are still coming in through Animal Control and people leaving their animals here at this building overnight. So things continue to come in but we can't let anything out and it's putting us in an overcrowded position and I would rather not have to euthanize," she said.


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The Promise of 3-D Mammography
Tomosynthesis gives clearer images of dense breast tissue, and can detect cancers that could be overlooked.
More women are learning that they have dense breasts – but, have no idea what that means. Breast density is a very strong risk factor for breast cancer. The good news is that a recent study by the National Cancer Institute has found that breast density does not increase the risk of death in cancer patients. But, the trick is finding the cancer in that dense breast tissue. Doctors often recommend further screening for women with dense breasts and other risk factors. That's where digital tomosynthesis or three-dimensional (3-D) mammography can make a difference.
Tomosynthesis can find hard to detect cancers in dense breast tissue
Dartmouth-Hitchcock is a pioneer in 3D mammography. For nearly10 years, Dartmouth-Hitchcock researchers have been at the forefront of breast health, developing new breast imaging technologies to detect breast cancer and limit false alarms. "We were among the first in the U.S. to research tomosynthesis technology," says radiologist Steven Poplack, M.D., the director of breast imaging at D-H. "The academic medical center [DHMC-Lebanon] was one of five institutions that conducted clinical trials and contributed data that ultimately lead to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval."
D-H Brings 3-D Mammography to patients in Lebanon, Manchester, and Nashua
Digital tomosynthesis is considered one of the most significant advancements in breast imaging in nearly four decades. When 3-D mammography was approved by the FDA in 2011, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center was the first in the state to use it to screen patients; it's now being used at D-H Manchester, and D-H Nashua. "We benefit from the research that was performed at DHMC," says radiologist Daniel Abbis, D.O., at D-H Nashua's Breast Health & Imaging Center. "Now, tomosynthesis is being implemented in more of our clinical practices." Radiologist Todd Noce, D.O., at D-H Manchester, agrees: "Most breast centers in the state don't have a collaborative relationship with a tertiary center providing expertise. D-H is ahead of the curve in getting this out to their patient population and using it to screen the appropriate patients."
Patients like Linda Burroughs know the benefits of tomosynthesis technology first hand. On the eve of undergoing a partial mastectomy, Burroughs was asked if she would be willing to join a D-H study on the latest breast imaging technology. She agreed, and the 3-D mammography detected the presence of cancer in her other breast; her doctor performed partial mastectomies on both breasts. "Another year," says Burroughs, "could have been too late for me." (Read full story.)
Multiple x-rays are formed into 3D images that are cleaner and clearer
"The technology yields a cleaner, clearer image," says Abbis. "Tomosynthesis allows us to see through breast tissue better than traditional 2-D mammography; allowing us to see a small cancer that otherwise could easily be overlooked." The 3-D breast imaging is generally done in combination with a traditional 2-D digital screening mammogram exam; it uses a technology similar to CT scans. The imaging machine moves in a short arc, taking multiple X-rays that a computer forms into a 3-D image. "Imaging providers at D-H," says Abbis, "all have additional certification to interpret the new tomo studies."
For most women, 2-D digital mammography is still considered the current standard. D-H now offers 3-D mammography to those showing up for their first mammogram; to serve as a baseline, says Abbis. In addition to first-timers, 3-D is also beneficial to those whose previous test results weren't clear, and those with radiographically dense breast. Most radiologists predict tomosynthesis will eventually become the gold standard of breast imaging.
Reduced false positives: less anxiety and fewer additional costs
While there is a slight increase in radiation with 3-D exams, the benefits far outweigh the risks, says Dr. Noce. "It provides a better study, reduces the likelihood of additional imaging, and gives patients a definitive answer which means less patient anxiety. Since being implemented in mid-July, digital tomosynthesis has already reduced the number of mammogram callbacks. In Manchester, callback rates are below five percent; in Nashua they're now down to four percent. "That means patients don't have to come back, get more imaging, or go through a six month follow-up', says Noce. " It actually becomes more cost effective and more convenient; especially for patients with high deductible insurance plans who would have to pay for any additional tests or costs."
3-D Biopsy Available in Lebanon
"A key factor in a patients' prognosis is being able to pick up breast cancers very early, and digital tomosynthesis has been shown to do that," says Dr. Abbis. "What we're doing biopsies on now, is actually more often proving to be something of significance for patients. It's getting rid of a lot of the false alarms that many patients had encountered in the past."
When there's a finding on the 3-D image only, you generally need a specialized device to biopsy that finding. So, along with the advanced 3-D mammogram equipment, D-H also provides 3-D biopsies at the medical center in Lebanon. "In time that technology", says Abbis, "will hopefully be widely available at Community Group Practices across the D-H system." The new imaging tool improves biopsy technology in much the same way that tomosynthesis advanced mammography; it will be especially beneficial to women with hard-to-detect cancers.
Digital tomosynthesis and 3-D biopsy technology offer new hope in the fight against cancer. Along with the technology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock also has the largest, most comprehensive team of breast imaging specialists in the state. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. D-H is committed to providing the most advanced technologies available for the early detection and treatment of breast cancer, as well as reducing unnecessary testing.
For more information on breast mammography and the 3-D technology available, visit Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Breast Health & Imaging site. Watch this video to hear the experts talk about the technology and benefits of 3-D mammography.
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"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." ~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu
When I was a young adult, in the 1970's, my mother was introduced to the "reduce, reuse, recycle" thought process. She, of course, knew that my sister and I would be interested in this same idea and an obsession was born. I became aware of the importance of reducing my use of harmful things to our environment. I also tried hard to find uses and reuses for items that I already owned or purchased. But I became OBSESSED with recycling.
I began to save all of my paper and I began to sort by number all of my plastic. Glass containers were faithfully saved to be recycled. At the time I had to take all of my recycling to Edmore. The recycling company came once a month and we took our recycling to them. This meant I had to have a spot to save all of this recycling until it was time to take it to Edmore. They were very adamant about making sure that you had prepared the recycling in the right way or they would not take it.
In the early 80's I moved to Crystal and took my obsession with me. Now, however, I was also recycling all of the paper that I amassed at Palo School where I taught. I would bring that home and then take all of my recycling to Edmore once a month. Again, I had to save it all at my house until it was time to take it to Edmore. My basement became a literal mess with bags of recycling. It was beginning to be too much. At this time Linda Wells at Palo School arranged to have a recycling dog house brought to Palo. Now I could recycle the items from school and home at Palo. My house let out a sigh of relief!!
The moment of truth for me came at a friend's graduation open house. They served the food on plastic plates. I felt compelled to take the bags of garbage home. I fished out the plates and cups from the garbage and washed them all so that I could recycle them. It was absurd. My daughter was 16 at the time. She helped me but we both realized that this was too much.
It was at this time that I heard Archbishop Desmond Tutu speak at a Service Learning Conference. He is a dynamic person and you just hang on his every word. But at the same time, he is just a regular person. He came out on the stage that night and he approached the podium. Now Archbishop Tutu is rather short. He could just barely see over the top of the podium. Quickly the stage hands came out with a riser for him to stand on. He stepped up on to the riser, he looked out at the crowd, and he said "Ta Da! This is much better!" Just a normal guy and we loved him.
He talked about how each person is important in their own right. We all have our own talents and we are encouraged to share them as well as our time and if possible our treasure. He said that the needs in the world are overwhelming and one person cannot do it all. But they can do something.
He said the power of one is wonderful. So, don't go nuts trying to meet all of the needs of the world. Find the things that you can do and do them. Look at the big picture and see where you belong in it and then do your part. If we all do our part, then the power of lots of "ones" put together will be amazing.
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There is a discrepancy between my ruby version of RVM, and the actual version that my system seems to use.
max@max-VirtualBox:~/ruby/app$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [i686-linux]
max@max-VirtualBox:~/ruby/app$ rvm list
rvm rubies
ruby-1.9.3-p286 [ i686 ]
=* ruby-1.9.3-p327 [ i686 ]
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RVM is not a function, selecting rubies with 'rvm use ...' will not work.
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I have a SharePoint List with a column of type 'Multiple lines of Text'. Then I copy a Excel spreadsheet content into the List using
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Is it possible to stop SharePoint from adding other HTML coding beside the ones that I have in my Excel file?
I have the following excel file:
==================== | Alice and John | | Mary and Peter | | June and Johnny | ====================
If I copy into the SharePoint list using the
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 Alice and John
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But what I wanted SharePoint to display was this:
================== Couple: | Alice and John | ==================


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Who is considered a native speaker of English? I am a little confused by the various answers found online.
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A "native speaker of English" refers to someone who has learned and used English from early childhood. It does not necessarily mean that it is the speaker's only language, but it means it is and has been the primary means of concept formation and communication. It means having lived in a truly English-speaking culture during one's formative years, so that English has been absorbed effortlessly as by osmosis.
One can have been born and grown up in a country that lists English as one of its official languages and not be a "native" speaker. For example, Canadians from Quebec cannot automatically be considered native English speakers even though many speak English quite well; they were brought up speaking French as a first language and think in French (or Canardien, as I have heard unkind Parisians refer to it). But the rest of Canada does largely consist of native speakers of English.
Speaking "like a native" of any language means more than just knowing vocabulary and grammar. Many educated foreign speakers speak better formal English than, say, many Americans or British or Australians. But formal English is only one aspect of the language. Knowing instantly what slang means, what cultural references mean, how to reduce syntax to a bare minimum and still convey precise meaning — all these things, and more, are what constitute native speech.
It's apparent that different people have different notions of what a "native speaker" is. To a linguist, the term generally implies that a speaker has "internalised" the language through "natural acquisition", rather than through deliberate instruction/learning.
A "native speaker", as opposed to an extremely proficient second language speaker, can often make instant judgements about whether sentences "on the fringe" of the language's grammar sound grammatical. So for example, native speakers can probably instantly make judgments about whether the following sentences of English "sound normal":
It appears that a non-native speaker, even an extremely proficient one, will tend to make a judgement about these sentences much less readily.
There are other, essentially non-linguistic, definitions of "native speaker", e.g. "the language that I speak most and have the most cultural attachment to" or "The language that I acquired first". An issue which I'm actually currently discussing on another forum with fellow translators is that there are people claiming to be "native speakers" of English who write sentences such as "I have experience of translator since 4 years". I personally think this is an unuseful definition of "native speaker", but it shows how much confusion/variability there is.
Literally, a native speaker of English is somebody that learned English as their first language.
In reality, I would say that a native speaker of English is a speaker of English which also thinks primarily in English and which other native speakers of English would recognize as such. It's certainly a circular definition but I think that that's a key part of any definition. Trying to leave it out caused me to give an incomplete definition earlier.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -Kansas finally received some much needed rain Wednesday but one isolated area had to deal with much more than that.
People on North Topeka Boulevard near the Shawnee / Jackson County line saw gusts up to 70 miles per hour when the storm blew through around 5 PM.
One roof inspector could not believe how quick and hard the storms damaged the homes but residents are thankful for how fast neighbors and friends responded with help.
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Neighborhood resident Margaret Williams was overjoyed with how quick the help came. "This street, and the next was full of cars with people to help us. Perfect strangers stopped to ask how they could help us.
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How long does it take to prepare spells? I see in one place in the book that spell preparation is supposed to take one hour, but I see in another that it can take 'as few as 15 minutes'. Which is it?
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From the Core Rulebook under the Cleric class in Chapter 3: Each cleric must choose a time when she must spend 1 hour each day in quiet contemplation or supplication to regain her daily allotment of spells. By daily allotment this refers to all their spells.
From the Core Rulebook under Divine spells in Chapter 9: When preparing spells for the day, a cleric can leave some of her spell slots open. Later during that day, she can repeat the preparation process as often as she likes. During these extra sessions of preparation, she can fill these unused spell slots ... Like the first session of the day, this preparation takes at least 15 minutes, and it takes longer if she prepares more than one-quarter of his spells.
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2012 a time of sadness, adversity concerning several local athletes
Doug and Heather Kirton were swarmed by the love of their four daughters, but even that couldn't protect them from the huge void that swept into their lives last May. Life hasn't been the same for the Kirton family since the son they all called Brother was suddenly taken from them.
Johnie Kirton was 26 years old when his body was found in a Santa Clara, Calif., hotel room seven months ago, sending a shockwave through the local sports community that remembers him from his days as a bruising, record-setting tailback at Jackson High School and a popular teammate on the University of Washington football team. His cause of death was not known at the time, and The Herald is still awaiting a copy of the autopsy report.
It still hasn't gotten any easier for the family Kirton left behind.
"It's been horrible," Heather Kirton said via telephone Thursday morning. "... The hardest thing is people can't imagine it. You imagine losing a parent or consider the probability of losing a spouse, but you never, ever, think about losing a child. You can't plan for it. You can't expect it. Ever."
The death of Johnie Kirton, one of the most prolific high school football players in state history, marked the obvious low point of a remarkably adverse calendar year for some of Snohomish County's finest stars of recent memory.
Several other athletes from this area have been in the headlines because of injury and off-the-field incidents, and while none of it compares to what the Kirton family is going through, it certainly makes one ask what 2012 had against Snohomish County sports stars.
Cascade High School graduate Grady Sizemore saw his professional baseball career take another hit when a back problem that flared up in spring training eventually required surgery, ending his 2012 season before it began. The Cleveland Indians outfielder, now an unsigned free agent, has not played a full season since 2008, his last year as an All-Star.
Jon Brockman, a former Snohomish High School and UW basketball star, suffered a more gruesome injury in September, four months after being traded from the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks to the Houston Rockets. During a workout at the Rockets' facility, Brockman injured his eye when a weight band that was attached to his foot sprung loose and struck him in the face.
The injury, which hospitalized Brockman for three days but did not require surgery, kept him out of Rockets' training camp. Brockman, who is believed to be the county's first prolonged NBA player since Jack Nichols 60 years earlier, eventually got cut and is now playing in France, marking the first time since his rookie year in 2009-10 that Brockman is not on an NBA roster.
It has also been a tough year for Snohomish County's latest up-and-coming basketball star. Brett Kingma, who led Jackson High to the 4A state championship game as a junior, left the University of Oregon and ended up joining the Washington State basketball team before an October arrest in Pullman put his WSU career on hold.
Kingma was charged with possession of marijuana and minor in possession, then got suspended from the team for an indefinite period of time. Cougars coach Ken Bone hinted that Kingma might get kicked off the team but re-instated him a couple of weeks ago.
The year wasn't just rough on athletes with Snohomish County ties; it was also hard on the area's professional teams. The Everett Silvertips finished off a 2011-12 season with just 22 wins -- the second-lowest total in the Western Hockey League -- and were swept out of the playoffs in March. They enter this weekend in last place in the U.S. Division midway through the 2012-13 season. During the calendar year, the Silvertips won 29 games and lost 50.
That's nothing compared to what happened to the Washington Stealth of the National Lacrosse League. Everett's NLL franchise had a horrific start to the 2012 calendar year with news that head coach Chris Hall had been diagnosed with throat cancer. The Stealth, who were coming off back-to-back appearances in the NLL championship game, got off to a 1-5 start in Hall's absence and finished the season with a league-worst 4-12 mark.
As they say in the sports world, there is always next year. And so the turn of a calendar page could come as a welcome act for local athletes from past and present.
None of that, however, will help the Kirton family. The loved ones Johnie Kirton left behind, including a 3-year-old daughter named Jayde, are still reeling from the kind of loss that makes sports seem trivial.
"It makes no sense," mother Heather Kirton said.
Johnie Kirton may have played his final football game in 2012 -- he was with the San Jose SaberCats of the Arena Football League at the time of his death, two weeks after being traded from Arizona -- but he won't be forgotten. Heather Kirton realized just how much of an impact he made off the field while organizing pictures for a June memorial service at Christian Faith Center in Everett.
"There were thousands of pictures of our son at children's hospitals with ill children, or at a Scottsdale park with kids hanging off of him, or during his trip to South Africa. Every picture, he had children hanging off of him," his mother said.
"He wanted to be a firefighter when he was a kid, but as he got older, he realized his real love was children. He was a giant, but kids would just flock to him.
"He had a gift. We believe that in the 26 years he had, he did more good than most people do in a lifetime."
It' wasn't all bad
Here are nine local athletes who will remember 2012 fondly:
JOHN ALLENThe Mountlake Terrace High School grad led the Western Washington men's basketball team to an NCAA Division II national championship.
KYLE CORNETTJackson High golfer won the Class 4A state championship in May.
KARINN DICKINSONThe 2007 Kamiak High grad won the Washington State Women's Amateur golf title in June.
KATIE HOLLOWAYLake Stevens native won a silver medal in sitting volleyball at Paralympic Games.
DEREK JONESSnohomish High product broke WSU's career home run record, then was selected in eighth round of MLB draft by the Colorado Rockies.
MARTI MALLOYOak Harbor native won an Olympic bronze medal in judo (57 kilograms).
AMY-ELOISE NEALEGlacier Peak senior won her third individual state cross country title while leading the Grizzlies to the 2012 team title.
JARRED ROMEThe discus thrower from Marysville qualified for his second Olympic Games.
KEIVARAE RUSSELLFormer Mariner High football star helped lead Notre Dame the to national championship, starting at cornerback as a true freshman.
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7 Spectacularly Crazy Lessons Taught by Real Teachers
We get it: Teachers have a tough job. We don't want to be too hard on these poor bastards; children are objectively terrible. But still, when you're entrusting a professional with the fragile minds of the nation's future citizens, you kind of hope they're not, you know, frothingly insane. But the following teachers were either completely nuts or just having really off days on the job ...
#7. Teacher Orders 6-Year-Olds to Beat Up Another Student
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It must be a challenging and delicate task to deal with the problem of bullying among kids. If one of the kids in your class is being a little shit to everyone, how do you nip it in the bud without making it worse? Well, Texas teacher Cynthia Ambrose knew there was only one way: assemble the rest of the students into a tiny little lynch mob to dispense toddler justice.
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"Tee ball? No, we like to think of it as 'bat assault practice.'"
Ambrose had been having problems with Aiden Neely, a 6-year-old student, who had apparently been beating on some of the other kids in her class. Rather than send the kid to the principal's office or make a phone call to his parents, Ambrose decided to give Neely a taste of his own medicine in true Texas style by lining up the other students and getting them one by one to beat the snot out of him.
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They don't call it the Lone Scar State for nothing.
The teacher claims that the kids turned on Neely of their own accord, but witnesses -- including another teacher -- say that Ambrose encouraged the act and had her classroom set up like some kind of kiddie gladiator arena. Maybe she dreamed of filming it and pitching it as a reality show. Either way, Ambrose was hauled into court after the stunt and wound up getting sentenced to 30 days in jail, although the sentence was repealed due to a jury mishap and she's waiting for a new trial.
#6. Teacher Lets Preschoolers Taste Her Blood
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When it comes to learning, a little hands-on experience can go a long way. That's apparently what a Norwegian teacher figured when she allowed her kindergarten students, who were curious about blood, to play with and even taste her own bodily fluids.
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Which is a service outside the pay scale of a typical preschooler.
According to the teacher (who is thankfully no longer employed), the children had expressed an interest in what blood was and how it works. Where normal people would sense that they were living in a horror movie and immediately burn the school to the ground, this teacher saw a learning opportunity. While there are numerous effective methods of educating kids on this matter, like showing them a goddamn diagram or educational video, the teacher decided on a more practical approach: She had a doctor draw out a vial of her own blood and then brought it to class for show and tell.
After passing the vial around the class for the students (who ranged from 3 to 6 years old), at least one kid apparently asked whether they could taste it. Presumably not wanting to upset what were clearly the Children of the Damned, the teacher said yes. Fortunately, staff and parents found out about it before the kids' career in vampirism could go any further, or before they became curious about any other bodily humors.
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"No more playing with blood for today, kids. Why don't you go play with your toys instead?"
#5. Somehow, Multiple Teachers Have Stripped in Front of Students
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Those who study philosophy spend time pondering life's greatest questions. But for the students of one Paris high school philosophy class, questions like "What is the meaning of life?" gave way to "Why am I seeing my teacher's scrotum right now?"
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In this class, everybody gets a D+.
See, teacher Bernard Defrance liked to play a game with his students: The kids would ask him questions, and every time Defrance failed to come up with the answer, he would remove a piece of clothing. One day his students were just too darn good for Defrance (or maybe he "lost" on purpose, wink wink) and he was left standing in the nude. The unexamined life may not be worth living, but we're pretty sure we can go without ever examining the folds of Defrance's body.
One of the students defended Defrance by saying that he was just showing the class that he was "like everyone else." We're not sure what they thought Defrance was like before this incident, but apparently they were worried that he was not an anatomically correct human male. Well, he sure cleared that up for them.
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"See, I take my pants off one leg at a time, just like you."
In case you thought that teachers removing their clothes was just some crazy thing they do in France, an American physics professor at Columbia disrobed in front of students in an effort to show them how hard quantum mechanics is. He did this in front of a video of 9/11 footage, the entire show apparently being an effort to "confuse them" so that their weary brains might be more ready to accept the bizarreness of quantum physics. See, this is why that screen mounted to Stephen Hawking's wheelchair is just a continuous scrolling slideshow of penises.
#4. Teachers Stage a Mass Shooting During a Field Trip
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It can be hard to come up with unique activities to make your school camp memorable and not just another forgettable excursion to bumfuck nowhere, singing "Kumbaya" around a campfire while everyone wishes they were back at home. That's the dilemma teachers at Scales Elementary School in Tennessee faced, so they decided to spice up their field trip by staging a mock mass shooting for their sixth graders.
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That explains why sing-along night included "Don't Fear the Reaper."
The "prank," which by the way took place less than a month after the Virginia Tech shooting, involved teachers (including an assistant principal) going from dorm to dorm advising students that a gunman was on the loose and taking no prisoners. The students were thus swept up in a whirlwind of panic as they shut off the lights and hurried under nearby furniture. To heighten the realism of it, a hooded teacher went by pulling on the locked doors, lest they falsely believe that school protocols would save them.
For their part, the students took it quite well, some sobbing in the tense darkness, others attempting to text their parents about their impending detour to the big Magic School Bus in the Sky. According to school director Marilyn Mathis, the prank was intended as a safety drill, which it kind of was if the goal was to teach students what to do if their teachers ever went bugfuck insane.
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Step One: Find a new school district.
Many enraged parents hoping to see pink slips rain from the sky were sorely disappointed to find out that dickbaggery is not a firing offense -- it only resulted in suspensions for a teacher and the assistant principal. Well, that's fair -- after all, a suspension is what another district handed out to a 7-year-old for eating his Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun. That's pretty much the same thing.


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Metallic is a great theme because it not only makes a stunning statement but also is easy to bring into everything from accessories to fabrics to flowers. It also can be interpreted in a classic or modern way, and everything in between.
It's smart to wear gloves and a dust mask and lay some newspaper around to catch the overspray. Use a flower-specific spray, such as Design Master Just for Flowers, DMColor.com. Hold the spray can from 1 to 2 feet away and apply in a fine mist.
Believe it or not, plastic succulents work beautifully. They have a lot of surface area and interesting shapes, so it doesn't take many to give you a metallic pop. Using artificial succulents also means they'll never wilt.
You can also just coat the tips of flowers, like roses or carnations. Just surround the bottom part of the flower with your gloved hand so only the edges get misted.
Of course you can also coat the flower entirely. Hydrangeas in particular are amazing with a metallic hue.
Tie your colors and fabrics into your centerpieces. It's easy enough to do yourself... or perhaps delegate the honor to one of your lovelies.
A simple cylinder vase shape is easiest to wrap, so start there.
Choose a ribbon color that works with your color theme. Go with a two to three inch wide ribbon width.
Cut a test length of ribbon, enough so it wraps around your vase a couple times and then leaves enough extra so you can tie a nice bow. Cut several more, wrap the vase and line up the bows. Ta da!
Whether a beach wedding or a mountain getaway, add some local charm with elements you find around you.
Here we imagined we were surfside. Find or buy shells, coral, driftwood.
Prune the stems off your flowers or just use flower petals and adorn. Little arrangements like this work great next to guest books, or on tables where you might have photos displayed, at the bar, etc. Have fun with it.
Add a lot of mood with a little effort.
Choose a fire-retardant tulle and buy about 4 yards of fabric for each chandelier you want to drape. More or less fabric depending on how high the lamp is and how much you want it to pool.
Consider using LED bulbs as they produce less heat.
Drape the chandelier and let it pool as desired. Of course you can also do this same treatment to other types of lamps...fromJapanese lanterns to something more modern.


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Why Your Car's Mileage May Not Always Measure Up
It's possible to get precise measurements of nearly every feature of a car, from trunk space to front hip room. But the most important attribute for many shoppers—fuel economy—is still just an estimate.
Drivers, regulators and car makers have long been vexed by the variance between the mileage figures published on a showroom vehicle's window sticker (which are based on Environmental Protection Agency testing protocols) and the car's real-world fuel consumption. Now, federal regulators and auto makers are rethinking how to close the gap between their fuel-economy estimates and actual mileage—particularly for vehicles that use newer technology, like electric-hybrid systems or turbochargers.
Consumer Reports, in a review of Ford Motor Co. F -0.39 % 's 2013 Fusion sedan last week, questioned the fuel-economy benefits of Ford's EcoBoost engines, saying that in its tests, vehicles equipped with the turbocharged motors haven't delivered the promised fuel efficiency. The Fusion SE with a 1.6-liter EcoBoost engine achieved 25 miles per gallon overall in its testing, below the EPA's rating of 28 mpg and below Consumer Reports' results for other cars in its class, including the Honda Accord (30 mpg) and the Nissan Altima (31 mpg).
Ford says its own and third-party research indicates customers are satisfied with their EcoBoost vehicles.
For consumers, burned by bouts of $4-a-gallon gasoline, accurate mileage estimates are more important than ever. Consulting firm Deloitte found in a 2012 survey of young consumers that nearly half are willing to pay as much as $300 extra for every extra mile per gallon they believe they can get by buying a hybrid instead of a conventional car.
Generally, auto makers charge a premium for gasoline or diesel vehicles that use technology such as turbochargers or lighter-weight materials to get more miles out of a gallon. Ford charges about $2,600 more for a 2013 Ford Escape with a 1.6-liter, turbocharged "EcoBoost" engine, that gets two more miles per gallon on the highway based on EPA tests, than an Escape with a standard, 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine. That is about $1,300 extra for each added highway mpg.
One problem regulators and car makers face is that the EPA estimates are generated in laboratories using precise, repeatable formulas, while in the real world drivers report wide ranges of mileage for the same car.
Mike Young, 24, says he gets about 22 miles per gallon in the city and as much as 30 to 31 mpg on the highway in his 2002 Nissan Altima V6. That is considerably better than the car's 17 city, 24 highway rating based on the EPA testing protocols.
Mr. Young, who works in public relations in the Philadelphia area, says he drives "fairly fast" on the highway, but tries to hold a constant speed. "I'm not one of those people who's on the gas and off the gas."
On the other end of the spectrum is Brent Wardle of Meridian, Idaho, who says he's planning to trade in his 2012 Hyundai HYMLY 0.00 % Sonata hybrid because he's only averaging about 22 mpg in a car that in 2012 was rated by the EPA at 35 city, 40 mpg highway.
That mileage claim, he says, "is exactly why I bought it," passing up a more expensive Toyota Camry hybrid. "Boy, was that a mistake."
Hyundai Motor Corp. has admitted it conducted mileage tests on many 2012 and 2013 models improperly. The company has agreed to refund customers the difference in fuel costs implied by the gap between the old, inflated ratings and new lower ones—a one mpg difference in the Sonata Hybrid's case. Mr. Wardle says he's gotten just $7.42 from Hyundai so far, an amount based on his average mileage and fuel prices. He says the money hasn't exactly changed his mind about dumping the car.
The EPA invites vehicle owners to share their mileage on its fueleconomy.gov website. The reports of city and highway fuel consumption logged by 15 owners of 2012 Sonata Hybrids average to 36.2 mpg—0.2 miles per gallon above the official combined city/highway estimate.
For some other hybrids, the variation is greater. Fueleconomy.gov lists reports from 65 owners of the new Ford C-Max hybrid, who have together averaged 39.1 miles per gallon in combined city and highway driving—not the 47 mpg that Ford advertises based on the performance the car recorded in the five-part fuel-economy test program required by the EPA. Among those drivers reporting, some achieved as much as 56 mpg, and others as few as 28 mpg.
EPA officials are in the process of getting a C-Max to test themselves at the agency's fuel-economy laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich. They want to study the vehicle, in part, because it presents a new technology wrinkle that may be flummoxing its long-standing tests. The car is designed to go as fast as 62 miles per hour using batteries alone. The EPA's traditional highway test is conducted at an average speed of 48.3 miles per hour and a top speed of 60.
The agency in 2008 added new tests designed to narrow the gap with real-world driving by simulating highway speeds up to 80 mph, as well as driving in hot and cold weather. It is also considering conducting tests using gasoline cut with 10% ethanol, like most commercially available fuel, instead of the pure gasoline prescribed now. The 10% ethanol blends tend to drop mileage by 3% to 4%, the agency says.
A 2011 study by two Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers concluded that the results of the EPA's 2008 testing system "tend to underestimate the real-world benefits of fuel economy."
Raj Nair, Ford's vice president for engineering, says Ford is confident that it has conducted the EPA tests properly on all its vehicles. But especially with hybrids such as the C-Max, he says, variables such as temperature, a driver's behavior and the engineering choices Ford makes to balance mileage and performance can make a big difference.
Ford could design its throttle systems to deliver slower, steadier acceleration and get higher scores on the EPA tests, Mr. Nair says. "We choose not to do that," he says, because Ford wants a car that is "fun to drive."
Rick Larrick, a professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, says consumers would be better served if the government and auto makers simply junked the miles-per-gallon measurement altogether.
Mr. Larrick says gallons consumed over 100 miles of driving—the way mileage is measured in Europe—is a more useful yardstick because, ultimately, the variance in mpgs has less impact than most people think.
A car that gets 33 miles per gallon consumes 3 gallons per 100 miles. How much would you save by trading for a car that gets 50 mpg? The answer: 1 gallon per 100 miles.
"You see these large differences in miles per gallon that don't make much difference," says Mr. Larrick.


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