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To Charm and Make Friends Fast: Share, Don't Overshare
To establish closeness between strangers, relationship researchers use a technique in which two people disclose information about themselves gradually and reciprocally.
Carla Madrigal knew nobody in Seattle when she moved there last year after 38 years in San Francisco. She wanted to make new friends. "It was pretty devastating to be so anonymous," the 68-year-old artist says.
To meet people, Ms. Madrigal made herself get out of the house every day. She joined a gym and a community garden, took yoga classes and visited a teahouse. And although she considers herself a shy person, she struck up conversations on the bus and at the grocery.
But she still had trouble making lasting relationships. Many people were nice, but she had nothing in common with them. Others resisted getting close.
Then two months ago, Ms. Madrigal was in a store when a woman complimented her hair. They began to chat and discovered that they both liked to work with textiles and to write. After a few minutes, Ms. Madrigal took a risk: "Would you like to come over to my house for coffee … now?" she asked.
The woman accepted her invite—and the two are now close pals.
"I thought all friendships had to be 'slow cooking,' taking years of experiencing life together," Ms. Madrigal says. "This experience was a marvelous revelation."
Is it possible to forge an intimate friendship quickly?
Research psychologists say yes. To study friendship in the lab, many use a protocol called "Fast Friends," which helps strangers establish "interpersonal closeness" in 45 minutes. The key? Both subjects need to gradually disclose personal information.
Here's how it works: Researchers give people working in pairs three sets of 12 questions written on index cards. The questions must be answered in order, with partners taking turns answering each question.
Questions in the first set are only slightly personal ("Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say?" "When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?"). In the second set, they are a little more personal ("What is your most terrible memory?" "Is there something that you've dreamed of doing for a long time? Why haven't you done it?"). The last set is personal ("When did you last cry in front of another person? By yourself?" "Of all the people in your family, whose death would you find the most disturbing?"). Each set of questions also includes a relationship-building exercise ("Tell your partner what you like about them").
The point is to build connection gradually, even if it's happening in a 45-minute window.
"You want to be slow and reciprocal," says Arthur Aron, professor of psychology at Stony Brook University, in New York, who developed the protocol. "If you disclose too much too fast, you put someone off."
Not sure how to find the sweet spot between disclosing too little and disclosing too much? Remember how badly you wanted to get off the plane the last time someone in the next seat downloaded way too much information.
Oversharing is often seen as one-sided, overwhelming and socially inappropriate, Dr. Aron says. How can you tell if you are doing it? The other person may seem tense, fidgety or at a loss for words.
The Fast Friends technique can be used to improve business connections, relationships between neighbors and romantic bonds, Dr. Aron says.
Researchers have used it when studying how to create closeness between individuals of different ethnic backgrounds and between groups that often distrust each other (for example, police officers and residents of low-income neighborhoods).
I've made great friends quickly while condo hunting, waiting in line to vote and interviewing people for this column. Of course, not every effort has been a success. There's a special spark or chemistry that has to be there. When I meet someone I think I might like to know better, my secret is to share something about myself that is both personal and maybe a little embarrassing or self-deprecating (I often tell people that I am divorced.) That tends to spark their curiosity and open them up.
I made one of the best friendships of my life over just one lunch. I was stressed and confused about an encounter I'd had the night before with a man I'd just met but really liked. My lunch companion was a social psychologist, luckily for me, whose research I thought I might want to write about. Before we'd even ordered, I asked him if I could get his opinion on something personal, but told him I would only feel comfortable sharing if he would then tell me something about himself. That lunch became the beginning of many hours of mutual support and laughter.
"The only way to establish intimacy is to be willing to open up about yourself," says David Bakke, 46, an editor at a personal-finance website. "Once both parties see an initial connection, it's quite easy to open up about more intimate details." One of Mr. Bakke's closest friends, he says, is a former co-worker, a man almost 15 years his junior who became a friend within a matter of days. Although some of his colleagues teased him about the age difference, Mr. Bakke says, he values the friendship because the two can talk about both work and personal issues.
When Ms. Madrigal's new friend, Susan Hanover, 61, came to her house on the day they met, they talked about art and their creative projects. "The more she talked about herself, the more I realized she is like me," Ms. Madrigal says.
Before long, Ms. Hanover hinted about a sad time in her own life. Then Ms. Madrigal shared a story she doesn't often tell, about the end of her first marriage and how she had to rebuild her life afterward. The sharing, Ms. Madrigal says, was "careful … a conscious kind of building thing."
Ms. Hanover calls her friendship with Ms. Madrigal "an unexpected gift. The sharing and spontaneity is mutually beneficial," she says.
It has been exciting, Ms. Madrigal says, to discover she could make a deep friendship so quickly. "I learned that life can be shared in the moment and be just as alive as if it had been experienced together," she says.
Getting to Know You
Relationship researchers use these questions as part of the 'fast friends' protocol, which helps establish a feeling of closeness between strangers in about 45 minutes. While it might be awkward to start a dinner-party conversation with a question like these, they illustrate how two individuals mutually revealing information a little at a time can build a friendship
• Would you like to be famous? In what way?
• Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say? Why?
• When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?
• Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die?
• If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?
• If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be?
Source: Arthur Aron, Stony Brook University
—Write to Elizabeth Bernstein at email@example.com and follow her column at www.Facebook.com/EBernsteinWSJ.


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Teens in Cave City are now under a new curfew. It was unanimously approved Monday night by the city council. Reports of children staying out late and, in some cases, vandalizing property led council members to the decision. Some students are not pleased with the decision.
Patricia Sturgeon says, "The new Cave City curfew, I totally disagree. It be our opinion to go out at 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock with our parents' permission too."
Some teens at Caverna High School aren't happy with the city council's recent decision to impose a citywide curfew. But the mayor of Cave City says it was an easy decision.
Mayor Bob Hunt, says, "We've been having children at night ages roughly 8-14 been out anywhere from 11 o'clock at night unsupervised and we just felt like it was time to pass a curfew."
The new curfew will have anyone under eighteen in on weeknights between the hours of 11 p.m and 5 a.m. And on weekends they have to stay in from 12am until 5am.
Mayor Hunt says some parents' lack of responsibility prompted the curfew.
Hunt says, "And the council felt like it needed to be done after police had reported numerous times they saw children out and asked them to go home. Sometimes the children would say- nobody's home."
Now if parents don't take responsibility for their teen's whereabouts they can face fines up to $500 or up to six months in jail. Students say it stifles their individuality and they should be allowed to stay out.
Patricia Sturgeon, "To have fun. To experience life for itself. To basically live life to the fullest.
But for the members of Cave City council, it's a different story.
Hunt says, "If they're not out there on the streets at that time of day, well then, that's something you don't have to deal with."


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What's your take on toe rings for guys?
Somehow the conversation between my wife and I turned to toe rings the other day. She made a comment how she thought they were a unisex jewelry and thought that they looked good on men, as well as women.
They seem inexpensive enough to try, but I just can't bring myself to buy and wear one.
Your opinion?
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D-bag? That what it would scream to me anyway.... IMO.
@bellavampyre: Yeah that would be one of my thoughts, along with eww...
First thought is that it's a bit weird. It might have been in fashion when being metro was cool, but in my opinion toe rings are really more feminine than unisex.
@thedogma: That was my train of thought.
Let me guess, he wears Crocs too?
That would be one of those women only things. I had a hard enough time with the wedding band on my finger.
I find that bodily adornments are used for the purpose of attracting attention. In general, women are trying to attract men with their jewelery. If a man is wearing jewelery like that, he's looking for attention. Why else would he wear it, no fingers maybe? That's my opinion.
@miyoshinum5: Right up there with dudes wearing white socks and Birkenstocks. LOL
Or right up there with guys getting belly button rings and lower back tattoos. Kinda questionable.....
if you do, your man-card is officially revoked.
@stupimlico: I worked as a mill right, machinist, welder and drill hand. I never wore my wedding ring because I was afraid to lose a finger.
Now that I'm a stay at home dad, it feels awkward as all hell.
@matt1976: Oh I hear ya, I've always been the type to work with my hands and that was a huge concern I had when I got married. I'm getting used to it, but using some of the equipment around my shop still makes me nervous...I suppose that's not such a bad thing, once you get comfortable, that's when you hurt yourself.


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Dodge City Days 2013: Party in the Park Family Focus and Family Friendly
Billed last year as "partying Wright" this year's Party in the Park will not disappoint those choosing to attend this fun filled family event.
The Sunday, July 28th event gets kicked off with the addition of the Radio Disney folks from Kansas City who will be on hand to provide kids with the Disney-style celebration. They'll be on hand for only 1-hour from 4:00 to 5:30 pm so you don't want to arrive late.
Enrique "El Gato" Rodriguez will be the MC, and will keep things lively with dozens of local performers and entertainers on hand to energize the crowd. Sponsored by National Beef, Cargill Meat Solutions, and the Chamber's Multicultural Committee, this family friendly event gets bigger and better every year. Admission to the park is just a lapel pin and numerous vendors will be on hand for the 4 – 10 p.m. event at Wright Park.
Dodge City Days 2013: Construction forces Teen Dance move to Hoover Pavilion
Dodge City Days Officials announced today that due to renovation and expansion projects at Dodge City Community College the very popular Dodge City Days Teen Dance will be moved to the Hoover Pavilion in Wright Park.
Scheduled for the evening of Monday, July 29th from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. the event was moved to the Pavilion to accommodate the growing popularity of the Teen Dance, athletic field expansion projects at DC3, and occasional weather challenges.
"We're also weather-proofing this very popular event," noted Dodge City Days coordinator, Addy Melendez. "Several radio stations, Z-98 and La Ke Buena, will be providing music for the dance and the Pavilion is the perfect place to hold this event so that we can make certain that the kids and the electronics stay dry," she noted.
The dance is open for kids 12 – 18 years of age. Admission is only $2 with a lapel pin and includes the dance, pizza from Pizza Hut and Pepsi products.
Dodge City Days 2013: Western Art Show features Jamie Lavin.
Dodge City Days Officials announce today that Landmark National Bank will be hosting the 20th Annual Western Art Show during the 2013 Dodge City Days.
According to Landmark National Bank Market President, Jeff Oliphant, this year's artist is Jamie Lavin. His oil paintings are produced on various mediums and consist of western landscapes, wildlife, as well as other western scenes.
The artwork will be displayed July 29th through August 2nd in the lobby of Landmark's downtown Dodge City location at the corner of Central Ave and Spruce Street. The artist will be on hand to meet with the public and prints and original artwork will be offered for sale by the Artist. No admission will be charged for this popular Dodge City Days Event.
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>Crescent City California News, Sports, & Weather | The Triplicate
Full disclosure: I don't like the taste of eel. Frankly, I'm not big on salmon, either. When it gets right down to it, I'm a cold-blooded East Coast transplant who won't even clean her own crab.
Eeling is usually done in groups, and in the Yurok tradition, by men only. They battle the surging waves together and watch out for each other's safety. It's a time for bonding and sharing traditional knowledge.


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DUCK SOUP captures some of the Marx Brothers' zaniest routines and funniest quips, creating a laugh-out-loud spectacle of politics gone haywire. Backed by wealthy widow Mrs. Teasdale (regular Marx straightwoman Margaret Dumont), Groucho becomes the leader of Freedonia, quickly frustrating his cabinet and offending the aggressive neighboring country to the point of war. Chico and Harpo, sent by the rival country, spy on Groucho and try to steal his battle plans, but when war does come, loyalties become muddled all around.
Director Leo McCarey gets the most out of the brothers, letting them be their wackiest best in what many critics consider to be the funniest Marx Brothers movie. Groucho plays Rufus T. Firefly, one of his best characters. The one-liners fly through the air like the bombs exploding in the hysterical battle scene. DUCK SOUP is a must-see comedy spectacular; don't blink or you'll miss yet another stinger.... Not sure who did the math, maybe zeppo
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Deal is over, now $10.99.
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Just downloaded Zen Pinball 2 and the Plant vs. Zombies table. When you click the trophies icon on the game it tells me to buy new tables. I thought I just did... Is there just no trophy support for that table?
Looks like there are a couple of trophies associated with the Plants vs. Zombies table, see the bottom of this page:
There is indeed a problem with the trophies for Zen Pinball 2 on the PS Vita. According to this Tweet Zen Studio's is working on it.
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Apparently it is location related. It affects users in the EU and it's still not fixed.
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Trophies appeared on the PS Vita for me after I bought the Avengers Chronicles pack even though I installed the classic tables pack. On the PS3 the game just unlocked (and had trophies) after installing the classic tables pack.


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Almond Spritz Cookies
These delicate, buttery, piped cookies are usually made at Christmas time
Prep Time: 45M
Cooking Time: 12M-15M
Serves: makes about 51/2 dozen cookies
- 2 cups unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/3 cups sugar
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp almond extract
- 3 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup almond flour (almond meal)
- 9oz ( 250g) semisweet or milk chocolate, coarsely chopped
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- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line 3 large baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Beat the butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer set on high speed until smooth. Gradually beat in the sugar, and beat 2 minutes, until light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla and almond extracts. On low speed, beat in about two-thirds of the flour and the salt. Stir in the almond flour and the remaining flour. Knead in the bowl until smooth.
- Fit a pastry bag with a 3/4 in (2cm) wide star tip. In batches, transfer the dough to the bag. Pipe out 3in (7.5cm) lengths of the dough, spacing them 1in (2.5cm) apart onto the baking sheets. Bake 12-15 minutes until golden. Transfer to a wire rack to cool, but reserve the parchment-lined baking sheets.
- Melt the chocolate in a small bowl placed in a pan of barely simmering water, taking care not to splash any water into the chocolate. Dip one end of the cookies into the melted chocolate, and return to the baking sheets to cool and set the chocolate. Store in an airtight container for 2-3 days.
Marbled Cookies: Sift 2 tbsp cocoa powder with 1 tbsp sugar. Mix into a third of the dough. Combine two-thirds plain dough and one-third cocoa dough in the pastry bag. Pipe out and proceed as above.
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Basketball Hall of Famer Dan Issel, who played for the Kentucky Wildcats from 1967 to 1970, will be honored on this year's edition of the signature charitable bottle released by Keeneland and Maker's Mark.
Proceeds from the sales are expected to be about $175,000, and Maker's Mark says it will donate that to Gill Heart Institute at University of Kentucky's UK Healthcare.
Maker's Mark is making 20,000 numbered, limited-edition bottles that will be available in Kentucky on Friday, which is opening day of Keeneland's spring meet. The bottle costs about $52, and Issel will be available starting at 6:30 am. April 12 at Keeneland to sign the bottle.
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Want to Win? Don't Draft a Top Tailback
When the Cleveland Browns traded running back Trent Richardson to the Colts on Wednesday, it looked like a sign of surrender. After all, Richardson, the third overall pick in the 2012 draft, was widely viewed as the Browns' best offensive player.
Yet in their first game without him, the Browns (1-2) upset the Vikings, 31-27. Maybe they're not surrendering after all.
It seems drafting a running back with a top pick is a near certain path to mediocrity. Even the Vikings, with arguably the game's best back in Adrian Peterson, have barely been a .500 team since selecting him seventh overall in 2007.
With the active runners they drafted 12th or higher, NFL teams have posted a 222-261 record (through Week 2 of this season). And four of those backs—Reggie Bush, Ronnie Brown, Richardson and Marshawn Lynch—no longer play for the teams that drafted them.
On Sunday it didn't matter that Peterson was on the opposite sideline while the Browns' rushing attack was led by a safety, Josh Aubrey. Cleveland emphasized the pass despite playing an unknown backup, Brian Hoyer, at quarterback. There likely will be a new quarterback in Cleveland next season, with the team reportedly eager to employ a more conventional rebuilding plan. After trading Richardson, first-year GM Mike Lombardi holds multiple first-round picks next year.
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The 8 Least Intimidating Gangs in Movie History
#4. The Cowboys from Tombstone
Tombstone was a pretty kickass movie that made Kevin Costner's Wyatt Earp look like Kevin Costner's The Postman. Even Val Kilmer was good in this movie, something most people can't say about many Kilmer movies with a straight face unless they happen to own a lot of Hummel figurines or let their dogs eat from their mouths.
Unfortunately, for all the bad-ass appearances that the villainous cowboy gang brings to the movie, it's hard not to notice that they're the only thugs in a town of about 1,000 people, and they get their asses handed to them by four men. Four men including eternal ass hat Bill Paxton, septuagenarian Sam Elliot and a tubercular, half-drunk Val Kilmer.
Suddenly the gang of badasses, lead by Curly Bill and Johnny Ringo, seems decidedly less impressive and more like a group of dicks who couldn't shoot Kurt Russel even when they have him surrounded, in the open, just inviting death as he walks across a river yelling, "No!"
#3. The Albino Gang from Vamp
An '80s horror movie starring the frightfully mannish Grace Jones that was seen by fewer people than the number that currently have the plague in the United States, Vamp is remarkable for having the most incredible gang fight in the history of cinema: A fight between vampire strippers and asshole albinos.
Scary as shit actor Billy Drago, who you may recognize as not being an albino, leads a gang of albinos who apparently like women with terrible dental work and have no idea there's a club full of vampires next door.
Nothing instills fear quite like a group of people who burn easily in the sun, have observation skills on par with patients from Awakenings and get their asses handed to them by small girls.
#2. Tranny Ninjas from Escape from LA
Proving John Carpenter is madder than a shithouse rat strung out on Drano, the sequel to Escape from New York is supposed to demonstrate the decay of society and some shit about criminals and whatnot in LA. All we saw was a terrible CG tidal wave, bizarre Bruce Campbell and Peter Fonda cameos and Pam Grier playing a transsexual gang leader named Hershey. All of it makes us feel soiled.
While the rest of his/her gang just appear to be small Asian men, we can only assume they're Thai lady boys and we're far deeper in the rabbit hole than even Snake Plissken realizes at this point. What any of the gangs in LA are up to in this movie is just one of many questions Carpenter never chooses to answer. Seeing Snake and his tranny friend fly into a Disney World knock-off on hang gliders shooting machine guns makes this gang the most flamboyantly ridiculous of the lot.
#1. The Hi Hats/The Furies/The Punks from The Warriors
In fairness, this whole article could be about the Warriors, a semi-classic, full of the worst gangs ever conceived of and put to film.
But in the interest of variety, we'll merely make mention of some of the most egregiously stupid ones. Making only minimal waves in the film are The Hi Hats, a gang of mimes who wear top hats.
Why--in a New York overrun with gang violence, when everyone is at war with everyone else and turf needs to be defended violently--anyone would allow a gang of mimes to exist is a question that cannot be logically answered.
That the Furies, or Baseball Furies, are also allowed to roam free is a mystery as well. On the other hand, when you consider how lame the titular Warriors are, it seems like New York is full of fancy lads so maybe it's reasonable that a gang of baseball fans who take the time to slap on jerseys and paint themselves with random team colors before heading out into the night exists.
The Punks may not be as flamboyantly horrifying as the rest of the gangs, but there's still something off-putting about grown men in tight overalls and roller skates that is hard to express in words.
Seeing this gang roll on screen, all form-fitting denim and early '80s hair, it almost seems like fear would be a natural reaction. Maybe not fear of gang violence at this point, but a real fear nonetheless that somehow, some way, after these punks are through with you, you'll be rolling away in a vibrant blue pair of overalls too.
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5 Unintentionally Hilarious Live-Action Video Games
Around the early 1990s, some video game developers decided that the future of game technology was filming a bunch of no-name actors for peanuts and having them act out a game that looked and played like a late night infomercial. These were known as full-motion video (FMV) games, and, by and large, they were expensive and terrible.
But there was a silver lining to the video game industry's attempt to emulate Hollywood -- FMV games were a gold mine of unintentional comedy. Here are five of the weirdest FMV titles ever made.
#5. Crime Patrol: Bad Acting and a Cruelly Deterministic Universe
Via KingdomPete
Laugh all you want, but in an era when most games looked like grainy cartoons (at best), gamers shit their pants when they saw a game that, holy crap, guys, looked like a real movie! Of course, that's until they inserted the game and realized they had just spent a month's allowance on what was essentially just an interactive video of somebody shooting unemployed community theater actors.
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Like they weren't doing that already in real life.
See, there were two main types of FMV game back in the day: games where they digitized real people and turned them into spasmodic androids who owned time shares in the Uncanny Valley, and games like Crime Patrol, an early 1990s shooter that used pre-filmed scenes of actors (local drama students?) that the player had to interact with. (For a historically significant example of the latter, see Dana Plato's star turn in the Sega CD game Night Trap.)
Here's one of the game's earlier stages, where a gunfight erupts in a strip club. Do note the gangsters' entirely bloodless death pantomimes. It's like Martin Scorsese was hired to direct an episode of Who's Line Is It Anyway?
Because these games were basically just a string of digitized video clips, they had to keep things simple. So in Crime Patrol, 99 percent of being a police officer amounts to killing criminals who leap out from behind objects. There's no paperwork, no due process, and no Miranda rights -- only drug dealers dawdling just out of eyeshot, ripe for a-murdering. For example, in another level, the player had to shoot a bunch of hippie drug dealers -- armed with Uzis and a half-semester of Improv 101 -- at the exact same spot.
Via KingdomPete
Via KingdomPete
"Great job, actor No. 1228. You can pick up your payment of McDonald's coupons at the front desk."
So yeah, Crime Patrol was essentially a game of nothing but glorified quick-time events, or maybe a hell dimension where nobody has free will (and everybody has painfully 1990s haircuts).
#4. It Came from the Desert: Ants Devour Regenerating People
Via Laffer35
It Came from the Desert was a reasonably well-received game that came out on the defunct Amiga system back in 1989 and was re-released in 1991 on the similarly not-around-anymore TurboGrafx-CD. On the surface, it seems like it should be corny fun -- it's a tribute to 1950s sci-fi flicks in which a meteor lands near a desert town and releases a swarm of mutated ants.
But then you realize that much of the action involves watching the townspeople get slowly eaten to death, one chunk of flesh at a time, as they lay helpless in the desert. Throughout the game, townspeople are telepathically controlled by the ant queen, who psychically incapacitates them so that ant drones can munch on their supine bodies. The ants slowly strip away skin and muscle, leaving exposed bones behind as the victims' live-action faces writhe and scream in horror.
Via Laffer35
Via Laffer35
This plays out as a mini-game where the player must shoot the ants off the screaming victims as their flesh is rapidly torn from their pixelated bones. This occurs a shitload of times throughout the game, most notably (and disturbingly) when a crying little girl is consumed right down to her skeleton.
As bloody as this mini-game gets, the victims all survive as long as they have at least a square inch of skin left on their bodies. The townspeople can be reduced to shrieking heads surrounded by a puddle of bone and viscera, but they recover from these grievous injuries seconds later in cut scenes. And to make matters even crazier, the player goes through this gory shebang with the same exact characters multiple times in the course of the game, the townspeople reliving this hellish nightmare again and again.
Via Laffer35
Via Laffer35
"Thank you for doctoring us with your gun!"
Fortunately, the game knew how to lighten the mood: a sudden appearance from a sax-sporting jazz man!
#3. Bikini Karate Babes: Sexy Ladies Become Ghoulish Marionettes
Ostensibly released as a satire of scantily clad women in games like Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat, the 2002 computer game Bikini Karate Babes filmed 19 mostly nude women engaging in fisticuffs. And at first blush, this formula of pugilism + jiggling sounds potent indeed. Just check out the game's intro -- what a fun-looking game about a mob of swimsuit models looking confused in a state park!
But when you get to Bikini Karate Babes gameplay, the limits of the FMV format become apparent. The beach bunnies promised in the opening are transformed into a bunch of meat puppets who shudder fore and aft like tiny skull aliens test driving their new woman suits.
For every single cut scene of buxom antics, there were nine moments of herky-jerky, inhuman skittering.
Bikini Karate Babes eventually received a sequel years later, despite the original's convulsing cast and general unplayableness. So, yes, enough people bought and enjoyed the original to make a sequel a sound business decision. You've got to admit, gaming has at least progressed a little since then.
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STEUBENVILLE - Another day, another one-run extra inning victory - and so it goes for the Wheeling Park baseball team.
Down four early, the Patriots found their "A game" just in time to earn a 7-6 win over Big Red in eight innings at Vacarro Field Thursday. On Wednesday, Mike McLeod's club, now 16-1, rallied from an early deficit to defeat upset-minded Brooke by the same score.
"We started with our B game but we kept battling, scrapping, clawing and chipping away," McLeod said. "We found our A game at the right time.
"Any time you can beat Big Red, you know you've done a heck of a job. It was a great game, unfortunately someone had to win and someone had to lose."
Michael Grove came up big for the Patriots, knocking in what proved to be the game-winning run then working his way out of a jam in the eighth to notch the pitching victory.
With one out in the Park half of the extra frame, Ethan Jacobs was hit by a pitch. Andrew Kowalo was robbed of a base hit when Big Red's Cody Saltsman made a diving catch in center. Grove then connected for a two-out, two-strike double into the right-center gap to plate Jacobs.
Big Red, to its credit, was not about to go down without a fight. Evan Westlake led off with a double to deep right and moved to third when Saltsman reached on an error. Grove escaped trouble when the next Big Red hitter sent a grounder to short, resulting in a 6-4-3 game-ending double play.
Earlier in the game, Grove made a key defensive play to stop a Big Red threat in the fifth. The bases were juiced with one out when Grove, then playing second base, snagged a line drive off the bat of Justin Corsi and flipped to shortshop Kowalo for the twin killing.
"He's just a sophomore but he's doing an outstanding job for us," McLeod said of Grove. "He came up here last year as a freshman and pitched well against Big Red. That double-play was huge. They could have busted the game open there."
Fred Heatherington's Big Red, now 8-4, appeared ready to blow things open early. The hosts scored two in the first (Westlake's double scoring Bryan Pierro and John Linn) and one more in the second (Matt Petrella getting a run-producing single). The scored moved to 5-1 thanks to third inning hits by Corsi (he drove a two-bagger to left-center), Lucas Herrington and Pierro. Mason Heatherington recorded a RBI via a fly to center.
Big Red's final tally came in the fourth, Kai McClurg's triple plating Westlake. The hosts did load the bases in the seventh (Heatherington getting a leadoff single) but were unable to score. For the game, Big Red stranded 14 runners.
"Obviously, we left too many runners on base," Heatherington noted. "We battled to the end and still had a chance to win the game. But, we just couldn't get a key hit when we needed it."
Park's offense was held in check early by freshman southpaw Anthony Zorne. He worked four and a third innings, scattering seven hits, allowing three runs and fanning six. Zorne, like Westlake who took over in the fifth, did not issue a walk.
Big Red's defense, unfortunately, did not provide much support for its pitchers, committing seven errors.
"We gave them too many opportunities," Heatherington added. "We got them down then let them back in the game. You can't win a high school baseball game with seven errors."
Park got single tallies in the second (Matt Hackathorn driving home Grove) and third (Eric Banks' double scoring Chalmer Moffett who singled). The Patriots added two more in the fifth (Kowalo's two-bagger, Trevor Stewart's single were the key blows) and sixth (two Big Red miscues and Grove's single leading to the runs).
Four of Park's seven runs came with two outs.
"We definitely got some timely hitting," McLeod pointed out. "We set up our lineup a little differently tonight because we have been leaving guys on. We batted Grove down a little and things worked out."
Matt Brooks started on the hill for the Patriots, giving way to Eric Crow in the fourth. Stewart took over in the fifth before giving way to Grove in the seventh.
Grove paced the eight-hit Park attack with a double and a single.
"We had a rocky start against a very good team," McLeod stated. "We hung tough and were able to persevere and win by one. We'll take it.
"Our biggest theme this year is adversity and how you handle it. Right now, the kids are handling it well and are starting to believe."
Pierro, Linn and Westlake all had multiple hits for Big Red, which hosts Claymont (11 a.m.) and Maysville (4 p.m.) Saturday.
Park has a twin bill at home Saturday opposite Parkersburg South.
Wheeling Park 7, Big Red 6
Wheeling Park 010 122 01 - 7 8 3
Big Red 212 100 00 - 6 11 7
WHEELING PARK (16-1): Brooks (3BB, 3K) Crow (4, 4BB 0K) Stewart (5, 3BB 0K), Grove (WP, 7, 2BB 1K) and Hackathorn. Banks D; Jackson S; Kowalo D; Grove D, S, RBI; Stewart 2S, RBI; Moffett S, RBI; Hackathorn S, RBI.
BIG RED (8-3): Zorne (0BB, 6K) Westlake (LP, 5, 0BB, 1K, 2 HB) and McClurg. Pierro 2S; Linn 2S; Petrella S, RBI; Corsi D; Westlake 2D, RBI; McClurg T, RBI; Herrington S; Heatherington S, RBI.


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This fixes a bug found in the other scripts which fail when a branch has the same name as a file or directory in the current directory.
needs grep what supports '--recursive'
Uses sed with a regex to move the linenumbers to the line end. The plain regex (w/o escapes) looks like that:
calls grep on all non-binary files returned by find on its current working directory
since awk was already there one can use it instead of the 2 greps. might not be faster, but fast enough
Helps if you accidentally deleted files from an svn repo with plain rm and you would like to mark them for svn to delete too.
If both file1 and file2 are already sorted:
comm -13 file1 file2 > file-new
Tail is much faster than sed, awk because it doesn't check for regular expressions.
This command compares file2 with file1 and removes the lines that are in file1 from file2. Handy if you have a file where file1 was the origional and you want to remove the origional data from your file2.
This will recursively go through every file under the current directory showing all lines containing "TODO" as well as 10 lines after it. The output will be marked with line numbers to make it easier to find where the TODO is in the actual file.
Checks your gmail account every 30 seconds and display the number of new messages in the top right corner of the terminal.
A kind of CLI "Gmail notifier" if you will. :-)
This is a mashup of http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/7916/put-a-console-clock-in-top-right-corner and http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3386/check-your-unread-gmail-from-the-command-line
If you have a bunch of small files that you want to cat to read, you can cat each alone (boring); do a cat *, and you won't see what line is for what file, or do a grep . *. "." will match any string and grep in multifile mode will place a $filename: before each matched line. It works recursively too!!
Fast and excludes words with apostrophes. For ubuntu, you can use wamerican or wbritish dictionaries, installable through aptitude.
-sl : show just file names
Ever ask yourself "How much data would be lost if I pressed the reset button?"
Scary, isn't it?
Expand a URL, aka do a head request, and get the URL. Copy this value to clipboard.
fileName /path/to/file.ext
quivalent to
basename /path/to/file.ext
manswitch grep -o
This will take you to the relevant part of the man page, so you can see the description of the switch underneath.
Videos are found using their MIME type. Thus no need to for an extension for the video file.
This is a efficent version of "jnash" cmd (4086). Thanks for jnash. This cmd will only show video files while his cmd show files having "video" anywhere in path.
Find the usage of a switch with out searching through the entire man page.
Usage: manswitch [cmd] [switch]
manswitch grep silent
In simple words
man <cmd> | grep "\-<switch>"
man grep | grep "\-o"
This is not a standard method but works.
No final count, but clean and simple output.
Much better alternatives - grep-alikes using perl regexps. With more options, and nicer outputs.
Grabs the Apache config file (yielded from httpd) and returns the path specified as DocumentRoot.
If you've ever tried "grep -P" you know how terrible it is. Even the man page describes it as "highly experimental". This function will let you 'grep' pipes and files using Perl syntax for regular expressions.
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Couple of days I am trying to integrate THAT page in wordpress. I converted it to wordpress theme but can't make the images to loads. All I see is the loading circle. I changed the path in javascript that call the ajax file:
but no result.
I changed even the paths in thumbs.php (example from ../thumbs to full path or with blog_info command )...and again-no result.
Any ideas what else I have to change? I deactivated all plugins, but the site still doesn't work.
I would be very grateful if you help me.
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I've come to a crossroads where I need to choose between focusing on AI or graphics programming for a career in games. I'm interested in both and am really wanting to know which area might have more job opportunities or even which might be a more interesting career. I'm also curious if I'm unable to find a job in games what the outlook might be outside of games for each career path.
Good graphics programmers are usually the most in-demand in the industry.
No one is going to force you to choose between them professionally until you've had some real-world experience.
The outlook for both is fine outside the industry, which is to say, both have focused skillsets that no one outside of games and simulation software will use, but if you're good at either you'll have no trouble dealing with normal software. (Except perhaps incredible frustration at your coworkers and tools.)
No one can tell you which is more interesting to you. Pick the one you want to do most.
I'd say go for what you like the most as it will surely make you be better on that than something you don't like as much.
For the day you want to change and go for a non game programming job (I did that this year so I don't have That much experience about this kind of changing. But changing is usually the first time that counts right?) sure there are some things to learn (usually, it seems, a Lot of talking, more docs than in the WG industry, a better salary and shorter days ^^ ) but I don't think you will have any greater problem that a more or less experienced video game programmer can't handle.
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Suppose $N \subset M$ are two factors, neither of them Type I, acting on a separable Hilbert space $H$. Let $\pi_1$ be a faithful normal representation of $N$ and $\pi_2$ a faithful normal representation of $M'$. We can consider the von Neumann algebra $N \vee M'$. Suppose that $\pi = \pi_1 \otimes \pi_2$ is a faithful normal representation of $N \vee M'$ (by $\pi(ab') = \pi_1(a) \otimes \pi_2(b')$ for $a \in N, b' \in M'$).
Question: is $\pi$ a spatial isomorphism of von Neumann algebras? And if yes, is there an explicit construction of the unitary implementing the spatial isomorphism (assuming one understands the representations $\pi_1$ and $\pi_2$ well)?
This is the case for example, if I recall correctly, if either $N$ or $M$ is a Type III factor, since in that case $\pi_1(N) \otimes \pi_2(M')$ is of Type III, and it follows that the representation is spatial because isomorphisms between Type III factors are spatial.
The motivation behind this question is that I'm trying to understand the proof of Corollary 1 of D'Antoni & Longo, Interpolation by type $\rm I$ factors and the flip automorphism. Journal of Functional Analysis, 51(3), 361-371 (1983).


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I have the demo facebook app and without any modification this is the code:
SBJSON *jsonWriter = [[SBJSON new] autorelease];
NSDictionary* actionLinks = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
@"Always Running",@"text",@"http://itsti.me/",@"href", nil], nil];
NSString *actionLinksStr = [jsonWriter stringWithObject:actionLinks];
NSDictionary* attachment = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
@"a long run", @"name",
@"The Facebook Running app", @"caption",
@"it is fun", @"description",
@"http://itsti.me/", @"href", nil];
NSString *attachmentStr = [jsonWriter stringWithObject:attachment];
NSMutableDictionary* params = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
@"Share on Facebook", @"user_message_prompt",
actionLinksStr, @"action_links",
attachmentStr, @"attachment",
[_facebook dialog:@"feed"
This however doesn't post a link, it fact it only posts a normal status which the user enters.
How do I post a link using the Facebook SDK on an iPhone, using the newest version of the facebook (the graph api?)
I can't find anywhere on how to post a link from an iphone app using the facebook sdk.


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25 Jun 2012 12:49 AM #1
removeAt for selected row fails if filters are used
I have a gird that uses the features : [filters] (took the code from the samples). All is good, until I try to remove the selected record from the screen when a filter is active. The problem is that the current row within the store is e.g. 210 , whereby the filter may only display three entries and the second is the selected one, the call to store.removeAt( 210 ) will fail as its index is higher than the displayed entries. I would expect that Ext interanlly converts the 210 to the selected ( in this case 2 ) row. This is a problem in 4.1 and 4.1.1 RC2. Is this a bug, or is there a function that should be used to get the correct row to removeAt can be used with filters?
26 Jun 2012 7:15 AM #2
How would the store know that 210 is now 2?
How did you get the value 210? You should grab the index each time you perform an action .. so by asking for the index, you should now get 2.
You may want to look at removeAtKey where you can pass the key instead if a record index.


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So last week my wife and I discovered some evidence of mice fooling around in our kitchen at night (e.g. shuffled cleaning supplies under the sink, hoarded dog food, and of course their droppings). After a little research, I decided to get the classic spring-style mouse traps. I set them with some peanut butter and after a night or two, I woke up to a dead mouse. After that, I cleaned up and set traps again. Things were quiet for a few days but then we got another hit. A second dead mouse captured. We were happy up until this point because we figured it was just one mouse but since we got the second one, I had to ask myself "when do I stop setting traps?" and "did the mouse come in because it smelled the peanut butter set trap?". It's sort of a catch 22 now. I am afraid that the mouse got in "because" I had peanut butter out (as part of the set trap). I'm afraid that if I keep setting traps that I may just be inviting these little guys in. Suggestions?
Setting traps will kill what you have, but you still have the problem of the mice getting in. you need to figure out how they are getting into the house. Mice can get through incredibly tiny holes, so it might be a chore to find them all. But as you find holes, seal them up. Steel wool is useful for this as they don't like chewing through it.
I personally go with 'forever'. I've got a good-size house, on a little bit land, and a garage door that I leave open for fair amounts of time each day in good weather. I'm ALWAYS going to have mice getting in, even though I've patched every hole I can find. It's just sort of inevitable at this point. So I keep the snap-traps under the sink and in the basement. I check them every couple of weeks, change the bait (I like cheese) now and then, and I get a few mice every year.
But no major infestations, and they don't seem to get past my initial trap points, so I don't get them in the pantry or anything.


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During a three-day international conference inaugurated in Riyadh yesterday, Saudi officials offered assurances that the Saudi economy remains strong despite global economic turmoil.
Minister of Rural and Municipal Affairs Prince Mitab bin Abdulaziz opened the Third Global Competitiveness Forum under the theme "Responsible Competitiveness in a Rapidly Changing World."
During his remarks yesterday, Prince Mitab noted that Saudi Arabia continues to adopt the economic policies necessary to grow its economy. The government is spending money on basic services and projects to enhance productive capacity, he said. It is estimated that investment by the government and the oil sector will exceed $400 billion in the coming five years.
Meanwhile, on the sidelines of the Forum today, Chairman of Board of Directors of Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) Prince Saud bin Thenayan Al-Saud affirmed that the Kingdom offers advantages to foreign investors seeking refuge from the global economic crisis.
"This does not mean that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has not been affected, as the Kingdom is part of the world; but the damage has been relatively less," he said.
Prince Saud noted that SABIC has been less affected than other major corporations by the financial crisis, as a result of the diversification of its investments.
For his part, Minister of Finance Dr. Ibrahim Al-Assaf noted, "When we look at countries of the world and compare the Kingdom's economy with the economies of these countries, we find ourselves among the best countries in the world with regard to the general budget of the state and the large reserves that support economic growth."


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Campylobacter Vaccine for Poultry Targets Human Foodborne Illness
By moniquegarcia on Wed, 08/28/2013 - 2:59pm
Research Year:2010
Most people are familiar with Salmonella and its potential to make people ill. But few know about Campylobacter jejuni, even though it competes yearly with Salmonella in making people sick. Campylobacter is one of the main causes of bacterial foodborne disease in the United States and worldwide. Raw chicken is one of the most common carriers of the bacteria. In the U.S. alone, 2.4 million cases are reported annually, with costs exceeding $1 billion. Americans consumed 84.4 pounds of chicken per person in 2011, according to the National Chicken Council.
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Funded by the USDA, faculty and graduate students in the UA Department of Veterinary Science and Microbiology have developed a new poultry vaccine using an attenuated strain of Salmonella to express Campylobacter proteins in chick intestines. The vaccine induces the chicks to make antibodies against Campylobacter, resulting in lower Campylobacter carriage in poultry, ultimately less Campylobacter transferred to humans and therefore significantly fewer foodborne illnesses. The vaccination process is simple, easy to produce and protective to the chick. The Salmonella is engineered to live long enough to stimulate antibody production, but dies before the chicks are harvested. Chickens need to be vaccinated early because they become infected at just two to three weeks of age. The goal is to halt the contamination before it spreads and survives on raw chicken sold in stores. The vaccine may be publicly available in two to three years.
The research team is also currently testing other Campylobacter genes in the Salmonella vector strain. They are searching for two or three genes that can be incorporated into the vaccine to express Campylobacter to a degree that will prevent colonization completely.
Ongoing research trials show the vaccine has significantly reduced the pathogen's ability to colonize young chickens' intestines. Preliminary studies indicate that Campylobacter infection was reduced by 99.9 percent compared with a control group: 4.4 million Campylobacter organisms were present in non-vaccinated birds, compared to 5,220 organisms in the vaccinated birds. At least 500 organisms are needed to produce the disease in humans, but the chlorine in the packinghouse chillers usually reduces bacteria by 1,000 to 100,000 organisms. Vaccinated chickens should be free of Campylobacter after processing, according to the researchers who are refining the vaccine. The vaccine's effect could be significant, as the U.S. poultry industry is the world's largest producer of poultry meat: about 8.9 billion broilers go to market annually in the U.S., with a value of $21.5 billion. Europe has similar broiler production figures. The vaccine would serve as an intervention method for Campylobacter when the USDA mandates reduced numbers of food-borne pathogens in chicken, most likely in the next few years.
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Maker Faire 2013/Afterparty
2013 MakerFaire Afterparty
DATE: Saturday, 18-May-2013
TIME: 8pm to ?
WHERE: Noisebridge, 2169 Mission St, 3rd floor (1.5 blocks from 16th St. Mission BART) -- Map & How to Get here
WHO: strange-o's, plan9 users, dorks, families, nerds, hipsters, punks, hippies, weirdos -- Anyone and Everyone -- all genders -- all ages!
WHAT: HOW: VERY Gently Suggested $10 - 20 Donation! NO ONE REFUSED for lack of funds. But, we might refuse you for unmatched socks or a sour puss.
Add Your Activity to the Afterparty
The mission is to throw a simple party for the Makers, and everyone else, who will be in town for the weekend. The desire is for a family friendly, good-times-encouraged affair with games, food, and fun for weirdos.
Please add your own activities below, and invite your friends! Be ready to go by 7pm.
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- Music and Performance
- Experimental Music Jam: Jose and Douglas.
- Welcomers/Fundraisers by the door
- Crazy lighting, LED's, decorations: Chris, Rhody
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STEUBENVILLE, Ohio - The annual installment of the Ohio Valley Business and Professional Women's Club's career night featured guest speaker Laura Meeks, president of Eastern Gateway Community College, offering advice and encouragement to the theme "No Excuses."
Her message at the club's Jan. 22 meeting held at Best Western Plus University Inn in Steubenville was directed primarily for the benefit of three members of Steubenville High School's Nike Club, the BPW's sister organization, but could apply to any student reading this - students in that position of pondering what to do with their lives after high school.
The Nike Club members on hand that evening were seniors Jessica Ray and Anna Vasich and sophomore Jada Ray.
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The Ohio Valley Business and Professional Women's Club hosted a Career Night recently. Among those in attendance were, right photo, from left, Mary Lou Jones, secretary; Phyllis Riccadonna, Ohio BPW-president elect; Julie Daley, president; Steubenville High School Nike Club members Jessica Ray, Anna Vasich and Jada Ray; Sara Provenzano, treasurer; and Shannon Minch-Hughes, vice president. -- Staff photo
Meeks explained she had been invited by the BPW to share what careers are available here now.
"Many people think that the economy is sluggish, and things are bad," Meeks said, momentarily holding a copy of a recent Pittsburgh magazine issue, its cover headline touting "10 Hot Fields of Study."
When people in Steubenville lament that their kids have to leave home in order to get a job, Meeks said her response is always that they can go to Pittsburgh.
"We are so fortunate to live by a large city, and we're close to an airport. I mean I can't think of too much you can't do right here, really, if you're good at it, so that is kind of an excuse sometimes people use, I think," Meeks said.
"Tonight, I am going to say there are no excuses - excuses are gone - so the topic of this speech is really what to do, and it's whatever you want, and that is the absolute truth," Meeks said. "There are no excuses any more."
But that wasn't always the case, according to Meeks, who did a down-memory-lane sharing of information to give a past and present perspective.
When she graduated from high school in 1966, for example, Meeks said there weren't any female athletes in her small school in Minnesota because they weren't able to participate. The passage of Title IX, however, changed that as high schools began opening the doors for girls to compete in sports in the early 1970s. Meeks said while one of her sons as a conservative Republican dislikes government interference, her take is that if not for government, there'd be no girls playing basketball.
"Here I am, 6 foot 3, and I was pretty active, and you know the only thing I could try out for was cheerleading," Meeks said, sharing that when her girlfriends from those days gather for a could-a-would-a-should-a chat, they speculate on how things could have been so very different.
Such as it was, Meeks said she was elected to student council, "and I was pretty good." She was secretary, even its first female vice president, but the presidency was a spot historically reserved for males, not females. Her high school years were ones of the FHA - the Future Homemakers of America, a group in which she served as its songleader.
There was no female presence, however, in the Future Farmers of America. "How many do you think were in that when I graduated high school?" she quizzed the intimate gathering of BPW members and guests.
"None," she said of a trend that started to change as she began a teaching career at a small school in Kansas.
The jobs Meeks said that she and her peers had to aspire to included secretaries, nurses, teachers and cosmetologists.
But fast forward to today to Jefferson County, Meeks invited the females in her midst, where Steubenville had a female fire chief and has a female city manager. There's a female chamber of commerce president. And she's the president of a college.
"There are no excuses. Women are running things," Meeks said. "It used to be you could say they won't let me in. Yeah, they do," she countered.
"You have to go get it, but you can do it," she said.
Meeks referenced the Pittsburgh magazine recommending college students learn a foreign language and listing among hot job areas as design professionals, DNA mappers, forensics, information systems, social and online communications and entreprenuerships.
"They also recommend that there are many local, state and national governmental leadership positions now opening up for women," Meeks said.
In 1966, however, Meeks said marriage was the most prevalent occupational choice for women. It was an occupational choice - you chose to get married and didn't have to do something else."
As a resident assistant in college, Meeks recalled the mentoring words of her house mother who said girls are ripe for marriage when they graduate from high school and college. Mothers would advise, she added, that marriage during college would mean college unfinished and tough to return to.
Now that's not true, according to Meeks, who shared the education story of her and her two younger sisters.
"I am the one who didn't think I was smart but people encouraged me to go to college," she said, a luxury her parents could ill afford. Her father drove a truck; her mother, who didn't finish high school, washed dishes in a nursing home.
Meeks went on to get a master's degree and doctorate, both for free.
"I wasn't that smart, but I tried," she said, crediting God for how that turned out.
Her younger sister, she said, married her high school sweetheart, quit college after the first year and got a certificate in medical lab technology that served her well. She put her husband through college instead. He would lose his job, however, and today their jobs produce a lower income.
"The dream didn't work out so well for Vicky because she invested in her husband, not in herself, but she is happy. I am just telling you she made a choice that affected the rest of her life," Meeks said.
Her youngest sister, meanwhile, got a two-year associate degree and does well as the director of a "huge skilled health care facility, and they are paying her to get her bachelor's degree. So three girls and three different stories, and I am not sure who is right," Meeks said.
"I just want you to know that getting an education doesn't necessarily make you happier - it doesn't," Meeks said. "But I want to teach you what my parents taught me. Getting as much education as you can - especially as cheaply as you can without taking a lot of debt and getting it free if you can, and I think as young as you can because it gets harder when you get older and have more responsibilities - it gives you more choices in life," she said.
Meeks said her 36-year-old son is a happy stay-at-home father whose wife has a good paying job.
"There is no one size fits all," Meeks said. "You can be anything you want to be - you can do it either way. You can stay home and be with your children and be a great mother and have somebody support you. You can do that. You can also be a mother and do something else," she continued.
"It's your choice, but the point of it is it's your choice, and there are no excuses. You can't say, 'Well I don't have enough money' or 'I'm not smart enough.' I always tell people if I can do it, anybody can do it, but you have to have commitment."
Meeks said women are empowered, "women are driving the car and fueling the economic engine of America."
She offered a quote from Booker T. Washington, an African-American educator, author, orator and adviser to Republican presidents who was the dominant leader in the African-American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915.
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life but by the obstacles which he or she has overcome," Meeks said.
"There are many successful people who don't necessarily have a title," she said, listing some intelligence, some money and commitment are the necessary ingredients to succeed in college.
"If you don't have a lot of money, and you don't have a lot of intelligence, you have to have an extra cup of commitment, because there are a lot of rich people who are very smart and never make it through college, and they're not very successful in life because they lack commitment," she said.
"I think commitment can make up for a whole lot of lack of money and intelligence," she said, offering persistence, gumption and resilience as commitment synonyms.
Meeks wrapped up her thoughts with another quote from Washington, this one that "No race can prosper until it warrants that there is as much dignity in tilling the field as in writing a poem."
Meeks said her mother and father's ordinary jobs were nonetheless done with extraordinary commitment.
"Every job is worth doing well, and there is dignity in doing that job," she said, adding that the more post secondary education students get, the more career options they'll have.
Julie Daley, BPW president, presided at the brief business meeting where it was announced that the BPW Ohio Spring Leadership Meeting will be held April 13 at the Holiday Inn in Boardman. The Region 3 BPW meeting will be held in Steubenville in March.
Lorraine Linton of the Steubenville Salvation Army and a BPW member thanked members for ringing the kettle collection bells at Christmas, raising more than $480 with help from Nike Club representatives.
Phyllis Riccadonna, who will assume the duties of president of the Ohio BPW come June, announced her theme will be "Bringing on the Glitz."
The Ohio Valley BPW is open to working or retired women for education, networking and lobbying. It meets September through May on the third Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m. at the Best Western Plus University Inn. The meetings include dinner and guest speakers. The next meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Feb. 19. For information, call Daley at (614) 915-7640.


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I can't recall any official statement on this topic, and I'm really afraid to lose this valuable resource. Is SO prepared to meet a DDoS attack? It's not like there is an actual occasion, but it would be a relief to hear that you thought of this possibility and took adequate countermeasures.
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The rate limiting that has been implemented should fend off a good deal of basic crap. The team is obviously on top of their infrastructure as is evidenced by this post on the new Serverfault Blog. Also others on the Stackoverflow blog. The measures in place already should go a fair distance in preventing a DDoS, and with constant monitoring I would expect that an attack would be quickly noticed and addressed. I would wager that their relationship with the Peer1 would be such that they would get some priority assistance in the case that an attack ensues.
I find it hard to believe that someone that has access to more zombies than SO has concurrent users would have any reason to attack SO, and if they have less, I don't think that it would more than tickle the servers.
Of course, they have their resident sysadmin that can jump in at any time.
The discipline of Risk Management addresses preparedness.
There are two main constraints of Risk Management: impact and probability.
In order to answer your question, we would gauge the impact of a successful attack and the probability of such an attack occurring.
There are several possible responses to risk; each has its strengths and drawbacks, and the best fit depends upon a variety of factors. In order to "be prepare," (the definition of being prepared) one or more responses would be planned based upon the risk(s).
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Wikipedia lists "5 types of DDOS", but for purposes of this exercise, we'll address only one (syn flood). Obviously a comprehensive analysis would take all risks in to account, as each would have different impact/probability numbers and responses.
In light of this, is SO prepared?
According to @squillman's answer, the team has taken steps to mitigate (and possibly transfer) the impact of A DDOS. What about the probability? Possible responses:
Given the above, there are things the SO team could do to reduce the probability of a DDOS attack (besides my contrived examples). They are prepared. They could be more prepared.


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Is the placement of biometric fingerprint scanner all wrong!?
By kenkranz on Mar 21, 2008
I think that the placement of the finger print scanner on my laptop (and, presumable, on other devices that are starting to roll out to the public) are in the wrong spot. Specifically they are being placed right of the keyboard. This is being done, presumably, because 85-90% of the population is right-handed (reference).
All computers come configured for right-hand mice – again, presumably, for the same reason. Most mice end-up placed on the right side of the keyboard – again, same reason. Therefore; it only makes sense that the fingerprint reader is also placed on the right-hand side of the keyboard - right? I didn't give it a second though when I received my first computer equipped with a finger-print reader.
After a year of constant use, I have come to the conclusion that this mindset is totally wrong. My experience has been that, as the year progresses, the fingerprint on my right hand changes. Yet, during this same period, the fingerprint on my left hand has not changed – at least from a scannability standpoint. At first I though that the scanner was malfunctioning. It took a while to realize that my fingerprint (something we are taught is unique and, by association, is invariant) was changing. Evidently, it turns out, that this is a known phenomenon (reference) in the industry.
How do I gauge this? Over the course of the past 14 months; I have had to reteach my right-hand index fingerprint three times. Yet, during this same period, I have been using the same left-hand index fingerprint that I taught it on day one. During this time a pattern has slowly emerged. As the season progresses, my right-hand index finger starts to fail the scan more often. Eventually, the only way I can pass the scan is to switch to my left hand or retrain my right hand. Note: I might have better luck with other fingers, but the index is the most convenient to use.
Clearly what is happening is that, since we use our dominant hand more often, it is exposed to harsh environments more often – as compared to the passive hand. Consequently, over time, the unchanging fingerprint becomes distorted by dry and/or broken skin.
With this knowledge; I think it makes more sense that we should be scanning our non-dominant hand. Consequently; vendors should be placing their fingerprint scanners left of the keyboard. What do you think? Has anyone else had the same experience as me? If so, let me know.


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Peel back the curtains on one of the grandest buildings in the world to look for treasure and uncover its deepest secrets. Learn fun facts about several royal locations while you search for hidden objects and play ingenious mini-games. Discover romantic notes strewn across beautifully rendered scenes in this exciting mystery adventure and follow the trail of the palace's long lost treasure!
- 48 levels with 12 different chapters
- Based on a true story from Buckingham Palace – learn fun royal facts!
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