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Governor's Drug Scheme Isn't Working
When will the governor admit his illegal drug importation scheme isn't working as promised? CanaRx, one of the suppliers for the I-Save-Rx program, admitted on March 9 that they are getting drug shipments from countries all over the world to fill orders for Illinois residents, contrary to initial promises that these drugs would be safe because they were only coming from Canada, Ireland, and a few other approved countries.
Now the Blagojevich administration is meeting to address what they call "challenges" to the I-Save-Rx program, such as a private program sponsored by drug companies that helps people get free or reduced price prescription drugs.
More than 230,000 have contacted the private program, Rx for Illinois, compared to barely 4,800 in five states for Gov. Blagojevich's plan.
Rx for Illinois is only a challenge to the governor if the goal of his plan is to get political credit and media attention.
If the goal is better access to prescription drugs for Illinois citizens, Blagojevich should declare victory for getting the drug companies to better publicize their free and reduced price programs, shut down I-Save-Rx, quit wasting taxpayer dollars, and stop endangering citizens' health while playing politics.
Sean Parnell
Chicago, IL
phone 312/377-4000
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I have a PDF with important information that may contain malware. What would be the best way to view it?
Document-based exploits are directed not at the document itself, but rather at some vulnerability in the viewer. If you view the document in a program that isn't vulnerable (or in a configuration that inhibits the vulnerability), then you won't be exploited.
The real issue is knowing whether or not your viewer is vulnerable, which usually means knowing specifically what the exploit is. But there are alternate PDF viewers such as foxit or even Google chrome's built-in viewer that do not necessarily have the same vulnerabilities as Adobe's official viewer. This is not necessarily true for all vulnerabilities, so it's important to understand what you're getting in to ahead of time.
Put it through a PDF viewer that isn't vulnerable to the exploit. If it's someone else's viewer, that's even safer. Try Google Docs, where they will parse it and display it as HTML, so the malicious payload won't harm you. (I'm sure that their PDF parser is extremely secure, so you shouldn't feel bad about possibly infecting them.)
In this situation I've always used the Unix/Linux/OSX shell command "strings". On *nix systems, do this:
You can also get "strings" for Windows, as mentioned by Polynomial, below. You can download it here. Runs on XP or higher. Here is an example of using it on Windows:
But for the rest of my answer here I'll assume you're on *nix, since that is my experience with strings. Assuming all you're looking for is text content (not bitmaps or vector graphics), you can scroll down or search and find bits of the text you need. Unfortunately, to find it you have to wade through tons of metadata, most of which is in XML, and formatting settings in some other markup, plus some binary (as ascii, not raw bytes). So you may want to use the search capabilities of the "less" command. To search down the document for the case-sensitive string "thingyouwant", use the slash key + your string + return:
Then hit the "n" key to see the next instance of "thingyouwant", over and over till you find what you want. You can use the "?" key to do the same thing in the upward direction. See the less man page (type "man less") for more magic.
You could also analyze things like which URLs the document links to:
But, as stated above, 99% of what you'll see from the output of "strings" is going to be metadata and formatting settings.
Use a virtual machine that can be reverted to clean slate after tests. If the PDF reader is vulnerable, your real workstation will be much less likely to be affected.
Use pdf.js with a sandboxed browser (such as Chromium) in a virtual machine without network access.
It should be quite tricky for a malware to get out of this.
We can say ALL of the in-the-wild or targetted attack using malicious PDF file are covered with obfuscation techniques to hardened the analysis or detection process.
Most of the obfuscation technique are mainly using JavaScript obfuscation like eval(), String.fromCharCode(), arguments.callee(), base64, and even with PDF key values such as /Author, /Keywords, /CreationDate and etc.
We might unable to view the content of the malicious PDF file (those within the PDF object stream) as it might be deflated commonly with FlateDecode. But there are tools available to allow us to inflate the content within the PDF object stream, such as pdf-parser (http://blog.didierstevens.com/programs/pdf-tools/) and FileInsight (http://www.mcafee.com/us/downloads/free-tools/fileinsight.aspx). Most of the obfuscated JavaScript code will lies within the inflated PDF stream.
We can advise you to get the latest patched version of PDF reader with turned-off JavaScript functionality to open the file, but the good solution is to get a virtual machine where you can delete it or revert the snapshot after opening the file.
First upload it to virustotal.com to have it scanned by 20+ AV programs, then open it in Virtual machine using the options mentioned by others.
You can use a less popular viewer/OS combination. I guess no one targets Okular running on FreeBSD (though it can still be vulnerable), so if you open the file in a VM you should be very safe.
In order to do harm the rogue payload must match the viewer version and the OS and the CPU architecture of course. It is really low-level assembly and memory stuff (the payload expects to be placed at a particular memory address and expects some standard system functions to be available). If you change any of those, then the payload may not execute properly (or the viewer may simply crash without doing harm).

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Advantages of Breastfeeding to the Father and to Siblings
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Breastfeeding offers an entirely new dimension to the way a man perceives his partner's body. The breasts that give and receive pleasure between lovers literally give life and nurturance to the newborn they have created. Interestingly, during orgasm, the tiny muscle cells surrounding milk glands contract and squeeze milk into the ducts, causing milk to spray spontaneously from the breasts. This intricate interplay between making milk and making love serves as a beautiful reminder of how delicately intertwined are the sexual and functional roles of the breast. The partner of a breastfeeding woman has the rich opportunity to share in the full reproductive cycle beginning with conception and continuing through pregnancy, labor, delivery, lactation, and weaning. Today, when families tend to be smaller, many fathers will have only one, two, or three opportunities to fully experience the incredible grandeur of nature's magnificent reproductive plan, which includes the unique reciprocal relationship of breastfeeding. Countless fathers, including my own husband, would attest that missing out on the chance to witness their wife or partner breastfeed their babies would represent the loss of a whole dimension of reproduction and family life.
Advantages of Breastfeeding to Siblings.
You may not have given much thought to how your other children will be enhanced by your decision to breastfeed. But even siblings can be recipients of some important benefits of witnessing their mother breastfeed a younger brother or sister.
Siblings of breastfed infants receive valuable, firsthand exposure to the functional role of the breast, which helps equip them to become future breastfeeding mothers or support persons.
Today's children are bombarded with the image of the bottle-feeding baby. Bottles and formula are highly visible in the media, on supermarket shelves, and in public. Dolls come with bottles; bottles appear in children's books and as decorations on baby items. Because few women breastfeed in public, many children have little familiarity with the functional role of the breasts. For example, the sixth-grade son of a woman I know was studying mammals in school. He and a classmate were assigned to explain why humans were mammals. "We could show a baby drinking a bottle of milk," one boy suggested to the other, seemingly unaware that mammals drink their own mother's milk!
Children should not have to grow up believing that bottle-feeding is the societal norm. If they are exposed to breastfeeding as a part of family life, they assume it is the natural way to feed a baby. Perhaps you have observed youngsters who lift their shirts and put their doll or teddy bear to their own breast. These children often are those who were breastfed well into toddlerhood or who witnessed their siblings being nursed. One nursing toddler I know had been exposed to numerous breastfeeding infants among her mother's friends, and she had never seen a baby drink from a bottle. When a bottle-fed baby, Christopher, joined her day care home, the little girl was fascinated by his strange method of taking milk. The next time she saw a woman bottle-feeding at the mall, she turned to her mother and said, "Christopher," believing the only baby who drank from a bottle was Christopher. Another youngster who had been thoroughly indoctrinated in the functional role of the breast inquired why an older woman had breasts since she didn't have any babies to feed. Countless contemporary women of childbearing age wish they had had the privilege of observing breastfeeding as a youth before attempting to nurse their own baby for the first time.
From Dr. Mom's Guide to Breastfeeding by Marianne R. Neifert. Copyright © 1998 by Marianne R. Neifert. Used by arrangement with Plume, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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22 Jan 2013 10:15 AM #1
using an externally defined model??
Can I use an externally defined model in Architect??
I have the model defined in an outside library and its location defined in the loader. This model is associated with some other components in the library.
When I try to add the class name of the model to my store, it prepends "appName.model" to the string I enter into Architect. I assume that I must define this model in Architect again.
While some of this is helpful, I'm finding that defining things once and moving them outside of Architect is necessary to keep from redoing things over and over.
I cannot move a component to the toolbox and use it over. If that component gets an update, I'd have to go to each of my projects and drag over the component and add all the configs back in each location it is used. If it is separate I can just use the xtype and correct errors in the component and it will be fixed everywhere.
I'm finding that I may be moving away from Architect for final projects and just use it to create parts.
22 Jan 2013 10:21 AM #2
I cannot add an alias to the model field in Architect either. It still adds the "appName.model." in front!
If I type a string instead of choosing from the dropdown, it would be nice if it used the string.
23 Jan 2013 1:03 PM #3
Thanks for bringing up this issue, Worth. It's a known problem and we have an internal ticket for it. (DSGNR-2891 for dev reference)Jason Johnston
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A commitment to service, his career and his campus earns Dakota Wesleyan University employee, Derik Fossum, the NASPA Region IV-West South Dakota Rising Star New Professional Award.
Fossum, originally of Canton, is a resident director at DWU and is the only South Dakotan chosen for this award. Fossum is the second DWU employee to be given this award; Terry Lundeen won the Rising Star in 2011.
NASPA is an association for the advancement, health and sustainability of the student affairs profession with 13,000 members in all 50 states, 25 countries, and eight U.S. territories. The NASPA IV-West region consists of 10 states and two Canadian territories. There are three categories: undergraduate students, graduate students and new professionals.
Fossum graduated from DWU in 2012 with a triple major in leadership and public service, religion and philosophy, and business administration. He is also graduated from DWU's master's program this August with a Master of Arts degree in education policy and administration.
He has been a resident director for the university since 2011 and also is a direct support professional for LifeQuest in Mitchell.
In addition to being a full-time employee of Dakota Wesleyan, Fossum volunteers as a jumps coach for the DWU track and field team and coaches for the Mitchell Special Olympics basketball team. He is a score keeper for the South Dakota State Special Olympics Bowling Tournament, participates in the DWU annual Service Day and has been on mission trips to Mexico, Kenya, Peru and Minneapolis. He also volunteers as a coach and personal trainer for the Canton and Mitchell high schools.
"Derik has been an asset to the university since he was a student here," said Diana Goldammer, director of student life, in her letter of recommendation. "During his undergraduate years he was an exemplary resident assistant and was beloved by his residents and supervisors alike."
Goldammer also pointed out that last year, Fossum met with 198 residents in his dorm within the first two weeks of classes to ensure he had met and made a connection with every person in the building.
"Derik has continually demonstrated an enthusiasm to serve his campus community, has upheld an unwavering value system both privately and publically, and maintained a reputation for being detail focused, reliable, and sincere," stated Terry Lundeen, director of residence life on campus.
Lundeen also pointed out that Fossum created an outreach program between DWU and LifeQuest in Mitchell. LifeQuest serves as a residential support program for adults with developmental disabilities and Fossum has been working there part time since 2009.
"Derik partnered with (LifeQuest) to provide opportunities for our students to gain part-time employment and internships, and opened the door for their clients to gain part-time employment at the university," Lundeen said. "He has made such a profound impact on LifeQuest that he received its Excellence in Service Award in 2010.
Fossum's community service does not end with work or the volunteering he performs in his spare time – service is a part of his personality.
"He is the kind of guy that for his bachelor's party, he requested we do a community service project in his hometown (of Canton) on the 27th of July," Lundeen said.
Fossum will be recognized at a dessert reception in November at the regional conference in Hot Springs, Ark.


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Published on Wed, Aug 29, 2012
IPC Staff Attorney Ben Winograd was quoted in today's WNYC article about the hesitation that some immigrants may feel when applying for deferred action - especially if they have a previous immigration violation or have used fake social security numbers in the past:
Ben Winograd, attorney at the American Immigration Council in Washington, D.C., said he understands why this might lead some people to be cautious.
"No one is going to want to be the guinea pig," he said. "No one wants to bring a test case in a program like this that hasn't been implemented before. "
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Let $X, Y$ be two $L^1$ random variables on the probablity space $(\Omega, \mathcal{F}, P)$. Let $\mathcal{G} \subset \mathcal{F}$ be a sub-$\sigma$-algebra. Consider the conditional expectation operator $E(\cdot|\mathcal{G}) \colon L^1(\mathcal{F}) \to L^1(\mathcal{G})$. When is $E(X \ast Y|\mathcal{G}) = E(X|\mathcal{G}) \ast E(Y|\mathcal{G})$? Here $\ast$ is the convolution product on $L^1$ (which makes $(L^1, \ast)$ a Banach algebra, so I'm asking when is $E(\cdot|\mathcal{G})$ an algebra homomorphism?).
As long as $\mathcal{G}$ is invariant under whatever operation you use in the convolution ("+", say), $\mathcal{G}$-measurable functions will convolve to $\mathcal G$-measurable functions and the equalities of integrals that define the conditional expectation will be automatic: for any $H \in \mathcal G$ we have $$ \int_{\Omega} E(X|\mathcal{G}) * E(Y|\mathcal{G}) (t) \chi_H(t) dP(t) = $$ $$ = \int_{\Omega\times\Omega} E(X|\mathcal{G})(x)E(Y|\mathcal{G})(y) \chi_{H}(x+y) dP(x)dP(y) = $$ $$ = \int_{\Omega} E(X|\mathcal{G})(x) \int_{\Omega} E(Y|\mathcal{G})(y) \chi_{H}(x+y) dP(y)dP(x) = $$ $$ = \int_{\Omega} E(X|\mathcal{G})(x) \int_{\Omega} Y(y) \chi_{H}(x+y) dP(y)dP(x) = $$ $$ = \int_{\Omega} Y(y) \int_{\Omega} E(X|\mathcal{G})(x) \chi_{H}(x+y) dP(x)dP(y) = $$ $$ = \int_{\Omega} Y(y) \int_{\Omega} X(x) \chi_{H}(x+y) dP(x)dP(y) = $$ $$ = \int_{\Omega} X*Y(t) \chi_H(t) dP(t) = \int_{\Omega} E(X*Y|\mathcal{G})(t) \chi_H(t) dP(t) $$ If $\mathcal{G}$ is not invariant under the operation, though, I see no reason for the convolution to be $\mathcal{G}$-measurable. Is an example for that what you're requesting?
Assuming $\Omega$ has the structure for defining convolutions I don't think it is ever an algebra homomorphism. Take $X$ to be supported on $\mathcal{G}^c$, i.e. take some set of non-zero measure in $\mathcal{G}^c$ and let $X$ be a function whose support lies in that set, then $E(X\ast Y|\mathcal{G})\neq 0$ but $E(X|\mathcal{G})=0$ so $E(X|\mathcal{G})\ast E(Y|\mathcal{G})=0$.
Edit: Scratch what I said. I was confusing sub-$\sigma$-algebra with sub-algebra of random variables and even in the finite case my statement is completely incorrect. In almost every instance $E(X|\mathcal{G})$ will not be zero as Jonas points out in the comments.
I hadn't really thought through the question of which structure I want $\Omega$ to have specifically. I guess what is needed is some convolution semigroup structure which accurately resembles the convolution product (for $\Omega = \mathbb{R}^n$ and the Lebesgue measure) and $P$ being some kind of probability Haar measure which makes $(L^1(\Omega), \ast)$ a Banach algebra. But I consider Thorny's post a sufficient answer of my question.. Thanks for your help.


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I have a number of tables that use the Postgres "Partitioning" feature. I want to define a common BEFORE INSERT OF ROW trigger on each table that will 1) dynamically create the partition should the insert occur against the parent table and 2) re-execute the insert against the partition.
Something like:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION partition_insert_redirect( )
RETURNS trigger AS $BODY$
... create the new partition and set up the redirect Rules ...
/* Redo the INSERT dynamically. The new RULE will redirect it to the child table */
EXECUTE 'INSERT INTO ' || quote_ident(TG_TABLE_SCHEMA) || '.' || quote_ident(TG_TABLE_NAME) ||
But the "NEW" record isn't visible inside the EXECUTE SQL. How can I make this work as simply as possible?
As an alternative, can I iterate over the fields in the NEW record somehow?
I've thought of using a temp-table:
EXECUTE 'CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE new_row (LIKE ' ||
quote_ident(TG_TABLE_SCHEMA) || '.' || quote_ident(TG_TABLE_NAME) ||
INSERT INTO new_row SELECT NEW.*;
EXECUTE 'INSERT INTO ' || quote_ident(TG_TABLE_SCHEMA) || '.' || quote_ident(TG_TABLE_NAME) ||
' SELECT * FROM new_row';
DROP TABLE new_row;
But this also doesn't work because of the cached reference to a temp-table: Why do I get "relation with OID ##### does not exist" errors when accessing temporary tables in PL/PgSQL functions?
I'm using Postgres 8.2 and I can't change to any other version.
As @alvherre pointed out, this can probably be done in Postgres 8.4 with the EXECUTE ... USING syntax. See an example at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PL/pgSQL_Dynamic_Triggers


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28 Feb 2012 1:14 AM #1
Troubles with Treegrid / Ext.tree.Panel
Hi Guys,
I tried to use a Treegrid in my MVC passtern with 4.1 Beta 2 and got the following problem:
As soon as I load my view with the treegrid, the following error raises:
In the background you can see the gridpanel that is loaded. I already tried different solutions, but can´t find the correct one till now.
Maybe it´s also an error in my json file, but I also can´t find one there.
Here is the code - I used the http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-0/ex...ee/treegrid.js example to get started.
Ext.define('LT.model.Competition', { extend: 'Ext.data.Model', fields: [ {name: 'task', type: 'string'}, {name: 'user', type: 'string'} ], proxy: { type: 'ajax', url: 'treegrid.json', reader: { type: 'json', idProperty: 'id', root: 'data' } }, folderSort: true });
Ext.define('LT.store.Competition', { extend: 'LT.store.base.BaseTreeStore', requires: ['LT.model.Competition'], model: 'LT.model.Competition' });
Ext.define('LT.view.competition.List', { extend: 'Ext.tree.Panel', alias: 'widget.competition_list', title: __('Competitions'), requires: ['LT.store.Competition'], store: 'Competition', collapsible: true, useArrows: true, singleExpand: true, rootVisible: false, viewConfig: { loadMask: false }, columns: [{ xtype: 'treecolumn', //this is so we know which column will show the tree text: 'Name', flex: 1, dataIndex: 'task' },{ text: 'Season', flex: 1, dataIndex: 'user' }],
Not required for this example.
So if anyone has an idea - please be so kind to give me a hint
I'll start debugging the ExtJS core now...
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It happens after the view is loaded (looks like after the autoload finishes) and if you try to expand a tree in the grid panel.
1 Mar 2012 2:43 PM #4
After some research I found the solution:
In my proxy I´ve defined the "idProperty" with name "id":
proxy: { type: 'ajax', url: '../../data/competition.json', reader: { type: 'json', idProperty: 'id', root: 'data' } }
.... name:'Testnode', id: '47110815', active: 'true', data:[{ name:'Subnode 1', id: '47110815', active: 'true', data:[{ name:'Subnode 3', id: '47110815', active: 'true', leaf: true },{ ....


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So, is it safe to say that you are giving her two thumbs up?
Is this based on video-watching or live experience?
My view is different, based on her 2003 Carmen pdd at the Mariinsky Festival. She offered all you described, but without a trace of the wit and wry humor, I for one, associate with the Carmens of earlier interpreters. Vishneva gave us a 'hot' number.
Petit's choreography, created in mid-20th c. seemed to be a commentary on femme fatale 'numbers', a refreshing innovation in ballet at the time.
For me, Ms Vishneva's Carmen was devolution of the choreography.
I've seen Carmen several times, both live and on videotape, and Vishneva and Ferri's were by far the best. They were, as I said, sultry and sexy and playful.
Lucia Lacarra and Cyril Pierre gave us grand tragedy. It was riveting, but it wasn't Carmen.
And let's not talk about Natalia Makarova ... (as a huge fan of Makarova too)
Don't get me wrong. I think there are some thing Vishneva does not excel in. For instance, although I enjoyed her Rubies immensely I could see why Balanchine stylists might find her port-te-bras objectionable. I am not saying Vishneva is perfect in everything she does. But I do think it is immensely unfair to say she's just good in Forsythe and Balanchine, because of Vishneva's prodigious talents in classical ballet. She is so much more than "In the Middle Somewhere Elevated" and "Rubies."


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Creamy Tarragon Chicken
Categories: Comfort Foods, Entertaining, Valentine's Day
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
Fresh tarragon and cream is a classic pairing in French cuisine
Prep Time: 10M
Cooking Time: 35M
Serves: makes 4 servings
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp canola oil
- 4 chicken breasts, with skin and bones
- 9oz ( 250g) shallots, sliced
- 1 tsp dried herbes de Provence
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup hot chicken stock
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 1 cup crème fraîche
- 2 tbsp chopped tarragon, plus extra sprigs to garnish
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- Melt the butter with the oil in a large flameproof casserole over medium-high heat. Add the chicken breasts, skin sides down, and cook for 3 minutes, or until golden brown. Turn them over and brown the other sides, about 2 minutes more.
- Turn the chicken breasts skin sides up, then sprinkle with the shallots, herbes de Provence, garlic, and salt and pepper to taste. Add the stock and wine and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low, cover the casserole, and simmer for 25 minutes, or until the chicken is tender and the juices run clear when pierced with the tip ofaknife. Transfer the chicken to a platter and tent with aluminum foil. Boil the sauce over high heat until reduced by about half.
- Stir in the crème fraîche and chopped tarragon and continue boiling until thickened. If the sauce becomes too thick, add more chicken stock; then adjust the seasoning, if necessary. Coat the chicken with the sauce, garnish with the tarragon, and serve hot.
- large flameproof casserole
- the dish can be left to cool completely after step 2, then frozen for up to 1 month; thaw at room temperature, then complete the recipe
- Prepare ahead: Steps 1 and 2 can be prepared up to 1 day in advance and kept in a covered container in the refrigerator. Reheat and make sure the chicken is completely heated through before stirring in the crème fraîche.
- Good with boiled long-grain rice, or try mashed potatoes with olive oil, and chopped pitted black olives.
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A Kiss from the Lambda Calculus
By Igor Geier on Sep 24, 2008
This month, I went to the Berlin.jar conference (a Java conference in Berlin), a two-day event at the FHTW Berlin (university of applied sciences). This year, it was the first Berlin.jar and it's planned to do it again next year.
One of the many presentations was about the Ruby programming language. Like some other languages, the language contains the
lambda keyword. Historically it comes from the λ-calculus, a theory intended to be a foundation for mathematics (like Frege's logicism, this attempt failed). The keyword
lambda introduces an (anonymous) function (object). In particular a function can be returned by a function and can be a parameter to a function, including itself. The
lambda example, given in the presentation, was an anonymous function which takes no arguments and returns a random number.
This wouldn't be possible in the λ-calculus, nor in a pure functional programming language (e.g. Haskell). There the purpose of λ is to bind variable names, just like quantifiers do it in predicate logic, and a λ without variables is syntactically incorrect. It would also be impossible to have a function that doesn't always return the same value for the same arguments, a function with no formal parameters is simply a constant. In contrast, an imperative language allows side effects (the result of a function does not only depend on its arguments), therefore the meaning of the Ruby
lambda is not the same.
An imperative λ. How ironic. Walking around after the conference, I made this picture of a remaining segment of the Berlin Wall near Ostbahnhof (Brezhnev kisses Honecker, above "Lord, help me to survive" is written in Russian).


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Are cable machine squats easier to do than squats on a Smith machine? I'm able to do about 220 pounds on the cables, but I'm doubtful whether I'll be able to replicate the results on a Smith machine. In terms of physics, I don't really see why they would be - both are assisted to some degree, but it seems to me that cables would actually provide less assistance since they are not rigid. Any ideas?
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This depends on the equipment that you are using. Smith machines friction levels vary greatly and so do cable machines (along with their weight read-outs). In general Smith squats should be harder. Also I would never substitute regular squats with these and I would never recommend anyone to do Smith machine squats unless they were advanced. It isn't a normal range of motion and can cause back, hip, knee problems.
Things to take into consideration:
So you are probably right that the weight you can squat on a cable machine is likely to be more than on a Smith machine.
They are not comparable exercises. The cable machine squat incorporates your arms, while the smith machine will be pretty much all legs.


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Background: I've been doing research into LTSP, to see if it would be a viable option for my school. However, (almost) everything I've found say that wireless LTSP isn't possible. This is a problem since my school almost exclusively uses Apple laptops.
Question: Having every classroom wire its laptops into the network is unrealistic, so is there a way to have clients wirelessly boot into the LTSP server?


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The 5 Most Unintentionally Offensive Comic Book Characters
#2. Lois Lane Goes Black and, Shockingly, Goes Back
In issue #106 of Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane, DC attempted to solve the racial problem once and for all. Lois goes to Little Africa, Metropolis' answer to Harlem, to report on... something. It's never really clear, just that she's going to go there and learn about "black... ness" and hopefully earn a Pulitzer for doing it. "Gosh, my readers would love how oppressed and poor you are. Whattascoop!"
Lois gloats, while Clark wonders if "Black people" can technically be considered a thesis statement.
Lois travels around Little Africa, but everyone either avoids her or calls her "Whitey, the enemy."
Lois concludes that this has nothing to do with her waltzing around asking people to tell her what it's like to be all black and stuff, but simply because she is white, so she has Superman change her skin color for a day with his Transformoflux, that way she can get a better understanding of what it means to be black.
Superman goes on to clarify: "How could you accuse me of racism when I'm the only fucking alien on the planet?"
So, How'd That Go?
This comic clearly meant well. It was obvious that the creators wanted to teach a message of acceptance, and the idea of "we're not so different, you and I," is certainly intact, but it's the poor, ignored black people in the story who learn the lesson. Lois shows up as this well-intentioned white woman and gets ignored, turns into a black chick and gets invited to parties. She never acknowledges that showing up as a privileged white woman who finds black culture "neat" might be ignorant. She doesn't remark, "Hey, I guess my snooty, insensitive questions were in hindsight, rude," she just concludes that black people hate white people for no reason. That isn't sending a message of tolerance; it's saying "black people are racist." Also that Superman really needs to use his ultimate power on more worthwhile causes.
In her journey, Black Lois meets an impoverished family living that takes her in for a while. They're under some hard times, but they're some of the sweetest and most optimistic people in the world. Lois reacts thusly:
"Excuse me, I'm just so moved by how shitty your life is."
Sure, the woman is smiling and has a healthy baby, but that doesn't stop Lois from thinking about how truly awful their life is. She can't even stop crying just thinking about what a horrific life these black folks have...
Lois also comes across an improvised kindergarten and an activist (who, when she was white, called her "the enemy"). They are extremely friendly with each other, until he is shot by some drug dealers. Sidebar: Even though Superman makes it clear in the comic that, as an alien, no one knows what it's like to be an outsider more than he does, but that doesn't change the fact that he clearly could've saved the activist from getting shot:
"Don't worry, Lois, I got your back. The black guy he- he looks like he's got this under control. We cool?"
Lois donates her blood to save him and just as he's about to wake up, her blackness fades away, and she's back to being white.
This is where the big moment in this comic comes. Will this black man still call her "the enemy" after she so valiantly gave blood to him, even though she's white? She honestly wonders that. She's unsure if this man is open-minded and enlightened enough to see past her skin to the wealthy, successful, working woman who saved his life.
He can! He learned a valuable lesson today: Reporters who show up and think the way you are forced to live as a result of racially prescribed socioeconomic circumstances would make a quaint story for their white, privileged readers should be trusted and welcomed into your life. You never know when a white person might help you out if they feel like it so, you know... be nice to them and entertain their questions.
#1. The Falcon Sets Black Superheroes Back 40 Years
Man, the Falcon looked like he was going to be the exception for black superheroes. He wasn't a former slave or drug dealer and, hell, he didn't even have "black" in his name. He debuted in the pages of Captain America #117 in 1969, and represented a giant leap forward in the treatment of minorities to that time. Falcon was even granted the ultimate tribute of being among the very first ever "comic book action figures" before that term even really existed.
They were dolls. Deal with it!
Falc was, almost immediately, Captain America's straight-up partner, sharing equal billing on the cover for years. They both relied on each other and were both extremely qualified superheroes working together. Truly, Marvel didn't need to do anything else to make this character inoffensive and not insulting or condescending. All they had to do was not screw it up.
So, How'd That Go?
Enter issue #186. With absolutely zero build up or foreshadowing, writer Steve Englehart revealed a heretofore unknown past life of Sam Wilson, aka The Falcon,
Aka "Snap" Wilson, super pimp.
"Weren't green no more?" Have these writers ever even seen a black guy before? All at once, with no prior indication that he had ever been anything but an average guy who could talk to birds, we find out that the stalwart Falcon was originally a Gangsta from da Hood or what-the-hell-ever, mind-fucked by Captain America's archnemesis, The Red Skull, into a dupe in a very long drawn-out scheme to kill Cap.
You're a total chode, Red Skull.
It couldn't have turned out that Sam was just an ordinary guy, or a hero like Cap who just wanted to do the right thing; he had to be under mind control. And even so, it couldn't have turned out that Sam was, in a past life, a cop or accountant or, frigging, anything; he had to be a thug. A superfly thug.
Bang up job, Englehart.
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Take extra care of those rings, bracelets and any other jewelry, because one of the finest craftsmen in the Southwest won�t be around anymore to fix it.
After about a quarter million pieces of jewelry and 42 years in business, D. Robert Smith closed up his workbench inside the Durango Trading Post on Main Avenue for the last time Wednesday afternoon.
�There�s one lady who just can�t get it through her head that I�m quitting, and she keeps asking me to work on her jewelry,� Smith said.
Smith has had a local presence in Durango only since 2004, but his decades of work in Arizona and New Mexico established his reputation here long before his arrival.
�I had a friend years ago in Sedona who used to tell me �You should find this guy,� and we were lucky enough to run into him a while back,� said Jackson Clark, owner of Toh-Atin Gallery.
Smith has done Toh-Atin�s repair work for �years,� though neither could remember just how many.
�He can cut a stone better than anyone I�ve ever seen, and most of the things he�s fixed you can never tell there was anything wrong with them,� Clark said.
But Smith, who turned 60 in January, is much more than a repairman. He estimates that since he cut his first stones as an 8-year-old under the tutelage of his grandfather, he�s created between 150,000 and 250,000 pieces. His core customers � about 100 of them � are spread all over the country, and new ones find him all the time.
One was Robert Lamoreaux, a member of the Ojibwe tribe in Canada who moved to Durango the same year Smith arrived. Lamoreaux immediately became one of Smith�s most loyal customers and has many of his pieces.
�He�s one of the best jewelers I know � and I know a lot of jewelers. And I�ve got his number, so I�m not letting him retire,� Lamoreaux said.
Smith conceded that it�s unlikely he�ll quit the jewelry craft altogether. He has several business ventures that will occupy much of his time. He is also working on a novel and plans to write a book about jewelry-making and repair.
�It�s not like I�m going to quit working, I just refuse to be like that. I�ve got projects to keep me busy for another 10 years,� Smith said. �I�m going to do a little traveling, but I grew up in the Four Corners and Durango�s now home. I love it here. I�ll just be a little harder to find.�
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This is a follow-up on another question.
Can something be said about the image of a weakly converging sequence in $L^1$? More precisely
- $u_k\ge 0$
- $\|u_k\|_{L^1}=\int u_k=1$
- $u_k$ converges to $u$ weakly in $L^1$
- $f$ is convex, $f(0)=0$ and has superlinear growth at $+\infty$ (that is: $\lim_{z\to+\infty}\frac{f(z)}{z}=+\infty$)
- $\int f(u_k)$ is bounded
I don't think that it can be shown that $f(u_k)\to f(u)$ weakly in $L^1$. But can this be shown if it is also assumed that $\int f(u_k)\to\int f(u)$?


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Dakota Wesleyan University recognized one of its professors with the Exemplary Teacher Award Sunday during its Honors Convocation.
Justin Zajic, assistant professor of education at DWU, was the recipient of this year's Exemplary Teacher Award.
The General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church, through the Division of Higher Education in partnership with United Methodist-related institutions, expresses support and appreciation for outstanding teaching. The recipient exemplifies excellence in teaching, civility and concern for students and colleagues. This person also maintains a commitment to value-centered education, and service to students, the institution and the community."
Justin is the teacher who doesn't know how to say no when asked to assist," said DWU Provost Dr. Rocky VonEye. "He not only agrees to help but the job is done in record time. He is dedicated to education, concerned about every student and encourages the students to do their best."


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#3. We Have Double Standards for What Constitutes "Cheating"
In a study where subjects were asked to rate important qualities in a potential mate, "fidelity" was consistently found to be, if not number one, pretty damn close to that top slot. Which makes sense, since most people don't much like being cheated on. But wait, just what is cheating, anyway?
"It certainly isn't tripping into my bent-over secretary while my pants accidentally fell down, I'll tell you that!"
No, that's not a Bill Clinton-style cop-out; it's actually a legitimate psychological problem. Is it cheating if you just briefly kiss while drunk? What if you put your finger in someone's ass, but it was, like, totally an accident? What if you bang somebody on the hood of a Jeep Wrangler, but it's not your Jeep Wrangler? What if it is your Jeep Wrangler, but the sex is terrible? It doesn't matter how you answered any of that, because it turns out that most people have a built-in tendency to define cheating differently for themselves than they do for their partner. And to understand how that might be, you first need to understand how people define "sex."
For past generations, it was fairly cut-and-dried: If the willy or the hoo-ha came into play, it was pretty clear that you'd had some variety of sex. But for the generation of kids currently reaching adulthood, it's much more nuanced than that -- that blow job in the janitor's closet on February 29 of a leap year, for example, might not count.
"He wasn't my husband, but it was in a state park during a new moon ... babe, can you bring me the tide tables for Maine?"
Well, OK, the culture changes, after all. But the problem is that we take advantage of that wiggle room to give ourselves a chance to be hypocrites about the whole thing.
For instance, one study asked college undergraduates what they consider sex to be when they're having it, and for them nothing counts except penis-in-vagina. But when asked what they consider sex when it's what their significant other is having with someone else, suddenly anything other than a hug is a betrayal on the level of intercourse. Note: No one was more restrictive about what counts as sex as men were when referring to their girlfriends.
"I don't know what a gynecologist is, and I don't care! You betrayed my trust."
So in short, we consider illicit sex to be a deal breaker, but where we draw that line is based purely on what's most convenient for us.
#2. We're Insecure and Jealous Because It Helps Us Survive
Someone's attitude toward the other person in their relationship can be grouped in one of two ways: Some people have a secure attachment to their partner, where they feel safe in their relationship and trust the significant other to live their life without constantly checking in. Others have an insecure attachment, meaning they leave you 36 messages during the three hours between when your phone died at work and when you got the chance to charge it in your car. And the last 15 messages are all sobbing because you didn't want to go see Cloud Atlas last weekend. And when you get home your apartment is on fire.
And God help you if you have a pet rabbit.
Needless to say, most people are drawn to the former relationship type, because apartment buildings are better when they're not aflame, and, seriously, we'll go see whichever movie you want if it means that much to you, whatever. We think of those relationships, and those people, as healthier and more stable. So why do those clingy, jealous, controlling types exist? Because it is a survival mechanism.
The key is that people who are insecure in relationships don't limit their fears to their love life -- they're scared of everything. So in situations where actual physical danger arises, like, say, you smell smoke because someone is burning down your home over a movie-related disagreement, the insecure-attachment-style person will be the first to react, and, if necessary, wake the secure-attachment-style people out of their peaceful stupor just in time to escape the fiery death trap.
"You asshole, wake me up sooner next time! My Pop-Tarts are still in there!"
In a study that created the exact situation we just described with several different groups of people with differing attachment styles, they found conclusively that the more insecure people there were in the room, the quicker they were to react to danger -- and the more likely they would have been to survive, had the smoke been produced by an actual fire rather than a scientist's demented soul. In other words, it's not just that these people are "possessive" in their relationships. They're simply acting on their own survival instinct. So good luck curing them of that.
#1. Yes, Males Assume That Their Female Friends Secretly Want to Have Sex With Them
There are two things that When Harry Met Sally taught the world: First, you can fake a window-rattling orgasm in a crowded diner in the middle of the day and not get kicked out, and second, men and women can't be friends, because sex will always get in the way. We can't really vouch for that first one, but according to science, the second one is true.
"Yeah, but not in my case." -- 3 out of 5 readers
According to a study that seemed pretty intent on proving what millions of men already insisted was true, men and women can't ever be friends simply because they define the word "platonic" in vastly different ways. The study involved asking two members of the same friendship about the benefits of said relationship and the likelihood of the two people ever playing a nice game of marinate the bratwurst. Sure enough, the men were consistently much more sexually attracted to their female friends than vice versa. And, more importantly, they also projected their sexual attraction onto their female friends.
We realize that this is bringing back a lot of traumatic memories for many of you, but the study found what you already have probably experienced in your own life: When the male feels attraction to the female, he automatically assumes that it's mutual, even if no such romantic interest is present on her part. Oh, and the men were more than willing to act on this imaginary mutual attraction, even if their female "friend" happened to be in a romantic relationship with someone else at the time.
"I like to think of you having a boyfriend as less of a roadblock and more of a traffic cone."
The two sexes were experiencing the exact same friendship, the same conversations, the same mannerisms, etc., and were interpreting them in two completely different ways.
Just to make things crystal clear: If you're a guy, your female friend probably doesn't think of having sex with you any more than your heterosexual guy friends think of having sex with you. But if you're a girl, then yes, he wants you to touch his wang. It's not that he doesn't mean it when he agrees that you're "just friends." It's just that males tend to mentally add "for now" to the end of it.
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Sometimes when I take photos with a Nikon D300 I got the photos burnt. Does anybody knows a technique that helps to avoid this undesirable effect?
To avoid blown highlights you can:
The range of light levels that can be recorded by a camera are much lower than those present in many real-life situations. One way to deal with this is to use High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging techniques. Use the exposure bracketing features of the camera to make multiple images that can be combined using HDR software that compresses the dynamic range of the scene (using tone mapping) to fit within the range expressible in a displayed or printed image.
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It depends what do you means by overexposing, according to some condition it is normal the camera to overexpose, in that ponctual condition you just follow RedGrittyBrick's answer.
However it could be the camera which constantly overexpose and in that case you can tune a compensation with the setting
You can even have a setting bank like


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Son Has Questions About Puberty
Q: My 13-year-old son has a few questions about puberty:
- How long does it last and at what age does it start?
- What are some of the signs that he has started puberty?
- He is concerned with what size his penis should be. How does he know if it's too small?
A: The age at which puberty can start varies a great deal. This can cause some kids to worry if they are a little later than their friends, but earlier is not better than later, and vice versa. In boys, puberty takes about five years to complete, going from the time of the first noticeable changes to a full grown adult. The average age for starting puberty is 11, but it can be as early as 9 or as late as 14.
The first physical change that you can see in the genitals is that the testicals start to enlarge. The scrotum (the sack containing the testicals) may begin to look more red or dark, and "wrinkly" in appearance. Next, the penis starts to get longer and larger. A few strands of pubic hair often develop at this time, as well. All of these processes continue over the course of the next several years, and take a while to complete. The penis does not reach its full adult size until the end of puberty. There is no "right size" for the penis to be. Just as people have different foot sizes and head sizes, they have different penis sizes. Larger is not any better than smaller. As long as the penis does begin to grow from its pre-puberty size, there is no reason for concern.
There are many other changes apart from the physical growth of the genitals. During the middle of puberty, boys may notice that their voice "cracks" as it begins to become deeper. Hair begins to develop under the arms and grow on the legs. Boys will have involuntary erections that they have no control over, as well as ejaculations in their sleep that they are not aware of. This can be concerning to some boys and their parents, but it is all perfectly normal and expected.
The other major change that is occurring during puberty is a growth in height, as well as muscle mass. This aspect of change does not occur until the later half of puberty in boys, so it is quite typical to see that many girls are taller than the boys in 5th through 8th grades, as the girls have their growth spurt earlier.
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Shari Nethersole is a physician at Children's Hospital, Boston, and an instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She graduated from Yale University and Harvard Medical School, and did her internship and residency at Children's Hospital, Boston. As a pediatrician, she tries to work with parents to identify and address their concerns.


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I want to find whether 2 circles with radii
r1 and
r2 intersect, and if so, where they do so. Is there a simple solution?
I want to find whether 2 circles with radii
Tetrad covered general intersection in his post. Here I'll cover an algorithm that returns the specific points of intersection based on the formulae in this concise article. I'm matching my variable names to those in the article, so keep this diagram in mind - and probably in view too!
The language is Python. You can verify your results in Wolfram Alpha by running a query to determine the intersection of two circles like this:
or in the general case
where for each of the two circles, h = the x-coordinate of the centre of the circle, k = the y-coordinate, and r is the radius.
Note that this algorithm uses the readily-available complex class for Python which can mimic a 2D Vector's
Whether this was useful to you or not it was still fun. ;)
Do you mean if the circles are overlapping? That's easy, just figure out the distance between the two and compare it to the r1 and r2. Or more specifically, calculate the squared distance between the two (it's faster) and compare it to (r1 + r2)^2.
If you mean what the actual intersection points are of the two circles, then I don't know the math for that offhand.
Do you really need the actual intersection area or do you just need to know if you're in the intersection area? The latter is easier to solve--if you're closer than the radius to both centers you're in the intersection area.
You can to use this solution in JAVA code, in this solution is used the mathematical expresion which was upper descrbed: http://ideashare.net/java/check-if-circle-is-intersect-to-another-circle/


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Since 2011 LyondellBasell does not want to sell the refinery, they want to close the refinery as they first decided in september 2011. At that time, there were forced (workers went on strike) to mothball the refinery.Since 2011, they changed the property of 17 tanks plus all LPG spheres from the refinery to the steamcracker. Hence the remaining refinery asset offered for sale was dificult to operate. Also process catalysts were sold.SOTRAGEM offer was fair in this context. LyondellBasell is now facing extremly high depollution costs (hundreds of millions$).
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I am trying to find the domains in physics where solving large systems of equations is computationally expensive. The sparse systems are of my particular interest, where the input matrix A is in GBs (up to 100 GBs).
For one thing, the solution of any PDE using the finite elements method yields a large sparse system of equations. In the nonlinear case the method is iterative so you need to solve a linear system many times. The applications in physics are countless. To name a few:
Then you have differential-integral equations such as those coming from computational quantum mechanics (Hartree-Fock, Density Functional), electrostatics and countless other places. These transform to systems of linear equations under most numerical methods
All in all, without additional qualifications the list is simply too long. Equation systems are everywhere!


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yogibbear wrote:Surface Pro at the moment has the best specs and stylus.
liquidsquid wrote:That will be a kill deal on the Tablets if they cannot make it a whole 8-10 hour day without a recharge. For me that is one of the most attractive features of tablets now: The 10+ hour battery life. This is one of the main reasons I want a Tablet vs. a laptop, it is not having to have it plugged in all the time. Ideally they would run even longer like my eReader, but that is expecting an awful lot. I just pick that thing up whenever I need it and it is there ready to be used. For entire vacations... without any power to charge it.
What is her replacement?liquidsquid wrote:So I haven't purchased one yet, but getting closer since my wife destroyed her laptop:
If it were a Tegra then I would worry.liquidsquid wrote:Nexus 10:
Beast of a CPU->Tegra
hiro_pro wrote:i keep hearing abut the surface specs but has anyone successfully used a surface for more than a week? if so how doe sit hold up?
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Colorado Flooding Forces More Evacuations
Death Toll Rises to Four in 'Unprecedented' Disaster; Rescues by Helicopter
Flash flooding from heavy rains continued to force evacuations Friday in isolated mountain communities outside Boulder, and federal disaster managers stepped in to oversee response teams.
The death toll rose to four on Friday, with the discovery of a flood victim outside Boulder. In addition, Boulder Sheriff's Commander Heidi Prentup said authorities cannot account for as many as 80 people, meaning friends and family members reported they can't reach them. Boulder Sheriff Joe Pelle noted that many cell towers are down, and added that he expects the number to rise before it starts to drop.
Sheriff Pelle called the scale of the disaster "unprecedented" and expressed concern about remote areas without sewer services, water, or electricity.
"We don't know about lives lost, homes lost, people stranded in many of our canyon communities," he said, saying that assessment could take days. "We have lost every roadway leading to the western end of our county."
Meanwhile, there was a 30% chance of showers along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains Friday night and Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. The chance of rain increases to 60% Sunday. The rain isn't expected to be as heavy as it was last week, but with the ground saturated and creeks high, flash-flooding remains a potential problem.
On Friday, the National Guard began evacuating residents from Lyons, a town 17 miles to the north of Boulder. Northwest of the city, the 200 residents of Jamestown were being evacuated by helicopter because roads were impassable.
About 70 schoolchildren and 10 staff members from Denver and a Boulder County school had been on a sleep-away field trip at two adjoining mountain-nature centers. Authorities plan to helicopter them to Boulder, where parents can meet them. Sheriff Pelle said the students "are safe and there is a plan in the works to get them back to their parents."
Amid the disaster, sunny skies on Friday over water-logged Boulder gave residents a respite from the nearly 14 inches of rain that hit the city starting earlier in the week, according to the weather service.
Tim Kopper, a 21-year-old molecular biology student at the University of Colorado Boulder, ventured out to a creek-side park to view Boulder Creek, which had turned into a fast-moving river churning with mud.
"We figure with the break in the weather, we're safe, flash-flood wise," Mr. Kopper said, as scores of onlookers stood on a nearby bridge in the heavy, fetid air. "Once the storms come back, we'll head out of here."
In a neighborhood of stately 19th-century homes dotted with student apartments west of downtown, groups of students reinforced barriers of rocks and sand to keep water still rushing down the street from damaging homes.
On Friday, Jessica Byrne, a 20-year-old college junior, returned to her basement apartment for the first time in two days. When the flash-flood siren sounded, she fled with her laptop, cellphone and a backpack full of homework.
"We got out of there as quick as we could," said the mechanical-engineering major.
Dixie Johnston, 56, chose to remain in her second-story Boulder apartment, although her first-floor neighbors all left.
Ms. Johnston said she wasn't sure she would have been able to make it to higher ground. She looked out her window when she got the evacuation call and saw "wall to wall water" on the street.
"It's safe here," she said of her apartment.
In Lyons, a town of 2,000, residents have been without power and water for two days as heavy rains damaged its sewage-treatment plant. About 70 Lyons residents and 20 pets were bused to the LifeBridge Christian Church in Longmont, about 15 miles north of Boulder, and another two busloads were expected later Friday, said Cindy Saenz, a church volunteer.
"They are dazed and confused," Ms. Saenz said about the evacuated residents.
Numerous roads throughout the state were closed, including Interstate 25 from Denver to Fort Collins, which was shut down due to flooding of major rivers coming out of the mountains.
The rain abated in Denver, which had not been as hard hit. "Everything looks to be good in Denver proper," a police spokesman said.
Earlier in the day, a man and his dog who had been washed under a culvert grate in Denver were rescued five blocks away by fire-department workers.
Sheriff Pelle said with the handover to federal authorities, the number of people working this disaster will soon double from about 400. Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesman Ricardo Zuñiga said the total will include about 250 members of federal search-and-rescue teams, adding that it is the largest such contingent ever sent to Colorado.
Late Thursday night, President Barack Obama signed an emergency declaration, freeing federal aid and allowing the FEMA to coordinate disaster-relief efforts.
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In class one recent Friday, during a question-and-answer session with the founder of a startup, students asked questions befitting venture capitalists.
The questions didn't come from business majors soon to embark on their own entrepreneurial endeavors, as might be expected. Rather, they came from sixth, seventh and eighth graders at Summit Charter Middle School in Boulder.
In rapid succession, they asked Cory Finney, founder of SnowGate -- a slope-side locker system for skis and snowboards -- about the success of his budding company, the technology he's had to learn, prototype production, marketing strategies, plans for expansion and more.
The middle school students were part of an elective course in financial literacy, created and led by five undergraduate students from CU-Boulder's Leeds School of Business.
"This class has taught them things that go beyond the next test and beyond the classroom," said Lisa Mueller, one of the student volunteers from the Leeds School, who graduated this month with concurrent bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting. "It will be carried with them their entire lives with skills like knowing how to invest, budget and manage money."
The CU-Boulder students, with the guidance of Associate Professor Alan Jagolinzer of the Leeds School, planned and provided 50-minute lessons at least twice weekly throughout the spring semester on everything from budgeting to debt, investment returns, market volatility and credit cards.
They also helped the middle school students identify opportunities to invest $25,000 allocated for the project in the stock market.
For the investment portfolio, the middle school students teamed up into four groups to identify potential investment opportunities. They researched companies and pitched their ideas to a volunteer group of professional investors, chaired by Kent Muckel of Perella Weinberg Partners. Based on the students' input, the nonprofit organization that supports Summit then invested $25,000 allocated for the project in shares. The overall performance of the portfolio was positive over the semester and all returns have been reinvested for future use at Summit.
"We're excited that our students have the opportunity to learn about finance with real-world implications," said Adam Galvin, principal of Summit. "This experience shows our level of trust in our students with advisory committee supervision and also helps them appreciate how to develop sustainable funding infrastructures."
In addition to developing and teaching the course, the CU-Boulder students helped launched a business club at Summit. Its middle school members opened and operate a small school supply store called "$um Stuff."
"Our primary goal is to teach fundamental finance concepts to students much earlier in their schooling because we believe this provides core life skills training," said Jagolinzer, an associate professor of accounting. "Most students, and many adults for that matter, have virtually no finance acumen and we think that needs to change."
For the CU-Boulder students, the community service opportunity has shaped communication and collaboration skills, as well as provided a network, according to Mueller.
"It's really cool to see other students at CU-Boulder be passionate about something," said Mueller. "It's such a huge school, and you can find a small group of people who love to teach and share their knowledge. Everybody who's developed this course has been awesome. I hope I can help them in the future and stay involved with the project."
Mueller, who is now works at an audit, tax and advisory firm called KPMG, is among three of the student volunteers who graduated this month. The financial literacy class at Summit is slated to continue next school year and recruitment of new student volunteers is underway.


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Temporary rules adopted for testing, alignment of Memorial Bridge lift span
The Coast Guard is issuing a temporary deviation from the regulations governing the operation of the new US-1 Memorial Bridge across the Piscataqua River, mile 1.9, between Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Kittery, Maine. Under this temporary deviation the bridge may operate on a special opening schedule to facilitate mechanical and structural alignment of the lift span.
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Metropolitan State University of Denver
The world of communication has changed dramatically in the last decade. We have gone from a analog, linear communication model to a nonlinear, digital world. What does that mean to you, today's communicator? It means that you need to be able to identify the problem, design the message and use the appropriate communication medium to communicate with your audience.
Technical Communication and Media Production students apply the underlying theories and principles of the discipline to communicate information to a specific audience using the appropriate communication medium, whether the medium be print, video, audio, multimedia technology, or a combination of other media.
Software and hardware are tools that students use to help audiences assimilate information by effectively designing content and properly communicating information. The department offers four areas of concentration:
The department offers courses using cutting edge technology, including:
- 2D, 3D, and video animation
- audio production for computer game design, interactive media, and video
- corporate cultures
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- nonlinear video editing
- professional document design
- proposal writing
- scriptwriting
- software and hardware documentation
- streaming media production
- technical writing and editing
- technology-based training
- usability testing
- video production
- web 2.0, immersive environments and other new media
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Welcome to Technical Communication and Media Production. We look forward to seeing you in the department and online.
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When I squat in athletics my right knee hurts on the inside and sometimes when we max out or something my knee will hurt all day. If weight and load are needed, I weigh 105 lbs and squat 185 lbs. I ask my coaches but they say I'm fine, but I think they think I can just work through it. Could it be from my max jump from 155 - 185? By max jump I mean I was at 155 and within two weeks I was at 185 I'll have more info in the next 2-3 Hours.
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You most likely have poor hip mobility and activation. Inside knee pain can be associated more with adductor tightness/hip external rotation, you should be stretching those anyway.
Here are the steps to directly improve symptoms when training
For overall the knee health, I recently wrote an article on dealing with knee pain.
Some main points:
That should help a lot!
Without more info this is difficult to say. But I used to experience this same sort of pain and it was due to a muscle imbalance. Though I am right handed I am left leg dominant and my vastus medialis on my right leg was much smaller than on my left. My vastus lateralis on both legs, however, were pretty well developed (my squat stance is wide so my hips are strong). This caused the tendon on my knee to pull a little to the right giving me pain that was the equivalent to "Runners Knee". I corrected this by performing additional leg exercises to strengthen my right leg with emphasis on the vastus medialis. The first two things I would suspect are form and muscle imbalance.
There's quite a lot that could be going slightly awry, I'd highly recommend working through:
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Banish ground beef doldrums
I don't much like cooking with ground meat. It's supereasy, of course. Just toss in the skillet and brown, then proceed with spices, sauces, chopped vegetables, etc. But for a weeknight supper, I'd rather saute some chicken or cook pasta. Faced with a pound of ground beef or chicken, I'd prefer to make meatballs or meatloaf, but either takes too long.


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Recent and archived news articles by Laura Mansnerus of The New York Times.
Mother of Victims Killed by Police Car Questions Handling of Inquiry
There is no word on criminal charges five months after a New Jersey State Police car slammed into a minivan, killing two teenage sisters.
January 21, 2007, Sunday
Panel Seeks End to Death Penalty for New Jersey
The recommendation would make New Jersey the first state in over 35 years to abolish the death penalty.
January 3, 2007, Wednesday
New Jersey Panel Urges End to Death Penalty
The political climate in Trenton appears to be receptive to the recommendations of the legislative commission.
January 2, 2007, Tuesday
Newcomers to New Jersey Earn More Than Those Who've Left, Figures Show
Experts attribute the influx of affluent residents to the rising cost of buying a home in the state.
December 29, 2006, Friday
Willing to Be Governor, if Only for a Day or Two
New Jersey's commissioner of transportation, Kris Kolluri, filled in as governor while Gov. Jon S. Corzine was on vacation.
December 29, 2006, Friday
Legislators Vote for Gay Unions in N.J.
The vote fulfilled a court mandate to provide equal rights to gays and lesbians but frustrated people on both sides.
December 15, 2006, Friday
Doubts Persist as N.J. Lawmakers Move Forward on Civil Union
With New Jersey politicians set to vote Thursday, advocates on both sides of the gay marriage debate are uneasy about the proposed legislation.
December 14, 2006, Thursday
New Jersey Legislature Votes to Allow Civil Unions
New Jersey would be the third state, after Vermont and Connecticut, to establish civil unions for gay couples.
December 14, 2006, Thursday
Bill on Civil Unions Moves Forward in New Jersey
A bill establishing civil unions in New Jersey that would extend the legal benefits of marriage to same-sex couples was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday.
December 12, 2006, Tuesday
Trenton: Senate Panel Approves Judge's Reappointment
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the renomination of Associate Justice Jaynee LaVecchia of the New Jersey Supreme Court after questioning her about the court's recent decisions, including its Oct. 25 ruling on gay marriage. Justice...


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Besides having secure passwords for my blog user and database connections, what should I do to make sure my WordPress installation is secure on my Linux shared server?
I think the best suggestions are well explained in the official "Hardening Wordpress" document:
At the end, those are the same suggestions for every application out there:
If you want to improve security with obscurity (not only thought it, but as an addtional measure), this document gives some ideas:
Ensure you haven't set the file permissions to 'chmod 777' as some guides will have you do. Go through and look at anything your web server account or group can write to, and ensure that they are only areas you expect to be dynamically updated (images, attachments, etc).
Only login over an SSL connection.
If you go into a coffee shop and login at http://www.yourblog.com/wp-admin/ your password is sent in clear text and is easily visible to anyone sniffing the network in the coffee shop and all routers between you and the server.
If you move your blog login page to a secure server and force users to login using SSL at https://www.yourblog.com/wp-admin/ the password will be encrypted as it is sent to the server.
You can either add some PHP code to wordpress something like this
or use a .htaccess file to enforce SSL login which would look something like this:
Some people rename pages like
Secure your /wp-admin/ directory. Lock down /wp-admin/ so that only certain IP addresses can access that directory. You can use an .htaccess file, which you can place directly at /wp-admin/.htaccess . This is what one could look like:
Make sure that your WordPress installation is up to date. Keep up on the RSS and check up on the updates no less than weekly.
If there's an update, begin the installation process at the earliest possible time for you, obviously without disrupting business, if that's what you are using WP for.
Use a unique username/password for your database connection.


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The Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has been providing educational programming and venture support to a diverse population of entrepreneurs since its founding in 2006. Today, the center is a leading force within the Baltimore entrepreneurial ecosystem.
The center is guided by a belief that at the heart of every successful venture is an entrepreneur, whose knowledge, skills and imagination give constant rise to innovative moments.
Our mission at the CEI is to cultivate entrepreneurial thinkers, and help them structure business ideas and build value through innovation.
Through our commitment to high quality programming, experiential learning, and rigorous discipline, the center will continue to be recognized as a pipeline of emerging entrepreneurs and visionaries prepared to lead the next generation of innovation.


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The rather wonderful Batman: Arkham City will, thanks to its wealth of extra-curricular content, still be spinning in many people's disc drives this week. No matter. Publishers Warner Bros. think now is the time to drop some fresh downloadable content for the singleplayer-only game.
So this week has seen the release of the Nightwing pack, which for $7 adds a new Challenge Room character, two new Challenge Room...challenges and a bonus skin. Is it worth the money? Let's ask some guys who work for Kotaku what they think.
Luke Plunkett, who played Batman: Arkham City so much he was answering the phone with "I'M BATMAN": If you're purchasing Batman: Arkham City second-hand, and want to access the substantial Catwoman content, a download code will cost you $10. That gets you a new character, new story missions, new Riddler challenges, all kinds of stuff.
It is, as far as downloadable content goes, a pretty good deal, even if new purchasers of the game get it for free. So it's a shame, then, that the game's second piece of downloadable content is not a good deal. In fact, it's a terrible deal.
You're really not getting much here. While Nightwing has some new tricks and moves that set him apart from Batman and Catwoman, the fact you can only use him in the Challenge Rooms limits his appeal. After clearing both of the new rooms included in the pack within ten minutes, I was done. Bored. Itching to do something else with the character, since he has some cool gadgets like tranquilliser darts, but all I could do was lament the fact there was nothing else to do with the character except grind through more rooms I'd already ground through with Batman. His new gear was cool, but not cool enough to make me want to do that again.
Developers like BioWare and Bethesda have set a fairly high standard when it comes to singleplayer downloadable content, providing gamers with enough substantial, meaningful offerings to make spending more money on the game worthwhile. The Nightwing pack doesn't meet this standard. Meaning my gut feeling on whether you should pay $7 for this is a definite No.
It's a pleasure to use Nightwing's electricity-based stun moves, but without some new story missions to beef this up, it doesn't feel like enough. This one's even harder sell because Arkham City is already rich with combat and Predator challenges. More of them isn't what this still-new game most needed. No
I'm not really that kind of player but, given that I'm a huge Nightwing fan and quite smitten with the added depth Rocksteady's put into Arkham City's combat system, I'm giving this add-on a hearty Yes.


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A list of award recipients from the annual Leavenworth Police Department Awards Ceremony:
Certificate of Appreciation:
A list of award recipients from the annual Leavenworth Police Department Awards Ceremony:
Certificate of Appreciation:
• Marcia Irvine
• Ed Gunnels
Life Saving Award:
• Officer Andrew Brinker
• Officer Ryan Hoppe
• Officer Wade Robinson
Police Achievement:
• Officer Scott Ahlers (2 awards)
• Officer Wade Robinson (2 awards)
• Officer Leona Housell (2 awards)
• Officer Kevin Metzgar (3 awards)
• Detective Matthew Nickel (4 awards)
• Officer Heather Vogel
• Officer Sean Flynn
• Officer Hannah McMillin
• Detective Tesh St. John
• Officer Noah Wooten
• Sgt. Steven Brandau
• Officer Cory Langford
• Officer Brandon Mance
• Officer Trevor Harrison
• Telecommunications Specialist Delta Anderson
• Telecommunications Specialist Tracey Comley
Police Commendation:
• Officer Scott Ahlers
• Sgt. Steven Brandau
• Officer Danny Hall
• Officer Brandon Mance
• Officer Leona Housell
• Sgt. Ralph Sorrell
• Sgt. Derek Burleson
• Officer Noah Wooten
• Sgt. Robert Mendoza
• Sgt. Brian Anderson
Police Shield:
Sgt. Steven Brandau
Medal of Valor:
• Officer Robert Flynn
• Sgt. Roger Hundley
• Officer Cory Langford
• Officer Brandon Mance
• Officer Hannah McMillin
• Sgt. Ralph Sorrell
Civilian Employee of the Year:
• Arianne Burgoon
Officer of the Year:
Sgt. Ralph Sorrell
Ralph Sorrell wears many hats in the Leavenworth Police Department.
In addition to being the department's traffic sergeant, Sorrell serves as a firearms range instructor and polygraph examiner.
Sorrell's efforts were recognized Wednesday during the annual Leavenworth Police Department Awards Ceremony. He was named the department's Officer of the Year.
"It's a total shock," he said.
The police chief's secretary, Arianne Burgoon, was honored with the Civilian Employee of the Year award.
"I'm speechless," Burgoon said.
The Civilian of the Year award is named after Jane McDonald, a former Police Department employee.
A number of other awards were handed out during Wednesday's ceremony. The event took place at Riverfront Community Center.
The ceremony came during National Police Week, and today is Peace Officers Memorial Day.
Leavenworth Police Chief Pat Kitchens said anyone in the department can submit nominations for awards. For most of the awards, recipients were selected by a committee.
Kitchens said he and Deputy Chief Dan Nicodemus selected the recipients of the Civilian Employee of the Year and Officer of the Year awards.
Sorrell has been with the police department for nearly 19 years.
He's originally from Illinois and came to the Leavenworth area while serving in the Army.
Sorrell said he enjoys working in law enforcement because of the daily challenges.
"Every day is different," he said.
Sorrell also received a Police Commendation on Monday with Sgt. Derek Burleson for their work to implement the use mobile data terminals in police cars.
Ed Gunnels, a civilian employee of the city, also was honored for his assistance with the MDTs. Gunnels was presented a Certificate of Appreciation.
Sorrell also received a Medal of Valor for his role last year in the pursuit of a murder suspect who was later apprehended in St. Joseph, Mo.
Sgt. Roger Hundley and Officers Robert Flynn, Cory Langford, Brandon Mance and Hannah McMillin also received the Medal of Valor for their roles in the case. Sgt. Brian Anderson received a Police Commendation, and dispatchers Delta Anderson and Tracey Comley were recognized with Police Achievement awards.
Burgoon has worked for the Leavenworth Police Department for 10 years. For the last four of those years, she has been in the position of the chief's secretary.
Burgoon said she loves her job.
"No two days are the same," she said.
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STEUBENVILLE - Kai McClurg saved the day for Big Red in Saturday's OVAC Class 4A semifinal bout with Buckeye Local at Vacarro Field.
The junior found a way to slide under the tag of Panther pitcher Austin Marshall in the bottom of the seventh, lifting Fred Heatherington's crew to a dramatic 6-5 come-from-behind win. The victory sends Big Red into the title game (set for 11 a.m. on Saturday at Vacarro) opposite top-seeded Harrison Central.
Big Red, now 11-6, appeared to have things under control after John Linn delivered a two-run single up the middle in the sixth, putting the hosts up 4-2. Rick DeLuca's Panthers, however, weren't quite ready to call it a day.
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COMING FROM BEHIND — Steubenville's Bryan Pierro and Buckeye Local's Jonathan Borkoski watch a ball roll to the fence after a bad throw on a pickoff attempt at first base during Saturday's OVAC Class 4A semifinal game at Vaccaro Field. Pierro moved to second and eventually scored Big Red's first run. Steubenville scored two in the bottom of the seventh for a 6-5 win.
Buckeye grabbed a 5-4 seventh-inning advantage following Shane Duncan's bases-loaded triple up the alley in left center. Panther starter Marshall, who went the route on the bump, retired the first Big Red hitter he faced in the home half of the frame.
Cody Saltsman then drew a walk and advanced on McClurg's sharp base knock to right. Marshall recorded the second out and was one strike away from ending the game. Big Red's Mason Heatherington, facing a 1-2 count, fouled off several pitches before working Marshall for a free pass to juice the sacks.
Bryan Pierro walked on five pitches to force Saltsman home and knot the score. Duncan's first pitch to Linn got away from Josh Sokolowski, allowing McClurg to end things with the close call at the plate.
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BUCKEYE LOCAL (8-10): Marshall (LP, 7BB, 7K) and Sokolowski. Marshall 3S, Duncan S, T, 3RBI; Williams 2S, RBI; Sokolowski 2S; Banal S, RBI; Rose S; Hopkins S.
STEUBENVILLE (11-6): Zorne (4BB, 10K) Westlake (7, WP, 1K) and McClurg. Pierro 2S, RBI; Westlake HR, S, RBI; Corsi S, RBI; Saltsman S; McClurg S; Linn S, 2RBI; Herrington S.
"Kai obviously got a big hit for us in the seventh," Big Red's Heatherington said. "Then Mason was down 1-2 and fouled off three pitches before getting a walk. So, we battled and I think that shows the character of our kids."
Perhaps no Big Red player battled more than freshman lefty Anthony Zorne. He went 6 innings, scattering 12 hits (11 were singles) and recording 10 strikeouts. Zorne worked his way out of jams in the first, third, fourth, fifth and sixth innings.
"Anthony didn't have great control today but when he had to have pitches, he had them," Heatherington noted. "You can never tell what the score is when he is pitching. He shows no emotion and that is the sign of a great pitcher on the mound."
Zorne's ability to find those pitches he needed led to Buckeye Local stranding 13 runners during the first six frames.
The Panthers had runners at the corners with one down in the first before Zorne recorded two outs. The same thing happened in the third, this time Zorne got a strikeout. Buckeye did finally score in the fourth thanks to an RBI single by Eric Williams. The bases were jammed with one out but again Zorne was up to the challenge.
Two walks and a single by Marshall (he finished with three hits) filled the bases with Panthers again in the fifth. Zorne fanned the next two hitters to end the threat. DeLuca's club had the sacks juiced a third time in the sixth but was only able to plate a single run (Eric Banal drawing a walk to get the RBI).
"We had tons of guys on base, but just weren't able to manufacture any runs," DeLuca stated. "We are a very, very, very good hitting team. We kept saying over and over that Big Red was walking on thin ice the whole game. We just kept missing opportunities.
"I know our guys are upset with what happened in the last inning, but I told them we should have never been in that situation."
Big Red drew first blood in its half of the opening inning. Pierro drew a lead-off walk, moved to second an errant throw and scored as Justin Corsi lined a two-out seeing-eye single to right. The hosts made it 2-0 in the third. Evan Westlake cranked a two-out, two-strike pitch over the fence in left for his first varsity home run.
After Buckeye tied it at two in the sixth, Big Red responded with a pair. Lucas Herrington rifled a single to right, Mason Heatherington reached on a fielder's choice and Pierro walked to fill the bases. Linn then delivered his two-run shot up the middle.
The Panthers got going in the seventh thanks to Williams' single to left. Sokolowski dropped one over Linn's head for a hit and Chase Hopkins legged one out for an infield single. Duncan then drilled his triple. Marshall walked and Heatherington immediately replaced Zorne with Westlake. The senior recorded a strike out and induced a routine fly to avoid further damage.
"We got out of some key situations," Heatherington admitted. "They had the bases loaded twice with one out. Anthony battled up, got some strikeouts and got us out of innings. In the last inning, we bring Evan in with one out and he gets us out of the inning.
"Who knows what might have happened if they get a base hit and score two or three more runs. We battled, we never backed down."
DeLuca, who praised Marshall for throwing "a nice game," said the seventh inning has been a "good inning for us" all season.
"Big Red is a good team," he added. "McClurg got that key hit in the seventh and their pitcher was getting bombed, but he hung in there and was able to get strikeouts. That is what you have to do to win games. They did it and we didn't do enough of it.
"That is a very good team getting on the Buckeye Local bus. Unfortunately, we came up short today."
Westlake and Pierro each had two hits for Big Red, which hosts Indian Creek Monday.
Marshall, Duncan, Williams and Sokolowski all had multiple-hit games for Buckeye, now 8-10. The Panthers' game on Monday against Toronto has been canceled. They will visit East Liverpool Tuesday.


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I have SharePoint app which we are deploying to another SharePoint server and I need to update target server web.config with changes made on source server web.config. Can somebody advise me how to perform it?
You can use the following PowerShell script:
If your SharePoint app has some custom feature then it is best to write web.config settings using
Here is example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb861909.aspx
What kind of changes do you need to apply to the web.config? SharePoint applications should not store configuration settings in the web.config - it is the least desirable option among the possible ways of storing application settings in SharePoint. Wictor Wilén has a very good post on this topic.
Six ways to store settings in SharePoint
If you are asking how to apply configuration settings for your SharePoint app then I would strongly recommend to refactor your application to not depend on any settings in the web.config file.
You code web.config changes using the SharePoint API (SPWebConfigModification) and package them into a solution file (.wsp).
Deploy the solution file to the new farm.
Do not modify the web.config file manually.


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