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Leaving Sun: Moving to the other side of the fence
By Duleepa Wijayawardhana on Aug 10, 2009
It is always hard to write these type of posts. It has been a busy ten months for me in the MySQL Community Team and sadly, all too soon it seems, the world changes and I find myself moving to the other side of the fence. As of August 14th, I will no longer be with Sun Microsystems.
Okay, before you get any conspiracy theories, the reasons are simple and personal. I am moving on to see what I can do to found my own startup completely unrelated to developing databases though I fully intend to use MySQL in the near future and if possible, all my life. Sometimes in life you get opportunities given to you which are rare and if you don't jump then regret is all you have, and that is something I refuse to live with.
As for MySQL, I am extremely sad to leave some of the coolest, brightest and most fun people in the world (and by this I mean all of the MySQL and Drizzle folks at Sun). I never thought an extrovert like myself would enjoy working in a distributed environment and make good friends, but darn it, I feel like I'm leaving a family, a very talented, dedicated, passionate family whose collective child happens to be a piece of software that has changed the world. In particular I am very sad to say goodbye to the two teams within MySQL (Web/Marketing and Community) with whom I have worked closely: I will miss you. I will forever cherish the time at MySQL and Sun.
To those in the greater MySQL Community, thank you for your help. I hope I will see you at conferences, meetings and naturally online. There are many open source projects that I hope to get involved with as part of my new/past ideas and work. Some of it will be MySQL related albeit loosely (Gearman) and some in different directions (monitoring, web frameworks) as well as exploring more of what it means to be a "Community" on the web. So yes, I will be around.
If you want to follow me, you can follow my personal blog at http://www.dups.ca/blog (which at this point is hopelessly outdated but that will change in time) and I will be available through Facebook and LinkedIn. If you want my personal email address leave a message here and I will e-mail you :)
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The 48 Hour Film Project
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The Judges Have Spoken!
Our panel of judges has made its decision. Congratulations to all of the filmmakers and teams who participated. We are proud to announce our Berlin winners!
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Best Music
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Best Cinematography
Zwei Fisch for "The Rabbit"
Honorable Mention
84 for "84"
Runner Up for Best Film
Angst for "Das Leben & Traümen der Lieferantin Jana Schwarz"
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"Hola mi amiga. (The building I live in is 80% Spanish so I talk that talk half the day.) … I'm trying to figure out my new consulting model for '12. … All this shit is new and you have to define for yourself what you want. … Avail to chat this week?" xxE
This was one of the last emails I got from my friend Erica Kennedy before she died this past June. It occurred to me today, exactly two months post her Wiki day of death, that she might have loved to have weighed in on the most recent Jackson family custody drama. "Katherine Kidnapped, Janet Slaps Kid, Nevermind, Katherine Not Kidnapped, Janet Doesn't Slap Kid." It was a random thought, granted, but Erica was filled with random, hilarious commentary. I imagine she would say something about how they were acting like pseudo-Black royalty behaving badly. Not the best look.
I think about Erica every day. I thought about her before her death, too, but in the way that you think about a person whom you are fond of and admire but don't see very often. The way I think about her now is different. I am stunned by my inability to let her be dead, perhaps because of the many blogs, Facebook comments and tweets that were posted immediately and for days after news of her death spread, making it so pointedly clear how loved and admired she was. Maybe because there was no memorial or funeral service announcement, or an official cause of death—although it is widely assumed that she committed suicide.
I do not know for sure how Erica died. I do know that she struggled with depression, as I have. We never spoke of our individual experience with depression in specific terms, but rather referred to its impact in cryptic ways, knowing ways. Sometimes I would hear from her and she would mention in passing that she hadn't been out of her sweats in days. Or her apartment had felt particularly dark that week. Subsequently, we trusted each other on a visceral level, like war veterans. If Erica did in fact kill herself, it was likely prompted by a bad day -- the kind of bad day that for a depressive person, can prompt the end of all days. The playwright Beth Henley wrote about such a day in her 1978 tragic comedy, "Crimes of the Heart," in which three sisters are left to manage the loss of their mother, who hangs herself, because, she wrote in a note left behind, "I had a bad day."
They are days that start with a feeling of utter defeat, and proceed with weighty limbs and murky headspace. Often it feels like you are lying in wet cement, destined to dry with it and never move again.
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I've had days like this. But since the birth of my son seven years ago, I have willed myself to breathe through them until they pass. They are days that start with a feeling of utter defeat, and proceed with weighty limbs and murky headspace. Often it feels like you are lying in wet cement, destined to dry with it and never move again.
Erica and I were not close. We lived in different cities (she in Miami; me in New York), and although as young Black women in the white male dominated fields of media and mainstream journalism we knew many of the same people, none of our core friends overlapped. But we shared a similar sensibility, and certain aspects of our lives were strikingly symbiotic. We both went to small, private colleges, where we were among a handful of Black students, and graduated as writers who published books to considerable praise—mine, however, despite an endorsement from Whoopi and an excerpt in Elle magazine, didn't make quite the same splash as hers. We both worked for famous people early in our careers (she Tommy Hilfiger; me Charlie Rose), which provided a certain level of cache among the media elite, while also instilling a fair measure of expectation that we would go on to do very big and very great things. We were both quietly ambitious, conversant in pop culture while being literary-minded, driven by intellect and smart humor. Our conversations had the tone of a post on Jezebel.com before Jezebel.com existed.
But above all else, we both struggled, and I still do, with the constant and inordinate pressure to define and redefine who we are just as it seemed we were starting to feel comfortable with the latest incarnation. I'm a writer; no, a web editor; no, a blogger; no, a digital strategist; no, a bi-culturally connected conduit; no, a browned-skinned filler to diversify the room. The list went on, and goes on, increasingly, as the media industry has become almost entirely about "branding". And each incarnation was a protest of sorts against dark and amorphous demons, the fear of being forgotten, and an inexplicable well of sadness.
When I was an editor at PAPER magazine a few years ago, I assigned


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5 Superpowers Science Will Give Us in Our Lifetime
Every one of us once dreamed of donning some spandex pants and taking our brand of renegade crime fighting to the streets. The only problem was our total lack of super powers, and the fact that when we blasted ourselves with gamma radiation we only got a super-powered tumor that becomes more malignant when angered.
Recent scientific breakthroughs are changing that. Within our lifetimes we just might be able to see mankind do the things it only wrote about in cheap picture books and their multi-billion dollar film adaptations. Some day, you or your children may very well get to be ...
#5. Iron Man
The Character's Power: Technologically advanced battle suit.
After being kidnapped by the Vietnamese (or in the film, some brown people) billionaire inventor Tony Stark MacGyver's himself a technological wonder of a battle suit that simultaneously prevents shards of shrapnel from entering his heart and helps him explode you with literal hand cannons.
How Science Can Give It To You:
Meet HAL 5.
HAL 5 is an acronym for Hybrid Assistive Limb ... 5. HAL is an artificial powered exoskeleton. In other words, a technological wonder of a suit that is capable of allowing the user to carry five times the weight they could normally carry.
"When a person attempts to move, nerve signals are sent from the brain to the muscles via motoneuron, moving the musculoskeletal system as a consequence." We just copy and pasted that from the official HAL website because it sums it up well enough (apparently just saying, "When you move, this thing moves HARDER!" is too simplistic for the type of people who know how to make cybernetic suits).
Unlike Tony Stark's "Mark VI" Iron Man suit, HAL was not invented for tearing-ass through a war zone, leaving behind a trail of men slowly realizing they just got their limbs torn off by a robot. On the contrary, HAL was designed for factory work, disaster relief, assisting disabled people, and, as the website states, "the entertainment field" which we're sure is code for "Superhuman Endurance Sexbot."
The only problem is ...
You'll probably think we're being silly when we point out that "HAL" is also the name of the AI in 2001: A Space Odyssey. If you're having trouble remembering the character let us refresh your memory: HAL 9000 spied some astronauts talking shit about him behind his back, and went on a murderous rampage in response. Probably just coincidence, right? Surely not a sign that the inventors have evil intentions or anything.
Well, do you remember when we linked the official HAL website earlier? Look at the web address. That's www.cyberdyne.jp. Cyberdyne! As in, "the manufacturers of the Terminator" Cyberdyne.
Don't get us wrong, we're not saying this isn't an amazing technology. All we're saying is that you should find your nearest John Conner and sequester him in your local underground robot apocalypse bunker before some dip-shit scientist puts some kind of thinking chip in these things.
#4. Jean Grey (X-Men)
The Character's Power: Telekinesis.
Jean Grey, more commonly known as "That redheaded bitch that dies whenever shit gets serious," has telekinetic powers that allow her to do much more than lift simple objects with her mind. She can also use her powers as a kind of Jedi-like force push and as a defensive shield.
How Science Can Give It To You:
The Brain-Gate Neural Interface System (BGNIS).
Foxborough, Massachusetts based company Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc. is working on technologies that let the paralyzed interact with their surroundings using only their thoughts. The "Gate" in the name refers to a computer interface that acts as a gateway for the entire process. The system begins with the implantation of a sensor in the motor cortex, the part of the brain that controls movement.
This sensor detects neural signals that your brain would normally use to tell your body to move. But, rather than having this information transmitted to an arm or leg these signals get relayed to a computer which then decodes the information and converts it into a physical action. So when you think about an action (say, giving a stripper a dollar) that thought would go though the computer which then would activate a device (say, the dollar bill cannon attached to your pelvis).
The BGNIS project has been approved by the FDA and Cyberkinetics hopes this technology will be ready for the mass market within three to five years.
The only problem is ...
This technology clearly isn't going to stay limited to the disabled. The prospect for being able to, with a simple implant, turn on your coffee maker or car with the power of your thoughts, will be too much to resist. How will a society already plagued by obesity and sedentary lifestyles adjust to the invention of the mind controlled pudding cannon?
And how long until a group of rogues find a way to get souped-up implants that let them take over your car from a mile away? Or send your lawnmower on a murderous rampage?
They'll also make it fly somehow
Without the wisdom of a Dr. X to guide them, they will wreak havoc on a world too fat to defend itself.
#3. Spider-Man
The Character's Power: Web slinging and wall climbing.
When a young loser named Peter Parker gets bitten by a radioactive spider he becomes endowed with the powers of an arachnid. He can crawl on walls and, just to round out the whole "Spider" gimmick, he invented his own web slingers. Furthermore, he has a spider's ... precognitive abilities? We must have missed that day of science class.
How Science Can Give It To You:
Carbon nanotube technology and nanoglue.
Spidey holds the honorable distinction of being the only character on this list that has two real life technologies currently being researched that can one day bring us a step closer to being riddled with bullets after trying to stop a bank robbery.
First up is carbon nanotube technology, which will basically be Velcro for the "What the fuck is Velcro?" societies of the future. Like Velcro, carbon nanotubes can be formed as a series of hooks and loops that interlock, thereby creating a clinging effect. Unlike Velcro, these hooks and loops are microscopic and can latch on to nearly any surface imaginable, even while underwater.
The creator of the nanotube, Italian scientist Nicola Pugno, says that when placed on gloves and boots, his wall-crawling breakthrough would be able to keep a fully grown person suspended on a ceiling. He hopes to have a prototype suit out by 2010.
The second Spider-Man tech that will revolutionize the way we as a society approach cosplaying is more of a theory, but it's a very promising one at that. This theory is based around something called nanoglue.
A group of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute scientists working with nanolayers (molecular chains of carbon molecules with elements such as silicon, oxygen or sulfur) accidentally found that heating nanolayers of commercially available glue sandwiched between copper and silica, it created a bond that one researcher called "As strong as a motherfucker."
Metal chains and hooks are metaphorical
The leader of the project, Professor Ganapathiraman Ramanath, hypothesizes that this "nanoglue" could be used as a real-life version of Spider-Man's web shooters:
"If we can find a way to create threads and/or intertwined bundles using the molecules in a scalable fashion, while retaining the adhesive properties, then creating web-shooters similar to Spiderman's is a real possibility," he said as he pointed to the face of Spider-Man gracing the crotch flap of his Underoos.
The only problem is ...
We admit, it's awesome that a mountain climber plummeting to his death may one day be able take a minute to enjoy the quickly passing scenery before deploying a stream of stringy glue that will save his life, before crawling effortlessly back up the rocky cliff with his hands.
The problem is that once the method of web-swinging from building to building becomes possible, no one will ever use any other means of transport. So what's wrong with that? Well, what goes unreported in Spider-Man films and comics is the hundreds of long, sticky strings of web he leaves behind wherever he goes.
In the city of the future, where rush hour features a few million Spideys web-slinging their way to the office, pretty soon every building is going to look like it's either wearing a fur coat, or been Bukakked within mere inches of its life.


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Combobox in columnmodel in editorGridpanel
I have a editorGridPanel with a combobox on a colomn. everything works but only after a other cell is clicked. is there a way to force the cell to process the data.
this is the code for the combo box
var successCombo = new Ext.form.ComboBox({ xtype: 'combo', triggerAction: 'all', store: comboSuccessDS, iconCls: 'no-icon', valueField: 'perc', displayField: 'success_factor', tpl:'<tpl for="."><div ext:qtip="{perc} %. {subject}"; class="x-combo-list-item">{success_factor}</div></tpl>', allowblank: false, resizable: true, editable: false, grow: true, listeners: { expand : function(box){ box.setWidth(200); }, collapse : function(box){ //here i want to force the cell to process the new value } } });
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You are using it as an Editor? Not hard to do..Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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28 Nov 2011 12:43 AM #3
You're not really helping. The value only gets saved if an other cell is clicked. what can I do?
28 Nov 2011 4:01 AM #4
basically, in your usecase the changes will get applied on the blur event -> when the active editor loses focus.
it is also possible for fields to save on the keypress of enter / return, but not in your usecase since you set editable to false.
so, for an easy solution, i would allow editing and set the following 2 configs:
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28 Nov 2011 4:49 AM #5
I did what you suggested but I see no change in behaviour.
28 Nov 2011 5:41 AM #6
after a frustrated day i finaly got the anwser.
collapse : function(box){ box.setWidth(60); box.fireEvent('blur'); }
tnks for the help everyone


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How would I access elements from the following map:
map<int, string[4]> * my_map;
I used to do it through the at() operator
string * val_ptr = my_map->at(key);
Recently, I have discovered that this is a non standard feature of my compiler and the correct way of doing it is through
operator[]. Unfortunately, the compiler keeps trying to convert my key to
string [4]:
string * val_ptr = my_map->operator[](key);
error: conversion from 'int' to non-scalar type 'std::string [4]' requested
I have looked online, but there don't seem to be any examples with a map of string arrays. Am I doing something invalid? Should I be using a vector instead, and if so, would it be slower to create and access?


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Unanswered: GXT 2.2.5, drag-n-drop listener and comparator TreeStore priority
I use GXT2.2.5
I need to do some business logic with a drag-n-drop in the TreeStore. This action changes the value on what the Comparator is based on. The problem is that the sort is automatically called before the drag-and-drop event listner.
1- user drag n drop an item in the tree (this changes the order);
2- the TreeStore Comparator is called;
3- the DNDListener is called;
I wish that the Comparator was called after my DNDListener so the tree would be sort the right way.
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Can you provide an example of what you are describing? The DNDListener has many handlers, some of which are clearly called before the drop is complete. Additionally, you haven't made it clear what you add the DNDListener to - both the source and the target fire those events, the source first, then the target.
Remember too that events are used to find out that something has happened, not that it is about to happen. In the case of DNDListener.onDragDrop, you are being informed that the DnD operation was successful - at this time you might choose to save data back to the server. If this method went off before the drop was finished and you saved data, the change would not properly be stored. As such, you probably want to be customizing the DropTarget.onDragDrop details (overriding it and adding your details before calling super, for example) or if using TreePanelDropTarget, perhaps you'll want to override handleAppendDrop or handleInsertDrop.
Another option could be to modify the comparator after the drop is complete and re-apply the sort. This would be more expensive, but might not matter much in your particular use case.
25 Mar 2013 7:45 AM #3
I got rid of the comparator being automatically handled by the store. I call the sort when the dragNDrop event finishes. Would have been nice that the sort events were handled after all other events but that's not the case. In other word, don't use (store.setModelComparer) if you expect to sort after a dragNDrop. Use (tree.getStore().sort) when ever you need it.


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Edits made by users who do not have edit privileges are placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.
E.g., I edited someone else's answer. but changed my mind. If I'd edited my own question/answer, there would be a "Rollback" button, but there's no such button in the scenario I'm describing (at least none that I can see).
Is there a way to remove one's edit from the peer review queue?


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During Leadership Day at the STC 2011 Summit, the Community Affairs Committee held a panel discussion to address commonly asked questions from STC Communities. Whether or not you had a chance to participate in Leadership Day, we'd like to invite you to continue that discussion here. Bring your questions, bring your answers, and help make STC communities the best they can be.
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The Southern Nevada chapter first met in April of 1986. Since then, its presence in southern Nevada has been steadily growing to serve all areas in southern Nevada (it also has a few members in St. George, UT.)
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The East Bay Chapter turns 50 this year! Established in 1962, the East Bay Chapter serves members in the corridor of Highways 580 and 680 in the San Francisco, East Bay Area. More than 40 members work in such diverse fields as software application development, hardware manufacturing, research, electronics, and telecommunications. Technical Communicators can find resources, solutions, jobs, professional connections, and friendship with the East Bay Chapter.
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Just installed Dual-Boot Ubuntu 13.04 on my self-built Windows 8 Pro PC, and after the installation I restarted, and once I was prompted with Grub 2.0 I tried to boot off of windows 8, and a few seconds after I selected the OS it would restart my computer entirely. I am clueless when it comes to Linux entirely as I am a gamer and video editor it is not the best option for my needs, but all of my friends have been telling me to dual-boot so I did. I am very afraid of loosing all of my data on my hard drive and such because a large portion of my job is done on that hard drive.
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System Processor: Intel Core Duo 6700 2.66 Ghz
System DRAM: 8GB DDR2 DRAM
Graphics Processor: Sapphire AMD 5570 1GB GDDR3
Motherboard: ABit AB9 Pro
Storage: 1TB Western Digital Caviar Green, 500GB, 80GB


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Dear Dads,
I don't really care about your head. If you think it's a good idea to ride around at 20 mph with nothing but your, admittedly, fantastic hair between your head and any pavement it might come in contact with, who am I to judge? Odds are that I won't be around if you crash. And, it's nice that you make sure your two kids and wife are all wearing helmets as the four of you swerve down the bike trail; I admire the fact that you recognize the value of those heads.
But don't you think that you might be setting the wrong example? Don't you think it would be a good idea to demonstrate how important a helmet is by, you know, wearing one? Or are you fine with your kid being the one that takes his helmet off and hangs it on his handlebars as soon as he's sure his mom can't see him?
I guess what I'm saying is that things might be a little different if you were a 22 year-old bike messenger on some ridiculous fixed gear bike you "built" yourself. Then, maybe, your emphasis on "style" could be enough to rationalize that tweed cap you spent an entire month's income on. But you, you're a 40 year-old dad riding around in basketball shorts and a muscle-T, a helmet is only going to help your look.


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In Touhou: the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, I've so far been using Reimu and her Spell Card "Fantasy Seal" with the "Homing Amulet" sub-weapon. I admit I've become a little spoiled using the Homing Amulet, because it, well, auto-homes in on the enemies, which is pretty handy.
What advantages does using the Spell Card "Evil Sealing Circle" with the "Persuasion Needle" sub-weapon have over the Homing Amulet? Does it the Persuasion Needle do more DPS than the Homing Amulet? Why would I want to choose that over a weapon that auto-homes in on the enemies?
I admit that I don't use my bombs very often, so I'm entirely unsure of the differences between the bomb effects of the two cards.


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Barnes & Noble NOOK Simple Touch w/ GlowLight for $64.99 + free shipping
Wi-Fi, 2GB, Includes Power Adapter.
I've just got the standard Nook Simple Touch, but have been quite impressed with it. Great price for the GlowLight model here.
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That's only slightly more than B&N's discounted price for a non-backlit Nook. Word on the street is they're about to introduce new hardware but I doubt it will have much impact on e-readers.
The Nook in this deal is a refurb. I'd rather buy brand new from B&N for the $79.99 right now.
not even a refurbished unit, but a "preowned."
The related deal for the simple touch for 39.99 is great. I have one and really like it. This is a good deal for the GlowLight model. The problem is, the GlowLight model has terrible reviews. (Screen develops holes in the backlighting making it unreadable.
If you want a GlowLight, you are probably much better off with a Kindle PaperWhite.
Hopefully Barnes and Noble will refresh the GlowLight line with better manufacturing. I'd rather have a Nook with a working backlight because it's easy to convert to a Android tablet, but obviously without a reliably functioning screen, that tablet is worthless.
I just got a cancellation notice from Tanga on my order. They oversold their supply. Grr.


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Psychedelia Redux/
EncyclepdiaPictura seem to be part of a growing wave of mind-blowing filmmakers and artists hellbent on accessing the deep recesses of our lizard brain. When Corbin slipped me the first taste of their work (knife) I time travelled back to my march through Utah's Paria Canyon in my late teens when I was covered in mud and feeling akin to the Yeti as I scared the various more sane hikers who expected to commune with common nature. Awww, fond memories. Bjork since found them and they gave her a great 3D vid too.


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They stepped out of their office Wednesday to bring a little Christmas cheer.
Workers from Warren RECC were out ringing the Salvation Army bell Wednesday at Kroger on 31w.
Staff was encouraged to take an hour of their day to help those in need.
Wednesday's bell ringers say despite the cold temperatures outside, it's all worth their time to volunteer.
"Warren RECC has been a part of the community now for nearly 74 years and we just feel like it's important. Times are tough right now and we just feel like it's important to give back to our communities," says Scott Duvall.
Duvall says the proudest moment from his bell ringing experience Wednesday was child who donated all of his piggy bank money.


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In July, Anu Bradford, Jessica Bulman-Pozen, Jody S. Kraus, and David Pozen became the newest members of the Columbia Law School faculty. With the addition of these four scholars, Dean David M. Schizer has now added a total of 32 faculty members to the Law School in his more than eight years as dean.
Bradford, who came to Columbia Law School by way of the University of Chicago Law School, is a renowned scholar of international law and international relations. Her research projects examine the influence of state power, domestic preferences, and international organizations on international economic law.
Bulman-Pozen, who recently served as an attorney-adviser in the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, is a scholar and teacher of administrative law, antidiscrimination law, constitutional law, and federalism. She previously served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and Judge Merrick B. Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Kraus, previously the David E. Kaufman & Leopold C. Glass Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a co-director of the Institute for Law and Philosophy, is an expert on contracts and commercial law. His scholarship focuses on the relationship between moral and economic theories of law in general, and on contract law in particular.
David Pozen, who was most recently a special adviser to the U.S. Department of State's Legal Adviser, brings expertise in several areas of public law and in the law of nonprofit organizations. He previously served as special assistant to Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee.


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I brewed a high gravity (1080) saison and am planning on cold conditioning it in secondary at 32 degrees x 2 weeks, then bottle conditioning it. I am wonder will the cold conditioning make all my yeast die? Will I need to add more yeast when I bottle? If so, how much?
I'd go with 33 or 34, something about that magic 32 that makes me nervous, I realize it shouldn't freeze with the alcohol that is now in there, but I think you'll be just fine with the yeast currently in your beer.
Don't know really why you'd cold condition a Saison. If its to clarify it doesn't need to be that cold. Just put it at 50F and you'll get just as effective a flocculation. Then you still have plenty of yeast to carbonate.
A better option would be to just bottle it, and store the bottles cold after they carb up. Stuff will settle out in the bottle, and the sediment will be pretty firm.
But if you really want to "lager" the beer, then its not really a big deal to add back about a third of a packet of a dry neutral American Ale yeast during bottling.
Of course all that advice is dependent on WHICH saison yeast you used.


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How old does a child have to be to be lying on purpose? How old are they before they can understand the concept of a lie vs the truth? What about not the truth vs the truth?
This documentary film (german) says that children above the age of 4 years are able to lie on purpose. The ability to put oneself in the position of someone else in order to foresee how the lie effects the other person is a requirement for lying, they say.
A few additional thoughts to @monsto's answer:
Roughly till the age of 7 (+-3), children live in a magical world, which is very different from how we adults experience (or seem to experience) things. Their world is shaped by their own thoughts, desires, images much more than by some solid "objective", "external" reality. Very often, they are confabulating this world and its events, rather than describing as we would expect. Just recently, during the holiday season, my younger daughter told us that she saw an elf peering through the window, and they both hailed each other. Was she making up a story? Yes. Was she lying? Absolutely not.
OK, you might say, this is a cute little story. Let's see another one. Jim notices that someone took money from his coat pocket, and they find out it was his elder son Joe (8). They actually find the missing money in Joe's bag. When asked "did you take Dad's money?", Joe says no. Is he lying? By adult categories, yes. However, by child categories, it is a very different story. Joe recently got a little sister, Sarah. Naturally, a lot of attention and energy in the family is now shifted from him to Sarah, which is very frustrating to him. Stealing is a (misguided) attempt to get more attention and care from his dad. When confronted with the question, he wishes he had never done it, and expresses this wish by saying "no".
Bottom line is, it is often too easy and tempting to apply adult terms and categories to what children do and say, and act out of these classifications. However, children aren't little adults. Without actually understanding (or rather, feeling into) their situation and motives, it is dangerous to judge (much less to punish) them. Moreover, since the pace of personal development is extremely varied between individual children, 3 children of the same biological age can be on very different cognitive / emotional / social levels.
When I was in college, back in the 80s, I wrote a paper for some psych class on truth and lies. In it, I came to the conclusion that there's several different types of truth and lie. for convenience, I classified them in shades of grey.
When faced with the question "did you take my money?" and the person actually did take the money...
and several variations in between that I won't go into. The point i'm trying to make is that there's a lot more to truths and falsities than people care to admit (lest they reveal the intentions at the core of their personality). It takes quite a while before a kid can understand the subtleties of interpersonal relationships, let alone actively attempt to manipulate them.
Fake laugh and cry are not about deception (a pretty advanced concept) and all about self-advantage. In other words, they're not trying to get you to give up something you value, they're just trying to get something for themselves. Any child up to about 4 is going to act that way. Deception involves clear comprehension of the other person's point of view. It's actively attempting to thwart the other persons defenses, in many cases so that they give up something that has value. I'm no psychologist, but i'll bet that's not something you'll see till minimum 8 or 9.
So lets say a 3 yo playdate. Finn starts crying and throws a brick (megablock) at the other kid.
If Finn and Marceline were 13, we would assume that she was lying to stay out of trouble. a 3 yo Marceline just wanted more goldfish, probably took the last 3 out of Finns cup without realizing (dare i say without caring) that they belonged to someone else. A common interaction that has ZERO to do with lying. It's all about property. And hunger.
Punishment? Nah. establish the boundaries "this is your cup, marceline. THAT one is finns" and give em a few more goldfish and this crisis is averted. Of course, if it continues, marceline needs to be dealt with, but that's a different topic.
toddlers generally don't understand the interpersonal dynamics that are the foundation to lying. even bad bad toddlers that hide stuff aren't being deceptive, it's all about something they want... even if a 4yo is constantly hiding daddy's cigarettes. they really just want more attention from daddy.
Bottom line: what do you do? when you hear hooves, think horses not zebras. The solution to the problem is a simple one based on the childs personality, not the adults sensibilities.
I found a good article on telegraph.co.uk that answers this question. But first, what counts as "lying"? The studies mentioned in the article are pretty broad, and include any sort of intentional deception. Taking that definition, babies can lie as early as 6 to 8 months!
It goes on to say that later, when kids are around 2-year-olds, their lies can become more sophisticated. They'll say "I don't care" when threatened with punishment, even if they do care.


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Twelve years ago.
It was drier that day, the sky just as blue. I marveled at its cloudless clarity on my walk to 475 Riverside Drive, weaving my way through morning sidewalk traffic, newly arrived Columbia and Barnard students still discovering what's required of pedestrians in New York City. Picked up an iced coffee from the Halal cart at Broadway and 112th St., wondered whether it would be my last of the season. "Have a good day, boss." He always called me boss.
"Did you hear what happened?" our receptionist asked as I walked in. "What?" Plane hit the World Trade Center. "They say it was small." Terrible, but not impossible. Impossible was coming. I set my coffee next to Commonweal's one web-connected computer, and dialed into MSN. The New York Times website wouldn't loading. Neither would other domestic news sites. But BBC worked, and as it came up my stomach dropped: "World Trade Center Hit." The headline came in before the photo. Smoke billowing out of one of the towers. The gash was too big for a small plane. "Oh no."
The staff gathered around the computer as I refreshed the page. Few spoke. Looked like terrorism. We were a week from press day. There were corrections to be made. Headlines to be written. The editors met in the conference room, or tried to. Halfway through, a couple of us returned to the web-connected computer. Meeting concluded. I couldn't peel myself away from the news. The second tower was hit. I tried to call my mom, but the phones had stopped working.
I don't remember eating. I remember the fear. The Pentagon, a downed plane in Pennsylvania. Another unaccounted for, rumor had it. Those who lived outside Manhattan headed home as soon as possible. They didn't want to be trapped on the island. But I lived on the island, thirteen blocks south, and I didn't want to leave, even after the office cleared out. E-mail was working. I'd send notes to loved ones and friends. Man the front desk just in case. In case what, I couldn't say. I considered the location of the building I was in, its height. The soundness of the structure: Eisenhower-era, concrete clad steel.
By six o'clock, the paranoia had worn off. I had to go home. Turn off the lights, make sure the door was locked. The halls were silent. I said goodnight to the maintenance man at the front desk. Security had long left. A reflex I wish I'd stifled as soon as I heard myself speak. Outside, the air had changed. It smelled sharper. Took me a moment to realize what I was inhaling.
Broadway was strangely quiet. Car traffic diminished. Pedestrians walked more slowly. Restaurants and bars were packed. Customers huddled in front of televisions. The Halal carts were gone. I needed money, I was sure, just in case. A man approached me on the way out of Citibank. "Excuse me, sir." I moved past him. He followed me, got in front of me, forcing me to stop. "Can you help me out? I'm trying to get a bus ticket back to New Jersey, and I just need five more dollars." I didn't speak. We watched one another for maybe half a minute. Then his face fell. "I'm sorry," he sighed, leaned in, and embraced me. "It's OK," I replied.
The Church of the Ascension at 107th Street was nearly vacant. There were five of us. Two men and three women. I slipped into a pew in back, knelt, tried to pray, but couldn't find the words. Stifled weeping was all I could hear. Defeated, I left in pursuit of food.
Soup would be easy, comfortable. Split pea. Thanking the soup man, I handed over three dollars. "Have a good night," he urged. I almost dropped the bag as I left the shop. Everyone looked up as a fighter jet tore through the sky, perfect blueness marred only by the plane's contrails. I remember feeling the soup's warmth in my hands as I walked home. I remember sitting at my desk, flattening the bag to use as a placemat. I remember the generous pour the soup man had given me, as my dinner overflowed onto the bag. I remember the plastic spoon's sharp edges against my lips. But I don't remember eating. I remember the fear.
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I was in France and had a phone meeting with a colleague in New Jersey scheduled for that morning. He sent me an email: "Obviously, today's meeting is cancelled." I asked what was going on and got a cryptic reply: "Turn on your TV." I had trouble imagining what kind of event would be newsworthy and would cause our work meeting to be cancelled! I wondered if the company where he worked had declared bankrupcy. There was no TV at work, but I had the internet, but the usual sites wouldn't load, but I found a Spanish news site with a photo. If it hadn't been for my colleague's message, I would have thought it must be a hoax... I sent a one-line email to my entire department - over 200 people - with the basic information, then wasn't sure what else to do. Pretty soon a group of us were gathered around the coffee machine, many nervously smoking cigarettes - the indoor smoking ban was forgotten for the day. I can't remember what I did with the rest of the day, besides checking on the news compulsively.
That evening I told my children, then 7 and 10 years old: "Today I want you to watch the news on TV with me. This is important." Our TV was in the attic, so we all climbed up there. The 7-year-old watched for a couple of minutes, then, bored, wandered off to play. He could not distinguish between reality and fiction. But the 10-year-old watched with us, took it in, and she has not forgotten it.
An executive who was in the higher floors of one of the buildings said to a colleague who, like him, was figuring out what to do: "Today you know what it is like to be an Israeli." He was referring to the suicide bombings going in Israel and the fear they engendered. This was something new to Americans. Terrorism on American shores. Yes there was a previous attack but no one was killed. People in Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa and other countries experience this almost every day.
This is the first year that I have not spent time in the last few days thinking back about the events of 9/11. I was too wrapped up in the Syrian crisis. Only this morning, when I saw the date, did I realize that today was the 12 year mark. I suppose it means that, like in mourning, this is the stage where that is starting to recede into history, and the present takes over. But I was fairly removed from the site of the attacks. I wonder when New Yorkers will be able to pass that time of year without flashbacks.
Thank you, Grant. Here's mine. Five years on, I can add that having kids has broken me of my 9/11 Mass-going habit, but I did start the day with a prayer for the dead.
I watched from an office on the thirty-third floor of a Manhattan building as first one and then the other tower were hit, and then as first one and then the other fell. I had by then stopped trying to reach two good friends who worked there; days later I learned that both had had plans for business travel that morning and so were not downtown at all. My neighborhood in Brooklyn, normally visible from my window, was obscured by the debris cloud, and the call I'd managed to get through to my wife cut off almost immediately. We evacuated our offices, one block from the Empire State Building, and with a few others I walked toward Brooklyn -- past St. Vincent's Hospital, already crowded with would-be blood donors; across 14th Street, along which tanks rumbled; and over the Manhattan Bridge, where tourists shot photos of one another as smoke billowed up into the empty blue sky in the background. In Brooklyn, it looked as if it had snowed, or was still snowing; the soot and debris was an inch deep and the sky was gray. I helped a lost couple from lower Manhattan find their friend's house, where they'd come to stay. There was a scorched sheet of Cantor-Fitzgerald letterhead outside the door to our apartment building. Two mornings later, from an overpass of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, I watched a procession of flatbeds carrying twisted girders toward Staten Island.
I remember a lot of these details because I wrote them down in the days and weeks afterward, almost as compulsively as I visited the blocks around the site, going there almost every night after work for months, watching workers change shifts on what they were calling "the pile." I had plans then to give all of these notes to my children at some point; maybe I still will. But this year, until I saw what must have been a test of the Tribute in Light exhibit last Thursday night, I hadn't really thought about the upcoming anniversary beyond the by-now almost unconscious noting of it as "the date"--9/11. It also happens to be the birthday of a friend from grade school, and today he sent a long-lost photo of us taken at the party when he turned 10. It was the first thing I saw when I opened my email this morning, and this is what I showed my kids before they went to school.
I was getting breakfast for my children and heard the news on WGN radio that a plane had crashed into one of the towers. Who would do such a thing left us baffled. The term al Qaida was almost unknown to us. We had heard the name Osama bin Laden but it had no particular connotations. That there had been a bombing at the WTC several years earlier made only very little impression on us in the Midwest. I drove my older children to school and went into the office. No work got done. I spent a good part of the day checking Internet news sites for information but there weren't many details that got reported. Later that day, wondering if I could actually get anything mundane done, I called a vendor on the phone to see if we could work on a contract, but he didn't really want to focus on that kind of thing, so I gave it up. Probably I came home early that day.
To append to my previous comment: our parish pulled together an ad hoc prayer service that evening. The presider was a retired priest (a longtime pastor of another parish who now lived in our rectory with is good friend our retired pastor). I remember him stating, "It is hard for us to grasp that there is such evil that is willed toward us." That he termed it an evil made an impression on me; at that stage, we were so befuddled about the events that I hadn't yet heard anyone hang that appelation on it.
Besides my horror at seeing those planes being willfully smashed into the buildings, what I remember most clearly about that day is that something remarkable happened to my hearing. My hearing loss is very severe, even with the help of a cochlear implant and closed captioning on the TV. But that day as my interest in the event became greater and greater I realized that I could understand every single word that Dan Rather was saying.
Amazing what the human body will do when threatened, and, of course, on 9-11 all of us felt threatened. We-- yes, we all -- were being attacked, and my body knew it. So it seems we do have strange strengths in crises. All is not lost. We shall overcome.
Footnote: Rocco Palmo has a post today about 9-11 and Jorge Befgoglio -- how it helped make his ability better known in the Vatican and in the wider church.
I was beginnning my two week vacation at Cape May Point on the Jersey Shore (my babies weren't school age yet, so I always went on vacation the weeks after Labor Day, when the weather is best). We were just coming back from a walk on the beach, high-fiving each other for being on vacation on what was the most beautiful day of the year, when we heard news about a plane crash- some workmen were huddled around a van in the State Park parking lot, listening to the car radio.
My husband said "a plane hit a building in NY, I think its the World Trade Center". I said, "oh it must be one of those little private planes, I hope there weren't many people on it." We got back to our cottage in time to see the first building collapse. Now I know what people mean by "I couldn't believe my eyes". I couldn't digest what I was watching, and then I thought "oh, it must just be one of the facades, not the actual building". It was just horrible watching from a distance.
I spent the next few days trying to get to NYC to my office to see what was going on. The cell phones were blocked in the area around lower Manhattan- you couldn't make calls in and out, they were trying to keep it clear for calls from possible survivors in the wreckage. And the bridges and tunnels into the City were blocked for a couple of days as well. I think I was able to get into Port Authority by Bus on Friday. Traffic was stopped for about an hour on the Turnpike in Jersey across from Manhattan; everyone just sat on the bus looking at where the WTC used to be, with that smoke coming up, not saying anything.
When I got off the bus at Port Authority in Midtown, my eyes immediately started to tear up, there was some kind of acrid smell in the air that made my eyes burn. This was a few days after the event, and quite a distance from the WTC. That smell in lower Manhattan seemed to linger for months. What I remember most from in the aftermath, is, from my office window, instead of now seeing part of the WTC , all we saw was a thin plume of smoke (like what comes up from a campfire after its been put out) for weeks and weeks after 9/11.
I used to routinely pass by the World Trade Center in my wanderings downtown- maybe once a week- but I didn't go near the site for at least two years afterward.(INYC is so big, it's easy to avoid things) I never vacationed again in Cape May Point, either, though I used to go there every year before. I don't think about the WTC, and I don't talk about it, because I don't feel like I really have a right to- I and my loved ones weren't harmed in the tragedy- and talking about how awful it was for me doesn't seem right when I think of all of the people killed that day. But I don't need to write down my memories of that day, I don't think I'll ever forget it.
Riveting comments about the attack on American soil. Yet it is difficult to fathom what is happening every day in other lands where suicide bombings and government murder of civilians are frequent. Out of sight , out of mind. Or better. Out of experience out of sentiment.........
I'm in Michigan, and my son, a kindergartner in 2001, remembers nothing from that day except a bunch of older boys telling younger kids their parents had probably been blown up at work and wouldn't be coming to get them, and little kids screaming and demanding to speak to their parents on the phone. Terrorism comes in many forms.
When he visited New York City on a class trip a couple of years ago, the 9/11 site was just another tourist attraction, and some of the kids came home with "memorial trinkets." The HuffPo ran a story about these efforts to capitalize on the 9/11 events.
I like efforts to turn 9/11 into a day of service and solidarity. Official memorial services 12 years on strike me as awfully close to waving the bloody shirt, but perhaps it's too easy for someone like me, who was hundreds of miles (not to mention cultural worlds) away from NYC to feel removed from those events. I do pray for those who are still suffering from illnesses contracted in rescue efforts and for those who are traumatized by grief so many years later.
I was in my office on the 26th floor of 2 Rector St, two blocks directly south of the World Trade Center.
I was startled by what sounded like an explosion that shook our building and scattered the swarm of pigeons roosting on Ft. Clinton. The north side of our offices had a clear view of the twin towers, and when I got there I witnessed smoke billowing out of the north tower and papers cascading onto the streets below.
My colleagues and I gathered around the small TV that we kept in a corner of the marketing department. A small plane had flown into the north tower, most likely by accident, the reporter said. Our marketing manager and I, both witnesses to the 1993 WTC bombing, weren't buying it—the sky was too clear, the impact too thunderous. We assumed it was a bomb.
Until we caught site of the second plane and watched in stunned disbelief as it disappeared into the south tower.
Everyone gathered their belongings and headed for the elevators. The lobby was chaotic. Someone growled, "The bastards hit the Pentagon, too!"
Most of my colleagues scattered, looking for ways to escape the area. Our editor-in-chief and I stayed behind to wait for any editors who might still be on their way to the office. We went out into the street and stood with thousands of others staring up at the horror. Was this really happening? Why doesn't the paper deluge stop? Were those bodies tumbling out of the windows?
Then we heard the crack. And saw the southeast corner at the top of the south tower crumple. The building began to dissolve, and everyone started running south, chased by the cloud of smoke and debris that filled the streets. I stopped running after about two blocks—not because I consciously chose to, but because my cortisol-bathed body just quit on me.
I finally ducked into the lobby of a building at the corner of Broad and Beaver streets. Thick grey smoke with dancing particles of blackened debris engulfed the building. This must be what nuclear winter looks like, I remember thinking. The building managers handed out dust masks and water, and everyone anxiously settled in, wondering what would happen next.
What happened next was the implosion of the north tower. The miasm thickened and didn't dissipate for several hours. When it finally did, it left an ankle-deep river of ash. A phalanx of NYPD officers came wading through the mess down Broad St, telling everyone to clear the area.
Dust mask secured, I dutifully shuffled out of the building and made my way to South Street Seaport. NY Waterways taxis were being loaded to ferry people to New Jersey (my home and native state). Luckily, my cell phone was working, and I contacted my frantic wife with the news that I was safe and headed to Hoboken. She contacted my brother-in-law and arranged a pick-up site.
Passengers arriving at the Hoboken terminal had to go through portable showers set up by the emergency personnel who dominated the scene. One of them assured me that the showers contained just water. Anxious to meet my brother-in-law, I held my breath, closed my eyes, and let the stream wash over me.
Emerging from the shower, I shook like a wet dog and attempted to collect myself. My efforts were interrupted by someone shouting, "Run, there's a bomb in that bag!" I took a couple of steps and then just plopped down on the curb. People were screaming, low-flying jets were buzzing the area, and all I could think was: I just can't do this.
In that moment of despair and resignation, Providence intervened. My phone rang. It was my wife. My brother-in-law had made his way through traffic and road closures and was waiting for me not two blocks from where I sat.
I arrived home at about 7:00 PM, the same time as I usually would. The reunion with my family was joyous and tearful and mostly wordless.
I contacted my colleagues by phone that night and was relieved to learn that they all had survived the ordeal.
We weren't able to return to our offices until mid-January. It was difficult getting back. We spent a good portion of the first few weeks staring down on the pile. The most poignant moments occurred when we would hear a bell ring, signaling that another body had been uncovered. Every day the streets were clogged with hordes of visitors, some of whom were there to help, some to experience the tragedy's aftermath, some just to gawk. I remember resenting them, as if by their very presence they were desecrating my neighborhood. That feeling stayed with me far too long.
I left that company in December 2002, and haven't been back to the area since.
Maybe sometime soon.


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TORONTO - Donnie Cash in a zone defense?
Believe it.
The Bridgeport basketball team earned a nice road win, 56-43, at Toronto Friday night.
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FROM?OUTSIDE — Toronto's Joey Chadwick takes a jump shot in the fourth quarter of Friday's 56-43 home loss to Bridgeport.
"Our kids' work ethic has been great the last week and a half when we've been trying to preach and preach and preach," said Cash. "We didn't play zone at all the first half of the year, but we've switched to it and it's been helping us the past couple of games. I think we've found something and we're going to stick with it."
Toronto coach John Leary watched the Bulldogs play zone at Steubenville Central last week and was a bit taken aback.
"He played a 2-3 zone the whole night and, to me, that's a change for them," Leary said. "He's usually a man-to-man guy. We all try to do what's best for our team and it's obvious playing a zone is what's best for their team.
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Toronto 6 9 10 18 - 43
BRIDGEPORT: Kreiter 4 5-8 15, Williams 5 0-0 10, Roth 3 2-2 10, Dyson 4 1-2 9, Fields 1 4-10 6, Teeman 1 0-0 2, McGrath 1 0-0 2. TOTALS: 19 12-22 56. 3-pointers: Kreiter 2, Roth 2.
TORONTO: Owens 6 1-1 16, Melville 5 0-0 11, Glenn 2 3-4 7, Gault 1 3-6 5, Chadwick 2 0-0 4, Zeigler 0 0-0 0, Roush 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 16 7-11 43. 3-pointers: Owens 3, Melville.
"If anybody was scouting us tonight, I would think they would play us zone. Tonight, Bridgeport basically said, 'shoot it and beat us.' We shot it and didn't beat them.
"We were a little impatient at times. I wanted us to work the ball a little more. Coaches always say you have to make shots and we didn't. We had some really good looks and we didn't make enough of the good looks that we had."
Bridgeport (3-10) played that 2-3 zone in a 49-46 loss to Shadyside that gave the Tigers fits.
"I think we were 7-for-28 in the first half," Leary said after the Red Knights fell to 6-6. "Obviously, you're not going to win too many games shooting the ball like that.
"But, give coach Cash and his kids credit for that. His kids played really well tonight."
The Bulldogs opened a 12-6 lead after eight minutes thatnks to eight points from Jon Krieter. They pushed that lead to 23-15 at the break after Parker Dyson netted five in the second frame.
Bridgeport put a lid on it with a 19-10 outburst in the third period with Q.J. Williams scoring six in a balanced quarter scoring attack, when seven players scored.
"The last couple of games, even though we came up short with Steubenville Central and Shadyside, two pretty good teams, we've been playing four quarters," said Cash. "We didn't do that earlier in the year. We were playing well in stretches, but not four quarters.
"We play three seniors and five sophomores, so what we do is kind of a learning experience, with Dallas Fields being the most experienced guy out there. We're learning. We're trying to get better each game.
"We were 2-10 in the first half of the year. We're just trying to go 1-0 each time and build momentum heading into the tournament."
Kreiter led the way with a 15 points. Williams and Aaron Roth, who hit two big treys in the fourth period, added 10 each. Dyson finished with nine.
Tyler Owens paced Toronto with 16. Brad Melville delivered 11.
"I was proud of how our kids came back in the fourth quarter," said Leary. "I think that travel call was big there (in the fourth) because it erased a possible three-point play.
"But, no excuses. We have to shoot the ball better. I know no one missed on purpose. But, in order to take the next step, we have to be able to knock down those open shots more consistently."
Bridgeport goes to Weirton Madonna tonight, Cameron Tuesday and welcomes the Blue Dons Friday.
Toronto visits Southern Local Tuesday and entertains Bishop Donahue Thursday and St. John Central Friday.


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The Paleo framework starts from the perspective that most people will find that grains, legumes, dairy, being anti-social, getting no sunlight or exercise, and eating too many carbs for their exercise level will be problematic, for genetic and epigenetic reasons.
That being said, here's the Paleo test at its most bare:
That's really it.
Try abstaining from grains (like beer), legumes and dairy for thirty days. Then re-introduce these items one by one, and gauge your response. People are different. Some people can handle these items better than others.


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If my understanding is correct, for a self contained project you can just copy the bin folder and run it perfectly fine.
What then is the use of a wizard? I prefer not having to use a wizard if I don't have to.
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If my understanding is correct, for a self contained project you can just copy the bin folder and run it perfectly fine.
What then is the use of a wizard? I prefer not having to use a wizard if I don't have to.
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Typically you would make an installer for a few reasons:
This is just a few reasons why you might want to use an installer. That of course doesn't mean it is the only choice. Just one that makes sense for a lot of cases.
I guess your client would rather have a wizard to guide him throughout the installation process. Also, if you are talking about Desktop Applications you could configure your wizard to perform custom actions such as configure a database or connect to a licensing server.
This is a miniature version of the debate of "Why use an IDE, I love writing code in a text editor."
One benefit of a wizard is that sometimes you might be able to save ftp credentials, for instance. Then again, if you are on a local network and you don't have to login, or you have some other way of caching credentials, (like using FileZilla), the small amount of time that you save may be so small that it really doesn't matter.
In general, another reason that wizards may be helpful is when they provide a small set of recently used options/servers/connections/tables/folders in a dropdown that you can choose from instead of having to type them in again or navigate to them again.
Cons to wizards: You can get too reliant on them. You can lose settings if they get mysteriously reset somehow, so if you do use them, remember to keep notes of how you set up a wizard or how you typically use it.
Same goes for using an IDE. If you always open your solution on your machine, make sure to open it every once in a while on a new machine just to check that there is not some magical/transient/volatile setting that is set correctly on your machine, either in the registry or in the solution/project properties, a plugin, your .suo, etc.
re: installation wizard - oh, I thought you were talking about deployment wizards in my previous answer.
Installation Wizards are nice for users, and you can wrap lots of other little changes like automatic unpacking, changes to the registry, tons of stuff.
Also a major reason to use something like InstallShield is that the initial perceived installation speed versus a free wizard is going to be faster. Also, use legitimate 3rd party signing of your executable so that Windows doesn't popup Unknown Publisher (it looks sketchy).


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It's taking a while to wrap my head around the Capital City seeing three separate homicide incidents in three days last week. In my 16 years in Topeka, I don't recall covering a string like that.
Authorities say the incidents were not random acts of violence. For that, we breathe a sigh of relief and continue on our way, content in the knowledge that, if we, ourselves, are law-abiding citizens, the chances someone will randomly attack us on the street remain relatively low.
While that certainly may be true in one sense, in another, it's precisely the wrong attitude to have if we want to keep our communities safe. From the basic safety standpoint, I submit that bullets don't always stop where they are supposed to - there's no physical barrier dividing the "good" side of the street from the "bad" side. A few years back, a young girl was killed when the bullet from someone else's argument came through the wall of her family's apartment. Just a few weeks ago, police say gunmen intended to fire shots into a particular house, but the woman killed was not their intended victim. Bystanders can and do get hurt, and you never know when you might be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Apart from our own physical safety, shouldn't it bother us when someone feels it's okay to harm someone else as a resolution to their problems? What does it say about us as a community if we're willing to turn a blind eye because it's "just" a domestic situation or "just" gang members or "just" a drug deal gone wrong? Ignoring it and thinking it's not our problem does not make it go away. It is our problem because, at the end of the day, it does put us all at risk....and it allows the culture of violence to continue into the next generation.
I'm glad to know police do not believe a violent person is running loose, searching for his or her next random victim. But that doesn't make what transpired last week okay.


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The Google has conflicting answers. I come from a background of "everything goes in the garbage disposal", my wife's background is "never put anything in the garbage disposal". I suspect reality is somewhere between us.
I've always put egg shells down the disposal. The "official" word from one manufacturer is:
Given that this manufacturer says you can put large bones in a disposer, I can't imagine that eggshells would do any damage.
And as a practical matter, I've seen name-brand disposers at Home Depot for $100, so even if you felt you were shortening the life of your disposer by a small percentage by putting too much into it, it's not a big deal to get a new one.
If you have a septic tank, avoid using the garbage disposal, especially for anything like egg shells, bones, coffee grounds, and other things that the bacteria in the tank won't eat. Worst case scenario is that they can plug up your leach field for a very expensive repair.
living in an old house (~100 yrs) with old plumbing and old pipes, i barely put anything down our drains except liquids. besides, eggshells are FANTASTIC for your roses and your compost. why waste them? : )
We live in a major metropolitan area, and I recently replaced our garbage disposer. While it was off I took a look at the pipes under the sink and they were just caked with black rotting gunk inside them. I replaced them with new ones, and since then our cockroach problem seems to have gone away completely. I believe all that rotting crud inside the pipes was a full time food source for the bugs. Used to be if you turned on the kitchen lights at 2am you would see a scurry of activity on the counters. Apparently, now that the food source is gone, they left. Turn on the lights at 2am these days and there are exactly ZERO roaches.
Now we use the disposer for cleaning the scraps off the plates, but that's about it. If there's a large quantity of something that needs to be thrown away, we'll put it in a two Walmart bags and store it in the freezer till trash day.
We give our egg shells back to our chickens. They need the chalk for new eggs and they like it. But I think this isn't really an option for you, unless you sometimes feed the birds in the park or something.
You can eat the egg shell yourself, it's quite healthy (if I can believe the internet).
You can put them in the compost container, but I wouldn't put them in the septic tank. Just throw them away in the garbage.
I had never had a problem with our disposal until today... the day my wife put eggshells in there. There could probably have been other contributing factors.
I have read multiple debates and the controversy is enough to get me to discontinue the practice. Garbage, compost, chickens, or a giant laser, all seem like better options to me!
I was always taught the egg shells were good for the pipes, but when our drain clogged, the trap was filled with coffee grounds and egg shells. Perhaps the egg shells would normally be fine, and they only got stuck because of the coffee grounds (which I know should not go down--our guests did not). Even still, after that experience, I now have a policy against egg shells (and coffee grounds) in the disposal.
Biggest no-nos are starches, fats, (Thanksgiving is a plumbers busiest day), proteins, and fibrous vegetables. I live in a city highrise. I do put some egg shells and coffee grinds occasionally. What I do weekly, is put 1/2 cup of baking soda and 1 cup of white vinegar in the drains (disposal and other kitchen drain). Let stand for 1/2 hour or so and follow with very hot water. This is good practice. Also helpful are white vinegar ice cubes. They clean the blades.
I would not put said refuse in a septic system for the same reasons as others gave.
Well since I live in a city with a sewer system I pretty much run everything through my garbage disposal. I replaced the 25 year old original with a new KitchenAid and the guy told me I could run just about whatever I wanted through it. I avoid bones and extremely hard substances but egg shells, peels, left over food, it all goes down and gets turned into paste before being washed down into the city sewer system. So I would say it depends on your disposal and the condition of your pipes. If my pipes were older I would probably be more careful about what I put down the drain.
Many years ago my mom had clogged kitchen pipes; after the plumber cleaned it all out, he advised her not to put egg shells, celery or onion skins down the disposal. I didn't know if the disposals had been vastly improved since then, but sounds like items like these are still questionable.
The key to success in putting anything through the disposal is to avoid putting too much in at one time and don't skimp on running water to flush it down. In that way you can even put eggshells, coffee grounds, and vegetables down your disposal. If you have a lot of leafy or fibrous vegetables to put down, or shrimp shells, you can do it but you end up wasting a lot of time and water; better to just put that much stuff in the trash, or better the compost heap if you have one.
Growing up my grandma told me that egg shells were good for the garbage disposal. They sharpen the blades. I wouldn't put potato peeling or coffee grounds in it


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Each year, I anxiously await the Kentucky Derby more than Christmas or any other holiday. So, when the first Saturday in May finally arrives, the last thing I want is a delay in traffic.
I've tried just about every method to get to and from the racetrack, from walking a mile in a dress from a friend's house off Fourth Street to catching a personal shuttle service with a questionably sober driver (not smart, I know, and it's not a mistake I'll repeat again).
Last year, though, I thought I hit the jackpot of transit when I made a swift trip to Churchill Downs with the help of my dad, who agreed to drop me off at Gate 10 at 8:30 a.m. Heading to Derby early certainly helped in avoiding a long line of vehicles. Regardless, having a volunteer drive you to the track may be the cheapest and most effective method.
Still, I'm not quite convinced I've found the best mode of transportation. With Derby less than two weeks away, I decided to do some research to find the latest tips and tricks for beating the heavy crowd.
To my surprise, one option many people suggested was hopping on a bike and cycling to the track. It may be somewhat difficult depending on you're attire, but you'll have a quick cruise through traffic and get some exercise while you're at it. If you're afraid of leaving your bike unattended, there's a valet bike service available from www.bicyclingforlouisville.org.
"They have an awesome free valet bike service that they're trying to get set up in a lot of places," said Ashley Brightwell, a Louisville resident. "We used them for Thunder and it was awesome knowing that someone was watching our bikes while we walked around."
Another possibility is, of course, parking your car at the racetrack or in front of a nearby yard – though, that can cost you anywhere from $20 to $40, if not more. Plus, those spots are few and far between.
"I always park north of the track and walk from there," said Danny Semones, a frequent Derby attendee. "All kinds of friendly people selling beer and hot dogs on the way."
Some people go so far as to rent a school bus to carry a big group to Churchill Downs, though renting a vehicle is a little more costly than most types of transportation.
"I looked into a school bus but it was really expensive," said Emily Cecil. "I am now looking into TARC or parking and tailgating in the (University of Louisville) lot off Third (Street), near the intersection of Eastern Parkway, and walking."
While tailgating before the big race is a great way to jump start the party, some people find it an excellent excuse to avoid the crowd leaving the track. After the Derby has concluded, the venue can become quite congested with fans heading toward the exit. I'd suggest, again, having someone pick you up, but tailgating post-Derby may be more your style.
"My friends and I tailgate in the parking lot until the crowd has diminished," said Whitney Murphy Yeager. "We have someone meet us in the parking lot with more beverages and such, and then they drive us home."
Lastly, the shuttle service and TARC are great for traveling to the Derby, just be patient. Also, if you're heading to Oak's this year, it's worth looking into. Miller Lite has teamed up with TARC to offer Miller Lite Free Rides, a safe transportation alternative for those 21 and older.
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Whichever method you prefer, it's most important to have your entrance and escape plan set before Derby. There's no wasting time on the first Saturday in May, so start planning for your arrival on everyone's favorite day at the racetrack.
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School president addresses 'challenges'
|New University of Connecticut athletic director Warde Manuel, right, holds up a UConn shirt with help from university president Susan Herbst last February. (AP)
The musical chairs that have seemingly left the Huskies adrift with few good options, is a "challenge" that UConn must face wrote Herbst. She goes on at some length speaking about the school's current commitment to the Big East and attempts to assure fans that the administration is working hard to ensure that the Huskies continue to compete at the highest level available.
"As you know, conference realignment continues at a rapid pace and UConn has new challenges we must face. I do not know when or how things will settle; no one does. There is more change to come that will reshape the landscape yet again," Herbst wrote in her letter.
"I realize that this is aggravating to hear, but as in all things, we can only affect what is in our control. As a result, we strive for excellence at UConn daily across all departments, something very much in our control. We stand tall at UConn and we need not beg, plead, nor despair. That is not who we are, and my reading of our university history -- from 1881 to today -- conveys the pride of every generation, in good times and bad."
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Keeping in Shape: Preserve The Stretch on a Dress
Fashion columnist Teri Agins answers readers' questions
Q: I have had two special dresses, each over 25 years old, carefully maintained, with ruching or elastic gathering over the bodice and arms on one, and reaching down the dress on the other.
Suddenly, the elastic has collapsed and my size 4 has become a size 12. Have you ever encountered this problem and do you know of any solution?
A: We all love stretch in clothes because it improves the fit and gives fabric added body. Dresses like yours with ruching or shirring are flattering as they contour fabric, adding a pretty surface texture to clothes—as well as camouflaging fleshy bulges. I'm impressed your dresses have held up for so long—the fabric and workmanship must have been of high quality to begin with.
Heat is the enemy of any clothing with stretch or elastic. Always keep such clothes away from irons and clothes dryers. (A steamer is a gentler alternative.) This is especially true for bras, shapers and tights. Machine-wash them in cold water in a mesh bag on gentle cycle and always line dry.
Never store your clothes over long periods in plastic dry-cleaning bags which emit gases that can stain or yellow fabrics as well as break down the elasticity in stretch garments.
That said, it is worth taking your dresses to an expert tailor to see what can be done, if anything.
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Frankfort is aiming to monitor taxing districts to give taxpayers a sense of what they're paying for.
Kentucky Speaker of the House Greg Stumbo unveiled House Bill 1 today.
Warren county's Tax Increment Financing district, or TIF, is responsible for supporting $150 million in projects like BGMU's new headquarters WKU's Alumni Square, and Bowling Green Ballpark, which supports the TIF with its sales tax.
"They generate approximately a quarter of a million dollars a year in sales tax. Where before there was no revenue being generated, now there's that, and 80 percent of that revenue gets to stay in Bowling Green and be reinvested in the TIF," said Warren County Downtown Economic Development (TIF) Authority Chairman Doug Gorman.
Because of that method of generating revenue, Gorman says the TIF will not be effected by House Bill 1.
"It is taxing districts that have the ability to raise taxes. The TIF does not. We do not have the ability to raise taxes or impose a tax, whereas these taxing districts do," said Gorman.
One organization that will be affected is the Warren County Public Library.
"Ninety-two to 93 percent of our budget comes from the local taxing district," said Warren County Public Library Director, and Kentucky Library Association President Lisa Rice.
The new bill proposes a centralized, searchable registry of each district's spending, and will be accessible to anyone.
"Having a registry or place where citizens know to go and find that information if they're interested, I think is a great idea," said Rice.
Rice says the library already reports spending to the Department for Local Government and the county, and hopes the bill will restore confidence to citizens that most agencies are doing what they are intended to do.
The proposed registry would be administered by the Department for Local Government, and would monitor the $2.7 billion of tax district spending in Kentucky.


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I have found many grammar books, but none that go beyond the low-intermediate level. Some textbook series contain lots of grammar, but this is spread out across many books and difficult to quickly cross-reference. Are there any books or volumes of books containing all Chinese grammar or all sentence patterns, similar in scope to Diane Larsen-Freeman's The Grammar Book?
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Yuen Ren Chao: A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1968, ISBN 0-520-00219-9.
A Practical Chinese Grammar for Foreigners, which is a great book for non-Chinese speakers. source: www.chinazest.com
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