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We are developing a Flex application which will communicate with ArcGIS server via a reverse proxy. The reverse proxy configuration is such that the host and path portions are separate configurations. Does anyone know if you can configure ArcGIS to respond to a URL like:
rather than the default:
Has anyone done this? Any suggestions on how that might be done?
Thanks, Carl


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I have a presentation to do and i am thinking about using Mathematica instead of Powerpoint/Keynote as i have quite a few animations i would like to show. When using Mathematica in slideshow mode, will the Apple remote work and let me move between slides ?
I've just tried it out on an older iMac and an old white plastic Apple remote (last sold in 2009, apparently). Yes, it works. You have to hold the Forward/Back buttons down, rather than click. But Mathematica seems to detect these actions and advances to the next slide, or goes back to the previous one. I'd rather go for something wireless, myself, but if IR works, go for it.

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I'm curious about the following question:
As of 2005(?) the Riemann hypothesis is verified for the first 10 trillion zeroes, they are all on the critical line. Does this verification gives us any information about prime number?
In particular, are there any results saying if all the non-trivial zeroes whose imaginary part is < N and > 0 are on the critical line, then we understand something about prime number < M, where M is a number depend on N?


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Top Science Fair Projects for All Agesby Lindsay Hutton
Science fair projects can be fun and educational, and push children to learn more about scientific study and research. Help your child find a science fair project that fits his area of interest. This list of interesting, easy-to-create science fair projects will encourage his love of science! Just remember, adult supervision is required for all of these suggestions.
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Potato Battery
Who knew a potato could make a digital clock work? If your child loves to play with his food and is fascinated by electricity, this is the perfect project for him. Learning chemistry has never been so fun! Your child will be so enthralled with this experiment, he won't even look at it as schoolwork.
Read the instructions for making a potato battery.
Next: Pizza Box Solar Oven


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The FAQ of programmers.stackoverflow specifically says don't ask career advice but people do it anyway. Should I consider the FAQ outdated or only loosely enforced?
And what about a career advice section of the site? There are 70 sections, and most of them are for relatively narrow interests (which is not a criticism, I enjoy looking through the many sections). A career section seems like it would be very popular. Also, a careers section would help keep career questions off the other sections.


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10,000 Small Businesses briefing session
UCL Advances
Wednesday, 12 March 2014 from 17:30 to 19:00 (GMT)
Briefing sessions
Each briefing session includes an overview of the programme, how it benefits participants, the application process and experiences from some of those that have completed it.
The format of the briefing sessions
Benefits of attending a briefing session
For more information, visit www.ucl.ac.uk/10ksb
UCL Advances, UCL's centre for entrepreneurship and business interaction, helps anyone who wants to learn about, start or grow a business. It's primary role is to promote a culture of entrepreneurship on campus and engagement with entrepreneurs and small businesses beyond UCL's boundaries. It works to support start-ups and small businesses across London by helping them to access the technical and business expertise of UCL's staff and students through a series of programmes to help support ambitious young companies.
UCL Advances is affiliated with UCL Enterprise, which provides UCL's structures for engaging with business for commercial and societal benefit.
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Right now I have the graphical and input portions of a console for my game (command parsing hasn't been implemented yet). I was wondering how you would go about making changes to properties in game objects. For example, if I typed in the console:
skeletonMonster maxHP 20
That would change all of the existing in-game skeletons' max hit points to 20. After you parse this information what are some ways to change the value? How can I change the that member variable without directly accessing it (by making it public/global)?
I'd like to implement this so I don't have to change variables in the code and recompile every time while playtesting.


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News Releases
Columbia College-Moberly student, Jesse Alford, scored in the 99th percentile on the business Major Field Test (MFT). Alford, who lives in Moberly, is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with majors in management and human resource management. "We are so proud of Jesse's achievement; he is a superior student," said Dr. Bruce Jackson, director of Columbia College-Moberly. "We'd also like to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of our business faculty who make sure students receive top-notch instruction."
The MFT is a two-hour, nationally normed exam available in numerous academic disciplines and administered to more than 100,000 students at more than 600 colleges annually. Developed by the Educational Testing Service, the Major Field Tests are administered to seniors as part of Columbia College's ongoing effort to evaluate the effectiveness of degree programs. Founded in 1851 in Columbia, Mo., Columbia College has been helping students advance their lives through higher education for more than 160 years. As a private, nonprofit, liberal arts and sciences institution, the college takes pride in its small classes, experienced faculty and quality educational programs. With more than 30 campuses across the country, 18 of which are on military installations, students may enroll in day, evening or online classes. The college is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Columbia College educates more than 30,000 students each year and has more than 70,000 alumni worldwide. For more information, visit www.ccis.edu.


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Hi, not sure where to publish this post! Sorry if this is the wrong place! I lost the base that comes with the Object Turntable - 10 inch! I can buy just the base?
Hi, not sure where to publish this post! Sorry if this is the wrong place! I lost the base that comes with the Object Turntable - 10 inch! I can buy just the base?
Thanks for responding! I'm missing the part that says "Base" of that image you inserted, hindenhaag! Is included or I'm wrong about something?
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My own turntable looks a bit different: the two anti twist pins are integrated in it itself at the bottom side.
I believe the design is changed and the pic "base" shows the bottom side of the turntable. It is not an extra part to be added to the turntable.
The version demonstrated in the pictures comes with a fixation screw and two "Anti Twist Pins".
You have to place the pins into the two holes aside the fixation screw hole at the bottom of the turntable. Then place the turntable on top of your rotator. The pins fit into the two Anti Twist Holes on Top of the Rotator. Press the turntable into place, might be tight fit. Now fix it with the screw through top of turntable and off you go.
Did you loose your Pins and Screw? The center screw for rotators is metric thread, I think M6. I'll check it and let you know. The screw that is needed to fix the turntable is shorter than those used to fix lower rails of panoheads to rotators. The Anti Twist Pins will keep the turntable in fixed position in relation to rotator when you move to next click stop of rotator. In case you do not tighten the detend knob of rotator too much, you might be able to turn around the table without slipping on rotator top or you might use double sticking tape at bottom of turntable to avoid this. May be you can use your table without waiting for new spare parts. Feel free to ask.
Arrows show one pair of Anti Twist Sockets on Top of RD16II Rotator.
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Hello, nick fan and hindenhaag! Thanks for helping! Everything is solved! It was my mistake, I did not see something really easy to see in the RD16 I have! I apologize! I have everything I need, not missing anything!
Thank you again!
Pleasure Vedder.
In case your RD16 has two sets of Anti Twist Sockets like the one shown in the picture, make sure to re mount the lower rail to the set of sockets that lets you see the 0 mark in front of you. Then mount the lower rail showing to the right. Otherwise it will be mounted by 90° to the wrong direction.
BTW @Bill and Dick: might be it would be helpful to rename "Base" into "Bottom View of Turntable"


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I'm using latest TeXLive on Linux, and have
gnuplot installed. I have also installed
gnuplottex package.
Then, I'm trying to compile the basic gnuplottex CTAN example, example-pdf.tex; however, I get this:
$ pdflatex -shell-escape test.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
\gnuplotverbatimwrite ...e \openout \verbatim@out
#1 \BeforeStream \let \do ...
l.7 ...f,terminaloptions={font ",10" linewidth 3}]
(full log here)
Anyone have any idea how do I get this basic example to work?


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- How can I play encrypted DVD movies? 7 answers
Works fine in Windows 7 I just put in the dvd and it plays. I've downloaded VLC for Ubuntu 11.10 and tried playing both the individual vob files (didn't work) and the root directory on the dvd (also didn't work). I've read something about mounting the dvd as an iso? Could someone talk me through getting this to work? For what it's worth they're legit dvds, not copies or anything, so I'm surprised I can't get it to work. Thanks in anticipation!


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"Novels like The 25th Hour don't fall out of trees every day. The tone is dark and intense; its elegant style is cut on the raw side; and the characters come from places we've all been." -The New York Times
All Monty Brogan ever really wanted when he grew up was to be a fireman. Now he's about to start a seven-year stretch in the federal penitentiary for drug dealing. With just twenty-four hours of freedom to go, he prowls the city with his girlfriend and his two best friends from high school-a high-flying bond trader and an idealistic teacher. As the minutes count down, Monty seizes one last chance to stack the odds in his favor.
Hurtling from the money pits of Wall Street to Manhattan's downtown lounge and club scene, from the enclaves of the Russian mob to the old immigrant neighborhoods, The 25th Hour evokes the pulsing rhythms and diamond-hard edges of a city in the raw, illusory hours between midnight and dawn. A taut and mesmerizing tale of an urban purgatory suspended between the crime and the punishment, The 25th Hour is a major player in contemporary noir fiction from the author of the bestselling novel City of Thieves and the short story collection When the Nines Roll Over.
"Tight and crisp . . . . The 25th Hour shines. It couldn't get much better." (San Francisco Chronicle)
"Remarkable . . . A darkly human novel that ends up more about hope than about cynicism." (The Denver Post)


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The 9 Most Obnoxious Memes to Ever Escape the Web
The internet is responsible for many terrible things, which the world tolerates as long as these terrible things stay on the internet.
But some internet memes become so popular they spill out and infect the real world in ways that simply cannot be tolerated. Such as ...
#9. Hamster Dance
In 1998, a Canadian art student began a site dedicated to her pet hamster, which features four .gifs of hamsters and a nine-second loop of an irritating song that was basically the aural equivalent of pubic lice. The popularity of the site remained blissfully small until January 1999, when it inexplicably shot up from around 4 hits a day to 15,000 thanks to a campaign of emails, early blogs, bumper stickers and what must have been a worldwide drop in taste and sanity.
Where it Crossed the Line:
By the end of 1999 Hamsterdance.com was drawing an estimated 250,000 daily hits. Worse still, a band called The Cuban Boys released a song called "Cognoscenti Versus Intelligentsia," which consisted mostly of that irritating Hamster Dance sound loop and high pitched yodeling you might recognize as the sped up voice of Satan. As you can guess, the experience was similar to having feces injected directly into your eardrums.
Before too long, versions of the Hamster Dance were being released in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and the tune was featured in 2001 film See Spot Run and the 2005 film Are We There Yet? (presumably a chilling trip into the human psyche in which a sadistic father drives his family around on an endless journey, blasting the Hamster Dance tune until they beg for the eternal silence of death).
#8. All Your Base Are Belong To Us
The meme began in 1998, with an innocent animated .gif on a video game website. It was taken from the opening cutscene of a Sega Genesis game called Zero Wing, in which a villain called Cats appears on a space craft's monitor and says "How are you Gentlemen!! All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction!"
If you've never seen the whole thing in context, here it is:
This one line, which existed purely because game companies back then couldn't afford translators, spread across the internet like ... man we hate to keep using the pubic lice analogy, but when the irritating contagion fits.
Where it Crossed the Line:
We're thinking right about here:
And by the end of 2000, it had international media attention--we're talking mentions on Fox News, the BBC and articles in Time magazine. Or course, by the time the rest of the world had jumped on the bandwagon, use of the phrase would earn you instant rebuke from the daylight-dodging denizens of internet gaming forums.
But that didn't stop it. In 2003, as an April Fool's joke, seven teenagers placed signs bearing the slogan all around the town of Sturgis, Michigan. The joke backfired when the town's residents got worried that it was an act of terrorism, Sturgis being widely regarded by its residents (and no one else) as one of al-Qaida's next likely targets.
To this day you can find several t-shirts bearing the slogan.
Those shirts are all probably being worn ironically at this point, since internet memes age in dog years. One irony that's probably lost on the makers of Zero Wing: More money has probably been made off of their inadvertent catch phrase than they ever saw from the game.
#7. Chuck Norris Facts
If you just bought your first computer today, Chuck Norris Facts are an internet fad that consists of hundreds of user-created facts about the actor, usually involving his ability to roundhouse kick your mother into next Tuesday.
It started with a thread on the Something Awful forums back in early 2005, one of probably nine million threads created that day. It simply asked members to post facts about Vin Diesel, at which point hundreds of pieces of completely false and exaggerated Vin trivia came pouring in. Later they were gathered into the Vin Diesel Fact Generator.
The site substituted Chuck Norris by popular request and a phenomenon was born.
Where it Crossed the Line:
Around the time that a World of Warcraft add-on featuring a Chuck Norris Fact generator was released in January 2006, corporate America started realizing this thing might have some crossover potential. Soon enough, references started turning up in non-internet media and then, finally, Chuck himself got on board.
Norris has appeared on several talk shows since this all started. Rolling Stone did a small piece about them, and in 2006, Time interviewed Norris, calling him an "online cult hero."
Then, in a turn of events almost too absurd even for politics, Norris campaigned for presidential candidate Mike Huckabee ... based purely around the premise that he had the magical powers claimed in the facts.
But the ridiculous circle would not be complete until the guy who started the fact generator website, former Cracked.com intern Ian Spector, wrote a book The Truth About Chuck Norris: 400 Facts About The World's Greatest Man).
Norris has sued ol' Ian, the person most responsible for reviving his career. Either Mr. Norris wanted more of a cut of the goods or he was pissed off about the revealing of his super powers, which he had presumably hoped to keep a secret.


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Heart of America Athletic Conference tournament action got under way on Thursday night with the Peru State men's and women's teams playing first round games.
The Peru State men, seeded No. 8, fell to No. 1 Evangel by the score of 73-68 and the Peru women, seeded No. 5, lost to No. 4 seed Baker 96-64.
Kody Kirkpatrick had 26 points on 9-of-18 from the field to lead the Peru men. The Bobcat women were led by Courtney Ward, who posted 31 points.
Conference tourney action continues with the semifinal round on Saturday. The Baker women will face No. 1 seed MidAmerica Nazerene while the Evangel will take on No. 4 Central Methodist in the men's bracket.
The finals of the tourney are set for March 5.
View the complete tourney brackets on the HAAC web site at www.haacsports.com.
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YEMEN (CNN) -- The Yemeni branch of al Qaeda now has "a whole outfit designated to target the U.S. homeland," according to a source closely working with U.S. intelligence agencies and the military.
In addition, the U.S. now believes Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is working on "several types of bombs" that could get past airport x-ray screening machines.
The bomb technology is aimed at targeting the U.S., according to the source. Although the group has not yet succeeded in any of their bomb plots against the U.S., there are several bomb makers and a group of would-be suicide bombers inside the group, which operates out of rudimentary training camps in southern Yemen.
"What I think is concerning to myself and other people is that it seems the talent of the organization is getting better, that is, they are much more capable of carrying out attacks. So when something fails like the Christmas Day plot in 2009 or again the cartridge plot in 2010, the organization is able to adapt, and the next time they come back, they present a better and more lethal threat. I think that's what has a lot of people in U.S. and Saudi intelligence quite concerned," says analyst Gregory Johnsen, a Near East Studies scholar.
CNN has previously reported that AQAP master bomb maker Ibrahim al-Asiri has been involved in training both bombmakers and suicide bombers. The source added that al-Asiri is now not making all the components himself. This gives the group the extra security and advantage of having multiple manufacturing capability if al Asiri were to be killed.
The source also confirmed that the latest device - turned over to the U.S. by a mole - had no metallic parts and an advanced detonation system to improve the chance the detonator would result in the entire bomb exploding. AQAP bomb designs are aimed at hiding explosives in clothing, camera lenses and animals according to the source.
But it is also the fundamental growth in AQAP's ability to control territory that is making them increasingly thought to target since the 2009 incident.
"AQAP at that time was about two to three hundred members and it controlled no territory in Yemen. Now, two and a half years later, the terror group has more than tripled in strength to over a thousand members and it controls a great amount of territory in southern Yemen," Johnsen said in an interview with CNN. He said the group controls towns, is running its own police department, and in certain places has established court systems.
"It's providing services – electricity and water to some of the citizens, and really it sees itself in parts of southern Yemen as a government," Johnsen said.


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27 Jul 2008 5:25 PM #1
Dear all,
I create a grid, and in the columns, I want to do this:
{id:?(I want to the value of this id equal the value of this dataIndex),header: 'title', dataIndex: 'priority',sortable:true, width: 90},
if priority=7 I want to id:'7',
who can help me?
27 Jul 2008 5:32 PM #2
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That doesn't make sense. The column could have more than 1 priority value, so it doesn't make sense to do that.Evan Trimboli
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27 Jul 2008 5:48 PM #3
I assume that there is a potential for the same prority to appear in multiple rows?.. If so, you should be looking to set a class instead, as all DOM element ids should be unique.
That aside, using a simple number (especially for DOM elements relating to a record) is probably not recommended anyway, as such I id would have a high likely hood of being prescribed again and again throughout your app.. which could get very messy
I may get a chance to look into a possible solution, if I do (and no one else beats me to it), I'll post some code up.
27 Jul 2008 6:07 PM #4
Thanks very much
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27 Jul 2008 7:04 PM #6
[QUOTE=evant;200467]You need to use a [URL=
27 Jul 2008 10:48 PM #7
I do this:
PHP Code:
var bg;
if(value == '5'){bg=
28 Jul 2008 12:42 AM #8
That looks cool, but I would personally prefer to see a class used instead of an inline style attribute.
JS (snippet):
return String.format('
{0}
',value,bg);
.priority { padding:3px; } .priority-1 { background-color:#ff0000; } .priority-5 { background-color:#666; }
Aside from the obvious advantages, an example where I have made use of CSS inheritance is were to localise your application. By adding a class to the body element which represents the user's locale, you can use CSS inhritance to change the colour of things like your priority.. because often different cultures will have a different association with a certain colour.. and colours are emotive.
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28 Jul 2008 1:37 AM #9
Dear lburgess,
Cool, that's a perfect solution.=D
28 Jul 2008 7:39 AM #10
the renderer is passed a meta object to which you can assign attributes to be used by the cell. the result is much smoother than wrapping the value with an additional unneeded div:
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function myRenderer(value, metaData) {
metaData.attr += ' class="priority priority-1"'
return value


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- User-friendly development environment for AD Model Builder
- Editors
- Information about editors, syntax highlighting, etc.
- flex
- tpl2cpp and tpl2rem are written in flex
- gcc
- GCC for Windows
- gdb
- GDB for Windows
- Working with ADMB and R
- ad2csv
- Read the the contents of .cov/hes/psv files, on screen or into a file
- autodiff.org
- glmmADMB
- R package: Generalized Linear Mixed Models with ADMB
- Otter Research
- Valgrind
- Describe the procedure for using Valgrind to profile and check memory leaks.
- wintools.zip
- Windows tools required to build ADMB binaries from sources
- Wolfram Alpha
- Pretty cool math tool - even does derivatives
- ADMB Tools for Windows
- Windows tools for compiling and using ADMB. Start by downloading and reading the "Installation Guide for ADMB on Windows". This includes links to the tools available here.
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News and Events Archives
Monday, March 23, 2009
(COLUMBIA, Mo.) -- In conjunction with Black History Month, Columbia College has produced a video chronicling the life of Colonel Charles McGee �78, USAF (retired), a former Tuskegee Airman.
Tuskegee Airmen were a select group of World War II fighter pilots who broke stereotypes by being the first black men to fly in combat. The airmen escorted American bombers over the hostile skies of Europe. Their sterling record helped persuade President Harry S. Truman to integrate the armed forces after the war.
�It was the first time the country used a large group of blacks in a technical area,� said McGee. �A lot of good talent was going to waste because somebody didn�t give them the opportunity or didn�t provide them the training. Once that was done, it made all the difference and opened some doors and opened some eyes, and certainly we have found since then that talent doesn�t come in happenstance of birth or color of skin.�
In his extraordinarily long career, McGee also commanded a fighter squadron in the Philippines, a reconnaissance squadron at now-defunct Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base just south of Kansas City and holds the Air Force fighter combat record for missions completed and combat hours. In 2007, President Bush awarded the Airmen the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, the nations� highest civilian award.
The Col. McGee video is available online.


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I was wondering how many human proteins have a solved 3D structure. Is there a database with only human proteins? I looked at pdb but couldn't find a filter.
6405 proteins mapping to 5220 genes, according to Ensembl.
In Ensembl's BioMart, you can select the PDB ID as external reference. Export the results and count the unique proteins/genes that have a PDB ID.
PDB is a good resource for answering such questions, since it will let you filter results by many additional parameters. To count and extract 3D structures of human proteins:
To add further filters, click
Search for human proteins with removal of homologues with 90% identity cutoff fetches 7117 structures. The number of good quality X-ray protein structures (resolution < 2.5A) is currently 3964 (with the same identity cutoff).
You can then download the fetched list or create custom reports (menus below).
A good tool (also used by PDB) for generating non-redundant protein datasets is cd-hit.
From your comments it doesn't seem like you are adverse to writing some custom scripts so one option would be to take advantage of the NCBI Structure database. You can filter it by organism and then download the results as a text file / XML. If you need access to the raw PDB data you could then download the PDB archive and examine the ones in your filtered list.
PDBe's new search system is designed to answer just such questions http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/entry/search/index?organism_synonyms:HUMAN&view=macromolecules
shows there are 6964 unique human macromolecules with structure data in the PDB.
Of course, many will be fragments of proteins rather than the whole molecule.


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Arrest made in threats to deputies
STEUBENVILLE - A Toronto-area man was arrested and lodged in the county jail early today after allegedly making threats to blow up that very building and kill county sheriff's deputies.
Najee Tucker, 23, of 757 township Road 428, Toronto, called the sheriff's department around 1:20 a.m. today, making threats to blow up the justice center and shoot deputies, the sheriff's department reported. Tucker said he was somebody else and gave a different address, the sheriff's department reported. A deputy said they believe Tucker was trying to get somebody else in trouble.
Deputies were able to trace the phone call back to Tucker's home. The cell phone he used in making the calls was found, and Tucker admitted to making the threats, the sheriff's department reported.
Threat at school being investigated
STEUBENVILLE - City Police responded Wednesday morning to a bomb threat to the Catholic Central High School and Bishop John King Mussio Middle School facility after a hand-written note was discovered on a teacher's desk in the middle school.
High school Principal Rich Wilinski said the students were evacuated from the high school building to the Bishop John King Mussio Elementary School gymnasium while a search was conducted.
Wilinski said City Police and school staff cleared the building after approximately one hour and the students returned to their classrooms.
Diocesan spokesperson Pat DeFrancis said school officials are cooperating with City Police as the investigation into the threat continues.
Tack swap to raise funds for new barn
CADIZ - The Harrison County 4-H Horse Committee is hosting a tack swap from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on May 4 at the Harrison County Fairgrounds.
The tack swap is being held inside the junior fair building, rain or shine.
"This is a great opportunity to 'spring clean' your tack box and closet to get ready for the new show season" stated Laynette Shively, committee chair. Vendors of tack, horse equipment and show clothing are invited to reserve tables at $10 each. Admission to the event is $1 per person.
Proceeds go toward the replacement of the horse barn at the fairgrounds.
Vendors can reserve tables by calling Sherri VanTassel at (740) 546-4706 or via e-mail at email@example.com. Reservations are requested to ensure all have adequate space. Food, beverages will be available.
The committee also is hosting a horse show starting at 10 a.m. on May 11 at the fairgrounds. A variety of classes will be offered with per-class and all-day fees.
For a copy of the show bill, e-mail VanTassel.
Training canceled by housing programs
STEUBENVILLE - The fair housing programs of Steubenville and Jefferson County and the Ohio Valley Fair Housing Center has canceled training for case managers, social workers and other social service professionals set for Wednesday.
The training will be rescheduled at a later date.
Health fair to be held
WEIRTON - The Brooke County Health Department will hold a health fair with a variety of vendors, screenings and door prizes from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. April 25 at Freedom Place Apartments at 3744 Main St. Balanced lifestyles supporting good health and the prevention of chronic diseases will be among topics covered. For information, call (304) 737-3665.
Ramp to Route 22 closing Monday
PITTSBURGH - The ramp from Old Steubenville Pike onto U.S. Route 22 eastbound at McDonald will be closing Monday, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has announced.
In addition to the long-term ramp closure, a long-term closure of the right lane on U.S. Route 22 East will occur in the area of the McDonald interchange.
The closure is slated to begin at 7 a.m. Monday and will continue through late August.
The closure is part of a $2 million project including bridge superstructure and interchange rehabilitation, resurfacing, patching and related improvements. Work at the interchange is to conclude in late fall.


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I come across this problem usually (especially when dealing with certain frameworks) where I would like once piece of code to execute once and only once however the provided method e.g (something like an onComplete function) that I wish to place this instruction in will in reality execute multiple times.
I am just wondering does anybody know of the best way that would get around this problem, one programmer friend of mine told me to use a flag (boolean) to check whether or not this code has already run but I feel like this is not a suitable solution and I would not like to introduce global variables for the sake of checking a condition once and only once.
Has anybody ever come across a problem like this before, I am wondering is there any good practice out there to keep in mind when dealing with code like this.


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DANVILLE -- U.S. Sen. Rand Paul's political action committee is airing TV attack ads against Democratic senators in Florida, Ohio, and West Virginia.
Paul said Thursday in Danville, Rand PAC is spending at least $500,000 on the ads targeting U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin, Sherrod Brown, and Bill Nelson.
In Danville to attend the vice presidential debate, Paul said the PAC may spend as much as $750,000 in the races.
An aide to Paul said Rand PAC is planning to expand its attacks to other Democratic senators in two other states next week. The aide wouldn't identify the states.


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- Overview
Our comfortable, cushioned desk chair comes in a variety of fun patterns to liven up your child's room. The adjustable seat keeps pace with your child's growth, and the rolling casters make it easy to zip between work spaces.
- Stationary: 24" wide x 20.5 deep x 32.75" high
- Swivel: 24" wide x 20.5 deep, adjusts from 31–37" high
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- Rigorously tested to meet or exceed the highest safety standards.
- Overall: 24" square, adjusts from 31–37" high
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- Seat Height: 18.75-22.5" high
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- Overall: 24" wide x 20.5 deep x 32.75" high
- Seat: 15" diameter
- Seat Height: 18.5" high
- Weight: 15.5 pounds
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I'm university student studying for my certification exam, and I was doing some reviewing today when I found a question that I can't find an answer to. Basically, in the CCNA3 2.4.1 Cisco Netacademy online materials, it talks about encrypting passwords in the config. To quote the materials:
""" Note: The encryption standard used by the service password-encryption command is referred to as type 7. This encryption standard is very weak and there are easily accessible tools on the Internet for decrypting passwords encrypted with this standard. Type 5 is more secure but must be invoked manually for each password configured. """
This is what confuses me. It says that you can manually invoke Type 5 security (which is md5 hashing, also used with enable secret) for each password configured. But by default, it uses Type 7 encryption which is a basic and weak encryption method usually used to guard against over the shoulder snooping at running-configs etc.
I've done some looking around and I can't find any commands that would allow a user to use the enable password command yet encrypt it using Type 5 instead of Type 7. Furthermore, when I looked at Cisco reference pages on the Internet seen here: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_2/security/command/reference/srfpass.html#wp1031176
I found that it says, when referring to extra optional commands that can be used with the enable password command.
""" enable password [level level] {password | [encryption-type] encrypted-password} Encryption-Type: (Optional) Cisco-proprietary algorithm used to encrypt the password. Currently the only encryption type available is 5. If you specify encryption-type, the next argument you supply must be an encrypted password (a password already encrypted by a Cisco router). """
This is for the enable password command and it says default encryption type is 5 using IOS version 12.2. But when I use service password-encryption on a switch that has 12.2 IOS the running-config shows: "enable password 7 121AOC041104" - the 7 meaning Type 7.
So, as you can see. I'm confused. There are contradictions concerning the default Type of encryption used with enable password. Although the netacademy resources are a few years old, actual testing with switches and using the service password-encryption command support the netacademy materials. Whereas the Cisco site quotes type 5 being the default using one of the latest IOS versions.
Basically, my question is, despite all of these confusions, is it possible to use enable password to get a Type 5 encryption (and this would be evident in the running-config) or do I have to stick with enable secret to get my Type 5 encryption?
Thanks for reading and if you have an answer, please try to provide a reference but if you can't be bothered to, answer anyway. ;P


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I'm reading the paper "Message Freedom in MD4 and MD5 Collisions: Application to APOP" about finding collisions for the MD5 hash algorithm involving the concept of tunnels as described in "Tunnels in Hash Functions: MD5 Collisions Within a Minute".
But I couldn't understand about the difference between point of verification and point of choice. Aren't they the same?


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I have completed my application and it has been confirmed by Apple Store. I have used ST2.0 Free Commercial Version. Please check this application, whether every thing is ok from your point of view ( I mean legally).
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That Mack H is a work of art. Peter has photo-documented much of his work on the ATHS discussion forum.
- A driver learns from the past to lead the future
- A driver builds up his own trucking business
- Father and son share a love of life on the road, even if it makes visits rare
- This driver always makes time to mentor the next generation — whether at home or on the road
- This driver helps rookie truckers learn the ropes
- Home-schooling in a truck means the country is a classroom
- This driver sees the world through Google Glass
- A career trucker brings his tales of the road to people in hospice
- How driver Paul Sedlak finds motivation to reach his fitness goals
- I Love Trucking: More than a job, driving is a way of life
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Many truck shows feature customized rigs — those muraled and chromed beauties that compete for trophies and bragging rights. Some are derisively known as "trailer queens," a term applied to trucks brought to beauty shows inside trailers. These pampered specimens are limited mileage, nonworking trucks with nary a speck of road grime on them.
But at another kind of truck show, plenty of the rigs on display will be babied and carried by trailer, and not a tsk tsk will be uttered. These rigs are more "trailer workhorses" than "trailer queens." The owners are transporting them for the American Truck Historical Society (ATHS) show, held this past May in South Bend, Ind. Members are enthusiastic about showing their rigs, not for the medals and trophies, the "bling" of truck beauty contests, but as examples of trucking history.
A 1921 Mack Model AC may not run anymore, but as an icon of trucking history it is worthy of being handled with care so it can be shown.
Past and present
ATHS was started in 1971 by several owners of trucking companies. The original intent was to record and preserve the history of the industry. Over the years, the emphasis moved from the history of trucking companies to the evolution of trucks and equipment. The ATHS show makes that history tangible.
Peter J. Crooks of Harpersville, N.Y., brought his 1957 Mack H63 cabover to this year's show. Like many trucks of the era, Peter's Mack has been modified over the years.
It now sports a H67 Cab and the original 673 (cu. in.) engine was replaced with a 1984 237 (hp) Maxidyne. The 9-speed Rockwell RT 11509 had the back of an overdrive ransmission added, making it a 13-speed.
Crooks, a veteran of 42 years of over-the-road driving as both a company driver and owner-operator, always liked Macks. He got the truck in 2007 and started by replacing the batteries and air lines to make the truck drivable. "The real work started in 2008," Crooks says. "My friends helped quite a bit, and, except for some complex work where we had to send things out, it became a community project."
Before he retired, Crooks owned a '92 Peterbilt 379 that he kept "good enough to show," though he never did. After he retired in 2010, Crooks made it to two antique truck shows.
"The Mack is a never-ending project. Before this show it needed some painting, but we just used some 'rattle can coating' (spray paint from a can) rather than a body shop job," he confides.
Trucks at ATHS shows are not judged for trophies, so spray paint touchups are perfectly acceptable.
A full range of models
At ATHS, not all the trucks are tractor-trailers, or even over-the-road. Many are straight trucks used in trades or vocational applications. John Sterly's 1959 Divco Model 200C refrigerated milk delivery truck is a good example.
Sterly taught 8th grade science in Lowell, Mich., for 34 years before his retirement. As a child, he had worked as a milkman's helper from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. on school days. When he was old enough to drive, he got his own route for the summer, earning tuition to Central Michigan University in various Divco trucks.
Sterly found the Divco Club of America in 1999 through an online search. In 2004, while planning for his retirement the following year, he found and bought his truck. It had been sitting for 17 years and took two years to restore to the point where he could take it to shows.
"It's a work in progress," he says. "With an old truck, there's always something to do." Sterly is now the membership director of the Divco Club.
This year was Sterly's first ATHS and — just as he does at the Divco shows he attends — he dressed the part of a milkman, wearing a short sleeve white shirt and a black plastic clip-on bow tie.
It's not unusual to see people in period outfits while showing their trucks. It's part of the heritage of trucking that ATHS tries to preserve.
"We draw ATHS membership from a wide variety of people with a wide variety of interests," says Bill Johnson, ATHS Executive Director. "The membership can be roughly divided into thirds. One-third have pickup trucks, one-third have medium duty classes 4 through 6, and one-third have tractor-trailers and large vocational trucks. We even have what we call class one-fourth. It consists of early Jeeps, Crosley pickup trucks and similar small trucks."
Growing oldies
Johnson joined the ATHS in 1988 and became a staff member in 1999. He'd been a driver, owner-operator and even a dispatcher during his career in trucking, and is now able to support his industry through preservation. His goals for ATHS are to grow membership, utilize more of their 30,000 sq. ft. building in Kansas City, Mo., for research and resources and to grow the National Convention and Antique Truck Show. As a measure of his success so far, this year's show drew 854 entrants, a far cry from the 26 at the first show in 1980 and, despite the economy, the second highest in ATHS history.
Eventually, Johnson would like to see ATHS have its own 50,000 sq. ft. museum.
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That Divco sure brings back fond memories of H.P. Hood, Whiting and United farmer's trucks on the north shore of Boston. Hood had a mobile repair truck, that was painted solid red. They pulled stuck trucks out of many a snowbank, as well.


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Pope Francis to create commission on protection of minors.
Just as some Catholics were wondering--with good reason--whether Pope Francis was tip-toeing around the sexual-abuse crisis, the Vatican has anounced that he will establish a commission on the protection of minors. The idea, which came from his Council of Cardinals, was explained today by one of its members, Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston.
The Commission will study present programmes in place for the protection of children; formulate suggestions for new initiatives on the part of the Curia, in collaboration with bishops, Episcopal conferences, religious superiors and conferences of religious superiors.
What's more, the commission will name the people who will be responsible for implementing these new initiatives. The scope of the commission's work will be expansive. According to the Vatican, it will include coming up with guidelines for protecting kids, developing educational programs for children and adults who work with them, putting in place formation strategies for seminarians and priests alike, establishing codes of professional conduct, finding better ways to determine a man's suitability for the priesthood, conducting more thorough background checks, "reporting of crimes, compliance with civil law, communications regarding clergy declared guilty, pastoral care for victims and their families, spiritual assistance, mental health services, collaboration with experts."
In other words, there is no part of the sexual-abuse crisis that this commission won't examine. In his apostolic exhortation, Pope Francis promised to decentralize papal authority. This commission seems designed to re-centralize authority on this matter to Rome. Given the way local bishops conferences have been handling the scandal, in this case centralized authority may be just what the doctor ordered.
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We'll need to wait and see how this plays out. It sounds like it could lead to positive reforms. I do note that the phrase "holding bishops accountable" does not appear in the description fo the commission's scope - although it doesn't seem to be excluded, either. I hope that concrete reform measures come out of this.
It would be wonderful if, as part of the commission's process, the faithful could be surveyed, as has been happening now in preparation for the upcoming synod on the family. A number of good ideas for strengthening the Dallas Charter program have surfaced in conversations here at dotCom. For the Holy See to create a communication channel for those ideas to be formally passed on to it would be tremendous.
I thought it was very troubling that we had a couple of bishops here- in Nebraska and Oregon, I believe- who flat out refused to adopt the child protection standards created by the national Catholic Conference. I think the Vatican needs to step in to make sure child safety is not considered optional.
". . . findins better ways to determine a man's suitability for the priesthood, conducting more thorough background checks, . . ."
It's not rocket science. The FBI does a great job of screening its applicants. A polygraph test is part of the process. Interviewing many friends, neighbors, roommates, acquaintances, et al. is another part. (With all the Catholics in the FBI, the Church should find it easy to get good screeners to decide who are good candidates for the priesthood.)
At least there's a proposal to look at the recruitment policy, but the two things I think would make the most difference to clergy sex abuse ... allowing married men and women as priests ... will probably never be considered. One act that would show how serious the pope is about sex abuse would be to remove the bishops like Law and Mahony who have covered it up.
I don't see anything about holding bishops accountable for enabling and protecting perpetrators so Francis seems to have overlooked that.
Well, I guess we can assume that Grant Gallicho is on board with the new papal commission on the priests' abuse scandal – which presumably enjoys Gallicho's imprimatur. [Let's remember that journalistic objectivity should trump cheerleading.]
However, given the recent abysmal record of the hierarchy on this issue I hope that many of us will be forgiven if we remain skeptical, at best.
I don't often quote Ronnie Reagan, but here it is very apropos: Those of us in the survivor-support community will just have to "Trust, but verify!"
The specifics of the Vatican commission on sexual abuse are yet to be determined. Which begs the question: Why? Just exactly who needs to yet sanction the purview of this new commission? I thought that Papa Francesco was omnipotent? Does our brother of fond memory in seculsion over at the convent get a veto on this matter? Very interesting.
Maybe the program of the new commission needs to get vetted first by the Vatican's public relations machinery? And/or, the scolds and protectors of the hierarchy over at the Holy Office?
Let me take a first whack at some of the major elements of the announced commission:
- "the pastoral aspect" – As in the past, the hierarchs seem to be hoping the faithful will empathize with their attempts to be sensitive, caring and "pastoral."
Rather, the Church should be focused on the criminal and psychological aspects of clergy sexual abuse, and not divert its attention away from the needs of survivors for justice and healing.
Largely, the Catholic Church has no credibility in adjudicating abuse cases. Canon law is essential a protections racket for bishops and priests. Sexual abuse and exploitation cases should be referred exclusively to criminal justice systems.
- The proposed commission will be "composed of priests, women and men religious, and lay people."
The "experts" on clergy sexual abuse are the survivors – and they should constitute the overwhelming majority of any commission membership. Priests, and religious women sadly all too frequently, were the enablers of the predator priests. Totally compromised lay men and women – comprising the present membership of most diocesan review boards – are too compliant and indulgent of, too entrenched in, themselves in a clerical culture encased in stifling narcissism.
If Papa Francesco is really interested, the survivor support community could provide an exhaustive list of survivors who would be qualified to serve on the commission. What a moment of healing for survivors and the Church that would be!
[One priest who really should be on the commission is Tom Doyle, O.P. who has courageously ministered to survivors for decades. He was the one American priest who futilely tried to sound the alarm with American hierarchs, but they were like stone idols – and instead they have persecuted Tom for his efforts to support survivors.]
- "Clout and independence" - Will this new pontifical commission have the authority and purview to investigate and adjudicate those hierarchs who are complicit in the rape and sodomy of children? With real subpoena power to compel even an omnipotent hierarch to cooperate, and/or bring to justice? This I got to see!
When I was chair of the SF review board I recommended then to now Cardinal Levada the only possible remedy I could envision restoring the trust and confidence of Catholics and the public in the church: An independent international commission/court modeled on the South African Truth & Reconciliation Commission led by Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu which addressed the abomination and abuses of apartheid.
Levada just derisively dismissed my recommendation in a really whiny, unctuous voice: "How could anyone expect us to do anything more? We've already done sooooo much." [Direct quote!]
I'm sorry, but I suspect most survivors and indeed Catholics will remain skeptical. That's the very least we can do in service of the survivors of the abuse who have sacrificed their childhood innocence on the altar of clerical political hegemony.
We'll see … "Trust, but verify!"
This is good, but it is not nearly enough.
Until the pope takes meaningful action that truly demonstrates that bishops will be held accountable when failing to protect the young from priests they know to be a risk, I will remain unconvinced that there is a real change in policy.
Francis should begin by removing Finn from office, and perhaps also the bishops in Minneapolis and Newark. He should also send Law, Levada, Brady of Ireland and others to a "simple" retirement, perhaps living in a an inner city community that works with the homeless, or in a poor third world community. Finally, there must be an explicit, written policy that bishops who fail to contact the police to conduct an investigation when allegations of abuse are made will be expected to resign their offices.
If Pope Frances doesn't remove the bishops who have continued to protect abusers even after 2005 (by which time the severity of the psychological damage to children had become crystal-clear) then he has failed them.
But I"m still hopeful that he intends to make the bishops accountable and to establish a churhc-wide policy of accountability. So far, his typical m.o. has been to act carefully and slowly but relentlessly towards his goals, and he seems to give his full attention to large problems all at once. First, he moved strongly on the financial mess, now he is attending quite systematically to the collegiality problem. Maybe the scandal will be next. His new statement might be the beginning of that project.


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I hope this is a pretty basic problem but I opted to 'try' rather than 'install' Xubuntu, however I can't get back to my original operating system.
A friend said all I'd need to do was re-start and the original OS would boot but this is not the case.
Any help would be gratefully received.
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An Elizabethtown police officer is on paid leave, but soon may no longer be with the department.
Officials say Officer James Richardson, an eight-year veteran of the force, is appealing the decision.
A department spokesperson says city policy prevents them from releasing the cause of his termination until Richardson's appeal is wrapped up.


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Long story short, I'm working on a web-based frontend that interacts with a database, and one of the functions is that every action on a particular table gets logged to keep a full history of all changes to that table.
An earlier attempt at using triggers in postgreSQL to handle the logging automatically ran afoul of a couple of other requirements of software that will use said database as a backend, so I'm back to manually creating the log entries and saving them.
My question is, what's best practice? Creating and storing the log first, then making the change, or making the change first, then storing the log? I realize that it's essentially a moot point because I'm wrapping the entire process into a transaction anyway, but I'm suddenly wondering if there are arguments in favor of either methods.


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KILLEEN (February 4, 2013)--The City of Killeen is hiring dozens of people in the area to perform summer jobs.
Job opportunities like lifeguards, water safety instructors and cashiers are posted on the city's website.
The city will also hire grounds maintenance, drainage and recycling workers.
Applicants don't have to be students but cannot be younger than 16 years old, a city spokesperson said.
Applications will be accepted through March 10 unless otherwise noted.


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Sunday, 16 December 2012
The only good thing about birthdays.....
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Glad you had a lovely birthday Sharron. xoxReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 December 2012 at 10:44
The perfect birthday. Happy birthday!ReplyDelete
Wow Sharron - the cake/cupcakes look amazing - almost too good to eat! Sounds like you had a good time - enjoy the rest of your weekend! xxReplyDelete
Aww everything looks wonderful, hope you had a great day! xxReplyDelete
That cake looks amazing! Looks like you had a wonderful birthday.ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday! Looks like you've had a fantastic day. LOVE the cupcakes. xReplyDelete
Wow - what a great day! And I LOVE those cupcakes.ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday Sharron! Looks lovely….the cake is amazing! xxxReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 December 2012 at 18:36
Happy Birthday, Sharon. Save some of your gorgeous cake for me. Have a lovely day.ReplyDelete
Love your fabulous birthday cake and the cupccakes are so cute! Have a great week:)ReplyDelete
~Anne xx
That looks like one very stylish birthday celebration. Many happy returns, xReplyDelete
Many Happy Returns. xReplyDelete
Happy Birthday! I'd love to have a birthday like that:)ReplyDelete
fabulous birthday!!ReplyDelete
What a wonderfully fashionable birthday! For a wonderfully fashionable lady of course! xxx Ps Louboutin tree, Oh my!! xxReplyDelete
Happy Birthday! That cake is brilliant, love it.ReplyDelete
What a fabulous way to celebrate your birthday!! Your cake is so appropriate! I wouldn't have dared to even damage one bit of the gorgeous cake.ReplyDelete
Belated Happy Birthday Sharron. A day to remember in a good way I think!ReplyDelete
Hi my dear! Happy belated birthday wishes, your cake and cupcakes look totally amazing and very delicious and it sounds like you had a wonderful day too xxxReplyDelete
Happy Birthday...Champagne, Coffee and Cake...sounds absolutely PERFECT!ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday Sweetness. Your cake is absolutely amazing (along with the cupcakes).ReplyDelete
Looks like you had a fab day (so sod the wrinkles ;-)
Sending you birthday cyber-hugs xx
Wow your cake looks amazing and the birthday lunch look yumReplyDelete
I am loving your cakes!! Think I might have to get some of them for myself! Hope you had a happy birthday. Kat xReplyDelete
A belated happy Birthday! Looks like the perfect day. I love birthdays- champagne, cake, pressies and doing exactly what you want, what could be better. Those cakes look amzingReplyDelete
Your cakes were gorgeous! Hope you had a wonderful birthday :) happy Friday xReplyDelete
Happy Belated Birthday to a fellow Sagittarius. You are just a few days after my daughter who is 13 days after me. Insane season with one more birthday to go! XXXReplyDelete
How amazing are those cakes!!xxReplyDelete


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Engineered for Success
by Tom Speicher, writer/video editor. Photos by Larry D. Kauffman.
He gazed at the myriad parts scattered about. He looked down at his hands, covered in dirt and grease. No manual or mentor was in sight. There would be no shame in retreating from the endeavor. Instead, the mounting challenge strengthened his resolve. His vision of a smooth-running machine would become a reality.
The story isn't describing a gearhead, diligently working on a vintage car to produce a sweeter ride for the open road. The protagonist is a 10-year-old boy, assembling the engine of an aging lawn mower to be pushed around his parents' fenced-in yard.
Today, the buried remnants of the lawn mower continue to deteriorate, but the impact of getting that engine to start and purr endures. The feeling of accomplishment hooked the boy for life. It led him to Williamsport Area Community College, a forerunner of Pennsylvania College of Technology. It led him to leadership positions with two of the world's most prestigious automotive manufacturers. It led him to transform vehicle safety for generations of Americans. It led him to a full life.
Thomas C. Baloga, class of 1974, returned to his alma mater in February to share with current students stories and advice gleaned from his life of achievement. The visit to the Williamsport campus served as Baloga's retirement gift to himself. In December, he stepped down from his three vice-president posts at BMW of North America to begin a new chapter, one that will undoubtedly focus on meeting challenges, just like his triumph over that old lawn mower.
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"It actually started," Baloga said, still smiling at the memory, generated nearly a half century ago. "It was a tremendous feeling that I actually did that on my own without a manual, without anyone helping me. I was able to figure it out for myself, and that was a tremendous feeling of accomplishment and confidence."
Thanks to a tireless work ethic, tenacity and mechanical aptitude, Baloga has experienced those same feelings at the highest levels of his chosen specialties. His responsibilities at BMW of North America included overseeing U.S. engineering departments, technology research projects, quality and safety recall decisions, and product safety and environmental issues. Prior to BMW, he spent 11 years at Mercedes-Benz USA, where he helped revolutionize American crash testing. In between, Baloga served as president of Britax Child Safety Inc. Within five years, he shaped it into the nation's top premium child-safety seat brand.
"I think what I have enjoyed the most has been being in a position to influence improvement, whatever form that took," Baloga said. "That's the greatest satisfaction I think I've enjoyed in my career."
Examples of improvements prompted by Baloga abound and are most evident in the vehicle safety arena. As manager of safety engineering at Mercedes-Benz, he convinced the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety to incorporate offset crash testing rather than relying exclusively on full-frontal crash tests to determine how well a vehicle protects its occupants. Baloga reasoned that more accidents occur at an angle rather than head-on, and that testing should reflect that reality in America as it does in Europe. The findings generated by the offset tests pushed by Baloga led to structural changes in all automobiles to better withstand side collisions.
"It resulted in the transformation of the whole industry," he said. "I know that it has reduced severe injuries, fatalities and debilitating injuries to the lower body."
At Britax, Baloga flexed his engineering muscles in serving as the primary inventor on eight patents for the juvenile products industry. He created three different child-safety seats and introduced the first booster seat in the United States for children up to 80 pounds. At the time, child restraints were only designed for kids 40 pounds and under.
"It was very exciting to have the opportunity to look at what the industry needed, what the moms needed, what the kids needed for better protection and just do it," said Baloga, who worked seven days a week during his first several months as president of Britax. "It was a great opportunity."
Baloga is grateful for the role Williamsport Area Community College played in molding him into a professional who could seize such opportunities. The benefits of his automotive technology associate degree continue to resonate.
"I'm very happy that I went to this institution," he said. "I had a lot of good teachers and mentors. I owe a lot of my success to the approach of this institution with the classroom work and the hands-on education."
The practical, hands-on nature of WACC served as the perfect match for the hardworking, mechanically inclined Baloga. As one of seven kids growing up in a modest home in the Wilkes-Barre area, he discovered from an early age the need to be self-sufficient. New toys were the exception; hand-me-downs were the rule. If he wanted to ride a bike, he would first have to fix a secondhand one.
The findings generated by the offset tests pushed by Baloga led to structural changes in all automobiles to better withstand side collisions. ... "I owe a lot of my success to the approach of this institution with the classroom work and the hands-on education."
Eventually, he graduated from bikes to lawn mowers to cars. The first of many was a 1955 Chevy station wagon that he purchased for $40. Of course, it didn't run, but Baloga spent a cold winter underneath the vehicle in his parents' backyard to change that. In the end, he persevered.
"I love cars," said the former Eagle Scout. "I always liked to tackle difficult problems. If there was a problem with some vehicle that multiple people couldn't fix, that was what I wanted to be given. I really liked the challenge."
After graduating from high school and spending a year working at a Chevrolet dealer for $1.60 an hour, Baloga enrolled at WACC in 1972. He felt at home learning on various vehicles in the college's automotive lab.
"It was realistic compared to the real world at that time," said Baloga, who fondly recalls his main automotive instructor, Ray Pickering. "It was very helpful to know what we were going to experience in the real world. It gave us real problems and real practical experience. By today's standards, the lab would be considered incredibly archaic. But at the time, it was state-of-the-art compared to what the industry was using."
Baloga did well in lab and in the classroom, despite holding down numerous part-time jobs to pay his way through college. He worked from 4 to 10 p.m. in the former Rishel Furniture factory, now the site of College Avenue Labs, then drove truck until 2 a.m. in support of efforts to build the bypass around Williamsport. On weekends, he assisted Pickering, who had a car workshop on the side.
"I don't have much recollection of fun back then, but that wasn't the point," Baloga said. "I was getting an education. I was supporting myself, and I did what I had to do.
"My career goal was to earn $25,000 a year in the auto industry. If I could have a job that I could earn $25,000 a year, then I thought that I would have made it."
Within five years, Baloga would surpass that goal. After graduating from WACC, he worked in heavy-duty truck repair when he came to the realization that his 6-foot-6 frame wasn't conducive to long-term crouching under vehicles. He remembered his parents' advice "to find a job in which you can work with your brain rather than your back because, after 20 years, your back will give out."
Baloga went to Penn State Harrisburg, where he earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical design engineering in 1978. He became a senior test engineer at Mack Trucks in Allentown and later joined Mercedes-Benz as a senior staff engineer. He then began his steady climb up the executive ranks at that renowned company, even spending a year living in Germany, before transitioning to Britax and eventually BMW.
Throughout all those stops, Baloga drew upon the tremendous hands-on background obtained at WACC. His practical experience "from the ground up" allowed him to learn sophisticated safety technology and automotive construction quicker than engineers whose backgrounds consisted mostly of theoretical study. "It was a huge advantage for me," said Baloga, who, at the time of his retirement, was BMW's highest-ranking official for engineering in North America.
While Baloga is thankful for his WACC education, he believes the current generation of Penn College students has greater opportunities.
"The difference between when I left until now is nothing short of phenomenal," he said after touring the campus for the first time in 39 years. "It is awesome. I can't think of all the superlatives to describe how impressed I am with the college. I wish I were a student. The opportunity to use the new technology and learn from the smart people here, it's just phenomenal."
In his retirement, Baloga is relocating with his wife, Gayle, from Goshen, N.Y., to a new home in North Carolina. With four adult children and four grandkids, he will make time for family and is already targeting new challenges. He seems determined to return to the juvenile-products industry and specialize in crafting restraints for kids, such as conjoined twins, who are enduring unique medical situations.
"Those kids need to get to the doctor. They need to get to the hospital," he said. "They need to be transported safely, and there isn't anything that exists. So I thought about getting back into that side of it because it's a very big challenge, and it would be rewarding to do it."
Obviously, Baloga can still hear the echo of that lawn mower.
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Let's say I have a software raid1 array from two partitions. I get one HDD out of the computer, and put it into another computer, and copy some data to the mirrored partiton.
What happens when I put the HDD back into it's original place? Will the new data get mirrored to the other drive? If yes how does the controller check/notice that there is new data on the drive? Surely it can't check the whole partition on every boot.
Also, what happens when I delete a file in the same scenario as above? Will it get deleted back from the other drive, or will it get copied back?
This is on an Ubuntu machine, and by getting the drive out, I mean that the computer is completely turned off while doing this, and is only turned back on the when the drive is back in it's place.
If the raid controller does not recognize the change because the power is off while doing this, is there a way to instruct it to reconstruct the array? Like, let's say that raid is constructed from /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1, I turn off the computer, and pull out the sdb drive, copy data to it, put it back, and now I want to instruct the controller to reconstruct the array, using /dev/sdb1 "as a master".


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Adjacent to the harbor and marina is the Monterey State Historic Park, home to preserved adobes, historic gardens, and museums. The park includes CA State Historic Landmark #1, the Custom House, also the oldest government building in the state. This is the site where Commodore John Drake Sloat raised the American flag for the U.S., claiming over 600,000 sq miles of territory for our nation. There is also an old whaling depot (with whale bone sidewalk) and the state's first theater and brick building.


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Year: 5 Oct 2004 to ?
Age rating: PG-13 – Teens +13
Kurosaki Ichigo is a 15 year old boy that has an ability to see ghosts/spirits. Because of his ability, he is able to meet a female death god (a.k.a Shinigami) named Kuchiki Rukia. To save his family and friends from unwanted soul-eating spirits (Hollows), Rukia transfers her Shinigami powers to Ichigo. As Rukia takes on a human shell, together they solve mysteries involving spirits and hollows until from the spirit world comes 2 other shinigamis explaining that it is illegal to transfer Shinigami powers to humans and Rukia exceeded the time limit to stay in the human world. After they sentence her death for breaking the laws, Ichigo snaps and swears to everyone he will retrieve Rukia by breaking into the spirit world.
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GE's Ironic New Slogan for Its Favorite Greenhouse Gas: "Natural Gas. It's Hot Stuff."
So I'm reading the Washington Post today and come across a full-page ad for natural gas from the marketing geniuses at General Electric.
Apparently nobody involved with the new ad campaign understands the unintentional irony, that natural gas is one of the most potent heat-trapping greenhouse gases. This, as we've seen, is something a lot of people aren't clear on (see "Natural gas is mostly methane").
Even when it is burned completely, natural gas is still 'hot stuff'. As an exclusive 2009 analysis I published from climatologist Ken Caldeira explained, "the burning of organic carbon warms the Earth about 100,000 times more from climate effects than it does through the release of chemical energy in combustion."
As a former lead engineer at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab explained in an email, this mean that "running a handheld electric hairdryer on US grid electricity delivers a planet-warming punch comparable to [the heat given off by] two Boeing 747s operating at full takeoff power for the same time period."
In fact, the only way that natural gas won't be a major contributor to making this planet catastrophically hot is if it displaces coal in the very short term and then is replaced shortly thereafter by zero carbon energy (see IEA's "Golden Age of Gas Scenario" Leads to More Than 6°F Warming and Out-of-Control Climate Change).
Here is the full GE ad:
While this is certainly one of the most unintentionally ironic fossil fuel ads in recent memory, it still can't hold a candle — or blow dryer — to this uber-ironic 1962 Life Magazine ad touting oil's ability to melt glaciers:
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- Science stunner: On our current emissions path, CO2 levels in 2100 will hit levels last seen when the Earth was 29°F (16°C) hotter


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Multiple Resistance Mechanisms Identified through Studies of Cell Lines Derived from Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Patients Progressing on STI-571 Therapy
Walter F. Sall, MD
The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: December 10, 2001
Presenter: Nicholas J. Donato
Presenter's Affiliation: MD Anderson Cancer Center
Type of Session: Scientific
Materials and Methods
Author's Conclusions
Clinical/Scientific Implications
This study provides further evidence that there are multiple mechanisms of STI-571 resistance in leukemia, in particular, activation of BCR-ABL independent tyrosine kinase cascades which bypass BCR-ABL completely. Study of these cell lines may provide further targets of interest allowing us to counter these mechanisms of resistance.
Oncolink's ASH Coverage made possible by an unrestricted Educational Grant from Amgen.


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Washers and Dryers: Small space recommendations?
I'm just going to lay this out straight. I get jealous at discussions of washers and dryers. I'm a renter in the big, glorious city, but also in an old building where I get... yes.
That means digging for quarters. Jockeying with people's schedules to find an empty machine (we only have two washers and two dryers) and being precise in timing so people do not touch my stuff (ew). Dealing with machines that constantly are broken in some fashion.. you get the idea.
Laundry has become wearisome, and tedious. So I was looking today at those mini washers. Specifically, the Panda Small Mini Portable Compact Washer Washing Machine (5.5lbs Capacity).
Does anyone have any experience with these sort of machines? What do you recommend? Needless to say, I'm looking for a good deal but mostly still skeptical that they're even worth the investment.
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I had the small stackable ones at a rented condo. They were serviceable, but tedious. We had to do laundry just about every other day for 2 of us.
They did wash well enough, but I hate doing laundry, especially that often. At the time, I learned there was a washateria down the street that would wash, dry, and fold my laundry for 30¢ a pound. I used them until I moved into a rental with a full size washer/dryer.
ADD: Now the washaterias are about 50-75¢ a pound depending on where you go.
I've never used one of those type of machines, but have you considered the type that you hook up to your kitchen faucet? They're not a whole lot smaller than a regular washing machine but you can just push it out of the way when it's not in use. And of course you wouldn't need typical laundry hook-ups to use them.
i was thinking of getting a Haier like @yessahh posted. the reviews are overall good on amazon and walmart sites. for apartment or condo living where there are no laundry hookups, or you're not allowed to own one but decide to anyway. the reviews give tips like hooking it up to a sink, draining into the tub and weighing the drain tube down so it won't jump around, etc
you can then air dry some items or go use the dryer in the laundry room.
if you have the money and a bit more space, go deluxe and get one like these LG combined washer/dryer models
they're pricey and more permanent but still don't require more than a regular 110 volt outlet. for either type of machine you'll have to adjust your laundry routine anyway
I'm SO glad you asked this, because I have a similar problem. I own, but my place is only 800 square ft - hardly space for a washroom.
I have taxed friendships, wasted hours at the laundromat, and purchased LOTS of underwear. Even handwashing is tricky in WA, there are few days appropriate for hanging laundry outside.
Eagerly watching suggestions - wish those portables could dry as well.
@notanaardvark: What do you think of these?
Or Ikea's got the Mulig: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/laundry/20602/
I agree with the sentiment on the stackables being tedious. The lids on the washer (top load) on the ones I've used can't open all the way so getting stuff in/out was a bit of a PIA. If they have front load stackables, that wouldn't be so bad.
@inkycatz: I just bought a drying stand similar to the Portis at Ikea just last week! It's working pretty well so far. It leaves a crease in my tshirts though. Lol. Much easier hanging my jeans on it than on hangers in all the doorways.
@inkycatz: I do have a couple of drying racks, but I'm seriously considering that spin dryer! New concept to me, bet it would keep a lot of moisture out of the air in the home.
Thanks for that, hope you get some workable ideas as well.
i have the ikea Pressa hanging dryer which i use for all my bras. it's sturdy you just have to balance the weight so it doesn't get lopsided http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80189663/
@notanaardvark: this spin dryer is from the same company "Laundry Alternative" and has good reviews.
or check out the LG combination washer dryer link i posted above. those are about the size of a dishwasher
@notanaardvark: I'm getting some really great ideas and links from this thread. Thank you everyone! :)
I am totally going to check out the portis and pressa next time I'm at IKEA.
Also, a friend just posted this on FB today:


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QUINCY – A man having a cigarette outside a Starbucks coffee shop on Hancock Street early Wednesday morning told police two men asked for a light – and then all his money.
"The taller man brandished a small knife and then said, 'and now give me your money,'" said Capt. John Dougan.
The man didn't cooperate and managed to escape without injury, but police said he was visibly shaken.
"Once they pulled the knife, he ran as fast as he could," said Dougan.
Police were alerted at about 5 a.m. Wednesday morning when the victim ran to the nearby Quincy Center MBTA bus entrance and asked an employee there for help. The employee then called Quincy police.
Dougan said the victim described the first man as 6-feet, white, with a shaved head and wearing a gray sweatshirt. The second man was described as about 5'6", brown neck-length hair, and wearing a baseball cap, backpack and beat-up jeans.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Quincy police at 617-479-1212.
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