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Strawberry and Orange Crêpes
Categories: Kid-friendly, Sweet
Type: Breakfast
Type: Breakfast
Light, melt-in-the-mouth pancakes with a creamy filling make an irresistible dessert
Prep Time: 30M, plus standing
Cooking Time: 30M
Serves: makes 4 servings
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup whole milk
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tbsp butter, melted, plus more for the pan
- 1 1/2 tsp sugar
- pinch of salt
For the filling
- 12oz ( 350g) strawberries, hulled and sliced
- 2 oranges, peeled and segmented
- 1lb ( 450g) ricotta cheese
- 1-2 tbsp clear honey
- finely grated zest of 1/2 lemon
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- To make the crêpes, process the flour, milk, eggs, butter, sugar, and salt in a blender until smooth. Let stand for 30 minutes.
- Lightly grease a frying pan with melted butter. Add about 3 tbsp of the batter to the pan, and tilt and swirl the pan so the batter covers the bottom. Cook until the underside is golden brown. Turn the crêpe and cook until the other side is golden. Transfer to a plate.
- Repeat with the remaining batter, buttering the pan as needed. You should have 8 crêpes. Separate the crêpes with pieces of wax paper.
- To make the filling, place half of the strawberries and orange segments in a serving bowl and reserve. Mix the ricotta, honey, and lemon zest together. Divide the ricotta filling and remaining strawberries and oranges evenly over the crêpes. Fold each crêpe into a triangle.
- Serve at once with the reserved strawberries and oranges on the side.
- freeze the pancakes for up to 3 months
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Wednesday will be a day of celebration in the city of Chester as years of perseverance and hard work are finally realized.
Since the early 1980s, the former Taylor, Smith and Taylor pottery factory has stood as an eyesore in the community; a crumbling behemoth towering over much of the community.
For many of those 30 plus years, the residents of Chester have looked for something to do with the lumbering building, first hoping to find a new business to fill its halls, and then looking for ways to demolish the structure as it slowly became viewed as a danger to their hometown.
The last year has finally brought some hope back for the property, however, as the Business Development Corp. of the Northern Panhandle purchased the site and has been working to demolish the old factory in preparation of eventual redevelopment and marketing for new businesses or industry.
On Wednesday, the BDC and the Chester community will come together to celebrate the demolition and remediation, as well as look back at the history of the factory, all while looking toward the future.
Those interested in the celebration will meet at Chester City Hall beginning at 11 a.m., with visits to the former pottery site also planned. Residents are encouraged to bring their favorite photos of the factory, with a special prize being awarded to the person with the most interesting picture.
This definitely is a time of celebration for the residents of Chester, and Hancock County as a whole. It could not have been possible, either, without the cooperation of the BDC, local officials and Chester residents who worked together, and continue to do so, planning for the demolition and redevelopment.
A variety of ideas have been in the works for some time for the future of this property, and we are sure it will all be great and benefit many in our area with the eventual creation of jobs and new opportunities.
We encourage our residents to take some time Wednesday to visit Chester and take part in the celebration, and congratulate the Chester community on this great success.

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Charging Curry County Jail inmates room and board?
It's not as far-fetched as it may sound – several economically-challenged Oregon cities and counties are already doing it.
With the dilapidated Curry County jail on the brink of insolvency – and in violation of state and federal health and safety codes – Sheriff John Bishop is getting financially creative.
He recently started going through his department's financial records, looking for previous inmates who owe the county money – about $102,000 – for prescription drugs and in-jail doctor visits.
"Nobody has tried to collect this money, so I'm going to try and see what happens," Bishop said, then added, "We are starting to get $100 here and $100 there, so it may work."
Another option is to charge inmates per night for staying at the jail.
Many criminals are likely too poor to pay such a fee, but Bishop said he would have no problem charging those who can. "We will never recoup all the costs, but we could get something, which is more than we are getting now."
Klamath and Douglas counties have daily rates for their jails. In April, the Springfield City Council approved a plan to charge $60 a night for its beds at the Lane County municipal jail. That means an inmate behind bars for 60 days could be expected to pay $3,600.
The Curry County Jail can house up to 53 inmates. Even at the bargain-basement price of $20 per inmate per night (the state allows a maximum charge of $60), the amount of revenue generated wouldn't come close to covering Bishop's projected $1.1 million jail budget for next year. And that's just to maintain the jail as is.
Still, it's something. And it sends the message that crime doesn't pay in Curry County.
In the end, charging former inmates for in-house medical bills and charging future inmates room and board, will not provide enough money for what is really needed – a new jail. But what are the chances of convincing county officials and voters of that?
What's more likely, according to Bishop, is state or federal officials closing the jail down for health and safety violations.
If that happens the county will have to transport inmates to jails in Coos Bay and Grants Pass – and that will likely cost the county and taxpayers more, in the long run, than building a new jail.


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How do I catch a SMS spammer who is using google voice to spam me?
I have the google voice number and 2 of their burner emails with gmail. How do I gather enough information to inform the authorities?
Don't play cops and robbers, just report the issue to Google and they will take care of it. Google and the authorities have better tools and people who are paid to deal with these criminals.
That being said, one way to identify someone online via chat or sms is to get them to visit a URL. This could load a page that logs the IP address, and then you can perform a whois or geoip lookup on this address. More advanced/blackhat/illegal method would have that URL return a page that exploits a vulnerability in the browser and then you can collect personal information from the spammer's machine.


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To my knowledge most projectors' "No Signal" screen uses a blue background:
This might also apply to the legendary Blue Screen of Death
So why is blue the color of choice for such error messages?
To my knowledge most projectors' "No Signal" screen uses a blue background:
This might also apply to the legendary Blue Screen of Death
So why is blue the color of choice for such error messages?
Just a guess:
If they used black (minimum intensity for all three color channels) or white (maximum intensity for all color channels) you might think they are off, so instead they use only one of their base color channels (out of Red Green Blue).
Red light may remind some people of an alarm and others of a district in Amsterdam.
Green may seem like everything is OK to go (like a green traffic light).
That leaves blue.
Any other color would require someone to actual think of what levels of colors to use and why.
If I had to choose a color for SoDs I use the following conventions:
B(lack)SoD - Void SoD - Nothing wrong happened... just turn on/plug in your device/the screen/the power mains and start using.
B(lue)SoD - OK SoD - Everything's OK... everything was saved and is being recovered, you can continue using the device shortly.
G(reen)SoD - Ready to go SoD - Your device is ready to resume operation... just click Enter/OK/Return or enter password/card/finger/DNA and it's good to go.
R(ed)SoD - Danger SoD - Your device is on fire/may electrocute you/harm you/someone in some other way.
G(ray)SoD - Borderline SoD - Your device may or may not be working or have experienced a problem, fiddle around with it and see what happens.
P(urple)SoD - Mysterious SoD - Something unknown has happened, try finding an expert.
W(hite)SoD - Dead SoD - Your device is now bricked, all you can do with it is look at this message and then replace it.
I think the blue goes back to the days of consumer-grade video cassette recorders with on-screen message displays. Superimposing an image on a video signal requires that one know which parts of the signal will be displayed where on the screen. If the video signal includes valid horizontal and vertical sync pulses, one can measure the time since the last horizontal sync pulse, and count the number of horizontal pulses since the last vertical sync pulse, and know where that part of the signal will be displayed.
If, however, a video signal has no horizontal or vertical sync pulse, a television set's horizontal and vertical scanning circuitry will start "free-running", and there will be no predictable relationship between signal timing and screen location. On-screen message electronics that are built into a television set can be triggered by free-running vertical and horizontal sweep generators well enough to produce a legible (though often slightly garbled) overlay, but electronics built into a VCR have no way of knowing the timing of a television set's horizontal and vertical sweep in the absence of sync pulses. The only way for a VCR to produce readable on-screen messages in the absence of a valid input video signal is to generate a video signal itself.
Generating a black and white video signal is slightly easier than generating a color signal, but not hugely so. With NTSC (North American) video, one can get color by adding a pulse of a 3.579545MHz reference signal at the start of each line, and adding a 3.579545Mhz signal to anything that should appear in color. The hue of a colored object will depend upon the phase relationship with the reference signal, but lightness and saturation are a little less predictable. Yellow is the easiest hue to generate (same phase as reference), but blue is the second-easiest (exactly-opposite phase), and variations in lightness and saturation are less noticeable with blue. Thus, generation of a blue screen has technical advantages versus any other color.
Once video cassette recorders started including the blue screen as a standard no-signal indication, many television sets started following suit. From a technical standpoint, a television doesn't need to generate an "idle" signal in the same way that a VCR does, but consumers wondered why the feature should be unique to their VCR, and television sets had no particular reason not to include it, so the behavior is included in many sets.
A good question which has its natural historical reference:
Reference: Blue Screen of Death
So the color blue stands for fatal system error?
Not really. Blue is not equal to danger or harm in any way. Blue represents knowledge, power and seriousness....
Reference: Color Meaning
And a "fatal system error" is no kidding. "This is serious stuff your dealing with, so pay attention"-color which would be blue. This is not the color of error (which would be red) but the color representing the whole thing as the sky and the sea and everything. Serious!
So now you also know which wire to cut (red or blue) and which pill to take (red or blue).
Reference: Red pill and blue pill
As one of the respondents already mentioned, blue is the color of the sky and the sea, and in general represents tranquillity. So, psychologically, so that the user does get upset, seems ergonomic designers picked a blue blank screen for when things go wrong.
I suppose this has physical reasons:
So viewing blue detailed information with a red/orange background is quite exhausting. This would also explain why many default desktop backgrounds from Windows and MacOS use blue tones:
So since blue-ish tones are peripheral less obtrusive I guess this is why the color blue (unconsciously) made its way to your mentioned areas.
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In the movie
Pi, there is a 216-digit number that the protagonist, Max Cohen, is searching for, which in Kabbalah numerology corresponds to the name of God. What is the actual number used in the film shown on the computer display (Euclid)? (This, of course assumes it is constant every time it appears)
In the movie
According to IMDb, the number displayed by Euclid actually contains 218 digits:
The number that Max Cohen writes on paper does have 216 digits (and is completely different); see the link for the digits.
A careful analysis on another site says that one of the 216 digits is illegible, but is given as a '9' by IMDb. It also points out that two digits of the 218-digit number (in bold above) are reversed when they appear on the paper found with Sol Robeson.


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Is there any research that shows how long a user is willing to wait for search results to come back before they give up? I know Google has made searching instantaneous for people, but barring general web search, for an app—say, an iOS app with potentially intermittent network connectivity—are there any metrics to show how long is "too long" for a search? I should stress that the kind of search I'm talking about involves communicating with a network service.
If your app is making large queries, and there's a delay or throttling, you may not have control over that. Add to that latency of the network, and your results will take even longer.
What you do have some control over is how responsive your app feels to users, which can buy you some time and forgiveness. Without knowing your situation, is it possible to use some hint text to set user expectations?
There is a distinction between absolute response times, and perceived responsiveness of your app itself.
In the book 'Designing with the Mind in Mind' (Jeff Johnson), one principle is:
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Selective Bladder Preservation by Combined Modality Treatment of Invasive Bladder Cancer: 10 Year Outcome
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Presenter: W. U. Shipley
Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital
The standard of care for muscle invasive bladder cancer is radical cystectomy +/- adjuvant chemotherapy with or without radiation. However, to improve quality of life in these patients, there is much interest in bladder-conserving therapies, using transurethral surgery and concurrent chemoradiation.
Materials and Methods
Author's Conclusions
Clinical/Scientific Implications
There is a large move toward organ preserving treatment in all oncologic treatment. This is also true for bladder cancer. Although there have been many recent advances giving patients alternatives to urostomy(diversion of the urine to an external pouch), retention of the bladder can be good for many patients in terms of quality of life. Since OS and DSS is comparable to historic data and there was little long term toxicity from bladder conservation therapy, this is an acceptable alternative to cystectomy in motivated patients.


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She encouraged the employee who was sitting against the wall, Corey Michael McGee, to join the rest of the group at the table, but he declined. After the meeting, McGee explained: "I sit against the wall where I'm safest. Or in my mind I feel I'm safest."
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Two fast food restaurants on the west side of Spartanburg were reportedly vandalized in as many days.
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CSB/SJU receives new Phi Beta Kappa chapter
The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University will be home to a new chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest academic honor society since 1776.
Delegates from more than 200 chapters and associations of Phi Beta Kappa voted to establish a new chapter at CSB/SJU Oct. 2 during their 42nd Triennial Council in Austin, Texas.
The joint CSB/SJU chapter will be known as Theta of Minnesota ("theta" is the eighth number in the Greek alphabet, and is the number of Phi Beta Kappa chapters in Minnesota).
The CSB/SJU chapter expects to induct its first student members into the society during spring semester, 2010. CSB and SJU senior students will be selected on the basis of excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. The selection of the best 10 percent of arts and sciences graduates will be made each year by CSB/SJU faculty, administrators and staff who are members of Phi Beta Kappa.
The CSB/SJU joint chapter was one of four new chapters established at the council meeting. The addition of the four chapters brings the total number of chapters to 280 nationwide. Only about 10 percent of the nation's institutions of higher learning have Phi Beta Kappa chapters. Each year, approximately one college senior in 100 nationwide is invited to join Phi Beta Kappa.
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The College of Saint Benedict Bookstore will host a book signing with two campus authors on Saturday, Oct. 24, as part of Family Weekend festivities.
The book signing will take place from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the CSB Bookstore, which is located in Mary Commons, on the CSB campus. Bookstore hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24. The event is open to the public.
S. Mara Faulkner, OSB, will sign copies of her book, Going Blind. The book is a memoir about growing up in a family shaped by Irish ancestry, a close-to-the-bone existence in rural North Dakota and the secret of her father's blindness, along with the silence and shame surrounding it. Faulkner is a CSB/SJU associate professor of English. Going Blind will be 20 percent off for the day.
Poet Larry Schug will sign copies of his latest volume of poetry, Arrogant Bones. An award-winning poet, Schug draws upon his experience to create down-to-earth verse that anybody can understand and enjoy. He is the recycling coordinator at CSB. Arrogant Bones and Schug's other poetry books will be 20 percent off for the day.
In addition to the book signing, there will be many specials throughout the store including 20 percent off baseball caps, children's, parent and alumnae clothing.
Run (or walk) for fun during Family Weekend
The seventh annual 5K Family Fun Run/Walk takes place on Oct. 24 on the SJU campus. Registration begins at 8 a.m.; the run begins at 9 a.m. by the rugby field near the sugar shack and continues down the Logging Trail through the beautiful Saint John's Arboretum.
Registration for CSB/SJU card holders and children under 15 years of age is $15, and $20 for all other participants. Prizes will be awarded, and participants who register early will receive a free T-shirt and light breakfast at the finish line.
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What are the key differences between software engineers and programmers?
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When hiring, we look for a distinction between someone who is going to be able to help us architect our system, define processes, create technical specifications, implement advanced refactoring, etc. and someone who is going to help us complete programming tasks off a checklist. I believe you could call the former a Software Engineer and the latter a Programmer.
It's up to the company really, as I don't think there's a legal framework to enforce a denomination or another, or at least not that I am aware of and this might vary from country to country (for instance, the use of the term "engineer" is actually fairly regulated in France, but there are variants that are allowed for the "abusive" cases).
That being said the general trend goes like this:
However, all this is arguable, and as I said, there's no legal requirement that I am aware of in US/UK countries. That being said, in France you can only call yourself an "engineer" if you come from an engineering school (recognized by the Commission des Titres d'Ingenieurs or something like that). You cannot say that you have an "Engineer Degree", but you can say that you have a "Degree in Engineering" if you have studied a discipline that falls under the portemanteau of engineering and technologies.
It might be that some countries have a similar distinction, I just don't really know.
Back to the software engineer title... Once, one of my teacher told our class - and rightly so - that there's no such thing, as of today, as so-called "software engineering". Because engineering something (be it a building, a vehicle, a piece of hardware...) means you are capable of envisioning its design and all the phases of its production, and to predict with accuracy the resources you will need, and thus the cost of the production.
This is true of most "true" engineering disciplines. There are fluctuations, of course (the prices of the materials will vary over time, for instance), but there are very finite theoretical models (for design and planning) and empirical models (for pretty much keeping any of the former within accessible constraints) that allow you to predict the termination date of a project and its resource usage.
The major problem with software is that it is not there yet. We want to aim for software engineering, but we're not there yet, really. Because we have a very fluid and dynamic environment, very variable constraints for projects, and still a lack of maturity in retrospect in our processes. Sure we could say we get better at it (highly arguable with hard-data, though), but we've only been at it since the 60s (earlier projects were actually closer to hardware-only computers, thus closer to real engineering, ironically). Whereas we've been building motored vehicles for more than a century, vehicles in general for a few millennias, and building for even more millennias (and have been pretty damn good at it actually in some part of the world, making you feel like we're ridiculous kids playing with our new flashy software toys in comparison).
We fail to systematically predict deadlines accurately, we fail to systematically predict costs accurately, we fail to systematically identify and mitigate inherent and external risks efficiently and deterministically. The best we can manage to do is produce good enough guesstimates, and accommodate for some buffer, while trying our best to optimize the processes to reduce cycles and overhead.
But see, maybe that's what engineering is. And that's what, when someone talks about a "software engineer", they should think of and aim for.
So that seems hardly interchangeable with the simple act of programming routines, or the more advanced act of developing applications.
Still, everything is a matter of trends. Lately it's pretty common to have an horizontal dev team where everybody on the team is a Senior Software Developer (yes, capitals, because that makes us feel special, doesn't it?), without real distinction of age (fair enough, in my opinion) and not so much distinction of skills (uh-oh...) and responsibilities (now that can't be good, apart purely for PR buzz).
It's also sometimes just a force of habit and specific to an industry's culture and jargon. More positions for embedded software production use titles for software engineers. Mostly because it would probably imply that you will always have to deal to a certain extent with the hardware as well in this field, so you obviously deal with other aspects of the production and of the whole "system" you produce. Not just the bits going nuts inside it. On the other hand of the spectrum, you don't really see the term engineer being used in financial software production positions. It's either because is a mimetic evolution of this industry from one of its predecessors (say, embedded engineering find its roots in automobile engineering, for instance), or because they just want to give more or less credit/weight to a position.
And to be sure to loose everybody in the fog, you'll then find other titles mixing both (like "Software Development Engineer" or "Software Engineer in Test"!), and then other ones emphasizing even more crazy bridges with other domains (think of "Software Architect" and how "software architecture" might be a shameless theft of vocabulary). And keep them coming: Release Engineer, Change Development Manager, Build Engineer (that one goes ffaaarrrrrr out there as well). And sometimes just simply "engineer".
Hope that helped, though it's not really an answer.
Oh, and that means your new company is either trying to lure you in with a new title or that they don't really care about titles, or that you really are going to have a higher-level position. The only way of knowing is to read your job spec, talk to them and eventually give it a shot and judge for yourself. I'd hope it's the latter option and that you're happy with it (and potentially cash more in on it). ;)
Software engineers are people who work at companies that call the people who write software for them "software engineers."
Programmers are people who work at companies that call the people who write software for them "programmers."
There are also developers, or software developers. They are people who work at companies that call the people who write software for them "developers" or "software developers," respectively.
So there is the "Software Engineer", the "Programmer", and also the "Developer", "Coder" and you can never forget the "SOA expert"
These are all marketing terms for people who cannot say something meaningful in their CV, such as their actual role (not just job-title) in previous positions.
On job ads, the difference is down to the HR person.
Bottom line: every person has his own take on "what makes a good employee-that-works-with-code", and some like to associate such and such skills with such and such titles.
What you need to do? Job ads should be descriptive about the required skills, and CVs should explain the candidate's experience details.
No differences. They are the same thing. Companies, though, may have formal job descriptions using the terms, and then there may be some company-specific meaning to the term.
Programming is about the code. Software engineering is about the end product.
That really depends on how the company defines the positions. It may be that as a software engineer you will have more design decision opportunities, whereas as a developer they would give you UML diagrams and you would write the program.
But, there is no real set definition so that based on the title will people know what you do, or how experienced you are.
When I was an architect/developer, my title was computer scientist, but I would just tell people I was a programmer, as the first two are not easily defined, but most people know what a programmer does.
If a title is important to you then accept the new one, as engineer sounds higher than a developer.
I don't think there is any "official differences", for my experience that could mean:
Also, are also fashion terms that changes... First the term was "programmer", then "software engineer" and now appears to be "developer"...
It's better to read the job description or to someone on the specific company
In some jurisdictions, "Engineer" carries with it the requirement of being a professional engineer, that is having an P. Eng. desigation among one's credentials. However, in other areas there may not be such a difference as I was a "Softwere Design Engineer" working in Washington state some years ago.
Software Engineers tend to work on systems that are very large taking many man years to develop e.g. 5 to 16 years for instance. Programmers tend to have this stereotype of just coding and nothing else. But it really depends on the organization you work and how HR are marketing the role as explained above. They are essentially the same thing. Just don't get too attached to a title because it is synonymous.
Software engineer adds to "programming"
Requirement analysis, configuration management, change control.
Change scope analysis, requirements traceability.
Measurement of product (quality, size, defect density).
Management of the development process. (Visibility, feedback, risk management)
Heck, having a documented development process.
Process development and deployment. Using practices (engineering, programming) that have empirically proven results.
Writing documentation. It won't kill you, just only write the documents required. Don't specify documents as "deliverables"; The customer needs a manual, so we write one. Mechanical engineers don't write hundreds of pointless documents so why be crazy.
If this sounds a bit like "Systems Engineering", The engineering company I work for often described Systems Engineering as like Software Engineering for people who can't program.
Systems engineering on it's own is quite a valuable discipline. There are lots of technology-heavy projects with little to no custom software component.
Programmer: write software.
The difference between engineering and programming is, in my view, best explained by observation of two different areas. I don't know how to clearly articulate it otherwise.
Consider the culture difference between a "hard" engineering company and a "web 2.0" company.
Airplane failures due to software versus social media operational failures due to software.
The title 'Software Engineer' may imply that the position is partly an analyst role, where the focus is about planning the architecture of software rather than doing the grunt work of programming it.


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I have two children aged 8 and 6 and they like to play board games. Some of the ones they have are for very young children and boring for an adult to play. Are there any suggestions for games that they will understand and I can enjoy?
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Legendary Uno. Its card game. Description from BGG:
Ticket to ride is good balance to play with children and parents. Only from 8 though.
Give Scotland Yard a shot.
Scotland Yard a great game where one person is Mr. X, a fugitive from the law, and the other players team up as detectives. Mr. X takes various modes of public transportation to move stealthily around the city of London, and it's up to the detectives to figure out where he is and capture him.
This is a great game of deduction and logical thinking, plus it's tons of fun. It's fun for Mr. X, since there's something exciting about trying to escape from London's finest, and it's fun for the detectives since they get to work as a team to capture the slippery scofflaw.
This game won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) award in 1983, and I think it is a game that has aged quite well.
Mastermind - It's only playable by two people at a time (and one of them will have to be you), but my mom got it for me when I was about 7 or 8 and I loved it.
In fact, I still have it and even broke it out again the other night. It's challenging, educational, and it's a game that makes kids think, but can be just as rewarding for adults.
Blokus. My 6 and 10 year old equally love this game of fitting pieces on the board. As a parent I find its even more challenging to work with the stuff my 6 year old does and extend the game.
Carcassonne is great with kids. Not too complicated, and they learn to divide their attention between long term and short term goals.
I would recommend Creationary. Especially if the kids already enjoy LEGOs. The game works very similar to Pictionary, but instead of drawing an image for others to guess, you build it with LEGO pieces. The rules allow for a lot of flexibility and also promote the use of other LEGOs to be used to build your creations. It's very fun for adults, but I can imagine that children of 6 and 8 would also enjoy it.
My 8 year old daughter has really enjoyed playing the Fluxx games.
Battleship is a ease to setup and play.
Tsuro is simple and easy to follow. It also plays fairly quickly and requires very minimal setup. The game can play anywhere from 2-8 people, useful if you need a game to play with a group of kids. While the suggested age is 8 and up, the users on BoardGameGeek have suggested it for 6 and up.
The Game of Life could be good. Your kids should be able to follow what's going on in the game.
This game is very fun from 8 to 80 years old. It's like a domino game.
Set should be a challenging game for all of you.
You lay out a number of cards with figures on them. The cards differ in the number, shape, color and shading of the figures on it. All players play concurrently trying to locate three cards where each attribute is either the same on all cards or different on all cards. The player who locates (and takes) the most sets wins.
Some of my (7yo) son's and my favorites:
My personal favourite is Zooloretto. As you would expect from Rio Grande Games, it has a great board, good pieces and good gameplay. It is also very easy to learn, and because it is based on a Zoo, it keeps the interest of the kids.
I have known kids of 7 and 8 playing this game, and in a few years time being introduced to the more adult games such as Agricola and Puerto Rico etc. It is easy enough for them to understand, but has enough variety to make it strategic enough for adults to play and enjoy.
According to boardgamegeek, its users recommend it for ages 6 and up, although the manufacturer says 8 and up. Most of the other games in the Family Rank are generally for kids of 8 and upwards.
Unfortunately, by daughter is only two, so I am still playing Snail's Pace Race with her.
Ludo is a race game that I played a lot in my early days. I missed it.
I loved Othello as a child. And still do.
I liked to play Concentration with my parents when I was a kid. It's entertaining and doesn't have complicated rules -- you just need to use your memory!
Here are four games that I would recommend for families:
For the 6 and under group:
For the older than 6 group, we play:
Edit: My son's 4th Birthday was last weekend and we got:
I love Ubongo, even as an adult. Form tangram-like shapes, and collect shiny objects. What more do you want?
We used to play Shadows Over Camelot with my son and his friends when he was younger. The cooperative nature of the game meant that giving advice was OK and that the kids weren't pitted against adults.
We established a few house rules for kid games that allowed easier victories - the one I remember off the top of my head was that the first quest completed just disappeared instead of remaining on the table, flipped over, causing catapults or Saxons to appear.
I'll bet several of the current generation of cooperative games could be played this way with bright kids.
I have to admit I have not yet tried it but I have two children aged 6 at home and I just bought a copy of The Alley Cats on ebay hoping it will be the game we can play with them.
Senku/Peg Solitaire is a good game to players of every age.
My kids are now sixteen and eight. They have been raised, steeped in board games. The first "real" game that my son was able to play with adults was Atilla. And the first one my daughter got was Settlers. In both cases, they were in that same 6-8 age-range that you're talking about. Those might be good ones to try for you.
Assuming you have a fourth player I can recommend Dog as an awesome family game.
Similar to Pachisi but you play in teams of 2 and instead of throwing dice you play cards. This adds teamplay and a lot of strategy to the game. One of our favorite games at home and among friends.
Just saw a commercial for a game called Hedbanz on TV, looked like it could be fun. It's more of a card/party game. The gameplay is kind of like 20 Questions.
Attempting to pick a "fun" game is fairly subjective, but I think a good answer is a game that has fairly simple mechanics along with a depth of strategy. Also, when trying to play against your kids, you can assume that you would always do better given the same amount of time to think and strategize. Also, I would interpret "fun" as "not having to dumb down your play too much to give your kid a chance to win."
2 games in this list fit that criteria.
Scotland Yard:
There is a Mr. X and everyone else. The adult can play Mr. X while the kids work together to catch him. It's possible to make sub-optimal moves fairly easily to give the kids a chance.
One person attempts to discover a code, the other creates it. It makes sense for the adult to pick codes based on the child level of understanding to make it easier or harder.
These games allow for a child not to have to compare their skill directly against yours. For instance "solving" a single mastermind code says nothing about who is better at solving. Running away in Scotland Yard is a different skill set that can't be compared directly with catching Mr. X.
"Fixing Games":
If the game is such that everyone has the same goals, you can attempt to "meta" game somewhat. For instance in Monopoly you could refuse to build improvements and attempt trades to even the others' chances. Or in Risk you could purposely hole up in a single location and become a large army to beat as last challenge for the other players. In this case, the "fun" is in attempting to keep a game balanced or just becoming a self enforced game mechanic the others have to overcome. You're moving the game into an area where you have different goals than the kids.
Games of luck like Uno can be fun for them since you can't always beat them even if you try. (But then there is really nothing redeeming in making people play a game with out real decisions where you can't improve over time. Nobody learns anything. Unless you really just need to waste time.)
Wandering a bit away from "board game", you could try Zombie Dice from Steve Jackson Games. Fun for the grownups, teaches counting and decision making (do I roll again? Am I winning?), and just random enough that you won't have to cheat to let the kids win. (My four-year-old is either way better or way luckier at this game than I am, for instance).
Snakes and Ladders is a very interesting game if you want to play with children .


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COLUMBUS - Two graduates of Indian Creek High School will be among the marching band members on the Ohio Stadium field today when Ohio State closes out its 2012 season with the annual contest against its archrival, Michigan.
Marco Schaefer of Bloomingdale, a trombonist and junior at Ohio State, along with Matt Argentine, a Wintersville native, senior at OSU and trumpet player, will join the rest of the members of "The Best Damn Band in the Land" for pre-game and halftime celebrations, according to Rose Angelica, member of the OSU Alumni Marching Band and local music educator.
"They were in the Indian Creek High School Marching Band, and I worked with them over the years," said Angelica, herself a former Mingo High School band director. "They will be marching today on TV during the Michigan-Ohio State game in Columbus.
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ON THE FIELD — Two local residents, including Marco Schaefer of Bloomingdale, left, and Matt Argentine of Wintersville will be marching with the Ohio State Marching Band during the annual football showdown between Michigan and Ohio State, which begins today at noon and will be broadcast locally on WTAE-TV and ABC Ohio Valley. Mingo Junction resident and local music educator Rose Angelica marched with the two young men when the OSU Marching Band combined with the Ohio State University Alumni Marching Band in September to create a "super band" with more than 1,000 members. -- Contributed
"It's the biggest game of the year - always has been," continued Angelica. "(The Buckeyes football team) is undefeated this year, so it's especially important."
Ohio State will be looking to complete a 12-0 season today when it takes on the Wolverines, 8-3, in a noon kickoff in Columbus. A win by the Buckeyes would give them their sixth undefeated, untied season in the their 123 years of playing football. The Buckeyes will be looking to avenge last season's 40-34 loss to Michigan.
Today's game will be the 109th meeting and 95th consecutive year the teams have played. Michigan holds a 58-43-6 edge in the series, but Ohio State has won eight of the last 10 games. Michigan has spoiled undefeated seasons for Ohio State in 1969, 1973, 1993, 1995 and 1996.
No matter what happens today, the game will be the last of the first season under coach Urban Meyer. Ohio State is on NCAA probation and is not eligible for post-season play, despite having clinched the championship of the Big Ten's Leaders Division.
Angelica said she previously marched with the two young musicians in Columbus during alumni weekend in September, when the the OSU Marching Band joined the OSU Alumni Marching Band to create a "super band" of more than 1,000 members.
"There were a 1,000 band members on the field (during the alumni event)," Angelica said, adding the super band included more than 200 drummers. "It's all brass and drums. It's incredibly loud. It sounded like thunder when all the (drummers hit)."
Angelica said she gave both music lessons before they attended OSU, preparing them to try out for one of the most elite marching bands in the nation.
"For 35 years I've been working with kids from the Valley to get them into the OSU band," she said, adding the OSU band only accepts the cream of the crop. "It's like the Marine Corps. You have to be fit and work out to be able to play and march at the same time. You also have to be a very proficient player. To do all those steps and keep playing you really have to be in shape."
Schaefer played clarinet in high school, and "taught himself how to play with just a few lessons," Angelica said. "He did it all on his own. He's a pretty sharp kid. To be able to make the (OSU) band and only been playing (trombone) for a few years - that's impressive."
Angelica said marching onto Ohio Stadium with a full house is an intimidating experience.
"You come out of the (stadium) tunnel onto the ramp entrance and hear 100,000 people screaming fans," she said. "It scares the crap out of you. It's a rush, too - the biggest rush of your life. No one knows what that's like except for a band member."
For his part, Schaefer said he's ready and willing for the experience.
"Yes, I feel pretty ready for it," he said, adding the band has been busy practicing routines all week. "We've had about a week-and-a-half for preparation."
Schaefer also confirmed he taught himself his chosen instrument.
"I marched in the Indian Creek Band, and I played baritone (trombone)," he said. "Later on I switched to a slide trombone, and I taught myself that as well."
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Covering for the organization rarely works. Neither does the belief that an organization is so strong and respected that it exits on a level all its own.PennStateofficials found that out recently and now the BBC is suffering from the same ill-advised mentality. Whistle-blowing is a separate but related topic but the concerted effort of many in positions of power at an organization to hide something or sweep it under the rug deserves special attention.
For many years a popular, long-time host at BBC, Jimmy Savile, was suspected of sexually abusing young people, sometimes even at the premises of the BBC. The Company recently came under blistering attack when it was learned that an investigation of Savile had been cancelled by the editor of BBC's Newsnight program last year. Newsnight is an important current affairs program of the BBC. Mark Thompson, the BBC's Director General until last month (and who is destined to join the New York Times shortly) claims to have had no knowledge of the accusations against Savile although there were many opportunities to delve into the matter if he chose to do so.
Within the last week and in a matter of weeks since Thompson's departure, his successor, George Entwistle, resigned because of another flap, again involving Newsnight, which wrongly implicated a Conservative Party politician in a pedophile scandal inWales. And just yesterday the BBC's Director of News, Helen Boaden and her deputy, Stephen Mitchell announced that they have "stepped aside".
The upshot is that there is turmoil at the BBC. There is a lack of control and the Chairman of the BBC Trust has acknowledged that the organization is in a ghastly mess and in need of a thorough overhaul.
How does any organization get itself into this type of crisis and what types of crisis management are called for? First, hubris plays a significant role. When an organization attains a stratospheric reputation such as that of the BBC, those who personify it not only begin to believe in its infallibility but also in their own. Heightened reputations beget dizzying overconfidence. Secondly, there is a tendency of employees, whether they be worker bees or top management to put their employer above all else. Not many people want to be held responsible for the decline or unraveling of an organization. Most want to be team players, no matter what they know and no matter what they really think about their place of work.
Crisis management calls for continual checks and balances. An organization cannot continue to coast, as many do, on old and outdated reputations. It is incumbent on top management, and lower levels in turn, to clarify lines of responsibility and authority, to define the values of the organization, to impose clear lines of accountability and to review regularly issues that arise. Often, top management wishes to be insulated from bad decisions already made, and hard decisions that need to be made, even with the knowledge that, more often than not, the buck stops with them and they may be the sacrificial lambs regardless.
Crisis management does not just mean planning to avoid a crisis if possible. Nor does it just mean managing a crisis once it hits. It also means taking steps to mitigate a crisis in the works. A CEO and his/her lieutenants are charged with monitoring the ship as a captain of a vessel or plane would. Rectifying what is wrong is a vital part of the job. Time does not absorb and dissolve a bad decision. It only heightens the culpability of the parties who either made no attempt to rectify it or tried to white-wash it. This is a hard lesson for people such as the former President of Penn State and the late Joe Paterno. It is a hard lesson for the former and current management of the BBC.


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"Test preparation material (mostly explanatory videos) for nursing students preparing for the National Council Licensing Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN).
Circulatory system
Learn about how the heart pumps blood throughout the body. Find out how blood vessels are organized. Understand how blood gets oxygen to the tissues, and then how it gets back to the lungs to absorb more oxygen.
Cardiovascular system diseases
With the heart pumping 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, it's absolutely vital to make sure things are flowing smoothly (pun intended!). Unfortunately, this isn't always the case, and different parts of the circulatory system can cause problems: your heart, your blood vessels, and even the fluid in your tissues and blood itself can be the issue. To further complicate things, the underlying reasons for circulatory system problems vary from your genes (nature) to your lifestyle habits (nurture). An understanding of how different diseases can affect your circulatory system is important to combat this growing problem in the world.
Respiratory system
Our lungs are composed of a bronchial tree (think of an upside down tree with millions of leaves), blood vessels bringing blood in and out, and a protein-rich fluid that forms a matrix holding everything together! If any part of this well-balanced organ isn't working properly, a person can be left feeling short of breath. The lungs are also exposed to the outside environment, making them prone to infections. To counter infections, the lungs are lined with cells that have tiny protein bristles which wave back and forth and can literally sweep away dangerous bacteria. Learn more about diseases of the lungs and how modern medicine helps to keep them healthy!
Hematologic system diseases
Blood is incredibly important in combating disease and the healing process after an injury. It acts as a highway for medicine, stops bleeding, fights infections, controls cells from multiplying too fast, and so much more. But things can go wrong with blood too! What if your blood couldn't clot and stop you from bleeding, or started to clot uncontrollably? What if your red blood cells or white blood cells suddenly disappeared? Blood contains many different types of tissues doing very different jobs, making diseases of the blood produce a variety of symptoms, including continuously feeling tired and bone pain. Learn about the different blood diseases, how they are diagnosed, and the cool ways health professionals treat these conditions.
Endocrine system
Dive into the endocrine system! See how the body uses special organs (called glands) that secrete chemical messages (called hormones) in order to properly respond to it's changing environment.
Lymphatic system
Welcome to the lymphatic system! Learn about how it is a critical part of the circulatory system. Find out how it comes to the rescue of the cardiovascular system and the immune system. Also discover how it moves fluid in one direction, like blood, but without a heart!
Immune system
Discover your body's arsenal of weapons against invaders, like bacteria and viruses. Find out which different kinds of cells are involved, and how they work.
Renal system
Learn how the kidneys take blood and very selectively extract waste from it to expel from the body as urine. Learn how the kidneys vary our salt and water content to regulate our blood pressure.
Gastrointestinal system
Understand how we digest food from the second it enters our mouth to the moment it ends up in the bathroom. Learn how the Gastrointestinal Tract is perfectly designed to digest food and extract nutrients for our bodies to use.
Muscular system
How do our muscles work? When we decide to kick a ball or shake a leg, how do we get our bodies to do that? Which muscles do we control? Which muscles control us? Learn how our muscles work at the smallest, most cellular level. Then see how nature scales up those microscopic processes into a kick or a dance move. Finally, learn how our brain tells muscle to contract and how that helps us respond to changes in temperature or even a lion chasing us.
Skeletal system
The skeletal system plays numerous vital roles in the human body. Learn about the structure and function of bones and the skeleton, as well as the endocrine control of the skeletal system."


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While connected to our production server (SQL2008. very powerful machine), this select statement takes 2 seconds, spitting back all fields (4 MB of data in total).
select top 30000 * from person with(nolock)
From any other box on the same network (connecting using SQL authentication or windows authentication), the same query takes 1 minute, 8 seconds.
I am testing with this very simple statement to illustrate that it's not an indexing problem or query-related problem. (We have performance issues with all queries at the moment)
The rows come in chunks, and not all at once. I get my first rows instantly, and then wait for over 1 minute for the batches of rows to come in.
Here are the Client Statistics from the query (ran from the remote box):
Client Execution Time 15:30:48
Query Profile Statistics
Number of INSERT, DELETE and UPDATE statements 0
Rows affected by INSERT, DELETE, or UPDATE statements 0
Number of SELECT statements 2
Rows returned by SELECT statements 30001
Number of transactions 0
Network Statistics
Number of server roundtrips 3
TDS packets sent from client 3
TDS packets received from server 1216
Bytes sent from client 266
Bytes received from server 4019800
Time Statistics
Client processing time 72441 (72 seconds)
Total execution time 72441
Wait time on server replies 0
We can see that the "Client Processing Time" is equal to the total execution time.
Does anyone know what steps I can take to diagnose why the transfer of the actual data is taking a long time?
Is there an SQL configuration parameter that restricts or limits data transfer speed between machines?
Thanks in advance!


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This question mentions "running it twice" - I can infer the basics, but can someone define exactly what this means, and how (and why) it happens?
The two players may:
Player may do this to try to reduce the variance impact of very large pots on their win rate.
Basically, if a player is all-in at some point during the betting, the other player can offer to run it a number of times e.g. twice.
If they decide to run it twice, then the pot is divided in half and awarded to the winner of each "run". A run, is the rest of the cards still to come - so if you've already seen the flop then this is the turn and river. If the play went all in on the turn, then it's just the river. If the player went all in pre-flop then you'd seen an entire board twice.
Similiarly, if you run it 3 times then the winner of each run gets a third of the pot.
Running it multiple times helps with combatting variance. Whilst you should win a particular situation say 9 out of 10 times (because of the outs), by running it twice, it is far less likely that you'll lose the whole pot on some freak outcome. In a situation where things are very close e.g. a coin flip after the flop, then by running it twice, there is a reasonable chance that both players will win half the pot each - which reflects the odds. It means that your winnings more closely match the probabilties of the situations you end up in, and not just on the particular outcome of that particular hand.
Hope that helps.
Running it twice usually happens when one player is all in and there are still some cards that have not been dealt yet. The two players discuss the terms of their agreement and then the rest of the cards are dealt multiple times.
The pot is split up according to how many times the cards were run, IE half if running it twice, thirds if running it three times, etc. Whichever player wins the particular set of cards wins that portion of the pot.
It is a way of smoothing out the volatility. A player with a huge hand is not going to lose quite as much on average on those rare occasions when he gets beat. A player with a long shot has a slightly better chance of taking away some of the pot.
The reason it happens when one player is all in is because in that case the cards have been shown. Part of the agreement is knowing in advance who is ahead/behind and what the odds are.


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Is it possible to produce a PDF with un-copyable text? I mean, when you want to copy text from the PDF, you can't copy it or what you copy is nonsense characters.
Besides converting all texts to images, one method as I know, is to destroy the Cmaps of the fonts. We can use
(Warning: it does not make much sence to produce un-copyable PDF. OCR is very easy today.)
Luatex allows manipulating fonts in the
At the point where the
Package file
Usage demonstration:
Result in PDF viewer:
Contrast this with the output of
But please forget about all this immediately and never obfuscate a production text -- don't be mean to your readers!
EDIT Because the generous karma donor specifically asked for a Context solution, I'll throw that one in as a bonus. It is a good deal more elegant since it relies on the font goodies mechanism that allows applying postprocessors to specific fonts which can afterwards be used just like common font features.
You can disable the copying of text with the help of PDF encryption. With it you can also disable other things like printing.
You need to use an external PDF tool like
I use a little script, which converts all my fonts to paths. The script uses the first parameter as input of a
You need Ghostscript for my script to run.
Runs on
use ps2write (in stead of pswrite) these days as seen here.
If content can be viewed, it can be copied. No matter what encryption and restrictions are used, at some point the content must be put out in plain view in order for it to be of any use. This is probably true of all digital content and most physical content larger than the nanoscale...
For example, a PDF:
Web content:
Audio (e.g. HDCP):
Video (e.g. HDCP):
Encrypted content on someone's laptop/pendrive:
The answer is: Yes. There is a way described here: http://spivey.oriel.ox.ac.uk/corner/Obfuscated_PDF
But it looks tedious and doesn't use pdflatex. The method, however, is described as being portable to PDF. It involves changing glyphs of a font and other dirty things that get you bad dreams.
I didn't find a method described for directly PDF let alone something automated for pdflatex. I'll happily buy you a beverage of your choice if you implement it :-)
Though this would obviously be just a nuisance for most cases/users (which can be avoided using
I am using
Now translate to pdf with secure mode 4 (only read and print):
On a unix-based system, you can probably type


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Ok so I am a new user on Stack Overflow and I want to ask my first Question (yay).
Step 1 (one):
ok So I click on Ask Question:
Step 2 (two):
Read Read Read Now I have a whole megillah to read:
Now I click proceed to get to the next step! Finally asking my question! :-)
Step 3 (three):
I am stopped dead in my tracks and am asked to log in:
Why was that second step necessary?
Should that not be asked to log in before I have to read that whole thing?
This could deter a new user or two.
I suggest only showing the "How to Ask" page if a user is already logged in and tries to ask a new question, not beforehand.


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Well I was on another site and someone posed a very problematic question. Should women be allowed to fight on the frontlines in infantry? This is a question I want to ask you guys and girls since it is new and has a good argument for both sides.
Pros: women treated as equals, more soldiers to fight, women could move in the ranks easier


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Teens spend an estimated $141 billion ever year on consumer goods, and that makes them a prime target for credit card companies looking to be the first to put plastic in their eager hands. But if your teen isn't properly prepared to spend responsibly, they could be headed for years of financial difficulty.
Credit card debt can lead to:
Local financial counselor Tony Walker and Service One Credit Union marketer Tabitha Gay recommend you and your teen sit down before you ever co-sign for a card, and examine the following:
1.) How much money do you have each month after subtracting monthly and yearly expenses from your after-tax income?
2.) What should a credit card be used for? (emergency situations, mom/dad-authorized purchases only)
3.)How do you and your teen keep track of their credit spending?(dual copies of bills and credit statements, mom/dad must sign off every month)
With these answers, you can set your teen up for responsible spending, and some valuable financial experience before they ever leave home.
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text: Hey guys, here is another great tutorial that is full of fun, creativity and free from complexity. Looking in the fantasy section of the 'For Kids' category, I saw that I didn't yet have a tutorial on "how to draw a troll for kids", step by step. Trolls are great fun to draw and create, and when you use your imagination you can make a troll look like anything you want. The great thing about drawing these creatures from fantasy is how many different clans you can make them in. I tried to make this troll as easy as possible and I think I may have succeeded. If you find this lesson difficult please let me know so I can refine the way I make tutorials for kids in the future. For now enjoy drawing a troll for kids and thanks for joining me with this submission.


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- Overview
With its clean lines, simple silhouette and crisp white finish, our Skylar Changing Table complements a variety of furniture and bedding styles. Built to last, it easily transitions into a dresser with the removal of the topper.
- 39.5" wide x 17.5" deep x 39" high (including topper)
- Expertly crafted from solid poplar wood and MDF (medium density fibreboard), an engineered wood that lends exceptional strength and ensures that the dresser and changing table topper will endure over time.
- Changing table is equipped with two large drawers and three small drawers.
- Drawers feature English dovetail joinery.
- When your child no longer needs it, the changing topper lifts off easily to create a dresser
- Use with our Changing Pad (sold separately).
- Topper fits our Canvas Changing Table Small Storage.
- Tip Resistant Kit included.
- Wood swatches, below, are available for $20 each. We will provide a merchandise refund for wood swatches if they're returned within 30 days.
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Changing Table
- Overall: 39.5" wide x 17.5" deep x 36" high
- Small Drawer (3): 10.5" wide x 14" deep x 7" high
- Large Drawer (2): 30.5" wide x 14" deep x 9.5" high
- Clearance Under Table: 3"
- Weight: 95.5 pounds
- Overall: 39.5" wide x 17.5" deep x 3" high
- Small Interior (1): 5" wide x 17.5" deep x 3" high
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- Weight: 16 pounds
- Rigorously tested to meet or exceed the highest safety standards.
- English dovetailed drawers open smoothly on waxed pine wood glides, and feature drawer stops for safety.
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Lorenzo Dow Pearson, a cabinet maker from Shelby County, moved to Louisville in 1832 to find a broader market for his products. The town was home to only about 15,000 souls, but he soon built a prosperous store that included handmade coffins.
"When you had a death in your family, you went to the furniture store to pick out a coffin," said Larry Robbins, co-owner of Pearson's Funeral Home (149 Breckenridge Lane). "The furniture maker either made one or finished an existing one, and brought it to the house on his wagon. He also took it to the church and the cemetery. In many rural areas today, the local funeral home may still be connected to a furniture store."
The making of coffins expanded into the arranging of funerals and burials. Over the years, Pearson's has had several addresses, including Old Louisville's elegant Ferguson Mansion, now home to the Filson Historical Society. Its carriage house once held horse-drawn hearses.
The current Pearson's was built in 1951 as a satellite location for the downtown facility.
"Some people thought they were crazy for going out into what was mostly country," Larry said. "The trolley came out this far, then turned around and went back downtown. Looking east, you'd see corn and potato fields."
In January 2011, Rob and David Pearson – the fifth generation of the family to lead the business – sold it to Larry, John Keith and his nephew, Roy Keith Jr.
"All of us want Pearson's to stay a local business, rather than be owned by a conglomerate. Rob and David allowed us to have that opportunity," John said. "They are still involved as consultants. When a family wants to talk to a Pearson, David or Rob comes in. We have a great working relationship with them."
In 1991, Pearson's formed a partnership with the Ratterman Brothers Funeral Home on Lexington Road. Together, they built the Pearson-Ratterman Brothers Funeral Home in Middletown. The Pearsons have since sold their interest in that location, and it will drop their name by the end of this year.
Larry, who grew up in Carrollton, is a second-generation funeral director and has been on the Pearson's staff since 1985. John Keith's background is in memorials, especially through the Keith Monument Company; his friendship with Larry began 25 years ago during his frequent appointments at Pearson's.
Since purchasing the 61-year-old facility, the new owners have been making improvements. They have added 19 spaces to the parking lot, along with a walkway, a lamp post and new shrubs.
"We've also remodeled the lower level. As in most funeral homes, our display room used to show only corners of caskets," Larry said. "For some homes, it was a space consideration; but the funeral industry also thought it would be easier on families. We now show entire caskets, so people can truly see what they're getting." The full selection is also displayed online.
Like weddings, today's funerals may be highly individualistic. Pearson's staff organizes each family's requests and requirements into a dignified ceremony.
"In the monument world, we listen to what people say about the person they've lost. Then we create a monument that tells a story," John said. "The funeral industry is now doing the same: We listen, advise, and show the family what is available, including photo collages and videos. Our job is to help the funeral be more of a celebration of life."
In an era when many funeral homes are being purchased by conglomerates, Pearson's is determined to remain locally owned.
"Being independent allows us to do whatever the family needs," John said. "There are no set rules. We don't have to call someone in Texas or Ohio to ask if we can do something. We live here. We know people here. Louisville is like a big family."
Pearson's currently has a full-time staff of eight, with four licensed funeral directors and embalmers, including John's daughter-in-law, Amanda Keith. Her primary responsibility is pre-arranging funerals, but she also speaks to clubs and senior groups.
"One reason we were interested in buying Pearson's was that it has an excellent reputation and its history is steeped in this community. We didn't want that to be lost," Larry said. "We don't want to change anything beyond improving what they had. There aren't a lot of family-owned funeral homes any more. It's hard to tell who owns what. It's nice to still be able to have the members of the Pearson family around."
In some funeral homes, John noted, there can seem to be a wedge between families and the people who are serving them. Pearson's goal is to "cross that wedge."
"It's all about putting the family on a pedestal and thinking of things that need to be done before they think of them," he said. "We want to be there for people in that time and help them make decisions they feel good about, so that in two weeks or a month, they say, 'We did the right thing.'"
Pearson's Funeral Home is located at 149 Breckenridge Lane. For more information, visit www.pearsonfuneralhome.com or phone 502.896.0349.


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February 25, 2013
Ang Lee, alumnus of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts graduate film program, won the academy award for best director at the 85th Academy Awards for his film, Life of Pi. The award marks Lee's second Academy award for Best Director, which he also won in 2005 for the film Brokeback Mountain. Over the last two decades, Lee has received 38 Oscar nominations for various films including "The Ice Storm," "Sense and Sensibility," "Eat Drink Man Woman" and "The Wedding Banquet."
Born in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Lee has become one of the world's leading contemporary filmmakers. Prior to attending NYU's graduate film program, he graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and received a B.F.A. Degree in Theatre/Theater Direction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
At NYU, he served as Assistant Director on Spike Lee's student film, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983). Subsequent notable films include the Wedding Banquet (1993), followed by Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), which received a Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination. Lee then collaborated with Emma Thompson in Sense and Sensibility (1995), his first Hollywood-mainstream movie. It acquired a Best Picture Oscar nomination, and won Best Adapted Screenplay.
Lee and frequent collaborator James Schamus next filmed The Ice Storm (1997), followed by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, a martial-arts epic that dealt with love, loyalty and loss which was then followed by a comic-book adaptation, Hulk (2003).
Other 2013 Oscar nominees from the Tisch School of the Arts included:
Actor in a Supporting Role
Philip Seymour Hoffman '89 (BFA, Drama) for The Master
Writing - Adapted Screenplay
Lucy Alibar '05 (BFA, Drama) for Beasts of the Southern Wild
Tony Kushner '84 (MFA, Directing) for Lincoln
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