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Do photocopied sheets (such as chumash or gemara) need to be put in sheimos or can they be thrown straight into the garbage?
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I have heard Rav Dovid Feinstien shlita quoted as saying (disclaimer: this wasn't heard straight from Rav Feinstein so it may be inaccurate) that photocopies can be thrown into the regular garbage as long as it is first wrapped in its own clean bag. The reason is because photocopies are not made to be permanent and are made to be used once or twice and then disposed of. If they were to be put together in a booklet and bound or stapled, they would need to be put into shaimos because by binding or stapling it, your intention is for it to be kept long-term.
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The 5 Most Badass Teams of Famous People To Ever Join Forces
#2. Andrew Jackson and Davy Crockett Take on an Assassin
One was a controversial and divisive American president who didn't shy away from getting in gun duels with his opponents; the other was a frontier folk hero destined to die at the Alamo.
Despite the fact that both Andrew Jackson and Davy Crockett were whiskey-drinking badasses who loved the American frontier enough to have sex with it, they surprisingly did not get along all that well. Crockett didn't like Jackson's treatment (read: genocide) of the Native Americans, and Jackson refused to buy into any of the stories that made Davy Crockett a living legend.
The first recorded case of jumping the shark.
Even though Crockett was a staunch Anti-Jacksonian, on January 30, 1835, he set aside personal politics in order to help President Jackson subdue his would-be assassin Richard Lawrence just outside the U.S. Capitol.
Jackson may be wearing funeral attire, but it's definitely not for his own.
As recalled by Jackson himself, when he saw the assassin raise his pistol, "I therefore raised my cane, with which I knew I could give such a stroke as to break his pistol arm, and was rushing on him when some of my friends seized him by the collar and pushed me back, thereby placing me in great danger."
"I could have had him, man."
Then, who should come flying out of the crowd but Jackson's enemy, Davy Crockett, not to hand the assassin a bigger gun, but to grab the gunman. Crockett and other members of the crowd put a beatdown on the assassin, while President Jackson himself started whaling on the guy with his cane.
So, there you have it. Hate gave these two men a common ground on which to stand. A frontier legend wrestled the gunman to the ground so that a president could beat him within an inch of his life using a piece of wood. That's American history, folks.
Stay tuned for our next article to feature Andrew Jackson, "7 American Presidents Who Dueled Elder Gods."
#1. A Motley Crew of Entertainers Take on the Nazis in the Most Roundabout Way Possible
One was a children's book author, another was the future creator of James Bond, another was a famous actor. They and others worked behind the scenes to unite the world against Hitler ... sometimes with their dicks.
Allow us to explain.
You really have no other choice in the matter.
Back in the beginning of World War II, Britain was all kinds of royally screwed: The Nazi war machine marched on and the U.S. had no interest in helping for fear of breaking its winning war streak in an away game. But Britain wasn't content to let the Americans sit it out, so they assembled a secret agent group nicknamed the Baker Street Irregulars to nudge the Americans into the war. Since this mission didn't involve stabbing or shooting people, the agents were chosen more for their ability to make friends, charm people and find their way into women's pants.
Casual cigarette smoking was key to this plan.
Thus the Irregulars group included (among others) Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond and one of the few people badass enough to appear in several Cracked lists; Roald Dahl, the creator of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; singer, actor and playwright Noel Coward; and Leslie Howard, most famous for his role as Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind. Their boss was none other than the man who was the inspiration for James Bond, a Canadian soldier, businessman and inventor named Sir William Stephenson.
Half Roger Moore, half mildly puzzled.
The group's main mission was to befriend important and influential people and convince them to join the war effort or, if that didn't work, spy on them and gather enough material to blackmail them. And that's where their penises came in. Roald Dahl became the personal sausage delivery guy for Clare Booth Luce, Republican congresswoman and the wife of the owner of Time, Life and Fortune magazines. Her husband, Henry Luce, was considered an anti-British isolationist, so nailing the man's wife just to spy on him was actually a very important mission. After just a few days of it, Dahl called his superiors pleading to abort the project because, and this is a real quote, "I am all fucked out! That goddamn woman has absolutely screwed me from one end of the room to the other for three goddam nights."
A phrase he used in not just one, but two of his books.
Dahl's superiors told him how crucial his role was and reminded him how he was very literally "Doing it for England." Considering that at this point Dahl was already a war hero for his bravery in the RAF, we have to wonder what the hell this woman was doing to the poor guy that was worse than torture.
Oh yeah, we're wondering hard.
It wasn't all just sexy espionage and cuckoldry, though. In 1941, Franklin Roosevelt gave a speech claiming he had a map of South America stolen from the Nazis that showed that they were not going to stop with just taking Europe and that America needed to get into the war. A lot of FDR detractors claimed he had made that map up, but they were half wrong: The map was a fake, but FDR didn't know that. The map was a forgery thought up by the Irregulars, who slipped it to American intelligence and hoped it would finally convince Americans to get fighting.
The U.K. only pretends to be friends with us, as all-out confrontation isn't polite.
Even after the Japanese cordially invited the U.S. to join the war by running planes into Pearl Harbor, most of the Irregulars stayed in the U.S. and continued spying because, hey, why not? They maintained jobs in the celebrity sector, and Roald Dahl was even invited to dinner at the White House by Eleanor Roosevelt herself because her grandchildren were fans of his books.
"You want to meet them? You must be joking, sir."
At this point, FDR not only knew about the forged map that made him look like an asshole, but he also knew Dahl's preferred method for espionage involved using married women's vaginas as periscopes. During the dinner, FDR casually commented, "I have had a very interesting cable from Winston," which was his way of pointing out he knew Dahl was a spy. There's no documentation of what followed, but we can assume it was probably Dahl sheepishly crawling out from under Eleanor's dress.
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I've found mascarpone cheese can be pricey. What would be a good (in taste and price) substitute?
I found a highly rated mascarpone cheese substitute recipe on food.com. I haven't personally tried it, but it's highly rated on that site, and is ridiculously simple.
Try it and let us know? :)
8 ounces of full-fat cream cheese blended with 1/4 cup of heavy cream and 2 tablespoons of full-fat sour cream make a decent replacement for mascarpone. A tip: don't try to blend the ingredients when the cream cheese is stone cold!
It depends on the application. Try ricotta (much lower fat, so may not be suitable for some recipes) or a mixture of ricotta and generic cream cheese.
It's pretty easy to make your own ricotta, also, if you want to get into that.
Really, really good thick Greek yoghurt. Might not bake like mascarpone, but it certainly acts like it when you spoon it over a dessert.
I bought some mascarpone and tried the cream cheese (full fat) substitute side by side. Cream cheese was creamier. The mascarpone definitely had a grainier texture, sort of like ricotta. I will play with it a bit, but I think mixing about half and half to 1/3,2/3 ricotta and the cream cheese sour cream mixture would hit it right on the head.
Why not make your own? 1 litre of cream makes about 750gm of mascarpone. Pretty easy, but best to have a cooking thermometer.
There is an excellent page that describes how to make your own Mascarpone Cheese with just milk and culture at "http://www.cheesemaking.com/Mascarpone.html" The cheese is very good, and inexpensive.
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To the editor: Perhaps the Capitol and the president should be declared gun-free zones since they seem to think this makes them safer. No more Capitol police, no more Secret Service. Now, does anyone not understand what an idiotic idea this is? How long would it take an assassin to figure out that he could kill the president or anyone else without getting hurt himself?
Please use some common sense in protecting children in schools and people anywhere. When citizens are trained to use and carry guns, they and the people around them are safer. What are your options if someone pulls a gun on you? Do you want a fighting chance or not?
If I were a criminal, I would pick the unarmed man or the unarmed home to attack. Once again, its only common sense!
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To the editor: Research reveals that 160,000 U.S. students stay home from school each day from fear of being bullied. Bullying affects a students ability to learn. Bullied students show a decline in grades and a loss of self-esteem, self-confidence and self-worth. In some cases, bullying has led to school shootings and suicide. Bullying affects witnesses as well as targets.
Bullying is a communitywide issue, mistakenly viewed as kids being kids. Students, parents and educators all have a role in addressing bullying situations and changing school culture.
The two keys to creating change are increasing awareness that bullying has lifelong impact, and giving people the education they need to respond effectively. More than 55 percent of bullying situations will stop when a peer intervenes. Student education on how to handle bullying is crucial, as is the support of adults.
Ignoring bullying wont work. Bullying creates a climate of fear, impacting the lives of victims, bullies and bystanders. Everyone needs to be empowered with options to respond.
On Jan. 23 at 7 p.m., a community conversation on bullying will be presented in First Congregational Church of Hendersonvilles fellowship hall. Inform yourselves. Help make our schools a safe place to learn and succeed.
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To the editor: I have been reading with interest many of the op-eds with regard to different states proposed changes to gun ownership.
As I understand it, military-type weapons are not sporting weapons. The federal government is not proposing to take handguns or hunting rifles away nor outlawing them. The sick person who killed his mother and the 20 small children and six educators may have had a harder time getting such a large number of victims if he hadnt had semi-automatic assault weapons.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Truer words were never spoken. Shoot your paper targets, your deer or whatever. No one cares, not even President Barack Obama!
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Yen's Slide and the Prospect of Bold Steps by the BOJ Have Vaulted Shares 32% Since Mid-November
Japan's stock market is staging its biggest rally in years on optimism that a faltering yen and economic-stimulus measures will revive corporate profits.
The Nikkei Stock Average vaulted 3.8% on Wednesday to a four-year high of 11463.75. The main catalyst has been the steady slide of the yen. The falling currency has increased the competitiveness of Japan's exports, providing a respite for Japan's big industrial conglomerates.
Investors' optimism centers on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was elected in December after he promised stimulus measures to weaken the yen. Some analysts predict the currency will hit 100 yen against the dollar this year, so there is a strong incentive to keep buying, investors say. The yen traded at 93.39 to the dollar on Wednesday.
The Nikkei has surged 32% since mid-November, a climb reminiscent of Japan's 1980s-era "Bubble Economy." The yen has declined 14% against the dollar over the same period. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has gained 11%. The gains in Tokyo have made Japan the world's best-performing major stock market over the past three months.
"The stock story has mostly been a yen-driven phenomenon, no question," says Naoki Fujiwara, fund manager at Shinkin Asset Management with ¥500 billion ($5.4 billion) under management. "Some investors are finding that they can't afford to remain on the sidelines."
Investors are homing in on shares of companies that are most likely to benefit from a weaker yen. Analysts at Goldman Sachs Inc. GS -1.07 % estimate that for every 10 yen the currency weakens against the dollar, profits of exporters would rise by 7% to 10%. Car maker Toyota Motors TM 0.76 % is up 35% in the past three months. Electronics company Sharp Corp. SHCAY 0.56 % more than doubled over the same period. Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. ASBRY 14.93 % has risen 8%.
Lorne Steinberg, chief executive of Lorne Steinberg Wealth Management in Montreal, added to his Japan holdings recently. His $150 million fund now is 33% invested in Japanese stocks, with that proportion rising from as low as 25% in 2010. "We could be looking at a two-to-three year equity market rally," he said.
Investors have poured money into Japan equity funds in 10 of the last 12 weeks, according to EPFR Global. Net inflows over that period totaled $3.09 billion.
Wednesday's rally, the biggest one-day move since March 2011, was sparked by the decision by Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa to step down three weeks before his term was to end. Many stock investors saw the move as a victory for Mr. Abe, who is expected to select a candidate more in tune with his calls for radical action to revive Japan's ailing economy.
But other investors are backing away from the market, even as the Nikkei's gains have accelerated, noting that past rallies quickly fizzled. Mr. Abe struggled to improve the economy during his previous stint as prime minister, which began in September 2006 and ended a year later after a series of scandals involving his cabinet.
"I would be very surprised if it's different this time," said David Ruff, a portfolio manager at San Francisco-based Forward Management LLC, which has $5.2 billion under management.
The central bank can inject more money into the economy by increasing purchases of bonds and other assets. But Mr. Ruff says that isn't likely to translate into bank lending needed to fund new business because lending remains constrained by regulations. Mr. Ruff started selling Japanese shares over the past few weeks. He has reduced his holdings of Japanese stocks to 7% of his Forward International Dividend Fund, from 9%.
Investors had been attracted to Japanese stocks because they have been cheap relative to stocks in other Asian markets. But the rally has brought valuations in line with the rest of the region. The 225 stocks in the Nikkei index now trade at a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.5 times four quarters of forward earnings. The stocks in South Korea's Kospi Composite index have a ratio of about 9 times.
Brent Bates, a portfolio manager with Invesco Ltd. says he doesn't have faith that Mr. Abe will deliver on his promises. While the benchmark his portfolio tracks, the MSCI EAFE Growth Index, has a 20% weighting of Japanese stocks, Mr. Bates holds significantly less. "After the rally, it's just not attractively priced anymore," he said.
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Spare the people of Newtown the incessant analysis
The irony borders on hypocrisy. The Dec. 14 full front-page spread proclaimed, "Newtown's Hope." In large, bold print, one read, "... (T)ownspeople don't want memorials ... they don't want teddy bears, they don't want the world's attention ..." Is an unusual front-page spread the way to avoid the world's attention? Is a two-page special on pages 6A and 7A a means of honoring Newtown's wish?
Dec. 14 marked a year since the terrible tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School. That tragedy exposed myriad facets of the human condition. It's a fact of shame that some have used it to further their own agendas. It's a fact of love that so many have expressed their sorrow and compassion in so many ways. There is no doubt the horrendous loss of 28 lives was like a pebble creating ripples in the lives of many.
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conservative1 wrote on Dec 20, 2013 9:00 AM:
FREEPRESS wrote on Dec 20, 2013 9:52 AM:
Now if only we had enough great minds (aka sensible, rational, objective people) in the state and federal legislatures, who actually listened to the will of the people, we just might get gun laws that protect the law abiding citizen and truly punish criminals (like restoring the death penalty). "
blue star wrote on Dec 20, 2013 10:40 AM:
Leave them alone... "
Lock and Load wrote on Dec 20, 2013 10:49 AM:
It should be obvious to even the most casual logical thinking observer that criminals and maniacal mass murderers will find ways to commit violent crimes despite whatever gun laws are passed: the solution lies in mandatory sentences and restoration of the death penalty.
My belief is that common sense and the Constitution will prevail and Federal Court Judge Alfred Covello will rule against Malloy and restore the rights that were so egregiously taken. "
alan wrote on Dec 20, 2013 2:47 PM:
3rd GenT wrote on Dec 20, 2013 3:32 PM:
roy wrote on Dec 20, 2013 10:40 PM:
When judge Janet C. Hall dismisses lawsuits on the new gun laws in April and ol' Donald Williams Jr. applauds the ruling, we will NEVER get Malloy's new gun laws repealed.
Our Communist government will never let that happen which is why Sandy Hook happened.
Each massacre was a stepping stone to ban and then confiscate our guns.... "
Bob wrote on Dec 21, 2013 9:38 AM:
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User Comments for Week 16 WR Rankings
My wr's screwed me out of a championship DT and Cruz last week awful
rbrittan10 12/18/12 01:50 PM
They also got you there...take the good with the bad
moonwalker31 12/19/12 02:07 AM
I need to pick four of the following WRs: Megatron, Welker, Decker, Vincent Jackson, Michael Crabtree, Danny Amendola, and Donnie Avery. I would think Megatron, Welker, and Decker for sure, so it is a fight for the forth spot. What do you think?
jpatterson12 12/19/12 11:32 AM
Nicks or Hylton? This list shows a whole point difference giving the nod to Hylton. Yahoo is projecting Hylton with 7, Nicks with 11. Baltimore's defense might come to play (hah) this weekend to make amends...
bcs7709 12/20/12 08:20 AM
sorry...that's Hilton
bcs7709 12/20/12 08:20 AM
Who do I start amendola, lloyd, colston
jmdmwest 12/20/12 10:23 AM
I can play 4 and have the following: 1.) D. Bryant 2.)W. Welker 3.) Pierre Garcon
4.) Cecil Shorts III Opt. A.) Mike Wallace B.) Owen Daniels.
Please share your thoughts
nl1088 12/21/12 01:09 AM
Why would Wallace be higher than Cobb/Jones for GB???
Poor pass defense at Tennessee and Cincy making a push for the playoffs? Doesn't seem to jive.
Is there something I'm missing here?
philz4 12/22/12 12:50 PM
Crabtree or D.Alexander? He is starting Kaepernick.
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Is it possible to ferment chilli-peppers and produce a liquor with a alcohol content and also a hotness?
This isn't quite what you're asking. I don't think chili peppers have enough sugars in them to produce a strong enough fermentation on their own.
I made a chili-pepper beer, which was absolutely fantastic.
I made a simple, low-bitterness beer. After fermentation was complete, I racked into a secondary and added 4 types of dried, frozen chilies. I sampled the beer every day until I thought it was hot enough and then bottled it.
The beer wasn't too hot (though it could have gotten hotter if I'd left it on the chilies longer), but had a fantastic spice at the back of the throat. It was delicious, and went great with summer barbecue.
I believe chili peppers would qualify as an adjunct. I would treat it like any fruit/vegetable/spice beer and add it late in the boil. Start small and increase to hit your target flavor.
Brewed two different ones (both ciders) and they were hits. So, yes you can.
I say, "Yes, let's have us a pepper party!" #hotdrunk


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I like vim. I think touching mice is dirty. But sometimes when my hand is already on a mouse, it sure would be nice to be able to scroll the text or click a location in the text and have the cursor jump there. Also, I wish I could copy and paste with command-c, command-v. Is there any software out there that answers this desire? How about for the Mac?
For linux (or at least the Debian family of distributions, e.g Ubuntu) there are the
For Mac there is MacVim, for Windows gvim. Both are linked from the vim download page.
On most systems
I personally prefer using the vim keybindings, but some variant on:
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I had a frustrating Saturday night in the battlegrounds. I think I entered every one at least once before I finally completed my random daily.
I mentioned the other day that unlike LFD you need to both:
- bring your best game, and
- have a reasonable idea of the battleground BEFORE you enter it.
Sure you need to know vaguely what to do in an instance, but if the others know, then an instance can be quite forgiving.
Cynwise and I were discussing giving you Battleground initiates a leg up, so this is the 1st of my helping hands.
SotA (Stand of the Ancients) is a battleground that is easy to hate. It's easy to get totally pwned and draws are all to frequent and bloody frustrating.
You will find guides to this battleground elsewhere. The layout, the basic tactics etc. This isn't one of those guides, this is a group of tips, the fundamentals that will make or break a SotA.
The basics.
It is a battleground divided into two phases. Each side gets up to 10 minutes to attack and defend.
The side that attacks 1st sets the time limit for the side that attacks 2nd (the defenders in phase 1). This is determined purely on how long it takes the 1st attacking team to reach the relic and end the phase.
If you can get there in 3 minutes, you opposition will only have 3 minutes to repeat the feat when they become attackers.
Quick request… Horde, tune out now please. Go feed the cat, wash the dishes, throw your arms up in disgust that a Gnome is teaching how to play… Just don't read any further. If you play both Alliance and Horde side… faction transfer now.
Siege weapons
Siege weapons are the key to this battleground. They literally win the game. Control the Demolishers and you control the game.
Individual players are just distractions, noob bait to some extent, and while you want to control the players to MUST control the Demos.
They are your hard hitting key to the relic. These will blow the doors between the beach and the relic much more effectively than the seaforium charges.
When you get off the ship, grab a seaforium charge and jump in a demolisher.
If you are a melée class, you are best driving and blasting the walls. If you are a ranged class, you best serve your team by jumping inboard and protecting the demolisher.
If you don't get a seat, don't worry… Just protect the demolishers from the ground. This is your core task – protect the demolishers. If an opponent isn't attacking a demolisher, ignore them!
It is worth being on a demolisher as a ranged character… You are shielded by it until it's destroyed – go to town on the demolisher!
Rush the gate on your demolisher, throw fire and ram it. Destroy the gate!
If your demo is destroyed before the gate is, your next task (assuming you are close to the gate) is to rush the gate, plant your seaforium (you did get one didn't you?) and rush back for another demo.
Remember, to win this phase:
Needless to say, when you are on defense, your task is pretty much the opposite.
The (active) Demos must die!
Note the key word there…
If there is no one driving a demo at the moment, they are less of a threat than the one charging your gate.
That active demo is your No. 1 priority.
You are welcome to slaughter your opposition, as long as there are no demos active. If there are, disengage immediately and destroy the demos.
This isn't to say you should ignore the inactive demos, you just need to handle them with a little finesse.
You just waste your time if you destroy inactive demos. They will respawn and you will have to start all over again.
No, your objective with inactive demos is to hurt them, prepare then for destruction when they become active.
Someone, preferably a melée player (no mana lost and it's easier for ranged to take active ones down), needs to take the demos to 20% health.
Do not use DoTs. You don't want to leave the demo at 20% only to hear it explode 20 seconds later.
When your opponents jump in the inactive demo, thus making it active (and therefore your 1st priority), a couple of quick fireblasts and it is stopped in it's tracks without ever getting close to the gates!
Remember, to win this phase:
Bombs (otherwise known as seaforium charges)
Only offense can use the bombs and the objective is to use them on the gates.
You will of course only be doing this when the Demos are safe (or the one you were on just got destroyed at the gate)… Amirite?
The seaforium charge is a bit like Aeroguard and condoms.
Never leave home without them if you want to have a good weekend!
They are on the docks and at each graveyard. You can pick them up when mounted. Make sure they are on your hotbar. If the last thing you do before dying in front of a gate is plant your charge, then your death was a worthwhile sacrifice to the cause – that might be the bomb that brings down the gate and wins the battle!
Seaforium Charges:
On defense you can't use them, you can only disarm them.
The best way to disarm them is to kill the player before they have had the chance to plant them… Better yet, before they have had the chance to pick them up.
Remember though, they are a minor concern relative to the demolishers. If you destroy the demolishers and control the players away from the gates, you will never need to worry about them.
If you find yourself next to a planted seaforium charge at the gates and there is nothing else to do for 5 seconds, go ahead and disarm it.
There are 5 graveyards in the game, 3 of them controlled by flags. A flag once taken, can never be retaken.
The two non-flag controlled graveyards are on the beach (attackers) and in the courtyard (defenders).
There is a flag on either side of the field just past the 1st gates (Blue & Green).
There is one in the center on the map before the Yellow gate.
You want, nay need the Blue and/or Green gate graveyards.
These will ensure that you Rez further up the field, closer to your objective and nearer the workshops (there are seaforium charges here too folks) associated with the Blue & Green gates.
Under normal circumstances you do not want to take the graveyard near the gate of the yellow sun.
If you capture that graveyard, where do you think the enemy will respawn?
Yeah, in the citadel between you and the relic – not what you want!
Sure their respawns will get between your new demolishers and the yellow gate, but you are protecting your demolishers… Right… Right?
You don't want them spawning in their courtyard!
Exception to this rule:
There is one exception, only one mind you.
If your group is good AND you have someone standing by at the relic AND there is time on the clock (you want to cap the relic with at least 30 seconds on the clock) AND it is the 2nd and last phase (ie, extending the clock won't give the enemy a chance on offense) AND the majority of your forces are in the courtyard…
Then and only then you have my blessing to cap the graveyard at the Gate of the Yellow Sun.
Why do I give my blessing?
If you all form up around the enemy's graveyard, you can farm them as they spawn. A few well timed frost novas and other snares combined with AoE means they will only see the gray of death until the completion of the round.
Just make sure you cap the relic with plenty of time on the clock to account for laggery vagueries.
Yes, I have been in a group that waited until the last 10 seconds… We were too late and it was a draw!
What you let them off the beach?
Once you have destroyed the 1st couple of demolishers and wounded the others, you will most likely have sent the invaders to their graveyard in the middle of the beach.
What better way to stop demolishers becoming active than to cut down their drivers as they spawn?
If you keep the majority holed up at the graveyard and stop those running for the demolishers, they shouldn't break down any gates and you should earn yourself an achievement.
Just leave one or two near each dock to slow down the runners, then farm the graveyard.
If they get past your Green or Blue gates you need to move immediately. I'd even suggest ignoring stray opponents until you have all fallen back.
Now, apart from destroying their demolishers you have 2 important targets to protect… The Blue and Green graveyards.
If you can protect these, the attackers will have to spawn on the beach, which means they will be returning in drubs and drabs at 30 second intervals after a 30 second run.
Fundamentally keeping these graveyards removes a minute from their clock each time you repel them – and they have much less than 10 minutes to get to the relic.
You won't care if they take your grave yard at the Gate of the Yellow Sun. If they can, then they are already a threat to the gate.
Good news for you – you will spawn just the other side of the gate, away from GY farmers. Don't stay there though – get to the other side of the gate and TAKE DOWN ACTIVE DEMOLISHERS!
Bad new for them – sure they spawn closer to the Yellow Gate, but…
- In one easily farmable graveyard, and
- up field from their new demolishers… They have to run down field for 30 seconds to get a demolissher that will take them a minute to get back to the gates.
- They are big!
- They go boom!
- They give an achievement for their use!
- They are bad mmmkay?
Should you use the guns?
no, No, nO, NOOOO!
Your prime objective as defense is to destroy the demos.
The most effective way to do this is on the ground.
But the guns are big!
They are big, but by the time they can hit anything, it's really too late, they are already in range of your gates!
You want to be on the ground. If the 4 people that could man the turrets are on the beach then you will easily overpower them.
You – focused on demos, stray attackers and farming their graveyard.
Them – split between manning demolishers, running for cover and respawning at the grave yard.
The gun turrets reach neither the docks or the graveyard AND the travel tine on the missiles mean you will miss more than you hit AND you will crit for more damage than the gun can do anyway.
Meanwhile, the demos are getting free shots at your gates and the attackers are placing seaforium charges out of you range of fire.
Don't let them get that close!
Starting the game
You have to start somewhere and that somewhere is random. You will start on offense or defense.
- On offense your prime objective is to get to the relic ASAP, if not faster.
- Your prime tool is the demolishers.
- Use the demolishers, protect the demolishers, destroy the gates, take only those graveyards you need, cap the relic.
Easy nah?
- Damage the inactive demolishers.
- Farm their graveyard.
- Keep them on the beach for 10 minutes.
- Game Over, You Win!
Good luck folks!
Gnomer and Out!
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Brasil Diaries Summer 2012 Part Four: After the Rain
Sul de Minas
Here are some crazy numbers. One of the less affected regions in the Sur de Minas region was Alfanes. The rain levels in June were 5 times higher than normal. The average rainfall in June is 22 millimeters. This June it was 124 millimeters. Not only that, before some of the heavy rains dumped on the coffee, there were several days of constant rain that saturated the soil. When that happens a farmer can only wait for the bad weather to pass and the soil to dry before they can resume picking and drying coffee. The maturation of the coffee speeds up drastically and cherries fall off the trees on to the ground.
I tend to like the coffees from Sul de Minas. I was excited and nervous to see what this crop looked like. To get there from Pedrugulho we left Nossa Senhora at 6am and headed straight south.
We started by having a breakfast of pao de queijo on our way to the first farm. A talkative ex-potato farmer. He decided to move into coffee farming by exploring all his options. He visited farms all over and decided to use a beneficial grass and a fungus to build his soil. He shared the highest yields I've heard all trip. Truly incredible amounts of coffee per hectare: 84 bags. He lives on his farm and doesn't want to be a volume producer, he wants to be a quality producer. His coffee was great last year. He is doing an impressive job diligently managing every step. "No, I don't want to be big. I want to be on the drying patio looking at my coffee to see it is being treated right. It is the eye of the owner that improves the health of the farm". He meant his own two eyes watching everything. This year he had some great cups on the table.
Another farm had all the really cool artisan methods down to a science. Raised beds, slow drying and a breath taking view. Their Natural Process Yellow Bourbon was amazing.
Today I cupped 24 coffees after visiting 3 farms. Some had brilliant sparkly acidity and some were that caramel-sweet body-driven coffee that I love from Sul de Minas. Those tables sure had some land mines as well. The amount of Rio (a defect that apparently comes from the Fucario fungus and tastes a lot like hints of chlorine in your coffee) and phenol on the table was disturbing. It wasn't that bad, but there were a lot more of these defects than I had found earlier on this trip.
It was a long day I got to Sao Lourneco about 12:30am. Tomorrow Carmo de Minas.
Carmo de Minas
At least one farmer in very growing region told me, "The rains weren't that bad for us, but that other region you are visiting had it bad." And at least one farmer in every region told me, "The weather was terrible this year, the worst in 30 years. Expect high prices and lots of Rio and fermented cups".
I heard the same thing everywhere. And every where seemed to point at Sul de Minas as having the worst problems with weather. I found more Rio on the cupping table in that region for sure, but how do I sort out all the mixed messages from farmers?
Clearly it has been a rough year for the Brazilian coffee crop. Rains are the problem. It really can change everything about how the coffee is "finished". Even if the farmer did everything right for the first 8 months, the final months of the harvest cycle make all the difference in the cup. If there is rain at the end of the maturation it kind of messes up the system. The cherries fall of the trees before they are ripe and they ripen very quickly. The cherries can also "explode" or split open because of the rain. Then when it comes to processing, coffee can't be processed on the patio. It must be dried in the driers. One positive thing is that mechanical driers are everywhere in Brazil. But most farms don't have the mechanical drying capacity to handle the entire harvest.
I was interested to hear from the farmers in Sul de Minas, but especially Carmo de Minas which routinely produces the finest coffees in Brazil, according to the Cup of Excellence. They often win about 70% of the international finalist positions. I did three tables in Carmo. There were a few brilliant coffees. Truly standout, amazing coffees. There was mostly decent to meh on the tables. But that is how coffees work, a couple winners and several 2nd places.
Farmers have more and more contact with buyers and they are quite good sales people. All the talk about Sul de Minas being terrible this year. . . was that just a sales pitch for me to focus on their coffees? Clearly Brazil is going to have a rough year in terms of quality, but lets not forget that this harvest is going to be 25% larger than last year. It should be near record levels (about 54 million bags of coffee). My take-away is that we (at Dallis Bros) have to be very careful with a few types of defects coming out of Brazil this year but there is still amazing and brilliant coffee sitting in Brazil waiting to be purchased.
In Brazil, there is more research and technology invested into coffee than almost any other country. Just look at the amount of varieties coming out of Brazil: Tupi, Topazio, Acaia, Catucai, Caturra, Catuai, Icatu and many more. All those names come from the Tupi Guarani indians that lived in Brazil before the Portuguese arrived. The point is, with all this technology and investment into coffee in Brazil, they are still susceptible to climatic conditions. And in a country that sells coffee based on size, defect count and cup quality (clearly they know a lot about grading coffee), they still can't tell which lots are going to be Speciality until they hit the cupping table.
I think if anything, I've learned that truly speciality coffee is still something beyond what we currently understand. Farmers can do everything right on the right piece of land and that doesn't mean that every bean will blow your mind in the cup.
News from the Farm
What's the latest news from our farm in Brasil, Nossa Senhora Aparecida? Water, water, everywhere!
We are now at 50% irrigation, with our main goal to give the trees water as they need it. The drought of two years ago caused a huge loss in both production and bean size: irrigation can help us avoid another unforeseen bad weather season. We're also able to exercise more control over when watering occurs, to ensure flowerings take hold more effectively. With this much control over our growing cycle, both yield and quality will improve. And there's more water to come!
Other experiments, like our newly released Fully Washed, Yellow Bourbon micro-lot, are living proof of farm manager Edgard Bressani's commitment to continually improving our coffee. Edgard decided to produce a fully washed lot of coffee for the first time in our farm's history, from our Yellow Bourbon trees. We are very excited to offer such a unique coffee: this process is basically unheard of in Brazil. Most Brazilian coffees today are pulped natural or natural processed. Find out more about this coffee in our webshop!


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This is a completely unmotivated question, but what happens to the 1-point marginal distribution for the following $N$-point joint distribution: $$\displaystyle p(z_1,\ldots, z_N) = C_N \exp\left(-\sum_{j=1}^N \|z_j\|^2\right) \prod_{j < k} \|z_j - z_k\|^2$$ Here $z_j$'s are points in $\mathbb{R}^3$ or higher. Presumably one can no longer write the Vandermonde as a determinant so orthogonal polynomial theory breaks down. But I am interested in the distribution of $\|z_1\|$ as $N$ goes to infinity in this case, which shouldn't need the full machinery of orthogonal polynomials and determinantal point processes (but maybe it is still determinantal?).
Using the normalization $\mathrm{e}^{-\|z\|^2/2}$ instead of your $\mathrm{e}^{-\|z\|^2}$ for points $z$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the probability distribution of the one-dimensional marginal $z$ you are interested in is $$ \kappa_N\mathrm{e}^{-\|z\|^2/2}q_{N}(\|z\|^2)\mathrm{d}z, $$ where $\kappa_N$ is a positive constant and $q_N$ is a unitary polynomial of degree $N-1$. Small $N$ values of $q_N$ are $$ q_1(x)=1,\qquad q_2(x)=x+d,\qquad q_3(x)=x^2+d(d+2). $$
By $\|z_1\|$, I understand you mean the maximal modulus of the $z_i$'s.
If you are interested in the process of the $\|z_i\|$'s, you have no chance for a determinantal structure since you may have two different $z_i$'s with same modulus with non zero probability.
Concerning the process of the $z_i$'s, note that even if the Ginibre Ensemble (that is the case $\mathbb{R}^2$) is indeed determinantal, its kernel is related to the polynomials orthogonal with $\exp(-\|x\|^2/2)$, that is the $(z^k)_{k\geq 0}$ ... which have trivial zeros ! My point is that except on $\mathbb{R}$ you won't get so much information concerning $\|z_1\|$ from a determinantal structure.
I don't know how prove the convergence of $\|z_1\|$, but note that from your density expression, once renormalized $z_i\rightarrow z_i/\sqrt{N}$, you still can use the Coulomb-gaz approach to characterize the global distribution of the $z_i$'s (for example by proving a large deviation principle for the empirical measure) : It is given by the unique minimizer $\mu^*$ of the functional $$ \iint\log\frac{1}{\| x-y\|}d\mu(x)d\mu(y) +\frac{1}{2}\int \|x\|^2d\mu(x) $$ over probability measures $\mu$ on $\mathbb{R}^3$ (or higher). I guess that $\|z_1\|$ should converge towards $\max \big(Supp(\mu^*)\cap \mathbb{R}\big)$...


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- Once you see the results, click on the image you would like to use.
- To view the terms and download the image in the size you'd like, click the more icon (three dots) in the bottom right corner of the photo screen. Then click View all sizes.
- Check the license by clicking on the link provided (e.g. "Some rights reserved"). This should take you to the Creative Commons license where you can learn how the image is to be used. For example, "Some rights reserved" takes me to this Creative Commons license. Here I learn that I can share the image, adapt it (like add text) and use it commercially. However, I must provide attribution such as linking to the original image on Flickr and crediting the owner.
- Once you are aware of the terms, choose the size you want to use on your blog. Use the smallest possible size to save on your blog's resources and loading time. Click the download link (e.g. "Download the Large 1024 size of this photo).
- Upload the photo to your blog.
- Don't forget to follow the CC license of the image you're using (like crediting the author, linking to the image page on Flickr, etc.).
How to provide proper attribution
The proper way to provide attribution will vary depending on the image you use. Follow the guidelines for each individual photo. Here is a common starting point:
- Title of the photo (if provided).
- Source link to where the image lives online. (Often one and two are combined.)
- Author of the photo. Link the author page.
- License.
For example, this photo from Flickr is properly attributed:
"Dolphin" by Sergio Tudela Romero. CC2.0
How to find images on Photo Pin or Compfight
Photo Pin and Compfight are handy tools that allow you to search Flickr and grab the attribution in one fell swoop. They work very similarly so I will share the process for Photo Pin here:
- Go to Photo Pin.
- Type in your search term.
- Specify commercial or non-commercial images in left sidebar.
- (When the results are returned, skip the top rows which are Sponsored images.)
- Hover over any image to see a preview and click "get photo" when you find one you want to use.
- When you get the popup, I recommend doing Step 2 first which is checking the Creative Commons license. Click on the photo to go to the image page on Flickr where you can see the license details (see Step 4 in my tip above, How to find photos on Flickr). Make sure the license is one you can live with.
- Close out the Flickr window and go back to Photo Pin. Download the size of the image you want to use from the popup.
- While you're still on Photo Pin, copy and past the attribution HTML provided in Step 3 of the popup window.
- Go to your blog.
- Upload your image as you normally would into your post.
- Paste the attribution HTML in your post. Make sure you are pasting this bit of HTML in the "HTML" tab or "Text" tab (not the "Visual" tab).
- Save!
Here is an older video from the archives, but will still provide good reference.
Can't see the video? Watch it here.
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How to choose high quality images
If you're not photography savvy, find the images that have the most positive comments or have been faved or starred the most on sites like Flickr. Ratings like this weed out the lower quality images for you.
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Find images in bulk to save time
(This is a great tip from Amy Porterfield.)
- Make a list of the main topics/categories you write about.
- Carve out a good chunk of time (maybe 30 minutes?) to focus on image gathering.
- For each topic, search for images. Download a handful, save them to your computer (don't forget to note the link and credit info so you have it later), upload them straight to your WordPress Media Library (Media –> Add New) or simply bookmark the image links for quick access later.
- Then, when you're writing a post about one of those topics, search your already-gathered collection instead of doing a new search from scratch.
If you use an image at the top of your posts…
Images are unreadable to the search engine spiders who can only read text. For that reason, make sure your images (especially at the beginning of your posts) are optimized as suggested below.
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Rename your images before you upload them
Use keywords in your image names. Whatever you do, don't use IMG_0042 or the like. You can rename images by right-clicking in Windows. On a Mac, select the image you want to rename. Once selected, click once more until you see the highlighted text which allows you to type in a different name.
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Use the ALT tag
The ALT attribute is basically a text description of your image. When you upload in WordPress, you'll see a field called "Alternate Text." Always fill this in. I usually just use the same keyword-rich name I used to title my image in the first place. Watch this video if you want to know more about ALT text.
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Add captions to your photos
You know why? Because a lot of people don't read the content but read the captions. (Do you do this in magazines too?) In fact, Derek Halpern from Social Triggers goes so far as to say not adding captions is The Biggest Mistake Every Blogger Makes. I don't know that it's the biggest mistake, but I know I should do this more.
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Resize your images before uploading
Use only the largest size you need in your post. Images from a camera have very large file sizes to optimize for printing. Publishing on the web, however, does not require the same detail (number of pixels) for clarity. So, it's important to always resize your images before uploading them to your blog. Small images are much more streamlined and efficient. You can do this in PicMonkey which is free.
- Determine how wide your images should be. This will depend on your design but will probably be somewhere between 300 and 800, give or take.
- Upload your image to PicMonkey by clicking Edit a photo.
- Click the Resize option at the bottom of the left column. Make sure Keep proportions box is checked so your image doesn't get distorted and enter your pixel width (first box). Click Apply.
- Click Save at the top of the screen. Name it and click Save to my computer.
- Upload to WordPress via Dashboard –> Media –> Add New or directly in your post via the Add Media button.
Affiliate link your images
If you're going to promote a product or company in a post and plan to use your affiliate link in the body of the text, make sure any images in the post are attached to your affiliate link. Many bloggers include an image, but if a reader clicks on that image, they are only taken to a separate page on your site where your upload is stored. Readers are accustomed to clicking on images so make sure yours are linked!
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Why make your own graphics
Graphics are important for your blog. They help with branding, break up your text and make your blog nicer to look at. Also, people tend to share images quite a bit.
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Free tools to make images & graphics
There are many free online tools you can use to create graphics. Tutorials for most of them are easily found by googling.
Canva – Canva shines in its ease of use plus nicely done templates you can use. It's particularly handy if you want to make graphics to fit right into social media platforms.
PicMonkey – Because of it's popularity, there have been many tutorials written for it by people with a whole lot more know-how than yours truly. Here are some of my favorite tutorials to get you started.
- Beginner Beans has a 3-part series about the basics of working with PicMonkey and a basic tutorial about photo editing.
- Schmutzie has a tutorial about editing and adding text to an image.
Gimp – This is a downloadable program similar to Photoshop, but without the hefty price tag! This is what I use to make most of my graphics. These are the tutorials I used to get started, but just search YouTube for "gimp tutorials" and you should find many more.
Pixlr-O-Matic – This is a fun, vintage, Instagram-like online photo editor.
Pixlr Express & BeFunky – Both have features similar to PicMonkey.
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How to watermark a photo
Check out Beginner Beans's watermarking tutorial.
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How to make a collage
Check out PicMonkey's own tutorial here and their updated tutorial about editing your collage here.
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How to make a circle image
Circle images have become popular lately. Katy Clouds has a simple tutorial.
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How to take a screenshot
In a browser – If you're using Chrome you can take a screenshot from the web right in your browser with the Awesome Screenshot Chrome extension here. Simply click the "Install" button to get started. Then watch the getting started video on their home page for more. (They also have versions for Firefox and Safari that you can download on their home page.)
For Windows – Try the Snipping Tool. You can capture, annotate, save and share. Check out the FAQ about the Snipping Tool here to see how it works.
For Mac – I take screenshots on my Mac using the very handy Skitch. Don't want to get fancy? No worries. You can also take quick screenshots on a Mac with these simple keyboard shortcuts:
- Command-Shift-3 – Hold down to take a screenshot of your whole screen. It will save as a file on your desktop.
- Command-Shift-4 – Hold down. When you see the crosshairs, you can let go of the keys and click and drag your mouse to select a specific area on your screen. It will save as a file on your desktop.
- Command-Control-Shift-3 does the same as #1 above, but saves to your clipboard instead of your desktop.
- Command-Control-Shift-4 does the same as #2 above, but saves to your clipboard instead of your desktop.


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Eating fewer animal products is beneficial to your health and also helps the environment. The EPA has reported that certain meats are contaminated with higher levels of pesticides than some plant foods, due to the diet the animals are fed. If you choose to eat animal products, try to purchase them from local, sustainable, and organic farms. Meats you should consider buying organically include beef, pork, and poultry. Some ocean fish carry a high risk of metal contamination, and many freshwater fish are exposed to pesticides from contaminated water.
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By switching to organic dairy products, you can avoid the added antibiotics, artificial hormones, and pesticides used by commercial dairy industries. You get healthier products, while supporting free-range cows. Choose the organic versions of a few foods you often eat, and you'll help keep both your family and the environment stay healthy.


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I have installed Windows Live Mesh from Windows Live Essentials. I've synced a folder "Test" containing couple of word documents with Skydrive. I opened skydrive.live.com and logged in. On the left pane, I clicked 'Files' and selected 'View synced folders' and I found the folder "Test" I synced from my PC. Now, how to edit the documents in Web? If the question is unclear, please let me know. I'll attach screenshots to further explain the problem.
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The SkyDrive Synced Storage (5 GB) associated with Live Mesh does not integrate into the other SkyDrive located at
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Files in SkyDrive can be edited using Office Web Apps, while files in SkyDrive Sync Storage from Live Mesh cannot (for no reason other than they aren't in the SkyDrive itself).


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WACO (April 10, 2012)—Baylor and the City of Waco announced plans for a downtown parade next week to honor the Lady Bears for winning the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship.
The parade, which begins at 5:30 p.m. Monday, will include 20 cars in which players, coaches and administrators will ride down Austin Avenue from 11th Street to City Hall where a brief ceremony will be held.
"Waco area citizens are encouraged to wear their Green and Gold and line Austin Avenue to show their appreciation for the Lady Bears' amazing accomplishment of winning the National Championship for the second time and being the only NCAA basketball team (men or women) to have a 40-0 season," the city said Tuesday in announcing the parade, which will be carried live on the Waco City Cable Channel and streamed live on the city's website.
Baylor captured its second national title in program history back on April 3, defeating Notre Dame 80-61. The Lady Bears became the first team in college basketball history, men or women, to finish a season 40-0.


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I'm translating a manga in which one character use a very slangy or contracted way of speaking while the others talk more standard-like. I've already encountered the stem+ん as a short form the negative stem+ない. But what is the -せん attached to 苦労. I think it'd been translated as "there's no problem" but I'd like to know the grammar behind it. Thanks
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Actually, you've already got the right answer! The verb in question is する, and one of its negative stems (未然形) is せ〜, as in せず, せぬ, and as you've just discovered, せん. The other negative stem of する is the well-known し〜. Note that these are not interchangeable: **せない is ungrammatical, as is **しず.
The only verbs that have this extra negative stem are する and its relatives. The auxiliary verb 〜ます would be one of them if **〜ましない were grammatical, but it is not.
Other samples from this character in your manga would be helpful to confirm this, but my guess is that せん is equivalent to しない (and possibly derived from せぬ, see Zhen Lin's comment below). Then, 苦労せん means something like "don't worry" or "don't fret". This is really part of the group of dialects from 'Western Japan'. In particular, [九州弁]{きゅうしゅうべん} uses せんで for しないで or せんでいい for しなくていい etc.


text: What else could I make for Halloween that artists would get a kick out of? I got it, a tutorial on "how to draw a Halloween Frankenstein", step by step. I know, I know, this is not the actual name of the green colored monster. But since we all know him as Frankenstein, his name might as well be what we know this pop culture icon as. When creating a design concept for this creature, I wanted to do something a bit different. The style is what I like to call 'fun and inviting'. I love the way that this version of Frankenstein came out and I also love how easy it was for me to conjure up. Once this Halloween lesson is uploaded, that will be all I have for you as far as Halloween related stuff goes. Anyways, I guess that is all I have to say about this lesson on "how to draw a Halloween Frankenstein". Have fun as you draw your hearts away, and don't forget to rate, comment, and fav the lessons you are fond of. Peace and enjoy.


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I have a 1996 Ford Taurus with less than 200,00km on it I don't want to spend too much on it but want to improve the fuel efficiency on it. I do mostly highway driving with a bit of city driving. Right now I am getting between 450-500km per tank, I do run my car before I get for about five minutes when its cold out so I know this doesn't help. Any suggestions?
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For the car, keep the tires set at the right pressure, check the alignment, check the brakes on a regular basis, empty any extra stuff out of the car. As a driver, there are many articles that can be googled on how to get better mileage through various driving techniques. Mostly they involve speed control and better planning ahead while driving. Obviously, you already know one place that you're wasting fuel. :-)
Fuel efficiency gets brought up fairly frequently (for good reason). Here are some of the things that I've pointed out in similar questions:
Engine size doesn't determine fuel efficiency.
Using the fuel with the correct octane rating is important.
Making major changes to your car in the name of efficiency is usually not a good idea.
And, to quote Jeremy Clarkson on the subject, "It isn't what you drive that matters, it's how you drive it." Considering that he managed to drive a Turbo Diesel Audi from London to Edinburgh and back on the same tank of fuel, I'm willing to give his tips due consideration.
Another easily checked and often forgotten item is the air filter.Also on the highway keep the windows up to decrease drag.


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Tuesday morning the Red Cross of Southern Kentucky sent our area's first volunteers to aid the Northeast's Sandy clean-up.
Several other businesses are on standby to help out where they are needed.
"We've deployed five volunteers that are all with emergency response vehicles that will go up and do feeding in the new york area," says Jennifer Capps, Director of the American Red Cross of Southern Kentucky.
A second Red Cross group is expected to leave within the next 24 hours.
"We have three disaster volunteers that are getting ready to deploy to go to New Jersey to help with sheltering," Capps says.
And several other volunteers throughout Bowling Green have their bags packed and ready to help if they are needed.
"We have about 8 or 9 others so far that are on standby just waiting for a call to see what their duties will be and where they're needed most," she says.
"The Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives, they have asked all electric co-ops in Kentucky for a list of volunteers, and we have sent them a list should we have to go and help in the North," says Rick Carroll, Warren Rural Electric Director of Communications.
15 volunteers are on the list from Warren Rural Electric.
"They would be helping in outage situations, storm situations, replacing poles, replacing power lines and transformers."
More than 7 million people are without power in the North.
Carroll says linemen should know by tomorrow morning whether or not aid will be needed in the disaster stricken areas.
The Bowling Green Salvation Army and the Warren Assc. of Baptists have also confirmed they are waiting to send volunteers to the North.
"It's so much easier for someone to come in from the outside so that the people there can pick up their pieces because so many are affected. It's not that it just hit a few homes,there are many who are devastated," Capps says.
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The 7 Worst Things Airline Pilots Have Done Mid-Flight
#3. A Pilot Answers Text Messages and Forgets to Lower the Landing Gear
Jetstar flight JQ57 was on its final approach into Singapore's Changi Airport on May 27, 2010, and things seemed to be well in hand, with a veteran pilot (13,000 flight hours) and seasoned first officer (4,000 hours) at the controls. However, at 2,000 feet, the pilot decided to check his incoming text messages. So, deciding that this task was more of a priority than, you know, landing the goddamn plane, the pilot began reviewing all the "sup playa"s and "WRU LOL"s in his inbox.
"its coo i can tlk babe, i don't do jack arnd here anyway."
As the plane angled nearer and nearer to the ground, the copilot felt a strange sense of unease, that somehow "something was not quite right." When he attempted to notify the pilot of his concerns, he received no response, as the pilot was "preoccupied with his mobile phone." With only 392 feet left before contact with the tarmac, the copilot finally figured out what was wrong: The pilot was so distracted by his phone that he had forgotten to lower the landing gear.
Suddenly able to break away from sending sepia-toned shots of the cockpit warning lights to Instagram, the pilot made a last-minute attempt to get the landing gear down, but by that point he would have had more success jumping out with some roller skates and trying to catch the plane on his back. Luckily, the copilot was able to make the save by jerking back on the yoke and throwing the plane skyward, which came as a rather unpleasant surprise to the 167 passengers on board.
"Yeah, that's not gonna happen, buddy. You'd better duck."
After an investigation, Jetstar officials stated that the lessons learned from the incident would be incorporated into their flight training, much to the consternation of those pilots who prefer a timely conclusion to their Words With Friends matches.
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"Hold on, they're telling me I have to fly this fucking plane now."
#2. A Copilot Nearly Crashed the Plane Trying to Open the Cockpit Door
In September 2011, an All Nippon Airways Boeing 737-700 was en route to Tokyo from Okinawa when the pilot needed to leave his seat momentarily to go pee it up. Airlines generally require rigorous training for copilots, and the one on this flight had plenty of experience and no history of incompetence, so there seemed to be little reason for concern.
Unlike the pilot earlier, this one successfully escaped the bathroom without incident. He walked back to the locked cockpit door to be let back in. These doors are electronically locked (you know, safety and all that), so in order to allow the pilot back into the cockpit, the copilot had to press a button to unlock it. Unfortunately, in one of the most baffling design decisions of all time, the button happened to be right next to another button: the one that controlled the rudder.
"If you'll look out of your window, you'll see the last visual images to ever enter your brain."
So, as the pilot stood waiting at the door, probably still hunched over, adjusting his zipper, the plane suddenly nosedived, plunging 6,234 feet in 30 seconds and flipping almost completely over.
Thinking rationally is incredibly difficult when you're cartwheeling over the Pacific, but miraculously the copilot was able to collect enough of his shit to regain control of the aircraft. The pilot finally got through the gut-busting prank door of catastrophic life endangerment and was able to land without further mishap, with only a few people suffering minor bumps and bruises, and a dense fog of urine and Japanese swear words hanging thickly in the cabin.
"Just keep the Vicodin martinis coming and we'll all walk off this plane happy."
A senior executive vice president of the airline would later hold a press conference in reference to the incident that was notable for its innumerable deep apologetic bows. Promises were made that in the future pilots will be compelled to "do a double-check on where the controls are located as they leave and return to the cockpit," the phrasing of which is arguably more troubling than the incident itself.
#1. A Pilot Let His Kids Take the Controls and Predictability Ensued
In 1994, Yaroslav Kudrinsky was at the helm of Aeroflot Flight 593, carrying 75 passengers from Moscow to Hong Kong. Entertaining scenery is pretty hard to come by over remote Siberia, so he decided to get in some family time with his 15-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter and invited them both into the cockpit. No big deal, that's an exciting moment for a kid, and it's not like he was going to let them fly the plane.
But you know, it couldn't hurt if he just let them pretend to fly it for a while, right? So, with the craft on autopilot, Kudrinsky got up out of his chair and allowed both of his children to occupy the pilot seats while he demonstrated the various instruments.
"So you see, son, touching literally any of these would doom us all."
And really, what would be the harm in letting them fly it just a little bit? The passengers would probably agree that this is adorable. So, while his daughter played with the control column, Kudrinsky adjusted the autopilot heading to make it appear to the little girl that she was actually turning the plane. Not wanting to be left out of the fun, Kudrinky's son took a turn "steering" the plane.
Hey, did we mention that the autopilot is set to automatically disengage if somebody turns hard enough on the steering wheel? Because the plane assumes there is a problem and that you're trying to take control?
For instance, if you saw a hot chick in a bikini down below that you really wanted to get a better look at.
That is exactly what happened while the teenager was at the controls, so he suddenly went from pretending to fly to actually flying, sending the aircraft banking toward the earth.
This course deviation lasted for a disastrous 30 seconds before anyone was able to figure out what was going on, because there was no alarm system in place to alert the pilots when manual control had been re-engaged. By the time he realized what had happened, the bank had turned into a dive. But luckily, the pilot got the plane under control and everyone had a good laugh about it.
"Sorry, son, but the manual says I have to hit the eject button. See you on the ground."
Oh, wait, no. The plane actually plunged 33,000 feet and crashed into the Siberian tundra, forcing Elvis Costello to write a song about it.
Jesus. That kind of puts all of the previous stories in a completely different light, doesn't it? If your airline pilot does a good job the next time you fly, give him or her a pat on the back.
For more pilots who were a few cents short of a full dollar, check out 6 WWI Fighter Pilots Whose Balls Deserve Their Own Monument and The 6 Most Badass Airline Pilots To Ever Stare Down Death.


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When one makes Havdala in the Succa, does one say the Bracha of Lesheiv Basuka?
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Nitey Gavriel (Hilchos Sukkah pg. 249) writes that the common custom is not to make "Leshev Basuka" on Havdala as it is not considered "settled" (and cites Shevet Halevi 6:42 as a source). However he notes that some do, and in the footnotes points to the Chabad custom based on the Friediker Rebbe who mantains that Havdala is considered "settled". He writes that this was also the custom of the Chazon Ish and R' Moshe Feinstein and that some are careful to remain in the sukkah for a bit in order to avert the problem.
According to most Rishonim (including Rambam, Rif, Rosh and Tur (see Beit Yosef OC 639)) you say a Bracha whenever you walk into the Sukkah and this would be no exception. Some Achronim rule this way, led by the Gra (Beiur Hagra to OC 639:8).
For those who hold of the other opinion (Rabbein Tam: to say it on eating and thereby exempt the other instances of dwelling) then based on Mishna Berura OC 639:48 it seems that if you are not planning on eating grain products while in the Sukkah this time (ie before the next time you leave it for an extended period of time) then you should say a Bracha on the drink. If you are planning on eating a grain product before the next time you leave, then wait and say the Bracha then.
I've generally been told that if you're making it on wine/grape juice, you make a leisheiv if you plan on staying around in the sukkah for a while afterwards.


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I've just downloaded a CD image of Ubuntu. I know the installer has a check CD option, but how can I check that the image is good before burning it to CD?
First look up the hash of the ISO you download here:
Then check the hash by following these instructions:
After checking the hash it's safe to burn the image to CD/DVD.
MD5SUMs, SHA1SUMs and SHA256SUMs (all checksums) for all CD variants of the current release (Precise: Desktop, Server and Alternate) are also available directly at http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise:
Ubuntu comes with a program called md5sum that you can use to check the integrity of a downloaded ISO file.
Manual method..
Generate a hash of your ISO file like this:
This will print out the MD5 hash of your ISO. Now open up the Ubuntu Hashes wiki page which lists the MD5 hashes of all the Ubuntu ISOs and compare the hash you got from md5sum with the hash the wiki page says is correct for that ISO. If the hashes match you should have an uncorrupted file.
Automatic method..
A more automatic method would be to use the MD5SUMS.txt file (which you can download from your distributions download page at releases.ubuntu.com). Make sure you save the file in the same directory has your ISO file.
Now run:
You will receive an error for every ISO you haven't downloaded. That's OK. Most likely you will only have one ISO to check. Here is some sample output:
In this case we were only testing the 8.10 i386 desktop ISO, so we can ignore all the other warnings.
This line here:
Says that our ISO hash matches the correct one, meaning we have a clean file.
You can use winMD5sum in Windows to check file hashes.
Open Windows Explorer and locate your CD image. Right click on it and select "Send to.." then click "winMD5sum".
WinMD5sum will automatically calculate the hash and display it.
Paste the hash for your release (which you got from Ubuntu Hashes) into the "Compare" box and click "Compare". A popup dialog should confirm that the hashes match.
If you have cygwin installed you can use md5sum as if you were in Ubuntu. Since I've already covered md5sum in the Linux section above, I'll just give a quick recap here.
Will print the MD5 hash of the image for you.
Source: How To MD5SUM - Ubuntu Wiki
You may download the ubuntu from www.ubuntu.com website. and Checksums are available at:
To generate checksums for you ubuntu iso, run md5sum [ubuntu-iso-name.iso] and match the resulting checksum with the one available at the website (the second link).
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text: 1. Enable cookies in the spider config 2. use the get_password callback function for realm authentication. but probably not useful for you. 3. I cheat and have a backdoor to let swish-e authenticate using a GET request. -- bill ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Robin Gist" <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: email@example.com Sent: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:58:55 -0700 Subject: [swish-e] SWISH authentication on Intranet/MediaWiki > Hello -- I've been a user of swish for a little while now. I really > like it, so I want to use it for spidering a MediaWiki-based > intranet, which uses a form-based authentication (instead of Basic > HTTP Auth). Unfortunately > (from my perspective), it is POST-based instead of GET-based auth, > so I cannot easily mock up a URL with a username and password. > > Has anyone out there tackled POSTED form-based authentication with > swish, in particular with MediaWiki, or have an idea about how I may > approach this problem?? I've been chasing this down for the better > part of a day (from both sides). When resolved, I'll happily > share my results with the rest of the class. > > Many thanks > Robin ------- End of Original Message ------- _______________________________________________ Users mailing list email@example.com http://lists.swish-e.org/listinfo/usersReceived on Tue May 15 20:24:14 2007


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A new investigation by a consumer watch dog group is reporting that many handbags being sold are tainted with lead.
After testing 300 bags, the consumer group reports it found 43 bags with lead in it's lining.
The five purses that contained the most lead were made by Tory Burch, Guess, House of Harlow, Nine West and Charlotte Russe.
Out of the purses tested, the Tory Burch purse had 200 times more lead than the approved level decided by the Center for Environmental Health.
The consumer group warns that purses with bright colors and plastic portions are more likely to have lead.
From the top five companies listed, only Burch and Nine West responded, agreeing that they would each do investigations and pull the contaminated bags.