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canned pork is AWESOME.....
i don't seasoning or add other ingrediants..that way you can use it for, or with, anything on the other end..good luck and enjoy
They only food I would advise not to can is BRUSSLE SPROUTS....they are NASTY once canned...hahahahahaha!
Our squirrel are too small to bother with.
The government gurus may not have tested it, but commercially canned bacon is all over the place, and nobody seems to be dying from it.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19). With Mars invigorating you with his journey through your part of the sky, it's easy to be too forward. A moment of quiet reflection on how you would like to relate to others will shield you from the mistakes of haste.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). It's a natural response to defend what's yours or stand up for those you love. Even though this may be your first impulse when someone seems to infringe on your territory, there will be a wiser second impulse that follows.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Something has changed in your awareness since yesterday. You'll notice what people are doing that you don't like, and you'll also notice what they are doing to enrich your world.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). A sense of belonging is a powerful, primal need, a need that you fill for others with your simple acknowledgements and gestures of openness — for instance, your smile.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You'll witness odd behavior and will be asked to interact outside of your comfort zone. Luckily, since all human beings have the same basic needs, it shouldn't be too difficult to figure this one out.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You are interested in getting other people's needs met. It will feel good to help. You are even able to ignore your own needs temporarily in order to do this. But you won't be able to serve anyone if you go overboard with the selflessness.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You'll appreciate the mellow qualities of the day and will be soothed by stretches of silence and the peace of uneventful hours. You probably won't even mind how the tranquil parts are punctuated with drama.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Excellent conversation, television and other entrancements will seem like a necessity — and they very well may be. To avoid getting burned out or overly tense, you really do need the release that entertainment provides.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Free time seems in short supply now, but since no one can tell you how to think, your mind will create mini-vacations while you physically attend to the demands of the day.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Sometimes when you've been in a relationship for a long time, common courtesies like eye contact and being in the same room as the person you're talking to go out the window. For a thriving relationship, bring them back.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Being overly generous is your norm these days. You're in the mood to go over the top to show your love, interest, support, enthusiasm and whatever else you may be feeling.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Just because the other person's mouth is shut doesn't mean he or she is listening. Minds do have a way of drifting. You may have to do more to get and keep people's attention now.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (March 15). You'll involve yourself where you are needed and wanted and will make a huge difference there. You'll rid yourself of extra baggage in the next 10 weeks. April closes a deal. May brings a happy meshing of hearts and lifestyles. Following a new interest this summer will bring about a change in the way you make money. Capricorn and Taurus people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 14, 3, 20 and 38.

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I'm a LyX user. Can I move all (or most) of the TeX related files/folders to another (Linux) partition (
/data) and so reuse that partition for LyX-TeX after OS re-install, as well as share that TeX partition between two distros (Lubuntu and Mageia LXDE)?
I'm a LyX user. Can I move all (or most) of the TeX related files/folders to another (Linux) partition (
The TeX Live binaries "know" the location of the TeX Live tree (files, fonts and so on), because they set implicitly some environment variables whose value depends on the location of the binaries themselves.
On a Unix system it's so sufficient that the
(How to set the
and modify the
The final bit depends on the operating system, just look what's in the
It won't be a problem to share the tree between two GNU/Linux distributions, so long as they use the same binaries. But it's also possible to have more than one set of binaries (say the 32 bit and the 64 bit varieties): all you need is to have the correct pointer in the
A method that I find very easy to manage is to create a symbolic link:
(with suitable privileges, of course), without modifying the personal
Similar symbolic links can be created for man pages and info files.
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However, to me it seems recommendable to install the original 'texlive' not into /opt or /usr, but into a separate partition, e.g. /local . You can update by
I don't recommend to install Lyx as well there. Use the Lyx your distributions deliver.
My experience from the last three years doing so is: it makes teXing easier.
Thanks to egreg and this guy on latex-community.org for LyX config, the steps I've taken are as follows (my architecture is x86_64):
Enter this in terminal to copy the Texlive directory:
If everything goes right you can remove the original Texlive later on.
Now edit the
Now to set the path to binaries in LyX, go to Tools > Preferences > Paths > PATH Prefix and enter:
"Apply", "Save" and restart LyX. Go to "Tools > TeX Information", check "Show path" and "Rescan". If all is set correctly, LyX should find the new path. (I have simply quoted briefly the guy I've mentioned above.)
On a side note, Buntus/Debian have LyX bundled with the TeX dependency in their repositories, but that TeX part is very old (Texlive 2009). So I've installed the 3 GB Texlive 2011 and installed LyX from the terminal as it's reccomended in LyX website:


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On Wall Street, It's Business as Unusual
Storm Upends Stock and Bond Markets and Thins Activity in Currencies and Commodities; 'Like a Four-Day Weekend'
Traders and analysts pushed to the sidelines by the approach of Hurricane Sandy spent Monday trying to limit damage to their portfolios, prepare for whenever markets reopen and keep an eye on assets such as oil and international stocks that are still changing hands.
Some who live and work in the storm's path labored from home, while others reserved hotel rooms near their offices in case the commute became too dangerous. All had to adjust to the extraordinary weather that shut down markets for U.S. stocks and other assets and left trading thin in others.
"We have tried to minimize trading today," said Marc Stern, senior managing director at Bessemer Trust, which oversees more than $70 billion.
Mr. Stern spent Monday on conference calls, arranging to close offices in at-risk locations such as New York, Boston, Washington and Wilmington, Del. He worked part of the day from home on the 31st floor of a New York high-rise, with an occasional nervous glance toward windows that were rattling in heavy winds.
Even with the U.S. stock market closed, investors found ways to trade. "You can work around it to a certain extent," said Nanette Buziak, head of equity trading at ING Investment Management. On Monday morning, "where I would have been trading in stocks, we ended up trading what we needed to in futures. We're also still trading where we need to in international markets."
Stock futures trading stayed open until 9:15 a.m. on Monday, giving a sense of how the stock market may have fared, had it opened. The Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell 61 points, or 0.5%, to 12993. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index futures shed 4.85 points, or 0.5%, to 1402.75.
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Ms. Buziak made the transactions to ensure new cash invested in ING funds Friday was put into stocks, in order to align the products with their investment goals, she said.
But activity in the municipal-bond market ground to a halt Monday, as issuers postponed deals and trading wrapped up early. Some of the week's biggest deals are being pushed back to later in the week or are on a day-to-day schedule, if they aren't postponed indefinitely. According to muni-market participants, the four biggest negotiated bond sales—a $400 million general-obligation sale from Connecticut, a roughly $297 million deal from Utah Transit Authority, a $279 million offering from California Health Facilities Financing Authority and a $275 million deal from East Bay Municipal Utility District in California—were among the delayed offers, with pricing expected during the second half of this week, at the earliest.
A handful of other markets stayed active, but trading was thin and many people could not get to their desks. As a result, those who were around found themselves buzzing with activity, as traders hunted for scarce counterparties.
"Actually, we are very busy today. Can I hang up now?" said Mamoru Arai, senior currency trader at Mizuho in New York, who said his firm was operating with only two traders on the floor today, compared with more than a dozen on a normal day.
Trading in commodities such as oil and gold also stayed open, and the threat posed by Hurricane Sandy to gasoline refineries on the East Coast put a particular premium on watching the price moves in energy-related commodities. Gasoline futures jumped 2% and U.S. oil prices fell 1%, as traders weighed the risk of supply disruptions.
"It was definitely worth being there," said Mark Vonderheide, managing partner at Geneva Energy Markets LLC, who went into his firm's offices in Lower Manhattan, just outside the evacuation zone. "It was relatively busy."
Mr. Vonderheide had reserved hotel rooms near the office for his staff, but ended up not needing them Monday. The superintendent of his small office building offered to drive him and a handful of employees home, dropping them off at various locations in Manhattan.
The drive was uneventful. "Around Times Square, I was amazed how many people were walking around," Mr. Vonderheide said. "I was a lot more nervous about trading gasoline in a hurricane market then I was about driving home."
Those working from home were also making special arrangements. Walter Zimmermann, an energy broker with United ICAP, worked from his home in Pennsylvania, about 1,800 feet above sea level. His office, which is by the water in Jersey City, N.J., is not accessible.
With a backup generator, Mr. Zimmermann said he expects to work from home for the next two or three days. He said he has a pretty big propane tank buried in the ground, which can supply power for the entire house for about a week.
The storm's reverberations were in focus even for traders not directly in its path. "It's 80 degrees here, which is crazy, because nearly everyone I'm connected with is going through something completely different," said Stephen Solaka, managing partner at Belmont Capital Group in Los Angeles, a portfolio manager active in options trading. "Assuming nothing devastatingly crippling happens, this is basically like a four-day weekend."
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#5. BusStopWhores.com
You know where most dudes never think to hunt for hot, sex-hungry girls? The bus stop.
But as this site demonstrates, the women who were about to pay a couple of bucks for bus fare are more than willing to pay for the same ride in your van with some on-camera boning. You know, we've ridden the bus before and we think we'd actually take that deal, too.
Probably less homeless men in the sex bus.
The only part we can't figure out is that they don't do the boning en-route, they instead drive the women back to their studio for some sex with a tattooed dude who looks fresh from prison. This clearly is delaying their trip much longer than if they'd just waited for the bus. This seems grossly illogical but, again, if it means avoiding having to ride the bus...
Most Shameful Moment:
One episode, about a girl named Starla who would be late for an interview if she had waited for the bus, features the line "She wanted the job bad so we wanted to see just how bad she really wanted that job!"
#4. Taxicams.com
If you've ever been to Las Vegas then you probably, at some point, engaged in unprovoked, spontaneous, unsanitary taxi sex. You can try to deny it now, but be aware there's video evidence.
Above: You.
Taxicams is the site that dares to expose what clearly everyone does in Vegas cabs by outfitting a cab with hidden cameras and just waiting for all the sexy ladies who apparently get turned on by the smell of cured meat and pine air fresheners to hop in and get undressed and use themselves and/or their friends like amusement parks.
The site insists that it's all real and that the driver's job could be in danger if he's ever caught. All of this is written next to photos of the cab clearly identifying it, which makes us concerned for his employment status. Also, the women's faces are not blurred, so congratulations to the driver getting them to sign a release saying their spontaneous sex can be sold on the Internet so that strangers may pleasure themselves to it.
Most Shameful Moment:
The cab actually says "TaxiCams" on the side. "What, that? Oh, uh, that stands for 'Camaro.'"
#3. XXXProposal
Porn is arguably always better when inspired by terrible movies and that's why the Beaverly Hillbillies was so popular. Thus we have XXX Proposal, a porno spinoff of the movie, Indecent Proposal. Here, average, down on their luck couples are approached by a random dude on the street and offered cash. All they have to do is let her bang the dude... while her boyfriend watches.
Who could say no to that?
How the financial situation of the couple is established is never addressed that we could see, maybe there's a pre-approval process. Then again, neither is any explanation forthcoming as to why several women have the same boyfriend, just in various preposterous disguises across different episodes.
Most Shameful Moment:
The dejected look on the face of a Jimmy Kimmel-in-disguise looking boyfriend while his girlfriend gets railroaded six inches away from him on the sofa.
#2. EuroBrideTryouts.com
Combining the creepiness of mail order brides with the "test drive" process one uses to buy a used car, we have Euro Bride Tryouts. Apparently there's a market for women desperate to escape whatever poverty or war they face in their own Third-World countries, as mail order brides meet their potential spouses and immediately ride them like show ponies before coming to America.
"Quick, honey, I need you to iron this frying pan and then fuck me."
No statistics on the site mention how many of these unions resulted in a long lasting marriage, but since it's the same dude every time, it's possible that the number remains low.
On the other hand, kudos to him for being so worldly and wealthy that he can travel to Europe on such a regular basis.
Most Shameful Moment:
This is the All-American groom these ladies are hoping to impress:
As you can see, the guy is totally and completely as American as apple pie. And the extremely thick Euro accent he puts on in the videos is clearly only to make the girls feel more at home.
#1. NaughtyTherapy.com
This site readily acknowledges what we've all known for ages: nothing is as sexy as a mental disorder. Thus, the concept of women with moderate to severe emotional or psychological trauma taking the ramrod from mental health professionals is one that society has been begging for and now can finally enjoy. Thanks, Internet!
Episodes demonstrate non-APA approved treatment methods for delusions, depression, split personality disorder, chronic bitching and cock withdrawal. Curiously, the prescription for each is wang.
"Could you go ahead and masturbate for me? It's cool, I'm a doctor."
It's likely even Dr. Phil would be hard pressed to acknowledge that deep-dicking can or even should be used to cure such a wide range of ailments. The women do seem to show short-term improvement, sure, but we think it's a huge oversight that they don't follow up with the patients to see how they are progressing a few months after their, quote, "hot beef" treatment. This method clearly needs further study.
Most Shameful Moment:
Psychotic is misspelled on the first page.
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6 Absurd Movie Scenes (That Actually Happened)
#3. The Da Vinci Code - A Dying Man Writes a Message in His Own Blood
The Absurd Scene:
In The Da Vinci Code, the police find a murder victim who, despite suffering severe gut stab wounds, had the time to write out, in his own blood, a complex message that would eventually lead to the killer. Also, two hours of bullshit.
We've already pointed out that this particular strategy makes no sense -- and yet we see blood messages all the time in movies and TV shows, even ones more grounded in reality than The Da Vinci Code.
First of all, if the person had time to write something down in literally the most time consuming way possible, surely they had time to, you know, call for help. Also, would a blood message even be readable? It's not like you can erase it and start over (not without giving yourself another stab wound, anyway).
"Hand me those forms! I've got time for maybe three signatures before this dries."
The Reality:
After being stabbed a whopping 86 times, a student in England used his last ounce of strength to write "DAV" on his computer -- bypassing the keyboard altogether and scrawling the letters directly onto the machine with his own blood. Soon afterward, a man named David Heiss was arrested and confessed to the crime. Yep, just like in the movies, the victim wrote his own killer's name, presumably after deleting all his porn.
And this isn't even the only time it's happened: After a man, also in England, was brutally attacked by a friend, he was left with a mouth so swollen that he was unable to speak. When the police asked him to say his attacker's name (presumably just to dick him around), he responded by writing it in blood.
Of course, neither of these guys wrote something as long-winded and pointless as the victim in The Da Vinci Code, officially making them better writers than Dan Brown.
#2. Sweeney Todd -- The Human Pie
The Absurd Scene:
Sweeney Todd is about a barber and a baker who strike a lucrative business partnership: The barber kills people, and the baker turns their flesh into delicious meat pies, which she then sells. In the Tim Burton film version, the barber and the baker are played by Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, because of course they are. Here's the scene where they come up with the plan.
While a barber serial killer doesn't seem that far-fetched, a lady who turns corpses into pies and feeds them to other people, without them realizing it, doesn't make a lot sense. She would have to be not only especially coldhearted, but also a damned good cook. But, then again, nobody goes into a musical (or a Tim Burton movie, for that matter) expecting anything resembling a coherent story.
Anyone else craving a pot pie?
The Reality:
Between 1939 and 1940, Leonarda Cianciulli, an Italian housewife, killed three women, sliced their corpses into little pieces and turned them into tea cakes that she fed to her friends and family. Of course, there wasn't any human flesh in these particular cakes: She made them with the victims' blood. The flesh she turned into soap.
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She was also the real life Tyler Durden.
"As for the blood in the basin, I waited until it had coagulated, dried it in the oven, ground it and mixed it with flour, sugar, chocolate, milk and eggs, as well as a bit of margarine, kneading all the ingredients together. I made lots of crunchy tea cakes and served them to the ladies who came to visit, though Giuseppe and I also ate them." That's not a quote from the movie -- that's Cianciulli's official statement.
Like in Sweeney Todd, Cianciulli had worked out a clever and profitable system for her crimes: All three women had come to her asking for advice, and she had convinced each one to move to another city and prepare postcards to be sent to her relatives explaining the decision. Then she killed them with an axe, took their money and sent the postcards away to avoid suspicion. By the third murder, she remarked that she was getting better at it and "the cakes, too, were better: that woman was really sweet."
Her tools are currently on exhibit in the Criminology Museum of Rome, because Italy is weird.
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It's probably wise to keep an eye on anyone who owns a meat cleaver like that.
#1. Goldfinger -- James Bond Has a Tuxedo Under His Wet Suit
The Absurd Scene:
The opening scene of Goldfinger is perhaps the most perfect summation of the James Bond character. It begins with Bond emerging from the water in a wetsuit ...
Only one man could make a duck hat look cool.
... and then, after knocking down a guard and rigging a compound to explode, Bond removes his wetsuit to reveal ...
... a perfectly crisp tuxedo. Bond calmly lights his cigarette while the place explodes, and in the following two minutes proceeds to make out with a nude lady and murder a Mexican assassin with a lamp. All of this happens before the credits even start. No explanation is given because none is necessary: It's just James Bond being his usual outrageously cool self.
The "tux under the wet suit" scene is so iconic that it now shows up whenever a movie wants to make it clear that the main character isn't a real secret agent but Hollywood's idea of one: If that can happen, the chances of the movie including an helicopter explosion go up by 200 percent.
Some wear it better than others.
The Reality:
In the movie, Bond's entire mission is to make something blow up. That's all. He puts on the suit and goes into the bar afterward, because he's a functional alcoholic. When a real MI6 agent did the same thing, on the other hand, he did it because he had to sneak into a Nazi-occupied casino and retrieve two other secret agents. That's right: The reality is even more James Bond than James Bond himself.
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And the real secret agent had an even better chin than Sean Connery.
Peter Tazelaar was a Dutch agent working for MI6 during World War II. Under orders from the Dutch queen, who was hiding in Britain at the time, Tazelaar was dropped near the Dutch coast, swam to the docks, removed his specially designed rubber oversuit to reveal a pristine tuxedo and walked up to the casino. In order to make it past the sentries, Tazelaar made himself reek of cognac and pretended to be drunk.
"Really wish I'd thought of that."
Once inside, he extracted the two other agents and left. And then he did it again -- a few years later, he had to pull off the exact same stunt. Not only that, Tazelaar was also described as a womanizer and fond of missions involving casinos -- he wasn't James Bond with a Dutch accent, James Bond was Peter Tazelaar with a British one. According to the historian who uncovered the wetsuit mission, it's possible that one of the screenwriters in Goldfinger, a former agent himself, could have known about it and intentionally based the scene on Tazelaar.
Also, Moonraker may have been based on the time Tazelaar stopped a devious space plot.
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5 Animals That Are Terrifyingly Hard to Kill
#2. Lungfish
The lungfish is one of the oldest species living today. Its lineage traces directly to a species alive right after the breakup of Pangaea--which Wikipedia tells us was the original super-continent and not, as we have for years assumed, some sort of tragically disbanded Dinosaur Speedmetal group.
Nor is there a hipster version.
Great! So How Do I Kill It?
The lungfish--as you may have cleverly guessed by the inclusion of the "fish" descriptor--is an aquatic creature. But unlike most aquatic creatures, they have learned to endure the occasional prolonged dry spell, with one branch of the family even doing so yearly. They burrow themselves deep down into the ground and secrete a mucous substance around them--like a snot cocoon (hope you're not reading this at breakfast time. Still want that key lime yogurt?)--which preserves the moisture in their bodies. Their metabolic rate then drops into a state of aestivation, allowing them to go without nutrients for very long periods of time.
Just like the Cracked staff.
A science lab in East Africa witnessed this phenomena firsthand when a lungfish, while being transported in an air-tight metal cylinder full of mud (a method of travel a lungfish could easily survive for a brief time), became lost during the trip. When they finally recovered it after six months of being shipped from lab to lab, the mud in the cylinder had long since hardened and the air had been depleted, basically burying the poor thing alive.
"Shit, we didn't really think this through."
Which was totally cool with the lungfish; after the team added a little water, it popped right back to life -- perfectly fine in every respect.
They buried it alive without air or moisture for six months and couldn't kill it. If Hollywood has taught us anything, that's enough motivation for the lungfish to don a sinister cloak and start killing teenagers with a hacksaw.
#1. Immortal Jellyfish
Scientists have a habit of giving animals names that take certain liberties (for example, they might see that something has "skin" and call it a bear, because bears also have skin,) but this time science was telling us the facts straight up: Immortal jellyfish do not die. Ever.
Great! So How Do I Kill It?
The immortal jellyfish are born, develop and reach full maturity like any other gelatinous spawn of the ocean. However, instead of going to the Great Barrier Reef in the sky at the end of life, they simply revert back to a polyp (that's fancy Water Science talk for "baby"). In theory this could go on forever. Right now you're probably feeling a little gypped by this entry: "In theory? Lame! I guess it was unreasonable of me to expect something on Earth to literally live forever, though."
Was it?
Nah, we're just fucking with you: They're totally immortal, which is resulting in a giant influx in the jellyfish population. Millions of years ago, the first of these jellyfish was born, and somewhere in the ocean it's still living today.
"Get out of my way, you young punks!"
Our only hope is that when two immortal jellyfish get together they have to swordfight to the death because "there can be only one." Otherwise, we all better practice breathing gelatin because it's gonna get straight Jellyfish up in here.
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One of the men accused of raping and murdering WKU freshman Katie Autry has been denied in his request for bond. David Broderick, attorney for 22-year-old Scottsville native Lucas Goodrum has repeatedly asked 3 different judges to set bond, and all have refused.
The latest denial came Friday morning when special Judge Joseph Huddleston denied Broderick's request that his client be released from the Warren Co. Detention Center. Broderick argued that his client has been incarcerated since his June indictment, with no firm trial date yet set.
Broderick said Goodrum's right to a speedy trial has been impeded, and that he believed the Commonwealth did not have any evidence against Goodrum other than the statement of his co-defendant, Stephen Soules.
Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Chris Kohron countered that there is substantial evidence to continue holding Goodrum. Kohron said the pace of the legal proceedings in the case are moving at near-record speed for a death penalty case.
The Commonwealth also argued they believe Goodrum to be a flight risk because of his family's wealth. "No matter what multitude of restrictions the court might place on him, if he's released, we believe it's very likely we will never see him again," Kohron said.
In denying the motion for bond, Judge Huddleston said he is concerned over the speedy trial issue, and plans to set a trial date at a pretrial conference hearing in February.


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http://www.copticpope.org/This appears to be the announcement. Can someone translate?
Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate in the delivery of full to the will of the Lord, and in full faith by submitting to his will, convey to the people of Egypt and the world and the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt and the world, The Departure of His Holiness our Father beloved Pope Shenouda III , Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark Episcopate, the 117Saint of our times and patron of our sponsors and head Osaagaftna, who moved in the hope of resurrection and joined to the church of virgins and the ranks of the saints at a quarter past five pm Saturday, March 17, 2012 We pray for the departure of his soul pure, and condolences all of us will bring you the details successively after the convening of the Holy Synod.
Interestingly, in Arabic, he is called "Baba", which means "Daddy".
Sorrounded by so many cold and unwelcoming faces, I feel like I am embraced by angelic warmth whenever I see the face of H.H Pope Shenouda. He will be missed greatly. A tough challenge for the one who replaces his chair. Who are the potential candidates?
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Foster Wheeler's initiative to achieve a safety culture step-change by balancing observable and measureable safety tools with a personal commitment to safety led to the company receiving the 2013 Award for Excellence from the Rice Global Engineering & Construction Forum (RGF) in Houston.
Foster Wheeler's initiative to achieve a safety culture
step-change by balancing observable and measureable safety
tools with a personal commitment to safety led to the
company receiving the 2013 Award for Excellence by the
Rice Global Engineering & Construction Forum
Mark Garvey, president of Foster Wheeler USA, accepted the
award on behalf of the companys Realizing
Zero initiative at ta VIP banquet ceremony opening
the RGFs 16th annual fall conference in Houston.
Safety at the work site and in the office is a top
priority for both owners and contractors, said Chun Liang
of Bechtel, who chairs the RGF Award for Excellence
By trying to improve upon an already excellent safety
record, the Realizing Zero initiative not only is
transformative in nature for Foster Wheelers entire
organization, it also sets a new, higher safety target for
competitors," he added.
Since the inception of the Realizing Zero
initiative in September 2011, Foster Wheeler has reduced its
total recordable incident rate by greater than 50%.
Foster Wheeler is proud to be recognized for the
success of our Realizing Zero program," said Garvey.
"In designing this program, our HSE leadership has created a
culture in which everyone truly realizes that an injury
incident is not a statistic, but rather a real person who was
harmed due to a shortcoming within our organizational system, a
system we all contribute to and are responsible for."
At every level of our organization, it is Foster
Wheelers commitment to make sure we do everything in our
power to eliminate or avoid any situation that could put the
safety of our employees, subcontractors, or clients at risk,"
he added. "Realizing Zero provides a world class
process framework for delivering on this commitment."
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I have some TikZ code in my LaTeX document. Whenever I edit other parts in the LaTeX document, I recompile it. But repeating recompiling unmodified TikZ code can be time-consuming.
I was wondering if there is some way to avoid re-compilation of unmodified part of LaTeX document? If such methods exist, do they apply not just to unchanged TikZ code but also unchanged non-TikZ code?
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Take Back the Night is an international event intended to educate, protest, and bring awareness on ending violence against women. UWF's TBTN has historically been the biggest event of the Spring Semester. Join hundreds of UWF Students to speak out about sexual violence and learn how we can work together to prevent it.Join us on April 3rd at 5:30pm in the Commons Auditorium. There will be free food, an information fair, a Colloquium featuring several survivors who will speak on their experiences, and we will end the evening with a Campus March at 7:00pm. We will also be giving away two styles of tshirts for those who attend the Colloquium and those who attend the March, as well as our Keep Calm button collections and other giveaways. The winners of our Creativity for a Cause will be also be announced and showcased.
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A couple stands in front the 'I love You : The Wall' art work by Frederic Baron and Claire Kito on Saint Valentine's Day in Paris, France.
U.S. President Barack Obama reacts as he reads a card during a game with children in a per-kindergarten classroom at College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center in Decatur, Georgia.
Syrian rebels fire a mortar toward regime forces stationed at Kwiriss airport in Al-Bab, 30 kilometers from the northeastern Syrian city of Aleppo.
People attend a mass candlelight vigil around a portrait of Jahanara Imam, the late political activist pioneer widely known for bringing the accused of committing war crimes in the Bangladesh Liberation War to trial, at Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
A folk artist stretches as he waits for a performance at a Spring Festival Temple Fair on the fifth day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Longtan Park in Beijing, China.
A couple walks along a path on Valentine's day in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
A boy looks on while standing with his father, who a rose placed on his belt, they shop for gifts on Valentine's Day in Sana'a, Yemen.
Generations of stars can be seen in this infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. In this wispy star-forming region, called W5, the oldest stars can be seen as blue dots in the centers of the two hollow cavities. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian)
Israeli soldiers clean the barrel of a mobile artillery unit after an exercise in the Golan Heights, near Israel's border with Syria.
Men jump to catch a leather ball at the start of the annual 'Fastern Eve Handba' event in Jedburgh, Scotland. Known locally as Jethart Ba', the handball games are played on the Thursday after Shrove Tuesday, and involves two teams getting the ribboned leather ball to either the top or bottom of the town, with no rules.
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I am very new in NetTopologySuite, I work with the coordinatesystem in WGS84 by lon/lat, with the NetTopologySuite. I found the Buffer function to create a buffer with a distance, but how can I make a buffer with distance by the unit of meter? e.g make a 200 meter buffer of one point.
NetTopologySuite is a port of the JTSTopologySuite. From the JTS FAQ:
So, if you are using input data with lat/lon your buffer has to be calculated in the same unit (e.g decimal degrees).
You can either calculate an local approximation of how many decimal degrees 200 meters are or you can reproject your data to a grid that uses metric units. You can find a post going more into the details of these options here.


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Drivers Safety Apparel - Safety CheckupWritten by on February 10, 2003 Contributors: Michele Jewett, Courtesy of Dupont Ensure Ultimate Safety In The Driver's Compartment
The need for speed should always be overruled by the need for safety. While it may not be the common mindset even today, catastrophic on-track events have drawn attention to the concept. The era of invincibility is beginning to wane, but there's still plenty of work to be done.
The smart racer is constantly assessing his or her safety equipment. It's not a project for the off-season: That's just a good time to upgrade. The best time to actually upgrade safety equipment is before it becomes a problem.
You simply cannot expect products to last forever. It stands to reason that safety equipment has a life, just like engine components and suspension components. Failure to regularly check your safety equipment is like failing to check your oil.
The driver should be protected from head to toe with the best possible protection offered. Likewise, the area surrounding the driver should be free of threats to the driver's well-being.
Start with the Suit
The technology involved in making the driver's suit has focused on comfort and protection. On the surface, you may think comfort doesn't belong, but it's a very viable concern.
"We had to continue raising the bar for today's suit," said Chad Liberto of Sparco Safety. "Today's suits are lighter and not as cumbersome. You can make a suit that has much higher levels of safety, but it would be so uncomfortable that the driver couldn't focus on his task. The latest suits are lighter for a reason."
The predominant material in a modern suit is Nomex, which has proven itself through time. "The Proban suit has a limited life," says Kevin Larkins of Speedway Motors. "After so many uses, it starts to lose its protection capabilities. Nomex is much better."
"Proban is a chemically treated material and you can only expect to get 25 to 50 washings as a best case," says Simpson Race Products Vice President Doug Doolen. "Nomex is clearly superior. Testing was done by DuPont on the Thermo Man, a stainless-steel man with 122 heat sensors. They took the data and extrapolated it to translate it to survivability."
Simpson is using a filament Nomex in some of its suits. It contains no Kevlar and testing has found the outer layer puffs up, creating an air pocket that adds insulation to protect the driver in a fire situation.
One size does not fit all when it comes to driver's suits. A good fit helps the protection aspect, and it is critical for the comfort part. Liberto pointed out a common error when buying a suit, whether it is a replacement or your first piece of apparel. "The best way for a non-professional racer to determine if the fit is right is to put it on and sit in the seat," he says. "Everybody will try it on and walk around, but that is not the critical need. You're going to be strapped in with your legs bunched up and your back hunched over. It gets tight in some places, maybe even uncomfortable. The fit can affect the safety. If it's tight on the skin, the heat gets through there."
Heat leads to fatigue, a threat to driver performance. Fire is another source of heat, and the fire protection aspects are considered in every element of the suit. While the suits are designed to do their job, there's a critical aspect to remember: "Nothing is fireproof," says Bob Stroud of Stroud Safety. "You can weld pieces of steel together with heat. Remember that these suits are fire-retardant. What you're buying here is time, the time needed to extinguish the fire."
Time can spell the difference between holding your breath or riding in an ambulance. Today's safety equipment is designed to protect the driver as long as possible with the goal of increasing the protection time. The driver can help the cause by thinking about all of his or her apparel needs. "Nomex underwear can cut the burn percentage in half," says Doolen. "This is an important layer of driver protection."
The life of a racing suit depends upon a number of factors. First, the quality of the initial material must be evaluated, i.e., Nomex is better than Proban and will last longer. Second, your individual application and care weigh heavily on how long you can expect to get the right protection.
"If you can't afford proper protection, you can't afford to race," stresses Stroud. "These suits come with care instructions, whether it's washing or dry cleaning. We recommend dry cleaning for two reasons. First, it helps the colorfastness; keeps the suit looking nice. Second, it gets out the dirt, synthetic materials, and the like that regular soap won't. Keep the suit clean."
"Longevity is determined by care," says Liberto. "Most of us race hard and the suit takes the toll. Over the years, the protection will diminish. Nomex is delicate. We recommend replacing the suit every two or three years. The use factor is why you'll see the pros go through 5 to 10 suits a year." "A driver's suit will fray or it will discolor," says Larkins. "A good rule of thumb is to replace it every couple of years; sooner if there is a sign of wear."
Taking care of a suit means more than washing it. When wearing it, you need to treat it like a special piece of apparel. "Treat your suit like your Sunday suit," adds Liberto.
If you happen to have been involved in a fire, you really need to evaluate it--even if you escaped unharmed. "It's a no-brainer: You want it to protect you. If a fire happened and it was put out, visibly inspect the suit. The burn process could create a weak point. You need to pay attention to your safety gear. If you have that weak point, you don't want to think about it if you're in another fire," says Liberto.
"You need to make sure there are no holes or tears in your equipment," adds Stroud. "Use common sense in this situation. These suits use special threads and special materials. Don't let your wife or girlfriend fix the suit. They can't do it. The materials, the machinery, and the methods are all different."
One horror story includes an attempt to replace a zipper. A driver's suit was given to a seamstress for a new zipper, but the replacement zipper was plastic. The zipper would have fused in a fire, essentially trapping the driver. Fortunately, the suit was discarded before something like that happened.
Head Protection
It was a long-standing joke about buying a $200 helmet for a 25 cent head, but head injuries are no laughing matter. Manufacturers are taking their responsibility seriously and constantly looking at ways to improve existing protection. They want the latest and greatest on the shelves each time a driver makes a selection.
"We're always introducing new ideas," Doolen says. "We look at the weight of the helmet. We look at its construction. We have to pass the Snell certification tests. The 2000 standard was difficult to pass. We've got some new stuff in the works; some that will take a 1/2-pound of weight off and still have the protection needed at high g's."
Damage to helmets can come in many ways, some not obvious. You need to inspect it after each incident.
"First, make sure your helmet is up to date before you use it," says Stroud. "Look at the outside and make sure it's not cracked. Get a new helmet after impact if you're not sure about the safety of the helmet. Use common sense."
"We offer a helmet inspection service," says Doolen. "If there's a crack in the gel coat, visible damage to the shell, damage to the liner, things like that, the helmet has to go. Remember, a good helmet is the last line of defense."
For the most part, sanctioning bodies and racetracks will make helmet recommendations, but it will usually require your helmet to meet the latest Snell standard, in this case, Snell 2000. Some places still allow Snell 95 helmets, but if your helmet is older than that, see if a museum would like to display it.
Other Apparel
A complete driver's safety package covers the driver from head to toe, including the underwear, head sock (balaclava), gloves, and shoes. These elements require inspection and replacement, especially the outer layers. "Gloves and shoes have a quicker wear because they are at a contact point," offers Liberto. "You need to inspect them for holes and rips."
"Make sure your shoes have soles and tread," Stroud remarks. "Duct tape around the shoe will do you no good, yet we still see it out there."
One criticism of lower-level competitors is their unwillingness to buy and wear special gloves or shoes. In failing to do this, these drivers leave themselves open to paralyzing injuries to their hands and feet.
"If you don't respect your body," Stroud says, "that's your problem. But when you're racing beside someone, you're affecting them, too. You need to think about doing all you can do."


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Orgyen Khamdroling invites you to join us in the traditional study and practice of the Longchen Nyingthig --The Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse. Under the guidance of Anyen Rinpoche, our community is committed to rooting the Dharma in the West through authentic practice, following the example of the great masters of our lineage. Please feel free to join us at Orgyen Khamdroling Center in Denver, Colorado, or wherever Anyen Rinpoche is teaching!
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The 6 Most Terrifying Things People Used to Do With the Dead
Humans have long held a deep fascination with the morbid. Before televisions and the Internet came along, this could be problematic: It's not as if people could just sate their thirst for freakology with a Twilight Zone marathon or a wee hours Creepypasta binge. What the people of the past did have, though, was an abundant supply of corpses and tons of spare time. Here's some of the horrible, horrible stuff they did with both of those things.
(Disclaimer: This article contains images that may disturb some younger readers and will absolutely kick your soul in the dick, regardless of age.)
#6. Victorian Postmortem Photography
People of the Victorian era were into all sorts of kink that ranged from the ball-shrivelingly strange to the downright lethal. And once you were actually dead, things didn't get any less freaky: On the weird end of the Victorian fashion spectrum lurked memento mori pictures. When a family member passed away, the Victorians had photos taken of the dearly departed. These eerie shots served as grim keepsakes, reminders of the inevitability of death -- and fashionable home furnishings.
Luckily, the living looked just as creepy as the dead.
Originally, "memento mori" meant almost anything -- locks of corpse hair woven into jewelry, death masks, paintings of the deceased -- just so long as you were probably haunted for carrying it around, it counted as an MM. The advent of photography changed all this. Suddenly, the middle class could afford to have the pallid, waxy corpses of their loved ones immortalized on a budget. And, since early cameras had exposure times of up to 10 minutes -- meaning the subject would have to sit really still (corpses are generally pretty still, and if they're not, you've got bigger problems than a blurry picture) -- the photographers were generally down to take some soft-core photos of the dead.
The relaxed posture sometimes added a cheery, casual air.
For a truly fashionable corpse display, the bodies needed to appear as lifelike as possible. This was achieved with a number of cheats, not unlike the ones food photographers use to trick you into thinking a Big Mac is edible. A common technique was to prop the stiff's eyes open or paint pupils onto the developed picture (because that's what corpses need help with -- augmenting their unblinking vacant stares). Children were sometimes surrounded with their favorite toys and, for a side of extra creep, occasionally done up like zombified cherubs. For adults, a complicated pose-a-corpse apparatus enabled more complex stances.
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Turn the crank to see him perform a jig.
Because that's how little Johnny should remember his loving dad -- staring balefully across the barriers of death while propped up like a meat Muppet.
#5. Naga Trophy Skulls
In the Naga Hills of the Naga district of northeastern India, there lived a tribe called, surprise, the Naga. The Naga treated the skulls of fallen foes like video game currency: Collecting enough top-quality heads bought a warrior many privileges, such as access to special tattoos and ornaments that marked him as a great hero.
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In case your victims' decorative skulls didn't already mark you as a badass warrior.
A post-headhunt Naga camp was a sight straight out of a horror movie: Heads would be left on open pedestals for months while the meaty parts rotted away. The bare skulls would be displayed in the communal warriors' hut, where aspiring young hunters were housed. Of course, extra points were scored for how formidable the opponent had been. Warriors had a tendency to decorate their trophies with stuff like animal horns and tusks, for the same reason kids slap lime green spoilers on their Honda Civics today.
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Like Civics, skulls don't have to worry about drag. Because they're magic.
Among other things, these horned skulls were totally acceptable marriage dowries. If a headhunter wanted to strike up a romance with a lady, he'd give her the pimped out head of a vanquished enemy. Hey, it's a surprisingly sensible gift -- chocolate lasts a day, and flowers last a week, but that defiled skull will haunt you for a lifetime.
There's also the Indonesian Dayak tribe, who shared a lot with the Naga: They, too, were very aggressive headhunters who also displayed their trophy heads in communal long houses. The only difference was that their skull trophies were, if anything, way more fitting for your black metal band's debut album cover:
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They did a DNA test. This was human. Superhuman.
#4. Powdered Mummies
For hundreds of years, mummia was a wonder medicine used to fix basically everything. According to apothecaries, mummia could staunch internal bleeding, ease menstrual pains, and even speed up the healing of wounds. Oh, and it was also made of desiccated human corpses. Yes, we're talking about goddamn powdered mummies, and yes, that shit was applied internally.
Every bathroom had a jar! No bathtubs or toilets, but everyone had their mummy powder.
From the 11th century until, well, now (hopefully), mummia was a readily available medicine in Europe. Tomb raiding thrived, as enterprising grave robbers sold powdered corpses on the street like nightmare cocaine.
When actual Egyptian mummies weren't available, you could just manufacture your own. The traditional recipe, as explained by the 15th century mystic/doctor Paracelsus, went as follows: Take the body of a young man who had died suddenly due to "unexpected violence," paint the inside of his chest cavity with asphaltum (a black resin used in the mummification process), wrap the body in bandages, dry it out like a human Raisinet, and then grind it up.
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Of course, there's only one way to be sure that he dies suddenly, unexpectedly, and violently.
All this dead-guy-dust-eating insanity was based on the belief that mummia contained vital life forces and could overcome the weak, sick flesh of the living, purging all illness from their systems. From about the 16th century onward, mummia started being dismissed as alchemical claptrap. However, because horrific madness is nothing if not resilient, mummia still persisted for quite some time. In fact, as late as the 19th century, a well-known German pharmaceutical company had mummia available in its catalog. The catchy product description was: "Genuine Egyptian mummy, as long as the supply lasts, 17 marks 50 per kilogram."
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text: Hey guys, Dawn here with another drawing tutorial yet again, but this time, I'm going to touch base with something that has been requested an awful lot since the new teaser trailer. In this tutoiral, I will be showing you 'how to draw Edward Kenway', step by step. The new Assassins Creed 4 game is going to be coming out shortly, probably for the PS4. Being a fan of the first game, AC4 looks promising. I've tried my best making this as simple as possible for the novice artists. Take your time, try your best, and most important of all, have fun! I hope you guys will enjoy this tut as much as I did, thanks for viewing and good luck!


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I think, most people understand the importance of such productivity techniques and principles as focusing, setting goals, avoiding distractions, checking email twice a day, rising early, doing physical exercises etc. These things are not easy to do, but they are easy to praise.
But what are productivity techniques and principles that are proven to work (for you) that are not so common and usual? I mean, things that most people don't do (maybe it's strange or they just didn't think of it or it's just not the way it's usually being done), but you do and it works?
Some examples to clarify my question: 'I do not have any email address', 'I work at nights only', 'I eat 20 times a day', 'I read books for 3 hours a day', 'I watch movies while coding', 'When I have something big to complete, I do not talk to a single person for weeks' etc.
The reason for this question is I'm a bit tired of common techniques (which, of course, work) and seek for something new and radical (and working for you).


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by Melissa Brunner
I was starting to formulate my thoughts for a blog on the topic of stores starting their Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving Day when my mom called, all worked up over watching "The View" Monday morning.
She says the conversation started innocently enough, with Whoopi Goldberg expressing sympathy for all the people who have to work at those stores on the holiday, asking when were they supposed to be able to spend time with their families. But then the other cohosts chipped in. Mom couldn't remember which one (she thought it was Elisabeth Hasselback) said the workers were being paid double time so it wasn't like they were being compensated. Then, Barbara Walters said the workers could choose which hours they wanted to work.
It was those last two comments that got mom fuming. You see, my mom worked retail for nearly 40 years before finally getting last season off - forced retirement due to her store closing. First, she says, not a whole lot of retail chains are paying double time anymore. Second, she says, workers can not necessarily choose when they want to work during the holiday season, especially when it comes to Black Friday. Management says you are all required to work, you will all work if you want to continue to have a job. Over the years, mom saw Black Friday creep from the 7 am opening, to 6 am, to 5 am and, finally, to the 4 am it was when she retired. She also talked about Christmas Eve closing time. She says it used to be 4 pm, and the store manager would hang around and wish everyone a merry Christmas, before they headed off to services or dinner with families. By the time she retired, they were open until 9 pm, no store manager around. She talked to the store manager once about why they were doing it and, among the responses, was that churches just needed to have more reasonable schedules for their services.
The bottom line reasoning, from the store CEOs and from the ladies on "The View," is that customers want the stores to be open Thanksgiving. I don't think that's necessarily the case. What I told my mom is that what customers want is the best deal, and they know they have to be at the store when it opens in order to get that deal because of limited quantities. The key variable in that equation is "when the store opens." I don't believe it's that people want the stores to be open Thanksgiving Day, but, if that's when the store is going to offer the best deal, then they'll head to the store in order to take advantage of it.
Am I off-base on my line of reasoning? If the stores were open Thanksgiving Day, but offered had no special sales, would you go? If Black Friday pricing didn't start until 8 am, would you be lining up at 10 pm? Ok, I know those of you already in line at Best Buy probably would, but how about the rest of you?
By the way, Target, Sears, Walmart, Kmart and Toys R Us are among stores starting sales Thanksgiving Day. Among the push-back? A Target worker started a petition at change.org asking the CEO to reconsider the Thanksgiving hours and Walmart workers plan to stage protests at about 1000 locations on Black Friday.


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I need to change the rear spoiler on my 2005 golf gti.
I read that it's possible to remove the adhesive by cutting through it with some kind of a thread, I guess nylon would be best.
Has anyone done this? Any tips?
If you can work it under the spoiler, dental floss would probably work. That will take care of the adhesive and it should come off if there aren't any bolts holding it on.
I've never done this myself, but on the make/model specific forums I frequent, I've seen dental floss and fishing line recommended. Though going back and searching, it seems the dental floss (doubled over) was recommended for emblems, fishing line for spoilers. You might also try a gentle application of heat to loosen the adhesive, perhaps also (again, gently) applying a plastic putty knife once you've got enough of a gap opened up. Make sure there aren't any bolts holding it on, check from below. Though if you work fishing line from the driver side to the passenger side that should rule out any fasteners.
If the fishing line doesn't work try fishing leaders. Fishing leaders are available that are made of small diameter steel cable. It is available in measured lengths or by the spool. They come in various strengths and are nylon coated which should protect the paint. I have used them to cut thru windshield adhesive. Park the car in the sun for a couple of hours to help soften the adhesive. Use a sawing action and lube the wire with WD40. Once everything starts to separate place small wooden wedges under the spoiler so it won't readhere.


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I've drawn some figures using xymatrix, but they're much larger than I'd like them to be. Is there a way to resize them? I'd be happy to cut them down to a fixed percentage of the original or to a given size. I know how to change the size of the entries using the standard font size changing commands, but I really want to make the arrows shorter as well.
If you're using
@=dimen set spacing @C=dimen set column spacing @R=dimen set row spacing
I think you can use
If you want to specify only the width, write
wight or height can be any length like 3cm, 4em or 1\textwidth
To change the distance between the entries using xy-pic, you need to define \xymatrixrowsep and \xymatrixcolsep to change the distance between rows and columns. That is, the following code
gives a square with A and B separated by 2 inches, and A and C separated by 1 inch.


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5 Terrifying Online Trends (Invented By the News Media)
#2. The Internet Will Make Mothers Neglect Their Children Until They Are Dead
This story broke just days before this article was written. Headline: "Baby Drowns While Mom Playing Game on Facebook."
That's right -- Facebook and its bullshit Flash games are so addictive that you will be brainwashed into letting your children die. Read the link: The mother clearly neglected her baby while she played on Facebook. She probably left the kid drifting in standing water for hours, or days, while she stared transfixed at her devil-game.
The flickering images stole her sanity.
Actually, the CNN version of the story has a few more details. The baby was left alone for three minutes. The mother had started a routine of leaving the baby alone to bathe because she (stupidly) thought it would teach him to be more independent. Bad parent? Yup. Negligent? Looks like it, and she's being charged as such.
Hypnotized by a new mind-controlling technology into forgetting that she loves her child? Fuuuuuuck no.
Read between the lines in every single "parent abandons child for (insert social networking or gaming activity here)" story and you'll find the same thing. There's a famous one from South Korea where a couple "Let Their Baby Starve to Death While Nurturing a Virtual Child."
But hey, South Korea does other stuff, too.
Yep, no other factors at play here! Oh, wait, both parents had just lost their jobs. Both were suffering from depression. The baby was born prematurely. They had disconnected from everything. If it hadn't been the game, it would have been drugs, or a cult, or take your pick.
Don't get me wrong; as a father, I want to ear-fuck both of them with a cordless drill. But my point is that the game did not kill their child. They never sat down and made a conscious decision that this virtual baby was more important than their own. The news media said all that for them.
It's enough to make you long for the good old days, when headlines were easier to ignore in favor of cartoons.
#1. The Internet Will Drive Your Children to Suicide
Jesus. Here we go.
Headline: "Phoebe Prince, South Hadley High School's 'New Girl,' Driven to Suicide by Teenage Cyber Bullies."
She was driven to suicide by people who knew her in real life, you sensationalist motherfuckers.
Read the story. The vast majority of the abuse happened in school and when she was walking home. See, that's the kind of abuse that can terrorize a person. Real-life abuse, from real people who can physically intimidate you and do tangible harm, people who can affect your everyday life and ruin your reputation in school, or drive away friends.
This generation needs a Carrie.
Maybe, out there somewhere, is a kid who in fact committed suicide based purely on "cyberbullying" -- that is, people he or she knew only online, where the abuse was limited to the sort of thing can you can do over the Internet (threatening comments and emails, etc.). I can't find such an example, and I'm betting that for every kid who suffered an emotional breakdown over "cyberbullying," you'll find several hundred who can trace their problems to things that happened right here in the boring old real world.
And no, they can't justify publicizing a family's personal tragedy based on the idea that it "raises awareness" of cyberbullying, same as they can't justify splashing a dead baby across headlines based on raising awareness of gaming addiction.
They had a chance to raise awareness -- of depression, and the grotesque lack of mental health services available to most people. They could have gone after the real causes, but those boring old subjects don't put asses in the seats.
Nothing brings people together like being terrified of the future.
Nope, we need a bogeyman. Maybe it's not even the media's fault -- maybe it's the audience's fault for falling for it. So how about this:
Some day we'll all be old, and scared. And our kids and grandkids will be messing with some kind of neural interface that we find upsetting and weird and alien. When stories hit the headlines claiming that this newfangled tech is making our kids fight and steal and kill themselves -- you know, do all of the things kids have been doing since the beginning of time -- let's try not fucking falling for it.
Discover some other innovations that were real bogeymen our new book.
And check out more from Cheese in The 4 Most Important Things to Know as a Gamer Parent and 5 Internet Life Lessons Parents Need to Start Teaching Kids.


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I was a little worried about picking up one of these tools after reading some reviews. So far so good! I love it! It's very easy to use, and heats up REALLY quickly! It does seem a little awkward at first, but you get the hang of it. You have to hold the button down while you're using it. You can use the Imaginisce brand gemstones, or it seems like any other "hot fix" embellishment. I found Darice brand packages at Pat Catan's that are working great with my I-rock! If you have trouble finding gemstones, check where your craft stores carry t-shirt making supplies. Just make sure you are buying "hot fix" stones; the glue is already on the back and just needs heat to make them stick. I am so excited to use this on my cards and layouts!
I just received my I-Rock yesterday. I have been wanting one of these for awhile!! Let me say.. it is an awesome little tool!!! You will LOVE having this in your arsenal! It is SO easy to use. It set the gems and glam rocks in a matter of seconds. You don't need to leave it on too long. You don't need to apply pressure. I like the idea of having to hold the button down for it to work. It shuts off when you release it, and gets rid of the risk of burning something. I am SO glad to have this great little tool!! Watch out it is addicting!!
If I could give this ten stars, I would! I thought I had broke it the first week, but used it so much, the batteries just died on me! I have blinged out so many l/o and cards, if it stays still too long, it just might get covered in jems. I have ordered more and different type of crystals and what-nots to use with this. Love, love, love it! And the fact that's it's pink is just another plus for me!
This little dude is great! So much nicer than placing your jewels then having to pick them up put too much glue, put the glue back down and having your glue squish out. This makes it so all you have to do is place and go. Love it!


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How did the phrase "butterflies in stomach" originate or what is the story behind this phrase?
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Under the definition 'A fanciful name (usually plural) used of the fluttering sensations felt before any formidable venture, especially in . . . butterflies in the stomach', the Oxford English Dictionary provides this as its earliest recorded use, in 1908, of the expression:
The plural form doesn't occur until 1944:
Only in 1955 does the expression as we know it today appear:
Etymology Online dates butterflies in the sense of "light stomach spasms caused by anxiety" to 1908.
As for why, I believe it's just a descriptive phrase meant to capture the fluttering sensation you feel when nervous, as if butterflies were rapidly flapping their wings in your stomach.
Why we blame butterflies and not, say, hummingbirds or bees, I can't say, though it might have to do with their perceived delicacy and harmlessness.
As Barry answered, the OED gives 1944 for first plural use and 1955 for the current meaning. I've found an antedating of the plural with our present day meaning from 1943.
The February 1943 Boys' Life has an account from a paratrooper and former scout, Bill Gardner, on his very first training jump:


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6 Formerly Kickass Creatures Ruined by Evolution
#3. Megatherium
Used to be ...
Megatherium was the size of an African Elephant and, while a herbivore, still was able to fend off attacks from almost anything in the ancient world, including an entire pack of those sabre-toothed tigers. It had eight-inch claws on its foot for the dual purposes of defense and, we can only assume, bloody murder.
It often stood on its hind legs, rendering it twice as tall as the African Bull elephant. The folks at Wikipedia describe its skeleton as "Robust." We here at Cracked prefer the phrase "holy shit gigantic." Recent research suggests that Megatherium may have used its powerful claws to actually fight Smilodon for their kills when simple trees were not enough to sustain its monstrous appetite and apparent occasional craving for mammalian flesh.
The Crappy Evolutionary Spin-off:
The common tree sloth. These adorable guys are about as threatening as Switzerland. They are entirely herbivorous, and spend most of the day relaxing, reclining and generally not scavenging for flesh. They are mostly famous for being slow, and you know you've reached an evolutionary low when your species is famous for sucking at motion.
In certain conditions, even the plants they hunt can outrun the sloth
They suck so much at movement that the Catholic Church has actually named a deadly sin after their species. Isn't that wonderful? Modern sloths suck so much that even God thinks they suck. Seriously, watch this one try to cross the road.
How the hell did that happen?
This one is our bad, again. Megatherium vanished from the continent the minute Homo sapiens crashed the party and slaughtered them. Though ... you can't help but wonder if the sloth got the last laugh. Sure, they have no redeeming qualities. But their life consists of eating more then their size requires, sleeping 15 to 18 hours a day and pooping.
That's basically the American dream. You have to applaud them for that.
#2. Entelodon
Used to be ...
Entelodon was a seven-foot-tall monster who achieved the dubious honor of 'Best Scavenger of the Oligocene' by being an enormous, festering, smelly mess. It feasted on rotten carrion killed by more effective murderers and frankly was unwelcome at parties due to hygiene that could offend filth itself.
What's so impressive about this thing? After all, it's just a scavenger, right? Well, it did have a full set of sharp teeth designed for ripping flesh from bone and a jaw which could, actually, crush the bone, too. It had most of its dental bases covered in that regard, really. They also traveled in packs, so a rotting corpse had to defend itself from a dozen or so Entelodonts at a time.
OK, we saved the real reason for last. If another, larger animal wanted to fight over the festering carrion, it was common etiquette for the Entelodont to take a crap on the food just to make sure nobody could enjoy it. Why aren't there more high school football teams named after these things?
The Crappy Evolutionary Spin-off:
The modern pig is all that is left of the proud Entelodont line. Instead of feasting on the decaying flesh of a day old kill, modern pigs eat a vitamin enriched feed consisting of fiber and other wheat products. Sort of a step up, but still, there is that whole "You will be processed and eventually sold by Oscar Meyer" thing for modern pigs, so the prestige is really just gone.
How the hell did that happen?
Larger predators ate all of their food. They could no longer overcome other predators and steal their food, so they eventually died off due to the fact that they had no real ability to acquire food for themselves. Their punishment? This:
#1. Andrewsarchus
Used to be ...
Andrewsarchus mongolianis is the stuff of nightmares. Remember in Lord of the Rings when the horsemen from Rohan get ambushed by gigantic wolves called Wargs? Picture those things, only with a jaw twice as powerful, a body quite a bit larger, and a soul twice as evil.
Larger then a grizzly bear one and a half times over, Andrewsarchus was the most sophisticated killing machine since the Velociraptor. It was the largest mammalian terrestrial carnivore in the history of life on Earth. It was almost 15-feet long, and the first three feet of that was teeth. It was quick, agile and even had a pretty sophisticated brain for its era.
The Crappy Evolutionary Spin-off:
That finely-tuned killing machine's closest modern relative is anything from a sheep to a goat. The Andrewsarchus' Order, Mesonychia, has close ties to the modern Order Artiodactyla, to which Ovis aries and Capa aegagrus are a modern example of. Yes, that pitiful thing that smelled like its own feces when you awkwardly encountered it at that petting zoo is all that's left of the most powerful mammalian predator in history.
Goat-built fortresses are considered among the worst
How the hell did that happen?
The Ice Age essentially wiped Andrewsarchus out of the mammalian gene pool. All that's left are these warm, fuzzy remnants. This includes what has to be the utter bottom rung of evolutionary failure, the fainting goat:
Yeah, real nice animal there, evolution.Walter Lawrence, when not writing about evolutionary failures, devotes most of his time to working on his nascent website, Internet-Explorers.net.
If you enjoyed that, check out our rundown of The 10 Lamest Dinosaur Names. Then, enjoy a video about a now extinct species that enjoyed dinosaurs more than most in our video explanation of the strange premises behind classic video games. Then check out what the crazy drug addled minds who came up with that video are up to these days over on the blog.


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When do you traditionally celebrate Christmas?
Growing up I always had three Christmas's. The Saturday before Christmas was spent with my mom's extended family, with eating, singing carols, and a gift exchange. On Christmas Eve, we always went to my dad's parents' to celebrate with his side of the family. Then on Christmas morning was celebrating with the immediate family. It always seemed to work out well, and everyone was happy with the set-up.
Now I'm on my own and situations have changed. Still do the Saturday before Christmas with mom's extended family. But Christmas Eve is spent with my fiance's family, and Christmas morning is at my house with only my fiance and my daughter. The afternoon of Christmas we again celebrate with my fiance's family. And at some point we will make it to my mom's house for dinner and gift exchange.
Just wondering what other's do for celebrations.
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I like to get it out of the way in early August.
Celebrating Christmas in August is (likely) more correct for historical reasons as well.
We do ours on Christmas Eve because my brother goes with his GF to her Dad's house on Christmas Day.
Cool with me, gives me all Christmas Day to destroy some noobs on Xbox.
I have always celebrated Christmas with family on Christmas day. This year it will be with a couple friends in Japan or alone in Japan, hopefully the former.
I live alone and my family lives far from here. So my gift exchange is in the afternoon on Christmas Day with all my friends. I usually let my dog have one of his gifts first thing on Christmas morning, just so it feel like Christmas morning and because he is so good about not getting into stuff under the tree, even when he knows it's for him.


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I think every car has re-circulator functionality in AC control panel. But I don't really use it, because it fogs up all of the windows. What is the purpose of the re-circulator?
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It helps cool the air faster as it's taking the inside air (already partially cooled) and cooling it further rather than trying to cool the (often hotter) outside air. Obviously there's only a specific range where it works well. I've never noticed a fogging problem using it, but I only use it when it's of benefit...
Some cars will give you the option to recirculate the air with or without AC, no matter the temperature. On hot days it makes sense to recirculate the cooler air like Brian touched on, and during the winter I sometimes like to recirculate the warmer air on really cold days.
If your windows are fogging up at all when your AC is on, you might have a problem with your AC though.


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I was following this highly voted question on possible violation of Liskov Substitution principle. I know what the Liskov Substitution principle is, but what is still not clear in my mind is what might go wrong if I as a developer do not think about the principle while writing object-oriented code.
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I think it's stated very well in that question which is one of the reasons that was voted so highly.
Imagine if you will:
In this method, occasionally the .Close() call will blow up, so now based on the concrete implementation of a derived type you have to change the way this method behaves from how this method would be written if Task had no subtypes that could be handed to this method.
Due to liskov substitution violations, the code that uses your type will have to have explicit knowledge of the internal workings of derived types to treat them differently. This tightly couples code and just generally makes the implementation harder to use consistently.
If you don't fulfill the contract that has been defined in the base class, things can silently fail when you get results that are off.
Should any of these not hold, the caller might get a result he does not expect.
Consider a classic case from the annals of interview questions: you have derived Circle from Ellipse. Why? Because a circle IS-AN ellipse, of course!
Except... ellipse has two functions:
Clearly, these must be re-defined for Circle, because a Circle has a uniform radius. You have two possibilities:
Most OO languages don't support the second, and for a good reason: it would be surprising to find that your Circle is no longer a Circle. So the first option is the best. But consider the following function:
Imagine that some_function calls e.set_alpha_radius. But because e was really a Circle, it surprisingly has its beta radius also set.
And herein lies the substitution principle: a subclass must be substitutable for a superclass. Otherwise surprising stuff happens.
In layman's words:
Your code will have an awful lot of CASE/switch clauses all over.
Every one of those CASE/switch clauses will need new cases added from time to time, meaning the code base is not as scalable and maintainable as it should be.
LSP allows code to work more like hardware:
You don't have to modify your iPod because you bought a new pair of external speakers, since both the old and the new external speakers respect the same interface, they are interchangeable without the iPod losing desired functionality .
to give a real life example with java's UndoManager
it inherits from
however UndoManager has more states and acts like an undo buffer (each call to
this leads to the hypothetical situation where you add a UndoManager to a CompoundEdit before calling
I rolled my own
Example: You are working with a UI framework, and you create your own custom UI-control by subclassing the
So what can go wrong with this? It is obvious that the rendering of the control will fail, since you don't return a list of controls as expected. Most likely the UI will crash. You are breaking the contract which subclasses of Control is expected to adhere to.
You can also look at it from a modelling point of view. When you say that an instance of class
So, violating the LSP means that there is some contradiction in your design: you are defining some categories for your objects and then you are not respecting them in your implementation, something must be wrong.
Like making a box with a tag: "This box contains only blue balls", and then throwing a red ball into it. What is the use of such a tag if it shows the wrong information?
I inherited a codebase recently that has some major Liskov violators in it. In important classes. This has caused me huge amounts of pain. Let me explain why.
I have
Putting aside the fact that this is an utterly terrible way to do translation in .NET, there are a number of other issues with this code.
In this case
The code uses objects of both
There are some very useful utility functions that operate on
The worst thing about this is that this particular case is really hard to refactor as the entire application hinges on these two classes, operates on both classes all the time and would break in a hundred ways if I change this (which I am going to do anyway).
What I will have to do to fix this is create a
Given that the codebase does not have unit tests around it, this is pretty close to being the most dangerous scenario that a developer can face. If I don't change the violation I have to spend huge amounts of mental energy keeping track of what type of object is being operated on in each method and if I do fix the violation I could make the whole product explode at an inopportune time.
If you want to feel the problem of violating LSP, think what happens if you have only .dll/.jar of base class (no source code) and you have to build new derived class. You can never complete this task.


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Design images of the interior
Book rotunda
Operating as a main focal point of the building, the central rotunda features a breathtaking wall of books across several floors, with the image showing an improved environment with user-friendliness at its core. Wide travelators and escalators provide links between floors, while spacious public areas are flooded with natural light.
The outdoor amphitheatre promises to become a hugely popular feature of the new building upon completion. Accessible from the music and children's sections of the Library of Birmingham, the amphitheatre will provide the perfect space for outdoor performance and activity which can be viewed from onlookers in the above Centenary Square.


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220 East 11th St., Siler City, NC 27344
Best Foods
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The East Coast Allred Family Association, Inc. (ECAFA) will hold its May Membership Meeting on May 23, 2013 at 6:00 PM at Best Foods in Siler City. The public is invited to attend. The program is free but attendees are responsible for the cost of their meal. Our guest speaker will be John Clauser, retired NC archeologist, who will give a presentation on cemetery preservation and maintenance. The ECAFA has a major cemetery preservation project going on and we are in need of volunteers to join us. This program will serve as training for anyone interested in helping with the project. For more information, please visit our website at www.allredfamily.com/ecafa.htm or call 336-879-0408.