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From Noisebridge
I like to build things. I'm a member of Oakland's SudoRoom and am learning 3D printing there as well. http://www.sudoroom.org
One thing that is very precious to me is my time. I'm constantly setting boundaries so that I can focus on achieving meaningful goals. I'm getting better at being nice about this. <3
Noisebridge Projects
- I'm helping out with the Noisebridge Beginning 3D printing group - 3DPrintBeginners
- I love programming iPad and iPhone apps. I just love objective-C. We are lone wolves and get attacked by the open source community let us band together and create quality products!
- Messing around with arduinos and wearable electronics
- Making art
- I like dance
- I like travel
- I like updating the wiki
What do I Offer
- I like to have fun, I guarantee you I am fun
- I speak German (fluently), beginning Japanese and Russian
- I can draw things. I will help you draw things.
- I love programming iphone apps. there are very few of us and we get ganged up on a lot. stick with me and we can do great things. I like to make great products
- I'm into nerd skateboarding. Involve me in something that is not part of any commercial skate shop, mainstream skate scene. Do not talk to me about longboarding. skate with me but do not even begin to pretend there is a place for me in any skate scene in which i can grow as a meaningful human being.
- I'm into nerd snowboarding. Do not pretend that there is a place for me in the commercial snowboarding scene.
Good patterns
- Collaborate with me
- teach me something, I will teach you back
- Help me improve noisebridge
- teach me how to skate without mansplaining or using me to promotey our incredibly talented skate career
- make stuff with me
People are going to ignore all this stuff but I might as well set my boundaries. =D
- Do not talk endlessly to me about some neat start-up or amazing projects or websites for kickstarter projects, it is especially offensive if you are not involving me directly in your project. There are other people who have the time to help you promote your kickstarter project. you should pay them. it's called marketing <3 Marketing usually costs more than inventing something and producing it. You do not "deserve" millions of dollars becuasey ou can produce a decent hack. Most of the reason people get millions of dollars is because they are strong product, not technology, people and plow a lot of money into marketing and advertising. Often the toughest thing about making a great software or hardware product is making something that is stable, bug proof and sustainable that a team of non techie people can work on without you. Great product companies are run by people you consider boring suits and office slaves who do all the sh***work you feel you are too smart to do. great companies are borne of QA people slaving away and doing the crap and not getting any glory. It is about people like me who evangelize and tell everyone how great you are and eat dinner with people even though we are tired, and work with conservative people so you don't have to. ROCK ON
- Do not hijack any meetup groups I'm at so that you can get free advertising for your API / platform / kickstarter.
- Do not use me to get free PR for your cheezy games and art festival that offers me no collaboration or direct involvement.
- Do not take me less seriously than the guys when I'm doing electronics. This happens at a lot of hackerspaces I'm at.
- Do not spam my email or waste my time advertising a privately funded wearable art technology non-profit that offers me no collaboration and just wants to use me for more free advertising and marketing.
- Do not pressure me to join a religion or a particular ethnic group. Just because someone is born into a particular ethnic group does not mean they are locked into that culture forever, subject to that group's whims, and it certainly does not mean that it defines who they are.
- Do not try to influence me to develop android products, I am an iOS Developer.
- Do not use me as a platform to advertise the latest start-up
- Do not involve me in your political platforms, leftist movements, social justice issues. I do not work in politics. I do not feel motivated to listen to your gigantic self righteous rants about the way the world is. I'm probably a lot smarter than you think, but I'm polite and I won't poke holes in your theories because it's a waste of my time.
- Do not pressure me to use lowrider bicycles or longboards.
- I am not into amateur psychological experiments. Save that for other people. I have had the "best of the best" and it is really boring and tiresome. If you really must why don't you look in the mirror and experiment on yourself?
- I will not de facto connect you to rich and powerful people. if i could do that do you think i'd be as poor as i am now? do not approach me assuming you can use me to get access to someone who is "important"
- Do not try to use me to advertise a private company /restaraunt / non-profit / political organization. If you are being paid to do so please provide full disclosure. I can sniff that stuff out pretty well. Often I will deliberately avoid visiting a legitmiately good restaraunt / cafe / music festival if someone is being paid to promote it. This is marketing 101
- Do not pressure me to advertise junk food or eat a particular kind of food.
- Do not pressure me to use a 3D game system engine. I do not like 3D games.
- Do not use me to further the business and political agendas of a particular city or region without giving me full disclosure and involving me directly with my permission. I'm still trying to disentangle myself from San Jose.


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I've deployed a haproxy->lamp->mysql stack using juju. It seemed pretty straight forward and it works well from my tests. I've also seen its easy to scale a layer and add extra units to the lamp servers for example. The rest of our configuration on the server is done by puppet.
However within the same environment "ec2" (specified in my environments.yaml) in this case, I wish to deploy another set of servers using the same formular haproxy->lamp->mysql.
However it doesnt seem possible as you get this error:
ERROR Service name 'mysql' is already in use
Is there a way to do this?
I had the idea to create separate environments in the yaml file with the same EC2 credentials but this seems like its going to spin up an extra juju config server per environment. As we are running over 250 web sites in these type of stacks that means an extra 250 servers on our AWS bill which is far from ideal.
Ideally I'm aiming to deploy multiple haproxy->lamp->mysql stacks without having to create new charms for each website.
Any suggestions welcome or if it can't be done I need to rethink things.

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Richard Richman
Real Impact
Thanks to a trailblazing, success-laden career in real estate, Richard Richman '72 has risen to the very top of his profession.
Last May, during a luncheon at Revson Sculpture Plaza, Richard P. Richman '72 had a conversation with a woman concerned that her 23-year-old couldn't find a reasonably priced apartment in Manhattan. Soon after, the woman, who lived on the Upper West Side, sighed about a new high-rise development going up in her neighborhood, and Richman was reminded of the difficulties inherent in his business, not to mention public policy. "The trouble is, everybody wants affordable housing," he says, and then jokes, "but if we can't build more housing because of sprawl in the suburbs, and we can't have more density in the city, I give up!"
Richman is the chairman of The Richman Group, one of the nation's largest owners and developers of rental property, and in the 20 years since he founded the company, he has seldom been in the position of giving up. The Richman Group maintains offices in 12 cities, has a financial interest in roughly 10 percent of the affordable housing developed in the United States each year, and conducts business in every state except Hawaii. "We have been equity investors in six apartment complexes in Wasilla, Alaska," he says. "We were among the few people in the United States who actually knew Sarah Palin."
Richman grew up in Great Neck, N.Y., in the 1950s, when Nassau County was the fastest growing county in the United States—its farms and estates transforming seemingly overnight into suburban tract housing. It was a natural breeding ground for a future real estate developer and financier, although Richman didn't become specifically interested in the field until he arrived at Columbia in the early '70s for a joint-degree program in law and business, and took a course in the new discipline of financing subsidized housing. (He now serves on the Dean's Council at the Law School.)
While at the Law School, Richman also volunteered for the failed gubernatorial campaign of Howard Samuels, and through these efforts he met future real estate personalities such as Donald Trump and Stephen Ross, of The Related Companies. It was also the beginning of a long side-career in politics, and Richman has twice served as the Connecticut finance chair for the Democratic presidential candidate.
In his remaining spare time, Richman gives lectures to college students, stressing the importance of luck—"being in the right place at the right time"—and taking a long view of history. At Columbia, he read The Great Crash: 1929, by John Kenneth Galbraith, which, in the wake of the subprime mortgage collapse, has served as a helpful lesson about bubbles and business cycles. "I tell kids to Google the land boom in Florida in the 1920s," he says. "That started the Great Depression. Things do repeat themselves."
Early in winter, Richman attended a ribbon cutting in Yonkers for the new Croton Heights Apartments, one of his firm's latest developments. "We are taking down the old federal public housing, which was, quite honestly, more about warehousing people than giving them great homes," he says. "At the end of the day, it's a business where we change people's lives. You take a young family and give them a new place to live."


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The Simplex SX410 rear derailleur on my bike was dirty, so I got it off to clean it.
Yet, now I can't quite seem to get it on again in a correct way.
Specifically, I can't get the spring to be wound up correctly (the derailleur hangs quite loose).
Is there anyone here who has got the same derailleur and actually knows how to put it on correctly?


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Just wanted to share something I am finally able to post… had to wait till this weekend as it is being unveiled at the Traeger HPBA expo booth.
This is the picture of the brand new Traeger 300. It is really cool and I get to play on one next month. I can't wait. Monday I'll post more specs on it. Its going to be awesome.


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STEUBENVILLE - City Council will consider a resolution at next week's regular meeting to establish a charter review commission.
If approved by at least five council members, the commission would look at the city's government for the first time since 1992.
But, during a committee meeting Tuesday night, not every council member appeared to favor the creation of a nine-person review commission.
"I don't think the timing is right. With 6th Ward Councilman David Lalich and 2nd Ward Councilman Rick Perkins deciding to not run for re-election, we will definitely have two new council members starting in January. We should not thrust this review commission on the new council members," stated 3rd Ward Councilman Greg Metcalf.
"If this is approved the mayor will appoint nine people and the commission will start holding hearings and taking testimony from department heads. We will be involved in contract negotiations in December with the firefighters union and early next year with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union. We will also be working on next year's budget along with the department heads. I think we should wait until the new members are on the council and the contract negotiations are completed before starting a review of the charter," continued Metcalf.
And, 4th Ward Councilwoman Angela Suggs asked Lalich why he had never proposed a charter review during his 16 years on the council.
"No one ever called me about creating a review commission. No one was ever adamant about a charter review before now," responded Lalich.
Fifth Ward Councilman Willie Paul has led the discussions regarding a charter review commission.
"I am just asking for a review. I think this should be done because it hasn't been reviewed since 1992. There is no written manual for new council members. We are learning on the fly. I think we may be helping the new people coming onto the council. This is something we need to do," said Paul.
"I am in support of a charter review. I will support it," said Councilman at large Kenny Davis.
"I want to see this go forward instead of sitting back like we have done on so many things for the past few years," said Perkins.
"I won't disagree some citizens are requesting a charter review. If the council (members) with five votes say they want a charter review commission appointed I will select nine members to review the charter. They will not change the charter form of government. A change in the government is a whole different process. It isn't bad to review the charter periodically," said Mayor Domenick Mucci.
Mucci also suggested the commission members cannot include current city employees, no elected officials, no city board or commission members and no persons doing business with the city.
Council's Pride Committee discussed several ideas for adopting a vacant lot or tot lot for maintenance purposes.
"I would like to see the landlords and banks who have foreclosed on properties to also get involved with this. We need everyone to be involved in the beautification of our city," remarked 1st Ward Councilman Gerald DiLoreto.
City Engineer Michael Dolak told the service committee he plans to remove Harvard Boulevard from the 2013 street paving list.
"There were three recent water line breaks under that street and the water line infrastructure needs replaced. I am recommending we delay paving that street until the water lines are replaced," said Dolak.
During the sunshine meeting, Lalich introduced the 2013 budget that includes closing the Pleasant Heights fire station and laying off five firefighters.
Other legislation proposed by Lalich included:
Authorizing the city manager to sign a contract with MWH Constructors for the design of a super pulsator building at the water filtration plant.
Advertising for proposals for a new delinquent water account collection service.
Amending the current table of organization.
Perkins introduced a resolution declaring April as Fair Housing Month in the city.
Lalich also scheduled a finance committee meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday to discuss the possibility of taking money from the safety fund in order to open and operate the Belleview Pool this summer.


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A Superior Court Judge in New Brunswick will hear argument at 10 am on Monday, November 4, 2013 on the constitutionality of New Jersey's 21-day advance voter-registration requirement.
The lawsuit, Rutgers University Student Assembly v. Middlesex County Board of Elections, has been brought by the Rutgers School of Law–Newark Constitutional Rights Clinic, the New Jersey Appleseed Public Interest Law Center, and the New Jersey Civil Liberties Union. The hearing Monday before Judge Heidi Currier concerns a motion by the Plaintiffs for Summary Judgment and a motion by the Defendants, represented by the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General, to dismiss the case.
The suit argues that in light of modern technology, New Jersey cannot justify its prohibition against voters who try to register less than 21 days before an election. Election day registration, which is already the law in 10 states and the District of Columbia, would provide recourse against burdensome factors often outside of voters' control that currently rob many thousands of New Jerseyans of their right to vote in elections, according to Plaintiffs.
Plaintiffs argue that New Jersey's computerized Statewide Voter Registration System (SVRS) now makes advance registration an unnecessary and undue burden on the right to vote guaranteed by the State Constitution.
In addition to the Rutgers Student Assembly, other plaintiffs in the suit are the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey, New Jersey Citizen Action, and half a dozen present and former Rutgers students who were denied the right to vote in recent elections despite having registered more than 21 days in advance of the election when their registrations were not properly processed.
For more information, contact Professor Frank Askin, Director of the Constitutional Rights Clinic, at 973-353-3239.| Read Story


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I've already looked at this question and didn't find it too helpful.
We're using Wordpress as a CMS that also includes a blog/news section. The blog/news uses WP "posts" and those are made whenever and are j
We're already using version control for the files, so that's simple enough. The main issue is the database. We basically want a selective backup that excludes posts. Are there any best practices or well tested ways to do this?
I'm comfortable enough with sql (not specifically MySql, but the dialects are similar enough I'd think) that I could come up with a script to do it, but I'd rather not risk subtle errors if there's already a well-tested solution available.
If there isn't already a solution, are there any caveats or pitfalls I should be aware of when doing this? Any relevant articles that would be helpful in preparing this?


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The Jefferson County Joint Vocational School needs the help of area voters to pass a much-needed 1-mill levy.
Since the school was built in 1975, it has aided and provided students with the skills they need to become productive members of the work force.
The JVS, located in Bloomingdale, serves students from all high schools in Jefferson County and some students from Harrison County. It has and continues to provide a well-rounded background in academics as well as quality education in the trades.
The levy, which will generate about $1.1 million a year during its 10-year life, will allow the school to upgrade its programs and make needed repairs - repairs such as replacing the roof, which is well beyond the patch-it point.
Money generated also would be used to renovate classrooms, update equipment in laboratories, install new heating controls, upgrade the security and fire alarm system and improve parking areas and sidewalks.
Faced with continuing budget cuts, administrators at the school have eliminated programs, reduced the number of employees, obviously delayed making repairs to the facility, limited the purchase of supplies and materials and suspended the purchase of lab equipment.
When students graduate, there's no question that they leave our county's JVS with academic, technical and employability skills that are needed in today's work force. Those who choose to enter the work force immediately have skills that are in demand. Those who decide to enroll in two-year or four-year colleges also are prepared to continue their education.
If the levy passes, the cost to area homeowners will be minimal, approximately 5 cents per day on a home with a value of $70,000. That money will be well spent to say the least, helping students learn the skills they need to obtain gainful employment and become productive workers in our growing communities, as well as taxpayers.
And that's why we ask that you vote "yes" on the JVS levy when you go to the polls on Nov. 6.


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FORT HOOD (October 17, 2012)--Children and their parents will get an opportunity to enjoy Halloween Bingo at the Community Events and Bingo Center on Saturday.
From 10 a.m. until about 1:30 p.m. children ages 2 to 12 can enjoy about 10 rounds of Bingo for a chance to win toys, goodie bags and coloring books.
The cost is $5 per child.
The center is located on Clear Creek Road.


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I just set up my router. Reception is good throughout the house, with the exception of the computer with wireless dongle (an android phone and a laptop with a bilt-in wireless card connect terrificly). Dropouts are random, often and common (I stay conencted from 1 second to 10 minutes with the 1 second case the most common). When there are no other devices on the network, or when my neighbours have turned off their wireless routers, dropouts are infrequent.
I guess I have to set longer timeout and lower signal strength treshold, but do not know how to do that.
How shall I proceed to set up a, maybe slow, but reliable conenction? Here are excerts from some commands outputs.
OS: Ubuntu 10.04 x86_32
USB dongle: says just "TP-LINK", is pretty tiny
router: wired-wireless TP-LINK router, rated wireless speed 150Nbps
distance: 2 rooms i.e. 2 walls, 15 meters
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 54:e6:fc:8f:d4:73
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::56e6:fcff:fe8f:d473/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:446 errors:0 dropped:481 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:144937 (144.9 KB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wlan0 802.11b/g/n li ESSID:"WiFi"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.427 GHz Access Point: 54:E6:FC:BC:50:FE
Bit Rate=300 Mb/s
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=65/100 Signal level=-71 dBm Noise level=-102 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
[ 2245.471876] ieee80211: Failed to reply on ADDBA_REQ as some capability is not ready(0, 1)
[ 2245.471886] =====>to send ADDBARSP
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 2 0 0 wlan0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 wlan0
default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0
Network manager conects at 2/3 signal power.
iwlist power:
wlan0 Supported modes :
o Receive all packets (unicast & multicast)
o Receive Unicast only (discard multicast)
o Receive Multicast only (discard unicast)
Fixed period ; min period:0us
max period:5s
Fixed timeout ; min timeout:0us
max timeout:65.535s
Current mode:off
iwlist rate:
wlan0 12 available bit-rates :
1 Mb/s
2 Mb/s
5.5 Mb/s
11 Mb/s
6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s
18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s
36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s
54 Mb/s
Current Bit Rate=300 Mb/s


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/ Home
/ Law Enforcement
/ Strategic Operations
/ Violent Crimes Division
/ Crime Stoppers
Central Records/ARU
Employee Portal
Executive Staff
Fallen Heroes
Fingerprinting Services
General Facts
Internal Affairs
Media Relations
Identity Theft Services
Alarms Unit
Accounts Receivable
Human Resources +
Law Enforcement
Community Services +
Communications +
Court Services Division
School Crossing Guards
Homeland Security +
Strategic Operations +
Incident Data
Training Division
House Bill 218
Security Clearance Application
Contract Compliance Division
Corrections Court Security
FAQ: Property, Mail, Finance, Bond
Inmate Management Bureau
Main Detention Center +
West Detention Center
Prison Rape Elimination Act
Standards & Staff Development
Corrections Support Services
North Regional Bureau
District 1 - West Palm Beach
District 2 - Mangonia Park
District 3 - North County
District 10 - Lake Park
District 16 - Greenacres
South Regional Bureau
District 4 - Delray Beach
District 6 - Western Boynton Beach
District 7 - Boca Raton
District 14 - Lake Worth
Western Regional Bureau
District 5 - Western Palm Beach County +
District 8 - Wellington
District 9 - Royal Palm Beach
District 11 - South Bay
District 12 - Pahokee
District 13 - Belle Glade
District 15 - Loxahatchee/Acreage
Booking Search
Sexual Predator/Offender Search
Visitation Information
Main Detention Center
3228 Gun Club Road
West Palm Beach, FL 33406
Phone: (561)688-4400
38811 James Wheeler Way
Belle Glade, FL 33430-5617
Phone: (561)996-1697/1699
Community Services Division
Community Policing
Crime Prevention
Juvenile First Offender Program
Police Athletic League
PBSO Explorers Program
Youth Military Program
Volunteer Services
Parking Enforcement Unit & Disabled Permits
Countywide Operations
Alt Intervention Services
Chaplaincy Unit (Volunteer Clergy)
Mounted Unit
Reserve Unit
Domestic Violence
Information, Contacts and Help
Broken Star Fund
Sheriff's Foundation
Monday thru Friday only
Fingerprint service fees range from $5 - $15, cash only. Photo ID required.
Delray Beach, Sheriff's Office Substation
14925 Cumberland Dr, Delray Beach, FL 33446
Phone: 561-688-4777
Hours of Operation: 8am - 4pm
Pine Trail Center, Sheriff's Office Satellite
1937 Q North Military Trail, West Palm Beach, FL 33409
Phone: 561-688-3838 or 561-688-3839
Hours of Operation: 7am - 7pm
Royal Palm Beach, Sheriff's Office Substation
11498 Okeechobee Blvd, Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411
Phone: 561-904-8290
Hours of Operation: M, T, Th & F 8am - 4pm, (closed on Wed)
Stockade, Sheriff's Office Facility
673 Fairgrounds Road, West Palm Beach, FL 33411
Phone: 561-688-4990
Hours of Operation: Mon - Fri from 8am- 3:45pm (closed holidays)
Compromised Identity Form
Background Checks
Identity Theft Info
Booking Blotter
Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County is a non-profit citizens' organization created in September 1981 to aid the law enforcement community in reducing the crime rate. It was a project of the Palm Beach Crime Prevention Officers Association.
The Board of Directors are made up of twenty-one concerned citizens, who actively help to guide the program. They are directly responsible for all fund raising and the administration of the reward monies. The Board of Directors meets monthly to coordinate projects and review progress.
Day to day administration of Crime Stoppers and the student Crime Stoppers programs is the responsibility of the Police Coordinator, a sworn investigator who is appointed to that position by the Sheriff of Palm Beach County and the civilian Board of Directors of Crime Stoppers.
The Crime Stoppers concept originated in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1976. Its success exceeded all expectations. By the end of 1986 over 600 more organizations formed throughout the United States and Internationally. Although each operate independently, all rely on the original formula for success. Because of that success there are over 1,200 active programs working together with commitment and cooperation of law enforcement, the media, and the public.
South Florida's first crime re-enactment aired by Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County on September 9, 1981, on WPEC TV-12. Each day unsolved felony crimes committed here in Palm Beach County, is requested to be advertised by Crime Stoppers for local law enforcement agency needing assistance in solving that particular crime. The crime is brought to the attention to the public on all local television stations, cable stations, radio, newspapers and web sites, are used to inform the public.
Many other Crime Stoppers programs are advertised such as, Palm Beach County's "Wanted Fugitives," "Student Crime Stoppers," and other successful programs within the Crime Stoppers program. This tool that the media gives Crime Stoppers helps reach those people who may have information about an unsolved crime.
Each crime advertised reinforces the message, "If you know something about this case, or any other serious crime, in Palm Beach County, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-458-TIPS. If your information leads to an arrest, recovery of stolen property, or seizure of narcotics, you may be eligible for up to $1,000 reward."
The validity of information received on the "Tips" line is checked by the Program Coordinator, then disseminated to the appropriate law enforcement agency. There are over thirty such agencies in Palm Beach County. The caller is assigned a special "code number" and advised to call back at a specified interval of time, to check on the progress of the case. In all future contacts, the caller is identified only by that code number, thus maintaining the anonymity.
There are three (3) ways to report crimes anonymous through the Crime Stoppers and Student Crime Stoppers programs:
All three methods will allow you to tell us what you know about a serious crime, remain anonymous and be eligible for up to $1,000 reward. Everyone can make a difference, make your community an safe environment to live, call CRIME STOPPERS, don't give your name, just your information.
You do! Every citizen in Palm Beach County reaps the benefits:
We're fighting CRIME one call at a TIME. Crime hurts, UNREPORTED crime hurts more.
CRIME STOPPERS of Palm Beach County receives NO City, County, State, or Federal funding. It is a community project supported only by voluntary contributors of money, goods, or services. Donations are sought from private sources, corporations, retailers, and the individual citizen. This effort keeps the CRIME STOPPERS program functional, providing reward moneys and basic operating materials.
Crime Stoppers works. But it needs your support if it is to continue to be successful. Contributions to the reward fund are needed on a continues basis, the more successful the program, the greater the funds necessary. Donations of video equipment for unsolved crimes, printing and graphic services for brochures, fliers, posters, etc., production of promotional items such as T-shirts, caps, mugs, bumper stickers, etc., and billboard space, are also needed. Volunteers can also help with publicity, mailing and fund-raising events.
The responsibility of fighting crime belongs to all of us, not just law enforcement alone. Citizen involvement is our greatest asset in Crime Stoppers assisting law enforcement. So get involved - Help Solve a Crime - Support CRIME STOPPERS of Palm Beach County.
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Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. if you do not want your e-mail address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in writing.
Copyright © 2009 Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. All rights reserved. This information is made available to the public and law enforcement in the interest of public safety.
Any unauthorized use of this information is forbidden and subject to criminal prosecution. See our Terms of Use page for more information.


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Big Red boosters to meet
STEUBENVILLE - The Big Red Boosters Club will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Harding Fieldhouse.
Creek boosters to meet
WINTERSVILLE?- The Indian Creek Athletic Boosters will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the high school cafeteria. Football coach Andrew Connor will show game film.


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When we applied for a street fair permit for an outdoor leather
festival, we were met with tremendous opposition from a very vocal
member of the local community board, implying that Leather people
belong behind closed doors and out of the public eye where children and
others could see them. Not knowing how to handle this, I immediately
contacted the NCSF for their help in this matter. After speaking with
Susan Wright at the NCSF, I was more than armed with important
information and a long list of our rights, feeling ready to face not
only the community board but the local press with confidence and
Because of a ten minute conversation the NCSF, not only were we awarded the street fair permit for the event, but the community board voted unanimously in our favor. In addition, the NCSF made sure they were on hand at the Leather weekend, meeting with the media, making sure we came off looking good in the public light.
Our event could not have happened without the experience and support of the NCSF and we are very thankful an organization such as this exists.
Robert Valin
Executive Producer
New York Leather Weekend
The NCSF Incident Reporting & Response (IRR) program provides assistance to individuals and groups within the alternative sexual expression communities who become victimized because of SM, leather, fetish, or swing practices.
Request For Assistance Form
Emergency Number: (917) 848-6544
Copyright 2012-2015 - National Coalition for Sexual Freedom - NCSFreedom.org
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Animal Hall of Fame: Biggest
Follow this slideshow to see images of and learn about the worlds' largest land and marine mammal, bird, fish, reptile, and insect.
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Land mammal
African elephants weigh up to 14,000 pounds and can eat as much as 600 pounds of food a day! Their trunks contain as many as 100,000 different muscles.
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Lamborghini Winter Academy 2012
Whether you have just returned from a thrilling driving experience at the latest Lamborghini Academy on the Imola race-track, or haven't yet experienced the emotion of letting loose on a track with a dedicated Lamborghini driving course, now is the time to book the first driving challenge of 2012.
The opening event for the Lamborghini Academy in 2012 has been scheduled and we plan on beginning the programme with the exhilarating Lamborghini Winter Academy. For the first time ever our Academy participants will get the chance to experience the supremacy of our new V12 Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 on the snow.
The length of the programme has been extended to two and half days and we will be offering three events in February at the AURONZO ICE-TRACK in Cortina (Italy).
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- I'm keeping this room for later. All it contains is a full potion of magic.
- "2" marks the spot for a couple of chests. This room and the one next to it are made by a bunch of "bubbles" connected by a pipe system I drew in black.
Note. I escaped the left half of 1F E4 through the magic mirror, as I couldn't find any other way out.
Errata corrige: point 2 is in the middle of B1F C3, not C4 as I have mistakenly drawn.
I don't have any key. I imagine 2 holds the big key, but without a key to open that yellow passage I can't get there. I checked every room at least twice. Where did I miss out?


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ISLEMAN, Stanley Lee, age 64, of Toronto, OH, passed away Wednesday, November 7, 2012, at the Trinity Medical Center West, Steubenville, OH.
He was born September 25, 1948, in Steubenville, OH, the son of the late John and Vera Baldwin Isleman.
Stanley is Methodist, a member of the Toronto American Legion Post 86 and the Ohio Edison Co. High Stack Club. He loved to fish and was a stamp collector and had served his country in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War Era.
He was retired from the Ohio Edison Co. (A.E.P.) Stratton, OH, Sammis Plant.
Stanley was preceded in death by his parents and brothers, Jim and Dana Isleman.
He is survived by his wife, Charlene Fay Isleman, of the family home whom he married August 18, 1977; sons, Jay Thomas and Rich (Marilyn) Thomas, both of Toronto, OH; grandchildren, Tristan, Taylie and Teryn Thomas; sister, Sandra (Kenny) Scott of Dayton, OH; brothers, Daryl Isleman and Raymond (Frankie) Isleman both of Minnesota.
Visitation for Stanley will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, November 10th at the Clarke Funeral Home, Toronto.
A celebration service of Stanley's life will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home with Pastor Bob Welch officiating. Burial will follow at the Toronto Union Cemetery where there will be graveside honors by the Toronto American Legion.
Memorial contributions in memory of Stanley may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1212 Jefferson St., Steubenville, OH 43952 or the Jefferson County Humane Society, 200 Airpark Drive, Winters ville, OH 43953.
To view the obituary, sign the guest register or send condolences to the family go to www.clarkefuneralhome.com.


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Related Question: Entailment/Presupposition in if-clause.
Consider the sentence "If John discovers that Mary is in New York, he will get angry." Does this imply that Mary is in New York now? Is "discovers" a counterfactual in present tense, only meaningful if John could now discover that Mary is in New York?


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In the base game of RftG, if you chose Consume>Trade as the action, do you have to trade on a card that has a $ ability? If it is a +3 and do you get +3 cards in addition to the normal trade value?
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You first sell any one of your available goods for the number of cards indicated by the kind of good (i.e. 2 cards for a Novelty good, up to 5 for an Alien good). Some cards in your tableau may have Trade powers (marked with a $) that may affect what you get from this trade.
Then you must use as many of the Consume powers (marked with a IV) as you have on your cards as possible, on as many of the remaining goods that you have as you can. You can use these powers once only each, but you can use them in any order you like.
From the way you phrase your question, it sounds as though you think that the initial Trade is performed based on one of your Consume powers, somehow. It isn't; the initial Trade is a completely independent bonus and takes place before you refer to the special powers of the cards in your tableau.
Consume > Trade gives you access to a special phase that only players who select Consume > Trade can perform. During that phase, you must sell any one good from any planet in your tableau for 2/3/4/5 (blue/brown/green/yellow) cards. If you have any $ powers, those will change your payout for your single allowed trade, but you do not need any of them and the traded good can come from any world.


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This answer of mine: http://stackoverflow.com/a/8845623/103167 used to have a lot of relevant comments from multiple users.
Now they're gone, and not even a note from a diamond mod saying they were deleted.
Any explanation would be nice.
This answer of mine: http://stackoverflow.com/a/8845623/103167 used to have a lot of relevant comments from multiple users.
Now they're gone, and not even a note from a diamond mod saying they were deleted.
Any explanation would be nice.
I deleted it. It triggered the "More than 20 comments in three days" flag by Community.
I scanned it, and while there was a good amount of relevant information, the comments section is not the place to put relevant information.
I even gave fair warning that the comment thread was going to be cleaned at 2012-01-13 19:12:12:
If there was something really important, then someone should have commented @ me and indicated what was useful/not and users should have pruned the comment list.
Instead, the one comment that came a few minutes after was:
No indication was given from anyone that this was important.
I deleted them all on 2012-01-13 19:21:31 (over nine minutes later).
That said, comments are not the place to place important, relevant information. If the comment thread is that long, it's a huge red flag possibly indicating some of the following:
Remember, the focus on the Stack Exchange network is the question and answer, not the comments.
We fully support our elected moderators, but realize that all moderators (including and especially myself) are only human and sometimes we make the wrong call -- or we may not even agree amongst ourselves what the "correct" course of action even is. Moderation often requires making tough calls that won't make everyone happy no matter what you choose to do.
We all have the same goal -- to make Stack Overflow the best possible resource it can be, and to keep the noise low and the signal high. We're all on the same team here.
In general, the correct guidance for comment removal is what Robert Harvey already said:
However, if there is something of genuine utility in the comments alongside the bickering, then it's less clear what to do. I can recommend:
Bear in mind too that sometimes it takes a while to get your feet as a new moderator; I've certainly had many email exchanges from 2009 to now as new moderators were learning the ropes and figuring out the best course of action. We're not perfect, but the important part is that we discuss this rationally here on meta, so that our moderators -- and our community -- can continue to improve.
I wasn't going to post anything, but Xeo's comment:
made me change my mind. There's already a link for the users to move the comments into chat. So may I propose that, instead of deleting the comments in toto, the mods first move the conversion into chat, and then delete the comment chain? After deleting the comments, the mods could post a single comment with a link to the chat room to which the comments had just been moved.
That would make everyone happy. Mods could clean up the comment chain, and users could continue their conversation without interruption.
I only delete comment threads in the C++ tag if they have devolved into pointless bickering. However....
The C++ tag is notorious for very lengthy comment chains. Normally I leave these alone, but sometimes these discussions get unnecessarily drawn out over pedantic details. The purpose of comments is to clarify the post, not necessarily to have lengthy discussions about language standards.
While there might be some valuable information in these comment chains, the information that arises in the resulting discussion should be incorporated into the actual post, as the discussion that arises in the comments is, honestly, only of interest to the people having the discussion.
Few future visitors to the post have the patience to sift through a lengthy trail of comments to find whatever nuggets of gold might be there.
I think they weren't deleted solely for the reason given by Robert.
There were two flags on the comment flags, one being an offensive (earlier dismissed by me, as it was confusing as hell) and one being too many comments. The offensive flag referenced a chat transcript, which really didn't help matters much. Mods don't really have the time to sort through tons of BS to sort out a flag. I spent a couple minutes trying to puzzle it out and gave up. I figured if there really was something offensive in there it would get flagged again.
The second flag was a "too many comments" flag automatically set by the system.
What I would suspect (I can't speak for the mod who did the dirty deed) that the two flags in combination led to the judgement that the whole bunch should go down the tubes.
It should be noted that this wouldn't have been a problem if moderators and users had the ability to migrate comments to chat. It's not like this has been asked for on several separate occasions or anything.
Maybe someone should look into giving us the ability to clean up comment threads on our own.


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I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a computer. I want to use this computer as a router for my other computers. The computer only has 1 network card, there is no slot for a second card. I can get the computer to connect to my ISP via pppoe and it can access the web. However the other computers on my local net can only see the router computer. I have tried 2 different pppoe packages, roaring penguin and network-manager-gnome.
When I get it to work I will be replacing a 15 year old computer that is running Slackware 7.1. The old computer is currently my router. It is running Roaring Penguin> I tried to setup the new computer with the same Roaring Penguin parameters as the old computer.


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The 5 Most Shocking Celebrity Twitter Feeds
#2. Ice-T Really, Really Likes Video Games
You know what's rarer than a double rainbow? A picture of original gangsta Ice-T laughing. Before Ice-T became known for playing po-po on TV, he was Ice-T, the guy who wrote "Cop Killer." And the guy who wrote what is generally considered the very first gangsta rap song, period.
So, it's no wonder that when you think of Ice-T, you think of a serious man doing serious things. And possibly committing some crimes.
Ice is smiling! Savor the moment!
What His Twitter Feed Taught Us:
Ice-T LOVES video games.
Word? Word. Even if you only go back as far as the beginning of September 2010 on his Twitter feed, you'll find no fewer than 98 mentions of the word "game." Dead Rising gets 13 mentions. Try MW2 (Modern Warfare 2) and you'll see eight mentions. Fallout, as in Fallout: New Vegas gets five. Gears 3 gets three.
Ice-T not only tweets extensively about his gaming passion but also interacts with fans over it. And P.S., reading Ice's feed as a nongamer is straight gibberish. Glitches, 140-character reviews, even the tedium of working with those punks at GameStop are fair game for Ice:
Finding out Ice-T is a hardcore gamer would be like discovering Al Capone was a D&D man, which would also be pretty cool if you think about it.
#1. David Lynch is Not Insane, Builds Furniture
These days, you hear the name "David Lynch" and you think "genius," or "insane" or just Twin Peaks. He's an icon in the film world, both beloved and revered for his unique aesthetic. When we hear the name "David Lynch," we think one thing: Eraserhead baby.
Look at that thing. Look at it. Anyone who's actually seen Eraserhead recognizes this mutant E.T.-looking abortion of a creature as the centerpiece of that sick, sick movie. So, based on that picture above, you'd think that Lynch's feed would be equally opaque, if not high-as-a-kite-Crispin-Glover levels of baffling.
What His Twitter Feed Taught Us:
David Lynch really enjoys carpentry:
Though he occasionally switches it up:
Again with the weekends! What, does this freak have some kind of ... furniture and nice weekend fetish? OK, so maybe he's just a down-to-earth, mild-mannered old man who enjoys nice things.
Though we did find this:
We can't imagine what that is, but we're very afraid that someone died when it happened.
Allow Cracked to guide you further into the Twitterverse, in 10 Celebrity Twitters Actually Worth Following and Carlos Mencia's Twitter: 25 Posts Too Unfunny to be Stolen.


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With FM2010 only a few weeks away I thought I would have one final fling on 2009 with a mid level club based in League One (as some of you may have guessed from my name I support Charlton Athletic so in a way I suppose I am scouting League One so it's not a complete shock to me when I start my 2010 career). For the purposes of this final fling I decided upon Huddersfield Town a club who are not among the pre-season favourites to win the title but a club who in theory should not be among the strugglers.
Huddersfield Town for those of you who don't know are a team based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire and to be honest the town is more of a rugby town so it falls squarely upon my shoulders to change that. They share the Galpharm Stadium with rugby league side Huddersfield Giants and the stadium holds approximately 25,000 supporters though we will be lucky to see two thirds of that through the gates this season.
For my final 2009 challenge I am using version 9.3 and I have loaded up all leagues from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. I have also loaded the top divisions in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Argentina and Brazil (all non-playable). I like to play and write at similar times so I won't be more than five games or so in front of what I am posting on here.
For my summaries I will only report on the important information and present each result, goalscorers and team selection with a small summary of what happened. I will do monthly updates so some maybe longer than others and I will present my squad, transfers and pre-season results as one larger post to kick off with.
I hope you enjoy…
* Please note: Due to the fact I am not the best when it comes to using computers I will not be able to post much in the way of screenshots to start with but as the season progresses and my knowledge increases I will put some in towards the end.


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I first came across this when I was looking at the Surly LHT, but I started to see it everywhere. It seems to me they can just put on a longer fork or something, or is it more for the back wheel?
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The real issue is in the top tube length. Basically, for shorter riders you need to move the handlebars closer to the seat. But then you have to deal with the wheel possibly colliding with the pedals ("toe strike"), changing the head angle or the fork's rake, which compromises the handling, and/or having a proportionally longer top tube than would otherwise be indicated by the seat tube length.
Rodriguez Cycles did an excellent multipart essay on choosing between 650c and 700c wheels for road bikes, and the illustrated Cliff notes they provide should prove illuminating.
A bike frame does not have to be above 56cm at all. In fact, the 56cm is a measure of only one aspect of the bike's geometry.
It depends greatly on the bike. The Long Haul Trucker, for example, my only be sold in frames 56cm and above, but several other Surly bikes, such as the Cross-Check and the Pacer come in sizes as small as 42cm.


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My Miracle with NK Cell Leukemia
Ann Marie Dismuke
Copyright © 1999-2002, Ann Marie Dismuke
Last Modified: October 4, 2002
This is my first attempt to share my story since I have been ill. To start with, NK (Natural Killer Cell) Leukemia is a very rare cancer, which was discovered only 2-3 years ago. It is similar to Hairy Cell Leukemia. According to my doctors, to date, there have been no cures or remission for the 100+ people across the world who have it. The prognosis is virtually unknown by the medical profession.
To start with, I am a 51-year-old female who was an active Type A personality. I had an accomplished career as a technical recruiter with 30 years' worth of work experience behind me. In October, 1997, my husband and I went on a cruise with two other couples. While on the ship, I had no energy, had a serious toothache that needed attention. When I got home, had tingling fingers and was recovering from some awful mouth sores.
I went directly to the dentist, where a root canal was performed, followed by 10 days of antibiotics for the infection. I also went to my family doctor for the tingling fingers, mouth sores and general fatigue. She first said she thought my tingling fingers were carpal tunnel, since I had just started a new job, with a new workstation. Since I was insistent that something else was wrong, she ran me through blood tests, which resulted in a very low white blood count. She couldn't find anything, so she referred me to the infectious disease doctor, which led me to the hematologist/oncologist. During these visits, I was experiencing high fevers and the tooth infection never went away. That week, I had a 104-degree temperature. My husband then said, "We're getting you to the hospital!" Sure enough, after two days of extensive tests in the hospital and a bone marrow test, the doctor first confirmed that I had Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia---treatable and curable. Needless to say, we were in total shock. After the dazed response, my doctor assured me that it was very treatable.
So, the saga begins...I started chemotherapy which lasted 6 weeks. I actually had few side effects, although I was losing my hair. I was on danorubicin, vincristine, methotextrate and many other medications. I was destined to lose my hair, so I got a "buzz" cut, since I couldn't deal with losing clumps of my hair each morning. Initially, I reacted fairly well and they told me that I came through it like a 16-year-old.
Then one month later (Christmas), I began having fevers and was hospitalized again. Prior to this, I had a port in my chest, for easy access for blood and future treatments, as well as a port in my skull, so they could be certain that the chemotherapy would cover the brain area. Well, my hospital stay went on for weeks, since they we're trying to find the infection. I became jaundiced. My liver, spleen and heart were in jeopardy.
Now for the news...upon completing the 3rd bone marrow test, my oncologist informed me that 98% of the lymphoblastic cells were gone, but that a new leukemia had surfaced...NK. He believed that the first diagnosis actually camouflaged the NK. Now, I had to deal with an entirely new leukemia---for which there was no cure, no known remissions, no positive track record across the world. My doctor(s) were very busy researching with other well-known cancer centers.
At this point, my husband, daughter and I were completely overwhelmed, saddened and angry. During this horrible time, my oncologist, who is an excellent physician was also puzzled and baffled by this new diagnosis. He immediately took action by closing up my head and chest ports, to alleviate possible infections. I also had a semi-coma experience for 48 hours where I could hear everyone talk, but I could not communicate to them. It was very scary---I actually, thought I was dying at this point. After many consultations and 2nd opinions, my doctor decided to give me leustatin for 6 days (24/hrs/day). This was the chemotherapy that was used for hairy-cell leukemia. My official diagnosis was CDA3 (Negative), NK Leukemia.
After the very intense chemotherapy treatment, my liver, which was already in jeopardy, took a nose-dive. On Sunday, February 8th, my liver count was at 19 (you're dead at 20). I was completed sedated and unaware of what was happening. The doctor had asked my husband to call the family members in, since he gave me less than a week to live. I would go into a coma and seizure state. Still not knowing the seriousness of my condition, my brother from Vermont and my dad from Florida came to the hospital. At this point, I had some sad feelings, but was still not alert enough to realize.
Now for my miracle--my next door neighbor (Mike) who was following my illness from the beginning, as well as my many friends and relatives. He had called his theology professor friend in Florida to tell her about me. After a long conversation, she instructed him to go to the hospital, put his hands on me and say a particular scripture/prayer. My family was present as I sat up in my chair. It was the most powerful experience I had ever had in my life. While I was very dazed, I was able to listen and absorb what was happening. The 2nd day my liver count improved slightly. By the 3rd and 4th day, it was getting better and better. By the end of the week, my liver counts were completely normal. Needless to say, the doctors were shocked, since there was no medical reason why it turned around. They call me their miracle patient. My family and I were elated and so happy that I was given a 2nd chance. My only setback was that the chemotherapy also affected my muscles and nerves, leaving atrophy and neuropathy in my feet and calves. After my long hospital stay, I then started my daily physical therapy at home. It has been a long recovery process. I was unable to walk, climb stairs, feed myself, etc.
Here it is...May 28th; I am walking, driving and taking myself to the wellness center to workout on the machines and aquatic aerobics. I feel terrific and have finally gotten relief from the nerve damage in my feet. The neurologist says it should eventually go away. The last 3 monthly appointments with my oncologist were excellent; normal blood counts and inactive cancer cells at this time. I am so pleased to be typing this story, since my hands were not workable three months ago!
Update 7/22/98
My heart was pounding prior to my oncologist entering the exam room. This was my 2-month checkup, and while my body was telling me everything was going to be okay, I was very anxious to hear the results from my blood work. His perky smile was an immediate relief. He confirmed that my blood counts were all normal and that he did not see any leukemic cells at all. My husband and I were absolutely thrilled. Tears filled our eyes as the doctor explained to us that, "I was going to die back in February." He is so stunned by it all, and of course, the medical profession has a hard time dealing with "divine intervention". I shared with him the data I found on Internet from, a former cancer patient with Hairy Cell Leukemia, who happens to be a medical researcher with an on-line service, as well as an author.
The common thread between this man and myself was that the same drug 2-CDA (Leustatin) was used for both of us for the 24-hr/7-day cycle. While we had different leukemias, my doctor through his research back in February felt this was the only possible drug that might help. Well, it appears that we have stuck gold. My doctor was correct in his assumptions with Leustatin, and I feel that I actually confirmed this by my research. Before my doctor proclaims remission/cure, however, he wants to see me in 3 months, and then a bone marrow test one year from now. As we all know, the medical profession works on scientific theory, which is fine. Meanwhile, I will work on "divine intervention and prayer" as well as alternative methods, such as positive thinking, acupuncture, massage therapy, water aerobics, vitamins and herbs.
Needless to say, a big weight has been lifted. With this experience, I have a new appreciation and awareness of what life is and how God has re-entered my life in a new and meaningful way.
Update 10/15/98
I am happy to report that my NK Leukemia is still in remission. My oncologist continues to be surprised, based on my condition early this year. He will now document my case across the medical profession. I feel absolutely great, working in the garden, taking water color lessons. The nerve damage and muscle atrophy in my hands and legs that resulted from the intense chemotherapy are almost 100% gone. LIFE IS VERY GOOD.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. My prayers go out to all of you.
Update 1/25/99
Still getting good reports from my oncologist. The blood work is normal and there are NO leukemia cells. My husband and I have been traveling and enjoying every moment of every day. I've got my nerve damage under control, and it looks like 1999 is going to be a great year. For all those out there who have not been as fortunate as myself, I deeply want to send my spirit, hope and prayers to all of you for the challenging days ahead.
God Bless you and your families.
Update 9/30/02
At the beginning of this year, my husband I have continued to travel as we have the past couple of years with no re-occurrence of leukemia or heath problems since February 1998. After returning from the Canadian Rockies (definitely God's country), in August 2002, I had an appointment with my NEW gynecologist. I changed doctors since I couldn't get the old doctor to agree that I should come off estrogen (premarin), after being on it for 11 years, following my hysterectomy. Well, she agreed that with all the controversy about the correlation of heart disease and cancer, it made sense to stop taking it, given my history.
So, I stopped taking premarin on August 6th and exactly 2 weeks later I discovered a rather large lump in my RIGHT breast, enough for me to react very quickly. As luck would have it, I already had scheduled a mammogram the following Monday. The mammogram revealed a 2-cm. mass---and they ruled out a cyst. The next steps were a whirlwind; ultrasounds, left breast mammogram, fine-point needle biopsy. The biopsy revealed a malignant mass. Horror and efficiency took over me all at the same time. I quickly gathered up my contacts and got 2 recommended general surgeons (specifically breast cancer surgeons).
I decided to go with the surgeon who not only had a great track record, but my gut-feel and her demeanor was the tiebreaker.
In conjunction with the gloomy pathology report from the needle biopsy by the first surgeon, the 2nd surgeon performed a lumpectomy procedure. During the 30-minute procedure, she immediately called my oncologist from the operating room to discuss what she had found. She indicated that it was not breast cancer, but rather a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (indolent; slow growing malignancy). It was confirmed a few days later by the 2nd pathology report. Within that week, a CAT scan was done, followed by a bone marrow test by my oncologist, and a scheduled PET scan. At this point, it was not a matter of what it was, but where else in the body it existed. (Incidentally, a PET scan is a rather new technology---Positron Emission Topography), using IV radioisotopes and sugar water to determine cancer cells at the molecular level).
After several days of waiting for all the test results, I tried to stay positive and asked God to give me the strength to handle whatever came my way. At this point, my emotional state was a bit shaken, but I had been down this road before. My husband is the ultimate optimist, so his support sustains me time and time again. This time, however, my faith was a whole lot stronger...you see, I had been working on my relationship with God the last couple of years. I was more prepared this time.
Well, my prayers have been answered again, with another positive outcome. This past week (September 23, 2002), my oncologist contacted me and said that all the tests came back with NO other cancer in my body. He believes that the indolent (or slow-growing cancer found in the breast) was a residue of my leukemia in 1998, and that it was contained only in the breast and nowhere else in the body, and that no treatment or additional surgery was needed.
The real miracle here is that I was lead in the first place to seek out a GYN doctor who agreed with me to stop taking estrogen. Please understand that I am not saying that estrogen caused the cancer-----what I am saying is that because I stopped taking estrogen, my breasts were less dense, causing me to find the lump very easily. None of my mammograms picked up this lump before, probably because I have always been fibrocystic. Keep in mind that mammograms are not always effective, so self-examination on a consistent basis is key.
Editor's Note: See also Ann Marie Dismuke's December 1999 Survivor Story Update.


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April 15, 2009
Perfectly poised in the Company Gardens – Flickr pic of the day
This photograph of a statue in the Company Gardens was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Marie-Marthe Gagnon aka paspossible.
Marie-Marthe says, "On my first day in Cape Town I walked downtown for hours with my camera and a map. I was heading to the South Africa National Gallery when I saw these birds in the Company Gardens.
"It was one of those moments when you have to shoot right away – in three seconds, one of the birds would fly away and it would be too late.
"Cape Town offers so much, it's one of the most gorgeous cities in the world," she continues.
The Company Gardens, a large park and botanical garden, is home to several statues. This one commemorates the World War I battle of Delville Wood, in which more than 2 000 South African soldiers died.
Do you have images of Cape Town you'd like to share with us? We'd love you to join the Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group!
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University has much to explain
Since "UConn 2000," the first of two 10-year, $1 billion state investments in the University of Connecticut, took effect in 1995, enrollment has soared. The same can't be said of faculty hiring, however. UConn's widening student-to-faculty ratio caught up to Connecticut's flagship university in December 2011. Amid mounting complaints that the professor shortage was making it harder for many students to graduate on time, the university's trustees approved a plan to increase tuition by more than 23 percent over the four succeeding academic years. Fees were also increased.
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I have a buddy who had done this one particular race two or three years previously. This year he entered it in the Beginner category because some "medical" issue had kept him off the bike for six months and he "had gained a lot of weight" and was "more out of shape than than he had ever been before."
What a tool.
He got second place. The other sandbagger had beaten him by 30 seconds and the two of them beat the rest of the field by a couple of minutes.
When I called him a tool after the race and ridiculed him in front of other people, he got really pissed. He told me I didn't understand. (Because the only race I've ever done in my life, I entered in Cat 3 and ended up finishing mid-pack, apparently).
I told him that what I did understand is that he and his other Tool friend had cheated three true beginners from having a real competition and feeling good about getting on the podium in their first race.
He said it would "motivate them to try harder next year," and therefore he had done a good thing.
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A recent earthquake and two hurricanes on the way are making for a bad week in paradise.
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake hit near Waimea, Hawaii this morning, less than 12 hours before a hurricane is expected to make landfall.
Hawaii rarely sees hurricanes, let alone a direct hit by one, but Hurricane Iselle is defying the odds today.
To defy odds even further, Hurricane Julio, which will likely be a tropical storm by the weekend, is going to skirt just north of the Pacific island chain on Saturday and Sunday.
Hurricane warnings have been issued for the big island and tropical storm warnings are in effect for the other islands.
Since 1950, there have only been twenty-three tropical storms and hurricanes that passed within 200 miles of Hawaii. That's roughly one tropical cyclone every two or three years.
If you only consider storms within 75 miles of the islands, that number drops to 10.
Most of the time, hurricanes and tropical storms approaching Hawaii do one of two things: They either change directions and avoid the island or they weaken considerably into depressions. (It's just the opposite of what people do when thinking of traveling there.)
The last time anything similar to this happening was in July 1994. Hurricane Emilia passed just south of the island in late July. Not long after, Tropical Storm Fabio, which had weakened into a depression at that point, moved just south of the islands, too.
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It seems like most of common web browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) are developed using C++. Whys is that so?
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Another way to ask the question is what kind of support does a browser need? The short list is:
Most languages have some sort of parsing support. You have parser generators for C, C++, C#, Java, etc. However, C and C++ have quite a few years head start on the rest of the alternatives so the algorithms and implementations are more mature. Accessing accelerated graphics in Java is a no go, unless you have some native extensions to make it work. WPF on C# provides access to accelerated graphics, but it is too new to have a serious browser built with the technology.
Networking is actually the least of the reasons to choose C++ over Java or C#. The reason is that communication is many times slower than the rest of the processing that goes on to display the page. The raw speed of the wire is the limiting factor. Both Java and C# have non-blocking IO support, as does C++. So there really is no clear winner in this area.
Why not Java? Have you ever tried to build a UI with Java? It feels cumbersome and slow compared to anything else out there, because it is. No accelerated graphics is also a big negative here. Java's sandboxing is really good, and can help improve the security of a browser if it is used correctly, but it is a pain to configure and make work. Not to mention the graphics format support lags behind most modern browsers.
Why not C#? If your only target is Windows, C# might actually make a good representation. The problem comes when you want to support anything else. Mono hasn't caught up enough to be considered cross platform enough for this task--particularly with accelerated graphics support and WPF. Who knows how long that will take to change.
Why not C? There's a C compiler for just about every platform out there (including embedded devices). However, there's a lot that C does not do for you that you will have to be extra vigilant about. You have access to all the lowest levels of the APIs, but the majority of C developers don't do GUIs. Even the C GUI libraries are written in an object oriented manner. As soon as you start talking UI, an object oriented language starts making better sense.
Why not Objective C? If your only target is Apple, it makes a lot of sense. However, most developers don't know Objective-C, and the only reason to learn it is to work on NeXT or Apple boxes. Sure you can use any C library with Objective-C, and there are compilers for many platforms, but finding people to work on it will be a touch more difficult. Who knows? Maybe Apple can turn this perceived deficiency around.
Why C++? There's a C++ compiler for just about every platform out there. Almost every GUI library has a C++ interface, sometimes it's better and sometimes it's just different. For example, Microsoft's ATL is a lot better than win32 C function calls or even the MFC library. There's C++ wrappers for GTK on Unix, and I'd be surprised if someone didn't have a C++ wrapper around Apple's Objective-C GUI library. Process management is easier within C++ than Java or C# (those details are abstracted away for you). It's perceived speed comes more from hardware acceleration than it does raw performance. C++ does take care of more things for you than raw C (such as bounded strings), but still gives you freedom to tweak things. Not to mention a number of libraries needed to render web pages are also written in C or C++.
For the time being, C++ does edge out the alternatives.
I've decided to write a novel about this in hopes that people will gloss over it and upvote me. No, no, just kidding! I suffered over every word. Every word, I tell you!
Ask 'when' before 'why'
All major web browsers can trace their origins back to the 90s. Konqueror became Safari and Chrome; Netscape became Firefox; IE and Opera are still IE and Opera. These browsers all have a 15 year head start on incumbents.
I suggest you even try to name an acceptable cross-platform (Windows/Mac/Unix and even worse) language that was available in around 1995 when modern browsers originated. To build the core in anything but C/C++, you'd probably have had to build or buy and modify a compiler and platform libraries.
How about today? What are the alternatives?
Just for fun, let's think about the problem today. Yes, there are alternatives, but there are still major problems.
Language choice presents at least these problems:
1: Knowledge problems
Where do you get people who know the language or can learn it? This is an obstacle for languages like OCaml, F#, Haskell, Common Lisp and D that are fast and high-level enough to write a browser in nicely, but have few followers (In the 10k-100k range, maybe) even if you liberally count all the hobbyists and academics.
2: Social/Organizational problems
Corollary to the cargo-cult answer above:
3. Technical problems
Even in modern times, you need a fairly fast language for the computation intensive parts of rendering pages and running Javascript. You can choose to supplement that with a high-level language for building GUI elements, etc. (e.g. the Firefox approach of C++ and Javascript) but you have to have close integration between the languages; you can't just say "Okay, C# and Lua." You'll probably have to build and debug that bridge yourself unless you choose C or C++ as the base language.
Cross-platform development is another bag of worms. You could use C# or F# and cross your fingers on GTK# and Mono being alive and well in the future. You could try Common Lisp, Haskell, OCaml... Good luck getting everything working on Windows and Mac and Linux.
4. Language Power
After all of that, you have to build an enormous amount of functionality, so if you choose a low-level language you need an even huger army of coders than before. Note that no one has really built a browser from scratch in about fifteen years. That's partly because (surprise!) it's hard.
Specifically, having a Javascript interpreter is problem 3 (acquire one) or problem 4 (build one).
If you developed a three-platform (Windows/Mac/*nix) browser today (early 2011), what are some of the choices?
If we see another major browser rise in the next few years, I would bet it will be written in C or C++ and a dynamic language (Like Firefox), whether open source or proprietary.
Edit (July 31, 2013): Commenters on Hacker News seem to be mentioning Rust and Go (not specifically in connection with my answer), which fall vaguely into the "miscellaneous fast" bucket. Trying to keep this list of languages egalitarian and up to date will be a losing battle, so instead I'm calling it a representative sample as of the time of writing and leaving it alone.
As ugly as it is, C++ is still what you use when you want a fast application and full control over the code.
This is why games, non-core parts (such as file importers) of Office, and more are still written in C++.
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I can only guess, but you are mentioning software products that target multiple platforms, and C++ can be compiled to any platform.
Well, you'd have to ask the developers of those products directly to get the answer, but I suspect it's a combination of familiarity (it's what those developers knew best), performance (compiling to a native binary as opposed to bytecode), and tools (compared to languages like C, C++ is full of nice labor-saving gadgets like the STL).
(I've been working on Firefox for about five years.)
The questioner is right that a lot of Firefox's code is C++, and in fact C++ is the majority if you count by lines of code (although that doesn't tell the whole story, since we have a lot of JavaScript, and JS is more concise than C++).
But in reality, Firefox is written in a lot of different languages:
I sure am forgetting some.
This list is important because it hints at the incredible complexity that sits behind a web browser.
Yes, Firefox has a lot of C++ code, and yes, that has something to do with the fact that C++ was the best language for this sort of thing when Netscape was founded. But I also contend that there exists no better language today for a lot of what we do.
No other language has as strong an ecosystem of libraries (we rely heavily on external code). Few other languages give you full-stack control like C++ (we regularly tweak our custom heap allocator and do all sorts of memory-unsafe things to be faster or use less memory). Few other languages let you re-implement most of the standard library in a sane way (we have our own strings and collections implementations, tuned to our needs). Few other languages let you implement your own garbage collector. And so on.
Each of the browsers has some history that influenced the choice of language.
For example, both Chrome and Safari are based on WebKit, which has its origins in the KDE project's KHTML part. KDE originally was created (in part) as a demonstration of the Qt GUI toolkit, so KDE is, overall, a C++ project. All new KDE projects were, at the time, written entirely in C++, so it was a logical choice for KHTML. It has since been ported to use other GUI toolkits.
Opera's Presto engine was written with performance and a small binary size in mind: C++ was the logical choice.
Microsoft's IE was written as a collection of ActiveX components, which could have been written in any language that has COM bindings, but was likely written in a subset of C++, because the majority of their codebase is already written in that language.
Netscape's Mozilla was written in C++ likely because portability was a major concern of theirs. C and C++ compilers are (virtually) ubiquitous, and so it was a logical choice.
There's no inherent technical reason for these choices. It just "seemed like a good idea at the time."
Networking in C and C++ is easy to optimize, since you don't have to use libraries if you don't want to. I suspect that C++ is the language of choice because it allows the advantages of C:
coupled with the advantages of OOP:
Because the browsers (e.g., HotJava, obviously enough written in Java) written in other languages have never been achieved any substantial degree of market acceptance/penetration.
I can't say anything about the current iteration (or most recent--hasn't been updated in quite a while) of HotJava, but when I tried it, lack of market penetration seemed (at least to me) extremely easy to understand -- it was ugly, slow, and incompatible with quite a few web pages. Ultimately, it seemed to be based on a premise that never panned out: that the web would consist primarily of Java applets, with HTML as little more than a wrapper telling which applets to display where.
Part of it is probably also historical: most of the big web browsers have been around a long time. When they were first written, the landscape was much different: C++ was a "hot" new language, so it was being used for a lot of new development. Browsers have become some of the most heavily used software around, while many others from the time have faded into oblivion.
I think the displayed "attitude" of the language has an effect as well: C++ (like C before it) has always emphasized practicality and pragmatism. That basic attitude tends to attract programmers who are also pragmatic. Many other languages place a great deal more emphasis on things like elegance -- and in so doing, they attract programmers who think the same way. The problem with that is what I call the "Lisp effect". Symptoms include:
There are more, but you get the general idea (and yes, I'm exaggerating to some degree--but only to a degree). Yes, some of the code you get will be astoundingly beautiful--but chances are that it's six months late, and mostly incompatible with every other piece of code in (what's supposed to be) the system, and by the time you receive it there's a pretty fair chance something else has changed enough that you can't use it at all.
There are also languages that would undoubtedly work just fine, but (rightly or wrongly) simply don't have (or at the crucial time, didn't have) the market share for anybody to have ever written a browser in them. Given the size and complexity of a complete browser, it takes a lot of people and quite a bit of time to develop one. With that kind of investment, many people get relatively conservative about things like development tools.
Cargo-cult programming. The perception that "C++ is fast" is still out there, (despite poorly-thought-out language-level features like its badly broken object model that slow things down,) and people want their browsers to be fast, so they write in C++.
In a sane world, people writing network-facing software would be horrified at the mere thought of using a language that comes saddled with all of C's inherent security issues, and actually doing so would be an act of criminal negligence. (Just look at how many buffer overflow exploits have been found against various browsers in the last 15 years or so! How many millions of dollars of damage are these coders responsible for?)
There are other compiled languages capable of creating fast binaries. The problem is that they don't have the same exposure as the C family, and we all have to suffer for it.
Fun fact: By the time the Morris Worm hit the Internet in 1988, conclusively demonstrating the problems with writing OSes and network-facing software in C, (which have still not been solved to this day, because they're inherent flaws in the language,) Apple had been releasing the most advanced operating system the world had seen so far, for several years already, written in Pascal.
When the first lines of code for the first round of browsers were written, C# and Java did not exist. Nor did Ruby. Python may have been around, but it was still a tiny homebrew project at that point.
Basically, there really werent any other choices other than C++ that would allow one to build a browser that would be fast and run on many different platforms.
So why were they written in C++? Because that was the only language available that they could be written in.
Access to system-level APIs
All browsers have to interface with the OS at some point, and most of the major OSes have well-established C and C++ APIs and libraries. It's usually easier to work with those APIs in C or C++ rather than write wrappers.
Control and Portability
most of the speed arguments can go either way, but in anything where you need precise control over how something gets done many of the higher level languages will rain on your parade. There are exceptions to this, but most of them are not cross-platform enough to count in something like a browser.
Legacy compatibility - can't throw away old code
It has nothing to do with the merits of C++ vs other languages. You can surely write a better browser from scratch in a language like Haskell; a project this important could even implement their own JVM if they needed to guarantee some performance characteristics. Like how Facebook wrote their own PHP compiler/optimizer.
A browser that breaks on non-standard markup is worse than useless. Legacy compat is so critical and so complex that a rewrite is just not an option. Lots of money and time is invested in battle-tested security etc, you can't just throw that investment away. Again, like how Facebook is still written in PHP.


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TORONTO—It took nearly a decade for playoff hockey to return to Canada's biggest city. And it took 60 minutes for the Toronto Maple Leafs to be reminded of how tough it was to get there.
The Boston Bruins handily defeated the Leafs 5-2 to take a 2-1 series lead in the NHL's Eastern Conference quarterfinals, putting a cork in the palpable buzz that greeted Toronto's first home playoff game since 2004.
"It was a strong game by all four lines," said David Krejci, who had one goal and two assists to win the game's second star. "We played a pretty good road game. We didn't try to be too cute, we tried to keep it simple and got a big win."
The Leafs now look to put Monday's loss behind them and focus on squaring up the series at home on Wednesday.
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Boston opened scoring at 13:22 in the first period, when Adam McQuaid fired a shot that deflected off Jeffrey Lupul's stick and bounced into the Maple Leafs net.
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I am writing a game in XNA 4 and I want to have something like a corridor. Do you think that is better to use one big and solid model, or to use multiple small parts (window, stairs, door...)?
In terms of graphics rendering, one large mesh is faster to draw than several smaller meshes.
If you're talking about something like a corridor, it's probably not going to be that intensive for the GPU if you send it in as a door and a floor and some walls. The smaller meshes also allow you to fiddle with positioning more easily.
If your drawing becomes a bottleneck, then consider it.
I'd suggest keeping the door as a separate model, unless you're certain you never want to be able to open it.
Windows if they are transparent also want to be separate models so they can be depth sorted appropriately for rendering.
Everything else should probably be a single model and texture for best performance, and to eliminate any cracks where they join together.
If your level has too much detail you should split it in parts and apply some frustum culling to draw only currently visible meshes.
in most cases using small parts are worth it because it gives your code reusability and flexibility; and in case of a corridor or something similar that does not include MANY (many would mean a number like at least 40) smaller parts, the performance gain of using a big and solid models is negligible(except if you are drawing the object many times per frame).
if you care about the performance i recommend precomputing the lighting or using some kind of vertex arrays(vertex buffers?) which would actually make a difference. ( if those things are possible in XNA - i dont know a lot about XNA )
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