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Co-sleeping deaths should be criminal
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amen! it's not too harsh, it's way, way overdue saying it....there's absolutely no excuse for this!!!
First off, change the name from 'co- sleeping' to what it really is "Parental Suffocation".
Second start prosecuting. After all the PR given to this, every one is aware of the dangers. Any one that does it is purely being irresponsible.
Children have rights? Not in the womb!
the root cause is stupid and lazy people having kids..... It is and should be MURDER, that's the only word for it. You understand that by doing this could kill your kid and you do it anyway? That is 1st degree, pre-meditated murder....Hide replies
still waiting on Barrett to partner with MICAH again for a prayer vigil.... Isn't that about all that he does in co-sleeping murders?
and let me make it clear - I don't have a problem with people who educate themselves about the *proper* way to co-sleep....it's the lazy, ignorant people who chose to co-sleep, minus any sort of common sense...
That is a tough decision. In some cases you have a mom who is drunk or on drugs who rolled over on her child and didn't realize it. What happens when you have a new mother on pain medication who was not used to its affects and fell asleep sitting up on the couch while breast feeding? Exhaustion is common among new moms. I see your point and this has to stop, but I'd hate to be the one that had to sit in judgement of these moms.Hide replies
excuses, that's all you have.... We all know effects that CAN happen with co-sleeping, it's murder!
@@Respect - I respectfully disagree....there is no excuse, none, for this behavior....I know several women who have slept with their child.....they made the CHOICE to learn how to do it properly and they used common sense when\if they were tired or using drugs, that might cause them to go into a deep sleep and not be aware that they may have crushed their child......you can get cribs for free.....we need to stop being afraid to judge people and stop trying to rationalize this heinous act, it's not being judgmental, it's making sure people understand that their are serious consequences for killing their child....
Those that were under the influence should be charged criminally. Yes, I know cribs are free, but you can't breastfeed a baby while they're in a crib. I'm not making excuses for most of them, just a few, and as I said - I'd hate to be the one who judges them.
I nursed both my children and they slept in cribs. You can sit UP and nurse a child, even at 2:00 am.
Your advocacy is stronger not to come off as the crime agenda, lock them and throw away the key type.
I have noticed the common thread in these deaths that the parent rolls over onto the baby. Sleep is a complex thing we can't control. There are many people that suffer from sleep disorders that have no idea they have those disorders. These disorder could both mother and baby at extreme risk. I would be inclined to look at something that requires women to be tested for sleep disorders before proceeding down the co-sleeping road.
Some sleep disorders are very dangerous to cause sudden death and violence like sleep killing. One of the issues of apnea is poor judgment during sleep deprivation and stressful times. Apneic events can be increased by cold weather.
http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/central-sleep-apneaHide replies
jane, at who's expense would you like this study done? It's ignorant to even suggest a sleep study to be done before co-sleeping.....
@Jane - google "Safe Co-sleeping"....since sleep is a "complex thing we can't control", one would think these irresponsible parents would realize that and control what they can....in other words, based on the huge PSA campaign against co-sleeping, you would think they would understand that if you're tired or on pills or worse yet, drunk, don't sleep with a child....sorry, there is no way to rationalize this....and yes, these folks should be jailed for murder....unintentional as it may be....
No its not ignorant to better educate on potential sleep disorders. These women are not getting the message. They are not seeing how many potential illnesses could make co-sleeping in their personal situation more dangerous.
Its not just co-sleeping that endangers a baby if the mother has sleep disorders. What happens in sleep deprivation? Violence, drug addiction, hot tempers and more. There is something else sleep disorders cause - loss of memory.
What will happen after these women are convicted? They will get all sorts of medical care. Sleep disorders under prison conditions are going to be detected.
So you are saying who pays for it - you do after the baby is dead and the women are in prison. Have you ever seen up close a women in the cell for killing her kid? I have. They are messed up and its not pretty. Takes much medical care plus all the costs to convict them than to provide sleep studies.
the answer, Jane is much deeper then. Somehow these women should NOT be having kids. We pay for these children either way. I am against spending more money to teach a select subsection on how to sleep with their baby period, because it should not be condoned in the first place. You see Jane, we need to be creative to head off a problem rather than ignoring the problem and trying to fix it!
@Jane - you are correct, it's not ignorant to "better educate on potential sleep disorders".....
but this is not a sleep disorder, this is negligence on the part of the parent who failed to make sure her child was safe when sleeping....
it's also negligence because regardless of how sleepy the mother was, sleeping on the couch, with a 7 day old baby, is simply a recipe for disaster....
there are all sorts of ways to downplay the mothers irresponsible behavior....
there are all sorts of excuses that could be used as "reasons" to rationalize this...but to me, we need to have a zero tolerance policy for these deaths...
everything is NOT related to an "illness".....*expecting" that a mother will care for her child, responsibly is not too high of an expectation, it is her job.....if a mother is suffering from sleep deprivation (which I'm sure happens to many mothers or if she is using a specific drug that causes drowsiness, then she should not even consider sleeping with the infant......have we reached a point where instead of saying when something is unacceptable, we dither around that fact, searching for reasons to not find fault with the mother???
Involentary Manslaughter and Wreckless Endagerment come to mind.
James - is it possible to get the disposition of these cases? We never hear the rest of the story, just the initial basics. Was there a lack of heat in the house? Were the parents drinking? Have they been investigated for abuse in the past? I'd like to know the follow-up on some of these stories.Hide replies
link to the JSonline follow up to this story - http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/milwaukee-babys-cosleeping-death-was-accident-medical-examiner-says-qb8a03h-186046081.html
it may have been an accident but it was a very preventable one....
The mother had been drinking, according to this article.
Oops, according to Portables' update
To be completelt honest, I slept with both my son and my daughter many nights when they were babies and nothing ever happened. I understand there seems to be something wrong with it because I am reading about alot of infant deaths from co-sleeping. But I honestly dont understand what goes on in these parents bedrooms because both of my children were always fine in the morning. I never rolled over on them or even moved because we would wake up in the same postion we fell asleep in. They never rolled off the bed or on their faces beacuse my arm would cradle them. It wasnt the most comfortable postion for me but it worked for my babies. It just made going back to sleep after late night feedings because babies are always looking for a body to cuddle next to. It makes them feel safe and they fall asleep faster until its time for the next feeding. I guess it helped that I am a light sleeper, but still I dont see how all these children are dying. Co-sleeping has been going on in my family for ever and there has never been a fatality.Hide replies
you got lucky
No, she was a responsible co sleeper. My pedi and OBGYN both assured me I was being safe since I was 1) nursing 2) not a substance abuser 3) did not have fluffy piles of bedding and pillows around the baby 4) and my husband was on board with precautions as well. I think I permanently messed up my neck from the "arm curl" position, though, lol.
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I've been doing some serious thinking on WHY i am doing martial arts. Can't get it out of my mind and that's all i've been thinking about.
This all happened after a trip to Japan and Australia with my Sensei. He introduced me to a huge number of Senseis from different arts like Aikido, karate, JiuJitsu, Iado and etc etc.
After having long, serious and enlightening chats with them, i found that in the end, they would always ask me WHY i am practicing it. All my answers basically has a hole in it and now there is a hole in my heart.
below are my answer and the senseis reply
Me: Because it is exciting and i love to spar and meet new people.
Them : What happens when you get old or when you are unable to spar. you would not get the excitement that you used to have, would you abandon your art after that?
- Me : Condition my body, make me strong Them : What happens when you get to your highest level of strength and fitness, do you then stop progressing? Do you stop practising since you have achieve your goal?
There are many more answer which i have given but i could not recall.
I've been practising it for all these year basically for self defence and general fitness. The competition parts also make it exciting for me. Philological wise, i've been trying to understand and live by their way.
How can I overcome this dilemma?

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For example, I want to make footnotes both at Sentence 1 and Sentence 2 (which are on the same page) to the same footnote. Wikipedia's "References" have this effect.
You could do this (tested in
The result will be
Edit: Further testing reveals, that the above solution fails when footnotes are numbered with anything other regular numbers. This is due to the fact, that the argument to
in the preamble will allow us to mend the above example allowing any numbering of the footnotes.
Edit 2: This will cause a problem when using
Objection, your honor:
Have you ever seen that in a book? Probably not. Because: Two footnotemarks numbered with e.g. an "8" raise the question whether it is a typo. But your readers can not come and ask you, if you really meant to do it this way.
Please, if you'd like to refer to the same text, make a footnote saying (maybe in better English than mine):
What you'd like to do is against an old and sensible tradition. It neither an excuse that a part of Wikipedia does it, nor that it is technically possible.
I'm a bit surprised that noone mentioned KOMA-Script's
One could think of other similar cases…
This functionality can be used with the standard classes by using
The documentclass
And for completeness' sake: the
The Wikibook LaTeX provides an answer to this question:
I found a rather simple way to do this. Just place a label inside the first footnote, and where you want your second reference you make insert a cross reference to that label in superscript, to make it look like a footnote
The package
Each repeated footnote must be pre-declared and invoked with their own custom command (e.g.
If you do not want use
Digging this up to add a note on affiliations:
While I originally ended up on this page to do exactly what the OP intended, I agree with Keks Dose - referring to a footnote as in your example seems the more sensible option (and it's something I have frequently seen footnotes that say "See above" in books etc.)
Stephen, any decent LaTeX template should provide means of adding affiliations without having to resort to "normal" footnotes. In the
I don't know if there are any packages that do this, but I would think so ...
I stumbled across the same question. Also, for me,
My footnote (the 6st) was labeled
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who watched the twilight zone july 4th?
what a great show. thank, as usual, to syfy!!!!
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I'll answer you as soon as this man gets off the wing of my plane.
"That's not fair. That's not fair at all. There was time now. There was all the time I needed...! That's not fair!"
I have this series on DVD and they never get old to me.
I watched it for probably 3 hours during the afternoon, making a game of trying to guess the twist within the first 5 minutes (with surprising success).
Always a fun show, and I still haven't seen the vast majority of the episodes.
Syfy is still a working channel?
I happened to catch the episodes mentioned by @wingnutzero and @loubriccant along with the Willoughby episode and the toys in the donation drum.
@theoneill555: One that caught my attention was starring a young William Shatner, about a couple using a fortune telling machine in a diner.
Fun stuff.
@theoneill555: ALL ABOARD FOR WILLOUGHBY!!!
Rats. I missed it. I spent too many hours catching up on episodes of "Royal Pains" on USA. It's turned into a guilty pleasure, I'm afraid. I have a secret adoration for Campbell Scott. Don't ask me why.
@novastarj: I liked that one, but didn't see it this time around.
I watched several episodes. I had never seen the episode "Nothing in the Dark" with Robert Redford before.
@theoneill555: "Nick of Time", and others, are on YouTube.
Is the earth getting closer or further away from the sun?
Must be the "Midnight Sun".


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I have an idea for solving the knapsack problem, but it looks too good to be true. I would like someone to explain potential problems with this approach. I'll give an example: I want to find a subset of {2,7,11} which has elements that sum to 13. Here is the algorithm for solving this:
In binary notation 2=0010, 7=0111, 11=1011, 13=1101. Suppose that 2x+7y+11z=13, where x,y,z are {0,1}.
Then y+z=1 (mod 2), since the last bits of 7, 11, and 13 are 1 and the last bit of 2 is 0.
And (y+z-1)+2*(x+y+z)=0 (mod 4), since the second to last bits of 2, 7, and 11 are 1 and the second to last bit of 13 is 0. (The y+z-1 is the carry bit from before.)
And ((y+z-1)+2*(x+y+z)-0)+4y=4 (mod 8), since the third to last bits of 7 and 13 are 1 and the third to last bit of 2 and 11 are 0. (The (y+z-1)+2*(x+y+z)-0 is the carry bit from before.)
And finally ((y+z-1)+2*(x+y+z)-0)+4y-4)+8z=8 (mod 16), since the first bits of 11 and 13 are 1 and the first bit of 2 and 7 are 0. (The ((y+z-1)+2*(x+y+z)-0)+4y-4 is the carry bit from before.)
So we have four linear equations over a finite ring, if we change each one to mod 16.
8y+8z=8 (mod 16)
8x+12y+12z=4 (mod 16)
4x+14y+6z=10 (mod 16)
2x+7y+11z=13 (mod 16)
As we can see, a solution is x=1, y=0, z=1, as one would expect, since the set {2,11} has elements that sum to 13. We could have gotten this through Gaussian elimination (according to answers to my last question on this site).
By request, here is the general algorithm that I just wrote (which can be induced from the above example): We want to solve a_1*x_1 + ... a_n*x_n = b, where each a_j and b is an integer and each x_j is in {0,1}. Putting each a_j and b in binary, we have a_j=(a_{mj} ... a_{1j}) and b=(b_m ... b_1), for suitable m. For instance, a_j=5 in binary is (a_{4j} ... a_{1j})=(0 1 0 1) - highest bit on the left side, lowest on the right side.
Here is the simple algorithm for constructing a new matrix A=(a_{ij}) from this original (a_{ij}) and a new b=(b_i) from this original b:
`Let b_1 = 2^{m-1}*b_1; For j=1 to n Let a_{1j} = 2^{m-1}*a_{1j};
For i=2 to m { Let b_i = 2^{m-1}*b_i + b_{i-1}/2; For j=1 to n Let a_{ij} = 2^{m-1}*a_{ij} + a_{(i-1),j}/2; }`
Next solve the matrix equation Ax=b (mod 2^m), for the new A=(a_{ij}) and b=(b_i). If there is a solution to the knapsack problem, there should be a solution for x in {0,1} in Ax=b (mod 2^m) and vice versa (since the last row is just the original a_j and b). I'm curious to see if it works for large m and n. Anyone want to give it a shot?
What's wrong with this approach? It shouldn't work, but I don't know why.


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I'm trying to play a song, and one of the chords is G/F. I tried to look it up on this site, but it's only showing G/F#, not G/F. So is G/F a typo? Why is it not listed on this site?
G/F means "G-chord with an F in the bass". But technically, this isn't a G-chord at all, because G-chords don't have an F in them. They do, however, have an F#. G-chords with an F rather than an F# are actually G7 chords, not G chords.
More generally: When you see a chord notated, like "G" or "Am" or something, the assumption is either that you'll play the the root of the chord in the bass, or that it doesn't matter if you play an inversion. If the songwriter specifically wants you to play some other particular chord tone in the bass, s/he will write "chord name/some other note", like "G/F" or "Am/E". Such chords are called "inversions".
So a G/F# is a G-chord, but specifically an inversion of a G-chord with the F# in the bass. Since a G-chord with an F in it is actually a G7 chord, you might have more luck looking for G7/F. Or you could just roll your own by taking a G-chord and moving the bass note down two frets.
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My daughter Dawn and her Grandpa Ray live 1,200 miles apart. During the 15 years of her life, they have spent about five days per year together. It's very hard to say goodbye when it could be for the last time.
During our brief annual visits together, I've recorded Dad at home, on the job, on vacation, and with other family members and friends. The camera was a tool for understanding him better.
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Photographs of Dad have been an integral part of my personal documentary work since I got serious about photography in the mid 1970s. This is a picture of my dad getting "good news" about his brain tumor. The MRI on the light screen shows that the linear accelerator has done its job. In the two months that followed, he also received radiation on hip and spine tumors.


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And then in a blink of an eye your internal music screeches to a stop.
Maybe your date made a surprising confession, like having been arrested or incarcerated in the past. Or maybe you asked them about their romantic history and they admitted to cheating on their former partner. Whatever it was that they said now has your heart racing and eyes darting towards the door.
Admittedly, some confessions will be unacceptable. No matter how much she's said she's changed, it's unlikely that you'll want to go out on another date with someone who has been convicted of running an identity fraud ring. But except in rare cases, judgment should be suspended until you know them a little better. Let me explain why.
Everyone has done something in the past that they don't want held against them. I've been on this earth 42 years and have as yet to meet a person who at one point or another in their life hasn't made some serious mistakes. But it's not really fair to hold something someone did 5, 10, or 20 years ago against them today. And even more recent transgressions can be forgiven if the person has worked on themselves properly.
I've heard it said time and time again: "The greatest indicator of a person's future behavior is their past behavior. However, people can and do change for the better. Of course, many claim that they've changed when they really haven't. So how can you tell if a person has really left a negative behavior behind? That depends on the answers to two questions:
Are they a mensch? And can they articulate how they changed?
I know it's odd to use a Yiddish term on a Black website. But this is a word that describes the character of a person who has the fundamental quality needed for a healthy relationship in one, guttural syllable. A mensch is a person of integrity, someone who strives to do the right thing. A mensch is a person who places personal growth and development at the forefront of their lives. Their main drive isn't the desire for success or money; it's to become the best person they can be in all areas of their life.
A person motivated by personal growth first is more likely to learn from them and are better equipped to not making the same ones twice.
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So what does this have to do with whether a person has learned from their mistakes or not? A person motivated by personal growth first is more likely to learn from them and are better equipped to not making the same ones twice. People whose main focus is on the acquisition of material things or popularity don't usually place character development too high on their list of priorities. This isn't to say that successful people don't prioritize spiritual or personal growth. Some do and some don't, however the intention driving their professional success is what determines whether or not a person is capable of success in all aspects of their lives.
For example, say someone cheated on their former spouse. Just because they cheated on them doesn't mean they'll cheat on you however it is an indicator of a propensity towards a specific type of behavior. Cheating, like any other behavior, is something that a person will stop engaging in when they understand and address the core issues that drive their actions. Someone who isn't motivated by personal growth will take shortcuts. They may buy you expensive gifts, give you the password to their email, or leave their cell phone unlocked. But these actions don't mean they're sorry for cheating…they're sorry for getting caught.
In order to feel comfortable that a person has overcome a specific behavior (such as cheating, binge drinking, physical fighting), they need to no longer engage in said behavior and be able to clearly articulate:
- How the behavior harmed THEM in addition to the person they have harmed. Be leery of someone who can only say how sorry they are for hurting the other person. They've got to understand how their behavior impacted themselves, too, for true change comes only when one gets that any harm we do to another causes equal harm to ourselves, spiritually or emotionally speaking.
- What specific emotional/spiritual work they've done to address their behavior. Going to church or praying it away isn't enough. There has to have been consistent action outside of their comfort zone that forces them to confront their issues.
- Describe their "contingency" plan or how they've been able to manage peer pressure or putting themselves in situations where they'd be tempted to slip into old habits.
- No longer condones the specific behavior in other people. If you've truly changed your ways, you won't agree when someone else


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Unable to use GXT 3 WindowManager with 2.2.5 Windows
I was not able to find other posts on this issue. So if I missed it, my apologies.
I am in a situation where I need to use the GXT 3 WindowManager for both GXT 2.2.5 and 3.0.0 Windows.
I can register both types of Windows, but I can only unregister 3.0.0 Windows
public void register(Widget widget) {...} public void unregister(Window widget) {...}
Has this been resolved?
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28 Sep 2012 1:59 PM #3
double bump.
Our workaround was to clone and own the WindowManager class, correcting the input type of the unRegister method.
Also, I mistakenly put this post in the wrong forum. It should be in the GXT 3.0 Q&A
7 Oct 2012 11:48 AM #4
Moving it to GXT 3 bugs forum and filed so we can pick it up for the next 3.x release.
8 Oct 2012 7:36 AM #5
Excellent! I hope the fix is as straightforward as it seems!
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This has been fixed in SVN and will be available in the next release.


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Secret Agent Sword for $9.99 + $4.99 flat rate shipping
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Yes, Sir. I'm sure you're really a secret agent. But I still can't allow you to take your sword onto the Tilt-A-Whirl.
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What's so secret about a sword with a 27" blade?
More like not-so-secret psycho sword....
I'd be in for one, but my license to kill expired in august.
You won't be a secret for long with this.
BudK merchandise is very poorly made and they do NOT stand behind it. Save your money, this is not a reputable dealer.
Want a display piece, or part of a LARP costume? Then sure, BudK has a few nifty things. If you're planning on whacking zombies, survival, or even cutting back the ivy, then go for something a bit better.
Do I need to be a secret agent to buy this? Or will buying this make me a secret agent?
I actually have had this sword for about 5 years. A friend of mine randomly gave it to me. Just like it says its one giant piece of stainless steel with nylon cording wrapped around the handle. I've never actually used it for anything so I can't attest to it's sturdiness, but it does look cool.
True story: when I got this I absentmindedly just left it propped up against my bed before my pals and I went out. I brought a girl home later that night and she saw this sitting up against my bed, thought I was a psycho, and insisted on leaving. Since then this sword has remained exiled to my closet.
@jonartz: Cool story, bro. Chicks don't dig being hacked into little pieces...lol.
Jonartz, I have two little girls. Can I have your unused sword to polish when people like you show up on my porch in a few years? From your story, it might work better than my deer rifle.
Drat! Now I'm humming this song!
Where's the bottle opener?
@schep999: If you teach them not to hook up with guys they meet at college parties that should be enough to keep people like me at bay. Might wanna grab one of these swords though for people who aren't as respectful of others wishes.
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@jonartz: You didn't bring a girl home if you have friends who randomly give you a sword.
I'm a secret agent and do not use a sword of any style. We stopped using swords in 1983. I thought everybody new that.
This sword? is made out of stainless steel which means it is mostly decorative, save your money for something made out of quality high carbon steel that wont shatter as easily.
@mybestuser1: Of course this sword is crap, it is $10. But I just though I would throw in my 2 cents. It is stainless steel, most likely 303 because it is cheap and easy to machine (this is probably stamped though). Being stainless or Corrosion REsistant Steel (CRES as us Engineers say), it will not shatter. It will bend like warm lead, and couldn't hold an edge with a bucket; but it will not shatter. The high carbon content in steel is what can make it shatter. The trick (and expensive part) is using a metal alloy that is flexible (so it won't shatter) and hard (so it can hold an edge). This kind of alloy would be expensive to manufacture and hard/expensive to machine. Bottom line, you want a good blade, spend the money.
All that being said, knowing what it is, I am tempted to pick up a pair of them.


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When Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson came up with the idea for Nowhere Men, he knew not just any comic artist could handle the project. Luckily for him, Nate Bellegarde isn't just any comic artist.
Based in Boston, Bellegarde clawed his way into comics at an early age, making his professional debut at age 16 with a back-up strip in Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore's Battle Pope. He continued his association with Kirkman, providing back-ups for early issues of Invincible with Benito Cereno before segueing to their own standalone series with Hector Plasm. Bellegarde kept busy doing the first volume of Tim Seeley's Loaded Bible before being enlisted by Kirkman for Invincible spinoff books like Brit and Invincible Presents: Atom Eve & Rex Splode. His art had the crisp, clear style of his colleagues Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley, but his linework betrayed a more subversive subtext. Each of his previous projects seemed to capitalize on part of the skill set Bellegarde had been honing over the years, but never quite captured all of it at once — until Nowhere Men.
Mixing the interpersonal conflicts of science projects like The Right Stuff with more esoteric fiction constructs like the best of Franco-Belgian comics (and a side of British Invasion-era music), Nowhere Men is an uncommon, and uncompromising, piece of work. With three issues on stands and the fourth due March 6, I spoke with Bellegarde about Nowhere Men and its role in his pursuit of a life in comics.


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ANDERSON, S.C. – Beginning the afternoon with a furious comeback to claim a 13-12 win in 10 innings, in the first game of the twin bill, Anderson University baseball was unable to claim the series against South Atlantic Conference rival Tusculum, falling 11-8 in the second contest of the day Saturday afternoon at Anderson Memorial Stadium.
The split moves the Trojans to 11-20 for the year and 8-10 in conference play, while the Pioneers take a 19-11 overall mark and a 9-8 league record into next week. With AU's 8-10 conference mark, the Trojans are even with in-state rival Newberry for sixth place in the league standings.
Senior Nathan Galliford, who started as the designated hitter in both games on the day, pounded out six hits for the afternoon, including his ninth home run of the season to lead off the fifth inning in the opening game of the day. To go along with his six hits, the senior totaled four runs scored and four RBI. Galliford's nine home runs on the season currently rank second in the conference, two behind the SAC leader.
Sophomore leftfielder Garrett Bernardo recorded five hits, all singles, as he crossed the plate four times for the day, while sophomore first baseman Steven Cooper belted his fifth home run of the season and fifth in his last eight games in the first inning of game two. The two-run blast gave the Trojans a 2-0 lead to begin the second game, before TC made its comeback to claim the victory.
Senior outfielder Paul Como posted two hits in the latter matchup, while junior middle infielders Brett Cash and Kyle Bailey recorded two hits apiece in the thrilling 13-12 extra inning victory.
Despite a 0-for-4 game, senior centerfielder Josh Hickman became the hero of the extra inning game as his sacrifice fly to right field, scoring Cash, solidified the victory after the Trojans plated two runs to draw the score even once again.
Prior to the 10th inning heroics, junior right-hander Evan Jordan came in relief for starter Thomas Goodman and completed five innings with two strikeouts and two earned runs. For his efforts, Jordan tallied his first victory of the season.
A big contribution to Anderson's comeback was its six runs in the bottom half of the seventh frame, highlighted by Galliford's sixth double of the season, which scored Cooper, and Cash's RBI single, scoring Galliford. The Trojans took advantage of three consecutive walks, followed by an error, to score six on two hits for the inning.
To open the first game, AU tallied five straight hits, leading to three runs, as Bailey, Bernardo and Cooper, who began the Trojan lineup for the day, all came around to score.
For the season, Anderson has posted double figure hits in three of its last four contests and has recorded a home run in its last three games. After striking out eight times on Friday, the Trojans went down on strikes a combined five times for both games. As a team, Anderson is hitting .285 for the year.
Anderson returns to its nonconference schedule with back-to-back road contests with in-state rivals North Greenville on Tuesday and USC Aiken on Wednesday. Both games are scheduled for 6 p.m.


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Myhrer and Rebensburg just won both SLALOM and GIANT SLALOM titles!!
During FIS WC finals of Schladming the sweden André Myhrer wins the SLALOM and he took the discipline's crystal globe after the two favourites crashed out.
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It's fantasy martial arts (e.g. some people can fly) with some comic touches here and there. The budget wasn't massive (not at the level of a Hero or a Crouching Tiger...) but it felt epic nevertheless.
One of the masters, who (I think) was portrayed as wise and funny was fed poison, and on noticing, vomited it all out, and what was going on inside his bowels was portrayed with some rather poor visual effects.
I enjoyed this movie much, for I'm a sucker for oriental fantasy, but also because the movie had some powerful emotional moments (I remember there was some romance, complete with a gorgeous gal). I saw this movie within the last 15 years (can't remember when exactly).


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MOUNDSVILLE - The United Mine Workers of America - an organization that strongly supported President Barack Obama's 2008 bid for president - has come out firing following the EPA's recent proposal to cut carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030, a standard that many believe will devastate the nation's coal industry and lead to higher electricity prices.
"Under this rule, our reward is to be kicked to the curb, hopefully out of sight and soon forgotten," UMWA International President Cecil E. Roberts said, referring to the coal miners he represents, thousands of whom reside in the Ohio Valley.
"I assure you, if that is the choice before us, we will not go quietly. We will not be out of sight. We will not be forgotten. You will hear from us."
Roberts had been a fervent supporter of Obama in 2008, saying at the time that Obama "shares the values of UMWA members and our families. He understands and will fight for the needs our members have today and the hopes our members have for a secure future for themselves and their families."
"Sen. Obama is from a coal state," Roberts said in 2008, according to published reports. "He understands that coal will remain a primary source for electricity generation in this country for many decades to come and he will join with the UMWA as we work to ensure that it will be used for that purpose in an environmentally responsible way."
The UMWA declined to endorse Obama in 2012. And now, Roberts questions the wisdom of decimating the nation's coal industry and power-generating capabilities when other nations such as China and India continue to burn coal and emit carbon dioxide.
"Why on earth should we be willing to sacrifice the lives and livelihoods of thousands upon thousands of our fellow citizens on the naive bet that current and emerging economic competitors like China, India, Brazil, Russia and others will follow our lead?" Roberts said.
The jobs impact
On a daily basis, nearly 5,000 Ohio Valley families live good, middle-class lives through jobs provided by the area's coal mines and power generation facilities. Now more than ever, those jobs - and those families' livelihoods - are being put at risk.
Coal mining provides 3,664 direct jobs to Ohio Valley residents, with another 1,046 employed at the region's coal-fired power plants, a 2013 survey by the Sunday News-Register found. Combined, that's about as many jobs as the shuttered Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. and Ormet Corp. provided to area residents 10-15 years ago, when both were still operating.
Coal miners in the region make an average salary of $88,000, while power plant workers take home $68,000. Those are jobs, in the area's current economy, that just won't be replaced at that income level.
Roberts said so-called "green energy jobs" will not fill the void left by the loss of coal employment.
"The jobs that we are told will be created will very likely not be in the coal fields, will not pay particularly well, will not have decent benefits, and will not allow workers to realize what we once called the 'American dream.' The American economy will not benefit from the creation of such jobs because they will come at the expense of the better jobs we have now," he said.
"This is simply a recipe for disaster in America's coal fields, especially the eastern coal fields. That is where the hammer of this rule will fall the hardest. And it's not just that these jobs will be lost - it's that the ability of companies to continue funding pension and retiree health care benefits will be at great risk. That puts hundreds of thousands more - mostly senior citizens living on already-low fixed incomes - squarely in the crosshairs of this rule."
While the UMWA has traditionally supported Democrat candidates, Roberts said Obama's policies will cost "75,000 direct coal generation jobs in the United States by 2020." He said the number will rise to 152,000 in by 2035.
Tax Implications
The EPA's proposed carbon rules also could crush the area's tax base, as in Marshall County alone about $22 million annually is collected in local taxes from coal mining and energy generation.
Marshall County Assessor Chris Kessler said for tax year 2013, Consol Energy paid $9.6 million in property taxes in Marshall County for the mines formerly known as McElroy and Shoemaker, as well as some scattered parcels of land. Late last year, Murray Energy acquired those mines and three others in West Virginia for $3.5 billion, renaming McElroy and Shoemaker the Marshall County Coal Co. and the Ohio County Coal Co., respectively.
Additionally, American Electric Power paid $8.8 million in property taxes to the county during tax year 2013 for the Mitchell and Kammer power plants.
The county received $3.5 million in coal severance revenue in 2013. This leads to about $22 million in taxes paid to the county for coal and coal-fired power production in the 2013 tax year.
Of that $22 million, about $14.35 million goes to Marshall County Schools, which has an annual budget of $56 million; $6.7 million to the county's general fund, with an annual budget of $17.1 million; and the remainder split between local municipalities and state agencies.


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First of all, this is a great library! I found this thing a week ago and really enjoy using it. Thanks for all the great work!
What i try to do is, add all the available constants in "SyntaxConstants" into a JComboBox so that i have the possibility to choose the highlighting that i want to use for my text. Also i don't necessarily want to see the exact same values as in "SyntaxConstants". Something like "Java" or "Delphi" would be great!
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JohnC wrote:Black Applesauce wrote:Guys, this isn't really worth all the fuss. Throw in an i3-3220, a 7850 variation, and some inexpensive RAM and mobo and you're set. Really.
You don't get it, do you?
Bashiba wrote:So is everyone on board with the current 3470/7850 Build? Or is there a better combination I'm missing?
Microcenter has a crazy good deal on the 3570K, but with gas, tolls, and almost 8% Sales tax it ends up being more expensive than just using Amazon or Newegg. Plus I'm assuming the 3470 will be strong enough that I won't need to overclock it.
Also I don't know jack about the intel motherboards, any better recommendations out there? Assuming 1 - it won't be overclocked, 2 - I can't imagine a dual video card situation, 3 - USB 3 or other ports aren't a big factor, 4 - 4 Ram Slots so we can add more later if need be, 5 - can't break my budget
This still looks pretty good to me for the price - ASRock Z77 Pro3 Motherboard
DPete27 wrote:too bad TR didn't include the i3 in their article. That article really needs a refresh with Piledriver and Intel i3s. Especially so we can see the possible performance hits while multitasking.
DPete27 wrote:DPete27 wrote:too bad TR didn't include the i3 in their article. That article really needs a refresh with Piledriver and Intel i3s. Especially so we can see the possible performance hits while multitasking.
Sorry everyone, TR does have frame-latency comparisons including Piledriver FX (although just the 8350, the rest can assumedly be extrapolated from the 8150 vs 8350 matchup) and the Ivy Bridge Pentium, i3, i5, and i7 gamut. That link is for the "multitasking while gaming" page in which the i3 starts to lose ground against the AMD lineup. Multitasking is my biggest concern when recommending i3's for gaming builds these days. If you're ONLY gaming (nothing else running in the background), then the i3 is still a solid choice though.
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Ongweoweh acquires White & Co.
Ongweoweh has announced that it has acquired White & Co., an independent packaging research and consulting firm. The purchase will better serve the needs of Ongweoweh's customers, and provide White & Co. the opportunity to expand its service and software offerings.
The purchase of the packaging research and consulting firm, along with access to its proprietary software solutions Best Pallet and Best Load, fits into Ongweoweh's strategy to shift the company to a focus on unit load optimization. The partnership between Ongweoweh and White & Co. delivers an outstanding combination of packaging expertise and operational know-how.
"The acquisition of White and Co. complements our overall unit load technology offering. It affords us the opportunity to provide our current and prospective customer with multiple solutions. This investment represents an opportunity to build upon the progressive ideals of my father," said Danial F. Bonamie, president and CEO of Ongweoweh. "While White & Co. will continue to operate as an independent packaging research and consulting firm, we look forward to working alongside Dr. White and his team. Marketing and distribution of Best Pallet and Best Load will will be among our first priorities."
"We are very excited about the opportunities for both Ongweoweh and White & Co., which will come from this partnership. I have long admired the successful vision of Frank, Dan, and everyone at Ongweoweh," said Mark White, president of White & Co. "As an independent consulting and software development company, we look forward to bringing value to the customers and clients of both companies. This new partnership will allow White & Co. to expand its packaging and unit load design services and develop new software products for companies that manufacture and distribute consumer and industrial products."


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OK I have the NN5 w/ the RD12 rotator.
I have been looking forward to a leveling system and I was waiting to see the EZ-Leveler-II. It looks sweet, but a I have a few questions.
There doesn't appear to be a bubble level on the EZ-Leveler-II/R-D3L combo. Is this correct?
Are you going to come out with the EZ-Leveler-II without the R-D3L Rotator? Will it have a bubble level? I am asking this question because I already have the RD12 rotator, so I wouldn't need the R-D3L. I just need the EZ-Leveler-II.


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Suisan deploys topVOX's voice solution
January 23, 2013 - MMH Editorial
The recent deployment of a voice-directed picking solution from topVOX (Booth 3573) at Suisan, a Hawaiian food service distributor, is a good indicator of the advantages of the vendor's "speaker-indepedent" voice technology, Marceline Absil, VP of marketing and sales, said at Wednesday press conference at the company's booth.
The topVOX Lydia solution was implemented in Suisan's 53,000-square-foot refrigerated warehouse in Hilo, Hawaii, last year, helping bring a 30% increase in fulfillment accuracy. Additonally, because the Lydia solution doesn't need to "learn" each voice or language of its users, the system sped deployment for Suisan, which has five languages spoken by its order selectors.
"The deployment was up to speed quickly because there was no need to create templates to train the system to recognize each user," Absil said. "That not necessary with our speaker-idependent technology."
In another announcement related to ease of deployment, Absil said topVOX's Lydia Connector 7.0 has achieved SAP-certified integration with the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. Lydia Connector has been proven to integrate with dynpro-based SAP applications without any need for middleware, Absil added.
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I want to find a new group, but I haven't got the physical space in my small apartment to host gaming sessions. What tips do you have when playing e.g. at a cafe?
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The relevant guidelines boil down to:
I've gamed in a lot of places, including:
In some cases just with a small group of gamers, but I also founded the Memphis gaming club the FORGE and we went through several of these places getting a venue for a larger monthly meeting.
The trick to a bar, coffee shop, or restaurant is to ask the manager/owner/friendly employee for permission and to set expectations about what will be going on, when, how many people, how long (RPGs go longer than most people expect meetings to take), noise levels both of the participants and what you'll be willing to deal with... Many of these places have private rooms reserved for business groups or events or whatnot that you can leverage, but those are often during "normal business hours" and you may be meeting in their off times (in fact, ask them what their peak hours are and propose to use their non-peak hours). For example, you would say, "Hey, we have six people that'll buy lunch every week and not be a pain, can we use your private room for 4 hours every Sunday at 2?"
Libraries and community centers can be used, but may charge or may have rules like "you have to let anyone from the community who shows up participate". Apartment complexes have clubhouses that can be reserved (sometimes for a fee, sometimes just for a deposit).
Wherever you're using, have everyone be respectful and not get in the way, make undue noise, or mess with others (other customers, host's SO/kids/neighbors, etc.) and you'll get left alone too.
In particularly brain damaged locales they may not want role-playing or especially Dungeons & Dragons because it is a tool of the Debbil. While playing, understand that other people may not want to hear foul language, stuff about demons, etc.; keep it to a volume and content appropriate to a shared location or others will complain to whoever's in charge and whoever's in charge will kick you out. Gaming stores have a higher tolerance for unbathed annoying behavior than other places but even they have their limits, as many aspiring Asperger's sufferers have found out.
A quick list of places you may be able to play:
Things to think about when playing in a more public venue:
Make sure it is cleaner and tidier than you found it.
Most universities will let clubs or individuals book seminar rooms. Those are nice as they contain a big table, a black board, and easy access to snack and drink machines.


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08:30 UTC on Tuesday 26 July 2016 | Cloud/surface composite, Australia
Infrared image courtesy of the Japan Meteorological Agency. Blue Marble surface image courtesy of NASA.
IDY28000 Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology Bureau National Operations Centre Satellite Notes for the 0600UTC Chart on 26 July 2016 Issued at 5:00 pm EST Tuesday on 26 July 2016 A strong, fast moving cold front is moving through the Tasman Sea with a large field of cold air behind the front evident by the "speckled" cellular cloud west of front. An extensive cloud band with embedded showers and thunderstorms extends over the Eastern Great Australian Bight, SA and VIC, is associated with a second fast moving cold front. A band of middle level cloud streaming across the centre of the continent is associated with a jet stream in the upper levels of the atmosphere.


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The Erdős-Straus conjecture states that any fraction of the form $\frac{4}{n}$ can be decomposed as an Egyptian fraction with just 3 terms. In related research, I've recently come across conditions on $n$ (e.g. if $n$ has factorization of such and such a form) so that $\frac{k}{n}$ can be decomposed as an Egyptian fraction with $k$ terms. This isn't strong enough to prove Erdős-Straus, but I was wondering if there were already results like this out there or if this is new. It seems like most of what I read examines the 3-term decompositions. Are 4-term decompositions trivial to come by?
Sums of 4 (or generally $k$) unit fractions are by no means trivial.
There is a general criterion to Y. Rav (On the representation of rational numbers as a fixed sum of unit fractions. J. Reine Angew. Math. 222 (1966): 207-213.)
The equation $\frac{m}{n}= \frac{1}{x_1} + \cdots + \frac{1}{x_k}$
One can expect that for fixed $m$ and fixed $3 \leq k < m$, there is some finite bound $N_{m,k}$ such that $n>N_{m,k}$ admits a solution. But this is an open problem.
One can prove that for "almost all" $n \leq N$. The strongest version of "almost all", and a discussion of the parametrization of such equations is in C. Elsholtz, Sums of $k$ unit fractions, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 353 (2001), 3209-3227


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In StarCraft 2 multiplayer, what does the following message mean? "Player is slowing down the game" I've seen this pop up a few times recently and didn't know if it was something intentional the other player was doing or something like net or frame lag.
This is caused by the player not communicating with the server fast enough to keep up with the game info in "real time". It is most likely caused by connection issues, but a slow computer on a fast connection could also do it in some circumstances.
It means one (or more) of the players has too much latency. If this because too large the game is paused to let him catch up for up to maximal 60 seconds. After that the player is kicked from the game.
In 1v1 this means you would instantly win, so there's no benefit for players to purposely slow down the game