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Victoria Cruises
Victoria Cruises ShipsVictoria Anna Victoria Grace Victoria Jenna Victoria Katarina Victoria Lianna Victoria Selina Victoria Sophia
- Victoria Cruises operates solely on China's Yangtze River
- Most pax are 50-plus, with a sprinkling of younger folks, families
- Excursions included; China land tour option
- Quality Chinese cuisine served in single seating "banquet"
- Victoria Cruises News: Acclaimed Chef Heats Up Victoria Cruises' Cuisine
OnboardAs the topography of the Yangtze changes back and forth from bustling river ports to terraced rice paddies to fjord-like precipitous gorges, the passing scenery on riverbanks, seemingly close enough to touch, is described by a bilingual (Chinese/English) river guide, and provides a moving backdrop during the extensive periods of daylight sailing. There are daily port calls as well, featuring unfortunately all-too-rushed shore excursions. At night, ships' entertainment leans toward the cultural, with, for example, performances by members of the Beijing Opera, or fashion shows with crew members modeling clothing stretching from thousands of years ago to the hip, contemporary youth-oriented fashions of modern booming Shanghai.
Quality cuisine is given a high priority aboard Victoria's ships. Breakfast and lunch are served buffet-style, and include a mix of Western and Asian choices. Dinner is predominantly Chinese, served "banquet style" in a single seating with assigned tables.
Though the ambiance is by and large casual, there are two dinners where jacket and tie (and equivalent wardrobe for the ladies) is recommended: a welcome aboard dinner and farewell dinner (often on succeeding nights on three-night cruises!).
About Victoria CruisesUnbeknownst to most Americans, cruising China's Yangtze River is a booming and popular vacation choice. On the river between Chongqing and Yichang one sees seemingly hundreds of similarly shaped flat-bottomed, multi-decked, shallow draft river cruisers in passing. Of those ships, however, the vast majority are aimed solely at the domestic Chinese market. Of the handful that cater to Western passengers, Victoria Cruises is the only line that is U.S. owned and operated.
Founded in 1994 by the Chinese-American Pi family, this New York-based company began operations by leasing vessels and crews from existing Chinese shipping operators and manning them with English-speaking cruise staff. Ultimately finding this arrangement to be a compromise and unsatisfactory for the product they envisaged, Victoria began a program, completed in early 2003, of returning the leased vessels to their owners and custom-building a fleet designed expressly for the preferences, tastes and priorities of a Western -- especially American -- clientele. Aboard these upscale ships the understated decor is warm, comfortable and luxurious, and the cuisine excellent.
Many English-language travel operators, including those in the river cruise industry, have taken notice. Victoria's sailings are marketed and sold by Avalon Waterways, China Plus, Gate 1 Travel, General Tours, Globus, Orient Flexi-Pax, Pacific Delight Tours, Ritz Tours, Swain Tours, Trafalgar, Travcoa and Uniworld.
Currently, Victoria operates solely on China's Yangtze River, and, like river cruises worldwide, these voyages are as much round-the-clock shore excursions and floating enrichment programs as posh cruises.
Victoria Cruises FleetVictoria's fleet currently consists of eight ships, of which the oldest, Victoria Rose, built in 1992 (rebuilt 2001) is the sole representative of the earlier, "classic" series. The Victoria Rose carries 130 passengers. The other seven vessels are considered "premeir ships" and carry between 198 and 416 passengers. The newest ship, Victoria Jenna, was launched in summer 2009 as the largest river cruise ship ever built. The 308-passenger Victoria Anna debuted in 2006. Victoria Katarina launched in March of 2004. The remaining four premier ships -- Victoria Star, Prince, Queen and Empress -- built between 1994 and 1996, have all been refurbished between 2002 and 2004. Across the fleet, all accommodations include private balconies, satellite television and spacious bathrooms with tubs and showers.
Fellow PassengersVictoria Cruises bends over backwards to please Western tastes. As a result, Americans account for 60 percent of the passenger load. Most of the remainder come from Europe and Australia. Currently, mainland Chinese amount to less than five percent.
Most passengers are over 50, seasoned travelers with a sprinkling of younger passengers and families.
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The Pope is on Twitter. But there's more to the story...
I have a feature up at Religion News Service on the broader communications overhaul going on at the Vatican -- a reform effort that was given impetus by the series of gaffes and PR missteps in this pontificate, and the recent "Vatileaks" case:
So how is the overhaul going now that things are settling down?It's a work in progress, said Greg Burke, the Fox News reporter who the Vatican hired last summer in an unusually high-profile move. I'm just aiming for baby steps at this point, trying to get things moving in the right direction. And I think they are.Vatican officials say Burkes hiring he is a member of the influential and media-savvy Opus Dei order and he works in the office of the secretary of state, the Vaticans West Wing is one of the biggest of the baby steps. It has been followed by a number of other actions designed to make the Holy Sees communications a priority rather than an afterthought.For example, the Vatican has started using mock press conferences to prepare for tough questions from the media, and made some of its younger, mid-level officials more available to journalists. Even though they may deliver only background briefings, these officials tend to relate to reporters better than high-ranking cardinals for whom the media is a necessary evil and fax machines a novelty. (Thirty-something curial officials like to joke that the Vaticans motto should be Yesterdays technology tomorrow.)
Now, if they can just get the press office to stay open past 3 pm Rome time, they'll be cookin' with gas.Yes, it's nice that the Holy Father is on Twitter. Hey, half a million "followers" and he hasn't even sent a tweet yet. Not too shabby. But the other, broader media effort is important. Changes in structure are one thing, changing the culture is another. There's no better communications strategy than having a good product to sell, and being open and accountable.
About the Author
David Gibson is a national reporter for Religion News Service and author of The Coming Catholic Church (HarperOne) and The Rule of Benedict (HarperOne). He blogs at dotCommonweal.
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" Not too shabby."David, you might be aware that a half million followers is an easy accomplishment for a worldwide propaganda machine. It is like the WWYD which is almost totally without substance as it is a contrived event set up by offering free trips to youth in every parish. So the pope will get the numbers. We will see about substance. Will be interesting to see the thirty somethings speaking for the Vatican. Hopefully some of them will break through the Opus Dei mold. The fact that the stodgy cardinals will defer to those in touch with the pulse of Catholics is hopeful. When Chaput and Dolan complain it will mean progress. Twitter will be a challenge for the pope. How many of the comments will be hastily denied and declared that the twitter did this without papal approval?
I think the pope should have a vlog (video blog), but I would recommend he stick to nonreligious topics (like cats, for example) to humanize himself. Every pontifical congregation or council or any other Vatican organization of any importance should have 24/7 live chat so that if you had, say, a Bible question, you could go chat with someone from The Pontifical Biblical Commission. Live chat has made me feel much more positively toward Time Warner Cable of Manhattan, and I think it could work for the Vatican, too. I admit that I do not follow Twitter, but I will certainly look forward to reading something like The Complete Tweets of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI some time down the road. Is it true that dotCommonweal is going to have a contest for the best (imagined) papal tweets of the past 2000 years?
So, is the Pope really going to tweet or will it be the Fox news guy? Celebrities, I understand have "people" who handle their twitter posts. Do you think thie will be the model that the Vatican folks will follow?
One of my teenagers is a fan of a boy band, and spends way too many hours reading tweets from its members - as Holloway notes, probably actually written and sent by their "people". Based on what I'm told of the content of these tweets, a good number of them seem to consist of contrived disputes between the various members of the band, and between band members and members of other musical acts. Perhaps this will be the Holy Father's model for Twitter, and we can look forward to him dissing the Russian Patriarch, the Dalai Lama, President Obama and Beyonce.
David G. -- Only at the very end of your interesting RNS article comes what some might consider an important question in developing a communication strategy: "What's the message we're going to be sending?", from Greg Burke. The gaffes you mention were more due to lack of brain-tongue connectivity than to deficiencies in modern communication systems technology and operation. The simplest test case that comes to mind is the soon-to-be-historic message of the very first tweet from the Pontifex a week from today, followed before long by a collection of his first ten. Fair or not, reactions will occur from intended recipients and others. A richly developed vision of the Pope on Twitter is offered by the USCCB Director of Media Relations Sister Mary Ann Walsh, who foresees the humanizing that David N. recommends, although extending beyond cats even to matters of the soul. She identifies examples of profound short statements of less than 140 characters like "God loves you". She sees a possibility that the Pope's web leadership will induce bishops and others to follow in tweeting with the hoi polloi, becoming more personal and abandoning nuance, as the medium demands. (This appears to be a personal blog post rather than a USCCB position.) http://usccbmedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/tweet-pope.html
The Pope will allow questions, and, hopefully, he'll answer at least some of them. (That to me is the most revolutionary aspect of this initiative.) But will he answer in any depth? 140 chars don't go very far.I'm hoping the whole project will be an education for him about what the faithful really thing. For instance, if people often ask, "Why doesn't the Church allow married priests?', hopefully he'll see that he needs to give more convincing reasons than the ones he currently offers -- or allow married priests.I suspect that there will be many questions that Rome has forbidden us to ask, and there will be many that will implicitly criticize the Church. Some will be ugly. It will be very interesting to see whether or not the Pope will be told of those questions (somehow I rather doubt it -- at least at the beginning). I wonder whether or not he'll be surprised by them. Good as his intentions no doubt are, sometimes I think he doesn't have a clue as to what the world of ordinary people is like. Or will the project end up just another bulletin board with trite pious thoughts written by the flunkies who actually read the comments?
Poteritne minurire Latine? I don't know that many of his followers would follow that. His tweets will have to be sent out in several modern languages. Then what happens if he uses up his 140 characters in an Italian tweet to say something that requires several more in English? "and that is why the Church teaches that all forms of artificial birth control are f"But probably these exercises will come to be seen as a sort of lighthearted magisterium, making an interesting point while showing the Pope's fun and with-it side. It will be a revelation.
John Prior - that's very funny :-)
I'm not into Twittering, and this is just one more reason why.
David G: you are making a big leap of faith that this is "a story" to begin with.Does anyone REALLY believe that B16 will actually tweet anything by himself? Really?
"Does anyone REALLY believe that B16 will actually tweet anything by himself? Really?" I kind of doubt it. Most world leaders have aides who do it for them, though I suspect B16 will sign off on them. Celebs and others who tweet on their own as often as not get into trouble. Pontiffs can't take that risk.But I'm not sure I understand your question -- my story was not about the pope tweeting, and in fact took an entirely different tack.
I watched a clip of Pope Benedict greeting the President of the Federal Republic of Germany on 6 December. The Pope appeared very frail. When he walked even very short distances, he was noticeably tentative. It is known that he normally uses a cane in the apartment. Why the reluctance, with a few exceptions, to do so in public? And how soon till a wheel chair? I found his restricted mobility quite shocking.


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What's the difference between overloading a method and overriding it in Java?
Is there a difference in method signature, access specifier, return type, etc.?
What's the difference between overloading a method and overriding it in Java?
Is there a difference in method signature, access specifier, return type, etc.?
To overload a method with a new method, the new method should have a different signature. I.e. two overloaded methods have the same name, but different parameters. Here's an example of two overloaded methods:
Based on the parameter types, the corresponding method will be called. Note that changing the return type is not enough (though you can do this additionally).
When a method is overridden, then the new method has the same signature and replaces the overridden method in some cases. Here's an example of an overridden method:
The choice is made based on the object type. For example,
will call the
Now, if you accidentally change the parameters in B, the compiler will inform you, that you are not overriding someMethod() but overloading it.
Overloading, methods have the same name but different parameters.
Overriding, the implementation given in base class is replaced with that in sub class.
Concepts you ask about are covered in Java tutorials.
Explanation for overriding is given as follows:
Overloading is explained in tutorial as follows:
Above explanation for overloading mentions qualifications discussed in the lesson titled "Interfaces and Inheritance":
Overloading a method is typically defined as "providing multiple available methods with the same name, differing by the number and type of inputs and outputs". The concept is usually that you want to be able to perform the same basic operation given varying sets of inputs: you can, for instance, "add" any two values of numeric type, however it is usually important to know what the exact type of the value is so that you can take advantage of or plan for specific behaviors of that type. As such, you would define a method for each combination of numeric types (and or collections) you wish to support. All these methods have the same name, but different "signatures"; at compile-time, the compiler will match a call to a particular method name with a given combination of inputs to a specific pointer in the application memory used to store code.
Overriding a method is typically defined as "providing a different implementation in a derived class of a method with a particular signature defined in the base class". There are many reasons to override a method; virtually all of them have in common the fact that the derived class has additional knowledge of what must be done, which cannot be known by the base class. There are two flavors of overriding in most OO languages; overriding can replace the base class method, or it can extend the base class method. The difference is usually that a derived class that is extending a base class implementation will call the base class's overridden version of the method at some point during the execution of the overriding method. This allows overriding classes to "re-use" common areas of the operation which are contained in the base class.
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Been having some bottom bracket (BB) woes. Noticed a click on the top of the left pedal stroke decided to re-grease the BB. Took it apart cleaned everything re-greased, put it back together. Roll forward a week. Notice my cranks sticking here and there, gets progressively worse on the ride. Get it home and off the bike notice my bike has turned into a rain-stick (this provided no calming effect) Que another strip down of the BB. Upon inspection, I found all the bearing on the non lockring side of the where out of the cage, which now would no longer hold them. I pinched the cages with pilers to secure the ball bearings back in place. Re-greased repacked. Lifted my bike out today for my cycle to work jingle-jingle; LOOSE BEARING! Cycle to work was sub 3miles so risked it. Want to take care of this ASAP, so my questions are:
1. I figure I am over-tighting the bottom bracket, causing the damage to the cage, however what else could cause?
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- Campagnolo Italian threaded
- plastic sleeve is in two parts, the smaller part pushes into the other.
- 2 caged bearings from memory 8/9 bearings in each cage.
- Two screw in cones one locking.
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WEIRTON - Mayor George Kondik will ask City Council Tuesday to sponsor a grant application for preservation of the Margaret Manson Weiron Memorial Pool on Marland Heights.
Kondik said the group spearheading the save-the-pool effort, Marland Heights Community Association, needs a municipal sponsor in order to tap into grant money through the West Virginia State Historic Preservation office. Sponsoring the grant would not commit any city funds toward the project, he said.
"There's no cost to do this," Kondik said. "It's just a means for them to perform the grant work that we're more than willing to do for the association, provided council approves it. They're asking for a grant, and they need a municipality as a conduit. We would be that municipality."
The city's park board had voted last month to demolish the pool, saying the cost to upgrade the property and make it handicap accessible was too high. Residents, however, weren't convinced and since have persuaded board members to give them a chance to see for themselves what the problems are and how much it would cost to fix them.
Kondik said if matching funds were to be needed, it would be the community association's responsibility to supply them.
While he said he cannot speak for council, Kondik isn't anticipating any problems getting council's approval of the resolution.
"They're just applying for the grant to see if they can get money for the engineering studies, so they can see exactly what is needed. There's no guaranteeing they'll get the grant money, but it's a step toward finding out."
Kondik reiterated its far too soon to say exactly what lies ahead for the pool, "but people are very passionate, they're very enthusiastic and they're going to do their due diligence to make sure they leave no stone unturned."
He said the grant application would be for around $30,000, enough for them to do their due diligence and complete a study to determine what would be involved in preserving the aged structure.
"This is a grant process, it has to flow through a municipality," he added. "So it's coming to council floor for approval at Tuesday night's meeting."
The resolution was a late addition to council's agenda for Tuesday. The public meeting is slated to begin at 7:30 p.m. in council chambers.
Among other items on the agenda are resolutions to provide detailed training and exercises for city firefighters; extend yellow "no parking" curbs on the east curb of Pike Street and on the south curb of Dickson Street; paint a 125-foot single center line on McHendry Street traveling east; placing liens on properties on Orr Street and Cove Road to recover costs incurred in demolition of unsafe properties; and authorizing a donation to the Weirton Community Breadbasket.


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I'm using Facebook C# SDK and i want to recommend posts using offline accesing. And i try this code but it's return The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request.
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Top 10 Neighborhood Games for All Ages
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Freeze Tag
Who hasn't played freeze tag? Not only can an unlimited number of kids play, it's also a great way to expend a little pent-up energy! So round up all the kids you can find, and designate one person to be "it."
Whoever is "it" chases the other kids around, trying to tag them. If a child is tagged, he must freeze in place until another child who isn't "it" unfreezes him by tagging him again. Keep playing until everyone is exhausted, but just remember to switch whoever is "it" from time to time to make it a fair game.
For a little twist on this game, try shadow tag.
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Seasonal Strike Team Concludes Another Successful Burn Season
SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. (5/18/2010)
Thanks to hard work by seasonal yet dedicated professionals, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources' Nongame Conservation Section has burned 20,000 acres across the state. The burning, done between January and April, benefits rare species and promotes habitat restoration.
The Nongame Conservation Section works with partners of The Interagency Burn Team, which consists of agencies such as DNR, the U.S. Forest Service, The Nature Conservancy and the Georgia Forestry Commission, in addition to a seasonal burn crew made up of Student Conservation Alliance (SCA) members managed by DNR.
"This year, with its unusually wet weather, there were more days that allowed for areas with high fuel loads, areas suffering from fire exclusion, fire suppression or altered fire regimes to be safely burned," said Shan Cammack, coordinator of the prescribed fire crew and a wildlife biologist with the Nongame Conservation Section.
"Even so, we could not have had such a successful year without the help of our partners and the SCA strike team." We have been able to burn approximately 19,500 acres since January, with 4,614 acres of that attributed to our SCA seasonal crew."
The strike team consists of three crewmembers who DNR hires and trains seasonally. Because prescribed fire is weather dependent, a mobile team can get to more places, sometimes with little notice. This frees up other DNR personnel – which is especially important during tight economic times. A grant from the Wildlife Conservation Society helped fund the crew this year.
"The seasonal fire crew was made up of three incredibly motivated and talented young people this year. Each one worked tirelessly, excelled in the task at hand and showed great leadership skills," Cammack said.
One crewmember, Brett Boisjolie, continued with SCA as a forestry technician in Idaho; another, Lily Walter, returned to farming on Martha's Vineyard in New England; and crew leader Carly Monahan stayed in Georgia to help prepare and plan for the next burn season.
"It has been great to have (Carly) stay on with us to help conduct growing season burns as well as recon and prep burn units and write burn plans for next year," Cammack said. "Prescribed burning requires a lot of planning and work before you ever strike a match."
Prescribed fire is one of the most effective and economical ways to manage Georgia's forestlands and ecosystems while minimizing the risk of wildfires. It is a safe way to apply a natural process that in turn benefits habitat restoration and species recovery.
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I've made a batch of Dutch Stollen and I want to pre-bake them in the oven and keep them in the freezer. I was thinking of baking them to 70ºC internal temperature. The yeast should be dead by then, and I was wondering if the gluten would be set by then?
That should work, as 70C/158F is the gluten coagulation point. I'd probably go to 80C/176F because stollen's an enriched dough with many added ingredients (dried fruit, almond paste) and, as Athanasius says below, 75C/167F is where gluten is "completely set".
[I bake stollen to completion and then freeze them, but you probably have a reason why you want to parbake them. They dry out a lot in the freezer, so I'd love to know if parbaking them helps keep them moist. Can you let us know?
(Addendum. Mine dry out. That's probably because I use too much dried fruit (which absorbs water). (Addendum 2. Try dried Calimyrna figs in the stollen. They're not traditional, but they're wonderful in stollen and compliment the traditional orange zest/flavour and rum/brandy).
Source. http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/14281/need-help-par-baking#comment-88647
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I used to play a Management game which simulated the results early in the morning and the anticipation of match result used to trigger me to wake up early and start my day.
But i realized that this is not good as that game started to take more time and became addictive. So i stopped playing that game and now i struggle to wake up early, i feel lazy.
I feel that something is missing which can activate my brain. To be honest, i feel the urge of playing multi player games and when i stop playing these games, things become difficult for me.
So, please suggest me a few triggers or share your own which helps you to get out of bed.


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December retail sales post slight gains
December retail sales, spurred by holiday shopping and retailer promotions, were up, according to data released by the National Retail Federation and the United States Department of Commerce earlier today.
Commerce reported that December retail sales at $431.9 billion were up 0.2 percent compared to November and up 4.1 percent compared to December 2012. Total retail sales from October through December are up 1.0 percent annually, and it added that total retail sales for all of 2013 were up 4.2 percent compared to 2012.
NRF reported that December retail sales, which exclude autos, gas stations, and restaurants, were up 0.4 percent on a seasonally-adjusted basis from November and were up 4.6 percent on an unadjusted basis annually. As for total holiday sales, which include November and December, NRF said sales matched up well with its projected forecast of a 3.9 percent annual gain at $602.1 billion, coupled with non-store holiday sales, an indicator of online and e-commerce activity, up 9.3 percent at $95.7 billion.
"Retail sales have been volatile all year and the holiday shopping season was no exception," NRF Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz said in a statement. "Solid job growth in the months of October and November led to a more-confident consumer and healthy holiday shopping season for many retailers. While economic and policy uncertainties remain, the economy seems set for steady growth in the New Year. Undoubtedly, some of the increase came at the expense of margin. Retailers are still stressed and a long-term promotional environment may actually hurt the bottom line. As consumer confidence grows, there will be less need for retailers to heavily promote and discount their offerings."
As previously reported, with retail sales growth still relatively modest, there still remains a mixed bag of signals and headwinds on the economic front, including a slightly declining unemployment rate, improving consumer confidence data, as well as encouraging automotive sales and housing data.
These things continue to occur, though, against the backdrop of sluggish GDP growth and general uncertainty regarding the economy.
At recent industry conferences, many shippers and carriers were optimistic about fourth quarter retail sales, spurred on in large part by increasing e-commerce activity. Shippers told LM that heading into the holiday shopping season they were allocating inventory and watching inventory levels with a watchful eye and careful planning in advance of holiday shopping before it kicked off.
What's more, in the North American Port Tracker report released by the NRF and maritime consultancy Hackett Associates, it was noted that the inventory-to-sales ratio is still high at a time when it should be declining seasonally, which could mean that current GDP growth is stemming from the services sector, while albeit not a negative but it could translate into retail sales not being the growth engine for import volumes.
Hackett Associates Founder Ben Hackett said in an interview that this indicates slower retail sales can lead to caution on the part of importers in terms of making sure they have stocks in, and added it is strange that they are still at such high levels. Over the next two-to-three months, he said this will require a watchful eye and should it head down it suggests things are moving strongly from both a logistics and sales perspective.
"December 2013 retail and food service sales inched [slightly] from November, indicating not much last minute spending," said Charles W. "Chuck" Clowdis, managing director, Transportation Advisory Services for IHS Global Insight. "While there was an increase of 4.1 percent over 2012, the indications are that the consumer still is suffering from a higher than normal uncertainty and continuing caution when it comes to spending. Hopefully concerns like new taxes, real cost of health care, and curious global economic activity fueled by Middle East unrest will stabilize soon and strengthen consumer confidence."


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Banned for what? For quoting scripture? For being non-PC?
For being a troll.
Was he banned just becuse his ideas are not in the majority here?? I don't think I saw him insult anyone personally. I read some of his post & disagreed with him on some things, but I'll admit he did have some good points also. I sure hope I'm not next because I'm sure I bug some people here, especially the leftist ....
We tolerate a lot. But Wheeler was offending our women, our Church, and being over the top. If an Amway salesman came to our site and pushed his product, while it would not be "offensive" it would be overly pushy and hence we might ban him too.
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Why was there no music at the Meal which Acshverosh made?
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Rabbi Matisyahu Solomon asks Why didn't Achashveirosh provide music to tempt the sense of hearing? He answers based on the Radak who says that we'll never totally understand Tehilim until we understand the musical instructions and instruments assigned to each piece. The power of a nigun is to add "hesber v'havana b'dakus hadevarim." To this point, the Meiri explains the pasuk of "Zamru maskil"; that singing gives insight. However, it only gives insight, or is Meorer that which is hidden in our hearts and souls. rather the tune is Meorer what's in one's heart. Even if a given tune is Meorer some to Ta'avah, nevertheless, the same tune can bring an Ish Kodesh to Dveykus.
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The Mahral says the fact that Music is not mentioned does not mean there was non he says the reason it is not mentioned is that Music is something that is not so expensive so the Gemara does not feel the need to mention it.


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St.C. man admits to raping juvenile
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I'm in love. This is the art of Jaime Jones, an illustrator and concept artist who has worked for clients like Bungie, Blizzard, Wizards of the Coast and Warner Bros. It's pretty damn special.
Lovers of Fine Art may have already caught a glimpse of his work previously, in these Guild Wars 2 clips, but the guy is so talented he more than deserves his own showcase.
You can see plenty more of his wonderful art at Jaime's personal site.
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It is natural for children to explore their surroundings – unless they're getting under the kitchen sink or into the medicine cabinet where hazardous chemicals and medicines are kept. As National Poison Prevention Week (March 17-23) approaches, the Poison Control Center and Safe Kids Kansas remind parents to make sure they store poisonous materials – such as medication – out of their children's reach.
More than 2 million poisonings are reported each year to the Nation's poison centers. In our state alone, the Kansas Poison Control Center received over 30,000 calls in 2012. Approximately three out of every four those calls were for a child under the age of five. The majority of child poison exposures are from medication.
National Poison Prevention Week highlights the dangers of poisonings and how to prevent them. Child-resistant packaging is credited with saving hundreds of children's lives since its introduction in the 1970s. Still, there is no substitute for active supervision and childproofing. "If a product label says 'keep out of reach of children,' there's a reason," said Cherie Sage, Safe Kids Kansas. "Keep it locked up, out of reach, and out of sight."
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If a child is choking, having trouble breathing or having a seizure, call 911 instead. Follow the 911 operator's instructions. Do not induce vomiting or give the child any fluid or medication unless directed.
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·Always store medicines and vitamins up and away in a locked location, and out of sight of children.
·Never give adult medications to children.
·Never call medication candy or tell children it tastes like candy.
·Always use the dosing device packaged with the medications. Never use a household utensil, such as a teaspoon or tablespoon, to measure medication.
·Remind grandparents, babysitters, and visitors to keep purses and bags that contain medicine up and away when they visit your home.
·Parents and grandparents should be mindful of weekly pill-minders. While convenient for keeping track of dosages of medications, they are also easy for kids to open. If you use these, keep them out of sight and reach of children.
For more information about poison prevention, visit www.safekidskansas.org or http://www.kumed.com/medical-services/poison-control.
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Game crashes after a while of playing? And a few other issues
Hi guys. Thanks to anyone who is still around this many years later and might be of help.
I'm having a few issues, with only the first one being major:
1) If I play eating crap for a long time, nothing seems to go wrong (so far). But if I'm doing a mission, it randomly crashes to desktop at different locations and in different cars and in different missions. I haven't been able to find a pattern yet
2) In trying to spawn all the vehicles I've replaced (see below), I noticed that Simple Native Trainer refuses to load a bunch of them, even though I can see some of them driving around and I can steal them. I wanted to spawn every single car I've modified to eliminate that as a cause, but this is happening
3) Sometimes the textures just disappear, so if I'm at the airport, I see my car hovering over the ocean water, for example. Or buildings disappear, etc.
4) When I got into a cab for one of the early missions, the cab driver kept driving into alleyways and crashing into buildings. I ended up getting out and driving myself there because it was taking so long...
What are the typical causes of the above?
My PC specs: i7 @3.4Ghz (stock), 8GB DDR3 Ram, Windows 8.1 Pro, Samsung 840 Pro SSD (where Windows and steam/the game are installed), EVGA GTX 760 Superclocked 2GB, Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme sound card, and liquid cooling (so it's not overheating)...so I think that's more than enough for this game.
I got the game through Steam, so it's version 22.214.171.124.
I have CryENB v1 installed, have manually replaced about 90 vehicles (editing their handling, carcol, vehicle lines correctly as well), and have Simple Native Trainer running. I also have Traffic Flow to deal with the Taxi bug.
I have also installed a few HD texture replacements that either came with ENBs or I downloaded from here.
One of the suggestions I found online was to disable DEP for the game...Windows 8.1 is saying that this game can't be run without DEP, that DEP must be enabled for it. So I can't disable it.
I will try a clean install and continue troubleshooting on my own, but I'd like some help. The only reason I decided to play GTA IV (I skipped all versions after GTA: VC until GTAV came out) was because I saw how nice it could look modded. I don't think I'll play through it without mods, so I really want to make the mods work well.
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First off.. if you install new cars you should always try to start with a new game, parked cars that have been modified after the savegame are usually causing issues when you load that savegame again. That could be the cause of your game freezing up
The disappearing textures could have various reasons, do you have trafficload.ini in your main folder? It's an anti-taxibug but can sometimes be too heavy on your pc and cause texture problems (no matter how good your pc is)
I'd indeed recommend a clean install and taking it slow, don't install too many mods at once (so you can see which ones cause the most problems) and try to go easy on the car mods. In my experience you can install as many player and weapon mods as you want but car mods can do damage to performance if you install too much of them along with a taxibug fix.
Personally I'd refrain from installing those HD textures, they look nice but the game runs alot smoother without them
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I have been doing just that. I have a clean install backed up, and I add something and play with it. So far what's causing the crashes is down to the HD textures that come with CryENB or CryENB itself. I'm more leaning towards the HD textures at this point, but have yet to prove that.
I have now modified vehicles.img, carcols.dat, handling.dat, vehicles.ide, as well as dsound.dll and scripthook.dll to run the simple native trainer and traffic control scripts.
I have been able to play a bunch of missions beyond the normal time before it would crash with no crashes so far.
I will continue testing and see what the cause is. I would really like to be able to keep CryENB, the game without ENBs does not look even half as good.
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At the start of a new year, many people resolve to loose those extra pounds gained during the past twelve months. In addition to the aesthetics of a lean body, and prevention of the diseases known to be associated with obesity such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke, there is a new and growing body of literature implicating cancer as another consequence of obesity. Cancers of the breast, colon, kidney, endometrium and prostate have well known associations with obesity. Recently, evidence has been growing implicating gall bladder cancer and certain types of esophageal cancer with obesity. Some associations are tenuous at best. For example, esophageal cancer is thought to be caused by chronic acid reflux, which occurs often in the obese patient. Reflux is certainly exacerbated by excess weight. However tenuous some associations maybe, research in animal models of cancer development, has undisputedly shown, that maintaining a lean body mass can and does delay the onset of cancer.
The most extensive data on the association of obesity with cancer has been published in the field of breast cancer. A nurses health study in Boston found that post menopausal women just 44 pounds overweight double their risk of breast cancer. Before menopause, the ovaries produce estrogen, a hormone that regulates the menstrual cycle and other sexual functions. After menopause, when the ovaries are no longer functioning, fat becomes the primary source of estrogen in the body. Exposure to estrogen has been proven to stimulate cells to divide and grow rapidly which can be associated with increased risk of breast cancer. Obesity is also considered a risk factor for pre-menopausal breast cancer. One thought is that hormones such as insulin and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), that are present in excess amounts in the obese individual, promote rapid growth of certain breast cancers. Moreover, insulin and IGF-1 can lead to an earlier age at puberty and menarche (onset of menstruation). A younger age of menarche is a well-accepted risk factor for breast cancer. Some suggest that obese, post-menopausal, women, have excess estrogen and insulin, may more than double their risk of breast cancer.
Unfortunately, obese women are less likely to have their breast cancer tumors detected at an early stage. Delay in diagnosis can result in a less treatable stage of disease and therefore a worse outcome. Obese patients are also more likely to endure more complications with some common medical treatments such as surgery. Wound healing is impaired and overall survival is decreased in obese patients when compared with normal weight individuals.
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the US. In multiple studies, consumption of excess calories has been associated with increased risk for colon cancer. Unused caloric energy is stored by the body as fat. Excess fat eventually results in a condition known as insulin resistance. In normal, physiologic circumstances, the pancreas produces insulin to help muscle, liver, and brain cells metabolize glucose or carbohydrates. Muscle, liver, and brain cells of obese individuals are less sensitive to insulin. As a result, these people cannot convert the carbohydrates they eat into usable body energy for these cell types. The body tries to compensate for this by signaling the pancreas to make and secrete even more insulin. Insulin and its cousin, IGF-1 when present in such great amounts, act as growth factors and stimulate cells to grow and divide in much the same was as estrogen does. Some studies have shown that excess insulin stimulates colon epithelium cells to grow and divide rapidly and therefore increase the risk of colon cancer. The colon cancer risk that is associated with excess insulin seems to be more pronounced in men. Men tend to have most of their excess fat stored around the abdomen, as opposed to women who harbor most of their fat on their hips and bust. Abdominal fat, it seems, is associated with particularly high levels of insulin and IGF-1.
Endometrial cancer is generally seen in postmenopausal women and the fourth most common cancer in American females. Weight gain during adulthood seems to be associated most often with this type of malignancy. Prostate cancer, the most common cancer among men, is also associated with similar hormonal conditions. Centrally located fat inciting the production and secretion of insulin, IGF-1, testosterone, and other growth factors, may act to stimulate prostate cells to grow quickly and therefore increase the risk of cancer. Although rare, kidney cancer has a two-fold increase in relative risk in the obese population.
Multiple animal studies demonstrated that restricted caloric diets increase longevity and can prevent cancer. Some argue that this effect is due to a decrease in IGF-1 levels. IGF-1, a hormone, has many tasks, including formation of long bones during puberty and acting as a growth factor to many different cell types. This hormone has been associated with the development of colon, breast, prostate, lung, and ovarian cancers. Animal studies show that high levels of IGF-1 offer an advantage to tumor growth. Calorie restricted diets as well as exercise can reduce levels of IGF-1.
There is a protein called IGF-1 binding protein 3 (IGFBP 3) that binds IGF-1 thus preventing it from interacting with its complementary receptor. Some researchers suggested that high levels of this binding protein, therefore, might be protective in some IGF-1 driven cancers.
Researchers are looking at putative human obesity genes for insight as to how these may contribute to cancer. This task is made difficult by the fact that there are no obvious single mutation genetic aberrations responsible for obesity. Rather, obesity seems to be the result of the interaction of several genes as well as influences of life style and diet.
The American Cancer Society (ACS) has recently released the largest study to date evaluating the relationship between cancer and obesity. This was a sixteen-year follow up of nearly a million men and women examining the link between baseline body mass and cancer. In this time period, 57,145 cancer deaths were identified among 900,000 participants. None of the people participating in this study had cancer at the time of enrollment. The study remarked that 14% of all cancer deaths among men and 20% of all cancer deaths among women were somehow associated with being obese or overweight. Obese men and women alike, demonstrated significantly more deaths due to cancer of the esophagus, colon, breast, rectum, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, kidney, endometreum, and non-Hodgkin?s lymphoma and multiple myeloma, than normal weight controls. The heaviest men were 52% more likely to die of cancer than their normal weight counterparts; and the most obese women were 62% more likely to die than thin/normal weight women. The implications of this study to the general public are enormous. This means, that in this country alone, 90,000 cancer deaths per year could be avoided by maintaining a normal body weight. The body mass index (BMI) is a measure of fat and is the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters. This is what physicians use to define obesity. A BMI of 18.5-14.9 is considered to be normal. Overweight and obesity are defined by BMIs of 25.0-29.9 and >30.0 respectively.
A more recent study out of Johns Hopkins showed that people with impaired glucose tolerance, as in obesity, have an increased adjusted relative risk of cancer mortality. The authors concluded that in the U.S., impaired glucose tolerance is an independent predictor for cancer mortality.
Exercise has been shown to reduce the risk of multiple cancers in various studies. A more recent study conducted by a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle looked at physical activity in approximately 75,000 women around the US and compared it to the incidence of breast cancer. Women who participated in regular physical activity at the age of 35, had a 14% decreased risk of breast cancer. Similar studies for other malignancies have consistently shown physical activity to be protective against cancer.
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I want to import a dump file into an Oracle server,
Due to space constraints on
SRV1, I cannot copy the dump to the server and then import it.
I copied the dump to another Oracle server,
SRV2 and tried to execute the
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So I am trying to import from a different server. I am getting the following errors.
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I have some potential clients that ask to see something before accept the work. Now, should I make, for example, a free mockup or It's better to find another client?
That sounds like Spec-Work.
You should show them what you are capable of (i.e. your portfolio) but be wary about doing any work for them for free.
You should have a portfolio - pieces that show examples of the type of work you are able to do, the styles you work in, etc. If they're asking for a "free sample" of the page make sure you have a legal document in place to protect your work (and copyright your work before you sent them the "free sample").
There are plenty of legit people that can't imagine a concept well enough and need some kind of visual hint, but there are also plenty of evil little scheming people who want something for nothing (or who don't feel like design is real "work"). CYA.
Stand your ground. Don't do SPEC work.
The client is interested in you (based on your portfolio, or word-of-mouth) - capitalize on that.
Offer "X" comps for the job AFTER the contract has been signed. That way you're both protected. They get their comps, you get the work (and paid). And no one will feel cheated, or slighted in the exchange.
The only time that comparing actual products makes sense is when you are buying something that is essentially pre-fabricated, like a subway sandwich where they ask a few questions about what you want and drop a few swappable pieces into a pre-prepared formula.
If this is your business model - if you bash out a lot of very similar designs quickly for people happy with something that isn't a great fit but does just about work - then spec work and mockups make sense. But this is the only time that they make sense.
If people want serious design work that really fits their need they need to understand how the design process works. Here's a classic diagram by Damien Newman:
If you're doing spec work, you would be going all the way through the squiggle and half way through the straight line before you even know you're doing the work: rushing through all the hard stuff and leaving only the final polishing. That's not just bad for you: you'll be cutting out so much of the important squiggle at the start that it's more or less impossible that you produce something that matches the client's need more than superficially.
Realistically, you're going to be recycling more or less the same concept as last time, with a few tweaks that are the equivelent of swapping tomato and mayo for peppers and chilli on a meatball sandwich.
The work will be average, but plenty of designers do make a reasonable living like this. There are plenty of worse ways to make a living.
For something genuinely good, however, that genuinely meets the need, it's never going to work. The majority of the work, time and skill comes in before the concept line: really understanding the context, and developing, testing and improving ideas based on a deep understanding of the client's actual need.
There are plenty of clients who are happy with average but professional-looking work that sort of fits their need even though really it was designed for someone else. There are plenty of middle-of-the-road designers who are happy to churn this stuff out. If that's not you, and if you think that's not really what they want, you have to make them understand how it works.
If someone asks you for a free knockup, you have to make them understand that they are asking you to essentially cut out or minimise the part of the process that has the biggest impact on the quality, effectiveness and relevance of the final result.
Most of my clients don't ask for a mockup and to my surprise a long time client this time asked for one because he's asking cost estimates to other suppliers and also the respective mockups...
I don't really like the idea, because there is a chance of not getting the job, but even so, my advice is to make a mockup good enough for the preview but not good enough for the final piece, in other words, something that points them into where you're leaning in terms of design.
Also lawndartcatcher's suggestion of a legal document is very good!
In other cases, unless it is worth it or you really need it, I don't "accept" making free mockups and the clients most of the time understand that.
It is actually your choice. I remember when i first starts make carrier i used to make lots of free mockups. But as you go further in the road, you make some reputation then you won't have to.
But when you provide mockup it is always possible that people will run away with your work! I have seen lots of these kinds of projects in freelancing sites where clients wants to make psd from jpgs. :( That's why my recommendation is strong portfolio. Doing a demo video is also a good idea.
If you need the client and are low on work, I don't see a problem with doing a mock-up to sell the client on giving you the job.
On the other hand, if you have plenty of work, it would seem unwise to do something like that. In addition to this the client who is asking for a free mock-up might be quite a bit of trouble and waisted time down the road. I have dealt with clients like this who have turned out to be very indecisive and cheap.
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etex package provides an interface to e-TeX features. What advantages does it offer to LaTeX users?
Are there any possible disadvantages like incompatibility to any other package or can I just use it without worries?
e-TeX provides lots of additional features for package writers such as an increased number of registers. The thing I find most useful is its extended tracing ability which I usually access through the
e-TeX also provides a
Edit: While writing an answer to another question, I just remembered two pretty useful extensions in e-TeX. The first is
This also shows the second of the two extensions:
There are other category changing commands like
Looking at the e-TeX extensions in general, I'd highlight two points that have not been mentioned by others. First, e-TeX provides primitives for carrying out calculations when assigning integers, dimensions, etc. For example,
will give
work nicely.
Secondly, and more 'conceptually', LaTeX users get the benefit from packages that use e-TeX primitives for the code; one I'd point to is
It should be pointed out that already a number years ago the LaTeX Project officially announced that LaTeX is expected to be run on an e-TeX-based enabled engines. In other words: all functionality available in e-TeX is supposed to be available for the LaTeX kernel and any add-on packages.
So far, the LaTeX Project Team hasn't made changes to the "kernel" that would not run without e-TeX, but there are packages including some maintained by the team that do require this functionality. This is in particular true for all work on LaTeX3, e.g., the
Now I found the
It supports
If some of the features seem to be interesting for you, there's documentation available:
The package
Another feature it provides is transparently making the extended register pool available if the normal pool gets exhausted. It is recommended for the user to load it to help with 'no room for a new thing' errors, as in this FAQ answer
If one wants to implement some sort of multiline widow/orphan control (e.g. "For the first paragraph following a sectional heading, page breaks are allowed only after the third and following lines"), standard (La)TeX only offers approximate solutions (mostly involving the
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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria called CRE small in number but seen as deadly threat
|Erica Hillesland holds a petri dish containing cultures of carbapenem-resistant enterobacteraceae at the Rush University Medical Lab in Chicago, Illinois, on March 12, 2013. (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune/MCT)
Infections caused by these germs — called carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae, or CRE — are still rare, but they are difficult and sometimes impossible to treat. Carbapenems are antibiotics used as a last-resort treatment for seriously ill people.
No one knows the exact number of CRE infections or deaths nationwide, though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are working on a report that would compile those statistics for the first time.
But the CDC says an increasing percentage of germs in the enterobacteriaceae family are becoming resistant to carbapenems. A decade ago, 1 percent of these bacteria were resistant; now 4 percent are. One type has increased from 2 percent to 10 percent. In all, more than 70 kinds of bacteria have developed carbapenem resistance.
One type recently identified in Chicago is called carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella, first reported in the U.S. in 2001.
It didn't exist in Chicago before 2007, experts say, but by 2011 it had emerged and spread quickly. A state health department survey conducted that year found that every hospital in suburban Cook County and 80 percent of hospitals in Chicago had identified at least one patient infected with it.
So far, CRE have been identified only in patients in hospitals, nursing homes and other long-term acute care hospitals, but health professionals say the bacteria could pose a threat to public health if it spreads into the general community.
During an outbreak of one type of CRE in 2011 at the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., six patients died from the infection and five died from underlying disease while infected.
"CRE are nightmare bacteria," Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the CDC, said recently. "They pose a triple threat. First, they're resistant to all or nearly all antibiotics. Even some of our last-resort drugs. Second, they have high mortality rates. They kill up to half of people who get serious infections with them. And third, they can spread their resistance to other bacteria."
For example, carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella could spread genes that interfere with the body's ability to respond to antibiotics to E. coli bacteria, which are the most common cause of urinary tract infections in healthy people.
Information about the number of CRE infections is scarce in part because only six states require health facilities to report cases — Tennessee, Oregon, Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin and North Dakota. The CDC said its surveillance systems pick up the percentage of pathogens resistant to particular drugs, not the number of cases or deaths.
Wisconsin, which required hospitals to report CRE infections starting in December 2011, has since identified 25 cases in 17 of the state's 137 hospitals and long-term acute care facilities. Nineteen involved a carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella species; the others were carbapenem-resistant E. coli.
The CDC has tracked CRE from a single healthcare facility in one state in 2001 to health care facilities in at least 42 states. In some of those places, these bacteria have become relatively commonplace, Frieden said.
Illinois health officials are working on a rule that would require hospitals to report CRE cases. Meanwhile, hospital administrators across the area say they are accelerating their infection control efforts.
CRE are spread by unclean hands, but medical devices such as ventilators or catheters increase the risk of life-threatening infection because they can introduce new bacteria into the bloodstream.
The CDC last year recommended that facilities promote proper hand washing by health care workers, remove medical devices such as catheters as soon as possible, isolate patients who are infected or carry the bacteria and make sure that health workers are using protective gloves and gowns when touching patients with CRE, among other things.
The first Chicago case was reported in December 2007, said Dr. Mary Hayden, an infectious disease specialist who has been studying the organism as part of a CDC-funded project.
Hayden is director of the clinical microbiology laboratory at Rush University Medical Center, which she said identified its first infected patient in May 2008.
"We knew it was a big deal to see even a single case so we immediately started investigating and defining the problem," said Hayden.
Hayden said taking a regional approach is key because patients often are transferred between facilities, such as from a nursing home to a hospital or from one hospital to another. The movement of undiagnosed patients creates an opportunity for the bacteria to spread.
"That's not the kind of thing that any one hospital can deal with successfully," Hayden said. "We need to cooperate among ourselves and work on this problem together in order to be successful in slowing the rate of increase and, ideally, eradicating CRE from the region."
Frieden urged health facilities to employ a "detect and protect" strategy, which involves identifying the presence of the organism and protecting other patients to prevent its spread.
In February, Rush started screening all adult ICU patients upon admission and all adult patients directly transferred from any outside facility to a medical unit, said Mary Alice Lavin, Rush's director of infection prevention and control.
"We're being proactive in our approach to identify infected patients so that we can put them in isolation and use contact precautions like (protective) gloves and gowns," Lavin said.
Patients whose clinical cultures detect CRE are not placed in rooms with uninfected patients, and all patients in the medical unit where the CRE patient stayed are screened to make sure the bacteria was not transmitted, she said.
"We have been very successful with that approach," Lavin said.
Given the seriousness of the problem, Hayden said, health professionals need to take a broad approach.
"We need help from people at the highest level to address this in a long-term, big-picture way," she said. "We need new antibiotics. We need to study the best ways to address this problem with health care workers. But we don't need panic. That's not particularly helpful. We need a measured approach to this."
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MARTINS FERRY - Heaps of snow are no obstacle this winter. Staffilino Chevrolet is offering a line of Meyer snow plows to deal with the white stuff.
"We're the only new car dealer in the U.S.A. that's a franchise Meyer snow plow dealer," said Joe Staffilino, owner. He pointed out several features on the showroom model, including lights, tire angling and an EZ Mount system. "It's ready to make you money."
"We're a fully stocked Meyer snow plow dealer," said Brad Delvecchio, sales, adding the business is able to perform warranty and repair work and professional installation. The business has been an authorized Meyer dealer for about one year. The business covers the sales, service and installation of all Meyer products.
"They're the prime brand in snow plows," he said.
Delvecchio added the dealership's parts department carries paint, hydraulic fluid and other fast-moving parts that could fail while plowing a lot or driveway and need replacement.
"If we don't have it, we can order it," he said.
The business has a certified Meyer installer on the premises. A technician attended a two-day course at a Meyer snow plow facility in Cleveland and is able to service a snow plow on any make of truck.
Delvecchio noted the business has done well since sales began.
Several plows are in stock for immediate delivery and one half-ton 4x4 truck is equipped with a plow for demonstration. The products include home plows for private use, adaptable to any small SUV or truck, and commercial plows for dump trucks and sport utility vehicles. The dealership also offers salt spreaders for up to 350 pounds of salt.
He said the dealership offers contractors a quick turnaround and installation.
"We're getting ready for winter," Delvecchio said. "Last year was a good start. This year will be even better."
Details can be found at www.staffilino.com.
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The 6 Most Politically Incorrect Video Game Moments
#3. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
While we're on the subject of western developers, Haitian and Cuban communities both protested the content in Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, especially in missions such as "Dirty Lickin's."
The mission features a Haitian gang leader, Auntie Poulet, who uses her Voodoo powers and some hallucinogenic drugs to force protagonist Tommy Vercetti to slaughter all the Cubans on the street outside.
As upsetting as it usually is to hear someone advocate small-scale genocide, by this point in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City you've already performed a drive-by in a golf cart and chased an obese man down a public street while wielding a chainsaw. So to be fair, we're not even sure the word "genocide" means anything in a game where you accidentally kill two people every time you back up your car.
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Twelve years earlier, Kaneko released DJ Boy for the Sega Mega Drive (the Japanese Genesis) and gave us a first level boss who was a large woman with exaggerated facial features named Big Mama. She had a different kind of Voodoo, and by that we mean a fireball would shoot out of her anus on command.
Holy shit! It's one thing just to perpetuate your grandfather's decades-old stereotypes, but it's another thing to make up a new one. This is one area where we really don't need innovation, Japan.
#2. Punch-Out!! Series
The classic Punch-Out!! boxing games are interesting, in that you saw where Nintendo drew the line on what they considered offensive. For instance, when still in the arcades, Super Punch-Out!! introduced players to Vodka Drunkenski, a perennially inebriated Russian who guzzles his namesake between rounds.
Nintendo thought better when they transported it to the NES as Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!. They turned Vodka Drunkenski into Soda Popinski.
However, that doesn't change the fact that the entire game involved fighting a string of wacky cultural stereotypes. So the game still featured a weak, cowardly Frenchman named Glass Joe, an effeminate Spaniard named Don Flamenco and Great Tiger, an Indian whose turban flickers when he's susceptible to an uppercut (a stereotype the people of India have fought long and hard to shed).
From the looks of the trailer of the newest installment of Punch-Out!! for the Wii, Nintendo has finally learned its lesson.
Now Little Mac can literally punch the croissants out of Glass Joe.
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In another classic sports game for the NES, RBI Baseball, everyone is white, including the African-American players.
You automatically think that it must have been some kind of technical limitation. After all, it was 1987 technology and it's not like Nintendo was completely unfamiliar with the concept of black people playing sports. But you can't avoid the fact that while the programmers successfully varied the colors of the uniforms, they were somehow unsuccessful in determining how to do the exact same thing for Kirby Puckett's face.
#1. Custer's Revenge (1982)
If you had heard of Custer's Revenge, you already knew it was going to take the top spot. We're guessing that if video games continue as an art for 100 years, this one will still not have relinquished its throne.
In fact, perhaps nothing in the world of political incorrectness will rise to the level of this game, and it did it all in about six seconds of gameplay:
Oh, yeah, that's General Custer's huge, flopping erection, and this game is a American Indian rape simulator.
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By 1989 we were all more sensitive to the idea of violence toward women, so when it came time to translate the arcade game Final Fight to the Super Nintendo, some took issue with the fact that you were frequently pounding on two female enemies named Poison and Roxy.
They even revealed a large measure of underboob cleavage when struck:
Staff at Capcom objected to the heroes brutally thrashing the ladies and, if we may say so in an article about offensive cultural generalizations, the designers came up with a uniquely Japanese solution: They decided that Poison and Roxy were actually transvestites or, possibly, that they had both male and female genitalia. You know, because then it would be okay to pound them.
The technology wouldn't allow it back then, but man, that plot point could have made for some of the most entertaining cut scenes of all time.
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If the men and women aren't dancing together, is it strictly required that there also be a mechitza between them? If so, why? What guidelines would this mechitza have to meet?
Or is it simply a smart practice, to avoid gawking and/or mixed dancing?
If the men and women aren't dancing together, is it strictly required that there also be a mechitza between them? If so, why? What guidelines would this mechitza have to meet?
Or is it simply a smart practice, to avoid gawking and/or mixed dancing?
I know my answer will make people angry, but whatever. When I was a child, weddings had separate dancing, no mechitzah. As I got older, bushes and plants were used to create a division between men and women on smaller dance floors. As I got even older, dance floors got larger, and giant 8-10 foot tall mechitzas were found in the middle of the wedding. And now ofcourse, people aren't even allowed to eat with their spouses or families. As for my own wedding, we had low flowers down the middle, and there were plenty of Black Hat Rabbis at our wedding, all happily dancing.
Ofcourse, the whole wedding here/ dancing and eating there thing is new as well. Take a look at these old pictures where the dancing was done at the chupah, and the people are completely mixed and mingled about.
And a photograph from 1899, Yaffa, showing the same basic setup. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/static/blogs/20071115113255.jpg
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The previous quote is referring to a statement in the Talmud (Sukkah 52A), see page 7:
I would like to add as I've heard from Rav Shimshon Pinkus zt'l and more recently by Rav Shmuel Dishon at the Totah Vodaas Annual Bain Hametzorim gathering as well as on Tisha B'av day at Ateres Chynka that most people think of a mechitza as an exclusionary measure. In truth however it is an inclusionary measure. The standard use of a mechitza is in Shul for davening. The presence of a mechitza allows woman to join in the tefila. The same would apply to a simcha. No doubt that a mechitza is needed to avoid Kalos Rosh; to avoid gawking and/or mixed dancing. But even more so in order for women to join in the simcha and be a part of it.
To avoid Kalos Rosh.
other than the reasons people mentioned in the other answer, there's the simple rule that a man can't see women dancing, so there's the need to put something to cover his field of vision.
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