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Join your friends and neighbors in reading Harper Lee's new novel, Go Set a Watchman. Then join us for some very special events celebrating the most anticipated new book of the decade, a sequel to Harper Lee's American classic, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Explore Our Southeast Asian Cookbooks
Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid
Laura B. Russell
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Pham Mai
An Lee
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Leemei Tan
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Cooks With Books: A Southeast Asian Feast
Join us for a Southeast Asian potluck feast in honor of ONE BOOK STEAMBOAT and the community read of Tim O'Brien's novel The Things They Carried.
O'Brien's award-winning book is set Vietnam, during the war. But this evening is a reminder that Vietnam is much more than a war. Vietnam is a modern country with ancient cultural roots and deep culinary traditions.
Explore the library's cookbook collection offering delectable ideas for dishes from Vietnam and its Southeast Asian neighbors, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and China. Make your favorite dish to share, bring the recipe, and join your literary community for a casual Southeast Asian dinner and conversation.
Please pre-register for this event by phone at 970.367.4917 or online.
Curios about what qualifies as Southeast Asian cuisine surrounding Vietnam?
Check out the map from Lonely Planet:
Need an inspiring recipe?
Bud Werner Memorial Library's collection of Southeast Asian cookbooks is in a special reserve display at the front desk -- curated and collected for easy perusal. You can also flip through the carousel of cookbook covers pictured at the top of this page to explore the Southeast Asian cookbooks in our special reserve, plus many more!
Cooks with Books is for people who enjoy researching, creating and sharing food. This book discussion group meets once a month. All participants prepare a dish based on the month's theme and share it with the group. The November group is open to anyone interested in participating and there is no limit on the number of participants for this special Southeast Asian feast.


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WACO (January 21, 2013)--The Waco City Council, McLennan County Commissioners, WISD Board of Trustees and the MCC Board of Trustees will meet Tuesday to discuss a variety of topics.
The meeting will be live on the Waco City Cable Channel, Channel 10 for those who have Time Warner and Grande cable systems.
The meeting, set for 6:30 p.m. at the Waco Convention Center, will cover common/legislative issues for the 83rd legislative session, education concerns, health concerns, Medicaid expansion and more.
Residents without cable can watch by logging into the stations website.
A free mobile app is available for most smart phones and tablets from the Apple Store.

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African Americans and Technology Use
While African Americans continue to trail whites when it comes to internet use and home broadband adoption overall, young African Americans are just as likely as their white counterparts to use the internet and have especially high rates of Twitter use.
Why Pew Internet does not regularly report statistics for Asian-Americans and their technology use
We hope this article sheds light on some of the challenges of reporting survey results from some populations.
Digital Differences
Pew Internet Research Analyst Kathryn Zickuhr discussed differences in how different demographic groups use technology at the WSU Elliott School of Communications' annual Comm Week conference.
Health, Technology, and Communities of Color
As mobile, social tools spread throughout the population, people are connecting with each other. Why not harness those tools for health?
Who's on What: Social Media Trends Among Communities of Color
Senior Research Specialist Aaron Smith presents the Pew Internet Project's latest findings on the use of social media by communities of color to the California Immunization Coalition. (Updated with slides)
Asian-Americans and Technology
Director Lee Rainie spoke at the Organization of Chinese Americans Broadband Summit about Pew Research examining how Asian-Americans use technology, including broadband adoption and online activities.
Technology Trends Among People of Color
Trends in technology use and adoption among African-Americans and Latinos
Socially Diverse: Engaging and Mobilizing Communities of Color with Social Media
Aaron Smith will speak at CAPAF's Internet Advocacy Roundtable to discuss how to best use social media to engage and mobilize diverse constituencies.
Problems associated with surveying small demographic groups
Why doesn't Pew Internet report findings for Asians, Pacific Islanders or other groups as part of its standard demographic variables?
Explaining racial differences in attitudes towards government use of social media
How do we explain the disparity between African-Americans' and Hispanics' views of the importance of government social media versus whites?


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Bill grew up in a hardworking middle class family in Massachusetts. His parents cared for him and enrolled him in private school.
At a friend's house during his freshman year in high school, he and his friends stole Percocet from his friend's parent's medicine cabinet.
He was addicted and took painkillers on a daily basis. He then moved on to buying Oxycotin on the street and stealing money from his parents. Within a year of graduating from high school, he was sniffing heroin and entered his first rehab. Over the next several years his addiction worsened; he eventually began injecting heroin and contracted Hepatitis C as a result. He has spent the last few years bouncing from jail to rehabilitation facilities.
Sadly, this story is a composite of thousands of true stories around our commonwealth.
For years, Massachusetts has struggled with the growing problem of substance abuse. Illicit drugs such as heroin and painkillers have brought devastation to our families, communities and individual lives. It is time that we put an end to the spread of substance abuse and it starts by how we treat it.
In Massachusetts, we currently treat substance abuse as a criminal issue. This will stop in my administration. We need to start to treat substance abuse as a public health issue.
Our state leads the nation in healthcare services and research, and yet we have the 6th highest rate in the United States of drug users under the age of 18.
This past week, I proposed creating an Office of Recovery. We need an office that is solely designated to coordinating with local detox and rehabilitation facilities so every person can easily find immediate treatment.
As governor, I will highlight the issue of substance abuse and addiction in our commonwealth. I will work to lessen the stigma of this illness and open our minds to it as a health problem.
We as a commonwealth need to be proactive, not reactive. It is a moral and economic imperative that Massachusetts leads the way on an Office of Recovery. As governor, I will lead our efforts to removing the stigma of substance abuse and together we will stop this epidemic and keep Bill and tens of thousands of our children out of jail, rehab or the morgue.
Joe Avellone
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Currently creating a plugin with cURL and I need a place that will work for most WordPress servers (Unix or Windows) to store my cookie file. Anyone have a suggestion or best practices? I've been googling for a while now and I think I found something about wp_temp_dir, but googling that keyword gives me only a thousand and one results about solving some install error.
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Transients seem to be appropriate storage. Just note that if you will generate a lot of this and they will be disposable then you will need to cleanup old transients.
As for your cURL/filename issue - it is bad practice to use cURL directly in WordPress. WP provides HTTP API that abstracts remote requests.
Unfortunately it is bit poorly documented. As far as I understand you pass cookies in arguments array with
You could store cookies in transients. That way, its absctracted enough from the actual storage location that it should work across environments. Transients are stored in the wp_options table of the database by default, but can be memcached by plugins.


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3 December 2012. The Society for Neuroscience Meeting was held on 13-17 October in New Orleans, Louisiana. On Sunday afternoon, October 14, a nanosymposium entitled Brain Alterations in Psychosis: Functional and Molecular was moderated by Sabina Berretta of Boston's Harvard Medical School.
Functional studies
Elena Ivleva of University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas described a study testing whether gray matter phenotypes in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are similar across diagnoses, and thus whether psychosis is the organizing dimension. Using voxel-based morphometry, the researchers observed divergent gray matter phenotypes between schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder with psychosis. However, the psychosis dimension included overlapping gray matter reductions in probands and relatives with schizophrenia spectrum personality disorders, but not unaffected relatives, suggesting that the dimensional conception of psychosis is a valuable research tool.
Felix Siebenhühner of the University of California, Santa Barbara, described a MEG study of a visual working memory task to examine the interaction between oscillatory frequency bands using a novel method to analyze statistical properties of functional brain networks within and across frequency bands. The work provides further evidence of oscillatory disturbances in schizophrenia, both in networks within frequency bands and those that span multiple frequencies.
Lisa Eyler of the University of California, San Diego, described medial prefrontal resting-state connectivity abnormalities in bipolar disorder. Although previous studies have reported default mode network abnormalities and altered medial prefrontal resting-state connectivity in the illness (Ongür et al., 2010) both used manic subjects. In the current study, Eyler and colleagues examined euthymic subjects, finding a general pattern of underconnectivity of medial prefrontal cortex with other cortical regions, suggesting that these alterations are disease state-independent.
Molly Simmonite of the United Kingdom's University of Nottingham discussed the use of electroencephalography (EEG) to examine cross-frequency coupling in schizophrenia during an information processing task. Simmonite and colleagues observed decreased delta-theta and theta-gamma phase-amplitude coherence in the illness, providing further evidence that schizophrenia is characterized by a disruption of connectivity.
Joseph Shaffer of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill described his work examining the relationship between severity of clinical symptoms, cognitive deficits, and resting-state functional connectivity in schizophrenia. These three measures were combined and an independent component analysis was performed in recent-onset schizophrenia subjects, familial high-risk subjects, and controls. Shaffer and colleagues found that schizophrenia symptom severity is associated with changes in connections between several cortical and subcortical regions—fronto-temporal and fronto-parietal connectivity in particular—and that connections in fronto-limbic and fronto-striatal networks are associated with cognitive performance.
Molecular studies
Session moderator Sabina Berretta discussed the possible role that homeobox protein Otx2 may play in the maturation of parvalbumin interneurons and their surrounding perineuronal nets (PNNs), both of which are thought to be altered in schizophrenia (Pantazopoulos et al., 2010). Berretta presented data demonstrating that Otx2 is expressed in several cortical and subcortical brain regions and cell populations, and may play a role in both fetal brain development and postnatal brain maturation. Her lab is currently testing the hypothesis that Otx2 is altered in schizophrenia.
Following up on Berretta's talk, her Harvard colleague Harry Pantazopoulos discussed the chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan aggregan, a critical component of perineuronal nets (PNNs). Using postmortem tissue, the researchers found reductions in the number and density of aggregan-positive PNNs in the amygdala of both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, although the exact pattern of alterations differed between the two illnesses. Pantazopoulos concluded that these alterations suggest a critical disruption of neuronal functions such as neural oscillations that are subserved by interneurons.
Michelle Mighdoll of the Lieber Institute for Brain Development in Baltimore, Maryland reviewed previous work characterizing cation chloride co-transporter genes NKCC1 and KCC2 across development and in schizophrenia (see SRF related news story). Following up on previous findings demonstrating that the expression of alternative transcripts of NKCC1 was decreased in the prefrontal cortex of subjects with schizophrenia and significantly associated with NKCC1 polymorphisms, Mighdoll and colleagues examined the association between allelic variation in NKCC1 and fMRI signal. They found that one SNP was associated with poorer cognitive performance and less efficient engagement of DLPFC during a working memory task.
Next up was Ilaria Guella of the University of California, Irvine, who examined levels of a microRNA, miR-137, in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and control subjects. Guella and colleagues showed that miR-137 expression is significantly lower in control subjects homozygous for the risk allele of a SNP in miR-137, but not significant in the schizophrenia or bipolar disorder cohorts. Moreover, validated miR-137 target and schizophrenia risk gene TCF4 is expressed at higher levels in homozygous risk allele carriers in all three groups.
Keri Barksdale of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, examined the synaptic organization and mitochondrial morphology of the anterior cingulate cortex in schizophrenia using electron microscopy in postmortem tissue. The researchers observed a reduced synaptic density and proportion of synapses containing at least one mitochondrion in schizophrenia, as well as altered mitochondrial morphology. Taken together, these results are suggestive of impaired cortical connections and decreased synaptic efficiency in schizophrenia.
In a departure from the imaging and postmortem studies in the rest of the nanosymposium, Niran Okewole, of Nigeria's Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro Abeokuta, examined the hand preference of patients with schizophrenia. Previous reports have suggested that there is an excess of left or mixed handedness in the illness (Upadhyay et al., 2004). Given a bias against left-handedness in African cultures, Okewole and colleagues examined whether the effect is present in a Nigerian sample. They observed an increase in left or mixed handedness in patients with schizophrenia compared to those with a mood disorder or healthy controls, suggesting that the effect in schizophrenia is not masked by culture. In addition, those schizophrenia patients who were left or mixed handed performed worse on a verbal fluency test than right-handed patients, indicative a possible relationship between handedness, schizophrenia, and verbal fluency.—Allison Curley.
RELATED NEWSSfN 2012—Nanosymposium Spans Genes to Experimental Drugs for PsychosisSfN 2012—Opto- and Pharmacogenetics: New Ways to Study Memory and ADSfN 2012—The Human Connectome Project: Deciphering the Brain's WiringSfN 2012—Opto- and Pharmacogenetics: New Methods Shed Light on Brain ProcessesSfN 2012—Olfactory Neurons and Suspect SNPs in Psychotic Disorders


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I currently have a MacBook with Lion (fully updated), using the network account from a Lion Server (also fully updates) and I'm able to login to the network account just fine.
However, when I'm offline (away from my home network), I can't login to my account. How do I make the MacBook cache the network account login information for posterior offline use?
I'm able to login at home, put the mac to sleep and use it without any network, but if I reboot it for any reason, I'm locked out (only local accounts are "loggable").


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How to exchange RSA public keys safely between two parties via internet?
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Get yourself a trusted key. Two easiest options are an SSL certificate ($50..$100) and a GPG key (free).
Encrypt or sign the data you send with that key. With SSL, you can just serve your data via https, but can also just sign it. With GPG, you have to build enough trust for your key, so that the receiving end is sure it's you and not an impostor.
Another option is to create a public key to your SSH server, publish it and let people just SCP your data from there. Send them fingerprints of your SSH key via snail mail or tell verbally by Skype / phone. An impostor would have to fake your key, your server on a known domain name, and your phone / Skype / SIP contact; this should be sufficiently hard to thwart such attempts.
There are a few easy options.
Of course your preference will depend on just what kind of key it is, who you're sending it to, how you intend to use it, what your threats look like, what you're using it to protect, etc.
Email, pm on a forum, really any way you want. The idea is that anyone can know the public key and it doesn't matter.
edit: Note that this assumes you just want them to be able to send encrypted messages to you, which other people can't read. If you want to guarantee the sender, than rather than trying to keep the public key private (which defeats the purpose, and you may as well not use RSA), get them to sign the message using e.g. their own RSA key.
Or failing that, encrypt the key using something like their RSA public key, so they can decrypt it.


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|Reader's faves: the top gluten-free recipes on Gluten-Free Goddess blog.
As the first decade of the new millennium chugs to a long slow finish like the spunky little engine that could, top ten lists are sprouting up everywhere. Top ten movies, top ten playlists. Which begs the burning question for celiac survivors. Hello! Where is our own gluten-free top ten list? Where is our shining and sparkly Top Ten Gluten-Free Goodness? It's a new year. A spanking new decade. Let's party.
So without further ado, here is my own humble contribution to the Best of the Best in the expanding gluten-free recipe universe.
So I turned to you for help.
I tallied up your comments, your searches and recipe views. I factored in your enthusiasm and your e-mails. I tossed all of the above into the virtual blender that is my brain at 2 AM and I hit Whip. And the following list is what poured out in one smooth and creamy inspiration. Here's what you asked for. Here's what you loved. And best of all, here's what made someone you love smile.
If some of your personal favorites are missing, I must confess, some of mine are too! So feel free to give a shout out to your faves in comments.
Top Ten Gluten-Free Recipesat Gluten-Free Goddess®
1. Delicious Gluten-Free Bread
2. Pumpkin Pie
3. Dark Chocolate Brownies
4. Flourless Chocolate Cake
5. Sweet Potato Black Bean Enchiladas
6. Quinoa Salad with Lime and Mint
7. Quinoa Breakfast Brownies
8. The Best Cheesy Uncheese Sauce
9. Chicken Soup for Body and Soul
10. A tie! Best Vegan Mac + Cheese and Kicked Up Mac and Cheese
More Top Ten Gluten-Free Lists from Food Bloggers:
Top Ten Gluten-Free Living Tips from Gluten-Free Chops
Top Ten Favorite Gluten-Free Blog Recipes at The Daily Diatribe
Top Ten Gluten-Free Recipes from Gluten Free in SLC
Top Ten Gluten-Free Recipes from 2009 by Gluten-Free Gidget
Top Ten Gluten-Free Recipes from 2009 by Gluten-Free Gidget
Top Ten Recipes from Celiac Teen
Top Ten Posts (Plus Two) from Gluten-Free Easily
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31 Aug 2009 9:16 AM #1
RowLayout(Orientation.HORIZONTAL) not calculating height correctly
The following should show a horizontal array of buttons, but for some reason the height ends up being zero. I think RowLayout (horizontal) may have a bug so that it only renders right (nonzero height) if you manually set the height? Is this right or am I missing something?
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public class HorizontalButtonBar extends LayoutContainer { @Override protected void onAfterLayout() { super.onAfterLayout(); System.out.println("Debug Height = "+getHeight()); } public HorizontalButtonBar(Button[] buttons) { super(new RowLayout(Orientation.HORIZONTAL)); for (Button button : buttons) { add(button, new RowData(-1,-1, new Margins(10,10,10,10))); } } }
31 Aug 2009 9:21 AM #2
I guess you are not sizing your HorizontalButtonBar.
31 Aug 2009 11:10 AM #3
HTML Code:
[LEFT]public class HorizontalButtonBar extends HorizontalPanel { public HorizontalButtonBar(Button[] buttons) { setSpacing(10); for (Button button : buttons) { add(button); }[/LEFT] }
31 Aug 2009 12:09 PM #4
here's what I did as a workaround...
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public class HorizontalButtonBar extends LayoutContainer { private Button[] buttons; private static final BUTTON_BAR_SPACING = 10 @Override protected void onAfterLayout() { super.onAfterLayout(); if (buttons.length > 0) { setHeight(buttons[0].getHeight()+BUTTON_BAR_SPACING*2); } } public HorizontalButtonBar(Button[] buttons) { super(new RowLayout(Orientation.HORIZONTAL)); this.buttons = buttons; for (Button button : buttons) { add(button, new RowData(-1,-1, new Margins(BUTTON_BAR_SPACING, BUTTON_BAR_SPACING, BUTTON_BAR_SPACING, 0))); } } }
1 Sep 2009 5:09 AM #5
thanks for your workaround.
im just now also getting grey hair with the layout: RowLayout / HBoxLayout / VBoxLayout.
in the API there is written that this layout not calculate the height and you have to set it by yourself or from the outer layout - but im not getting this working without setting some height like you writing this.
i need some widgets positioned horizontaly but i need the size of the H-Panel as the max size of the widgets.This forum needs your help: you got hints from the community and now you have fixed your code? dont just reply with "now its fixed" or "i found the error"! please take the time to post also an detailed answer with the working code.
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8 Sep 2009 10:10 AM #6
For what it's worth, I've noticed the exact same problem - that RowLayout(horizontal) doesn't automatically calculate its height, whereas RowLayout(vertical) does. Sometimes I need to lay out a bunch of widgets horizontally, and I want to put them in a container whose height is automatically determined based on the contained widgets. I don't want to set a specific height on the container, because that's not maintainable when I put different widgets in it. This seems like a bug to me, or at least a painful limitation.
-- Joe
8 Sep 2009 10:20 AM #7
Horizontal RowLayout uses absolute positning. That means, that the holding container needs to be sized.
8 Sep 2009 10:34 AM #8
Okay, but is there any container that lays out its children horizontally and will automatically calculate its height? HBoxLayout doesn't seem to work this way either. Thanks for the tips!
8 Sep 2009 10:37 AM #9
This is more or less a html limitation. The only way to do that would be using float: left. But that brings other things that are not so good. ColumnLayout is doing that.
10 Dec 2009 10:20 PM #10
Something like the following should get you what you're after:
ContentPanel c = new ContentPanel(); c.setHeaderVisible(false); c.setBorders(false); c.setBodyBorder(false); HBoxLayout layout = new HBoxLayout(); layout.setPadding(new Padding(10,0,10,0)); layout.setHBoxLayoutAlign(HBoxLayout.HBoxLayoutAlign.MIDDLE); c.setLayout(layout); HBoxLayoutData data = new HBoxLayoutData(new Margins(0,5,0,0)); c.add(new Text("Label:"), data); data = new HBoxLayoutData(new Margins(0,5,0,0)); data.setFlex(1); c.add(new TextField(), data); c.add(new Button("Button"));


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MINGO JUNCTION - From the Mingo High School Alumni homecoming this weekend to a dinner hosted by the village Knights of Columbus, a coalition of organizations, business and churches will be hosting a series of fundraisers for the Mingo Social Services organization to make the holidays a little brighter for those less fortunate.
The service organization helps distribute everything from clothing to food to those in need, and the fundraisers are to help the organization meet the need this holiday season. Sophie Schoolcraft, services organization director, said the need has increased substantially in the past few years.
"We used to be able to (help during the holidays) with just $7,000 or $8,000," said Schoolcraft. "Now we need $10,000 to $12,000."
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HELPING OTHERS — Several village organizations, churches and establishments are coming together to assist the Mingo Social Services in raising money and holiday cheer for the less fortunate through a series of fundraisers. Those involved include, front, from left, the Rev. Kenn Sickle, pastor of the Mingo First United Presbyterian Church; Mingo Mayor Ron DiCarlo; Sophie Schoolcraft; the Rev. James Dunfee, pastor of St. Agnes Catholic Church; and back, Ed Fifthen, owner of the Parkview Inn; Jim McClung, volunteer; Terri Zink of the Schutzen Club; Judy Eddy; Jodilynn Fitzgerald of the Mingo Pride organization; and Lou Kakascik of the Mingo Knights of Columbus 4361. -- Mark Miller
Local churches typically assist with monetary donations, lists of names of clients to be served and anything else the service organization needs, said Schoolcraft.
The festivities begin at 7 p.m. Saturday with the Mingo High School Alumni homecoming, held in the village downtown and at various establishments. Activities will include live entertainment, home movies, videos and more, according to Penny Lynn Hazelip-Olmstead, event co-organizer.
"In the past two years the (annual) event has included mostly graduates from the classes of the 1970s, '80s and early '90s," said Hazelip-Olmstead, who also invited all classes of the former Mingo High School to come to the celebration. "We really don't want anyone to be left out.
"In addition to this fun-filled evening, volunteers want to make it even more meaningful and purposeful," continued Hazelip-Olmstead, adding the evening also will be an opportunity to give back to the community. "Monetary donations will be collected in each establishment to benefit the Mingo Social Services."
Sponsors for the alumni event include the Schutzen Club, the Parkview Inn and the Mingo American Legion Post 351. Funds from the sale of T-shirts during the event also will be donated to the social services organization. For information on the event, call Hazelip-Olmstead, at (740) 317-4810.
Also raising funds for the organization will be a dinner and dance Dec. 11 at the Mingo Knights of Columbus hall, 117 Legion Drive. The event, catered by Ohio Catering, will include social hour with appetizers from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.; dinner from 6:30 p.m to 7:30 p.m; and dancing with disc jockey Rockin' Rodney from 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Dinner will include carved roast beef or chicken, homemade cabbage rolls, mashed potatoes, vegetables, beverages and an assorted dessert display. A cash bar also will be available, and the cost is $17.95 per person. Reservations are due by Dec. 4 by calling (740) 543-3978 or (740) 512-6278.
For information, call (740) 535-9161. To donate, send checks payable to the Mingo Social Services and send to 501 Commercial Ave., Mingo Junction, OH 43938.


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I work from home right now. I have an activity list that contains items that are career tasks and more personal tasks. Sometimes there is a fine line between what tasks go in which bucket.
E.g. Last night, after finishing my career tasks, I started working on a personal task of researching data api's. I didn't finish the task (I have a handful of Pomodoros left for it) Today, when I started my day, instead of continuing on researching data api's, I left that one incomplete and started on a career task of doing a coding tutorial. The plan is to come back to it after I finish my career tasks for the day.
For those seasoned Pomodoro users out there. Is this ok? Should I have finished the personal task before starting on the career task?


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robs42 wrote:This whole issue prompts a puzzling question - why are bottlers/distillery owners sometimes so anally secretive about their whiskies? Maybe it's because they know that if people can buy the young verision of their whisky they wont bother spending excessive amounts of money on the 16yo (oops).
robs42 wrote:OK guys, you didn't quite get my point when I hinted at the Lagavulin earlier - I actually have it from a very good source in the industry that it actually is young Lagavulin. You have to bear in mind that there is much more whisky being produced at Lagavulin now than there was 16 years ago and why shouldn't young lagavulin taste similar to Caol Ila, especially if its been in bourbon casks?
Andy C wrote:The marketing stratergy is to be able to move stock at a reasonable price without harming the Ardbeg brand.
Skauge wrote:I've tried it now, and this is so heavily smoked that it's got to be an Ardbeg. But of course, I could be wrong.
It's very full-bodied and oily.
kallaskander wrote:Hi there,
it is a 7 year old Ardbeg. My suggestion of it being a Talisker must have come from overreading the word Islay. Now, that makes me wonder ...


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I keep hearing questions about whether something is NP-complete, but they never really mention what it is. Why do people care so much about NP-complete problems?
A problem is in class NP if its solution may be verified in polynomial time, that is if the dimension of the problem is n you may be sure that for large enough n you need less than r·nk operations to verify the solution.
A problem is in class P if its solution may be found in polynomial time, instead. A problem in P is in NP by definition, but the converse may not be the case; probably the most important open question in computer science is whether classes P and NP are the same, that is P=NP.
NP-complete is a family of NP problems for which you know that if one of them had a polynomial solution then everyone of them has.
(EDITED) For the time being, only known algorithms for NP-complete problems are exponential in number of operations, so they are not practically solvable for n large.
To expand on Mau's answer, you should care about NP-complete problems because there is an entire family of them that spans a large number of seemingly basic algorithms across a wide range of disciplines. These aren't obscure problems, but extremely important and highly practical questions. For examples, consider the following:
Although many of these problems may seem abstract, many more complicated problems can't be efficiently solved with current techniques, as they are equivalent to one of these.
The problem of NP completeness has received a huge amount of attention. Once you've reduced a problem to NP-complete, you know to give up on an efficient fast algorithm and to start looking at approximations.
Any problem for which a solution (once found) can be quickly verified as a solution is said to be "in NP" (Here, "quickly" means in polynomial-time). Any problem for which a solution can be found quickly is said to be "in P." P is a subset of NP - that is, any problem for which a solution can be quickly found can also be quickly verified.
A problem is NP-complete if it is the hardest problem in NP. Surprisingly, there are many NP-complete problems, which are all equivalent - here, equivalent means that a quick (polynomial-time) solution to any one of them would give you a quick solution to all the rest. Also somewhat surprisingly, a quick solution to any NP-complete problem would also give you a quick solution to any problem in NP.
So is there a quick (polynomial-time) algorithm to solve NP-complete problems? That is the P=NP problem, one of the greatest unsolved problems of our time. However, most sane mathemeticians believe (and hope!) that P≠NP, because proving math-theorems is NP-Complete; so if P=NP, we'd be out of a job! :)


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The National Institute of Anthropology and History says the tail is about 15 feet long and resembles that of a hadrosaur or crested duckbill dinosaur.
An institute Monday says it's not yet possible to confirm the species, but it would be the first full tail of that kind in Mexico.
Paleontologist Felisa Aguilar says they uncovered roughly half of the dinosaur, which was 36 feet long and lived about 72 million years ago.
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The Social Security Act of 1935 established the federal-state unemployment insurance (UI) system, which pays benefits to workers who are laid off. Basic UI benefits are funded by payroll taxes on employers, but in recent years Congress has used general federal revenues to fund a range of extra benefits.
With the recent recession and stagnant economy, the cost of the UI system has soared. In 2011, the program will cost taxpayers $134 billion, but the costs are expected to decline in coming years as the economy recovers.1 Note that "unemployment insurance" and "unemployment compensation" are used interchangeably in referring to the system.
This essay describes the origins and structure of the unemployment insurance system. It critiques the justifications given for government-run UI, and it discusses the economic distortions caused by the system. The UI system raises the cost of hiring, creates a disincentive to work, reduces the incentive to save, and subsidizes some businesses and workers at the expense of others.
One reform option would be to switch to a system based on personal UI savings accounts, as the nation of Chile has done. Another option would be for the federal government to fully devolve UI to the state level. If the states financed and administered their own systems, they could more easily pursue innovations to reduce the costs and distortions caused by the current UI structure.


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- BSO Case Number: BS01-08-14747
- PIO Number: 01-9-6
- Date: Aug. 30, 2001
- Time: 10:54 a.m.
- Place of Occurrence: Broward County Jail, 555 SE 1 Ave., Ft. Lauderdale
- Gary J. Kane, 50, 6/10/51, 1445 W. Broward Blvd., Ft. Laud. (DECEASED)
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Broward Sheriff's Office Homicide detectives have determined that a Broward County Jail inmate committed suicide last week when he died of blunt head trauma following an 18-foot plunge.
Detectives obtained witness statements from 15 other inmates – roughly half of the inmates in that section of the jail – where Gary Kane took his own life. According to the witnesses, Kane walked upstairs to a second-floor level, carrying a blanket. He began to tie the blanket around his neck, but couldn't knot it. He then climbed to the top of the metal rail, lost his balance and fell backward onto the landing. Kane immediately climbed up on the rail again, placed his hands behind his back and dove headfirst onto the concrete floor below, making no attempt to break his fall.
Deputies and medical staff responded immediately and Kane was transported to Broward General Medical Center where he was declared dead at 11:39 a.m.
There were no other inmates near Kane when he dove off the railing. Detective Ray Carmody contacted Kane's family in New Jersey and informed them that he had died in a witnessed suicide.
BSO deputies in Deerfield Beach arrested Kane on August 29th for Possession of a Stun Gun by a Convicted Felon. Released from state prison a year ago, he had been arrested in Broward County five times in the past decade on charges including Burglary of an Occupied Dwelling, Burglary of an Unoccupied Dwelling, Grand Theft, Theft, Theft to Deprive, Carrying a Concealed Weapon, Trafficking in Controlled Substances, Possession of Controlled Substance, Possession of Drug paraphernalia, and Violation of Parole.
- THIS REPORT BY: Dets. R. Carmody & G. Bukata, Sgt. R. O'Neil Jim Leljedal / PIO 9/4/01 1630
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I wonder what happens if I have a website with adsense and a user wittingly clicks the ads many times for a long time with result to ban my account. Google bots will trace this behavior and I suppose will ban it but I am not responsible for this behavior. What happen in these cases? Has google any answer for this?
From an advertiser's archived correspondence with Google:
Malicious clicking regarding Google, Overture
Google claims to be able to detect click spam: in the case of an advertiser, this means avoiding unnecessary billing and, in the case of a publisher like yourself, this means identifying accounts which appear to be generating revenue on spammed clicks (though identifying whom is responsible is virtually impossible, given a moderate level of sophistication on the part of the click spammer, not unlike a joe job).
There would be no way to prove that you weren't the one attempting to game AdSense for your own profit, so I suspect that your AdSense account would be suspended and/or terminated if the fraudulent activity continued.
Google has to assume that you are responsible if fraudulent clicks keep occurring on your AdSense account, however, you shouldn't worry too much about competitors trying to run you out of business by clicking on your AdSense ads because there are so many sites running AdSense that it would be an impractical way to compete.


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Unanswered: Compatibility with other web browser
I know Sencha Touch have been designed for webkit browsers such as safary, chrome, ...
According to you what can be done in order to make the web application base on sencha touch 2 compatible with browser like firefox, or opera
Thanks in advance for your reply.
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I love the sound when employed with an Organ ( Jimmy Smith) and on Little Wing(SRV) - I vaguely remember seeing Kings X live once and I believe Ty Tabor had a pair of Leslie speakers that sounded awesome. Anyway, any "homemade" ideas so I don't have to shell out $1,500 for a pair?
The others have already said yes and then listed time and money, I'll say yes but also tell you that it's actually not that hard if you take a different approach.
First, I'll say that nothing comes close to a true rotating speaker in the room. Chorus is nice. Emulators are nice, especially if you can run them in stereo, but the Doppler effect can't be had any other way than physical motion and there is nothing quite like your first rotating speaker experience. It's a bit transcendental really.
I have a friend who, in addition to being very handy, also fell in love with the rotating speaker and wanted to build something portable that got pretty close to the real deal. A real Leslie setup rotates both the upper frequencies via a horn-type speaker that spins, and the lower frequencies via a down-firing cone-type speaker and a rotating wooden drum. See:
That's a fairly large setup. What my friend did was adapt the lower frequency portion of the classic Leslie design to make a more portable setup that was specifically tuned for use with guitar (where a lot of high frequency content isn't necessarily wanted). He took a traditional 1x12" guitar cabinet design, doubled the depth and instead of firing the guitar speaker in to a cloth grill, he fired it in to a rotating disc made from styrofoam. I'm sure he's got pictures of the whole setup, I'll see if I can get him to post them. The light styrofoam means you don't need a particularly beefy motor to rotate it. He used an Ernie Ball volume pedal to do speed adjustments. The whole thing weighs a little more than a regular guitar cabinet and it can fill a room with sound that moves so well it's quite heavenly.
As @Jduv said, it's possible to make them but I doubt you'd find it economically worthwhile, besides the bigger problem with possibly stomping on patents.
If you're committed enough to the idea that you'd want to spend money making one, take a look at some of the dedicated rotary stomp-boxes first. Boss, Line6 and TC-Electronics come to mind as having units.
Having played with organists with Leslies, I can vouch for how heavy they are, and how much work it is to travel with them. Having it on a small pedal would be SO nice.
Well, yes you could--if you had the time, money, and roadies to carry it. Here's a great technical link to how they work, so you could theoretically use this to build your own solution.
If you want to emulate a Leslie, why not go with a chorus or vibrato set to a high speed? I have an analogman BiChorus with one side set to a leslie sound and the other to a slower chorus. It works great for all my leslie emulation. The Retro Sonic Chorus also does a nice leslie.
<Shameless self promotion> I did a review on my personal site of the Analogman BiChorus vs. the Retro Sonic Classic Chorus complete with sound clips, and the conclusion is located here. You can perhaps use this to see that chorus units are indeed good for emulating Leslies. </Shameless self promotion>
FWIW, Fender made (and may still make) a Leslie style thing for guitar.
I haven't seen them new in quite a whlie, but they've popped up on used craigslist here and there for anywhere from $250 to $700 IIRC. I'm still kicking myself for not buying the $250 one when I had a chance.
They're not nearly as heavy as the real thing and sound better than a Univibe/Rotovibe to me.
I as well salvaged the rotary speaker and I had a transformer 240 down 100 volts, my question what sort of box you built to resemble the organ enclosure which had a small square opening at the front! Still I can't notice any difference see my entry under arpolwest1 under kawai rotary speaker! The sound combined with a left channel Advent 10' two ways sp. Maybe mounted on top of a round column with a slit down in a corner as a omnidirectional project
Adding to the "get a pedal" list, the Leslie/Hammond combo has a speed control switch. The Univibe has as new optional expression pedal which you can use to control the speed. Not perfect but lighter and cheaper than a real Leslie.


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Unanswered: [4.1.1a] Grid Columns Header Menu showing 404 pictures in IE8
On IE8, some ugly images are shown after the text in the column headers menu:
In Chrome it shows fine.
Could you tell me how to fix it?
I use a very simple HTML definition:
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Firefox, Opera and Chrome display fine.
IE8 does not, and I cannot install IE9 on Windows XP.
I looked at the HTML generated, and IE8 seems to show that "picture not found icon" of size 28x30 whereas Chrome shows a blank image of size 1x1.
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It seems to set an "arrow" element but blank, as it's not a menu with a sub menu (the above code/screenshot is taken from the "Sort Ascending" element)


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Cape Town has been a sea of yellow today, as residents and visitors donned their football tops in support of Bafana Bafana, who did the nation proud by holding Mexico to a 1-1 draw at the opening match of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ at Soccer City in Soweto.
Although the match was played more than 1 500 kilometres away, the atmosphere in Cape Town was immense, with vuvuzelas blaring and people of many different nations mingling together in the streets.
At the FIFA Fan Fest, some 20 000 people erupted into celebration when Siphiwe Tshabalala scored a scintillating goal to put the hosts into the lead in the 55th minute. Cape Town went silent 24 minutes later when Mexico equalised, but the fans quickly picked themselves up as Bafana Bafana created several opportunities to snatch a win in the dying minutes.
Several months ago, there were fears that Bafana Bafana would be embarrassed during the tournament, given their lowly world ranking and their poor run of results. The team has however gone from strength to strength, and showed some serious courage against the Mexicans, who are ranked 17th in the world. Bafana are currently ranked 85th.
The FIFA Fan Fest is a wonderful place to watch the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, provided you get there early enough. The area closes when capacity is reached, but Cape Town has many other venues where you can watch the matches, which you can read about in our entertainment section.
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I'm curious if the physics allow a company to build such a lens of course with good IQ, minimal color aberration, maximum sharpness, and little to none lens vignetting or edge softness
Is it physically possible to build a long zoom (17-300 mm for example) at an aperture value of around 1.4 or 1.2?
Theoretically one can do anything. It just takes more glass — and correspondingly, size, weight, and cost. A 300mm f/1.2 lens would need an apparent aperture of 250mm — which is almost 10 inches in diameter. And for extra complication, that needs to project an image circle which fits through the lens mount, which is probably around 2 inches. So that's a challenge, requiring even more glass. And all of that is going to cause more light loss, and all the other drawbacks of more transitions between lens elements. This would get expensive very quickly, and that's not even worrying about avoiding other trade-offs.
But okay, let's keep going. Canon actually makes (or has made) a special order 1200mm f/5.6 lens. That actually works out to the same aperture diameter as a 300mm f/1.4, so let's consider some of the specs of that lens as a ballpark for what we're looking at with your theoretical lens:
Since we're not aiming for such a large focal length, it wouldn't need to be quite that big, but you don't necessarily save much. Let's say half the size and weight — but the savings in price will be smaller.
And this lens isn't flawless in terms of image quality. It's got significant vignetting and isn't sharp wide open. If you want to fix that, consider doubling the size and weight and increasing the cost by an order of magnitude.
And finally, all of that is without considering the complication of zoom. For that, I guess we'd double the size and weight again, and raise the price by a another order of magnitude. If you really want that 17mm wide-angle, it's probably even more for all of those factors.
So, if you've got an extra $12,000,000 or so, you might think about it. You'll probably also want to factor in a team of porters to carry it when you go out. Otherwise, you might instead spend $10,000 or so on a 300mm f/2.8 plus a camera with great high ISO performance, and other lenses to cover the rest of the range, and be content.
Your question raises an interesting point as there are some lenses you really can't make, for example you'll never have a 50 f/0.2 as physics simply wont allow it.
However a 300 f/1.2 is merely an engineering problem (building a barrel to hold and move the giant lens elements required), after all a 300 f/2.0 lens was made and sold commercially by Nikon, there have been other extreme fast telephotos, for example Zeiss custom made a 1700mm f/4.0 medium format lens for a private customer, which dwarfs the Canon 1200 f/5.6L.
The zoom complicates things, a lot, as telephotos are pretty simple designs, but to get to 17mm requires a retrofocal design.
You almost certainly wouldn't want to have one of these lenses, except to put on display as the performance wouldn't be great and the weight would be enormous. Here's a mock up of what it would look like (made by splicing the Nikon 6mm f/2.8 fisheye on the front of the Nikon 300mm f/2.0):
I'm not convinced it's possible to make something covering such a wide zoom range, with a fast aperture, and of high quality. mattdm makes many good points and has a solid analysis, but one thing I notice that makes me question whether this is possible: The wide-angle and mid-range f2.8 zooms (from any manufacturer) have consistently improved with each generation. For example, Nikon went from a 35-70 to a 28-70 to a 24-70. Why didn't they initially create a 24-70 2.8? Surely there would have been solid demand for it in the 80s and 90s; I can't imagine any reason it would be considered "unstylish" to have such a range at the time -- I think it would have been a popular lens then, just as it is now. Similarly, wide angles have evolved from 20-35 to 17-35 to 14-24; note also that an wide-angle zoom didn't exist from Nikon until '93.
The 24-70 optical formula is more complex than the 35-70, but the math in creating optical formulas hasn't changed over the years. In other words, a 24-70 could have been designed in the 90s. Nikon's ED glass has seen more and more use and other advances like their Nano coating further help to improve image quality. So, my guess is that with the technology of the 90s, a 24-70 f2.8 couldn't be created with the required level of quality (whether the problem be in distortion, color, sharpness, etc, or any combination).
No doubt, a 17-300 f1.4 would be a giant, heavy lens with a very complex optical formula and a variety of elements moving to make everything focus and zoom. So it could be built, yes. But what would the quality be? Based on the wide-angle and mid-range zoom evolution, I suspect that today it could not be made.
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"It doesn't appear the political stars are aligning themselves for this to pass," said Waynesville Mayor Gavin Brown.
The bill has faced a series of ever-changing, ever-mounting obstacles in the N.C. House. Despite half a dozen trips to Raleigh to make their case with legislators, leaders from Lake Junaluska and the town of Waynesville couldn't overcome the seeds of skepticism surrounding the bill.
Now, the legislature will soon be concluding for the year and time has simply run out.
Rep. Joe Sam Queen, D-Waynesville, supported the bill and remains hopeful.
"It is not lost and it is certainly possible, it just may take a little more time and a little more patience," Queen said. "I think this collaboration between the town of Waynesville and Lake Junaluska will eventually come to pass."
The town and Lake will have another shot at getting the bill through next year. In the meantime, they could bolster their case that a merger is what the majority of residents want by holding an official vote.
Opponents to the merger bent the ear of conservative legislators with complaints that the merger was being foisted upon unwilling property owners.
"I just know mostly in my heart they do not need to be annexed. It will only be the thumb on Waynesville and not the Lake Junaluska Assembly," said Rep. Michele Presnell, R-Burnsville.
Presnell said she thinks Lake Junaluska should incorporate as its own town instead of become part of Waynesville. However, in property owner surveys that option got fewer votes than merging with Waynesville.
Raleigh's new Republican majority is generally opposed to the annexation of new neighborhoods by cities and towns unless a rigorous process is followed, including an official election to gauge the sentiment of residents.
But the town of Waynesville and Lake Junaluska didn't go through the official process. Instead, they tried to get a special bill passed, which made sense at the time.
"Our board has been very clear about not wanting to appear that it is undertaking a forced annexation process," said Town Manager Marcy Oneial.
To Presnell, however, it seemed the town of Waynesville and Lake Junaluska tried to make an "end run" around the official annexation process.
"It is the wolf at the door," Presnell said.
In reality, the process used by Lake Junaluska and the town of Waynesville had more public meetings and more chances for public input than the statute technically requires. Audio and transcriptions, copious reports, pro and con assessments, and engineer studies filled web pages available for public viewing.
"We have gone way above and beyond what is required in the statute, but we are being taken to task for not following the statute. We were trying to be magnanimous and do it better than the statute," said Mayor Gavin Brown.
But it didn't include an official vote.
There was, however, was a mail-in survey. Around 60 percent participated, and of those 60 percent favored merging with Waynesville.
But to Presnell and other opponents, a survey is not the same as an official vote.
It only included one ballot per household, for example. And it polled all property owners, while a formal election would only be open to full-time residents registered to vote at their Lake Junaluska addresses.
Presnell called the surveys "totally absurd" because they used a sliding scale, allowing property owners to express "strong" versus "mild" support. They could also vote for more than one option if more than one future path was OK with them.
"It needed to be an up or down vote. Either a yes or no. But that is not at all what this was," Presnell said. "Even when they got the surveys back, the only people opening up or handling the surveys are the people who were for annexation."
Lake Junaluska and Waynesville are technically in Queen's political district — not Presnell's. Typically, legislators defer to the hometown legislator on such local issues, putting aside their own personal views on a subject.
But in this case, Presnell's opposition as a member of the prevailing party apparently trumped Queen's position as the hometown legislator.
"When those people call you and say we need your help, Joe Sam isn't helping us, I can't just ignore them," Presnell said.
A merger with Waynesville is viewed as a rescue package of sorts for the 765-home residential community with century-old roots as a summer Methodist retreat. Lake Junaluska is burdened by crumbling infrastructure and is over-extended in the level of services it provides. It offers amenities on par with a bona fide town — water, sewer, police, trash pick-up, street maintenance and the like — without actually being a town.


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I'm now trying to make a unit test to prove that these work. I've managed to serialize my client side object into json format, but now how do I use this string of json to actually invoke my methods?
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What game related stuff do you collect? Art collections? Soundtracks? Figurines?
What game related stuff do you collect? Art collections? Soundtracks? Figurines?
Credit card debt.
Also, game OSTs and sheet music books.
Dragon dildo's
Not a lot. I mean, I usually can't afford the game itself, much less other game-related stuff. I try to collect anything Mass Effect elated, though.
Statues or figures for the most part. I love me some cloth maps too.
Why do none of you collect the games?
Anyway, I also grab strategy guides (for collective purposes), shirts, comics, busts, pretty much anything that relates to games I enjoy.
Because none of us play games, games are for nerds.
Collecting games would be like collecting scars.
I simply collect anything game related i deem to be collectable.
Art/Development Books. I browse the hell out of them at Kinokuniya Bookstore and always end up buying some. For whatever reason, its more commonplace to easily find art books for video games and anime at a local bookstore in Japanese culture. There's a particular appreciation for the arts that I simply love =D.
Soundtracks and Collector Editions mostly.
I don't collect any specific kind of merchandise, but if I enjoy a game or franchise I try to get my hands on rare collectibles from that game/franchise. I tend to look for OSTs, art books and figures though
I got fairly far down the rabbit hole of collecting Mass Effect 2 signed lithographs when that came out. Never got the whole set though. Prices on the Citadel and Illium still are too high on E-Bay(never got the original Garrus or Minute Man prints either) but none seem to come up for actual bid. Just buy it nows of $400+, probably because if they did come out for bid with no ridculous starting bid, it would confirm that the market for them has tanked since the release of Mass Effect 3.
But enough about that. I grab things off the Valve store too from time to time, and I have the beginnings of a blue team from Gaming Head's TF2 statue line. Ordered the Sentry Turret and Medic too, hope those ship shortly. I've also got a few art books and and OSV or two around.
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FORT RILEY, Kan. (WIBW) -- The murder of Chris Kyle, known as America's most lethal sniper, has stunned many in the military community and others across the nation.
The former Navy Seal was reportedly killed at the hands of another veteran he was helping work through Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
It's tragic and rare. Officials are concerned it might stigmatize returning soldiers and veterans. But Kyle's death has spurred discussion of what's being done to help troops deal with the aftermath of war.
At Fort Riley, the Department of Behavioral Health at Irwin Army Community Hospital is expanding and there are already more than 200 behavioral health providers that provide a wide range of services. From psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health specialists and social workers to marriage and family therapy counselors and military family life consultants, there is a big network of behavioral health providers available to help our troops.
"We're able to see all soldiers for all the behavioral health care they would need. We offer individual appointments, group appointments, couples appointments. We have PTSD groups, we have anger groups, we have sleep groups and we have a wide range of behavioral health treatment on this installation," said Major Peter Marlin, who oversees the Department of Behavioral Health on the installation.
Behavioral health was one of the health care aspects senior Army leaders explored when they visited Fort Riley this past summer to assess the overall health of the force.
The Surgeon General of the Army said since 2007, the number of behavioral health providers has increased by 83 percent.
Major Marlin told WIBW: "The programs have increased. We've begun to recognize the need of this war being that for mental health casualties. This department in itself has tripled in size in the last 6 years and we're still not as large as we need to be to cover all services for both soldiers and family members."
Over the next few years, Fort Riley is transitioning to the "Embedded Behavioral Health Model" where a team of 13 behavioral health providers and staff will be integrated into a brigade combat team. One team has already been created and two others will be formed by the end of this fiscal year. Providers are already embedded in primary care clinics on post.
"These are providers that are under hospital ownership but yet they work very closely with brigade leadership. The team leader will work very closely with the brigade commander and all the battalions are aligned with providers. It greatly increases communication between behavioral health staff and unit leaders. It decreases stigma because we get out in the footprint of where the soldiers work on a daily basis. Decreasing stigma allows the soldiers to come in and see us easier, less time away from work," Marlin explained, "Rather than stay located in one area. We reaching out and branching out into small teams so that decreases stigma and improves access to care for soldiers."
He says it's important that soldiers who might be experiencing problems are engaged early on.
"The key is getting soldiers with mild symptoms to come forward and seek help before they get in trouble, before their symptoms get too bad, before they have work impairment or social impairment and anything we can do to reach out and front load is amazing helpful," he added.
When asked about security at the hospital and the surrounding health care facilities, Marlin says it's something officials are working to improve. Silent security buttons are being placed in behavioral health offices so that a signal will register with security that a room is in distress. The hospital's security team, along with local military police, would respond to any potential emergencies, he said.


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Team Focus: Zeman's Roma
Contrary to popular opinion, the concept of defending is not anathema to Zdenek Zeman. He isn't against it per se. "It's nothing personal," the great man insists. It's just why make a priority of it, when it's not what most people watch a game for? In that sense, Zeman's outlook on football is quite democratic really.
"When you ask a player what he'd like to work on [in training], he will nearly always answer: 'Attacking'. And what do the supporters want? Goals and a spectacle or defensive play instead? Obviously [they'd prefer] a team that pushes forward rather than Catenaccio! I listen to what the people want."
Except Zeman's hearing is often selective and, as with some ear problems, it can leave him and his football teams unbalanced. He gets the bit about playing exciting all-out attacking football loud and clear. But as for the other thing about it being a means to an end rather than an end in itself, like winning a top flight title, well, that sometimes falls on deaf ears.
Towards the end of last season and the beginning of this one, however, Zeman appeared to have finally got the message. There was talk that relatively speaking his teams were showing at least some restraint in their football. For instance, as Pescara closed in on promotion to Serie A, they did not play with as high a line as they had done before. Players sat back and paid greater attention to their duties in coverage. It seemed like the days when Zeman would go all-in and frustratingly risk results, recklessly throwing on attackers at times when his teams were either drawing or only narrowly in the lead, were over. He was even making a few defensive substitutions.
The shift, while only slight - remember Pescara still conceded 55 goals in that campaign - was welcomed by the papers as a long overdue sign of "professional maturity" from Zeman. It augured well for his return to Roma last summer and despite a 2-2 draw at home to Catania on the opening weekend, which saw his team twice fall behind, prompting the ever so predictable cries of "classic Zeman," what followed shortly afterwards was another display to convince some that he had in fact changed. Against Inter at San Siro in September, Roma played in a way that, for all their attacking intent, was measured and intelligent.
Afterwards Zeman was cast as the Master and Inter coach Andrea Stramaccioni, the Pupil. They'd met in an airport four years earlier. On seeing Zeman, the precocious Stramaccioni had gone over to him and asked why he hadn't written a book about his tactics. "I like to keep my secrets to myself," Zeman replied.
This, however, seemed like a new chapter. Yet whenever reporters put it to Zeman that his approach to the game now has a slightly different nuance to, say, 15 or 20 years ago, he dismissed the idea. "My thoughts on football haven't changed," he said. The rest of this season perhaps indicates as much. It's still "Same Old Zeman." And while to some that's great, to others it's a bit of a disappointment. He gets your hopes up only to let you down. For La Gazzetta dello Sport columnist Luigi Garlando, Zeman is an "unfulfilled promise," the football equivalent of a "Japanese soldier in the jungle who ignores that it's the end of the war." He just keeps attacking.
Roma, as you would expect, are formidable going forward this season. At one point they were scoring at the rate of Il Grande Torino. Things have relented somewhat of late. But they've still found the back of the net on 44 occasions, averaging 2.1 goals and 17 shots per game. It's the second best record in Serie A behind Juventus'.
Practically irresistible on the attack, the frustration, again, as you would expect, is that Roma, in general, offer so little resistance in defence. Theirs is the third worst record in Serie A with 35 goals conceded. Only bottom club Siena have let in more on the counter-attack. But why exactly is this? Could it perhaps be down to the vertical nature of Roma's play?
Zeman certainly expects his players to get the ball from one end to the other as quickly as possible, uncoiling like a spring. When an attack breaks down, they're strung out all over the pitch. Rather than short and compact, the team is long and stretched. Look for example at their average player positions in December's 1-0 defeat to Chievo and in particular the space in the middle of the park. The midfield three of each side is highlighted below.
Roma's players are often far apart and isolated when out of possession. There's little discernible defensive shape and they struggle to win the ball back. The midfield is bypassed. Not a single member of it features on the list of Serie A's top 20 players at recovering the ball, a list headed by former Roma playmaker David Pizarro [179], Juventus' Andrea Pirlo [171] and Siena's Simone Vergassola [168]. Is it any wonder, particularly when you also consider that Roma have won the second fewest tackles [438] and the fewest aerial duels [237] in the league, that they're so vulnerable?
In essence, Roma are the boxer who comes out swinging [they've scored 21 goals in the first half of games this season, more than anyone else in Serie A]. Everyone cheers and gets on their feet as he dances like a butterfly and stings like a bee but his guard is almost never up. They get caught. One moment they're pummeling Fiorentina and Milan 4-2. The next they're taking a 4-1 beating at the hands of Juventus and Napoli.
They make for an enthralling watch, as all Zeman teams do, but the question is: thrills and spills aside, and without forgetting the club spent £36m in the summer, how much better are they than last season? Well at this stage of the previous campaign, Luis Enrique had actually managed a point more and Roma were sixth, not seventh. Few of course would go back given the choice, not to mention the affection with which Zeman is held.
Responsibility for Roma's ups and downs this season don't all lie with him. Eight players left in the summer. Ten came in. Some new signings have either not worked out or are taking time to adapt and learn a new system and style of play for which no previous experience could have prepared them. Daniele De Rossi is staying but he's going through the motions, as he does every other season in terms of form. In short, there's been a lot more upheaval than many think.
But consider this: Fiorentina appointed a new coach [incidentally one that Roma could also have had, Vincenzo Montella], they brought in no fewer than 18 new players in the summer [for a lot less money too] and implemented a new system and style of play. They've played football this season that's been beautiful, like Roma's, but, in contrast, it's been balanced too. Even after a run of three games without a win in Serie A, they're still three points ahead of them in fifth. Roma fans will point to how they remain in the Coppa Italia and are now only one game from the final. But that's beside the point.
Make no mistake about it, there's great potential within this Roma squad. Great margins for improvement too, more perhaps than any other team in Serie A with the exception of Fiorentina. But for it to be realised the romance of Zemanlandia needs to be grounded in realism, otherwise what Roma are building is no more than a castle made of sand, which, as Jimi Hendrix, sang may "fall in the sea, eventually..."


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Rubie Lee Hutson, 86 of Leavenworth, Kan. passed away October 4th, 2012. Rubie moved to Leavenworth from St. Louis to be with her daughter due to failing health.
Funeral Services will be 11 a.m., Wednesday, October 10th, 2012, at Faith Christian Center with Pastor David Walker officiating.
Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until Service Time at the Church.
Burial will be in Mount Muncie Cemetery, Lansing, Kan.
Rubie was born June 23rd, 1926, in Forest City, Ark. the daughter of Lillie Mae and Burt Hutson. She had four sisters and one brother who have preceded her in death.
She attended school and then went to work at the Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. until her retirement where she was the Linen Supervisor. She married Sammie Cooper in Forest City, Ark. in 1941. He passed away November 27th, 2011.
Rubie loved to fish, sew, play the guitar, travel, and loved listening to music.
She is survived by two daughters; Sammie Willis of Leavenworth, and Rose Benzie and her husband Alfred of St. Louis, Mo., eight grandchildren, 32 great grandchildren and 16 great great grandchildren, many nieces and nephews.
She also proceeded in death by one grandson, one granddaughter, and two great grandsons.
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BELMONT - After winning honors for creativity, teamwork and problem solving in local and state tournaments, Union Local Elementary School's "The Team with No Name" has earned the right to travel to Destination Imagination's Global Finals which will be held May 22-25 in Knoxville, Tenn.
Team members include fifth graders Paige Funkhouser, Nicole Puperi and Paoli Roberts and fourth graders Megan Garrison, Starbuck Roberts and Claude Romshak.
They will compete with other teams in the "Change in Realitee" challenge, one of seven open-ended challenges that require young people to apply science, technology, engineering and math skills, in addition to improvisation, theater arts, writing, project management, communication, innovation, teamwork and community service. Destination Imagination has been called "the largest creative thinking and problem solving competition in the world."
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UNION?LOCAL'S "Team with No Name" are, from left, Shawna Roberts, Team Manager, Paige Funkhouser, Paoli Roberts, Starbuck Roberts, Megan Garrison, Nicole Puperi, Claude Romshak and Robin Romshak, Team Manager.
"For the first time in Union Local's history, we are sending a team to the Global Finals," says Team Manager Robin Romshak. "We are just thrilled. The kids have worked so hard all school year for this, and they really deserve a chance to go."
This year, more than 100,000 young people participated in Destination Imagination tournaments throughout the United States and in 30 countries with the goal of earning a spot at the Global Finals. The Union Local team is among more than 1,250 teams and 10,000 students advancing to this stage, held at the University of Tennessee.
"This is my first year in DI," added Nicole Puperi. "But this is the most awesome time I've ever had!"
Romshak notes that "The Team with No Name" is now working to meet the challenge of funding their trip to finals and would be "deeply grateful" for any financial assistance. For information about sponsorships, contact Robin Romshak at (740) 310-2009 or Shawna Roberts at (740) 484-9001. Checks can also be made out to "ULES PTO" (specify "DI" in the memo) and mailed to Union Local Elementary School, 66699 Belmont-Morristown Rd., Belmont, Ohio 43718.


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Boys hoop: Wilby nips Woodland; NW gets past Gilbert
Taifa Wright hit a jumper with 22 seconds remaining as visiting Wilby survived a scare against Woodland, 53-52, in NVL action Friday.
Tanner Kingsley's 3-pointer rimmed out in the final seconds for Woodland, which kept the game close with a triangle-and-two defense that held Wilby's leading scorer, Denzell Mitchell, to 11 points.
Wright led the Wildcats (8-1) with 17 points, and Lateef Bilewu added 12. Kingsley led the Hawks (3-7) with 24 points. Ken Koch added eight.
Northwestern 53, Gilbert 46: Steve McGrath scored 21 points and Ric Persechino added 12 for the visiting Highlanders in BL action. Ted Bremer chipped in with eight points for visiting Northwestern (7-2).
Yoharky Sarmiento had 22 points for Gilbert (4-3), which took only one foul shot, a miss, in the game. Yordan Reyes and Paxton Lewis-Franklin added eight points each.
Sacred Heart 70, Wolcott 48: Mustapha Heron poured in 25 points and Tyran Flowers added 19, including three 3-pointers, as the Hearts pulled away in the second half for the road win.
Malik Petteway had eight points for the Hearts (8-2). Shamari Thomas put in 24 points for Wolcott (2-7) and Michael Druan had 10.
Lewis Mills 56, Housatonic 52: Nate Cook sank four 3-pointers en route to a game-high 22 points and the visiting Spartans held off a late rally by Housy in Falls Village.
Cook also grabbed 12 rebounds while Spencer Maloney added 11 points and six assists, and Danny Kryzanski had 10 points and a key block late in the game for Lewis Mills (8-2).
Nicholas Labbadai scored 14 points for the Mountaineers (3-5). Justin Dean added 11.
Crosby 96, Seymour 31: Tyshon Rogers scored 31 points to go with six assists for the Bulldogs in Waterbury.
Lex Perez had 20 points and Aseim King recorded 11 assists and seven rebounds for Crosby (9-0). Daniel Jones had 10 rebounds, and Stephon Dunbar had 12 points for Crosby.
Tyler Stevens had eight points for Seymour (0-9).
Holy Cross 53, Watertown 46: Jon Mowatt netted 10 points to lead host Holy Cross to the win at home.
Chris Anderson added nine points for the Crusaders (5-4) while Sean Coles had six points and eight blocked shots.
Logan D'Agostino led all scorers with 11 points and Mike Vailonis scored 10 points for the Indians (3-6).
Torrington 55, Ansonia 52: Mitchell Zagrodnik had 12 points to lead host Torrington in an NVL contest.
The Raiders (6-3) were down 52-51 before Zak Mancini (seven points) turned a steal into a lay-up and hit two free throws with nine seconds left to hand his team the win.
John McCarthy and Spencer Mourges also scored 11 and 10, respectively.
Eugene Culver led the Chargers (2-7) with 17 points while Angel Felero contributed with 14.
St. Paul 58, Naugatuck 57: DeJuan Rodriguez scored a game-high 17 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead host St. Paul in NVL action.
With the game tied, 57-57, Rodriguez rebounded a Brendan Carroll (12 points) miss and was fouled on the putback with .5 seconds remaining in regulation. Rodriguez made the first of two free throws to hand the Falcons (4-5) the win.
Reid Morin also added 14 points.
Ryne Griesenauer led the Greyhounds (5-5) with 16 points while C.J. Wall had 15.
Litchfield 71, Wamogo 36: Darrin Newbury had 21 points and 12 rebounds for the host Cowboys in BL action. Steve Rinquist added 13 points, and Ryan O'Neill 11 for Litchfield (6-4).
Greg Peck had 10 points for the Warriors (0-9).
Nonnewaug 84, Shepaug 27: Christian Metallo hit five 3-pointers and scored a game-high 25 points for the host Chiefs in BL action.
Chris Pillis added 13 points, Nick Uberti nine and Charlie Timme eight for Nonnewaug (5-3). Seth Losure blocked four shots.
Robert McCarthy had 16 points for the Spartans (0-9).
Bunnell 74, Pomperaug 58: Isaac Vann had a game-high 27 points to lead the Bulldogs in Stratford.
Lucien Fortier had a team-high 16 points with seven rebounds and four blocks for Pomperaug (7-2) and Sam Rubinstein added 10 points and six assists.
Capital Prep 99, Kaynor Tech 56: Levy Gillespie scored 29 points and converted five of the team's 10 3-pointers for Capital Prep in Hartford.
Tyler Baptista had a team-high 19 points for Kaynor (5-4) and DeAndre Gibbs added 13 points. Adam Pruden chipped in with 12.
Kolbe Cathedral 63, Oxford 48: Joe Tolomeo led the Wolverines (1-7) with 16 points and five assists. Eric Jensen added seven points and 10 rebounds.
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The Belle Brigade make their MMR debut with their sophomore studio album 'Just Because'. The album's infectious single 'Ashes' dropped earlier this year whose video features the crafty sibling duo cut into stop motion. The California band recently announced a full North American tour supporting Ray LaMontagne as both his backing band and opening act. Built To Spill, Reggie Watts, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Lucius, Carl Broemel of My Morning Jacket and many more come together on 'Bob Dylan in the 80s: Volume One' which spans 1980′s 'Saved' to 1990′s 'Under The Red Sky'. The tribute album aims to showcase Dylan during an off-peak period and bring a stronger sense of harmony to the material. Portions of proceeds from album sales will go to the charity Pencils of Promise, a non-profit organization that builds schools and increases educational opportunities in the developing world. Listen to Built To Spill's take on 'Jokerman' via Rolling Stone.
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Gaming hardware market worth $67bn last year - JPR
The overall gaming hardware market reached $67bn in 2014, according to new data presented by analyst Jon Peddie Research.
No EA Access on PSN as it's not good value, Sony says
The EA Access subscription service is an Xbox One exclusive because Sony doesn't believe it offers good value to consumers.
PC gaming hardware worth $21.5bn - twice that of console market
PC gaming hardware is now worth over $21.5 billion (£12.6bn) globally – over double the value of the console gaming market.
Read how the UK games market reached its highest point for six years in the latest MCV
The latest MCV is available now and we reveal how the UK games market jumped dramatically with growth across almost every category.
Facebook share price continues to fall
Having seen $10bn wiped off its value yesterday, Facebook has again got off to a troubled start on the markets today.
King IPO values firm at £4.6bn
Candy Crush Saga studio King is pushing to generate $530m (£319m) in an initial public offering that would see the British game maker valued at up to $7.6bn (£4.6bn).
App Store and Google Play games spend overtook portable gaming in 2013
A new report says that games spending on both the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store overtook portable gaming last year.
Nintendo's share price tumbles; Down 83% compared to 2007 peak
18 per cent was wiped off the value of Nintendo o the Tokyo Stock Exchange following last week's turbulence.
UK games retail scores £600m haul in December
Video game consoles and software made £605.5m for the UK High Street last month, MCV can reveal.
Rein "yet to see the real value" of second screen gaming
Epic Games VP Mark Rein has been unimpressed by second screen experiences to date, and believes we are yet to see a killer app for the technology in games.
Grand Theft Auto is the UK's fourth biggest video games brand
There's reason to be excited ahead of next week's Grand Theft Auto V launch.
NPD: US digital games spending up, but not enough to offset physical decline
Digital full game downloads and DLC spending grew 27 per cent in the US games market during Q2 2013.
Activision: Microsoft has to win the value argument, win hearts and minds
Microsoft is perfectly entitled to charge $499 for Xbox One – but it will need to convince the public that the RRP is justified.
Mattrick: Xbox one is "over-delivering value"
Xbox boss Don Mattrick has argued that, even at £429, the Xbox One is "over-delivering value".
Nvidia declares PC gaming's dominance
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The watch that counts your laps with PC link!
The Pool-Mate Pro is the latest addition to the award winning Swimovate range of swimming computers. As well as automatically counting your laps and strokes and calculating your speed, distance, calories and efficiency, and displaying on the watch, the Pro will download all this data effortlessly to your PC so you can analize your progress.
The watch contains motion sensors to automatically monitor the motion of your arm when swimming so you don't have to worry about counting laps yourself and can concentrate on your technique or just relax and swim. The Pro package includes a download pod that plugs into your USB port. The watch will simply and automatically transfer the data via Infrared link to the pod and your PC.
The included software is simple and intuitive to use and has multiple language support.
The watch is Water Resistant to 50 meters, works with all the major strokes, any length of pool whether yards or meters and doesn't require any calibration.
Key software features
· Download data from the Pool-Mate watch or add swims manually.
· Grade your swim- Great, good, ok or bad!
· Add notes or edit data
· Select any session and examine in detail including individual sets within the swim
· Graphical analysis of your stroke count, times, speed etc see how they have changed over time.
· See how far you have swum this week or year.
· Multiple swimmer support
· See how many cup cakes you have burnt off in your swim!
· View your fastest times, best stroke count etc. at a glance.
· Multiple language support
· Save as .csv file
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Flying now is a lot different than it was before Sept.11. Not only did the government and airlines introduce a rash of new policies right after the attacks, but subsequent attack attempts and economic downturns altered flying too. Find out more about these changes, tips for getting through security and what is allowed on an airplane.
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