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I have got a new Samsung Series 7 laptop with dual boot setup for Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10. A fine machine comparable to a Macbook Pro. The Ubuntu installation was quite a hassle, but with the help of Boot Repair finally it seemed to work. Or so I thought. Windows 8 starts fine, but if I want to start Ubuntu regularly the following Machine Check Exception error occurs, quite similar to this one
[Hardware Error] CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 5 Bank 6
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[Hardware Error] TSC 95b623464c ADDR fe400 MISC 3880000086
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[Hardware Error] Machine Check: Processor context corrupt
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal Machine Check
Rebooting in 30 seconds
Kernel panic does not sound good. Then it starts to reboot, and the second boot trial often works. Is it a Kernel or driver problem? The laptop has an Intel Core i7 processor. I already deactivated Hyperthreading in the BIOS, but it does not seem to help :-(
I also disabled the Execute Disable Bit (EDB) flag in the BIOS. EDB is an Intel hardware-based security feature that can help reduce system exposure to viruses and malicious code. Since I disabled it, the error did occur less frequently, but it still appears occasionally :-( It seems to be the same error as described here and here. Maybe a Samsung specific Kernel problem? A similar error also happens on a Samsung Ultrabook Series 9 (which seems to be kernel bugs 49161 and 47121).
At my Samsung Series 7, it still occurs for instance during booting on battery after "Checking battery state". Perhaps anyone else has an idea? These Kernel Panic errors are reallly annoying..


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|Brooke Vanase and Harper with Lucy and Jim Ocampo the day Brooke and Jim got engaged at the Eisenhower Park dog park in Milford. Credit: Gina Ligouri
As Jim and Brooke strolled from point A to point B with their dogs, they inevitably crossed paths. And when that happened, Jim's dog took a liking to Brooke and her dog — so much so that Lucy adamantly refused to leave Brooke and her dog's side. After a few times trying to go their separate ways, the two submitted to the pup's demands and walked on together.
Brooke and Jim spent the next hour chatting, while the dogs played together in the park.
"We were talking dogs and regular stuff and we just really hit it off. I turned out to be really interested and asked for her number, which I don't usually do," says Jim.
"I had no idea he was going to ask me out," Brooke laughs. "I was in my pajamas!"
They had their first date the following week at Bodega's of Fairfield. Following the date, Jim told his friends and family he already knew she was the one.
"We went out on a second date the next week and it just got better and better from there," says Jim.
A few months before their meeting, Brooke rescued Harper, a yellow Labrador, from Tennessee. Though she'd been searching for a dog on and off for a while, when Brooke saw Harper's picture on the Internet, she said to herself, "Oh my God, I have to have her."
She immediately called the animal shelter where Harper was staying and was told there was someone else interested in the dog.
"I said, 'No, please, you don't understand. I have to have her'." That was on a Wednesday and Brooke picked the puppy up in Waterbury that Saturday.
Jim had gotten Lucy, a German shorthaired pointer, from a breeder in Michigan a month earlier.
Things between Brooke and Jim got serious pretty quickly. Around the time of their one-year anniversary, Jim told Brooke he had something special planned that Saturday afternoon. They started the day off with a double date at the dog park where they first met: just Brooke and Jim, Lucy and Harper.
On their walk, Jim pointed out a tree to Brooke. "Look, I carved our names on the tree for our anniversary," he said. He then suggested to Brooke, "Let's carve something silly on the other side." When they arrived at the other side of the tree, to Brooke's surprise, something had already been carved there: "Will you marry me?"
There was one more surprise in store for Brooke: her best friend, Gina Ligouri, had been hiding in the woods. Gina not only took pictures of the whole event, but was waiting for them with champagne.
"When we tell people our story, they immediately say, 'Oh so (going to the dog park to meet somebody) does work,' Brooke says. "But the truth is neither of us were looking at the time. The dogs were looking for us. Our dogs are so special to us. They led us to love. Harper and Lucy got a sibling, and we got each other."
The West Haven couple will be wed in July at the Fox Hill Inn in Brookfield.
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DELINQUENT TAX SALE - STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA - COUNTY OF SPARTANBURGThe Delinquent Tax Sale for Spartanburg County will be held in the Arena, on the lower level of the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium, located at 385 North Church Street, Spartanburg, on Dec. 3, 2012, beginning at 10 a.m. If additional days are required to auction all properties, the sale will continue on the next business day at 9 a.m. and end at 4 p.m.
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It is causing a lot of pain on my SI joint when the hip is out of place, Saturday I went to the Chrio and he popped it back in place, Sunday I noticed a huge improvement in my movement. By the end of the day Sunday, it was back out again. Now it's Monday and the pain is back, I'm sick of going into the office to get fixed and it only lasts a few days. Is there any technique for a self re-adjustment of the hip?
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My hip goes out of place within a matter of days after the Chiroproactor pops it back into place, is there any way I can pop it back myself? [closed]
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First off, I'm not a doctor, and you seriously should talk to yours to see if they can come up with a more permanent solution for you. However, depending on how badly out of place it is, you can sometimes put it back by sitting on the floor on your butt with your feet out, legs straight, then spread your legs apart. If it's badly out, this could fail and you could seriously injure yourself. If it's bad enough that this doesn't help, you could also have a friend help you do the Allis Maneuver.
In the Allis Maneuver, lay on your back, legs straight, and your friend should pull against your hip while pressing your pelvis down, rotating your leg up to a 90 degree angle with your back, knee bent at a 90 degree angle, then with a great deal of force pulling your leg up and pressing your pelvis down. This requires a great deal of force, and hurts really bad from what I understand. It is also very dangerous and you could end up (once again) seriously injuring yourself.
There is also the Stimson Maneuver, which would likely require 2 friends' assistance. I would advise very strongly against using any of the methods I've listed, and would urge you to go talk to your doctor. These maneuvers listed here could cause serious, permanent damage to your body.
I have a similar problem that was waking me up from sleep because of thepain, yet I could walk reasonably ok. The Chiro popped it in place which brought some relief, but it lasted less than two days.
Doing a bit of research, I found that the best way for me to pop the hip back is actuall very simple.
Simple and effective
If you will do some research, you will find that a Doctor of Chiropractic [DC] is highly trained in spinal manipulation - far more than a MD. Self spinal manipulation can be very dangerous and cause serious injuries. If you want to help your spinal condition, learn proper rehab exercises designed specifically for your condition by a DC or PT. Counsult a DC who utilizes spinal imaging and works with other health care specialists to achieve the best correction for your problem.
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I've done a variety of sports and dancing over the years, and due to all this, my hips get misaligned and pop in and out very often. Although I can walk, it's often very painful to do so. This is what's going on with you, right?
There's a stretch my soccer team used which we call "opening and closing the gate." While standing, take the leg with the misaligned hip and raise the knee high, pushing out to the side as far as it will go (this is opening the gate). It should make a circular motion. Repeat a couple a times, then reverse the motion, going from outside-in (closing the gate).
As a martial artist, I use high kicks which follow the above mentioned circular path to do the same thing. I find that sticking my misaligned leg directly out to the side and stretching over it helps pop it back with the opening and closing the gate thing faster. Also, with opening the gate, you can leg your leg go down at the end of opening it, so your foot goes behind you. It tests pretty much all the movement of your hip, hopefully letting something move back in place.
You can also lay on a table (or bed, or whatever else that is sufficiently high off the ground) with your butt and lower back on the edge, your legs hanging off. Keeping your legs straight, let the injured one drop a little bit at a time until it clicks back into place. This option doesn't always work, and I admit that I found it by accident. This works really well if your hip was misaligned due to a split or similar movement.
Have you ever seen ballerinas grab their foot behind them and lift it above their head? You can try that too, which pulls the leg backward, stretching the hip and sometimes popping it back in. I suggest having a wall or sofa in front of you to lean on though, because with both hands on your leg you have to have amazing balance not to fall over.
You can also get on one knee, with the injured leg down, and rotate side to side. The farther back the downed knee is, the better the stretch -- but also the harder it is to rotate. Do this slow; quick movements can cause further injury.
I'm really sorry your hips are bothering you (and that I'm 2 years after this thread), but I hope all this helps you. Note: I'm not claiming to give valid medical advice -- I'm just stating what has worked for me to realign my hips.
A chiropractor can do nothing for you other than pop it back in. I have this problem. You need to go to physical therapy and they can do different exercises for you which will help in time. My hip causes my lower back to hurt really bad and my leg on the side of my affected hip to have a throbbing pain. It hurts all the time and hurts more when I run or do any physical activity.
You also may have snapping hip syndrome which I was told I had. It causes you a lot of pain too and has similar pains but its where your tendons and muscles are too tight or too loose and your hip clicks over the group of muscles that run across your hip. I have been told that my hip pops in and out and wont stay in by physical therapists, but the DOC doctor said it was snapping hip syndrome.
So therefore, I do not know. I'm still getting physical therapy to find out what exactly is wrong and how to fix it. Either way it is hard to sleep and move and have a lot of back pain that comes with it. Check out snapping hip syndrome.
I have Sciatica and now my hip has popped out of place (been out about 4 months now since falling). I had a car wreck in 2008 and my hip was out of place then but I was able to work it back into place through working out and getting adjustments. However since I have fallen and popped it back out, I've been struggling to get it back into place so I can work out.
I have found that sleeping with a pillow helps and have looked up some physical therapy exercises on YouTube but just started using the techniques today. I have been told that stretching helps but honestly I can't afford to keep going to the chiropractor as after going to him for two months 3 times a week I'm still out of place.
I have stumbled across an exercise that pops my hip back in at least momentarily. Put a pillow in between your legs and bend down in the squat position keeping your legs together and pushing in with your legs slightly squeezing the pillow as your bending.


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During this week your baby's fingernails have become fully developed and now approach the tips of the fingers. Bathed in amniotic fluid, the nails are kept very soft: it's only after birth that your baby might tend to scratch and need to wear mittens.
Your baby is swallowing and recycling almost half a liter of amniotic fluid each day. In addition to providing him with nutrients, especially proteins, this fluid is important for the healthy development of the gut. Your baby's sense of taste is thought to have developed to such an extent now that if you have eaten spiced food he can distinguish this in the fluid he drinks.
Amniotic fluid does not enter the lungs but travels down the esophagus into the stomach where it is stored for a short time. At this stage, the stomach fills every 40 minutes, but, from 35 weeks, as the stomach enlarges, this rate slows down to every 80 minutes. Muscle contractions move the fluid in waves into the small and then large bowel. As it travels along the bowel, water is reabsorbed so that only waste material or "meconium," enters the colon, the final section of the large bowel. This meconium accumulates in the large bowel, which is completely full by the time your baby is born. Babies don't usually pass meconium before the birth but do so soon after. Meconium consists mainly of skin cells, lanugo hairs, and vernix. It has a greenish color due to the presence of bilirubin, a breakdown product from red blood cells.
In the next few weeks, as you and your partner await your baby's arrival, you may experience one or two false alarms, especially if it's your first baby. A false alarm can come at any time of the day or night and it won't respect important meetings or deadlines.
It can help if you-as well as your partner-familiarize yourself with all the signs that indicate labor may be starting (see Approaching Labor). If, however, you're ever in doubt, do contact your doctor to ascertain that labor has not started, rather than assuming that this is the case. She will be very experienced in dealing with false alarms and won't mind you contacting her.
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MRI update: I went back to my orthopedic doctor last week to find out the results of the MRI on my right ankle. Once again I was presented with good and bad news. The good (great) news is that my ankle LOOKS fine and there is no damage to the joint or cartilage. This is a huge relief, of course. But then he told me that there is nothing he can do for me based on the results of the MRI. Tears sprang up in my eyes and began to roll down my face despite trying to control myself. How can there be nothing "wrong" when I'm in so much pain? I appreciate that he doesn't want to do unnecessary surgery, yet I can't understand how nobody can figure out how to fix my ankle after all of these years (the ankle problems started five years ago). So basically I left the office a crying mess wondering what to do next. Second, third, fourth opinions? Mayo Clinic again? It's almost too exhausting to even think about much less go through. Back to the beginning, back to "square one." All I want is to be able to walk normal again, or as normal as possible, with less pain.
In better news, I have rediscovered the joys of riding a bike and have established a goal of biking 3-4 miles a day around a small lake near my house. I went yesterday and Monday and it felt great, despite being a sweaty huffing-puffing wimp by the end of the ride both days. It's raining right now but I still want to try to go before I work tonight. RAIN WILL NOT STOP ME! Nor will this disease, dammit.
I don't know what I'm going to do about this ankle, but I'll have to figure out something. I just can't believe that there's nothing that can be done.
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April 14, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Oh my god Angela, I am so sorry! My mom is actually coming over right now and if you remember from a few months ago, she's dealing with similar issues and never gets any answers. I want her to read your post. Then maybe she'll realize she's not alone. She often voices the same frustrations that you mentioned above. Good for you for being tough and not letting it stop you. Let me know if there is ANYTHING I can do…even if it means just listening or going on a walk with you.
April 25, 2010 at 6:22 pm
I did a search for 'living with arthritis' and came across your blog in my search. Reading this sounds so familiar. After years of 'there is nothing wrong' and 'you are imagining things' I finally saw a doctor who said 'this sounds like it might be arthritis, let me refer you to someone.
My problem joint is my right ankle, and has been bothering me for years now. There was one point that my manager at work actually demanded I see a doctor, who put me off on leave for about 2 months…and even when I was feeling better he said no, you are not coming back to work until they figure this out for you. I will never forget Tony and his determination.
I was told that it looks like RA, but it is only attacking the one joint. I am intermittantly on celebrex when necessary, and get cortizone shots in my ankle. It is a relief knowing what is wrong.
I too have difficulty just going for a walk, which was my favourite exercise…and it hurts to walk. I am looking for a different exercise to replace walking.
I have bookmarked your blog and I am glad I found it. How do you get through the pain in biking? Moving the joint like that makes my ankle cease up and I can't move. I need to lose weight to help the pain..but exercising causes the pain to be worse, it seems to be a catch 22. Do you have any pointers?
I am very sorry that you too have problems like these, but it is good to know that I am not alone, and that there are others like me facing these problems.
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Living with pain like having arthritis is a torture… it is really painful but you have to find cures and treatment. You have to endure the pain to end it. I know it is very hard but you have to handle it so that the battle can be won.
There are many alternative medicine very effective in treating arthritis, you just have to be wary of the products you are going to buy. Researching about traditional medicine for treating arthritis can't hurt instead may yield a positive result if followed correctly. Living with correct diet and exercise can be great as you mentioned. It may not work over night but it will in time. Good luck!
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I'm sorry that happened, but glad you wrote about it. It made me feel like less of a dope. I once left a drs office in tears too, for a similar reason.
I know just how that feels the frustration and the feeling that there's not likely to be any help for it.


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Similar to this other question about Scala, I'm interested in knowing whether F# is used to any measurable degree in financial circles. Have there been any successful shops using it, any research on performance and viability?
Credit Suisse has publicly stated that they use F# for some valuation tasks (which tend to be very parallelizable). Here's a link to a talk abstract from a Commercial Users of Functional Programming workshop:
I'm not sure if there's a video of the talk floating around or not.
Since F# targets the .NET framework, it gives you a lot of flexibility in integrating other applications that might have been written in, say, C#.
I help organize the F#unctional Londoners Meetup group. A good number of our 450+ members work in London's finance sector. Over the past 2 years we have hosted a number of talks related to F# in trading:
I worked for a big investment bank a few years ago that announced it was moving all quant models to F#. The goal behind the switch was that F# is a functional programming language and available on .NET, both of which were desirable qualities for this particular company. I left before they got started on the transition, so I don't know what came of it.
As for the related OCaml, Jane Street famously uses that.
There was huge buzz about F# in the City and few banks / funds tried very agressively to hire people with F# knowledge and experience in finance. For example, Luka Bolognese one of the F# authors joined Credit Suisse almost 2 years ago. Also Don Syme used to conduct visiting lectures about F# and its possible applications to finance in the City .
Not that I know of, although I know .net is sometimes used as a platform by (larger) asset management companies, so F# seems a good candidate to parallelize computationally intensive jobs.
I work at Trayport, the leading provider of European energy trading solutions. We use F# alongside C# in our trading screen Joule. F# is used for our calculation engine, domain, high performance components and for handling concurrency. The calculation engine leverage's F#'s union types, pattern matching and units of measure feature. The domain leverages F#'s rich object orientated constructs. F# is particularly strong at concurrency with first class events, built-in agents, asynchronous workflows and immutability as a default. As a statically typed .Net language F# has similar performance characteristics to C#, with additional optimizations including tail calls and inline functions. Performance of the system is comparable to the previous highly optimized C++ implementation and on some key components it is significantly faster.
For what it is worth , I work for a major investment bank and we have decided to go the functional way. Since most of our other legacy apps are JAVA we decided on using clojure on JVM.
I've worked in about 10 financial institutions over my career. 6 top tier banks in the front office building low latency trading platforms. F# is rare, these places are huge so I cant say I've seen every team but where I've seen it be used (twice) the project has been dire. This was a decent overview from an experienced city recruiter.
We use it in sports trading. Mostly because our quantitive analysts creating the mathematical models understand F# quite easily, while they completely gave up on C# :D
F# is mainly a functional language, but it's also rich in OO features. This makes it very suitable, for example, for writing a pricing framework and at the same time make writing payoffs more straightforward. In the long run, it definitely saves a long time writing/debugging and maintaining models.
I know one shop which is doing some new projects in F# replacing some of their OCaml stuff, I asked the guy what they used it for and he replied "mostly data cleaning".


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Sotomayor, objectivity and the GOP
Eugene Robinson nailed it in his Washington Post column this morning on the first day of Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings.
Republicans' outrage, both real and feigned, at Sotomayor's musings about how her identity as a "wise Latina" might affect her judicial decisions is based on a flawed assumption: that whiteness and maleness are not themselves facets of a distinct identity. Being white and male is seen instead as a neutral condition, the natural order of things. Any "identity"--black, brown, female, gay, whatever--has to be judged against this supposedly "objective" standard.
I sat yesterday listening to Senators Jeff Sessions, Jon Kyl and others express their misgivings about and disagreements with Sotomayor's views on objectivity, personal perspective and other such matters, and I wondered in what cocoon these men have been living. They truly do seem to assume that an objective viewpoint apparently embodied in white males is the default, and any perspective other than that is an outlier.Too bad they could not have been exposed to some of the debates and discussions that have taken place in newsrooms over the last quarter century, as journalists tried to expand their frames of reference and account for events in their communities that seemed to defy explanation by reference to their usual experiences."Denying the fact of identity makes us vulnerable to its most pernicious effects," Robinson wrote. "This seems self-evident."To everyone, it seems, except the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. It would appear that as far as they are concerned, denial has worked just fine.
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I thought Sotomayor's defense this morning of that coment was that a person of minority status can make as good or better judicial judgements -race is not the issue.Most of the crirtique of her along this line is playing to a base that is living in the past Mr. Wycliff notes.
Robinson couldn't be more wrong-headed. The point isn't that "white-maleness" is somehow neutral. In fact, the point they are making is that anyone's whiteness or browness or maleness or femaleness or Russianess or Latinaness is, or should be as irrelevant to the decision making process of a judge as possible. They aren't saying that their point of view is "neutral" and Sotomayor's isn't, they are saying no one's point of view is neutral. The law, however, should be.
They arent saying that their point of view is neutral and Sotomayors isnt, they are saying no ones point of view is neutral. The law, however, should be.Sean,It doesn't seem to me anyone is contending that her body of work as a judge, all available for scrutiny, is flawed. They are picking on a few remarks she made in speeches. Shouldn't they base their evaluation of her on her record?
"Republicans outrage, both real and feigned, at Sotomayors musings about how her identity as a wise Latina might affect her judicial decisions is based on a flawed assumption: that whiteness and maleness are not themselves facets of a distinct identity."This is stating the obvious, but Mr. Robinson's straw man is not based on any real Republicans I am aware of. The "outrage" is not about the "wise Latina" part of the comment, but the "better" in the later part of her oft-repeated statement ("...more often than not, reach a better conclusion than a white male...").
MAT, the great thing about ignoring the context of what Sotomayor said is that it makes it possible to distort her views in several different directions at the same time. You can misunderstand her as if she were alleging supremacy, while others can claim her background simply makes her much too partial. Robinson is exactly right, I think, and the sad thing is it's not like no one's made these points already (I linked to a few other commentaries last month). I can't believe this is still a "controversy."
Jeffey toobin on CNN last night made the point that the party not in power will attack a nominee on ideological grounds.He added it would be good if we could really talk about how ideology should fit in this process.
"I cant believe this is still a controversy."Still? Didn't the hearings just begin today? We can at least pretend the Legislature functions independantly from the Executive branch for the sake of people like me, can't we? Ignorance is bliss and all that.
I'm not sure what you're getting at, MAT. My point is that this foolishness surrounding the "wise Latina" remark -- which began the instant her nomination was announced, and should have been set aside later that day (once everyone had a chance to read the whole speech) -- would have run its course by now, so the hearings could focus on legitimate matters like her record and her competence as a judge.
"Im not sure what youre getting at, MAT. My point is that this foolishness surrounding the wise Latina remark...would have run its course by now..."Getting at? What do you mean? All I am saying is given that today is the first day of the hearings, it is perhaps not reasonable to expect questions regarding these remarks to have run their course since the Judge has not until today been asked about them on the record and under oath by Senators who think it in the best interests of their constituents to ask them.
Amateur observer that I am, I suppose that Republicans, knowing that Sotomayor's confirmation is a fait accompli, are merely posturing for the 2010 elections. Presumably affirmative action plays well as a bogeyperson for some constituency or other that is thought to be up for grabs.FWIW, I spent the last week tramping about the landmarks, museums and palatial Department headquarters of DC, children in tow. On Saturday, there were signs posted around the perimeter of the Capitol grounds, explaining how the general public could obtain tickets to attend the Sotomayor confirmation hearings on a first-come, first-serve basis. Pretty cool that an average dope like me could, by virtue of being an early bird, get to watch this historic proceeding in person. This is a great country.
"it would be good if we could really talk about how ideology should fit in this process."I thought that is what this discussion was. Republicans are proposing efficiency in the courts, with a judge apparently is to apply the law mechanically, without personal input.Obama has proposed that a judge must have empathy to hear and understand the positions advocated, then make a decision based on his understanding.That is a pretty clear discussion of how ideology fits into the judicial process, at least in one sense.
Jim P.--While you were tramping about DC last week, I hoped you stopped in to the Smithsonian's Air & Space Museum and saw the full mock-up of the lunar lander...since, according to your post on another thread, you slept through what is considered one of the two or three most important events of the 20th century. :)As for Sotomayor, I was bothered more (though not bothered too much) by her off the cuff remark during another speech that judges make "policy." She knew immediately that the remark was a problem because she quickly uttered words to the effect that maybe she shouldn't have said that.
Hi, William, most of the family made it to Air and Space, but one of the children was ill that day, so I offered to stay back in the hotel room so my wife could go. So I'm still oh-fer on matters lunar :-(. (Well, not completely. Sometime ca. 1972 I waited in a very long line under a hot sun at our local national guard armory to view rocks brought back from the moon. My not-yet-adolescent mind imagined ruby- and emerald-encrusted marble formations, but they turned out to be khaki-colored pebbles. Ah, well, perhaps Venus will have a more alluring geology - with a name like that, it's hard to see how she couldn't!)
David,I expect the Republicans to be far more civil and fair with Judge Sotomayor than the Dems were with say - Bork, and Thomas, and Estrada. I was only pointing out that Mr Robinson's premise that they were questioning her from a position of white male "neutrality" is utter nonsense.I am on record here as supporting her not because I agree with her, but because she is qualified and her side won the election and I expect many if not most GOP senators will as well. Would be nice if the other side would do the same.
Sotomayers comment about a wise Latino woman arriving at different decisions are derived from important cultural theories regarding whiteness. In a nutshell, as a result of her experience as a racialized minority, she possesses a dual knowledge that white (presumed to be priviledged) category of people do not need to possess. It is optiona knowledge for "white"l, it is not optional for her. What she is saying is that she is able to use that kind of dual knowledge in a way that others cannot.Of course she has attained other privileged status (Ivy League) education that she can also deploy and which serves as a means for her to articulate her point. I respect and honour her political commitment and believe that it is animated by a good Catholic social justice perspective.And she also deploys the application of law that all justices do.I see nothing wrong with her raising the wise Latino comment. I get it and I think it should be discussed in that context as it is important political, social, cultural and even legal commentary.What I dont get is that there is universal consensus that the court should be more diverse. Joe Biden who for years was chair of the judiciary committee said he would like to see someone who was elected dog catcher in the court (and he was dead serious he said). He meant real live experience with the lived experience of most people in the US.I wholeheartedly agree. Still, it is telling that when push comes to shove we need ensure that the right people (and rightness or in this case whiteness) is determined by going to all the privileged schools and associations.I am not saying that there is anything at all wrong with the nomination or her.I am saying that I think the comment needs to be taken up in the context in which it was intended. Namely issue of class and priviledge that plays itself out in American society all the time!!!!
It seems to me that Judge Sotomayor's "wise Latina" remark is indeed thoroughly inconsistent with her very balanced record as a judge. Does this really need a lot of explanation? I think not. Even ery smart people sometimes say dumb things, inaccurate things they don't really think.For instance, in a philosophy of science class I attended a distinguished physicist and historian of modern physics was guest lecturer one class. In the course of his lecture he made a statement about a physical theory that was clearly false. A mystified student asked if he meant what he said literally, and the poor man was thoroughly embarrassed,thanked the student for the correction and apologized profusely for the mistake. Now ask yourself -- why is it necessary to edit your posts? If you're like me it's because sometimes the first words out of your mouth aren't really exactly what you mean to say. How the psychologists would explain these gaffes, who knows. But they happen.Moral: the prepondance of evidence indicates that Judge Sotomayor will be a particularly unbiased justice.I too would like a discussion of the role of "ideology" in legal decision making. It seems to me term is very ambiguous,
Ann:Your last question (not ideology but class, gender and ethnicity) was precisely the issues that Judge Sotomyer was discussing in her presentation where she made the now infamous "wise Latino" remark.I think this is a very legitimate debate and discussion and her text can be found here. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/politics/15judge.text.html?pagewant... is a snippet of her presentation:"Now Judge Cedarbaum expresses concern with any analysis of women and presumably again people of color on the bench, which begins and presumably ends with the conclusion that women or minorities are different from men generally. She sees danger in presuming that judging should be gender or anything else based."HERE is where Judge Sotomayer differs (and on this point I am in large agreement with her).Although I agree with and attempt to work toward Judge Cedarbaum's aspiration, I wonder whether achieving that goal is possible in all or even in most cases. And I wonder whether by ignoring our differences as women or men of color we do a disservice both to the law and society. Whatever the reasons why we may have different perspectives, either as some theorists suggest because of our cultural experiences or as others postulate because we have basic differences in logic and reasoning, are in many respects a small part of a larger practical question we as women and minority judges in society in general must address.But that is not to say that minorities (or Catholics) are monolithic. THAT would be reductionistic and naive."No one person, judge or nominee will speak in a female or people of color voice. I need not remind you that Justice Clarence Thomas represents a part but not the whole of African-American thought on many subjects. Yet, because I accept the proposition that, as Judge Resnik describes it, "to judge is an exercise of power" and because as, another former law school classmate, Professor Martha Minnow of Harvard Law School, states "there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives - no neutrality, no escape from choice in judging," I further accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions. The aspiration to impartiality is just that--it's an aspiration because it denies the fact that we are by our experiences making different choices than others. Not all women or people of color, in all or some circumstances or indeed in any particular case or circumstance but enough people of color in enough cases, will make a difference in the process of judging.'At issue, I suppose is the issue of Catholic faith. It is a concern but I think most people have accepted the secular idea (cf. charles Taylor) that religion can be privatized. Whether that is true or not is another matter but I doubt you will see public conferences where this is discussed. However, if you did I bet that you would have people argue their faith is as much a part of them as Sotomayer articulated her culture was. Not that it is determiinative of how one might vote or judge but it is a factor.As you are fond of saying Anncomplexity, complexity, complexity
You may or may not be aware of this, but for the record there were more than one occasion that she used such words. As mentioned by Dahlia Lithwick today:But then we learned late last week that Judge Sotomayor chose to use those or similar words more than once; indeed, by one count, seven times. Suddenly Sotomayor's defenders went dark. For all of the efforts to justify and rationalize and contextualize her 32 words, their repetition over the years sure sounds like a blanket claim that Latinas make better judges than white guys. And that's kind of a big deal for liberals who purport to believe that race and gender don't generally make one "better" at things.http://www.slate.com/id/2220225/From Jeffrey Rosen:But after the Senate Judiciary Committee released Sotomayor's complete list of speeches, it emerged that she had delivered many versions of the same stump speech seven by one count between 1994 and 2003. In all of them, she suggested that a judge who was a "wise woman" or a "wise Latina woman" would issue a better opinion than a male or a white male judge.http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1903981,00.html
There's plenty of ongoing coverage of the hearings over at Slate. From one post called "Sotomayor vs. Obama":One other note: Sotomayor has totally thrown Obama overboard. Asked whether she agreed with Obama's claim that because Supreme Court cases are so difficult judges often have to rule with their heart, Judge Sotomayor disagreed: "I wouldn't approach the view of judging the way the president does." Later, she said, "It's not the heart that compels; it's the law." So Sotomayor disagrees with part of the criteria used to select her. But I'm pretty sure she'd still vote for herself.http://www.slate.com/id/2222736/entry/2222883/
When I raised the ideology issue, it was to say that what's transpiring is at best a ritual dance of (as in previous hearings) for the party out of power to attack and the party in power to show how good its choices are.Stephen L. Carter had n op-ed in the Sunday NYT a while back tracing this process back to the civil rights days and divisions. An NPR report yesterday also noted how the closed hearing question process grew out of Clarenc eThomas?Anita Hill matter.My point was that the ritual is more of the adversarial game than real service to the American people, as much of the posting and some postuting here tends to demonstrate.(Deep ideological divide continues, as in the Church, to fester and make mature deliberation and movement forward harder.)
Perhaps it is the crackpot in me, but I think the "ritual dance" serves to illuminate the ideology. With the last 3 nominees, we have seen an assertion, especially on the part of the Republicans, of the importance of "settled law" and an antipathy toward judges making policy. This has reached a new height with our current nominee, as the insistence is to oppose "empathy" and emphasize law as the only standard for making a decision.With this, any hope of overturning Roe v. Wade has clearly vanished. Republicans have established themselves as upholding the status quo, standing by past decisions and laws as binding. Empathy and natural law will not play a part in their future decisions, pretty much precluding any dramatic arguments against abortion rights. There may be some outlying argument that will take precedence over these things, as "privacy" prevailed 35 years ago. In these hearing a Republican tried to connect the right of privacy to the right to own guns, expanding rather than weakening privacy rights, and probably making it harder for Republicans to argue against privacy on almost any grounds.IOW, the hearings have hardened the Republican position in favor of Roe v. Wade. It may be indirect, as a hardening of support for "settled law" of which RvW is a part. That is a change in ideology, or maybe a highlighting of a latent ideology that has long worked against the pro-life movement. I think it is significant.
I continue to rely on the "ritual dance" understanding of the posturing now blissfully ending -by the way, see David broder's op-ed in many papers today, including my own, The New Mexican.


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I am making a defence game. Naturally, this means that there needs to be objects following a path on the screen. I want to make it a strict path from one point to another to another. I could use an array of vertices, but i need some help. Can someone please show me some code that could help me with this? Thanks.
Okay, I gave it a quick test run and it seems to be working on my end. Here's my solution. Imagine your entity has the following members, and you'd like to make the entity follow whatever path is currently set to the
I started by adding an helper method inside the class that moves the entity towards some goal, and returns true if that goal was reached:
Using this helper method, following the path is as simple as doing:
I think the only line that isn't really clear is the following:
What I'm doing here is checking if the direction before the move, and the direction after the move are opposite. I do this by checking if the dot product between both directions is close to -1 using an epsilon comparison. Another solution that seems to work is replacing the same check by:
When I tried it the result was the same. As for the update loop:
It's relying on the && operator not bothering to run the second portion of the operation unless the first one is true. So if there's no path, nothing else happens. If there's a path, then


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Johnson County High School claimed top shooting honors at the fifth Georgia National Archery in the Schools Program regional tournament.
Johnson County High shot a 3,207 to win the overall team title, beating out five other school archery teams to qualify for the 7th annual Georgia-NASP State Tournament March 13 at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry.
Dodge County Middle School in Eastman won the middle school division with a team score of 3,050. Both Johnson County High and Dodge County Middle teams receive automatic bids to the state tournament for winning regional division titles.
Johnson County High's Curt Mayo led the field with a 284 (out of 300) to win the overall highest scoring male archer. Johnson County High's Taylor Steelman arrowed a 274 to capture the overall highest scoring female title.
Other top individual shooters included: Bethune Middle School's Newton Roberts (272, top middle school male); Dodge County Middle's Jadie Gay (263, top middle school female); Dodge County Middle's Josh Williams (267, top elementary school male); and Johnson County Middle's Caitlyn Mayo (253, top elementary school female).
More than 100 students in elementary, middle and high school competed at Georgia NASP Regional No. 5. Schools that did not win an automatic berth to state at the regional tournament can still qualify as a high-scoring wildcard team after the final regional tournament is completed in late February. Wildcard standings are posted below. Individual male and female shooters finishing in the top five in 4th, 5th, 6th grades and the middle and high school divisions all qualify for state.
Tournament results are posted online at www.nasptournaments.com [1].
Wildcard Standings
Lake Park Elementary 2874
Bay Creek Elementary 2871
Bethlehem Elementary 2656
Wynnbrook Christian 2927
Johnson County Middle 2916
Lee County Middle 2860
Peach Co. High 3029
Crawford Co. High 2962
Charlton Co. High 2940
The National Archery in the Schools Program is an in-school archery curriculum that meets all education department standards. Only schools that are certified in NASP through the Georgia Department of Natural Resources are qualified to compete in the Georgia Tournament. Schools in more than 100 counties in Georgia are NASP certified.
The program promotes instruction in international-style target archery to improve educational performance and participation in shooting sports. Research has shown that the program, administered through a minimum two-week course during the school year, improves class attendance and behavior. NASP universal fit bows make it possible for students of all sizes and genders to succeed in archery while raising self-esteem levels and improving hand-eye coordination during physical activity.
NASP is taught in 47 states as well as 10 countries. To date, more than 10 million students have gone through the program.
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I'm trying to get some (individual) piano note sounds (4 octaves worth), in .aif format, for an iPhone app. My mac has a MIDI connection to a keyboard, and I can get the notes via Garage band and iTunes, but that is a lot of mucking around. Is there an easier way?
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There are loads of free sampled pianos on the web. The University of Iowa had free piano samples already in AIFF format, but their site seems to be unavailable at the moment.
A lot of the other free sampled pianos are in SF2 format, meaning you would have to find a free utility to extract the WAVs, and convert them to AIFF, which may be more laborious than you want.
Update: Years ago I started writing a utility in C# that could extract the WAVs from SF2 files (the code to parse SF2 is still available in NAudio). However, I abandoned it because someone else created a good freeware one called sfZed, which should do what you want assuming you have found a piano soundfont you like.


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Paper clutter is the No. 1 problem for most businesses and 4.3 hours a week are used searching for papers, according to the National Association of Professional Organizations.
Get rid of paper.
Some people like to write reminders on Post-It Notes and put them all over. Don't do this. Keep a notepad of reminders.
While some people like to have a bunch of photos of family and friends in their workspace, it's probably better to go with one or two. If you like a lot of photos, invest in a small collage photo frame so that the photos are more organized.
If there is anything that can be put in a drawer, put it there. This would include pens, papers and books.
Decluttering your workspace is sure to make the workday less stressful. But if your closet, dresser, bedroom and car are organized, the day is sure to get off to a good start.


text: In the past I submitted two tutorials on the main characters from a Disney film that will be out in theaters November 2013. Today I will be uploading the rest of the characters starting with "how to draw Elsa", step by step. Elsa is Anna's sister as well as the Snow Queen. I have a feeling that 'Frozen' is going to be a hit that Disney can count on this year. All the characters are pretty likable and have a lot of style even if they are simple. Drawing Elsa the Snow Queen will be fun because not only is she pretty, it's always exciting drawing evil queens. I shall return in a bit so try to stick around. Peace out people.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Kansas Court of Appeals chose a unique setting to hear the case of a convicted kidnapper.
Court members held their session Tuesday at Washburn University's Law School. The out-of-chambers appearance was part of Constitution Day activities, giving students an up-close look at how the Court functions.
Jesse Dimmick is appealing convictions on kidnapping and fleeing police. In September 2010, prosecutors say he stole a van, led police on a chase, then took shelter in the Dover home of Lindsay and Jared Rowley.
He's serving an 11-year sentence.
Dimmick says the court didn't inquire whether the verdict was accurate and claims the evidence for a kidnapping charge was insufficient.
A ruling won't come for several weeks.
A Shawnee County jury recently ruled against Dimmick in a civil lawsuit seeking damages for injuries suffered when he was accidentally shot while being taken into custody.


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TOPEKA -- Kansas Governor Sam Brownback announced Tuesday he has formed the Kansas Humanitarian Commission as a way to highlight the global and local charitable work of Kansans of all ages. He has asked Lieutenant Governor Jeff Colyer, M.D. and Ashleigh Black to co-chair the nine-member commission.
Brownback said the commission will assist him in recognizing Kansans as well as Kansas groups and organizations for their global and local efforts through the creation of the annual Kansas Governor's Humanitarian of the Year awards that will be presented each fall.
"Kansas was born with a concern for our neighbors and service to those less fortunate. Today, a life of service is second nature for thousands of Kansans. Like Dr. Colyer and Mrs. Black, they work tirelessly to advance and mend the lives of others," Gov. Brownback said. "It is my hope that this commission will encourage more Kansans to serve their neighbors in Kansas and communities worldwide – and bring attention to those Kansans who work and give so graciously."
As a U.S. Senator, Gov. Brownback worked to bring awareness to humanitarian and human rights needs in countries such as Darfur, Iran, and North Korea.
Dr. Colyer has volunteered for more than twenty years through the International Medical Corps in numerous war-zones, including Iraq, Rwanda, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, and Afghanistan, to bring medical care to those in desperate need. In 1999, his work was featured on 60 Minutes, PBS and in People magazine which described him as "from Kansas, driven by conscience."
"Kansans have a heart for service," Dr. Colyer said. "Through this effort we hope to highlight and promote service to Kansans and people around the world."
Ashleigh Black is the Associate Director of the GW Center for Global Health. Formally with the world's largest humanitarian organization, Black has 15 years of experience working on public policy and development assistance efforts in the U.S., Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.
"I look forward to working with the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor to showcase the inspiring stories of so many Kansans and to identifying new opportunities that foster a greater spirit of service," said Black.
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Steubenville-area churches have announced the following sermon themes for their Sunday services:
-- Bell Chapel United Methodist Church, Steubenville: "Down But Not ..."
-- Covenant Presbyterian Church, Steubenville: "Be Prepared," Shawn Smith, guest speaker.
-- Finley United Methodist Church, Steubenville: "Benefits of A Christian Marriage," morning ; missionary Ken Sawka, evening.
-- First Christian Church, Disciples, Steubenville: "Blame Game."
-- First Church of Christ, Scientist, Steubenville: "Spirit."
-- First United Methodist Church, Toronto: "Servanthood - The Joy of the Christian Life."
-- First Westminster Presbyterian Church, Steubenville: "Love Grows Here."
-- Harmony United Methodist Church, Mingo Junction: "The Procrastinator's Creed."
-- Rush Run Community Chapel, Rayland: "God is Love."
Second Baptist Church, Steubenville: "It's Preaching Time."
-- St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Steubenville: "Brightly Glowing."
-- St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Steubenville: "Mountaintop Math ... Go Figure," the Rev. John Zimmann.
-- Starkdale Presbyterian Church, Steubenville: "This Call Is for You!"
Tiltonsville United Methodist Church: "The Transformation of the Christian."
-- Toronto North River Avenue Christian Church: Speaker Tom Williams, morning service; worship service, evening service.
-- Two Ridges Presbyterian Church, Wintersville: "What A Sight."
-- Wintersville United Methodist Church: "Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit: Agape LOVE."
-- Zion United Church of Christ, Steubenville: "Astounding Glory."


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It's not too late to protect yourself with a flu shot.
The Medical Center and the Barren River District Health Department will provide free flu shots at the Health & Wellness Expo this Saturday at the Sloan Convention Center in Bowling Green.
The expo runs from 8:00 AM to noon.
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One of the oldest British ale brands, Bishops Finger Kentish Strong Ale has been re-designed by brewer Shepherd Neame with a new look that celebrates its Kentish heritage.
Originally brewed in 1958 as a celebratory ale after years of post-war austerity, 55 years on Bishops Finger remains a popular premium ale available nationwide.
17 December 2013
Eynsford's the Castle Hotel has re-opened after a 14 week long, £90,000 joint refurbishment by new licensees Sharon and Gordon Thompson and brewer Shepherd Neame. A family business, husband and wife Sharon and Gordon and their four children are all involved in the day-to-day running and bring a wealth of experience in pubs and restaurants to the venture. The couple were previously licensees of an
10 December 2013
A Shoreditch pub, the Prince Arthur, Brunswick Place has reopened after undergoing a complete refurbishment. New licensee Euan Johnstone and Kent brewer Shepherd Neame have jointly invested £100,000 to completely modernise the pub, while maintaining the eclectic aesthetic of a classic, real ale country pub. The upstairs living accommodation has been transformed into a function room accommodating
03 December 2013
A local couple with experience working in the casino business have taken on Bexleyheath pub the Prince Albert on the Broadway. Husband and wife Barrie and Claire Houghton have re-opened the pub after a £100,000 refurbishment by brewers Shepherd Neame.
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Best April Fool's joke online?
Gmail Blue?
Google Nose?
Flying squirrel guided wingsuit session?
Treasure hunt via Google Maps?
The end of Youtube?
What's your favorite? Any other great ones out there?
27 Answers answer
Bing's photo of the day has a little something extra.
@rustybender: is it a picture of Cesar Chavez?
@xarous: I was going to post that the Cesar Chavez Google Doodle was the best 04/01 prank also..
The flying squirrel thing is great! We were watching Transformers Dark of the Moon on Netflix over the weekend and my friend said flying in a wingsuit was on his bucket list, so I just sent him this telling him here's an inexpensive chance to mark it off his list. I've never heard of zozi. Wish it was in my town, I'd use it all the time.
Tanga is selling farm animals. https://www.tanga.com/deals/new-tanga-feature-livestock-deals?internal_campaign=highlighted_links
I just got an email from Redbox saying they now have lunch meat at their kiosks. YES !!!! I am so excited they have olive loaf etc...
I guess the late day sac-o-fertilizer Woot pulled ranks up there at the top.
Mainly because it was a tangible something vs. "haha here's a funny"
@klutzyruth: I'm in for two cougars.
ROFLOL, the "buy" link on the cougar leads to IMDB's page for Courtney Cox, star of Cougartown. The rest of the "buy" links are also pretty funny.
I like Hulu's new addition of shows within shows: The Rural Juror, Ya' Heard with Perd, Mock Trial with J. Reinhold, Inspector Spacetime, etc. http://www.hulu.com
@klutzyruth: I kinda want to buy the pile of manure just out of curiousity: https://www.tanga.com/deals/99fc366463/stinky-pile-of-manure
Discover magazine has an interesting article.
I like Youtube's announcement that they are closing their 8 year long contest to find the best video in the world. http://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
The site is shutting down until 2023, at which point they will announce the winner and that will be the only video on the site from then on.
This is somewhat of a local April Fools joke for the St. Louis/Missouri area, but Schlafly (a big microbrewery here) created this website with a hilarious video. http://www.21standlocust.com/
It's basically ripping Anheuser Busch and their 'Bud' line of brands.
Definitely worth checking out for everyone who enjoys drink real beers with flavor!
@mrsbeny: I bought it lol its completely free
Guild wars 2 developed a old ass nintendo like game inside the game lol
@mrsbeny: Yeah...me too. Bit too afraid of what might show up though.
@mrsbeny and @klutzyruth: I DID order the manure. Free is a good price. If it shows up I can use it in the yard. If not, well, nothing lost.
And I clicked through each of the livestock deals. They all connect to something funny. Great April Fool's thingie!
Joss Whedon Is Bringing Back 'Firefly' for One More Season Via Kickstarter!!!
Well crap! I ordered the free poo, too! I felt silly doing it and didn't want to tell you all.
I wonder what we'll get?
Slightly off-topic, but here is an April Fools prank worth mentioning for those too young to have heard this one live (text from museumofhoaxes.com, the audio probably lives somewhere):
Nixon For President!
National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" program reported that former-President Richard Nixon had declared his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. Accompanying the announcement were audio clips of Nixon delivering his candidacy speech and declaring "I never did anything wrong, and I won't do it again." Harvard professor Laurence Tribe and Newsweek reporter Howard Fineman then came on the air to offer their analysis of Nixon's decision and its possible impact on the 1992 presidential race. A clip from Torrie Clarke, press secretary of the Bush-Quayle campaign, was also played in which she said, "We are stunned and think it's an obvious attempt by Nixon to upstage our foreign policy announcement today."
(to be continued)
Listeners reacted very emotionally to the announcement, flooding NPR with calls expressing shock and outrage. During the second half of the program host John Hockenberry revealed that the announcement had been an April Fool's Day joke and explained that Nixon's voice had been impersonated by comedian Rich Little.
Forgot to mention: the NPR Nixon prank aired April 1, 1992, during the primary season before the George H W Bush vs Bill Clinton election.
It worked in part because Nixon was, possibly, in theory, eligible to run, not having been convicted of a felony. I am not sure if he had surpassed the maximum allowed days in office.
Rich Little was so on target with the voice, the emotional tone of denial and defiance, and the awkward Nixonian phrasing that many normally skeptical people believed it to be real.
Google Nose actually puzzled me for a few minutes because I saw it last night, instead of this morning when I was braced for silly pranks. Took me a few minutes of thinking things like "What?" and "Will I have to buy some sort of attachment for my laptop?" before it sunk in.
My vote for the best this year is youtube's. :)
@mrsbeny and @klutzyruth and @dravack: Yeah me too. so I ordered it.
curiouser and curiouser.
I guess I deserve what I get.
I liked the children's. play-doh 3-d printer. Great deal for $49.99
I don't know how people keep falling for this one but it caused someone to lose their job. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/02/florida-water-prank/2046639/


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ANDERSON, S.C. – After scoring twice in the bottom of the ninth for its attempt at a comeback, the late-inning rally was cut down, as Anderson University baseball dropped a 7-5 decision to No. 3 ranked Lander in nonconference action Tuesday evening at Anderson Memorial Stadium.
The setback drops the Trojans to 16-25 on the season, as the nationally-ranked Bearcats improve to 32-6 for the season as they remain unbeaten against teams outside the Peach Belt Conference, improving to 14-0.
Despite the loss, senior right fielder Paul Como led the AU charge with his fourth home run of the season to go along with a single, two runs scored and two RBI. Fellow outfielder, senior Josh Hickman, also posted two hits for the evening, as he notched his sixth double of the year and drove in two runs. With the four hits between the two players, the Trojans outhit their in-state rival, 8-6.
Keeping the Lander hitters off-balanced was a quartet of Anderson pitchers as junior right-hander Spencer Earle earned the start and gave up just four hits with a strikeout. Sophomore reliever Mitchell Cooksey came in for Earle in the fifth inning and worked two innings and allowed one hit to go along with one strikeout.
A pair of right-handers in junior JT Trujillo and senior Will Walls completed the final three innings, as the tandem combined to give up one hit and struck out three Bearcats. Lander, which entered the game with a .310 average, was 6-for-30 (.200) for the game.
After the Bearcats crossed a run in the first inning to begin the game, the visitors struck again in the fourth when Erik Lunde doubled, plating two runs, and followed by a sacrifice fly by Patrick Grady, the Bearcats took a 4-0 advantage. Grady, who led the PBC in average, finished the contest 1-for-4 to go along with his third-inning RBI.
Anderson quickly responded in the bottom-half of the frame when junior shortstop Brett Cash singled into the right-center gap with two outs. Como followed Cash with his fourth blast of the season over the left-center field fence, putting the home side on the scoreboard for the first time. Later, Hickman drove in senior catcher Jonathan Zalud to bring the Trojans within one run at 4-3.
Despite closing the gap, AU was unable to keep small deficit as Lander took advantage of two walks and crossed the plate three times with just one hit for the inning. LU's Colby Painter and Austin Dunn both posted sacrifice flies for the inning, handing the Bearcats a 7-3 lead.
Lander's starter, left-hander Ryan Jones, completed seven innings for his seventh victory of the season. Jones struck out four Trojans and allowed three earned runs.
After LU's reliever Tyler Broome tossed a perfect eighth inning, he ran into trouble in the bottom of the ninth when Anderson began its late rally. With AU loading the bases with a single, a Bearcat miscue and a walk, Hickman forced the inning's second walk to bring home Como, as the Trojans began to chip into the Lander lead.
After sophomore second baseman Kyle Bailey scored pinch-runner Matthew Powell on the ensuing at-bat with a sacrifice fly, the Trojans were unable to manage another run, as AU dropped its ninth home game of the season.
Anderson returns to the diamond and to South Atlantic Conference play on Friday when it begins a three-game road series with last season's SAC Tournament champion, Lincoln Memorial. First pitch on Friday is slated to begin at 4 p.m., followed by a doubleheader on Saturday which is scheduled to start at 1 p.m.


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I want to put a zip line in my backyard for my kids. I'm looking for advice on what type to use, safety tips, and installation advice.
This is in the category with swimming pools, and trampolines, and jungle gyms. There is no way to be completely safe and still have it fun.
Most ziplines have raised ends, with one end lower. The uphill on the downhill end slows down the person. A lighter person tends to travel more slowly, and may stop short of landing point. This can be adjusted by shortening the cable, moving the low point closer to the landing point.
Conversesly a heavy person may come down too fast and slam into the stop at the end. Put more slack in the cable. You can also form a bumper by slitting a hollow core pool noodle, wrapping the bottom end of the cable with it, and then wrapping the noodle with fiber reenforced tape. This gives a 6 foot bumper. Again, test thoroughly. An old matress for 3 on the post at the bottom is also a good idea.
Perodically schedule an inspection: Check the slider axles for wear, the cable for wear, the cable splices at the ends, the attachments to the supports at the ends, the landing area.
Watch it in use, seeing of there are 'almost' accidents.
Liability: Probably a can of worms. If your kids want friends over to play, I would require that their parents take a ride on it.


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Potato Cakes
Categories: Comfort Foods, Entertaining, Kid-friendly, Quick to fix, Snacks
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
Leftover mashed potatoes are perfect for making potato cakes.
Prep Time: 10M
Cooking Time: 25M
Serves: Serves 4
- about 2 cups leftover mashed potatoes
- 1 small onion, peeled and grated
- handful of fresh chives, finely chopped
- 1 cup crumbled feta cheese
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 1 tbsp olive oil, plus more as needed
- flour
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
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- Mix the mashed potatoes with the onion, chives, feta cheese, and egg. Season with plenty of salt and pepper.
- Heat about 1 tbsp olive oil in a nonstick frying pan over medium heat. Using floured hands, scoop up large balls of the mixture, roll, and flatten slightly. Carefully add to the hot oil and fry for 2-3 minutes on each side until golden, adding more oil to the pan as needed. Serve hot with a green salad.
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I really need serious help of my habits. It seems that I am not that productive like I was before. Whenever I'm on my laptop, I should be working but instead, I would be opening facebook and do bunch of other stuff. It's like I have to many on my head but I can't seem to finish one.
Here's my observation to my self, if I'm doing some non-computer related stuff like handcrafts, I tend to be able to finish it because my mind is just with what I do, I also don't get easily bored of doing it. Meanwhile If I'm doing a similar thing in the computer, I tend to think a lot in my mind and after a few hours I get bored of it and then will again be doing other stuff (mostly time waster).
My guess is, maybe I had too much time in computer and work that I get easily bored or tired easily. I am also having hard time making my work on time because of that habit. I've tried different softwares that I thought it will help me, I installed a plugin in my browser blocking facebook, but after a few days, I developed a habit opening facebook using other browser, I also installed a time tracker like TimeDoctor but it didn't really help me that much.
I need to be able to focus on my work, enjoy it and be more productive.


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Two members of the Hope College women�s track & field team have qualified for the 2014 NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships � senior Sheri McCormack of Holland (West Ottawa) and sophomore Jane Pearson of Lake City.
The Division III Championships are May 22-24 in Delaware, Ohio.
McCormack will run in the 1,500 meters on Thursday. She is seeded fifth with a time of 4 minutes, 31.82 seconds. The top seed (4:20.80) is Christy Cassola of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
McCormack is Hope�s record-holder in the 1,500 meters. This is her third trip to nationals.
Pearson will compete in the heptathlon on Thursday and Friday. She is seeded 11th with a score of 4,530 points. The top seed score of 51,32 points belongs to Amelia Campbell and Carleton.
This is Pearson�s first trip to nationals.
Calvin's Nicole Michmerhuizen (Holland Christian) qualified in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters.
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Recent highly publicized drinking water contamination incidents linked to gas drilling, and the popularity of the documentary film Gasland (can you light your tap water on fire?), have raised the public profile of this game-changing drilling process. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is studying the safety of fracking. Congress is holding two hearings this week, in the House and in the Senate, to try to get some answers. No doubt many of the problems stem from the mundane details of drilling that can plague any complex construction job: bad well design and construction, ill-advised shortcuts, and - the leader of the pack - poor cementing.
Industry wants us to believe that if we just fix those problems then fracking can be done safely. Disclosing the chemicals used in fracking at each drilling site, so homeowners know what to test their water for, would be a good start.
But we wonder if hydraulic fracturing is intrinsically unsafe, even if the well design and construction is totally by-the-book. Here's why: fracking works by levering open fractures in the rock, and propping those fractures open with sand (or synthetic microbeads). Tectonically "open" fractures, that are aligned parallel to the regional stress field, are most susceptible to being pried open. If a frack job intersects pre-existing open faults or other natural fractures in the bedrock -- especially vertical fractures that can span multiple geologic formations above and below the target zone -- how do we ensure that fracking fluids don't migrate in unpredictable ways via these natural flowpaths?
Smart drillers don't want to lose all their fracking fluid into a single fracture or fault: it's expensive, a waste of time, and doesn't accomplish what they want. But avoiding those features requires doing borehole imaging studies on the well to identify and map them, which also costs time and money. It's not hard to imagine a driller weighing the expense of borehole imaging surveys vs. the risk of performing an ineffective frack job.
We know just enough about this to raise a few questions, and would appreciate some real experts weighing in by commenting on this post:
- What do companies do to avoid the undesired result of fluids migrating out of the fracking target zone?
- What actions to avoid this result are required, and how are they verified by regulators?
- What actions are voluntary, and how commonly are they used?


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Felty's Syndrome
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
Felty's syndrome facts
- Felty's syndrome is a complication of long-standing rheumatoid arthritis.
- Patients with Felty's syndrome can have more infections than the average person and can develop leg ulcers.
- The cause of Felty's syndrome is not known.
- Felty's syndrome is diagnosed by the presence of three conditions: rheumatoid arthritis, an enlarged spleen, and an abnormally low white blood count.
- Treatment of Felty's syndrome is not always required, but medications are used for serious manifestations.
What is Felty's syndrome?
Felty's syndrome is a complication of long-standing rheumatoid arthritis. Felty's syndrome is defined by the presence of three conditions: rheumatoid arthritis, an enlarged spleen (splenomegaly), and an abnormally low white blood cell count. Felty's syndrome is uncommon. It affects less than 1% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
What are the symptoms of Felty's syndrome?
Some patients with Felty's syndrome have more infections, such as pneumonia or skin infections, than the average person. This increased susceptibility to infections is attributed to the low white blood counts that are characteristic of Felty's syndrome. Ulcers in the skin over the legs can complicate Felty's syndrome.
What causes Felty's syndrome?
The cause of Felty's syndrome is not known. Some patients with rheumatoid arthritis develop Felty's syndrome but most do not. White blood cells are produced in the bone marrow. There seems to be an active bone marrow function in patients with Felty's syndrome, producing white cells, despite the low numbers of circulating white blood cells. White cells may be stored excessively in the spleen of a patient with Felty's syndrome. This is especially true in patients with Felty's syndrome that have antibodies against the particular type of white blood cells usually affected (cells called granulocytes or neutrophils).
How is Felty's syndrome diagnosed?
There is no single test for Felty's syndrome. It is diagnosed based on the presence of the three conditions mentioned above. Most patients do have rheumatoid arthritis antibodies (rheumatoid factor) in the blood.
How is Felty's syndrome treated?
Treatment of Felty's syndrome is not always required. The underlying rheumatoid arthritis is managed in the standard fashion. Treatments used for patients with recurring infections, active arthritis, or ulcer in the legs include rheumatoid disease modifying drugs, such as methotrexate and azathioprine. Patients with severe infectious diseases may benefit by weekly injections with a stimulating factor (granulocyte stimulating factor/GSF) that acts to increase the amount of white blood cells. Surgical removal of the spleen has been performed for the same reasons but has not been evaluated by long-term research studies.
Medically reviewed by Kirkwood Johnston, MD; American Board of Internal Medicine with subspecialty in Rheumatology
"Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of Felty's syndrome" uptodate.com
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You probably have to be an insider of all that goes on in the unique world of University of Kentucky basketball to appreciate fully what Coach Cal has meant to former Coach Joe B.
Full names are intentionally left off because the full names really aren't needed, are they?
After all, both Joe B. Hall and John Calipari coached the Wildcats to national championship teams.
Joe B. won his title in 1978 in St. Louis. Calipari is the reigning monarch of the kingdom of the Wildcats having guided the Big Blue to the national title in New Orleans earlier this year. It was UK's eighth national championship.
Throughout the short reign of Calipari, he has made Hall more than just welcome – he has all but insisted that he come to nearly every practice and he picks Joe B.'s brain.
One of the morning jobs of UK team student managers is to call Hall and tell him when and where practice is that afternoon or night.
Coach Cal's Kindness
For a man who had just lost his beloved wife, Katherine, Joe B. needed that. He and his friends have appreciated Calipari's kindness, but Coach Cal will tell you that Hall has meant so much to him.
For instance, Cal never stops picking Hall's brain – and he listens. Hall's inbred devotion to UK basketball and what it means to Kentucky has inspired Calipari to do things the Joe B. way – as much as the NCAA will allow.
Hall always took his Wildcat teams to a different region of Kentucky for intra-squad games each preseason. The turnouts and the insatiable desire of little towns all over the Commonwealth to be host to the Wildcats was unbelievable.
Hall kept a map of Kentucky behind his desk with each high school marked with colored tacks. One color was for past visits, another for sites that had pleaded for one.
I accompanied the team on trips to Glasgow, Hazard and Ashland. You had to see the awe in fans' faces when the Wildcats came out in their blue and white uniforms.
NCAA: No, No!
The tour was so popular that other teams, including the University of Louisville and Indiana University, started doing the same thing. Of course, the NCAA decided that it was unfair to other teams and passed a rule against off-campus intra-squad games.
Coach Cal arranged for a train to take his NCAA champions on a tour of Eastern Kentucky shortly after this year's tournament. And they made bus trips, too, to other sites.
Hall told me that it was so hard for his teams returning to Lexington on late-night trips after games that he was going to try to raise money for a dormitory for just his players. The Joe B. Hall Lodge across from Memorial Coliseum was built. But the NCAA said that it couldn't be for just athletes, that regular students had to be residents too.
Coal operators lined up to help build the building. And a huge outer fireplace was built of large chunks of coal.
Said Hall, "The coal operators liked to take visitors to see the fireplace and would tell their friends, 'This block of coal came from my mine!'"
Now UK has turned to the coal industry once more to build a new a Wildcat Coal Lodge.
Craft steps up again
And, yes, 32 regular students will also live in the Lodge along with the basketball team.
Joe Craft of Alliance Coal once more stepped up for UK athletics to head the fund-raising drive. Among the donors recognized were two mountain men who are bankers, Hazard's L.D. Gorman and Luther Deaton, who now heads Central Bank of Kentucky.
And a statue of Joe B. Hall, sitting on the bench and with an ever-present program rolled up, was dedicated Sept. 18.
Of the 400-pound statue, Hall quipped, "The pigeons will appreciate it."
Hall was a good basketball player himself, having starred for Cynthiana High School. UK coach Adolph Rupp recruited him. It was poor timing for just good players to try to play for the Wildcats because the Fabulous Five of Ralph Beard, Kenny Rollins, Alex Groza, Wallace "Wah Wah" Jones and Cliff Barker were in their prime. They won back-to-back NCAA championships and helped the American team win the 1948 Olympics in London.
Lon Varnell, the coach at University of the South (Sewanee) was a friend of coach Rupp and they arranged for Hall to transfer to the Tennessee school. It all worked out just fine for Hall. He set the all-time scoring record at Sewanee and eventually worked his way back to succeed Rupp. The rest is history.