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first of all: I am quite unsure about the questions title, so if you have a better idea, please feel free to tell (:
I would like to know about best-practise examples where services (like Twitter or co) which offer APIs and want you as developer to use some kind of API-Key prevent third parties from getting that key.
I will explain my regards with bad examples:
As far as I know Twitter and FB require you to use API-Keys for API-requests. Thats fine for server-side applications but as soon as you submit your key from a web-app or desktop-application, the key is visible for others.
Because you have to submit that key, it doesn't make much sense to super-securly store it inside your app. For the request, it has to be plain.
One thing you might do is to host your own web-service or wrapper which appends the key server side and then routes that request to the target-server.
But this is not possible if Twitter/or whatever service you are using is limiting API-requests per IP or want's to create IP-based statistics.
So to summ it up: If I was in position to create an API for others and don't want them to use SSL, what possibilities would I have to make sure their key is save and can not easily be stolen?


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Which is correct?
I would like to go to a youth center to help and work with teenagers.
I would like to go to a youth center to help and to work with teenagers.
The question is whether to needs to be repeated in the second infinitive.
Which is correct?
The question is whether to needs to be repeated in the second infinitive.
I would use the second infinitive, to clearly convey what I think you want to convey.
The issue I have with the first example,
is that, because of the undivided phrase "to help and work", structurally speaking, you're saying two things:
And I don't think you want to say that you are "helping with" teenagers. That makes it sound like you're helping a parent handle their unruly teenage children, as opposed to actually helping teenagers themselves.
If you use the latter construction, dividing the phrase into separate infinitives, it makes it clear that you want to help teenagers, and that you want to work with teenagers.
A simple test to see whether you should use a second "to" in a sentence is to switch the order of the words connected by "and":
... that sounds horrible, so keep the second infinitive.
An alternative solution would be to say
though personally I think that sounds awkward.
Since "to work with teenagers" is a form of "helping", I would say you are safe to omit the to.


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text: Hey fella artists, how is the artist inside you doin??? Well, today when I was playing godfather2, as the intro popped up, it suddenly struck me, "why not draw dis sign"? I love this type of genre. I just watched Scarface 6 time. well onto the tut, you'll have fun with this, and it'll take only a little bit of your time. Have an artistic day.


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I'm currently setting up a fresh install of PostGIS 2.0.2 and PostgreSQL 9.1.6 on Ubuntu. I've recently come across some information indicating that using the public schema to store all data is not a good idea.
For this reason, I've set up a schema called data and made myself the owner. Here are my questions:
- Besides setting the owner, do I need to pay attention to anything on the Privileges tab when creating this new schema (through pgAdmin III)?
- Could I get the same benefits by storing my data in the public schema and dumping all data into a separate schema before doing a backup/restore (this would save a few keystrokes when using ogr2ogr)?
- Will I run into any trouble by not having the default PostGIS tables and views in my new data schema (they are in the public schema within the same database)?
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Even though it may not feel like it, summer is right around the corner. Earlier this week we asked our Facebook fans to answer the following question, "Planning any summer vacations? Or just a 'staycation' here in Dodge? Where will you go, and what are you looking forward to doing/seeing?" And told them their responses may be used in an upcoming article.
Here are the responses we've received:
Brooke Lientz Stevens: "I'm having my first baby in May so we plan on staying here. But, my family is traveling here from Illinois to have a little vacation here."
Rebeca Chavez: "Well in June my husband and I are going to Puerto Vallarta and I can't wait to put on my two piece bikini and get into the ocean. Just can't wait!"
Esteban Yerica Valdez: "I will be going to a beach, just not sure which one yet."
Veronica Gutierrez: "I want to go to Mexico to go see my daddy!!"
Gretchen Torrez: "Looking forward to renting an RV and parking it at the sandpit here in Dodge City...(yep with no water to speak of)."
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I am creating a MMO using XNA framework for the client and want to create the server using .Net sockets in C#. I am not a total rookie to network programming, but I am having trouble finding resources, and learning material on developing a game server or learning .Net Sockets. I scanned the MSDN library for quite a while but I feel a tutorial or a step by step book would not go amiss. I considered a WCF program for the server but I want a more educated persons opinion before traveling down that road.
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I'm looking for contemporary reviews on neutron stars. Seems like this area is pretty active, so even reviews from five or ten years ago are somewhat lacking, though certainly not worthless. Does anyone have recommendations? Newer is better.
Books are okay too, but I'd prefer one of those 70-ish page reviews you find in journals.


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Healthy and Delicious Back to School Lunches
We asked Christine Avanti, what are some healthy alternatives to put in kids' lunches?
Christine's response-
It's important to feed children a healthy lunch that provides lasting energy for several hours after the meal so they are not experiencing energy crashes and hyperactivity. Eating balanced meals helps kids stabilize blood sugar which helps keep them calm, happy and alert throughout the day.
2. How to disguise healthy lunches so that kids will eat them:
Give food silly names- such as ANTS ON A LOG, TURKEY GOBBLE WRAP, VEGGIE CREAM CHEESE PINWHEELS. Make a grilled cheese sandwich with reduced fat Swiss Cheese and slip in some fresh tomato between the cheese.
(For these recipes go to http://www.christineavanti.com/KLOVE-New-You-In-52.php)
3. What are healthy lunch options in the school cafeteria?
Grilled or baked chicken sandwich
Veggie Burger
PB&J Sandwich
Salads loaded with vegetables and olive oil and vinegar dressings based dressings. Avoid creamy dressings or fried foods because they contain added sugars and transfats.
4. How many calories should kids aim to eat a day?
Avanti says, "steady growth during childhood necessitates a gradual increase in nutrition intake. Children accumulate storage of nutrients before adolescence so that when they have an adolescence growth spurt, their bodies can draw on nutrient stores accumulated in earlier years. This is especially true when it comes to calcium. Calcium intake promotes optimal bone density; the denser the bones in childhood, the better prepared they will be support teen growth and even more importantly they will be better prepared to withstand bone loss later in life. Thus, the foods children eat influence their nutritional health throughout their entire lives."
Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) during childhood:
1300 cals/day (1-3 yrs)
1800 cals/day (2-6 yrs)
2000 cals/day (7-10 yrs)
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Syslog displays these warnings and I would like to know how can I know what they mean in order to search what can I do about them.
$ cat /var/log/syslog| grep -i 'warn'
Nov 27 13:48:19 pc NetworkManager[781]: <warn> bluez error getting default adapter: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files
Nov 27 13:48:19 pc gdm-binary[778]: WARNING: Unable to find users: no seat-id found
Nov 27 13:48:20 pc NetworkManager[781]: <warn> bluez error getting default adapter: No such adapter
Nov 27 13:48:24 pc gdm-simple-greeter[1285]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.4/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5687: widget not within a GtkWindow
Edit: The question is about the meaning of the warnings and not about the wifi. The questions in the answers are misleading.


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When I turn my camera to Nadir and center the camera's central focusing point to the NN5's center bolt, I come up with lower rail setting of 57mm (almost 58mm in fact).
Is that normal? It seems that everybody else is using 53mm.
I'm using the standard camera plate (NCP1).


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I am asked to relate eigen{value,vectors} with equalizers in the category of matrices. However, in the category of matrices $g\circ f$ means the (matrix) product $fg$. And $\lambda$ is an eigenvalue of $A$ if there exists $v$ such that $Av=\lambda v$.
To relate this with equalizers, I was expecting the definition of eigenvalue to be such that $vA=v\lambda$.
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The Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L USM IS lens has rounded aperture blades. What other types of aperture blades are there, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each of them? Is the aperture blade shape a manufacturing decision?
As far as I know there are two types, rounded and straight. There are also diaphragms with many blades and diaphragms with few.
Basically these factors determine the shape of the hole through which light passes, and in turn this is reflected in the shape of the out of focus highlights in the image.
Diaphragms with straight cut blades tend to have fewer blades and leave distinctive polygonal shaped bokeh discs in images. The advantage is simplicity and cost. Older lenses tend to be of this type. Also the shape of the bokeh is an artistic consideration with many people enjoying the character that this type of bokeh lends to an image.
Here is an example of a five blade ever-so-slightly-rounded diaphragm:
Diaphragms with rounded apertures and many blades produce a circular hole, nice round highlights. This costs more to design and engineer, and tends to be found in modern high end lenses as it gives a smoother look to the bokeh. The aperture shape shows up most easily in highlights but it's not just highlights that get projected as the shapes in the image. It's all points of light not in focus so if you have detail and contrast in the background you get get a rough look with straight aperture blades, instead of a sea of tiny circles.
Here is a more rounded 9 blade diaphragm:
Notice that the highlights are still not totally round. It's worth pointing out that even five blade apertures can produce totally circular highlights wide open, as the aperture blades retract leaving only the shape of the lens barrel. So if you see highlights which are perfectly circular like this:
You know the lens was shot wide open.
Rounded aperture blades require a more complex opening/closing mechanism than straight cut blades. Also more are required in order to create a rounded aperture, hence they are found only on more expensive lenses. It is a cost-based manufacturing decision.
A rounded aperture produces a softer, more natural bokeh (out of focus areas).
See Wikipedia's article on diaphragms in optics for more details.
Following @DarkcatStudios answer, since you did not limit your question to the modern SLR, you can see in the linked article that there are apertures that provide a variable diameter, perfectly circular openings, like this one.
[yes, this not directly fall under the category of "aperture blades" but for the sake of completeness of the discussion I added this one]
There are rounded and straight blades. To have circular "bokeh" it is important to have a big amount of blades, as well as rounded blades.


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Puppet Theater by Melissa & Doug
If your family is into theatrics, this toy will take center stage. A puppet theater, like this one by Melissa & Doug, will become a venue for hours of puppet fun. Puppets stimulate speech and learning and help babies, toddlers, and even school-age children learn about grown-up life. You can buy puppets representing all kinds of animals and people, or you can make your own puppets, like Santa, Rudolph, and a penguin.
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Insane South Park: The Stick of Truth launch trailer is a little too revealingWritten by: / / 13 Comments
In true movie trailer form, the launch trailer for South Park: The Stick of Truth perhaps reveals a little too much about Obsidian's action RPG, and while there is no doubt a lot more for players to discover when they get their hands on the game this week, the video below showcases dozens of characters, a half dozen goofs and at least a few plot points that you might not want to see ahead of time… or at all.
If you're confident that anything Matt Stone and Trey Parker would allow to be shown ahead of the game's release is merely scratching the surface of what's included in the game, then you should have no problem watching the insane, scatological and decidedly adult launch trailer for South Park: The Stick of Truth just a little ways below:
South Park: The Stick of Truth – Launch Trailer
South Park: The Stick of Truth is out now in North America on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC, and is out around the rest of the world later this week.
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CHESTER - The Hancock County Savings Bank Charitable Foundation awarded more than $37,000 in grants to 25 local organizations Thursday at the bank's Chester offices.
"The worthwhile and dedicated work accomplished in our communities by so many individuals and organizations is indeed impressive and humbling," said Catherine Ferrari, bank president and chief executive officer and foundation chair. "The projects outlined in the applications we received are a testament to the commitment, to the compassion and to the impressive achievements of these groups."
The 2012 awardees include ADBC - American Defenders of the Bataan/Corregidor Museum, Brooke County Public Library; Beaver Creek Wildlife Education Center; Chester-Newell F.I.S.H. Foundation; Children's Dyslexia Center; Community Bread Basket Inc.; Dunbar Recreation Center; Greater Weirton Senior Citizens Center Inc.; Hancock, Brooke, Ohio Counties Victim Assistance Program; Hancock County Arts Council; Hancock County Senior Wellness Center; Hooverson Heights Primary School; Housing Programs Ltd.; the Juvenile Mediation Program Inc.; Lynn Murray Memorial Library; Museum of Ceramics Foundation; Newell Community Improvement Coalition Inc.; Oak Glen Middle School; Rotary Club of Beaver; Team MOJO Foundation; Tri-State Area Citizens Scholarship Foundation (Dollars for Scholars); United Church Social Service Union Inc.; Weir Middle School; Weirton Christian Center; Wellsburg Middle School; and Youth Services Systems Inc.
"We thank everyone who submitted applications, and we commend them for the work that they do to support the needs of our communities every day," said Ferrari.
Those representing the grant recipients commented many people will benefit from the funding and many critical needs will be met.
The foundation given more than half a million dollars to more than 80 local service and support organizations in 13 years. Funding is derived primarily from contributions by Hancock County Savings as part of its mission, which includes a commitment to supporting the work of community organizations.
The foundation promotes charitable and educational activities and generally provides funding in areas such as seed money for startup costs of new and innovative programs, human services or educational programs, capital and equipment needs, matching grants and one-time grants for programs not requiring refunding.
The next round of grant applications must be submitted by Sept. 30. Following a detailed selection process that includes an evaluation of each application according to the grant guidelines, awards will be announced in November 2013.


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Cheese Blintzes
Blintz wrappers resemble crepes or very thin pancakes. Enjoy these cheese blintzes with their time-honored partners: sour cream and fruit preserves. Or top your cheese blintzes with a fresh blueberry or strawberry sauce.
Preparation time: 25 minutes, plus 1 hour to chill the wrapper batter
Cooking time: 40 to 45 minutes
Yield: 6 servings (12 blintzes)
Keeping kosher: Dairy
1 1/4 cups milk, plus a little more if needed to thin the batter
5 eggs
3/4 cup flour, sifted
1/2 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons butter
2 to 3 teaspoons vegetable oil for brushing pan
2 cups farmers' cheese (about 1 lb.)
3 tablespoons cream cheese, softened
5 tablespoons cottage cheese
3 to 4 tablespoons sugar
1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Sour cream or yogurt, for serving
Fruit preserves, for serving
Combine milk and 3 eggs, flour, and salt in a blender.
Blend on high speed, scraping down sides of blender once or twice, about 1 minute or until batter is smooth.
Pour the batter into a bowl, cover, and refrigerate about 1 hour or up to 1 day.
After batter has chilled at least 1 hour, melt 2 tablespoons butter in a small saucepan over low heat.
Cool slightly.
Stir batter well.
Gradually whisk melted butter into batter.
The batter should have consistency of whipping cream. If it's too thick, gradually whisk in more milk, about 1 teaspoon at a time.
Heat an 8- or 9-inch pan over medium-high heat.
Sprinkle the pan with a few drops of water.
If the water immediately sizzles, the pan is hot enough.
Brush the pan lightly with oil.
Remove the pan from the heat and hold it near the bowl of batter.
Quickly spoon 3 tablespoons of batter near the edge of the pan, tilting and swirling the pan until its base is covered with a thin layer of batter.
Return the pan to medium heat.
Loosen the edges of the pancake with a spatula.
Discard any pieces that cling to the pan's sides.
Cook until the pancake's bottom browns very lightly.
Slide it out onto a plate, with its uncooked side facing up.
Repeat Steps 11 through 16 with the remaining batter.
Stir the batter occasionally with the whisk. Brush the pan with more oil if the wrappers begin to stick.
If the batter thickens on standing, whisk in a little more milk, 1 teaspoon at a time.
Cover the wrappers with plastic wrap and a kitchen towel to keep them warm.
Mash the farmers' cheese, cream cheese, and cottage cheese in a bowl.
Separate the remaining 2 eggs.
Add the egg yolks, sugar, and cinnamon to the bowl.
Beat until smooth and blended.
Spoon 2 1/2 to 3 tablespoons of filling onto the brown side (the cooked side) of each wrapper near one edge.
Fold over the edges to the right and left of the filling so that each side covers about half the filling.
Roll it in a cigar shape, beginning at the edge with the filling.
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
Butter a 13-x-9-inch baking dish.
Arrange the blintzes in one layer in the dish.
Cut the remaining tablespoons of butter into 24 small pieces.
Dot each blintz with 2 small pieces of butter.
Bake for 15 minutes, or until heated through and lightly browned.
Serve the blintzes hot, with sour cream and preserves.


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I'm in the process of creating a grammar for a scripting language but as I'm working on it I started to wonder what makes a language good in the first place. I know the goals for my script but there are always 1000 different ways to go about doing things.
- Easy to use and understand (not my grandma could do it easy, but the secretary at the front desk could do it or the VP of marketing could do it type of easy)
- No user defined functions or subroutines.
- Its use would be in events of objects in a system similar to HyperCard.
Conceptually I was thinking of a language like this:
set myVariable to 'Hello World'
set counter to 0
repeat 5 times with x
set counter to counter add x
set myVariable to myVariable plus ' ' plus counter
popup myVariable
set text of label named 'label' to 'new text'
set color of label named 'label' to blue
The end result would popup a dialog with the contents
Hello World 15 it would also change the text of a label and make it blue.
But I could do the same thing 1000 different ways. So what makes one language any better than another when both are designed for the same goals?


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Designer Spotlight: Baby Cakes by Linda Gavaldon
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I'm currently trying to choose between the CycleOps PVC roller and the CycleOps Aluminum roller. How big of a difference is there between them? I don't really care about riding the roller outdoors, so that difference is moot for me.
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The difference is this big... http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobmarley753/249120602/
Seriously though, after some research and asking friends, many who have aluminum rollers prefer them over PVC rollers
The unasked question:
Some of my friends have rollers that are cylindrical like the two you have linked to. When asked about their rollers, their biggest complaint is how often they end up riding off the side of their rollers. One even has gotten in trouble with his wife after riding off the edge of his rollers leaving burn marks on the floor. oops! With cylindrical rollers, more concentration is needed to stay on, which can be a good thing if that is something you are looking to improve in your form and concentration.
If I were to buy another set of rollers, I would most definitely purchase another set of parabolic rollers.
I love my parabolic rollers! They were really easy to learn on and I have yet to ride off the edge of them. Not having to worry as much about riding off the edge is really big for me as it allows me to ride longer, feel more comfortable shifting my hands to shift and readjust, and allows me to watch an occasional movie or two while riding. : ) If you are looking at getting a set of rollers, I would highly suggest adding parabolic rollers to your consideration list.
Google search for parabolic rollers to get you rolling ...chuckle
My thoughts about having ridden on plastic rollers:
Aluminum is more durable, but highly used PVC rollers have been seen to hit the decade mark so it's not really a big difference maker.
The other difference would be that PVC rollers charge up static electricity and it can be annoying to get zapped every time you ride your rollers. Now it's up to you to see if that's worth an extra 90$. It's most likely possible to ground the rollers to avoid the shocks and save some money.
(The main difference is that PVC rollers can't really be used outside, but it doesn't matter here.)
In addition to what has already been said, aluminum rollers tend to be smoother, easier rolling, and quieter. In a nutshell, they're far more pleasant to ride on. Try both, and you'll notice the difference right away.
A major consideration would be the weight of the rollers themselves. Heavier rollers are easier to ride because they have more inertia and are therefore less sensitive to the small changes in wheel speed related that occur over the course of a pedal stroke.


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I downloaded League of Legends a couple of days ago, and from what I understand, it adopts a Free 2 Play model. But what does it mean at the end? What kind of limitations or penalties do I have if I decide to not spend money on it?
League of Legends' Free-to-Play model allows gamers, paying or not, to enjoy all of the core gaming experience.
So every element that actually makes a difference in the gameplay can be acquired for free (champions & runes). There are more than 60 champions in the game and they are locked for you when you create an account; you buy a champion for a given price with in-game money (IP - Influence Points) earned by playing the game, or you spend Riot Points. Runes give you a small boost in-game, and can only be bought with IP.
Riot Points (RP - acquired spending real money) are used for:
In short, not spending money means you will take longer to unlock all features (which are not required for having fun with the game), you will not have skins, and your Summoner Name is fixed.
In League of Legends, real money gets you two things: characters (which you can unlock by playing anyway) and skins (which are cosmetic only).
You cannot spend money to get an advantage. Everything the paying customers have, ('except, again, the alternate skins) are attainable by those playing for free. True, it may take longer, but you're getting the game for free here -- Riot's gotta make their bottom line somehow! ;)
There are no penalties for never spending a cent, nor paid-only benefits.


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QSAR modelling in pharmacology basically hangs on using mathematical modelling to approximate the effects different molecules will have on various pharmacological targets. I would like to know what software there is available to assist me in doing these studies.
What software is there available for Quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) pharmacological studies?
On the G6G Directory of OMICS and Intelligent software, I searched for "QSAR Analysis, and received two product abstracts:
1) SYBYL®-X Suite which contained:
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A friend of mine who studies game theory suggested that credit ratings from the bond ratings agencies, such as Moody's, S&P, and Fitch, may suffer from a sort of "ratings inflation" similar to the grade inflation seen in many colleges. What are the forces driving grade inflation and how would those same forces apply to bond ratings? Is there any evidence that ratings inflation has taken place?
This is an interesting question. I'll make a guess on what may be the driving factors for "ratings inflation" based on these assumptions:
Let's suppose one issuer's bond has a true rating of BBB (I adopt S&P's scale) and rating agencies know this. Now each agency may have an incentive to promise an A rating, which is one notch higher, if the benefit from doing so (winning the business) exceeds the cost (harm to reputation if the bond performs poorly). But, then each rating agency may have an incentive to promise an AA if again benefits exceed costs, and so on.
To cut the long story short, in this setting, we might have an equilibrium in which all agencies inflate ratings and issuers choose randomly among these agencies. Note that in this equilibrium, if any agency diverges by promising the true rating, which is lower, it loses all of its bond rating business to competitors.
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Chapter 7: A Collection of Heroes
Publish Notes, November 1, 2007
New Features
Township of Aurilia
Aurilia emerges from the mist in Chapter 7! The citizens of the village on Dathomir have decided to re-open their doors to the outside world. While Aurilia was hidden, the small village evolved into a bustling township still sympathetic to adventurers looking for help. Travel to Aurilia is available from Mos Eisley, Coronet, and Theed, but only to players level 70 or higher.
Residents of Aurilia serve as vendors of both information and valuable high-level items.
Heroic Encounters
A heroic encounter is a high-level challenge for a group of players looking to earn huge rewards. These encounters will take place in an instanced zone where players will take on challenging foes in epic battles like no other.
The township of Aurilia is a hub for high level players to meet other like-minded allies for quests and to prepare for heroic encounters. If you wish to venture through the new heroic encounters, you will first need to meet a few qualifications from the residents of Aurilia.
Collectors are seeking new treasures that can be found on all planets in the galaxy. These objects are recent, prized discoveries, so existing items and enemies you have slain before Chapter 7 will not count toward completing a collection. A collection begins when you come across a distinctive item, either in the environment around you or as loot dropped by a defeated creature.
There are also treasure-seeking NPCs in certain parts of the galaxy that might be looking for someone to track down the particular valuables they're looking for. Collector NPCs offer a Collection Removal option. Removing the collection will cause all progress in that collection to be erased.
Open the Collection journal in the game menu. The top of the screen shows the book for each collection you have started. Within each book there is at least one set, which can contain a number of collections. Click an icon at the top to see all sets and collections you have gathered items or kills for.
If a collection item has already been consumed by you, or the collection is already complete, the name will be red. If you have not consumed the item for your collection yet, the item name will be green. This will help with finding needed items on the bazaar.
If you are the first player on your server to complete a collection, you will be recognized on the Star Wars Galaxies community website and will also receive a special badge in game. In addition, other players on the server will see your name immortalized in the collection system user interface.
Chapter 7 Gift
C-3PO's comlink will help you get started on your first collection! C-3PO is in desperate need of your assistance. When you log in to Chapter 7, you will automatically receive a comlink that will provide direct communication to the legendary protocol droid. C-3PO will give you information about a special collection-based mission to earn a unique reward.
The comlink cannot be deleted, and cannot be used while the player is in combat or incapacitated.
The 51 month veteran rewards are now available.
Jedi now have a taunt ability called Force Enrage. This ability can only be used while in a stance. Force Enrage is granted at level 50.
Force Enrage is an ability that adds hate from the target to the Jedi as a flat bonus that gets better as you level up. It will increase the hate amount two times from 50 to 90.
Force Enrage can only be used if you are in one of the defensive stances.
Force Enrage adds a hate over time to the creature you enrage. This will add small amounts of hate to the creature for 5 seconds.
Force Enrage burns your cooldown if you are the top hated player, so don't use it unless you are sure you no longer have aggro.
A red X indicates if you are out of range for the Force Enrage ability.
Jedi passively adjust their aggro generation gain based on whether they are in a stance or focus. While focused, a Jedi will generate 10% less aggro. While in a stance, a Jedi will generate 20% more aggro.
Sweep attacks now apply base lightsaber damage.
The False Hope particle effect has been reduced in size and intensity.
Fixed a bug causing smuggler Sly Lie buff to have 100% dodge.
End of the Line will now correctly double critical damage on bleed, crush, and bad odds. The DoT component of these abilities is not doubled.
The Phosphorous Grenade particle effect has been reduced in size and intensity.
Reduced time and intensity of officer particle effects (grenades, artillery strike, aerial/orbital strike). These particle effects were cluttering camera views for too long
Officer AOEs now use same action/damage efficiency as commando grenades.
Officer AOE attacks have separate cooldowns rather then some being shared.
Tactics now increases Dodge and Constitution.
Advanced Tactics also reduces chance to be critically hit.
Paint Target decreases Dodge and Parry chance and increases critical chance.
Focus Fire increases Strikethrough chance, Strikethough value, and chance to be critical hit.
Superior Firepower cooldown has been reduced to 13 minutes. Duration increased to 30 seconds.
Scatter now cures and prevents slowing effects.
Drillmaster now improves all damage and action costs, rather then just pistols.
Supply drop health and tactical stims now come with 4 charges. These items will now last for five hours until disappearing instead of only 1 hour.
Tactical Stims now buff one or more or all of the following (depending on level of the officer): Constitution, Critical Chance, Dodge, Action Cost and Damage.
Sure Shot can now be used with melee weapons.
Toned down Bacta Bomb and Bacta Spray particle effects. They now no longer blind observers nor fill the entire screen when zoomed out.
The evasion buff now improves dodge chance by 35%, which is the intended amount. Changed from improves chance to dodge by 3.5%.
Reduced particles and sound effect for Bacta Grenade.
Expertise Enhance Block now improves the target's block chance and block value. Changed from improves target's chance to receive a glancing blow from melee attacks.
Expertise Enhance Dodge now improves the target's chance to dodge. Changed from improves the target's chance to receive a glancing blow from ranged attacks.
Medic Resuscitate and Area Revive may no longer be performed while the medic is in combat.
Revive Player may be performed while the medic is in combat.
The cooldown of Revive Player has been increased to 5 minutes.
Medic Resuscitate and Revives now cost a percentage of your base action, rather then a flat action cost.
The cooldown reduction to the Area Revive ability received from the Hasty Resuscitation Expertise has been reduced to +5/+5/+5 from +6/+6/+8.
New PvP area and single target Resuscitate granted at the same time as area and single target Resuscitates.
PvP Resuscitates require the medic to be declared and the target of the Resuscitate killed by another player in GCW combat.
PvP Resuscitates do not work in instances.
Medic Resuscitate and PvP only in combat Revive will revive the player with 1/3rd of max health like the other versions of revive, instead of only 1/10th of max health.
Reduced the amount of hate generated by medic Area Effect healing.
Lava and Acid heavy weapons now have lighter/faster particle effects and have had their fire audio sound reduced in volume.
Bounty Hunter:
Antagonize has been tweaked to work more consistently with taunt mechanics.
Antagonize applies damage when used, however if not at the top of the hate list, you will be placed there along a small amount of bonus hate.
As the Bounty Hunter's level progresses Antagonize adds an increased amount of bonus hate.
Negative healing effects, such as Bacta Corruption, now modify the total healing amount rather than the bonus healing amount.
Negative healing effects such as Bacta corruption reduce heals received by the target. Changed from reduces heals performed by the target.
Creatures will no longer attempt to perform the non-existent Shaken 4 or Shaken 5 attacks.
Glancing Blows will no longer reduce secondary elemental damage to 0.
Added flytext for Block. The option for Block flytext is linked to the "Show Glancing Blow Messages" option in the Combat options tab.
Defender combat actions and attacker combat actions are now independent checks.
Precedence of Combat Results is as follows:
Miss, Parry, Dodge will NEGATE Hit, Critical, Strikethrough, Punishing Blow
Critical, Strikethrough will NEGATE Glancing Blow
Glancing Blow, Block, Evasion will MITIGATE Hit, Punishing Blow
Block, Evasion will MITIGATE Critical, Strikethrough
Creatures should be less likely to immediately drop combat when their target goes out of line of sight.
Changed walk speeds for droids using protocol droid skeletons (battle droids, protocol droids, RA7 bug droid, and NK3).
Beast Master:
Several beasts have had their collision sizes reworked. This will allow you to have your bolotaur, varactyle, and kimogila walk through arches now
All creature difficulty classes can now generate top tier Hydrolase Enzymes.
The creature difficulty class bonus for Hydrolase Enzymes now improves average extraction value. Changed from improves maximum possible extraction value.
The value weighting for the enzyme processing stages has been changed. Tools are worth 33% and consumables are worth 66% of the potential gain
Improved average gains from each Hydrolase Enzyme refinement stage.
Fixed many cases where DNA was showing null as creature template.
Fixed issue with beasts performing tricks while swimming.
Changed the way a beast's Intelligence score modified skill acquisition rolls. This attribute will now provide a much greater benefit when attempting to learn difficult skills.
Fixed issues with Provoke not firing correctly; beasts should be able to provoke creatures much better now.
Binring Biomedical Products will now contact a player who has one of the enzyme colors correct for mutation.
Player Cities:
City mayors should no longer have both a pickup and remove decoration radial on city decorations.
You must be standing on terrain in order to survey. In other words, you may not survey from the roof of a player association hall, from an elevated walkway, etc.
User Interface:
Badges have an all-new look! All existing badges have new art and all the badges you have earned carry over into Chapter 7.
Players now have the ability to see info on the target's buffs using the tooltip system.
A number of flytext displays will now respect option settings set in Options: Combat Options.
Glancing Blow uses the Glancing Blow Option
Procedural Effects uses the Critical Hit Option
Snare and Root Effects uses the Snare Option
Lucky Effects uses the Lucky Option
DoT resist messages use the Damage Over Time Option
Freeshot Effect uses the Freeshot Option
Crippling Pain Effect uses the Critical Hit Option
The user interface option "Show a second target status window for the mouse-over target" has been replaced with a new option called "Secondary Target Status Window." This new option has a choice of three settings that indicate what is displayed. The choices are:
"None" - Nothing is displayed.
"Mouse Over" - Your mouse-over target is displayed. This is the same behavior as is currently in the game.
"Target of Target" - The target of your intended target is displayed. If your target is another player that player's intended target is displayed.
You can now key map the targeting of yourself and your group members.
For all new characters created this will default to F1 (self) and F2-F8 (your group mates). The ui action "targetSelf" (or by default the F1 key) sets both the look-at and intended target to self.
Group management functionality can now be performed from anywhere in the galaxy. The following group commands will accept a name parameter which can refer to a character/group member that is anywhere in the galaxy:
/invite <name>
/uninvite <name>
/makeLeader <name>
/makeMasterLooter <name>
/dismissGroupMember <name>
You cannot /invite while you are in combat or the invitee is in combat. You cannot /join while you are in combat or the inviter/group leader is in combat. Stealthed characters can use /invite and /uninvite.
Added new user interface option "Always Show Range in Ground Radar". With this option checked, the range indicator will always display in the ground radar.
Added socket crafting chance on all Personal Shield Generators.
Removed depreciated stats from PSGs which formerly had stats.
Armor Attachments are the correct attachment to use with PSGs.
The Cyborg revive ability now requires the user to be out of combat to activate.
Fish will now show the time when they were caught and the name of the player that caught the fish.
Speak to the Storyteller NPC for new items that can be placed in your events.
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by Melissa Brunner
I admit, I didn't sit through the entire three-plus hours (and hour-and-a-half red carpet preview) but I did catch quite a bit of the Oscar broadcast Sunday night. I saw enough to know why Angelina Jolie's leg and a best-kept-private part of Jennifer Lopez' anatomy have their own Twitter accounts today. And I did enjoy the adorable pup from The Artist getting its own seat in the theatre!
I also can tell you I haven't seen a single one of the movies that was nominated for best picture. I am interested in several of them - I just usually am several months (if not years!) behind in seeing movies. Part of it might be that I'm too cheap to go to the first-run theaters very often! I'm fortunate to have several rental options not too far from home, so, when we do decide on a whim to watch a movie on a Saturday night, we don't have to travel far.
CBS Sunday Morning did a piece on the dwindling audience at movie theaters. Cost was one response people gave to why they didn't attend movies more regularly. The other? Cell phones and other breaches of etiquette. One person asked why they would spend that much on a ticket to be distracted by people talking, texting, ringing, etc. when they could rent the movie for a buck or two and watch it on a reasonably good home entertainment system without the interruptions.
Where do movies stand in your life? And what did you think of the Oscars?


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Why do we refer to people as guinea pigs when discussing the subjects of an informal experiment? Surely mice, rabbits and rats are much more common experimental subjects. Indeed, it's rare that you'll hear of real guinea pigs being used experimentally.
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Guinea pigs might not be the most common experimental subjects today, but we have to look at how common they were when the term was first coined, which was many decades ago, as Etymonline points out:
Wikipedia seems to be backing that up:
Looking further, I found this essay on the History of the Guinea Pig:
Emil Adolf von Behring actually won the (first ever) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901 for developing a serum therapy against diphtheria. He used guinea pigs in his experiments, though later the serum was extracted from sheep and then horses.
I do not know much about biology, but Wikipedia states that guinea pigs have been often used in scientific experiments since the 17th century or before. It also explains that now they are not used as often as before:
Linguistically speaking, it was because the metaphoric meaning for "rat" (despicable person) was already taken, while "guinea pig" was wide open for having a metaphoric meaning attached to it.
(And of course it was also because they were used in experimentation. But so were many other species.)
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Some of the most effective cryptography methods and algorithms are based of factoring large prime numbers (e.g. RSA). I'm curious whether there are some other cryptography methods. Somethings that is very mathematical or physical based. Of course, I know about quantum cryptography, but I'm interested in other things also. For example, braid groups which have connection to knot theory can have application in cryptography. What I am asking is for a similar thing. I mean, is there any branch or equations in mathematics or physics that can lead to a cryptography methods.
All mathematical groups can be used to perform an ElGamal encryption, so that is a first kind of math. That's where elliptic curves are useful: they have a group structure. If you find a group, you can build a cryptosystem out of it. However, as @poncho pointed out, different groups have different properties with regards to security. For instance, elliptic curves are better than modular groups because they do not have a specific structure which can be leveraged to solve the discrete logarithm problem (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohlig%E2%80%93Hellman_algorithm for an example of algorithm working only in modular groups).
You also have cryptosystems based on lattice related problems. In particular, lattices have been used to create the first fully homomorphic cryptosystem (see the references in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption).
A system which turned out to be very bad was built from the knap sack problem (see the Naccache–Stern knapsack cryptosystem on wikipedia).
For symmetric crypto, the theory of boolean functions can explain how the functions inside Feistel Networks or substitution permutation network are chosen. This yields connexions with coding theory and of course with finite fields of size $2^n$.


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I have a Lipschitz function $X=X(t)$ with the property that, at all points $t$, the right derivative $\lim_{\epsilon \downarrow 0} \epsilon^{-1}(X(t+\epsilon)-X(t))$ exists and is given by $f(X)$ for some (discontinuous) function $f$. (Of course, at all regulat points, i.e. almost everywhere, this is then the ordinary derivative.) Is it true that such $X$ is necessarily unique?
Of course, if I just specify that a Lipschitz function satisfies $X'(t) = f(X(t))$ at all regular points, the solution doesn't have to be unique; but I'm requiring that this hold for the right derivative at all times, which intuitively seems like it ought to work.


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Emporia State freshman and former Greenback Payson Maydew qualified for the NCAA Div. II Indoor Track and Field National Championships to be held in Birmingham, AL March 8 & 9. He will be competing in the heptathlon. The heptathlon is comprised of seven events completed over two days. The events contested are the 60 meter dash, long jump, shot put, and high jump during the first day of competition. The 60 meter hurdles, pole vault, and 1000 meter run during the second day of events.
In just his second indoor heptathlon competition, Maydew obtained his national qualifying mark this past weekend at the MIAA conference championship meet in Warrensburg, MO. Maydew finished fourth in the conference. The quality of muti-event athletes in the MIAA was on display at Warrensburg. Brent Vogel from University of Central Missouri won the conference championship at his home facility and is ranked first in NCAA Div. II heading into nationals. MIAA hepatathletes have four of the top eight totals heading into nationals with Maydew holding the eighth spot.
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UMWA History
Heed this Call that Comes from the Hearts of Men: Organize the Unorganized
The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was the brainchild of John L. Lewis and leaders of seven other unions--Charles Howard, International Typographical Union; Sidney Hillman, Amalgamated Clothing Workers; David Dubinsky, International Ladies' Garment Workers; Thomas McMahon, United Textile workers; Harvey Fremming, Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers; Max Zaritsky, United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers; Thomas Brown, International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. They formed the Committee for Industrial Organization, which initially was contemplated as a part of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), but became an independent organization in 1936, when the AFL Executive Council voted to expel the unions involved with the CIO. After the AFL convention formally revoked the CIO unions' charters, the Committee became the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1938.
The CIO's goal was to organize America's industrial workers in the steel, auto, electrical, rubber, glass, textile, and other mass production industries. Said John L. Lewis upon the CIO's creation:
"The millions of workers in our mass production industries have a right to membership in effective labor organizations and to the enjoyment of industrial freedom. They are entitled to a place in the American economic sunlight. If the labor movement and American democracy are to endure, these workers should have the opportunity to support their families under conditions of health, decency, and comfort, to own their own home, to educate their children, and possess sufficient leisure to take part in wholesome social and political activities."
The CIO was extremely successful. By 1937, Lewis was able to report to the first CIO Conference that the United Auto Workers had grown almost overnight to 400,000 members and the United Steelworkers to nearly 500,000 members. Altogether, the CIO had organized nearly 4 million workers into 32 national and international unions in less than two years. Over 30,000 companies signed contracts with CIO unions, resulting in wage increases in excess of $1 billion, shorter work hours for millions of workers and improved working conditions. The CIO was fulfilling its pledge to bring workers into the "American economic sunlight."
Alternating attempts to merge and fierce competition highlighted the relationship between the CIO and AFL in the late-1930s and 1940s. The two organizations finally merged in 1955 into the AFL-CIO. The UMWA joined the AFL-CIO in 1989.
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I'm a born and raised local of an Army retiree and war veteran. I myself have raised three children here in Leavenworth, one of which is a second-year JROTC cadet.
I am proud of my hometown and have so many great memories here. I was amazed by the FreedomFest turnout.
What I'm confused/offended by is that the shops at the downtown Landing Mall had "No Parking" signs in front of all their shops during the parade Monday. Why would they do this? I know these local businesses need revitalization and customers. I sure hope they have an explanation or they've lost me for sure.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
PFLAG Applauds the AMA
The passage of this resolution is incredibly significant for transgender people because it calls upon health insurers to cover the costs of transgender healthcare, which may include mental healthcare, hormone therapy and various surgical treatments. For far too long, transgender people and their allies have battled with public and private health insurance companies over the costs of coverage for these basic healthcare needs. All too often, insurers created discriminatory policies refusing coverage for any transgender related healthcare need, believing these treatments to be "medically unnecessary." Resolution 122 clearly articulates the AMA's opposition to such discrimination.
The AMA's statement assures that discriminatory practices adopted by the health insurance industry will no longer be tolerated. Doctors and patients, together, will determine the best medical treatment, instead of health insurance companies. We commend the AMA for making this bold move, assuring that transgender people will receive the appropriate care that best meets their healthcare needs.
If you have the opportunity, be sure to express your gratitude to the AMA's House of Delegates!
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- Dave Parker said...
My congratulations to the AMA for this bold step! With this resolution and Mary Jane Horton, Ph.D.'s determination that the real costs of coverage are minimal, there is no further excuse for insurance companies to refuse to pay for needed medical treatment for transgender people.
- June 18, 2008 at 2:38 PM
- Two Auntees said...
I am pleased that the AMA has taken such a bold step in providing an avenue for transgender patience treatments; however how is this going to reflect on the APA's new revision of their policy and; how do we pressure the military health care rules and regulations to redefine their system to coincide with the AMA new resolution.
- June 24, 2008 at 8:41 AM
- Steve Ralls said...
It's true that the military has far to come in their treatment of transgender veterans. There are, however, some (small) signs of progess.
As you can see here, at least one VA medical facility in Boston has issued truly groundbreaking regulations on how to care for transgender veterans.
There's much more work that needs to be done, and the U.S. lags far behind many of our allies in caring for transgender service members and veterans, but we can take some small measure of hope in the truly significant guidelines that are coming out of Boston.
- June 24, 2008 at 9:50 AM


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Zerlina Maxwell '13: Gaining Influence in the Political Conversation
Zerlina Maxwell has wanted to go to law school for as long as she can remember. And as a part-time student at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, she has not been disappointed in the experience.
But that doesn't mean that she actually wants to practice law after receiving a J.D. in May 2013. Her work on the first Obama presidential campaign combined with the evolution of social media revealed career opportunities that were unknowable to the young Maxwell. Politics-obsessed since her childhood in Millburn, New Jersey, Maxwell has decided that while a legal education is to her advantage, what she has most enjoyed about law school suggests a different career path from what she had envisioned even just a few years ago.
|Zerlina Maxwell in one of her appearances as a commentator on Fox News.
Maxwell graduated from Tufts University with a B.A. in international relations then enrolled in the Fairleigh Dickinson University Paralegal Studies Program. She worked for several years, including during much of her time as a law student, as a litigation paralegal at firms in New York and New Jersey. She chose Rutgers–Newark "because it was close to home, had a stellar reputation, and was the most diverse law school in the country."
After her first year at Rutgers, Maxwell took a brief leave of absence to help the Obama campaign as a field organizer in Virginia. The experience made her want to remain involved in politics and blogging gave her a platform to share her opinions on political, race and gender issues.
She then made a very conscious effort to break into Twitter, the successful achievement of which was recognized by BuzzFeed's naming her one of "Nineteen People Who Forced Their Way Into the Political Conversation Through Twitter."
In 2011 the U.S. State Department invited Maxwell to speak via digital video conference with students in the West Bank about using social media as a means for change. In 2012 Maxwell, who today has more than 16,000 followers, was identified by the New York Times as "A Twitter Voice to Follow" and as one of "Salon's Twitter 50" during the presidential election.
Currently she writes for the New York Daily News, feministing.com, the Grio.com, and Ebony.com on such topics as national politics, candidates, domestic violence, sexual assault, victim-blaming, and gender inequality. Huffington Post reported that her recent series of animated GIFs for feministing.com, titled "How to deal with a mansplainer starring Hillary Clinton" and posted in response to the Benghazai hearings, went viral.
Maxwell also is a frequent guest and fill-in host on Sirius XM Left's "Make It Plain With Mark Thompson" and has been a commentator on Fox News and MSNBC. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, JET Magazine, the American Prospect, Black Enterprise, and on CNN.com, the Huffington Post, the Root.com, Salon.com, and RawStory.com. Her entrepreneurial spirit and progressive voice have been honed by leadership training programs for which she was selected by the New Leaders Council and the Women's Media Center.
Maxwell credits law school with sharpening her analytical skills and making her a better writer. "A lot of the feedback I receive on my writing emphasizes my ability to make a strong and logical argument that has a reader agreeing with me by the end of the piece. Law school," said Maxwell, "has also made me a better political commentator for radio and television because I have no fear. Debating Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly is nothing compared to being cold called as a 1L and the Socratic method."
Asked whether she finds it difficult to switch from her blogging and social media efforts to the type of writing that law school demands, she said: "No, it's not much of a challenge for me. I think it's because writing is writing is writing and while law school and journalism are very different in terms of styles and structure, the exercise of writing and getting your thoughts out is one in the same." In fact, she added, "I think since I started writing for a living, writing in law school became easier for me."
Her favorite law school class? It's one she's taking this current semester – Race, Gender and Tort Law Seminar with Professor Twila Perry. "I'm a public feminist," she explained, "so the subject matter is very similar to what I write about and also to the discussions I have with my friends and colleagues."
Her favorite writer? Hard to pick just one "because there are so many people right now doing great work," she said. Among those tops on her list are Greg Sargent, who writes the Plum Line blog for the Washington Post, and Ta-Nehisi Coates of the Atlantic, along with several colleagues in the feminist blogosphere. "I make sure to read a lot of perspectives," she added, "and don't usually always agree with everything one author writes."
As for life after law school, Maxwell has a very specific vision: "In five years, I would love to have my own television show. I want to be a thought leader that helps to shape public opinion and change the collective conversations we have about the issues I care about, including violence against women and gender and racial inequality. I would also like to have written a book about my life from 2007-2013 because it was full of ups and downs that can certainly inform someone else's journey."


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The 16 Most Baffling Pieces of Official Merchandise Ever
#8. G.I. Joe Shampoo
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It's a known fact that kids, particularly boys, don't give a shit about how bad they smell at any given point. Which is why G.I. Joe shampoo is kind of genius. The people at Hasbro and Avon who made this 1988 product were fully aware that 10-year-old boys didn't care all that much how feathery soft their hair was, so they cleverly neglected to write the word "shampoo" anywhere on the bottles. Probably so they could trick children into thinking they were buying pure, liquid G.I. Joe characters.
Notice none of the characters endorsing the shampoo even have visible hair, and that when the franchise was rebooted, it was sold in badass "Berry Blast" scent and featured a character missing not only visible hair, but an entire face.
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Of course, he couldn't be a very successful ninja if he went around smelling of delicious berries.
#7. WWE Talking Soap
Do you like cleanliness but hate good self esteem? The WWE has the soap for you.
Stone Cold Steve Austin soap included the catchy phrase, "Pick up the soap NOW!" and The Rock soap politely informed customers to "Go wash up, jabroni, because frankly, you stink!" To make matters worse, this was not some audio clip activated by hitting a button; the audio was turned on by the water itself. Which meant that if you actually used this soap in the shower, you would be assaulted with a barrage of insults until you were clean or chucked the soap out of the shower in a stream of tears, whichever came first.
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#6. Jackie Chan Organic Skin Care
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For ladies who care about their skin but only trust products from male Asian action stars, Jackie Chan has literally got you covered. In 2006, Jackie announced the launch of his cleverly named Jackie Chan Organic Skin Care line of skin care products. Not only were the lotions and creams organic, but they were also made out of recyclables, just like Jackie's movie plots -- OOH! BURN, CHAN!
"BURN CHAN" was coincidentally the name for his range of heat massaging products.
#5. Star Trek Marshmallow Dispenser
Have you ever found yourself in desperate need of a marshmallow dispenser? One that was needlessly complicated and came with a fork so big you could toss bales of hay with it? Kraft Foods and Star Trek have got your back, THANK GOD.
This product was released in 1989 with Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, a film that includes exactly one reference to marshmallows.
Seen here, if you don't blink and miss it.
That was more than enough for the people at Kraft to roll out this official Star Trek marshmallow dispenser that inexplicably comes with a fork, spoon, belt clip and burdensome plastic container, in case you need to carry exactly four marshmallows but aren't concerned with comfort or convenience.
#4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Posing as the Starfleet Crew
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For everyone who has fantasized about mashing up different generations of science fiction characters, but not sexually, or logically, there's this.
In 1994, someone got it into his head that not only were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ripe for a Star Trek crossover, but also that they needed heads full of glorious hair to do it. More importantly, the reptiles didn't just play dress up and pose like Comic-Con pretenders; if this packaging is to be believed, they temporarily became four officers of the Star Trek Enterprise, Starfleet ranks and all.
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"Dammit, Leonardo, I'm a bodacious dude, not a doctor!"
Which begs the question -- where are our toys of Spock and Kirk dressed in nothing but turtle shells and eating pizza?
#3. Redd Foxx, the Cuddly Children's Doll
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Here's a doll that needs no explanation, other than the one you'll have to give to your kid's therapist.
Redd Foxx was a groundbreaking, incredibly popular comedian in the '70s and '80s, but to be very clear, he was a comedian for adults, as a lot of his material was sexual and his most famous routine was called "You Gotta Wash Your Ass." No one apparently told this to the people at Shindana Toys, who released this official Redd Foxx doll in 1976. Clearly marketed for children, the doll also talked and include some variations of his famous sayings, such as "Please, wash your face before you kiss me" and "You are uuuuuuuuuuuuuuugly," just the kind of self-esteem boosts little girls need to hear when they're growing up.
"I will kill you in your sleeeeeeeep."
#2. The Little Mermaid's Shark Ring
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You'd think that when coming up with a piece of bling that reminded people of Ariel from The Little Mermaid, Disney Couture would have jumped on something iconic, like a fish or seashells.
Instead, Disney Couture went with the next best thing. The jaw of a shark.
"Your bleached skeletons will make an adorable bracelet!"
Though this Shark Jaw Ring is supposedly inspired by the film, the only shark in the whole movie appears for about 58 seconds of screen time near the very beginning and holds no plot significance whatsoever. As a result, they wound up with something that was accidentally pretty badass. Didn't Tony Montana wear a ring like this in Scarface?
#1. Letters to E.T.
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It's not unusual to see a popular movie or TV show get a book tie-in as a cheap way of continuing the story line, but normally these books have things like "plots" and "an actual author." Not Steven Spielberg's Letters to E.T. This is less of a book and more of a gallery of fan mail telling Spielberg how great he is.
Via retroist
All the letters are supposedly real and completely ridiculous, especially considering that half of the letters aren't addressed to Spielberg at all but are actually written to E.T. himself. Apparently, delusional children and adults around the world yearned to make contact with their favorite movie prop by telling him how great he is ...
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... or, in one case, how he caused them great financial distress.
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It takes a lot of balls to publish your own fan letters, especially when they include little old ladies trying to bilk money out of you. On the other hand, what is Twitter if not a huge Letters to E.T. of self-published narcissism? Nice job, Spielberg. YOU INVENTED THE FUTURE.
For more unfortunately designed toys, check out 15 Unintentionally Perverted Toys for Children and The 25 Most Baffling Toys From Around the World.
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Mopar Thunder Show - Who'll Stop The Rain?Written by on July 12, 2007 Mopar Thunder At Bristol Dragway, 2006
When it rains, it pours. with that in mind, the crew at Bristol Dragway in Bristol, Tennessee, moved their seventh annual Mopar Thunder show and race from the usually rainy spring date to mid-September. Despite the date change, overcast weather punctuated by regular downpours literally put a damper on things in 2006
Thankfully, occasional precipitation didn't keep the diehard fans away: brave souls "weathered" the elements during the car show; vendors stood their ground in the swap meet; and 100-plus race cars waited patiently for a break in the storm. Unfortunately, the break never happened, and the track reluctantly pulled the plug at 3:30 p.m. Sunday on the drag car program, but not before running the jet dryer out of fuel. Adding insult to injury, another storm quickly rolled in to ruin the hours of drying labor. they wisely did the car show awards on Saturday afternoon during one of the intermittent windows of sunlight.
The Bristol Motor Speedway and Dragway is easily one of the nation's most scenic race tracks. Nestled in the northeastern Tennessee rolling hills, the Bristol facility soon earned the moniker "Thunder Valley," thanks in part to the tremendous acoustics that nearly deafens the spectators as cars roar down the 1,320-foot strip.
For the last seven years, Bristol's Thunder Valley has played host to droves of Mopar enthusiasts. With the facility opened for three dedicated days of competitive bracket racing, car show, swap meet, and a manufacturers' midway, Bristol has become the performance-geared Moparphites' annual event.
I set out with my plastic poncho and camera to capture some abbreviated coverage. Make sure to stay tuned for 2007's dates and attractions, and keep your fingers crossed for sunnier days.
"Young Gun" Jeremy McGee of Limestone, Tennessee, took home honors for his '73 Dodge Challenger-a four-year project powered by a 360, with a .454 Crane cam, Edelbrock intake, and Dynomax headers.
Big Jack Callicoat came from Huntington, West Virginia, with his 12-second street Barracuda-a '72 model with a nasty Edelbrock-headed 440 under the hood.
Gene Egan, from nearby Kingsport, Tennessee, drove his "Scamp with an attitude"-a former six-cylinder machine now sporting wall-to-wall wedge power in the form of a 440 Magnum.
Mike Starnes has owned this sweet ride, a '66 Barracuda, complete with a mildly-reworked 273 and factory four-speed, for 17 years.


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I have a method that writes to a log file. If the file exists it should append to it, if not then I want it to create a new file.
if (!file.exists() && !file.createNewFile()) {
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I have that to check that a file can be created. file is a java.io.File object. createNewFile is throwing an IOException: No such file or directory. This method has been working perfectly since I wrote it a few weeks ago and has only recently starting doing this although I don't know what I could have changed. I have checked, the directory exists and I have write permissions for it, but then I thought it should just return false if it can't make the file for any reason.
Is there anything that I am missing to get this working?


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OLEXIA, Delbert (Big Pete), 63, of Wintersville, OH, passed away Dec. 17, 2012, at Trinity Medical Center, West Steubenville.
He was born April 27, 1949, in Steubenville, OH, a son of the late Mike Olexia and Nancy (Adkins) Klaes.
In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by his brother, Jackie Libetti; grandparents, Alva Delbert and Mary "Granny" McCullough.
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Pete is survived by his wife, Sandra (Hood) Olexia; daughters, Rena (Ron) Dayton of Steubenville and Darcie (Bryan) Olexia Daigle of New Orleans; brother, Larry (Sue) Libetti of Steubenville; sisters, Charmane (Pete) Carney of Wheeling and Mickey Olexia of Richmond; grandchildren, Katie Waligorski, Matthew Dayton, Sofia Olexia Daigle, and Tru Olexia Daigle; aunt, Margaret Olexia of Mingo Junction, OH; family friends, Larry (Mary) Saccericca, Chris McClain, and Thomas Bensie.
Friends will be received for a memorial service at the Harmony United Methodist Church, Mingo Junction, OH on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, at 7 p.m. with Pastor Sam Davis officiating.
Send condolences online at www.everhart-bovefuneralhomes.com.


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School Programs Guide 2015–16
Every year, the Oakland Museum of California opens its doors to school groups around the Bay Area with an array of tours and programs designed for specific grade levels that comply with California state curriculum standards. The School Programs Guide below provides teachers with the full range of OMCA offerings for the current school year. If you have questions, contact us at email@example.com or call 510-318-8470.
To apply for a school visit scholarship, download the PDF form and submit it via fax or mail as soon as possible after booking your school tour or program.
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COPPERAS COVE (January 4, 2013)--The Copperas Cove Independent School District is recognizing 7 board members during School Board Appreciation Month in January.
Board members are local volunteers elected by their constituents to help find ways to improve education in schools.
The board is responsible for an annual budget of $77 million, along with more than 8,000 students, 1,300 employees and 11 campuses, Copperas Cove ISD Superintendent Dr. Joe Burns said.
Board members being recognized include President Joan Manning (17 years of service), Vice President Bob Weiss (9 years), Secretary Inez Faison (5 years), Jim Copeland (13 years), Mike Wilburn (5 years), Doug Cook (2 ½ years) and Dr. Karen Harrison (1 ½ years).
The next board meeting is January 15.


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Master of Arts in Theology
The MA in Theology has two tracks, Research and Religious Education, and the research track has three areas of specialization: Constructive Theology, Theological Ethics, and Historical Theology.
Download the Graduate Education Theology Brochure
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The M.A. in Theology brings together two, complementary poles of theological reflection: retrieval and appropriation. On the one hand, the program equips students with the methodological and conceptual tools necessary for understanding classic theological texts within their historical, cultural, and ecclesial contexts. This emphasis on retrieval not only allows for a greater appreciation of the rich and varied traditions out of which contemporary theological reflection emerges; it also gives students a better grasp of the context sensitive character of all human understanding.
On the other hand, the program brings classic theological texts into critical conversation with our contemporary setting. This emphasis on appropriation provides students opportunities and skills to think creatively and practically about the ongoing impact of theological reflection, both in the search for human meaning and the task of personal and social transformation. While each area of specialization retains distinguishing characteristics and requirements, all three areas gain an internal coherence through integrating these two poles.
This integration process is the chief goal of the Theological Sources and Methods Seminar required of all MA students. This seminar introduces students to the major sources and methods for thinking theologically at the graduate level. With a triple emphasis on historical methods, theological hermeneutics, and practical theology, the seminar provides students the opportunity to understand and to begin practicing the interrelated tasks of theology.


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Flu Shots for People on Cancer Treatment
Last Modified: January 7, 2013
I recently finished my chemo after surgery. Wondering if I should have a flu shot or anything else preventive?
Suzanne Walker CRNP, MSN, AOCN, Nurse Practitioner for Thoracic Malignancies at Penn Medicine responds:
It is usually safe to get a flu shot once the chemotherapy has finished. You can talk to your oncologist about it to make sure that he/she agrees.
Carolyn Vachani, RN, MSN, AOCN OncoLink Nurse Educator responds:
Learn more about flu shots and people with cancer.
This question and answer was part of the OncoLink Brown Bag Chat Series. View the entire transcript from the Focus on Lung Cancer Webchat.
I wish u knew... Caring for people with advanced lung cancerby Timothy J. Hampshire
January 07, 2013
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Luvstep #4
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Photography: Marija Kovac What Valentine's Day would it be without Luvstep? You can find Dirty South Joe and Flufftronix's annual mixtape and full-length versions of my two favorites below. I recommend downloading the tracked out version of the mix from Clubtapes, but you can go with the quick all-in-one download here if you can't be Continue reading »


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Why are the deals not showing activity?
They are showing 0 views and clicks in the Fresh tab, even after you click on them.
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Hmmmm, not sure. I went back about 7 hours and never found stats for Click or Views. I'm reporting it to development. Most likely, they'll look at it tomorrow and make it all better.
Plus (in case you haven't noticed) the voting stats are frozen again...
Thanks, I noticed this morning, was going to ask, but here it is.


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LAE631: Language Arts 12 (2012-2013)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Special Education
COURSE TITLE: Language Arts 12
COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
About the Program:
This course is designed to facilitate student mastery of the DoDEA standards and essential objectives of the parallel general education course. Accommodations and modifications in content, instructional activities, evaluative techniques and essential objectives are implemented as appropriate for students with disabilities in support of their Individualized Education Programs (IEP).
Major Concepts/Content: The Language Arts 12 course is designed to strengthen students' skills in listening, speaking, writing, literature, and language. The content includes, but is not limited to, recognizing how continued development of communication skills can enhance one's future career and leisure activities; using communication skills in preparing for career choices; using the research skills necessary to meet the demands of post-secondary classes; using computer technology, where hardware is available, as an aid in writing compositions; writing in a clear and personal style; responding to literary masterpieces which are the common heritage of all people; engaging in perceptive reading and critical analysis of English and world literature; engaging in discussions of philosophical questions as revealed in literary works; and using the media center research facilities.
Major Instructional Activities: Instructional activities will be provided in a general classroom setting, in the media center and in the school and community environment. Student activities will include, but will not be limited to, writing journals or learning logs; writing expository and critical essays; writing a paper requiring media center research and other research techniques such as interviewing, observing, or experimenting; responding to each other's writing with helpful suggestions for revision; taking several pieces of writing through a process that includes prewriting activities, drafting, peer response, revision, proofreading for spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and usage, and publishing; practicing writing from different points of view for different audiences; developing speaking and listening skills by responding to literature and to each other's writing, participating in small and large group Discussions, in oral presentations, individual recitations, and dramatizations; studying appropriate major works of literature intensively in class; reading, viewing, and listening independently to examples of the various genres of literature and responding to that literature; presenting interpretations of literature orally; and increasing vocabulary through the study of words encountered in reading and through work with the dictionary and the thesaurus.
Major Evaluative Techniques: Students will be evaluated for class participation; completion of reading and composition assignments; comprehension of literature as measured by objective, essay, and/or oral examinations; and improvement in written composition, especially expository techniques, and oral presentations, with major emphasis on content, organization, logic, coherence, use of evidence and argument, and with secondary emphasis on accuracy in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar and usage.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of the Language Arts 12 course, students should be able to:
- Use communication skills in preparing for career choices.
- Demonstrate research skills necessary to meet demands of post-secondary classes.
- Recognize how continued development of communication skills can enhance one's future career and leisure activities.
- Engage in perceptive reading and critical analysis of literature.
- Use computer technology, where available, to aid in writing compositions.
- Enjoy literary masterpieces that are the common heritage of all people.
- Write in a clear and personal style.
- Engage in discussions of philosophical questions as revealed in literary works.


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Robert Ellis Smith and David Risser
April 7, 2002
7:30 p.m.
Irma B. Moore Hall Auditorium
Introduction of Robert Ellis Smith:
Expert on Privacy Rights
- Privacy is the right of individuals to control the collection and use of personal information about themselves.
Allen K. Hess
Robert Ellis Smith
Robert Ellis Smith is a journalist who uses his training as an attorney to report on the individual's right to privacy. Since 1974, he has published Privacy Journal, a monthly newsletter on privacy in a computer age based in Providence, R.I.
Smith is a frequent speaker, writer, and Congressional witness on privacy issues and has compiled a clearinghouse of information on the subject: computer data banks, credit and medical records, the Internet, electronic surveillance, the law of privacy, and physical and psychological privacy.
Smith is the author of Ben Franklin's Web Site: Privacy and Curiosity from Plymouth Rock to the Internet (Spring 2000), the first and only published history of privacy in the U.S. He is also the author of Our Vanishing Privacy (1993), The Law of Privacy Explained (1993), Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of It;Workrights, a book describing individual rights in the workplace; and The Big Brother Book of Lists. Privacy Journal also publishes Compilation of State and Federal Privacy Laws, Celebrities and Privacy, and War Stories, a collection of anecdotes on privacy invasions.
The New York Times said Smith "sounds the alarm about maintaining freedom and privacy in the computer age" and called him "a principled critic." Privacy Journal is "a privacy watchdog," according to Time, and "the paper of record for lawyers and others interested in privacy rights," according to U.S. News and World Report. In 1999, U.S. News called him "the Ralph Nader of privacy."
Smith, 60, has been asked to write the definitive statement on privacy in the last two editions of The World Book Encyclopedia. He has appeared on all three network morning news programs, as well as "Face the Nation," "Nightline," and "All Things Considered." He has been a regular commentator on "Marketplace" on American Public Radio.
From 1970 to 1973, Smith was the assistant director of the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Prior to that, he had nine years of experience as a news reporter and editor with the Detroit Free Press, Trenton Times, The Southern Courier, and Newsday.
A 1962 graduate of Harvard College, Smith received his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1976. He served as a member of the District of Columbia Human Rights Commission until 1986. In 1997, Vice President Gore named him to the Civil Liberties Panel of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security.
David Risser
David Risser is managing editor of the Montgomery Advertiser. He is in charge of day-to-day news gathering operations and is a member of the newspaper's operating committee.
Risser, 36, grew up in Washington, D.C., where he attended public schools. He earned a degree in history at Stanford University and also has studied at Jagiellonian University in Poland and Oxford University in England.
Risser began his newspaper career as a reporter at the Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia. He has held editing positions at several papers in California and Oregon. Risser served as managing editor of The Jackson Sun in Tennessee before joining the Advertiser in 2001.
Risser has twice been named Newsroom Supervisor of the Year for Gannett Co., the parent company of the Advertiser. He has led several reporting endeavors that have won national awards, including a series on the Untold Story of Jackson's Civil Rights Movement that won journalism's highest ethics award, the Payne, and one of the field's most prestigious public service awards, the APME public service medal.
Risser lives in Montgomery with his wife, Vicky, and children, Nathan and Hannah.
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