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The Kiowa County Mavericks (4-2) will face a true test on Friday, facing the Fairfield Falcons (5-1) on the road in Week 7. The Falcons, behind double threat #23 Ryan Ewy, have rolled through their first 6 games, winning their last four contests, on a diverse offensive strategy.
In Week 6, The Falcons faced the Cunningham Wildcats and showed their ability to win games under any conditions, setting aside a solid passing game for the ground game in the 44-20 league win, improving Fairfield's league record (3-1).
The Falcon rushed a combined 323 yards, spread across five players with 30+ yard totals. #1 Wayne Schoenecker (32), Ewy (39), #24 Brennyn Pankratz (50), #35 Cannon Burns (79) and #40 Gunner Schaffter (64) all contributed in the win.
The volume of offensive players shows that Falcon's Head Coach Chuck Bisbee isn't afraid to spread it around. And while their top passer Ewy, who has passed for 463 yards this season (.471), had only two attempts in the game; his 55-yard touchdown bullet to Pankratz should make the Mavs defense look towards the end zone on key downs.
The Falcons are averaging nearly 90 yards passing per game and 265 yards rushing per game and have proven themselves to be an offensive threat with a 1.5:1 point ratio (they have scored one and a half points for every point scored by opponents).
The Mavericks, who seem to be hitting a stride in recent weeks, will face offensive and defensive challenges.
Unlike the diverse Falcons, the Maverick's offense is extremely top heavy. While #8 Trever Powell and #24 Creighton McDonald have thus far handled the pressures of nearly all of the Mavericks offense, they will take the field in the final weeks of the game with a target on their back.
Powell and McDonald have accounted for a combined 91 percent of rushing yards (1,494 of 1,632) in the first six weeks of the season. By contrast Burns, the top rusher for the Falcons (387 yards) has accounted for only 24 percent of season yards.
Both teams have nearly identical total team rushing yards, Fairfield has 1,591 season yards and Kiowa County has 1,632 season yards.
With an inconsistent Kiowa County passing game (121 total yards with a .231 completion rate), everyone knows who is going to get the ball.
The Mavericks defense, having steadily improved in past weeks, will have an unpredictable Falcons offense to contain and a predictable Mavericks offense to protect.
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TreePanel - Redraw a Node's location on an update of the tree
Good day. I am having an issue with redrawing a tree where a selected node has been moved to a new location.
I currently use a JsonStore to make my treepanel. I chose this versus a TreeLoader because on an update of the tree, the TreeLoader produces a 'flicker'. I also have a TaskManager that fires off a request every 30 seconds.
The scenario is that we have two users using the application. One user clicks on an node that is a child/leaf in the tree for its details. The other user, makes modifications to the same node and causes it to move to another location within the tree. In the first user's view, when the task manager fires a request at the set interval, when the tree reloads, the tree cannot update and render the new location of the selected node. I have a function that assists in finding the selected node but I am unable to redraw the tree and highlight the nodes new location.
So, in short, my question is how can one go about redrawing the tree and displaying the selected node's new location?
Thank you in advance.
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the node's path
Thank you. This seems to work...
if(node) { var selected = function(); // I have a function that searched for the node the user selected and returns it if(!Ext.isEmpty(selected)) { theTree.selectPath(selected.getPath()); } }

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LEITCHFIELD, Ky. (AP) -- Rough River Lake Dam is set to undergo major maintenance work in the coming year aimed at filling cracks, fissures and other openings in the bedrock underlying the earthen dam that has held back the Rough River since 1958.
The Army Corps of Engineers on Thursday announced the plans for the dam, which is about 95 miles southwest of Louisville.
The Corps' dam safety program manager, Jeff Esterle, says there's no emergency or imminent threat. Esterle told The Courier-Journal (http://cjky.it/Wb19D3 ) that surveys have discovered pathways in the limestone rock that could carry water under or around the dam.
Esterle says the corps does not yet know what the repairs will cost, but it would be in the "tens of millions of dollars" over the next three to five years.


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A "Velvet Hammer" is a commonly termed euphemism for a pulled muscle, typically from aggressive, consensual water sex.
Man, she got totally velvet hammered last night in the jetted tub.
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When a man takes his errect penis, and bounces it off the forehead or mouth of a woman.
He gave her a velvet hammer, right before he blew his load.
by Ghost July 27, 2003
The Velvet Hammer is a women leader or professor who can manage with grace and eloquence and still get things done. She is very tough on her underlings, but fair and brilliant. She is also very beautiful and probably will save/rule the world one day.
Oh man, did you see the requirements for that final paper she has us doing?? That woman is the Velvet Hammer!
by Janey D August 07, 2009
A velvet hammer is a marketing tactic; a scheme wherein your customer gets his customers or suppliers to pay for the product you are selling.
Imagine that you are a publisher of specialty magazines. Your customers are large building contractors. You are attempting to sell a new prospect, United Residential Homes, the idea that they should publish a monthly magazine about their company. This will not cost United anything. You will sell advertising in the magazine to United's suppliers: plumbers, electricians, painters, interior decorators, etc. However, you expect United to call these suppliers and lean on them to cooperate with your salesmen. This is called the "velvet hammer."
by Stephen2 December 10, 2007
A very soft hammer. It would not hurt if someone smacked you around with it.
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"holee fuck whats on my shoe?"
"..oh that, thats the Velvet Hammer baby"
"..oh that, thats the Velvet Hammer baby"
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A sweet or soft drink topped off with a shot of everclear.
Give him a Velvet Hammer, it's his 21st birthday.
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Innovation, simply defined, is the process that takes new ideas and implements them in a way that creates value. It's not the same thing as invention, which is an event that occurs at a distinct point in time, often resulting in a single product. Innovation is the extension of invention, the... Read more


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My job is mentally tiring. I find that I often have to study on it a little when I get home to keep up with the current technology, but by then, I'm often too exhausted to focus on anything.
My personal projects often involve a lot of creativity - writing, game design, business plans, etc. Unfortunately, being mentally exhausted makes it very difficult be creative, much less do any research or learning necessary.
Trying to force myself to slog through it does work, but by the time I get inspiration, it's 1 AM, and by the time I get something useful out of it, it could well be up to 4 AM. The lack of sleep hurts learning and productivity for the rest of the week, even if I get something done that night.
On the other hand, when I tell myself to take a break and watch TV or play a game, I find that I could spend all weekend on it and achieve nothing.
So, are there any recommended approaches to get enough rest and still be creative or learn something?


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5 Near Deaths That Would Have Changed the Face of History
For much of human history, it was not only perfectly acceptable but pretty much expected that disputes would end with a duel to the death. What we'll never know -- at least not until timecops become necessary -- is just how many would've-been-history-making men we lost to such fatal pissing contests, and just how much the timeline might have changed if said contests had turned out differently. Especially when you consider ...
#5. Abe Lincoln Narrowly Avoided Getting Shot to Death in a Duel
You might recognize Abraham Lincoln as the president who completely owned the chin curtain/top hat combo. Oh, and also something about leading our nation through a brutal civil war and preserving the union. But it all could have ended way back when Abe was still shaving and Southerners were still slaving: Lincoln had himself a good old-fashioned duel to the death with a guy by the name of James Shields.
It all started in 1842, when the Springfield Journal published letters from one "Aunt Becca" accusing Shields -- an attorney and auditor for the State of Illinois -- of being "a ballroom dandy, floatin' about on the earth without heft or substance, just like a lot of cat-fur where cats had been fightin'." (Folks in the 19th century had very long-winded ways of calling someone a dick.) Shields, not one to let such shenanigans slide with a simple harrumph and a "Well, I'll be!" vowed that there would be "coffee and pistols for two" once he discovered the true author of the letters. And that's where Lincoln comes in -- because the author was none other than Mary Todd, aka the future Mary Todd Lincoln.
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"... Shit."
Since women possess far too much common sense to participate in something as ludicrous as a duel, Lincoln was forced to accept Shields' challenge on his fiancee's behalf. And that was a problem, because Shields was an experienced marksman, whereas Lincoln had little experience in the art of remotely drilling holes in other humans. Abe did have two things going for him, though: A) he got to set the terms of the duel, and B) he was basically superhuman. Lincoln used those two things to his every advantage: The duel would take place in a tiny arena where the participants would be separated by a wooden plank (stepping over the plank would mean forfeiture), and rather than Shields' preferred weapon of choice (pistols), they would use fucking broadswords.
Lincoln's carefully planned-out terms had precisely the desired effect. When they arrived at the duel and drew their broadswords, Lincoln reached up with his Stretch Armstrong arms and sliced a branch out of the top of a nearby willow tree. And that was the only limb hacked off that day, because Shields immediately called off the duel without so much as a drop of blood spilled -- although some say there was a puddle of something around his feet that day.
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"Your dick. That could've been your dick."
So, just how close did our great nation come to never being led by the Great Emancipator? In his own words, "I didn't want the damned fellow to kill me, which I rather think he would have done if we had selected pistols."
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And so Honest Abe never had to worry about pistols again, and he and Mary lived happily ever after.
And speaking of bullshitting your way out of a duel ...
#4. Mark Twain Bullshitted His Way Out of a Duel
The "father of American literature" really needs no introduction. The quintessential American author, humorist, and satirist has been universally loved and admired by everyone from peons to American presidents to European royalty -- with the exception of one guy who wanted to give him a fatal, .58-caliber body piercing.
Before publishing any of his great works, the newly christened Mark Twain (he was plain old Samuel Clemens up until then) was editor of the Virginia City Enterprise. In his capacity as editor, Twain took it upon himself to relentlessly critique and slander James Laird, the editor of a rival newspaper. Twain's incessant needling built up to a head, and when it finally blew, Laird challenged him to a duel. Twain readily accepted -- a decision that, in retrospect, seemed a bit rash, given the facts that Twain barely knew "which end [of the revolver] to level at the adversary" and that Laird was "longer and thinner than a rail."
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With a mustache like that, an overestimation of one's manliness is understandable.
As specified by The Official Duelist's Handbook (Third Edition), each duelist had a second -- a person who would try to reconcile the two participants before shit went down. The seconds acted as negotiators, relaying messages such as the time and place of the battle, as well as what weapons were to be used. Well, Steve Gillis, Mark Twain's second, turned out to provide a much, much more valuable service than that.
The story goes that, knowing that his reputation as a hopelessly inept shot preceded him and in quite justified fear for his life, Twain arrived early at the dueling grounds so Gillis could coach him as he practiced shooting a fence rail representing his lanky opponent. Twain went about missing every single shot.
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"Can't I just trick my friends into shooting it for me?"
Understandably frustrated that his student seemed to lack even the most basic understanding of the dynamics of killing things with lead and black powder, Gillis snatched away the revolver and, noticing a flock of sparrows frolicking about 30 yards away, demonstrated how effective the pistol was at cleanly removing a teensy bird's head.
That's when Laird arrived, all snazzied up and aching to abort Tom Sawyer from the uterus of American history. One look at the headless sparrow, however, and Laird's demeanor instantly took a left turn to Abouttopissmypantsville. Mark Twain, being fucking Mark Twain, saw Lady Opportunity smiling his way, and immediately jumped on the chance to say, "Oh, that? Shit. Yeah, I did that." (But he probably said it better because, you know ... Mark Twain.)
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"Your dick. That could've been your dick."
Needless to say, Laird called off the duel, and the future of American literature was saved via a combination of luck and trickery that would make Loki jealous.
#3. Captain John Smith of Jamestown Survived by Beheading Three Challengers
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John Smith was the founder of Jamestown, the first successful colony of English settlers in America. You might also remember him as the chiseled blond dude who banged Pocahontas in that one Disney movie.
Pictured: Chiseled. Blond.
But before Smith became famous for settling in America, he was a soldier of fortune in Romania, fighting for Austria against the Ottoman Turks. After fighting and seizing a Turkish stronghold, their leader, Lord Turbashaw, issued a challenge to meet any Christian foe in a one-on-one horseback death match. Smith stepped up to the plate, donned his armor, saddled up his horse, and rode through blares of trumpets and showers of bras and panties to meet the challenge -- all 22 years and 5 feet 3 inches of him (did we mention that his actual appearance probably didn't match your mental picture?).
John Smith: Actual size.
The match was a quick one. Smith proved himself a shoe-in for a position as a Medieval Times performer when he bull's-eyed his lance straight through the tiny target that was the eye hole of his opponent's face visor. But Smith wasn't quite done ravaging his enemy just yet -- he allegedly hacked off Turbashaw's head, slapped a bow on it, and presented it to his general as a gift.
Apparently, head-gifting was a big faux pas in Ottoman society, and Smith's actions seriously pissed off a friend of the recently departed Turbashaw: the sinisterly named Grualgo. So, the story goes that Smith rode against him the next day, this time knocking his opponent off his horse with a well-timed pistol ball after his lance failed to do the job. And just to give him one final kick in the balls, Smith took Grualgo's head, too.
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He invented bowling later that night.
In what's starting to sound like a particularly convoluted Game of Thrones subplot, Smith, balls inflated to near-basketball levels from his two previous victories, issued an open call for another challenger. This time Mulgro stepped forward and, presumably having seen Smith's flair for mounted murder, chose to mix things up ... with battle-axes.
All signs pointed to Smith's third time being whatever the opposite of a charm is, because Mulgro handled his battle-axe about as well as you'd expect from a dude named Mulgro. With one big Conan-esque grunt and swing, he knocked Smith's ax out of his hands, leaving him with only a small sword to defend himself. But you know what they say: all's fair in love and battle-ax duels, and when Smith dodged a swing from Mulgro, he didn't hesitate to pull a dick move and stab him in the back. And before you ask -- yep, he added Mulgro's head to his growing collection. He also received a reward in the form of "an insignia bearing three Turk heads," which probably came in handy for proving he didn't pull this entire story out of his ass.


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BELTON (October 12, 2012)--Beginning Monday, Belton ISD will be hosting campus technology tours for schools across the nation.
Representatives from Belton School District 124 from Belton, Missouri will tour Belton High School beginning at 9 a.m.
School districts will also be touring South Belton Middle School, Miller Heights Elementary and Belton New Tech High School @ Waskow.
The tours will include a question and answer session, classes using the iPads for instruction, infrastructure and technical discussion with the director of technology as well as a discussion of professional development designed to change instruction, Belton ISD spokesperson Judy Owens said.
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TRAINING: I wake up at 8:00 am and run 40 minutes. At midday I go to the gym and I train very hard. After the gym I go home, play videogames and play with my dog that I love, I do other things and wait for the next training session at 21:00pm. For my diet I basically eat proteins, fruits, vegetables and a lot of water.
When and why did you start training to become a fighter? I always liked martial arts, and I started because of a classmate. I started in Jiu Jitsu because I was a fan of the Gracies and I always liked to test myself and think that I could be a big gladiator.
What ranks and titles have you held? TUF Brazil featherweight winner, Jiu Jitsu and Kickboxing black belt, orange belt in Judo. I was an eight-time Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Jiu Jitsu champion, two-time Jiu Jitsu state champion in Rio Grande do Norte and once in Ceará, North-Northeast Jiu Jitsu champion, 3rd place at the Jiu Jitsu Pan American Games.
Do you have any heroes? My hero in cartoons is Naruto and in real life my mother and my brother.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It means the transition from a dream to reality. It's believing that no matter what your dream is, if you believe and go after it, it will become reality.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? I went to law school but stopped in the middle to focus on my training and realize my dream to fight in the UFC.
What was your job before you started fighting? I worked as a night guard.
Specific accomplishments in pro competition? I'm the current champion of Brazilian organization Max Fight.
Favorite grappling technique: Triangle choke
Favorite striking technique: Hook to the body
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I have "liferea feed reader" on Linux for RSS feeds. Is there a way I could import all my added feeds there to Android? (NOTE: the extension of RSS exported file is "opml".)
Android doesn't have a built-in RSS feed reader, but there are many RSS feed reader apps (and websites) that will happily import an OPML file.
If you want to use a website, or an app with a website-synced back end, then Google Reader is very popular, and you can definitely import OPML files into Google Reader. On your device you can then either visit the Google Reader webpage, or use the Google Reader app, or one of the other many Android apps that sync with Google Reader.
To import an OPML file into Google Reader, click the cog/gear icon in the top-right of the page, then click Reader Settings and then Import/Export. You should then see the option to upload your OPML file.
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How to "Pretty Up" Your JavaFX TableViews
By MarkHeckler-Oracle on Feb 26, 2013
I'd always intended to create some small-but-useful Twitter utilities and hadn't really had the opportunity, but a simple Twitter client provides a perfect demonstration of this capability. Here is an example of what a "feed" interface might look like:
For this TableView example, there are only two columns:
- one for the user, showing the user's picture, name, and screen name
- one for the tweet
The tweet's text is simply a string property of each MTweet object, but the user information comes from several properties of the MTweet object's associated MUser object. The MTweet's text is properly assigned to the cell's text property per the discussion above, but what about the user information? Per the JavaFX 2.2 docs,
Labeled. This means that subclasses of Cell need only set the
text property, rather than create a separate
Label and set that within the Cell. However, for situations where something more than just plain text is called for, it is possible to place any
Node in the Cell
graphic property. Despite the term, a graphic can be any Node, and will be fully interactive. For example, a ListCell might be configured with a
Button as its graphic. The Button text could then be bound to the cells
item property. In this way, whenever the item in the Cell changes, the Button text is automatically updated.
To display the tweet's text in the "Text" column of our table, a couple lines of code does all that is necessary:
In order to bundle the user information and place it within a single cell, we set the "User Info" column's CellValueFactory in similar fashion to our text column above:
And then we set that column's CellFactory to something along the order of this:
For each cell in that TableColumn, updateItem is called with that cell's contents as the "item", the first parameter. Within our example above, we create a VBox, populate it with the user's photo (Image, via ImageView), name (String) and screen name (String), do a bit of formatting, and assign the VBox to the cell's graphic property. And with that, we're off and running. :-)
There is much more you can do, and this should get the ideas flowing. Here's to prettier apps (better optics?) and happier users!
Jonathan Giles, JavaFX team UI Controls tech lead, made a few suggestions for improving the efficiency of the code used above. The points he made were excellent, and I wanted to provide an update that shows revised code that incorporates them. I did leave the original code above, as I'm hoping it helps make a clearer path for those implementing similar code for the first time.
In order to override the TableCell constructor, we'll extend the particular TableCell<MTweet, MUser> class. Doing so allows us to create the VBox, Labels, and ImageView used in our composite user cell once per cell, rather than each time updateItem() is called. While we're at it, we'll also perform formatting/assignment duties in the constructor and avoid repeating those calls. Here is the new derivative class:
Creating the new UserTableCell class means we can update our setCellFactory() method call for our user info column like so:
Thanks to Jonathan Giles (@JonathanGiles) for the suggestions!
All the best,
One more update! This time using an anonymous inner class for the column's cell factory. Same basic functionality, but this is perhaps the tidiest option.
Options are good, as they say... :-)
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I am looking to make a physics based Mathematica project. Ideally the project would take around 12 hours, gathering any experimental data and analyse the findings.
I'd have full access to university physics labs. The project would be for 2nd year physics students in the end and would aim to introduce using Mathematica in their work.


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Why do people say that the hair of a married woman is considered as nakedness, but not the hair of a single woman? Isn't hair just hair? What if a man grew his hair long - would it also be considered erva?
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A requirement for a married woman to cover her hair, whether d'oraysa or d'rabbanan, is suggested by the fact that the kohein would uncover a sotah's hair (Kesuvos 72a). Hair is additionally considered an ervah when it is customarily kept covered. Since married women must cover their hair, the sight of this normally covered area is an ervah. For single women who do not and need not otherwise cover their hair, it is not (Bach, Even HaEzer 21:2).
To add to Fred's answer: in Sifra (to Num. 5:18, the same verse that the Gemara cites) R. Yishmael finds support for the idea that unmarried virgins don't need to cover their hair in II Sam. 13:19, ותקח תמר אפר על ראשה, by explaining אפר as "a scarf" - i.e., we see that Tamar began covering her head with one only after she was violated. (As the commentary Meir Ayin there notes, R. Yishmael may have arrived at this understanding - instead of the standard translation of אפר as "ashes" - because the usual verb that would go with that is ותעל, "she cast up," or ותזרק, "she threw.")
The Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l points out (Igros Kodesh, vol. 11, letter 3592) that since the verse in the Torah is talking about a married woman, there's nothing to tell us that it should be extended to an unmarried one. As for a deeper reason behind the distinction, he suggests that since the requirement that women cover their hair is a consequence of Chavah's having misled her husband Adam into sinning (Eruvin 100b), then it need not apply to a girl who has never had a husband.


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Hi would you help me with the following:
Let $A = (a_{ij}) R^{n \times n}$ be a symmetric matrix satisfying: $a_{1i} \neq 0$; Sum of each row equals $0$ and each diagonal element is the sum of absolute values of other entries in the row.
Determine the dimension of eigenspace corresponding to the smallest eigenvalue of $A$.
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Federal prosecutors allege three Kansas men ran a worldwide synthetic marijuana operation that made them millions of dollars.
U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom announced the indictment Wednesday against 55-year-old Bradley Miller of Wichita; his brother, 54-year-old Clark Sloan of Tonganoxie; and Sloan's son, 32-year-old Jonathon Sloan, of Lawrence. They are charged with conspiracy, distribution of misbranded drugs, mail fraud and smuggling.
Prosecutors allege the men began by selling the synthetic marijuana known as K2 in Lawrence and then expanded to an international business. Federal officials say the men sold the products as incense but always intended that they be smoked like marijuana.
The indictment says the men marketed and distributed their products across the United States and from South America to Asia and Eastern Europe.
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There are many honors and responsibilities that come with being a legislator. But none is more profound than sharing a community's appreciation to the men and women who have put service above self, and made the commitment to go wherever they were sent for the purpose of protecting the freedoms that we hold dear.
Jesus Christ publicly thanked God on several different occasions. He thanked God for five barley loaves and two small fishes, and then proceeded to multiply them so that a crowd of more than 5,000 people was satisfied, and 12 baskets of bread were left over.
He thanked God for hearing his prayer and then raised Lazarus from the dead. He thanked God for revealing truths to "babes" while hiding them from those who were wise and prudent.
By the time you are reading this, Thanksgiving will either be coming up very soon, or will have just recently passed. It has always been one of my favorite holidays.
In my house growing up, Thanksgiving was even more than Christmas, the holiday that my extended family used as an excuse to get together. So, while Christmas was Mom and Dad and my siblings, Thanksgiving was always a huge get-together with lots of family, food, football and naps.
There are two kinds of freedom in a free society, positive and negative freedoms. Positive freedoms are what the founders envisioned for a civil society and spelled out in the Declaration, Constitution and Bill of Rights. They gave us freedom of speech, religion, self-protection and the freedom to pursue life, liberty and happiness. These freedoms are assured by laws which prevent infringing on the freedoms of others.
You never forget your roots, especially, as in my case, when you were fortunate to be blessed with a good experience in those formative years.
I spent a good portion of my youth on Sherwood Circle where we lived in the area known as Forest Hills.
A friend once teased me saying we lived in the neighborhood of "rich kids."
True, they were professional people, and many, as I reflect, were at one point or another the "movers and shakers" in Lancaster who had a major hand in helping Lancaster prosper through the years.
Lancaster County's Planning Department presented an informative and glowing analysis on the proposed cluster ordinance to Lancaster County Council and the Planning Commission earlier this month.
Cluster zoning is being sold to the residents of Lancaster County as a tool to help save our countryside green space, preserve wildlife habitats, offer space for communal recreation and limit clear-cutting.
Despite its gun-friendly citizenry and reputation, South Carolina law doesn't go out of its way to protect Second Amendment rights. Ours is one of only six states that impose an outright ban on all forms of handgun "open carry," for example, and one of only three states that prohibit concealed weapons permit (CWP) holders from carrying weapons into restaurants that sell alcohol.
Unfortunately, state law isn't the only thing South Carolina gun owners need to be concerned about. Another is federal coercion.
The Cluster Development Proposal (CDP) passed 5-1 at the Lancaster County Planning Commission meeting Thursday, Nov. 14, and will appear on the Lancaster County Council agenda at the Nov. 25 meeting (6:30 p.m. in the Lancaster County Administration Building).
The dissenting vote was cast by Ken Faulkenberry, who made a very interesting proposal that illustrates exactly why this deeply flawed proposal should be defeated.
A lot of work has been going on at the Cultural Arts Center lately. Some is easily seen, like the new steps in the front of the historic church building, or the new, larger stage area.
Other work is lower-key, like the masonry repairs, which are being done to blend seamlessly with the original brickwork and plaster.
On March 7, 1973, the Home Rule Amendments to the S.C. Constitution became effective. With such passage, local government devolved from the Statehouse to county seats and town halls – thus, the primary functions of government became local again.
No longer were counties solely and strictly limited to educational purposes; building and repairing public roads, buildings and bridges; maintaining and supporting prisoners; paying jurors, county officers and the costs of litigation, quarantines and courts; supporting paupers and paying past indebtedness.
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The percentages of eligible voters who showed up at the polls on Tuesday were abysmal in Jefferson County.
Overall only 17.52 percent, or 8,723 voters, cast ballots out of 49,783 registered voters eligible.
There was a countywide issue in the Jefferson County JVS levy, so there was reason to be at the polls at all 76 precincts in the county, even if, as was the case in many places, it was the only issue or candidate decision to be made.
As it was, the range of eligible voters to cast ballots ran from a low of just 9.2 percent choosing Steubenville's 2nd Ward council member (207 total votes out of an eligible 2,240); to a high of 28 percent making a decision on electricity aggregation in Mingo Junction (709 total votes out of an eligible 2,531).
It's easy to decry government officials, to complain that adequate representation isn't offered, that government doesn't listen to the will of the people. It's harder to do so when less than a majority of people are making decisions at the polls for entire communities.
Consider that in the 2nd Ward of Steubenville, just 124 votes were cast in favor of the winner. Of the votes cast, that represents a 60.78 percent winning total, but of the total eligible voters in the ward, that represents just 5.5 percent of ward residents choosing their council member.
That means most voters, 94.5 percent, didn't bother, didn't care or wanted the other candidate (who had 80 votes, or 3.57 percent of all eligible ward voters).
All the school levies in the county, JVS, Indian Creek and Buckeye Local, failed, all with less than 30 percent of eligible voters bothering to cast a ballot. People who were motivated to keep their taxes at current levels went to the polls. Some people motivated by the stated needs for schoolchildren cast their ballots. Everyone else was indifferent, unmoved or simply to the point where they don't consider voting worth it anymore.
Citizens say they're starved for leadership from the city hall to Capitol Hill. Even when presented the opportunity to make direct decisions on their own governance, the kind that reaches into their wallet, voters stay away.
Someone somewhere will decry during the next cycle the amount of money spent by national parties and state parties and political action committees in state and national elections, as well as the amount spent by local candidates on countywide races at times. But, it's obvious that absent the pervasive, often negative, push of marketing, issues and candidates don't gather a lot of the kind of attention that motivates citizens to vote. Being a good citizen apparently isn't enough without big bucks campaigning.
And that's a sad day for local communities and school districts, where the majority does not even come close to ruling the day.


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What would happen if beads from a
necklace of fireballs were loaded into a firearm as ammunition? Would loading count as "throwing" the bead, so as soon as the bead stopped in the barrel, it would explode? If not, then should the bead have to roll a reflex save to avoid detonation, and what should be the DC? If it were to be propelled, should it detonate on impact without dealing normal firearm damage, or should it deal normal damage, stop in the body and detonate there, without giving a victim chance for a reflex save?
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This comes down to two issues.
Issue One: What actually causes the detonation? The magic item says the beads detonate when exposed to magical fire or "when thrown". What is it about being thrown that allows them to detonate? Most likely the impact is the trigger that causes detonation once the beads are armed. The question is, what arms the beads?
Do they have to be primed somehow (like pulling the pin from a grenade), and if so how is that done (is simply detaching it from the necklace enough)? Do the beads somehow telepathically read the carrier's intent, so that they can distinguish being deliberately thrown from being accidentally dropped? Are they activated by reaching a certain velocity? Or are they always armed, and any impact above a certain threshold causes them to detonate?
If it's always armed or has to be primed before it's rammed down the barrel, then the blast from the black powder will almost certainly set it off (thanks Pulsehead for pointing out that it could be carefully rammed down the barrel without setting it off). If it's activated by the user's intent, then it can't be used with a firearm at all, since it won't detect that it's being thrown.
If, however, it's armed by reaching a certain velocity then triggered by impact, then you can probably use it in a firearm without any real risk of it detonating before it reaches a target after being fired.
As for once it's fired, if it strikes a target it should probably detonate immediately; the beads are intended to explode just from being thrown, so the impact of striking a target at firearm velocities should set it off instantly, rather than giving it time to penetrate. If it explodes from colliding with the target, there's not much the target can do to avoid the blast, so the target shouldn't receive a reflex save. Since the bead is being fired from a weapon, however, the attacker should have to make a typical attack with the firearm to actually strike the target.
Issue Two: Does the DM want magic and technology to be combined like this? While it can allow a lot of interesting creativity (such as firing fireball beads from a musket), it also probably opens the door to a lot of potentially game-breaking combos. Magic and technology together are likely to be a "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts" kind of thing. You might even take the route used in the Amethyst setting and say that proximity to magic actually prevents technology from working.
Crossing combustion and gunpowder with fire-based magical artifacts is tricky. If the concept was to sling the beads with a slingshot, it would be easier, but since you want to blast them of with igniting gunpowder, I would as a GM rule that the chance to activate them inside the gun-barrel would be too great.
Since firearms are already a rather odd bird in most fantasy settings, I think an interesting twist would be, rather than using muskets as just a fireball delivery mechanisms, to have these technological artifacts actively resist magic. Integrate their alienness into the system.
I'm drawing much of this from Arcanum, the excellent old CRPG, where characters could advance as technologists or as magic-users, but not both - either one will cause the other to malfunction. Similarly, attempting to fire a magical projectile will cause the musket to misfire, while attempting to enchant one will cause the spell to rebound, hopefully in interesting and creative ways.
Of course, that's just my suggestion. You might like the mix of gunpowder and magic. It's just that I feel that edging closer to post-medieval technology tends to take a lot of the oomph out of magic in D&D/PF campaigns. I never liked AD&D2e's arquebuses, either. :)


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We are always creating new IoT applications and encouraging others to improve them. Lhings is the networking tool that let us make it very easy. This time we wanted to make something we use in our everyday lives which is traditionally non-technical, as is a table, to be connected to the Internet and then provide new services that could be useful in some applications" explains José Pereda, who is part of the Lhings team. Based in Spain, the team won a JavaOne trip during IoT Developer Challenge.
"We wanted to show that IoT is useful in real scenarios and it's accessible to anyone. Likewise, we would like to encourage developers to reproduce and improve it!" further explains José. You will get a chance to meet them at JavaOne.
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SALT LAKE CITY — You can call it serendipity, coincidence, kismet or fate. Roma Downey has another explanation for it.
"It's a God thing," she says, simply, confidently.
The popular actress ("Touched by an Angel") wasn't planning to be in Salt Lake City to observe the 72nd annual National Bible Week, as well as the city's designation as National Bible City 2013. Rather, she and her husband — producer Mark Burnett ("Survivor," "The Apprentice," "The Voice," "Shark Tank") — were planning to be in town for a special advance screening of "Son of God," a theatrical film based on what she calls "the Jesus narrative" from the wildly successful "The Bible" miniseries that the couple produced for the History Channel.
But when National Bible Association president Richard Glickstein invited them to host the organization's Concert of Praise, scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 23, at 7 p.m. in the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Temple Square — the exact same day the private screening was scheduled for earlier in the day — putting "The Bible" creators together with the national Bible observance was a no-brainer.
"On the set of 'Touched by an Angel,' we used to say that coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous," Downey said in a telephone interview earlier this week. "At first blush, it looks like things just worked out. But when you step back and see how it was all laid out, you can see that it was providential."
So Downey and Burnett will host the Concert of Praise Saturday night in the Tabernacle, hosting an interfaith gathering aimed at celebrating the Bible and its teachings. The concert will feature an inner-city children's choir from Baltimore, a Jewish cantor singing ancient melodies that were sung in synagogues at the time of Jesus Christ, the Brigham Young University Singers, the Salt Lake City Mass Choir (a group of evangelical Christian singers) and dramatic readings from the Bible by Downey and Burnett.
"My husband is a little nervous about the fact that I'm going to have him up there performing," Downey said, chuckling. "But he'll be great. And it will be a beautiful pleasure for Mark and I to share some of our favorite passages of scripture."
The Concert of Praise, which is free to the public, is one of two major events scheduled in honor of Salt Lake City's designation as the National Bible Association's National Bible City for 2013. The other will be Monday, Nov. 25, at noon in the Utah State Capitol Rotunda.
"It's going to be a public Bible reading, but we're calling it a 'free speech gathering,'" Glickstein said during a recent visit to Salt Lake City. Gov. Gary R. Herbert will be the first reader, and he will be followed by a number of political, business and religious leaders, both local and national, including Utah Jazz president Randy Rigby, Elder S. Gifford Nielsen of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Quorum of the Seventy, Pampered Chef founder Doris Christopher and National Bible Bee competitor Tia Thomas.
"None of our readers are going to offer any commentary or explanation, and there won't be any preaching," Glickstein promised. "We've just asked them to bring their favorite scriptures to read and share as a way of honoring God."
Glickstien has drawn from his Jewish roots in creating ways to celebrate the Bible.
"The Jewish people have always had the Torah at the center of their culture," said Glickstein, who became a Christian after a miraculous healing experience in the 1960s. "God told them that his word is the most precious thing that he gives to them, and they take that very seriously."
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In my case with a Kubuntu 12.04 Live USB, I wonder is it safe ? There have been a lot of updates (150+ or something) since it came out. Specifically with the USB, although I chose the "Discard on shutdown, unless you save them elsewhere" option creating the LiveUSB, is there a chance that something malicious can sneak trough ? Mount my partitions and place something there ? I mean it seems possible to me ( a slightly better noob, that is). And if that were true, shouldn't there be a warning ?
"safe" is always relative. You are safe from stuff that messed with your operating system. But you are not safe from everything else:
In theory, one could mount your partitions and store data on them. But this data would have to be read again after the next reboot, which would require a different hack.
There are some hacks that write themselves into the master boot record (MBR) of your hard drives, meaning that the attack starts before the operating starts. With a CD, that should be impossible. With the USB stick, I am not too sure.
So you are safer than before, but you are not "safe" in an absolute sense.
There aren't many risks to browsing from a Live session, at least none that you wouldn't encounter on a normal installation.
If you really care about the security bugs that have been patched since you made your Live USB, you can always run


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The monitoring plan describes stormwater and surface water monitoring the city will conduct, including monitoring parameters, locations, and procedures. Monitoring data will be used to help evaluate and, if needed, modify the city's stormwater management program.


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I just got an apple tv (the black box). I was prompted to update and so I did. When completed, the only thing that would come on screen is the large blue iTunes icon and a white cable pointing to it from below. I am assuming it is asking to connect to itunes? Not sure what to do! do I need to but the cable?
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Most powerlifters and heavy weight olympic lifters have a lot of muscle, but are not skinny, why not? Would excess fat not hinder them in their technical lifts?
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For powerlifting, record lifts are 3 or more times bodyweight, and the lifts don't really require lifting the body. An extra 50lbs of body fat will not affect the result of deadlift or bench pressing, at all. In fact, more body weight will actually help you dead lift more whether you are stronger or not.
If you look at olympic lifters, they are leaner than powerlifters, but the amount of bodyweight they have to lift is still dwarfed by the weight on the bar. Fat on the body is not a major factor in how much they can lift. Flexibility would be much more important.
Their weight does start to matter a little bit because of weight classes. However, you might be used to seeing how cut body builders and boxers look. Both of these type of athletes are often extremely dehydrated when you see them in order to look like they have lower body fat (body builders) or to make a lower weight class (boxers). This reduces strength, which, in weightlifting, does not make up for the weight class advantage. Top lifters are rarely obese, they just don't have any incentive to be underweight.
There's a couple of things going on here, and they are both cultural and practical.
Now, while I respect Mr. Rippetoe a whole heap, I also can't bring myself to think like him in regards to food.
What affects your ability to lift heavy things is:
As long as you can get your body into the right position and complete the lift properly you can lift a lot of weight. In short, for power lifters and Olympic athletes strength is more important than the way the body looks.
I was just reading an article on this last night in PowerLifter magazine. On avg., every 10 lbs of new weight adds at min. 4lbs of muscle (for those who do not train at all). So, just adding weight adds strength. The article also listed the lifts from the most to least technical - Bench Pressing being the least 'technical' and dead lifting the most with squatting in the middle...so, some of the lifts could be impacted by the extra weight but not all - and many competitions take the total of the 3 lifts as the determining factor of who wins (total lbs lifted in all lifts). Is it healthy? no
Actually, excess fat in the abdominal region can force the lifter to bend over more at the start of the deadlift, which decreases the amount of weight that can be lifted. Observe the world record Squats and Deadlifts and you will notice n the lower weight classes, the record deadlift exceeds the record squat, while in the higher weight classes, the Squat records tend to be higher.


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How about a "Snowbird" badge for migrating X number of questions to SF or SU?
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There aren't badges for "closing questions" because it would cause a stampede of questionable closes. People who are closing things just to get the badge.
Migrating a question is just a particular type of "close", no more or less worthy of a badge than the other reasons to close. It should not get a specialized badge unless each close reason gets its own badge. And, giving each close reason its own badge would just incentivize people to close everything they can see, in order to get the badges.
Closing is not something that should need any incentive. It is a desire to clean up the site that causes us to close questions.
What about people treating programmers.SE as a toilet bowl? Would they get the "plumber" badge?
I don't think that migration in particular needs encouraging. Closing questions in general may be worth rewarding, however.
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More than just a place to sleep, CU-Boulder's residence halls are host to community and learning environments to support a diverse student body.
As nearly 6,500 students move to campus this week for the 2013-14 school year, CU-Boulder's newest residence hall, Kittredge Central, is welcoming students for the first time. Also, the nearby Kittredge West residence hall is reopened after renovations.
Both buildings comprise Residential Academic Programs, or RAPs -- of which there are 14 across campus -- and a number of "green" features to improve water and energy efficiency and to reduce the campus's carbon footprint.
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Fifty-three students are moving into the new Global Engineering RAP, housed in Kittredge Central. The program is designed for budding engineers with interests in worldwide engineering systems, foreign languages, international collaborative design and international development.
"We were pleased to attract a number of incoming first-year students who had not found this type of opportunity anywhere else in the country," said Diane Sieber, faculty adviser of the Global Engineering RAP and associate dean for education in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. "While there are successful residence halls for engineers at other universities, the Global Engineering RAP -- offering cultural and linguistic immersive learning and a focus on global development -- is the first program of its kind."
Students in the new RAP will take an interactive seminar titled "The Meaning of IT," or "Informática Global," which will take place both in Spanish and English, and will be taught by Sieber. The course examines personal and professional behaviors, interactions and information gathering in the digital age with regard to devices, social networks, online games, virtual worlds and global collaborative work.
Also offered through the new RAP are "Intro to Engineering Projects -- Global Development" and "Spanish Conversation" courses.
"The curriculum prepares students to study or work abroad and to volunteer for international aid projects," said Sieber. "It also prepares them for sophisticated leveraging of emerging international communication and collaboration tools such as teleconferencing and document- and image-sharing via social network platforms."
Sieber, who says that large engineering consulting firms currently earn more than 50 percent of their income from international projects, also plans to invite residents each week to prepare meals together using recipes from Spanish-speaking countries.
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6 Things You Won't Believe Animals Do Just Like Us
#3. Birds Are Grammar Nazis
Spend longer than a half second on the Internet and you'll encounter someone so hung up on correct grammar usage that you suspect he's got sentence diagrams where his ribs should be. And if you haven't, watch this: "Hoke? Your my best friend." Let's see how many people in the comments below flip their lids.
It helps if you say it in the wispy voice of a dying Southern gentlewoman. GRAMMAR NAZIS HATE THAT.
And for those of you who'd rather gouge out your own eyes than use or read bad grammar, hey, we get it. After all, what's the point of language if we ignore the rules? And wasn't it the invention of language that propelled humanity into civilization the first place?
Well, hold your butts, kids, because some animals are just as concerned about good grammar as we are.
Wait, what?
Bengal finches not only have rules of syntax when it comes to songs, but they also get mighty pissy when other finches break them.
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"Welcome to Finchtopia, now LEARN FINCHISH."
Researchers at Kyoto University recorded the tweets, chirps and chi-chi-chu-wee-reeeees of a group of finches, then played the songs back to a different group. After a while, the scientists pulled a fast one by taking the same songs and jumbling them up -- forming new "sentences," if you will. In most cases, the finches didn't seem to care. But one version of the jumbled song made the finches go bananas.
They started screeching angrily -- the kind of call usually reserved for intruding enemy finches. The scientists tried playing the same sound sample again with another group, and they got pissed, too -- virtually every finch that heard it, in fact. The scientists had accidentally created the finch song version of a your/you're mistake.
In case you're thinking that maybe they had just accidentally created a finch song that naturally sounds violent or threatening, they played it for a group of finches that had been raised in isolation -- they never lived with finches in the wild. They were fine with it. They didn't screech.
It was a vicious setback for members of the nascent finch home-schooling movement.
But then when those same finches spent two weeks with the first group, the ones that went apeshit at the sound of the song, soon they started getting pissed off at it, too. Being around the other finches taught them the rules of their "grammar," and taught them to get enraged at those who misuse it.
#2. Chimps Rely on Third-Party Mediators to Resolve Disputes
If you're anything like us, sitting between two grownass adults who were so angry that they required two lawyers and a neutral third-party arbitrator to communicate with each other was the stuff childhood (and puppet therapy) was made of.
"I think the one thing we can all agree on is that it's her fault."
Or maybe you followed the recent NFL lockout, and heard about how both sides had to meet with a mediator to try to hammer out a deal so that the proceedings wouldn't break down into a fit of screaming and chair-throwing. It's a pretty brilliant system: Two people who would rather chug a gallon of peanut oil than have a conversation just call in a professional to do the talking for them. You might even say it's one of the pinnacles of human civilization.
"People, please. You have to start talking so I can justify my $200."
Except, oh wait. Chimps have totally got the market on third-party mediators covered.
Wait, what?
Chimpanzees have figured out that when the feces hits the fan, man chimps need to stay the hell away from each other. That's when a very specific mediator walks into the picture: an older female who doesn't have sex on the brain.
Imagine two male chimpanzees are duking it out over who ate the last head lice or who pooted on Nuk-Nuk's favorite tree or whatever. (Like we know what they fight about.) Anyway, after the brawl, each male will sit and wait, presumably with his arms crossed and toes tapping, for the other to come over to reconcile. If no one makes the first move, a female chimp will make it for them.
"Oh, for crying out loud. Tell me when they've stopped flinging poop at each other."
Here's how: The female will approach one of the males and start grooming him. You know, picking out dirt and bugs and gray hairs and whatnot in order to help him calm down. Then she'll walk over to the other male, making sure Fighter Male #1 follows. With Muhammad Ali on one side and Joe Frazier on the other, the female lets them groom her, together, because grooming is calming as shit.
Then, she walks away, her job done. She intervened, and resolved their monkey conflict. The two males are left sitting together as friends, with neither losing face. We're 95 percent sure this is exactly how the Cold War ended.
This was their Bay of Pigs.
#1. Monkeys Understand Money and Prostitution
As soon as we're old enough to toddle toward the Hubba Bubba on the lowest shelf at the checkout aisle, we get the concept of money. Money is what gets you food, toys and those lame ass OshKosh B'Gosh overalls your mom makes you wear. Money is what puts some people on a throne and others in a sewage ditch. Surely, this one part of human civilization is ours and ours alone.
"I'll wait two, maybe three days before chowing down on your leg."
Nope. Monkeys have also been proven able to comprehend, use and exploit money.
Wait, what?
First of all, it turns out that it's not all that hard to teach monkeys to use a currency. In one experiment, it was just a matter of giving capuchin monkeys a bunch of silver discs, then demonstrating that they would get a treat when they turned one disc in to the researchers. After just a few months, they picked up the idea that the discs had inherent value (chimpanzees figured it out even faster in another experiment, and were even taught to recognize different denominations of "currency").
Twenty minutes later, cut up credit cards littered the enclosure.
And to be clear, exchanging the silver discs for treats wasn't just some mindless "perform an action to get a prize" trick -- the capuchin monkeys were found to respond logically to price fluctuations, buying less if the price rose and vice versa.
And then, chaos ensued. One monkey, called Felix, quickly ran to the chamber where the "coins" were kept, threw all them into the communal cage and then scurried back. What the scientists had witnessed was a bank heist. When the researchers went in to try and get the coins back, the monkeys put up a fight, only caving in once the scientists gave them treats.
Christiano Oliveria
"Remember, kids, crime does pay."
While this was going on, one scientist witnessed a male monkey hand a coin to a female monkey. Was this some act of kindness? Maybe a monkey romance was blooming in the midst of the chaos?
Nope, it was prostitution. The female had sex with the male, and then went off to buy some grapes. Capitalism, kids!
It's just a slippery slope from this, to wine, to cocaine-addled monkeys.
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Judge Jo Beth Weber found probable cause to bind 38-year-old Phillip Lowery over for trial following a preliminary hearing in White County Circuit Court Wednesday morning.
Lowery is charged with one class 2 felony count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse after he allegedly had a four-year-old girl fondle him in his Carmi home on repeated occasions between April and December 2010.
White County State's Attorney Denton Aud called Illinois State Police Detective Rick White to the stand as the state's lone witness. White told the court the case unfolded in June 2012 when the alleged victim's mother was scrolling through some photos on her cell phone. She pointed out a picture of one of Lowery's children, said White, and asked the girl if she remembered when the child in the picture's mother used to babysit her.
White said the girl told her mother she did remember and also said, "You know what he used to do to me every time I was over there? He made me play with his ******."
White said the mother called a family member to their residence and the girl, now six years old, relayed the same story to the family member.
White County Sheriff Doug Maier was notified and he called in White to investigate since Lowery was employed as a correctional officer at the City-County Jail at the time of the offense and the report of the offense.
Lowery has since been placed on administrative leave from the jail pending disposition of the case.
White said the girl was taken to the Guardian Center in Carmi where a forensic interview was conducted. The girl allegedly told investigators the offenses occurred after he mother would drop her off at Lowery's residence, which is just down the alley from the jail, around 4:30 a.m.
The girl was let in the house by Lowery's wife who would then return to bed and the girl would be left to sleep on the couch in the living room.
The girl alleged Lowery would get off work at 7 a.m., walk home and be alone with her in the living room and that is when the offenses would occur. Lowery would then drop the girl off at a daycare center in Carmi.
White said Lowery was interviewed and corroborated that he was alone in the living room with the girl and he would drop her off at daycare but was adamant in his denial of the girl's allegations, saying, "I never hurt that girl."
Lowery's attorney, Alan Downen of McLeansboro, asked White if the interview with Lowery was tape recorded. He said it was not recorded. He also asked if there was any evidence of the allegations besides the girl's verbal statements to interviewers and White said the only evidence in the case was the girl's allegations that allegedly started when she was three then continued after she turned 4 in June 2010.
Page 2 of 2 - On re-direct, Aud asked White about the girl identifying Lowery in a photo line-up and he confirmed that she had a couple of days after the forensic interview.
The judge found probable cause to continue the case to trial. She also entered into the record an order prohibiting Lowery from having unsupervised visits with any children as an additional condition of his bail.
A pre-trial hearing was set for 9 a.m. March 6.
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12 Jul 2012 6:01 AM #1
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'on' of undefined
I'm using Ext Designer 1.2.2 with Ext JS 3. I successfully export the project, but when I try to run it I receive:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'on' of undefined
The problem is in the following code:
store = Ext.StoreMgr.lookup(store); store.on({ scope: this, beforeload: this.beforeLoad, load: this.onLoad, exception: this.onLoadError });
In my case I have a PagingToolbar with a store set and when that component needs it the store is still not created.
So, my questions is: can you give me any advice how to fix the problem or just any direction of the Stores' things. I.e. how are they created, initialized etc ...
12 Jul 2012 7:00 AM #2
However I changed this line of code:
return Ext.isObject(id) ? (id.events ? id : Ext.create(id, 'store')) : this.get(id);
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Hope that this helps to someone


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THE RACE IS ON: Obama/Biden vs. Romney/Ryan. At stake is the direction we as a nation move in on job creation, education, healthcare, the economy and too many other issues that affect our daily lives and future. But over the next 83 days, campaigns, parties, and super-pacs will be on a "hundred-thousand-trillion", while many of our organizations and people will allow others to lead during this time of crisis.
There are however, many that are taking this crisis diagnoisis seriously, and in response have called a Code Red Strategy and Action Conference. Faith leaders, congregants, and concerned citizens will gather in Baltimore this week to learn how to and be certified to register voters, connect evangelism and mobilization, receive tech tools to protect voters and develop election-day plans.
This conference which is being called by the Empowerment Movement will be this Thursday through Saturday and will have the likes of Roland Martin, Bishop Vashti McKenzie, Rev. Freddie Haynes and myself providing strategy recommendations. But the real meat of the work will come from professionals like Barbara R. Arnwine of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, who will breakdown the attack on our voter rights and what we can do to hit back.
Family, this work is essential because the black church has an opportunity to be the difference maker, not just in this election, but in serving as the institution that serves more than its congregants, but truly the communities in which they reside. Many churches have stayed back from political engagement because of the attacks by the IRS on their 501© 3 status. Others debate if the church can be the force we need it to be politically. Barbara Dianne Savage, a brilliant scholar at UPenn stated in her book, "Your Spirit Walks Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion": "In the first half of the twentieth century, the dominant political narratives treated African-American religion with despair and disdain. The emergence in the late 1950s of a Southern civil rights movement with churches, church people, and church culture at its center was a powerful and startling departure from that story, rather than a natural progression. In many ways, the movement is best thought of not as an inevitable triumph or a moment of religious revival, but simply as a miracle. It was brief, bold, and breathtaking, difficult to replicate or sustain, and experienced firsthand by only a small remnant of true believers."
Perhaps that is why we so lift up those times and all that many people of faith worked to change in America. But now is not the time for debate on this history of black faith activism. Now is the time to live what we want to next chapter to be. For more info or to participate in the free Code Red Conference go to http://www.Empowermentmovement.org<http://www.Empowermentmovement.org> if you want to do it your way…DO IT. We are all together.
The black church is as diverse as the black community that makes up its congregants and their political views are equally as diverse. Regardless of your political affiliation, shouldn't we and not a party or campaign be the front line of voter registration, education, GOTV, and protection? It's Code Red time, family. Will you be part of the team that sits back in crisis or the one that shows up? Your Call.
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quote: At best, Earth-developed tech could then be tested and/or deployed on the Moon.
quote: Moon colonies will have some major problems to tackle. First, no easy abort in case of a catastrophe.
quote: Second, what is certainly going to be a constant war with lunar dust -- which is extremely abrasive and toxic, and will be a constant source of equipment failure, heavy maintenance, and health problems.
quote: Third, dealing with micrometeorites and radiation: one can burrow down and create subterranean (subloonean?) habitats to address this, but any surface activities or installations are still extremely fraught.
quote: That last one, by the way, we can tackle without ever going to the Moon or any other place....: better space suits
quote: I'm sorry but the preconceived attitude of it can't be done should not enter the equation.
quote: If the moon is such a bad idea, then why is an asteroid, or Mars any better?
quote: We've been launching people into space for a while now.
quote: Private companies will soon be offering rides
quote: companies are looking at privatizing the moon and asteroids for mining purposes
quote: Yeah it will be expensive, but the benefits outweigh the risks.
quote: We throw trillions away on lots of other stuff.
quote: Id rather they throw it at the moon.
quote: The fact that private companies are doing it at all is pretty awesome.
quote: As far as the lunar/asteroid mining goes, you may think its a Ponzi, but it has enough weight that pop-sci has addressed it in a few articles.
quote: You seem to be focused on just the launch.
quote: What about SpaceX? They've broken into the monopoly the ULA had on USAF contracts because they are cheaper.
quote: They are attemping to address the reusability aspect.
quote: I'd argue that private industry and competition will drive down prices, and lead to the innovation you desire because they have to answer to their investors.
quote: The government has no inkling of give a fuq about the amount of money they throw at the monopolies they are in bed with.
quote: Have Dyson make a lunar vacuum cleaner
quote: I'm sorry but the preconceived attitude of it can't be done should not enter the equation. Stop looking for reasons why it shouldn't be done. All you say is no, no, no. If the moon is such a bad idea, then why is an asteroid, or Mars any better?


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Tangled Roots Brewing Company
At Tangled Roots Brewing Company, we're about beers, not bandwagons. Flavors, not fads. Liquids, not labels. This is beer done right. With an appreciation for natural elements, and an aversion to pretense. With a devotion to craft, a dedication to authenticity, and a respect for where we came from. A respect for our roots.
Sunfield Restaurant
Easy access off I-80 and open 7 days a week from 6:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. Serving delicious breakfast, lunch and dinner. The banquet room has seating for 70. Sunfield is ideal for showers, meetings, family gathering, birthdays and other celebrations.
The Lone Buffalo
We created The Lone Buffalo to be a restaurant and a brewery under one roof with one goal: to serve good food and beer in a comfortable atmosphere. We believe in the idea of "slow food" and we want our guests to savor what we offer. Chef Brok and his brigade use fresh products from our own farm and from other local farmers and producers. Everything on the menu is freshly cooked, every day, and varies with the seasons. Our beer is crafted, using traditional methods and equipment, from the best malts and hops available – including some from our own farm. We take care not to get in the way of the complex flavors of the simple ingredients in our food and beer. We won't get in the way of your enjoyment of either – take your time and come back soon!
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A family friendly casual dining restaurant known for good food, good people and great times! Open Monday - Thursday 3:30pm - 9:00pm. Friday and Saturday 3:30pm - 10:00pm. Sunday Winter hours.
Mark Allen's American Kitchen
Mark Allen's American Kitchen is a comfortable place to be and is perfect for lunch, dinner or just a quick drink or snack. We take great pride in preparing our food with the finest and freshest ingredients available.
Halftime Restaurant, Pizza & Cocktails
We offer a full menu, kids menu and made from scratch pizzas. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as homemade soups daily and a salad bar.
The New Chalet Restaurant
Ottawa's South-side restaurant. Popular breakfast & lunch site. Daily Specials, After Hour Parties, Catering, Pick-Up Window, Fri & Sat All You Can Eat Specials. Business Hours: Sun 7am - 2pm, M-Thurs 6am-2pm, Fri & Sat 6am - 7pm.
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Red Dog Grill is Heritage Harbor Ottawa's new full service restaurant, and they encourage you to share your favorite pet stories over dinner - the restaurant is named for Sam the red rescue dog. Featuring Friday night family movies and Saturday night live music.
MJ's Pub & Grill
Great pub food a notch above the rest. Video games, patio, weekly entertainment, friendly, comfy, safe atmosphere, where our guests are the best! Hours: Sun-Thurs, 10am-Midnight, Friday 10am-2am and Saturday 10am-3am.
Hi-Way Restaurant
Easy-access, casual dinning offering a wide variety of foods, along with a selection of appetizers, salads, sides and desserts in a relaxing and casual atmosphere. Cocktails available. Open 7 days a week, 6am - 9pm.
Prime Quarter Steakhouse
Looking for a night out with great food? How about "grilling you own" at the Prime Quarter Steak House. Choose from the finest cuts of USDA Choice beef or try one of our succlulent seafood selections. Enjoy an endless salad bar, baked potato & Texas toast while you enjoy the relaxed, casual atmosphere.
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Our menu features everything you love about country cooking, plus a few items that might just surprise you.
Casa Mia
Excellent dining in casual elegance. A culinary delight featuring steak, seafood, pasta and unique specials. Hours are Wed. - Sun. 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM.
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Monte's Riverside Inn
"For the finest steaks, seafood, and pasta in LaSalle County."
The Big Apple Family Restaurant
Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. Daily homemade specials, Children's menu and senior citizens specials. Large breakfast menu served all day! Family owned and operated. Just south of I-80.
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Authentic, homemade Mexican cuisine and some of the best margaritas you will ever have! Big menu selection features lunch and daily specials (drink specials, too!), complimentary chips with homemade salsa. Family friendly and very budget friendly.
Ye Olde Underground Inn
With a menu offering American and Italian food, this is a dinner club. Expect the average entrée to cost $8 to $12. The interior is enhanced by a neat memorabilia collection and large plants throughout, accented by warm lighting. It's comfortable and relaxed atmosphere that attracts young upscale professionals. Table talk is no problem here - noise level is unobtrusive. A full selection of alcoholic beverages are served, along with a good selection of wines. In addition, the restaurant has a seated bar inside. Note: Reservations are suggested. Carryout is available. Catering for various events can be arranged (call for details & quotes). Entrances and walkways are wheelchair friendly. Children are welcome. Cash, MasterCard, Visa, American Express and Discover are accepted.
Fitzgerald's Piano Lounge
Fitzgerald's was established in 2007 with the idea of offering Princeton and the surrounding communities a different atmosphere in which to enjoy good company, the finest drinks, unique entertainment and excellent service. We are committed to uphold these four areas of importance as they apply to the hospitality industry.
Woody's Steakhouse
One of the oldest restaurants in LaSalle County. Continental gourmet dining featuring steaks, seafood and pasta. Full service bar and lounge. I-80 to exit 90 Rt. 23 2 miles.
Habanero Mexican Grill & Cantina
Habanero Mexican Grill & Cantina promises fast, fresh, and authentic Mexican food.
Captain's Cove
Food, fun, foo-foo drinks, casual or banquet dining, seven days a week during the season. And a fantastic view!
Wise Guys Bar & Grill
Stop by and try one of our famous Wise Guys Burgers with fries or bring the family in for one our special occasion Sunday brunches. Whether it's a party for the girls or a football night out for the guys, the best place to be is Wise Guys! Also providing catering/banquet facilities for corporate/private parties and weddings.
Anna Marie's Pizza
We deliver! All day! Everyday! Plus we do catering! And did we mention that we've got some of the most delicious slices in town?


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Thursday, September 07, 2006
Why Is It So Difficult to Change Time Frames?
As I mentioned recently on my Trader Performance page, all such changes are difficult. That is because the changes entail unlearning old patterns--not just acquiring new ones.
In all my work with traders, I would say that the most difficult transition they've attempted is a transition from a short time frame to a longer one within the same trading instrument.
To trade a longer time frame means that you must let winners ride longer than you ordinarily would. It also means tolerating larger drawdowns and living with uncertainty longer. The instincts that help a scalper--getting out of losers quickly, for example--wreak havoc with efforts to trade longer time frames.
Once you have a "feel" for a market--which, really, is also a feel for a time frame--it is very difficult to unlearn that feel and develop a new one. The majority of traders, I find, do not navigate that change successfully. The rate of success is greater in applying the old time frame to a new instrument than in finding a new time frame in a familiar market.
Perhaps, however, there's another reason that it's so difficult to change time frames: Patterns that exist on an intraday time frame may be very different from those over longer periods.
Here's an example. As I mentioned recently in the Weblog and my market update yesterday, I've been playing with a trade setup in the Odds Maker program from Trade Ideas that involves buying pullbacks from upthrusts and selling bounces from downthrusts. The pattern tests out quite well on intraday data across a variety of stocks and markets. When I tested a similar pullback pattern over multiday periods, however, the buy setup actually yielded a negative edge!
Specifically, I went back to 2004 and looked at four-day periods in SPY that rose more than 1.5%. I then identified four-day periods that retraced a portion of that gain, but not all of it. Over the following four days, SPY did not resume its upthrust. Indeed, the average change over the next four days was -.30% (19 up, 19 down), weaker than the average four-day change over the 2004-2006 period.
Could it be that markets are more mean-reverting over short time frames than over longer periods? Might this help to explain why the transition from daytrading to swing trading is so difficult for many traders? As we extend the time frame, we go from markets in which locals are dominant to ones in which institutions determine the big moves.
Perhaps who dominates markets determines how markets move.
Changing from intraday to multiday trading might entail shifting from thinking like locals to thinking like institutions.
And that's very difficult for market makers.
5 comments:
- yinTrader said...
Hi Brett
Coming from a novice online trader, I have two observations about trading timeframes.
For some reason, I seem to trade quite well for S&P emini intraday and for mini FX swing trading.
Perhaps, I feel the volatility of S&P is greater than for FX and feel more confident trading intraday.
However, the GBPUSD can be volatile too and has been trending south the last two days to give me a risk reward ratio of 3.09 when I just decided to exit at 1.8760 having short at 1.8933 .
I have made many mistakes forcing trades and going against trends and am beginning to discern patterns , having learned to be patient to wait now.
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Hi Yin,
That's a very interesting observation; thanks. Patterns set up at different time frames for different instruments. By trading more than one instrument, perhaps you also train yourself for a degree of mental flexibility re: pattern recognition.
- Paulo de León said...
What about the other way? from swing to scalp.....since swing it´s been tough too due to the Mean Reverting issue that you mention. Correct timing the entries and exits is more critical now in swing than 2-3 years ago. Everyone is suffering from the less volatility and trending enviroment that you have been commenting at least a year ago....some less than others is my view.
If you check the returns of the best HF, CTA´s, they all are experiencing diminishing returns. The best ones win less, the worst are getting crushed.
Changing markets is difficult too. For example i´ve been trading the Russell 2000 since 3 months ago, and coming from the ES is like playing another game. It takes time and creativity as you said to know a different market.
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Excellent point, Paulo; it is indeed difficult to go from longer time frames to shorter ones, and markets with different volatilities do trade differently. A key is holding onto your capital while making the transitions!
- Daniel S said...
Hi Brett I trade mainly the ES and it is still difficult for me, but still learning on the sim for 1.4 years. Different things have happended but at the end intraday trading for me could be just the ES and maybe another instrument like corn or soybeans, maybe later crude oil. But they all work differently...
For example S/R levels work better in the ES than in crude oil...So the questiosn is how do u think i could increase my knowledge about 2 or 3 markets at a time, since maybe a 1 min chart on the ES could have some trendlines but a 1 min chart on crude oil is useless'
Thnaks brett