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Algorithmic Foundations (AF)
See program guidelines for contact information.
The Algorithmic Foundations (AF) program supports potentially transformative research and education projects advancing design and analysis of algorithms and characterized by algorithmic thinking accompanied by rigorous analysis. Research on algorithms for problems that are central to computer science and engineering as well as new techniques for the rigorous analysis of algorithms are of interest. AF supports theoretical research that bounds the intrinsic difficulty of problems to determine the measures of complexity in formal models of computation, classical or new. The goal is to understand the fundamental limits of resource-bounded computation and to obtain efficient solutions within those limits. Specifically, the time and space complexity of finding exact and approximate solutions in deterministic and randomized models of computation is a central concern of the program. Research on resources other than time and space, such as communication and energy, is also encouraged. In addition to the traditional, sequential computing paradigm, AF supports research on the design and analysis of novel algorithms in parallel and distributed models, in particular, in heterogeneous multi-core and many-core machines; the computational models and algorithms that capture essential aspects of computing over massive data sets; game theory and social networks; and alternative forms of computation and information processing, including quantum computing and biological models of computation.
The program supports research in algorithms needed in all areas, both within and outside computer science. Algorithmic research with applications in databases, machine learning, data mining, networks, communications, operating systems, languages, compilers, and machine abstractions is supported. New techniques for the design and analysis of algorithms in areas such as cryptography, computational geometry, computational biology, game theory, social networks and numerical, symbolic, and algebraic computing are appropriate for this program. Relevance to application areas is important and collaborations with researchers in those areas are encouraged. However, research funded by this program must advance the study of algorithms.
Research on parallelism and scalability that promises to lead to a new era of parallel computing is now supported through a separate program, eXploiting Parallelism and Scalability (XPS; see http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504842). XPS is particularly interested in "clean-slate" approaches that re-evaluate and possibly re-design the traditional hardware and software stack.
More information on topics appropriate for the Algorithmic Foundations program is available at:
Algorithmic Foundations (AF) Staff
Funding Opportunities for the Algorithmic Foundations Program:
Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF): Core Programs. NSF 15-573


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Agriculture & Food
Nothing is more basic to human well-being than having enough nutritious food to eat. Yet one in every eight people in the world — 842 million — are trapped in a cycle of hunger and poverty.
The reality is that most of the world doesn't have the benefit of picking up food from the corner store — they grow it themselves. Hunger is a crisis when disaster ruins the harvest. It is a cycle when families cannot grow or buy enough to lead healthy, productive lives, and when the effects of malnutrition are passed on to the next generation.
When food shortages occur due to drought and conflict, Mercy Corps helps prevent hunger and treat malnutrition in the most vulnerable — children, pregnant women, the elderly and the displaced. We distribute vouchers, cash or emergency rations, working with local suppliers to speed delivery, save money and boost local economies.
In addition to emergency responses, we focus on long-term solutions that build future food security.
Mercy Corps helps farmers manage their land, increase their harvests and diversify crops to produce a larger, more nutritious, and stable food supply. By teaching nutrition and hygiene, we ensure families can utilize their resources to boost their health. And we connect farmers with new markets and introduce more efficient methods of tending productive livestock and processing and storing crops to increase incomes for years to come.
All stories about Agriculture & Food
Mongolia: D-z-u-d spells "disaster" for Mongolian herders
Ever heard of a "dzud"? It's pronounced zuhd, and it's an extraordinarily harsh Mongolian winter -- the kind where temperatures plummet, animals freeze to death, and you can enter your house only through the roof because that's how high the snow is.
Guatemala: Travels in Alta Verapaz
It's raining again in Coban, Guatemala. Driving out to visit some communities, we come upon the apparently eternal landslide bleeding from the rain the night before, and washing out the road with its rust-red mud and boulders.
Indonesia: From pushing a pedicab to steering a healthy food cart
His name is Gunanto, or Gun for short. He's 32 years old with two school-aged children. His wife works as a laundry laborer in their Jakarta neighborhood and earns 150,000 Indonesian rupiah — about US$15 — per month.
Central African Republic: Baking a better future in Africa
In the impoverished Central African Republic, we're finding ways to help women like Edwige feed her family by expanding their economic opportunities.
Ethiopia: How did Mercy Corps turn rain from foe back to friend in Ethiopia?
Ethiopia has long struggled with food insecurity. With generous support from USAID, Mercy Corps has just completed the first year of a three-year effort to improve food security in some of Ethiopia's most vulnerable regions.
Afghanistan: Almonds for Afghanistan: A farmer tries his hand at a high-value crop
I picked my way gingerly though the rows of young, green wheat as our host, farmer Ahmed Shah*, the Mercy Corps project manager and a few agriculture experts strode ahead across the field.
Indonesia: Be sincere to get more
Liberia: On market day in Gio Town, farmers learn a new way to extract palm oil
Wednesday is market day in Gio Town, a small village in Liberia's Grand Bassa County. By mid-morning the stalls are crowded with vendors and shoppers.
Liberia: A sweet business: Cocoa brings new hope to Liberian farmers
Liberia is a lush tropical rainforest, just the right climate to grow cocoa beans. And before the country's two civil wars, it did just that.
Afghanistan: Irrigation canal saves 600 Afghan households
Ortabuz is a small village in the east of Afghanistan's Takhar Province. At least 600 families are living in this small and green village. The people of Ortabuz are mostly farmers and each family have one or two jerib — about one-half to one full acre — of land for planting of crops.

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Amos Lee
With Alexander's help, Lee released his self-titled debut on Blue Note in 2005. The album won Lee a small following for his blend of acoustic funk, folk, and light jazz, and he returned one year later with a sophomore effort, Supply and Demand. Last Days at the Lodge followed in 2008, cracking the Top 40 upon its release and becoming Lee's highest-charting album to date. His audience grew accordingly, prompting Lee to ask some of his most famous fans -- including Willie Nelson, Iron & Wine's Sam Beam, Calexico, and Lucinda Williams -- to appear on his next record. The result, Mission Bell, was recorded in 2010 with Calexico's Joey Burns producing, and released early the following year.
In 2012, Lee delivered the EP As the Crow Flies, featuring previously unreleased songs recorded during the Mission Bell sessions. A year later, Lee returned with Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song, which was recorded in Nashville and included appearances from vocalists Alison Krauss and Patty Griffin. The concert album Live at Red Rocks appeared in 2015 and showcased Lee performing with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra at the famed outdoor amphitheater. ~ Matt Collar
Selected Discography
Track List: Mountains Of Sorrow, Rivers Of Song (Deluxe Edition)
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Financial Aid
Chelsea Square
Chelsea Square is undergoing the most comprehensive renewal it has seen in 100 years. Four buildings have been re-pointed and re-roofed with historically appropriate slate shingles: Lorillard, Edson, White, and Sherred. Six buildings have been fully renovated: Chelsea 2,3,4, Kohne, Dodge, and Eigenbrodt, while Chelsea 8,9, and Hoffman Hall (including the stately Refectory), have been outfitted to serve as the Desmond Tutu Center.
One of the key results of these efforts has been a dramatic reduction in the percentage of the operating budget designated for facilities maintenance, from over 40% in 1999 to 24% today.
Important work remains to be done. The master plan created by the architects Beyer Blinder Belle calls for a full renovation of West building, Pintard, and Dehon. Finally, and most importantly, the Chapel of the Good Shepherd must be re-pointed and re-roofed. All of these projects can only be undertaken with significant philanthropic support from all who care about theological education on Chelsea Square.
The Seminary seeks support for the Chelsea Square Conservancy, a special fund dedicated to enhancing our historic gardens and grounds. Even if you have already made a gift to the annual fund this year, we invite you to consider providing additional gift support to strengthen and nourish the Seminary's horticulture. We are blessed to have an exceptional group of volunteers known as the Chelsea Square Executive Committee, whose gifts of time and talent continue to make the Seminary a beautiful place for all who live, work, study and visit here. If you are interested in becoming involved at this level please contact Donna Ashley at 212-243-5150 ext. 388.
Gifts to the Conservancy contribute directly to the annual bulb planting, the long-term care for our sixty trees, and the maintenance of our gracious lawns.
The Seminary's buildings and horticulture are often cited as one of New York City's hidden treasures. We invite you to stop by next time you are in the neighborhood.
In all seasons, the Close is uniquely beautiful.
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The 7 Most Impossible Rock Stars to Deal With
#3. Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop has been around forever, and is responsible for that one song you definitely know, and several more you probably don't. As a consequence of being around forever, there's two distinct phases in his career: the drug phase and the post-drug phase.
First the drug phase--and hang on to your butts, because this is pretty nasty. Back in 1969-1970, Iggy and his original band, the Stooges, all hung out together in an apartment in Detroit, and, possibly because no one had invented the Internet yet, they got bored and started doing a lot of heroin. A side note: One of the quirks about taking heroin intravenously is that after shooting up, you end up with a bit of blood inside the hypodermic. Which these guys started squirting out over the walls and ceiling. Imagine what that apartment must have looked like after a few weeks and months, and keep in mind that heroine is not known for being much of a motivator, and you start to realize why getting these guys out to a show might have been somewhere between difficult and your worst nightmare.
A Typical Day If You Were Iggy Pop's Personal Assistant (Drug Phase):
You: No. I am not going back into that apartment. Because fuck you guys, that's why. If you need me, I will be five thousand miles away and on fire, because I quit, and because I will light myself on fire having seen what I just saw. Fuck.
Since then, Iggy's cleaned up a bit, which should make shepherding him around a lot easier of a chore. And by all accounts it is, aside from the hilarious contract rider he has for gigs. For those that don't know, a contract rider specifies the required amenities that should be in a performer's dressing room; snacks, beverages, that sort of thing. Iggy's is one of the most extensive in the industry, and although it's almost certainly a joke, has specific requests for:
"Seven dwarves dressed up as those dwarves out of that film about the dwarves. You know the one. Cinderella?"
"Two cans of red bull. Something with testicles in it"
"Cauliflower/Broccoli, cut into individual florets and thrown immediately into the garbage. I fucking hate that."
A Typical Day If You Were Iggy Pop's Personal Assistant (Post-Drug Phase):
Concert Promoter: ...
You: Look, you know the way these rock stars are. They've got an image to live up to...
Concert Promoter: ...
You: And I don't have to tell you that there is nothing more rock and roll than, uh,... drinking testicles and wasting food in the company of a dwarf.
#2. Nikki Sixx
Back in the 80s Nikki Sixx, the bassist for Motley Crue, was along with basically everyone else in the band, taking enormous quantities of heroin. It was a pretty typical rock star thing to do by that point, and not in itself that remarkable, but for the fact that he actually killed himself doing it. The story goes that after taking far too much heroin one night, Sixx collapsed, and for a couple minutes was technically dead. A paramedic at the scene, reportedly a fan of the band, revived him with two adrenaline shots to the heart. Why everyone who recounts the story highlights the fact that the paramedic was a Motley Crue fan is unknown--perhaps if Sixx played for a lower caliber band on the order of Warrant or Ratt, he wouldn't have survived?
"Wait, aren't you in Warrant?! Get the hell out of my ambulance! No, I will not tell the driver to slow down."
Anyways, Sixx did recover and within minutes, bravely escaped the clutches of medical aid to go do more heroin.
Holy shit.
We've concluded that there is no way any man or machine could have kept control of Nikki Sixx at this time in his life. If you put a 1987 era Nikki Sixx on one side of a brick wall and heroin on the other side, you will end up with a Nikki Sixx shaped hole in your brick wall. The wall could be only six-feet long and have a door in it, and he'd still go right through the thing like it was paper.
A Typical Day If You Were Nikki Sixx's Personal Assistant:
You: Hey, Nikki, have you... oh no, my wall! Oh my. I should not have left that heroin lying behind that brick wall. For this I have no one to blame but myself.
#1. Eric Clapton
Universally hailed as one of the greatest guitarists of all time, Eric Clapton spent much of his early career furiously inhaling massive quantities of alcohol and drugs, possibly worried the world's supply was about to run out. Did it interfere with his music? Yes and no. In his own words:
"I'd wander off the stage and somebody would have to try to persuade me to go back on. There seemed to be a postpsychedelia drunkenness that swept over everybody in the entertainment business during the early 70s. To be on stage, you were almost expected to be drunk. I remember doing one entire show lying down on the stage with the microphone stand lying beside me, and nobody batted an eyelid."
That's right: Eric Clapton was just lying down during a rock concert and that was perfectly cool. Encouraged even. The amazing thing is, he probably just killed that set too.
A Typical Day If You Were Eric Clapton's Personal Assistant
Eric Clapton: Look, I'm going to finish drinking this children's pool full of rye whiskey, and you're going to get 80 feet of high strength fishing line, then learn everything you can about the art of puppetry, and meet me at the show in three hours. OK? Break!
You: Man, there has got to be a better use of my Liberal Arts degree.


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9 Jun 2009 7:45 AM #1
[FNR] ComboBox in IE 8
Hi guys,
i noticed that my comboBox appears strange in IE 8...The bottom border disaper and the button aligment is wrong...is anybody else have this problem? only in IE 8 this problem hapens
9 Jun 2009 7:47 AM #2
I cant reproduce that on this page: http://www.extjs.com/examples-dev/explorer.html#forms
Can you please post some testcase do demonstrate the issue?
9 Jun 2009 8:26 AM #3
I did not tell, but im using the gxt 1.x
and in this example below, the button aligment is wrong with IE 8..test it
i will put my code, but is very simple...my question is about the bottom border too..i try to put a image here, but i can´tCode:
LayoutContainer painelCombo = new LayoutContainer(new FormLayout()); SimpleComboBox<ElementoPesquisa> cb = new SimpleComboBox<ElementoPesquisa>(); cb.add(elementos); cb.setHideLabel(true); cb.setEditable(false); FormData fd = new FormData("100%"); fd.setMargins(new Margins(0,0,2,0)); painelCombo.add(cb,fd);
9 Jun 2009 8:30 AM #4
Yah sorry, i was thinking i am in the GXT 2 forums. Yes, GXT 1.2 is not yet compatible with IE8. But that is already fixed in SVN.
9 Jun 2009 9:20 AM #5
So, i just have to wait for the next release?
thanks for the replies
11 Jun 2009 9:50 AM #6
Before I log another issue... In our app the IE8 comboboxes are rendered "lower" than any other fields. For instance if I have the following in a FormPanel:
Label 1: [ Text Box 1 ]
Label 2: [ Text Box 2 ]
Label 3: [ Combo Box 1 ]
Label 4: [ Text Box 3 ]
The spacing between the textboxes are fine, but the lower part of the combobox almost touches the top of the last textbox. Is this also one of the issues addressed in SVN for 1.2.5?
9 Jul 2009 1:56 AM #7
I had this problem. Fixed it by widening the containing form so the combo and it's drop down icon fits without jogging down
27 Oct 2010 11:20 PM #8
Hi ,In IE 8.0 my combox open list is not align with combo header as you can see in attachement, have some idea ? thanks
29 Oct 2010 5:27 AM #9
Hi i solved this in IE 8.0 by removing Mode=Local property on my dropdown because Mode=Local applied some intial height to Combobox' s list but in firefox and Windows 7 OS , its still opens towards left.you can see in attachement. there is any permanent solution for this bug in EXTJS.29Oct.JPG
27 Apr 2011 9:40 PM #10
Dropdown issue in IE
The drop down image(where we click on the down array to view the list) is not in-line with the textbox. But it works fine in Mozilla and chrome.
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- "mkdir foo; svn mv * foo" 3 answers
Anytime I want to move thousands of files to a new folder, I always encounter the same problem.
> mkdir my_folder
> mv * my_folder
mv: cannot move 'my_folder to a subdirectory of itself 'my_folder'
While I think that the error above is harmless (is it?) I am wondering if there is a way of avoiding it.
In case it matters, I am interested in a solution in zsh or one that works well across various shells.


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For the last seven days, members of the Loving Springs Baptist Church have rebuilt their sanctuary, with the help of an organization called Carpenters for Christ.
The group travels to a city for one week every June, and helps one small church rebuild from the ground up.
Jim McMurray, is a volunteer from Alabama, and he says: "To see these folks going out here and to see the excitement on their faces and emotions, it makes it all worthwhile."
Besides the hope this new building is giving the congregation, workers have noticed it's also helping to bring the entire community together.
Mike Montgomery is a member of Loving Springs Baptist and says: "It's been incredible, it's been an outpouring of God's love for this community. I was amazed at how everyone from all walks of life have come together."
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I'm working on the following problem:
Define a linear transformation $f: \mathbb{R}^3 \to \mathbb{R}^3$ such that:
- $\{x \in \mathbb{R}^3: f(x) = (1, 1, 1)\} = \{x \in \mathbb{R}^3: x_1 + x_2 + x_3 = 1, x_2 - x_3 = 2\}$
- $Im(f) = \langle(1, 2, 3), (0, 1, 2)\rangle$.
Solving the equations for the preimage of $(1,1,1)$, I get that $f^{-1}(1,1,1) = \langle(-2, 1, 0)\rangle + (-1, 2 0)$. In case the notation isn't clear, this represents the line parallel to $(-2,1,0)$ that goes through $(-1,2,0)$. The equation $f(x) = (1,1,1)$ is a non homogeneous linear system. Therefore, $\langle(-2,1,0)\rangle$ must be the solution to $f(x) = 0$, and $f(-1,2,0)$ must be $(1,1,1)$. This tells us right away that the kernel of $f$ is $\langle(-2,1,0)\rangle$. We can begin writing the values of $f$ for some basis of $\mathbb{R}^3$:
$$\begin{align} f(-2,1,0) &= 0 \\ f(-1,2,0) &= (1,1,1) \end{align} $$
Now, I would think that the only restriction I have for the third vector is that its image should complete a basis for $Im(f)$. We can use, for example, $(1,3,5)$, because $\langle(1,1,1),(1,3,5)\rangle = \langle(1,2,3),(0,1,2)\rangle = Im(f)$. As for the third element of the basis of $\mathbb{R}^3$, I don't see any particular restriction for it, so I'll just use $(0,0,1)$. We can define $f$ like this, then:
$$\begin{align} f(-2,1,0) &= 0 \\ f(-1,2,0) &= (1,1,1) \\ f(0,0,1) &= (1,3,5) \end{align}$$
This looks all right. But if I change to the canonical basis, write the matrix of $f$ and try to solve the system $f(x) = (1,1,1)$, I get something different than what it should be. I even used WolframAlpha to make sure I hadn't messed up when solving the linear systems. What am I doing wrong here?


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5 May 2011 3:57 AM #1
Tabpanel title/badge text?
Hi everyone, thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this. I'm pretty new to Sencha Touch/EXT and thusly am at a loss for how to solve this issue. I have a tabpanel that loads in content dynamically, I want to set one of the tabs to display the number of items in a list it contains either through title or badgetext. I cannot figure out how to modify either attribute though. Here's the code for the tabpanel:
this.details = new DN.views.Code:
NoticeDetails({ tpl: Ext.XTemplate.from('notice-detail') }); this.guestbook = new DN.views.GuestBook({ tpl: Ext.XTemplate.from('guestbook') }); this.tabs = new Ext.TabPanel({ cls:'single-notice-buttons', items: [this.details,this.guestbook] });
this.tabs.items.items[1].tab.badgeText = "1";Code:
this.tabs.items.items[1].title = "Test";
5 May 2011 5:47 AM #2
Hi jfry.
I post you a full example I realize to make you understand how to solve your problem.
Take a look at the code below.
Ext.setup({ onReady: function() { var viewport = new Ext.TabPanel({ fullscreen: true, tabBar: { dock: 'bottom', layout: { pack: 'center' } }, dockedItems: [{ xtype: 'toolbar', title: 'Example', items: [{ xtype: 'button', ui: 'action', text: 'Update Badge', handler: function(){ viewport.tabBar.getComponent(1).setBadge('789'); } }] }], items: [{ title: 'Details', iconCls: 'info' },{ title: 'Guestbook', iconCls: 'user' }] }); } });
So in your code you only need to call:
this.tabs.tabBar.getComponent(1).setBadge('Test');Sencha Inc
Andrea Cammarata, Solutions Engineer
Owner at SIMACS
github: https://github.com/AndreaCammarata
TUX components bundle for Sencha Touch 2.x.x
5 May 2011 6:09 AM #3
That worked perfectly! I was missing the tabBar object I was missing out on. Thanks a million!
5 May 2011 6:25 AM #4Sencha Inc
Andrea Cammarata, Solutions Engineer
Owner at SIMACS
github: https://github.com/AndreaCammarata
TUX components bundle for Sencha Touch 2.x.x
7 Oct 2013 1:30 AM #5
Please how can the same thing be done in Touch 2.x? I get the message 'setBadge' is undefined for the object.
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University of Wisconsin tops educational institutions providing most volunteers to nation's leading youth conservation organization
WASHINGTON, D.C. – OCTOBER 28, 2014 – The Student Conservation Association (SCA), the national leader in building the next generation of environmental stewards, announced today the top universities that provided the most youth volunteers to its conservation service programs in...Read more
SCA recognizes Pennsylvania for youth serviceHerald Standard
As volunteers with the Student Conservation Association's Trail Town Outreach Corps, Corrie Parrish and Courtney Mahronich assist communities along the Great Allegheny Passage that runs through Fayette County.
The young women help local businesses learn more about the trail and how...Read more
Veterans Fire Corps: A Burning ChallengeThe Daily Courier
PRESCOTT - For some veterans, returning to civilian life isn't always easy, but there are ways to make that transition less stressful.
Enter the Veterans Fire Corps, a program designed for veterans who desire to work in conservation-related fields.
The VFC,...Read more
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JAFFREY — A short walk from the entrance to Children's Woods on Stratton Road, there are a group of people busily working among huge logs of hemlock. The logs have been felled and dragged to their current location to become the base of a walking bridge. Six volunteers are steadily stripping the...Read more
Student Conservation Association's Northwest Program Receives Prestigious National Park Service Award
WASHINGTON D.C. – OCTOBER 7, 2014 – The Student Conservation Association (SCA), the national leader in youth service and stewardship, announced today that its Seattle community crew program, which launched 30 years ago, received the National Park Service (NPS) Director's Partnership Award for...Read more
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Home > Food > Recipes > Pumpkin Power Bread
Pumpkin Power Bread
Categories: Birthdays, Cakes/pies, Halloween, Make ahead
Type: Halloween
Type: Halloween
The power in this pumpkin bread comes from the secret ingredients -- pineapple and apricots!
Serves: Serves: 8
- 1 cup whole-wheat flour
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons ground allspice
- 1/2 cup chopped dried apricots
- 1 3/4 to 2 cups canned pumpkin
- 1/2 to 3/4 cup crushed pineapple in juice, drained
- 1/2 cup egg substitute
- 1 cup sugar
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- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Spray 9 X 5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
- Combine flours, baking soda, allspice and apricots in bowl or plastic bag; stir or shake until mixed.
- Combine pumpkin, pineapple, egg substitute and sugar in large bowl; mix with electric mixer until smooth.
- Gradually add flour mixture and stir with a wooden spoon (do not use electric mixer) until all ingredients are mixed.
- Spoon batter into loaf pan; bake 40 to 50 minutes, until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool completely before slicing. Pumpkin bread can be refrigerated or frozen; reheat in microwave on High about 15 seconds per thawed slice or 30 to 45 seconds for frozen slices.
- Slice fruit and nut breads while partially frozen to prevent crumbling.
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With normal clicking, I'm dragging widgets on web pages by accident. I need to adjust the mouse drag threshold. http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/3.3/mouse-drag-threshold.html.en tells me how to do it in gnome. How in Lubuntu?
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Joni & Ken: An Untold Love StoryJoni Eareckson-Tada, Ken Tada, Ken Tada, Larry Libby, Joni Eareckson Tada
Joni & Ken: An Untold Love Story is the true love story of Joni Eareckson and her husband of 30 years, Ken Tada. It is a love story showing what it truly means for a man and a woman to live in love - in sickness and in health. Did Ken realize what he was getting into whe... Read More
Joni & Ken: An Untold Love Story is the true love story of Joni Eareckson and her husband of 30 years, Ken Tada. It is a love story showing what it truly means for a man and a woman to live in love - in sickness and in health.
Did Ken realize what he was getting into when he proposed to Joni, a quadriplegic woman? As their marriage went on, Ken became increasingly overwhelmed by the never-ceasing demands of caring for Joni, who began to experience chronic, extreme, nightmarish pain. Ken sinks into depression, and the couple finds themselves on parallel tracks in life, married and living under the same roof but drifting apart emotionally. But as they fight for their marriage and find their way through the mazes of depression and pain, they wrap their two lives around their rock - Jesus.
During Ken's denial of Joni's diagnosis, and Joni's thoughts of how wonderful a quick exit to heaven would be, they experience a personal visitation with the savior you will never forget. Joni & Ken: An Untold Love Story is a beautiful, inspiring story of life, love and challenges overcome with the help of the Lord.
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- "Joni & Ken An Untold Love Story" by tickmenot on 10/11/2013
Before reading this book, I already knew who Joni Eareckson Tada is. Many years ago, I had read the book she wrote entitled, "Joni." That book chronicled the journey that began with a diving accident she had at the age of 17. As a result, she became paralyzed from the shoulders down-a quadriplegic in a wheelchair. She submerged into suicidal despair. Joni was unable to kill herself because of her disability, so she pleaded with her visitors to help her. Despite the dark time she sunk into, she walked through it, and made her peace with God. Not just peace, she became an ardent follower of Jesus Christ. She even discovered she had artistic talent, and was able to do beautiful works of art while holding a brush in her mouth!
This story, "Joni & Ken An Untold Love Story" picks up a few years after the book "Joni" ended. She is still a quadriplegic, but full of joy, and loves God. She admits how difficult her life can be, but she also states the condition has brought her blessings! Joni has become very well-known, not only in the United States, but throughout the world. Her book "Joni" has become a mega best seller. Also, a well-done movie based on her book has been widely enjoyed and viewed. Her art continues to be very popular, she has begun a singing career, written another book, and has started and maintained a growing non-profit ministry. Joni has traveled around the world speaking to people from her wheelchair.
Despite her severe limitations, Joni seems to be doing it all. However, there is one dream she believes will never happen, the dream of getting married. Now in her thirties, she doesn't let herself dwell on thoughts of relationships-she doesn't want to open herself up to disappointment. Then Ken Tada enters her life. He begins an all-out effort to win Joni's heart. Joni views him as a good friend, but he starts talking about marriage. Joni worries that he has no idea what he is getting into. She is concerned he doesn't understand the great amount of work involved taking care of her, and the limitations she has that would affect him as well. She worries that maybe he is a little "blinded by the light" of her celebrity status. They have two very different personalities.
They do marry. On their wedding night, Ken finally sees how truly helpless Joni is, and how much he will have to do for her-and he isn't ready for it. I am amazed that their relationship could work. Reading about some of their situations makes me frustrated. I would think two people without disabilities, but with personalities as different as Joni and Ken, would have a difficult time getting along with each other. It is magnified significantly when you consider everything involved with Joni's disability and her challenges.
All of the work involved taking care of Joni seems to be become something Ken resents, and he pulls back emotionally. Patience becomes a rarer quality, and strained seems to be the best description of their relationship. Ken feels entitled to Saturdays being a sacred day for him. Not for them together, but for him alone. If that is disrupted, his silent anger is almost unbearable. Years of marriage pass, and they find themselves grinding through life day after day.
I know Ken has put much hard work into taking care of Joni. I am sure Ken does more in one day for Joni than many people do in their entire lives for another person. On the other hand, he didn't go into this blindly, this was a relationship he chose. Their everyday life together seems so very painful for so many years, that it is hard to read about it.
In 1997, Joni develops chronic, debilitating pain. Despite Joni's paralysis, she has pain that seems to be in every part of her body. This causes more work for Ken. Up until this time, Joni has had a surprisingly positive outlook. The overwhelming pain sucks away any cheerfulness Joni has managed to have up until this time. Doctors can't explain the pain, or do anything to help it.
In 2007 while Ken is away on a retreat, he received this impression from God, "Joni is the most precious gift I have given you. You take care of her." That revelation turns Ken around. He realizes that he would be devastated if Joni passed away. His outlook and demeanor do a complete turnaround. Ken believes it is his destiny to take care of Joni. Ken's middle name, Takeshi, means warrior. Ken becomes a warrior who fights against the war of problems and illnesses that Joni deals with.
Despite all of the immense challenges the couple has faced, a new hurdle hits in 2010 when Joni develops breast cancer, then has a radical mastectomy. The radiation treatments that follow play havoc with her frail body. Joni thinks more and more about what a release it will be to go to Heaven, and wonders if this is what is going to send her there.
If anyone ever had any illusions that the life of a quadriplegic is easy, those ideas should vanish after reading this book. This is not a typical love story. When reading this, I can understand some of the challenges Joni feels. She had concerns about Ken being able to handle marriage to a disabled person, and really those concerns are realized, they were true and validated. Their marriage did hit choppy waters. It is difficult to take on the care of someone so needy, even more so when one has a personality that wants everything very structured.
Joni's joy can be felt when the contentious situation in her marriage turns around, and gets better. Joni said she had always felt loved but after this turn around in her marriage she states she feels, "treasured, cherished….even beautiful." It is obvious how much Joni loves her husband. Ken's joy can be felt, too, when he feels he knows what his destiny is. I pray that God continues to keep this marriage in that positive state. It is obvious that this relationship owes is longevity to the deep faith of Joni and Ken. When I remarked earlier that I was surprised a relationship like this could work, it is clear it worked only because of the grace of God. The couple has now been married over 30 years.
One thing I didn't like about the book were all the flash backs into the past that jump around so much. Flash backs are good, but these were so unorganized, it was confusing at times to read. This is a good book to understand the difficulties in living with disabilities, and the trials that took place in a marriage of many years-along with the importance of faith to go through them. I give this book four stars.
The publisher has provided me with a complimentary copy of this book through Thomas Nelson/Zondervan Publishing for the purpose of review. All opinions expressed are my own, and I have not been compensated in any other manner. Despite my receiving the book free, it has not influenced my judgment, and I have given an honest opinion.
- Thankfully this story has been told by coramdeo540 on 5/23/2013
Joni & Ken: An Untold Love Story
Ken Tada , Joni Eareckson Tada with Larry Libby
Book Description: This is the true love story of Joni and her husband of 30 years, Ken Tada. A love story showing what it truly means for a man and a woman to live in love ... in sickness and in health. Even the honeymoon wasn't easy. Did Ken realize what he was getting into when he proposed to Joni, a quadriplegic woman? As their marriage years moved on, Ken became increasingly overwhelmed by the never-ceasing demands of caring for Joni, who begins to experience chronic, extreme, nightmarish pain. Ken sinks into depression, and the couple finds themselves on parallel tracks in life, married and living under the same roof but drifting apart emotionally. But as they fight for their marriage and find their way through the mazes of depression and pain, they wrap their two lives around their rock---Jesus. During Ken's denial of Joni's diagnosis, and Joni's thoughts of how wonderful a quick exit to heaven would be, they experience a personal visitation with the savior you will never forget.
Review: I found this to be a great read. Easy to get absorbed in it and so well written that I could not put it down. It was like being let into a side of Joni that is hidden. I felt privileged to read this story. It was the first ebook that I made notes in and highlighted things. That says a lot since I was storming through this book rapidly. There were many things that made me cry and laugh. I enjoyed the frank honesty of their life together. So many things were precious like their meeting and how sweet Ken was during their dating and up to their wedding. He was more the unknown in this story and it made the man into a real person. I can honestly say that any disability makes a life interesting. I have thought a lot about pain and the changes that occur while married. There is no guarantee that the state of one's abilities will remain even young. It is more realistic to understand the in sickness and in health. I can empathize with the chronic pain and the cancer on top of it was a lot to wrestle with. I have often thought that the church has lost her understanding of suffering. To me this has been a struggle and found the resounding theme to be that of the Bible with life there is suffering. I am so appreciative to have the privilege to read and review this book. As the beginning promised this is the real love that is lost today. Not easy and not neatly packaged but definitely a love story of all time.
I would like to thank Net Galley and Zondervan Publishing for allowing me to read and review this book in return for a free copy and I was never asked to write a favorable review by anyone.


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sudo dpkg -i --force-depends package.deb
The program was confused about a package that wasn't installed (it was). The program works fine, however now whenever I do an update, i get this message:
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
fern-wifi-cracker : Depends: aircrack-ng (>= 1.0) but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
The software center, update manager, everything is giving me hell. The question is, how do I tell the computer that everything is ok, and there are no unmet dependences?
if i do:
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it wants to remove the program I have installed (not a good option if you ask me).
Any ideas on how to get my computer to chill out?
EDIT: Added what actually happens with last command:
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13 Old-Timey Photos You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped 3
If you've learned anything from reading Cracked, it's that the past is a bizarre and confusing place. That's why so many of its photos, when viewed out of context, are bizarre and/or terrifying. And in many cases, adding the context just makes them worse.
So let's do that now ...
#13. Pass the Popcorn
National Nuclear Security Administration
Don't pop it first. We got that covered.
It looks like somebody cut the bleachers out of a photo of a little league game and cleverly pasted them onto this pic of a mushroom cloud, maybe for an awesome album cover or something. But this is in fact an unaltered photo depicting more or less how they passed the time around the beginning of the Cold War -- just gathering together to sing songs and share stories around the nuclear campfire.
Between 1951 and 1992, over 900 nuclear detonations were conducted there in the Nevada desert, and the mushroom clouds could occasionally be seen from Las Vegas. And people did see them -- as weird as it is to see military personnel just hanging out watching the detonation of a doomsday device, civilians around town would organize viewing parties on rooftops to get a good view of the blast (admit it -- you'd watch a nuclear explosion if you had the chance).
There's no real word on how many of these folks got leukemia or turned into Hulks, but let's just say there is a reason this is no longer a popular pastime.
#12. I Never Actually Passed Flight School
via RAFJever.org
Luckily, they taught "bail out" on day one.
If you look closely, you might notice something strange about the direction this plane is flying. Skilled aeronauts should be able to pick it out fairly easily.
Apparently, a farmer was in the process of snapping a photograph of his buddy riding a tractor in 1962 when, by a billion-to-one chance, he accidentally took an interesting photo instead. That's test pilot George Aird ejecting from his fighter jet as it was cruising a little too vertically for his comfort.
Aird survived, but not without injury -- rather than landing on the pillow-like soft grass of the farmer's field, he crashed Wile E. Coyote style through the roof of a nearby greenhouse and sustained several fractures. Here's a picture of the crash site from above -- check out the second greenhouse from the left. That's where Aird landed. The big smear in the field is obviously the wreckage of his plane.
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The smear he left on the plane's seat is something else.
#11. Friendship Is Magic
via MessyBeast.com
Magic enough to make a three-piece suit and bowler hat look shabby.
Stop scrolling. Take a moment and really let that photo sink in -- it gets funnier the longer you look at it. In fact, let's all just pause here for, oh, an hour or so. Have you noticed its tail yet?
Here's another one:
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Every time it shits, they cut the tail off and start from scratch.
Seriously, what the fuck? Are they wearing wigs?
The truth is actually stupider -- these were Percheron horses, specifically bred for the purpose of growing those ludicrous long-ass manes. And yes, that hair has been braided:
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No ribbons, though. That would look a bit showy.
Such princess-pimp rides were known as wonder horses (up there is the Oregon Wonder Horse and its 18-foot-long mane and 21-foot-long tail). They would take these horses on tour so crowds could gaze in amazement at this ridiculous achievement in animal husbandry, and at least one of them became such a moneymaker that its owners had it stuffed when it died so they could continue to show it off.
So, yeah, maybe we owe today's bronies an apology.
#10. We Honor Our New Spider Overlords
Metropolitan Post Card Club
Feed them train meat and they may spare us!
It may look like a vision from some terrifying alternative history in which giant alien spiders have enslaved the human race, but really these are just old-timey telephone wires coated in snow. Hundreds and hundreds of wires.
In big cities like Manhattan, telephone wires became a terrifying nuisance before someone had the good idea to run them underground. That's why nightmare scenarios like the below photo were a common sight:
Library of Congress
Christmas snows reached the ground on Valentine's Day.
It's difficult to tell from the quality of the photo, but you're looking at a world that nearly has enough utility wires to blot out the sun. How many birds were getting stuck in that shit? Did suicide jumpers get caught in the tangle and have to be rescued by the fire department?
Speaking of which ...
#9. The Human Flytrap
Eugene de Salignac/NYC Municipal Archives
Four in a row diagonally. Pretty sneaky.
OK, this one really looks like a giant spider made a web for catching humans. Dapper, strangely unperturbed humans.
These are actually just some superhumanly badass painters goofing around during construction of the Brooklyn Bridge (you just know that one of these guys decided to be a jackass and bounce on the cables while they all dangled precariously, waiting for the slow-ass camera to do its work).
Also, we're pretty sure the only workplace safety precautions they had was a big sign that said, "IF YOU FALL, PLEASE AIM TOWARD THE WATER AS NOT TO MAR THE PAINT. YOUR WIDOW WILL BE BILLED FOR ANY DAMAGE."
#8. Saving Private Ryan -- ON ICE!
Netherlands General News Agency
Absurd! They should be wearing shin guards.
We want you to picture, in your head, a serious, gritty war movie. The kind that wins Oscars and really focuses on the human suffering warfare inflicts on its brave young victims. Then we want you to imagine a harrowing climax in which our heroes have to escape across a border marked by a river. A frozen one.
Now imagine everyone is on ice skates.
Because that exact thing totally happened, over and over. These particular soldiers were from the Netherlands. And yes, the Dutch absolutely employed ice skates in order to pursue retreating enemies across frozen surfaces, so whoever these guys are fighting, they're already running away. Consider that before you think about how ridiculous they look.
WhaleOil/The Firearm Blog
Also consider the graceful photographer who skated in reverse.
Now imagine that guy on the left stopping and firing his bazooka and the recoil sending him sliding backward out of frame. "OH, SHIIIIIIIII-"
#7. Early Submarines Were Easy to Spot
The Gibsons of Scilly
Damn tree huggers and their insistence on wind power!
Either this is a rare photo of the Flying Dutchman emerging from the depths to drag sailors to their doom, or someone's efforts to perfect the hull-less boat have been met with yet another failure.
Actually, it's a ship captured on film mid-sink in 1912, just a few days before the Titanic disaster. Strangely, the vessel went gently down into the deep, perfectly upright, its sails still neatly unfurled. The crew of this embarrassingly ill-fated ship, the Mildred, couldn't say they hit an iceberg to save face when it came to explaining the mishap to friends -- fog was the cause of this maritime disaster. Specifically, the sailors' inability to navigate in it (the ship went off course and ran aground). We'll just assume for their sake that the fog was way worse than that photo makes it look.


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I have got a question that is perhaps not precise in a mathematical sense. Is there a classification of all coverings of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces which are moduli spaces themselves, that is, they parametrize some geometric structure on a surface.
I doubt there is a "classification", but there are some interesting examples. Two which come to mind: Harer's description of the moduli space of a Riemann surface with spin structure; and Torelli space.
EDIT: Oops, I forgot to read your title, I just read the text. Torelli space is an infinite rank covering of moduli space.


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10 Dec 2012 11:07 PM #1
A Proposal: More Interaction Between Sencha and the Community
I've been using ExtJS and Touch for about 10 months now. In that time, I've noticed what I feel is a missed opportunity for Sencha to interact at a deeper level with the community.
For folks who don't want to read all of this, the TL/DR summary is:
- Set up a real feature and issue tracker
- Create a Community Leader and/or Customer Advisory Group
- Start regular technical presentations from the developer team
First, even Premium members don't have access to any true issue tracking or feature voting system (such as Jira or Youtrack). We really don't have much of an idea what Sencha is working on or what is coming. I have no doubt that the developers are working on things, I just have absolutely no idea what they are. I'd love to see more transparency here, and the use of a proper public issue tracker.
Second, I am (or have been) a member of various "advisory boards" or "community leader" groups for other companies/platforms (Adobe, for example). As far as I know, there's nothing like this at Sencha. I have no idea who might be best suited for membership in this sort of group. But just knowing such a group exists, "has Sencha's ear", and can provide feedback to them from the viewpoint of real people using their platform on real projects would be nice to know. A lot of good ideas can come from groups like this, and it can provide a sanity check on features or changes. Sencha wouldn't be obligated to *obey* such a group, but at least they'd get the feedback.
And finally, I'd really love to see Sencha occasionally get the internal developers in front of the community. This could be done with blog entries, but I think videos or (even better) live meetings (which would be recorded and published) would be a huge boon. Get one of the grid or tree gurus to take an hour and give a "deep dive" into how they work. Get a layout guru to talk about those. Get a class expert to go into the guts of the class system, preprocessors, etc.. Have someone explain the do's and don't of bypassing the components and leveraging the underlying HTML elements. Cover the differences between Touch and ExtJS and the best ways to allow code reuse across them. The list of things that could be discussed is endless. It could even be open for non-Sencha folks to present, if they have a topic they understand well.
There are a few books out on ExtJS and Touch. I've read them all. And as someone who has actually written a book, I know how hard it is. But that said, the books can barely scratch the surface of something as deep and complex as ExtJS and Touch. Presentations like this would not have to take up a lot of the dev team's time, would really engage the community, and could greatly raise the level of knowledge about the depths of the platform. As it sits right now, if I have a complex feature to build (lockable, buffered TreeGrid, anyone?), my only real options are to ask for bits of help on the forums, or spend dozens of hours in trial-and-error. Technical meetups could cut away a big chunk of the individual trial-and-error that I suspect many folks currently undertake alone.
Thoughts? Comments? Ridicule?
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The one thing I can touch a little, as I escalate this thread, is about the community part. I often send links to threads to people internal to Sencha or just emails about things fromt eh community on this forum. If you have an idea I am more than excited to hear it either as a thread or a PM. We can discuss it and will send it to someone who is related to whatever the idea concerns.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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11 Dec 2012 6:54 AM #3
Thanks, Mitchell. I *think* the ideas I laid out above are pretty straightforward, but if you (or anyone else at Sencha) have questions I'd be happy to try and expand on them. I'm up for talking here, via PM, email, IM, or phone. Just let me know.
17 Dec 2012 8:42 AM #4
Hmm I was really hoping some others from the community would chime in here. Does no one else have an opinion to voice? Was I so eloquent that no one feels the need to add anything? Or is it just that these ideas don't interest anyone else?
20 Dec 2012 5:03 AM #5
I can't comment about plans for a public bug/feature tracker - it's been brought up before, and the idea has been tossed around but I don't know where that stands.
Some of the Sencha engineers do speak at community events on a regular basis - though it's not like a formal thing. The problem you run into is that the more the engineering team does that, the less time they can spend on fixing bugs or delivering features - which everyone complains about. It's a hard line to walk.
We also have a number of official user groups around the country. I for one run the Chicago group - and we meet once every month. Other groups are just as (if not more) active.
Outside of the engineering team, Sencha does have a Developer Relations team. They create content for try.sencha.com as well as a number of other resources. We have had "evangelists" whose job it would be to go out into the community (as you describe), and I know that's a position we're actively trying to fill.
You have excellent points, Brian, and don't take the lack of response as "Sencha isn't listening". More often than not we're taking your ideas and trying to put them in place... it just takes longer than you might think.
Keep the ideas and the dialogue coming!
20 Dec 2012 6:58 AM #6
Thanks, Arthur. To be clear, when I said I expected more of a response, I wasn't talking about Sencha, I was talking about the user community.
I wouldn't want the dev team to lose a lot of time due to presenting or talking about features to the community. I really think that even just having a biweekly presentation would be great. Which would mean every two weeks, one of the devs would be asked to use an hour to do the talk, and maybe an hour or two prepping for the talk. These wouldn't need to be heavily rehearsed and polished at all. Heck, I'd be happy even if it was basically a one hour brain-dump on whatever that particular person knows well and wants to talk about. Regardless, the point is that I don't think this would need to be a time hog at all.
The goal to me would be to start getting people past the "basic" usage of the platform and start having a deeper understanding of things. We've got some books and Sencha has the "Fast Track" classes, but we all know those cover pretty common, basic use cases. There's actually very little out there for people who are already at (or past) that point and want to learn more. Any other thoughts on how we might allow people to keep progressing beyond the end of the Fast Track training, other than the obvious (lots of trial and error)?
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I think these are great ideas. I'd love to attend a bi-weekly tech demo to see new tech or just explanations of pieces of the Ext/ST code base.
20 Dec 2012 8:20 AM #8
And on the subject of an issue tracker, I really think this is needed. As I said, right now I really have very little idea what Sencha is working on. The 4.2 beta and grid writeup was greatly appreciated, but that's a fairly rare type of occurrence.
If you want to see how it's done, go look at the JetBrains issue tracker. They have a very long list of products and they get a massive number of bug and feature requests. And they actually respond to them, assign them to internal people, specify a fix version, and mark it complete. Shocking, I know!
The point being that it's very transparent, and if I submit a bug or feature request, I know exactly what its status is. And JetBrains is NOT a large company. If Sencha went that route, I think it would be easier because there are not a huge number of products to deal with.
One warning I can offer is that if an issue tracker were to be set up, you absolutely must commit to keeping up with it. The only thing worse than no issue tracker is having one that is never updated. Adobe did this with Flex and it was frustrating beyond words to take the time to find a bug or document an enhancement, put it up there, and never hear a word from them. By the end, there were literally thousands of issues in the system that were YEARS old and had never even been responded to. Please DO NOT DO THIS. Do it right. :-)
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Like Art has said, we have tossed it around before. There has been no denial that we should do it. I'm not going to get into these discussions as internal things need to remain internal.
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Not sure you meant to come off sounding somewhat harsh, but you did.
Sencha is a private company, so you can do whatever you want to. I'm just letting you know that not having a proper issue tracker is a problem on multiple levels, and offering some advice on how to handle it if one is created. I'm sure everyone agrees that a discussion forum to track issues is not a viable long-term substitute.


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The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine is also home to the Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of the Delaware Valley. Jefferson, in affiliation with the Magee Rehabilitation Hospital, is designated as one of the nation's 14 Model Spinal Cord Injury Centers by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research in the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, and is the only such center in the Delaware Valley.


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The shop is owned and operated by Adena resident Christopher Sasak and his girlfriend, Ashley Rowe. Sasak, who spent 10 years working at one of the pizza chains, had his own shop in Hopedale before opening the Bantam Ridge location.
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To the editor: At 12:01 on the morning of Nov. 4, 1952, a new federal agency was born. Unlike other such bureaucratic births, however, this one arrived in silence....
Everything Mullah Obama does should make him fail but Congress is of the same ilk or doesn't have the guts to do anything about his anti-American agenda. It is obvious to anyone but the many parasites and ignorant fools.
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Interesting, Mr. Yost. Will do some of my own research. I will try to be objective, but find it hard to accept that things like what you suggest only started to happen when Mr. Obama became president. I'd be willing to bet sensitive intelligence leaks have happened throughout our country's long history. Perhaps in the past, with the interests of the country foremost at heart, all agencies and government professionals worked together to shore the leaks and repair the damage. Not so, with this current group of "representatives". Love of country is being trumped by nasty politics - with the number one "admitted" goal: to make this man fail, without regard to the consequences. Shameful.
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Two murders separated by four decades are investigated by two very different but equally haunted investigators one, a casualty of war unable to come to terms with a confusing new world; the other, a rogue policeman harboring ghosts of his own. But the truth behind a grisly present-day slaying may somehow be hidden in the amplified, drug-induced fog of a notorious past, propelling Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks into the darkest shadows of the peace, love, and rock 'n' roll generation.
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What happens when I save a change to web.config while the application is live? The reason I ask is that I'm working on a site/webapp right now which is built on top of an e-commerce platform. At seemingly random intervals, the site will stop responding. The process for the app pool is normal (no ridiculous memory or CPU usage when this happens). When I make a small change to web.config--such as adding a space or deleting a space, and then saving--the site seems to come back. I think by learning more about the sequence of events AFTER the save, I can narrow down the potential causes of my problem.
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text: So some of you may recognize this figure from the webcomic created, written, and animated by Andrew Hussie. It was published on MS Paint Adventures, and it's become quite popular over the past years. The character that we will be getting a lesson on is a troll, and his name is Gamzee. Someone asked me if I could make a few lessons on some of the characters from the comic so I did. Drawing Gamzee will be fun, creative and super easy. After you are done with the lesson you'll be thinking to yourself that drawing trolls was a lot easier than you thought. Gamzee has black hair, yellowish orange horns, and he wears all black with purple sneakers. Don't hesitate to tackle this tut folks, I know you will have a blast.


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Ministry of Defense and Aviation reported today that nine soldiers are reported missing after clashes with infiltrators along the southern borders with Yemen.
The statement came following the publication of pictures purportedly of Saudi soldiers taken captive during the ongoing military operations.
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The Ministry stressed that the fate of the soldiers is not clear but said their captures are entirely responsible for their well-being.


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Sunrise after the rain – Flickr pic of the day
This photograph was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group member Craig Strachan.
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I have the V-Moda Crossfade LP headphones, which have convenient volume buttons. They work great on my iPhone, but on my Nexus 7 they seem to have no effect. They even work on Windows XP, 7, and Mac. How can I make them work on Android too?
Short answer
Unfortunately, the answer is that you can't make it work. (at least, not without modding your Nexus 7)
Long answer
As jeff says in his comment:
According to the Crossfade LP product page, the volume controls are only for apple devices:
In order to understand how these headphone volume controls work, I asked about this over on Electrical Engineering stack exchange, and it appears that this relies on the switches presenting a fixed resistance between the ground and the microphone input. Thus this technique requires (at a minimum) a 4 pole (TRRS) jack, rather than a standard 3 pole (TRS) jack as is used in the Nexus 7.
Note while that the Asus Nexus 7 spec suggests that it has a Headset Jack (i.e. headphone and microphone), Google have confirmed to at least one person that this is incorrect, and the Nexus 7 only has a headphone jack.
As such, the volume controls are not intended to work with ordinary headphone sockets such as the one on the Nexus 7.
I'm not sure how you got it to work with Windows XP/7 unless the headphone socket on your windows machine was also a headset jack and also supported this volume control technology (or you are running them virtualised on a Macbook, in which case OS-X will be taking care of it for you).


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To the editor:
I would like to respond to the letter from the writer who could not sleep after the pig show at the Jefferson County Fair ("Animal treatment is disheartening," Aug. 26.) I sell pigs for that fair and can assure you that those pigs get treated 10 times better than the bacon and sausage she is eating in the mornings.
They get the best feed and care. The writer apparently has no clue as to what it takes. Those kids work hard to teach their pigs to turn right and left from the time they are 6 months old, and don't have to beat the pigs with the rod or cane, which are used to guide the pig in the direction they are intended to go. It is a tap right or left. I have attended the hog show for 13 years (not one.) Not once have I seen a kid mistreat a pig. Its a tap right or left, if it was anything worse or inhumane the sales committee would step in. The kids work hard to do well at the show and it only takes one blind person to ruin it for every hard-working child.
I am very proud of everyone of them. The stupidity of people who have no clue really upsets me. People need to get a life and leave us food producers alone. In the words of Ron White, "You can't fix stupid."
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Can you believe we're already into week three of the auditions. January just flew by so fast. Pretty soon, we'll be crowning the winner of the 12th season of American Idol.
On Wednesday night's episode, the happy foursome were in San Antonio and Long Beach. I'm so glad they split the two-hour episode between two auditions cities. I really enjoyed last Thursday's night fast-paced one hour show. When producers only have a limited time to air auditions, they tend to show the more memorable ones and less of the jokers looking for their
fifteen two minutes of fame. In addition, Nigel focuses less on the judges and more on the talent.
With that being said, there was a bit of judging drama. Mariah was late arriving on set in Long Beach due to LA traffic, while Nicki was MIA for a good portion of the day due to a prior engagement with the American Music Awards. Depending on how you see it, folks in some instances were lucky to only audition for Keith Urban and Randy Jackson. Check out a few people who stood out during the San Antonio and Long Beach stops below.


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5 Terrible Ideas That Solved Huge Global Problems
#2. The CIA Fights Communism With Modern Art
The Plan:
It's not exactly a secret that capitalism and communism had a bit of a tiff after the end of World War II. Even less of a secret is that many of the CIA's actions during the Cold War were rather ... inspired. Indeed, when it fell upon them to undermine the USSR using subterfuge, their first action was to jump straight into the insanity pit, balls out and screaming.
What followed were spy operations featuring kitty cats, assassinations via exploding cigars and general covert warfare using the Wile E. Coyote approach. Most of their more insane plans unsurprisingly fell flat, which is why you wouldn't hold out much hope for a plan to undermine communism with the power of modern art.
Mark Rothko's "Red Is a Dirty Communist Color" is clearly tearing down the Iron Curtain here.
First, they set up the not-at-all-Orwellian-sounding Congress for Cultural Freedom as a front for their meddling with the art world. Through it, CIA spooks infiltrated each and every aspect of modern culture, from film to music to, yes, modern art. The CIA loved themselves some squiggly lines, and sank millions of public dollars through front companies to promote it. In fact, the Congress for Cultural Freedom directly sponsored artists such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Willem de Kooning, who in essence got to showcase their mind-bending talents for the U.S.A. thanks largely to the Company.
That seizure you're having is just your mind being expanded. Also the carbon monoxide.
Yes, the CIA made Jackson Pollock's career to undermine communism. It makes a strange kind of sense when you think about it, doesn't it?
No. No, it doesn't.
How It Worked:
It was an ideas fight all along. The CIA knew modern art showed the world that America didn't play by anyone's rules. The underlying message was this: "We're not squares like those commies. We can just vomit paint at a canvas like we don't care and call it art, and there's not a thing you can do about it."
Despite this apparently ridiculous line of thinking, the CIA's plan worked like a dream. Modern abstract art made big leaps forward while the communists' socialist realism style was pushed back.
The only way this would be realism is if Stalin were smacking them around a little.
Shows in Europe began to feature abstract American art and deemphasize communist artists with their boring pictures that people could actually understand. Even communist artists themselves started to surreptitiously rebel by sneaking abstract elements into their paintings.
Down with capitalism! And well-defined jaw lines!
But surely this was just some minor slice of insanity, one of many the CIA was toying with? Nope. As one of the head honchos of the art operation has said: "I think it was the most important division that the agency had, and I think that it played an enormous role in the Cold War."
Keep that in mind the next time someone drags you to an art gallery. Those blots and squiggles? They're blots and squiggles of freedom.
Lady Liberty has never looked so beautiful.
#1. The U.S. Intimidates North Korea ... by Cutting Down a Tree
The Plan:
This is one of those stories that's so stupid it's actually difficult to explain. But to understand how the U.S. military decided that they needed to embark on a huge 800-man mission to assassinate a tree, you need a little context.
The tree was a complete bastard.
In 1976, the border between North and South Korea was even more tense than it is today. There were numerous outposts in the Demilitarized Zone, the unofficial border between Cool Korea and Crazy Korea, and there were constant violent incidents between the soldiers manning them.
In the middle of that powder keg stood a tree. It was a huge tree that was blocking the view between two South Korean outposts, meaning one could be attacked by the North without the other outpost realizing anything had gone wrong (and in fact that had happened more than once). So the South Koreans, with their U.S. cohorts, decided to give the branches a good trim.
Starting from the trunk.
The North Koreans, however, were in the mood for a fight, so they came up, too, barking orders. You can probably picture the cartoony mess that followed. Shots were fired and, after the dust settled, two American soldiers were killed. Kim Il Sung, father of Kim Jong Il, mourned this mainly by patting the responsible soldiers on the back and making neener-neener noises across the DMZ at the Americans and South Koreans.
He basically looks like an overgrown 9-year-old anyway.
The U.S. was in an impossible situation. They couldn't let the attack go without a response, but they didn't want to trigger World War III either. So they came up with an operation that they thought would make Kim Il Sung back down. Its name? Operation Paul Bunyan.
Their target? That damn tree.
How It Worked:
The equipment they sent for the task included an armed platoon, 27 helicopters, some B-52 bombers and -- because why the hell not? -- a bunch of freaking martial arts experts, presumably just to make cool poses with their backs turned to the explosions. The operation involved 813 men total.
Together, they wiped the tree off the face of the earth with extreme prejudice, in full view of the North Koreans. Then they went up to the charred site, built a small monument in memory of their fallen comrades, gave the North Koreans a long look ... and walked away.
You can't see it, but there's a dick carved into the North Korean side of the trunk.
Well, that probably just confused them more than anything, right? What good could possibly come from something so aggressively pointless?
How about this: Kim Il Sung came forward and expressed regret for the original killings that day.
He also wrote a letter to the Americans, pretty much telling them that he would never attack them. Within days, the formerly so arrogant Kim had also agreed to an official partition of Korea along the demarcation line. Killing that stupid tree had solved everything.
It's now on display as a warning to all perennial menaces everywhere.
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This Powerful Clip Is Exactly Why We Support #OccupyWallStreet
EDITOR'S NOTE: We originally highlighted this video nearly a year ago. Today we honor Occupy Wall Street on the one year anniversary of when it all started. *9/17/12
Featuring some strong words from Elizabeth Warren about why Wall Street is to blame. Watch:
Found on LanceBaxter's YouTube channel. Originally submitted by Mark H.