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The blow-out took place in April 2010, resulting in 11 deaths and in the worst offshore oil spill in US history.
The executive had said the estimated flow was about 5,000 bpd, but internal BP documents from the time showed the company believed the rate was likely much higher.
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A federal judge has dismissed a criminal charge against a
former BP executive that alleged he tried to obstruct a
Congressional investigation into the Deepwater Horizon incident
by lying about the amount of oil flowing from the well.
Prosecutors said the executive, David Rainey, lied about the
rate of oil leaking from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico
to members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee during a
May 4, 2010 closed-door meeting and in his responses to a May
14 letter sent by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.).
The blow-out took place in
April 2010, resulting in 11 deaths and in the worst offshore
oil spill in US history.
Mr. Rainey said in both instances the estimated flow was
about 5,000 bpd, but internal BP documents from the time showed
the company believed the rate was likely much higher.
In a ruling Monday, US Southern District of Louisiana Judge
Kurt Engelhardt agreed with Mr. Rainey's attorneys that the
meeting and the letter didn't constitute a formal Congressional
inquiry, and dismissed the charge.
The flow rate issue is sensitive because civil fines that BP
will have to pay under the US Clean Water Act are based in part
on the number of barrels spilled. The final government estimate
put the rate at between 53,000 and 62,000 bpd of oil, for a
total of about 4.9 million bbl spilled.
A judge's ruling earlier this year cut that top spill size to
4.1 million bbl after giving BP credit for the oil it
successfully siphoned from the well. That could mean fines
ranging from $4.5 billion to $17.6 billion based on BP's degree
of culpability for the accident, but the company has argued the
fines would likely be well below $5 billion.
BP agreed to plead guilty to obstruction of Congress for Mr.
Rainey's conduct as part of a $4.5 billion criminal settlement
with the Justice Department announced in November.
A second charge, that Mr. Rainey lied to investigators
during a 2011 interview about how he calculated the spill rate,
still stands. He could face up to 5 years in prison if
Brian Heberlig, an attorney for Mr. Rainey, said he was
gratified by the ruling and believes the other charge should
also be dismissed.
"The second count is related to investigating conduct that
is now deemed not a crime," Mr. Heberlig said. "More than 90%
of their case was on count one."
A spokesman for the Justice Department said it is reviewing
the decision and declined further comment.
Mr. Markey said in a statement that the Justice Department
should appeal the decision.
"When a judge undercuts Congress' ability to keep companies
like BP honest, he undercuts the voice of Americans
everywhere," Mr. Markey said. "This was a Congressional
investigation, plain and simple, and this kind of narrow and
off-the wall interpretation of how Congress investigates
wrongdoing is deeply troubling."
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STEUBENVILLE - For Joe Dunlevy, Tuesday's first regular-season meeting between his Indian Creek basketball squad and Big Red was, in a word, "fun."
"It's fun when people come to watch," he said following the contest played before a full house at the Crimson Center. "Michael (Haney) does a great job with his program and we work real hard. It was fun. Both teams played hard, the coaches were coaching like crazy and the fans were really into it. You can't ask for anything better than that."
The Redskins made Dunlevy's evening a little more enjoyable by outscoring Haney's club 22-11 during the final frame to earn a 43-40 victory in the mutual season opener.
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STRONG TO THE HOOP — Indian Creek's Alex Young drives to the basket against Big Red's Chris Smith during the Redskins' 43-40 victory over Big Red at the Crimson Center Tuesday. Young scored 11 of his game-high 17 points in the final quarter.
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Frank Kamarec kissed one off the glass to close the third period and cut Big Red's advantage to 29-21. Creek started the fourth on a 9-0 run, sparked by the play of Alex Young. The 6-2 senior accounted for six of the points. The other three came when Kamarec buried a triple from deep in the corner. When Young swished two free throws, the Redskins had a 30-29 lead.
Big Red then scored five straight, Tajuan Lawson nailing a jumper and Mylik Young recorded a conventional three point play. His basket from in close came off a nifty assist from Chris Smith.
The Redskins answered with another 9-0 burst to seal the deal. A. Young got a put back after skying for an offensive rebound. Drew Sullivan scored after a nifty drive to the hoop and followed with a free toss. A. Young swished two from the charity stripe and Blake Roar followed suit, putting Dunlevy's cagers ahead 39-34.
"I was thinking when they had the lead after we made the run and they responded, even if we lose this was a great game," Dunlevy noted. "We played eight kids and five of them are seniors. We have some veterans and they responded at the end."
Big Red had a few runs of its own to grab the halftime lead. Periogn West went coast to coast after a rebound to score then set Lawson up with a nifty pass for another basket. Dashon Redman finished the 6-0 streak by converting two free tosses.
The hosts extended their advantage to 11 (27-18) early in the third when Mylik Young scored off an offensive rebound.
Creek was led in scoring by Alex Young, who finished with a game-high 17. He scored six in the opening period then went scoreless until the fourth. Kamarec added 10. The Redskins hoisted 33 field goal attempts, connecting on 13.
"Sometimes are kids are actually too unselfish," Dunlevy pointed out. "Every once in a while, players like him (Young) and Kamarec have to take over. He's a pretty good player and the sooner he realizes that the better we're going to be.
"Drew (Sullivan) did a nice job when he was in there. I'm happy for him; it's his last year so he needs to see what he can do. He made a nice move on the baseline and hit a free throw. Good for him."
Of Creek's 22 fourth quarter points, half came from the line. The Redskins were 11 for 17 during the decisive eight minutes.
"We told our guys we didn't want to get into a foul shooting contest," Haney said. "During the third and fourth quarters, we put them at the line a little too much. They are good foul shooting team and their experience helped them in a close game."
Dunlevy was quick to praise Big Red for keeping his club in check for the first two and half quarters.
"Give them credit for the way they were playing defense," he noted. "They were playing hard and their speed was bothering us. We did a little better job in the second half of attacking the basket."
West led the Big Red with 11 and Lawson added nine. As a team, Big Red was 15 of 43 from the floor.
"We fought, played hard and got after it," Haney added. "We need to a play a little smarter and that will come with experience. Also, we need to do a better job with our shot selection in a close game.
"When you lose, you're never happy. I was, however, happy with our intensity."
Big Red will return to action Thursday when Buckeye Local visits the Crimson Center.
Creek was scheduled to tangle with St. Clairsville Friday but that game has been delayed due to the long playoff run by the Red Devils football team. The Redskins will return to action Dec. 11, hosting Buckeye Local.
"It's Buckeye 8 time," Dunlevy pointed out. "This game will get us ready for the league, that's for sure."
Indian Creek 43, Big Red 40
Indian Creek 10 5 6 22 - 43
Big Red 7 13 19 11 - 40
INDIAN CREEK (1-0): Kamarec 4 0-1 10; Furda 0 1-2 1; Roar 0 2-2 2; A. Young 6 5-10 17; Haught 1 0-0 2; Anderson 0 2-2 2; Durbin 0 1-2 1; Connor 0 0-0 0; Sullivan 1 1-2 3; Winland 1 3-4 5. TOTALS: 13 15-25 43. 3-pointers: Kamarec (2); Rebounds: 24 (A. Young 11); Turnovers: 15.
BIG RED (0-1): West 4 2-2 11; Linn 2 0-0 6; Herring-Hill 0 0-0 0; Lawson 4 1-3 9; M. Young 2 1-1 5; Sterling 1 0-0 2; Redman 0 2-2 2; Smith 2 0-0 5. TOTALS: 14 6-9 40. 3-pointers: West, Linn (2), Smith; Rebounds: 26 (M. Young (7); Turnovers: 19.

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When a paying customer downgrades from the paid plan, the limits is applied again so no more resources can be created, but the customer still likely have stored resources above the limit.
So besides disabling all "create new"-actions when limits are reached, what changes in the UI should we make to customers that downgraded to make them miss the paid version?


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The disks aren't listed in /etc/fstab- I could add them by hand, but I am expecting the GUI to take care of it?
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of "La Bayadere," "Apollo," revive Grigorovich's "Ivan the Terrible," produce no less than five live broadcasts
for Ballet in Cinema, and will give the Russian premiere of Cranko's "Onegin."
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Hi Rosa,
Thanks for the heads up, Cygnet. The premiere of Onegin sounds interesting. Any thoughts regarding possible casts?
Onegin: I'd place heavy $s on Dave Hallberg with Zakharova. Ruslan Skvortsov, Semyon Chudin, Alexander Volchkov,
Misha Lobhukin and Dmitri Gudanov round out the male principals. I'd love to see Tsiskaridze participate in the production as well.
Lensky: I'd say any of the male soloists and leading soloists could be cast. The Bolshoi has always had deep male reserves in its ranks. IMO Chudin and Svortsov could essay both Onegin and Lensky.
Olga: Olga Smirnova, Anzhelina Vorontsova, Anna Nikulina and other ladies from the soloist ranks.
Tatiana: The active primas, i.e. Zakharova, Alexandrova, Kaptsova, Krysanova, Allash, Shipulina and Obraztsova.
Smirnova and Obraztsova could essay both sisters.
It will be very interesting to see how Filin will choose to pair the protagonists.
Posted 09 August 2012 - 10:44 PM
I can't recall Zakharova as being listed for performing Tatiana as La Scala despite them having it on numerous times while she's been an etoile there--maybe Anderson hasn't wanted to cast her in the ballet? Should prove interesting regardless!
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I don't think Filin will have too much of a say, actually, beyond "these people usually dance together"-Reid Anderson casts the principal parts in productions of Onegin and he can be quite finicky about who he lets dance in it (he has refused to let Sylvie Guillem and Tamara Rojo dance it)
I can't recall Zakharova as being listed for performing Tatiana as La Scala despite them having it on numerous times while she's been an etoile there--maybe Anderson hasn't wanted to cast her in the ballet? Should prove interesting regardless!
I'm ITA with you . Nothing is etched in stone - until the curtain rises. It would be a big deal at the Bolshoi if Anderson
chose other soloists besides 'the usual people,' as they say in Russia. In which case he may have a narrow set of pairs to choose from. For example, Zakharova has never been cast as Tatiana at La Scala (or elsewhere), and doesn't have the role
in her rep. This will be the Russian premiere: She may want to do it now for that reason. Since the Bolshoi has officially acquired the ballet, (due to the announcement with dates), I'd be surprised if Anderson hasn't already determined who his Tatianas and Evgenys are. Moreover, Filin and Anderson may already be in simpatico re the leads. Maria Eichwald danced Tatiana at La Scala last season, and is set to open their season with Bolle as Onegin in early September. Tamara Rojo did dance Tatiana when she first joined the Royal.
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]I can't wait to make my debut in Eugene Onegin, which will open at the Bolshoi next year: it'll be the first time that I'll be playing Tatyana, another one of those dramatic roles that I love, where I can enter into it through my sensitivity.[/font]
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Svetlana Zakharova Dugmanta, Rajah
Alexei Loparevich Gamzatti, his daughter
Maria Alexandrova Solor, the noble warrior
Vladislav Lantratov The High Brahmin
Andrei Sitnikov Toloragva, warrior
Alexander Voytyuk A Slave
Denis Rodkin Magedaveya, fakir
Anton Savichev Aya, slave
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Igor Tsvirko The Bronze Idol
Denis Medvedev Manu (Dance with Jug)
Maria Prorvich Scene "Shadows"
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Anastasia Stashkevich Second Variation
Anna Tikhomirova Third Variation
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In short, it's Zakharova, Androva, Lantratov
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Apparently both words empathetic and empathic mean the same thing, yet I see one person refer to the specific type of writing as empathetic writing, while another empathic writing. Who's correct and why?
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For better or worse, the meaning of the word empathic has been forever tainted by its use in the science fiction and fantasy realm -- I would avoid using it interchangeably with empathetic just to avoid the connotation of spooky action at a distance. "Correct" and "right" aren't interchangeable either -- using language correctly isn't right if it raises unnecessary misunderstanding.
An empath is a person who reads the emotions of those in the vicinity, so logically empathic implies a connection to an empath. Empathetic is more like the tendency of someone to care for another in general. So where empathic seems to pertain to a person's ability to perceive emotion, empathetic is more like how others tend to sympathize with a person or situation.
So if you're referring to a writing, I would use "empathetic" unless you want to imply that it's something for which you personally feel emotion.
As I've seen the terms used, "empathetic" describes an ability or state of sharing someone else's emotional state or experience, thus,
"Empathic" describes someone who has an unnatural or uncommon degree of empathy, thus,
Empaths, however, are properly discussed only when one is aboard the starship Enterprise.
Merriam-Webster says:
The Grammarist notes that empathetic is used about five times more often than empathic in news publications, "probably due to analogy with sympathetic."
Google Ngrams, however, shows empathic winning; Language Log speculates that this may be due to the prevalence of empathic in psychological research and, yes, science fiction.
Empathetic really annoys me! It seems to imply over-empathising. Like being so touchy-feely that it appears pathetic to others.
Empathic, every time.
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I like using a starter because it seems like it cuts down on the fermentation time, but do I really need to do it for beers that are under 1.070 OG?
Nope. Not unless you're using a wet yeast that says you need to. Some people even say that you shouldn't make a starter if you're using dry yeast in beers lower than 1.070.
I recommend making a yeast starter for every beer you use liquid yeast for (I have little experience with dry yeast because I stopped using it after my first few batches). You don't need a starter all the time, but it's on my list of best practices.
You will almost always see better fermentation if you use a starter. It will start faster (which helps a ton to prevent the bad bugs from getting at your wort before the yeast get into full swing), and you'll be certain that you have healthy yeast to make a beautiful-tasting beer.
Even if you forget to make a starter well before you brew (1-3 days), you will benefit from making a small starter on the morning of your brew day just to ensure you've got some healthy yeast and so your fermentation kicks off quicker.
The Lazy Brewer's Guide to a Simple Starter (assuming you know how to make a starter and you want to be a little lazy or forgot to make one before brew day).
The number of steps makes it sound like a pain, but I probably spend 5 minutes of effort on any of my starters and it makes my beer better.
Really, you don't ever have to use a starter. However, I've found that if I don't have time to make a good starter, using two vials of yeast is a viable alternative. In fact, after discovering that it works very well, I've gotten noticeably more lazy in making starters in time for brew day. :)
You use a starter primarily to insure you have enough yeast. If you use two vials of yeast, you can forego the starter.
I'll go further to add that, although there's a lot of talk about "must haves", starters being one of the big ones, the only "must haves" in brewing are good ingredients, and good hygiene. Any other time you hear about a 'must have', think about what it accomplishes: chances are good there's another way to do it. Starters are a perfect example.
You should always pitch the appropriate amount of yeast. Whether it comes from a starter or more packages of yeast from the store is secondary to that. So if you pitch 5 vials of yeast that's fine to get there rather than do a 4 L starter, that's fine.
A starter has the advantage of pitching active or healthier yeast than whats in the packages usually.
1.070 is a weird place to make the cut. I think 1.040 is a more appropriate gravity to draw that grey line.
There isn't really a 'hard line' of gravity above which you must use a starter, that is because yeast packages are not always the same age.
Say you're making a beer that has an OG of 1.040 and you buy a yeast vial that is only one week old. 92 % of the yeast in that vial is viable (according to Jamil's calculator). So you could probably go without a starter.
But if that vial is a month old? 75% viable, and now you need a starter. 2 months? 54% viable.
As others have said here the goal is to use the right amount of yeast. But the real goal is to use the right amount of healthy, viable yeast. Using a calculator like Jamil's will help you figure out what that amount is.


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The Worst BCS Bowl Team Ever?
To no one's surprise, Notre Dame and Alabama finished Nos. 1 and 2 in the Bowl Championship Series rankings Sunday and will play in the national title game Jan. 7 in Miami. TV executives already are salivating at potential ratings for the matchup: National-brand Notre Dame will play in its first BCS title game and for its first national title since 1988, and iconic Alabama could make its dynastic case by winning its third BCS title in four seasons.
Other BCS bowls followed form, as Kansas State and Oregon landed in the Fiesta Bowl, Wisconsin and Stanford in the Rose Bowl and Florida and Louisville in the Sugar Bowl.
But the Orange Bowl wound up with a head-scratching matchup: Atlantic Coast Conference champion Florida State vs. Northern Illinois. The Huskies (12-1) landed their first BCS bowl spot—and the first for a team from the Mid-American Conference—despite a schedule that ranks 110th in difficulty according to the Massey ratings, including a loss to 4-8 Iowa.
Northern Illinois landed its spot by slipping through every hole in the BCS's labyrinthine selection process. After winning the MAC championship, it finished (a) in the top 16 (15th) in the BCS standings, (b) ahead of at least one other champion of a BCS conference with an automatic-qualifying berth in a BCS bowl (in this case, two: Louisville and Wisconsin) and (c) ahead of all other teams not in BCS "AQ" conferences.
To make matters stranger, Northern Illinois coach Dave Doeren on Saturday accepted a job as head coach at North Carolina State and will not coach in the Orange Bowl.
The Huskies were aided by a weak year in the Big Ten – two of its best teams are postseason-ineligible due to NCAA sanctions – and the rule that no conference can have more than two teams in BCS games. Of the four Southeastern Conference teams that finished in the top 10 but missed a BCS game—Georgia, Louisiana State, Texas A&M and South Carolina—any could stomp Northern Illinois.
BCS No. 11 Oklahoma also was left out, though there is some consolation: It will become part of an intriguing former Big 12 matchup with Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl.
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Some time ago i reinstalled windows, formating and deleting every partition. I then made 3 partitions:
One only for Windows OS (about 25GB)
One for Ubuntu OS (about 25GB, if i remember corectly 10GB for swap memory and 15GB as an ext4 partition) (not sure if it was that, hope I am not wrong) and like 200GB for all the other stuff.
Recently I got a message that i am running out of disk space.
My question is: is there a way to resize the 200GB partition and add more space for the Ubuntu partition?


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If you're like most pickup truck owners, you carry a lot in the bed of your truck. And if your truck bed floor is bare, you may have noticed the increasing numbers of scratches and dents that have resulted from loading and unloading cargo. Glancing back at your truck isn't as enjoyable any more - because the whole of it no longer shines with the unified look of a single, unadulterated color. Or maybe you've protected your bed with a bedliner and have come to feel its black appearance just doesn't blend with your truck's finish the way you thought it would.


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OREGON (CNN) -- Attorneys releasing confidential Boy Scouts files on alleged child molestation are calling upon Congress to audit whether the group's youth protections are working.
The effort to seek a congressional inquiry came Thursday as the attorneys released more than 20,000 Boy Scout documents identifying more than 1,000 leaders and volunteers banned from the group after being accused of sexual or inappropriate conduct with boys.
Child abuse prevention groups will be asked to join a national push for the congressional audit, according to the lawyers, who won a child sex abuse lawsuit against the Scouts in Oregon and are now suing the group in Texas.
The Boy Scouts, founded by congressional charter in 1910, welcome an audit or "any additional examination by authorities," the group said.
The organization also apologized to victims and their families.
"There have been instances where people misused their positions in Scouting to abuse children, and in certain cases, our response to these incidents and our efforts to protect youth were plainly insufficient, inappropriate or wrong," the Boy Scouts said in a statement.
The Boy Scouts organization announced a few weeks ago that it's reviewing all files since 1965 to ensure "all good-faith suspicion of abuse" has been reported to police.
The files released by attorneys Thursday span from 1965 to 1985.
Two-thirds of those files have involved "local law enforcement already," and the group enacted a mandatory policy in 2011 requiring all members to tell police of possible abuse child abuse or use of child pornography, the Boy Scouts said.
One of the attorneys, Kelly Clark of Portland, is seeking the federal audit because of news accounts he's read the past three years showing that adult Scoutmasters were being accused of child sex abuse or possessing child pornography.
"One of the questions we have for the Boy Scouts is, if the policy (on child abuse prevention) is so good, why is still happening?" Clark said. "We don't, for example, see a Catholic priest being arrested once a week, once a month, anymore."
The public release of the Scouts' 1,247 "ineligible volunteer files" from 1965 to 1985 does not identify the boy victims and witnesses. The national files are being distributed with the approval of the Oregon Supreme Court by a law firm that won an $18.5 million judgment in 2010 against the Boy Scouts in a case where a Scoutmaster sexually abused a boy. The files were posted on Clark's website.
CNN is not linking to the reports because it hasn't verified the allegations that they contain and because the attorneys admit that they haven't checked the veracity of the allegations.
In response to the files' release, Wayne Perry, president of Boy Scouts of America, said the group is deeply committed to youth protection.
"Where those involved in Scouting failed to protect, or worse, inflicted harm on children, we extend our deepest and sincere apologies to victims and their families," Perry said in a statement Wednesday evening. "While it is difficult to understand or explain individuals' actions from many decades ago, today Scouting is a leader among youth-serving organizations in preventing child abuse."
The files show banned volunteers included married and single men from a variety of religions. Some were marginally educated, and others had post-graduate degrees. Their professions were schoolteacher, alarm system dispatcher, customer service representative, computer engineer, auto parts clerk and real estate appraiser.
The attorneys also asked Thursday for the Boy Scouts to voluntarily release its so-called "perversion files" from 1985 to 2011. A Texas judge on October 4 ordered the release of the post-1985 files, but the attorneys said they expect the Scouts to appeal that order.
About the Boy Scouts' ongoing review of past files for possible police notification, Clark said: "I think you could see some prosecutions."
Clark charged that the Boy Scouts of America "set back the child abuse prevention movement by 10 years" by fighting the public release of its internal "perversion files."
But the group asserts it has the nation's "most comprehensive program" on youth protection among youth-serving organizations. In fact, the Boy Scouts will highlight the subject at a symposium it's hosting in Atlanta next month with similar groups.
The Boy Scouts opposed the release of the internal records and said their confidentiality has encouraged prompt reporting of questionable behavior and privacy for victimized boys and their families.
"While we respect the court, we are still concerned that the release of two decades' worth of confidential files into public view, even with the redactions indicated, may still negatively impact victims' privacy and have a chilling effect on the reporting of abuse," the organization said.
The Scouts also released a September report from a University of Virginia psychiatry professor, Janet Warren, who concluded that the system "has functioned well in keeping many unfit adults out of Scouting."
But the attorneys representing victims in several lawsuits against the Scouts say the group hid evidence from the public and police and that the so-called perversion files offer insight into what they deem a serious problem in the organization.
The secrecy protected more than 1,000 suspected child molesters, said the attorneys, who publicly released the documents during a news conference at a hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon.
The files show that the expelled Scout leaders and volunteers -- all men -- "are sociopathic geniuses," Clark said.
"They fool everybody," he said. "And then they are able to coerce, convince or threaten these kids to stay silent. And you see that play out over and over again in the files."


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Hi Everyone.
I'ts been an eterenity that Dueling Blades is in Beta phase, and didn't recieved any update while our humble community of players (speaking from Kongregate at least) desperatly berated HourBlastGames, for any feature to keep the interest around the game who's fading away.
But meanwhile, HBG is surely on his way to complete their projects of iOS port and Facebook launch. The maintenance of the servers in the past weeks is a sign that they're still surveilling the game at his current state, and thus assures it's playability, for the affluing players who discover Dueling Blades.
Now here's something that you might have missed from Dueling Blades's own Facebook.
But enough talk; have at you:
As you can see, these are the new concept arts for the game. On the whole, they're very cool! But i doubt the fanciness and load of details will translate into the finalized product (unless they can do miracles within Unity Player ^^). Other than that, i note the tendency for the females models to have a cleavage window and the top as a leotard with high boots in place of pants (zettai ryouiki FTW!). While this fact can annoy people who are tired of seeing scantly dressed girls in video games, the artist in charge opted for drawing the ladies with rather modest chests, a large break (no pun intended) compared to the game.
Now there's no confimation that they will be included into the game yet, but it's a very good news concernig DB, the next update for a moment seems very likely and it keeps feeding my hopes to see this title rise again!
However, since it's about "rare" armors, we can expect some sort of things (again if there's an update) such limited copies or for a time period of availability, a prize tournament, or payement exclusively with Kreds (which would help to support the devs). If none of that, you can bet they'll be as outrageously expensives as the current best gear ;P.
Sorry for the wall of text, and don't forget to enjoy the arts! Don't hesitate to reply and share your opinions. I Hope to see you everyone again at Dueling Blades o/.


text: The Renaissance Weirton committee nudged Weirton United Way a bit closer to its 2012 campaign goal Thursday with a $1,000 donation. Executive Director Kristin Bowman-Cross said the donation put them just a few thousand dollars short of their $280,000 goal. Campaign Chairman John Greco, far right, accepted the check from Renaissance Weirton's Dale Gaston, center, and Weirton Mayor George Kondik, left. Also taking part in the event were, standing from left, Renaissance Weirton's Gus Monezis, John Sorrenti and Millicent Zack, and Bowman-Cross. -- Linda Harris


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Is it wrong to say "to cook a cake"?
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It's better to say "make a cake" or "bake a cake". Though you can find a lot of web pages using "cook a cake".
Baking is done in an oven, cooking is done on a stove-top and typically implies using water.
You can bake pies, roasts, cookies, bread, casseroles, pizza, and cakes. You can cook vegetables and noodles. It is common and acceptable to say "cook a meal" or "cook dinner" rather than "bake a meal" or "bake dinner", even if the meal was all prepared in an oven. It becomes more confusing when you consider certain other food types. Eggs can be fried, scrambled, or boiled, but you rarely hear of anyone baking or cooking eggs.
The bottom line is that bakers bake things and those things they produce are "baked", whereas cooks (or chefs) cook things and those things they produce are "cooked."
It's not wrong, but it's more common to see 'bake a cake', as that is almost always the cooking method used.
Provided that it is an oven based cake you should say "bake".
If describing a cake that isn't made in the oven (eg a fish cake) you could say "cook".
It should be "bake a cake" and not "cook a cake". Baking is when you put something in an oven-toaster-griller, and cooking is when you put something on the stove-top.
I just checked dictionary.com. It says that "cook" means:
So cooking includes boiling, baking and roasting. Wich means its not even on the same level of precision. So we can say we "cook" for everything that's been heated but we can't cook a salad or cold food. I guess that something prepared on the stove-up can only be "cooked" but then something baked is also "cooked". The same would be applied to roasted and boiled. If you guys have other sources that say the opposite please share ;)


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Does raven have the potential to be as powerful as trigon or beyond, or is she restricted because her mother was mortal?
Less power?
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Yeah I agree she probably has the potential to become more powerful than Trigon but she would become as evil or more evil than he is!
I agree and disagree with both of you. Raven(it seems) has a split personality disorder it seems, lol. Her good self, and her evil self. Since Trigon is an entity created from evil, and is fueled by evil, I doubt Raven could ever be more powerful. But if she tapped into her full power, she could probably be on par with Trigon, exactly. She MIGHT even be more powerful as women are viewed as evil and sinners way back when when Trigon was created. Even when she does go "Dark Diva in thigh-highs"(as she puts it), she still doesn't tap into her full power. Her power is shown to be more powerful then all of her brothers together. She just doesn't want to risk her friends- or the earth.
As long as Raven's soul inhabits a body, she runs the risk of turning evil. The only way for her to realize her full power and free herself from her father's evil is to separate her soul-self from her body.
There was a scene from "Our Worlds at War" in which Raven's soul-self gave Darkseid considerable pause. He truly did not know what to make of her.
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the animated series and comics have me confused. does she have that shadow power in the comics?
Sooo, about Ravens powers.
What can she actually do?
So, she has Empathy and Astral Projection & flight of course.
does she have any physical powers?
Limited Precognition
I wish she'd have Telekinesis like she did in the animated series. :/
At times I think her various writers have been intentionally nebulous about her powers.
She has them. But like I said earlier, the price of using them is much higher than portayed in the cartoon.
Already mentioned: Flight, Empathy, Astral Projection, Healing, Teleportation, limited Precognition. These are the abilities she displays most frequently. In the comics she has demonstrated Telekinesis (using her soulself), Mental Illusions, manipulating other people's emotions, and warping reality itself. This is bad because it usually indicates that she is falling under the influence of her father.
Potentially yes, i think she could become as powerful as Trigon and rid herself of his influence. Problem is that she would have to supplant him, if she could remain herself while holding that station however is another discussion. On another note, I think Raven is really alot more powerful than what is usually depicted in the comics, if she could somehow get past the point of turning evil when tapping into her powers i think she could be something most people would pause before engaging.
Problem is that she can't use that ability for much other than travel, it's would have to be extreme if she chose to dump an adversary in Hell or any dimension she can reach. Just a side note, she needs heavenly assistance to reach Heavens gates.
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In the six days following the Nov. 6 presidential election, reports have surfaced from eyewitness testimony of volunteers, poll workers, poll observers and election officials, detailing a story of widespread voter fraud and, in some instances, election fraud. The Ohio Christian Alliance, working in cooperation with other nonprofit organizations and a pool of volunteer researchers, will be conducting a detailed investigation of these reports in the coming weeks. They will report to the media, the Ohio Legislature, and the Ohio Secretary of State's office and the Ohio Attorney General for possible prosecution of violators of election laws in response to our findings.
The integrity of the election process is one which the people of the Ohio hold in high regard. When that process is violated with voter and election fraud, it diminishes the vote of every properly registered voter in Ohio. It is imperative that these reports be given the full attention they deserve in answering the question - is our election process fair and is it secure from widespread voter fraud? The evidence that is mounting is undeniable that voter fraud took place this election in Ohio, and that not enough is being done to address the concerns of Ohioans in response to it. These initial reports demand a response of a full investigation from elected officials, the media, and the attorney general's office so that the public's trust can be restored in the election process in Ohio that it is both fair and accurate.
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A Glasgow police officer was arrested.
Glasgow Police Chief Guy Turcotte says Lt. Colonel David Graves, 46, was arrested Monday night by Kentucky State Police.
He is charged with fourth-degree assault and domestic violence.
He was taken to the Barren County Detention Center.
Chief Turcotte says, "While reminding the public that our officers are human and are as capable as anyone of using poor judgement at times, let it also be known that we hold ourselves to a higher standard as we work daily to avert and moderate these types of situations within our community and our officers will be held accountable for their actions."


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I was wondering if there's a formula for the cardinality of the set $A_k=\{(i_1,i_2,\ldots,i_k):1\leq i_1<i_2<\cdots<i_k\leq n\}$ for some $n\in\mathbb{N}$. I calculated that $A_2$ has $n(n-1)/2$ elements, and $A_3=\sum_{j=2}^{n-2}\frac{(n-j)(n-j+1)}{2}$. As you can see, the cardinality of $A_3$ is already represented by a not so nice formula.
Is there a general formula?


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It's hard to make decisions without information, that's why some researchers in the San Francisco area are collecting carbon dioxide data at the neighborhood level. As producer Andrew Stelzer discovers, the BEACON project does more than gather data; it also brings home the effects of small-scale events, such as rush hour, and allows researchers to track pollution to its source. Then Eileen Fleming discusses DIY monitoring with Shannon Dosemagen from the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science.
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I had a question about how to do one of these problems. So here's the question:
Given this equation $y'=\frac{-\cos(t)y(t)}{(t+2)(t-1)}+t$, find if the initial conditions $y(0)=10, y(2)=-1, y(-10)=5$ exist.
So I think the first step is just to take the partial derivative with respect to y which gives me: $$y''=\frac{-\cos(t)y'(t)}{(t+2)(t-1)}$$
So the 1'st equation doesn't exist at $t=-2,1$ and the partial derivative doesn't exist at $t=-2,1$ ....so do I conclude that all the initial values exists since none of them are $y(-2)$ or $y(1)$.
Don't really know how to do this whole existence and uniqueness thing....so am I right or completely off track?


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When using garlic cloves for pretty much anything, is it ever necessary to cut the slightly brown end off (that which connects to the head), or the middle out? Often times when I peel a garlic clove and cut into it I'll notice that the middle portion is slightly to moderately green and I'm always wondering if this should be discarded along with the brown end(s). If there are obvious blemishes in the garlic I'll remove those, but other than that is there a general rule of thumb?
The green in the center can have a bitter taste, and many chefs prefer to remove them. If the taste and color don't bother you, it will not cause problems for the dish.
The brown end tends to a have a harder consistency than the rest of the clove, so may cause a problem depending on how you cook the garlic. If you're cooking it in a manner that leads to a very soft and mushy piece of garlic, you'd be better off discarding it. (Boiling in soup, for example.) It probably would not make much of a difference if you were browning the garlic for a topping.
I only ever use the white parts of the clove; the hardened brown bit doesn't taste good, and the green bit is the sprout, which I don't think tastes good, either.
If you can get hold of fresh garlic bulbs with tender skins, the green sprout will not have had chance to grow, neither will the end of the clove be hard and brown. I suspect you could even mince the skin of a fresh garlic clove and get away with it.
Travelling through Europe I came across a few cultures that believed that lingering garlic breath is caused solely by the centre sprout, hence they remove it.
I am told that cutting garlic releases a bitter taste; therefore best to use whole.


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Mosques and Congregational Prayer
Prayer in congregation is considered to have more social and spiritual benefit than praying by oneself. The congregation is led by a person called an imam, who is usually chosen as the person with the best knowledge of the Quran, preferably someone who has memorized the entire Quran (a hafiz). The remaining people stand behind


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Backpackers Dream. LOCKABLE room
Maks. liczba gości12
Rozmiar17 m²
- Internet
- Dostępny parking
- Dozwolone palenie
- Zamykany pokój
|Highland Ave, IL 60304 Oak Park, Stany Zjednoczone
|Rodzaj nieruchomości
|Prywatny pokój
|Kod referencyjny
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We love nomads and people who have been on the road a long time. We are a very environmentally conscious home.
This room has a mini fridge and microwave and is located on the second floor close to the bathroom. It accommodates 2 comfortably. I can add an air mattress on the floor for the third person but it will require me to move the desk over making it look a bit odd while still being comfortable. It also has a loveseat.
We have dogs and cats. If you have any allergies or sensitivities, or even think you might have some, this is not the house for you. The dogs do live with the hosts in a private area. You will encounter the indoor/outdoor cats Hector and Elizabeth. They are never allowed in the bedrooms.
Up to 4 rooms are available (which can be viewed under listings). There are times when the house is full of people and others when there might be only a few. During high season (summer, Lollapalooza for example) the house may be very busy giving you the opportunity to meet a lot of new people.
Bring towels.
A coin laundromat is about 7 minutes away- Just one train stop over. You can walk it too. Kitchen unavailable due to local laws and regulations.
We are just a 3 minute walk to the Blue Line train. Please note that because we are so close to the train, you will hear some noise. This is the price we pay for this amazing convenience. This is the train that takes you directly to O'Hare airport and also into downtown Chicago in about 17 minutes. To come from Midway you would take the Orange Line and switch for the Blue Line at Van Buren and continue on. It's also a 5 minute drive to the 290 on ramp.
We are very convenient to all the attractions such as the Sears "Willis" Tower, Millenium Park, Shedd Aquarium, Field Museum, Adler Planetarium, Museum of Science and Industry, the Art Institute, Lincoln Park Zoo, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (with the free flying butterflies. Best nature museum and I've been to many) and Navy Pier, just to name a few (and that's really just a few. There are so many more things to do!)
We are walking distance to the Jewel and CVS (about 5 blocks). Next door to the Jewel is a Budget/Avis car rental for those times you just want to drive around. I can get you free parking for up to 30 days.
We are around the corner from Yoga Trek (has drop in classes), Val's Halla records (if you're into music, this is a must see place) some great restaurants, Italian and The Buzz Cafe (great free range beef burger, gluten free, organic, great coffee) for eclectic fare, and just one train stop away from Brazilian, American, more Mexican food, Hole in the Wall for ice cream (yum) and a Pans, a small family owned grocery store. A laundry is next to the Brazilian restaurant. Don't forget to try the passion fruit mousse - delicious! (I mean really delicious)
For the architecture buff, Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio is located here in Oak Park along with many of his buildings. Guided tours are available.
It's also the birthplace of Ernest Hemingway
All reservations must go through WIMDU including last minute reservations. No local resident rentals please.
When corresponding, please offer the password, "Al was a chicken" so I know that you have fully read this description.
Please do ask any questions you can think of.
Thanks so much!
Smoking. Smoking is allowed outside. All I ask is that you dispose of cigarette butts properly in the garbage cans in the alley. Please do not put out cigarettes in my garden or on my house. Do not throw them in the street, the sewer or the neighbor's lawn. If you are found to be smoking inside any parts of the house, including lighting cigarettes in the kitchen, blowing smoke out the window and/or the enclosed front porch, I will immediately contact Wimdu and politely ask you to leave immediately without any refund. Do not dismantle the smoke alarm - ever. There are not exceptions to this rule.
Bathroom: Please be conservative with water as Lake Michigan is at an all time low. We do not have drains in our bathroom floors. Please do not throw water all around the bathroom. Please make sure the shower curtain is closed and water does not get all over the floor.
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Location-wise it is a bit far out of town, but right next the L so easy to get in and out. Bedroom was decent for the price and would recommend staying there again.
Miejsce Tamara było to, co potrzebne do szybkiego kilka dni w Chicago: czyste łóżko i dostęp do WiFi. Nie dostaliśmy szansę spotkać, ale ona upewnić się, aby ktoś był w domu, wpuść mnie i daj mi kod do drzwi do mojego pobytu. Parking był trochę trudne (musiał być z ulicy o 8 rano), bo z ulicy zamiatanie, ale zaproponował mi pozwolenie na parkowanie.
Tamara's place was what I needed for a quick couple of nights in Chicago: a clean bed and access to Wifi. We didn't get a chance to meet, but she made sure someone was home to let me in and give me the code to the door for my stay. Parking was a little bit tricky (had to be off the street by 8 a.m.) because of street sweeping, but she offered to give me a parking permit.
Tamara is very gentle and welcome me when I arrived. The location is fantastic, near the blue line train station so it,s no more than 15-20 min to downtown. The room was clean and had also a microwave and a refrigerator.
Unfortunately we did not meet Tamara, because we only had a short stay for one night and arrived late in the evening and left early in the morning for the marathon. But from her messages I am sure she is a very kind and likeable host.
I can confirm all the other feedbacks given before.
We were provided with detailed information and had no problem to find the house which is close to the CTA indeed. The way from downtown Chicago is indeed a bit long. For one night, that was absolutely no problem. For a week, it might be bothersome.
Compared to others I can not confirm that the train or the highway nearby were disturbing. But maybe that was due to our stay from 10 pm until 5 am.
Wifi worked well too.
We even got an additional bed as we stayed there with 3.
Sharing the bathroom with others was ok, which might also be due to the downtime we had been there. We even got help by other tenants as we forgot our power adapters.
The problem was that we also slept in the room downstairs, that had no lock (also no problem when only staying 7 hours). So we were also annoyed by the smell of cat pee. And we were surprised by two coons in the window of the doorway. But as they were coward, they did not get in.
Tamara was very helpful and pleasant. Our only issue was the over powering smell of cat pee. Wouldn't recommend staying in downstairs room...upstairs may be OK.
Tamara is a great host, we enjoyed the stay at her place.
Very good connection to the blue metro line.
We would like to share our experience in this property in order to other people know what they are going to find in this house:
1) The situation of the house is very close of the train stop
2) Tamara was very kind and sent us all the information we needed via email
3) The room was clean and it has a fridge and microwave, and also, they provide to us shampoo and some soup.
4) The wifi works very good
5) We had a fan in our room
6) The twins beds were confortable
1) The door of the room has not any lock, so we had to trust that nobody of the other tenants opened our room... (nothing happened to us)
2) The bathroom is shared for four bedrooms, in my opinion this is too much
3) The smell in the main entrance, corridor and bathroom is awful, I think because of the cats' urine
4) The train takes a long time to arrive to the Austin stop
5) We've never met our host or anybody in the house. Only other tenants going to the bathroom. Everything was very impersonal.
6) The room has not A.C. but we could sleep with the fan.
7) The noise of the highway and the train rail is quite high because the house is just in front of them. We had to close the window to sleep. Take this into account if you go during the summer and want to have the window opened.
A quite old house with 4 private rooms. The location is perfect, easy to reach from airport (no need to change the train) and easy to get into city center. Nice equiped room and clean bathroom. Everything was perfect organised.
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5 Common Nightmares We All Have
Everybody likes to think they're special little snowflakes, even when it comes to having nightmares. You know, that Rorschach night-sweat stain on the sheets is just so uniquely you. And while many dreams -- both delightful and dark -- are based on personal, individual experiences, there are broad commonalities that haunt our REM sleep. And there have to be. Otherwise dream dictionaries would need to be customized, making them prohibitively expensive for all but the robber barons and teen pregnancy television stars among us.
"Childbirth was totally worth it to find out what Gorilla George Washington was trying to warn me about."
Some collective bad dreams are experiential. John Cheese wrote about the recovering alcoholic's recurring nightmare of falling off the wagon. Soldiers revisit the grimmest and most terrifying moments from the battlefield.
But a few dreams cross all gender, social, and national boundaries. They seem to be fairly universal -- simply human, in fact. While we take many approaches to problem solving in our waking life, the human subconscious is far more consistent. We're all linked back to the same primordial goo, and our nightmares are that goo's psychological coping mechanism.
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Dr. Goo, Ph.D.
Debates rage about the interpretation of certain nightmares (with a card catalog of dick-centric opinions available on Yahoo! Answers alone). But while we may not agree on what the dreams and nightmares mean, we're pretty well settled on what the common ones are. Here are five of mankind's bad dream greatest hits, with non-dick-centric theories as to why we have them.
#5. Teeth Falling Out -- We All Fear Our Mortality
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In 1958, American Anthropologist published an article titled "The Universality of Typical Dreams: Japanese vs. Americans." While it turned up some differences, the similarities between the respondents' dreams were much more striking, particularly that 20.8 percent of the American and 16.1 percent of the Japanese subjects confirmed that they'd dreamed of their teeth crumbling or tumbling from their mouths. That's a mighty lot of dreamtime chompers lost across the globe.
Instead of a shared fear of becoming scurvy-riddled nickel dancers, this nightmare is thought to stem from our struggle with mortality.
Or, if you're a tooth fairy, job security.
Forget Freud and his fancy-pants dream analysis -- when it comes to understanding what common factors in the human condition could bring about such a Lynchian nightmare, look no further than Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes brought the gavel down on this in his seminal work Leviathan (1651) when he stated that life is inherently "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Frankly, life sucks for everybody, and it could end at any instant. Instead of making the most of our brief tenure on the planet, we're eating varying levels of crap as calendar pages rapidly fall to the ground. Like our teeth. With which we have had to eat all this crap. Or, you know, without teeth, your nourishment will be limited to McDonald's shakes and you'll die.
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"Our milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard ... the graveyard."
It doesn't matter if you're doling out cologne in a strip bar bathroom or you're Elizabeth Dole, it's likely you'll be as toothless as Thomas Hobbes at some point in the dead of night.
#4. Unprepared for the Big Test -- We're All Anxious About Stacking Up
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You're sitting at a desk, blue book and pencil in hand, armpit-soaked and petrified. There are 15 minutes left on the clock, and your book is blank. Or you realize you missed this class all year -- just flat out didn't show up -- and now the questions on the test are reading like Russian. Oh God, it's Russian 401!
It'd be time to panic, if it weren't a nightmare. After all, you've been banned from entering any institution of higher learning for what -- 10? 20 years? So why freak out about tests when you could be freaking about something more interesting, like how you will ever eat your way out of a giant strawberry pie?
"You are the only one who can do this. You are the chosen one the diabetic elders prophesied."
It's because you've made at least a marginal amount of yourself and you're afraid of losing it. This is a nightmare of anxiety over personal and professional accomplishment, and it tends to plague people who have already done well (e.g., enrolled in Russian and didn't drop it). No matter the success we achieve, we never get rid of the insecurity that one day we won't measure up to expectations. And unless you went to some hippie school, this is one place where everyone's performance or lack thereof was evaluated in writing.
So, if you want to avoid sharing this one with your fellow man, best not have any ambition or goals whatsoever to begin with.
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Which may explain how hobos can sleep anywhere.
#3. Falling from Incredible Height -- No One Wants to Lose Control
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And now you're free-falling, a heart-tightening plunge from a building ledge or cliff, hurtling toward an advancing ground that you never actually hit before waking up in a puddle.
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Falling is one of the top reported nightmares and is motivated by a potential for failure that's out of your hands. Things aren't lining up the way you want when you're awake, and there are no proactive steps you can take to fix things, so off the dread-slicked edge you go in Sleepytown.
Contrary to popular belief, you will not die if your terminal velocity comes to a conclusion during a falling dream. Or, at least no one who did die during one of these REM bad times bothered to come back and tell the rest of us about it. But, hey, it's out of our control. We're not the boss of those ghosts.
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"No, the falling dream didn't kill me. The Nic Cage go-kart one, on the other hand ..."
The fact that humanity is plagued by this one proves that we need to chill the hell out. Just don't go so far as taking on a full "The Fates will provide" attitude at work. The Fates are not skilled at spreadsheets and coding.


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Abstract: ``The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers, and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. It has engaged the industry and wisdom of ancient and modern geometers to such an extent that it would be superfluous to discuss the problem at length. Nevertheless we must confess that all methods that have been proposed thus far are either restricted to very special cases or are so laborious and difficult that even for numbers that do not exceed the limits of tables constructed by estimable men, they try the patience of even the practiced calculator. And these methods do not apply at all to larger numbers ... It frequently happens that the trained calculator will be sufficiently rewarded by reducing large numbers to their factors so that it will compensate for the time spent. Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated ... It is in the nature of the problem that any method will become more complicated as the numbers get larger. Nevertheless, in the following methods the difficulties increase rather slowly ... The techniques that were previously known would require intolerable labor even for the most indefatigable calculator.''
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WASHINGTON — Joe Biden in 2016? The inauguration is barely over but the vice president already is dropping plenty of hints that he might have another political act.
Biden packed his schedule with events and receptions attended by party stalwarts throughout the long weekend of inauguration festivities, stoking speculation he may be laying the groundwork to carry the torch from President Barack Obama. It comes after Biden played a prominent role in brokering a compromise on the fiscal cliff standoff with Congress and his work developing gun violence legislation following December's deadly school shooting in Connecticut.
The next presidential campaign is a long way off and the Democratic primary chase will be dotted with plenty of "ifs," most notably whether outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton decides to seek the nomination. Clinton, the former New York senator and first lady, remains the heavy favorite among party activists but several notable Democrats, including Biden, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, are said to be keeping their options open in case Clinton decides not to run again.
As vice president, Biden can stay in the spotlight and is no stranger to the demands of a presidential campaign after failed bids in 1988 and 2008. The former Delaware senator has racked up a long list of domestic and foreign policy achievements even as his occasional off-script moments have become fodder for Republicans.
"There's a whole lot of reasons why I wouldn't run," Biden, who will be nearly 74 on Election Day in 2016, told CNN in an interview before the inauguration. "I don't have to make that decision for a while. In the meantime, there's one thing I know I have to do, no matter what I do. I have to help this president move this country to the next stage."
Yet with his high-profile perch, Biden is doing nothing to tamp down the speculation.
Biden's private swearing-in ceremony on Sunday was attended by recently elected New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, someone who would be a potent ally in the state's first-in-the-nation primary. Attendees at a Sunday afternoon reception at the vice president's residence at the Naval Observatory said they noticed a lot of party activists from early voting states like New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina.
"We can always start the political calculations in terms of the number of delegates needed to secure a nomination. But let's just say I see a number of superdelegates here as well," Democratic strategist Donna Brazile told reporters following the ceremony.
Biden later dropped by the Iowa State Society Inaugural Ball, slipping up and telling partygoers he was "proud to be president of the United States," prompting cheers. He quickly corrected himself, saying he was "proud to be vice president of the United States, but I am prouder to be ... President Barack Obama's vice president." Laughing it off, he said, "There's goes that."
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To honor this week's A+ Athlete, Daniel Gotera headed over to Sherman High School for a young man who is a leader on the football team and always puts his family first.
This week's A+ Athlete is Stephen Doss from Sherman High School. Stephen ranks 27th in his class with a 3.6 grade point average and says his achievements in the classroom go hand-in-hand with what he's been able to accomplish in athletics.
"It's a challenge and you have to look at it like that, whenever you're doing academics you have to think why are you doing the things you're doing and its because you have people depending on you," Stephen says.
Because of his leadership abilities, Stephen was named one of the captains on the football team.
It is an honor that Bearcats head coach Drew Young had never bestowed on anyone before at the onset of the season.
"He is a unique young man, and he is the reason I continue to coach to be able to be around young men like him."
In addition to being the starting nose guard for the Bearcat defense, Stephen is also ranked eighth in the state in power lifting.
The influence of two special people in his life has made Stephen be the best he can be.
"My grandmother and mother are really the only things I think about when I am doing anything. Whenever I am power lifting I always think that I am doing this for them and if I didn't have them, I wouldn't know what to do."
Off the field and outside the classroom, Stephen is involved in Great Days of Service, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and a variety of other activities.
But working hard in the weight room is where he loves to be.
"My brother was my biggest inspiration for power lifting, for football… I just wanted to be better than him, and of course who wouldn't want to be better then their older brother?" Stephen says.
Congratulations to Stephen Doss on being named this week's A+ Athlete.
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How To Play "Lets Make A Deal"
Negotiating when thrifting is an art. Depending on the store's policy you can score some pretty fab pieces at a nice discount. But it can be sort of scary right? Like, what if they say NO! I will be referring to this game A LOT in the Epic Room Makeover posts so I thought I would kick the tutorials off with the most important/awkward one first.
How to play Lets Make A Deal.
Now don't get me wrong, I can hold my own when it comes to wheelin and dealin but when there is a little something called peer pressure it takes it to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL. My partners in crime are my girls Mia and Jilly
Rule 1. Know their policy. If you are going into a store that you know will not negotiate its sort of a waste of time to try. If you are going into an Estate/Yard Sale or a store that will negotiate then go in ready!
Rule 2. Don't discredit their price offensively. No one wants to hear that what they are selling is a piece of crap and that you would never be caught dead paying that much (even if that is how you feel).
Rule 3. If they even entertain the lower the price a little then you know that negotiations have begun. Had Randy said "The door is $75, I cant go down at all, its our policy." Then it would have been much harder. The Restore in St. George doesn't negotiate AT. ALL. Buuuut because Randy went down on the price and didn't say anything about a policy it was ON.
Poor guy, he had no idea what he was up against.
Rule 4. The key to Let's Make a Deal is bundling. It works for your phone/internet/cable and it is CRUCIAL to getting Randy/Todd/Helen to drop the price.
Rule 5. Have FUN! People are WAY more likely to give you a deal if they like you! Use their name, find out a little bit about them, make friends!
This is a real life situation that we recorded so you guys could see how it went down.
Meet poor unsuspecting Randy the employee at Restore who had the privilege of helping us lock down the price for our sliding barn door.
There was a sign posted that said "Solid Core Doors $35.00". Well this door was solid core, so in our minds it was priced at $35.00. Randy was not amused. He said that the price of the door was between $75-$100. We explained to him that the door was with the sign that said "Solid Core Doors $35.00". He then explained to us that that sign was for doors that were normal height and that our door was 8ft tall. He said he would go down to $65.
In Randy's case, we bundled the door with a canvas that we really liked that Randy wanted to get rid of. The total offer was $60 and he was getting us out of his store. I mean how could he say no?
Up next is Serg. He owns a small Estate Sale in a storage unit in downtown Phoenix. In this video we took 2 end tables from $100 to $15 each. Bam. You may need to turn your volume up for this video.
So do you have any tips to add to the Lets Make A Deal rules?
Check out the other posts in the Epic Room Makeover 2012 Series:
How To Build A Simple Sliding Barn Door
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Minestrone in Minutes
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Type: Soups and Stews
This traditional Italian classic has been reinvented for busy families who relish a substantial vegetable soup enriched with a little pasta.
Serves: Serves: 4 (1 1/2 cups)
- 1 3/4 cups (one 14 1/2-ounce can) Swanson Beef Broth
- 1 3/4 cups water
- 1 cup shredded cabbage
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1 3/4 cups (one 15-ounce can) Hunt's Chunky Tomato Sauce
- 1/2 cup frozen cut green beans
- 1/2 cup frozen cut carrots
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
- 1/4 teaspoon dried minced garlic
- Scant 1/2 cup (1 1/2 ounces) uncooked elbow macaroni
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- In a large saucepan, combine beef broth, water, cabbage, onion, tomato sauce, green beans, carrots, Italian seasoning, parsley flakes, and garlic.
- Bring mixture to a boil. Add uncooked macaroni. Mix well to combine.
- Lower heat, cover, and simmer for 15 minutes or until vegetables and macaroni are tender, stirring occasionally
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Quinoa Tabbouleh
Categories: Vegetarian
Type: Salads
Type: Salads
Whole grain quinoa makes a tasty and healthy summer salad. Be sure to rinse it well in a fine sieve before cooking
Prep Time: 10M
Cooking Time: 20M
Serves: makes 4 servings
- 1 cup quinoa
- 1 cucumber, peeled, seeded, and diced
- 1 small red onion, chopped
- 2 tbsp chopped parsley
- 2 tbsp chopped mint
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 2oz ( 55g) feta cheese
- 1/2 cup pitted and coarsely chopped Kalamata olives
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- Rinse the quinoa well in a fine mesh sieve. Drain and place it in a medium heavy-bottomed pan. Stir constantly over a medium heat about 3 minutes, until the grains separate and begin to brown.
- Add 21/4 cups water and 1/2 tsp salt and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat and cook for 15 minutes, or until the liquid is absorbed. Transfer to a bowl and let cool.
- Add the cucumber, onion, parsley, and mint to the quinoa. Whisk together the oil and lemon juice in a small bowl. Pour over the quinoa and mix.
- Sprinkle with the feta cheese and olives. Season with salt and pepper, and serve.
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We're continually asked, "How are you going to top last year's event?" This is a challenge we thrive on. Forging a friendship in the workplace can be tricky, but the bond our BD team has is unique. We've worked closely together for more than three years and all of us share the spotlight. As the time nears when the curtain is drawn back, life in the Marriott ballrooms can be filled with tension. But, we're always working toward one goal – that The Voice-Tribune's Best Dressed is the event of the year!
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I'm attempting a Python version of Richard Dawkin's Weasel Program that demonstrates the difference between random selection versus cumulative selection and am having some problems with my mutation algorithm. I'm thinking perhaps I don't understand how to use the Python random library. Here's the offending bit of code:
#Cumulative selection guesser
while counter < 2:
for i in range(gen):
for j in range(len(child)):
mutation = random.randint(0,99)
if mutation in range(5):
child[j] = random.choice(chars)
counter += 1
"Counter" is used for testing and will be changed to a test for equality with the target phrase once the code is complete, "child" is a list of 28 random letters, "gen" is the number of generations and is just a constant number like 100 or 50, "chars" is a string of the uppercase alphabet and the space character, and "offspring" is an empty list I want to put all my generated "children" in. If this doesn't make sense I can include the rest of the code, but the main problem I have is that every child in each generation is exactly the same.
What should be happening is the code goes through each element in "child" rolls the dice for a mutation, if the mutation happens change that specific element in child to a new random character. Then the "child" gets added to the list of offspring. So the offspring should be something like:
(variations bolded)
times how many are specified by the variable "gen". Instead I get each child exactly the same with no variations, like this:
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