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6 Terrifying Children's Cartoons from Around the World
#3. Alma (Spain) -- Pixar Meets M. Night Shyamalan
Even if you've never heard of Spanish animator Rodrigo Blaas, you might have heard about some of the movies he had a hand in creating, like The Incredibles, Cars, Up or a little film called Wall-E. His short silent animation Alma could easily pass for another Pixar film ... if it wasn't for that soul-crushing twist ending.
The film starts innocently enough, with an impossibly cute little blonde girl running down a snow-covered street and writing her name, Alma (which is also "soul" in Spanish), on a wall. Then she spots something strange on the window of a closed toy shop: It's a doll who looks exactly like her.
All children desire plastic, dead-eyed replicas of themselves.
Naturally, Alma decides to break into the shop and grab the doll. We're barely two minutes into the film, and she's already guilty of street vandalism, breaking and entering and attempted theft -- but you know what, that sort of stuff happens in cartoons all the time. It's not like she's gonna receive some sort of convoluted supernatural punishment for her actions, right? This is an animated film set to clarinet music -- nothing bad can happen here.
Anyway, she gets inside the store, and while trying to reach the doll, she steps on a toy of a boy on a bicycle. She sets the toy on the floor and watches it go off on its own until it bumps into the store's door, over and over. Like it's trying to escape.
"Man, I wish I could speak forebodingness."
But we're still within the realm of a cutesy kids' movie here, like a short feature they'd show before a Disney movie. Everything changes when Alma notices that her toy double is now up on a shelf filled with other dolls, reaches up to touch it and ... we are treated to a flash of inexplicable images that would make Clive Barker flinch. In two seconds, the film goes from Pixar whimsical to David Lynch insane.
When the Nine Inch Nails promo clip sequence is over, Alma's view comes into focus and she breathes heavily, unable to move. She's trapped inside the doll and can only move her eyes. The camera pulls back to reveal the dozens of dolls around her also moving their eyes in terror, each one imprisoning the soul of someone's missing child.
This is actually the gritty prequel for Toy Story.
We're just gonna go out on a limb here and guess that the reason Rodrigo Blaas doesn't work at Pixar anymore was less "seeking new opportunities" and more like "We are terrified of what you may do to us in our sleep."
#2. Dot and the Kangaroo (Australia) -- The Bunyip Song
Dot and the Kangaroo is a classic 1977 animated film designed to teach kids about Australia's unique and often hilarious fauna. In it, the eponymous Dot and Kangaroo go around the Outback meeting animals like the grumpy platypus ...
"I remembered what a crime against nature I was, and then dropped my damn ice cream, too."
The lazy koala ...
And his literal morning wood.
And the ... the ... what in the hell is this thing?
Seriously, what are we looking at he -- oh dear God it's coming this way.
What makes this sequence so terrifying is that it's completely unexpected. One minute you're watching this movie about little cartoon animals singing and dancing, and then literally out of nowhere comes a horrible growling noise accompanied by depressing piano music and these lyrics:
"The bunyip's very bad,
And the bunyip's very bold,
And they tell me that the bunyip
Is now a thousand years old."
The blood of children makes it immortal. Happy Earth Day, kids!
The song goes on to inform us that "You better hide very soon, or the bunyip's going to get you in the bunyip moon," and that "It's the most unpleasant monster that you have ever seen" (but we already knew both those things, just from instinct). Compare that to the lyrics of the previous song: "I'm a frog, I'm a frog, I'm a frog, I'm a frog."
And this is of course accompanied by creepily animated visuals in a completely different style from the rest of the film, as if an actual ghost had possessed your TV.
Well, at least the kids can take comfort from knowing that the filmmakers just made up this bunyip creature ... after hearing about it from actual aboriginal accounts dating back hundreds of years.
#1. The Plague Dogs (Britain) -- Watership Down, With Dogs
If you were "lucky" enough to experience that gore-filled bunny rabbit classic called Watership Down as a kid, by the time the movie was over you had one consolation: There was no more of it. Discounting the nightmares it probably still inspires, there are no new scenes of that particular brand of carefully animated animal violence to traumatize you. Or so we thought.
"A special kind of movie magic" is the type they have to keep under three tons of lead in case it leaks out.
Four years after Watership Down came out, the same British studio teamed up with the same director and many of the same voice actors on an adaptation of a book by the same author, The Plague Dogs. Although slightly more obscure than its predecessor, it is just as messed up.
Right off the bat, The Plague Dogs lets kids know they're gonna regret picking the video cover with the doggies by showing them some good old-fashioned animal cruelty in the very first scene. First we see a dog in a room full of water, desperately trying to stay afloat.
"And then he starts singing, right?"
Exhausted, the dog gives up and starts sinking in the water as the air leaves his lungs. The whole time, a group of men in lab coats watch and commentate in their nonplussed British voices.
Finally, his motionless body settles at the bottom of the room, before being dragged away by a hook that grabs him by the collar.
But this is nothing compared to what's in store for you if, for some reason, you decide to keep watching this movie. The most soul-deadening scene by far starts when one of the canine protagonists is spotted by a hunter with a shotgun.
The hunter starts calling the doggy, and then he ... puts the gun down. He actually just wanted to pet him! Not everything in life is death and cruelty: There are also kind, friendly people out there. And then the dog excitedly leaps into the man's arms and ...
... accidentally shoots him in the face.
How do we know the shotgun wasn't pointed at, say, his dick or something (which is at least survivable)? Because they goddamned show us, that's why.
"It's just a really bad nosebleed. From the eyes."
That thing about the man being friendly with the dog? That was just there to lull you into a false sense of security before dragging you back into the cold, terrifying world of British children's animation. The dog sees the man's lifeless corpse and runs away, now a murderer.
Those aren't spots. They're bits of brain.
The worst part? This doesn't have anything to do with the plot. The man is never mentioned again, so presumably they just put the scene there to freak us out (it worked). Oh, and later on we see a re-creation of the scene from First Blood (released a couple of months earlier) where a guy falls from a helicopter and dies -- except this one's even more gruesome, because at least Rambo didn't go back and feed on the man's corpse.
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(CNN) -- George Zimmerman's lawyers have vowed to file a motion asking a Florida judge for a new bond hearing for their client Monday, a day after the murder suspect returned to jail on a judge's order.
The 28-year-old Florida man accused in the death of Trayvon Martin had been free on bond for weeks until Sunday afternoon, when he turned himself in to authorities in Seminole County, Florida.
Zimmerman become a focus of intense national attention earlier this year, after he fatally shot the unarmed African-American teenager who had just gone out to buy a bag of Skittles and Arizona Iced Tea at a 7-Eleven in Sanford, Florida.
The neighborhood watch volunteer had claimed the February 26 shooting was in self-defense. Martin's family and civil rights activists from around the nation contended Zimmerman, who is white Hispanic, racially profiled the 17-year-old and ignored a 911 dispatcher's request not to follow him.
In April, Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder after the case was referred to a state attorney for a review. He was released from custody later that month after posting bail.
But on Friday, Seminole County Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. ordered Zimmerman back to jail, accusing the suspect of not being truthful about how much money he had access to when his bond was set months earlier.
At the time, his wife told the court under oath that the family was indigent. But prosecutors alleged, in fact, Zimmerman had $135,000.
Addressing reporters after last week's ruling, lead defense attorney Mark O'Mara expressed hope that his client's detention once again would be short-lived.
"The revocation of bond, I hope, is temporary," O'Mara said. "I hope that they will give us a day in court to explain George's behavior and look at all the circumstances ... in determining what (Lester) is going to do about letting him back out on bond."
The defense team, in an online statement posted Sunday, pointed to the fact that Zimmerman turned himself in voluntarily, and within the 48-hour limit mandated by Judge Lester, as proof "that he is not a flight risk."
For now, Zimmerman is being held on no-bail status in administrative confinement at Seminole County's John E. Polk Correctional Facility, Sheriff Donald Eslinger said. Equipped with two beds and a toilet, his cell is designed to hold two inmates and is about 67 square feet, the sheriff's office said.
Zimmerman is "anticipated" to stand trial sometime next year, according to his defense team. His return to jail centers around a pool of money that appears to have been donated to Zimmerman through a website he set up to help with a legal defense fund.
Citing recorded jailhouse conversations between Zimmerman and his wife, prosecutors alleged the two spoke in code when discussing the money in a credit union account, according to a court documents filed last Friday by State Attorney Angela B. Corey.
Zimmerman "fully controlled and participated in the transfer of money from the PayPal account to defendant and his wife's credit union accounts," Corey said in court records. "This occurred prior to the time defendant was arguing to the court that he was indigent and his wife had no money."
The judge "relied on false representations and statements" by Zimmerman and his wife when the court set his bond at $150,000, Corey said. Zimmerman was required to post only 10% of that.
Lester appeared angry that the court had not been told about the money.
"Does your client get to sit there like a potted palm and let you lead me down the primrose path?" he asked Zimmerman's lawyer. "That's the issue."
Defense lawyers contend, in an online statement, that "the vast majority of the funds in question are in an independently managed trust" that Zimmerman and his attorneys can not access directly.
O'Mara said in an interview with CNN that his client, who was not in court for Friday's hearing is "frustrated because he now has to come out of hiding."
"You need to realize we're still talking about a 28-year-old who's being charged with a crime he does not believe he committed, and his whole life has been turned upside down. So I think that it all needs to be kept in context."

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Sewell Pro Maestro Banana Plugs w/Gold Connectors, 6 Pairs for $6.99 + prime customers get free shipping
coupon code: AMAZWOOT
Make sure your banana is properly grounded before using these plugs.
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I live in Central Kansas, and shipped, these came to $12.43, so shipping almost completely negated the promo code.
I am however, in the market for some new banana plugs, can anyone vouch for the quality on these before I fire off an order?
I don't know about these. I bought some from Monoprice that work great.
There's always money in the banana stand
"I am the banana king" -Charlie
I second the recommendation from soontekoh34. Have several pairs of those and they work with no issues.
@soontekoh34: I too can vouch for these Monoprice banana plugs. This weekend, I used 5 pairs of the banana plugs (http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10401&cs_id=1040115&p_id=9436&seq=1&format=2) and 5 pairs of the pin plugs (http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10401&cs_id=1040115&p_id=9438&seq=1&format=2) to terminate the newly run speaker lines in my living room.
The products are really well put together. They only differ in the ends, which screw in (so you can terminate both ends of each leads, and then decide where you want the banana plugs/pin plugs.) One word of advice - if you aren't very good at getting the wires just right (like me), use a pair of pliers to twist the ends together. They'll go together just fine, and you won't tear up your fingers fighting a stray strand of wire in the threads.
All in all, they're a very high quality piece of kit.
14.59 on amazon, Looks like the deal is over.
@sharazar: You have to put the promo code in at checkout.
lol, 1 too many for a 5.1 system, and 1 too few for a 7.1 system....
For those of you curious this seems to be a single discount. So you can't order more then one at the 6.99 price. Otherwise I would have gone in.
BTW, if you want to order more than one, you have to place each order individually. The coupon code will not stack. So if you want two sets of these (like I do), you have to place two separate orders.
@mumrahte: You can--you just have to place individual orders for each set you want.
Update from Sewell:
We're sorry that we ran out of promotion units, but we will be selling the rest of our stock at a promotional price. You should be able to get a set of these banana plugs at $10.99 for the rest of the day by using the same code.
I use em in my home theater and they are heavy duty. Work great .
Price is now $10.99 after AMAZWOOT
@sewelldirect: sounds like an april fools joke already.
This deal comes to $10.99 NOT $6.99 after using the code AMAZWOOT . Plus shipping for me was $5.44. I tried doubling the order to see if it would deal the deal. NO DEAL. NO SALE. This deal SUCKS!
@quikasucan: you're right. the deal didn't even last a half day -- like a bad april fools joke- . They should have sold it out instead of insulting everyone with " we have some but we're not going to sell it at our sale price anymore". Pure, petty greed. Can't believe how greedy they are.


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A Jerome woman has pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the first degree in a case in which she was accused of drugging her boyfriend, who was found dead in her home earlier this year.
Laurie Ann Wilkinson pled guilty to the charge Tuesday in Texas County Circuit Court during a plea hearing presided over by Judge Tracie Storie. The case was transferred from Phelps County to Texas County in late October.
Wilkinson had been initially charged with murder in the second degree, a class A felony, but that charge was amended to involuntary manslaughter in the first degree, according to the circuit court.
Wilkinson had also been charged with distributing/delivering/manufacturing/producing or attempt to or possess with intent to distribute/deliver/manufacture/produce a controlled substance, a class B felony, but that charge has been dismissed against her, according to the court.
In early July of this year, Wilkinson was arrested on those initial two charges after a long-term investigation into the discovery of her boyfriend's body on the morning of Feb. 4, 2012.
According to the Phelps County Sheriff's Department, central dispatch in Rolla received a frantic 911 call from Wilkinson, who stated that her boyfriend, 23-year-old Charles Arnold Mennemeyer, was unresponsive and possibly deceased.
Sheriff's deputies and medical personnel responded to her home and and found Mennemeyer dead on a couch as well as a large amount of prescription controlled substances.
An autopsy listed the cause of death as aspiration of gastric contents secondary to polydrug toxicity.
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Surprisingly, GRID Autosport will only come to PS4 and Xbox One "in time"Written by: / / No Comments
After a quick round of teasing, Codemasters yesterday confirmed that the racing game studio was currently hard at work on its next title, GRID Autosport, which is surprisingly due out in only two short months with a release date of June 27th.
Also somewhat surprisingly (to me at least) was the announcement of the game's platforms: PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. I was fairly convinced that Codemasters would want to strut its stuff on the new generation of consoles and push the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One to the limit to make a solid case for the racing genre with advanced physics models, detailed tracks and photo realistic motors.
The team, it seems, is full of surprises.
Taking to NeoGAF following the announcement of GRID Autosport, Codemasters community manager 'CodiesLoore' confirmed that the PC is the lead development platform for the game but stopped short of confirming that we can expect PS4 and Xbox One versions of the racer in time for the Xbox 360 and PS3 releases in June.
Those new generation editions of GRID Autosport "will come in time," the developer said, continuing on to say that "we're not going to rush that and get a game that can only run at 720/30 or something similar, next gen has to look and feel like 'next gen' for us."
"[We] genuinely want our first next gen outing to be something really great, we don't want to have to rush and only put out a handful of tracks," CodiesLoore wrote. "We've got 22 locations in Autosport, the bulk of those are real world circuits, would all those have made it if we were to support next gen? Doubtful."
The developer pledged that Codemasters is working on technology for PS4 and Xbox One, but "we're not quite ready. Again, we don't want to rush." CodiesLoore also wrote that the team "sort of had something to prove" after the release of GRID 2 and "wanted to leave the 'old gen' with a bit of a bang so to speak."
Method in the GRID Autosport Madness
It's still surprising to me that Codemasters not only left the announcement of GRID Autosport until two months before launch and that this launch won't incorporate the PS4 and Xbox One, but keeping in mind the troubles that developers on Need For Speed: Rivals, Battlefield 4 and Call of Duty: Ghosts went through to get their games out at the same time on all platforms, perhaps Codemasters' approach is the most level-headed.
Would you rather wait to see what Codemasters can do with new generation consoles without the older consoles holding back the team's technological innovations, or play their next racer on older hardware sooner?
Watch the debut trailer for GRID Autosport with a smattering of announcement screenshots over here.
Source: NeoGAF
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Say hello to a new silhouette this season, the Presia Pump. Place yourself atop an elegantly designed 100 millimeter feminine heel created with soft, burnished leathers. Discrete, concealed ADIPRENE® by adidas sport technology helps absorb shock in the heel making these stylish dress shoes unbelievably comfortable.
- ADIPRENE® by adidas shock-absorbent cushioning protects the heel at impact
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- Breathable Polyurethane is moisture absorbent and odor resistant
- Full grain leather is durable and easy to clean, extending product life
- Rubber outsole helps provide a durable grip on a variety of surfaces
- Heel Height: 100mm
Highly shock-absorbent cushioning protects the heel at impact
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Presia Pump is rated out of 5 by 6.
Rated 3 out of 5 by heyyeh from Average Nothing special. From the photos, I thought these would be more almond toe but they are definitely very round, almost juvenile looking. The best photo that shows the true toe box shape is the shot of the sole of the shoe. The leather felt very stiff compared to other Rockport heels. I wanted a sleek black pump; these are not it. The round toe looks stubby. Fit was TTS. I went for the Presia cross strap instead, way better.
Date published: 2013-08-07
Rated 3 out of 5 by Texas from Not very comfortable This show is not very comfortable. I thought because it is a Rockport shoe, I could expect comfort. Given the high heel height, it is probably impossible to make it comfortable. A little thicker heel would have helped.
Date published: 2013-08-28
Rated 1 out of 5 by nikki from Not attractive I got these shoes and looked like they had been tried on before. All of the wrapping was bunched up underneath the shoes rather than wrapping the shoes. This is a pet peeve of mine. In general, the shoes just don;t look nice. The front of the shoe is awkwardly too round. the leather looks cheap.
Date published: 2013-08-23
Rated 3 out of 5 by silvermoon79 from Average Buy It's a very basic shoe. The front is a little bit too rounded but the heel looks nice. It's reasonably priced. I wish it was more comfortable, but the sole does have good grip. I would recommend it to a friend for work if their job primarily involves sitting at a desk.
Date published: 2013-09-11
Rated 5 out of 5 by Jemma from Comfortable practical These are comfortable and practical shoes. Not too tall, nice comfort level and great quality. The paint on the sole rubbed through on the first wear but I am not too worried about the paint on the bottom of my shoe!
Date published: 2013-08-28
Rated 2 out of 5 by shaypooh from wrong shoe for me the heel was entirely toooooo high for me. I will not be able to wear the shoes in the future.
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Is there an easy way to modify key- and mouse-bindings for GNOME shell? The
gnome-tweak-tool is far from complete regarding these issues and the system settings doesn't include any such options. I guess there is always the possibility of opening the
[gd]conf-editor. If that is our final resort for now what key patterns are involved then?
Is there an easy way to modify key- and mouse-bindings for GNOME shell? The
To change the keyboard bindings, find the keyboard section in the system settings application. Under the shortcuts tab, find the shortcut that's called something like "Go into Overview Mode." Then you can change it to whatever you want.
To disable hot corner, see this question.
All keyboard shortcuts are configured via system settings/keyboard/shortcuts. Overlay mode can be activated with keybinding "show main menu". There're no mouse-bindings.
Under the hood.
Standard keyboard shortcuts are stored at:
Modifier to manipulate windows (drag, popup menu) is at:
Shortcuts to launch browser/email/etc at:
Key to enter overview mode is at:
The option value is keysym (as given in xkb-config or ~/.Xmodmap), you may put "Menu" here to use menu-key to launch overview. When assigned to other keys it may behave weird.
You can find all the keybindings used by Gnome Shell at the dconf location


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My computer is currently doing something like 30k+ interrupts per second. This causes battery issues as well as the CPU being always stuck at the highest speed, making it very hot (overheating.. 75C at IDLE)
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99.4% (32052.4) [acpi] <interrupt>
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Just to clarify this started suddenly a couple of days ago. It didn't have this issue before (though I had a tonne of headaches with Linux on my computer in general..)


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Under the new venture, the companies will provide consulting and training services in the areas of employee and contractor safety and training, process safety management, asset productivity, energy efficiency, integrated operations, sustainability strategy and environmental management.
DuPont has formed a joint venture with Morocco-based phosphate
producer OCP, under which the firms will provide safety and environmental training to companies
in Africa, officials said on Thursday.
The venture, which will also include consulting, will be
called DuPont OCP Operations Consulting. Each company will own
a 50% stake.
The joint venture combines the internationally-renowned
expertise of DuPont Sustainable Solutions with OCPs
world-class industrial experience and local market
The companies said they will provide consulting and
training services in the areas of employee and contractor
safety and training, process safety management, asset
productivity, energy efficiency, integrated operations, sustainability strategy and environmental management.
"This new partnership underscores the importance of
collaboration, said James R. Weigand, president of DuPont
Sustainable Solutions. In line with our market-driven
science strategy, this knowledge transfer will allow us to
combine the strengths of two leading companies to expand the
range of innovative safety, productivity and sustainability solutions available
to the market
DuPont formed the DuPont Sustainable Solutions offering in
2010 by combining its training and consulting units under
one business.
For its part, OCP noted that its ambition
encompasses a broader aim to advance local industries and
develop a more skilled workforce in Morocco.
"OCP has a strategic interest in ensuring that its industrial
ecosystem in Morocco becomes safer, more environmentally sustainable and more
productive, which will improve the competitiveness of the
country as a whole, allowing for more foreign investment and
overall improve economic growth," said Amar Drissi,
OCPs executive vice president of operations.
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Good news for safety in the world.
A good news for Safety jobs
An interesting development for a fast changing continent. A wellcoming news for African countries with global ambitions.
Highly commendable inclusive business strategy. In third world countries like mine some businesses tend to cut corners for short term economic reasons compromising safety and environment. Safety and Environment consciousness is not likely to be part of the work culture in such cases. These initiatives are the need of the hour.
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Schorr Lake Vineyards
This secluded winery focuses on environmentally-friendly wine making methods. Relax on the deck overlooking the vineyards and enjoy these estate-grown and produced table and fruit wines.
Waterstreet Bar & Grill
Waterstreet has a great menu full of delicious dishes.
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This locally owned Italian restaurant features pasta, pizza and specialty items.
Breadeaux Pizza
Breadeaux Pizza has unique variety of pizzas such as quesadilla, super Hawaiian, taco, chicken fiesta, cheeseburger, meatball, barbeque, vegetarian, and many more, and you can always build your own pizza with the toppings you want. Also, pastas, salads, sandwiches, and tantalizing desserts.
Just Sue's
Just Sue's has a wide variety of delicious dishes in a casual, comfortable atmosphere. Cash only.
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Monroe County's only German restaurant and Bavarian wine garden.
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China King offers delicious Chinese food in a family friendly atmosphere with affordable prices and excellent service.
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In a restored 1870s building, Gallager's offers delicious food such as crab cakes, chicken and sausage gumbo, grilled salmon, a century-old bar, and great service. Beer and wine specials on Wednesdays. Appetizer specials on Fridays.
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Rooster Hill Farm is a unique country destination in "The Heart of Southern Illinois" just south of Waterloo. Anchored with a renovated 120 year old Barn, the 25 acre grounds include a quaint restaurant with gourmet food & drink, and a specialty home decor gift shop. Please check our menu online for daily specials and special events. Reservations strongly recommended in summer and required for parties of ten or more.
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What makes Breadeaúx Pizza different? It's the crust, which is chewy and sweet, and reminiscent of fine French Bread. While other pizza places boast about using dough made fresh daily, at Breadeaúx Pizza restaurants, our dough is aged and double-raised, once quickly, and the second time slowly while being chilled. The major difference in our dough preparation creates our distinctive taste and texture. So come on in to Breadeaúx Pizza and taste the difference.
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Joe Boccardi's has over 35 years of experience in authentic Italian family dining, Boccardi's offers delicious pizza, salads, sandwiches, seafood, and much more.
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From the Farmer's Table straight to yours, fresh and delicous home-cooked meals for the whole family.
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Susie's has a full menu of delicious items. Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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Westend Bar & Restaurant
Westend has delicious, fresh seafood.
Bully's Smokehouse
Bully's specialize in slow cooked 'Award Winning' southern style barbecue as well as a variety of sandwiches, fish and desserts. They smoke their quality meats with fresh cut hickory and cook them at low temperatures for juicy tenderness. Bully's cooks its pork shoulders for over 15 hours and it's ribs for over 6 hours! If you have ever experienced 'fall off the bone' tenderness and a distinct hickory flavor, you can understand what makes Bully's Smokehouse legendary. After cooking is complete, they hand pull and chop on the best-selected portions. Bully's four signature sauces will make sure your cravings are filled! All of our soups and side dished are 'made from scratch' daily from the best ingredients! Bully's Smokehouse envisioned a restaurant that would feed the body as well as the soul with amazing food, great service and relaxing atmosphere.
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The 5 Most Impressive Things Built by One Obsessive Person
Where would the world be without the efforts of lone, obsessed people with lots of time on their hands? Well, we'd be without most of the world's great inventions, books, political movements and religions, for one thing.
But we'd also be without some of the most gigantic, mind-boggling works of art the planet has ever known. Is any of the stuff on this list particularly useful? Nope. Is it all impressive? Absolutely.
#5. Madrid's Cathedral of Trash
What could motivate a man to spend 50 years building his own cathedral out of garbage? Is there any reasonable answer to that? And we're talking life-size here.
It's the work of Spanish monk Justo Gallego Martinez, who had a personal crisis in 1961, when he contracted tuberculosis and then got kicked out of the monastery. So he started building. What Don Justo lacked in blueprints, engineering knowledge, building permits and forethought, he made up for in enthusiasm. Thanks to local donations and daily visits to brick factory yards, Don Justo accumulated enough materials to build a church standing 131 feet tall.
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It doesn't even need God to smite sinners. Just a stiff breeze.
The church features cupolas made of plastic food tubs, columns made of oil drums and towers that are nothing more than stacked paint buckets. Don Justo works without a crane or crew, and no one wants to even know what's going on with the foundation or bracing of the building (he'll legally never be able to allow worshipers inside, for fear of creating an extremely tragic headline the next day). So far, the city council -- and gravity -- have decided to turn a blind eye, both out of respect for his convictions and because of the tourists he attracts.
This is God trying to bring it down with white hot religion lasers. He was unsuccessful.
Now age 87, Don Justo realizes that he may never live to see his project completed. But he has no regrets. Other than inadvertently building what might possibly be a gigantic death trap, we suppose.
#4. Solomon's Castle
Edmund Fountain via Sptimes.com
When most folks say that they live in a castle, they're either saying that they have a big house or they're being sarcastic about how many hours they work at White Castle. But when Howard Solomon says that he lives in a castle, he means that he lives in the actual castle he built himself in the middle of a Florida swamp. Because where else would you put one?
Solomon started out as a junk artist -- someone who creates projects out of recycled materials. But he had a hard time selling his works made out of maxi-pad wrappers and old answering machines, so all his art started to pile up. Most of us would have just built a shed or a teepee or whatever; Solomon started building a castle. And he kept building until decades passed and his glorified storage closet clocked in at three stories and over 12,000 square feet. By the time he was done, Solomon's castle featured a dungeon:
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"Folks don't often get to see this part without a burlap bag over their face."
This is where he keeps his women captive.
... and a Spanish galleon in the moat:
Well, obviously. That's where you keep your Spanish galleons, right?
Not to mention 60 custom-built stained-glass windows:
"This is what I like to call 'The Jimmy Buffett Room.'"
And the castle itself is as shiny as a knight's ass, thanks to hundreds of aluminum printing plates that make up the exterior.
Solomon's Castle via Forbes
The rainbow is made out of recycled pixie farts.
And the best news of all is that the whole shebang can be yours for $2.5 million!
#3. Roden Crater Observatory
When most of us see a giant old crater in the ground, we only think, "Man, whoever was within a hundred miles of whatever made this got fucked up."
But others see the potential for something great. So in 1979, James Turrell bought a 400,000-year-old crater (left over from an extinct volcano) measuring 3 miles wide so he could turn it into art. Turrell has been digging and pouring concrete in his crater for 30 years. The result is a surreal, 2001: A Space Odyssey-ian network of viewing galleries for visitors to gaze up at the sky.
James Turrell
Although to be perfectly honest, the sky kind of pales in comparison to the actual complex.
Eventually it will have over a thousand feet of tunnels connecting seven underground chambers. Eventually. There are frequent pauses, often lasting years, as Turrell finishes other projects and finds donors to support the massive undertaking. Several completion dates have come and gone, so, much like Half-Life 3, Roden Crater will open "whenever it's done."
James Turrell
That's not two photos slapped together, by the way. That's a single room designed to look that way.
And until then, the only people allowed at the site are Turrell, his workers and a handful of friends and top donors. So short of doing flyovers in your personal helicopter, you may have to wait a while to see this one.
James Turrell
And no, he probably doesn't realize that it looks like a giant's toilet seat.


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It makes me "smiech."
That's Polish for laugh, the phonetic pronunciation sort of like this - "schmee-atch."
It's about the only Polish word I have committed to memory in the years since I made the name switch from Hout to Kiaski.
I think of the word in situations that strike me ironically funny.
Take the other evening, for instance, when I'm at Taste of the County, a fundraiser for the United Way of Jefferson County.
I'm taking pictures, waiting for what's a big moment in the evening - photographing what lucky person will have a key to open this treasure chest and go home the winner of a beautiful diamond ring valued at about $4,500.
Turns out it's a lucky person all right - a 12-year-old middle school pupil who is the first one in line to try his key. Mind you, it's one of only eight keys out of a hundred that will even open the treasure chest to begin with.
Bingo! Ladies and gentlemen, we have a diamond ring winner.
I take his picture, offer my congratulations and "smiech."
And here I thought I was going to bring home the bling.
I should know better, given my history of not winning big ticket items or very many little ones for that matter.
But Lord knows I've tried.
My writing hand should be paralyzed for all the 50-50 tickets on which I have scribbled my name and phone number in hopes of my name being called.
Or the ones where I've abandoned printing and plastered instead those address labels that show up in the mailbox every other day, as plentiful as they are unsolicited.
I end up two or three numbers off on the drawings. Or a light year away. Rats.
I try to stay positive, though, telling myself everything's for a good cause, just not mine.
I "smiech."
Everyone wants to be a winner, you know.
I have experienced the thrill of being a door prize winner.
One time was especially exhilarating, an event a few years ago where almost everyone was winning something.
I started to feel lucky. Very lucky.
My name was called. Bingo.
I waved my arms in the air with the enthusiasm of a longtime island survivor welcoming at long last the rescue plane.
An event volunteer started to approach me, her hands cupped together with my hidden treasure.
The anticipation was great as my mind raced with the possibilities. Jewelry. Something from Bath and Body. A gift certificate. Candy. A stack of 20s. Hurry!
I was the kid on Dec. 25, ready to race down the stairs to claim my loot under the Christmas tree.
The volunteer stopped and presented with my prize. A ceramic frog. A very cute ceramic frog, mind you, but a ceramic frog.
My mother's words pierced my moment of shock.
Be a gracious gift receiver.
I accepted the frog, even wondered if I should kiss it.
It made me "smeich."
(Kiaski, a resident of Steubenville, is a staff columnist and features writer for the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times and community editor for the Herald-Star. She can be contacted at email@example.com.)


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Jerry Lee Henderson, 77, of Nebraska City died at University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha on Sept. 11, 2013. He was born Sept. 25, 1935 in Omaha to Ralph and Isabel (Allison) Henderson. He married Sharon L. Cheuvront on Aug. 16, 1958 in Omaha.
He is survived by son Neal Henderson and wife Janet of Bellevue; daughter Jana Wardian and husband Mark of Phoenix, Ariz.; grandchildren Eric Wardian, Bryan Wardian, Kathryn Wardian, Christina Henderson and Nicole Henderson; many other relatives and friends.
He was preceded by his wife on Dec. 3, 1999.
He lived in Bellevue before moving to Nebraska City many years ago. Jerry served many years as a navigator in the United States Air Force and was a retired major. He later entered the computer field and worked at Chiles Heider Investments in Omaha until his retirement.
Jerry had many interests including the Bellevue Little Theater, playing bridge, reading and completing home study courses.
There will be no viewing.
The family will greet friends and relatives at Marshall Funeral Chapel from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24. A private family service will be held at Wyuka Cemetery in Nebraska City.
A memorial fund has been established.
Online condolences may be expressed at www.marshallfuneral.com.Marshall Funeral Chapel of Nebraska City is in charge of arrangements.
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A Monroe County man was killed in a fiery crash early Sunday morning.
Police say 29-year-old Joshua Hale of Gamaliel crashed on Alexander School Road in Monroe County just after 2 am.
They say his car went off the road and hit a tree after he failed to make a curve.
Hale's SUV became engulfed in flames, keeping witnesses from rescuing him.
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Former Trader to Testify on Hill About Techniques He Says Put Ordinary Investors at a Disadvantage
WASHINGTON—An insider of the secretive world of high-frequency trading is set to attack that industry Thursday on Capitol Hill, giving lawmakers a potential road map to address practices that critics say can put ordinary investors at a disadvantage and the financial system at risk.
Since rapid-fire trading firms now provide many of the buy and sell orders that support the market, investors are at the mercy of automated systems that can run amok during volatile times, according to Dave Lauer, who last year quit his job as a trader for an elite Chicago high-frequency trading outfit.
Mr. Lauer is part of a growing chorus of industry insiders blowing the whistle on approved trading techniques that they say are designed by the traders who derive the most benefit. Mr. Lauer is now a consultant on market-structure issues for Better Markets, a Washington, D.C., advocacy group funded by a hedge fund.
He plans to tell senators how he came to believe that high-speed trading has made the market less fair for many investors, according to his advance testimony for a Senate panel on computerized trading.
One way sophisticated firms get an edge over other investors is the use of complex order types, which are commands that traders use to tell exchanges how to handle their buy and sell orders, according to Mr. Lauer.
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Regulators are looking into whether exchanges, in a rush to gain the business of high-frequency firms, have provided advantages to some sophisticated trading firms that allow them to trade profitably at the expense of other investors, according to people familiar with the continuing probes. High-frequency trading accounts for some two-thirds of all trading volume, experts say.
The SEC is conducting an inquiry into whether high-frequency firms use those order types to jump in front of other investors. In a page-one article Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Haim Bodek, who helped run a high-frequency trading firm, told SEC enforcement officials last year that he believed exchanges were giving certain sophisticated trading firms special advantages that helped them beat out other investors.
Another critical voice comes from the mutual fund industry. Andy Brooks, head of U.S. stock trading at T. Rowe Price Associates Inc., TROW 0.35 % plans to say that "most rules and regulations seem to further enable those with short-term profit incentives, as evidenced by the proliferation of new order types suggested by exchanges and approved by regulators."
The hearing of the Senate Banking subcommittee, led by Sen. Jack Reed (D., R.I.), comes amid heightened scrutiny of ties between high-frequency firms and stock exchanges, which have come to rely on the rivers of buy and sell orders the firms provide.
Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission said it fined NYSE Euronext $5 million for sending data to some clients faster than it sent data to the public, allegations the NYSE neither admitted to nor denied.
Defenders of high-frequency trading, in which firms send waves of buy and sell orders into the market, often canceling them, say it makes trading more efficient and cheaper for everyday investors.
The U.S. stock market "is the most dynamic and efficient market in the world," Chris Concannon, executive vice president of Virtu Financial LLC, a New York high-speed trading firm, will tell the Senate panel, according to his prepared testimony.
Mr. Lauer believes the complexity has reached such a high level that it has made the market extremely fragile and at risk of devastating crashes. "We are truly in a crisis," Mr. Lauer plans to tell the Senate panel
His first job at a high-frequency trading operation was as a quantitative research analyst at Citadel, a giant Chicago hedge fund, which he joined in early 2009. Later, Mr. Lauer, with several other Citadel traders, moved to the high-speed Chicago firm Allston Trading. He says he got his first glimpse into the extreme risks posed by superfast computer trading on the afternoon of May 6, 2010. He watched from Allston's trading floor as stocks started to plunge due to glitches in computer systems across the market, a meltdown later dubbed the "flash crash."
As the downdraft worsened, he says an executive for the firm ran on to the trading floor and gave the order to pull out of the market. In seconds, Allston's traders complied, getting out of their positions and canceling their offers to buy and sell to avoid losses from an extreme market swing.
The move was mirrored by other high-frequency firms, making the "flash crash" worse, since the firms were no longer standing ready to buy stocks other investors were selling.
Another trend that he says concerned him: the central role high-frequency firms play in the trading of exchange-traded funds. He says many ETF firms court high-frequency traders, which help provide the buy and sell orders that can make ETFs easier to trade for other investors.
The problem, Mr. Lauer says, is that ETF firms at times give high-frequency traders access to the inner mechanics of how the ETFs operate. For instance, an ETF firm often needs to buy and sell stocks that make up the funds in order to adjust for moves in the market, which is called "rebalancing."
High-frequency firms, he says, knew when such rebalancing occurred. The firms "would just front run them," he says.
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Does Judaism acknowledge that there are some other religions that come from G-d? If yes, how? Which religions are that? Please give me some examples. And what are the reference for this claim?
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Chief Rabbi Sacks writes in his book "Dignity of Difference"
"The great faiths must now become an active force for peace and for the justice and compassion on which peace ultimately depends. That will require great courage and perhaps something more than courage: a candid admission that, more than at any time in the past, we need to search – each faith in its own way –for a way of living with, and acknowledging the integrity of, those who are not of our faith. Can we make space for difference? Can we hear the voice of God in a language, a sensibility, a culture not our own?" (pp. 4-5.)
"God has spoken to mankind in many languages: through Judaism to Jews, Christianity to Christians, Islam to Muslims . . . God is God of all humanity, but no single faith is or should be the faith of all humanity." (p. 55).
"When two propositions conflict it is not necessarily because one is true [and] the other false. It may be, and often is, that each represents a different perspective on reality, an alternative way of structuring order. . . . In heaven there is truth; on earth there are truths." (p. 64.)
"God is greater than religion...He is only partially comprehended by any faith" (p. 65).
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If you mean "Does Judaism recognize that other religions exist?" then obviously the answer is "yes". If you mean "Does Judaism recognize that other religions are the true one?" then the answer is obviously "no".
However, if you mean "Does Judaism recognize other religions as valid ways to serve G-d?" then the answer is a little bit more complicated.
Judaism believes that Judaism is the only way for a Jew to properly fulfill G-d's expectations of him. But Judaism does not believe that non-Jews are required to join Judaism. Instead, Judaism teaches that G-d gave 7 universal laws to Noah, and that these are the Laws that non-Jews must follow.1
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Everything comes from G-d. Even Evil comes from G-d (in a way). Did G-d create the other religions? Yes. All religions come from G-d, but that does not mean they're all valid ways to serve him. G-d created good and evil, and has tasked humans to choose good. If a religion does not violate the 7 Noahide Laws, then it's not evil. A non-Jew who follows the 7 Laws and is part of this religion is doing good.
Ultimately though, it's not the religion that matters to the non-Jew, it's the 7 Noahide Laws. Keeping them, with or without other religions, is all that he or she must do.
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1: One of those laws is to believe in G-d. Specifically, One G-d. For those religions that teach that there is one G-d, this poses no problem. A non-Jew who follows the 7 Noahide Laws and is a member of such a religion is fulfilling his obligations to G-d. Of course, he could also be fulfilling those obligations if he wasn't part of said religion.
Religions that don't teach that G-d is One, violate that Noahide Law, and so its followers are not fulfilling what G-d expects of them. This is called "avodah zara" or "foreign worship", for they are worshiping something that is not G-d.
The new version of the question asks:
While I'm not sure what this means, I suspect the asker actually means to ask:
In that case, the answer is "yes, Noahidism, q.v.".
Raphael Jospe, cites the Garden of the Intellects (Bustan al-`Uqul) of Netanel ibn al-Fayyumi (Yemen, c. 1165) as "probably the clearest statement of religious pluralism in medieval Jewish thought":
According to Jospe, "this leads Netanel to explicit religious pluralism," however I am not so sure:
According to R. Kapach's more compelling explanation, the author did not believe that Muhammad was a true prophet, but said so to protect the Jews of his time and place (12th century Yemen, where denying Muhammad's prophecy was punishable by death). See also Sirat, A History of Jewish Philosophy, 92-93.
For a discussion of R. Yaakov Emden's view on this topic, see here.
No. The whole idea of religion which was created before the chorev (matan torah) was a corruption of the recognition of G-d. When G-d created Adam and Chava they didn't have to believe in G-d b/c they spoke to him. Over time people began to worship other parts of creation as well because those things are servants of G-d and they bring us good things as well. Such as thanking the sun for sunlight, v'chulu. Over time then physical objects were made both as an expression of art and as representations of those they also thanked. In time G-d was forgotten about and these idols became recognized as gods. The development of religion after matan torah were individuals who sought fame and control over others by inventing themselves as holy people they claimed that their god spoke to


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I can remember watching tv for the first time..CARLISLE TV, next door east of KNOLLS OLD COUNTRY STORE on main street where the National Bank now stands on10th and central ave. he had it in the front window and people on saturday nights would stand on the sidewalk a nd watch this thing call Television..All city stores were open ntil 9 pm and saturday nights and the streets were filled, as everybody did their shopping at that time late 40's and very early 50's. Knolls ran by brother emil and a young son named Paul Knoll..If they didnt have it you didnt need it..their Green River drinks were great..nice soda fountain..guys would sit at the bar and have a little heavier type drink and pickled pigs feet..including my dad, Leonard Sr and grandpa Alanzo Hoskins. Everythig you could imagine were in the store.


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I'm using Google calendar, and I subscribe to my Google Calendar from multiple computers. Whenever I set an event with (an) email reminder(s) on Google calendar, I'll get multiple emails because (1) Google calendar itself sends me the email reminder and (2) each computer that subscribes the calendar tries to send the email reminder (when the computer wakes up). It's very annoying.
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Seems as thought you don't have to globally set this preference, you can now selectively choose which calendars have alerts or not, through iCal.
You can disable all alerts, including email alerts, in ical via
If you need to have iCal display alarms on the mac, but simply not send the email, then you will need to turn to other software. Here are two applications that help tame iCal notifications:
as far as i understand iCal it is on the "receivers/subscribers" side to deal with email-updates (and not on the "senders/changers" side) ...
to NOT get email notification about updated events from a shared calendar you subscribed to you have to uncheck "events affect availability" in that calendars "info" (mac os X.7 and X.8: iCal —> calendars dropdown —> right click on the subscribed calendar —> choose "get info" from the context-menu —> uncheck "events affect availability")
this availability-logic kind of makes sense once you think about it ... problem is: "events affect availability" is checked by default for any newly subscribed shared calendar
here is a screenshot of the calendar-info-window: https://discussions.apple.com/message/20506464#20506464
I created a filter in gmail to delete these alert emails.
It's not a perfect solution, but I do want to be able to receive alerts in iCal, and I want to receive email alerts from Google Calendar as well. This meets both of those requirements, but it's definitely a workaround.


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I wonder if there are a better tool than the panel at System → Preferences → Power Management to manage the power consumption for the HDD. Specifically HDD in a laptop.
You can experiment a bit with a few options for
I don't report here how the value should be chosen, I let you to read it from the man page.
That said, I would NOT recommend to choose timeout values too short, as still one of the most stressing times for a hard disk is the spin-up time, i.e. it's better to leave a HDD spin a little longer while idling than continuously turn it off and on, especially with modern, low-power HDDs.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- A Jostens spokesperson confirms the company is moving production from its Topeka facility to Clarksville, TN.
Jostens spokesman Rich Stoebe says the transition will allow Jostens to take advantage of improved technologies, innovation and workflow efficiencies in Clarksville as well as to respond effectively to changing market dynamics.
Jostens officials say approximately 372 employee positions located in Topeka will be affected by the transition, while approximately 87 positions, mainly in customer service, art, marketing and technical support, will remain in Topeka.
Stoebe says due to the time necessary to transition some of the operations, the affected positions will be separated starting in July of 2012 and will continue over the fall of 2012. He says the transition is expected to be substantially complete by January of 2013.
Carla Wall, a gathering operator at the plant, says the company called a meeting at 12:30 Monday afternoon. Wall said the CEO flew in for the meeting. She said Jostens officials told employees that due to an increase in technology, and students doing more online, that they would phase out the Topeka plant.
Wall says Jostens officials told her the Cover and Art Departments would be phased out in mid-July, and the Binding and Press Departments would be phased out in September.
Wall says Jostens officials told employees equipment from the Topeka plant would be transferred to the plant in Clarksville, Tenn.
Wall said the company officials didn't share severance package information with employees. She said Topeka's plant is the only union Jostens plant in the U.S., meaning, Wall says, the Topeka workers would be the highest paid.
The Topeka facility employees more than 400 people. Wall added that the plant employes about 200 seasonal workers every year.
Last May, Jostens announced it was moving its diploma cover production from Topeka to a facility in Shelbyville, Tennessee. The move affected more than 80 jobs. The company said the move would allow it to take advantage of improved technologies and workflow efficiencies.
At one time, Jostens had more than 1200 employees in Topeka. That was back in 2004, when the company positions to make the Topeka plant its only location producing yearbook covers.
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In conceiving, scoping and designing projects, the NJDOT will consider the needs of all road users and neighbors. This includes pedestrians, bicyclists, and neighbors, such as residents, and businesses, as well as drivers. One of the key steps in accomplishing this is to carefully and systematically decide on the appropriate functional classification of the roadway, and the appropriate target operating speed (a.k.a. the posted speed limit) during Concept Development, or at least prior to the start of Scoping. Properly selected design criteria should result in motorists driving freeways like freeways, arterials like arterials, collectors like collectors, and local streets like local streets.
In deciding the appropriate functional classification and target operating speed for an existing roadway, one of the most important considerations will be the consistency of the existing geometry and surrounding context of the roadway, and how they relate to the existing operating speed and the posted speed limit. Target operating speeds cannot be determined arbitrarily, but must be consistent with conditions along the roadway and subject to reasonable enforcement. The designer may proactively alter the existing geometry and roadway environment in an attempt to decrease the operating speed and enhance the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists, or the viability of downtown or residential areas, in balance, not competition, with the safety of motorists
Roadway design should lead the driver to adopt a driving behavior appropriate to local conditions. The designer thus should carefully consider the appropriate target speed for a roadway section based upon land use conditions, building densities, the environment and the disparate needs of users of the facility. It should be recognized that streets do not only serve transportation related functions but are also places of commercial and social encounter. Therefore, a designer should also consider the non-vehicular uses of a roadway and seek consistency between all aspects of the roadway, its environment, and the chosen Design Speed.
What does this mean? Historically, in NJDOT, the Design Speed has set the lower limit for design features. If a physical, environmental or other impediment posed an obstacle to a project, the Design Speed established the limit below which it would be difficult to compromise, in effect, the maximum safe speed. If, however, no such obstacles exist on one or more stretches of road, the design would be to optimum standards, potentially yielding an infinite Design Speed. This could lead to inconsistencies between the Design Speed, posted speed, and desirable vehicle operating speed, and result in drivers making inappropriate decisions. If this occurred in downtown or "Main Street" environments, where the intent of the designer and/or the community may have been for a slower pace of traffic, compatible with pedestrian and downtown type activity, serious pedestrian safety, quality of life, and socioeconomic issues could arise.
The NJDOT's Design Philosophy takes into account functional classification, existing or intended land use, and the context of the project, and then uses an appropriately selected Design Speed as the basis for all of the design elements. If there are no physical or environmental impediments to alter the geometry of a roadway, the designer may consider introducing design elements that reinforce and encourage the intended operating speed, which should be based on the needs of all road users. There is a wide range of options available to the designer to do so, including some that fall under the umbrella "traffic calming." These include neckdowns, rotaries, speed humps, etc.; however, these could also include narrow lanes and shoulders, curvilinear alignments, etc. These items may be controversial and have downsides; and become increasingly inappropriate when design and operating speeds increase. As such, the NJDOT generally will not consider traffic calming features along segments of roadway where the posted speed limit is above 35 mph. Therefore, the designer will need to carefully weigh whether the use of these elements creates a desirable balance between the competing interests. The idea of making sure that all elements of design compliment each other and send a consistent message to the motorist is not just a Context Sensitive Design concept that applies to Main Street, New Jersey. This concept is applicable on all roads.
In summary, NJDOT designs in the 21st Century should represent the product of reasonable people making reasonable decisions that reflect consideration of the needs of all road users, and social and environmental impacts. Highway designs must reflect a thoughtful understanding of the context of the project, in addition to adherence to standards and guidelines.


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My 2008 MacBook Pro suddenly stopped booting the other day and now the screen looks like this each time it attempts to boot:
The boot time sound still happens, but I just see the dodgy pink with the apple in the background for a few seconds before it reboots. I can hold alt as it boots but bootcamp and recovery fail to start in just the same way.
Is the laptop dead? What's my next step otherwise?


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I have heard that the Hydra organism is biologically immortal (later I found that there are more immortal organisms). Now I know that its immortality is related to its telomerase. The thing is that we all have telomerase, but we age and Hydra don't. What are the proteins (especially telomerase) related to aging in humans and Hydra and how do they work differently?
Hydra are just one of the many organisms which are immortal. That is to say all their cells divide forever - there is no senescence (planned cell death) in any of their cells. Interestingly Hydrae that reproduce sexually age and die, but asexual reproduction appear to be immortal. Animals that are immortal more often reproduce asexually... this may only be because immortality became unpopular in evolution early on and may have not developed senescence in the way other animals have, or lost it when it was not so integral to life.
So its not clear if the telomeres are protected in hydrae and other immortal animals. I would guess they probably don't have active telomerase if they are truly immortal, though its possible the telomeres are shortened and are repaired.
There are other factors which are supposed to be important for immortality. Yeast and single eukaryotes are not individually immortal; an individual mother cell can only divide a limited number of times. While hydrae are not a popular focus of research, there has been a concerted effort in trying to understand yeast mortality and there are more than one mechanism being pointed to.
Since there is no germline in single celled organisms, (they only have one copy of their genome to reproduce from) telomeric shortening would not be a useful mechanism for aging; Calorie restriction has been shown to prolong fission and budding yeast by activating pathways which slow aging by protecting against stress, and slowing down reproduction. All of these findings have strong parallels in work in aging in animals which is a hot topic now.
Finding these pathways is encouraging strong thought that aging and senescence are an evolutionary adaptation rather than a biological necessity.
There is an open question as to whether an immortal yeast could be engineered to be immortal. A team at Max Planck Institute did a lot of foot work and found a strain which they claim does not seem to experience individual mortality either.
So this does indicates that immortality might not be a necessity for any cell or maybe even for animals. Occasionally, even animal and human cells can be coaxed to revert to an immortalized state, though usually it is the result of cancerous rearrangements of the genome.
This is a rich field and there are lots of telomerase focused ideas too. Maybe someone can post something along those lines.
Actually, most adult cells do not express telomerase or express it only at a very low levels. Telmoerase is highly expressed only in cells that need to divide (e.g. stem cells), thus "immortalizing" them. In fact, human cell lines which scientists work with can be "immortalized" by activation of telomerase (along with other things).
So you may ask yourself: why not have telomerase activated all the time in all cells? Well, allowing a cell to reproduce easily can be a pretty bad thing... that is exactly what cancer does. Indeed, one of the things a cancer has to do is to activate the telomerases in order to be able to grow. This is also why cancer cell lines are "immortal". This also suggests a potential cancer therapy - targeting telomerase - which is currently being pursued experimentally.
Telomerase activity is just one (probably minor) facet of aging. It takes a lot more than just basic end repair of DNA to keep a complex organism alive, especially mammals. Just a few issues off the top of my head:
For a solidly scientific, short, but very readable book on the subject, I personally liked "Understanding Ageing" by Robin Holliday. For being published in 1995, it's still relevant. He had a later book that wasn't quite as good (Aging: The Paradox of Life: Why We Age, published in 2010). In large part it's because it was fairly redundant to the first one; we've known about these problems for a long time and have made fairly little progress on them.
Part of how hydra can get away with apparent immortality is their constant proliferation of stem cells and their ability to regenerate entire body parts. This circumvents a lot of the issues above (theoretically, but I'm not an expert on hydras). Many copies of the DNA are separately housed, so if a copy gets damaged irreversibly, it can just get trashed. Most (if not all) human organs have similar reserves of active stem cells. There isn't a single universal source (outside of the sperm and eggs), but this is less important so long as the entire stem cell supply isn't compromised by some gross organ damage.
The second part is much, much harder for humans though. While some tissues (say muscle) can easily replace dead cells, it's much harder in others, like the brain. You don't just have to replace a dead cell, but all of its connections to every other cell. And really, the brain is what this all comes down to, and an identity crisis in humans. I don't care if you replace my liver and my left arm times, but how do you replace the brain? I would speculate that we spend a lot more time keeping individual cells alive, because we can't replace them.
If you chop a starfish in half, you get two starfish, and would have trouble saying which was the original. Is it the same starfish if you've replaced the arms 3 times and the body twice?
If you chopped a human in half down the center, and we could magically regenerate everything, you would get two very different people from each other and the original. The problem being that there's no way to reconstruct the connections; you'd just get a blank brain to fill up.
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Chemotherapy Safety at Home
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I am taking chemotherapy (5-FU) via a pump connected to my port at home. What should I know about safety regarding having chemotherapy at home?
Gloria DiLullo, Oncology Nurse Practitioner at Penn Medicine responds:
Many people receive this type of chemotherapy at home. Most pumps are pretty sophisticated and will alarm to let you know there is a problem. You want to make sure to keep the pack clean and dry always. If there are any signs of leakage, stop the pump and call the home infusion company right away. We also have some great information on our website about tips for managing chemotherapy at home.
This question and answer was part of the OncoLink Brown Bag Chat Series. View the entire transcript from the Focus on GI Cancers webchat.


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Can python read the value of a cell in a spreadsheet?
The simplest example would be a script that ran a buffer tool on a given shapefile.
For the distance parameter, instead of just using a number like '1000', the script would point to a value in a cell of a spreadsheet (libre or open office preferred).
If there was then a way to trigger the script from the spreadsheet by way of a button, that would be the next step (then the next step would be to have a map control inside the spreadsheet to see the updated results!)
Just to give some insight into where I'm going with this: I'd like to use a spreadsheet as an analysis 'dashboard' where users could run analysis with different parameters - what would proximity around parks (grocery stores, etc.) be at 1/2 mi vs 1/4 mi...then another sheet in the spreadsheet would have a breakdown of the demographics within that proximity.
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I need to show specifically using transfinite induction that given two well-ordered sets $\left(A,<_{1}\right)$ and $\left(B,<_{2}\right)$ there is only one isomorphism between them. To do this I want to show by induction that there is only one way to define the mapping and that is: $$\forall\, x\in A: \varphi\left(x\right)=\min\left(B\backslash\varphi\left(\left\{ a\in A\,:\, a<_{1}x\right\} \right)\right)$$ Showing the base of the induction is no problem and the induction hypothesis would be that $$\forall\, y<_{1}x\,:\,\varphi\left(y\right)=\min\left(B\backslash\varphi\left(\left\{ a\in A\,:\, a<_{1}y\right\} \right)\right)$$ My problem is that I can't seem to manage to use the hypothesis in order to prove the step. I've found a couple of ways to show this definition of the mapping is indeed necessary but none of those used the induction hypothesis. My plan was to mark $$c_{0}=\min\left(B\backslash\varphi\left(\left\{ a\in A\,:\, a<_{1}x\right\} \right)\right)$$ Using the fact $\varphi$ is surjective take $y\in A$ such that $\varphi\left(y\right)=c_{0}$ and show that it can't be that $y<_{1}x$ or $x<_{1}y$ and thus necessarily $y=x$. If someone could give me a way to show either one of these are false using the induction hypothesis it would solve my problem.
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While playing around with programming, a problem suddenly came across my mind.
Given $n$ let's say $2^{64}$ (64-bit unsigned integer). Find a positive integer $x$, $1 \leq x \leq n$, such that $x$ has maximum divisors.
My attempt was:
Let $n = p_1^{a_1} \times p_2^{a_2} \times ... \times p_k^{a_k}.$
The number of divisors is given by: $$(a_1 + 1) \times (a_2 + 1) \times ... \times (a_k + 1)$$
We need to find the maximum of these products. Since $(a_1 + 1)_{max} \implies {a_1}_{max}$, the product becomes: $a_1 \times a_2 \times .... \times a_k$
Let $P = a_1 \times a_2 \times .... \times a_k$.
The maximum of $P$ means $a_i = a_j$ where $1 \leq i, j \leq k$.
So I guess my question is how can we find a number that is less than $n$ which has this property?


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I am currently using 2 versions of steam, the Linux one for games compatible with Linux, and the windows version in wine for games which are not compatible. I was wondering if it is possible to get wine to work on games in Linux steam (the one not using wine) , so I do not have to switch back and forth between the two steams.
So, I know this is an old question, but there seems to be a way to do this. Sort of.
EDIT: So, having downloaded 1 game, it doesn't seem to be working. Launching the game does nothing. No errors.. just nada. So, YMMV.
It involves, tricking the client into thinking it can be installed by creating an appmanifest in the right folder. Luckily, since Steam is put together well and is tolerant of errors, you can just copy some other manifest, change a few fields, and it will automatically fix the file and start downloading the game.
For future reference in case the link breaks:
And, as of writing, this is as far as I've gotten. My game is still downloading and I thought I'd share as I stumbled across this QA when I was looking for the same answer :)
Choose "Add a Game..." > "Add a Non-Steam Game".
Search for the game in the provided list. If you find it, add it and you're done.
If you don't find it, create a .desktop file where
Close and reopen the add game window. You should now find the game in the list.


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I've heard people talk about "department store scopes" or "trash scopes". How do I know what to avoid in a beginner scope? How can I know that I'm not getting something we will be more frustrated with than excited about?
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Avoid small refractors and reflectors on skinny tripod mounts. Don't buy from a discount or department store. Don't buy from eBay, CraigsList, or Amazon.
Here are a few web pages with good information on beginner's telescopes:
For more advanced information, read Phil Harrington's Star Ware, 4th edition (Wiley).
You'll get the greatest value for your money with a Newtonian reflector on a Dobsonian mount, such as these:
Buy from a store which specializes in telescopes and astronomy, either locally or online; don't buy from department stores, discount stores or eBay as mostly what they sell is junk. Find your local astronomy club and try out different telescopes at one of their star parties:
I strongly recommend that beginners steer clear of astrophotography until they have learned their way around the sky. Astrophotography is by far the most expensive and difficult area of amateur astronomy.
Many people who buy telescopes have no idea how to find interesting things to observe. A good introduction to finding things is NightWatch by Terence Dickinson (Firefly). A more advanced book is Star Watch by Phil Harrington (Wiley).
If you want to start, you may skip scopes for a while and focus on binoculars. This will allow you to get to see a little more than with naked eye, and learn your way around the sky.
@Bradc asked the question as to what scopes to avoid. The first thing to RUN from is ANY scope that states a large "X" or multiplication factor! This is a very good clue that it won't provide useful or enjoyable viewing. It will be small in diameter, the mount will be flimsy. You will be looking as if by a straw! Pointing it will be difficult, it will not track very well. The sell cheap! They are in hobby store windows, and on their shelves. They will only have cheap eyepieces, that are made to be easily made with poor optics and will create distortion. The main lens is full of the chromatic aberrations, or IOW lots of colors that aren't really there. Find someone or some group. See what they are using to really see! They will talk to you and show you what can be seen. You can learn what to look for and what the costs can be expected to be.
Assuming by 'beginner scope' means 'cheap', Cheap Astronomy promotes exactly what it says on the tin, and their page on telescopes is clear about what you can and can't expect do with a cheap telescope, in terms of astrophotography etc.
The Cheap Astronomy podcasts are all excellent but definitely listen to episode 10, 'Your First Cheap Telescope'.


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The Trans Characters That Changed TV and Film
Chaz Bono's appearance on Dancing With the Stars last year turned out to be a tremendous step forward in raising awareness of the transgender community, and it highlights the fact that much of the public first learns about transgender people through popular culture. Though those representations have often been very problematic, there are also many films and television shows that deserve recognition for complex and truthful depictions of transgender characters.
These are by no means the only ones, but here are a handful of some of the most memorable characters we at GLAAD have seen over the years that helped change the way audiences viewed the transgender community.
The World According to Garp (1982)
Based on the celebrated novel by John Irving, the film adaptation costarred John Lithgow as transgender former football player Roberta Muldoon, who lives in a home for abused women run by the protagonist's mother. Roberta is considered by many to be one of the first sympathetic transgender characters in a film made for a mass audience.
Above: James Victor and Vanessa Redgrave
Second Serve (1986)
One of the most famous transgender women in history, professional tennis player Renee Richards, was given the made-for-TV movie treatment by CBS in 1986. She was portrayed by actress Vanessa Redgrave, and her acclaimed performance garnered her an Emmy nomination.
Tales of the City (1993)
Certainly one of popular culture's most beloved transgender characters, the enigmatic landlady Mrs. Madrigal is in many ways the heart of author Armistead Maupin's San Francisco-based book series, Tales of the City. Years after it was first published, Tales was adapted into several miniseries and movies on PBS and Showtime that featured Olympia Dukakis as the matriarch Madrigal.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
Though it's well known for its extravagant drag performances, Priscilla is also remembered for Terence Stamp's touching performance as the sensible and mature transgender performer Bernadette, who eventually finds love in the outback with a mechanic named Bob.
Ma Vie en Rose (My Life in Pink) (1997)
When this French film was released in 1997, gender-nonconforming children were still an unknown or controversial topic for most audiences. But this humane and beautifully shot story of a young child who identifies as a girl despite community and family pressure to conform struck a powerful chord with critics and viewers alike.
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
The murder of Brandon Teena and his friends remains one of the most tragic hate crimes of the last several decades, but relatively few people knew Brandon's story until Kimberly Peirce adapted it into the scripted film Boys Don't Cry in 1999. Hilary Swank took home an Oscar for her portrayal of Brandon, and millions finally learned who he was, six years after his death.
There have been many documentary films about the experiences of transgender people over the years, but Southern Comfort remains one of the most personal and the most unusual. Chronicling the life of trans man Robert Eads, the film follows Eads as he falls in love with a transgender woman named Lola before eventually succumbing to terminal cancer.
Normal (2003)
HBO produced this scripted film about a Midwestern factory worker who comes out as transgender. Tom Wilkinson stars as husband Roy, who announces he is transitioning into Ruth. Though she's initially shocked, wife Irma (Jessica Lange) eventually decides to stand by Ruth despite rejection by members of their community. Both Wilkinson and Lange were nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes for their roles in the film.
Transamerica (2005)
As is the case with many films focusing on transgender lives, a highly celebrated performance helped Transamerica reach more mainstream audiences than might otherwise have seen it. Felicity Huffman starred as a transgender woman named Bree whose life is complicated by the discovery that she has a runaway son she never knew about.
TransGeneration (2005)
Still the high bar for films or television programs concerning transgender lives, Sundance Channel's TransGeneration was an eight-part documentary series that followed the lives of four transgender young people making their way through college. Beyond examining the emotional and medical realities at different stages of transition, the series emphasized the very human experiences these young adults were going through, including family drama, academic stresses, and their hopes and dreams for the future.
Dirty Sexy Money's Candice Cayne (left) and Ugly Betty's Rebecca Romijn
Ugly Betty and Dirty Sexy Money (2007)
Even after gay men and lesbians became more common on television, for decades transgender people were regulated to sporadic and often problematic appearances. Programs including The Education of Max Bickford and The L Word presented groundbreaking storylines with regular and recurring transgender characters, but things hit a high point in 2007 when two different shows on a broadcast network featured transgender characters in prime time. On ABC's Ugly Betty, Alexis Meade went from behind-the-scenes villain to a more complicated role as a ruthless magazine publisher. Around the same time, the network premiered the series Dirty Sexy Money, which featured a recurring transgender character named Carmelita who was portrayed by transgender actress Candis Cayne. It was the first time a mainstream broadcast network had featured transgender characters in such prominent storylines, which were followed by millions of viewers.
America's Next Top Model (2008)
The long running CW series America's Next Top Model featured its first transgender contestant in 2008 when it introduced Isis King in its 11th season. King went on to become an outspoken advocate for the transgender community and even competed on the show again during a recent "All Stars" season.
The Real World (2009)
The longest running reality show on television, MTV's The Real World has included a number of gay, lesbian, and bisexual housemates over the years, but it was in 2008 that it finally included a transgender one. Katelynn Cusanelli (pictured above) took part in the show's Brooklyn-set 21st season and introduced MTV's viewers to an Italian-American, martial arts-practicing, self-described computer geek who dreamed of one day marrying her boyfriend Mike, and who also happened to be transgender.
Degrassi (2010-present)
Thanks to networks like TeenNick, U.S. viewers are also able to enjoy the Canadian institution that is teen soap Degrassi, which has featured a number of gay, lesbian, and bisexual characters, particularly in the last decade. Recently, the show has also included transgender teen Adam, whose realistic storyline nabbed the show a Peabody award and an Emmy nomination.
Dancing With the Stars (2011)
Despite the fact that the show focuses on competitive dancing, Chaz Bono's appearance on the hit series Dancing With the Stars caused a huge stir when he participated last year. His casting sparked weeks of debate between conservative pundits and those celebrating his appearance as a triumph for transgender visibility. Ultimately however, Bono showed he was a competitor like any other, persevering through grueling routines, performance anxieties, and his own hopes and self-expectations.