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Touratech's Companero suit marks a new chapter in the evolution of textile motorcycling gear. The innovative Companero combines the benefits of a sporty summer suit with the comfort of a top-quality GORE-TEX weatherproof membrane all-in-one.
The Concept:
Stadler's vast wealth of experience in manufacturing World Renowned riding gear was just what Herbert Schwarz needed to implement his ideas. The requirements for the Touratech suit were jointly defined. It was very important that the suit allowed maximum ventilation at high temperatures, while at the same time, it needed to be completely wind and waterproof in adverse conditions. The rider's passive safety was high up on the list too, of course.
If you wanted to sum up the basic concept of the Touratech suit in a nutshell, it would be "3 in 1". In other words, with the Touratech Companero you get three suits in one:
COMPANERO Summer Suit
The base of the Touratech Companero is an airy summer suit. Cordura AFT is used on the front and back of the jacket and the legs of the trousers to ensure proper air flow. This comfortable synthetic fiber is state-of-the-art in terms of its tear and wear-resistance properties. The most vulnerable areas are reinforced with a layer of Cordura 2000, a very thick and abrasion resistant material. Fully equipped with CE-approved protectors, the Touratech Companero sets the standard in safety. The large reflective panels are a passive safety feature, ensuring good visibility.
If required, the jacket and pants can zip together into a one-piece suit.
There are two large outer pockets on the front to hold all the things you need to access quickly on the road. There's space for your mobile phone on the upper arm. Valuables can be safely tucked away in the spacious inner pockets. A detachable back pocket provides room for the outer jacket.
COMPANERO Outer Suit:
The second layer of the Touratech Companero can be used in colder weather or in the rain. Perfectly tailored to match the cut of the summer suit, you simply pull it on over the top. Touratech has chosen the Pro Shell three-layer laminate made by W. L. Gore. In this textile composite material, the inner lining, the top-quality GORE-TEX breathable membrane and the tough outer layer are bonded into one fabric. This means the laminate is not too bulky, doesnt bulge, and always fits nice and snugly. Of course the most important properties of the oversuit are that it is wind and waterproof. And since Pro Shell is an active material, the suit is fully breathable.
Whats clever with the Touratech Companero is that the windproof, waterproof membrane forms the outer layer of the clothing system. The airy summer suit keeps an air cushion inside that acts as a thermal lining. An additional insulating layer such as fleece underwear is only needed in extremely cold weather. In wintry conditions the additional storm collar will also be greatly appreciated. As you'd expect, the jacket and trousers of the membrane suit can also be zipped together.
If you wear the laminate suit in uncertain weather conditions in spring or autumn, ventilation panels under the arms and secure ventilation zips provide cooling if required.
The Casual Jacket:
And where is the third suit? Right here - the jacket of the outer suit is not only functional, it's also very stylish. As an active jacket, it is easily a match for outdoor clothing brands and is a practical, waterproof and breathable companion for an evening stroll around town or for any excursions where you have to leave your bike behind. On these occasions, you can attach an optional detachable storm collar or hood.
See the attached size chart under the 'instructions' tab to find out which size you will need to order. If you don't see your size listed, please give us a call at 1-800-491-2926 or email for assistance.
Simon & Lisa of 2RidetheWorld Review the Companero Suit:
The Features in Detail:
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I recently learned that the Moscow school of descriptive set theory (Egorov, Lusin, etc.) was deeply influenced by the religious movement of Name Worshiping in Russia, as recounted in Graham and Kantor's book "Naming Infinity". What are some other interesting and well-sourced examples of when the work of pure mathematicians has been influenced by their cultural/social context?
How about this paper:
MR1648209 (99h:01029)
Perhaps a case could be made for advances in cryptography in the last half-century as driven by the social context of increased need for information security. I have in mind zero-knowledge proofs, and, say, the PCP theorem (PCP=probabilistic checkable proof).
Of course one could reject this as not the work of "pure mathematicians." Neal Koblitz might serve as a counterexample?
Certainly probability falls under this scope. Cardano's secretive work on the subject was done to help him in his professional gambling career. Soon after that, Pascal and Fermat worked out the notion of expected values to solve the Chevalier de Méré's gambling question. See Anders Hald's "A history of probability and statistics and their applications before 1750."
Maybe an example can be the period of enlightenment. During the enlightenment period mathematics advanced a lot in part thanks to the new division of higher education in Paris. During this period many great minds like the three L`s (Lagrange, Laplace and Legendre) came up. As well as others such as Cauchy. This time period was also favored by the creation of the encyclopedia which contained many mathematical terms thanks to the work of d'Alembert.
I think there's two related issues here. I've heard some sociological theories suggest that the answers we get in math are socially influenced. This is clearly mistaken, because math is a purely logical discipline: once you pick axioms (and a system of logic, to be pedantic), your answers are fixed. Similarly in the physical sciences, once you pick your experiment, you have no control over the outcome.
On the other hand, there's the question of what we choose to study. That is obviously going to be influenced by social and personal factors. For example I recall some stuff about how the ancient Greeks liked to think geometrically, whereas the ancient Chinese liked to think algebraically (and I think the ancient Arabic mathematicians as well). You can see this in the types of discoveries that they made. There are studies out there on what sorts of differences made this happen; I think there's even someone who conjectures that Westerners still tend to think more geometrically, and Easterners more algebraically, or something like that.
Pure mathematics has never been influenced by "social context" in any meaningful way.

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SALADO (October 10, 2012)—A 70-year-old woman who was trapped in the wreckage of her pickup after the truck rolled Wednesday morning on a rural road west of Salado was taken to a local hospital.
Firefighters used the Jaws of Life to free the woman from the wreckage of the truck after the accident, which happened at around 9 a.m. Wednesday on Crows Ranch Road.
Authorities said she took a curve in the road too fast and over-corrected, which caused the pickup to roll four times before coming to rest.
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Sewell Dillbeck, 90, of Rio, Illinois died Friday Nov. 2, 2012 at his home. Graveside Services are 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 5 at the Oaklawn Memorial Gardens in Galesburg where Military services were conducted. Visitation was from 4-7 p.m. Sunday at Peterson Wallin Knox Funeral Home in Alpha. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be left to the Tri-County EMT's. Online condolences can be made at www.petersonwallinknox.com.
He was born Jan. 26, 1922 in Datto, Arkansas to Oren and Edith Randolph Dillbeck. He graduated from Alexis High School and married Ila F. Williams Feb. 17, 1949 in Aledo. She died in 2009.
Sewell farmed in the Viola, Oneida, and Rio areas and worked as a mechanic for many years. He retired from Maytag in Galesburg in 1989 after 26 years of employment.
For many years he raised and sold Clydesdale Horses which he trained both separately and in teams to work for area farmers . He enjoyed fishing, gardening and especially enjoyed being with his family.
He is survived by two daughters, Linda (Glenn) Rezac of Emmett, KS; Karen ( Keith) Stille of Woodhull, one son William (Carol) Dillbeck of Cambridge, nine grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren, two brothers , Robert Dillbeck of Muscatine, Iowa, James Troy Dillbeck of Chicago and several nieces and nephews.
His parents, wife, step-mother Martha, one sister Mava and one brother Rex preceded him in death
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Hardest Games You've EVER played
For me.... Burnout the first one DMC 3 on Dante Must Die FFVII Dirge Of Cerberus on Hard GTA San Andres<< NO CHEATS!!! FFXII-- finish %100 wth Zodiac Spear and finally Dystany Warriors 4<<< never get past the first 5 mins... to repedative.
Racquet ball - even in my prime I did not have the quick reflexes necessary.
Sonic the hedgehog
guys the worlds hardest game is called: The Worlds Hardest Game!
oooo. nice one !!!
no really, thes a game thats named that. google it
yae pardon my french. yae Flick that. i tried it. that is bull.lol i am never playin gthat game again
too hard?
o i dont know if you or any friends you have are into LARP or foam battling but I am posting up instrcutables on how to build them. even a star wars light saber boffer weapon. check if interested. thanks
O god. tops right now for the PS3 anyways has got to be demons souls, which is now easy, but Dark Souls really takes the cake. man that game is so unfair. but a worthy challenge for use challenging gamers!!!
the hardest game i have played so far has to be Sonic the hedgehog........and its also one of my all time favorites..........
definitly pacman
Ok, I think I know the hardest one for me to learn anyway....was 3-D chess.
This was the hardest game without need of fast reflexes :-)
I will now add Perplexus to that list: 3-D chess and the ultimate Perplexus.
Timesplitters 1, 2 and Future Perfect getting 100% on everything.
Time splitters 2 was hard!
i think pong would have to be the hardest
I always found pong to be really easy
little big planet 2 (ps3 exlusive) be cause u can never ever finish it (pic is from lbp1)
Gosh, I can't get past level one!
Hey Gir!!!!
the 1st level was hard
I was gonna say NetHack, but then I saw that thing...
I used to play that game and I got to the level where the walls themselves are blue circles.
I'm on lvl 2 atm lol
I got to level 2, then I quit.
Hehe I got lvl 7
I'm stuck on 8
how many deaths?
I lost count at 100 but I'm sure it was over 100,000. I hate this game.
I got to level 14 in about an hour. I love study hall!
I am sure you did....
I got to level 4, then i posted it here.
Throws 1970's hard drive at you.
man that is hard...
Oh NOES!!
The shadow of the colossus! I can never find out where to go and then i never know how to kill some of the colossus!
one is Simpsons hit and run
everything is a lie nintendo ds homebrew
Zelda 2 The Adventure Of Link.
I never actually got to finish any of the Zelda games (I stink at video games) however I am trying to finish WindWaker right now but I just started so I am on Drago Roost island.
I currently am working on skyward sword, I love it I think it is better than OOT.
Any and all of the Zelda games (will you quit complaining about wind waker graphics people?!?!?) Kingdom Hearts, and Marathon (blasted pfhor!).
I loved wind waker graphics, I find them very artistic.
Girp on Foddy.net its soooo hard
Hands down, it is Sonic the Hedgehog the original game for Windows 95.
I have had it since I was 8. Still haven't beaten it.
I have had it since I was 8. Still haven't beaten it.
Never finished Devil May Cry 3 it took me forever to pass the first boss cerberus and then i got stuck at virgil. Never got past him.
cave of no return its an endles game realy hard and addictive my high score is 29492 see if you could beat that.
i think pong would have to be the hardest
Q-Bert, E.T. the extra terrestrial for atari (games impossible) , and indiana jones temple of doom - also for atari and also impossible lol >_<
Super Mario 64 DS. Took 5 damn months to bet completely.
5 months WOW, thats a long time for Mario
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The First 3 Tomb Raiders, The ones on PS1.
NINJA GAIDEN 2 for xbox 360
Are there any tricks to going faster and getting more points in solitare pro on facebook. I know if your moving an Ace to the top you can double click the card and it move for you.
The end of Megaman: Battle Network
mine is some starwars game.my brother likes to play it.
I would say oblivian
MW2 on veteran, the only level i beat was no russian, more classic games would be SMB,
the hardest game that im stuck on is amped.
Hotel mario................. just kidding it hink Super mario bros its hard to stay awake
Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 for PS3. That game is F**king ridiculous. There's these guys who played it in one sitting. It's frustrating to watch even. It is so bad. But the vids are hilarious. There's like 42 hrs of em though. Watch a couple at least, i doubt you can stand more than that. It's agonizing.
THE GAME haha you all lost it now :P
how do you play that game anyways?
The whole point of the game is to forget you're playing the game. When you remember it, you shout I LOSE, and you are allowed 30 mins to forget about it until play resumes. Oh yeah.
i yell "I JUST LOST THE GAME!!!!!" in an angry voice
oh ok. I wasnt aware that such a game existed.
Gran Turismo 3 for the PS2 Its way to hard to get money and to turn
burnout is just not possible to play you hit every thing when you try boostin
This may not be the hardest game ever, but it is certainly the hardest racing game on the N64: F-Zero X
Also, the Mario World X Romhack. It is impossible! at one point, you have to hit a 'P' switch, then run to a block, hit another block above, then wait till the timer expires. once it does, you then have to jump at the exact moment it does, or you fall. odds of making it are probably that you have a better shot at winning the mega-jackpot at the lottery.
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Prince of Persia 2 for the PC in 256 glorious colors was a TOUGH game (never beat that one). They took an awesome game and decided that the way to improve on it was to make it so hard you wanted to cry. Yeah. Not surprisingly, it wasn't as big a hit as the original Prince of Persia. Descent shareware wasn't really all that hard as long as you saved every ten seconds or so and ran like a dog from the end boss. But then, I never was all that great at FPS games. Majora's Mask was such a frustratingly repetitive game I quit playing it out of disgust. Impossible Mission for the C64 was tough (Did beat it once, though). Ugh, frickin RAYMAN--that wenchy game looks so kiddy and easy but frustrated the heck out of me (never finished). Earthworm Jim was along those lines, but funnier. But I think I'm going to have to go way back to Monster Maze for the Vic20. Yeah. That game was so hard for a kid it wasn't even any fun.
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Rayman 2 was hella hard, never beat it too lol... but i stopped cause it was boring and its a long game.
hudlum havoc was insane hard i stomped on the disk in frustation\1!!!!!!!!!!!!
hoodlum isnt that hard... i think the hardest part on rayman2 is that i needed to go every level again to realize i need do go left from the swamp with the dragon so that i could get a stupid cure for the big friend of rayman...
well in hoodlum i couldn't get past the part where you have to collect the crowns and move left and right on the platform throwing punches at the target to make the platform move......... i gave up in frustration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I started Hoodlum Havoc but got bored, mostly because the physics in Rayman are really different from other games. I do like the missle minigame though.
i'm currently playing thourgh Prince of Persia 2, just got past the stupid ridiculous empress. then the stupid sword breaks! forcing you to through your enemies off the edge! then the ridiculous Dakara! Ahhh!
Man, I stopped playing when the game kept glitching with the skeletons on the rope bridge in the cave. I went online to look for advice or a cheat and they said "the game gets a lot harder from there" at which point I decided the game wasn't worth my time. Nice graphics, though. I wonder if someone could hack the game to make it actually playable?
lollolololol....my brother beat majora's mask without cheats, and got EVERY mask. also, we have a (japanese version?) legend of zelda, and the original, but haven't played the wierd one. everything is different and harder. My brother also beat ocarina of time(legend of Zelda) good days... and still are :)
Oh lots of people beat it. Just not me. I got tired of getting the masks over and over and over and over. . . every three game days. I just got fed up and stopped playing the game. Ever play Ziods for C64? Totally impossible, IMHO.
Hah -- I had Rayman for Dreamcast when I was young. I remember I beat it, eventually, but it took *years* to get past that fire temple or whatever. The plum surfing thing? That was the impossible part.
After you do that, the rest is easy ;-P
After you do that, the rest is easy ;-P
EASY?! Heh. You're a much better gamer than I, then! Didn't get past the musical notes level before I got tired of playing it.
Maybe its a different game... I don't recall a musical note level... I'm not really that good at games, so I doubt we're talking about the same game.
Final Fantasy 2, 8 and dang i can't think of the other one i'll get back to you on that.
FF 2 for the NES, or the SNES (aka Final Fantasy 4)?
Guitar hero, I have only half of the songs on expert mode to 5 stars after 2 months of work.
Area 51. Some of it was due to it being scary in the beginning though...


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Coffee Grounds
The rough texture of coffee grounds makes them the perfect scrubbing agent. Wrap a few spoonfuls in a rag, secure with a rubber band, and scrub away any hard-to-clean gunk from last night's dinner.
Coffee is also a deodorizer. Soak your cutting boards in it to remove any smelly odors, and place a bowl of it in your fridge or at the bottom of your trash can to keep your home smelling fresh and clean.
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I just installed ubuntu 11 and my sound isn't working. More specifically if the sound is all the way up I can hear very faint noises.
I've read around and this seems to be a common problem historically, but none of the fixes are working for me. There appears to be a similar question already out there No sound on a realtek AC97
$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 - IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
$ lspci | grep audio
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
I've ensured that my volume is up in alsamixer from this thread
I've also tried this fix from the guide, with no luck.
I've tried to update to the newest alsa drivers, but also no luck. This post from 2007 even suggested downgrading to a different kernel rev. I am tempted to try it, but there has got to be a better way.
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What are the microphones, cameras and mixers used in recording a television series?
closed as primarily opinion-based by AJ Henderson♦, Friend Of George Feb 3 '14 at 18:34
Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
At Footnote, we're using the Sony EX3 for our host shoots, we're using a Letus to give it a little more character and make it feel less like video. Out on the road we use mainly Cannon 7D and 5D.
As for audio, our field recorder is a Sound Devices 788T (love that thing) For host shoots we use a Neumann TLM 103 (Love that mic!) On the road our main mic for interviews is a Lectrosonics MM400c with a Countryman B6. MM400c is great because it's "water proof" I say that because everything has it's limits, but it's a good pack. And you won't find a better lav then countryman. (well maybe, but then you're really dropping some coin.)
I have had over all good results with this setup.
Peter-John Campbell
Lots of different ones.
That question is too broad to be answered, you need to be more specific. Are you just generally interested, or are you planning on getting involved with the audio side of a T.V. series? Try searching the forum before posting, most likely the results will enable you to fine-tune your request into something we can answer.
Welcome to SSD.
Please be a little more specific on what exactly you'd like to find out about TV production.
This is certainly a board you can ask questions about TV audio, but it's mostly a Sound Design oriented group of individuals who discuss Sound Design concepts. To ask a question so general I consider a waste of a valuable resource that has become known as SSD. Every single person who frequents this board is professional in some aspect of the Sound Design industry, so their time and advice is golden. This seems more like a question for Yahoo Answers and has most likely already been answered elsewhere.
I like to think of it as kind of like the major leagues of Sound Design for the TV, Film, Performing Arts and Gaming industry.
I'm sure this link will get you what you're asking for:


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Marvel Assembles an Official Title for Third "Avengers" Movie
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Black Lightning: Year One #6
"Black Lightning: Year One" ends, just as you knew it would with this sixth (of six) issues. Van Meter and Hamner deliver a solid conclusion.
|March 19th, 2009
Booster Gold #18
Dan Jurgens's first storyline comes to a conclusion and shows promise for more to come.
|March 15th, 2009
Solomon Grundy #1
"Solomon Grundy" is born on Monday, but his comic was released this Wednesday and reviewed on Sunday.
|March 8th, 2009
Teen Titans #68
"Teen Titans" seems to ignore the past two issues in order to provide a curiously upbeat story... set in Hell.
|February 26th, 2009
Robin #183
This may be the final issue of "Robin," but Tim Drake is still kicking butt and taking names, and protecting Gotham until someone takes over as the new Batman.
|February 18th, 2009
Nightwing #153
"Last Rites" winds down and so does this title. The final issue of "Nightwing" attempts to tie a bow on the adventures of the former Boy Wonder.
|February 12th, 2009
Blue Beetle #35
The penultimate chapter in the adventures of Jaime Reyes finds the "Blue Beetle" once more balancing legacy, family and friends. While this might be the second-to-last issue of this title, it's not too late to join the fun.
|February 1st, 2009
Hellblazer #251
Peter Milligan's first issue of "Hellblazer" starts off slow, but there's potential for what's to come.
|January 27th, 2009
Justice League of America #29
Len Wein returns to the JLA after a long absence in a story that's mostly worthwhile for its novelty value.
|January 21st, 2009
Booster Gold #16
Dan Jurgens brings "Booster Gold" back up to its old levels of fun with which Geoff Johns and Jeff Katz had infused the book.
|January 15th, 2009
El Diablo #5
The Freedom Fighters arrive and things take a turn for the even stranger.
|January 10th, 2009
Teen Titans #66
Under the premise of a membership drive, this issue of "Teen Titans" offers little in the way of new members, but this is just the start of a multi-part storyline.
|January 3rd, 2009
DCU Holiday Special #1
Joe Kelly and Kevin Maguire do nice work in an otherwise mediocre holiday anthology.
|December 21st, 2008
Booster Gold #15
Following Geoff Johns and Jeff Katz, Chuck Dixon and Rick Remender, Dan Jurgens grabs the writing reins of a character he knows a thing or two about.
|December 14th, 2008
Booster Gold #14
Booster Gold's Starro adventure concludes with ramifications for the future and hope for the direction this series will chase in the coming months.
|November 15th, 2008
Family Dynamic #3
The premature final issue of this series provides a great read and offers hope for the future of the "Family Dynamic."
|October 27th, 2008
Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #1
James Robinson seeks to update Superman's pal in this one-shot that feeds into upcoming events in the Superman titles. The end result is a surprisingly compelling story featuring a character most wouldn't think to read about.
|October 19th, 2008
Booster Gold #13
Can a series thrive when every issue feels like a pointless fill-in?
|October 18th, 2008
Manhunter #35
"Forgotten" continues, raising the stakes on Manhunter and her allies in this issue, the penultimate issue of the initial story following the return of "Manhunter" to the new issue racks.
|October 6th, 2008
Manhunter #34
"Forgotten" continues on as Manhunter finds herself in the middle of a massive operation that has drawn the interest of both the Suicide Squad and the Birds of Prey.
|September 9th, 2008
El Diablo #1
A strong debut for Jai Nitz and Phil Hester's spirit of vengeance.
|September 7th, 2008
Family Dynamic #1
Hidden beneath the banner of a Johnny DC title, this book is not a book for kids, but rather a story for ALL AGES! Family, legacy and super-heroics await behind a Sean Galloway cover.
|August 25th, 2008
Manhunter #33
"Forgotten" sinks its hooks deeper into the DCU as Kate Spencer continues to live the DC equivalent of Kevin Bacon, touching characters from the DCU as varied as Oracle and Phantom Lady.
|August 14th, 2008
Manhunter #32
Loads of cameos and easter eggs fill out an issue that's new reader friendly and DC Universe situated.
|August 3rd, 2008
Manhunter #31
The return of the "Manhunter" comic starts off with a quick -- but dense -- recap, before launching into an entertaining new storyline.
|July 20th, 2008
Manhunter #31
One of DC's best ongoing series returns from hiatus.
|June 8th, 2008
Huntress: Year One #1
New writer Ivory Madison presents a fierce, tormented Helena Bertinelli.
|May 15th, 2008
Batman #675
A new Ten-Eyed Man helps set the stage for Batman: R.I.P.
|April 23rd, 2008
Batman and the Outsiders #6
In a revamped book where everything has supposedly changed, the only real difference seems to be a slower pace with slightly difference faces.
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Snail Farm
- Clear plastic bottle
- Clear tape
- Soil
- Lettuce or weeds
- Snails from the garden
Your snail farm will be contained within the plastic bottle.
- Cut a small door in the side of the bottle about three inches by two inches so that when the bottle is on its side the door is at the top.
- Next, place damp soil in the bottle.
- Go outside and look for snails in the yard. Look around leafy plants, in the vegetable garden, or at the base of brick walls.
- Put them in your snail farm and give them fresh food like lettuce and weeds.
- Seal the door at the top with some clear tape and punch holes in the tape for air vents.
- Make sure the bottle top is sealed.
- Watch your snails for a few days then let them go.
From 365 Smart After-School Activities by Sheila Ellison & Judith Gray. Copyright © 2005 by Sheila Ellison & Judith Gray. All rights reserved. Used by arrangement with Sourcebooks, Inc.
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I know yall are probably going to hate me.....but I can't figure out what im doing wrong, im trying to make a SIMPLE Vertex Grid (for Terrain) but I get a black screen for some reason And I can't figure out why. It does run, but I just get a black screen afterwards....I hate posting such huge code on this site but I figure if anyone can explain what the heck I did wrong i'd be able to understand a little bit better.
I think the problem....may be in the matrix, but my code is simple and im 100% sure im doing the Grid right because I took it from a working tutorial that does grids (but it's large and VERY confusing for a beginner, so I just took the appropriate code).
I know it's alot to look at (vars.h is very small) and main.cpp is pretty small too but I know it's still alot.....but im just completely stuck.
vars.h http://pastebin.com/SupcqB8N
main.cpp http://pastebin.com/vAnSUTpp
cbuffer ConstantBuffer
float4x4 matFinal;
struct VOut
float4 position : SV_POSITION;
float4 color : COLOR;
VOut VShader(float4 position : POSITION, float4 color : COLOR)
VOut output;
output.position = mul(matFinal, position);
output.color = color;
return output;
float4 PShader(float4 position : SV_POSITION, float4 color : COLOR) : SV_TARGET
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October is National Black Walnut Month, in celebration of the harvest and for the array of foods that can be enhanced by the rich flavor that comes from making traditional desserts, baked goods and many chef-inspired creations.
Unlike the English walnut, the black walnut is a wild nut that is natural and highly sustainable. They grow wild across the midwest and are an American tradition for both the annual fall harvest and the bold-flavored nutmeats.
People younger than 65 might not know about the staining effects of black walnuts when the green outershell is removed and the juice from that shell covers your hands and makes dark splotches on your clothing.
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FOR NUTTY GOODNESS — Black walnuts can be added to any baked goods to give them an intense nutty flavor. The black walnuts in the basket are from a tree in the McCoy back yard.
-- Esther McCoy
It almost has to wear off. No type of cleaning material can remove it in one washing.
Once the staining material is removed the task of cracking the black walnut shell is almost as daunting. It takes a lot of hard hits to crack the shell, and then a nut pick is needed to remove the tasty nutmeat from inside.
For all its work, a black walnut is worth it in taste. And just a small amount of the nut meats can be mixed with English walnuts for a rich, bold flavor.
October is black walnut picking time, and for those who don't wish to go through the aggravation, they can be purchased for $11 per pound, a substantial amount.
Here are some recipes from the American Black Walnut Marketing Board, whose new theme is "Taste the Wild Side of the Walnut Family."
This is a cake that has been a state fair winner and could be a winner in your family and at holiday get-togethers.
Black Walnut
Fancy Cake
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
5 eggs separated
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cup black walnuts, chopped fine, or if you like a less strong taste, make it half English walnuts
3-ounce can flaked coconut
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
Cream butter and shortening until light and fluffy. Add sugar and beat well. Combine flour and baking soda in a separate bowl and whisk together. Mix in egg yolks one at a time, beating well. Mix buttermilk and vanilla and mix in alternately with flour mixture. Beat well. Beat egg whites until stiff and then add cream of tartar. Fold in with black walnuts and coconut. Put into three 8-inch round cake pans that have been greased and floured. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let rest on wire rack for 10 minutes and remove from pans. Frost with White Wonder Frosting.
White Wonder
2 egg whites, 1/3 cup
2/3 cup sugar
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
Mix ingredients in a double boiler. Place over boiling water for 6 minutes, stirring with your finger until you can no longer keep your finger in the mixture, 150 degrees. Remove from heat. Beat with electric mixer until icing will hold its shape and fold in 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla.
This recipe is from the 1950s Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook.
Black Walnut
Loaf Bread
3/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons soft shortening
1 egg
1 1/2 cups milk
3 cups flour
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup chopped black walnuts, or combined with English walnuts
Mix sugar, shortening and egg. Stir in milk. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt and stir in. Blend in nuts. Pour into well greased 9-by-5-inch loaf pan. Let stand 20 minutes before baking. Bake in 350 degree oven for between 60 and 70 minutes until wooden pick thrust into center comes out clean. Cut with thin, sharp knife to prevent crumbling.
Note: Three-fourths cup chopped dates or apricots can be added with the nuts. Increase baking time by 10 minutes.
These cookies are healthy for their oatmeal and raisins. Black walnuts give them a bold taste.
Black Walnut
Oatmeal Cookies
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 1/4 cups butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 egg
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
3 cups oatmeal, uncooked
1 cup black walnuts
1/2 cup raisins or chocolate chips
Mix sugars, egg and butter until light and fluffy. Combine flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda and nutmeg. Add vanilla, egg, flour mixture and oatmeal and combine well. Add black walnuts and raisins or chocolate chips. Drop by a well rounded teaspoon about 2 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheet. Bake at 400 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes.
Black walnuts can add a different taste to a streusel-topped pumpkin pie too. Just try it.
Streusel-topped Pumpkin Pie
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie
1/4 teaspoon salt
15-ounce can pumpkin
12-ounce can evaporated milk
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons margarine, softened
1/2 cup black walnuts
Combine brown sugar, flour and margarine until very crumbly. Add the nuts and sprinkle on top of pie after baking 20 minutes in a 425 degree oven. Lower heat to 375 and bake for 25 to 30 more minutes until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
This is an easy bar cookie to make for the holidays. It is from the Betty Crocker Cookbook.
Fruit Cake Black
Walnut Bars
1 cup brown sugar
1 1/4 cups water
1/3 cups shortening
2 cups raisins
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon cloves, if desired
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons water
2 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2/3 cup black walnuts
Combine brown sugar, water, shortening, raisins and spices. Boil for 3 minutes. Cool and add soda, salt, 2 teaspoons water and blend in flour, baking powder and fold in nuts. Put into 9-by-12-inch baking pan. Bake at 325 degrees for 55 minutes or until golden brown. When cool, cut into squares. Before serving dust with powdered sugar. Makes 24 bars.
This salad was served at a state dinner at the White House at an event honoring President Hu Jintao of China.
Pear and Black
Walnut Salad
1/4 cup black walnuts, toasted
Large bulb fennel, fresh, chilled, cored and tops removed, sliced into thin strips
1/2 red and 1/2 green D'Anjou pear, quartered, cored, cut crosswise into thin slices
1/4 cup white balsamic vinaigrette
2 ounces goat cheese, crumbled
Place fennel, black walnuts and vinaigrette in mixing bowl. Gently toss with hand to combine and coat ingredients. To assemble: arrange equal amounts of red and green pears to form an overlapping ring in the center of each chilled salad plate. Divide the fennel and black walnuts into four equal portions. Artistically mound each portion in center of the ring of pears. Garnish by sprinkling goat cheese crumbles over the salads.
Note: To make the balsamic mixture, mix 3/4 cup olive oil, 1/2 cup white balsamic vinegar, 1 1/2 tablespoons honey, kosher salt and black pepper to taste.
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STEUBENVILLE - The attorney representing Michael Nodianos said Monday afternoon his client saw a 16-year-old Weirton female leave a party early Aug. 12 with two young men, but stressed his client was not at the house where an alleged rape occurred.
Dennis McNamara spent more than an hour with local, regional and national media outlets answering questions about his client and the events of Aug. 11-12.
According to McNamara, "Michael is the person on a video that was posted on several Internet sites last week and he made several very callous comments and is ashamed and embarrassed by the comments on the video. He regrets those comments. He was not raised in that manner. I don't believe it was a crime to make the video, but it was stupid."
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DISCUSSING MICHAEL — Columbus attorney Dennis McNamara talked with local, regional and national media outlets Monday afternoon about his client, who was featured in a 12-minute video that went viral last week. During the video, Michael Nodianos can be heard laughing about a 16-year-old Weirton female who was the victim of an alleged rape last August. McNamara said his client was not involved in the alleged rape. - Dave Gossett
"Michael didn't know the Jane Doe in this case. He has since been told she was at the student's house where he was drinking, and she was there drinking as well. But he didn't know that, and he had never met her. He left the party around midnight on Saturday, went to McDonald's and then to a friend's house. She was leaving just a few moments after he arrived at the second house. He saw her leave with two guys. I don't know if he saw her being carried out of that house," McNamara related.
"There were three witnesses to the alleged rape at a third house and two of them came back to the house where Michael made the 12-minute video at around 2 a.m. or 2:30 a.m. People at the other house came back and talked about what happened. The kid shooting the video of Michael was not a witness to the alleged rape. The video was made at a friend's house and not at the house where the alleged incident occurred," said McNamara.
Nodianos jokes on the video about the alleged rape and refers to the female as looking "dead."
McNamara referred to his client as Michael during the press conference, but earlier Monday the attorney said, "The video was originally posted on YouTube in August by another individual who then deleted it from YouTube. The video was obtained by someone else last week and surfaced on the Internet, and the family of Michael Nodianos has been hammered ever since," said McNamara.
"Michael could not have stopped the alleged rape from occurring because he learned about it after the fact. It wasn't something he could have stopped. He did tell the police everything he knew. Everything he knew about the incident came from others. Everything he knew came from comments of other young people," declared McNamara.
McNamara said he assumes parents were not home at any of the three houses that night.
"If they were, they should be charged. I am certain if the police have evidence they would charge any adult if they provided alcohol to kids. If the police believe or had knowledge parents were there they would charge them," added McNamara
McNamara said the parents of Nodianos contacted him to ask for advice on dealing with the video that surfaced Thursday.
"I'm not here as an attorney in the sense of defending him. I'm just a spokesperson for his family. They didn't know who to call so they called me and asked what would I suggest," related McNamara.
"Michael is a good kid who was a scholar student at Steubenville High School where he graduated in 2012. He did not play football but did participate in other sports until his junior year and has never been in trouble. He is one of six students in his class to have perfect attendance while attending high school," described McNamara.
"His parents love him, but they share in the disappointment and Michael's lack of judgment. This has been a hard time for this family," McNamara said.
"The video was initially put on YouTube by the kid who shot it and then taken down a few days later. But someone was able to retrieve the video last week and posted it on the Internet," noted McNamara.
"Michael knows the comments he made in that video were dumb, inappropriate and insensitive. The takeaway from this is Michael is a really good kid from a good family and he really regrets this. But there was no criminal activity by him. He has received threats. Hopefully, none of those threats are serious. He doesn't need a body guard because the attacks have been electronic," continued McNamara.
"Attorney General Mike DeWine has described the 12-minute video as disgusting. It is also disappointing, insensitive and unfortunate," McNamara told reporters.
"It is common for young and stupid to be used in the same sentence so often. Michael and the kid with the camera started joking and they started fueling each other as they went along. There was no reason for them to be saying those inappropriate things. It was a regrettable and really stupid thing to do," stated McNamara.
McNamara said Nodianos successfully completed the fall semester at Ohio State University but decided during the Christmas break to not return for the spring semester.
Nodianos was one of 68 high school students in Ohio to receive an Ohio State University Land Grant Opportunity Scholarship.
"Someone hacked the Ohio State University e-mail system. There were people making the rounds of Michael's dormitory at Ohio State. He was concerned if he continued taking classes it would have been an insurmountable distraction," remarked McNamara.
McNamara also said someone has hacked into e-mail accounts, "belonging to Michael, his parents and even his grandfather. They have had to change their cell phones. Someone has also hacked Michael's old Facebook and Twitter accounts and posted false statements."
"The Nodianos family hopes this will die down after the case is resolved and he can go back to college and return to the normal life of a college student," said McNamara.
U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Marietta released a statement Monday evening regarding the ongoing investigation into the rape charges in Steubenville.
"As the father of two daughters and grandfather of four granddaughters, had something like what is being alleged here have happened to one of my loved ones, I would be demanding justice to the fullest extent of the law. I have spoken with DeWine about this case, and am confident that the state and local authorities are conducting a thorough investigation," Johnson said.
"Violence against women has no place in any civilized society, especially America. I am heartbroken for the victim and her family, and am confident that justice will be served through a fair trial so that the healing process can begin," said Johnson.


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The next time you take your child with you while you run errands, turn it into a learning activity.
Calculating time and mileage is a fun way for your child to pass the time in the car. For example, if the grocery store is three miles away, how long does he think it will take you to get there?
If you have several errands to run, ask you child how far away he thinks each destination is from the other, and then clock it to see how close his guess is.
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U.S. District Judge Charles R. Simpson set a hearing for Gary T. Meredith for April 22 in Louisville. Meredith had been set to stand trial on Feb. 12. Simpson ruled that Meredith's case is complex and more time is needed for both sides to prepare for trial.
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- BSO Case Number: PB12-11-00167
- PIO Number: 12-11-03
- Date: Nov. 1, 2012
- Time: 3:06 PM
- Place of Occurrence: 625 Oaks Drive, Apt. 207, Pompano Beach
- Jurisdiction: Pompano Beach
- Jeffrey Blaugrund, 1/28/42, 625 Oaks Drive, Apt. 207, Pompano Beach (DECEASED)
- Unknown
Description of Incident:
Broward Sheriff's Office homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man found inside his Pompano Beach apartment Thursday (Nov. 1) afternoon.
BSO deputies responded to the apartments at 625 Oaks Drive in Pompano Beach after neighbors complained of a strong odor emanating from apartment 207. Deputies knocked on the door with no response. They solicited the management office to open the door for deputies, which led to the discovery of Jeffrey Blaugrund's body.
Neighbors told deputies they last saw Blaugrund in the parking lot of the apartment complex about six days prior to the gruesome discovery.
Blaugrund's body was transported to the Broward Medical Examiner's Office for an autopsy. Based on evidence found in the apartment, detectives are investigating the case as a homicide.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact BSO Homicide Detective John Curcio at 954-321-4210 or Broward Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at 954-493-TIPS (8477) or www.browardcrimestoppers.org. A reward of up to $1,000 is available for information leading to an arrest.
***MEDIA NOTE: A picture of the victim is attached to this news release on our website www.sheriff.org.
- INVESTIGATORS: Det. Curcio, Homicide CID; Pompano Beach; Crime Scene
- THIS REPORT BY: Keyla Concepción/PIO 11/2/12 1720
Posted At: 11/02/2012 05:21 PM
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Ok I have recently made some mistakes with installing some operating systems that I should have just kept on a live cd not ubuntu but another os and with my ocd when I saw my lot's of different partitions I just wanted to reset my computer so it boot's up and doesn't load any os and I have to put in my ubuntu live cd and install that and that would be my only os on this computer so I want to know how I can just wipe my entire hard drive so when it boot's I get to put my live cd in and start anew?
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The woman involved in a four-hour standoff with police made her first court appearance Tuesday for the incident.
21-year old Amber Rose Tompkins, who police initially identified as Amber Schroeder, had bond set at $50,000 on charges of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and aggravated assault against a neighbor. However, an official at the Shawnee County Jail says she cannot bond out because she's also being held for a probation violation and also because she has refused to submit to fingerprinting.
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Are there common examples of a symmetric monoidal product $\otimes$ that preserves both limits and colimits in each variable?
This question is worded incorrectly, I now realize:
(A) I originally meant that, give diagrams $F_1,F_2: D \to \mathcal{C}$, we have $$ (\text{colim}_{X \in D} F_1(X)) \otimes (\text{colim}F_2(X)) \cong \text{colim}_{X \in D} (F_1(X) \otimes F_2(X)) $$ and $$ (\text{lim}_{X \in D} F_1(X)) \otimes (\text{lim}_{X \in D}F_2(X)) \cong \text{lim}_{X \in D} ( F_1(X) \otimes F_2(X)) $$ where $\otimes$ is the symm. monoidal structure on $\mathcal C$.
(B) But as pointed out by Martin, my original wording was incorrect. And of course it's an important concept to consider monoidal structures that do preserve (co)limits in each variable, so that $$ (\text{colim}_{X \in D} F(X)) \otimes A \cong \text{colim}_{X \in D} (F(X) \otimes A) $$ and likewise for limits. And I am interested in such examples as well.
Here are examples:
- Tensor product of chain complexes preserves a lot of colimits
- Direct sum of groups/chain complexes preserves all colimits in the sense of (A) (since it is a colimit)
- Cartesian product preserves all limits in the sense of (A) (since it is a limit)
But I can't think of a product that preserves both limits and colimits.
It's okay if the symmetric monoidal structure doesn't preserve all limits and colimits. For instance, just preserving totalization and geometric realization would be a good example, or just finite limits and finite colimits.


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Lot Acceptance Procedure Criteria
Providing Statistical Confidence to Pass
Q. Lots are released based on comparing test results from a sample to lot acceptance procedure criteria. If a set of test results meets the lot acceptance procedure criterion, how can I be assured that another sample from the lot would also pass the criterion?
A: Companies use lot acceptance procedures to release a lot. Test results from a sample are evaluated against lot acceptance procedure criteria, and if the criteria are met, the lot is released. However, since test results are subject to variability, another sample from the same lot may not meet the criteria. If units from a lot fail after release, there can be significant cost to the company (e.g., a lot recall). ASTM E2709, Practice for Demonstrating Capability to Comply with an Acceptance Procedure, provides a general statistical approach that can be used to make a statement such as this one: "With 95 percent confidence, there is a 95 percent chance that another sample taken from the lot will pass the lot acceptance procedure."
Acceptance Procedures and Criteria
Lot acceptance procedures might consist of a single or multiple stages. Each stage may have single or multiple criteria that must be met. For example, a single stage test (taken from ASTM E2709) might be the following.
- Sample five units at random from the lot and measure a numerical quality characteristic of each unit.
- Criteria: Pass if all five individual units are between 95 and 105 percent of target.
- Otherwise, fail the lot.
A multiple stage test might be based on a product specification of 90 to 100 percent of target.
- Stage 1: Sample five units at random from the lot and measure a numerical quality characteristic of each unit.
- Criteria: Pass if all five individual units are between 95 and 105 percent of target.
- Otherwise go to Stage 2.
- Stage 2: Randomly sample five additional units from the lot and measure a numerical quality characteristic of each unit.
- Criteria: Pass if the average of the ten test results is between 97 and 103 percent of target and all 10 individual results are between 90 and 110 percent of target.
- Otherwise fail.
STrategies to Meet Lot Acceptance Procedure Criteria
To reduce the risk of releasing a lot that cannot meet the lot acceptance criteria, companies may use tighter in-house limits with the assumption that if the tighter limits are met, then the lot acceptance procedure criteria will be met. For example, for the above single stage test, the in-house limit might be that all five results must be between 97 and 103 percent of target instead of 95 to 105 percent of target. An alternative approach to tightening the lot acceptance procedure itself would be to use a strategy where n individual units are selected from the lot according to a specific sampling plan. The test results from these units would then be used to ensure with a high level of confidence that if the lot acceptance procedure were applied, there would be a high probability of passing the lot acceptance procedure criteria. In this approach, the sampling plan and acceptance limits are different from the lot acceptance procedure. However, passing the acceptance limits for this alternative approach assures passing the lot acceptance procedure. The details for the general methodology have been published1-4 and appear in ASTM E2709.
A specific application of the methodology is given in ASTM E2810 for the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention Uniformity of Dosage Units test used to release lots in the pharmaceutical industry. The uniformity test is used to show that individual dosage units contain similar amounts of the active ingredient. To apply the ASTM E2709 methodology requires a specified lot acceptance procedure such as the multiple stage lot acceptance procedure given above. A sampling plan is required to collect the units to test. There are three common sampling plans that are used: 1) completely random; 2) systematic, where one unit is tested from equally spaced intervals throughout the lot and 3) systematic, where more than one unit is tested from equally spaced intervals throughout the lot. The advantage of the third method is that the between and within interval variability can be estimated, which can be very useful to determine how much of the total variability in the test results is due to interval to interval.
For the rest of this article, assume that the first or second sampling plan is used to collect the units for testing. Once the units are tested, sample statistics are calculated such as the sample mean and standard deviation, and these compared to upper limits given in an acceptance limit table. The acceptance limit table is the same for both the first and second sampling plans. Details of how to construct the table are given in ASTM E2709. Mathematics and generally a computer program are required to develop the table for a given lot acceptance lot procedure. Constructing the table requires the user to choose a level of confidence (usually 90 or 95 percent), the desired probability (called coverage) of passing the lot acceptance procedure (usually 90 or 95 percent), and a sample size.
Suppose that the sampling plan is to test 30 units (n) either randomly taken from the lot or at equally spaced intervals throughout the lot. Suppose that the sample mean is 98 percent of target and the standard deviation is 0.358 percent of target. Suppose that the prespecified level of confidence and the desired probability of passing the lot acceptance procedure (coverage) are both 95 percent. The associated acceptance limit table using the lot acceptance procedure and criteria given above is given in Table 1 - Acceptance Limits.
Table 1 - Acceptance Limits1
Mean (% Target)
Standard Deviation (% Target)
1. 95 percent confidence interval; 95 percent coverage
For possible sample means, the acceptance table provides the upper limit on the sample standard deviation. In our example, the upper limit of an acceptable standard deviation for a mean of 98 percent is 0.819. Since the found sample standard deviation is 0.358 percent of target, the sample meets the acceptance limit table criterion. Note that the acceptance limit criteria and sample sizes are not the same as actual lot acceptance procedure criteria. However, by passing the acceptance limit table criteria, the following statement can be made: With 95 percent confidence, there is at least a 95 percent chance of passing the lot acceptance procedure.
1. Bergum, J.S., "Constructing Acceptance Limits for Multiple Stage Tests," Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy, Vol. 16, No. 14, 1990, pp. 2153–2166.
2. Bergum, J.S., and Utter, M.L., "Process Validation," Encyclopedia of Bio-Pharmaceutical Statistics, 3rd ed., Informa Health, New York, NY, 2010, pp. 1070–1082.
3. Bergum, J.S., and Utter M.L., "Statistical Methods for Uniformity and Dissolution Testing," Pharmaceutical Process Validation, 3rd ed., Robert A. Nash and Alfred H. Wachter, Eds., Marcel Dekker, New York, NY, 2003, pp. 667–697.
4. Bergum, J.S., and Li, H., "Acceptance Limits for the New ICH USP 29 Content Uniformity Test," Pharmaceutical Technology, October 2007, pp. 90–100.James Bergum, Ph.D., is a statistical consultant and president of BergumSTATS LLC, Howell, N.J., and a member of ASTM International Committees E11 on Quality and Statistics and E55 on Manufacture of Pharmaceutical Products. Dean V. Neubauer, Corning Inc. Corning, N.Y. is an ASTM fellow; he serves as chairman of Committee E11 on Quality and Statistics, chairman of E11.90.03 on Publications and coordinator of the DataPoints column.
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QUIP: I don't think there's anything more frustrating than when food won't stay together when trying to flip it over.
Even the most careful can run into this problem, especially when food is much larger than your spatula, like in a super stuffed quesadilla.
It never fails, no matter how cautious you are, the moment you go to flip it, the ingredients shift or slip, landing catawampus all over the pan or worse, all over the stove -don't ask me how I know this!
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Yes, with just two dishes you can flip anything without disturbing its inner contents.
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With a potholder in each hand, press the dish firmly over the top of the pan then quickly invert the pan so that food that was in the pan is now resting on the dish.
Remove pan then place the second dish over the food. Grasp with both hands to clamp plate to plate then quickly invert so that the side that still needs to be cooked is now face-up.
With potholders in both hands, place and press pan over dish then quickly invert one last time then remove plate.
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Say I have a String
030512 Jack 25 Male\n030513 David 23 Male\n030514 ..., how to extract the info from this String as a two dimensional table in PHP?
In Java, I can use
StringTokenizer, like:
StringTokenizer lineTokenizer = new StringTokenizer("030512 Jack ...", "\n");
List<Student> students = new ArrayList<Student>();
while(lineTokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
String line = lineTokenizer.nextToken();
StringTokenizer itemTokenizer = new StringTokenizer(line, " ");
String id = itemTokenizer.nextToken();
String name = itemTokenizer.nextToken();
String age = itemTokenizer.nextToken();
String sext = itemTokenizer.nextToken();
students.add(new Student(id, name, age, sex));
Actually, my final goal is extracting this "table-like" info and store them into a Mysql database.
I am not familiar with PHP, could you show me how to do this in PHP, or what is a good practice to implement this two-dimensional data insertion into a Mysql database?


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One of my priorities while in Salt Lake City is do some research at
- I'm taking the first flight out of Tulsa (7:25 am!) which will get me to SLC by noon on Wed. (Rootstech begins on Thursday, Feb. 2) This will give me several hours in the afternoon and maybe early evening to research. Starbucks anyone? ( Do they even have Starbucks in SLC?)
- When I registered for Rootstech I signed up for the Late Night at the Library event on Friday evening. More research time.
- Today I sat down and identified 3 brick walls to work on. One of these is my great great grandmother Martha Blosser. I also want to do some research on Hardin County, TN the home of most of my maternal relatives and the side on which I have the least information.
- After picking my genealogical battles, so to speak, I went to familysearch.org and checked the library catalog for the areas I want to research. I printed off the titles that I want to look at while I'm there. I will be focusing first on the books since I can always order microfilm in Tulsa if I run out of time.
- On the other hand, I've learned that you can ask FHL to pull film in advance of your visit so its already there waiting for you. What a cool service and a great time-saver! You can do it online here.
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The workspace between the top and bottom Gnome panels occasionally dims about 25% and holds there for an unpredictable period of time. Sometimes it never recovers to full brightness. The cursor moves but buttons are non-responsive. Most often this happens in Firefox but is not restricted to this one program. The top and bottom Gnome panels remain fully functional.
The processor stays at an approximately steady 40% "User" use. The memory hovers at about a 40% mixture of "User", "Buffers" and "Cached" use. Network and disk activities flatline.
Sometimes the workspace un-dims itself and returns full control. When it does not the only things that work are pressing the automatically presented force quit button, typing "xkill" from a terminal or choosing to restart. Usually the application that dimmed can be restarted without restarting the operating system. I've experienced this in both Karmic and Lucid.
What am I missing?


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This is one of the most annoying duties in the kitchen, for me.
What are yours tips and tricks to peel hard boiled eggs easily?
Peel them under running water. This helps to separate the egg and the skin under the shell.
After boiling the eggs -- and note that boiling them longer helps to make them easier to peel -- let them sit for a while in a pan of cold water. I add ice cubes to the water and put the pan in the refrigerator.
Once cold, crack the "bubble" at the flat end of the egg but knocking it against the counter or the edge of the sink. Tap a few more times around the rest of the egg to get a few cracks in the shell. Next, gently roll the egg between your palms, applying just enough pressure that you can hear the shell cracking. You want to be distorting the shape of the egg enough that the now-solid part in the middle flexes away from the skin and shell.
Finally, starting at the cracked "bubble", work on separating the skin beneath the shell. The idea is not to peel the shell, per se, but to peel the skin, which will also slough the shell.
The only challenge arises when the skin won't separate from the solid inner part. Once you're down to picking bits of the shell off, you've lost. It's then very difficult to maintain the integrity of the egg's surface.
I haven't found running water over the egg to be helpful. It makes the shell sticky. Better is to cook the eggs a little longer and soak them afterward, so that there's still some moisture sitting beneath the skin. If the skin remains moist (and, hence, thicker), it will separate more easily from the solid inner part of the egg.
Always boil a few more eggs than you'll need, and, if the intention was to present the eggs as, say, deviled eggs, use the rejects for egg salad.
Why don't you people just peel an egg in five seconds? :P
I recently watched a friend use a spoon to peel the shell off very easily. She turned the spoon so that it cupped the egg and gently used it like a chisel, neatly scraping off the shell. The shape of the spoon is important, so try various sizes and shapes if necessary.
Also it helps to peel the shell when the eggs are still warm after boiling.
Once the eggs have been boiled, I fill the pan with cold water and let the eggs cool.
I find it's best to try to peel beneath the layer of skin that's present between the shell and the egg white. Once a split has been made (with a gentle thwack against a hard surface), and the initial piece is separated, the rest usually comes away quite easily.
Apart from Sam's answer, the only important aspect of peeling a hard boiled egg is moisture. When the skin under the shell is dry, it sticks to the egg-white.
The best result (100% success) is to crack the shell and place the egg in cold water (I've never tried warm water, but wouldn't be surprised if that works fine as well). After a short while (one minute), start peeling. Whenever the skin is still dry, just dip it in the water.
This method is 'better' than Sam's because you use less water :-)
After boiling the egg, put the hot egg under (running) cold water. If you do it properly, it will suffice to make one crack in it and you will be able to peel the whole thing in several big chunks.
I think it works that way because the warm egg will have expanded by the heat and will contract by cooling it down again. Because the egg and the peel react differently, the film between the egg and the peel will let loose.
Put under cold water straight away.
The best thing you can do is peel them in a pan of cold water, this works really well and all the little bits all drop off really easily!
Do NOT use farm fresh eggs if you're intending to boil them and peel the shells off. This is a disaster. Eggs are good about 42 days from the time they're layed. Do yourself a big favor and use the eggs that are a little older.
After boiling, I rinse them in cold water (often adding ice cubes) and put them in the refrigerator until they're cool to the touch. You can even let them sit a day in the refrigerator...won't hurt them a bit. I rarely have any problem getting the shell off the hard-boiled egg. If I do, I will peel them "under water" - not necessarily running water, but I'll fill a pot with cool water and just immerse the egg in the water while I'm peeling it.
Boil them according to your custom, then let them sit in that hot water for a few hours. If you happen to forget about them all the better. Then when you remember, or lunch time has arrived, drain and peel. They should peel lickity-split. I eat a couple of eggs a day and boil a week's worth all at once. After I reclaim and refrigerate them, they peel quite easily. Figured out that beastly problem all by my lonesome, Grandma!
You can use an "eggies" - egg-shaped plastic vessels you crack the egg into, close up, and boil.
I found these in our area 99¢ stores. They consisted of 4 major pieces. After OILING each part of each eggie (this is absolutely critical), assemble the eggie completely except for the top section (like a lid with a handle). This opening is just the right size within which you pour your cracked open egg. This can happen with the smallest amount of wasted white. Seal this translucent little contraption well (pressure DOES build up in them), but do not over-tighten the little lid. Boil as usual, making sure they float a little. Take them out and let them cool (so you can handle them). When you open them, voila, the boiled egg just falls out.
Boil them, then immerse them in cold water for a minute. They will still be hot, but will have shrunk from the shell slightly. Now, peel them under running cool water. Crack the fat end, and when you peel away the first few chunks, make sure to tear the 'skin' under it. (Since you are cracking it at the air pocket, this is usually not too hard.) Make sure the water flows down into that area, and it separates the egg from the skin that holds it to the shell. With practice, it's pretty reliable, but the timing is important.
I've had mixed results with cracking the rest of the shell slightly, but when it works, you get almost the entire shell off in one piece.
Credit to where I learned it from: Cooking America which includes details on time to cook, age of eggs, etc.
After boiling them and cooling them a bit in some ice water to stop the cooking, I like to put them back in the (now empty and dry pan) and roll them around, letting them bang into the sides of the pan and each other. After a few seconds of this the egg shells will be cracked all over into little bits. Now peel them under running water. While you're peeling them, let the water run between the egg white and the membrane that's attached to the shell. The water will go underneath the membrane and push it away from the egg, so once you get it going the whole thing should slide off in a few big sheets.
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STEUBENVILLE - Judge Tom Lipps, who will be presiding over the rape trial that begins Wednesday in juvenile court at the Jefferson Count Justice Center, is known for his hard work ethic and his knowledge of juvenile law that even led to him testifying before Congress.
Lipps spent his entire career in Hamilton County Juvenile Court, retiring after 37 years of service.
Trent Mays, 16, of Bloomingdale and Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, of Steubenville have been charged with rape in connection with an incident that allegedly happened Aug. 11-12. Mays also faces a charge of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material for allegedly having a picture of the victim in an outgoing text message on his cell phone. Attorneys for both defendants have denied the charges.
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LISTENING — Visiting Judge Tom Lipps listened to legal arguments during a prior hearing in the cases of two Steubenville High School student-athletes who have been charged with rape. Lipps will be presiding over the trial, set to begin Wednesday, and will make a determination of guilt or innocence.
The case has garnered state, national and international media attention since it first broke in August. That attention is expected to be focused on Steubenville when the expected three-day trial begins.
Lipps was appointed by the Ohio Supreme Court to handle the case after Jefferson County Juvenile Judge Sam Kerr recused himself. His colleagues say they always have been impressed with his hard work.
Mark Reed, currently clerk of the Court of Claims of Ohio, worked as Hamilton County Juvenile Court administrator with Lipps when Lipps was a judge.
Reed remembers coming into work at 8:30 a.m. and there would be e-mails from Lipps dated at 3 a.m.
Reed said Lipps was first in his class at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University, graduating in 1981. Lipps also received numerous awards at the law school.
"He is an excellent judge and even a better man," Reed said.
Reed said the American Bar Association undertook a study in the 1990s about child abuse and neglect in the country and how children were falling through the cracks. The ABA selected Hamilton County as a model court for the nation. Reed said Lipps wrote the court's resource book on how the court dealt with abuse and neglect cases, adding the court employees were proud of the selection.
"It had a national impact beyond the state of Ohio," he said.
Reed said Lipps is a legal scholar, who, unlike other judges, doesn't rely on a staff attorney.
"He did all the (legal) research on his own," Reed said.
Lipps was known as a judge who let everyone in the courtroom have their say.
"There was a joke that he would let everyone talk and there would be lengthy hearings. Everyone had a chance to talk. They felt like they had their day in court. It may not go the way they wanted, but at least they had a chance to have their say," Reed said.
"A lot of courts don't have credibility because the courts don't listen to everyone," he said.
Reed said Lipps worked nights as a juvenile corrections officer while he was attending college at the University of Cincinnati, where he majored in psychology and political science. Lipps then attended law school in the evenings, working during the day as a juvenile court probation officer.
"He has done every job in juvenile court," Reed said. "He worked his way up. It is a very unusual story."
Reed said Lipps worked on writing the state law concerning how a juvenile is bound over from juvenile to adult court.
"He had a large role in that," Reed said.
Lipps also was influential in how guardianships are handled today in Ohio, Reed said.
Kerr said Lipps has been a presenter on various topics at seminars conducted by the Ohio Association of Juvenile Court Judges.
Kerr said Lipps has a lot of experience in more serious cases as a judge in one of Ohio's most populous counties.
"He really is a perfect choice to handle this matter," Kerr said of Lipps.
The Ohio Supreme Court reported Lipps in 2012, and so far this year, has been assigned to hear 29 specific cases throughout the state as a retired visiting judge. Lipps also was appointed by the Ohio Supreme Court six times to sit as a judge for periods ranging from two days to three months. He has heard cases in his home county of Hamilton and in the counties of Butler, Cuyahoga and Warren, including Jefferson.
Lipps has worked almost every job in Hamilton County juvenile court, including detention unit supervisor, community service work detail supervisor, clerk, probation officer, referee, magistrate, chief magistrate and court administrator.
Ohio Gov. George Voinovich appointed Lipps as a Hamilton County juvenile court judge in 1998. He was elected by the voters there to the juvenile court bench in 1998 and 2004, retiring in February 2011.
According to Lipps' resume, provided by the Ohio Supreme Court, he has presided over more than 120,000 cases involving juvenile delinquency, child abuse/neglect, paternity/child support and other types of cases.
Lipps was one of 24 national judges on the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, where he served as lead judge on issues involving juvenile delinquency and child abuse and neglect.
He served on the Ohio Supreme Court's Rules Commissioner and the Advisory Committee on Children, Families and the Courts, as well as the Editorial Board of the Library of Reasoned Orders. Lipps has testified before the Ohio Legislature and the U.S. Congress to advise on laws related to children.
Lipps also served as director and member of the executive committee of the Ohio Association of Juvenile Court Judges, as a member of the Ohio Judicial Conference Juvenile Law and Procedure Committee and as a member of the Governor's Council on Juvenile Justice. He has served as a frequent instructor of the Judicial College, Ohio Supreme Court and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.
In Hamilton County, Lipps was a board member for the Cincinnati Red Cross, youth soccer and basketball coach, founding member of the Child Advocacy Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and the Golden Gloves Boxing Board.
Lipps, who is married and has four children and several grandchildren, was the Hamilton County Juvenile Court administrator and chief magistrate from 1984-1998, served as chief legal counsel and adviser to the juvenile court as chief referee from 1983-88, probation supervisor from 1978-79 and Stay Center coordinator from 1979-1982, where he decided which children were placed in four homes as an alternative to juvenile detention and coordinated with the court and other agencies on the placement of the children.


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I have a fair number of older Ubuntu CDs sitting around for releases that are not supported anymore. They have beautiful pressed labels and sleeves that I would hate to just throw away.
What can I do with them?
I have a fair number of older Ubuntu CDs sitting around for releases that are not supported anymore. They have beautiful pressed labels and sleeves that I would hate to just throw away.
What can I do with them?
I would use them, possibly with a clear plastic coating/wrapper, as a 'set' of drink coasters for entertaining. I had some old CDs that I printed labels for that read (in proper album cover art fonts) "This is a Coaster, Vol. I" and "This is a Coaster, Vol. II", etc. They made me smile all the time and I got some great comments from guests. It would rank up there with the hard drive clock as far as geek decor.
Stick them to a wall, on a large frame, for decoration.
On a more serious note, you can use them to test older releases that are still supported for bugs and whatnot. It's also possible some machines may not be able to handle more recent versions of Ubuntu, and these would be perfect. Or use them to take a trip down memory lane and see how the releases have changed. Or you can get creative and build something out of all of the discs - who knows. ;)
I'm in the same boat: I've got discs as far back as 5.10. Even have some 6.10 discs that never actually made it to shipping to the masses. I'd say they're definitely worth holding on to: you never know what might come up.
If you come into contact with older hardware they may come in use! I built computers from a variety of hardware and having an older version or two of Ubuntu made things much easier than trying to figure out just what exactly wasn't supported in the newer versions.
If you have some friends or colleagues which have never experienced Ubuntu (but are open for new suggestions), why not just give them the CDs for trying out Ubuntu? If the CDs are nicely labeled they will even make the same professional impression that a Windows CD makes.
On the other hand, if you really want to have friends try out Ubuntu, providing a self burnt image of the current version may lead to a better experience (hardware support etc.). In that case you may still use the sleeves.
BTW: I also remember a blog post from a LoCo meeting, where old CDs where distributed to interested guests. Maybe there is some kind of social event or meeting in your area where you want to give away those CDs?


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Of late, I have been visiting some sites like Yelp. I noticed that even though I did not explicitly log into the site using "Facebook Login" button, it automatically logs in using that profile. (I have may sometime earlier given it permission to do so.) Even though it is a different site, how is it able to pick up the Facebook login data from a different cookie?
They use Facebook's JS library to authenticate and use the available data to sign in to their website. The cookie is not shared. Sites like Yelp may use the data provided by the JS library to create new session/cookies and use that to detect if you've accessed that site later on. More details can be found in Facebook's documentation.
This is the same feature which they provide in their Mobile SDK as
It just happens in seconds, so you might see it as if they are using the facebook cookies while they have no direct access to it.
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VirtualBox appliance for the Oracle Communications Service Delivery Platform (SDP) Products
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It's been quite awhile since we last blogged. This blog is written by Leif Lourie, a Curriculum Developer for the Oracle Communications Service Delivery Platform (SDP) products. For the last 8 years, Leif has worked as a Curriculum Developer for many of the telecom-oriented products that Oracle offers. He has been working in the telecom industry for about 25 years and has also worked as a software developer, project manager, and solutions architect. He is currently working on courseware for an upcoming release for one of the Service Delivery Platform products. Thanks to Leif not only for this blog, but for making the VM described in the blog available.
Cheryl Lander, Oracle Communications InfoDev Senior Director
To be able to download, install and test a product within a day is many times very important for people that are doing the primary evaluation of a software product. If it takes longer, it will require a bigger effort, like a proof-of-concept project with many people involved. Of course, if the product is chosen for a more thorough test, it will probably happen anyway, but then maybe with focus on integration instead of product features.
We have a long tradition of creating complex software that is easy to install and test and we have often been praised for the ease of getting our products up and running.
One key for this has been that there has always been an installer for Windows, as well as for the production environments that usually are Unix and Linux. And, the windows installer has, in most cases, been released for developing and testing purposes.
Lately, this has changed. Our products are very seldom released for the Windows platform, at all. And even the Linux versions are almost always released for 64-bit systems.
This is creating problems for many of the people that want to try out our products, since few have access to a 64-bit Linux system of the right platform. Most of us are using a laptop with Windows or Mac OS. Some of us are using Linux or Solaris, but probably a non certified distribution for the product you want to test.
job, among other things, is to develop hands-on practices for our products. For
me, it is crucial to have access to environments for installing and using our
products. For this reason I have been using virtual machines for many years.
I have a ready-made base system, with the necessary tools installed for all the products I create hands-on practices for. Whenever I start working on hands-on practices for a new product or a new version, I just copy the base system and start working with a clean slate. This saves me a lot of time!
Now, I would like to start saving time for my favorite student: You!
If you are using our products and regularly test new versions you might benefit from the virtual machine that is now available on Oracle Technology Network: The Virtual Machine for the Oracle Communications Service Delivery Platform (SDP) Products.
This virtual machine contains an installation of the 64-bit version of Oracle Enterprise Linux, version 6. It also has Oracle Database Express Edition (XE), Oracle Java and Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse installed.
By using Oracle VM VirtualBox you may use Windows, OS X, Linux or Solaris on your laptop. VirtualBox can be installed on top of any of these platforms and give you the ability to run virtual machines in your laptop.
After downloading and starting the virtual machine you will also need to download the installation files for the product you want to test; for example Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper or Oracle Communications Online Mediation Controller.
In some cases there are lessons and practices available for the products. The freely available courses are listed in Oracle Learning Library as a Collection of Oracle Communications Service Delivery Platform Courses. As time goes by, we will make this list collection bigger.
Also, the goal is to update the virtual machine about one to two times per year. So you will always be able to get a well maintained virtual machine for the Service Delivery Platform products from us.
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