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AEP officials told county commissioners recently the substations will be constructed in Mead Township in the county Road 4/Hawthorne Road area. Work to clear the needed sites already has begun.
The needed properties have been purchased, and AEP has received permission from the Ohio Power Siting Commission to begin construction, according to Troy Robb, project manager with AEP.
"We could move on it right away, and we're actually out there cutting trees now," he said.
Construction should begin in late May and continue into 2015, according to Robb. Work then will start to connect the stations with existing electric lines, and the stations are expected to be in service by December 2015.
AEP is working with the county engineer's office and the Belmont County Sheriff's Department to address traffic and roadway concerns, he said.
Paul Prater, community affairs manager for AEP, said the company's need to build the substations is "reliability related."
"It will strengthen the grid not just here in Belmont County, but in the eastern part of Ohio." he said. "This is one of the things AEP is doing to strengthen our footprint, not just in Ohio, but across the United States."
Commission President Matt Coffland said the substations lie within the Bellaire Local School District and that the financially challenged district will benefit.
Residents in the district have defeated seven school levies there in the past four years, and the school district has placed on the May 6 ballot another request seeking an additional 5.91 mills for five years for the purpose of providing for the emergency requirements of the district. Bellaire Local Schools Superintendent Tony Scott did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
Prater said it isn't likely AEP would begin paying tax on the site until 2016, and that the school district won't see any revenue from the project until at least 2017.
"But it's not going anyplace, and that's revenue down the road for the school system, the county and the township, and it's not something that's going to pick up and leave," he said.


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Consumer acceptance of classics on Blu-ray is painfully limited. That breaks my heart. We've put out a lot of great titles that have not performed particularly well. Nobody wants to hear the scenario is tough within the retail marketplace. All of our releases have been profitable but it takes a lot longer to get there. One of the biggest retailers just cut their space for catalogue titles by 30 percent. The fact is, we have to be accountable for profitability, so the challenges in the marketplace make this a difficult area in which to succeed.
Still, "Auntie Mame" and some Marx Brothers are on tap for BD in 2012. Most of this Q&A is about the Warner Archive Collection's 2nd anniversary though, and is worth a read.

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Jeff Karsten, ladies and gentlemen, back to reality. It's almost like no one could have predicted a pitcher getting extremely lucky with balls in play and not missing any bats would eventually get hammered. Who would have thought it?
Come on CashInFist, tell me how wrong I am now. Granted it was only 1 game but if you're going to call me out when he pitches well I'm certainly going to call you out when he doesn't. His ERA climbed up over a half a run tonight alone.
Update: Jeff Karstens' last 5 starts his ERA is 6.75. His ERA before those 5 starts was 2.28, now it's 3.12. Not that ERA is the be all or end all stat to judge a pitcher but that was the only stat in Karstens' line that stuck out like a sore thumb, as all his other stats just didn't match up with the ERA. His FIP and xFIP sit at 4.37 and 3.84 so look for that ERA to keep rising. It's called regression and it was not unexpected.
So who wants to defend Karstens now? I'm still here....
Jeff Karstens (shoulder) will rejoin the Pirates rotation on September 13 for a start against the Cardinals.
It was reported earlier this week that Karstens would return on September 19, but evidently he has progressed ahead of schedule. The right-hander, who has missed his past two turns due to shoulder fatigue, will be part of a six-man rotation for the Bucs down the stretch. Karstens holds a 3.32 ERA and 1.19 WHIP this season but sported marks of 7.46 and 1.74, respectively, in August.
If you told me A-Rod flew on a spaceship from Mars to here, I wouldn't be surprised."--thephins.com poster Ray Finkle on A-Rod
The answer is still no.
The media seem to love to use that bad call in the 19 inning game vs. Atlanta as the Pirates turning point. That's not the reason they declined but I've seen it mentioned in a couple of articles.
Jeff Karstens' ERA is now 3.45, well over a full run higher than it was on July 20th when it was at 2.28. Since July 20th Karstens has pitched 41.2 innings while giving up 31 runs, 58 hits, 30 Ks and 13 walks, that's a 6.77 ERA during that time frame. Yeah, he's still not a very good pitcher.
Ouch.....A-Rods injury....
Charlie Morton underwent surgery Monday to repair a torn labrum in his left hip.
Morton is expected to be sidelined for six months, which could put him at risk for missing the start of the 2012 season. The 27-year-old right-hander went 10-10 with a 3.83 ERA and 110/77 K/BB ratio over 29 starts with the Pirates this season and will be arbitration-eligible for the first time this winter.
If you told me A-Rod flew on a spaceship from Mars to here, I wouldn't be surprised."--thephins.com poster Ray Finkle on A-Rod
Will the Pittsburgh Pirates make the playoffs this year?
thanks to VO for the sick ass sigs.
Charlie: If you're not as educated or as informed what you do is you start your own party and you yell the loudest.
God this thread was hilarious.
Kudos to Ray for keeping his cool when that clearly homer Pirates was insulting him at every turn. Clearly that guy owes him an apology.
And yes I am still waiting for my apology....
So ummm... will the Pirates make the playoffs this year???
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The trial timeline for the two men accused of murdering WKU freshman Katie Autry has been extended through next summer. Prosecutors and defense attorneys concur that Stephen Soules, who will be tried first, will not face a jury until at least August of 2004. That means Lucas Goodrum will more than likely not go to trial until January of 2005.
Soules and his family decided to terminate their relationship with Zach Kafoglis, Soules' attorney since the murder and rape charges were filed in May. Kafoglis says Soules and his family are unable to afford the expert witnesses and tests needed for an adequate defense, expenses that the public defender's office could cover if it took control of the defense team. Judge Tom Lewis appointed the Public Defender's office to the case today.
Goodrum's attorney, David Broderick asked Judge Tom Lewis to set bond for his client, arguing that 1.5 years was too long to keep his client locked up before trial. Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Michael Pearson disagreed, and Judge Lewis is expected to make a decision on the bond issue within the next couple of weeks.


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I've a question which probably is going to show my ignorance about statistics :). I have a large set of machines that produce iron bars of certain lengths. For each machine, I have ran experiments and have a list of lengths. From those I can calculate a mean and sample standard deviation. I don't really care about their means and I am mainly focused on the variation. Therefore, I basically only record a sample standard deviation per machine. I think the results of each machine follow a normal distribution. So far so good :)
I now want to combine these variations into a single number. Therefore, I calculate the quadratic average of each machine variation, let's call it X. In the next step, I also would like to give an estimate for the spread around X. What is this number called and what's the best way to calculate it?
Edit: I'll try to clarify with an example. Suppose I measure 3 machines and find that they produce M1: 100 +/- 7 M2: 120 +/- 8 M3: 130 +/- 9
where the numbers behind the +/-'s are the sample standard deviations of observed values on that single machine. As said before, I don't care about the means but only in the spread, so I define {X_1, X_2, X_3} = {7,8,9}. Their quadratic average is X = RMS(X_i) = $\sqrt{194}$ and I think of X as an indication of the average spread of a machine in my park.
Suppose that I would have found {X_1, X_2, X_3} = {3,8,11}. Their quadratic average is the same $\sqrt{194}$, but the spread around it is obviously bigger. My confidence in the correctness of $\sqrt{194}$ as the average spread of a machine should therefore be lower (I'd like to test some more machines, for instance) and I would like to express this in a number.


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Don't rely on your AV for protection, even if the sales guy told you it's the best protection money can buy. It's a last line of defence at best, and is usually only good for saving you time by preventing the most basic attacks, giving you the ability to prioritise your resources into dealing with the more targeted attacks.
We can't say that it applies to every anti-virus, but for most of them, yes. Naming a specific anti-virus that you use would help us give you a better answer. Batch files shouldn't be the most significant risk on your list so keep a strong anti-virus and firewall up at all times on your network.
There are a number of options that will have different outcomes depending on the risk profile of the server that contains the scripts. Certainly, AV/AM tools will pick up false positives every now and then with custom coded scripts because they all include PHP heuristics and so on nowadays.
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6 Giant Blind Spots In Every Movie Alien's Invasion Strategy
Hollywood has fed us a steady stream of alien-invasion movies since the 1950s. At the moment we're trying to forget Skyline and waiting for Battle: Los Angeles, which is coming next month. But this is a good time to ask ourselves why exactly the alien invasions we see on the silver screen always seem to end in disaster for the invaders, despite their ridiculously advanced technology.
With that in mind, we have some words of advice for any alien civilizations thinking of vaporizing us and stealing our brains.
#6. Wear Something
So you're a wormhole-surfing, intergalactic warrior civilization with invisibility shields and lasers that evaporate people under their clothing? That doesn't mean you can just skip over the basic stuff. It's absurd to imagine a technologically advanced civilization that goes extinct because they all forgot to breathe, so why are alien invasions so consistently foiled by the invaders' neglect to so much as slip on a jumpsuit before they expose themselves to our toxic environment?
Hell, we don't leave home unprotected if it's a bad smog day.
Or if Gonzalez is boiling cabbage in the break room again.
Everyone makes fun of Signs because it depicts an alien invasion that is thwarted because the aliens die if they touch water. But that's not the issue. It's not their fault that water is like acid to them, but it is their fault that they showed up naked. You have intergalactic starships, but you don't have goddamned pants? How does a civilization's evolution just skip over that part?
It's like humans landing on a planet where 70 percent of the surface is covered in molten lava, and the inhabitants are basically just moving sacks of lava. Even the atmosphere is so dense with lava vapor that often lava just rains from the sky with little to no warning. So what's your plan of attack? If you say anything other than "Jump out of the spaceship completely naked, your junk proudly flopping about, and engage the lava monsters in hand-to-hand combat," then congratulations -- you are smarter than the aliens in Signs.
The invasion in War of the Worlds seems better thought out, initially. Their shields are impervious to bombs and bullets, and the human defense strategy is apparently to ignore this and keep shooting until the aliens fall down out of pity. So with the human race on its knees, what do the aliens do to celebrate? Run around naked, drink dirty puddle-water and put everything they can find in their mouths like a bunch of unsupervised toddlers. Days later, every single one of them is dead from the common cold.
The same fate almost befell E.T., who fell gravely ill after days of running around in his birthday suit and putting shit in his mouth.
This is not goddamned rocket science here. Inferior as we are, humans know that drinking water is a bad idea even if it's just in another country, and that's if we've had all our shots. How did any alien species even survive long enough to evolve without learning that you need to make sure shit isn't poison before putting it inside your body?
"Hey guys! There's a rancid old futon in here -- wanna lick it?"
In fact, before you even reach the stage where you're landing your flying saucer and looking through your closet for appropriate Earthwear, you really need to back the hell up and ...
#5. Do Your Research
In the War of the Worlds remake, the aliens bury their tripods at the sites of major cities before the cities exist, and humans learn that they have been planning their attack "for a million years." Let's ignore the fact that humans did not exist a million years ago and simply note that this is a really, really long time to plan an invasion. It's kind of a spectacular oversight not to notice that we have germs here.
It's like they never saw a picture of The Situation.
What were they doing for a million years? Why does it take so long to develop a strategy essentially no more complex than "shoot everyone, grind up their corpses for fertilizer"? Hell, after a million years of preparation, you should be more suited to walking around on Earth than humans are.
And it's not as if the aliens died from some obscure pathogen that just flew beneath their radar -- Morgan Freeman's disembodied voice very clearly specifies that the bugs that did them in can be found in every drop of water. We're not trying to suggest that the great H.G. Wells is guilty of some kind of lazy hack-work here; we realize that he was making a point. We're just saying that the point is idiotic.
Feel free to continue turning New Yorkers into dust, though.
Likewise, it's easy to suggest that the creatures from Signs just didn't realize that the planet they were attacking was predominantly composed of the one substance most toxic to them until they actually got here. But they have absolutely no excuse for that ignorance when you consider that humans, far less advanced than any race of intergalactic colonists, know that the planet GJ 1214 b might have water on it, and it's 40 light years away from us.
Maybe they developed a mind-crippling, species-wide addiction to crack before they invented the telescope but immediately after they invented interstellar travel.
These cosmic amateurs have a lot to learn from the alien race in Independence Day. In this film, we learn that the aliens have been studying Earth for quite some time, having sent ships here to examine our planet, abduct our people and turn our cows inside out for decades. And these savvy extraterrestrials didn't walk around in the nude, either. No, these guys fell victim to their very own series of strategic gaffes. For example ...
#4. Don't Attack America First
Every alien-invasion movie we've ever heard of takes place in the United States (and before you race to the comment section, District 9 is not an alien-invasion movie). With the upcoming Battle: Los Angeles, we expect this trend to continue, unless it has the most inaccurate movie title since Naked Lunch. But your invasion doesn't need to start with the USA, and you certainly don't need to blow up a series of famous buildings, allowing for the enraged and united people to then counterattack with full force.
Giant, skyscraper-size spaceships capable of vaporizing the White House are no defense to hubris. Or a MacBook.
Yes, we get why you might think it makes perfect sense to attack the powerful developed world first, just to get it out of the way, knowing that whoever's left won't put up much of a fight. That is, it makes sense if you are a Hollywood scriptwriter who has never had to plan a war. In reality, going straight for the United States is like trying to take down a mugger by punching him in the knife. No, the goal should be to disarm the enemy. Then your work is much easier.
In this case, that fierce military you're going up against is based on an extremely complex and fragile system that is extremely easy to disrupt. All of those jet fighters flying around in Independence Day? They require fuel. That fuel requires imported petroleum. Also imported are things like cobalt, manganese, chromium and platinum, without which we can't have jet engines, missiles or computers, or the means to repair them. That stuff comes from Africa.
Along with many other wonderful things.
So you just need to take out all of the largest oil refineries (and it takes only a few to completely choke off worldwide supply), some pipelines for good measure and a few fairly defenseless nations who dig up the raw materials that make the U.S. military go. Then you fly away and wait a few months (the U.S. has only a month's worth of emergency oil on hand at any given time).
Then you can come back at your leisure, at which point you'll find that the planes are grounded for lack of fuel and replacement parts and military personnel are either busy controlling riots in the streets because of the collapse of the economy or are off fighting one of countless raging wars over whatever remaining drops of oil are left in the supply lines. Hell, you may find that the Statue of Liberty has already been destroyed, taking one item right off your checklist.
Next target: The World's Largest Axe.
It's almost like the aliens want a gentlemanly toe-to-toe battle, as if they're fighting according to some regimented, civilized rules of warfare. Which might be why they fail to follow this next one.


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I've been an amateur photographer for some time, but have always had problems holding the camera steady. I've developed some tricks like using a flat surface and the self timer in low light, and of course rely on a tripod and I have an image stabilizing lens, but I am curious if there is some technique I can use to minimize the impact of my inherent unsteadiness.
This is my low-light hand-held shooting technique:
A tripod is best for stability but since you are asking, you are probably looking for an alternative. Depending in the weight of your camera, you should consider a Gorillapod. It is a small, cheap and relatively light (How often does that happen?) flexible tripod. I usually twist its legs through my belt, the camera bag strap or a cargo-pants pocket.
Some "tricks"
Maybe Joe McNallys - Da Grip or a String-Tripod
In addition to the fine answers from the other users, there's one more thing you can do: Take many pictures and throw away the blurry ones.
Camera shake is random movement in random amounts, and if you take enough pictures you should be lucky enough to find at least one where there is no shake. Depending on the situation, "enough pictures" can mean anywhere from 3 to 100.
However, you should understand that this is a method of last resort, because it means more time spent shooting, more work in selecting good photos, and more wear and tear on your camera.
I saw this Joe McNally video a while back and found that it helped me a good deal, especially as I have a mild hand tremor.
Also relaxing, watching your breathing and making sure you roll your finger over the shutter button rather than press or stab at it makes a big difference.
Set an automatic timer
Typically you set an automatic timer to try to jump in the picture, but I've found that if I set my auto time to 2s I can press the shutter button, and then wait 2s for the camera to take the picture itself without me introducing another "shake" by pressing the shutter button. It doesn't work all the time (with the 2s pause the scene may have already changed) but it does work for landscapes and portraits if the subject doesn't move.
One way to reduce impact of inherent unsteadiness would be to work towards shorter shutter time - use a faster aperture (lens), higher ISO and/or more lighting. That would also reduce motion blur resulting from subject's movement or wind during a longer exposure.
A couple of times I've caught myself boneheadedly sticking to ISO 200 and shooting several frames of useless blur while bumping up to say ISO 1600 would land a few acceptably sharp photos. While noise introduced with shorter low-light exposure doesn't look nice, it still looks much better than blur.
A string tripod might help you out here.
Don't forget to limit your caffeine intake.
This is going to sound stupid (and I'm not a professional photographer) but I've been in your situation. I try to place my camera on an (ideally near-flat) object, lower my center-of-gravity (typically by spreading my legs or crouching down), and press the shutter after I exhale (and just before I inhale). Many times I wish I had a tripod when interesting opportunities arise, but by the time I set up, the moment may have passed.
Two methods I find useful:
Shooter: cradle camera in the sitting position, like one would a rifle: sit, with thighs in front and near your chest, cross legs a bit if more comfortable. Rest camera on knees and shoot away. Downside, you are low to the ground, but rock steady.
Strap method: This one works when you think it shouldn't. Get a piece of nylon belting or strap that is about 2 ft longer than you are tall. Tie loops at either end. Put your foot in one loop, and then the other loop either in your hand (the one holding the lens) or if a long lens, around the lens (be very careful). Now, pull up on the strap to create tension, adjusting length to your height and level. Pulling up and the tension help steady your camera for a few shots. Its not a tripod or monopod, but it fits in your pocket.
Edit: found a commercial version of this second method that illustrates technique: http://www.kirkphoto.com/Strap-Pod.html
I find that resting my camera against my head works really well (and it's something I've never seen suggested), even just eye-to-the-viewfinder works well. Of course you need to remember not to move while the viewfinder goes dark though!
If I want to take long exposure (second or more) photos without a tripod, then I tend to rest my camera on my shoe, or curl up the camera strap and use it to support the camera in the direction I want it to be pointing resting on any stable surface.
Just a few final suggestions:
This applies to hand held photography when you cannot use another object to stabalise your camera.
Watch your breathing, if you have time, take a deep breath once you have done that hold it and release the shutter, Make sure you are holding the camera with one hand and the other is cupping the lens.
Its also a good idea to make sure your feet are shoulder width apart so you are maintaining a strong body position that will not be affected by wind, etc.
If you are carrying a backpack, or some scarf for example (you can take of your shirt of as weel) it's very easy to put the machine on top of it and point it to your target. After you release the camera because it's pointing to where you want, the scarf (for example) might let the camera move a bit, as the camera sinks into it or moves into a more balanced position, but after 1 or 2 seconds it will become stable, this of course if you have something near that you can put this elements on, like a wall, bench or even a car top, other than this you have to go to the ground to use this stabilizing/pointing elements.
The breading trick mentioned here is a excellent technique and the use of string quite good as well, although it requires you to carry it, I guess the point of your question is if you have only your camera with you.
Also if you have any post processing software consider shooting in raw with a bit higher shutter speed and then adjust the exposure level in the software to make the image more to your liking.
If tripod is too heavy, monopod and Gorillapod can work. Personally I have found monopod to be superior to Gorillapod, and both are of pretty similar weight; but the monopod is longer, while Gorillapod fits into pocket of outdoor jacket. So, most likely you need multiple devices and pick one of them per the situation.
You might also want to experiment with mirror lockup. On SLRs much of the shake on trigger action comes from the camera moving the mirror out of the way. It depends on camera and person if this affects image quality visibly, though.
Just came across a thorough quide on holding a camera, with principles based on military marksmanship manuals. Covers how to grip the camera, body position, standing/kneeling positions, bracing, breathing, aiming and shutter release. Worth a read. From Pentax forums.
I would like to add another few tricks:
1) you can use a textile bag filled with lentils (mean the plant seeds :-) ) or something similar (beans, rice). It is relatively lightweight and you use this if you need to put your camera on a uneven surface like a sharp rock etc. and you can adjust the shape to get your camera in needed position. It is very cheap and as my colleagues say, if you have problem with food, you can eat it. :-)
2) mini-tripod is also very useful - I have the Velbon CX-460 mini/F - enough for my Pentax K-x with a kit lens and enough small to carry in normal bag.
3) there is a way to twist your camera strap around your hands to get the camera steady. I will try to find the image showing this. I think I saw this in a book by Scott Kelby. :-)


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Bowling Green, KY -- The Warren County Board of Education's attempts to limit the number of students able to attend Bowling Green Independent Schools has some parents angry, and some teachers in fear of losing their jobs.
A portion of tonight's Warren County Board of Education meeting was open to the public, but even though the issue was not on the agenda, and there was no availability for comment, but parents and teachers decided to show their disapproval even if they couldn't voice it.
"For us, it's a matter of splitting up our children. Some already attend city schools, and some are not old enough to go yet," said concerned parent Brian Strow..
That's a challenge faced by many parents.
"Do I split my family apart, and no matter what, it's going to affect my children," said concerned parent Minda Schafer.
"Most likely, I'm going to have to pull my two children who are already in city schools out and away from their friends so they can all be in the same school district," said concerned parent Cameron Lebedinski.
For some, the decision to choose city schools is influenced by convenience.
"I teach at Western. McNeill is right next to work. It was convenient to be able to drop my kids off next to campus," said Strow.
For some, it's diversity of the student body.
"We have gone out of our way to embrace diversity and move our children to public schools," said Strow.
Some say that environment won't be the same without the students and teachers the schools will lose due to the decision.
"It's the academic competition at McNeill that makes it a strong elementary school, and if all of a sudden these people are gone, what will be the environment for learning there?" said concerned parent John Gover.
Warren County Schools say the decision to cap enrollment was financially necessary.
"Last year we cut 23 teachers and 12 classified positions," said Warren County Schools Interim Superintendent Kathy Goff.
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I am using ArcGIS 10, the newest version and I am a senior at Western Carolina University and working on my senior thesis and the data set in which I have are images of mineral thin sections all separated into different groups of grains, magnetite, quartz, etc.. either being a vector layer or a raster layer. I am wanting to calculate the distance between each grain or the grain spacing, boundary to boundary, NOT center to center and also have those distances given every 10 degrees on a 0 to 360 degree directional scale. Is there any code out there that does this very exact method? Or is there another program, R or Fragstats, that would do a better job, ArcGIS 10 preferably.
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6 Insane Stereotypes That Movies Can't Seem to Get Over
We've talked before about how some negative stereotypes from the past are, somehow, still showing up in today's movies, and even in recent video games. But those are our grandfathers' prejudices, just in a modern form, like an old man cursing at an Asian nurse with a megaphone (that's why we don't visit, Grandpa). It turns out there are other, more subtle ways that Hollywood has been enforcing wrongheaded ideas right under our noses, and sometimes in our favorite films. Like ...
#6. Everyone in Africa Is Uncivilized or a Warlord
In Hollywood movies, Africa is a shitty place to be. One of the most iconic scenes in action movie history comes at the end of Independence Day, when we see that the invading army of aliens has finally been defeated by a concerted, collaborative effort by the entire world (but mostly the U.S., and mostly Jeff Goldblum), and we get a montage of the wreckage on different continents. America gets a military base ...
Fort Burntodeath.
... Australia gets some of that crazy architecture ...
... and Africa gets ... naked dudes brandishing spears?
"No, don't stop, keep poking it until it's all the way down!"
Apparently, this barren land is the closest thing the aliens could find to a major population center in Africa. That's because for Hollywood, the entire continent hasn't advanced much since Jesus was still around. The opening to Casino Royale, for instance, introduces us to Africa with the image of a bunch of black guys betting on a fight between a mongoose and a snake.
We're not sure why they even had a title card telling us the location; this is all we needed to see.
The one area where Africans have caught up to the rest of the world is guns: They don't have any modern buildings yet, but they've figured out how to attach a rocket launcher to the side of a truck. This is only natural, since half the continent's population consists of corrupt soldiers.
Contrary to popular belief, Africa's chief export is not lead.
Congo, Black Hawk Down, Blood Diamond, Hotel Rwanda ... all these movies spend the whole time telling us that Africa is scenically beautiful, but terrible in every other way.
So What's the Deal?
In the same way that Hollywood needs to dumb down a novel to turn it into a hit film, they also dumb down Africa's reality, because they assume that you'd be bored by a realistic portrayal of the continent (or you simply wouldn't believe it). They do have things like poverty and corruption and giraffes in Africa, but they also have universities and industries and modern cities, like Nairobi:
Mutua Matheka, Africa is a Country
Every building is made out of rocket launchers.
Imagine if every single movie set in America was filmed in Alaska and focused on gang violence -- that's how Africans feel every time they watch a Hollywood movie about warlords fighting in the desert. Which is a problem for their tourism industry: A board member for the Association for the Promotion of Tourism to Africa even takes the time to explain that there are "middle class people in every African country commuting to work every day, complaining about taxes and watching their kids play soccer every weekend."
That's right: Instead of focusing on the rich wildlife and history, the tourism industry actually has to remind people that coming to their country isn't a fucking death warrant.
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"Come for the piles of free skulls and AK-47s, stay for the architecture!"
#5. Movie Women Can Only Talk About Men
In the '80s, feminist comic artist Alison Bechdel introduced a test for movies consisting of three little rules: The films only "pass" if they have (1) at least two female characters who (2) talk to each other at one point about (3) something other than a man.
It seems pretty simple, but here are some movies with "strong" female characters that don't pass it: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Dark Knight Rises, The Lord of the Rings (all three), Pirates of the Caribbean (1, 2 and 4), Tomb Raider, Underworld and every movie on this list. Most of them fail at the "talk to each other" part. If the test was reversed (male characters who talk about something other than a woman), all of those movies would pass.
If these two met, it would be just awkward silences for two hours.
But most of those are genre movies, which are mainly aimed at men. What about romantic comedies, which are usually aimed at women? Nope: When Harry Met Sally, Kate & Leopold, Marley & Me, 50 First Dates, (500) Days of Summer ... even ones specifically made as vehicles for female stars, like How to Lose a Man in 10 Days with Kate Hudson or Material Girls with Hilary Duff don't pass the test.
Ninety percent of the dialogue in this movie is people trying to pronounce "McConaughey."
Obviously, the Bechdel test on its own doesn't prove that a movie is sexist (or, for that matter, bad), but it does show that, in general, women in movies tend to be defined by their relationships with men, whereas men can be defined by a variety of things (their work, their weapons, their Adam Sandlerness).
So What's the Deal?
Turns out this isn't a coincidence. Apparently, film schools specifically discourage screenwriters from writing scenes where women talk about something other than men, because they believe that this is an easy way to lose the attention of the audience fast.
"It's been literal seconds since anyone mentioned a penis. To hell with movies."
It's just one of those film industry tricks: Use a calendar to show the passage of time, show a bomb to create tension, don't write female characters that sound like real people. What's more, according to a study by the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, women made up only 29.9 percent of the speaking roles in 2007's top movies. As a reminder, 51 percent of all people are women. Again, it's about playing it safe: Movies have been making money with male leads for decades (with both male and female audiences), so why change it now?
In the same year, Warner Bros. CEO Jeff Robinov reportedly said that the studio wouldn't develop any more movies with female leads after the latest Jodie Foster and Nicole Kidman vehicles underperformed, which doesn't make sense -- when John Carter and Battleship flopped, they didn't stop making movies with men; they stopped making movies with Taylor Kitsch.
And we're not entirely sure if that counts.
Now, Warner did go on to make The Women the next year, which has an all-female cast ... but all they do is talk about men. So they do develop movies with female leads, you see, as long as the characters themselves aren't too developed.
#4. White People Are Better at Being Asian Than Real Asians
Last time, we used The Last Samurai as an example of how movies whitewash foreign history, but we didn't mention that there's something even weirder going on in that movie: Namely, the fact that Tom Cruise's character is somehow better at being a samurai than the actual samurai.
Then again, the Japanese are even better at being bizarrely crazy than Tom Cruise, so it evens out.
Turns out the whole "white character beats Asians at their own game" thing is pretty common: In Rising Sun, the aggressive Japanese business tactics threaten American interests until Sean Connery learns to use their own strategies against them. If you haven't seen it, the entire movie can be summed up by this clip:
In Kill Bill Vol. 1, the Bride (Uma Thurman) is better at martial arts than not just Lucy Liu, but an entire army of yakuza warriors. They even have Lucy Liu's character, who has spent her entire life training and clawing her way to the top of an international crime syndicate, specifically say that the Bride is a better samurai than her.
So What's the Deal?
Hollywood has a big fascination with Asian mysticism, but an even bigger fascination with making lots of money. Since it's believed that you can't have a hit movie without a main character who's white, that means transferring all the positive values of the Asian culture to Tom Cruise, Sean Connery or Uma Thurman and relegating the Asian characters to villains or supporting roles. Unless you're Jackie Chan, Jet Li or, more recently, Ken Jeong.
Not sure if this is an improvement.
For example, in the '70s, Bruce Lee was developing a TV series called The Warrior about a kung fu master who goes around the Old West kicking ass. Ultimately, it was decided that America wasn't ready for a show with a main character who was Asian ... so they developed the series anyway, but called it Kung Fu and put David Carradine in the lead, a non-Asian playing a half-Asian martial artist. The network was fine with Bruce Lee as a masked limo driver in The Green Hornet, but putting him in a main role? No way, that's crazy talk.
This is the most offensive way we can put it.
Lee would go on to prove himself as a bankable star, but it was too late: Hollywood had stumbled upon a magic formula that allowed them to cash in on Asian culture without taking any risks, and they've been using it since.


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For expressing the religious concept of being "saved," what is the difference between salvo and salvado? Is there any difference in connotation or formality of the two words? Are there any contexts where one word would be correct and the other incorrect?
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I would say, that at least in Spain, the only one of them used in Religion is "salvado", as a participle of the verb "salvar".
If you look up the definition in RAE of "salvar" you'd see this:
which I think it's the exact definition you're looking for.
While for salvo the closest meaning is probably:
which is not the same. It's simply to be in a safe place or situation after being in danger.
In some resources through the Internet "salvo" is said to be an irregular participle of verb "salvar" (though the official resource RAE only gives "salvados"). If "salvo" can be a participle of salvar then both forms would be also acceptable. Maybe in the past it was used in that way but right now, at least in Spain, nobody says things like:
Basically the two terms mean the same thing.
That being said "salvo" is an adjective and "salvado" is the conjugation of the transitive verb "salvar" so the use of the words is slightly different:
As a native speaker I feel obligated to add that I have never heard the word "salvo" in a different context other than the religious one, which does not mean that it would be incorrect to use it only that it may not be that common.


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Effective 13 Jumah II 1425 (July 30, 2004)
The English version of this document is for guidance only.
The Arabic version is the governing text.
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Article 1: Definitions
Wherever they appear in this Law, each of the following words or terms will carry the meaning beside it unless the context indicates otherwise.
Any word or phrase with no specific definition in this Chapter shall have the same definition it has in other Laws applicable in the Kingdom provided that such definition is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Law.
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Article 2 : Persons subject to taxation
Article 3 : Concept of Residency
(a) A natural person is considered a resident in the Kingdom for a taxable year if he meets any of the following conditions:
For the purpose of this paragraph, residence in the Kingdom for part of a day is considered residence for the whole day, except in the case of a person in transit between two points outside the Kingdom.
(b) A company is considered resident in the Kingdom during the taxable year if it meets any of the following conditions:
Article 4 : Permanent Establishment
(a) A permanent establishment of a non-resident in the Kingdom, unless otherwise stated in this Article, consists of the permanent place of the non-resident's activity through which it carries out business, in full or in part, including business carried out through its agent.
(b) The following are considered a permanent establishment:
(c) A place is not considered a permanent establishment of a non-resident in the Kingdom if it is used in the Kingdom only for the following purposes:
(d) A non-resident partner in a resident partnership is considered an owner of a permanent establishment in the Kingdom in the form of an interest in a partnership.
Article 5 : Source of Income
(a) Income is considered accrued in the Kingdom in any of the following cases:
(b) The place of payment of the income shall not be taken into account in determining its source.
(c) For purposes of this Article, a payment made by a permanent establishment of a non-resident in the Kingdom is considered as if paid by a resident company.
Chapter Three:
Tax Base and Tax Rates
Article 6 : Tax Base
(a) The tax base of a resident capital company is the shares of non-Saudi partners in its taxable income from any activity from sources within the Kingdom, minus expenses permitted under this Law.
(b) The tax base of a resident non-Saudi natural person is his taxable income from any activity from sources within the Kingdom, minus expenses permitted under this Law.
(c) The tax base of a non-resident who performs an activity within the Kingdom through a permanent establishment is his taxable income arising from or related to the activity of such establishment, minus expenses permitted under this Law.
(d) The tax base of each natural person is determined separately.
(e) The tax base of a capital company is determined separately of its shareholders or partners.
Article 7 : Tax Rates
(a) The tax rate of the tax base is twenty (20) percent for each of the following:
(b) The tax rate of the tax base for a taxpayer engaged only in natural gas investment activities is thirty (30) percent.
(c) The tax rate of the tax base for a taxpayer engaged in the production of oil and hydrocarbon materials is eighty-five (85) percent.
(d) Withholding tax rates are those specified under Article 68 of this Law.
Chapter Four:
Taxable Income
Article 8 : Income Subject To Tax
Taxable income is the gross income including all revenues, profits, and gains of any type and of any form of payment resulted from carrying out an activity, including capital gains and any incidental revenues, minus exempted income.
Article 9 : Gains and Losses on Disposal of Assets
(a) The gain or loss from the disposal of an asset is the difference between the compensation received and its cost base.
(b) No gain or loss on disposal of a depreciable asset is taken into account other than what is stated in Article 17 of this Law.
(c) In determining taxable income, a natural person may not take into account gain or loss on disposal of an asset that is not for use in the activity.
(d) The cost base of an asset purchased, produced, manufactured, or constructed by the taxpayer is the amount paid or incurred by the taxpayer in cash or in kind in the process of acquiring the asset.
(e) Where a taxpayer disposes of a part of an asset, the cost base of the asset is apportioned between the part retained and the part disposed of in accordance with their market value at the time of purchase of the asset.
(f) Expenses incurred to alter or improve a non-depreciable asset are added to the cost base of the asset.
(g) The compensation value for disposal of an asset against assets in kind is based on the market value of those assets in kind, including exemption from debt on the asset.
(h) Where a taxpayer disposes of an asset by way of gift or inheritance, the disposer is treated as having received compensation equal to the market value of the asset at the time of disposal, unless paragraph (i) of this Article is applicable.
(i) If the asset disposed of is encumbered by debt exceeding its market value, the taxpayer disposing of the asset is treated as having received compensation equal to the value of such debt.
(j) In determining the tax base, no gain or loss is taken into account on an involuntary disposal of an asset, to the extent that the compensation value is used in purchasing an asset of the same kind within one year of the involuntary disposal.
(k) The cost base of a replacement asset described in paragraph (j) of this Article is determined with reference to the cost base of the replaced asset.
(l) Where an asset owned by a taxpayer is converted to personal use or otherwise ceases to be used in the generation of income, the taxpayer is deemed to have disposed of the asset for its market value, with the recognition of the resulting gain but not the loss.
Article 10 : Exempt income
The following types of income are exempt from income tax:
(a) capital gains realized from disposal of securities traded in the Stock Market in the Kingdom in accordance with restrictions specified in the Regulations.
(b) gains resulting from disposal of property other than assets used in the activity.
Article 11 : Donations
In determining the tax base of each taxpayer, a deduction is allowed for donations paid during the taxable year to public agencies or philanthropic societies licensed in the Kingdom which are nonprofit organizations and are allowed to receive these donations.
Chapter Five:
Expenses of earning income
Article 12 : Expenses related to earning income
All regular and necessary expenses of earning taxable income, paid or accrued, incurred by the taxpayer during the taxable year are deductible in determining the tax base, with the exception of outlays of a capital nature and expenses according to Article 13 of this Law and other provisions of this Chapter.
Article 13 : Non-deductible Expenses
No deduction is allowed for the following:
(a) expenses not connected with the earning of taxable income.
(b) any amounts paid or benefits offered to a shareholder, a partner or any of their relatives, which constitute salaries, wages, awards or the like, or which do not satisfy the conditions for transactions among independent parties against properties or services.
(c) recreation expenses;
(d) expenses of a natural person for personal consumption.
(e) income tax paid in the Kingdom or in another sountry.
(f) fines and financial penalties paid or payable to any party in the Kingdom, excluding those paid for breach of contractual conditions and obligations.
(g) any bribe or similar amounts considered a criminal offense under the laws of the Kingdom, even if paid abroad.
Article 14 : Bad Debts
(a) A taxpayer may deduct bad debts arising from sales of goods or services that have been previously declared as a taxable income of the taxpayer.
(b) A bad debt may be deducted when stricken off the taxpayer's books when there is suitable evidence proving the impossibility of collecting it, as specified in the Regulations.
Article 15 : Reserves and Allocations
No reserves or allocations may be deducted except allocations of doubtful debts for banks. The Regulations shall determine the rules and restrictions specifying such allocations.
Article 16 : Research and Development Expenses
Research and Development expenses connected with the earning of taxable income may be deducted. Expenses for purchase of land or equipment used for research may not be deducted. Such equipment shall be subject to depreciation under Article 17 of this Law.
Article 17 : Depreciation
(a) Except for land, a depreciation may be deducted for a taxpayer's depreciable tangible or intangible assets which lose value because of wear and tear or obsolescence and which are wholly or partly used in the generation of taxable income, and remain to have a value after the end of the taxable year.
(b) Depreciable assets are classified into groups and depreciation rates as follows:
(c) The depreciation deduction for each group is determined in accordance twith paragraphs (d) to (l) of this Article.
(d) The depreciation deduction for each group is calculated by applying its depreciation rate determined in accordance with paragraph (b) of this Article against the balance of the value of such group at the end of the taxable year.
(e) The balance of the value of each group at the end of the taxable year is the total of the balance of the value of the group at the end of the previous taxable year after the depreciation deduction in accordance with this Article for the previous taxable year, and fifty percent (50%) of the cost base of assets in use added to the group in the current and previous taxable years, after the deduction of fifty percent (50%) of the compensation received from the assets disposed of during the current and previous taxable years, provided that the balance does not become in the negative.
(f) If the taxpayer converts its assets to personal use, or if the asset ceases to be used in the generation of taxable income, this action by the taxpayer is deemed to be a disposal of the asset for its market value.
(g) When fifty percent (50%) of the compensation of the assets disposed of during the current and previous taxable years exceeds the balance of the value of the group at the end of the taxable year, regardless of the amount of such compensation, the value of the group shall be reduced to zero and the excess included in the taxpayer's taxable.
(h) If the balance of the value of the group at the end of the year, after allowing for the deduction in accordance with paragraph (d), is less than one thousand riyals (SR1,000), the amount of the balance may be deducted.
(i) Where all the assets in a group are disposed of, the balance of the group may be deducted at the end of the year.
(j) Where a land is bought or sold with constructions thereon, the value shall be reasonably apportioned to arrive at a separate value of the construction.
(k) In case a part of the assets is used for the generation of taxable income, a depreciation deduction is allowed for a part of the asset value against the part of the asset used in the generation of the taxable income.
(l) As an exception to the provisions of the previous paragraphs, assets under Cuild, Operate and Transfer (BOT) or Build, Own, Operate and Transfer (BOOT) contracts may be depreciated over the contract period or over the remaining period of the contract, if acquired or renewed during that period.
Article 18 : Expenses of asset repair and improvement
(a) Expenses incurred by the taxpayer for the repair or improvement of depreciable assets in each group may be deducted.
(b) The amount of expenses deductible in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Article for each year shall not exceed four percent (4%) of the balance of the value of the group at the end of that year.
(c) The amount exceeding the limit stated in paragraph (b) of this Article shall be added to the balance of the value of the group.
Article 19 : Expenses for Geological Surveying and Preliminary Work for the Extraction of Natural Resources
(a) Expenditures for geological surveying and preliminary work for the extraction of natural resources are deductedin the form of amortization expenses at the depreciation rate determined in paragraph (b) of Article 17 of this Law; where these expenditures constitute an independent group.
(b) This Article also applies to expenses of intangible assets incurred by the taxpayer in acquisition of rights to geological surveying and the processing or exploitation of natural resources.
Article 20 : Contributions to an Authorized Retirement Funds
(a) An employer's contributions to an authorized retirement fund established in accordance with the laws of the Kingdom may be deducted in favor of the employee.
(b) The deduction allowed under paragraph (a) of this Article in respect of each employee shall not exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of each employee's income, prior to calculating the employer's contributions.
(c) The employee's contributions to an authorized retirement fund may not be deducted.
Article 21 : Carrying forward of losses
(a) A net operating loss may be carried forward to the taxable year following the year in which the loss is incurred. The carried-forward loss shall be deducted from the tax base of the following taxable years until the cumulative loss is fully offset. The Regulations shall specify the maximum limits allowed to be annually deducted.
(b) A net operating loss is equal to the excess of the deductions allowed under this Chapter which are in excess of the taxable income for the taxable year.
(c)To calculate the net operating loss for a natural person, the deductions and income for activity only shall be taken into consideration.
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I did an experiment to compare whether salt water (5% concentration of salt) or fresh water of the same volume took longer to heat up to a certain temperature. We found that salt water took longer to heat up than fresh water.
Is this due to density? specific heat capacity? or should I have gotten different results.


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Shadyside woman competes on 'Jeopardy!'
March 7, 2013
SHADYSIDE?— While Lorraine Donahue said getting to compete on "Jeopardy!" was a fantastic experience, the Shadyside resident still is second guessing some of her answers....
I watched the show and was impressed by her performance. Thanks for representing the valley in a positive fashion. Except for the cookies and beer comment on the promotional spot, which I'm sure was aimed at a particular person :)
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Sarah Josepha Hale, ca. 1850Item 11544 info
Brick Store Museum
Under Sarah Josepha Hale's direction, Godey's Lady's Book brought American authors such as Edgar Allen Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Greenleaf Whittier, Horace Greeley, Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes into thousands of American homes.
The magazine also carried articles of current interest; beauty hints, advice on homemaking, needlework, music, and a host of other features.
Circulation reached 150,000, an astounding number at the time, made possible perhaps by the low price of 25 cents per copy.
Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879), who grew up in New Hampshire, earned the equivalent of a college degree by reading and being tutored by her brother, who went to Dartmouth College.
In 1813 she married David Hale, a young lawyer who had opened an office in Newport. With his encouragement, Sarah began to write articles for the newspaper and established a local literary club.
David Hale died in 1822, leaving Sarah on her own with five children.
She turned to writing, publishing her first novel, Northwood, in 1827. Its success led to her magazine-editing career.


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I am using indextank with heroku. Which is a better gem to use, indextank or thinkingtank? I looked at the documentation, and tutorials for both,and it seems like thinkingtank is easier to use. A related/follow up question: what are the advantages/disadvantages of each?
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
closed as primarily opinion-based by Tom Zych, Aaron Harun, Mark Rotteveel, Fönsi, S.L. Barth Jun 25 '14 at 12:40
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.
It depends on what you're doing. If you are writing a simple app that's not based on ActiveRecord, the indextank client lets you add and search content without storing anything within your app. An example: if you are fetching tweets, you could index them directly without having a data model on your side. It's more "low level", so to speak.
If you are using ActiveRecord or another ORM, you should take a look at Tanker, it's more actively developed than ThinkingTank:
Hope this answers your question, if not please come chat with us at http://indextank.com (chat widget on the main page) and we'll be happy to help!
As Diego said, Tanker does seem like it has much going for it. Alternatively you could use IndexTanked:
We wrote this library to power search on zencoder.com. Documentation is non-existant so far, but is coming.
One important feature included in IndexTanked, that was a necessity for us, was fault-tolerance. IndexTanked includes configurable fallback methods for use in case of failure to index, delete from the index, or search. Additionally, it limits calls to indextank by checking if the indexed fields have changed on updates. You can even obtain which fields we're checking against so you can select the minimum viable fields to be indexed when needed.
You can drop the author, Adam, a line at email@example.com if you have an questions (perfectly reasonable with the lack of docs).


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I'm planning to make a simple, HTML5 game, that would use some elements of the Half Life universe. Basically, it would be a 2D Portal clone, but it would have it's own story, and portals would be different, along with the mechanics of making and using them. Also, how far can I go with this? If possible, I'd like to have Gman, a character from Half Life, walk by a few times, and maybe even use some of the sounds from Half Life or Portal. It's also important to note that I wouldn't be making any kind of profit.
How legal would it be to use some elements of the Half Life universe in my non comercial, indie game?
Using characters, ideas or other assets from another game is illegal if you do not have permission. As @Kylotan said: whether or not the game is non-profit does not change anything, either way you would be breaking laws around copyright and possibly patents too. That being said, there are games and other media based around Valve titles that have been created for which Valve have taken no action against. Doing what you described in your question would probably be OK with them too. However, I am not a lawyer and am in no way legally responsible if you do get a knock on the door about the game you intend to create. It's up to you if you want to take the chance.
Using their characters is not legal at all, nor is using their sounds (or graphics, or unique names). Your game being non profit makes no difference (except to the amount of damages you'd pay).
Copying gameplay is allowed, however. They don't own the concept of portals, but they are likely to own a trademark on the name 'Portal' in the context of computer games.


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G'day , how long after the fermentation has finished does the yeast live ? I am curious because not only is it the cost of the yeast but if you find a particular strain and you like the taste ( providing that all ingredients are constant ) if you could grow it you would be guaranteed the same flavor over and over.
Not to be a pessimist, but if they're not fermenting, then the yeast are continually dying. How fast they die is dependent upon how they are stored.
If you want to just reuse yeast from one batch to the next, then save a quart of yeast slurry from the previous batch and store in the fridge in a sanitized container - a loose fitting lid is ideal, such as foil held down with an elastic band - this lets out any gasses if fermentation hasn't quite finished.
If you use within a couple of weeks then you can pitch directly into the next batch. Longer than that - up to 4 months - and there won't be adequate viable cells remaining, so a starter is needed. Beyond 4 months, the yeast will have mostly died - You can see it visually as it turns from a pale cream to a darker brown peanut-butter color.
Long term storage - around 2 years - is possible by freezing the yeast in a 30% glycerine solution. The amount frozen is usually just a few milliliters, so a starter is always necessary to step up the quantity to proper pitching rates.
To sum up
There's lots of information available on the topic of yeast harvesting, which is what you're describing. You could start with this article in byo.com. Palmer's How To Brew also has a chapter on it.
The tl;dr is:
I typically re-use yeast over a number of batches and have never had a problem with under-attenuation or off-flavours from fermentation. I harvest when racking from secondary, so I'm not really doing it right.
Check out this site on harvesting yeast. http://www.wyeastlab.com/com-yeast-harvest.cfm. After primary fermentation, you want to "harvest" the yeast so that you can store it properly. The yeast goes dormant at cooler temperatures (during storage). Then you warm up the yeast, pitch it to a starter (http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter6-5.html) and you can reuse the yeast! You should really only store yeast for about 1 month. You can also, only harvest so many times, usually 3 - 5 generations of daughter cells.
Thanks for all the input and links , I'm just getting started with proper corn worts and just figured that when I get it the way I like it , it would be good to keep that flavor. In regards to yeast only lasting a couple of generations there are to many examples of producers keeping the same genetic strain for over fifty years for example :- jack Daniels , Jim beam , coopers beer and so on. Since posting I have sourced some information , but anymore is always good


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6 Popular Fashion Trends (That Killed People)
#3. The Fontange
A fontange was a headdress for proper ladies in 17th and early 18th century France that consisted of ribbons, lace and sometimes small cap intertwined with the lady's hair. Doesn't seem like the sort of thing that could murder you, does it?
How It Could Kill You:
As the 17th century grew unhip, the fontange became larger and larger until it culminated with women that had entire ecosystems attached to their skulls.
When left alone and unprovoked, the fontange probably only maimed, but never actually killed anyone. It's only when you attached the headdress to a lady, and said lady started moving about in a room full of candle chandeliers that the fontange would demonstrate its malicious power, as everything in it was fiercely flammable. They might as well have been wearing gasoline soaked rags on their heads.
Just ask "Mrs. von Ilten" who suffered "... burnt neck, face and hands" because, as the reporter casually stated, "her fontange caught fire, she stared and fell and did not think to throw it off as I use to do..."
We're going to give the good Mrs. von Ilten enough credit to assume she also screamed a bit when the fire started melting away her flesh.
What the Fuck Were They Thinking?
According to lore, one of the king's favorite paramours (that's Middle English for fuck-buddies), Angelique de Fontanges, lost her cap one day when she was out riding horses with the king. Not wanting to let her hair fall freely - as that might be dangerous - she took a piece of ribbon and tied it to her hair.
The king liked it so much that he made de Fontanges a duchess, and because all of France's women wanted to be just as cool as the duchess a fashion trend was born. Never mind that Angélique de Fontanges herself died at the age of 20, probably from standing too close to a candle with her decorative combustible head.
#2. Lead Makeup
Before the age of the big name cosmetics brands; the easy, breezy beautiful way was for people to smear their entire face with lead. That's right, lead. The makeup choice of people from ancient Greece and all the way up to the 1920s was a lead-based powder or lotion that rendered their faces white and turned their bloodstream into something that would make a vampire puke.
How It Could Kill You:
Lead poisoning is a slow killer, so it would take years for people to accumulate enough lead in their bodies to die from it. But once they had there was little one could do but melt them down and create more makeup.
The symptoms of lead poisoning were many, and it would attack the entire body with some of the major symptoms being: brain damage, wrecking the nervous system, headaches, loss of appetite, anemia, a constant metallic taste in the mouth, paralysis, insomnia, and, oddly enough, a limp wrist.
In 1760, Marie Gunning, an Irish noblewoman who was famous for her beauty and white porcelain skin, became the first documented victim of cosmetic lead poisoning. You'd think that'd be enough to get people to change their cosmetics habits, but only seven years later the actress Kitty Fisher joined Gunning in the ranks of the perpetually pale. Finally, in 1878, Madame Rachel, a woman who'd made a living from selling the deadly cosmetics died from exposure to the lead in her own makeup. Irony is a bitch, Madame.
An actual victim of lead poisoning.
What the Fuck Were They Thinking?
People actually became aware of the health risks associated with lead makeup in ancient Greece -- that is, more than 2000 years ago -- and they would ridicule people who used excessive amounts of the stuff. Both men and women wore lead makeup, and as a result their faces gradually became more and more damaged. Of course the solution to that was to cover the damage with more lead makeup.
Seriously, folks, this was natural selection at work here.
#1. The Stiff High Collar
We're talking about the specific kind of high detachable collar that was especially popular in the 19th century. The collar was always white and was fastened to the dandy's shirt with studs. For some reason none of this was considered gay at all; even though one of the biggest dandies of the time was Oscar Wilde, and he actually was gay. And he probably used man-studs to fasten the collar to his shirt.
"I told you, I like PUSSY."
Anyway, the collars. These things were starched until they were almost bulletproof, and jutted right up into your windpipe. What could possibly go wrong?
How It Could Kill You:
The detachable collar was a quiet, subtle assassin. By cutting off circulation, it could creep up on a man in his drunken sleep and choke him to death when the man's head fell forward. It could also cause asphyxia and an abscess on the brain just by being tight, or in cases of indigestion that lead to the neck swelling it would simply strangle its prey. One very unlucky man at the end of the 1800s was almost guillotined on his collar when he tripped coming out of a street car.
What the Fuck Were They Thinking?
In several European languages--like German, Danish and Dutch--the stiff, detachable collar was playfully referred to as "father killer" (Vatermorder). Incredibly, that catchy name didn't deter people from buying them. The men at the time made some connection between the erectness of the neckline and sexual virility.
We were about to mock this idea as quaint and ridiculous, but then we saw some guys walk by with popped collars, and damned if they didn't each have a girl on their arm. This requires further study.
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A potential freelance client wants a copy of all the phone numbers in an entire country of several million people in CSV format for their telemarketing system. They have sent me a link to an online phone number lookup service. There are also ways to list the phone numbers of a given region, 30 numbers at a time, with a next link at the bottom of the page to go to the next 30.
I could write a spider to crawl the site and basically copy their database, but is this kosher, legal or ethical? Someone else I asked said it depends on the terms of service, but the site doesn't have a terms of service. What do you guys think?