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The non-UTF-8 encoding character invalid byte sequences error
By drrwebber on Jan 12, 2013
An ongoing issue for XML transactions processing is UTF-8 character conformance. In an ideal world your computer should simply process your information content stream, store it and step on. XML engineers however have other ideas.
Content created in Microsoft Excel or Word or in a Web page application on a Windows desktop is by default using the Windows 1252 character set, however often this content ends up in XML document instances labelled as UTF-8 encoding.
A conforming XML parser such as Xerces will then kick out invalid byte code sequence errors when attempting to process the content. Turns out the really simple answer is to change the encoding statement in the XML prolog to say "Windows 1252" e.g.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" standalone="yes"?>
and then retry. Of course if you know you are using a different character encoding substitute that for the Windows-1252 value here instead.
Now for automated batch processes you will need a simple piece of XSLT to switch / add the correct encoding.
You can find out more tips and tricks on all this - plus links to XSLT tools to help with this from the CAM Editor wiki page.
Another issue is simply locating the offending characters inside an XML instance - for that you can use this handy command line grep statement:
grep --color='auto' -P -n "[\x80-\xFF]" file.xml
All this then allows you to diagnose potential character set conflicts and hopefully then build smoothly functioning XML interfaces. For XML content validation you can of course use the CAMV validation engine - and you can find out more on that from this YouTube resource site showing a video on the topic (also included are various NIEM training aspect too).


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Beatrice Miller, a 14-year-old aspiring singer from New Jersey who competed on Season 2 of "The X Factor," has signed a deal with Hollywood/Syco Records.
Beatrice is the first signing to the Hollywood/Syco Records collaborative label arrangement.
"Syco, along with the creators of The X Factor franchise, have cultivated some of the industry's leading talent. We are thrilled about the opportunity to contribute the unique resources we have at Hollywood Records and Disney to showcase Beatrice's incredible talent," Bunt said in a statement.
"We're incredibly excited to join forces with Hollywood Records. Our combined resources and various platforms will enable Beatrice to take full advantage of her unique talent. This is a great first step in what we hope is a long and valuable partnership between Syco Entertainment and Hollywood Records," said McIntyre.
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What are the groups $X$ for which there exists a group $G$ such that $G' \cong X$?
My considerations:
$\bullet$ If $X$ is perfect we are happy with $G=X$.
$\bullet$ If $X$ is abelian then $G := X \wr C_2$ verifies $G'=\{(x,x^{-1}): x \in X\} \cong X$.
$\bullet$ If $X$ satisfies the following properties:
(1) $X \neq X'$, (2) The conjugation action $X \to \text{Aut}(X)$ is an isomorphism,
then there is no $G$ such that $G' = X$ (consider the composition $G \to \text{Aut}(X) \cong X \to X/X'$, it is surjective so its kernel contains $X$, contradiction). For instance, the symmetric group $S_n$ verifies (1) and (2) if $n \neq 2,6$.
I have been looking for this problem on the web but I didn't find anything. Do you have any reference and/or suggestion on how to solve this problem?


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Bug-Catching Contest
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The Bug-Catching Contest is a competition held every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday in Johto's National Park.
There is no entry fee for the Bug-Catching Contest. Anyone may enter once per day on the days which the contest is held.
To compete, trainers must catch the single best Bug-type Pokémon they can find. To do this, trainers are given 20 Park Balls and allowed use of a single Pokémon of their party. The rest of a trainer's Pokémon and any items they may have remain with the contest officials until the competition is over.
Any Pokémon caught will be recorded in the Pokédex, but only one Pokémon can be kept to judge. The Pokémon that is judged may be kept after the competition.
Shinny Pokémon like Butterfree are a possible catch, as (although rarely) they can be found within.
The two factors that determine the score in the contest are the rarity of the Pokémon and its level. Other factors, even the alternate coloration do not affect the outcome.
- 1st: Sun Stone/Random evolutionary stone Post-National Dex
- 2nd: Everstone
- 3rd: Gold Berry
- Consolation prize: Berry
In The Bug Stops Here, Ash and Casey competed in the Bug-Catching Contest. During the competition, Casey caught a Weedle, and her Chikorita evolved into a Bayleef. Ash won the competition with a Beedrill, earning himself a Sun Stone. After the competition, he gave the Beedrill to Casey, since she loves Pokémon with yellow and black stripes.


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Arrested: Andrew J. Ault, 42, 1056 Two Ridge Road, Wintersville, operating a vehicle under the influence and failure to control, Tuesday.
Cited: Kimberly A. Yoder, 36, Apt. 2, 741 Kendall Ave., operating a vehicle on a temporary permit without a licensed driver, Tuesday; Donnell Turner, 19, 1223 Wellesley Ave., driving under suspension, Tuesday; Kendra Miller, 30, Apt. 6, 92 Palomino Drive, Weirton, driving under suspension and no registration light, Tuesday.
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Theft: A shotgun and two rifles taken during a break-in at a home on state Route 43, Tuesday.
Arrested: Isaac S. Bryan, 32, 655 Township Road 263, Bergholz, warrant for assault, Tuesday.
Arrested: Charles L. Stout, 45, Mount Vernon, failure to appear, Tuesday.


text: Case | HBS Case Collection | May 2016 Seaside Organics Howard H. Stevenson and Alisa Zalosh This case follows Sara Norton, a soccer player-turned-serial entrepreneur, as she transforms Seaside Organics from a fledgling startup into an $89 million company. Informed by the successes and failures of her first organics venture, WellBar, Norton tries to balance her naturally energetic, hands-on approach with the changing needs of a large company. Students discuss the differences between running a growing startup versus a mature organization, and the tensions that can result between entrepreneurs and the managers tasked with running their organizations. Citation:Stevenson, Howard H., and Alisa Zalosh. "Seaside Organics." Harvard Business School Brief Case 916-526, May 2016. View Details CiteView DetailsEducatorsPurchase Related


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With the occasional debate about Oxford airport in the UK becoming a new London airport, and hearing of a flight that once landed at Heathrow due to fog, then flew on to Gatwick, I was wondering - what is the shortest (time) regular (ie I can look it up online and book a ticket) passenger flight in the world? I'd specify distance as well, but in theory that shouldn't matter?
From Wikipedia (same article as your other question):
It is obvious from that list that the best option is try searching near the islands. Second place is for the LI 507 (from St. Kitts to Nevis).
Update: Under the two minutes (with video)!
Update by Rory Alsop:
Flight by my father, Capt. Andy Alsop authenticated at 69 seconds by Guinness in 1974, and then reduced by him to 58 seconds!
Screenshot of the page linked above (from Orkney by Air by Guy Warner), as it may not be viewable to everyone:
You can fly this on a sightseer ticket from Kirkwall for only £39!
Here it is: Papeete-Moorea: distance 18km, duration 15mn, operated by Air Tahiti.
From Air Tahiti site (fr) (select "Tahiti" on "Ile de départ" and "Moorea" on "Ile d'arrivée"), there are several flights each day (VT266, VT240, VT444).
But nothing can beat the Scottish 2.7km suggested by VMAtm!
Between Norddeich, Germany and the Island of Juist there are between 6 and 10 daily scheduled flights. The distance is about 10km and the flight time listed as 5 minutes. I couldn't find information about flight numbers or plane types.
There are also a large number of on-demand and sightseeing flights out of Juist airport, allegedly making this tiny runway the second-busiest airport (by number of flights) in the state of Lower Saxony.
Juist is a very popular health spa and tourist destination, but the ferry schedule has to change with the tides, so going there by plane is often the most convenient option.
As an added curiosity, cars are not allowed on the island, so the shuttle service between the airport and the two towns is provided by horse carriage.


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STEUBENVILLE - Tri-State Area residents have a convenient way to purchase copies of the book "Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History," which inspired the Academy Award-nominated film "Argo."
The book was written by former CIA agent Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio. Mendez directed the operation that rescued six Americans who had slipped away when Iranian militants overran the U.S. embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979. The agency's master of disguise, Mendez conducted an "exfiltration" of the six, who had found refuge in the Canadian embassy, in January of 1980 by disguising the Americans as members of a Canadian film production company.
Mendez will speak in Steubenville at 7:30 p.m. April 9 as part of the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, Herald-Star Lecture Series. Copies of his book, as well as tickets for the presentation in the Steubenville High School auditorium, can be purchased from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Herald-Star offices, 401 Herald Square.
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BOOKS AVAILABLE — Copies of the book "Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History," written by former CIA agent Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio, can be purchased for $26.95, plus tax, at the Herald-Star offices, 401 Herald Square in Steubenville. The book will be available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday through April 8, and from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 9. Mendez, whose story inspired the award-winning film "Argo," will speak at 7:30 p.m. April 9 in the Steubenville High School Auditorium as part of the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, Herald-Star Lecture Series. Among those helping to plan the event are, from left, Laura Meeks, president of Eastern Gateway Community College, a major sponsor of the event; Ross Gallabrese, executive editor of the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times; Suzanne Kresser of Tri-State Financial Services; the Rev. Richard Davis, TOR, director of community relations at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, a major sponsor of the event; Sue Hershey, president of the chamber of commerce; Ann Koon, director of public information at the community college; and Alex Marshall, publisher of the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times. -- Linda Harris
The book sells for $26.95, plus tax, but area residents will be able to take advantage of a coupon good for $5 off the purchase price that appears on Page 5C of today's edition.
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There are comedy shows all over the place this weekend, starting tonight when the legendary and semi-notorious Bobcat Goldthwaite headlines Johnny D's in Somerville. Meanwhile, The Sinclair in Cambridge hosts two shows of this weekend's Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival featuring Mirman himself tonight--there's two more shows Friday at the Sinclair, and then the Saturday show is at Berklee Performance Center in Boston. Hingham native Bow Thayer brings his new music to Atwood's Tavern in Cambridge. Quincy blues guitarist Sam Gentile joins big-voiced Brian Templeton at Turner's Yard in Pembroke. The dual guitars of Strunz & Farah return to Scullers in Boston. That Nickel Creek show at the House of Blues in Boston in sold out. "Big Head" Todd Park Mohr, minus the Monsters, plays at Brighton Music Hall. Club Passim in Cambridge has a show devoted to producer Jim Rooney's new book, with songwriter Pat Alger also performing. Jana Kramer sings at The Paradise in Boston. The Julia Zerounian Ensemble brings world music to The RegattaBar in Harvard Square. Priscilla Ahn at T.T. the Bear's in Cambridge. Keyboard giant Ron Levy jams with Willie J. Laws at The Next Page in Weymouth. Russ Costa's SongAsylum at Home Ice in Quincy. The Slick Rock Tour, with MC Kabir, at the Middle East in Cambridge.� Superfly's funk at The Beachcomber in Quincy, with reformed folkie Suzanne McNeil guesting on vocals.
An intriguing cross-cultural event at Johnny D's, where New York City r&b star Martha Redbone, who has Native American ancestry, has recorded her latest album "Garden of Love: the Songs of William Blake" in Nashville, and explored Americana amongst her other roots. Boston's own songwriter, via Alabama, Amy Black celebrates her latest album at The Narrows Center in Fall River. Pablo Palooza, a funk act featuring American Idol alumnus Mike Davis, debuts at The C-Note in Hull. Racky Thomas' blues at The Next Page. The Deadbeats rock Brighton Music Hall. Walking the Line brings the country-rock to Toby Keith's in Foxboro. Boogie & the Firemen heat up Home Ice. Weymouth rock quartet Bald Walter takes over the British Beer Co. in Franklin. Smooth jazz saxman Paul Taylor at Scullers. Folkie Margaret Glaspy at Club passim. Splash of Blues invigorates Great Chow in Abington. The Sounds of Italy, featuring Italian-American musical stars including Beantown's own George Garzone, at Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge. The Middle East offers Kasta, described as 'Russian rap,' and if you're wondering about that, the $60 day-of-show ticket price tells you they must have an audience.
A rare chance to see a folk music legend up close, when Bill Staines visits Bridgewater's Off-the-Common Coffeehouse. British popster James Blunt headlines the House of Blues. Comedy goes local when the Whitman VFW hosts the annual show to benefit the Wampatuck Lodge of Masons Scholarship Fund, featuring Paul Nardizzi and several other comics. Folk group Brother Sun performs at the Beal House in Kingston. Ghosts of Jupiter rocks Brighton Music Hall, and get there early to catch Tim Gearan and Dwight Ritcher--two excellent openers. The Midway Cafe in Jamaica Plain hosts a Cranktones Reunion with that classic rockabilly trio's lineup of Pembroke guitar ace Frankie Blandino, bassist Johnny Sciascia, and drummer Stan Kozlowski. Buzzard & the Blues Band at The C-Note. Gord Downie, with The Sadies, rocks The Sinclair. Bagful of Blues arrives at Home Ice. Memphis Rockabilly Band at Johnny D's. Pop singer David Gray has sold out his show at Boston's Colonial Theater. The rapper known as Vinnie Paz (as opposed to the Cranston boxer) appears at The Paradise. New England r&b titans Steve Smith & the Nakeds at The River Club in Scituate. NH rockers Fire in the Field have a CD release at The Middle East. The New Band (which needs a new name) at the Next Page. Christopher Williams at Club Passim. Wollaston's Paul Kenny & Cherry orchard raise the roof at Paddy Barry's in Quincy. Splash of Blues moves into the Ming Dynasty in Marshfield. Fusion guitarist Robben Ford's show at the Narrows Center is sold out. Weymouth alt-country dude Dave DeLuca joins with songbird Brianna Grace at Stoughton's new House of Brews. Soccer Mom rocks Great Scott in Allston.
Sundays continue to rule: Cage the Elephant thunders into Boston's Orpheum Theater; Bill Nye, the Science Guy, gives a 'Star Talk' at Berklee Performance Center and it's part of that Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival;� folk-rockers Melissa Ferrick & Jillette Johnson at The Sinclair; Brother Sun moves over Temple Sinai in Sharon; Chuck Whelan brings his own cheeseballs to the jam at Paddy Barry's; and Brian Mahoney takes no prisoners at The Irish Pub in North Quincy.� Monday night is big when The Standells bring 'Dirty Water'; to Brighton Music Hall; while M.I.A. finds the groove at the House of Blues; and Against Me rocks Royale in Boston. Tuesday night that Lana Del Rey show at House of Blues is a sellout; but tickets remain for Shlomo at Brighton Music Hall; or Matt Pond, Pa. at The Sinclair. Wednesday night catch roots rocker Ben Kweller at Brighton Music Hall; or soul-gospel trio The Holmes Brothers at Scullers.� The sublime music and lyrics of Rodney Crowell returns to the Narrows Center on May 8. � Sorry, but those May 9 shows by Foster the People (House of Blues) and country dude Hunter Hayes (Paradise) are already sold out; but may we suggest you head to Atwood's Tavern for the Americana royalty of husband-wife Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis.


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Second Hand Cheap Unlocked Smartphones Under $100
If you need a smartphone on a budget, going second hand is often going to save you money. There are many reasons you may want to get a cheap unlocked smartphone, maybe its a backup or a quick replacement in a pinch. The question becomes, where do you go to get a cheap unlocked smartphone phone, and what can you get in your price range?
Ebay is Still a Great Place to Find Deals
Ebay isn't just for internet old timers, it is still a great place to find deals on just about anything can imagine. You may be able to get a relatively new used smartphone for well under $100 is you can Ebay snipe perfectly.
Be Careful With Craigslist
While Craigslist can be a great way to get used items for cheap make sure you are practicing caution when meeting up with a stranger from the site. Arrange to meet in a public place like a restaurant during the day. If possible try to have someone with you and let people know where you are. Before you pay for the phone make sure that it is able to turn on and that all the features are working. It may also be a good idea to check that all the data has been wiped. If the serial number is visible in the pictures on the ad, you may want to do a search to make sure the phone hasn't been stolen.
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iPhone 4
The iPhone 4 is still a great phone after all these years and there are plenty of people who still have one they are not using just floating around. The 8GB model is likely to be easy to come by for under $100 and will take amazing pictures, video and hold a decent amount of music.
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Kelly Cutrone Kell on Earth | Kelly Cutrone | Kelly Cutrone If You Have To Cry, Go OutsideAndrea Zimmerman
Say what you want about power-mama Kelly Cutrone but never say the fast-talking, brutally honest New Yorker isn't 100% real. In her new book, If You Have To Cry, Go Outside – aptly named for the strict policy she enforces on her interns – Cutrone speaks candidly about breastfeeding in public ("My tits were like the Soho welcoming committee") and wearing bulky, floral maternity clothes ("I'd rather clean toilets.") She's also the star of Kell on Earth, the buzzed-about reality show that follows Cutrone as she navigates the often-insane fashion world at her mega-PR firm, People's Revolution, and raises her 6-year-old daughter, Ava, as a single mom. Somewhere between all of that, Cutrone found a few minutes to talk to Babble about motherhood – and as usual, the feisty, fresh-faced lady in black had plenty to say. – Andrea Zimmerman
In your book, you are so honest about motherhood. You compared breastfeeding to "rolling your nipples in broken glass while someone shoots hot oil through every vein of your breast." Do you wish more moms called it like it is?
I'm one of those go-to girls with real talk. With my friends, it's like, "Oh god, this is really overwhelming, I'm going to call Cutrone because I know she's not going to judge me." I think every woman has their own type of pregnancy. I have friends that when they're pregnant, they are amazing. They're really healthy, they feel great, they look beautiful. Look at [Matthew McConaughey's girlfriend] Camila Alves – when she was pregnant, she looked hot. But that wasn't what being pregnant was like for me. I was like, "Oh god, I'm going to gain a ton of weight, I'm Italian, I'm going to blow up."
Hey, [pregnancy's] not always fun. When you can't see your feet, it's not fun. You appreciate it, but it's not fun. Is it worth it to have a baby? Yes.
You also talk about the importance of knowing who you are before you have a child. What do you mean by that?
The whole book is based on the fact that people are pretty much programmed to blindly walk around to the beat of a song that's not their own. I see other women who get pregnant without their own money, their own career, their own success – a lot of them are barely just starting out. They are 25, 26, three years out of school. But it's different for everybody. It's important to know who you are, that you're not running around doing things just because that's your family's legacy. If you grew up in a family full of lawyers and your parents are like, "We want you to go to law school because that's what we do," and you secretly want to be a watercoloring poet in Mexico, then you're not really being yourself, are you?
I think if we don't find out who we are, that resentment will overrun to our children. And you can see it sometimes in mothers. This is a great example – beauty pageant moms – they never got to do it and then they have a five-year-old kid strung out on hairspray with tons of makeup on, tap-dancing their way through a stage in Minneapolis. It's not cute. We have to remember that our kids come through us and we can't fall apart.
You're from Syracuse, N.Y. – a far cry from Manhattan. What do you love and hate about raising Ava in the Big Apple?
There's an incredible amount of diversity – true diversity, not fake diversity like in other parts of the country where you have different races living together but they're always in the same economic bracket. New York has a plethora of religions and ethnicities, so there is more of a communal vibe and not just one way of thinking. There's so much to do here – we haven't even done everything there is to do as a family and we've been living here eight years. The downside is that [New York] doesn't have any nature. My response: get a country house. Actually I just found out that the offer I just put on a house is being accepted, so that's really exciting.
What do you and Ava do when you want to get away from the craziness?
We do really normal things, like go to Target. We go to the Hannaford grocery store in Yonkers with our car. It sounds really bizarre, but it's just amazing to be at a place where you can get a case of organic drinks and put them in your trunk and not have to carry them. We go to a movie, we go upstate, we go to a place called Fun Central, which is like a video arcade, and we hit baseballs and play air hockey. We just do really uber-suburban things, because we don't get the chance to do them in New York.
What do you hope Ava learns from you?
To embrace her authenticity – and to be herself no matter what. I let her be herself. That's the most important thing – for Ava to understand that she has her own soul. She's not part of me, she's not part of her dad, but she came through us and we're watching her for God. This is her life.
I would love for her to be a photographer – her godmother is a photographer – [but] Ava has to do whatever she wants. It's important to me to not try to make Ava into something I think Ava should be. It's important to me to pay attention to Ava and her cues and to give her as many experiences to figure it out so we can see what resonates and what doesn't.
You famously run a tight ship at People's Revolution – you're especially tough on the interns. But you're also very motherly to them.
I only yell at the interns, which is something I don't think people have figured out yet. It's tough having so many interns in that office. It's been my thing the last five years, working with them and teaching them. And that's one of the reasons why I wrote the book. I was learning so much by being with the kids all the time. These kids come from college and get into my office and they don't know how to take a phone message. It is absolutely freaking terrifying. It's like, "Are you for real? You're 20 and you can'ttake a phone message?" I'm actually there trying to help these kids go through our internship program so I can give them a recommendation. I'm helping my industry by preparing these kids. But people like Stephanie [Vorhees, one of Kelly's employees], who was like "Oh, I didn't know how to post post-its." Are you joking?
What do you say to moms who criticize you for spending too much time at the office and not enough time with your daughter? These kids come from college and get into my office and they don't know how to take a phone message. It is absolutely freaking terrifying.
That's an absolutely easy shot to take. I don't have the option to be a stay-at-home mom. If you're a mom who has a husband who's paying for everything and having a good time and that makes me a bad mom and that's what you want to project on me, go for it. I really don't care. I talk to Ava about it and I say, "If you want to go to India where we can have a house, Mommy never has to work again." I have enough money where I can retire right now in India. I don't have enough money to retire in Boston or L.A. or even the small town in Virginia where my parents live.
I know stay-at-home moms who are amazing mothers. And I know women who work because they can't stand being around their kids so they stay at a bar until their kid falls asleep so they don't have to see them. I know moms who go have lunch with their kids on their lunch break. There are all different kinds of moms, and my answer is: We have to stop dissing each other. We shouldn't look and think that we understand each other and what it means to be on the other side of that, unless we do.
What are the best and worst qualities Ava's inherited from you?
I think she's good in tribal situations; she can roll with a lot of people. When I was growing up, my house was always the house that everybody went to on Sundays. My mom was always the one cooking and had everybody over. I think she probably inherited that. She's not a guarded, shy, only child. She's pretty much comfortable with a large group of people. But she's not comfortable coming into a fashion show with 600 people staring at her. She's comfortable in groups of grown-ups. She can move very well from one topic to another and she has very insightful things to say. She's pushing seven and has a very interesting take on things that are very real.
The worst qualities? She's not rude, she wears pink, she has good manners, she plays well with others, she's very loving – we're nothing alike, really.
What's your biggest pet peeve about New York moms?
That weird nutrition mommy thing. If somebody comes over for a play date, they'll ask you what kind of apple juice you have and if you mind diluting it with water so the sugar content goes down. Moms in New York who don't want their kids touching an escalator because there are germs on the black rubber part. The moms that are just hyper-serious about chemical poisoning and sugar poisoning and non-organic; I'm not like that.
So you're not too overprotective of Ava?
Yeah, I actually am. You have to tell your kids what's going on. When I first became pregnant with Ava, I printed out all the registered sex offenders in Manhattan and thought, "Oh, god, I have company with all these bike messengers coming in and out all day long." It's a dangerous place. I make her nanny call me every day when she drops her off at school. I like to know that she gets into her classroom safely. I'm terrified that she'll be on a corner and some drunken person or crazy cab driver will hit her. I'm wracked with motherly worries. I don't know what's worse – letting a kid play alone in the yard or having somebody come and grab them. It's scary being a parent. From the minute you have them, you're just praying all day long that they're going to be okay.
What celeb moms could you see yourself being friends with?
Justine Bateman is my best friend – from Family Ties. We got pregnant at the same time. Her kids call me aunt and my daughter calls her auntie. But I'd probably be in the Angelina camp more than the Jennifer Garner camp.
If your fashion career crashed and burned tomorrow, what would make you happiest?
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|Steve Luba of Torrington and his 'bitsa' Suzuki. Bud Wilkinson / Republican-American
To call Steve Luba's custom motorcycle a "bitsa bike" may be technically accurate, yet that description doesn't suffice because the Torrington resident's creation is strikingly attractive.
Stylistically, it looks like a café bike, except that it lacks low handlebars. Technically, it's part standard and part sport bike. Age-wise, it's a mix of vintage and modern. He admits that it's "kind of cobbled together." The good news is that "it tracks straight."
RIDE-CT came across Luba one recent Sunday in downtown Kent. He explained that the core of the bike is a 1975 Suzuki GT550, powered by a 543cc, three-cylinder, two-stroke engine. The front end came from a 2006 Suzuki GSX-R, while the rear end was cribbed from a 2002 Suzuki SV650. "It took a few months to build it," said Luba.
It was worth the effort. The bike looks speedy even when parked, and the exhaust has a nice blat. If memory serves, Luba said he's now working on customizing a Harley. RIDE-CT will definitely have to keep him on the radar...
Is dessert appropriate after breakfast?
After having breakfast last Sunday morning at Toymaker's Café in Falls Village, Gary Randall, Neil and Pam Tolhurst and I headed for Southfield, Mass. to check out The Southfield Store. Neil and Pam had been there a week earlier and loved it. It's not a store, rather a café with incredible pastries and gelato.
Our ride took a little longer than expected due to a wrong turn on a country road, which forced us to backtrack to Norfolk and head north on Route 272 and into Massachusetts. The Southfield Store is on the main drag in downtown.
Opening the front door, I was pleasantly surprised by cozy, upscale appearance and the assortment of parties atop the counter. Despite being full from breakfast, Gary and I ordered two each - one to eat immediately and one to take home. I chose a piece of mint chocolate pie and a thin, flakey concoction topped with thin slices of apple.
Not surprisingly, both plates that were brought the table were empty within minutes, although getting the pie down was a bit difficult because it was so rich. Gary ate his two selections as well.
Having witnessed the gluttony and remembering our vows to bring one dessert home, Neil quipped that there are three ways to transport items on a bike - the saddlebag, the tank bag and "the tummy bag." He's so right...
Before I forget, thanks to reader and former rider Harwood Loomis for catching a directional error in the last installment of RIDE-CT. He noticed that I had written about heading out of Millerton, N.Y. and going "northeast" to cross the Hudson River in Hudson on a recent ride. Yes, I know Hudson is "northwest" having ridden that way many times. I can only guess that the signs outside Millerton that note the "Town of Northeast" (of which Millerton is a part) stuck in my head...
A television commercial and a news item from across the pond have been getting an unnecessary amount of my mental attention. It's amazing how some things stick in your mind.
The commercial is for BMW cars and has the tagline, "We only make one thing - The Ultimate Driving Machine." Not so. Last time I checked, BMW made motorcycles, too. They're touted as "The Ultimate Riding Machine." So shouldn't the auto ad say "We only make two things..."? Doing that, though, would reduce the impact.
The news item involved a planned protest by riders in Wales who were upset at being charged a bridge toll of 35 pence. The story noted that most toll roads in the U.K. are now free to bikers. That makes a lot of sense, and should it be considered here.
Motorcycles are light and don't wear on the infrastructure like other vehicles. They save gas when compared to most cars and trucks. (My Suzuki V-Strom 650 routinely gets 55-60 mpg.) And, not requiring a toll would reduce congestion at toll booths as many riders have to remove gloves, dig into pockets for money, and then put the gloves back on before riding away, which can cause traffic to back up.
Why am complaining, though? I've probably only spent $4.50 on tolls this riding season.
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I'm starting a business and this is part of what I'm going to be offering. I'm almost complete with my certification in Linux Administration, but I don't know all of the ins and outs of the law Linux is under...
It depends. Ubuntu is free software (beyond some redistributable binary blobs), but if you're using it for commercial purposes there are trademark restrictions.
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Hardware with a debranded Ubuntu OS
If you remove all branding, trademarks, and references to Ubuntu, you are legally okay to sell systems with it installed. Of course, you must provide the source code of all GPL components to customers that request it.
Hardware shipping with Ubuntu "as is"
To use the Ubuntu trademark, you must secure the Canonical's OEM services team's permission. You can contact them to see if what you're doing is okay. This should not be too difficult, as several small vendors like System76 and ZaReason have secured an agreement.
It is completely legal to sell a computer with Ubuntu preinstalled. It even lowers the cost.
It is also legal to sell CDs/DVDs with Ubuntu in them.
In both is legal because you are not selling Ubuntu, you are selling the hardware that comes with it. In the case of the PC, you are selling all that hardware that comes with Ubuntu so the end user does not need to worry about the many problems in Windows (Or the costs in Mac).
With the CD/DVD, you are selling the cost that you had to pay to have the CD/DVD. Burning the CD/DVD also has a cost as well as having a design printed on the CD/DVD.
If you worry about this, what you need to know is that the only thing illegal here is to charge directly for Ubuntu as it would something you made.
The laws of Freedom explicitly state:
These are freedoms oriented to what you can do with information, not how the information got to you. So charging for a CD of Ubuntu that you downloaded, burned, made a printing design on it, put on a plastic cover that you also bought with that nice logo you wanted to use is totally okay. Same goes for that computer you bought in pieces, assembled them, install Ubuntu and upgraded it. Installed additional tools for the end user. Tested the PC for 2 days to make sure it was perfect for your buyer. And then sold it to the buyer is also OK. You are actually charging for the work you put to offer this to the end user. Your client.. and after having Ubuntu installed in it he/she would be.. your happy client.
To give you a better feeling about this, you can see as companies like Dell, Asus and others sell Laptops with Ubuntu installed. Several universities offer CD/DVD with Ubuntu in them for a low price. Even events like Flisol offer installing Ubuntu (In this case free) since they can install it directly to the client or with a cost if they need to give out a CD/DVD of it (Of course since most of us pitch in, the cost of the CD/DVD for the new users is free).
UPDATE - AS mentioned by popey, there are a couple of things you need to read:
OEM Services (Read the WHOLE thing) - http://www.canonical.com/engineering-services/oem-services/oem-services
Trademark Policy - http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy
For the trademark, as long as you do not use a extensively modified version of Ubuntu (Extensive as in changing the directory structure, modifying many basic tools and programs, changing names, etc) you will not have a problem with the trademark. In your case where you only mention the installation and configuration of Ubuntu you won't have problems with this.
UPDATE 2 - As mentioned by drewbenn in his comment here is a good link about this: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney which complements the rest mentioned in the answer.
Linux is protected both under copyright law and trademark law, as is Ubuntu. The GPL and similar Open source licenses give specific permission to copy Ubuntu software, as required by copyright law.
That leaves you with trademarks. Under the doctrine of nominative use, you are specifically allowed to use the Ubuntu trademark to describe Ubuntu. Trademarks are intended to signal that your customers get the "real deal" and not something that's just similar to Ubuntu.
You may not over-use the Ubuntu trademark. I.e. you cannot suggest that your hardware is also part of Ubuntu, that Ubuntu is optimzied for your hardware, or use their logo.
Jacob Johan Edwards suggests that Canonical imposes restrictions on the commercial use of the Ubuntu trademark. However, federal law does not give Canonical the right to impose restrictions on the legal use of trademarks.
Selling computers with Ubuntu pre-installed is actually not as clear-cut as others have explained. You should read the Ubuntu trademark policy specifically the parts under "Restricted use that requires a trademark licence". Note for example
Selling a computer with Ubuntu pre-installed is "commercial use".
Vanilla Ubuntu: You should be fine. But if you install some more software on to it, like proprietary software you are not allowed to distribute, then maybe not.
Dell and Christmann (just to name a few) do what's asked in the first question. So yes it is legal to install Ubuntu and then sell the Computer - as long as you don't charge for something you don't have the rights to.
My University did sell CDs with Ubuntu on them. So yes, that's legal too.
I think Ubuntu is mostly GPL software, so the right to distribute it can't be restricted by license or trademark policy.
So you can install Ubuntu on an assembled PC, and it can't be prohibited to sell it. Now as a dealer, you have to inform your customer what you want to sell them. So it can't be prohibited to tell them, what you've installed on the hardware.
Of course in your acting you have to avoid the impression that you're acting in the name of Ubuntu, as part of the company behind Ubuntu or using their logo.
However, as a nice guy, I would tell them what I want to do.
It's possible...but you have to check that you are shipping your machine with proprietary software...If so then you have to get permission from respective owners...
ok here the deal Ubuntu is developed from open source code no matter how many bs trademarks and so on and so forth they cannot really stop you from A modifying the software that they wrote and redistributing it. What ever there trademark "THERE" trade mark policy said it doesn't matter because GPL said that you are free to modify source and redistribute. I dont think that you can call it your own without modifying the source and removing there trademarks that makes sense that's the good thing about linux is that it is open source and yes. Ubuntu doesn't want you to redistribute for commercial reasons without there permission because they want you to pay a fee to do so. My take on it is sell the systems with ubuntu preloaded and take 10 dollars for ever system you sell donate to the ubuntu community. All this licensing is bs and big company's turn open source to closed source very quickly i.e. Google with android i.e apple with mac osx yes. Ubuntu is trying to do the same thing now that linux is to the point it can actally be used they want to stop every one who wants to make a little money off it and make you pay them. BTW this is my view on this i am not a lawer also not a english major as you can tell from my spelling.
I don't know what they are trying to say but as a linux user as well as developer I ensure you one thing There are some distribution of unix os that are made free for everyone and many struggled for this. So, I suggest use any of the free distribution and I request not to charge for the os but its up to you.
You can sell machines with Ubuntu pre-installed ,but you are not able to charge your customers for the operating system.


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The Universal Religion series comprises a collection of tunes so deliciously Balearic and timeless that you could play all 3 chapters in succession without missing a beat. The music, like the island, retains its beauty and appeal year after year, despite numerous pretenders to its crown. 'Every year another island is billed as 'the new Ibiza", says Armin, 'and every year they never live up to Ibiza's vibe. It's just so beautifully located, the weather's great, and best of all, it has 6 or 7 of the world's greatest clubs within 20 miles of each other!'
The Universal Religion concept is embodied in records that work in the car or at home on the stereo as much as in a club. – Universal Religion Chapter 3 was recorded live on August 21 in summer 2007, at the legendary Amnesia. In typical Ibizan style, an unplanned set list became the perfect CD release: a spontaneous selection of records that embodied the Universal Religion brief against the buzz of a crowd enjoying a world-renowned club. 'For my music, Amnesia is the best club in Ibiza,' says Armin. 'It's without doubt one of my top 3 clubs in the world. I wanted this CD not to be about Armin Van Buuren, but about the music itself, which is why it was recorded live there. It adds to the feeling, the experience, so you can feel like you're there, having a great time with your friends.'
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The Ledger's "Global Chemical Watchdog Awarded Nobel Peace Prize" on Oct. 11 reminded me that it's time we start honoring our own local Nobel-worthy laureates, who certainly deserve much note and praise.
Many are working heroically right in our own cities here in Florida, and across the United States to help ameliorate violence and build peace. From gang-violence prevention, teachers doing conflict resolution and bullying cessation education in schools, to restorative justice practitioners, just to name a few.
The Youth Promise Act is an important example of bipartisan legislation in the U.S. House and Senate (HR 1318 and S 1307) that could do a great deal to support the kind of local peace builders our communities desperately need.
The act would fund, implement and evaluate an array of evidence-based, locally controlled youth- and gang-violence prevention and intervention practices.
It would fund programs that save lives and give every young person the opportunity to meet his or her potential.
Shouldn't it be a fundamental cultural goal to support, honor and increase the numbers of peace builders working in our own communities, who may one day rise to the level of respect and acknowledgment of Nobel Peace laureates?
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Is there a standard way to make a program start when a user logs in?
On Ubuntu, for example, you can place a
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Does this apply to other distros as well?
This is not distro specific so much as Desktop Environment or Window Manager specific. First of all, there is the situation of users logging into a text console or remote tty via ssh. What gets run when those users login is usually controlled by their shells rc files and the system shell profiles.
Then there is the graphical environment case, which is probably what you are mostly after. Those depend very much on the environment. Gnome has a session manager that handles launching things on login. I assume KDE has something similar.
Other window managers have their own mechanisms, usually starting with some kind of hook in their config files. It is also possible to build your own environment with a script that acts as the login shell that gets run after authenticating, then does whatever background work you want, then fires off a window manager or DE.
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It is commendable to use separate ketchup and mustard containers for meat and dairy but it's usually not required as long as it does not touch the foods directly. If you use one container you should use squeeze type bottles, so care can be taken that the bottle doesn't touch the food on the plate. Since it does not directly touch the food it does not become an issue unless there are small children in the home who will put the nozzle in the food leading to direct touching rendering the bottle Fleishig or Milchig depending on what it touched.
Source for it being an issue: Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah Siman 105:3 in the Rema, where he discussed pouring oil onto a candle made out of non-kosher fats. Both the Shach and the Taz discuss this idea of nitzuk chibur (pouring creates a connection).


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Is Balanchine greatest 20th century choreographer?vote for greatest BALLETchoreographer
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If you'd like to comment, please do. (We had a similar discussion once that quickly went off the rails into a shouting match, but that's not going to happen this time, is it? Those who think that Balanchine is the ONLY choreographer are entitled to that view, and those who think that Joe Blow was the world's greatest choreographer are entitled to that view. Reasons welcome, of course.
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I'm basically pantheistic by nature
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The question didn't state whether or not we were only talking about ballet choreographers (though I guess I should assume so ). Although I ADORE Balanchine's work and feel as though he took ballet and made it modern and exciting and pushed the artform forward...I'd be hard pressed to say that he was greater or more influencial then, say, Martha Graham.
For ballet though, in my mind he was the greatest. Not only for the works he created, but the legacy he left.
Posted 03 June 2004 - 12:39 PM
I just added a sub-headline to clarify -- but this is Ballet Alert!, after all! It's safe to assume "ballet" unless otherwise stated.
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Whom do we have now? James Levine is a phony and he seems to be dying lately but certainly is 'past it;' Lorin Maazel is dull as a deer antler and well, Peter Martins is not a great artist.
Rather than spend billions to fix Lincoln Center, it ought to be razed, along with Jiulliard to make way for apartments and shops.
So yes Mr B is the greatest and there will not be another great artist until Lincoln Center is torn down.
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My aesthetic value system was formed by watching the Balanchine oeuvre. Without the lessons I learned by watching his ballets, I doubt that I would appreciate Petipa, Fokine, Bournonville, Ashton, Tudor or any of the other masters to the degree that I do.
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This course provides an introduction to scientific writing for nurses pursuing graduate education in nursing. Through the course students will learn skills for scientific writing in the dissemination of nursing research, implementation of evidence-based projects, project narratives, for the purpose of building nursing science in practice; other examples of scientific writing include articles for peer reviewed journals, grant proposals and theses/dissertations/Capstone projects in the sciences.
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection 1-6 (24 disc box set) Over 350 episodes for $84.99
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Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes introduced the world to some of the greatest cartoon characters to ever grace the animated cel: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Speedy Gonzalez, Pepe LePew, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Tweety, Sylvester, Marvin the Martian, Tasmanian Devil, and many more. This release includes the first six volumes in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection.
Per the reviews, these are the uncensored and unedited versions that were originally aired, not the PC ones being shown today. Every one of the 24 discs here contains extras, including commentary tracks, documentaries, interviews, etc.
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Not worth it, you can't see the pencil/eraser marks.
Questions: Will the Blu-Ray Platinum sets contain all the cartoons that were on the DVD Golden Collection, or will Warner excise the uncensored stuff? Also, will the Platinum sets include the remainder of the Looney Tunes catalog that the Golden sets didn't complete? Only time will tell. I guess. But in the meantime, this really is a great price on the Golden Collection and your kids deserve a shot at seeing what TV won't touch.
I just found the same set in Costco for 79.99 two days ago. Available in-store only.
One of my pet peeves is when they make a cartoon "PC"...like watching Elmer unload at Daffy and Bugs is gonna make me go on a killing spree...it twists my knickers when they do this. I understand some of the more radical racial ones that came out during WWII....but they still should be available uncut somewhere.
Just my .02....but...anyone know if these are edited?
I would buy this if it was the entire collection that was aired when my parents, and even when I was a kid. I hate that we're pretending these cartoons never existed. Yes Bugs was in a bra, yes he had a shotgun pointed at his head, yes it is a cartoon
@undrpsi: Yes, the Golden Collection cartoons are all gloriously unedited. However, as I recall, the discs start with an unskippable disclaimer about how some of these cartoons "are not now, and never were appropriate", but that's the worst of it.


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A food craving is a strong feeling that you must have a certain food. A food aversion is a feeling of complete revolt against a certain food and the inability to eat it.
Feel like eating a jar of pickles? Need a quart of chocolate ice cream at 2 A.M.? These are favorite TV sitcom clichés that get us to laugh at the harried husband, as he combs the streets looking for food to satisfy his pregnant wife's cravings. I doubt there are too many pregnant women out there who really crave pickles or ice cream in the middle of the night, but those wacky hormones that course through the body in the first three months of pregnancy can and do cause both food cravings and aversions. Suddenly, you just have to have a certain food, or, just as suddenly, you can't stand the sight of a food you used to love!
Although hormones are the chief culprit in these cravings and aversions, there is a theory that these are signals from your body telling you what it needs and what you should stay away from. If you suddenly can't stand even the smell of coffee or the thought of a cream doughnut, this aversion could be your body's way of keeping toxins away from your developing baby. If you find yourself craving fruit (as many women do) your body might be low in complex carbohydrates. If you feel a daily need for an ice cream sundae, your body might actually be calling for more dairy products and calcium. (In this case it's best to skip the sundae and have some yogurt or cottage cheese instead.)
Sometimes there's no explanation at all for a particular food craving or aversion. If you wake up one day and can no longer stand the smell of green vegetables, don't panic. Don't force yourself to eat foods that are "good" for you if they make you sick to your stomach. If an aversion to a nutritious food doesn't disappear in a few days, try something else that will give you the same nutrients. For example, if you can't eat broccoli anymore, make up for this loss of a good source of calcium by eating more dairy products.
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According to the Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA), the Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) at the U.S. Dept. of Energy recently released an update to the State Incentives & Resource Database which provides access to nearly 4,800 energy incentive programs searchable by location (region, state, city, or zip code).
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in my test lab, after executing the cmdlet SP-MoveUser the form that displays the user information (the one that appears when you click on the user display name) is lost and cannot be viewed anymore.
This issue happens only for the users for which I execute SP-MoveUser.
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GLEN DALE - In some states, including West Virginia, child sexual predators named earlier this month in the Boy Scouts of America's so-called "perversion files" still can be prosecuted.
West Virginia law has no statute of limitations on a felony. In Ohio, the statute in child sex cases limits prosecution to a time period of 21 years either from when the child turns 18 or when it was first reported to an adult.
Portland, Ore., Attorney Kelly Clark released the BSA documents on Oct. 18 after the Oregon Supreme Court ruled they could be made public.
The 14,500-page file reveals decades of alleged child sexual abuse involving Scout leaders but never reported to law enforcement. It contains allegations of abuse of more than 1,000 Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts across the country and internal memos and reports between Scouting officials and letters from victims. More than 1,200 offenders are named in alleged sexual assaults from 1965-85.
Locally, a Glen Dale man who served as Scoutmaster for Troop 82 sponsored by the PTA at Glen Dale Elementary School is named as an offender. Six boys reported allegations against the man, according to the BSA files.
The newspaper does not print the names of alleged offenders in cases where a criminal complaint has not been filed.
Marshall County Prosecutor Jeffrey Cramer said "while it's true that there is no statute of limitations on felonies in West Virginia, prosecuting a case against (the accused) would be nearly impossible without one of the alleged victims coming forward."
He said the BSA documents redacted the names of alleged victims and, without a complainant willing to testify in court, the evidence would be entirely hearsay.
"I have reviewed the documents," Cramer said. "Based upon a brief investigation, I believe (the accused) is still alive and living in the area. My understanding is that the alleged victims would be in their 50s and 60s now. Without a victim coming forth and providing evidence regarding what actually occurred, I won't speculate regarding what, if any, charges may be supported by that evidence."
Attempts to reach the accused man were unsuccessful.
A total of six boys alleged to Scout officials that an unknown man entered their tent on July 1, 1972, and touched them inappropriately. The letter said the man covered the boys' eyes or shined a flashlight to conceal his identity.
The documents further allege that a camp director and program director discovered the former Scoutmaster from Glen Dale performing sexual acts on a Scout between midnight and 1 a.m. on July 20, 1972, in a tent at the Sandcrest Scout Reservation in Ohio County.
Former Scout executive John E. Richmond reported the incident in a July 26, 1972, letter to Paul Ernst, the then-BSA supervisor of registration and membership. Richmond said he and Wayne Julian, former Scout executive of the National Trial Council who was on vacation in Wheeling at the time, went to the camp that night and confronted the man. Richmond said the accused "was waiting on the porch of the lodge ... and was quite belligerent; however, after the facts were presented to him, he cried.
"I gave him two alternatives: to resign immediately as a member of the Boy Scouts of America and to seek psychiatric assistance or to report him to local police authorities. He agreed to the first proposal," Richmond wrote.
The accused, in his resignation letter, stated the following: "It took me about one month after signing on as Scoutmaster of Troop 82 to realize I'd made a big mistake," he wrote. There were "just too many boys for me to handle, even with the two good assistants. And the situation has been compounded by other factors."
Wheeling Attorney William Wilmoth, who is a member of the Boy Scouts of America's 17-state Central Region Leadership Standards Committee, said the organization will survive the perversion files scandal.
"The committee hears appeals from adults and Scouts who have been thrown out of Scouting or who have had their membership or renewal applications denied for such things as criminal convictions, sexual misconduct or other reasons," he said.
He said the Boy Scouts is doing a better job of policing membership than it has in the past.
"The information that has been recently disclosed is from very old files," he said. "... They should have been disclosed long ago. Scouting is a strong organization. It will survive. Like every organization that works with youth, there have been many changes in the way Scouting operates."
Calls to local Scout executives and others associated with the Boy Scouts were not returned last week.


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2010 Research Summary
Decentralized Sequential Fault Detection
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Ram Rajagopal1, Xuanlong Nguyen, Sinem Coleri Ergen and Pravin Varaiya
Institute of Transportation Studies
We propose a decentralized multiple fault detection procedure for a sensor network. Our procedure can be performed online, and has detection delay and false alarm guarantees, achieving provable optimality in some network scenarios. The procedure does not require stationarity of measurements, using instead historical data or neighboring sensors to make decisions about the sensor state. Based on the performance guarantees, we compute the tradeoff between sensor node density, detection delay and energy consumption. We apply the procedure to a traffic application.
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- D. Siegmund, Sequential Analysis: Tests and Confidence Intervals, Springer-Verlag, 1985.
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- A. N. Shirayev, Optimal Stopping Rules, Springer-Verlag, 1978.
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- A. G. Tartakovsky and V. V. Veeravalli, "General Asymptotic Bayesian Theory of Quickest Change Detection," Theory of Probab. Appl., 2005.
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6 Myths About Famous Places You Believe (Thanks to Movies)
Even if you've never left your hometown, you have a mental picture of virtually every famous city in the world. That's what movies are for, right? You'll never go to Moscow, but you know what you'll find there -- huge buildings with onion-shaped roofs and lots of snow.
Well, we're sorry to say that Hollywood really doesn't seem to do all that much homework on some of these locations. That's why you may come away thinking ...
#6. Washington, D.C., Has Skyscrapers
America's capital turns up in everything from political thrillers to alien invasion movies, yet very few movies are actually shot there. Usually they'll nab a few shots of the U.S. Capitol and then head to New York City (or if they're on a budget, Toronto) and fill in the blanks. Why not? Every city pretty much looks the same, right?
This is why movies get so many little things wrong about D.C. -- people who actually live there can chuckle when The Invasion showcases the capital's many nonexistent newspaper stands, or when Live Free or Die Hard sticks in tollbooths, which the city actually has none of. But, like we said, those are little things. When you're trying to pass off another city as Washington, D.C., it's better to focus on the bigger giveaways, like maybe the freaking skyline.
That's a shot of D.C. in the newest Die Hard film. See that big building there? How tall do you think that is? We're guessing about 30 floors. And next to it is a building with about 15 floors.
Here's the thing: There are no skyscrapers in D.C.
The highest commercial building in D.C. is One Franklin Square, which reaches a whopping ... 12 stories.
In fact, the highest anything in D.C. is the Washington Monument, followed by the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, which is only 329 feet tall.
The ratio of skyscrapers to dinosaurs is exactly the same.
And yet in Live Free or Die Hard ...
This picture is riddled with inaccuracies.
And it's not like Die Hard is the only one. Check out the view from Nicole Kidman's office in The Invasion.
Or go ahead and try to watch Enemy of the State, where they pretty much just take D.C. and mash it together with Baltimore:
Shoot him before he produces that Karate Kid remake!
Oh, and remember that scene in True Lies where the terrorist jumps from one building to the next after a chase around Georgetown?
There is nothing remotely resembling this building anywhere in D.C. Possibly sensing that someone from D.C. might actually see the movie at some point, James Cameron brilliantly added a blurry superimposed backdrop of the nation's capital in front of the Los Angeles Westin Bonaventure Hotel:
Yes, this is from the same man who has several Academy Award nominations for visual effects.
#5. The Louvre Is a Dignified Resting Place for Masterpieces
If you've never been to the Louvre in Paris, you can still easily picture it in your head: vast, silent, looking the same as it would if you were visiting in the 13th century. Nothing but ancient art ...
... and ornate columns with marble floors.
Those shots are from The Da Vinci Code, and you see that the only modern bit of architecture is the glass pyramid outside:
But if you show up there, you're going to actually see this:
The crowds certainly don't take away from the structure itself. It's no wonder that when The Da Vinci Code was filmed there, the headlines didn't read that the movie was being shot in the Louvre -- they all read that the Louvre was allowing a movie to be shot there. It's a pretty big deal, and why wouldn't it be? The ornate, dignified building has so much history that when they proposed at the end of the film that the Holy Grail was hidden beneath the main entrance area, it actually seemed possible.
Via Incase.
See, it makes sense, doesn't it? A resting place so majestic and dignified that ... wait, what the hell is that? It almost looks like the Apple logo there ...
Via Jonathan Smiley
What the fuck? Yes, that's an Apple store. At the entrance to the Louvre. Why? Because the entrance to the Louvre -- the sacred tomb that houses the sacred twist ending to the most popular novel of the past decade -- is a fucking mall.
At Le Carrousel du Louvre, which translates roughly into "The Large Rotating Machine of the Louvre," you can get just about anything you want -- from jewelry to furniture to a freaking Hertz rental car.
At the time of the shoot, the filmmakers didn't have to cover up the presence of an Apple store because it didn't exist yet. However, the filmmakers did have to cover up a Resonance music store, along with an Esprit fashion store, a chocolate shop and a goddamn Virgin Megastore. Suddenly the ending to that film becomes a whole lot more depressing when you're picturing Mary Magdalene entombed under a food court.
"She rests at last beneath the McCafe ..."
#4. It's Always Winter in Moscow, and It's Always Sunny in Australia
Go ahead and try to think up a movie that takes place in Moscow that doesn't involve either a shitload of snow or cold, overcast skies that appear ready to dump a shitload of snow.
Makes you wonder how Mickey Rourke's character in Iron Man 2 got such a hard-core tan.
Now try to picture a movie set in Australia that doesn't show the vast, dry desert and blinding sun that you apparently find year-round everywhere in the country.
But it makes sense, right? Sure, Moscow must see the sun every now and then, but we've all seen GoldenEye. The whole goddamn country looks like this:
And the inhabited parts of Australia are pretty much the opposite:
The thing is, go ahead and switch those pictures around. What you're looking at in the second picture above is a beautiful summer day in Alexandrovsky Garden, which is right near the Kremlin in good ol' Moscow -- a city which, by the way, just broke its summer record with temperatures close to 100 degrees. In fact, it's pretty much on par with New York City as far as climate goes, though the figures are still out on the ratio of douchebags and misspelled graffiti per square block.
But the snow? That surely can't be Australia, can it?
The only thing missing is Crocodile Dundee making a snowman.
That's Canberra, Australia, which is just outside Sydney. And what you're seeing isn't all that unusual. In fact, Australia has something for everyone, from skiing ...
... to tropical rain forests.
The only thing missing is Mel Gibson swinging on a vine. And threatening to kill his wife.
So why does Hollywood show only one major city surrounded by a freaking wasteland? To be fair, there is a whole lot of desert in Australia. Though hardly anyone actually lives there -- why would they? Imagine if every film that took place in America completely ignored the coasts. That's pretty much what Hollywood decided to do with Australia. All of the cities are on the coasts.
Take Kangaroo Jack, a film that completely revolutionized the "please kill me" genre. The heroes need to get to the town of Alice Springs, which is in Northern Territory, Australia -- pretty much in the dead center of the desert. They begin their journey by flying into Sydney and renting a jeep to start their adventure, because even though Sydney is more than a day's drive from Alice Springs, it is clearly the only international airport in Australia. After a drive through nothingness, they arrive at the city, only to find more nothingness:
It's so dry here that even the architecture can't grow.
Why would anyone actually live somewhere like that? The answer is, they wouldn't. Which is why Alice Springs actually looks like this:
Which admittedly looks like the fake neighborhood that exploded around Indiana Jones.


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Unanswered: What could be the possible error in the below code
I am very new to extjs and going through the documentation. http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-0/#!...and_containers. In the section 'container', there is the following code which is not doing anything on my page(blank page, no panels)
Ext.create('Ext.panel.Panel',{ renderTo:Ext.getBody(), width:400, height:300, title:'Container Panel', items:[{ xtype:'panel', title:'Child Panel 1', height:100, width:'75%'},{ xtype:'panel', title:'Child Panel 2', height:100, width:'75%'}]});
Please check this and help me..
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There seems to be no problem with the code you pasted.
If you want to verify, go to below link:
Paste your code within Ext.onReady(function () {}); and see.
There might be problem with your html code or app code around this. check that.
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Thank you for reply. I got the solution here http://stackoverflow.com/q/14641808/1577396.
These sencha forums are good but not upto mark in my opinion. So, I created a group on SO where we can have discussions regarding sencha. Please have a look at this link http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/23760/sencha (require sign up).
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