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5 Iconic Pop Culture Moments Improvised at the Last Second
#2. Scooby-Doo's Name Was Almost "Too Much"
There's a reason why people remember Scooby-Doo as, well, "Scooby-Doo," and not "Daphne" or something: The dog is the only thing separating the show from being a cartoon about four '60s teenagers doing everything but what teenagers actually did in the '60s.
With one exception.
The original series was called Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? because that's exactly what the viewership wondered during every second of footage in which Scooby wasn't on the screen. Also, Scooby's name is way catchier than everyone else's: There are literally no words you can rhyme with "Velma."
"Thelema" kind of works, but it's a bit of a stretch.
But It Was Almost ...
Scooby was almost called "Too Much," wasn't going be the star of the show, and would play the bongos. So why did that change? Because Frank Sinatra intervened.
And for once, not by threatening to break anyone's legs.
Originally, the show was going to be about a musical group that solved mysteries between gigs, which would actually explain what four teens are doing going around the country in a cramped van painted with psychedelic artwork. The teens had a Great Dane called Too Much, who was also their drummer (this wasn't a very good band). Too Much had a cowardly personality and was best friends with Shaggy -- he was essentially Scooby-Doo already, only with a terrible name.
Nobody would say "I like that dog, Too Much" for fear of sounding like a zoophile.
Until ...
However, during a plane ride back from meeting with CBS executives (who initially rejected the show), producer Fred Silverman was listening to music on his headphones when he heard Frank Sinatra improvise some gibberish at the end of his song "Strangers in the Night" -- at around the 2:22 mark, as the song fades away, Sinatra sings "dooby-dooby-doo." Silverman liked the sound of that and decided the dog should be named Scooby-Doo and should also be the star of the show. Just like that.
In order to make Scooby more of a protagonist, the writers dropped the whole music group idea and made the characters just four regular mystery-solving teens with a talking dog. CBS picked up the retooled show, and it's pretty much been on the screen in one form or another since then (including the latest live-action movie, Cabin in the Woods). If it wasn't for Frank Sinatra scatting in the studio, everything from the iconic theme song to Scooby snacks would have been different or, more likely, nonexistent.
#1. Dr. Strangelove's Actors Thought They Were Just Practicing
Before 2001 or A Clockwork Orange, the movie that first elevated Stanley Kubrick from "great director" to "mad genius" was Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Just Cast Peter Sellers in Every Other Role). While Kubrick had already raised some controversy with Lolita, Dr. Strangelove was the first time he really challenged the audience by taking a serious subject like nuclear war and treating it like a comedy. Keep in mind that this was done at a time when "nuclear war" wasn't just the setting for your favorite video game, but something that could actually happen at any moment.
Audiences knew the movie could literally at any time be interrupted by a nuclear explosion.
Tone was something really important for this movie, and the main thing that helped Kubrick tread that fine line between satire and all-out comedy was the performances of great actors like George C. Scott and several Peter Sellerses. Scott plays the stereotypically American general Buck Turgidson, a raging maniac in favor of nuking the Soviet Union who speaks almost exclusively by yelling. In fact, he played that part so convincingly that they later cast him as General Patton.
But It Was Almost ...
The movie started out as a serious drama. Remember Peter Sellers' third-best performance in the film, as the sensible and almost sheepish U.S. president? It was almost all like that.
"Gentlemen, there's no polite dissenting in the War Room!"
As we mentioned a while back, Dr. Strangelove is based on a novel called Red Alert, which is exactly as serious as you'd expect a novel about Cold War politics to be. Kubrick decided pretty early in the production that he'd turn the story into a satire -- the problem was, he'd already cast some actors to play a drama. Among them was Scott, who wanted to give his character a subdued performance (despite having the word "turgid" in his name).
Until ...
Kubrick realized he'd never be able to convince Scott, so he used another technique to get the iconic performance out of the actor: straight-out lies.
Kubrick: The Definitive Edition, via Wiki Commons
A merciless calculating being who always wins at chess? Dear God, he was HAL.
According to James Earl Jones, Kubrick came up with the idea of doing practice takes, asking everyone to give their craziest performance just to warm up before shooting the real thing. Scott hated the idea, but Kubrick convinced him to do the warm-ups by promising that no one would ever see them. Which was bullshit, of course: The camera was rolling the whole time. Scott was so furious when he saw the "practice" sessions in the finished movie that he swore he'd never work with Kubrick again.
But hey, at least Kubrick actually told him they were now doing a comedy ... unlike actor Slim Pickens, who was reportedly never informed that he wasn't in a drama.
"You mean to tell me that the movie where I ride an atom bomb wasn't completely serious? Huh."
When he isn't busy trying to make the world a better place, Evan V. Symon can occasionally be found on Facebook. He just might friend you.
For more popular events you thought were improvised, check out 7 Viral Videos You Didn't Know Were Staged (and How They Did It) and 7 Clearly Fake News Stories That Fooled The Mainstream Media.


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What is the best way to discourage bats from taking up residence in a house?
A pest control contractor supplied me with a box of a copper mesh material that could be stuffed into cracks that were serving as entry ways for bats (when they were known to be out). It looks somewhat like a very course steel wool, but in copper. It doesn't rust, so it doesn't discolor siding, and is flexible, but doesn't stay compressed if you squeeze it. It worked well for our place where bats were following the channels in our vertical siding into a cavity behind the fascia boards.
I'd say the best way would be to find out where they're entering and close it off. If it's open for ventilation use something like a chicken wire that will allow the air to easily flow through.
It's hard to attract bats, most purpose bat houses go empty. Feel blessed you've got bats. You like mosquito bites? But you might consider building something to restrict them to a certain area of the attic.
Without seeing your home it's hard to give an accurate reply. You mentioned the soffit and facia: we had an ever so small but big enough gap for both mice and bats to get in where the soffit and wall meet. We caulked all the way around the house on two levels. It was a lot of tubes but worth it.
If you have had bats in the attic and you get them out you also need to consider clean up of the insulation as their waste is toxic.
Sounds like a job for ... attic cat!
(that would have been a comment, but the picture couldn't be passed up)

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First Baptist Church, Huntsville, AL
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Week 7
GOOD NEWS NOTES - Week 7
Review: There are four parts to this gospel presentation. We learned two last week. They were:
Remember each phrase begins with God loves you and me . . . and that there are four key words to help you remember. Relationship - Sin - Answer - Receive. This week we continue with the last two parts which are the answer and receive.
3. God loves you and me so much that he has provided an answer for our sin problem.
The answer to this sin problem lies in the Son of God - Jesus - who lived a perfect life. Jesus died to pay for our sins and purchase a place in heaven for us which he offers as a free gift. He was the perfect sacrifice for our sins. Roman 5:8 - God demonstrated his own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Also read Ephesians 2:8-9) So how can we receive this gift of God?
4. God loves you and me so much that we can receive this gift from God if we believe in him. We receive this gift not for what we do but as an act of faith. It is trusting Jesus Christ alone for salvation and nothing else. God wants this for you more than you can know. Revelation 3:20a - Here I am! I stand at the door (of your life) and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him. (Read Acts 16:30b-31a) Jesus will do his part by providing eternal life if you do your part by believing in him.
Scripture - This scripture points out the wonderful fact that God loves us so much that he has provided a solution to the problem of sin. Roman 5:8 - God demonstrated his own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Action - Your action this week is to write out the four steps of the gospel. Take the time to write them out with your comments and scripture that come to mind as you write them down. After reading these steps you may come to the realization that you have not trusted God for salvation. I would hope that you would solve that dilemma right now. There should be nothing to keep you from taking care of this important matter. If you do accept Christ as your savior, be sure to tell someone that you have new life in Christ; we would love to know about that so we can celebrate with you.
Prayer -Lord, help me to remember these four gospel basics. I want to be ready when you lead someone to me who is missing. Lord, with your help I can remember these simple steps to salvation. Is this person that I have in mind the one you want me to build a relationship with? Show me for sure this week.
Next Week -


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The Department of Computer Science offers a discipline that focuses on the complete software development process including design, programming and testing. In 1961, the University of Dayton became one of the first schools in the country to develop an undergraduate program in Computer Science. The department offers a Master degree in Computer Science and two programs leading to the Bachelor of Science degree: Computer Science and Computer Information Systems.
Our students are hired by companies such as Procter & Gamble, AT&T Communications, CompuServe, Dayton Power & Light, Eastman Kodak, General Electric, Mead Corporation, NASA Space Flight Center, NCR, Standard Register, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, LexisNexis, and many others.


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My textbook claims that this is an incorrect usage of uchi ni:
While he is commuting to the office, a present arrived.
Why is this wrong? It looks fine to me.
My textbook claims that this is an incorrect usage of uchi ni:
Why is this wrong? It looks fine to me.
Not 100% positive on this, but I would say 行っている間に.
because once it cools down, it won't be as delicious; desirable to eat; etc.
So I think
(Updated response)
I agree with Istrasci that 間に is probably correct and wonder if, as snailplane suggests, that your textbook might give more context. I'd like to offer an extended solution that you can verify:
うちに is used in the following two cases:
1) A person intentionally takes action before something changes:
2) While something is taking place, something changes without the speakers volition (my text book refers to volition. I take it to mean "as a result of the speaker's conscious effort")
An example of 2 would be:
間に can be defined as:
While a continuous action is taking place a momentary action or change occurs.
As Istrasci says, 間に also seems to fit. I would add that the sentence certainly does not fit the first definition of うちに and possibly the 間に defintion fits better than the second definition...Is this perhaps a multiple choice question giving both うちに and 間に as possible answers? If so then the question is asking you to choose the better answer.
(Reference: The 完全マスター volume for JLPT N3 文法)


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The 7 Most Horrifying Museums on Earth
Remember being bored out of your skull because your parents dragged you to some stupid museum when you were a kid? Well, it could have been worse. Much worse.
Because there are apparently museums out there capable of inflicting the kind of trauma a person never recovers from.
#7. El Museo De Las Momias
Location: Guanajuato, Mexico
The El Museo is the museum of HOLY SHIT WHAT IS THAT!
Why... does that exist anywhere?
To say this is a museum full of mummies doesn't even come close to conveying the unspeakable horror of this place. How about this: In ancient Rome, and college fraternities, there is a brutal and humiliating tradition known as running the gauntlet, during which you strip naked and run through a valley of horrors. Guanajuato's El Museo De Las Momias ("Museum of the Mummies") is just like that, except that it's the spectators who are naked. And dead.
You know one of those hands will reach out and grab you.
The Mummies of Guanajuato are naturally preserved bodies from a cholera outbreak that hit Guanajuato way back in 1833. Since this is basically just a huge open grave with floodlights, its legality and moral status continues to be the subject of much discussion everywhere except in Mexico.
Most of the mummies on display were corpses whose families could not afford to pay a grave tax levied on their families once they died. If you failed to pay the taxes, you guessed it...
You went up on display.
Hey, have we mentioned the babies?
"Come play with us..."
"...and ever..."
Oh, and while we're on the subject of nightmarish carnivals of the rotting dead...
#6. Catacombe dei Cappuccini
Location: Palermo, Sicily
Welcome to Catacombe dei Cappuccini: the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily. Described as a "human library," the Catacombs serve as an invaluable historic record on everything from clothing trends to fear tolerance.
In 1599, the monks who lived here discovered a great new method for embalming the dead, and as the situation warranted, they went to work embalming each other. Then wealthy locals wanted to be interred in the Capuchin Catacombs as a status thing.
Despite being as old as Galileo and bombed to hell during World War II, some of the inhabitants of the Capuchin Catacombs still look pretty fresh...
...And all of them dressed in the finest clothes, eagerly awaiting the Resurrection.
Seriously, what the fuck...
#5. The Glore Psychiatric Museum
Location: St. Joseph, Missouri
The Glore Psychiatric Museum, formally known as Missouri's State Lunatic Asylum No. 2, is like the Event Horizon of art galleries.
They call this one "Schizophrenia."
The museum takes its name from one George Glore, who in the 60s, put his patients/inmates at the St. Joseph State Hospital to work building full-size replicas of some of the most horrific psychiatric practices from the last few centuries--which makes about as much sense as making the inmates at Guantanamo Bay build Big Macs until they love America.
Apparently, building creepy shit like this is a damn good way to get sane.
The result is a weird and terrifying excursion through the minds of a hundred lunatics, displaying patient art which ranges from sophisticated...
Albeit psychopathic.
To South Park...
But the, uh, highlight of the museum has to be this magnificent mosaic, which was constructed entirely from the stomach contents of a woman suffering from compulsive swallowing.
That horror is 100 percent stomach contents.
It is actually hard to picture anyone going crazy over anything in Missouri, but now that we have seen what their hospitals look like, it is probably best to avoid the state. After all, the woman who swallowed those 1,446 objects died in surgery. So who the fuck made the mosaic?
#4. The Museum of Menstruation & Women's Health
Location: New Carrollton, Maryland
We're all adults here, hopefully. Menstruation isn't any more disgusting than the other bodily functions we don't discuss in polite company. So what's wrong with having a museum dedicated to the subject?
How about the fact that it's in some random dude's basement in lower Maryland.
This guy!
While there genuinely is a long history to menstruation's imprint on culture, from its symbolic record to its inclusion in Cervantes' Don Quixote, the Museum of Menstruation & Women's Health is really just the story of one man with a dream: Harry Finley.
Since 1995, this humble, middle-aged American has devoted his life to making his private collection of feminine hygiene products and mutilated mannequins available to the public. His work has received accolades from Johns Hopkins University and The New York Times--at least according to his website--and Harry's reputation has since blossomed from local neighborhood character to a character from a Thomas Harris novel.
Among the museum's collections are a dress made out of tampons...
...well kept archives...
...whatever the hell these are...
...and finally, the intimacy of knowing that you and Harry are the only people in the house. For real. Since 1999, all visits to the museum/Harry's basement have had to be done by appointment and in private.
We imagine so that no one can hear you scream.


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I am a graduate student of math right now but I was not able to get a topology subject in my undergrad... I just would like to know if you guys know the best one..
As an introductory book, "Topology without tears" by S. Morris. You can download PDF for free, but you might need to obtain a key to read the file from the author. (He wants to make sure it will be used for self-studying.)
Note: The version of the book at the link given above is not printable. Here is the link to the printable version but you will need to get the password from the author by following the instructions he has provided here.
Also, another great introductory book is Munkres, Topology.
On graduate level (non-introductory books) are Kelley and Dugunji (or Dugundji?).
Munkres said when he started writing his Topology, there wasn't anything accessible on undergrad level, and both Kelley and Dugunji wasn't really undergrad books. He wanted to write something any undergrad student with an appropriate background (like the first 6-7 chapters of Rudin's Principles of Analysis) can read. He also wanted to focus on Topological spaces and deal with metric spaces mostly from the perspective "whether topological space is metrizable". That's the first half of the book. The second part is a nice introduction to Algebraic Topology. Again, quoting Munkres, at the time he was writing the book he knew very little of Algebraic Topology, his speciality was General (point-set) topology. So, he was writing that second half as he was learning some basics of algebraic topology. So, as he said, "think of this second half as an attempt by someone with general topology background, to explore the Algebraic Topology.
I would suggest the following options:
Perhaps you can take a look at Allen Hatcher's webpage for more books on introductory topology. He has a .pdf file containing some very good books.
Singer and Thorpe, Lecture Notes on Elementary Topology and Geometry.
A slim book that gives an intro to point-set, algebraic and differential topology and differential geometry. It does not have any exercises and is very tersely written, so it is not a substitute for a standard text like Munkres, but as a beginner I liked this book because it gave me the big picture in one place without many prerequisites.
Seebach and Steen's book Counterexamples in Topology is not a book you should try to learn topology from. But as a supplemental book, it is a lot of fun, and very useful. Munkres says in introduction of his book that he does not want to get bogged down in a lot of weird counterexamples, and indeed you don't want to get bogged down in them. But a lot of topology is about weird counterexamples. (What is the difference between connected and path-connected? What is the difference between compact, paracompact, and pseudocompact?) Browsing through Counterexamples in Topology will be enlightening, especially if you are using Munkres, who tries hard to avoid weird counterexamples.
Note: This answer was also posted here, on a question which is now closed.
You might look at the answers to this previous MSE question, which had a slightly different slant: "choosing a topology text". Apparently the poser was also interested in self-learning, but with less preparation than you.
You might consider Topology Now! by Messer and Straffin. Their idea is to introduce the intuitive ideas of continuity, convergence, and connectedness so that students can quickly delve into knot theory, the topology of surfaces and three dimensional manifolds, fixed points, and elementary homotopy theory. I wish this book had been around when I was a student!
The introduction of Topologie Générale of Bourbaki is a must-read.
Furthemore, the book is brilliantly written and covers almost everything. One of the best books of the Bourbaki series.
I own Bert Mendelson's "Introduction to Topology" and it looks good. I bought Alexandroff's "Elementary Concepts of Topology" too - believe me, it's not good for an introduction.
I know a lot of people like Munkres, but I've never been one of them. When I read sections on Munkres about things I've known for years, the explanations still seem turgid and overcomplicated.
I like John Kelley's book General Topology a lot. I find the writing stunningly clear. It has been in print for sixty years. You should at least take a look at it.
Remark: This answer was also posted here, on a question which is now closed.
I recommended Viro's Elementary Topology. Textbook in Problems.
This book is very well structured and has a lot of exercises, the only thing is it do not talk about uniform structure, I think for this part you can read Kelley or Bourbaki.
There was another version of this question posted today, and it inspired me to write another MSE-themed blog post. So I have collected most of the topology recommendations from MSE (and a few from MO and a few other sources) and written up a post at my blog, mixedmath.
Hope I didn't miss this above: Gamelin & Greene "Intro to Topology." When I was looking for a text, I noticed as an endorsement, that it was used by Terry Tao. But don't think of it as nepotism (the authors and T. Tao are at UCLA), as Prof. Tao said in the syllabus that the text will be followed closely.
The first half is point-set topology and the second is algebraic topology.
Actually the book is replete with examples as each section is followed by questions which are answered at the back of the book.
And a special consideration - it is (as a noted mathematician coined the term) Doverised. At $10+ it is a gift.
Please look at the review of "Topology and Groupoids"
See also
This book is the only topology text in English to deal with the fundamental groupoid $\pi_1(X,A)$ on a set $A$ of base points, and so deduce the fundamental group of the circle, a method dating back to 1967. See this mathoverflow discussion.
Here are a couple of my favorites:
Gaal has an excellent section on connectedness. Very concise and clear.
Wilansky has an excellent section on Baire spaces and induced topologies. It's a little wordier than Gaal, but has many excellent exercises.
Laures and Szymik write an excellent book on topology that incorporates category theory seamlessly. The proofs are also very different from the typical presentations I see in American books. It's good for a second pass through for topology---that is, if you read German.
Priniples of Topology, by F.H. Croom
Foundation of Topology by C.W. Patty


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PetSmart will stay on city's west side
Published: Monday, March 25, 2013 at 11:17 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, March 25, 2013 at 11:17 a.m.
Spartanburg-based Spencer/ Hines Properties Inc. has netted a west-side pet retailer for another decade.
The company announced Friday that agent Andy Hayes completed a $2.6 million lease extension to keep PetSmart in its location off East Blackstock Road across from Dorman Centre for another 10 years.
PetSmart arrived in Spartanburg in December 1995 as one of the anchor tenants in the Blackstock Center strip mall, occupying 26,000 square feet of the 85,000-square-foot center.
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What is it?
(I know, oh so subjective.)
So let's make that, what's the most effective and pain free way to do it? I realize those may be contradictory conditions.
What is it?
(I know, oh so subjective.)
So let's make that, what's the most effective and pain free way to do it? I realize those may be contradictory conditions.
The easiest and most pain free way is to use homebrew
Once you follow the instructions to install homebrew on this page (which include installing Xcode), you can then simply type
And this will download and compile wine and all its dependendencies.
You can install wine using MacPorts or Fink they both are recommended my wine.
As for GUI applications for wine the only thing besides wine's own utilities is winetricks. They are pretty useful for automatically downloading and installing different applications and dlls with their dependencies.
If your OSX is older than 10.5 than you will definitely need to install XQuartz (newer version already include X server).
MacPortsInstall MacPorts at first.
Let's search packages matching 'wine':
wine @1.4 (x11) Wine Is Not an Emulator wine-crossover @11.0.0 (x11) Wine Is Not an Emulator (1.4-rc5 with CodeWeavers modifications for CrossOver) wine-crossover-games @10.1.1 (x11) Wine Is Not an Emulator (1.3.9 with CodeWeavers modifications for CrossOver Games) wine-devel @1.5.0 (x11) Wine Is Not an Emulator winetricks @20120308 (x11) downloads and installs various redistributable runtime libraries
Now we see that we can either install CodeWeavers version or just usual wine. Let's install usual wine (I think that for another one you need some kind of licesce):
sudo port install wine
It's also a good idea to install winetricks:
sudo port install winetricks
Install Fink as deskribed here.
fink list wine
wine 1.3.21-1 Microsoft Windows compatibility layer wine-dev 1.3.21-1 Microsoft Windows compatibility layer winetricks 20111120-2 Install redistributable runtime tools in Wine
Let's now install them
fink install wine fink install winetricks
After installation
In terminal enter wine and press [Tab] and you will see utiles that come with wine (and winetricks of course):
wine winebuild wineconsole winedbg winefile winegcc winemine wineserver wineboot winecfg winecpp winedump wineg++ winemaker winepath winetricks
winecfg is very useful to configure wine (dlls overriding, Windows version selection, etc.)
Is also probably posible to install wine on top of Gentoo prefix, but I'm not sure that you will get X support in this case.
I would suggest using Winebottler from http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/ works fine for me!
Most pain free way is to use Codeweavers's paid for version Crossover
It has useful default settings and for many apps provides C4P or CrossTie which will do all the installation and set up of the app from one script.
The best graphical install of Wine is Wineskin. It puts all the tools in a GUI and creates a standalone .app file that Mac will run as a native app. Here is a tutorial that is using Steam as an example.
If you plan on porting several applications then you'll want to run just one Wine environment. MacPorts or Homebrew are probably your best options.
Hope this helps!


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I've been searching through the forum and the supported setup lists but cannot find any mention if the NN3 supports the use of a 17-55 Nikon lens when paired with a D200. Unfortunately the budget wont stretch to a new wideangle lens and a NN3 at the same time so I wanted to try with the 17-55 that I already own. Long term plan would be to move to a sigma 10-20 that seems to be well recommended.
Anyone have a definate answer?


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More Schools Face Threats
The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 26 people dead has put school officials nationwide on edge, with some locking down campuses or calling for more police protection after real or perceived threats.
In the last few days, Brooklyn middle-school students were locked inside their school for about an hour after the principal reported gunshots fired across the street.
In Ridgefield, Conn., about 20 miles from Sandy Hook, elementary-school students riding a school bus were diverted to a middle school after reports of a suspicious—possibly armed—man near their school. Police searched a high school in Upper Dublin School, near Philadelphia, after security officers mistook an umbrella that a student was carrying for a gun.
And on Tuesday, as many children in the Newtown, Conn., Public School District returned to school for the first time, one school, Head O'Meadow Elementary, was closed after a phone threat was made against it. A district spokeswoman said the threat posed no real danger, but students and staff were instructed to stay home "out of an abundance of caution."
Katja Pieragostini, whose 6-year-old daughter attends Head O'Meadow, said she was nervous when she received an email from school officials telling her to keep her daughter home, but trusted their decision.
"I'm hoping it's just going to blow over," Ms. Pieragostini said. "I don't want to live my life in fear."
Linda Mitchell, 64, who has a step-granddaughter at the school, said residents have been "re-traumatized every day." She said sending students back to school is "an act of enormous courage" but has to be done.
School shootings are rare, but the Sandy Hook massacre that took the lives of 20 young children has unnerved parents and educators nationwide.
Many school districts have increased police presence on campuses, pulled out and reviewed crises and security plans, or added extra counselors to help calm student's fears. Others, including an Oregon lawmaker, responded to the tragedy by calling for new laws to allow teachers or other school staff to carry weapons on campus. "We cannot continue to be passive when the only person who is armed in a school shooting is the shooter himself," state Rep. Dennis Richardson, a Republican, said Monday on CNN. He suggested schools have a few armed staffers so when a shot is fired, "they can respond and meet lethal force with lethal force."
Michigan's Republican Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have allowed concealed weapons to be brought into public and private spaces, including schools and day-care centers.
Meanwhile, school officials must deal with the potential threats.
Deborah Low, superintendent of Ridgefield Public Schools, about 20 miles from Newtown, said she received a call from police Monday morning about a possibly suspicious man at a train station near Branchville Elementary School as students were riding the bus to school.
Ms. Low diverted the bus to the middle school as police searched the 405-student Branchville school. Branchville students remained in the middle school auditorium for a few hours watching movies and taking Spanish lessons. Ms. Low also locked down the system's eight other schools.
Ms. Low said any report of a suspicious person near a school would be troubling, but the killings at Sandy Hook "exacerbated" feelings of anxiety. "Everybody's nerves are raw," she said.
Branchville was reopened and the other schools taken off lockdown after police determined there was no danger, Ms. Low said.
Ron Stephens, executive director of the National School Safety Center, which provides advice and training to school districts, said such reactions are common and noted that after the massacre at Columbine High School—in which two boys killed 12 students and a teacher before taking their own lives—scores of districts locked down schools in the ensuing months due to perceived threats. "Schools are struggling to strike a balance between not overreacting and taking threats seriously," he said. "We're probably going to see a lot of reactions that seem like overreactions, but things will calm down."
At Westbury Middle School on Long Island, officials went into lockdown after a 13-year-old boy sent threatening Facebook FB -0.85 % messages to two 13-year-old girls on Friday and Saturday, police said.
Nassau County Police charged the boy, who wasn't identified, with making a terroristic threat, according to authorities. Police said the boy felt the girls were bullying him.
—Josh Dawsey and Will James contributed to this article.
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Quiz: How much do you know about the changing face of Mormon missionary work?
d. 58,000
About 58,000 missionaries were serving when President Monson made the announcement.
Read more about the increase in applications here: "Change in missionary age inspired, life-changing"
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It's freaking awesome
- 6:25 a.m. July 31, 2013
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Gosh I can't wait. We're already the fastest growing, by far, and now
this will really make it roll forth.
These guys and gals are going to be so busy, they will have so much to do.
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Amazing! It will be interesting this next year to see how these increased numbers of missionaries affect the percentage of newly baptized members around the world. These missionaries are going to need the help of ward members more and more for referrals as well as fellow-shipping of investigators and new members.
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It is awesome to see this great change, but it also gives these young men and woman a solid ground to be on after high school. They will grow and be great parents, community and ward leaders when they return.
- 10:06 a.m. July 31, 2013
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@Ernest T. Bass "We're already the fastest growing, by far"
Actually, in terms of growth rate or in terms of raw numbers, there are other churches that are faster-growing.
- 12:53 p.m. July 31, 2013
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The other night I was at my home. There was a knock on the door. I opened it and there was a missionary and another man, probably doing splits. The missionary asked me if I was a member of the church and I politely explained to him that I was a former member and had "resigned". He was very troubled to hear that. At this point I would have expected him to move on. Instead he asked me my reasons for leaving. I told him there were many. He probed further. I told him I preferred not to go into it. (When I share my reasons with the faithful, they see it as "anti" behavior. It's a no-win situation for me. And "engaging" prolongs a conversation I didn't initiate in the first place.) He asked if there was a time he could return. No. He asked for Spanish referrals. Again, no. (I actually thought that would one be obvious.) He bore his testimony about answers to prayer, never allowing for the possibility that I am not at all conflicted. How about starting with: Would you like to have a personal conversation with someone you don't know?
- 1:27 a.m. Aug. 1, 2013
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@Steve C. Warren
Yes, you're right. When a group (or church) of 4 become a group of 6 it's a growth rate of 50%, much higher than LDS Church. Perhaps the "fastest" characterization does not apply anymore (anymore implies it once did and some people are not aware of the latest statistics) or shifts from group to group but our growth seems to be steady with a few hiccups here and there.
- 6:07 a.m. Aug. 4, 2013
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Have had several of the "Junior Missionaries" already. They are not
able to utilize the Teach my Gospel Program. The discussions are mumbled,
stammered, halting, and leave out significant elements of the discussion.
I won't let them near friends or contacts until they get this fixed! More bodies in the field isn't going to change things if, they aren't prepared to do the work.
- 6:38 a.m. Aug. 4, 2013
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I do not belong to your faith, but I am impressed by how much response and rapid
growth there is.
The other faiths can say what they want, but there is no faster-growing missionary quantity that is so high in all the world right now.
I am not sticking up for the LDS faith by any means. And I think the missionaries are nuts for skipping out on boyfriends/girlfriends, marriage, college, careers, scholarships, and the prime years of their lives for this.
Especially with all of the stories I see about missionaries dying, getting hurt, and the like. I really don't understand why they bother to go because I feel they are being unwise. They really ought to consider perhaps doing those church service missions in Salt Lake City or something. I don't see why they have to go serve in these places full of problems and crime and danger.
I just think this is an unwise risk to take. There are ways to proselyte your message nowadays through the Internet, social media, blogs, and so forth without putting these young people's lives at risk.
- 4:39 p.m. Aug. 4, 2013
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@Brother Benjamin Franklin: Like all of society, bad news always travels the
fastest. Young LDS missionaries are exposed to less risk serving in most areas
than going on vacation to downtown New York. Certainly, there are much more
dangerous ways a person can spend their time. If every drug overdose or gang
shooting made the news, there wouldn't be enough space to print the news
everyday. Because these are good kids, an occasional accident or incident gets
press coverage that makes incidents seem commonplace. But in the end, the
mortality rate among LDS missionaries is probably low compared to the general
young adult population.
About sacrificing school, marriage, etc...it is not much of a sacrifice. When missionaries return after 2 years, they are frequently much more focused, highly motivated, and mature than other students in their college. Most will not be wasting their college time on stupidness. As far as marriage, delay is a good thing. Statistically, couples in their mid twenties are far more likely to have successful marriages, than those who marry very young.
LDS culture also values military service. In many cases, just like a mission, it prepares young adults for life.
- 6:12 p.m. Aug. 4, 2013
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Wow! just don't know how to respond to your comments. Ever heard of teaching by the Spirit? The missionaries dont have to be professional Teach My Gospel preachers. The Lord asks us to open our mouths. Stuttering, et al, is allowed.
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I know there's about twenty gazillion of them in the airport every Monday
when I fly out of town on business. Seems like by now everybody would already
be away on a mission.....
As an outsider, my compliments to your raising of these kids - so polite, respectful, yet full of excitement as they head out - I see this every week.
Maybe a short re-cap for them on how to prepare for a flight and the security would be in order; many of these kids seem like they have never been to an airport, much less flown on a plane, but again they are always a welcome sight - as long as there aren't 500 of them in front of me.
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Had to smile at Moniker L's experience. Difficult for her and the rest of
us "Exes", but it is the classic repeat on most doorsteps with former
members. Ms who wanna be all-they-can-be on your porch (with the Jr. watching),
and formers who keep learning over and over that The Church is not going to go
away quietly. You feel for these "kids" and don't want to be rude,
but they are a product of their training and environment... and parents and
I love my family and Church friends; they all mean well. They are hurt and shocked when active members leave. They cannot seem to wrap their minds around why you would leave the best that Heavenly Father offers. But if you grew up in the Church, you can better understand why the Ms on your porch usually push more than is polite. They really want to make sure that you are sure, and they really want to do the best they can do as a Church representative.
The stories are endless and not all bring smiles. Reps of the Church need to be receive sensitivity training.
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I'm looking at some old code, and seeing the following if statement:
if ([NSThread currentThread] != [NSThread mainThread])
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I'm suspicious because we are getting some crash reports (iOS 6 only) from the field that appear to be caused by code that needs to be run on the main thread that isn't. The code appears to be protected by the former if statement, but given the number of crashes we're seeing I'm not convinced.
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Hello, I have an Acer 5734Z (running Bodhi, technically, but based on Ubuntu.) And there is a problem where the backlight doesn't automatically turn on. In order to turn it on, I must hit the screen brightness keys on my laptop. I can also resume the backlight by typing into terminal:
(It is good to note that the backlight values are backwards on my computer, so 0 is brightest and 100 is the most dim.)Code:xbacklight -set 0
So, I have the following in /etc/pm/sleep.d:
When I first added this script, it ran beautifully. However, since I have restarted my computer, it hasn't worked. (I turn my computer off every night.) It doesn't seem that the script is even running. Does anyone know why? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!Code:#! /bin/bash #This makes the backlight set to 0 when the computer resumes. case $1 in suspend) #echo "Suspeding ..." ;; resume) COMMAND="xbacklight -set 0" ;; hibernate) #echo "Hibernating ..." ;; thaw) COMMAND="xbacklight -set 0" ;; esac exit 0


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The 5 Craziest Ways Public Schools Are Trying to Make Money
Even when economic times are good, most public schools are hard up for money, scraping by on outdated textbooks and school lunches made up of food rejected by prisoners. And economic times are not good.
Without getting into the politics of the situation, in general there just isn't enough money to go around for public schools. That means the schools have to get creative to make up the gap. After all, when the children's futures are at stake, should anything be off the table?
Well ... maybe.
#5. Plastering Ads Everywhere
The moment we started talking about ridiculous ways schools are trying to raise money, half of you immediately thought, What, are the plastering ads all over the buses? Ha!
Actually, they totally are.
Via braincocoa
Obesity 101.
For example, schools in Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey have all passed laws allowing ads to be splashed right on the side of their buses. It's perfect if you think about it: Your kids can start learning about the stark economic realities of life before they even get to school. "Lesson one, Billy: If you're too poor or young to own a car, then you have to ride a big yellow billboard to school every morning."
Via Houston Press
And how's your credit rating, Billy? That goes on your permanent report card, you know.
And, hell, why should it end when they get to school? Dammit, if there isn't at least one advertisement within full view of each child every second of the day, we're leaving money on the table! That's why other school districts are allowing gigantic ads on school lockers.
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In a subtle fuchsia tint.
But you have to think beyond just the walls -- think about all of that paperwork the schools are always handing out. You know, grade cards and stuff. Look at all the blank space around the margins! Surely you could cram some goddamned ads in there. And sure enough, some Florida schools decided to let the local McDonald's advertise on student report cards, provided that McDonald's paid roughly $1,600 for the envelopes. Never one to let an opportunity at America's youth go by, McDonald's bit on the offer and came up with this:
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Is this a threat for the children with low grades? Because that's just tasteless.
Of course a shitstorm of protests ensued, but the school board held firm. Besides, what makes bad news about failing grades go down better than a nice, juicy Quarter Pounder?
#4. Cash4Gold
Cash4Gold will be to this recession what the soup lines were to the Great Depression: a sad symbol of desperate times. It brings to mind weeping mothers mailing off their antique jewelry to be bought and melted down for pennies on the dollar.
You're not truly desperate until you trust your priceless heirlooms to the U.S. Postal Service.
So it only makes sense that after your child has learned the valuable lesson of how the modern economy runs on giant pictures of hamburgers, he or she can learn another valuable lesson about the market value for Grandma's old necklaces. Kids at Norton Elementary in Georgia got to witness this dynamic first hand when the school held a three-day cash for gold event on school grounds, during school hours.
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Now, it may be a fine idea in principle to turn the school into a pawn shop for three days to drum up some quick cash for the school, except that people getting rid of their valuables for quick cash were under no particular obligation to donate the cash to the school. Because of this, it's completely conceivable that Grandpa pawned his gold teeth and pocketed all the cash, leaving the school high and dry.
Sooo ... your Grandpa is pretty pimp?
Ah, what are we talking about? Pawn shops always attract the classiest customers! Wait, do those old wrestling trophies in the main hall display case have real gold on them? Melt that shit down! We have books to buy!
Wait, the price of gold has dropped? Burn the books, we've got a mob to start!
#3. Working the Casinos
It may not be surprising to hear that gambling gets used occasionally to raise money for good causes. Hell, numerous states already use proceeds from the lottery to fund schools -- that's basically the same thing.
So presumably this guy surrounded by hookers is the world's greatest philanthropist.
But not to be outdone, 83 Catholic schools in Alberta, Canada decided to go a step further and have charity casino nights. And we're not talking about using Monopoly money to play roulette while everybody giggles and drinks punch. We're talking real casinos. Parent associations formed the casino nights where the parents volunteered at actual local casinos for four to six hours of work while the other parents gambled. Because of the low overhead for the casino, the schools walk away with a ton of jack, usually somewhere around $70,000 for a single night of work. Holy shit! Why doesn't everybody do this?
Oh yeah, the "gambling" thing.
Realizing that raising funds via keeping Mom and Dad glued to the Blackjack table was probably not the best for the school's image, the Archbishop of Edmonton called for an end to the practice ... and was immediately objected to because the schools were making too much money off it. With an expected $6 MILLION expected from gambling over 18 months, the schools have no way to replace that kind of revenue. The money is used to help fund school meals, field trips and classroom equipment.
"Our math lesson today is how putting your college fund on double-pay bonus spins will really increase your payout on the slots."
Though can you imagine how much of a dick you'd feel like if you hit the fundraiser casino on a hot streak and cleaned them out? "Jackpot! I'll take that payment in the form of textbooks and janitors, bitches!"


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The NYU Events Calendar serves a central resource for information about events at the university. Events are contributed to the calendar by NYU schools, departments, centers and programs on an ongoing basis.
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I am trying to uniformly distribute a finite number of particles into a 2D search space to get me started with an optimization problem, but I am having a hard time doing it. I am thinking that it might have something to do with convex sets, but I might as well be totally off, so I am asking you guys of a proper way to do it .
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Grandma hanging out in the woods At least 28 trees fell last night all at the same time and hit my house. The lake is behind the root mass that is about eight feet tall. - submitted by Nancy Seymour
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Sycamore tree down Huge sycamore tree down on our house at 826 widener road elkins park pa.sunday morning 1:0 a.m. (credit: William Klug)
Cherry Street (credit: @picture_philly)
Woodbury MainStreet Route 45 closed in Woodbury. Officials fear debris from a building damaged by Tuesday's earthquake might get blown down on motorists. (credit: Bill Roswell)
Heights Tree Downed tree and utility lines in Woodbury Heights blocking Woodbury-Glassboro Road. Tree fell around 8:30 Saturday night. (credit: Bill Roswell)
Tree Uprooted my backyard a tree uprooted and split in half #HurricaneIrene (credit: @sthompson618)
'Woke up to trees down in my backyard' (credit: christiangolca)
'New Car?' Thanks Irene (credit: Kathy McLean, Lansdowne, Pa.)
'At Least We Have Firewood' (credit: Kathy McLean, Lansdowne, Pa.)
"Tree Down In My Backyard" (credit: Yolanda JimenezColon)
Kelly Drive (credit: Ashley Winkwith, Philadelphia)
Cindy Amoss of Morrisville is having a bad day... to say the least.
At Least it wore it's trunks!
Susan Tan-Torres of Audubon, it isn't cool to find this in your pool.
Andre K of Huntington Valley, what's the over/under that this car drives itself out of this mess?
You Shall Not Pass Part II
Andre K of Huntington Valley is The Lord of the Camera as he halts short of this massive downed tree.
Must Hate Dogs
Seriously guy? Timothy Simmons of Trenton NJ is as shocked as we are that this guy is walking his German Sheppard. At leasts it's not flooding...
You Shall Not Pass!
Even the police can't take down the flood waters at Philmont and Red Lion Road in Huntingdon Valley PA.
Tree Housed
This tree never had a chance, just ask Raj Bansal of King of Prussia.
Audrey Williams is utilizing her camera in Philadelphia when this tree busted clear through this sidewalk.
Heavy Rains
Fran Myers is getting nervous in East Vineland. We don't blame her.
Oh Snap!
No you didn't Irene! Audrey Williams of Philadelphia, PA had to woke up to this sickening sight Sunday morning on Hellerman Street.
The Mail Must Go Through?
Brian Rivers of Franklinville, N.J. snaps another great shot! Hello Newman!
Local flooding
Brian Rivers of Franklinville, N.J. is no stranger to local flooding. At least not anymore...
tree damage
Rising levels
Greg White of Willingboro says "Good morning!" after waking up to the rising Cooper River.
Mike Trakas of Wilmington, DE woke to this downed tree in Brandywine at Park Lovering Ave and Franklin Street.
Baltimore Pike is a mess!
Pat Hall in Newark, Delaware might decide twice before drving through this water at Walther Road between Route 40 and oOd Baltimore Pike.
Pondering this Pond
Janice Gross of National Park, New Jersey has contacted the authorities several times about the faultiness of her homes structure. This is her front yard. Next step, find a boat....
Truckin' Along
David Flores captures another great shot of the Brandywine's flooding banks.
White Waters
Julie Ann Bricker of Royersford has a picket bridge that matches these roaring white waters perfectly.
Rapids Rapidly Raging
David Flores captures another shot of the Brandywine rapids.
Where's the Brandywine banks?
David Flores of West Chester has sent out the warning... The Brandywine is flooded!
Rain, rain, go away...
Sicklerville, NJ is underwater in some areas. Thanks Adrea Miller!
Holly Bailey of Brookhaven, PA is all over this giant tree that toppled down on Commerce Avenue.
Irene is knocking on the door of Marge Mosher in Hatboro. She's probably not welcomed.
No, this isn't the streets of Philadelphia but Andrea Schmitt of Phoenixville sent us this photo from Puerto Rico after the islands battle with Irene.
Time to Panic
Ok, so Ryann in Bucks County has just informed us that the Dairy Queen near Lenape Park is taking on water. While fire rescue is on site people begin evacuating their apartments at the nearby Covered Bridge Apartments... Not the Dairy Queen!
Late night foos
Drew Townsend of Wilmington... sign him up!
Here comes the sun... do do do do
Old York Road is flooding! Just ask Marge Mosher of Hatboro she tell you what's up.
I'm on a boat...
Well at least a some point captain Pete Palumbo of Tuckerton was on his boat. Now it's all Irene's.
In came the animals two by two...
Iraida Martinez looks on as the rains in Vineland as her sister Natalie (the mouse) and bf Josh (big bird) perform a traditional rain dance...
Dude, Where's My Car?
Sorry Adam Hedrick you're car was last seen at Brookside Terrace Apartments near RT 611...
Ashley Kehler in Pottstown is the odd man out as Vivianna and Toby prepare to evacuate.
Alisa Williams of Bellmwar NJ would probably love the Atlantic City slots to flow like its streets.
Thomas Pestritto in Atlantic City, hopefully not anymore, isn't going very far in this bad boy...
Tookany Creek Tips Banks
Adam Hedrick sends us yet another Tookany Creek overflow shot...
I just painted that fence!
Just a breeze...
We don't know his name... and we might never find out!
Lincoln Creek
Lincoln River, I mean Lincoln Drive around 11:30pm.
Walking on Water
Illusionist Tom Ankrum appears to be walking on water at Wildwood Crest, or is he?
Brianna Davis says Irene is the culpret to this act of vandalism in Harrington Delaware.
Hurricane Irene brings down a tree that decides to then take a swim in the pool
Hurricane Irene brings down a tree that decides to then take a swim in the pool
Road Rage
William McFarland took this Egg Harbor Township, NJ shot of heavy street flooding at the end of Blue Spruce Ave and Doughty Road.
Pro's and con's of a hurricane...
Marty Magee's in Prospect Park, PA sits directly next to a frequently flooding bridge. Today they screwed the doors shut, foam sealed the doors and sandbagged the bar. But have no fear! They're running drink specials until there's three inches of water in the bar! Then they're shutting down power and heading for higher grounds! This special may be over...
Dog Days of Summer
Kathleen Dixon of Winslow, NJ is keeping us updated on her current situation, "Since our Huskies are not fond of the rain, I fashioned raincoats out of Heavy Duty Trash bags and Velcro tape. Here Kiska Models on the Catwalk." Looks like Kiska's been working out.
Big Boy Boots
Hey mom look what I can do! Only 6-months old and already a die hard Phillies phan, Owen Murzynski is ready to walk all over Hurricane Irene like the Phils on the rest of the National League!
Rain or Shine
Joey and Kim Zaczek were married on the day of Hurricane Irene! The hurricane didn't stop the love birds from tying the knot although it might be a wet honey moon! Thanks for capturing the moment Andrew Lippincott.
J Quintiliani of Drexel Hill just heard the news 'Evacuate OCNJ!"
Soggy Smooch
Jeffrey Jacobsen of Collegeville captures this sweet gesture between brother (Thomas) and sister (Kathryn) as the rain and wind of Irene continues to gain strength...
Primo Real Estate
This "Prime"-o Wildwood beach spot is not so high and dry as James Pearce of Villas, NJ snaps this soggy shot.
flood waters
Eyes of the storm
Hunter Berry of Bridegton New Jersey snapped this in"sight"ful shot over Sunset Lake. Photoshoped?
Go Away Irene!
Karyn Wertz from Langhorne has tapped into her sweet tooth during Irene's rampage.
Morey's Pier
Joey Joey sent CBS Philly this picture of the ocean hitting the boardwalk in Wildwood off Roberts Ave. The shot is looking towards Morey's Pier and the Great White Rollar Coaster around 10PM.
Plywood message My Dad (Tony) placing his artistic styling on the plywood. Before the storm Friday morning about 10am. - Submitted by Tony Castagna of Petersburg, NJ
OC, NJ View Eye on Irene at the Ocean City beach. 530pm - Submitted by Kevin J of Ocean City, NJ
Weatherman in Training Description * "Weatherman" Micaiah Balonek keeps us updated on Irene's progress - Submitted by Mike Balonek of Fort Washington, PA
Trampoline Breakdown Preparing for Hurricane Irene by taking apart tampoline. Weighed down by sand bags and weights. - Submitted by Felicia Kelley of Quakertown, PA
Wakeboarding Amy Kushlan knee-boarding on the Susquehanna at peach bottom as Irene approaches this afternoon we want her mom to see what she is doing - Submitted by Amy Kushlan of Lancaster, PA
Millville This is my taxi business in MILLVILLE, NJ and I made sure its protected against Hurricane Irene for my customers. - Submitted by RUBEN VAZQUEZ of Millville, NJ
Macfarland Street Flooding at the end of Blue Spruce Ave and Doughty Road. - submitted by William McFarland of Egg Harbor Twp. NJ
From Samuel Wear, Landisville Batteries are sold out at a local Radio Shack.
Empty Ice Chest, from Samuel Wear of Landisville, NJ This was typical at noon today as I hit various stores searching for bagged ice that I should have bought yesterday.
Waltmart Boarded Up in NJ, from Lynn Siligato A boarded up Walmart braces for the hurricane.
JD Marley from Sabrina Miles of Bridgeton, NJ JD "Marley" is prepared to ride out Hurricane Irene!
Kookie from Debra Devore of Glen Mills, PA Kookie hopes everyone will be safe during the hurricane, but if need be give her a call!
Covering Tomato Plants in South Philly (Credit: Brandi De Matto) Covering Tomato Plants
Measuring Stick Measuring Stick In Place In Tuckerton Beach, New Jersey (Credit: Pete Palumbo)
Bottled Water Shelves Bottled Water Shelves At The Haddonfield Acme (Credit: Steve Butler)
Kids Still Have Fun In The Rain My little girl Marlana when the rain first started for Hurricane Irene. (Credit: Mar Carey, Clayton, NJ)
Shrimp Boat, Atlantic North Carolina
Gizmo and Mosley Two South Philly Shih Tzus, Gizmo and Mosley, all ready for Irene! (Credit: Lori Vega)
Ritas Water Ice Rita's Water Ice of Cape May, NJ prepared for Hurricane Irene (credit: Lisa Russo, Cape May, NJ)
Calm Before The Storm The calm before the storm. Bright sun and calm waters bring people to the beach for one last day before the evacuation. (credit: Sarah Miele of Surf City, NJ)
Homeland Security/FEMA Homeland Security/FEMA delivering 25KW emergency power generator to the Mercer County Airport in Ewing NJ in advance of hurricane Irene. Taken at about 4 p.m. 8/26/11 (credit: Andrew Auletta of Ewing, NJ )
Atlantic City Evacuations (credit: Hadas Kuznits/KYW Newsradio)
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Shore evacuees line up for gas at the Ocean View rest stop above Sea Isle on the Garden State Parkway.(credit: Mike DeNardo)
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What is a good set of skills for a newer player in Dungeons of Dredmor?
The "easier" skills are those that are least situational, those that are constantly useful and don't require leveling up a lot before becoming so.
My "easiest" builds so far have been very combat-centric selections, and will normally consist of (in no particular order):
If you don't fancy the effort of Fungal Arts, swap it out for Perception. It's another passive skill (or less to think about), which lets you see further and adds bonuses to your Dodge and Enemy Dodge Reduction scores so helps in combat.
You could also consider Viking Wizardry if you don't want to consider your mana wasted, the level 1 buff spell is very useful in combat at the start of the game, but the skill tree does become less useful as you level up and get better equipment so it might be something you want to neglect.
It depends on what style of character you want to play. You should pick at least one melee weapon skill or unarmed for any character. For defense you want Master of Arms or Artful Dodger (or both). I tend to favor Master of Arms because Walk It Off provides some healing. Be sure to match the armor you wear to the skill you picked.
For magic using characters Ley Walker is essential for mana regeneration. Alchemy and Blood Magic can also provide mana. Fleshsmithing is a good choice for healing. For offensive magics Promethean is the most direct damage focused and Viking magic is the most physical damage buffing. Magic training is unnecessary, but makes all your magic more powerful.
Physical attack based characters need good defense so you should focus on Master of Arms first and then whatever other defensive and melee skills you want. Assassination can provide bonus damage.
I do not recommend a ranged attack based character for a beginner. The lack of ammo can be a real pain at times. If you really want to use ranged weapons leveling crossbow/throwing first will let you recover more ammo, but it's still not enough. Levels in tinker will allow you to craft crossbow ammo, but you will also want smithing so you can craft the ingots needed to make the ammo. For a ranged character Artful Dodger and Mathemagic both provide early ways to get the hell away from enemies and not have to melee, but getting swarmed and killed is still common.
Crafting in general is more trouble than it's worth. Archeology is a much easier way to get powerful items and can turn your unwanted artifacts into bonus experience. It also helps you avoid and disarm traps.
I would agree with what everyone is saying about a combat centric character, but one thing that I didnt see in the write-ups is the build i am currently doing on rogue permadeath, which I have seen posted in other places.
This build is the shit, even for a newer character, very powerful early game, first few levels are basically a joke with this build, almost regardless of what drops you get.
Here it is (note: i just got the new Expansion pack so I threw the Big Game Hunter skill into this build but it works quite well as it gets you a lot of extra food, and eventually tons of extra experience) :
Staves - as people have previously said, the best weapon in the game is a Staff, and for the most part, all of the high level staves I have seen are freaking amazing.
Dual Wield - great damage / defense buffs, and the ability to use 2 amazing staves at the same time.
Burglary - havent leveled this up past the first level, I basically only got this for the free lock picks, which are crucial
Perception - with the skills I selected you have enough rogue points to basically automatically disarm about 60-70% of the traps in the first few levels, lots of free exp.
Artful Dodger - Great for escaping / defense bonuses
Master of Armor - again defense buffs
Big Game Hunter - this skill is new in the expansion that just came out, and it seems pretty cool you basically get free food from killing animals (like 50% chance) which is cool its almost like vampirism although you can still eat food obviously. Also later on you get experience bonuses from killing animals.
Skill Order : Basically I put one level into burglary so I could have unlimited lock picks, and then i put every level into staves and then every level into dual wielding. In the first level about halfway through I was one shotting every enemy or bringing them down to like 10 percent health. In the second level I was scared because I hit the monster zoo almost immediately when i went up, but I had just gotten the area attack staff skill, and I had soooo much food from dominating the first level, and I rocked the bejeezus out of the monster zoo and killed everything (2 shotting most creatures) Soon after I was one shotting every creature on level 2 except for named monsters I havent gotten to the end game yet with the build (im waiting on them to fix this teleportation loop bug that is going around) but I feel like this is much easier than the build similar to this that uses vampirism.
After several matches, I found a very good fighter character:
For a mage, I like the following skills: Alchemy, Bloodmage, Mathemagic, Promethean Magic, Golemancy, Magic Training and Psionics or Necronomiconomics ;)
I've had a lot of success with a build that is very user friendly and low maintenance, no skills to cast, no crafting to manage, pretty much straight forward as you can get. I think it'd be great for a beginner.
Just get yourself some items with Health Regen, and you're golden, because the new Vamp works off of health regen, and with the combined dodge bonuses on Unarmed and Artful Dodger, you become very hard to hit, add in Battle Geology's nice defensive buffs, and I found this character had some great survivability. I got to floor 11 before killing myself with my own attacks (lol, damn Thaumite books) so I'll assume it's pretty solid. Zerker rage also gives you a nice defensive buff, plus the third skill is very good defense.
lol, yeah yeah, I doubt anyone is reading this but I had to share! :P
i finished on rogue and permadeath. i used promethean magic, blood mage, tinkering(for traps) alchemy, wands, necroeconomics and rogue scientist. i relied heavily on encrusting weapons and armour. if you develop promethean, necro and rogue scientis you finish with 3 or 4 skills of mass destruction and 2 or 3 skills of single monster assassination. tinkering will also give you some nice bolts and cool traps. i used 2 orbs for magic power and encrusted them with 'real holy shield'. tenebrous rift gave me no penalties. in monster zoos i remained with full mana. rogue scientist save me a lot of times because of that suoer punch and the acid projector. i had tried many other builds. died hubdreds of times. this one was ridiculously easy. hope you guys also try this build and have fun
One loadout i really like using is...
2.Dual weilding
6.Master of arms
7.Berserker rage
The combination of Swords, Assassination and Berserker rage give you a rediculus damage output early on, it becomes even better when you have two good swords. Werediggle gives you an extra boost whenever you get in tough situations while having a cost of nothing.


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Burke and Mary Jane Goebel, Jetmore, are pleased to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Lacey Marie Goebel to Ross Allen Kee, son of Allen and Marcy Kee, Beloit, Kan.
Grandparents of the bride are Theresa Downey, Spearville; the late William Downey, and the late Howard and Vera Goebel. The groom's grandparents are Loren and Leona Newell, Damar, Kan. and the late William Kee.
The bride-to-be graduated from Jetmore High School and is a 2010 graduate of Fort Hays State University with a bachelor's degree in elementary education and mathematics. She will be attaining her master's degree this May from FHSU in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). In the future, she plans to attain her PhD in educational administration. She is currently an ESOL teacher/supervisor for the Hays school district.
The prospective groom graduated from St. John's High School, Beloit, Kan. andis a 2011 graduate of Newman University with a bachelor's degree in biology. He currently attends the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry. After graduation, he plans to attend oral surgery school.
The wedding is set for 2 p.m. Saturday, July 27, 2013 at St. Fidelis Catholic Church, Victoria, Kan.
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Private schools featured in gallery at Chapman Cultural Center
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Students from local private schools and the COLORS program are featured in the monthly Student Art Exhibit at Chapman Cultural Center for December. The schools are St. Paul The Apostle Catholic School, Spartanburg Day School, Oakbrook Preparatory School, Montessori Academy, and Spartanburg Charter School. COLORS is an after-school program for inner-city kids.
The exhibit is free and open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and on 1-5 p.m. Sunday. The exhibit ends Jan. 6.
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I have seen it stated that Proj of any graded ring $A$, finitely generated as an $A_0$-algebra, is isomorphic to Proj of a graded ring $B$ such that $B_0 = A_0$ and $B$ is generated as a $B_0$-algebra by $B_1$.
Could someone either supply a reference for or a sketch a proof of this statement?
Note: An obvious approach to this question is to make $B$ a Veronese subring of $A$. However, when I try this approach, I end up getting a terrible combinatorics problem that I do not know how to approach.


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We're trying to set things up so that the posts also go to twitter accounts. The Facebook pages in question were previously manually linked via the admins to the corresponding twitter accounts via facebook.com/twitter. However although manual posts on the facebook pages cross-post to twitter ok, the programmatic posts via the api (whether as the page admin or the page) don't show up there.
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The final workshop in a series devoted to teaching and learning with young children.
How do we prepare children to participate in a democratic society, especially in an educational climate driven by testing, standards, assessment, and accountability? Schools remain a potent tool for teaching students how to be citizens, and teachers are critical to the process. Yet less and less time is available for allowing young children the type of activities—and play—that would help them understand what it means to be a citizen in a democracy.In this April 2013 workshop, Lesley Director of Early Childhood Programs Ben Mardell, Professor Emerita Nancy Carlsson-Paige, and professional development coordinator for Ready to Learn Providence (and PreK teacher) Bethany Carpenter spoke to a full audience of early childhood educators from the Boston area. To open, Nancy remembered the 1970s, when schools were able to dedicate more time to the ideals of peace, empathy, and democracy. Lesley itself housed the Center for Peaceable Schools and Communities, which Nancy helped found. It held workshops, consulted for school systems, and developed resource materials. It would be beneficial, she suggested, to return to the principles developed in those earlier years, to help students "be human."
But how can schools make the connection between classroom and community? Through his extensive work in early childhood classrooms, Ben had noticed a disconnect between children in the classroom, who seemed "big," articulate, and creative, and children outside the classroom, who seemed smaller and less worldly by comparison. We need, he said, to perceive children as big, as well as capable of participation. It helps to think of them as citizens, he said-and it helps to consider schools as civic institutions that contribute to society and community wellbeing.One way of developing children as citizens is to focus on their unique expertise and what they can contribute to society. He shared a delightful example, the "Places to Play in Providence: A Guide to the City by Our Youngest Citizens" project. To show participants in a National Association of Educators of Young Children (NAEYC) Professional Development Institute where the best places to play in the city were, children in community-based centers and home-based programs throughout the city were asked by their teachers where their favorite places to play were. Interested children were then supported in creating a page for a guidebook for those attending the institute. Through this project, children used literary and higher order thinking skills to create what became a gift to welcome conference participants to Providence. It provided a way to challenge assumptions about children's abilities, and to see what learning can look like in a "big" voice of children.
The Places to Play in Providence guidebook project was a collaborative effort of Ready to Learn Providence (R2LP), Making Learning Visible (MLV). The two organizations partnered to form the R2LP/MLV Peer Network, which was funded through a "Peer Network Grant" offered by the Rhode Island Association for the Education of Young Children and BrightStars. In discussing the project, Bethany related how the teachers integrated the project into the curriculum after attending a professional development workshop on the topic. Teachers asked children first what they thought play is, and where they like to play and why. They then drew the places. Peer to peer and group feedback led to some changes, and then the book was created.In an article about the project in an NAEYC publication, Ben Mardell and Bethany Carpenter say that during the project, "teachers treat children as citizens-not as hypothetical or future citizens, but as contemporary members of their community. They see children as capable of constructing and communicating complex ideas, adding their unique and valuable perspectives…. Children's relationships with their community are acknowledged and nurtured, benefiting both children (who are engaged in meaningful learning) and adults (who come to see the world in new ways).
The workshop concluded with Nancy, Ben and Bethany encouraging participants to think of ways, large or small, that they can nurture their children's relationships with their communities. In doing so, teachers will create powerful learning opportunities for children, enhance their own professional development and raise the political profile of early childhood education. Some Favorite Places to Play in Providence, Written by the Children
(Waterplace Park) "I'm standing at the bottom of the hill and this is the hill and this is the thing you jump off of. --Pepper, age 4.
(Lippert Park) "Kids like to play in parks, and [this] is a park. You could bring chalk and play with it. You could bring your toys from home and play with them. You can make new friends." --Paola
(Providence Performing Arts Center) "You can hear The Lion King. You can see The Lion King. It's a good show, and it's in the nighttime. Kids can sleep there because it's a long show." --Alfie, age 5.
Additional examples of children's participation in their communities:
Boulder Civic AreaChildren's memorial for 9/11
Municipality of Reggio Emilia (2000). Reggio tutta: A guide to the city by the children. Reggio Emilia, Italy: Reggio Children.
Gambetti, A., & Piazza, G. (1987). The amusement park for birds. Reggio Emilia, Italy: Reggio Children.Vecchi, V. (2002). Theater curtain: The ring of transformation. Reggio Emilia, Italy: Reggio Children
Selected bibliography:
Coady, M. (2008). Beings and becomings: historical and philosophical considerations of the child as citizen. In G. MacNaughton, P. Hughes, & K. Smith (Eds.), Young children as active citizens: Principles, policies, and pedagogies. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.Dewey, J. (1916). Democracy and education. New York: Macmillan.Hall, E.L., & Rudkin, J.K. (2011). Seen & heard: Children's rights in early childhood education. New York: Teachers College Press.Krechevsky, M., Mardell, B., Rivard, M., & Wilson, D. (2013). Visible learners: Promoting Reggio-inspired approaches in all schools. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.Mardell, B. & Carpenter, B. (2012). Places to Play in Providence: Children as Citizens. Young Children. 67(5), 76-78.Mardell, B. & Carpenter, B. (2012). The Making Learning Visible/Ready To Learn Providence Peer Network. In G. Perry (ed.), Our inquiry, our practice: Undertaking, supporting and learning from teacher research(ers). Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children. Mardell, B. & Howard, A. (2012). Inquiry as a team sport. Voices of the Practitioner: Teacher Research in Early Childhood Education 7(1), 11-15.Sarason, S. (1996) Revisiting "The culture of the school and the problem of change." New York: Teachers College Press.The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). Office of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights.
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