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Two ECU undergrads spent their Spring Break on a service trip to Vladimir, Russia, a small town near Moscow on Russia's historical "Golden Ring." Jason Port, a freshman Russian and Security Studies double major, and Mac Carneiro, a junior studying Russian and Criminal Justice, decided to experience first-hand the language and culture they learned about in classes this year. They took advantage of an "Alternative Spring Break" service trip run by the Vladimir-based American Home, and spent 10 days in the Russian heartland, helping Russian children in an orphanage and pre-school, and elderly military veterans in a retirement home. During their stay in Vladimir – a town of 350,000 – Mac and Jason each lived with Russian host families. Despite initial language challenges, by the third or fourth day both students felt they were already communicating well. They credited the language instruction they receive at ECU for preparing them: "We were much more communicative in Russian than most of the other Americans, some of whom had studied it much longer than us."
Major Awards won by Amanda Keating, Anna Lawrence, and Daniel Franch
CONGRATULATIONS, AMANDA and ANNA!
"Recently I was awarded a scholarship from the International Foreign Language Honor Society, Phi Sigma Iota. I am very grateful for the society's contribution to my studies and I will be using the scholarship funds to pay for my upcoming study abroad through East Carolina University in Strasbourg, France. This scholarship would not have been possible without the support and help of my professors in the French section of the Foreign Language Department at ECU. I love French language and culture and am aspiring to be a French teacher. This upcoming Fall semester I will be interning as a student teacher in Rocky Mount before graduating with my BS in French Education in December. Frank Smith said, "A different language is a different vision of life."
The ECU Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi has named Anna A. Lawrence, a dual degree student in anthropology and Hispanic studies, as the recipient of the 2015-2016 Eldean Pearce Graduate Fellowship. She will receive $1,500 from the chapter and will be ECU's nominee in the national graduate fellowship competition. Lawrence is also a member of the honors college and she completed an undergraduate internship with Dr. Christine Avenarius and her honors thesis in Spanish linguistics with Dr. Stephen Fafulas.
(Reprinted from an ECU Now post by –Jessica Nottingham)
ECU Honors College student and triple major Daniel Franch has been named a recipient of an English teaching assistant award from the highly-competitive Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Franch, who is graduating in May with a degree in history, history education and German, is one of 140 students in the United States to receive a $30,000 grant that will support his international experience in East Germany teaching English for a year.
"For most countries, the competition is very stiff," said Birgit Jensen, the Fulbright advisor at ECU. "In 2015, only eight applicants out of 98 for the Australia study grants were chosen. That same year, there were 381 applicants for English Teaching Assistantships in Germany and 127 were selected. Germany awards more grants than other countries because it funds additional stipends from its end."
Franch, who worked in ECU's University Writing Center for the past three years, will assist a lead teacher with English instruction in a German K–12 English classroom. In addition to teaching, he is also required to engage the local community as part of the Fulbright grant. He has proposed to join the local environmental organization and learn ways to increase sustainability practices.
"It seemed like an excellent opportunity to spend a year in Germany spreading goodwill between the United States and Germany," said Franch, who is the ninth student from ECU selected as a Fulbright. "I had the choice to pick three federal states and I chose all former East German states, because the former East is still economically behind the rest of Germany."
With ECU's German Club, Franch spent nine days over spring break volunteering in Munich in conjunction with local organizations to assimilate displaced refugees.
"We taught basic German such as the alphabet, important survival phrases and traffic rules in addition to playing Frisbee and basketball with the refugees," said Franch.
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for individually designed study and research projects or for English teaching assistant programs. A candidate will submit a Statement of Grant Purpose defining activities to take place during one academic year in a participating country outside the U.S., according to the program's website.
"We know that to be successful ECU graduates must be more globally aware, more globally competent, and more globally competitive," said Dr. William M. Downs, dean of the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences. "We're delighted that Danny Franch has earned a prestigious Fulbright award for study in Germany, as it will provide him with precisely the kind of extended immersion experience that can enrich his personal growth and enhance his professional prospects. Speaking from personal experience (Fulbright to Belgium, '92-'93), I can safely say that this opportunity will give Danny a lifetime's worth of important connections and lasting inspirations."
Faculty Teaching Awards, Grants and Recognitions, Spring 2016
Prof. Laura Levi Altstaedter was named a 2015-16 Board of Governors Distinguished Professor for Teaching, and is the winner of the Robert L. Jones Award for Outstanding Teaching.
· ECU News Story about the Founders Day Awards Ceremony
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures recognized two faculty for their Outstanding Commitment to Teaching for 2015-16: Lisa Ellison (Classical Studies) from the fixed term faculty; and Birgit Jensen (German) from the tenured faculty.
Prof. Jensen was also selected to attend the Leipzig Summer Academy for American Faculty in German and German Studies, through a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service and US Fulbright Commission (co-sponsored).
Prof. Ellison was also nominated and selected by the Women's Basketball team as an honorary coach.
The Department said farewell to Prof. Carrie Carman-Jewers, pictured at left, who is leaving at the end of this academic year, but generously coordinated this recognition of other faculty. She will be missed greatly by Hispanic Studies and all of us who appreciated her wonderful spirit. This year she was recognized with two college star acknowledgements and two nominations as most influential faculty member.
Prof. Stephen Fafulas, pictured at right, was recognized with an Award for exceptional contributions to the College and University through Creativity and Initiative in implementing the teacher-scholar model through community-engaged research with undergraduate students.
This year also marks the retirement of Sylvie Debevec Henning, Chair 1997-2004, and Director of International Programs and the MAIS 2004-2013. Prof. Henning was instrumental in bringing to ECU federal Department of Education grants in support of the establishment of Russian Studies and Asian Studies as disciplines on this campus, and built bridges with Foreign Languages throughout the university and community with efforts like the Great Decisions Program and her membership on the World Affairs Council of Eastern North Carolina.
Prof. Ben Fraser completed the Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy (shown here with Michael Van Scott, left, Kate Baker (MAIS), Joanna Paul (EC Scholar) and Lillie Malpass (EC Scholar) and Provost Ron Mitchelson)
Prof. Rosa Lopez-Cañete was recognized for her excellence in teaching by the Golden Key Honor Society.
Prof. Javier Lorenzo was recognized with an Excellence in Teaching Award by The National Society of Leadership and Success (Sigma Alpha Pi). He was also recipient of a Faculty Senate Research and Creative Activities Awards in support of his research this summer.
Prof. John Stevens was also recipient of the Faculty Senate Research and Creative Activities Award for his research on "Xenophon's Republic".
Prof. David Smith was recipient of a BB&T Active Learning Grant in support of Teaching innovation. The grant supports curriculum redesign to involve students in the learning process, whether through partner/small group work and presentations, serving as discussion leaders etc.
Prof. Jennifer Valko received a grant in support of the development of Alternative Textbooks.
Prof. Tricia Wilson-Okamura was honored for her contributions to teaching by the Office of Retention Programs and Undergraduate Studies
May 6, 2016. FLL Awards and Graduation Recognition Ceremony. Sci-Tech C307. 3pm.
March 29, 2016. Helping Refugees in Europe: A Student-led Discussion. 6:15pm MSC 244.
ECU's German Club invites you to
"Helping Refugees in Europe: A student-led discussion"
Come hear ECU students share their experiences helping refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan in Munich, Germany, over spring break.
Tuesday, 29 March
6:15 – 7:30 p.m.
Mendenhall Student Center #244
This trip was made possible by the generous support of ECU's Student Government Association, Office of the Provost, Thomas Harriot College of Arts & Sciences, and Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy.
Contact: Dr. David Smith
Student Achievements in Classical Studies, 2016
Mia Willis will be attending The American Excavations at Kenchreai four-week archaeological field school this summer. Sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies and directed by Vanderbilt University professor Joseph Rife, the program will include data analysis, artifact processing and conservation, on-site exploration, architectural survey and stratigraphic documentation. During the field school, her academic focus will be the integration of non-native paganism into a Greco-Roman cultural area, with the site's cult of Isis as the case study for her research.
- Mia is also recipient of the 2016 Anthony J. Papalas Scholarship in Classical Studies and the Grover and Jessie Rogers Scholarship in Archeology.
- Hannah Forde-Smith, BS University Studies (Mentor John Stevens), is giving an oral presentation at Research and Creative Achievement Week on "Understanding Justice Through the Myth of Perses: Reflections on Hesiod's Works and Days"
- Mia Willis, BA MULT: Classical Civilization, is giving an oral presentation at INTERSECTIONS: ARTS AND SCIENCES on "Greco-Roman Paganism in the Architectural Culture of the Southern Levant During the Roman Empire"
- Jacob Parks gave an oral presentation at the Fifth Annual Undergraduate Classics Conference at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville on "Augustus and the Army: Success, Failure and Reform" for which he received travel support from the ECU Office of Undergraduate Research.
April 7-8, 2016. Lectures by C.D.C. Reeve on Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Aristotle
April 11, 2016. German Dinner, Ledonia Wright Cultural Center. Reserve tickets $3 by April 4
April 4-8, 2016. Research and Creative Achievement Week
Presentations at Research and Creative Achievement Week by FLL students:
Tuesday April 5.
Mia Willis, BA MULT: Classical Civilization. Oral Presentation. 9:20-9:30am. "Greco-Roman Paganism in the Architectural Culture of the Southern Levant During the Roman Empire"
Wednesday April 6.
Elisa Alfonso, Double major Music and BA Hispanic Studies. Oral Presentation. MSC Great Room 1. 11:15-11:30. UO11. "The Morphological Characteristics of Step-pool Systems in Tropical and Non-Tropical Environments."
Kristen Fulcher, BS Biochemistry, BA Chemistry and Hispanic Studies minor, Poster Presentation. MSC Social Room. UP99. 10:15am-12:15pm. UP99 "Macronutrient Intake of Pregnant Exercisers and Non-Exercisers"
Spencer Jackson, Double Major BS Biology and BA French. Oral Presentation. MSC Great Room 1. 10:30am-11:45am. UO10. "Suppression of claudin-7 enhances human lung cancer cell survival"
Aenia Amin, BS MULT: Neuroscience, BA Psychology, and BA Hispanic Studies, Poster Presentation. 10:15am-12:15pm. UP23. "The Role of Prenatal Hormone Exposure on Neurobehavioral Alterations in a Rat Model of Autism Spectrum Disorders"
HUMANITIES MSC Great Room 1.
Hannah Forde-Smith, BS University Studies (Mentor John Stevens), Oral Presentation. 1:30-1:45. UO13. "Understanding Justice Through the Myth of Perses: Reflections on Hesiod's Works and Days"
Daniel Franch, Triple Major BS History Ed, BA History and BA German. (Mentor David Smith). Oral Presentation. 2:15-2:30. UO16. "Reimagining Home: 'Heimat' and Identity in Friederike Unger's 'Bekenntnisse einer schöner Seele' (1806)".
Morgan Shelor. BA Hispanic Studies. Oral Presentation. 2-2:15pm. UO15. "The Influence of Parental Involvement on Student Learning when Language and Cultural Barriers for Parents of ESL Students Exist".
SOCIAL SCIENCES MSC Great Room 3.
Anna Lawrence, Double major BA Hispanic Studies and BA Anthropology. (Mentor Stephen Fafulas). Oral Presentation. 11:45am-12pm. UO31. "Morphosyntactic variation of subject pronoun expression in an emerging dialect of Spanish in eastern North Carolina"
William Sokolovic. BA Hispanic Studies. Oral Presentation. 8:15-8:30am. UO18. "The Organizer's Handbook: A Framework for Effective Social Change"
Paige Vaughan. Double major BA English and BA German; and Daniel Franch. (Mentor Jill Twark). Oral Presentation. 11:30-11:45am. UO30. "Student Co-teaching in a Postsecondary Foreign Language Classroom"


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How to Enjoy Romance After Having Kids
In This Article:
Accepting yourself, with love
The key to a strong relationship is for both partners to work together toward a common goal. That's best done if each of you is clear about your individual goals and can communicate them to one another. Your task, then, is to discover your life's purpose. I'm not talking about anything big, like saving the world or earning millions of dollars. I'm talking about the day-to-day things that spell satisfaction—the things that make your life fulfilling and happy.
Womanly Wisdom
The greatest satisfaction comes from the smallest things—sharing a few quiet moments with your partner, seeing the joy in your child's eyes when she learns something new. Attend to these, and you'll discover that your life is very rich.
When you accept yourself with your limitations you will be able to accept your mate with his limitations. When you have acceptance of each other you can go about the business of enjoying your life together. You'll recognize the need to negotiate certain aspects of your life and delegate responsibilities in ways you perceive as fair, but you will stop trying to change one another to suit what you think you need in a partner and begin instead to enjoy each other for who you really are.
Laughter Is Truly the Best Medicine
The best way to redefine your relationship with your partner, when it comes to your romantic life and raising children together, is to always have a sense of humor. Your life will never be as you expect it to be—just when you're beginning to enjoy the perfect romantic evening, the baby will wake up and start crying or your toddler will decide she needs another drink of water. These little frustrations can seem huge at the time, but if you can laugh at the unexpected, you'll find it easier to keep them in their true perspective.
Momma Said There'd Be Days Like This
Recently I broke my heel bone and was laid up for months. I felt very sorry for myself and for all the plans that were now out the window, but when I stopped brooding I realized that there was a positive side to my injury. My children were overjoyed to have me available to color with them and just sit and talk. And because I needed their help, they learned a valuable lesson about sympathy for others. And they learned to do for themselves some things that they once expected me to do for them. My accident gave us all an opportunity to grow closer.
Savoring the Moments of Your Life
It isn't the amount of time you spend with your family, but how present you are when you are together. You can learn to be more present, in much the same way people learn to meditate. When you are with your children, try to separate from all the noise and the chatter and focus on just being with them.
And this is important in your relationship with your partner, as well. When you are together, especially when you are going to be intimate, savor every moment and be mentally and emotionally present. Turn off the television, light a candle if you want to, but mostly just concentrate on your love.
The relationship between you and your partner forms the foundation for your children's lives. If you are able to create a strong base for them, they will be able to go out into the world with confidence and love. So even if you are too pooped to pop, you need to make love, sex, and emotional intimacy a priority in your life. You can have beautifully folded laundry, great meals, and a spotless house but without intimacy in your relationship you'll find that all the rest is unfulfilling.
Life is to be enjoyed, and if you are fortunate enough to find love, treat it as the precious gift it truly is. Children are far more important than laundry and husbands are far more important than clean houses. So if, in all the competing demands for your attention, some things have to slide, let it be the housework, not the humans.
When you strengthen your relationship with your partner through love and compromise, you are not the only ones to benefit. Your children will be much better off as well, growing up in a home without conflict. So even when you are tired, remember to fan the flames of your love as often as you can. Make romance a priority, and your home will be a much happier place.
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The National Association of Basketball Coaches West All-Stars used a 21-13 run to pull away in the first half and cruised to a 121-109 victory over the East All-Stars Friday evening at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. The West All-Stars have won seven of the nine all-star games since the inaugural in 2006.
Anderson sharpshooter Chandler Hash tossed in 12 points, six in each half and added five rebounds, an assist and a pair of steals in 19 minutes of action.
The West surged in the middle part of the first half, building an 18-point lead, 48-30, with 5:37 left before halftime. The East rallied to in the final five minutes of the opening half and slashed the deficit to seven points, 59-52, by the intermission.
Leading the way in the first half for the West was Delta State University forward/center Willie Readus and Central Washington University guard Mark McLaughin with 10 points each. The East was led in the opening 20 minutes by the 10-point performance of Tarleton State University guard Chuck Guy.
In the second half, the West was able to match the East run for run and never led by fewer than five points before ending the game with the 121-109 victory. The second half leaders for the West were Angelo State University forward Kenny Williams, who had 14 points, and McLaughlin, who had a second half of 10 points. The East was paced by Southwestern Oklahoma State University guard Rod Camphor, who had 14 points, and University of Southern Indiana center Aaron Nelson, who had 12 points.
Overall, the West was led by Williams and McLaughlin with 20 points each, while Readus finished with 19 points and a game-high 10 rebounds. Nelson, Camphor, and Guy led the East with 17 points each.
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Churches seek to reclaim the unaffiliated
Foran, a 25-year-old student, was listening to a lecture at the St. Louis County Library by Steven Pinker, a Harvard professor who has become a hero to the growing number of young Americans who are rejecting institutional religion.
Many in Pinker's audience were, like Foran, under 30 and religiously unaffiliated, making them part of a remarkable statistic released a day earlier by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life that could signal a dramatic secularization of the nation's religious landscape in the 21st century.
The Pew report found that one of every five Americans is now unaffiliated with any religion - an increase of 5 percentage points since 2007, and the largest number of "nones," as Pew calls them, that the organization has ever recorded.
Among young people, the number was even higher. One of every three Americans under 30 claims no religious affiliation.
Foran fits that latter category perfectly. Like the others identified in the survey, he had a religious upbringing. In fact, Foran attended Catholic grade school and high school.
But as an adult, he felt a growing distance between his intellectual pursuits and the doctrine of his childhood.
"When I was 18, I began reading (evolutionary biologist and atheist author) Richard Dawkins," Foran said. "And with podcasts, websites and social media, young people are taking in all points of view. Access to all of that information has made my generation more skeptical of institutions in general."
Pew classified the "nones" as those who said they were atheist, agnostic or "nothing in particular."
But being unaffiliated does not necessarily mean a rejection of religion. Nearly 20 percent of the those unaffiliated with a religious group nevertheless considered themselves "religious," and another 37 percent told Pew they were "spiritual but not religious."
"The United States remains a highly religious country," said Greg Smith, senior researcher at Pew. "Nevertheless this report does show evidence of declining religious commitment in American society."
That trend worries religious leaders, who are mobilizing to try to reclaim the growing ranks of the unaffiliated, particularly young people.
The Rev. Darrin Patrick, pastor of The Journey in St. Louis, said his church is seeking to tap into the desire of the Millennial generation to help others. They "want to make different choices about their free time and volunteerism," he said.
Patrick said that as a Christian pastor, he didn't consider the Pew numbers such bad news. "These numbers are encouraging because they say that people are saying, 'I'm a free agent,'" he said. "It means we're getting less religious and more spiritual, which I think is a good thing."
Nevertheless, religious leaders have launched efforts to try to stanch the bleeding.
According to the Pew report, the Catholic church was actually in better shape than other Christian denominations, its membership remaining relatively flat over the last five years. The Protestant church is another story. Evangelical and mainline Protestant churches lost 5 percent of their members since 2007.
While Pew reported that membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has remained flat in recent years, the church is not taking any chances. Last week the church's president said he would lower the age when Mormon teenagers would be allowed to serve their two-year missions. The ages will drop from 19 to 18 for men, and from 21 to 19 for women, enabling the church to offer younger people access to a ritual that is central to a long-term relationship with the church.
One reason for what Pew calls the "gradual softening of religious commitment" among Americans is the perception that religious institutions are deeply entangled with politics.
David Campbell, a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and co-author of "American Grace: How Religion Unites and Divides Us," sets the beginning of the marriage of religion and politics in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with the rise of the Christian Coalition, the 1988 presidential candidacy of the Rev. Pat Robertson and presidential contender Pat Buchanan's "culture war" speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention.
"You begin to see the Republican party emphasizing its position on social issues and beginning to use religious rhetoric and symbolism, putting religion in the forefront," Campbell said. "All of a sudden, the growth of the 'nones' begins."
Foran said his generation has been turned off by the political involvement of religious institutions.
"The rise of the far right in partnership with Christianity makes young people question religion in general," Foran said. "When churches do that, young people start to distance themselves, or hesitate to get involved with religion in the first place."
In the Pew report, 67 percent of those unaffiliated with a religion said churches and other religious institutions are too involved with politics, compared to 46 percent of the general public and 41 percent of those who are religiously affiliated.
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- The duo charged in a fatal apartment in Manhattan that claimed the life of a Kansas State University researcher has admitted to setting the deadly blaze.
Patrick Scahill, 20, and Virginia Griese, 19, both of Manhattan, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Wednesday afternoon to the charge of Arson Resulting in a Death in connection with an apartment fire that was intentionally set and claimed the life of 34-year-old Dr. Vasanta Pallem, a postdoctural researcher at Kansas State University.
Members of the Riley County Police Department, Riley County Attorney's Office, Manhattan Fire Department, State Fire Marshal's Office and ATF were in the courtroom Wednesday, sitting in on the proceedings. The fire was investigated by local, state and federal authorities.
The deadly fire broke out late on the night of Thursday, February 6, 2013 at the Lee Crest Apartments at 820 Sunset Avenue. Most of the occupants in the building, which is adjacent to K-State's campus, are university students.
Crews had extinguished the fire and were doing a search of the building when they found Pallem in medical distress, suffering from respiratory problems. She died from smoke inhalation.
Pallem, a native of India, worked in the university's chemical engineering department and lived in an apartment on the top floor of the apartment complex.
Prosecutors said the suspects did not specifically target Pallem when they set the fire. The arson was meant to create a diversion that would prevent police from discovering evidence inside Patrick Scahill's apartment from an armed robbery.
In the early morning hours of February 6, 2013, Frank Hanson III and Dennis Denzien (Patrick Scahill's roommates and friends) robbed the Dara's Fast Lane on Claflin Road in Manhattan, getting away with $200. Denzien drove the getaway car and Hanson went inside to rob the convenience store, carrying Scahill's .22 caliber pistol. Scahill did not know about the hold up.
Later that same day around 6 PM, police responded to the apartment on Anderson Avenue where Scahill, Denzien and Hanson lived to a report of someone firing a weapon at parked cars. When police arrived, they smelled marijuana. Police informed Denzien and Scahill that they were going to obtain a warrant to search the residence as Hanson escaped out a back window.
The men later convened at a friend's place, also joining up with Amanda Griese, and talked about how police would find evidence from the Dara's robbery inside their apartment and how they could divert the focus of police so that Scahill go could back in and get rid of all of the incriminating items like the gun, clothing, a mask and drugs. The group initially planned to use a weapon that idea was scratched and Griese ended up buying a five gallon gas can at Wal-Mart and filling it up at the nearby Hy-Vee gas station.
Griese and Scahill drove around looking for a place to set a fire and ended up at the Lee Crest Apartments. Scahill emptied the gas can in the lower level of the complex and ignited it, causing a build-up of thick, black smoke. Many of the residents went out on their balconies to safety but Pallem tried to work her way down to the 1st floor exits, causing her to inhale toxic fire gases. She died near the east entrance of the complex. Carbon monoxide levels in her system were more than 50 percent.
Meanwhile, Griese helped Scahill get rid of his clothes at her apartment and gave him other clothes to wear because his reeked of gasoline. She left the gas can at her parent's house.
Back at the apartment where Scahill, Denzien and Hanson lived, police got a search warrant and found clothing matching the description from the robbery at Dara's. Police obtained a second warrant and found a mask, gloves, a backpack and the firearm used in the robbery- an RG Industries Model RG14 .22 caliber revolver. The whole plan hatched by the group of friends ultimately failed.
Prosecutors say authorities knew early on that the apartment fire was intentionally set because of the stench of gasoline and burn pattern. They did not have any leads in the arson case until they received two phone tips that led police to question Scahill and Griese. They both admitted to their roles in setting the fire and described how they carried out their plan, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jared Maag said.
Griese and Scahill could face life in prison without the possibility of parole and a fine of up to $250,000. They remain in custody. They're scheduled to be sentenced July 15, 2013.


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9 Words That Don't Mean What You Think
The English language is under assault by stupid people who use words they don't understand, and is defended by pompous asses who like to correct those people. We're not sure who to side with.
So, here are some words that you'll see used incorrectly on a daily basis, and a helpful guide as to just how big of a dick you'd have to be to correct people on it. We have also included many pictures of these words being read by women with large boobs.
People think it means:
Actually means:
Not a damned thing.
This is not a word. Now, we have no problem with making up words (if a particular scent can only be described as "fartalicious," we reserve the right to call it so). The problem with this one is "regardless" already means something isn't worth regard (that's why the "less" is there) so adding the "ir" to it means... it's worth regarding again? Who knows.
Should you care?
If there's ever a time to speak up, this is probably it. Mainly because this is one of those words used almost exclusively by people trying to sound smarter than they are. Remind them that when using fake words to at least try to use ones that have some kind of meaning, if they want to avoid unnecessary cockulance when speaking.
Dick Rating:
As in, "How big of a dick are you if you insist people use it the right way?"
People think it means:
To skim over or browse something.
Actually means:
Almost the opposite of that.
Peruse means "to read with thoroughness or care." If you peruse a book, you leave no page unturned. This makes sense when you consider the Middle English per use, meaning "to wear out or use up." Unfortunately, if you "consider the Middle English" very often when speaking, you're probably not exactly the life of the party.
Should you care?
You could make the argument that the way people use it is so far off from the original meaning that it's worth fighting for, but there is almost no way to do it tactfully:
"What are you doing, Chris?"
"Oh, just perusing the report here before the meeting."
"Well you better GET OUT THE MICROSCOPE, RETARD! HA HA HA HA HA!!!"
So, perhaps the best thing is to just lead by example and start using the word correctly yourself. But, this can create its own problems:
"Hey Sharon, What's Chris doing?"
"Oh, he said he was perusing that new report."
"Then why is he hunched over it with his tongue out, re-reading the opening page for the ninth time?"
"Gosh, I don't know. I guess he must be clinically retarded."
Dick Rating:
People think it means:
Any kind of amusing coincidence.
Actually means:
An outcome that is the opposite of what you'd expect.
So, if a porn star moved to Virgin, Utah, that would be ironic. If the same porn star bought a house in Boner Knob, Montana that would not be ironic.
Should you care?
We realize this is a technical point. But, it's almost worth taking a stand because the word has been abused to the point that it can mean anything.
"She always said she wanted to marry a dentist! And then she married Bob, who is a dentist! Isn't that ironic?"
"I went on my cigarette break, but there was a No Smoking sign! Isn't that ironic?"
"I just pooped in your aquarium! Isn't that ironic?"
We have to draw the line somewhere, don't we?
Dick Rating:
People think it means:
"Spotless" or "as good as new."
Actually means:
"Ancient, primeval; in a state virtually unchanged from the original."
It's therefore perfectly possible to have a pristine mountain of fossilized brontosaurus shit, but if you were to buff that mountain to a lustrous shine, it would no longer be pristine.
Should you care?
The meanings are close enough that correcting somebody sounds like grammar Nazi hair-splitting. That's a shame, because there were lots of words that mean "clean" but none that have the exact same meaning as "pristine."
If you use pristine correctly yourself, you probably won't land yourself in too much trouble, unless someone buys your "pristine" house on eBay without realizing that it's an authentic 14th century dung hovel complete with never-been-used plague rats.


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WHEELING - Armed with neon orange paint and a map, Operations Superintendent Tim Birch sprayed numbers on Water Street to correspond with the nearly 100 vendors that will set up shop this week for the Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival.
The festival begins at noon Friday and runs through Sunday at Heritage Port.
Birch was accompanied Tuesday by city engineers Mike Stahl and Carl Wilson, who created the map that showed where to mark the vendor booths on Water Street and at the port as well.
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VENDOR NUMBERING — Wheeling City Engineer Carl Wilson, left, holds plans related to vendor spots as Operations Superintendent Tim Birch paints a number in a space on Water Street Tuesday in preparation for the Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival. -- Shelley Hanson
They weren't the only ones at the venue - city workers were busy cutting the grass, trimming trees, cleaning sidewalks with a water-spraying truck and installing waterlines for food vendors. Electrician Don Villanova also installed electric service boxes along the street.
''There are over 90 vendors - that's not including rides,'' Birch said.
Work conducted by the city doesn't stop at preparing for the festival. Each night a crew of eight employees cleans up the dropped food, drinks and trash left not only on Water Street and at the port, but the entire downtown as well. Trash is pushed into the streets and picked up by a sweeper truck. Then a vehicle, known as an inductor truck, sprays down the streets with water. The work begins about midnight and takes about six hours each night.
''It's pretty messy after everyone leaves,'' Birch said.
And during the event, trash cleanup is conducted as well.
''Trash can make or break a festival,'' Birch said, adding if garbage builds up it can attract bees that can sting people.
Birch noted the Italian Festival is the largest festival hosted at the port and takes the most manpower to keep up with the amount of trash it creates. Next in line, cleaning-wise, would be the Sternwheel Festival held each September, he added.


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_______________________________________________FYI----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Randolph Pullen <email@example.com>
To: Jeff Squyres <email@example.com>
Sent: Friday, 20 January 2012 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: [OMPI users] system() call corrupts MPI processes
I'm using TCP on 1.4.1 (its actually IPoIB)OpenIB is compiled in.Note that these nodes are containers running in OpenVZ where IB is not available. there may be some SDP running in system level routines on the VH but this is unlikely.OpenIB is not available to the VMs. they happily get TCP services from the VHIn any case, the problem still occurs if I use: --mca btl tcp,selfI have traced the perl code and observed that OpenMPI gets confused whenever the perl program executes a system command itselfeg:`command 2>&1 1> log`;This probably narrows it down (I hope)
From: Jeff Squyres <email@example.com>
To: Randolph Pullen <email@example.com>; Open MPI Users <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Sent: Friday, 20 January 2012 1:52 AM
Subject: Re: [OMPI users] system() call corrupts MPI processes
Which network transport are you using, and what version of Open MPI are you using? Do you have OpenFabrics support compiled into your Open MPI installation?
If you're just using TCP and/or shared memory, I can't think of a reason immediately as to why this wouldn't work, but there may be a subtle interaction in there somewhere that causes badness (e.g., memory corruption).
On Jan 19, 2012, at 1:57 AM, Randolph Pullen wrote:
> I have a section in my code running in rank 0 that must start a perl program that it then connects to via a tcp socket.
> The initialisation section is shown here:
> sprintf(buf, "%s/session_server.pl -p %d &", PATH,port);
> int i = system(buf);
> printf("system returned %d\n", i);
> Some time after I run this code, while waiting for the data from the perl program, the error below occurs:
> qplan connection
> DCsession_fetch: waiting for Mcode data...
> [dc1:05387] [[40050,1],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: A message is attempting to be sent to a process whose contact information is unknown in file rml_oob_send.c at line 105
> [dc1:05387] [[40050,1],0] could not get route to [[INVALID],INVALID]
> [dc1:05387] [[40050,1],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: A message is attempting to be sent to a process whose contact information is unknown in file base/plm_base_proxy.c at line 86
> It seems that the linux system() call is breaking OpenMPI internal connections. Removing the system() call and executing the perl code externaly fixes the problem but I can't go into production like that as its a security issue.
> Any ideas ?
> (environment: OpenMPI 1.4.1 on kernel Linux dc1 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5.028stab094.3 using TCP and mpirun)
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16 Feb 2012 7:33 AM #1
Controller References Getters not in deployment
The references that I add to my Controllers do not get their getters built automatically like the citybar video claims the designer does. Is this a bug or is it due to the deployment function being very limited at the time?
Thank you.
16 Feb 2012 2:07 PM #2
Where are you trying to use the getters?
They are no longer supported in init but are available in launch. I need to update my citybars application. As easy as creating a new basic function called launch and putting your code in there.
NOTE: we're going to add launch as a special function in the next release (next week perhaps) and while we're going to try very hard to keep from losing the code in this new function you'll create it could be that it will be wiped away.
We're grappling with this now as launch is a special function that we may need to inject code into as well. Still in discussion though on how we handle this.Phil Strong


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Last week, The Colbert Report went on a "mysterious" mini-hiatus, with the cancellation of the tapings for two episodes. It turns out that Colbert's mother, 91-year-old Lorna, has taken ill. Colbert is the youngest of 11 kids. His father and two of his brothers were killed in a plane crash in 1974. But it seems that Lorna is on he mend: Last night, Stephen Colbert was back in the saddle, with a "confidential" message to "a lovely lady": "Evidently, having 11 children makes you tough as nails."
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I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2. Is there a way, or a place, to give feedback on this system? Not file bugs, just give feedback.
Yes there is. Go to ubuntuforums. Specifically, that link will take you to the 'Natty Narwhal Testing and Discussion' sub-forum. People are always very happy to hear what you think about betas etc. in that sub-forum.
For ideas on how it could be improved, go to Ubuntu Brainstorm.
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The Jeddah-based Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has issued an urgent appeal for food aid for drought-stricken East Africa. Three East African nations are OIC member states: Somalia, Uganda and Djibouti.
In a September 13 statement, Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said that over 14 million people in East Africa are suffering from malnutrition due to food shortages, rising food prices and instability in Somalia.
"In this blessed and holy month of Ramadan, I solemnly appeal to all OIC Member States, Philanthropists, NGOs and all people of good-will, to generously come to the rescue of the needy people living the affected countries to avert the possibility of mass starvation," Ihsanoglu said.
Saudi Arabia is one of the leading foreign aid donors in the world. Since the mid-1970s, the Kingdom has provided nearly $80 billion in aid to countries across the globe, approximately 4 percent of its annual GDP.


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I'm familiar with WP's Giving WordPress its own Directory in codex.
I am experimenting on my personal website, erons-expressions.com with redirecting to different sub-directories. Originally I loaded WordPress files into its own /wordpress sub-directory and was successful with redirecting my site to it.
I'm working on a redesign for a non-profit (wecareabilene.org) and will be using WP. They are a separate hosted account with their own wp-admin and I will need to use this method of redirecting for their site to different sub-directories through out the year.
As their website is currently live, I was experimenting with my own personal website to make sure I could redirect to multiple sub-directories successfully.
Since their site is already WP based, I placed all the non-profit's WP files into its own sub-directory (/CCC_Site) in my website's root folder.
I copied and pasted that sub-directory's .htaccess and index.php pages into my root.
I updated the index.php page with the update: require('./CCC_Site/wp-blog-header.php');
I changed my personal wp-admin site address to the /CCC_Site sub-directory.
Now if you go to my site, you will see that my website url is showing the contents of what is on the CCC_Site sub-directory, which is exactly what I'd hoped for.
When I try to go to my website's wp-admin by typing erons-expressions.com/wp-admin I am redirected to wecareabilene.org/wp-admin. Since I now apparently don't have access to my personal website's wp-admin, I can't change its site url setting to get back to my site's original files.
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Late Sunday, off the coast of Cyprus, a team of U.S. Navy SEALs captured the hijacked oil tanker Morning Glory from Libyan rebels. "No one was hurt tonight when U.S. forces, at the request of both the Libyan and Cypriot governments, boarded and took control of the commercial tanker Morning Glory, a stateless vessel seized earlier this month by three armed Libyans," said Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby. President Obama authorized the raid just after 10 p.m. on Sunday.
U.S. forces will escort the ship back to a port controlled by Libya's central government, which is fighting various factions for possession of the country's vast oil reserves.
The story of the Morning Glory is complicated and slightly madcap, but with serious implications for Libya and Europe, which gets oil from the country via a pipeline to Italy. On March 1, the North Korea-flagged ship turned off its satellite transponder and a week later turned up in the eastern Libyan port of Es Sider, which is controlled by a rebel militia that is trying to sell oil from the region for its own profit. On March 10, the tanker left port carrying 234,000 barrels of oil.
If breakaway regions are allowed to sell oil on their own, the Libyan government will quickly go bankrupt. Prime Minister Ali Zeidan ordered the Morning Glory stopped, even if it meant sinking the vessel. With Libya's navy essentially nonexistent and its air force embroiled in its own infighting, the militia Zeidan sent out to stop the tanker failed. Parliament then sacked Zeidan, who subsequently fled to Germany. On March 13, North Korea revoked the Morning Glory's registration, making it a stateless vessel.
Contraband oil is harder to sell than you might think. Libya could still descend into civil war, as various militias battle for resources and influence. But now at least the rebels in the oil-rich east know the risks of trying to use a heavily watched and coveted international commodity as a weapon. Peter Weber
Seth Meyers took a closer look at night two of the Democratic National Convention, the screams that took place during it, and Donald Trump's attempt to reach out to supporters of Bernie Sanders who feel spurned.
He first focused his attention on Howard Dean, the former Democratic National Committee chairman and onetime presidential candidate, who during his speech mocked the shouting that led to his downfall as a candidate. That was nothing compared to the howl let out by Meryl Streep later in the evening, which gave Meyers a great idea for Hollywood's next blockbuster: "Look for Meryl starring in The Howard Dean Story. There is no part she cannot play."
Meyers went on to scoff at a tweet sent out by Trump, encouraging Sanders backers to join his side if they "want to fix our rigged system and bring back our jobs." Trump believing that he'll attract Sanders supporters "is like WWE Raw thinking they'll get a bunch of new viewers now that Downton Abbey is off the air," Meyers quipped. "They're different shows, dude." While it didn't happen during the convention, Meyers also couldn't help but comment on the challenge Trump issued to Russian hackers during a press conference on Wednesday. "Not sure why Trump would openly ask Russia to spy on Americans, but I'm sure he has his treasons," he said coyly. Watch the video below. Catherine Garcia
On July 27, 2004, a little known Illinois state senator named Barack Obama delivered the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention.
In his address, Obama introduced himself to most of the Democratic Party and the American people, sharing his unique back story while rallying for that year's nominee, John Kerry. Months later, Obama was elected to the United States Senate, and the rest is history. Catherine Garcia
He had her back after her knockout speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday, and the first lady returned the favor on Wednesday.
That's my man! Your truth, dignity and grace reminds us what real leadership looks like. I am always proud of our @POTUS. -mo
— The First Lady (@FLOTUS) July 28, 2016
"That's my man!" Michelle Obama tweeted after her husband finished his address. "Your truth, dignity, and grace reminds us what real leadership looks like. I am always proud of our @POTUS." Earlier in the night, the first lady also had a special message for Vice President Joe Biden (who during his DNC speech called her "incredible"): "To one of my favorite men in the world. Joe, thank you and Jill for all you've done for this country. Our love for you is deep. So proud!" Catherine Garcia
The Democratic National Convention closed out Wednesday night with Hillary Clinton and President Obama arm-in-arm onstage. After Obama wrapped up one of his last major speeches as president, Clinton surprised the convention by making her first in-person appearance. In a moment that solidified Obama's call for voters to keep his journey going, the two — the country's first black president and, possibly, its first female president — embraced, as cheers broke out on the convention floor.
Clinton will make her second — and much longer — appearance when she addresses the convention Thursday night. In the meantime, you can watch her surprise entrance, below. Becca Stanek
Hillary Clinton has joined President Obama on stage at #DemConvention #DemsInPhilly https://t.co/31n9DY7ZRr
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) July 28, 2016
President Obama gave the strongest endorsement possible of Hillary Clinton during the Democratic National Convention, telling the cheering delegates that he could state "with confidence" there has "never been a man or a woman — not me, not Bill, nobody — more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America."
"Nothing truly prepares you for the demands of the Oval Office," Obama said. "But Hillary's been in the room. She's been part of the decision, she knows what's at stake in decisions." He recalled the tough fight Clinton put up during the 2008 election, and said she was doing "everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels." When she served as his secretary of state, Obama was able to have a "front row seat to her intelligence, her judgment, her discipline."
After going through some of the highlights of his presidency ("delivering justice to Osama bin Laden," ensuring that "health care is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody") Obama rejected Donald Trump's fear mongering. "He's not really a plans guy, not really a facts guys, either," he said. "He calls himself a business guy; I know plenty of business men and women who achieved remarkable success without leaving a trail of lawsuits and unpaid workers and people who feel like they've been cheated. Does anyone really believe that a guy who spent his 70 years on this earth showing no regard for working people is suddenly going to become your champion? Your voice?" Trump is suggesting that "America is weak," but "America is already great," Obama said. "America is already strong. I promise you, our strength, our greatness, does not depend on Donald Trump."
The United States he knows is "full of courage and optimism," the president said, and he reminded people that "democracy isn't a spectator sport" and they must "get in the arena." Obama teared up at the end of his speech, and confessed that the "American people" have kept him going. "I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith, who believe that we are stronger together," he said, before calling on everyone to "reject cynicism and reject fear, to show the world we still believe in the promise of this great nation." Catherine Garcia
As the Democratic National Convention recounted President Obama's victories in office Wednesday night, one obstacle overcome was a little surprising: Rahm Emanuel. In the video introduction to the president's address, Rahm — formerly Obama's chief of staff and now mayor of Chicago — was shown trying to get in the way of Obama's signature health care bill becoming law. A voiceover said Emanuel argued the Affordable Care Act might threaten Obama's chances at reelection in 2012, but that the president selflessly overruled him. Emanuel ended up getting proven wrong — and, it seems, Obama wanted to remind him of that one last time. Becca Stanek
Unless you're one of his three children, Tim Kaine is not your dad — but he might as well be.
Hillary Clinton's mild-mannered running mate is the calm in the storm that is the 2016 election. During his speech at the Democratic National Convention, he was even-tempered, spoke with joy when talking about his family, and even when he got riled up and did an impression of Donald Trump, it made the Republican presidential nominee seem almost (key word: almost) chill. It wasn't difficult to imagine Kaine slipping into the role of your father, telling you he just wants the best for you, that he's proud of you no matter what, and of course he's happy to give you a ride to soccer practice — go get 'em, tiger! Twitter agreed: Catherine Garcia
Tim Kaine will not swear in front of his kids unless the lawnmower breaks AGAIN and he's mad at it but not you.
— Sara Benincasa (@SaraJBenincasa) July 28, 2016
Tim Kaine would never do his kid's diorama but he would make sure he learned a lesson about time management #DNCinPHL
— Molly Rosenthal (@molls189) July 28, 2016
Tim Kaine backstage already changed into pic.twitter.com/u4vol8MTLA
— Clayton Cubitt (@claytoncubitt) July 28, 2016
Tim Kaine is turning in early tonight but he'll record Obama's speech on the VCR to watch later.
— Tyger Huckabeatz (@TylerHuckabee) July 28, 2016
Tim Kaine comes off as that super goofy high school teacher who always made terrible jokes and is also the reason you got to go to college.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) July 28, 2016
Tim Kaine is the guy who buys cookies from every Girl Scout he sees and ends up with a year-round supply of Samoas and Thin Mints.
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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] carto vs. hwloc
From: Kenneth Lloyd (kenneth.lloyd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-15 07:06:17
My 2 cents: Carto is a weighted graph structure that describes the topology
of the compute cluster, not just locations of nodes. Many view topologies
(trees, meshes, torii) to be static - but I've found this an unnecessary and
undesirable constraint.
The compute fabric may better be left open to dynamic configuration,
dependent upon the partitioning of jobs, tasks and data to be run.
How do others see this?
Ken Lloyd
> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel-bounces_at_[hidden]
> [mailto:devel-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Jeff Squyres
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 6:47 PM
> To: Open MPI Developers List
> Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] carto vs. hwloc
> I had a nice chat with Ralph this afternoon about this topic.
> He pointed out a few things to me:
> - I had forgotten (ahem) that carto has weights associated
> with each of its edges (and that's kind of a defining
> feature). hwloc, at present, does not. So perhaps hwloc
> would not initially replace carto -- maybe in some future
> future hwloc version.
> - He also pointed out that not only paffinity, but also
> sysinfo, could be replaced if hwloc comes in.
> He also made a good point that hwloc is only "sorta"
> extensible right now -- meaning that, sure, you can add
> support for new OS's and platforms, but not in as easy/clean
> a way as we have in Open MPI. Specifically, adding new
> support right now means editing much of the current hwloc
> code: configure, adding #if's to the top-level tools and
> library core, etc. It's not nearly as clean as just adding a
> new plugin that is totally independent of the rest of the
> code base. He thought it would be [greatly] beneficial if
> hwloc uses the same plugin system as Open MPI before bringing
> it in. Indeed, Open MPI may wish to extend hwloc in ways
> that the main hwloc project is not interested in extending
> (e.g., supporting some of Cisco's custom hardware). Fair point.
> Additionally, the topic of plugins came up within the context
> of heterogeneity: have code to get the topology of the
> machine (RAM + processors), but have separate code to mix in
> accelerators/co-processors and other entities in the box.
> One could easily imagine plugins for each different type of
> entity that you would want to detect within a server.
> To some extent, the hwloc crew has already been discussing
> these issues -- we can probably work elements of much of it
> into what we're doing. For example, Brice and Samuel are
> working on adding PCI device support to hwloc (although I
> haven't been following the details of what they're doing).
> We've also talked about adding hwloc functions for editing
> the map that comes back. For example, hwloc could be used as
> the cornerstone for a new OPAL framework base, and new
> plugins in this base can use functions to add more
> information to the initial map that is reported back by the
> hwloc core. [shrug] Need to think about that more.
> This is all excellent feedback (I need to take it back to the
> hwloc crew); please let me know what else you think about
> these ideas tomorrow on the call.
> On Dec 14, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> > Question for everyone (possibly a topic for tomorrow's call...):
> >
> > hwloc is evolving into a fairly nice package. It's not
> ready for inclusion into Open MPI yet, but it's getting
> there. I predict it will come in somewhere early in the 1.5
> series (potentially not 1.5.0, though). hwloc will provide
> two things:
> >
> > 1. A listing of all processors and memory, to include
> caches (and cache sizes!) laid out in a map, so you can see
> what processors share what memory (e.g., caches). Open MPI
> currently does not have this capability. Additionally, hwloc
> is currently growing support to include PCI devices in the
> map; that may make it into hwloc v1.0 or not.
> >
> > 2. Cross-platform / OS support. hwloc currently support a
> nice variety of OSs and hardware platforms.
> >
> > Given that hwloc is already cross-platform, do we really
> need the carto framework? I.e., do we really need multiple
> carto plugins? More specifically: should we just use hwloc
> directly -- with no framework?
> >
> > Random points:
> >
> > - I'm about halfway finished with "embedding" code for
> hwloc like PLPA has, so, for example, all of hwloc's symbols
> can be prepended with opal_ or orte_ or whatever. Hence,
> embedding hwloc in OMPI would be "safe".
> >
> > - If we keep the carto framework, then we'll have to
> translate from hwloc's map to carto's map; there may be
> subtleties involved in the translation.
> >
> > - I guarantee that [much] more thought has been put into
> the hwloc map data structure design than carto's. :-)
> Indeed, to make all of hwloc's data available to OMPI,
> carto's map data structures may end up evolving to look
> pretty much exactly like hwloc's. In which case -- what's
> the point of carto?
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > hwloc also provides processor binding functions, so it
> might also make the paffinity framework moot...
> >
> > --
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> >
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Gran Turismo documentary KAZ: Pushing The Virtual Divide now available on YouTubeWritten by: / / No Comments
In September last year Sony announced that a biopic of Gran Turismo director, Kazunori Yamauchi, celebrating the 15th anniversary of this highly influential racing series was in development.
The documentary is now available on YouTube for everyone in the world to enjoy free of charge and you'll find its synopsis below to help you decide if it's worth setting aside one and a half hours of your life for.
"This film is about drive. It's about the passion and creative drive of Kazunori Yamauchi, the architect behind Gran Turismo's birth and breath-taking fifteen-year evolution. This film will trace his relentless willingness to challenge himself, to hold none of his past achievements sacred, and push beyond the virtual divide in his pursuit of perfection. Through the support of PlayStation, Kaz's journey has forever changed the gaming and automotive landscape and in doing so, has redefined how we perceive the relationship between art, entertainment and culture."
Head over here for El33tonline's previous coverage of the latest game in this famous series, Gran Turismo 6, which includes our review of this ambitious driving simulator.
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With the development of Blog Overflow and allowing the Stack Exchange sites to create their own blogs, I was wondering why we in the Stack Overflow community don't have the rights to blog.
In addition, why is the Stack Exchange blog on Stack Overflow? My suggestion is to please remove the company blog from Stack Overflow and actually put it where it belongs - on the main Stack Exchange site.
New comers to stackoverflow who want to read a blog about programming click "Blog" and they are presented with a blog about bicycles, math, and photography. Logically it doesn't make sense. I can understand that in the beginning the company was "Stack Overflow" but now it is Stack Exchange so we should definitely move the blog to the Stack Exchange website.
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Martins Ferry looking at security boxes
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MARTINS FERRY - The fire department is asking city council to consider passing an ordinance requiring the use of security boxes in town using the Knox Box syste....
CapRegis.... you need to relax a little bit! IF you have the good recommendations, and the faith of the people, as you say you do. There is really NO need to ask City Council to pass an Ordinance/Law requiring "knoxesboxes" You folks do a GREAT JOB, and I appreciate your time and service. But, I won't allow anyone to "force me" to provide a key to my business, my home, or my neighbor's home. There are too many laws now, Cap Regis and I'll be*******IF I have another one shoved at me. I'll move my business and my house from MF, and recommend my neighbors do the same. THANKS 8) JMO
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Well genius we did force extrication into her building then her apartment. It is not something hat takes 2 minutes and your done. But hey maybe I need you to show me a faster way. The Knox box requires one key to a safe box to access entry to a building versus every business in town providing individual keys, losing the key id and guessing which key works. Time is a very important factor in our job. This is not a political agenda. I am not a politician. I am a taxpayer too and have more good comments from the business community than negative.
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Cap Regis... What you described is horrific ! You mean to tell me.. "you knew of the serious injuries"? Yet, waited 40 mins for a key ? You should be fired/dismissed!You are trying to support a political agenda. A real RESPONDER would have knocked the door down, NOT waited, when there's a life to be saved/helped. BTW.. I'm not anti-government... I'm "anti-laws". NO WAY should anyone have to provide a "key" to their property... to anyone ... PERIOD ! IF they lose a door, it's THEIR CHOICE !!!! THANK YOU for your service to our Community, and I appreciate everything you, and the ALL volunteers do. In regards as to I am.... I'm a taxpayer, and I'll leave it at that. 8)
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First of all your posts and opinions on this matter are meaningless to me because you hide behind a screen name and keyboard and think you know everything on anything. The facts are there. No demand was ever presented to council. However the next I get out of bed at 3:00 am to answer a call for an elderly woman that fell and has a skull fracture and she is laying in her blood and can't get in the building because she obviously can't buzz us in and no one else is awake I will let the family know that because you are anti-government we were ubable to help their mom, grandmother. Yes that did happen and it did take nearly 40 minutes to gain access to the building and her apartment. So live in your fairy tale world where you are perfect and everyone else is wrong. Until you actually join a volunteer fore department and help your community because it is a good thing to do you will have no idea how the fire and EMS service works. FYI old town is a career firefighter.
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Cap Rediculous.... Check your own spelling and grammar. I guess mine was good enough for you to understand, or you wouldn't have commented back. (or attempted to slam me) ??? Like I said "ya'll approached Council" w/ a DEMAND to pass an ordinance for "knoxboxes" WITHOUT an accurate or concise report, or any previous complaints ? Now, you say keys were given out in the past, and ALL 6 were LOST? WHAT the heck is gonna happen when y'all LOSE the "knoxesboxes" key ? LOL. You are tooooo funny 8)
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For your information lifelong it is a bigger problem than you think. Until you actually leave your little senseless critiques and volunteer o help our community you would not understand. This is the solution to the problem. Other less secure solutions a few business owners have suggested is giving each station a key to their front door. Six keys that get lost as has happened in the past forces new locks to be installed. No one is lining their pockets so if you want to make baseless accusations put our name out there so the lawsuits may be filed. Furthermore since you have time to respond to nearly very article on here take the time to proofread your posts because your grammar and spelling is worse than a pre-school child. For the record I have waited to get in locked buildings late at night to help elderly people who could not let us in due to their emergency.
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BTW., OldTown ? Are you the CEO of "knoxbox"? Because, there is NO way you are anywhere close to the OV, and claiming you have used this "pandora's box" as a life saving device, for 35 years ? I've NEVER seen a "life lost" in the OV, because the FD claimed "the door was locked, and we couldn't get in" ? LIKE I sed "knoxbox" is a way to "line pockets", for the organizers that say YOU MUST have this .. FOR your safety, while they...... PROFIT (mark my words) PURE TYRANNY
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Cap Regis... u did ur homework ?? Did u go to Council w/records? (As in)... the past 5 years our FD has wasted X man hours waiting on keys ? Our FD was forced to destroy X amount of doors, at a cost of X ? NO..... you went to the MF Council, and DEMANDED they place an ordinance for the placement of boxes at taxpayers' expense. (After reading your comments) I'd think someone might be getting a "kickback" Answer this .... how many $3500 entry doors and security doors exsist in MF ? LOL You must be a Democrat, seeing how's everything is a "quick fix" for $$$, rather than a solution to the problem. Meanwhile, I'll get right on "getting ya'll a key to my house", (like the surragote Mother allowed Barry Carpenter) L O L 8)
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I have been using the Knox Box system for 35 years. It has saved lives when encountering a security door that would have taken much longer using conventional forcible entry or even hydraulic methods. There can be another level of security to instill confidence to those scared of theft;the fire apparatus can have a panel holding the key. If the key is removed in any gear other than neutral, alarms sound and remind the officer to replace the key. Some doors we encounter cost in the thousands. Knox saves dollars everyday in America.
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Read the article before you post stupid comments because the article states the box records date and time and key number anytime it is entered.
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Maybe this newspaper will see this comment section is nothing except for the computer tough guys. Exposé your name.
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Well uncommonsense what has the martins ferry fire department ever been accused of stealing? Absolutely nothing. So unlike you two spineless people I will will disclose my name. My name is Tom Regis I'm a proud member of the Martins Ferry Fire Department for the past 18 years. While you sit behind your computer I'll state my name. When you do the same contact me. Nobody has a problem when I donate my time to do fire prevention and other activities up the school. Exposé your name and show your backbone because the times leader won't.
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There is NO WAY I would EVER allow local government 24 hour access to MY business!
This has a HUGE potential for abuse!
And REQUIRING a business to do so sounds like something I would not hesitate to challenge in court!
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Well lifelong some of us have because it is in the responsibility of doing the job correctly. Unlike you who only serves the purposes of posting idiotic and uninformed posts on here I did my homework and presented facts. A $250 box to hide securely lock one key in versus a FD forcing entry on a $3500 commercial door plus the cost of installation and locks. Read the article because we would work with the business community to accomplish this project.
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Do your research lifelongov because this will save money in the long run. A few months ago there was a fire in Shadyside and they had to check the adjacent structure for fire extension. Without a keyholder they had to gain entry. With a Knox box this could have been prevented. So sit there on your computer and say hahaha. Do some research before you post.
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$200-$10,000.... and you want an ordinance to 'force' people to buy it ? Y'all wait around for 45 mins ? Whdn, (obviously NO real emergency exsists) One thing to say about this : HA HA HA HA HA HA ROFL
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5 Theme Parks Where Childhood Goes to Die
Theme parks are the only a place a child can spend an entire day puking and still never want to leave. The rides, the funnel cake, the lights and the plush characters all combine into a perfect storm of overstimulation that will confuse ordinary children into waiting in lines for hours just to be scared out of their minds.
But not every theme park understands the formula completely. Some people only see the vomit and hear the screams of children and say, "Yeah, I could make them do that, too."
#5. Holy Land Experience, With Crucifixion
On the surface, there shouldn't be anything terribly disturbing about the Christian theme park Holy Land Experience, located just a few miles from Disney World. Just like Disney, Holy Land Experience has a cast of characters wandering among the children, making friends and posing for pictures, except instead of Goofy and Mickey Mouse, it's Pontius Pilate and Jesus Christ.
And instead of roller coasters, you get guilt.
But the park is not only staunch in its commitment to the lessons of the Bible; it is staunch in its commitment to the plot as well. So, twice a day, that lovable character with whom the kids shared hugs and laughs, and who told them to love their neighbors and turn cheeks, is reduced to a beaten, bloodied pulp and paraded through the park in a pageantry of suffering.
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"Hey, centurion! Would you take a picture of my son and me with the Lamb of God?"
While the parades at Disney World, just a few streets over, consist of fireworks, floats and the promise of some candy thrown into the crowd, this one consists of one limping man tied to a plank of wood and the promise of some blood splattering into the crowd. The culmination of the whole thing, of course, is the mascot being hung from a cross and slowly dying.
Does anyone else think crucifixion sounds a lot better than sweating balls in that mouse suit all day?
It would probably be quicker to make a list of the people who wouldn't be offended by this reenactment. The park's kindest critics have called it "kitschy." The other critics who aren't too stunned to speak have called it a tasteless money grab through blatant exploitation of faith, probably. Surely at least someone has said that.
But hey, after watching Christ die, you can head to the Centurion Treats snack bar for an ice cream sandwich or to the "Celebrate Jesus - Karaoke" show to really take your mind off the public torture and murder you just witnessed. Oh, and did we mention there's a climbing wall?
If you make it to the top, God changes your language.
#4. The Soviet Bunker
Part of the thrill of paying to walk through a haunted house is knowing that while we may encounter chainsaw-wielding lunatics and demons, there's no actual danger of physical harm. Now, replace the supernatural creatures with Soviet guards and replace the "all in good fun" mentality with the very real potential that you will be attacked by a dog and you have the Soviet Bunker theme park in Lithuania. They nailed the terror aspect, but any spark of fun is smothered under the moldy, damp overcoat you're forced to wear during the three-hour tour.
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"Don't be afraid. Seriously, don't. Fear makes him hungry."
Set in an actual underground bunker in the forests of Lithuania, the theme park recreates the conditions of 1984 Soviet oppression so that people never forget the tragic history of Eastern Europe. Each stage is meant to represent an aspect of life in the former Soviet Union -- "guests" are yelled at, interrogated, forced to sign confessions for crimes that never happened and, from time to time, psychologically and physically abused. Everyone who enters has to sign a safety waiver for all emotional and physical injuries suffered during the experience.
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So basically it's a consensual version of Hostel.
Most terrifying of all, the park guarantees authenticity because several of the guards are retired KGB agents, and even those who aren't sometimes take it too far. The creator, Ruta Vanagaite, has said, "Be sure to answer the guards' questions promptly and clearly. They are mostly actors, but they can get stuck in that time and forget they are actors. We had to fire some of them because they were a little too hard on people. It's very easy to break people's will." She also mentioned that at least one person faints on every tour.
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Wait, what the hell does she mean they're mostly actors?
Ultimately it's three full hours of marching through dark hallways six feet underground while wearing a gas mask as men with dogs scream about how insignificant you are. There are no rides and there is no cotton candy machine, so needless to say, you'll have to plan your family vacation in advance, because tickets go fast.
#3. Haesindang Penis Park in Korea
There's a legend in the village of Sinnam in South Korea that a young virgin engaged to be married was swept out to sea and drowned. Her fiance could only stand by and watch because the water was so turbulent. Soon after, the fish population dwindled and everyone in the village attributed it to a curse from the angry soul of the dead woman. So what's the best way to appease a bitter virgin?
With a park full of dicks, of course.
The fishermen erected wooden carvings of phalli all over the coast and held religious boner ceremonies on the woman's behalf. Soon, the fish started returning and everyone could rest easy again in their village now littered with dongs.
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China still hasn't forgiven them for giving the whole Terracotta Army chlamydia.
Today, the island is covered in thousands of phalli carved from wood and stone and molded from metal. While it's still a sleepy fishing village, it's also become a theme park for tourists. There's something for everyone to enjoy in Haesindang Park, from big, veiny iron cast dicks:
If that doesn't shoot yogurt, we have failed as a species.
To dicks with their own faces:
"Hey hey hey, kids! Ready to have some fun? Remember, don't tell your parents!"
So they carve an ideal 30-inch cock, but still give themselves a beer gut?
Tourists have dubbed the village "Penis Park," for reasons we may never understand. But suffice it to say that it's a terrifying place for family picnics.


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I'm on the lookout for any decent self-study applications for my Google Android smartphone to help me brush up on my German on my daily commute. Can anyone recommend any for me?
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Duolingo has a mostly decent android app.
It depends on what you want to train (grammar, vocabulary...) One of my favorites is the free trainer "King Of German Article".
It helps you to train nouns and the right gender with it. You can also train the different cases Nominativ, Akkusativ, Dativ. As for making grammatically right sentences you must know the right gender, this app helped me to improve my German a lot.
A trusty companion for any German learner, especially english, is the LEO dictionary, and they have quite a good Android App.
It's not an app to take up your spare time, but it is very handy for answering questions your have when you are out and about.
For practicing verb conjugations I recommend:German Verb Trainer
There is also a declination trainer by the same company:German Declenser
There are a lot of language learning apps for Android, it all depends on what you wish to focus on.
As far as flashcards go, AnkiDroid is my personal favorite. Anki is free for PCs, Mac, and Android (but not for iThings), highly customizable, but you'll need the desktop or web or make up for the features AnkiDroid misses. Still, spaced repetition is a decisive win.
With regards to reference apps, Duden has mobile apps, but I haven't used them myself. There's an app version of dict.leo.org, which I do use a lot (although the web interface would work just fine). Another reference app is the poorly named Deutsch Wörterbücher, which is a search portal that'll query a ton of different German-language reference sites if you don't want to bookmark them.
There seems to be a dearth of actual learning apps. DeutschAkademie is rather old-school and best suited for somebody well advanced who needs a refresher. German Class is very disappointing in terms of test coverage, although the vendor's apps for other languages (like English and French) are quite reasonable. I haven't tried the Babbel family of apps. Duolingo was mentioned before and it's probably one of the best language learning tools out there.
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spoiler: when I gave the ID card to woman of low moral fiber I was simply transported past the ticket guy, something which puzzled me a little at the time! I haven't gotten access through the back door. Need to play it again I guess. I did have a glitch with the garlic the first time, as when I tried using the boomerang it didn't work with it. Finding the key was the last puzzle for me as I hadn't gotten the horse (but I had everything else).
I thought it was a pity that the demo was one of the final puzzles, as it gave a bit too much away of what was going to happen for me. But hey, maybe I should've been patient and not even played the demo


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